INTERNATIONAL

WARS, targeting civilians and the killing fields in Palestine

  Palestinians have been living under the worst kind of repression for more than seventy years. The Gaza Strip has been described as the world’s ‘largest open-air prison’ Targeting civilians in war is an international crime. The reality however is that war is all about killing. While we all pay lip service to the sacredness of civilian life, civilians become …

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History won’t forgive our leaders for supporting war crimes in Gaza

This article condemns Israel’s aggressive actions and the coalition’s support, while highlighting the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. It ends with the call for a peaceful future where Jews and Palestinians coexist harmoniously. Bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes, were picked from the morgue of Aqsa Hospital to be buried in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on October 15, 2023 [Mustafa …

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The US Quandary Over Gaza

U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken prepares to board his plane at Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland to Israel and Jordan on October 11, 2023. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/Public Domain)  Despite the massive show of force off the waters of Israel, the Biden Administration is profoundly uneasy about any escalation of the conflict into a …

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‘I’m scared for my unborn child’: Gaza’s pregnant women prepare to give birth in a war zone by Mohammed Abdelbary and Nadeen Ebrahim

Two Palestinian women look at the massive destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City’s al-Rimal district, on October 10. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Khulood Khaled was woken up by the sound of Israeli airstrikes as she slept next to her son last week. Black smoke filled the room, making it difficult for her to breathe. She felt a sense of panic setting in, …

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Israel-Palestine war: ‘The terrifying sound of bombs makes children scream. It’s pure suffering’

Mohammed al-Hajjar is a freelance photojournalist and longtime contributor to Middle East Eye. He, his wife and three children live in Gaza City, but they have now been displaced three times after one home they were staying in was bombed. From temporary shelter in southern Gaza, Mohammed describes the difficulties he and thousands of other Palestinians are living through: Thank God me and …

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Over 150,000 protest in London against Israel’s war on Palestinians

Over 150,000 people protested in central London Saturday to demand an end to Israel’s war on the Palestinians. The “March for Palestine, End the Violence, End Apartheid” was a collective act of defiance of the relentless pro-Israeli propaganda campaign of the media, the Conservative government and the Labour Party and the threats of mass arrests made by the Metropolitan Police. …

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