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“One crime does not justify another, nor does one kind of injustice justify another,” said B’Tselem. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem on Tuesday condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials in Israel for implementing a “criminal policy of revenge” in the wake of Hamas’ deadly attack, making a dire humanitarian situation worse by intensifying the unlawful blockade of Gaza …

UN News/Ziad Taleb A building is engulfed in flames in central Gaza. SAN FRANCISCO, USA Oct 11 2023 (IPS)—When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s 9/11.” Meanwhile, in a PBS NewsHour interview, Israel’s ambassador to the United States said: “This is, as someone said, our 9/11.” …

Israeli military exercise near the Gaza border, November 2014. (IDF, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) International law experts and human rights groups are denouncing Israel’s announcement of an intensification of its longstanding blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip on Monday, pledging to block food and fuel from entering the occupied …

In his speech at the UN, Marc Lamont Hill said ‘we must advocate and promote non-violence’ [Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters] Hill was accused of anti-Semitism after he called for ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’ at UN meeting.American Cable News Network (CNN) has severed ties with Marc Lamont Hill, a recurring political contributor, after he delivered a speech at …

A Palestinian rocket fired at Israel’s occupied territories over the weekend during the outbreak of the Gaza-Israel War. (Fars Media Corporation, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)  In 2012 the U.N. determined that without “herculean action” by the international community, by 2020 Gaza “will not be livable,” writes Phyllis Bennis. The year 2020 has come and gone. The most recent eruption of violence in …