Muslim Issues

Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza

At night you lie in the dark on the cold cement floor. The phones are cut. The internet is off. You do not know what is happening. There are flashes of light. There are waves of blast concussions. There are screams. It does not stop.   ‘Children of Gaza’ — Mr. Fish By Chris HedgesOriginal to ScheerPost Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying …

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Illegal Settlers’ Reign of Terror in the West Bank

Peter Oborne reports from Hebron in the southern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where illegal settlers, backed by Israel’s military, are forcing Palestinians off their land with impunity. Shepherds near at-Tuwani, Palestine, in Khoruba Valley, the South Hebron Hills, September 2007. (Jill Granberg via delayed gratification, Flickr,CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Peter OborneDeclassified UK It is the same story in every village …

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The language of genocide: How Israel dehumanises Palestinians

When the existence of an entire people is denied, when their humanity is denied again and again and again, when they are simultaneously cast as non-existent and terrorist — we see what is happening in Gaza.   Yumna Fatima Published November 7, 2023  Updated 3 days ago When the Soviets liberated the Majdanek concentration camp from the Nazis in the summer of 1944, it was …

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Gaza carnage: R2P or RIP?

Internally displaced Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, looking for safety are camped in the grounds of the al-Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. AFP. It has now been more than a month since Israel unleashed its military juggernaut against Gaza’s civilians in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas fighters on Israeli military and …

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Israel-Palestine war: One family’s treacherous journey through Gaza’s ‘safe corridor’

Thousands of fleeing Palestinians are making the impossible decision to trade the certainty of violence for a fear of the unknown. This is one family’s story   Palestinians flee their homes during Israel’s ground offensive, on the edges of al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City on 8 November 2023 (Reuters) By Ghada Alhaddad in Gaza Strip   The past few weeks have …

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