As Israel prepares for its ground invasion to decrease Gaza’s territory, it is also cracking down on dissent harder than ever, including on journalists, reports Elizabeth Vos. Rockets fired from Gaza, 2014. (IDF/Flickr) By Elizabeth VosSpecial to Consortium News Further attacks on sheltering civilians loom as Israel prepares a ground offensive in northern Gaza: Tel Aviv has ordered Al-Quds hospital and five UNRWA schools …
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Israel-Palestine war: Mass burial held for Gaza’s unidentified victims of Israeli bombing
Around 43 Palestinians were buried in a mass grave, among them mothers still clutching onto their children A mass burial takes place for 43 unidentified Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing (Palestinian Ministry of Health) By Nadda Osman Unidentified mothers, still clutching onto their children, were among 43 Palestinians buried in a mass grave on Saturday in the besieged Gaza …
Read More »Israel wrote the State Terrorism Handbook, and follows it to the letter
A pro-Palestinian sign is held high during an “International Day of Action for Palestine”, in New York, USA, on 13 October 2023 [Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images] by Ibrahim Hewitt I have been re-reading Gaza in Crisis, written in 2010 by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, because what is being played out in Gaza looks and feels all too …
Read More »Sunak’s message to Israel: Carry on with the slaughter
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv on 19 October 2023 (Reuters) Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s most feted post-war prime minister, was fiercely pro-Jewish and a powerful enemy of antisemitism. But she was never afraid to call out Israeli war crimes, and did so repeatedly. When the Israeli army stood by in September 1982 as Christian Phalangists slaughtered Palestinian refugees and Lebanese citizens in the Shatila …
Read More »The true victims of Israel’s bombs: Palestinian children
Since Israel initiated its bombing campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip on 7 October, more than 100 children have been killed every day. A child falls victim to Israeli air strikes in Gaza every 15 minutes, according to a Palestinian NGO, highlighting the devastating impact of the ongoing bombing campaign on children. Every day horrific and painful scenes emerging …
Read More »The strategic implications of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza fire rockets to Israel in response to Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip, seen from Sderot, Israel on October 16, 2023. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] by Dr Mohsen M. Saleh MohsenMSaleh1 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, launched by Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades from Gaza Strip (GS), has been an attack on Israeli settlements and military bases in the …
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