At this point, Washington’s defense of Israel becomes as baldly obscene as the apartheid state’s long record of lawless aggression toward the Palestinian population. Man with body bags in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Oct. 9. (Bashar Taleb, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News There have been many, very …
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U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaking at U.N. Security Council meeting on Gaza war. (UN TV/YouTube) The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of …
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The recent peak in war crimes Yesterday on 17 October, Israeli Defence Force (IDF) hombed Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza and killed more than 500 people instantly. Most of the deaths are children and women. Israel is relentlessly bombing the people of Gaza for the last 11 days; the destruction of the hospital and killing more than 500 is indeed …
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Al-Shaima Saidam, highest grade earner in Palestine’s high school exams, has been killed with members of her family by strikes on a refugee camp Al-Shaima Akram Saidam (X) Israeli air strikes on Al Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip earlier this week killed Al-Shaima Akram Saidam, the top student in Palestine’s high school examination of 2023, along with …
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Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak poses for a portrait in his office in Tel Aviv, Israel on 18 July, 2023 [Noam Galai/Getty Images] Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) cannot be eliminated because it is deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of Palestinians, noting that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had …
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Wounded Palestinians at Ahli Arab hospital at the al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled) Five hundred people were killed and many more injured when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday. Protests erupted internationally against this war crime, committed …
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