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Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes 2014-08-03
International Federation of Journalists
Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment o...
IFJ urges accountability for deliberate targeting of journalists in 2014 summer Gaza war2015-06-29
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) today called for accountability for the deliberate targeting of journalists during the ...
Open Letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres2017-10-09
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Dear Secretary General, On your recent visit to Gaza, you saw with your own eyes some of the deplorable and inhumane conditions suffered by the Palestinians living in Gaza. You called it one of the mo...
Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza market2014-08-03
Reporters without Borders
Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
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The Aftermath of Israel's Latest Assault on GazaArticle
2014
ifamericansknew.org
On August 26, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2,150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hama...
The Attack on the People of GazaGo ahead and stop us...
Roberts, Stella
Article
2014
Counterpunch
According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on...
Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in GazaArticle
2015
International Middle East Media Centre
Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprec...
Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombingsDetails on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
Christoff, Stefan
Article
2014
The Media Co-op
Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies ar...
Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crimeChelala, Cesar
Article
2015
Ecologist
The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under i...
Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes Sources News Release
Article
2014
International Federation of Journalists
Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment o...
Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War CrimeThe Experts' Verdict
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2014
Counterpunch
When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definitio...
The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances Dunt, Ian
Article
2014
politics.co.uk
Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing CiviliansArticle
2014
Human Rights Watch
Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civi...
The Gaza PlatformDatabase
2015
Amnesty International
The Gaza Platform is an interactive map of attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August 2014. It enables its users to explore a vast collection of data, collected on the ground by th...
Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?Deutsch, Judith
Article
2018
Socialist Project
A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation ...
Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the MapA VIsit to Khuza'a
El-Farra, Dr. Mona
Article
2014
CounerPunch
I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'Roth, Natasha
Article
2015
+972 Magazine
36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza ...
How Israel Spins War CrimesThe Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas roc...
The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in GazaThe Credibility of the Court is at Stake
Trautman, Brian J.
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed a...
Is Israel singled out for its human rights violations?Article
2014
WLUML.org
Some people assert that human rights activists and the international community are disproportionately – and unjustifiably – focusing their attention on the Jewish state. They are "ignoring" human righ...
Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza FenceBaraka, Ajamu
Article
2018
CounterPunch
On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessio...
Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza Aldabbour, Belal
Article
2016
Aljazeera
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of ...
Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"Abunimah, Ali
Article
2018
Electronic Intifada
As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbiOfir, Jonathan
Article
2016
Mondoweiss
“New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
The Israeli War Crime That Goes UnmentionedCook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one ...
Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??Avnery, Uri
Article
2015
Counter Punch
The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These phi...
Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout White, Ben
Article
2014
Middle East Monitor
"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop...
Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward GazaA Protracted Genocide
Pollack, Norman
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansingBarrows-Friedman, Nora
Article
2017
The Electronic Intifada
Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay,...
Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continuesBorrell, Rachel
Article
2017
Aljazeera
As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
Massacres and MoralityDiemer, Ulli
Article
2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of...
The Most Moral Army?Avnery, Uri
Article
2017
CounterPunch
War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show...
Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army Article
2014
Amnesty International
An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left si...
Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling GazaOnce it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
On 'Human Shielding' in GazaHow the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas
Gordon, Neve; Perugini, Nicola
Article
2014
Counterpunch
All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitab...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018Massacres and Morality
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line,...
Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's PastBaroud, Ramzy
Article
2017
Dissident Voice
Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist HypocrisyKavanagh, Jim
Article
2018
CounterPunch
The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remai...
Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in GazaGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on...
A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and GazaNoble, Doug
Article
2018
CounterPunch
Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza marketSources News Release
Article
2014
Reporters without Borders
Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in GazaArticle
2014
Amnesty International
The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, sa...
The Wanted 18Article
2016
Al Jazeera
A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty saysArticle
2014
RT
Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for ...
West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacreCook, Jonathan
Article
2018
Mondoweiss
Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to comm...
What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?They Made Them Do It....
Bonomo, Robert
Article
2014
CounterPounch
Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip....
Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?Letter to the Editor
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2018
Radical Digressions
Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condem...
Sources Bookshelf
Method and MadnessThe Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
Finkelstein, Norman
Book
2015
In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi...
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