Detailed accounts by former Israeli soldiers describe how they fired their weapons out of “boredom,” designated any Palestinians in sight as a threat, and routinely burned homes down. By JULIA CONLEY Jul 08, 2024 Disputing the repeated claims of Israeli officials and their vehement supporters in the Biden administration, who have scoffed at concerns that the Israel Defense […]
“It’s a nightmare at Al-Aqsa,” said Samuel Johann, MSF coordinator in Gaza. “How many more men, women, and children have to be killed before world leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?” By JESSICA CORBETT Jun 08, 2024 Palestinian officials said at least 210 people were killed and more than 400 injured […]
The National Resistance Front of Palestine continues to combat, resist and inflict casualties on Israeli forces in Rafah and Jabalia. By Harsh Thakor The genocidal carnage of the State of Israel, patronised by the imperialists, mainly U.S. imperialism, continues. On 12th May, 57 Palestine people were killed and another 82 injured in Israeli […]
“The bomb that killed her family was most likely American. As an American, your tax money paid for it.” By Jon Queally May 13, 2024 Footage of a young girl rescued from beneath the rubble of a building in central Gaza overnight is among the latest graphic images to emerge from the Palestinian enclave as Israel intensifies […]
To silence Al Jazeera from reporting on its atrocities in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu Government issues an order to close down the network in Israel Groundxero | May 5, 2024 Israel’s Cabinet on May 5 banned Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news network—the sole international media outlet providing 24/7 live coverage from Gaza—from operating in […]
A full-scale Israeli assault on the crowded southern Gaza city “would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children.” By JESSICA CORBETT May 02, 2024 “The children in Gaza need a cease-fire.” That’s how Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), concluded a brief video Wednesday about the harrowing conditions across the […]
“Students and community members are risking suspension and arrest to end the true state of emergency on campus, Columbia’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza.” Jake Johnson Apr 30, 2024 Pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University early Tuesday occupied a campus building with a long history of anti-war and anti-apartheid demonstrations, storming the hall and […]
Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 — 24 million more than the previous year. Groundxero | April 30, 2024 According to the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises released on April 24, nearly 282 million people or 21.5 percent of the analysed population […]
Like their association of civil rights and peace demonstrators with communism throughout the Cold War, politicians on both sides of the aisle are now broadly hurling claims of antisemitism against anyone protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, many of whom are Jewish. By Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, University of New Orleans Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded […]
SKM, a collective platform of farmers’ unions across India, has appealed to the farmers across the country to extend support and solidarity to the farmers of Palestine, and urged the Indian government to do everything to stop the massacre of Palestinian children and women in Gaza. Groundxero | April 22, 2024 The Samyukta Kisan […]
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his call for an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire, the unconditional release of all hostages, the protection of civilians, and the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid.” By Brett Wilkins Apr 07, 2024 Peace and human rights advocates on Sunday renewed calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and an increase in lifesaving humanitarian […]
Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them. By CHRIS HEDGES April 3, 2024 On the morning Amr Abdallah was killed, he woke before dawn to say his Ramadan prayers with his father, mother, two younger brothers and aunt, in an open field in southern Gaza. “It […]
“Arming a war criminal makes you a war criminal,” one critic admonished the U.S. president. By BRETT WILKINS Mar 29, 2024 Despite growing worldwide calls for an arms embargo, the Biden administration in recent days has approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of new weapons shipments to Israel, including warplanes and […]
The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state. By CHRIS HEDGES MAR 30, 2024 There are no surprises in Gaza. Every horrifying act of Israel’s genocide […]
The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile. CHRIS HEDGES MAR 18, 2024 Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting […]