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Amidst escalating attacks on Gaza hospitals, pleas for a cease-fire echo from medical professionals and patients. By Jake Johnson  This picture taken on November 12, 2023 from a position along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel shows a smoke plume erupting during Israeli bombardment on the Palestinian enclave amid ongoing battles. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today!  Doctors and nurses in the Gaza Strip issued urgent pleas for a cease-fire as Israeli forces encircled and attacked the territory’s largest hospital, trapping thousands of displaced people and threatening the lives of medical workers and patients. One Doctors Without Borders nurse texted his colleagues from the b...

The G7 give Israel the green light for genocide By Ramona Wadi Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza and the international response to the unfolding colonial violence demonstrates clearly how Palestinians have always been regarded simply as collateral damage, both in humanitarian and political terms. The UN is calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, while consensus for a humanitarian pause was reached at the G7 summit in Japan. While there are differences between a humanitarian ceasefire and a humanitarian pause – the latter being a temporary and supposedly alleviating measure before the bombing and killing resumes – the key consensus over discussing Palestinians from the humanitarian paradigm has set a dangerous precedent, as the entire world is witnessing. Not only is t...

By: RON UNZ  EPub Format Perhaps more out of habit than anything else, I still read the print edition of the New York Times every morning, something I’ve done for well over forty years, though given its sharp decline in quality that may not long continue. But while it does, the editorial selection of the front-page stories provides some important insight into the thinking of the individuals who shape the coverage of America’s national newspaper of record. Last Thursday, most of the world was still reeling from the televised devastation in Gaza, as a densely-populated portion of one of its largest refugee camps was demolished by multiple 2,000-pound Israeli bombs, apparently killing hundreds of helpless Palestinian civilians, most of them women and children. ...

Israeli Death Tolls for the October 7 Hamas Attack on Israel ROBERT LINDSAY  TABLE OF CONTENTS Incinerated Israeli Cars I’ve been studying this issue for a while now, and I’m finally able to come up with some totals that I feel confident about publishing. Unfortunately, there are still significant error bars within these totals, but it does give you a general snapshot of what is the closest we can come to an actual Israeli death toll for the 10-7 attack. Galloway’s Latest Death Toll This latest from George Galloway on X is a summary referencing new totals from the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. It supplants previous totals I had from an earlier summary by Ha’aretz. Israeli Deaths on 10-7, Civilians and Security Forces Total: 1,009 IDF:&n...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1722896918093676628 Another Hospital, Jews??? (Article has Analysis of Current War Status Generally) ANDREW ANGLIN  Another day, another Jew mass murder attack on a hospital! Times of Israel: Authorities at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City have begun evacuating the medical center following orders from the IDF, which has surrounded the compound where Hamas is believed to have built a key command center underneath, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. The hospital was rocked by at least one explosion on Friday, as Israeli forces approached the site. It is not yet clear who was responsible for the blast. Between 50,000 and 60,000 people had been sheltering inside and around the grounds of the hospita...

"The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts."JEWISH Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b 3rd November 2023  Home, Britain "It is the responsibility of Britain, as the nation answerable for this catastrophe, to... join the other 139 countries that already recognise Palestine as an independent state within internationally agreed borders and whose security is just as important as Israel's." Read more [...] Israel and Palestine: Is being right more important than peace? 2nd November 2023  Home, Israel "… as past talks have demonstrated, Israel is not interested in peace, not until it gobbles up as much land as it can, ethnically cleanses as many Palestinians as it can, and relocates the remaining population a...