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Posted by: John Phoenix Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died in Megiddo prison on March 22 from starvation, dehydration, and infections caused by prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ahmad family) (source) reposted from Defense for Children International — Palestine, April 3, 2026 The autopsy report for a 17-year-old Palestinian child detainee who died in Israeli custody at the end of March indicates that he likely died from a combination of starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life saving medical intervention. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died while held in Israeli custody in Megiddo prison in northern Israel on the morni...

Posted by: John Phoenix Return of displaced people via Al-Rasheed Street after ceasefire, January 2025, Gaza Strip, January 27, 2025. (UNRWA photo) (source) by Juan Cole, reposted from Informed Comment, April 5, 2025 The renewed total war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza waged by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recreated the worst headlines of 2024, but this time no one is watching, as the deliberately-created Trump crises suck up all the oxygen in the news universe. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israeli bombings of internal refugee shelters have killed scores in recent days, in a series of “mass casualty events.” They have to use the same terminology for the Israeli mili...

Posted by: John Phoenix An Israeli soldier in the area of the Netzarim corridor, in Gaza.Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit / Image processing: Masha Tzur-Glozman (source). ‘Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members’: IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child by Yaniv Kubovich, reposted from Haartz, December 18, 2024 The line appears on no map and exists in no official military order. While senior Israel Defense Forces officials might deny its existence, in the heart of the Gaza Strip, north of the Netzarim corridor, nothing is more real. “The forces in the field cal...

Posted by: John Phoenix 14-year old Amer, a U.S. citizen, was visiting with his family and other relatives in Ramallah. (source) reposted from International Middle East Media Center, April 7, 2025 On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American child and injured two others near Turmus Ayya, a town northeast of Ramallah in the central region of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed them of the death of 14-year-old Amer Mohammad Sa’ada Rabea’, who succumbed to his injuries after being shot and abducted by Israeli soldiers. Amer, a U.S. citizen, was visiting with his family and other relatives in Ramallah. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (P...

Posted by: John Phoenix The Palestinian American Community Center in Clifton, New Jersey, held a press conference on Tuesday to address killing of 14-year-old Amer ((Azad Essa/MEE)). US citizen Amer Mohammed Saada Rabee, 14, was shot 11 times, including with “exploding bullets.” The State Dept claims to be waiting for more info. By Azad Essa, Reposted from Middle East Eye, April 08, 2025 The Israeli military “executed” a Palestinian-American teenager as he picked green almonds in a village in the occupied West Bank, bereaved family and members of the Palestinian community in New Jersey told reporters on Tuesday. Amer Mohammed Saada Rabee [also spelled Rabea], 14, who was born in Saddlebrook, New Jersey, and lived between the occupied West Bank and the US, was kille...

Posted by: John Phoenix Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died in Megiddo prison on March 22 from starvation, dehydration, and infections caused by prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ahmad family) (source) reposted from Defense for Children International — Palestine, April 3, 2026 The autopsy report for a 17-year-old Palestinian child detainee who died in Israeli custody at the end of March indicates that he likely died from a combination of starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life saving medical intervention. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died while held in Israeli custody in Megiddo prison in northern Israel on the morni...

Posted by: John Phoenix A young Palestinian inspect her dolls after an Nazi attack, on April 1, 2025 in Khan Younis, Gaza (Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency). Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Nazi airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 86 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Among the dead were at least 19 members of the Akkad family in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Gaza Ministry of Health reported on 4 April that Nazi forces have killed 1,249 people and injured 3,022  since Israel resumed its war on Gaza on 18 March, unilaterally ending a ceasefire reached with Hamas in January. RELATED: ‘Nothing justifies killing of children,’ UNRWA chief says as Israeli attacks on Gaza intensify In Jenin, West Bank,...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinian children wait to receive the distributed aid, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on June 30, 2024 (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images) Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation. By Tareq S. Hajjaj and Qassam Muaddi, reposted from Mondoweiss A year into the genocide in Gaza and the intensifying military and settler onslaught in the West Bank, children have been the most consistently targeted group by Israel in all of historic Palestine. Every year at around this time, the new school year is well underway in the Gaza Strip and university students are starting their first semesters. But since October of ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinian child waits as the US-based international volunteer aid organization, World Central Kitchen (WCK) distributes as many meals as it is able to provide, as the Israeli army continues to block the entrance of humanitarian aid, food and other products into Gaza on March 16, 2025 in Khan Younis, Gaza. (Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency) The young inherited from past generations a love of the land, preserving the dream of return, and for that, they must be eliminated.  By Soumaya Ghannoushi, Reposted from Middle East Eye, March 25, 2025 They walk barefoot through the wreckage – children carrying children, small arms wrapped around younger siblings, holding on to what’s left of their family. In Gaza, there is no safety, no silence,...