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All the conflict in Gaza is achieving is civilian misery, and the US can stop it at any time This handout picture released by the Israeli army on November 16, 2023, shows troops during a military operation in the Gaza Strip amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. ©  Israeli Army / AFP After a seven-day lull in the war between Israel and the Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, the resumption of hostilities has been given another green light from Washington. Having failed to lead its Israeli allies towards military victory, the US is permitting a dangerous escalation and rejects a peaceful solution that will prevent further civilian suffering. Just minutes after the departure of US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, from Pa...

Israel’s strategy is “cold and calculated, and lacks any sense of decency” – Day 60  CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   In Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem, instead of a tree and manger scene this year is a display of Baby Jesus lying in rubble, as the Wise Men search for him. (screengrab) Health, safety, and humanitarian updates for Gaza; Israel vows attacks in south will be worse than north, considers flooding tunnels; West Bank, Jerusalem, and Israel news; US government continues to support Israel, and more HEALTH AND SAFETY: UNICEF spokesperson says alleged Gaza safe zones are ‘zones of death’ In a Sky News interview, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder says Israel’s proclaimed ‘safe zones’ in Gaza are ‘zones of death’ with increased risk for disease. Elde...

A Palestinian young girl raises the V sign on top of the rubble of her family’s home destroyed by the Israeli attacks in Gaza (Photo: WAFA) Fifteen prominent public health professionals and current and past deans of the country’s schools of public health have denounced statements by retired general Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council and then a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies  (INSS) a Tel-Aviv University research institute, for writing an opinion article in Yedioth Aharonoth on November 19 that argued that Israel should let Gaza be destroyed by letting go wild. The retired general wrote that epidemics in the south will bring about a faster victory over Hamas. The Palestinian population there is not divided int...

"Israel has shown a blatant and total disregard for the protection of Gaza's medical facilities. We are watching as hospitals are turned into morgues and ruins." JAKE JOHNSON The international president of Doctors Without Borders on Monday pleaded with members of the United Nations Security Council to do everything in their power to halt the Israeli military's expanding assault on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 15,000 people in less than two months and decimated the territory's healthcare system. In an open letter, Dr. Christos Christou wrote that "words fail us to describe the absolute horror being inflicted on Palestinian civilians by Israel as it carries out incessant and indiscriminate warfare in Gaza for all the world to see." "Israel has sh...

"Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed." JEWISH TALMUD Abodah Zara 26b Posted by: John PhoenixIssued by: CPGB-MLMassacre in GazaThroughout Ramadan 2014 and beyond, while muslims fasted, the world’s people looked on in horror as Israel’s intensification of the genocide of Palestinians escalated into a hideous bloodbath.While Israelis have justified these crimes to others with lies about ‘defending themselves from terrorism’, the discourse of zionists among themselves paints a far more telling picture.Seven years of inhuman blockade have been openly described by Israeli officials as “putting Gaza on a diet” and keeping its economy “on the brink of collapse”.After the killing of three teenage settlers (shipped in from New York and elsewhere to illegally colonise the West ...