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Posted by: John Phoenix Dr. John Kahler, co-founder of MedGlobal, treats a child in Tal al-Sultan refugee camp in Gaza in March 2024. (photo) As a doctor with more than 25 years of experience in crisis zones, I believed I had seen the worst. Then I went to Gaza. by Dr. John Kahler, reposted from USA Today, August 16, 2024 While U.S. and international mediators continue to try to get the Israeli government and Hamas to agree to a cease-fire in Gaza, the appalling war there continues to take a devastating toll on innocent Palestinian civilians. We saw its effects once again last Saturday, when nearly 100 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a school shelter. A cease-fire is desperately needed, but I kn...

Posted by: John Phoenix Biden Administration: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy By Brett Murphy, Reposted from ProPublica In early November, a small group of senior U.S. human rights diplomats met with a top official in President Joe Biden’s State Department to make one final, emphatic plea: We must keep our word. Weeks before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the administration delivered their most explicit ultimatum yet to Israel, demanding the Israel Defense Forces allow hundreds more truckloads of food and medicine into Gaza every day — or else. American law and Biden’s own policies prohibit arms sales to countries that restrict humanitarian aid. Israel had 30 days to comply. [Editor’s note: See info about Blinken here.] In the...

Posted by: John Phoenix US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the White House on 27 January 2020 in Washington, DC ([Kobi Gideon/GPO/Anadolu Agency]) Like the Biden administration, Trump is claiming an “emergency” in order to bypass Congress. By Brett Wilkens, Reposted from Common Dreams, 28 February 2025 As Palestinians released from Israeli imprisonment recount torture and other abuse suffered at the hands of their former captors, the Trump administration on Friday approved a new $3 billion weapons package for Israel. UPDATE: Trump Admin Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4B as It Blocks Aid Into Gaza The new package, reported by Zeteo‘s Prem Thakker, includes nearly $2.716 billion worth of b...

Posted by: John Phoenix Two Palestinian children amidst the rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza. January 2025. Source: still from the film “Kids Under Fire” (Mohammed Ibaida). (source) American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers. by Amel Guettatfi, reposted from Drop Site, March 27, 2025 Drop Site News is publishing this story in collaboration with our colleagues at Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s award-winning documentary news program. On August 24, four-year-old Mira Al-Darini had just woken up to a hot summer morning in a crowded displacement camp, located between a local prison and the mediterranean sea in Khan Younis, when the sound of Israeli military tanks and gunfire erupt...

Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison.By Sharon Zhang Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved” Meggido prison in northern Israel is pictured on October 21, 2020. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows. The autopsy shows that Ahmad suffered from “extreme body muscle and fat wasting, evidenced by a sunken abdomen,” caused by “...