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Caitlin Johnstone  Video Link Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows: “Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas. But,” Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, then issues a statement which begins by placing blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide. He also lumps the hundreds of IDF troops slain in the attack in with “innocent people”, ignores the large percentage of the death ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza's child amputees: Families struggle to access rehabilitation services By Stephen Quillen Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025 20h ago (22:50 GMT)Thanks for joining usThis live page is now closed.To read more about the United Nations General Assembly’s approval for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address its upcoming gathering in New York, go here.Watch Fault Lines‘ investigation into the disappearance of Dr Abu Safia here.For more context on the conflict, read more about the US’s sixth veto of a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire here. Displaced Palestinians describe ordeal as they attempt to reach Gaza’s southAl Jazeera spoke to displaced Palestinians on Salah al-Din Street, which appeared empty due to safety conce...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi soldiers in Gaza, earlier this month. (Nazi Spokesperson's Unit) Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that the document concludes Israel inadvertently provided resources to Hamas, depleted its forces, and lost international support. Reposted from Haaretz, September 01, 2025 An internal Israel Defense Forces document concludes that the military’s recent months-long offensive in Gaza has failed, Channel 12 News reported on August 31. The document states that Israel made “every possible mistake,” waging a war “contrary to its own doctrine of warfare.” It adds that Hamas had “every condition to survive and win,” and that several of the war’s key objectives were not met: Hamas has not been defeated, and the hostages have not been returned, eith...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israel can’t (or won’t) explain its use of large-scale airstrikes in civilian areas: Ha’aretz Martrys of Gaza (Haaretz) Around 70 people were killed daily in Gaza in August. An attempt to clarify why 29 Israeli strikes that killed 180 people were carried out was met with vague answers or silence. By Nir Hasson & Rawan Suleiman, Reposted from Haaretz, September 05, 2025 Last Monday (August 29), four shells struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killing 22 people. In the nine minutes between the first and second strikes, medical staff and journalists gathered at the site of the first hit – on the hospital’s emergency stairwell. Television cameras were pointed there, which is why the second, deadly strike was so thoroughly recorded....

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza 'Humanitarian' Foundation whistleblower Anthony Aguilar during a conversation with Defending Rights and Dissent's Chip Gibbons (Defending Rights & Dissent). Two U.S. military veterans, including a Gaza 'Humanitarian' Foundation whistleblower, were arrested for interrupting a Senate committee hearing. By Kevin Gosztola, Reposted from The Dissenter, Two United States military veterans, including a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) whistleblower, were arrested for interrupting a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. They said “the U.S. government is complicit” in the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and were quickly removed by U.S. Capitol police.  GHF whistleblower Anthony Aguilar stood up. “You have an obligation to the Co...

Gaza — Atrocities, Horrors, Genocide… No End A Million Gazans Forced Walking South to the Rafah Border Photo by shoah “Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes.” – Jeffrey Sachs Our vocabulary fails us miserably in describing the horrors caused by Zionist Israel in Gaza – an extermination through organized famine, disease, firebombs, bombs dropped from fighter jets, bombing from tanks, machine gun shooting, shootings point blank, never seen before in recent history. Targeted are principally children and women; the bearer of children, the next generation of Palestinians. And the world watches and says nothing, or more importantly, does nothing to stop this mass murder, this unspeakable suffering of children being starved to death, being shot when th...