Human Rights

Posted by: John Phoenix The Gaza holocaust has reignited with as much sadistic fury as it ever saw under the Biden administration. More than 500 people have reportedly been killed by Israeli bombardment since the onslaught resumed early Tuesday morning, including at least 200 children and 112 women. I will admit to having been hopeful. I know it’s illegal to express hope online, but I really did hope that by some miracle peace would find some way forward in Gaza in spite of the frenetic efforts by Trump and Netanyahu and their cohorts to sabotage it. I had hope, and now I have grief. Now this constant mass atrocity has been fully reanimated. And the people who rule over us are actively supporting this, while working to imprison, fire, silence and deport anyone ...

Posted by: John Phoenx Even by Israel’s brutal, barbaric standards, the cruel, callous carnage carried out by its military in Gaza has come as a shock to the world. The carnage which occurred on Tuesday 18th March 2025 killed 436 individuals, the majority of them children and women. What has exacerbated the tragedy is the fact that the carnage happened as its victims were preparing for, or partaking of, their dawn meal just before beginning their daily fast during Ramadan, one of Islam’s most revered practices. It is important to note that a big portion of the Gazan population is being subjected to starvation by the Israeli government as a way of forcing them out of the Strip. For Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, this would be integral to his state’s ag...

Posted by: John Phoenix The brutal murder of eight Red Cross paramedics and five aid workers in Southern Gaza on March 23rd 2025 – each shot more than 20 times and then buried in a sandpit along with their vehicles – should be ‘an event too far’ for Israeli soldiers. The brave precedent for saying ‘no’ already having been set by colleagues refusing to follow the commands of the Israeli war cabinet. This vile atrocity must have crossed the red line for these recruits, as well as seasoned soldiers of the Israeli army, if they are still to be considered human beings. It has already been reported that a small but growing number of Israeli military have refused to engage against Palestinians in Gaza, demanding that Netanyahu stands by the terms of the hostage exchange negotia...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 555 A view of the destruction at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, which was bombed by Israeli occupation warplanes in Gaza City, Gaza on April 13, 2025 (Mohamed Asad/MEMO) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 37 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday amid relentless attacks on the enclave, medics said. Among the dead were six brothers, killed when an Israeli drone struck a vehicle in Deir al-Balah. A US strike in Yemen’s Sanaa province killed five people and wounded more than a dozen others. Israeli airstrike murders six brothers in Deir Al-Balah, leaving their father to bury an entire generation: Ahmed, Mahmoud, Mohammed, Mustafa, Zaki, and Abdullah.&nb...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 556 An UN official inspects the al-Ahli Hospital, which is out of service after being attacked by the Israeli army, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Monday, April 14, 2025 (Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 39 more Palestinians in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday.  A Palestinian man was also killed in the West Bank (more below). NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them.  In ...

Gaza Holocaust Day: 553 A girl sits by the rubble outside the Sabah family building that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 8, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The latest Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Friday. NOTE: The Health Ministry’s figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them.  The UN reported that more than 60,000 children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from malnutrition as the humanitarian situation in the ...

Posted by: John Phoenix A collapsed building belonging to the Abdulhadi family after an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on April 06, 2025 (Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency) The Israeli military reports that the area to be confiscated includes the city of Rafah and its surrounding neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian residents will compelled to leave and not allowed to return.  If the plan is carried out fully, the people of Gaza will be confined to two distinct areas and surrounded by Israeli military zones. By Yaniv Kubovich, Reposted from Haaretz, April 09, 2025 The Israeli military is preparing to incorporate the southern Gaza city of Rafah and its surrounding neighborhoods into the bu...

Posted by: John Phoenix Ms. Rachel attends the Sesame Workshop 2024 Benefit Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 29, 2024 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) reposted from The New Arab A beloved American children’s educator is being targeted by a pro-Israel organisation – not for political commentary, but for calling attention to the starvation of Palestinian children and urging the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Rachel Griffin Accurso, known to millions of families around the world as Ms. Rachel, has come under fire from StopAntisemitism, a US-based pro-Israel group that accuses her of “spreading Hamas propaganda” simply for expressing concern for the suffering of children in Gaza. StopAntisemitism, a right-wing organizati...