Human Rights

Posted by: John Phoenix Wounded Palestinians crowd the floors of Nasser Hospital after the bombing of a residential area near a school sheltering a large number of displaced people, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 3, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills) (source) Bleeding out from moderate shrapnel wounds. Dying from illnesses doctors don’t have time to treat. Going blind waiting for medical evacuation abroad. These are the manifold victims of Israel’s war on Gaza’s health system. by Mahmoud Mushtaha, reposted from +972 Magazine, April 3, 2025 In recent days, details have emerged about a particularly gruesome Israeli massacre targeting Palestinian medical teams in southern Gaza. On March 23, a team of Red Crescent and Civil Defense personnel were sent ...

Posted by: John Phoenix by Ali Abunimah, reposted from The Electronic Intifada, April 4, 2025 An Israeli man who claimed to have heroically rescued hundreds of people from Hamas fighters on October 7, 2023 has been exposed as an outright liar who made up stories “from beginning to end.” The debunking of Rami Davidian’s fabrications by a high-profile mainstream Israeli journalist is highly significant. But it comes a year after The Electronic Intifada concluded from its own investigations that Davidian’s self-aggrandizing accounts were replete with inconsistencies, impossibilities and lies. Davidian, who was a star witness in Sheryl Sandberg’s October 7 atrocity propaganda film Screams Before Silence, also claimed to have seen dozens of d...

Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 554 Posted by: John Phoenix A funeral ceremony is held in front of Nasser Hospital for the Palestinians who lost their lives in the Israeli army attack on the tents of displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis. (Anadolu/Getty Images) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 21 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. 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.  Gazans struggle to find water as clean sources become increasingly scarce Hundr...

Posted by: John Phoenix Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health A frame from the video published by NYT, showing the marked ambulances and personel – Fair Use It was a massacre.  Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March 23.  It all came to light from a video that the IDF did not intend anyone to see, filmed by Red Crescent paramedic Rifaat Radwan in the last minutes of his life.  Caught red handed, the wires and levers of justification, mendacity and qualification began to move. The pattern of institutional response is a well-rehearsed one.  First came the official claim that the troops only opened fire because the convoy approac...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinians who were injured from Israeli airstrikes on the town of Bani Suhaila arrive at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. ((Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)) American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for the moment when Israel bombed his hospital in Gaza – or the carnage he saw there. By Michal Feldon, Reposted from +972 Magazine, April 09, 2025 On the evening of March 23, Feroze Sidwha, a trauma and critical care surgeon who had recently arrived in Gaza from California as a volunteer medic, was on his way to the surgical ward in Nasser Hospital when an Israeli airstrike tore right through it. Israel’s army said the strike was targeted at Ismail Barh...

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) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 58 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.  At least 11 members of same family confirmed killed in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah It was another bloody morning. Gazans woke today to the sound of Israeli fighter jets producing sonic booms, terrifying everybody in Deir el-Balah. This area was the epicenter of Israeli air raids for hours. Al Jazeera received confirmation from Gaza’s Health Ministry that a house was...

Haaretz: 'Israel Preparing to Turn Rafah – One-fifth of Gaza – Into Part of Buffer Zone' 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...

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 f...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi Prime Minister Benjamin Naziyahu attends the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP - Getty Images) Internal AIPAC materials reveal huge gifts from moguls — and the strategies lobbyists used to score the cash. By Amos Barshad, Reposted from The Lever, February 01, 2024 In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has reaped a $90 million fundraising haul, according to confidential internal documents reviewed by The Lever.  Large donations flowed as the influential pro-Israel lobbying group hosted a remobilized Israeli military official who reassured potential contributors that the ...