Middle East

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 “...

Posted by: John Phoenix Video Interview with Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, February 09, 2025 فيديو: “محو غزة من الخريطة”: أجندة المال الكبير. مصادرة احتياطيات فلسطين من الغاز الطبيعي البحري لقراءة الترجمة إلى اللغة العربية، قم بالتمرير لأسفل Introduction Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip. As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article:  “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan”. In the current context, Israel’s “All Goes to Plan” option consists in bypassing Palestine and “Wiping Gaza off the Map”,  as well confiscating ALL Gaza’s maritime offshore gas reserves, worth&nb...

Posted by: John Phoenix   Palestinians in Jabaliya Camp continue their daily lives in rubble of buildings or tents, on the first day of holy month of Ramadan, northern Gaza Strip, on March 1, 2025. 90% of Palestinians in Gaza lack access to clean water. (Abd Khaled – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday. The victims included a Palestinian girl who was shot and killed near Deir el-Balah. At least 137 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire agreement took effect in Gaza in January, local authorities said on Tuesday. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that Israel has been killing an average of seven Palestinians every two days, with 605 others in...

Posted by: John Phoenix IOF conduct house-to-house raids in WB, violate, detain Palestinians The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale raid in the Palestinian town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, on Tuesday, marking another escalation in the occupied territory, witnesses reported. Israeli forces stormed and searched multiple homes and subjected around 200 Palestinians to field interrogations before releasing them. However, several individuals were detained. Activists shared footage and images on social media showing Palestinian civilians stripped to their underclothes during their arrests. ISRAEL, TRUMP & HAMAS Complicit in DESTRUCTION of STATE OF PALESTINE. Zionist Invasion inside West Bank, despite the Truce, Ignor...

Posted by: John Phoenix By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine Freed Palestinian prisoners recount to MEE how Israeli jailers ‘treated them like animals’ and ‘brutally tortured’ some to death. By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine. Israeli jailers would wrap Palestinian prisoners in shrouds and bury them alive. As they began to suffocate, just before death took hold, a small amount of air was allowed in to keep them alive, only for the process to be repeated moments later. This is one of many accounts of torture inflicted on Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities. Following the recent Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange, hundreds of detainees have been released, and similar harrowing testimonies have emerged. New MEE newsl...