Palestine Affairs

Posted by: John Phoenix CBC News, YouTube screenshot. Anyone who has doubted the Chomsky-Herman propaganda model of mass media has surely had their skepticism tested over the past twenty-two months. The axiom that media “serve to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate the state” by distorting or suppressing facts is nowhere more evident than in Western reporting on Gaza. Likewise, the model’s depiction of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims – portraying “murderous aggression as a defense of freedom” – perfectly encapsulates mainstream coverage of Israel’s indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians. Consent for this barbarity could not have been manufactured without the uniform complicity of a pliant press. Public media should provide a corrective to corpora...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israel’s justification for the mass slaughter of Gaza’s people and their starvation – now officially confirmed as a famine engineered by Israel – was built on a parade of easily discredited lies from the start: of beheaded infants, of babies in ovens, of mass rape. It should surprise no one that Israel continued advancing similarly outrageous lies as it set about – as all genocidal regimes must do – dismantling the most basic infrastructure of survival for Gaza’s population. It cut off humanitarian aid delivered by the United Nations agency Unrwa, and destroyed the enclave’s hospitals, while killing, jailing and torturing its medical personnel. Israel claimed it had documents proving the UN was a front for Hamas – documents&...

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, [First published on February 4, 2024. This important message has been the object of censorship] How much persecution and human cruelty Palestinians have suffered for generations — for the inalienable right to life… Since Israel’s establishment through the ethnic cleansing and massacre of Palestinians from Palestine — persisting in its massacre, mass expulsion, abduction, torture and terror of indigenous Palestinians? Video: Sarah Abushaar’s Powerful Message https://www.youtube.com/embed/bKpofQ4FGbs How much persecution and human cruelty Palestinians have suffered for generations — for the inalienable right to life… Since Israel’s establishment through the ethnic cleansing and massacre of Palestinians from Palestin...

Posted by: John Phoenix While the focus of world attention has turned away from Gaza to the attack by Israel on Iran and Iran’s determined and powerful response, there is still no let-up in Israel’s war on Gaza or in the Palestinian resistance. Israel continues to perpetrate barbarities Between January and May 2025, the World Health Organisation documented 76 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza, reflecting severe threats to medical infrastructure. The number of functional hospitals decreased from 20 to 17 between May 24 and June 11, with some, including Al-Awda, Jabalia and Haifa hospitals, becoming non-operational owing to intensified fighting and insecurity. Community-level medical points (GP polyclinics, essentially) also declined from 144 to 126, and all hospital...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli forces stormed Ramallah and raided an exchange office, injuring dozens of people, amid further raids in Jerusalem and across the West Bank MENA The New Arab Staff The raid on Ramallah has injured at least 33 people [Getty] The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 33 Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces stormed Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, using live fire, rubber bullets and tear gas. Among the wounded was a 13-year-old boy shot in the abdomen with live rounds and rushed into surgery. During the raid, Israeli forces entered the headquarters of Ajjouli Exchange Company in central Ramallah, confiscated all contents and arrested several employees. Soldiers posted an order on the door declari...

Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 687 Crowds form as Palestinians receive food distributed by a charity amid the ongoing Israeli blockade and attacks on Gaza, on August 4, 2025. (Abdalhkem Abu Riash – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including at least 22 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,095 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here). The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 289, including 115 children. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday, go here.  Current acute malnutrition, August 2025 (IPC) Projected acute malnutrition, August 2025 (I...