Palestine Affairs

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visits the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the illegally occupied West Bank, on July 19, 2025.  (Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images) Posted by: John Phoenix "Justifying today's atrocities by pointing to yesterday's doesn't make it moral," said one critic. "It makes it monstrous." Amid growing international condemnation of Israel's annihilation and starvation of Gaza—including from staunch ally Britain—U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday attempted to defend the genocidal assault on Gaza by invoking one of the most notorious Allied atrocities of World War II. Appearing on Fox News' "Fox & Friends," Huckabee singled out the United Kingdom after Prime Minister Ke...

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...

Relatives mourn over the wrapped bodies of victims at Al-Awda Hospital following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential area in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza, on July 29, 2025. The attack results in dozens of casualties, including 14 children and 12 women.  (Photo: Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images) Posted by: John Phoenix Just 32% of respondents—including only 8% of Democrats—said they backed 'Israel' in a new Gallup poll. As the Palestinian death toll from Israel's obliteration of Gaza officially topped 60,000—likely a significant undercount—a Gallup poll released Tuesday revealed that U.S. public support for Israel's war on the Palestinian enclave plummeted to an all-time low, even before the widespread publication of horrifying images of G...

Protesters demand a European Union arms embargo on Israel and rejection of a trade deal with the country as punishmnent for its annihilation of Gaza during a May 27, 2025 demonstration outside the European Commission office in Barcelona.  (Photo: Albert Llop/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Posted by: John Phoenix "The people have spoken and they refuse to be complicit," said one campaigner. "Across continents, ordinary citizens demand an end to the fuel that powers settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide." Large percentages of people in five nations want arms, fuel, and machinery embargoes on Israel in response to its obliteration and starvation of Gaza, a poll published Thursday revealed. The survey—which was conducted last month by Pollfish fo...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem on July 27, 2025.  (Photo: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images) Posted by: John Phoenix "They're talking about occupying areas that are packed with so many people," said one Palestinian civilian. "If they do that, there will be incalculable killing." Ahead of a meeting with his security ministers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed once again Thursday that his government plans to take control of the entire Gaza Strip—"a direct assault on international law," as one group said this week, and one that his own military leaders have opposed. In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu was asked whether his governmen...

Posted by: John Phoenix Netanyahu Says It's Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities ([screenshot]). The arrest and investigation of two Israeli soldiers in Belgium over alleged Gaza war crimes could mark a turning point in the pursuit of global accountability for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. By Alessandra Bajec, Reposted from The New Arab, August 04, 2025 In mid-July, Belgian police arrested and questioned two Israeli soldiers at the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom after pro-Palestinian groups alleged they had been waving flags from their army brigade. This was facilitated by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), which previously filed complaints against the soldiers, accusing the...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 670 Palestinian women try to pick rice, lentils, and beans out of sand, from aid packages that were dropped from the air and scattered upon impact in Gaza City (Moiz Salhi/Anadolu) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 46 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including at least 23 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,706 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here). Four more Palestinians died of starvation in Gaza on Wednesday. The total number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition is now 197, including 96 children. For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday, go here. An Israeli strike on the...

Posted by: John Phoenix Liberal Israelis are slowly beginning to join the rest of the world in admitting that what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide — a fact that has been clear to anyone with eyes and a basic sense of morality from the very beginning of this nightmare. It was obvious in October 2023 that Israel intended to eliminate all Palestinians in Gaza, in part because you would never treat a population that way if you intended to leave survivors on your border. Because you’d know they’d seek revenge later on. Call it the Inigo Montoya problem — if you kill someone’s father right in front of him, it’s a safe bet that he’s going to spend the rest of his life trying to kill you. If you intend to act in ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Other Israeli media reports downplay the idea that Israel will start annexing Gaza, saying it's just a negotiating tactic Antiwar.com Israeli officials have sent a message to Hamas that if the group doesn’t accept the latest ceasefire proposal, Israel will begin annexing parts of Gaza, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday, citing other reports in Israeli media. According to Israel’s Channel 12, Israel gave mediators its response to Hamas’s latest proposal on Tuesday night and isn’t expecting Hamas to accept the offer. Israel is threatening that if Hamas doesn’t agree to its terms, it will start annexing the so-called “buffer zone” Israel established along the Israel-Gaza border that cuts into Gaza’s territory. Haaretz reported ear...