Palestine Affairs

Posted by: John Phoenix Jerusalem – Bishop William Shomali: The Latin Patriarchal Vicar in Jerusalem, warned that Christian communities across the occupied West Bank are experiencing a marked escalation in attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, alongside a rapid expansion of Israeli colonies built on confiscated Palestinian land. Shomali noted that the West Bank now includes approximately 200 Israeli colonies, all established on Palestinian property, illegally seized over the years. “Since the end of last year, attacks on Christians in the West Bank have multiplied,” he said, describing a clear link between the growth of these colonies and the rise in violence. He explained that the ideology driving the colonizers is rooted in the belief that all of histo...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   Israeli forces detain Palestinians during their raid at the Balata camp in Nablus, West Bank on June 18, 2025. ([Nedal Eshtayah – Anadolu Agency]) Reposted from Alquds.com, June 26, 2025 Prisoners’ institutions (the Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to escalate the use of systematic torture crimes against prisoners and detainees in prisons and camps, which have been transformed into torture arenas. The institutions added in a joint statement, issued Thursday, on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, that the post-genocid...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org Israeli prison guards stand over a group of Palestinians detained inside the Gaza Strip, at a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. ( (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)) A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians, a joint investigation finds. By Yuval Abraham, Reposted from +972, September 04, 2025 Only one in four Palestinians captured by Israeli forces in Gaza was identified by the army as militants, with civilians making up the vast majority of “unlawful combatants” detained in Israeli prisons since October 7, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local ...

Posted by: John Phoenix All the excitement over the Epstein revelations seems to have fairly and squarely diverted attention from the situation in Gaza and the broader Middle East where Israeli expansionism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been proceeding remorselessly, despite the fact that in theory a ceasefire is in place in Gaza. If it is in fact true that Epstein was a Mossad agent, as is being suggested in numerous quarters, then he must be laughing in his grave (assuming that is where he is) at how fantastically the diversionary tactic has worked out for Israel. While the kill rate in Gaza, that stood at an average of 100 Palestinians a day from the start of the Israeli offensive until the ceasefire took effect, has dropped to a mere 32 or so a week, it is sti...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   Palestinians walk amid debris of buildings hit in Israeli strikes near a market in Gaza City in the occupied Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 27, 2023. ( Photo: Omar El-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images) The Western media’s double standards when it comes to Israel and Palestine are hardly new. The discourse around “human shields” — or the failure to use the term — is an example of hypocrisy pushed to the extreme, by letting Israel deflect the blame for mass civilian deaths. By Ahmad Wuhidi, Reposted from The Intercept Recently, CNN reported that Israeli civilians in parts of Tel Aviv were in the potential line of fire from an Iranian missile attack aimed at the headquarters o...

Posted by: John Phoenix By Scott Ritter, reproduced with thanks Yahya Sinwar was killed fighting Israeli soldiers in the ruins of Gaza. His death will serve as an inspiration for Palestinians for years to come. If there is to be a free and independent Palestine, it will be because of the sacrifice made by Yahya Sinwar in the cause of its creation. He is the true father of Palestine. He was a child of the camps, born into captivity in the Gazan Khan Younis refugee camp, the son of Palestinian citizens of Majdal ‘Asqalan (present-day Ashkelon) who were forcibly driven from their homes by Israeli forces in 1948 in what is referred to as the Nakba, or catastrophe. He was one of the first to join Hamas when it broke away from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander reunities his family at Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center after Palestinian resistance group Hamas released him by handing over to Red Cross delegation in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 13, 2025. ([Israeli Presidency / Handout – Anadolu Agency]) Although Edan Alexander was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described him as a prisoner of war. By Jonah Valdez, Reposted from The Intercept, May 13, 2025 There are several ways to describe someone held against their will, each with its own implications. The word “prisoner” suggests someone detained on suspicion of crimes or captured during times of war. “Hostage,” on the other hand, signifies ...