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Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza's Innocent Martyrs ([graphic]) Hind pleaded for help for hours. Youssef was killed while watching cartoons. Yaqeen wanted to be a YouTube star – and died in a bombing. Behind the staggering death toll of 17,000 children in Gaza are faces, names, and dreams that will never be realized. By Sheren Falah Saab, Reposted from Haaretz, June 26, 2025 “Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres as early as November 6, 2023. His statement was harshly criticized by Israel and dismissed as exaggerated by much of the Israeli public and media. In the 21 months since, the number of casualties in Gaza has largely remained on the margins of Israeli media coverage, including the children killed in the war....

Posted by: John Phoenix A charity kitchen in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on May 17, 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP) Opinion: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has no moral compass – he merely wishes to keep up appearances for his patrons in the West. The following was Haaretz’s lead editorial on May 20, 2025, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reluctant decision to renew humanitarian aid going into Gaza forced him and his coalition members to launch a public relations offensive aimed at appeasing their electorate – the same voters who had been promised collective punishment on the Palestinians in the form of starvation. After telling his ministers that “there’s a global campaign about so-cal...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinians gather along the Coastal Road in the Al-Sudaniyya area in northern Gaza as they wait to receive humanitarian aid expected to enter through the Zikim crossing, on June 12, 2025 in Gaza. ([Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency]) I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I’ve witnessed in Gaza is horrific.  By Anonymous, Reposted from Zeteo, June 11, 2025 Editor’s note: Given the value of this information and perspective, Zeteo granted the author’s request for anonymity in order to speak freely without intimidation or fear of retaliation. I am one of hundreds of security contractors who have been in Gaza to facilitate aid under the new US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation project. And it’s all bul...

Posted by: John Phoenix Premature babies receive medical care at the Friends of the Sick Hospital (Khalil Ramzi Alkahlut/Anadolu). “We fled the bombing to find death in a hospital. How can a baby die because a bottle of milk wasn’t allowed through a crossing?” by Sally Ibrahim, reposted from The New Arab, June 19, 2025 On the lower floor of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, a quiet war is unfolding, not one of bullets and bombs but of dwindling supplies, failing power, and dying infants. In the neonatal intensive care unit, the soft hum of machines mixes with the faint, intermittent cries of Gaza’s most vulnerable: premature babies fighting for life in the shadow of an unrelenting Israeli blockade. Ahmed al-Farra, head of pediatrics...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gazans in Jabalya camp, awaiting humanitarian aid, June 15, 2025. As all across Gaza, they are surrounded by demolished buildings, under which lie the remains of thousands of Palestinians. (Bashar Taleb/AFP) The death toll in Gaza, as reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, understates the true scale of the crisis, researchers say.  Israel’s disproportionate violence with advanced weaponry has made the war in Gaza one of the bloodiest of the 21st century. by Nir Hasson, reposted from Ha’aretz, June 26, 2025 On Monday of this week, Hamas’ Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the decease...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in the Jabaliya area in the northern Gaza Strip on May 12, 2025 (Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu) The plan, rejected by the UN and other aid groups, is nothing more than a ‘sinister’ mechanism of control masquerading as aid. By Muhammad Shehada, Reposted from Zeteo, May 13, 2025  As starvation in Gaza reaches new catastrophic levels after Israel banned all food and aid from the enclave for now more than 70 days, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee proudly announced on Friday an imminent breakthrough: Israel and the US are finalizing a new mechanism to resume food supplies to the enclave. “President Trump has made clear that one of the most urgent things tha...

Posted by: John Phoenix 7-year-old Kayyed Al-Nezli’s mother, Sherihan Al-Nezli mourns after Israeli forces conducted an airstrike on the Sabra neighborhood, which resulted in the deaths of several individuals, including children, and left others injured at Al-Shifa Hospital on the second day of Eid al-Adha in Gaza City, Gaza on June 7, 2025. (Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency) Western media struggles to state reality plainly: Palestinians face a grim choice—die of hunger or die trying to get food aid amid deadly distribution attacks, both at the hands of Israel. By Belen Fernandez, Reposted from Fair, June 06, 2025 Israeli tanks opened fire last week on a crowd of thousands of starving Palestinians at an aid distribution center in the ci...