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Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 572 Posted by: John Phoenix Displaced Palestinians receive hot meals distributed by aid organizations in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Gaza on April 29, 2025 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them. At least 35 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including a strike on a building in Nuseirat refugee camp that residents said felt like an “earthquake”. The Palestinian Ministry of Education&n...

Posted by: John Phoenix Graduation day, August 2023. Obaida earned a degree in nursing from Al-Israa University. (PHOTO COURTESY MALAK SERRIA) (source) Daily Life and Shattered Dreams in Gaza—Writers Share Their Stories by Sara Serria, reposted from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 18, 2025 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 2025, pp. 16-18 What is this hell we are living in? What awaits us after all this? It is truly unbearable. Its cruelty goes beyond human imagination. How can we live through this bitter reality with our spirits broken? How can we live with the absence of my one and only beautiful brother? Obaida’s beauty was always a beauty of his soul and character as much as it was his face. My eyes long to see his a...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinian farmers’ agriculture fields and greenhouses are damaged after an airstrike by Israeli warplanes on November 22, 2020 in Khan Yunis, Gaza ([Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency]). The bombing has destroyed agricultural land and poisoned the soil, while Israel’s sweeping blockade has made water scarce for farmers who once provided a third of Gaza’s food needs. By Rasha Abou Jalal, Reposted from Drop Site News On an afternoon in early February, Sami Abu Amr, a 61-year-old farmer, walked through his roughly three-acre stretch of land that lies east of the Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyya where he once tended olive trees and grew seasonal vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, and potatoes. Before the war, the sale of his produce to lo...

Posted by: John Phoenix After an Nazi air strike hit the home of the Abu Mershud family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, northeast of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing seven people, Palestinians gather items from the debris on March 18, 2025 (Hassan Jedi/Anadolu) By Shaimaa Eid, Reposted from The Electronic Intifada, 24 March, 2025 As rubble removal continues across Gaza, concerns are mounting over airborne dust that may carry asbestos fibers, posing health risks, including asbestosis, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, health officials in Gaza say. Asbestos, a fibrous material once used in construction for its heat and fire resistance, is now globally classified as a carcinogen. Because of Israel’s intense bombardment of Gaza, and its destruction o...

Posted by: John Phoenix The Kucinich Report Graphic (The Kucinich Report) A Forensic Study of the Self-Inflicted Consequences of Modern Warfare By Dennis Kucinich, Reposted from The Kucinich Report, April 23, 2025 Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and injuries to hundreds of thousands.¹ It is impossible to overstate the effects of the abominable bombing war on Gazans, their lives, their families, their health, and their communities. What has escaped attention up until now is the undeniable environmental and health effects of the bombing of...

Posted by: John Phoenix https://youtu.be/iZFgwLrCHlM https://www.youtube.com/embed/iZFgwLrCHlM?si=q83lyeI4k6VuqzBZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4w-DaVvgk8 The scale of the suffering that Israel has inflicted on all Palestinians within its reach has meant that Hamas’ fate is Palestine’s too by David Hearst, reposted from Middle East Eye, April 22, 2025 Call Gaza what you will: killing fields, an endless loop of blood, pain and death, the world’s largest concentration camp. Or, as the population of Israel appears to be intent on doing, you can ignore it altogether. The Ashkenazi Jews of Tel Aviv live in a western bubble, sipping their morning cappuccinos and fretting about their yoga tea...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinian girls carrying water in a date grove in Deir el Balah, in the Gaza Strip of Egypt on Dec. 19, 1956. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy) (source) A string of Israeli leaders has envisioned the transfer of Gaza’s Palestinians to make way for annexation and colonization. What Trump calls “my concept” is in fact not his at all by Trude Strand, reposted from Al Jazeera, April 20, 2025 On April 7, United States President Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a second time since his inauguration. Speaking to the media, Trump doubled down on his earlier comments about the Gaza Strip, describing it as an “incredible piece of important real estate.” Trump also repeated his suggestion that the Palestinians sh...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi JEWISH settler Elisha Yered, who claims that spitting on Christians is an ancient Jewish custom. (photo) Nazi JEWISH settler activist Elisha Yered, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of Palestinian teen Qosai Mi’tan, made the comment amid a rise in incidents of Jews spitting on or near Christian worshippers in Jerusalem’s Old City reposted from Ha’aretz, October 3, 2023 Israeli settler Elisha Yered, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of Palestinian teen Qosai Mi’tan, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday that spitting at Christians is “an ancient Jewish custom.” The comment comes amid several incidents of Jews spitting on or near Christian worshippers in Jerusalem’s Old City , which were filmed on Sunday and M...