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Posted by: John Phoenix Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health A frame from the video published by NYT, showing the marked ambulances and personel – Fair Use It was a massacre.  Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March 23.  It all came to light from a video that the IDF did not intend anyone to see, filmed by Red Crescent paramedic Rifaat Radwan in the last minutes of his life.  Caught red handed, the wires and levers of justification, mendacity and qualification began to move. The pattern of institutional response is a well-rehearsed one.  First came the official claim that the troops only opened fire because the convoy approac...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinians who were injured from Israeli airstrikes on the town of Bani Suhaila arrive at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. ((Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)) American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for the moment when Israel bombed his hospital in Gaza – or the carnage he saw there. By Michal Feldon, Reposted from +972 Magazine, April 09, 2025 On the evening of March 23, Feroze Sidwha, a trauma and critical care surgeon who had recently arrived in Gaza from California as a volunteer medic, was on his way to the surgical ward in Nasser Hospital when an Israeli airstrike tore right through it. Israel’s army said the strike was targeted at Ismail Barh...

Posted by: John Phoenix A collapsed building belonging to the Abdulhadi family after an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on April 06, 2025 (Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 58 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.  At least 11 members of same family confirmed killed in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah It was another bloody morning. Gazans woke today to the sound of Israeli fighter jets producing sonic booms, terrifying everybody in Deir el-Balah. This area was the epicenter of Israeli air raids for hours. Al Jazeera received confirmation from Gaza’s Health Ministry that a house was...

Haaretz: 'Israel Preparing to Turn Rafah – One-fifth of Gaza – Into Part of Buffer Zone' A collapsed building belonging to the Abdulhadi family after an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on April 06, 2025 (Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency) The Israeli military reports that the area to be confiscated includes the city of Rafah and its surrounding neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian residents will compelled to leave and not allowed to return.  If the plan is carried out fully, the people of Gaza will be confined to two distinct areas and surrounded by Israeli military zones. By Yaniv Kubovich, Reposted from Haaretz, April 09, 2025 The Israeli military is preparing to incorporate the southern...

Posted by: John Phoenix An Israeli soldier in the area of the Netzarim corridor, in Gaza.Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit / Image processing: Masha Tzur-Glozman (source) ‘Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members’: IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child by Yaniv Kubovich, reposted from Haartz, December 18, 2024 The line appears on no map and exists in no official military order. While senior Israel Defense Forces officials might deny its existence, in the heart of the Gaza Strip, north of the Netzarim corridor, nothing is more real. “The forces in the f...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi Prime Minister Benjamin Naziyahu attends the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP - Getty Images) Internal AIPAC materials reveal huge gifts from moguls — and the strategies lobbyists used to score the cash. By Amos Barshad, Reposted from The Lever, February 01, 2024 In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has reaped a $90 million fundraising haul, according to confidential internal documents reviewed by The Lever.  Large donations flowed as the influential pro-Israel lobbying group hosted a remobilized Israeli military official who reassured potential contributors that the ...

Posted by: John Phoenix 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 of Mossad, the Israeli state intelligence agency....

Posted by: John Phoenix Illustrative photo of Nazi soldiers operating in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, November 28, 2024. ((Oren Cohen/Flash90)) Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man’s neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead. By Illy Pe’ery, Reposted from +972 Magazine A senior officer in the Israeli army’s Nahal Brigade tied an explosive cord around the neck of an 80-year-old Palestinian man and forced him to serve as a human shield, ordering him to scout out abandoned houses under threat of having his head blown off. After he had served this purpose, the soldiers ordered the man to flee with his wife, but upon being spotted by another battalion they were both shot dead on the spot. ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza, July 2024 (Credit: David Behar) Reposted from Haaretz, March 30, 2025 In Gaza, human shields are used by Nazi soldiers at least six times a day. I served in Gaza for nine months, and first came across these procedures, called “mosquito protocol” in December 2023. It was only two months into the ground offensive, long before there was a shortage of dogs from the IDF’s canine unit, Oketz, who were used for this purpose. This became the insane, unofficial excuse for this insane, unofficial procedure. I didn’t realize then how ubiquitous using human shields, whom we referred to as a “shawish,” would become. Today, almost every platoon keeps a “shawish,” and no infantry force enters a house before a “shawish” clears it. This means ther...