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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...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis, Gaza continue on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, on March 30, 2025 ([Mahmoud Bassam/Anadolu Agency]) “Genocide, ecocide, mass infanticide, rape, sexual assault, torture, slavery, sniping children, bombing hospitals, executing aid workers,” said one critic. “We are funding an endless nightmare, and it should haunt us forever.” By Brett Wilkins, Reposted from Common Dreams, March 31, 2025 As Israel Defense Forces bombing continued to kill and maim large numbers of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip over the weekend and into Monday, the discovery of the bodies of medical workers who were apparently executed by their captors and the publication of several reports in which Israeli soldiers admit to...

Posted by: John Phoenix Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died in Megiddo prison on March 22 from starvation, dehydration, and infections caused by prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ahmad family) (source) reposted from Defense for Children International — Palestine, April 3, 2026 The autopsy report for a 17-year-old Palestinian child detainee who died in Israeli custody at the end of March indicates that he likely died from a combination of starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life saving medical intervention. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died while held in Israeli custody in Megiddo prison in northern Israel on the morni...

Posted by: John Phoenix Return of displaced people via Al-Rasheed Street after ceasefire, January 2025, Gaza Strip, January 27, 2025. (UNRWA photo) (source) by Juan Cole, reposted from Informed Comment, April 5, 2025 The renewed total war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza waged by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recreated the worst headlines of 2024, but this time no one is watching, as the deliberately-created Trump crises suck up all the oxygen in the news universe. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israeli bombings of internal refugee shelters have killed scores in recent days, in a series of “mass casualty events.” They have to use the same terminology for the Israeli mili...

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 field cal...

Posted by: John Phoenix 14-year old Amer, a U.S. citizen, was visiting with his family and other relatives in Ramallah. (source) reposted from International Middle East Media Center, April 7, 2025 On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American child and injured two others near Turmus Ayya, a town northeast of Ramallah in the central region of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed them of the death of 14-year-old Amer Mohammad Sa’ada Rabea’, who succumbed to his injuries after being shot and abducted by Israeli soldiers. Amer, a U.S. citizen, was visiting with his family and other relatives in Ramallah. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (P...