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Posted by: John Phoenix A SCENE FROM THE PALISADES FIRE THAT STARTED IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, JANUARY 2025. ((PHOTO: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROTECTION (CAL FIRE)/FLICKR)) Commentary by Ahmad Ibsais, Reposted from Mondoweiss For the last few days, I have stared at my phone watching houses, history, and memories burn. But this time, it wasn’t Gaza. I was watching the Palisades burn. The hills are alive with fire, a haunting echo of another inferno raging thousands of miles away. For fifteen months, I’ve witnessed Gaza’s land, and people, burn through screens and headlines, and now as I watch the skies over an American city fill with smoke, the distances between these catastrophes collapse into a single, searing truth: these flames ...

Posted by: John Phoenix https://player.vimeo.com/video/1046924691?dnt=1&app_id=122963 Go here to see the full 60-Minutes report, which contains additional valuable footage, including a few more of the US State Department officials who tried to stop Israel’s genocide against Gaza but were blocked under Antony Blinken‘s rule. RELATED VIDEOS: Billionaires for Israel secretly worked to shape U.S. public opinion on Israel’s war against Gaza Facts about the Israel Gaza War essential for Americans to know – Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh What was happening in Gaza BEFORE the Hamas attack that the media didn’t tell you? Israel Palestine Basics contact@ifamericansknew.org  

Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 464 On Sunday, January 12, 2024, day 464 of Israel’s ongoing assault against the entire population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza prison camp, Israeli forces continued to bomb civilian areas and prevent aid from entering the devastated coastal strip. Over the past five days, in the Israeli assault on northern Gaza at least seventy children have been killed by Israeli troops. Israeli attacks overnight killed four Palestinians sheltering at the Salah al-Din School and three others in a residential building in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to civil defence crews. Video Player A number of Palestinian citizens were injured on Sunday evening when Israeli warplanes targeted a house in Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaz...

Gaza Nazi Holoacust Day: 463 Gaza – Day 463: The Israeli Military Onslaught Against the Gaza Strip Continues On Saturday, January 11, 2025, Day 463 of its brutal and protracted military onslaught against the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military continued its genocidal bombing campaign, killing dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The WAFA News Agency reported that the Israeli occupation committed 5 massacres against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 32 citizens and the injury of 193 others over the past 48 hours. Medical sources announced that since the beginning of the its military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli military has killed 46,537 Palestinians, and injured at least 109,571 . 12:11 AM ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Two children standing on a heap of trash in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of tons of waste are surrounding the residents in the Gaza Strip. © United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (www.greenpeace.org) The unfolding genocide in Gaza also has dire consequences for ecosystems and violates the right of people to live in a healthy environment. Written by Farah Al Hattab, Reposted from Greenpeace, July 11, 2024 Alongside the joys of childhood in the mountains of southern Lebanon, war and active bombing were never far away. While the Israeli occupation of most parts of southern Lebanon ended on May 25, 2000, two years after I was born; occupations of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Shebaa Far...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinian prisoner Motaz Abu Zanid died in Nazi Camp. (Photo: via social media) Palestinian Detainee Dies in Israeli Prison – Toll Hits 55 since October 2023 By Palestine Chronicle Staff   Motaz Abu Zanid, a 35-year-old Palestinian detainee, passed away due to medical negligence in Israeli custody. A Palestinian detainee has died in Ramon Prison, southern Israel, prisoner groups announced on Monday. The deceased was identified as Motaz Abu Zanid, 35, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, said in a joint statement, citing the Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority, which liaises with Israeli authorities. According to the statement, Abu Zanid was from the town of Dura, south of Hebron in th...

Posted by: John Phoenix In Gaza, the scale of destruction continues to rise, with countless homes and essential services affected by the ongoing war. (WAFA with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud   Gaza’s collapse into a state of uninhabitability serves as a stark reminder of the international community’s failure to act. The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip was estimated at 1.8 million inhabitants. The intention of the report, “The Gaza Strip: The Economic Situation and the Prospects for Development,” was not merely to prophesize, but to warn that if the world con...