News Keeponstalin • 6 hours ago • 98%

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> In [a long statement](https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-calls-for-justice-department-to-open-independent-investigations-into-attacks-on-american-citizens-by-israeli-security-forces/) released Friday, Sanders said that the Biden administration is on the wrong path if it truly wishes for “full accountability” for Eygi’s killing in the occupied West Bank, as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have called for. He called on the Department of Justice and the FBI to open their own independent investigations into the attack and the many others in which Israel has killed American citizens. > “Let’s be clear: there will be no accountability if the United States defers to the extremist Israeli government to investigate its own actions,” Sanders said. > The senator directly refuted Biden and Harris’s [false claims that Eygi’s killing was an accident](https://truthout.org/articles/outrageous-biden-slammed-for-saying-israel-killed-aysenur-eygi-by-accident/), and pointed out numerous incidents in the past two years in which Israeli forces have killed Americans with “no accountability” for their deaths. > Indeed, as many advocates for Palestinian rights have pointed out in recent days, Israeli forces have killed [at least five Americans](https://truthout.org/articles/blinken-says-israels-killed-2-americans-in-west-bank-its-killed-5-since-2021/) in the occupied West Bank since Biden took office, including 17-year-olds Tawfiq Ajaq and Mohammad Khdour; Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; retiree Omar Assad; and now, Eygi. Sanders brought up Israel’s targeting of American journalist [Dylan Collins](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/lebanon-deadly-israeli-attack-on-journalists-must-be-investigated-as-a-war-crime/), who was shot at by Israeli tanks while reporting in Lebanon in October.

World News Keeponstalin • 7 hours ago • 80%

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> Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets in recent days to demand that their government secure a deal that would release Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Nearly two-thirds of Israelis [support](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-815105) such a deal — if not to put an end to the genocide, to at least put an end to the war for the sake of their own population. Why won’t their government listen? > The distance between U.S. rhetoric around Israel’s supposed democracy and the actual actions of the Israeli state became clearer than ever on July 18, when the Israeli government passed a resolution rejecting any creation of a Palestinian state — a blow to decades-old U.S. policy and growing international consensus around the necessity for Palestinian self-determination. The resolution, which rejects the establishment of a state even as part of a negotiated settlement with Israel, said “the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel would pose an existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and destabilize the region.” > Ceasefire talks have stalled within the Knesset, the Israeli legislative body, for almost three months since President Biden proposed a deal, in large part due to the chokehold that far right ministers within the Israeli Parliament have on the coalition government. In order to understand the current moment, it is essential to understand how the Israeli Knesset works. The heart of the Israeli political system lies in the 120-member Knesset, which functions as both the Israeli legislative body and house of representatives. The Knesset also elects the president, a largely symbolic role as most of the executive power exists under the prime minister. > Even Palestinian citizens of Israel who reside within the 1948 borders ultimately lack full citizenship rights compared to Jewish Israelis. In 2018, the Knesset passed the Jewish Nation-State Basic Law, altering the constitutional framework of the state and establishing the ethnic-religious identity of the state as exclusively Jewish. The Nation-State law enshrined Jewish supremacy in the land. It codified what had been state policy of discrimination against Palestinians into a law with constitutional status, and was another nail in the coffin for the illusion of Israeli democracy. Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, says the Nation-State law “denies the collective rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel.” Palestinian legal scholar Mazen Masri argued that “this act demonstrates that Israel is closer to apartheid than democracy.” > The Judicial Reform protests highlight the inherent inconsistency of the premise of Israeli democracy, a contradiction that is now more visible to the world than it was before October 7. Palestinians’ demand for freedom — in Gaza, the West Bank and the 1948 borders of the state — is being heard and acknowledged on a scale unlike ever before. As Israel faces increasing international pressure and isolation, Israelis will have to make a choice between continually escalating fascism and a transformation of the fundamental nature of the state that guarantees freedom for Palestinians, and safety, dignity, and a thriving future for everyone between the river and the sea.

World News Keeponstalin • 4 days ago • 97%

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> According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the airstrikes killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens more. It was Israel’s [fifth attack ](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/10/what-was-the-humanitarian-zone-bombed-overnight-by-israel)on the area since designating it a place of refuge, and Tuesday’s bombings brought the total death toll from these attacks to more than 150. > The Israeli military [claimed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/what-is-al-mawasi-and-why-did-israel-attack-safe-zone-gaza-khan-younis) that it had “struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control centre embedded inside the humanitarian area.” Hamas denied the allegation. > The Israeli army [began directing](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/idf-israel-gaza-refuge-zones-cruel-mirage-say-aid-agencies) Palestinians to Al-Mawasi in the first months of its bombardment of the Strip. Home to only 6,000 people before the war, it quickly swelled into a [mass displacement camp](https://www.972mag.com/al-mawasi-gaza-refugees/) accommodating hundreds of thousands in makeshift tents. [Israel’s invasion of Rafah ](https://www.972mag.com/rafah-invasion-gaza-refugees/)in May triggered a further influx of refugees to the coastal area. > Israel’s previous bombardment of Al-Mawasi, on July 13, was even deadlier: that attack killed 90 Palestinians, with Israel claiming it had targeted Hamas military commander [Mohammed Deif](https://www.972mag.com/israel-assassinations-iran-hezbollah/). The extent of the destruction on Tuesday suggests that, like in that attack, the Israeli military dropped [2,000-pound bombs](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/world/middleeast/israel-strike-mawasi-bombs.html) on the densely-packed tent camp.

News Keeponstalin • 4 days ago • 97%

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> Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) are calling on the Biden administration to conduct an independent probe into Israel’s killing of American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, as officials have been relying on Israel’s [own flawed investigation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/) into her death. > In [a letter](https://jayapal.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Aysenur-Ezgi-Eygi-Letter.pdf) addressed to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the two lawmakers call for an “immediate, transparent, credible, and thorough independent U.S. investigation” into Eygi’s killing. They raise alarm that U.S. officials have allowed Israel to kill U.S. citizens in the past with impunity. > “We fear that if this pattern of impunity does not end with Ms. Eygi, it will only continue to escalate. It is imperative that the United States take concrete and decisive action to better protect American citizens,” the lawmakers said. They then asked the administration to indicate whether they will pursue an investigation and to release the knowledge they have of her killing within the next two weeks. > Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said that Eygi’s killing, as well as Israel’s bombings of its designated [“safe zone” in Gaza this week](https://truthout.org/articles/israel-kills-18-in-school-bombing-in-second-attack-on-gaza-safe-zone-in-2-days/), are the latest evidence that the U.S. must stop sending weapons to Israel.

News Keeponstalin • 4 days ago • 98%

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> On June 11, a week after a police training facility in Richmond, California, broke ground, organizers from the [Stop Cop City Bay Area Coalition](https://www.instagram.com/stopcopcity.bayarea/) marched to the Overaa Construction headquarters in protest. Citing concerns over rising police militarization and repression in the predominantly Black and Latino area, the protesters — joined by local residents — called on Overaa workers to boycott the [$30 million construction deal.](https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/04/24/18865320.php) > “By furthering the militarizing and surveillance of our city — and coordinating law enforcement resources across the region, including ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] — they’re actually making our cities into Cop Cities,” said Refilwe Gqajela, a community organizer with the [Anti Police-Terror Project](https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/) in California’s Bay Area. > The influx of these facilities parallels the emergence of the defund the police movement, which — following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 — saw thousands of people across the country mobilize to decry police violence against Black and brown communities. Within the last five years, there has been a [quiet rollout of over 80 multi-million dollar Cop City-like facilities](https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/) across the country. > Dozens of [Atlanta organizers have been jailed](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/stop-cop-city-protesters-felony-charges) and [charged with domestic terrorism and racketeering](https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/09/stop-cop-city-activist-priscilla-grim-rico-shine-light-political-repression/). According to Franklin, this a coordinated effort to criminalize activism and scare organizers. He said a large part of the facility will be built by the end of the year, even though a [poll from 2023 indicated that 59 percent](https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/10/16/atlanta-voters-want-to-stop-cop-city-and-oppose-constructing-new-jails) of residents don’t support it. > Over the last year, repressive policing has extended beyond Stop Cop City organizers to encompass Gaza solidarity student encampments as well. Tamera Hutcherson, an organizer with Stop Cop City Dallas, said the city council held secretive meetings and used vague language around “public safety” to get [voters to support a proposition](https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/will-dallas-voters-approve-50-million-for-new-police-training-facility/) that gave $50 million to a police training facility. Soon after, [Texas State Troopers raided a peaceful](https://www.commondreams.org/news/ut-austin-police) Gaza solidarity student encampment.

World News Keeponstalin • 4 days ago • 98%

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> An investigation conducted by The Washington Post has raised new doubts about Israel’s claim that US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed “during a violent riot” in Beita, Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. > According to the [report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/), Eygi was shot more than a half-hour after the height of violence between Israeli soldiers and protestors - and 20 minutes after protesters had moved further down the road. The report also confirmed that Eygi was more than 200 yards away from Israeli soldiers when she was shot in the head. > The report provides more detail on how Israeli soldiers respond to protests over Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which violates [international](https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129942) law. > Eygi's family has demanded the US call for an independent investigation into her killing. In a statement, they said they were “deeply offended by the suggestion that her killing by a trained sniper was in any way unintentional”.

World News Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 96%

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> The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri has said that the spread of disease and Israel’s “starvation campaign” in Gaza is “killing more people than bombs and bullets”. > He added that the damage inflicted by famine “is going to be carried by Palestinians for several generations in the future”. > His comments follow his new [report](https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/212/30/pdf/n2421230.pdf) to the UN General Assembly last week, in which he detailed how Israel has used starvation in Gaza “with the intent to destroy in whole or in part the Palestinian people”. > It explained that Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s food system, including the poisoning and destruction of agricultural land, and the destruction of ports and fishing vessels served to make the entire population dependent on humanitarian aid.

World News Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 97%

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> Israeli diplomats are being instructed to lobby members of the US Congress to pressure South Africa into dropping its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where Pretoria is calling on the world court to label Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide against Palestinians. > "We are asking you to immediately work with lawmakers on the federal and state level, with governors and Jewish organizations to put pressure on South Africa to change its policy towards Israel and to make clear that continuing their current actions like supporting Hamas and pushing anti-Israeli moves in international courts will come with a heavy price," read a cable from Israel's foreign ministry to its embassy and all consulates in the US. > According to Axios, the Israeli diplomats were also told to push for legislation against South Africa at the state and federal levels in the US, with the foreign ministry stating that "even if they won't materialize, presenting them and talking about them will be important" in influencing the African nation's policy.

politics Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 80%

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> "I see promise in the connections between the 2020 protests against anti-Blackness and the 2023-2024 protests against Palestinian genocide,” Palestinian American scholar Zahi Zalloua told me this summer. “I’m very invested in the reignited Black-Palestinian solidarity movement; it points to the vibrancy of an anti-racist, anti-colonial Left.” > To grapple with the horror of this ongoing genocide, I conducted this exclusive interview for Truthout with Zalloua, who is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a professor of Indigeneity, ace, and ethnicity studies at Whitman College, as well as editor of The Comparatist. In this interview, Zalloua argues with clarity and conceptual rigor that, as he says, “Arguing for Palestinian life is not antisemitic.” We also discuss the precarity of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, the importance of pessimism and the theme of solidarity.

News Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 90%

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> As Israel perpetrates a genocide in the Gaza Strip, key players in the labor movement have joined forces to strategize how unions might apply leverage to help bring about an end to the assault. Over the last year, recognizing the widespread opposition to the war among their membership and the potential for dissent inherent in cross-union solidarity, representatives of over 200 U.S. unions — from many dozens of participating locals, to the leaderships of multiple leading national unions — banded together to form [The National Labor Network for Ceasefire (NLNC).](https://www.laborforceasefire.org/) > “The workers [of Gaza] need us to push back through our unions,” Dimondstein said. “These are bombs often funded by the United States of America. We don’t want our tax dollars being used … to bomb the hell out of innocent men, women and children. And about half of the known deaths in Gaza have been children. This has got to stop. The idea of the NLNC is to bring more organized strength to the issue, to educate on the issue, and to pressure the Biden administration to use their leverage to force a ceasefire and [deliver] massive humanitarian aid.” > The NLNC promises to be a continuing force in the days to come. As Dimondstein reflected, “We’ve probably had some influence on the rest of the labor movement, even if it’s [just] in words. I don’t know if a majority of the unions now have ceasefire positions, but many of them do, including the AFL-CIO. So, I think by getting organized as the National Labor Network, we’re able to put much more of a spotlight on this issue and bring some strength to the issue within the organized labor movement.” By following the early example of the UFCW Local 3000, and at the urging of its early founding members like Dimondstein, the NLNC has at least helped labor advance past a certain political hesitancy.

News Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 93%

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> A 2020 CBS/YouGov survey [found](https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news/new-poll-shows-majority-of-pennsylvanians-oppose-fracking-17800496) that a slight majority of Pennsylvanians actually oppose fracking, with 52 percent of voters opposed and 48 percent in favor. Another 2020 poll, this one by Franklin & Marshall College, reported that 48 percent of registered Pennsylvania voters supported a ban on fracking, while only 39 percent opposed such a ban. And in a 2021 poll by the Ohio River Valley Institute, a sustainability-focused think tank, less than a third of Pennsylvanians said they supported continued fracking in the state. > Popular support for fracking has declined in Pennsylvania as understanding of its adverse effects has grown. A [review](https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/10/pennsylvania-fracking-public-health-danger/) of more than 2,500 scientific, medical, government and media reports — many of which focused on Pennsylvania — found that fracking is linked to numerous health problems, including cancer, asthma and congenital anomalies. The evidence is staggering, but here are some particularly egregious examples: An August 2023 report by the University of Pittsburgh [determined](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16082023/pennsylvania-fracking-link-childhood-lymphoma/) that children living within a mile of a natural gas fracking well were seven times more likely to contract lymphoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. Another [study](https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/17/proximity-fracking-sites-associated-risk-childhood-cancer) found that children within a mile of a fracking well were also more likely to develop juvenile leukemia.

News Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 95%

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> Commissioned by the Arab American Institute (AAI), the online [poll](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5faecb8fb23a85370058aed8/t/66d9ce3f9437b43f050cce50/1725550143446/Amercian+Attitudes+Shifiting+Realities+After+the+Unfolding+Genocide+in+Gaza+9-5-24.pdf) of 2,505 American voters conducted between July 31 and August 1 found that 44% of U.S. voters would back Harris, 40% would support Republican nominee Donald Trump, and 11% would vote third party “if the election for president of the United States were held today.” > But if Harris were to endorse a suspension of U.S. arms shipments and diplomatic support for Israel “until there was a cease-fire and withdrawal of forces from Gaza,” her national support would grow from 44% to 49%. > A majority of Democratic voters say the Gaza crisis is either very or somewhat important in determining how they vote in November, according to the AAI poll. > The new survey, which has a margin of error of 2 percentage points, is consistent with an [earlier poll](https://zeteo.com/p/poll-harris-democrats-gaza-ceasefire-arms-embargo) commissioned by the Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding Policy Project, which found that Harris would bolster her chances in key battleground states if she backed an arms embargo.

World News Keeponstalin • 1 week ago • 96%

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> “Reading the health experts, I am starting to think with horror that if it’s not stopped, Israel’s assault could end up exterminating almost the entire population in Gaza over the next couple of years,” Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, [wrote on Friday](https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1832060081245929810) on social media. > Albanese cited [a recent report](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/scientists-death-disease-gaza-polio-vaccinations-israel) from University of Edinburgh global public health chair Devi Sridhar finding that the true death toll from Israel’s genocide could be estimated at 335,500 as of September. > Sridhar based this rough calculation [off of an estimate](https://truthout.org/articles/researchers-estimate-true-gaza-death-toll-at-186000-or-more/) by public health researchers published in The Lancet in July regarding typical indirect death counts from previous conflicts, citing research hailed as the gold standard in the field. At that time, the researchers estimated that the true death toll could be roughly 186,000, stemming from direct killings like bombings as well as Israel’s destruction of the health, food and sanitation systems in Gaza. > The death toll, then, could be between 15 and 20 percent of the population by the end of this year, Albanese said, in just over a year of Israel’s genocide. And, as Sridhar writes in her Guardian report, the calculation that she borrows from The Lancet editorial is highly conservative — meaning the death toll could be even higher than her 335,500 estimate.

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 98%

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> The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [reported on Wednesday](https://www.unocha.org/news/todays-top-news-occupied-palestinian-territory-syria-mauritania-ukraine) that Israeli forces have killed over two dozen people in the West Bank just over the past week, while the Palestinian Health Ministry reports a [death toll of at least 39 people](https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-hamas-hostages-cease-fire-middle-east/?id=113316733&entryId=113411702&cid=social_twitter_abcn) so far, with over 145 people injured. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) [has said](https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1831726165070868658) that the past week was the deadliest in the occupied West Bank since November. > Over the past week alone, Israel has [cut northern parts of the region off](https://truthout.org/articles/israel-launches-major-west-bank-raid-as-israeli-minister-vows-gaza-like-attack/) from the rest of the West Bank, putting cities there under siege as Israeli forces [turned neighborhoods into war zones](https://www.972mag.com/jenin-operation-summer-camps/) and [razed others](https://aje.io/7u2xai?update=3158841). Soldiers have used bulldozers [to tear up major streets.](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/palestinian-dies-an-hour-after-israel-arrested-him-from-occupied-west-bank) > On Sunday — just a few days into Israel’s current assault — Jenin officials reported that the Israeli army had already bulldozed over 70 percent of Jenin’s streets, destroyed 20 kilometers miles of water and sewage infrastructure, and cut off water to 80 percent of the city. OCHA reports that Israel has destroyed the homes of at least 120 people in Tulkarem, while 13,000 people in Nur Shams have lost water access to their homes. > Meanwhile, [Palestinians say](https://www.972mag.com/jenin-operation-summer-camps/) that Israel’s endless assaults on the occupied West Bank are constantly radicalizing the victims of such attacks. “What do you think they’re doing? They’re pushing for escalation so that they can fully depopulate us,” one resident of Jenin told +972 Magazine. “They’re making life for us unbearable.”

News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 93%

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> This is the painful calculus of American immigration policy — a patchwork of executive actions that bring relief to a chosen few, while millions more are subject to increasingly cruel forms of immigration enforcement. Broadly speaking, enforcement comes in two forms: an explosion of border patrol that creates border detention camps, and makes crossing ever more dangerous for migrants, and deportations in the interior that rip families like mine apart. While the political debate over immigration moves in an ever more ethnonationalist direction, few understand the brutal reality of our current immigration system — and what deportation actually means for my family and thousands of families like mine who are currently fighting to stay together. > But as one administration after another failed to pass comprehensive legislation that would allow immigrants to apply for legal permanent residency, the immigration enforcement system grew ever crueller. Republicans, now calling for mass deportations, have become increasingly extremist, while Democrats have tracked them to the right. The Clinton administration expanded temporary protections for immigrants from certain countries, while criminalizing immigration and making it more difficult for most undocumented immigrants to adjust their status. The Obama administration enacted the DACA program, which allowed 800,000 undocumented youth to apply for temporary status, while deporting a record 3 million immigrants. As politics on immigration move further to the right, smaller and smaller segments of the community are granted fragile, temporary status, while the majority are criminalized and threatened with imprisonment and deportation. > The only way to break this vicious cycle is to demand the obvious: a path to legal status and permanent protection from deportation for the millions of us who have built families and a life in the United States. Anything less rips children away from their parents and destroys communities.

News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 96%

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> Sponsored by the Maine Coalition for [Palestine](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/palestine) and the Maine chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), the [newly approved resolution](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xYhZXESocS47AwggQv7DkZUWYdWWqsCf/view) contains a “divestment list” of more than 85 companies, from U.S.-based Chevron, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing to Israel-based Elbit Systems. The list also includes public entities such as [Israel Bonds](https://www.israelbonds.com/) and state-owned [Israel Aerospace Industries.](https://www.iai.co.il/) > The Maine Coalition for Palestine said Wednesday’s vote makes Portland the fourth U.S. city to adopt an [Israel](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/israel) divestment resolution. Two California cities — [Hayward](https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/hayward-divest-shares-four-companies-business-18628705.php) and [Richmond](https://abc7news.com/richmond-becomes-2nd-us-city-to-divest-from-israel-after-hayward-amid-rising-calls-action/14753326/) — and [Hamtramck, Michigan](https://wdet.org/2024/06/03/hamtramck-city-council-passes-bds-resolution-to-cut-financial-ties-with-israel/) passed similar divestment resolutions earlier this year. > “Americans overwhelmingly want a cease-fire and an arms embargo,” the group continued. “Divestment sends a clear message that current U.S. policy towards Palestinians is morally unacceptable and does not serve the interests of our country. We urge everyone to join this effort in their own communities. Our tax money should not be spent killing women and children in Palestine.”

Palestine Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 93%

Here is the Article for those who can't watch the video: [The Gaza Ghetto Uprising](https://brooklynrail.org/2024/05/field-notes/The-Gaza-Ghetto-Uprising/) - Adi Callai

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 92%

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> On Aug. 28, Israel launched “Operation Summer Camps,” the largest military invasion witnessed in the northern West Bank in over two decades. In Jenin, Israeli forces first moved into the city before imposing a full-blown siege on the refugee camp within hours; the army simultaneously carried out operations in Tubas, Nablus, Ramallah, and Tulkarem. > Since 2021, the Israeli military has repeatedly targeted Jenin refugee camp under the pretext of fighting [armed resistance groups](https://www.972mag.com/jenin-refugee-camp-israeli-raids-palestinian-resistance/). Most of the victims of these assaults have been non-combatant Palestinian civilians and minors, [according](https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties) to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).. > Four days into the operation, the camp had largely become a ghost town, with Palestinians forced to remain inside their homes as Israeli soldiers turned buildings into military bases and dispatched snipers across various rooftops. Civilians, including children, elderly, and chronically ill, have been denied access to water, food, and medicine as part of the total siege on the camp. > Local Palestinian residents and journalists say that this current assault is the most intense and violent in years, with at least 19 Palestinians killed in Jenin, including minors. This comes amid a [dramatic increase](https://www.972mag.com/pogroms-west-bank-soldiers-settlers/) in Israeli military operations and settler violence across the West Bank after October 7, which have killed nearly [700 Palestinians](https://www.shireen.ps/home) in the territory — 185 in Jenin alone — in brutal ways. > Although members of the press were denied access to the camp, the sounds of explosions and machine gunfire echoed throughout Jenin. Large numbers of Israeli D-9 bulldozers, armored personnel carriers, and armored jeeps moved through the city’s streets. The skies of Jenin were buzzing with drones; it was unclear whether these were surveillance drones or the lethal quadcopters, which Israel has commonly deployed both in Gaza and the West Bank. > At the start of the operation, the military also imposed a full lockdown on Jenin Governmental Hospital, the only public general hospital in the city. The Israeli Border Police, or Magav, was tasked with maintaining control of entry and exit to the hospital and declared the immediate surrounding area a “closed zone by military order.” > It is still unclear how long the Israeli military intends to continue Operation Summer Camps. The governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu Al-Rub, reportedly tried to coordinate a ceasefire with the army to allow urgent aid into the refugee camp, but his efforts were denied.

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 94%

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> An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of [Gaza](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gaza) and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole” as Western governments, [corporations](https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-research-updates-on-companies-and-countries-supplying-oil-fueling-palestinian-genocide-amid-icj-rulings), and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. > “Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion,” Albanese said Tuesday. “The longstanding impunity granted to Israel is enabling the de-Palestinization of the occupied territory, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of the forces pursuing their elimination as a national group.” > Defense for Children International–Palestine [noted](https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_three_palestinian_boys_in_jenin_september_2) Monday that “dozens of Israeli military vehicles” have “stormed” the West Bank city of Jenin over the past week as “Israeli forces deployed across the targeted refugee camps, seizing Palestinian homes to use as military bases and stationing snipers on the roofs of buildings, subjecting their residents to field investigations.” > Unlawful Israeli land seizures [have also surged](https://www.commondreams.org/news/west-bank-land-seizure) in the West Bank as settlers and soldiers [wipe out entire Palestinian communities.](https://www.commondreams.org/news/west-bank-communities-israeli-settlers) The BBC [reported](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c207j6wy332o) Monday that, according to its own analysis, there are “currently at least 196 across the West Bank, and 29 were set up last year — more than in any previous year.” > James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, similarly [argued](https://www.aaiusa.org/library/a-way-forward-out-of-the-mess-were-in) Tuesday that “the U.S. must reverse course — and do so dramatically.” > “A long-overdue cut-off of U.S. arms to Israel and recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination would provide exactly the shock to the system that is needed,” Zogby wrote. “It would force an internal debate in Israel, empowering those who want peace. It might also serve to send a message to the Palestinian people that their plight and rights are understood.”

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 100%

truthout.org

Update: > The chairman of Histadrut, Israel’s largest trade union, [instructed workers](https://aje.io/yep36x?update=3153791) to return to their jobs following an order by an Israeli court to end the general strike on Monday afternoon. Earlier: > Workers across [Israel](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/israel) walked off the job and took to the streets on Monday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to agree to a cease-fire and hostage-release deal after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six people who were held captive by Hamas in the [Gaza](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gaza) Strip. > Yair Lapid, Israel’s opposition leader, expressed support for the strike, [saying](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/01/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war/many-israelis-direct-their-anger-at-netanyahu-over-the-deaths-of-6-hostages?smid=url-share) that “Netanyahu and the cabinet of death decided not to save” the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that Hamas fighters killed the hostages, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. > Hamas said in a [statement](https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-sabotage-ceasefire-hamas) that “we hold the criminal terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu and the biased American administration responsible for the failure of the negotiations to stop the aggression against our people and to release the prisoners in an exchange.” > B’Tselem, an Israeli advocacy organization, said in a [statement](https://twitter.com/btselem/status/1830224601202470946) Sunday that “the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza this morning could have been saved if the Israeli government had heeded the pleas of their families and the Israeli public to reach a cease-fire and an exchange deal.” > Labor unions in the United States — Israel’s main ally and weapons supplier — expressed solidarity with Israeli workers who walked off the job Monday, with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten [applauding](https://www.aft.org/press-release/afts-weingarten-supports-israeli-labor-movements-call-general-strike) “this action to halt Israel’s economy to send a message to the Netanyahu government to end this war.”

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 97%

truthout.org

> The Israeli military killed nearly a dozen people Sunday in its [latest bombing](https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-bombs-un-school) of a school-turned-shelter in the [Gaza](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gaza) Strip, an attack that came amid limited pauses aimed at allowing relief workers to vaccinate Palestinian children against [reemergent polio](https://www.commondreams.org/news/polio-outbreak-gaza). > Israel’s strike on the Safad school in Gaza City killed at least 11 people, including a woman and a girl, a spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defense agency [told](https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3276785/11-killed-israeli-strike-school-gaza-officials-say) Agence France-Presse. > The Israeli military claimed it was targeting a “Hamas command center” inside the school, which — like other Gaza schools that remain standing — was being used as a shelter for people displaced by Israel’s nearly 11-month assault. > The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a [statement](https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6456/The-Israeli-army-continues-to-escalate-its-attacks-on-the-Gaza-Strip-during-the-polio-vaccination-campaign) Sunday that “Israeli aircraft and tanks continue to bomb the central Gaza Strip, the area where the polio vaccination campaign has begun.” > “Along with the ongoing shelling in various parts of the strip, these Israeli military attacks have coincided with the peak of families’ movement with their children towards the designated vaccination centers,” the group said. “Some of these attacks have even targeted locations near the vaccination centers, endangering the progress of the vaccination process that is required to stop the poliovirus from spreading among Palestinian children in the besieged enclave.”

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 99%

www.middleeasteye.net

> The UK has suspended 30 arms export licences to Israel following a review under the new Labour government which found that British-made weapons may have been used in the violation of international humanitarian law in Gaza. > Arms campaigners and rights advocates who have pressed for a full suspension of arms sales to Israel for months welcomed the decision, but criticised the continued export of F-35 fighter jet components which one called "a workhorse of Israel’s brutal bombing campaign". > The announcement cames hours before two organisations which have challenged the UK government in the High Court over the continued exports were set to pursue fresh legal action in an attempt to force the exports to stop immediately. > Lawyers with the UK-based Global Legan Action Network (Glan) and the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq said they told the government last week of their intent to request an emergency order and had planned to do this at a Tuesday morning hearing. > Anna Stavrianakis, director of research and strategy at UK-based Shadow World Investigations and professor of international relations at the University of Sussex, told Middle East Eye that without the suspension of the F-35 components, the statement “seems more like an attempt to mollify critics than a meaningful restriction on Israel’s ability to commit genocide”.

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 97%

mondoweiss.net

> Israel’s ongoing military onslaught on the northern West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas has now entered its third day. The Israeli army has made a point of describing it as the largest-scale invasion of the West Bank since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, a message largely meant for its Israeli audience, and perhaps also meant to terrorize Palestinians as a form of psychological warfare — Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, said that Israel should deal with the West Bank the same way it has been dealing with Gaza, including “temporarily evacuating” residents. > Since October 7, Israel ramped up its raids on the northern West Bank’s cities, especially in refugee camps that have served as havens for the resistance groups. The Israeli strategy was to preempt the further development of armed Palestinian activity in response to Gaza’s al-Aqsa Flood operation and to neutralize the West Bank as an additional front in the war on Gaza. While the West Bank as a whole was largely pacified, the northern West Bank remained an active battleground. Instead of being deterred, the resistance groups in Tulkarem, Jenin, and elsewhere increased their capabilities, especially in terms of manufacturing IEDs. Then armed resistance began to [spread to rural parts of the northern West Bank](https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/from-the-cities-to-the-countryside-armed-resistance-is-spreading-in-the-west-bank/), marking a pattern of growth in the presence of armed groups. > As Israel is expected to start winding down and reducing operations in Gaza, it is now attempting to expand operations to the West Bank in order to prolong the state of war as much as possible, given that [Netanyahu’s interests align](https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/understanding-netanyahus-endgame-in-the-war-on-gaza/) with the continuation of the scenario of attrition. If this is the case, that means the West Bank assault is only in its beginning stages; as Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza they will become freed up to step up pressure in the West Bank. > Regardless of whether the war on the West Bank is an extension of the war on Gaza, what is clear is that we have entered a new phase in Israel’s policy toward the West Bank. Even if the war in Gaza ends tomorrow, the West Bank will now become a new arena of escalation and annexationist settlement expansion for the foreseeable future. The old status quo of artificial stability has been shattered, and there’s no going back to how things were before. This is both to the benefit of Israel’s settlement ambitions, but also to its peril, as it risks a conflagration in the West Bank and the broader region.

News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 73%

www.democracynow.org

> In her first major interview since replacing Joe Biden on the ballot, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris was questioned about her shifting statements on fracking, which has been linked to a surge in methane gas emissions over the past decade. > Harris, who has previously made comments opposing fracking, vowed not to ban it if elected. The vice president went on to highlight the Biden-Harris administration’s environmental record, which activists have criticized for vastly expanding oil production rather than drawing down the country’s reliance on fossil fuels. > “The data is telling us that what Kamala Harris said about fracking — that we can do it without dealing with reducing the supply of fossil fuels — it’s just not borne out by the numbers,” explains The Lever’s David Sirota, who adds, “Ultimately, consequences for that will be on the United States, for the entire world.”

World News Keeponstalin • 2 weeks ago • 89%

mondoweiss.net

> In her first [interview](https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/kamala-harris-tim-walz-cnntv/index.html) as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN it was imperative to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza, but made it clear that she would not alter President Joe Biden’s policy in the region. > However, when pressed on whether she would stop sending weapons to Israel she told Bash, “No, we have to get a deal done, Dana. We have to get a deal done.” > “Adopting an arms embargo against Israel’s assault on Gaza is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic move to defeat Trump and MAGA extremism. It is difficult for the Democratic candidate to champion democracy while arming Netanyahu’s authoritarian regime” reads a [recent](https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/not-another-bomb-sign-on-letter) letter to Harris from the coalition Not Another Bomb. > Recent polling has repeatedly demonstrated that Democratic voters overwhelmingly support the conditioning of U.S. military aid. A Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) [survey](https://www.cepr.net/press-release/poll-majority-of-americans-say-biden-should-halt-weapons-shipments-to-israel/) from March found that 52% of Americans want the U.S. to halt weapons shipments to Israel in order to force a ceasefire. 62% of Biden voters said “The US should stop weapons shipments to Israel until Israel discontinues its attacks on the people of Gaza,” while only 14% disagreed with the statement. > The numbers from a June CBS News [poll](https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/voters-want-an-arms-embargo-on-israel) were even higher, with more than 60% of all voters and almost 80% of Democrats saying the U.S. shouldn’t send Israel weapons. > “The real question should have been, ‘When are you going to start enforcing U.S. law as it relates to arms shipments’ because what we are doing right now, with this United States policy, is in violation of not just international law, but also of American law, “said the Arab Center’s Yousef Munayyer in an interview with Democracy Now in response to the CNN segment. “Vice-President Harris made it clear in other parts of her interview that she wants to be a prosecutor. She wants to enforce the law, but Israel is clearly getting an exception from the Harris campaign.”

News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 99%

theintercept.com

> “We’ve never seen anything like this, where the students have suffered sanctions before a finding of their responsibility for violations of the rules,” Franke said, “And the sanctions that they received before any finding of guilt are far more stringent than anything we’ve seen with much more disruptive protests.”. > The crackdown on students taking part in [pro-Palestine protests](https://theintercept.com/2023/11/16/israel-palestine-gaza-student-protests/) began in November, when the school [suspended campus chapters](https://theintercept.com/2024/03/14/palestine-penn-columbia-gaza-protest-lawsuits/) of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace after those groups led an unsanctioned rally. Then in early April, the school [suspended four students](https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/columbia-pomona-vanderbilt-gaza-student-protests-arrests/) for hosting an unapproved rally which featured a speaker who is an [alleged member](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/03/28/university-launches-investigation-bans-speakers-from-campus-following-unsanctioned-resistance-101-event/) of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization > As protests sprouted on campuses [across the U.S](https://theintercept.com/2024/06/02/gaza-student-protest-campus-rust-belt/). with students [calling their schools](https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/intercepted-student-protests-gaza-columbia/) to [divest from companies](https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/university-divestment-israel-gaza-protests/) with [connections to Israel](https://theintercept.com/2018/12/14/bds-israel-boycott-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib/), Republican lawmakers have [decried](https://theintercept.com/2024/05/04/josh-gottheimer-mike-lawler-campus-protests/) the demonstrations as hotbeds of antisemitism. While antisemitic incidents have occurred on campuses since October 7, along with anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents, House Republicans such as Foxx have [conflated](https://theintercept.com/2024/06/17/israel-columbia-antisemitism-task-force-zionism/) them with any and all protests for divestment from Israel or in opposition to Israel’s campaign in Gaza. High-profile congressional hearings on antisemitism in college campuses by Foxx’s committee have since led to the resignation of presidents of elite schools, including Harvard, the [University of Pennsylvania](https://theintercept.com/2024/01/13/penn-palestine-writes-liz-magill/), and most recently, Shafik of Columbia.

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 96%

news.un.org

>Mr. Guterres’s intervention late Wednesday comes amid one of the biggest Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operations in the West Bank in years – the ISF insists against terrorists - with raids, airstrikes including drones that by Thursday had killed 17 people, according to Palestinian media. > On Wednesday, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned that the Israeli military’s actions risked further enflaming an “already explosive situation” – citing multiple airstrikes in the Nur Shams Refugee Camp in Tulkarem on Monday night that left five dead – three Palestinian men and two boys aged 13 and 15 > The UN office warned that the situation in the Occupied West Bank “could worsen dramatically” if the Israeli military continues to “systematically use unlawful lethal force and ignore violence perpetrated by settlers”. > Dire sanitary conditions and constant evacuation orders linked to ongoing operations by the Israeli military have led to the outbreaks of multiple preventable diseases, polio included. > “A lack of water, healthcare and humanitarian access has formed a “perfect storm of conditions" in which polio reemerged in Gaza,” said Sam Rose, Senior Deputy Field Director for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine Refugees.

Palestine Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 85%

www.democracynow.org

> At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 30 more wounded in the occupied West Bank, where Israel has launched its largest military operation in two decades. Israeli forces have simultaneously raided four cities and refugee camps in the north, with hundreds of soldiers backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers, fighter jets and drones. > Much of the violence has been centered on Jenin, a frequent target of raids by Israeli forces, but this latest military operation is the largest since the Second Intifada. Ahmed Tobasi, artistic director at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, says Israel’s tactics are about “punishing the people, punishing the civilians,” with an ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing. “They want Palestine empty from Palestinians.” > He also calls on the U.S. public to speak out against continued military support for Israel, saying the killings in both Gaza and the West Bank are only possible because Israel has “the green light from the U.S. government.”

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 92%

www.democracynow.org

> We get an update from Gaza, where at least 68 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its relentless assault on the territory. After nearly 11 months of war, the official Gaza death toll now stands at over 40,600, although the true figure is estimated to be much higher. > The World Food Programme announced it is pausing the movement of all staff in Gaza until further notice after Israeli forces shot at one of its clearly marked vehicles despite receiving multiple clearances by Israeli authorities. This comes just two days after U.N. humanitarian efforts in Gaza virtually ground to a halt due to new Israeli evacuation orders that disrupted operations again. Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza over the past week, displacing a quarter of a million people in Deir al-Balah alone, including from the Al-Aqsa Hospital, where tens of thousands of residents and wounded were seeking shelter. > Journalist Akram al-Satarri, speaking from just outside the hospital, describes “continuous military operations, continuous devastation, continuous targeting and [an] increased number of Palestinians affected by those ongoing operations either by being killed or being injured or by becoming displaced because of the new evacuation orders.”

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 96%

www.middleeasteye.net

> Israel launched a large military offensive in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, attacking at least three cities from land and air. > Israeli air strikes hit Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas as troops opened fire at Palestinians on the ground. > At least nine Palestinians were killed in the Israel air strikes and from gunfire, according to an initial estimate by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). > The assault began just after midnight local time (09:00 PM GMT) after undercover Israeli soldiers entered the Jenin refugee camp and the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm. > Large Israeli forces then raided the two cities and surrounded hospitals, preventing paramedics from reaching them, according to PRCS > Israeli paratroopers parachuted into Tubas and led the assault there, particularly in the Far'a refugee camp, according to Israeli Channel 14 > A siege has been imposed on the three cities - Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas - in the northern West Bank. > The Israeli military said it was carrying out a large “counter-terror” operation in Jenin and Tulkarm without elaborating further. > According to Israeli media, a military division is involved in the offensive, including ground troops and the air force. > The assault is the largest conducted by the Israeli military since the 2002 “Defensive Shield” attack at the height of the Second Intifada, according to Israeli Kan News public broadcaster. > Palestinian armed groups in the targeted West Bank cities, including the local chapters of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, said their members were confronting Israeli troops in fire exchanges and using explosive devices

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 83%

truthout.org

> The U.S. has sent nearly two shipments of weapons to Israel on average every day since it began its genocide in Gaza on October 7, according to new figures from the Israeli military. > This represents over 50,000 tons of military equipment, the military said, or over 150 tons of equipment per day as Israel relentlessly slaughters Palestinians and their children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This includes equipment like armored vehicles, munitions and ammunition. > The latest figures are [yet another show](https://truthout.org/articles/report-us-has-secretly-sent-israel-over-100-weapons-shipments-in-last-150-days/) of the astonishing amount of weapons sent by the Biden administration to aid in Israel’s genocide. The U.S. has [sent Israel billions ](https://truthout.org/articles/report-us-has-sent-israel-6-5-billion-in-military-assistance-since-october/)in military assistance and funding to procure U.S.-made weapons; just last week, the U.S. approved a [whopping $20 billion sale](https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-20-billion-weapons-us-aid-b6a99129c88a5dcc4a4753e20b5e19ec) of weapons to Israel as it threatens war across the Middle East. > Pro-Palestine activists in the U.S. have, for months, been demanding that officials stop sending weapons to Israel. Public opinion polls have [repeatedly shown](https://truthout.org/articles/poll-harris-would-gain-support-in-key-states-if-she-backed-israel-arms-embargo/) that the majority of Americans think that the U.S. should stop sending weapons.

News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 92%

www.middleeasteye.net

> New York University (NYU) has changed its guidelines around hate speech and harassment to include the criticism of Zionism as a discriminatory act. > "For many Jewish people, Zionism is a part of their Jewish identity. Speech and conduct that would violate the NDAH (non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy) if targeting Jewish or Israeli people can also violate the NDAH if directed toward Zionists," read the new guidelines from NYU, which were released last Thursday. > The NYU chapter of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (NYU FSJP) released a statement on Sunday condemning the move, saying that it sets a dangerous precedent which could also shield other ethnonationalist movements, such as Hindu nationalism and Christian nationalism, from criticism. > "The new guidance sets a dangerous precedent by extending Title VI protections to anyone who adheres to Zionism, a nationalist political ideology, and troublingly equates criticism of Zionism with discrimination against Jewish people," NYU FSJP said. > "The new NDAH guidance represents an intensification of NYU’s year-long effort to censor criticism and criminalize protest of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza," NYU FSJP said in its latest statement.

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 96%

www.democracynow.org

> We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse. > The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers. > The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers. “We’re really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities,” says Ansari, who says evidence is mounting of a “systematic pattern of ill-treatment and abuse.”

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 92%

www.amnesty.org

> A new investigation by Amnesty International reveals Israeli forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise harm to civilians sheltering at camps for internally displaced people while carrying out two attacks targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders and fighters in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip in May. These attacks likely were indiscriminate, and one attack likely also disproportionate. Both attacks should be investigated as war crimes > Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were located in the IDP camp, a location which displaced people believed was a designated “humanitarian zone,” knowingly endangering the lives of civilians. Their choice of location in both IDP camps likely violated the obligation to avoid, to the extent feasible, locating fighters in densely populated areas. Amnesty International has no information regarding the reason or motivations for their presence, but all parties to the conflict should have taken all feasible precautions to protect civilians and civilian objects. > “The Israeli military would have been fully aware that the use of bombs that project deadly shrapnel across hundreds of metres and unguided tank shells would kill and injure a large number of civilians sheltering in overcrowded settings lacking protection. The military could and should have taken all feasible precautions to avoid, or at least minimise, harm to civilians. > The Israeli military has said, including in responses to media, that it is “investigating” the strikes. Consistent [documentation](https://www.yesh-din.org/en/investigating-themselves-results-of-the-military-law-enforcement-systems-examination-of-incidents-of-palestinians-killed-and-wounded-in-the-gaza-strip-during-operation-guardian-of/) by [Israeli](https://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201605_occupations_fig_leaf) and international human rights organizations has shown that the Israeli military, through its own internal mechanisms, has failed to effectively and impartially investigate alleged violations of international humanitarian law against Palestinian civilians. > On Tuesday 28 May, at approximately 2.45pm, the Israeli military launched at least three tank shells at a location in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah – designated for months by the Israeli military as Gaza’s “humanitarian zone” – which killed 23 people and injured many more. > The concentration of civilians in small areas of Gaza has been exacerbated by the successive waves of mass displacement, coupled with Israel’s ongoing illegal blockade that restricts the movement of people seeking safety outside Gaza. These conditions make it all the more important that the parties to the conflict strictly adhere to the rules of international humanitarian law which aim to protect civilians from the effects of military operations.

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 94%

truthout.org

> In [recent days,](https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-08-26-2024-6d0101cf3dd45dcc7ecee35e0d716ac3) Palestinians have been fleeing al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as Israel ordered evacuations in nearby neighborhoods of Deir el-Balah previously labeled as part of the “[safe zone](https://truthout.org/articles/israel-has-attacked-gaza-safe-zone-at-least-10-times-since-rafah-invasion/)” [last week](https://aje.io/l9yxzq?update=3141574) and [on Sunday. ](https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/8/26/palestinian-patients-flee-al-aqsa-martyrs-hospital-in-deir-al-balah) > Though the hospital technically isn’t in the evacuation area drawn by Israel, Israeli officials have said that “forces will operate aggressively” in the areas surrounding it. Further, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reported that [Israeli forces struck](https://x.com/MSF/status/1827879695305908728) an area 250 meters away from the hospital, or just over a tenth of a mile, on Sunday, triggering panic. > The hospital is [nearly empty](https://x.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1828034837501857854) now with only a few dozen occupants left, as [many have fled](https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-08-26-2024-6d0101cf3dd45dcc7ecee35e0d716ac3) on foot, some [wheeling patients out in their beds](https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1827800421496467962). Over 600 patients were being treated at the hospital before the forced evacuations, and it was acting as a [shelter](https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-patients-vacate-al-aqsa-hospital-after-israeli-order) for many families with nowhere left to go. > Al-Aqsa was one of [only roughly 16 hospitals](https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/humanitarian-situation-update-203-gaza-strip) still partially functional in Gaza as Israel has systematically destroyed the health system across the region. Many of these hospitals are small, able to treat only a few dozen patients at a time; al-Aqsa is one of the largest hospitals that [hasn’t been thoroughly destroyed ](https://truthout.org/articles/will-the-largest-medical-body-in-us-remain-silent-after-al-shifas-destruction/)by Israeli forces.

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 64%

www.democracynow.org

> Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri responds to the latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the drawn-out ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, which Khouri calls a “fictitious political dynamic” that is primarily used as diplomatic cover for Israel’s warfare. > “The ceasefire talks should not be taken very seriously as an effort to bring about a ceasefire,” he says. “It’s pretty clear now that the ceasefire negotiations today are the equivalent of the so-called peace process in the bigger Arab-Israeli conflict over the last 40 years.”

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 91%

www.972mag.com

>At 5:40 a.m. on Aug. 10, the IDF Spokesperson sent a message to reporters informing them of an Israeli airstrike on a “military headquarters located in Al-Taba’een school compound near a mosque in the Daraj [and] Tuffah area, which serves as a shelter for residents of Gaza City.” >Shortly after this announcement, shocking images from Al-Taba’een school circulated around the world, showing piles of dismembered flesh and body parts being removed in plastic bags. The images were accompanied by reports that around 100 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli attack, with [many more hospitalized](https://www.instagram.com/p/C-vKPlntHBT/). Most of those killed were in the middle of fajr, or dawn prayers, at a designated space inside the school compound. >The IDF announcement explicitly stated that the school “serves as a shelter for residents of Gaza City,” meaning that the IDF knew refugees had fled there in fear of the army’s own bombings. The statement did not claim that there was any gunfire or rocket attacks from the school, but that “Hamas terrorists … planned and promoted … terrorist acts” from it. Nor did it claim that the civilians who took refuge in the school were given any warning, only that the army had used “precision weapons” and “intelligence.” In other words, the army bombed a populated shelter knowing full well the deadly repercussions its assault would inflict. >This dehumanization has reached new heights in recent weeks with the debate over the legitimacy of [raping Palestinian prisoners](https://www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-beit-lid-protests-detainees/). In a discussion on the mainstream TV network Channel 12, Yehuda Shlezinger, a “commentator” from the right-wing daily Israel Hayom, [called for](https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-journalist-calls-rape-against-palestinian-be-institutionalised) institutionalizing rape of prisoners as part of military practice. At least [three Knesset members](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJ8RaisZgU) from the ruling Likud party also argued that Israeli soldiers should be allowed to do anything, including rape. >But the biggest trophy goes to Israel’s Finance Minister and Defense Ministry deputy, Bezalel Smotrich. The world “won’t let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned,” [he lamented](https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-it-may-be-justified-to-starve-2-million-gazans-but-world-wont-let-us/) at an Israel Hayom conference earlier this month.

World News Keeponstalin • 3 weeks ago • 100%

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>Head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed deep concern at the development and said that the infant, from Deir Al Balah, developed paralysis in the lower left leg but is now in a stable condition >He said that given the high risk of poliovirus spread in Gaza and the region, the Palestinian health authorities together with the WHO and the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, “are working to implement two rounds of polio vaccination in the coming weeks to halt transmission”. >The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, added that its medical teams will support the delivery of vaccines to its clinics and mobile health teams, in partnership with WHO and UNICEF >During August alone, Israeli forces “issued 12 evacuation orders, forcing almost 250,000 people to move yet again”, [said](https://www.ochaopt.org/content/mass-evacuations-gaza-choke-survival-and-severely-constrain-aid-operations) Muhannad Hadi, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. >“If evacuation orders are meant to protect civilians, the fact is that they are leading to the exact opposite,” he insisted. “They are forcing families to flee again, often under fire and with the few belongings they can carry with them, into an ever-shrinking area that is overcrowded, polluted, with limited services and – like the rest of Gaza – unsafe.” >Because of being repeatedly uprooted, people are also unable to access services “essential for their survival, including medical facilities, shelters, water wells and humanitarian supplies”, Mr. Hadi continued

World News Keeponstalin • 4 weeks ago • 95%

truthout.org

>In the latest ceasefire talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been insistent that Israel be able to maintain a permanent military occupation of Gaza’s border with Egypt and a corridor built by Israeli forces cutting across the middle of the Gaza Strip, which Israelis respectively call the Philadelphi Corridor and Netzarim Corridor. >“Under the guise of ‘ceasefire negotiations’ Israel is trying to create the conditions for permanent occupation and more land grab. Those familiar with Palestine’s history recognize in what is happening to the Palestinians under Israel’s unlawful occupation, the pattern of settler colonialism,” [said Albanese on social media](https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1826672695854923783) on Thursday. >Albanese shared an observation from University of Edinburgh international relations professor Nicola Perugini, who noted: “Corridors are key tools of fragmentation, enclavisation and land dispossession in the history of Israel’s colonisation of Palestine. Corridors (Allon Plan etc) were key in settling the West Bank.” >In essence, Israel’s position in the ceasefire talks is for there to be no ceasefire — for Israel to be allowed to continue its genocide for as long as Israeli leaders desire — and for mediators to give Israel permission to expand its occupation of Palestine. This means that, if U.S. officials agree to an Israeli “ceasefire” plan, they are not only giving the green light to the genocide, but also for Israel to take steps toward annexing Gaza.

World News Keeponstalin • 4 weeks ago • 94%

truthout.org

>Over the past two weeks, Israeli settlers have forced 119 Palestinians to flee their homes, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has reported. These attacks forced nearly every family in these communities to evacuate as settlers erected illegal outposts and blocked access to water. >This displacement wave comes just a month [after the ICJ ruled](https://truthout.org/articles/icj-tells-israel-to-end-occupation-of-palestinian-territories-pay-reparations/) that Israel’s occupation of Palestine and settlements are illegal and that Israel must end them “[as rapidly as possible](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/19/world-court-says-israels-settlement-policies-breach-international-law).” A mob of Israeli settlers also recently carried [out a violent raid](https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-settlers-rampage-in-west-bank-town-killing-1-and-setting-houses-aflame/) on the Palestinian West Bank town of Jit, setting houses and cars on fire and shooting at Palestinians while Israeli soldiers looked on. >“These latest acts of ethnic cleansing are happening because the Israeli government does not expect to face any accountability or real consequences from President [Joe] Biden,” said CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, [in a statement responding](https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-says-biden-enabling-ethnic-cleansing-in-west-bank-by-refusing-to-hold-israeli-govt-accountable-for-any-crimes/) to NRC’s report. “The Biden administration must, at long last, use American financial leverage to force the Israeli government to end the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank and stop the genocide in Gaza.”