Women and children make up the vast majority of those slaughtered by Israeli forces in Gaza amid the genocide, the UN has found in an eye-opening report that warns that Israel is committing “grave violations of international law” in Gaza that “may also constitute genocide.” In a 31-page report published Friday, the UN Human Rights Office found that, of the thousands of killings the office was…
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In the aftermath of Kamala Harris and the Democrats’ humiliating loss to Donald Trump this week, Zionist commentators on CNN bizarrely concluded that a major contributor to Harris’s defeat was her campaign’s lack of support for Israel — despite Democrats’ completely unmitigated backing of Israel as it commits some of the worst atrocities in modern times. On the night of the election…
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Israel’s month-long escalated assault and ethnic cleansing campaign in north Gaza has created conditions horrific “beyond imagination,” a UN humanitarian official has warned as the region enters its second month without receiving any food aid. Amid a visit to north Gaza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory Muhannad Hadi said on Tuesday that Israel’s assault has…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has slammed the Democratic Party for running a “disastrous campaign” in the 2024 presidential election that he says sidelined the working class and the major issues they face in order to maintain a crumbling status quo. In a scathing statement released on Wednesday, Sanders said that Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss lies squarely on a Democratic apparatus…
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Israeli forces reportedly announced a plan this week for the total ethnic cleansing of a section of northern Gaza they have designated as a target, declaring, without evidence, that any Palestinians left there are not civilians. According to Israeli media sources, the Israeli military announced Tuesday that they have completed their “division of the northern Gaza Strip into two parts…
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Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a historic loss on Tuesday, the effects of which will reverberate for generations to come. This defeat came after she and the Democratic Party committed to a right-wing lurch that, in the end, served only to empower her opponent and usher in a new era of fascism under Donald Trump. As of Wednesday, Harris had lost every swing state that had been called…
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On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has sometimes challenged Netanyahu politically, and replaced him with a minister more loyal to Netanyahu in a major shakeup of Israeli leadership 13 months into their genocide in Gaza. The often-protested prime minister said that the “trust” between him and Gallant has “cracked” in recent months…
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Israel informed the UN on Sunday that it is pulling out of a key, decades-old agreement that allows the operations of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the lead agency providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The move is part of Israel’s violent campaign to drive the agency out of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, and comes as a supposed U.S.
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The amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza hit yet another record low in October, the UN reports, as Israeli forces have worsened their blockade as part of their apparent campaign to exterminate every Palestinian in north Gaza and destroy conditions of life across the Strip. On Monday, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini reported…
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The amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza hit yet another record low in October, the UN reports, as Israeli forces have worsened their blockade as part of their apparent campaign to exterminate every Palestinian in north Gaza and destroy conditions of life across the Strip. On Monday, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini reported…
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A group of five House Democrats has warned the White House that the executive branch is violating U.S. law in deploying U.S. troops to back Israel’s escalating violence in the Middle East, issuing a stark admonition to the Biden administration as experts say it is purposefully ignoring domestic law to support Israel’s aggression. In a letter to President Joe Biden spearheaded by…
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In recent days, Israeli attacks have come “perilously close” to striking a UN-designated world heritage site in east Lebanon, the UN has warned, putting one of the best-preserved Roman ruins in the world in danger of being destroyed by Israeli bombing. This week, Israeli forces ordered the entire city of Baalbek, in the Bekaa Valley, to evacuate — the first citywide displacement order amid…
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Thousands of pregnant people are being impacted by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Lebanon, according to the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, with pregnant people facing fewer and fewer options for care and shelter as Israeli forces attack huge swaths of the country’s civilian infrastructure. An estimated 11,600 pregnant people in Lebanon have been affected by Israel’s…
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On Thursday, Israeli forces struck what was, just days ago, northern Gaza’s last fully operational hospital, destroying a cache of UN-delivered medical supplies amid a “critical” shortage of supplies in the besieged facility. Palestinian officials reported that the Israeli planes bombed the third floor of Kamal Adwan Hospital on Thursday morning. The strike led to the burning of a warehouse…
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Former President Bill Clinton has sparked outrage for his comments at a Michigan rally for Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, in which he suggested that Israel is justified in carrying out its genocidal slaughter in Gaza and echoed the eliminationist logic of some of Israel’s most extremist politicians. In his remarks, Clinton suggested that the Hamas-led attack on October 7…
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Israeli forces used a U.S.-provided bomb in a massacre in north Gaza that killed at least 93 Palestinians, including 20 children, on Tuesday, an aid group has found. Citing preliminary reports, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says there is evidence of Israel using an MK-84 in the strike — a 2,000-pound bomb made to cause damage in a huge radius. On Tuesday morning…
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A high-powered U.S. official is being harshly criticized after attacking UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese as Israel steps up its attacks against the UN to advance its genocide in Gaza. On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the U.S. believes Albanese is “unfit for her role.” She baselessly accused Albanese…
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Biden administration officials are sweeping aside hundreds of reports of Israeli forces using U.S.-provided weapons to slaughter civilians in Gaza, new reporting finds, flouting the administration’s own policies regarding weapons to give Israel a pass. According to a new report by The Washington Post published Wednesday, the State Department has received nearly 500 reports of U.S.
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A prominent journalists’ rights group is calling for international investigations into Israel’s pattern of killing journalists amid its assault of Lebanon, saying that the longtime impunity for Israel’s occupation and massacres will only allow it to kill more of the people exposing the military’s violence in the Middle East to the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) raised alarm…
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A far right commentator has been banned from appearing on CNN after he spewed a hateful, Islamophobic comment at journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday night when Hasan expressed his support for Palestinian rights. During a roundtable segment on Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden that commentators have likened to an infamous 1939 Nazi rally at the same venue for its bigoted and inciting…
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On Tuesday, the Israeli Knesset passed legislation banning the main aid group for Palestinians from operating in the occupied Palestinian territories — a move that world leaders, humanitarian groups and the agency itself have warned will spell certain death for those starving amid Israel’s genocide and vastly erode Palestinians’ rights in the long term. The two bills passed with overwhelming…
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Israeli forces have arrested all but one of the medical staff at the only operational hospital left in north Gaza, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Monday, after a days-long siege left the facility in ruins.
Only one pediatrician remains at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was treating hundreds of patients and serving as a shelter to more than 600 Palestinians, after Israeli forces “arrested and deported all the medical staff” there, the ministry said. The Ministry of Health called for those with surgical skills to go to the hospital in order to help the patients left there.
Kamal Adwan Hospital was the last fully functional medical center in north Gaza before Israel’s siege, with the other two facilities in the region only partially operational.
The fate of the medical workers is currently unknown. The Israeli military reportedly pulled out of the hospital on Saturday after having caused extensive damage to the facility. Earlier reports found that Israel had imprisoned the majority of the hospital’s 70 staff members and later released roughly a dozen of them, including the hospital’s director Hossam Abu Safiyeh. Israeli forces later claimed, without evidence, that they had arrested fighters at the hospital.
“The smell of death has spread around the hospital,” Gaza Health Ministry’s director of field hospitals Marwan al-Hams told Al Jazeera. The UN has estimated that 440,000 Palestinians remain in north Gaza, with almost no option to obtain health care amid heavy Israeli shelling and attacks; the Gaza Civil Defense agency reported last week that it has had to suspend emergency services in northern Gaza due to Israel’s siege.
World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the situation there is “catastrophic.”
“Intensive military operations unfolding around and within healthcare facilities and a critical shortage of medical supplies, compounded by severely limited access, are depriving people of life saving care,” Tedros said.
MedGlobal, a U.S.-based humanitarian group, said on Monday that five of its staff have been detained at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
“With limited communication access to our team in northern Gaza, MedGlobal is gravely concerned for their safety and well-being amid increasingly perilous conditions.”
On Friday, Israeli forces killed Safiyeh’s son after Safiyeh refused to evacuate the hospital. Safiyeh had been outspoken about Israel’s assault as Israeli forces closed in on the hospital in recent weeks.
Israel’s siege on the hospital has had horrific consequences. At least two children died due to the Israeli military’s destruction of the oxygen station and generators on Friday. Israeli forces shelled the hospital’s courtyard and surrounded the hospital and began shooting, witnesses told Al Jazeera, while soldiers inside used the hospital speakers to call for Safiyeh. This is reportedly the 14th time Israeli forces have attacked the hospital.
Israel’s siege on north Gaza has killed at least 1,000 Palestinians so far, with no end in sight to the slaughter.
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Over 1,000 authors and literary industry workers have signed a letter vowing to boycott any Israeli literary institutions that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine, in an effort that organizers say is the largest cultural boycott of Israel in history. In the open letter, signatories say they “cannot in good conscience” work with Israeli institutions that have…
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Israeli forces have arrested all but one of the medical staff at the only operational hospital left in north Gaza, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Monday, after a days-long siege left the facility in ruins. Only one pediatrician remains at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was treating hundreds of patients and serving as a shelter to more than 600 Palestinians, after Israeli forces “arrested…
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The UN’s human rights chief has warned that Israel’s siege of north Gaza is the “darkest moment” of Israel’s year of genocide and suggested that Israeli forces may be violating the UN’s Genocide Convention as reports emerge of Israel seizing a hospital in the region. In one of the UN’s strongest statements on the assault so far, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said that…
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Israeli soldiers attacked UN peacekeepers at an observation post in south Lebanon who were observing the military’s nearby raids, the UN said Friday, as Israeli forces appear to be targeting people documenting their assault on the country. In a statement, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said that peacekeepers were at a permanent observation post near Dhayra on Tuesday…
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Israel’s genocide has so devastated every aspect of Gaza’s infrastructure and economy that it would take centuries just to restore the Gaza Strip’s GDP back to the already-depressed level from 2022, the UN has found in a report. Based on the growth rate of Gaza’s economy under Israeli blockade between 2007 and 2022, it would take 350 years to restore Gaza’s GDP from before the genocide…
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First responders have been forced to completely halt operations in north Gaza, officials have announced, as Palestinians say that there is nothing left but death in the region as a result of Israel’s horrific siege. The Gaza Civil Defense agency, the government’s first responders, said that recent Israeli attacks on its workers have forced it to suspend its operations in the north.
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On Wednesday, Israel issued a clear threat to six journalists who are among the only journalists left documenting atrocities in north Gaza as Israel carries out its extermination and ethnic cleansing campaign against hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the region. In a post on X, the Israeli military accused six Al Jazeera journalists of being affiliated with “Hamas and Islamic Jihad…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is blasting the Biden administration for its refusal to investigate an Israeli attack on a group of journalists, including an American, for over a year, and is urging the administration to open a probe. In a letter sent to President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sanders and 11 other members of Congress said…
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