As images of burned children, starving families, and bombed hospitals in Gaza become the constant soundtrack of daily life, the Palestinian communities that survived the Nakba and stayed in the lands that were occupied by Israel in 1948 (hence called “’48 Palestinians”), are filled with anger, frustration, and a sense of hollowness and disempowerment. Against the general paralysis, Umm al-Fahm…
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We, the members of the Gaza Tribunal, having gathered in Sarajevo from 26 to 29 May 2025, declare our collective moral outrage at the continuing genocide in Palestine, our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and our commitment to working with partners across global civil society to end the genocide and to ensure accountability for perpetrators and enablers, redress for victims and survivors, the building of a more just international order, and a free Palestine.
We condemn the Israeli regime, its perpetration of genocide, and its decades-long policies and practices of settler colonialism, ethno-supremacism, apartheid, racial segregation, persecution, unlawful settlements…
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Support for genocide, mass murder, and ethnic cleansing is widespread in Israel.
Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that his country is waging a “war of extermination: the indiscriminate, unrestrained, cruel, and criminal killing of civilians”.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza, and roughly half want to kill every single man, woman, and child in the besieged strip.
This is according to a poll that was published by the major Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
It found that 82% of Israelis want to expel Gazans, and 47% of support killing all Palestinians in Gaza.
The more religious an Israeli is, the more likely they are to support genocide and ethnic cleansing.`
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UK prosecutors are colluding with Israeli embassy officials to classify protesters resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as terrorists and to imprison them on heavily politicized grounds, an investigation by The Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg showed.
“Documents released by the British government reveal that London has been coordinating with Israeli officials to prosecute protestors associated with activist group Palestine Action for disrupting the operations of Elbit Systems, which manufactures deadly weapons being used in the genocide in Gaza,” Klarenberg wrote.
The documents suggest that Israel has successfully lobbied the UK to abandon well-established legal standards in order to charge activists resisting Israel’s genocide under harsh counter-terror laws.
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As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine, U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.”
From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Mary Kelly Gardner, a teacher from Santa Cruz, California, told Truthout she joined the fast in memory of her late father, a service member in Vietnam who “staunchly opposed U.S. militarism.” He opposed “the so-called ‘war on terror’ and ongoing U.S. violence against Middle Eastern countries,” she said. Gardner is limiting herself to 250 calories for the first 10 days of the fast. “Then I will switch to fasting during daylight (as Muslims observing Ramadan do).”
Palestinians in Gaza are being forced to survive on 245 calories per day; 250 calories daily is considered a starvation diet, as the body breaks down muscle and other tissues. Prolonged fasting can cause dehydration, heart problems, kidney failure and even death.
Gardner is distressed because her “tax dollars are being used to fund this horrific violence” (which, she noted, constitutes genocide) “in the form of weapons shipments.” She feels the need to speak out. Gardner said her goals are to “get people’s attention with a meaningful action” and “engage in a practice that challenges me to be more personally present with the human suffering taking place in Gaza.” She is “intentionally causing myself some discomfort and inconvenience,” yet “not harming myself.”
For 11 weeks, using starvation as a weapon of war, Israel has blocked all food, medicine and other relief from entering the Gaza Strip, home to 2.1 million Palestinians. Now aid is trickling in under the auspices of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a delivery system established by the U.S. and Israel to bypass the UN, provide a fig leaf of aid and blunt global outrage at Israel’s starvation tactics. Risk of famine comes even as Israel intensifies its military campaign. On May 27, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported at least 54,056 people killed, including at least 17,400 children, and at least 123,129 people injured in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
On the sixth day of the fast, Kathy Kelly, board president of World BEYOND War, told Truthout:
On day 6 of the fast, limiting ourselves to 250 calories per day helps us focus on Gazans with no relief in sight. But Palestinians face intense risks of aerial attacks, sniper assaults, housing demolition, forcible displacement and genocidal threats from Israel and its allies to eradicate them.
On day 6 of the fast, I am wondering about Ron Feiner, the Israeli reservist sent to prison three days ago for refusal to go to Gaza. How is he faring? He told the judge who sentenced him to 20 days in prison that he couldn’t cooperate with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s sabotage of ceasefire agreements. We acutely need his witness. I’m hungry for solidarity.
On day 6 of the fast, we’re remembering the names and ages of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar’s children. Their charred corpses came to her as she worked a shift in the pediatric ward of Gaza’s Khan Younis hospital. Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, her spouse, was gravely injured in the Israeli military attack on their home — an attack which left only one child surviving.
Kelly listed the names and ages of the al-Najjar children: Yahya, 12 years old; Rakan, 10 years old; Eve, 9 years old; Jubran, 8 years old; Ruslan, 7 years old; Reval, 5 years old; Sadin, 3 years old; Luqman, 2 years old; and Sidar, 6 months old. Eleven-year-old Adam, the sole surviving child, was critically injured in the Israeli bombing.
The fast comes as the U.S. and Israel have launched a plan in concert with the GHF. The plan is to be carried out by ex-Marines, former CIA operatives, as well as mercenaries connected with Israeli intelligence. GHF has come under increasing criticism from the UN and dozens of international humanitarian organizations.
Ten people have been killed this week and at least 62 were wounded by the Israeli military as starving Palestinians gathered at a GHF aid distribution site in Rafah in southern Gaza. Although Israel says that 388 trucks entered Gaza during the past week, that number doesn’t come close to the requisite 500-600 trucks that entered daily before Israel cut off all aid on March 2.
In January, after spending months making unfounded accusations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Israel banned it from operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. UNRWA is the agency that has provided food, health care and education to Palestinian refugees since 1949. UN Secretary General António Guterres has said that “UNRWA is indispensable in delivering essential services to Palestinians,” and “UNRWA is the backbone of the United Nations humanitarian relief operations” in Gaza.
Aid is trickling in under the auspices of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a delivery system established by the U.S. and Israel to bypass the UN, provide a fig leaf of aid and blunt global outrage at Israel’s starvation tactics.
Guterres slammed the GHF, saying the aid operation violates international law. In a joint statement, two dozen countries — including the U.K., several European Union member states, Canada, Australia and Japan — criticized the GHF model. They charged that it wouldn’t deliver aid effectively at the requisite scale and would tie aid to military and political objectives.
A leaked UN memo reportedly warned against UN involvement in the GHF, saying it could be “implicated in delivering a system that falls short of Israel’s legal responsibilities as an occupying power.” UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher called the scheme “a deliberate distraction” and “a fig leaf for further violence and displacement.”
The GHF was established after Israel charged that Hamas was looting aid trucks, a claim refuted by Cindy McCain, executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and widow of Republican Sen. John McCain.
“Right now, we have 500,000 people inside of Gaza that are extremely food insecure, and could be on the verge of famine if we don’t help bring them back from that. We need to get in, and we need to get in at scale, not just a few dribble [sic] of the trucks right now, as I said, it’s a drop in the bucket,” McCain said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
In a March 2025 report, the UN body that monitors famine found that 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip have reached “Phase 5: Catastrophe/Famine,” which means that households have an extreme lack of food and/or other basic needs. Moreover, 96 percent of Gaza’s population is experiencing “acute food insecurity,” and 22 percent of those in Gaza are suffering from “catastrophic levels” of food insecurity.
McCain said, “These people are desperate, and they see a World Food Programme truck coming in, and they run for it. This — this doesn’t have anything to do with Hamas or any kind of organized crime, or anything. It has simply to do with the fact these people are starving to death.”
GHF has a cynical purpose. It “aims to push northern residents to relocate southward in search of food — a step toward their displacement from Gaza altogether,” UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said. “We used to have, before, 400 distribution places, centres in Gaza. With this new system, we are talking about three to four, maximum, distribution places. So it’s also a way to incite people to be forcibly displaced to get humanitarian assistance.”
Issam Abu Shaweesh, director of a WFP aid distribution center in western Gaza City, said the GHF aid packages don’t contain essential food items such as meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and baby formula — evidence that the goal is just “to keep people from dying of hunger” instead of meeting basic nutritional needs.
The Government Media Office in Gaza issued a statement saying that, “The so-called ‘safe distribution sites’ are nothing but ‘racially isolated ghettos’ established under the supervision of the occupation, in exposed and isolated military areas, and are a forced model for the booby-trapped ‘humanitarian corridors’ that are used as a cover to advance the occupation’s security agendas.”
Two senior officials of GHF have resigned: Executive Director Jake Wood said the organization’s plans are inconsistent with the “humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.” CEO David Burke also resigned.
The resignations came days after Swiss authorities considered opening an investigation into GHF, which had been registered in Geneva. On May 29, Swiss authorities found the organization was violating Swiss law.
Meanwhile, the fasters continue to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“Having seen what war does, not just to people but all living things, I simply have to do more than hold a sign at a demonstration,” Mike Ferner, former national director of Veterans For Peace and co-organizer of the fast, told Truthout. “Many, many people feel the same way and that’s why in just five days, over 600 people in the U.S. and beyond have registered to participate,” he said, adding, “Until Americans actually run their government and direct our wealth to sustain life, we will have to protest in the strongest ways possible.”
“The Marine veteran who started the fast with me, Phil Tottenham, said this genocide pained him so much he wanted to do what Aaron Bushnell did but didn’t have the courage. ‘But what is the most we can do?,’ Tottenham asked,” Ferner said. Bushnell, a member of the U.S. Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on February 25, 2024, in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“Watching hundreds of people maimed, burned, and killed every day just tears at my insides — too much like when I nursed hundreds of wounded from our war in Viet Nam,” Ferner said in a press release from the Institute for Public Accuracy. “I’m fasting to demand humanitarian aid resumption under UN authority and to stop U.S. weapons from fueling the genocide.”
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Our society doesn’t always stand out for its values, but damn well does for its production values. There may be nothing more powerful in the world than a film — or even a commercial — with high production values. So I’m deeply appreciative when a well-made movie actually says something that needed saying, when you can watch the closing credits feeling wiser, rather than dirtier, more aware of what’s worst in the world and yet inspired to change it, rather than outraged at the normalization of violence or stupidity.
A good place to go for such rarities is Brave New Films, where the latest release is Gaza Journalists Under Fire. The page at that link lists public screenings and let’s you download the film to screen it for a small or large gathering. It also provides fact sheets and action ideas to further enrich your post-screening discussion. One idea is to share the film on social media where paid ads for it (on Facebook and Instagram) have been censored.
I’ve seen an awful lot of movies, not to mention news reports and social media posts, about Palestine. It’s a topic that can easily lead to weeping and withdrawing. It’s also a simple story (the Israeli government is slaughtering people) that can easily be complicated in unhelpful ways. This new 41-minute film avoids those dangers by being a stand-out work of journalism not simply about Gaza but about journalism about Gaza, and specifically the killing of journalists.
At 178 at the time of publication — and now higher — the count of journalists and media workers killed by the Israeli military was already higher than the count of journalists killed on all sides of the U.S. Civil War, the two world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and the war on Afghanistan combined — not to mention 93 journalists wounded, 84 journalists arrested and locked up, and 70 media facilities turned to rubble in Gaza — all while people in western corporate media are deemed brave simply for announcing that they’ve noticed there’s a genocide happening.
The record number of killings is not because Gaza is being flooded with the world’s journalists. On the contrary, they’ve been shut out by Israel, along with human rights organizations. It’s not because the local people are disproportionately journalists. Perhaps they are if you consider their use of social media, but these statistics refer to professional journalists. It’s not because Israel has killed so many people that this many journalists are simply a portion of that larger massacre. No, it’s because the Israeli military has been specifically targeting journalists for assassination, including tracking them with drones, often just following a particularly powerful report produced by one of them. Journalists are dying disproportionately, and this means that they can be a danger rather than a protection to those they are near. Their PRESS jackets and vests are treated as targets. Their families have been killed with them when they have been targeted.
One of the journalists particularly featured in the film trained many young people to use social media — an invaluable service as it has turned out. She was killed along with her five-year-old daughter. But many of the journalists we see in this film are responsible for much of what we know about Gaza. It’s disturbing to imagine what horrors we would not have learned of without them, and what we have in fact not learned because of this killing spree targeting journalists. Even more disturbing is how many journalists we see reporting on the attacks on journalists prior to themselves being killed — as well as some we see reporting just as a missile hits nearby.
I do not, and this film does not, suggest that killing a journalist is worse than killing anyone else. I, in fact, diverge from popular opinion in maintaining that killing a civilian or a child or any human being is no worse and no better than killing any other human being. The significance of this unprecedented slaughter of journalists is that it helps to hide the war and facilitate lies about the war. The film includes a few choice lies as spoken by Israeli and U.S. officials, and provides the context for the film’s particular focus, including the context of the provision of much of the weaponry to the Israeli government by the U.S. government.
The Israeli government has, of course, held not one person accountable for the killings of journalists that voice after voice in this film — and not only in this film — calls a “war crime.” Over and over: “war crime,” “war crime,” “war crime.” Forgive me please if I quibble. The entire war is a crime. It is the crime of war in violation of the UN Charter. It is the crime of genocide in violation of the Convention on Genocide — “plausibly” in the pre-ruling ruling of the International Court of Justice, but obviously to anyone not living under a rock or within a pro-genocide media bubble. The Nazis were prosecuted for their various actions based on the argument that their war was illegal under Kellogg-Briand and therefore every bit of it illegal. To say never again to genocide and war, we have to say yes again to war being a crime in its totality.
Part of that totality is now the targeted murders of journalists. And just as we must continue asking “Where is the solidarity of the world’s people?” we must also ask “Where is the solidarity of the world’s journalists?”
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The BBC have chosen a bizarre angle to report on the news of the unfolding debacle over US/Israel-backed humanitarian aid into Palestine. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is an ostensibly independent, but Israeli- and US-backed organisation who plans to distribute aid in the Gaza strip.
However, other humanitarian organisations, including the UN, have issued a blistering rebuke as to the independence of GHF. There are further questions over the organisations ability to address an Israeli-manufactured famine.
On top of all this, Israeli forces have repeatedly shot at Palestinians seeking aid from GHF. Many have died, with many more wounded. And what does the BBC do?
Lead with a headline that reads:
Crowds overrun US-backed group’s new aid distribution site in Gaza
There’s no mention of how Israel have manufactured food and resource scarcity by systematically destroying life-sustaining systems. There’s no reference to the questions asked about GHF at the highest possible levels of humanitarian work. And, there’s certainly no mention of Israelis slaughtering Palestinians as they come to collect the aforementioned aid.
Often, bias in reporting is about what story isn’t covered, as much as what story is covered. It’s only in the first sentence that BBC News addresses the controversies with GHF:
Thousands of Palestinians have overrun an aid distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there.
Then, presumably in an oblique reference to Israeli forces slaughtering starving Palestinians, they report:
The Israeli military said troops nearby fired warning shots.
The above reporting from the BBC was first published on 27 May. However, by that stage it was already clear – via both testimony and video recordings – that Israel was not only firing warning shots, but shooting to kill aid seekers.
At this stage of Israel’s genocide, taking any kind of comment from their military without providing independent evidence is not only terrible journalism, it’s immoral. In April 2025, fifteen members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and Civil Defence were murdered by Israeli forces. There have been numerous investigations and reports from independent organisations who have looked into the matter. Whilst Israel insisted that these deaths were a result of “professional failures” it was plainly evident that Israel was simply continuing its indiscriminate killing of Palestinians. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Israel’s report was:
full of lies.
The UN humanitarian chief, Jonathan Whittall, said Israel’s report represented an erosion of norms:
A lack of real accountability undermines international law and makes the world a more dangerous place.
Without accountability, we risk continuing to watch atrocities unfolding, and the norms designed to protect us all, eroding.
Medics, and for that matter aid workers, are always easily identifiable and these paramedics in particular were gunned down while in their uniforms. It has been factually proved that Israel lied. And, not just once or twice – but routinely. So much so, that it’s a core part of their military operations to lie and obfuscate. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Najar reported how, despite repeated accounts demonstrating Israel knowingly and willingly slaughtered the paramedics, Western media remained unmoved by facts:
much of the Western media reported Israel’s version first – “Israel says …”, “the IDF states …”, “a military source tells …”. These carefully worded lines carry more weight than the blood-stained uniforms of the Red Crescent. More than the evidence. More than the truth.
This is not new. This is not an isolated mistake.
This is a system.
A system in which Palestinians are presumed guilty.
Najar demonstrates exactly how dehumanisation of Palestinians is at the core of Western complicity:
A system in which hospitals must prove they are hospitals, schools must prove they are schools and children must prove they are not human shields. A system in which our existence is treated as a threat – one that must be justified, explained, verified – before anyone will mourn us.
This is what dehumanisation looks like.
The BBC News article in question does go into detail in the body of the article about the controversy over Israel and GHF. However, in presenting the Israeli military as a legitimate journalistic source, and by framing the article with a muddied angle that waters down accountability, they have made a choice to subtly but firmly prop up Israeli propaganda.
Eleven prominent humanitarian aid organisations have signed an open letter to call GHF:
a project led by politically connected Western security and military figures, coordinated in tandem with the Israeli government, and launched while the people of Gaza remain under total siege.
They forcefully state that:
This initiative is not a genuine humanitarian effort. It is a smokescreen and, as UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher has said, “a cynical sideshow” for a deeply flawed and dangerous attempt to rebrand the delivery of aid in Gaza while the Israeli government continues to impose a blockade, bomb civilians, and block life-saving assistance. Aid does not need rebranding. It needs to be allowed in.
The Problem is Not Logistics. It Is Intentional Starvation.
Acting UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Sigrid Kaag, described the amount of aid GHF have the capacity to distribute as a:
lifeboat after the ship has sunk.
The criticism of GHF couldn’t bemore comprehensive, nor come from more expert sources:
The UN and other humanitarian organisations have refused to work with the GHF on the basis that it would compromise values and put their teams and those receiving aid at risk.
They have said the GHF can be used by Israel to forcibly displace the population by requiring them to move near a few distribution hubs or else face starvation. The UN has also opposed the use of facial recognition to vet those receiving aid.
And, just days ago the head of GHF resigned, saying:
I am proud of the work I oversaw, including developing a pragmatic plan that could feed hungry people, address security concerns about diversion, and complement the work of longstanding NGOs in Gaza.
However, it is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, which I will not abandon.
BBC News have covered the problems with Israel and GHF elsewhere. However, they have made repeated choices to dehumanise Palestinians and to unquestioningly publish Israeli propaganda. They have made a choice to, as an institution, position Israeli lives as inherently worth more than Palestinian lives.
After all, it is a choice to describe a starving and besieged population only as “crowds” that “overrun” the meagre aid Israel allow into the area. There’s no mention in the headline of Israeli forces shooting at a crowd that they’ve trapped, terrorised, and starved for months without end.
In its ever-present drive to be unbiased, the BBC aims for a goal that cannot be achieved. It’s a juvenile understanding of bias that positions reporting on Israel’s genocide as one that involves equally covering both ‘sides.’ How can there be ‘sides’ when Israel is extending a genocide on Palestinians, after decades of dominating Palestinians with settler colonialism?
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Muhammad Imad Abdel Hadi traveled from Khan Younis to Rafah on May 27 to obtain food after hearing that the American and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was distributing aid in the Tal al-Sultan area. Amid the chaos that erupted at the distribution point, starving Palestinians desperate for food stormed the site and forced the American mercenaries manning it to retreat.
Muhammad was one of the people who managed to secure a food parcel for his family. He was on his way back with the joyful news when the Israeli army killed him before he could deliver it.
Muhammad’s mother, Rehab Abdel Hadi, dressed in black, now carries her son’s coffin at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and walks in his funeral procession.
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A growing coalition of Dorset councillors demand that local company RCV Engines Ltd immediately halt the export of engine components used in Israeli military drones. Local elected officials have signed an open urging the Dorset-based firm to cease its complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide. The call follows damning revelations by Declassified UK. The investigative outlet found that RCV supplies engine components to Israel Aerospace Industries’ APUS 25 quadcopter. Israel has used these in deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians, including children, in Gaza.
Dorset-based campaign umbrella the Olive Branch Coalition has coordinated the open letter to demand an end to the local company’s complicity.
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The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to upend negotiations between the US and Iran by potentially attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.
The report said that the threat from Israel led to a recent tense phone call between Netanyahu and President Trump and a series of meetings between senior US and Israeli officials in recent days.
Trump was asked by reporters on Wednesday if he warned Netanyahu against attacking Iran during a phone call last week, and said, “Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did.”
“It’s not a warning. I said I don’t think it’s appropriate.
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Israeli officials have announced a plan to advance settler colonialism in the occupied West Bank by establishing 22 new settlements, in open defiance of international law. Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who have previously pushed for the total annexation of the West Bank, said in a statement that the expansion is aimed at furthering Israel’s goal of…
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As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of starvation, U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.” From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and an end to U.S.
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Israel has repeatedly claimed without evidence that Hamas endangers civilians by hiding behind human shields. It turns out, however, that Israel has systematically used Palestinians as human shields in violation of both international and Israeli law. A new investigation by the Associated Press joins reports by +972 Magazine, Haaretz and the Red Cross in documenting how Palestinians have been used…
A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing:
1. Choose your moment. Ok, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing, and killing your neighbours for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal. But none of that will matter the moment your neighbours retaliate by attacking you. Don’t worry. The Western media can be relied on to help out here. They will be only too ready to pretend that history began on the day you were attacked.
2. Declare, in response, your intention to starve your neighbours, treating them as “human animals”, by blocking all food, water, and power. You will be surprised by how many Western politicians are ready to support this as your “right to defend yourself”. The media will echo them. It is important not to just talk about blocking aid. You must actually do it. There will be no serious pushback for many, many months.
3. Start relatively slowly. Time is on your side. Let a little bit of aid in. But be sure to relentlessly smear the well-functioning, decades-old aid distribution system run by the international community, one that is transparent, accountable, and widely integrated into the communities it serves. Say it is infiltrated by “terrorists”.
4. Use that claim – evidence isn’t really necessary, the western media never ask for it – as the pretext to bomb the aid system’s warehouses, distribution centres, and community kitchens. Oh, and don’t forget to bomb all the private bakeries, destroy all the farmland, shoot all the animals, and kill anyone who tries to use a fishing boat, so that there are no other sources of food. You are now in control of the trickle of aid reaching what is rapidly becoming a severely malnourished population.
5. Time to move into higher gear. Stop the international community’s aid from getting in altogether. You will need a humanitarian cover story for this bit. The danger, particularly in an age of social media, is that images of starving babies will make you look very bad. Hold firm. You can get through this. Claim – again, evidence isn’t really necessary, the western media won’t ask for it – that the “terrorists” are stealing the aid. You will be surprised how willing the media is to talk about babies going “hungry”, ignoring the fact that you are starving them to death, or speak of a “famine”, as though from drought and crop failure, not from your carefully laid plans.
6. Don’t lose sight of the bigger story. You are blocking aid to “eradicate the terrorists”. After all, what is the worth of a baby, of a child – all one million of them – in the fight to eliminate a rag-tag army of lightly armed “terrorists” who have never waged their struggle outside of their historic homeland?
7. Now that the population is entirely at your disposal, you can roll out a “humanitarian” alternative to the existing system you have been vilifying and wrecking. Probably best to have been working on this part of the plan behind the scenes from early on, and to have regularly consulted with the Americans on how to develop it. You may even find they are willing to fund it. They usually are. You can obscure their role by using the term “private contractors”.
8. It’s time for implementation. Obviously, the point is not to really distribute aid. It is all about providing a cover story so that the starvation and ethnic cleansing can continue. Ensure that you provide only a tiny amount of aid and make it available only at a few distribution points you have set up with these “private contractors”. This has two advantages.
9. It forces the population to come to the areas you want them in, like luring mice into a trap. Get them to the very edge of the territory, because from there you will be best positioned at some point to drive them over the border and get rid of them for good.
10. Your system will lead to chaos, as desperate, starving people fight for food. That’s great for you. It makes them look like a swarming mass of those “human animals” you were talking about from the start. Don’t they deserve their fate? And it means that young, fit men – especially those from large, often armed, criminal families – will end up with most of the food. The stuff they can’t grab at the distribution points, they will ambush later as people try to return home laden with their heavy aid packages. That may seem counter-productive, given that you’re claiming to want to eliminate the “terrorists”. Won’t these fit, young men, as conditions degenerate further, provide a future source of recruits to the “terrorists”? But remember, the real goal here is to starve the population as quickly as possible. The young, the elderly, the sick, and the vulnerable are the ones who will die first. The more of them who start dying, the faster the pressure builds on everyone else to flee the territory to save themselves.
You are nearly there. True, faced with the emaciated bodies of your victims, Western politicians will start making harsh pronouncements. But they have already given you a massive head start of 20 months. Be grateful for that. You don’t need much longer. While they dither, you can get on with the job of extermination. Leave it to the history books to judge what really happened.
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A growing coalition of Dorset councillors demand that local company RCV Engines Ltd immediately halt the export of engine components used in Israeli military drones. Local elected officials have signed an open urging the Dorset-based firm to cease its complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide.
The call follows damning revelations by Declassified UK. The investigative outlet found that RCV supplies engine components to Israel Aerospace Industries’ APUS 25 quadcopter. Israel has used these in deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians, including children, in Gaza.
Dorset-based campaign umbrella the Olive Branch Coalition has coordinated the open letter to demand an end to the local company’s complicity. Local signatories to the letter include councillors from across the political spectrum, highlighting the unifying support for the initiative.
Those backing the letter include Green Party councillors Alasdair Keddie, Chris Rigby, Simon Bull, Joe Salmon, Kate Salmon, Sara Armstrong, and Jonathan Orrell, independent councillor Dr Felicity Rice, Labour councillor Peter Cooper, Conservative councillor Carole Jones, and local party Poole People councillor Mark Howell.
Green Party councillor Joe Salmon said:
A Dorset company is supplying parts for technology linked to the killing of civilians. That should disturb every single one of us.
RCV may claim its exports are lawful, but legality is no shield from moral responsibility. If their components are enabling war crimes, they must act immediately.
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP Vikki Slade, while not a signatory to the letter, has confirmed she has independently written to RCV Engines seeking urgent clarification about its exports. In a statement shared with the Olive Branch Coalition, Slade confirmed:
I have written to [RCV Engines] for clarification and to call on them, if the exports are continuing, to cease. If they do not, I will be writing to the Minister to ask for those businesses with exemptions to have them suspended.
She reaffirmed her support for the Liberal Democrat position to suspend all arms exports to Israel in light of the:
horrendous assault on Palestine, in particular on Gaza.
The letter highlights a number of legal findings from international bodies:
February 2024: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared it “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Despite these developments, RCV Engines reportedly continues to export drone engines without a formal licence. The open letter highlights how the company “boasts” about:
operating without the need for an export licence when shipping worldwide
Conservative Party MP for Christchurch Christopher Chope made this possible, securing an exemption for the company in 2022.
The Olive Branch Coalition says this exemption undermines UK export control laws, which clearly prohibit the export of goods that risk being used in violations of international law.
Olive Branch Coalition spokesperson Sam Lewis said:
RCV Engines’ business with Israel’s military is unacceptable, especially in the shadow of war crimes investigations and the International Court of Justice ruling Israel as an apartheid state.
We are proud of Dorset’s councillors and local MP who are speaking out to ensure our county is not complicit in apartheid or genocide. We urge local constituents who also feel strongly about this to contact their representatives to back this open letter too.
The letter also references the death of John Chapman, a Poole-based Royal Marine and humanitarian worker, who Israel killed in a drone strike on a clearly marked aid convoy in Gaza in April 2024 – a strike that also killed other British nationals.
Campaigners argue that allowing local businesses to continue enabling the Israeli military in this context is both morally and politically indefensible.
The signatories are calling on Dorset’s RCV Engines to:
The open letter ends with a message to Dorset.
We, the undersigned, urge Dorset businesses, MPs, councillors, and residents to reject any role in the supply of lethal systems to an apartheid state on trial for genocide — and seek to ensure that a company within our county is not complicit in state violence and crimes against humanity.
The full open letter and list of signatories is available for viewing and signing by individuals and organisations worldwide here.
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By The Canary
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Fifteen years ago, in May 2010, I was one of approximately 700 persons that sailed on 7 unarmed civilian ships to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and bring needed food, medicines and materials to Palestinians in Gaza who were suffering under the brutal, inhumane policies enacted by the Israeli government, which included a naval, land and air blockade of Gaza.
These policies included “putting Palestinians on a diet” by reducing the caloric intake of persons living in Gaza by allowing a much reduce number of trucks carrying food into Gaza.
I don’t think 15 years ago, we could have predicted the cruelty of the Israeli government as it now conducts the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians living in the West Bank.
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The UN has dubbed Israel’s killing of a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) rescue worker in March a “summary execution,” sharing new details regarding Israel’s widely condemned paramedic massacre that killed 15 first responders and aid workers. The UNRWA worker, identified by the agency as Kamal, was wearing a UN vest and was driving a clearly marked UN vehicle when he…
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After walking an average of 9.3 miles to an aid distribution hub set up by the U.S.- and Israel-backed private foundation that Israel has allowed to provide humanitarian relief in Gaza, Palestinians on Tuesday faced gunfire from Israeli troops at the site, with at least one person killed and 48 wounded — and rights groups’ worst fears about the aid scheme confirmed. The first day of…
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Last Thursday, May 22, a coalition named Veterans and Allies Fast for Gaza kicked off a 40-day fast outside the United Nations in Manhattan in protest against the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Military veterans and allies pledged to fast for 40 days on only 250 calories per day, the amount recently reported as what the residents of Gaza are enduring.
The fasters are demanding:
1) Full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority, and
2) No more U.S. weapons to Israel.
Seven people are fasting from May 22 to June 30 outside the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where they are present from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Many others are fasting around the U.S. and beyond for as many days as they can. The fast is organized by Veterans For Peace along with over 40 co-sponsoring organizations.
Remarkably, over 600 people have registered to join the fast. Friends of Sabeel, NA, is maintaining the list of fasters.
Who will stop the genocide in Palestine, if not us? That is the question that the fasters and many others are asking. The U.S. government is shamelessly complicit in Israel’s genocide, and to a lesser extent, the same is true for the European governments. The silence and inaction of most Middle Eastern countries is resounding. Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, the only countries to come to Palestine’s aid, have been bombed by Israel and the U.S., with the threat of more to come. Syria, another country that stood with Palestine, has been “regime changed” and handed over to former al-Qaeda/ISIS extremists.
On the positive side, some governments are making their voices heard. South Africa and Nicaragua have taken Israel and Germany, respectively, to the International Court of Justice – Israel for its genocide, and Germany for providing weapons to Israel. And millions of regular people around the globe have protested loudly and continue to do so.
Here in the United States, Jewish Voice for Peace has provided crucial leadership, pushing back against the phony charges of “anti-semitism” that are thrown at the student protesters whose courageous resistance has spoken for so many. University administrators have been all too quick to crack down on the students, violating their right to freedom of speech, but even these universities have come under attack from the repressive, anti-democratic Trump administration.
Peace-loving people are frustrated and angry. Some are worried they will be detained or deported. And many of us are suffering from Moral Injury, concerned about our own complicity. How are we supposed to act as we watch U.S. bombs obliterate Gaza’s hospitals, mosques, churches, and universities? What are we supposed to do when we see Palestinian children being starved to death, systematically and live-streamed?
Because our movement is nonviolent, we do not want to follow the example of the young man who shot and killed two employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. However, we understand his frustration and the driving force behind his forceful action. We take courage from the supreme sacrifice of U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell, who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy, asking, “What would you do?”
Student protesters at several universities around the country have initiated “hunger strikes,” a protest tactic often considered a last resort. Now they have been joined by military veterans.
“Watching hundreds of people maimed, burned, and killed every day just tears at my insides,” said Mike Ferner, former Executive Director of Veterans For Peace and one of the fasters. “Too much like when I nursed hundreds of wounded from our war in Vietnam,” said the former Navy corpsman. “This madness will only stop when enough Americans demand it stops.”
Rev. Addie Domske, National Field Organizer for Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), said, “This month I celebrated my third Mother’s Day with a renewed commitment to parent my kid toward a free Palestine. As a mother, I am responsible for feeding my child. I also believe, as a mother, I must be responsive when other children are starving.
Kathy Kelly, board president of World BEYOND War, also in NY for the fast, said, “Irish Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire, at age 81, recently fasted for forty days, saying ‘As the children of Gaza are hungry and injured with bombs by official Israeli policy, I have decided that I, too, must go hungry with them, as I in good conscience can do no other.’ Now, Israel intensifies its efforts to eradicate Gaza through bombing, forcible displacement, and siege. We must follow Mairead’s lead, hungering acutely for an end to all weapon shipments to Israel. We must ask, ‘who are the criminals?’ as war crimes multiply and political leaders fail to stop them.”
Another faster is Joy Metzler: 23, Cocoa, FL., a 2023 graduate of the Air Force Academy who became a Conscientious Objector and left the Air Force, citing US aggression in the Middle East and the continued ethnic cleansing in all of Palestine. Joy is now a member of Veterans For Peace and a co-founder of Servicemembers For Ceasefire.
“I am watching as our government unconditionally supports the very violations of international law that the Air Force trained me to recognize,” said Joy Metzler. “I was trained to uphold the values of justice, and that is why I am speaking out and condemning our government’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”
I spoke with VFP leader Mike Ferner on Day 7 of his Fast. The NYPD had just told him and the other fasters that they could no longer sit down in front of the US Mission to the UN on the little stools they had brought. But Mike Ferner was not complaining. He said:
“We go home every night to a safe bed, and we can drink clean water. We are not watching our children starve to death before us. Our sacrifice is a small one. We are taking a stand for humanity, and we encourage others to do what they can. Demand full humanitarian relief in Gaza under UN authority, and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel. This is how we can stop the genocide.”
More information about how you can participate or support the fasters is available at
Veterans and Allies Fast for Gaza.
To arrange interviews with the fasters, contact Mike Ferner at 314-940-2316.
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A group of UN human rights experts is raising alarm over a recently-passed Israeli law that allows children as young as 12 years old to be sentenced to life in prison, saying that the legislation is likely a violation of international human rights law. The experts say that the law, passed late last year, is crafted specifically to target Palestinian children, as Israeli authorities often…
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Two NGOs have accused private contractor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation of ‘stealing’ aid from them and forcing it to be distributed at its own controversial distribution points. The founder of one NGO told the Canary it was the Israeli army that requisitioned four trucks of aid.
After 88 days of closed borders and Israel’s total blockade of aid entering the Gaza Strip, we saw desperate scenes yesterday, on the first day of operations of the controversial US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. At least three people died and dozens injured as they attempted to reach life-saving supplies, after being intentionally starved by Israel for almost three months.
Among the boxes of food distributed by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were four truck loads, equivalent to 4,000 food parcels, with the logo of Rahma Worldwide, a Michigan humanitarian NGO.
Dr Ramy Abdu, founder and chairman of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) told the Canary:
My colleagues, Euro-Med field researchers in Gaza, have been in touch with Rahma Worldwide, who said they had four truck loads which were going to be delivered to the World Food Programme in Gaza in a few days, but yesterday morning we saw the boxes and the logo of this organisation among those distributed to Palestinians by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Rahma Worldwide told us the Israeli army forced the truck loads to the distribution points of the Americans, and distributed it.
Rahma Worldwide claims it does not support food distribution by the method GHF uses and, although unavailable for comment, the organisation released a statement on their social media this evening which included the following:
Rahma did not authorize such distribution, and none of our team was permitted to participate in this process… It is our policy to not support or permit the presence of any armed groups during any relief distribution of aid.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation now has the sole responsible for the delivery of aid to Gaza’s 2.1 million residents, even though its aid distribution mechanism violates international law and weaponises aid, and it uses armed security to transport it from the border crossings to the distribution centres, which are surrounded by the Israeli military.
The UN and other international humanitarian organisations, which are experienced and have been delivering aid efficiently throughout the genocide, have rejected the GHF, saying it is designed to deliberately humiliate, persecute and forcibly displace Palestinians, by making them move to where aid is being distributed.
Although there were around 400 distribution points spread across Gaza before the start of the genocide, there are now only four, three of which are in the far South of Gaza and one in the central area. None are in the Northern area, as Israel hopes to ethnically cleanse this area of Palestinians.
According to Euro-Med Monitor, Palestinians may have to travel up to 30km each week to obtain this aid.
The lack of paved roads, extremely high cost or total absence of transportation, the continued Israeli ban on vehicle traffic on the only route currently open for civilian movement between the north and south, and the constant threat of being shot at by Israeli forces will cause huge problems – and will make it impossible for old and sick people to receive anything.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution mechanism reinforces control over the life-saving supplies that are so desperately needed by Gaza’s population, giving Israel the power to decide who receives aid and who will be left to die, while attempting to mislead the public into believing Palestinians are benefitting.
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report, 93% of Gaza’s population is facing acute food shortages.
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By Charlie Jaay
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Once temples of learning where new generations of students sought to advance their futures, Gaza’s universities have all been destroyed by Israel’s genocidal annihilation of the Gaza Strip, and many students and faculty have been killed. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN speaks with displaced Palestinian students and parents about the systematic destruction of life and all institutions of learning in Gaza, and about their reactions to Palestine solidarity protests on campuses in the West and around the world.
Producer: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographer: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
CHANTINGS:
Free free Palestine!
HAY’A ADIL AGHA:
I saw the protests at Columbia University. There were protests in solidarity with Gaza. The police arrested more than 100 students. They were in solidarity with the students of Gaza. They arrested many teachers and students. There was also a university in Atlanta where the head of the philosophy department was arrested. The police used tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress these protests and demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza.
HAY’A ADIL AGHA:
Of course, when we see all this, we feel a sense of pride and gratitude. We want to thank them for standing with us. We thank the free people of the world—professors and students—for standing with us. Who stood with the students of Gaza, despite the repression, despite the arrests they stood with us, and this has helped us a lot.
I am Haya Adil Agha, 21 years old, a fourth-year student at the Islamic University in Gaza. The Department of Science and Technology, specializing in smart technologies. The technology club was like a second home to us. There was a club president, we had club members, My classmates and I used to spend most of our time at the university. We had different groups and organized events. We would come up with innovations and new ideas for students. I used to spend most of my time at university with friends. We would discuss projects, questions and assignments and study together. If the professors were available you could go and ask them questions. So I used to spend all my time at University and they were the best years of my life —the last two years before the war. Exactly three days before the war—two weeks into the first semester. My professor requested that I present on a subject. So I prepared a PowerPoint presentation and handed out a summary to the students. I got up and began presenting. I had no idea that this would be my last presentation at university. Three days later, the war began. It destroyed our dreams, destroyed our future, destroyed our aspirations. All our memories now have no meaning. The place is gone and nothing is left.
UM MOHAMED AWADH:
Our dreams and everything else we ever wanted was destroyed with our homes. Even our dreams were destroyed. Everything in our life was destroyed. It used to be a really good area. It used to be a place for the youth to study and pursue their dreams. Look at the extent of the destruction. I mean it’s just rubble. Even learning has been banned here. We’ve started to dream about the simplest of things. Just to eat. The dreams of our children have become as basic as filling a bottle of water. They dream of reaching a soup kitchen. These are simple things. They have been robbed of their right to education. Their right to healthcare. They have been robbed of a lot.
HAY’A ADIL AGHA:
I lost contact with some of my friends because they were killed at the beginning of the war. Of course, this impacts me because every day, you hear that a classmate was killed, that a professor at your university was killed. This has a profound impact on us as students. Many professors were killed, too. I can’t list them all. And I lost contact with many others because it was the university that used to bring us together. The war has driven us apart, so I couldn’t stay in touch with them. We were constantly displaced, moving from place to place. There was no internet and no electricity. I was forced to take my laptop outside to charge it. This was a big risk because, as an IT student, my most important tool is my laptop. As well as this, there was no internet. I had to travel far to get to the closest spot with internet. to be able to download lectures and slides to be able to study. I came back to the university after seeing it from afar. I had planned to visit briefly and then leave. When I saw it, I got depressed. I had seen it in pictures, but I wasn’t expecting this level of destruction. When I first arrived, I was so upset and angry. Everywhere I looked, I remembered things: This is the building where I used to sit; this is the corner where my friends and I used to hang. This is the building where a certain professor used to be. We would always go to ask him questions, and he would respond. All of the memories came back—so it affected me really deeply. My university—the place where I used to dream, where I spent two years of my life, the best two years of my life—was gone. I had been counting down the years until graduation. And just like that, it disappeared in the blink of an eye. In one day, the university was gone without a trace.
HANI ABDURAHIM MOHAMED AWADH:
The suffering in our lives—lack of water, food, and drink—is unbearable. You can see, the children, they have been robbed of everything. In the whole of the Gaza strip, from one end to the other, there is no safe place. Here used to be students and a university, all the people of Gaza used to study here. Now: it’s become ruins. All of it is just ruins. There’s nothing to be happy about. No reason to be happy.
HAY’A ADIL AGHA:
People have been forced to burn books. Firstly, there’s no gas—the occupation has stopped gas from entering Gaza. But people still have to fulfill their daily needs. There’s no gas, but people still need to cook and heat water. And on top of that, people have lost their source of income. So people can’t afford to buy wood or paper. so in the end they have been forced to burn the university library books. Of course they have been forced to do this. You have to understand people’s circumstances.
ALAA FARES AL BIS:
I have been displaced about 18 times. We left under fire, under air strikes. I mean, we couldn’t take anything with us—we left running for our lives. With ourselves and our children. There’s no food, no drink, no water, no proper sleep, no proper shelter. We are living amidst rubble. We ask the whole world to have mercy on us and to bring a ceasefire in Gaza.
CHANTINGS:
Free free Palestine!
This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by Belal Awad, Leo Erhadt, Ruwaida Amer and Mahmoud Al Mashharawi.
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An autonomous group acting under the banner of Palestine Action Scotland targeted another contractor complicit in the arms supply chain to genocidal Israel.
Early on 25 May, activists damaged the front facade of the facility housing Castle Precision Engineering in Glasgow Southside.
They used the group’s signature red paint symbolising complicity, spraying it extensively across the exterior of the building:
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The group said they targeted the facility because it is a link in the supply chain of Scottish companies supplying arms parts to Israel:
A spokesperson for Palestine Action Scotland stated:
Israel’s overt goal of exterminating and displacing Palestinian life is made possible by facilities like this one. Vital parts are distributed to assembly lines in Scotland to make the planes, drones and weapons that are slaughtering children as you read this.
Castle Precision Engineering works directly with Leonardo, one of the worlds largest arms manufacturers. Leonardo has close ties to the Israeli State and to the Israeli-based Elbit Systems, a major supplier of the Israeli Army. Its Edinburgh site manufactures the laser-targeting systems for F-35 fighter jets. Israel has used the model to bomb Gaza.
Arms manufacturers such as Leonardo require a network of contractors to function.
The spokesperson further stated:
By targeting one of their suppliers, Castle Precision Engineering, we are directly responding to calls from Palestine to disrupt the chain of arms from Scotland to Israel.
We’re ordinary local residents taking direct action against the bloody supply chain enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Anyone as horrified by the atrocities Israel is committing could do exactly as we have done. As long as complicit companies try to operate from within our communities in Glasgow, they will remain a target.
The spokesperson continued:
While our governments attempts to publicly decry Israel’s actions and shift the blame in the face of mounting public and legal pressure, it actively supplies the flow of arms that makes these crimes possible. Marches and petitions are not sufficient. It is our collective responsibility to cut off at its source.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) set out clear obligations for UN states. This includes: not supporting Israel’s unlawful acts and the unlawful situation it has created in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and ensuring Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law, or the laws of war.
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The Government Media Office in Gaza confirmed in an official statement that Israel’s occupation forces continue to commit crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in one of the most heinous systematic crimes witnessed by the world in the 21st century.
The statement pointed out that the occupation imposes its effective control over about 77% of the area of the Strip, through a direct land invasion, a large concentration in civilian areas, and tight control that prevents Palestinian citizens from reaching their homes, lands, and properties.
The occupation forces also impose unjust forced evacuation policies, forcing tens of thousands of civilians to flee under the constant threat of bombing and killing.
The statement explained that this approach constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, particularly the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which prohibit the forcible transfer or mass evacuation of the civilian population in occupied territories, as well as a crime against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The statement held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for these crimes, noting that the countries involved in supporting the occupation – such as the US, the UK, Germany, and France – also bear their responsibilities, warning of the consequences of continuing to control the vast majority of the area of the Strip, which may lead to the imposition of a colonial fait accompli and the redrawing of the population map by force.
The Government Media Office called on the United Nations, the Security Council, and the International Criminal Court to take urgent action, open independent and urgent international investigations, and prosecute Israeli war criminals before the international judiciary.
It also called on the international community, human rights organisations and all free people of the world to support the rights of the Palestinian people in their land, and to stand against the occupation’s projects that aim to undermine the lives of Palestinians in their homeland.
He warned that the continuation of genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonisation and Israeli aggression reflects a political will to impose a ‘final solution’ by force, in blatant defiance of all international laws and norms, calling for a historic and courageous stance from the international community to save the identity of the Gaza Strip from being erased.
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By Alaa Shamali
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أكد المكتب الإعلامي الحكومي في غزة في بيان رسمي أن قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي تواصل ارتكاب جرائم الإبادة الجماعية والتطهير العرقي بحق الشعب الفلسطيني في قطاع غزة، في واحدة من أبشع الجرائم الممنهجة التي يشهدها العالم في القرن الحادي والعشرين.
وأشار البيان إلى أن الاحتلال يفرض سيطرته الفعلية على حوالي 77% من مساحة القطاع، من خلال اجتياح بري مباشر، وتمركز واسع في المناطق المدنية، مع فرض سيطرة نارية مشددة تمنع المواطنين الفلسطينيين من الوصول إلى منازلهم وأراضيهم وممتلكاتهم. كما تفرض قوات الاحتلال سياسات إخلاء قسري جائرة، أجبرت عشرات الآلاف من المدنيين على النزوح تحت التهديد المستمر بالقصف والقتل.
وأوضح البيان أن هذا النهج يشكل انتهاكًا صارخًا للقانون الدولي الإنساني، ولا سيما اتفاقيات جنيف الأربع لعام 1949، التي تحظر النقل القسري أو الإخلاء الجماعي للسكان المدنيين في الأراضي المحتلة، فضلاً عن كونه جريمة ضد الإنسانية وفقًا لنظام روما الأساسي للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية.
وحمل البيان الاحتلال الإسرائيلي المسؤولية القانونية الكاملة عن هذه الجرائم، مشيرًا إلى تحميل الدول المشاركة في دعم الاحتلال مثل الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية والمملكة المتحدة وألمانيا وفرنسا مسؤولياتها كذلك، محذرًا من تبعات استمرار السيطرة على الغالبية العظمى من مساحة القطاع، التي قد تؤدي إلى فرض أمر واقع استعماري وإعادة رسم الخريطة السكانية بالقوة.
ودعا المكتب الإعلامي الحكومي الأمم المتحدة ومجلس الأمن والمحكمة الجنائية الدولية إلى التحرك العاجل، وفتح تحقيقات دولية مستقلة وعاجلة، والعمل على ملاحقة مجرمي الحرب الإسرائيليين أمام القضاء الدولي.
كما طالب المجتمع الدولي ومؤسسات حقوق الإنسان وكل أحرار العالم بدعم حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني في أرضه، والوقوف في وجه مشاريع الاحتلال التي تهدف إلى تقويض حياة الفلسطينيين في وطنهم.
وحذر من أن استمرار الإبادة الجماعية والتطهير العرقي والاستعمار والعدوان الإسرائيلي يعكس إرادة سياسية لفرض “حل نهائي” بالقوة، في تحدٍّ سافر لكل القوانين والأعراف الدولية، مستدعيًا موقفًا تاريخيًا وشجاعًا من المجتمع الدولي لإنقاذ هوية قطاع غزة من الانمحاء.
By Alaa Shamali
Before the war, conditions like scabies and lice were manageable. Treatment required basic medication and hygiene. Now, overcrowding, shared living spaces, and limited hygiene supplies have made containment nearly impossible, the doctor says. Secondary infections, fever, and pneumonia are becoming more frequent.
By mid-2024, recorded cases of scabies and lice surpassed 96,000, mostly among displaced children. Chickenpox cases rose to nearly 9,274. “Amidst the massive numbers of affected people, we suffer a serious deficiency in access to medicines,” a pediatrician in Gaza told Mondoweiss. “We’re forced to treat patients with whatever limited quantities we receive from the Ministry of Health.”
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Palestinians clamoured for aid and gunfire rang out in chaotic scenes, as a controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme turned to shambles.
Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients.
According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility.
The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds but gunfire was heard at the scene, possibly as a result of warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility.
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military veteran Jake Wood has resigned from his position as executive director of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) just weeks after its launch, amid heavy criticism from organizations that say that the U.S.- and Israel-backed group will hinder, not help, aid delivery in the starvation-stricken enclave. Wood cited concerns over violations of “humanitarian principles” in…