If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Newspapers publish fuller recollections of what happened during the 22-day offensive, including the killings of an elderly woman and a mother and her two children.
By Richard Boudreaux - LAT
Israelis [...]
Apart from white phosphorus, the Israeli army used a variety of other weapons in densely populated civilian areas of Gaza in the three-week conflict that began on 27 December.
Flechettes are 4cm long metal darts that are sharply pointed at the front, with four fins at the rear. Between 5,000 and 8,000 are packed into 120mm [...]
"Where can I bring him a father from? Where can I bring him a mother from? You tell me!"
By Dr. Haidar Eid
These are the desperate words of Subhi Samouni to Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent. Subhi lost 17 members of his immediate family, including the parents of his 7-year old grandson. Shockingly, even as I write [...]
Israeli human rights activists: Arrest Olmert, Livni, and Barak for war crimes
Anonymous self-described Israeli human rights activists have set up an Internet site detailing alleged war crimes committed by senior government officials and Israel Defense Forces officers. No known human rights organization is behind the site, whose founders refuse to give their names.
The site, http://www.wanted.org.il, [...]
The undersigned NGOs and individuals PETITION Call upon the General Assembly to create a special international tribunal to try Israel, its political and military leaders, for such crimes in violation of international law, human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Palestinian Occupied Territory of which they may be charged.
Creation of a Special Tribunal [...]
Another excellent report by Jonathan Miller. Telling the story of destruction and war crimes in Gaza.
It is now clear that Israel's War on Gaza was not about destroying Hamas but punishing the Palestinian people for electing them.
See in the massive scale of the destruction that the Terrorist Jewish State inflicted on the ordinary people of [...]
As a Gazan journalist who is devastated by the holocaust the Israel army is perpetrating against us, I find myself at loss. The list of horrendous crimes committed by the Israeli army against Palestinians is endless and the crimes are countless.
Should I write about the 45 evacuees who were massacred in their refuge at the [...]
Channel Four News journalist Johnathan Miller travelled to Gaza where he interviewed civilians sheltering in a UN run school attacked by Israel using white phosphorus munitions.
Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty International investigator said "We've seen Prima Facie that there have been war crimes."
Last night I dreamed about a terrible crime. Gang-rape in Gaza is its name. But the criminality was not so much in the crime itself as in the calculated ineptitude and profound worthlessness of those who were silent witnesses of it.
In my dream, a young woman lies on her stomach on the ground screaming and [...]
By Anonymous
Not until global politics started spiraling downwards in a tumultuous storm of "terrorism", "suicide bombing", protests, petitions, security, and whatever other words have now become part of our everyday vocabulary - not until about three years ago did I ever bother to pick up a newspaper. Even 9/11 didn't see me worrying about the [...]
Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family's House
AMY GOODMAN (January 16, 2009): As the Palestinian death toll in Israel's assault on Gaza climbs above 1,100, we take a look behind the statistics. Suleiman Baraka is a Palestinian astrophysicist working at Virgnia Tech with NASA. His eleven-year-old [...]
At a talk last night about the current situation in Gaza, Professor of Linguistics Noam A. Chomsky came down hard on Israel for its frequent violence against Palestinian civilians and chastised the United States for enabling the Jewish state to carry out these actions with impunity. He also used the opportunity to touch upon broader [...]
Also tagged Chomsky, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Noam A. Chomsky, Palestine, USAAt a press conference held Wednesday in Jerusalem, a coalition of nine mainstream Israeli human rights groups presented a dramatic call to the Government of Israel to act immediately to end further violations of the Law of War in Gaza and relieve the humanitarian crisis in the territory. Ongoing violations were detailed and clear operational [...]
Also tagged Gaza, Hamas, HR, Israel, PalestineThe record is fairly clear. You can find it on the Israeli website, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. Israel broke the ceasefire by going into the Gaza and killing six or seven Palestinian militants. At that point-and now I'm quoting the official Israeli website-Hamas retaliated or, in retaliation for the Israeli attack, then launched [...]
Also tagged Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Norman-Finkelstein, PalestineIsraeli MP and leader Avigdor Liberman stated that "Gaza has to be erased from the map by nuclear bombs, like what Americans used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki." And the war criminal foreign minister Tzipi Livni said that Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza "is serving the interest of the Palestinian Authority as well as that [...]
Also tagged Gaza, Hamas, hospital, Israel, Palestine
