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May 17, 2024
Medical Workers Evacuated From Gaza, but 3 Americans Refuse to Leave
Some 20 American and British medical workers who had been were evacuated from the European Hospital in Khan Younis on Friday, though three American members of medical missions refused to evacuate until Israel allows additional humanitarian workers to replace them. They remain at work, along with doctors and staff from separate medical missions, serving a population trapped in Gaza with no escape.
The missions, as is often the case, had been scheduled to last two weeks bef...
May 8, 2024
600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate� Safely, UNICEF Official Says
Rolling its tanks this week into Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military moved swiftly to take control of the Palestinian side of the border crossing with Egypt. The takeover severed the only corridor connecting Palestinians in Gaza to land not controlled by Israel. In a gratuitous symbolic act, an Israeli tank bulldozed the “� monument greeting visitors as they cross into the territory from Egypt.
The attack � and the looming full-scale invasion of Rafah being threatened by...
May 3, 2024
NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator� to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Nahla Al-Arian has been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many Palestinian Americans, the 63-year-old retired fourth-grade teacher from Tampa Bay, Florida, has endured seven months of a steady trickle of WhatsApp messages about the deaths of her relatives.
“You see, my father’s family is originally from Gaza, so they are a big family. And they are not only in Gaza...
April 18, 2024
New York Times Brass Moves to Stanch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage
Since Israel began its war on the Gaza Strip after the October 7 attacks, internal strife has wracked the New York Times. The intensity of the debate reached its zenith in late December and January, amid a sustained fight over the paper’s claim that Hamas had systematically weaponized sexual violence on October 7.
Published on December 28, the story, headlined �,� instantly served as a powerful reference in a mounting campaign waged by Israel and its supporters to convinc...
New York Times Brass Moves to Staunch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage
Since Israel began its war on the Gaza Strip after the October 7 attacks, internal strife has wracked the New York Times. The intensity of the debate reached its zenith in late December and January, amid a sustained fight over the paper’s claim that Hamas had systematically weaponized sexual violence on October 7.
Published on December 28, the story, headlined �,� instantly served as a powerful reference in a mounting campaign waged by Israel and its supporters to convinc...
April 15, 2024
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,� “Ethnic Cleansing,� and “Occupied Territory�
The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide� and “ethnic cleansing� and to “avoid� using the phrase “occupied territory� when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.
The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases� and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps� to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displ...
March 23, 2024
“Man-Made Hell On Earth�: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Warning: This article contains graphic images.
Throughout the past five and a half months, Israel has waged a full-spectrum war against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. The United States and other Western nations have supplied not only the weapons for this war of annihilation against the Palestinians, but also key political and diplomatic support.
The results of the actions of this coalition of the killing have been devastating. Conservative estimates hold that more tha...
March 4, 2024
Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused�
Two of the three victims specifically singled out by the New York Times in a marquee exposé published in December, which alleged that Hamas had deliberately weaponized sexual violence during the October 7 attacks, were not in fact victims of sexual assault, according to the spokesperson for the Kibbutz Be’eri, which the Times identified as the location of the attack.
The rejection of the Times reporting in the kibbutz by Be’eri spokesperson Michal Paikin further undermines the credibility of ...
February 28, 2024
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
Anat Schwartz had a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New York Times to work with her nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on an investigation into sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 that could reshape the way the world understood Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. By November, global opposition was mounting against Israel’s military campaign, which had already killed thousands of children, women, ...
February 17, 2024
With Netanyahu Threatening Rafah Invasion, Biden Prepares to Send Israel More Bombs
The most relevant fact about the Biden administration’s current position on the war against Gaza is this: There is no Israeli war crime too extreme for Joe Biden to consider pausing, to say nothing of cutting off, the flow of U.S. weapons and financial support for Israel’s war of annihilation. On Tuesday, the Senate passed an extraordinary $14 billion in additional military aid for Israel to continue its occupation and bombing of the Palestinians of Gaza. Biden remains defiant in rejecting globa...
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