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If Coronavirus Overwhelms Gaza, Israel Alone Is to Blame

April 18, 2020

The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years, some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any other society –…

Coronavirus Reveals Yet Again Gaza’s Endless and Normalised Suffering

March 27, 2020

Opinion

Hospitals all over the western world are bracing for a tsunami of intensely ill patients suffering from breathing difficulties due to the Coronavirus. In Britain, car companies are scrambling to produ…

Gaza: Murdering Children for Sport

March 15, 2020

Opinion

Ayman Mohyeldin was an Egyptian reporter for al-Jazeera English who had covered dozens of major events in the Middle East for many American and other networks. His reputation was enormous, and his rep…

Israeli IDF Snipers Boast of Shooting ‘Ducks’ in Gaza’. Unspoken Crimes against Humanity

March 11, 2020

Opinion

On March 6, 2020, a piece came out in Haaretz by Ido Glazer, featuring stories from five anonymous snipers who told how they gunned down unarmed protesters at the March of Return near the Gaza perimet…

Netanyahu “Optimistic” Israel Can Use Political Pressure to Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe

February 21, 2020

Opinion

Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it would investigate war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank last December, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Neta…

Next Intifada (II)

February 16, 2020

Opinion

Read Part I here The negotiations, the Washington talks and the Oslo Accords During the First Gulf War in 1991, the Palestinians and their national organization the PLO opposed the US-led attack on Ir…

The Freedom Flotilla Will Make its 35th Attempt to Sail to Gaza in 2020

December 28, 2019

Opinion

What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us a…

Gaza 2020: How Easy It Is for the World to Delete Palestinian Pain

December 18, 2019

Opinion

I would like you to try an exercise. Google the words "family of eight killed" and you will be given several options - one in Sonora, Mexico, another in Pike, Ohio, yet another in Mendocino County, Ca…