Stories of survival and suffering: inside Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital

Reem A. Hamadaqa

June 28, 2024

I arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on March 2 after surviving an attack that killed 14 members of my family. I was the sole survivor in my family. When I arrived at the hospital I was suffering from pelvic and acetabular fractures that kept me from walking or even standing.

Injured Palestinians are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir El-Balah for treatment following the Israeli attacks in Khan Younis on March 8, 2024. (Photo: Ali Hamad/APA Images)

No Such Thing as a Small Nuclear War

Vijay Prashad

June 28, 2024

There was a time when calls for a nuclear-free Europe rang across the continent. It began with the Stockholm Appeal of 1950, which opened with the powerful words “We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of peoples” and then deepened with the Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament of 1980, which issued the chilling warning “We are entering the most dangerous decade in human history.” 

 

 Erik Bulatov, Soviet Union, “People in the Landscape,” 1976.

US funneled over $6bn to Israel since 7 October

News Desk

June 27, 2024

The US provided Israel with $6.5 billion in security aid since 7 October, according to a Washington Post report on 26 June.

What to do (and avoid) in extreme heat

Allie Volpe

Jun 24, 2024

Tips for keeping kids, adults, and the elderly cool and safe — even without air conditioning.

 

‘The livestream was critical evidence’: Tracing attacks on Gaza’s press buildings

Léa Peruchon

June 26, 2024

The Israeli army struck major media institutions in Gaza despite assurances of safety, and appears to have deliberately targeted cameras that were broadcasting the military offensive, a new investigation shows.

The Press House in ruins on February 10, 2024, after the departure of the Israeli army. (Mohammed Salem/provided by ARIJ)

The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and Dark Legacies

Binoy Kampmark

June 26, 2024

One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of Julian Assange seems determinative.

His accusers and inquisitors will draw some delight at the plea deal reached between the WikiLeaks founder’s legal team and the US Department of Justice. Others, such as former US Vice President, Mike Pence, thought it unjustifiably lenient.

 

Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Juan Cole

June 25, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Save the Children said Monday that in addition to the some 14,000 children killed by the Israeli military according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, another 4,000 are estimated dead under rubble, and 17,000 are wandering around on their own, unaccompanied and separated from their parents (who may have been killed by Israeli fire).

 

The Treachery of the Nazi-Zionist Alliance

Stefan Moore

June 24, 2024

As uncomfortable as it may be to many, Israel’s current apartheid policies took shape in the lead up to the Holocaust when Nazi Germany and a small group of influential Zionists formed an alliance to build their ethno-nationalist states. 

 

How Karl Marx influenced Abraham Lincoln and his position on slavery & labor

Monthly Review

June 25, 2024

In 1864, Karl Marx and his International Working Men’s Association (the “First International”) sent an address to Abraham Lincoln, congratulating “the American people upon your re-election by a large majority.” As historian Robin Blackburn writes, “The U.S. ambassador in London conveyed a friendly but brief response from the president. 

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 262: Netanyahu says he refuses to end the war on Gaza

Qassam Muaddi

June 24, 2024

As Benjamin Netanyahu tells Israeli TV he is prepared to continue the war in Gaza indefinitely, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits Washington D.C. to meet U.S. officials amid a possible all-out war with Lebanon.

It’s Direct Attack on Russia by US and NATO

 ScottRitter on Ukraine’s Shelling of Sevastopol: It’s Direct Attack on Russia by USand NATO

June 24, 2024

On Sunday, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked Russia’s Sevastopol, using US-made ATACMS missiles with cluster warheads, four of which were shot down and one deflected and exploded over the city.

 

Israel hits UNRWA aid centre in Gaza City; fears of war with Hezbollah grow

Stephen Quillenand Tamila Varshalomidze

June 23, 2024

حکیم عمر خیّام نیشابوری

حکیم عمر خیّام نیشابوری در زمان خودش در واقع به این نام شهرت نداشته است! البته نامش عمر بود، ولی‌ کنیه‌اش ابوالفتح و لقبش غیاث‌الدین بوده است. نام پدرش ابراهیم و با لقب خیّام یا خیّامی ثبت شده است، که چون خیّام به معنی کسی‌ است که خیمه و یا چادر می‌سازد، احتمال دارد که این شغل پدرش بوده باشد. از تاریخ تولد و وفات او نیز اطلاع دقیقی‌ در دست نیست. گویا در اوائل قرن پنجم هجری به دنیا آمده، و در اوائل قرن ششم، و یا تاریخی‌ پیش از آن وفات یافته است.ا

Israeli Attack on Rafah Tent Camp Kills Dozens, Wounds 50

Jessica Corbett

June 22, 2024

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday yet again shelled tents of displaced Palestinians near the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 and wounding another 50, local health and emergency officials said.

 

The Eurosatory Controversy Begs the Question: Is an Ethical Arms Show Possible?

Robert C.Koehler

June 22, 2024

The term is “banal militarism”—that is to say, violence and the preparation for violence so utterly commonplace that most people don’t even notice. Banal militarism is as American as apple pie. It’s also global in scope.

Demonstrators protest arms sales to Israel outside the Eurosatory weapons expo in Paris on June 17, 2024.

(Photo: BDS France Paris-Région Parisienne)

A settler shot my husband. Then Israel bulldozed my childhood home

Shoug Al Adara

June 20, 2024

The day before my husband was shot, he told me to wait to come home.

The Israeli army demolishes Shoug’s family’s home in Al-Jawaya, May 7, 2024. (Emily Glick)

A Terribly Lopsided, Very Cruel War Continues

Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr.

June 21, 2024

As I write this, in the last 15 days, Israel has bombed a tent city and a UN school and has killed 276 Palestinian non-combatants in a mid-day raid to gain the release of four Israelis being held as hostages.

 

Hezbollah can make Israel ‘uninhabitable in 72 hours,’ expert warns

Hezbollah can make Israel ‘uninhabitable in 72 hours,’ expert warns

Israel’s power grid is vulnerable to a Hezbollah attack that could render it “uninhabitable” 72 hours later, Haaretz reported on 21 June.

 

Over 10K Killed or Harmed in Thousands of Attacks on Education in 2022 and 2023

Jake Johnson

June 20, 2024

More than 10,000 students, teachers, and academics were killed or harmed in thousands of attacks on education in 2022 and 2023, according to research published Thursday amid Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip, which has seen its schools and universities decimated by the U.S.-backed Israeli bombing campaign.

 

 Palestinian students attend a school operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on February 24, 2024.Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images

UN Human Rights Commission: Israel’s is among most Criminal Armies in the World, Clear intention of forcible Dislocation

Juan Cole

June 20, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On June 13, I analyzed the report of The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel for the UN’s Human Rights Council, which found Hamas guilty of war crimes and found the Israeli government and military guilty of crimes against humanity in Gaza.