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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Israeli drone strike on Tubas kills five as troops besiege city hospital

September 11, 2024
Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the occupied West Bank city of Tubas early on 11 September. 
 

The Morass of U.S. Middle East Policy was visible in the Harris-Trump Debate

September 11, 2024
ABC provided a transcript of the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. I have some thoughts on the Middle East dimension:

Debate: On Gaza & Ukraine, Harris and Trump put 'America last'

September 11, 2024
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris not only proved last night that they have no fleshed out foreign policy visions of their own, but that they feel most comfortable pantomiming like they do, using bafflingly cartoonish language about each other, playing so fast and loose with history, facts, and figures so as to make the entire debate over what to do in Ukraine and Gaza absolutely incoherent.
Debate: On Gaza & Ukraine, Harris and Trump put 'America last'

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Al-Mawasi attack: ‘People were torn into pieces, most of them women and children’

September 10, 2024
For three hours under the darkness of Gaza’s night sky, search-and-rescue teams dug bodies and survivors out of piles of sand. Eventually, they paused, exhausted, to wait for daybreak and see what else was left.
Relatives mourn as they hold the body of a Palestinian infant killed in the Israeli strike on al-Mawasi on 10 September (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Israel Bombed 16 Schools in Gaza in Past 6 Weeks, Rights Group Says

September 9, 2024
Israel has attacked 16 schools in Gaza in the past six weeks, killing hundreds of Palestinians, rights group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported this week — as hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza should have been starting a new school year.
 

Monday, September 9, 2024

From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb

September 9, 2024
Polio. Chickenpox. Hepatitis. The threat of epidemics is looming large in Gaza, thanks to Israel’s deliberate destruction of the Strip’s healthcare and sanitation infrastructure. Left without clean water, sewage, waste disposal, and adequate shelter, the health of Palestinians in Gaza is rapidly declining. Children and the elderly are among the most vulnerable, and time is running out. The Real News reports from the ground in Gaza, speaking directly with sanitation experts and local mothers about the conditions Israel has created through its total war on the Palestinian people.
 From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb

The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

Richard D. Wolff

September 9, 2024
 
General Motors HQ, Detroit. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

امپراتوری بحران زده ایالات متحده می خواهد جهان را با خود در شعله های هسته ای به زیر بکشد

بنیاد فرهنگ راهبردی

ششم سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴
 The crisis-ridden U.S. empire wants to take the world down with it in nuclear flames
ایالات متحده خود را با جمع صفر تعریف می کند. اسطوره ملی آن - بیایید یک لحظه غرور مضحک را در خود فرو ببریم - این است که یک ملت استثنایی در تاریخ جهان است. ظاهراً این رهبر ضروری "جهان آزاد" است، نمونه ای از فضیلت دموکراتیک و دارای قدرتمندترین و خیرخواه ترین نیروی نظامی است که جهان تا کنون دیده است.ا

Sunday, September 8, 2024

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Three Killed at Karameh Crossing | 100 Rockets in 24 Hours | Massacre in Jabaliya – Day 338

Palestine Chronicle Staff
September 8, 2024

Killed

Wounded

Missing

40,939

94,616

10,000

Israeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7

September 8, 2024
For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I drove past Megiddo prison on hundreds of occasions. Over time I came to barely notice the squat grey buildings, surrounded by watch towers and razor wire.

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Gaza live: Twenty-four Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn

September 7, 2024
Women and children killed in Israeli attack in northern and central Gaza
3 minutes ago
The official spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza reported that at least three people were killed and 20 others injured in an attack at a center in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.

Canada is ending Jewish National Fund’s charitable status

September 6, 2024
The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status may be the most important Palestine solidarity victory in Canadian history. The grassroots win is a boost to the global Stop the JNF campaign and efforts to disrupt Canadian charity assistance to Israel.
 MAP: These Countries Recognize a ...

Friday, September 6, 2024

Israeli troops withdraw from Jenin, Tulkarem after 10 day assault on West Bank

September 6, 2024
Israeli troops withdrew from the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarem early on 6 September after 10 days of brutal raids that resulted in dozens of casualties and decimated infrastructure. 

US Finally Agrees to Back Limits on Plastic Production. Here’s Why That Matters.

September 5, 2024
Plastic waste is pummeling the South Pacific, polluting coral reefs and lagoons, washing up in tons on sandy shores and accumulating in a giant mass in the ocean. Ocean currents put Pacific Island nations at the front lines of the global plastic pollution crisis, even though the islands’ 2.3 million inhabitants contribute less than 1.3 percent of the world’s plastic waste. In just five years, experts predict that up to 53 million tons of plastic pollution will impact the lives of Pacific Islanders annually.
 
 Residents on boats collect recyclable plastics from the heavily polluted Citarum River in Batujajar, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on June 12, 2024.

Who Wants to Kill and Die for the American Empire?

September 6, 2024
The Associated Pressreports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers.
 Ukrainian recruiting poster.A Ukrainian recruiting poster reads, “It’s brave to admit your fears.” (Photo: Ministry of Defense, Ukraine)

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page

September 5, 2024
In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children – Danish journalist Nikolaj Krak penned a dispatch from Israel for the Copenhagen-based Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper.
People protest against the Israeli government in Tel Aviv
People protest against the Israeli government in Tel Aviv on September 2, 2024 [Florion Goga/Reuters]

4 Dead in Mass Shooting in Georgia dominated Media; 42 dead in Mass Bombardment in Gaza Ignored

September 5, 2024
 (Left to right) Richard Aspinwall, Christina Irimie, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo were all victims in the Apalachee High School shooting on September 4. 

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Inside the brutal siege of Jenin

September 4, 2024
On Aug. 28, Israel launched “Operation Summer Camps,” the largest military invasion witnessed in the northern West Bank in over two decades. In Jenin, Israeli forces first moved into the city before imposing a full-blown siege on the refugee camp within hours; the army simultaneously carried out operations in Tubas, Nablus, Ramallah, and Tulkarem.
 Israeli military forces seen during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 2, 2024. (Flash90)
 Israeli military forces seen during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 2, 2024. (Flash90)

‘Jenin Is Just the Beginning’: Israel Planning More Escalations in West Bank

September 3, 2024
Israel is planning more significant escalations in the West Bank, and the Israeli military now considers the occupied territory the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday.
 
An Israeli military vehicle takes part in a raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 1, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Timeline: Israel’s deadly seven-day raid in occupied West Bank’s Jenin

September 3, 2024
The Israeli military is now carrying out its seventh day of massive raids across the occupied West Bank, including in Jenin, a city that houses nearly 50,000 people.
 INTERACTIVE - Israeli assaults map West Bank Jenin Nur Shams Fara-1725371825