It’s long past time to declare our independence from Israel

Getty Images news photo A pro-Palestinian protester is arrested at the University of Texas at Austin yesterday. Yes, we’re now arresting our youth in order to please corrupt, bloodthirsty Judeofascist Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants complete control over the political conversation in the United States of America, even though our American tax dollars keep […]

It’s long past time to declare our independence from Israel

Shoplifting has hit a record high because people are starving

Shoplifting has hit a record high because people are starving. But if you were to listen to the government, you’d think they should be executed for being hungry. More than 430,000 shoplifting crimes were recorded in 2023 – up by more than a third on the number in 2022 – and probably a fraction of […]

Shoplifting has hit a record high because people are starving

In numbers: 200 days of Israel’s vile massacres of 2.3 million imprisoned for 17 years in Gaza

from thefreeonline on 25/4/24 Al Jazeera by Usaid Siddiqui

Mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and near total destruction of infrastructure haunt Gaza as Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian coastal enclave entered its 200th day on Tuesday

A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at Nasser Hospital.

Israel launched its brutal military offensive on October 7 after a deadly attack by Hamas fighters. About 240 people were taken captive in southern Israel and 1,139 were killed by the Palestinian fighters.

People work to move into a cemetery bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis
People work to give proper burials to Palestinians killed during Israel’s military offensive and buried at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

Palestinian authorities seek probe into mass graves at Gaza hospitals

Nearly 85 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced and more than 14,000 children have been killed in the offensive, which critics have called a war of vengeance.

Gaza’s orphans: Pain without borders

Here are some numbers that highlight the unprecedented level of violence used in the past six months while Israel remains adamant about launching a ground offensive in Rafah. The southernmost city in Gaza is sheltering 1.5 million Palestinians, most of whom fled earlier phases of the war.

34,000 killed

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 34,183 people have been killed and 77,084 have been wounded in Israeli attacks.

About 72 percent of those killed are women and children, according to an update by Gaza’s Government Media Office on Tuesday.

On Monday, United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk said a child in Gaza is killed or wounded “every 10 minutes”.

Meanwhile, 7,000 people are missing, according to the Government Media Office, many presumed dead under the rubble.

“We have seen death over the last 200 days at an unprecedented scale,” said Emily Tripp, director of the London-based nonprofit Airwars, which tracks casualties in aerial bombardments during war. “We have now identified more incidents where civilians have been killed since October 7 in Gaza than we did in eight years of the US and allied campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Are Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals legal?

“We have documented strikes where more than 100 people have been killed – and the news barely reaches international headlines,” she told Al Jazeera. 

In a report published in late March, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, said there were clear indications that Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention.

These acts Albanese said were “killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to the group’s members; and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.

A Palestinian youth mourns his relative killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at the morgue of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, early Saturday, April 20, 2024.
A Palestinian youth mourns his relative killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip [Ismael Abu Dayyah/AP Photo]

62 percent of homes destroyed

Many residential areas across Gaza have been destroyed and ruined by relentless bombing. At least 75,000 tonnes of explosives have been dropped on Gaza by Israeli forces, according to the Gaza media office.

This month, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, also known as UNRWA, said 62 percent of all houses in the besieged territory have been damaged or destroyed.

Nearly 90,000 housing units have been destroyed while nearly 300,000 units have been damaged by the Israeli air and ground offensive, according to the Gaza media office.

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Andrew Bridgen – UK Parliament Speech On Excess Deaths – April 18, 2024

You can watch the entire debate here. Mr Bridgen’s speech in full Thank you, Mr Speaker, We are witnesses to the greatest medical scandal in this country in living memory and possibly ever. The excess deaths in 2022 and 2023 is that scandal. Its causes are complex but the novel and untested medical treatment described […]

Andrew Bridgen – UK Parliament Speech On Excess Deaths – April 18, 2024

#EE.UU: Policía reprime a estudiantes en oleada de protestas contra guerra en #Gaza

#Guerra La policía se enfrentó el miércoles a manifestantes universitarios en Texas y California, mientras en Harvard y otras universidades se multiplicaban los campamentos y los directores de los centros educativos buscaban la manera de aplacar la creciente ola de manifestaciones propalestinas. En la Universidad de Texas, campus Austin, decenas de policías locales y […]

#EE.UU: Policía reprime a estudiantes en oleada de protestas contra guerra en #Gaza

“The court system put me through hell”

The police laughed at her when she reported her sexual abuse. After battling for justice, Lora Hughes tells Freedom how she lost confidence in UK police and prosecutors.

“The court system put me through hell”

(video) Mesa Redonda en Madrid: Palestina en clave geopolítica

Palestina en clave geopolítica: Colonialismo y Resistencia Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista 25 de abril 2024    //frenteantiimperialista.org/ Video de la mesa redonda: https://youtu.be/Ctkvse1Ekis?si=umD1UJ5hOLkBp0Ve Grabación del acto que se celebró el pasado 5 de abril en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, con la participación de los siguientes invitados: Angeles […]

(video) Mesa Redonda en Madrid: Palestina en clave geopolítica