Tag: #Nakba
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Systemic rape narrated by survivors, perpetrators, and documented by the ICRC, the UN
Tradition, shame, and trauma are obstacles to the completion of this chapter of the Nakba. One especially appalling case, however, in which a 12-year-old girl captured in Gaza by the Israeli soldiers on 12 August 1949, has been passed down oraly throughout decades. A unit of twenty-four Israeli soldiers had gang-raped the girl and executed…
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Stealing a country, taking lives, confiscating labour force – The Nakba is truly far more
According to the Geneva-based ICRC archives and witness testimonies, the settler state of Israel maintained between 1948 – 1955 forced labour camps to strengthen the Israeli economy. Among others, the survivors of the Tantura massacre had been forced to worke in those camps. Based on the work of Ilan Pappe, ‘The ethnic cleansing of Palestine’…
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Israeli airstrike that killed seven health workers in Lebanon used US munition, analysis reveals
HRW’s Lebanon researcher Ramzi Kaiss told The Guardian: “Israel’s assurances that it is using US weapons lawfully are not credible. As Israel’s conduct in Gaza and Lebanon continues to violate international law, the Biden administration should immediately suspend arms sales to Israel. The airstrike on the ambulance center in Al-Habariyeh came without warning before 1…
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Netanyahu’s right-wing gov closes down Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is one of the most vocal Broadcasters covering the apartheid regime’s crimes against humanity in Palestine.
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The most fascist in West Asia
In 2011, the Israeli government passed the Nakba Law, a draconian piece of legislation allowing state funding to be slashed from institutions commemorating the Nakba on Israel’s Independence Day.
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An apartheid regime airstrike killed four members of a family in southern Lebanon today
More than 250 Hezbollah members and 75 civilians have been martyred in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since October,
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The massacre of the Palestinian fishing village of Tantura
Today, many of the survivors of this horrific event live in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, coping only with difficulty with life after the trauma of witnessing executions.* On the night of 22-23 May 1948, the village had been attacked by the 33rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, who, according to verified records killed…
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Law & order … in between here and when? abandoned
‘The Leahy Laws prohibit providing weapons or military aid to forces that commit human rights violations.’ The US Congress recently approved $15 billion in military aid to Israel, in breach of its own law once again.
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World Food Programme (WFP) on Gaza
“there is famine – full-blown famine – in the north,” … mass starvation was “moving its way south”,
Nascent Yemen 