Israel & Palestine

US Corporate Media Whitewashes Gaza Massacre as Death Toll Rises

As Israel killed more than 50 Palestinians in cold blood protesting the American embassy move on Monday, U.S. corporate media failed to accurately report what happened in Gaza, once again meekly protecting the government line. (CN) — Typical of the mindset of corporate media reporting on what happened in Gaza on Monday as Israeli soldiers killed more […]

Dancing on the Dead: New US Embassy Opens a New Era of Bloodshed

The outside world, with its shattered limbs and destroyed lives, had been surgically removed from the consciences of those at the US embassy in Jerusalem. (MEE) — Four days after the coronation of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, a banquet was due to be held for the common folk at Khodynka Field in Moscow, where […]

White House: Israel Not to Blame for Gaza Bloodbath

(ANTIWAR.COM) — It’s seemingly a straightforward sequence of events – Israeli troops lined up along the Gaza border, firing machine guns into the strip at unarmed protesters, and scores of those protesters were killed, but the US is desperate to portray it as a “propaganda” plot by Hamas. The White House portrayed themselves as wholly comfortable with Israel’s […]

‘Burn Them, Shoot Them, Kill Them’: Israelis Cheer in Jerusalem as Palestinians Killed

While the US officially transferred its embassy to Jerusalem, Israeli forces killed scores of demonstrators in Gaza. (MEE) — The contrast could not have been more jarring on Monday between Jerusalem and Gaza, even as a mere 75 kilometres separated the two. As American and Israeli officials inaugurated the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem – […]

As Israel Massacres at Least 55 People, US Celebrates New Embassy in Jerusalem

As US and Israeli leaders tout ‘great day,’ human rights defenders decry breach of international law and abhorrent violence. (CD) — Human rights advocates are shattering the characterization of the U.S. embassy’s opening in Jerusalem on Monday as something to celebrate—a portrayal put forth by President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Senate’s top Democrat, […]

Israeli Army Kills 55 People, Injures Over 2,400 in ‘Terrible Massacre’ at Gaza Border

Update: At least 55 people killed at the Gaza border. (MEE) — At least 43 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday as thousands of Palestinians took to the streets across the occupied territory to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, with tensions running high in Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West […]

Israeli Air Force Fires 20 Missiles at Gaza

(ZHE) — Three days after the biggest military escalation between Israel and Syria in years, in which the IDF launched dozens of air force attack missions on alleged Iranian sites operating out of Syria, on Saturday evening the Israeli military struck Gaza with explosions heard in the Strip’s north. Footage of multiple explosions in the Israeli airstrike in […]

Putin Backs Off Giving S-300 Missile Systems to Syria After Netanyahu Meeting

(ZHE) — Russia has made an apparent U-turn on its prior signaling that it would supply the advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria after this week’s major escalation between Syria and Israel, which involved scores of surface-to-surface rockets being fired by both sides, primarily across the contested Golan border, and some 28 Israeli aircraft firing around 60 air-to-surface missiles at […]

Israel Claims It Destroyed ‘Nearly All’ Iranian Sites in Syria Overnight

Iran denies firing missiles at Israel-occupied Golan Heights, while Israel says it has destroyed most of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria. (MEE) — Israeli forces destroyed almost all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed on Thursday after what were described as heavy exchanges of fire during the night starting over the […]

Israeli Missile Strike Killed 8 Iranians in Syria Yesterday: Reports

(MEE) — At least 15 pro-government fighters were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli missile strike near Damascus, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that eight Iranians, including members of its Revolutionary Guards and other Iranian-backed combatants, were killed in the strike on the district of Kisweh, south of the capital. The Observatory’s […]