Gaza massacre

[Prefatory Note: I post below two items pertaining to Gaza—my short poem, and a collection of responses to the question “What is the Future of Gaza” by a clever online publication, called ‘One Question,’ which true to its name poses a single question to a number of people presumed to have something to say in response, is the creation of Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes. I only learned about this format because I am among the respondents represented below.  My current concern is that while the world of states, and even the UN, has virtually abandoned the people trapped in

The Great March of Return: The Gaza Sniper Massacre
 
“No country would act with greater restraint than Israel.”
NIKKI HALEY, U.S. Ambassador to the UN
 

 
 

(ANTIWAR.COM) — Most Americans would oppose any Trump Administration support for an International Criminal Court investigation into Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinian protesters on May 14. This is because they either never heard about the massacre or received slanted coverage. Thousands of Palestinian protesters in Gaza gathered in May near a “no-go” zone along an Israeli-built separation […]

(MEE) — The United Nations Human Rights Council voted on Friday to assign international war crimes investigators to look into Israel’s response to Palestinian protests that have seen 110 Palestinians killed in recent weeks. After a special session called in response to the deadliest day of protests on Monday, when 60 Palestinians were killed, the resolution was […]

(ANTIWAR.COM) — Speaking to the Jewish Federations of North America, Israeli Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus conceded that the military had failed in efforts to minimize Gaza casualties earlier this week, and had effectively handed Hamas a PR ‘knockout’ victory. Opening fire on protesters during Nakba Day on the Gaza border, Israeli forces killed 61 Palestinians and wounded […]

(ANTIWAR.COM) — The United States has used its veto power at the UN Security Council to block a Monday resolution calling for an independent probe into the killing of scores of Palestinian protesters this week along the Gaza Strip border. The protesters were killed by Israeli forces. It is very common for the US to use its veto power […]

(MEMO) — A former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) held US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza on Monday. READ: White House: Israel Not to Blame for Gaza Bloodbath READ: Names and Faces of Those Killed by Israeli Forces This Week in Gaza John Brennan, who […]

(MEMO) — An Israeli government minister has justified the killings in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces by calling Palestinians “Nazis”. Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Gilad Erdan, reacted to the rising death toll in Gaza by saying that the number of deaths “did not indicate anything” because Palestinian protestors were “terrorists” following the orders of a “Nazi” […]

Eight-month-old Laila is youngest Palestinian killed in Gaza on Monday, the deadliest day since 2014 war. (MEE) — Sixty-one people were either killed or died of wounds inflicted by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday and Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated across the occupied territory to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba. Middle […]

(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 […]