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An affidavit obtained exclusively by +972 reveals what appears to be the first documented case of a ‘human shield’ used by the Israeli military during its invasion of the eastern Gaza town of Khuza’a. Ahmad Abu Raida, now 17, was separated from his family by Israeli soldiers on July 23 as he...

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The United States on Wednesday claimed Israel had targeted members of a Palestinian family whose teenage son was kidnapped and killed in July. Tensions between Palestinians and Israelis in annexed East Jerusalem plunged to a new low on July 2 when 16-year-old Mohammed Abu...

Pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday continued a campaign to block an Israeli commercial vessel from docking in Oakland, California, for a third day. About 20 protesters arrived at the port at 5 a.m. local time to block the container ship, owned by Zim Shipping Services Ltd., one of the world’s...

The Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz Israel has been refusing to allow employees of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to enter the Gaza Strip in order to conduct their own independent investigations into the fighting, using various...

There's no such thing as a country's right to exist. Individuals have the right to exist - countries do not. They can be dismembered, merge with other countries, and so forth, and none of this is against international law. But even if there was such a right, I'd say that Israel specifically has...

During the Nazi occupation of Holland Mr Zanoli's family had helped shelter a young boy until the Allied liberation in 1945 A 91-year-old Dutch man who was awarded a prestigious honour by the State of Israel for his family's role in saving a Jewish child from the Holocaust has returned his...

Anew holocaust. Kristallnacht. That, they say, is what the large mobilizations against Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip betoken. With the best will in the world, when Israel’s mandarins and apologists invoke the Holocaust’s legacy in this way, it is difficult not to respond with a world-weary...

Certificate distributed by anti-Arab organization Lehava to announce that a business only hires Jews.Photo by Haaretz The anti-Arab organization Lehava is threatening to disrupt the wedding celebration of a Muslim man and Jewish woman planned for Sunday night in Rishon Letzion. The...

For weeks we’ve been hearing about the threat the Gaza tunnels pose to Israeli civilians. In reality, every tunnel so far has been used against military targets alone. By Emanual Yelin (translated by Sinewave) The existence of the tunnels in Gaza was well-known to Israel’s Defense Ministry...

Throughout the ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip, perhaps no phrase has featured as prominently or persistently in the lexicon of Israeli propaganda as “human shields.” Repeated in stentorian fashion by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a heavily regimented army of 10,000 public relations...

Najia Warshagha at her uncle's house in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip. She was injured at the UNRWA school, supposedly providing safety for families fleeing the fighting. In the background is her mother Majdolen and injured brother Ali. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian She seemed to represent...

Since the assault on Gaza began, Israeli leaders and their supporters have repeatedly accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an attempt to absolve Israel of responsibility for deliberately killing more than 1,600 Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip...

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- A 12-year old Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while playing in front of his home in al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron in the southern West Bank early Sunday, medics told Ma'an. Palestinian medical sources at Hebron's al-Ahli Hospital told Ma'an that...

Pathetic source choice. The institute was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born, Americanpolitical scientist ... Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for The Guardian newspaper at the time, wrote in a public...

So much for the delusion that the UN is "anti-Israel"! The General Secretary of United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon collaborated in secret with Israel and the United States to weaken the effects of a Board of Inquiry's report accusing Israel of human rights violations in Gaza in Dec. 2008 – Jan...

Invading Israeli forces broke down the garage door of the Qdeih family home leading to the basement. Muhammad Qdeih, 65, was shot dead while carrying a white flag to signal to Israeli soldiers that he was an unarmed civilian. He was killed on 25 July right at the staircase of his house, where...

When Ahmed Owedat returned to his home 18 days after Israeli soldiers took it over in the middle of the night, he was greeted with an overpowering stench. He picked through the wreckage of his possessions thrown from upstairs windows to find that the departing troops had left a number of...

There has been mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza. An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against...

Israeli soldiers' scrawled a message to school children in Gaza.

In effect, the spokesman of the Israeli police, Mickey Rosenfeld (?), confirmed that, were the men linked acting on Hamas' commanders, the Israeli police would know that right away. He all but said it's impossible that Gaza's Hamas was involved.