“If they admit openly that there are hunger strikes,” said one lawyer, “they admit that the conditions in detention are so bad that people are willing to forgo food to raise awareness.”
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says Israeli forces, by moving millions of tons of rubble that belong to Palestinians, are apparently violating a World Court order to preserve criminal evidence.
A 25-year-old American was killed, along with the former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, as part of Operation Condor, a secret U.S.-backed campaign of terror against Latin American leftists, Brett Wilkins reports.
The U.S. Treasury’s targeting of the Flotilla campaigners follows Israel’s full-scale attack on the humanitarian mission on Monday and extends Washington’s target list of critics of the genocidal war on Gaza.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says the application of Israel’s new death penalty law to residents of the occupied Palestinian territory would constitute a war crime.
As the arms treaty ends today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to global thermonuclear annihilation.
The move boosts the illegal expansion drive in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,039 Palestinians — at least 225 of them children — over the past two years.
The Lemkin Institute this week denounced the former secretary of state for trivializing young Americans’ opposition to Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.