Tag: Israel / Palestine Conflict

The Age | James Lemon | 04.04.2024 ACCIDENT – Mark Zomi Frankcom, an Australian aid worker, left Rafah in southern Gaza early on Monday with six others to help unload 400 tonnes of food at a makeshift jetty. They were all dead less than 24 hours later – killed by a series of Israeli drone… Continue reading Aid workers were unloading a million meals. Here’s how the IDF killed them

The Age | Farrah Tomazin | 05.04.2024 The threats by Biden simply don’t stand up to the ongoing supply of arms that Israel continues to use to murder so many innocent men, women and children – come on America put your money where your mouth is and stop this genocide – Mark Washington: US President… Continue reading Biden tells Netanyahu future US support for Israel’s war is on the line

by Jonathan Kuttab Previously, I wrote of the importance of bread for Palestinians, of the horrors of starvation, and the need to grant immediate and unencumbered access to the truckloads of food and supplies waiting at the border to meet that need. As Israel has systematically destroyed all means of Palestinian livelihood, Gazans are in… Continue reading Humanity Does Not Live By Bread Alone

Everybody who has even the smallest knowledge of the situation in Gaza knows that Israel is starving men, women and children to death as part of their plans to destroy all Palestinians – not only in this Genocide in Gaza but in the Genocide it has inflicted on the West Bank since 1967 – yet… Continue reading UN Agency ‘Banned’ From Delivering Aid To StarvingThe Australian / AFP |26 March 2024

The progressive congresswoman also called on the White House to suspend aid to the Israeli military in House speech At last a non Palestinian American Palestinian prepared to stand up and call the genocide exactly for what it is – Mark The Guardian | Lauren Aratani | 24 March 2024 Progressive US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez… Continue reading Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Israeli Gaza campaign an ‘unfolding genocide’

Across the Middle East, a painful realisation is dawning – there will be no clean truce to hostilities The Guardian | Jason Burke | 24 March 2024 How can there be a ‘day after’. Israel has been committing war and genocide under an apartheid regime for over 75 years and Netanyahu has already stated they… Continue reading ‘There will be no day after’: hopes fade to end war in shattered, traumatised Gaza

ABC / Reuters | 24 March 2024 The blocking of aid is as much a criminal act as the merciless killing of the innocents in both Israel and Palestine – but it is only one sided. Not only do Israeli’s have enough food and water outside of this war they have consistently used both as… Continue reading United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls blocked humanitarian aid for Gaza a ‘moral outrage’

The Age/Gait Altstein/22.3.2024 Talk about an own goal – Mark Tel Aviv: For Fadi Sajdia, a construction labourer from the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan should be a time of daily fasting and nightly feasting. But like 150,000 other Palestinians who worked in Israel until the Hamas attack on… Continue reading Ban on Palestinian workers grinds Israel’s construction sites to a halt