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Al-Haq, PCHR, and Al-Mezan Condemn US Sanctions and Call for Global Solidarity to End the Genocide in Gaza and the Oppression of Palestinians

Posted on | Al-Haq

While the ongoing Israeli, US – backed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is entering its third year, the United States (US), rather than end its complicity with Israel, has imposed sanctions against Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) – the leading human rights organisations working on international criminal accountability for perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Palestine.

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Al Mezan Warns: Two Million Palestinians at Risk of Deadly Epidemics and Infectious Diseases

Posted on | Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights

Gaza, 1 September 2025 – Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza continues unchecked as the international community fails to act. Alongside dozens of daily killings by the Israeli military and man-made famine, the lives of two million Palestinians are being placed at additional risk of epidemics and infectious diseases.

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Hunger That Defeats Language

Posted on | Husam Maarouf | ArabLit Quarterly

I fear hunger more than death, for it takes you in slow, devouring waves until you become a disintegrating shadow, unable even to scream.

Will anyone read this?

Will anyone believe that a writer could no longer write because he had nothing to eat?

Will anyone care that, in a corner of the world, people are starving so completely that their souls are silenced?

Perhaps not.

But I wrote this – despite everything.

To say that writing is possible.

Only if the body is allowed to survive.

By Husam Maarouf

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Science4Peace Forum engages in support for the Palestinian people: The red line has been crossed – this horror must stop NOW!

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As a result of Israel’s deliberate starving of the civilians in Gaza and further war crimes and crimes against humanity, Science4Peace now calls to stop any cooperation with scientific institutions and international corporations involved in Israel’s wars. Its recent declaration (see below) makes this point unmistakably clear and demands the immediate end to the war against Gaza and the end of Gaza’s siege to allow the transport of all urgently necessary live-saving means into the enclave.