[Haaretz Israeli News source->http://www.haaretz.com/]
Growing backlash over the Gaza war is fueling both open and silent boycotts of Israeli scientific research. Grants are drying up, emails go unanswered, and once-regular collaborations are unraveling. ‘The only way to deal with the boycott is to stop the war … and the terrible things we’ve been perpetrating in Gaza’
During Israel’s war with Iran, the military occupied some 250 homes and apartments across the West Bank, converting them into makeshift bases and interrogation centers. When soldiers left, residents returned to houses in disarray
Denial is legitimate in Israel, it’s consistent with local political correctness – there is no hunger and descriptions of deliberate starvation in Gaza are an antisemitic conspiracy
Where is the military advocate general? The IDF chief of staff? The attorney general? The leader of the opposition in the Knesset? The speaker of the Knesset? The president? Quiet. We are massacring.
Items banned by Israel include operating tables, scalpels and vaporizers for people with respiratory disorders. The IDF said its policy is ‘not a blanket ban,’ saying it has allowed ‘dual-use’ products that could also be used by Hamas to enter Gaza ‘despite the security risks’
If Mordechai Anielewicz were alive today, he’d have died. The leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising would have died of shame and disgrace at hearing the defense minister’s plans – with the full backing of the prime minister – to erect a “humanitarian city” in the southern Gaza Strip. Anielewicz would never have believed that anyone would dare conceive of such a diabolical plan 80 years after the Holocaust.
The $2 billion plan, submitted to the Trump administration, describes the camps as ‘large-scale’ and ‘voluntary’ places where the Gazan population could ‘temporarily reside, deradicalize, reintegrate, and prepare to relocate’
The Israeli military said it removed the settlers, but they relocated the outpost further into the village. Harassment, theft and threats continued, culminating in one of the largest forced displacements in the West Bank since the Gaza war began
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
Civilians seeking food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution centers encountered fire from tanks, drones and helicopters. An IDF officer told Haaretz that senior commanders had discussed managing the crowds with live fire: ‘The army treated civilians like suspects entering a combat zone’
