A. Palestinian flag. Photo from Flickr by M. Mansour on January 11, 2009. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams As Israeli forces waged what al-Shifa’s director described as a “war against hospitals” in Gaza on Friday, United Nations officials, human rights groups, and doctors demanded the protection of medical facilities and renewed calls for a cease-fire. “Half of the Gaza Strip’s 36 hospitals and two-thirds of its primary healthcare centers are not functioning at all,” World Health Organization
"Persistent impunity has created the conditions for the consolidation of the Israeli apartheid regime, which is intent on committing ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Indigenous Palestinian population," says the open letter. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams, 5 Nov 23, https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/05/1500-israelis-urge-icc-action-on-war-crimes-and-genocide-in-gaza/ Israelis Against Apartheid, a group representing more than 1,500 citizens, this week urged the International Criminal…
A woman speaks during a January 21, 2023 demonstration against the police killing of Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán during a raid on forest defenders in Georgia. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams A paper published Tuesday by a media studies scholar explores what she calls “one of the enduring costs of the ‘War on Terror,'” mainstream outlets parroting police talking points on terrorism and “legitimating state violence while stifling democratic protest.” Rutgers University professor Deepa Kumar’s
A funeral was held on November 3, 2023 for a Palestine TV correspondent killed alongside 11 relatives in an airstrike on their home in Khan Yunis, Gaza. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams As of Friday, at least 36 journalists have been killed since Hamas-led attacks led to Israel’s devastating war on the Gaza Strip meaning the past month has been the deadliest four-week period for members of the media since a U.S.-based group started keeping records in 1992. Of the three dozen deaths recorded by
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