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I survived the Gaza violence that Benny Gantz brags about
‘As a Palestinian expelled from Jaffa to Gaza, as someone whose family and friends have repeatedly been on the receiving end of Israel’s brute force, like all Palestinians, I know that the more violence Israel uses, the more it destroys the very legitimacy it seeks.’ By Hanine Hassan Freedom is hard-won, but it should never be the…
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February 6, 2019
Palestinian company says ex-IDF chief stole footage of Gaza destruction for campaign video
Gaza-based ‘Media Town’ claims Benny Gantz, who many see as Netanyahu’s only credible opponent in the upcoming elections, cribbed aerial footage of destroyed neighborhoods in Gaza following Operation Protective Edge. A Palestinian media company is claiming that former Israeli army chief and aspiring politician Benny Gantz stole their footage for a campaign video boasting of the death and destruction…
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Oren Ziv
January 27, 2019
In Gaza, fears of a new war stir old traumas
Still recovering from the last war, some still living in its rubble, Gazans mull the uncertainty of what comes next — ceasefire or more devastation. In recent months, Israel has almost completely blocked any construction materials entering into Gaza.
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August 8, 2018
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The limits of the Palestinian struggle in Gaza
Gaza-based journalist Saud Abu Ramadan talks to +972 about the limits that Palestinian protesters face in Gaza and asks, how, under the existing conditions, the residents of Gaza are supposed to resist. Saud Abu Ramadan is a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza. On July 30, 2014, his office on the eighth floor of the Al Basha…
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Samer Badawi
December 10, 2017
She dreamed of being an IDF pilot — now she’s refusing to enlist
As a child, Noa Gur Golan dreamed of being a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. But as she got older and became exposed to the occupation and the siege on Gaza, she decided to ditch her dream and refuse to serve in the army. Now she speaks about the support of her family, her pacifist views, and why she…
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July 31, 2017
The ‘silent’ war on Gaza’s hospitals
The director of a hospital destroyed during ‘Protective Edge’ has managed to rebuild part of the facility. Now he has about a month’s worth of fuel left to keep its back-up generators running. Without them, the hospital faces another complete shutdown. At the height of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, El Wafa Medical Rehabilitation Hospital was…
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Samer Badawi
May 7, 2017
Israel and Hamas need each other — now more than ever
The fact that Israel has no desire to destroy Hamas and re-occupy Gaza means the next round of fighting will end much like the previous ones: a ‘strategic tie’ with enormous human suffering in both Israel and the Strip. By Doron Matza It is impossible to understand what is happening in the Gaza Strip without understanding the following…
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March 9, 2017
Against the Israeli Right’s state of war
Despite the fallout from the State Comptroller’s report on the 2014 Gaza war, we must remember that the violent atmosphere it created was a boon for an Israeli Right that fosters nationalism, racism and persecution of the Left. By Alon Mizrahi 1. Throughout my life, I have witnessed Israel take part in a long list of…
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+972 Magazine
March 3, 2017
Former IDF ethicist tapped to censor ‘political speech’ in Israeli universities
Professor Asa Kasher, whose code of ethics for the IDF found expression in the devastation of the 2014 Gaza war, is set to decide what lecturers at Israel’s universities and colleges can and can’t say. Education Minister Naftali Bennett intends to lay down new “ethical rules” for what lecturers at Israel’s centers of higher learning can and can’t say regarding politics,…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
December 9, 2016
Gaza’s women are being besieged on all sides
Between an endless siege that chokes the economy and a traditional society facing increased gender violence, Gaza’s women have few options for survival. By Reem Amer and Tanya Rubinstein Over the past few weeks the Israeli media has focused much of its time on the all-female flotilla to Gaza, which was stopped by the Israeli army on…
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October 18, 2016
With no justice on the horizon for Gaza, what comes next?
A new report by B’Tselem concludes that the Israeli military’s investigations into its own alleged crimes are little more than a whitewash. So what comes next? Sometimes a seemingly dry bit of research can seem to rise to the level of literature, challenging the status quo in ways that, in the long run, only literature…
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Samer Badawi
September 23, 2016
Resource: The Whitewashing Procedure
The Israeli bodies responsible for investigating the events of Operation Protective Edge are engaged primarily in creating the false impression of a functioning system that ostensibly seeks to discover the truth. In the meantime, those actually responsible for violations are not even questioned, and the investigations have been confined to superficial inspections of a number…
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September 23, 2016
Who’s sending death threats to Palestinian advocates in The Hague?
In an interview with +972, the Hague representative of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, talks about the slew of threats she and her organization have received for months, and why she believes the Israeli government is behind them. In a small ceremony in The Hague on April 1, 2015, the Palestinian Authority officially signed…
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Amjad Iraqi
August 17, 2016
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