Daily Archives: August 12, 2022

2022-08-12: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2022-08-12). 'The Right To Self-Defense' — Moscow Need Not Apply. southfront.org | Written by Gavin O'Reilly | On Friday, Israeli Forces launched Operation Breaking Dawn, an air campaign intended to target Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) figures in the Gaza Strip. | Less than 72 hours later, when an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire would end hostilities, What is interesting to n…

IMEMC News (2022-08-12). Israeli Navy Attacks Palestinian Fishing Boats In Southern Gaza. imemc.org On Thursday night, Israeli navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats near the Rafah shore in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the navy ships fired dozens of live rounds, gas bombs, and flares at the fishing boats, forcing them to leave without being able to fish to provide for their families …

Staff (2022-08-12). UN Urges Israel Be Held Accountable for Killing Palestinian Children. orinocotribune.com UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, alarmed by the mass murder of Palestinian children by Israel in the latest escalation, urges accountability. | In a

IMEMC News (2022-08-12). 41 Days After Her Death, Palestinians Hold Funeral For Woman Who Died In Israeli Prison. imemc.org On Thursday, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the funeral procession and ceremony of a Palestinian woman who died in Israeli prisons 41 days earlier due to medical neglect and mistreatment by the Israeli occupation authorities. Israel initially refused to release her corpse. The woman, Sa'diyya Farajallah, 68, from Ethna town west of the southern West …

Staff (2022-08-12). EU admits it applies double standards to Ukraine, Palestine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (MNA) — The EU's foreign-policy chief Josep Borrel has admitted that double standards permeate international relations, after being asked in an interview why Brussels was far more willing to support the people of Ukraine than Gaza.

IMEMC News (2022-08-12). Young Palestinian Man Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In Gaza. imemc.org On Friday, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that a young man died from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The Nasser Medical Center in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, said the young man, Anas Khaled Anshasi, 22, died in the Intensive Care Unit from …

Orinoco Tribune2 (2022-08-11). Twitter Locks Account of Palestine Chronicle's Editor, Ramzy Baroud. orinocotribune.com The social media platform Twitter has blocked the account of Palestinian journalist and author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, claiming that his posts about the Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have 'violated the rules' of the company. | —…

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-11). US Ambassador to Israel: We Support Israel's Fight Against 'Bad Guys' in Gaza. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides Israel launched the first airstrike last Friday, which targeted a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The strike killed the PIJ leader, a f…

Grant Miner (2022-08-11). NYC rally condemns latest Israeli assault on Gaza, local ties to Zionist forces. liberationnews.org "Resistance is not terrorism," declared Nerdeen Kiswani, an organizer with Within Our Lifetime. "Palestinians have every single right to defend themselves by any means necessary!"

IMEMC News (2022-08-11). Israel Decides To Demolish A Palestinian School Near Ramallah. imemc.org On Wednesday, an Israeli court decided to demolish a Palestinian school in the Ein Samia Bedouin community, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank. In its ruling, the court informed school officials that they could either demolish the school within a certain timeframe or the "Civil Administration Office" (the administrative branch of Israel's illegal …

IMEMC News (2022-08-11). Israeli Colonizer Rams Senior Palestinian Official With Car, Flees The Scene. imemc.org On Thursday evening, A senior Palestinian official was injured after being rammed by an illegal Israeli colonizer who fled the scene during a nonviolent procession near Ezbet at-Tabib village, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the Palestinian a member of Fateh Revolutionary Council, Bayan at-Tabib, was …

IMEMC News (2022-08-11). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Sixteen Palestinians In West Bank. imemc.org On Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted sixteen Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers abducted Mohammad Fawwaz al-Mashayikh, Malek Jamal Allan, and Majdi Mustafa Abu Omar from their homes in the al-Jadawel area in Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem. The soldiers also abducted Majdi Abu Aker and Hamza Abdul-Aziz …

IMEMC News (2022-08-11). Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Nablus And Jerusalem. imemc.org On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians In Nablus and Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. Several army jeeps invaded the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and installed a roadblock at its main entrance before abducting Masoud Mustafa Daraghma, 20. The soldiers stopped and searched dozens of …

IMEMC News (2022-08-11). Palestinian Child Dies From Serious Wounds She suffered In Gaza. imemc.org On Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a child died from serious wounds she suffered during Israel's recent onslaught on the Gaza Strip. The al-Makassed Hospital in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, said the child, Layan Musleh Sha'er, 10, was admitted after being transferred from Gaza, suffering a shrapnel wound to the head, causing …

PCHR (2022-08-11). WAFA: "Israel approves a plan to establish a new illegal settlement in Salfit" imemc.org BETHLEHEM, Thursday, August 11, 2022 (WAFA) — Israeli authorities today approved a plan to establish a new illegal settlement on Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Deir Istiya, in the governorate of Salfit. The Applied Research Institute (ARIJ) said in a statement that the total area of the land which will be seized for the …

Staff (2022-08-11). Calendar of Resistance for Palestine: Find an action near you. samidoun.net In response to the Zionist assault on Gaza in early August, which has taken the life of nearly Palestinian martyrs, and the assassination of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi and his comrades in Nablus, and to demand freedom for Palestinian prisoners like Khalil Awawdeh, as well as the ongoing Nakba and attack on occupied Palestine, many people …

Staff (2022-08-11). #FreeKhalil: Awawdeh repeats just one word, "Freedom" as he faces severe health crisis. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, on his 162nd day of hunger strike against his administrative detention without charge or trial, has suffered a severe deterioration in his health. He was moved to Assaf Harofeh civilian hospital on Thursday, 11 August — as always, with the threat that if he does not accept treatment, he will be …

IMEMC News (2022-08-11). Videos: Three Children From Gaza In Critical Condition At Al-Makassed Hospital In Jerusalem. imemc.org The three following videos were posted by the Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) in occupied Jerusalem. Silwanic said the three children were transferred from Gaza to the Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem late Tuesday night. They were all seriously injured during the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza.

_____ (2022-08-11). There Is No Arab Unity Without Palestine. popularresistance.org It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel's relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally tamed. | Not so fast. Many events continue to demonstrate the opposite. Take, for example, the Arab League two-day meeting in Cairo on July 31 — August 1. The meeting was largely dominated by discussions on Palestine and concluded with statements that called on Arab countries to reactivate the Arab boycott of Israel until the l…

Jonathan Cook (2022-08-11). UK: Contenders for Boris Johnson's Crown Stress Fealty to Israel. Jonathan Cook. globalresearch.ca

Michael Jansen (2022-08-11). Israel's Blitz on Gaza a Carefully Choreographed Scenario to Boost Lapid-Gantz Management. globalresearch.ca

Second Saturday Documentary Series (2022-08-11). Saturday 8/13: Documentary film: Gaza Still Alive. indybay.org Register for Zoom link at: bit.ly/SSDSZoom

Ramzy Baroud (2022-08-10). Without Palestine, There is No Arab Unity: Why Normalization with Israel Will Fail. mintpressnews.com American politicians, who are constantly angling for quick political victories on behalf of Israel in the Middle East, do not understand or simply do not care that marginalizing Palestine and incorporating Israel into the Arab body politic is not simply unethical but also a major destabilizing factor in an already unstable region.

Jessica Buxbaum (2022-08-10). "Under a Virtual Siege" &#1 ; Activists Demand PayPal Offer its Services to Palestinians. mintpressnews.com "You've got this two-pronged effort to both isolate the Palestinians and to normalize and weave the settlers into the international communities, a community of nations. And the problem is that organizations or companies like PayPal, … unwittingly, are absolutely party to that." — Lara Friedman…

Fight Back (2022-08-10). New York City protests for Gaza. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Over 300 people gathered in front of the Friends of the IDF building on Monday, August 8 in response to the Israeli attack on Gaza over the weekend. That attack resulted in over 300 injured and at least 43 deaths, at least 15 of whom were children. | Organizers led the crowd with chants and speeches demanding freedom for Palestine. Zionists attempted to counter protest but were greatly outnumbered and outshined. by the supporters of Palestine. | The rally then turned into a march, heading into Grand Central Station and through the streets of New York. | The action was organized by Within Our Lifeti…

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