Informed Comment daily updates (10/12/2024)

 

UNHCHR: Israel Guilt of Deliberately Destroying Gaza Healthcare and … Extermination Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a report dated October 11 the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights concluded that Israel has implemented a deliberate policy of destroying Gaza’s healthcare system and is guilty of the crime against humanity of “extermination.” The numbers revealed by the investigation for the first nine […]

How to find Hope and Common Ground one Year into Gaza War Nandini Naira Archer ( OpenDemocracy.net ) On the year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks and the start of the devastating war on Gaza that’s killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children, there appears no end in sight. If anything, this month it’s escalated further with violence spreading to Iran, Lebanon and Jordan. All-out war […]

What the Messianic Hardliners in Netanyahu’s Government want from the War By Paul Rogers, University of Bradford | – (The Conversation) – Much recent media focus has rightly been on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, where Hamas assailants murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and abducted a further 251. Coverage has also centred on Israel’s expanding ground operation in Lebanon, which follows an […]

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