Nakba 76: A Record Of Israeli Atrocities

A century of Western-driven ethnic violence against Arab Palestinians became a state project in the Nakba of 1948. The stated aim of Netanyahu’s party is to wipe Palestine off the map: ‘between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.’

News media reports of Israeli atrocities in Palestine, 2023-24

‘Text me you haven’t died’ — My sister was the 166th doctor to be murdered in Gaza. [Source]

Live blog: 4 Palestinians burnt alive in Israeli strike on displaced people. [Source]

Half of Lebanon’s health centres don’t operate due to Israeli attacks — WHO. [Source]

Jabalia’s Palestinians share ‘final’ messages of possible extermination. [Source]

Statement by Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide on the situation in Gaza. [Source]

‘Jewish state will extend from Jerusalem to Damascus’: Israeli finance minister. [Source]

Israeli attack on northern Gaza hints at retired general’s “surrender or starve” plan for war. [Source]

Simply No Red Lines At All. [Source]

Israel to ‘confiscate’ UNRWA HQ in East Jerusalem for illegal settlements. [Source]

US ‘peace adviser’ suspended from X after calling for napalming of Irish peacekeepers and for ‘mass rape’. [Source]

UN inquiry accuses Israel of crime of ‘extermination’ in destruction of Gaza health system. [Source]

Israeli strike kills 5 rescue workers in south Lebanon. [Source]

Israel kills 66yo man in home raid hours after he tried to stop them shooting at Palestinian youth. [Source]

Gaza journalist shot in neck and head live on Al Jazeera; Israel fires on firefighters. [Source]

Body of 19-year-old Gaza journalist found in pieces after weeks of Israeli threats. [Source]

A picture gripped the world. A year on, Gaza woman haunted by memories. [Source]

Israel destroyed 79% of mosques, 3 churches during war on Gaza. [Source]

Some 100 US doctors reject Israel’s claim of Hamas misusing Gaza hospitals. [Source]

Years of waiting, a miracle of four babies, one deadly strike: a Gaza family story. [Source]

Nearly 30 on-duty health workers killed over 24 hours in Lebanon: WHO. [Source]

Israel leads in killing the most number of aid workers globally. [Source]

Starving Gaza: How Israel’s man-made famine is killing Palestinians: Fault Lines Documentary. [Source]

An Israeli air strike that killed multiple children at a former school twelve days ago had been targeting one local Hamas figure. [Source]

Israel accused of killing its own civilians under the ‘Hannibal Directive’ to avoid them being taken hostage. [Source]

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry. [Source]

UNICEF says over 13,000 children killed in Gaza in Israel offensive. [Source]

Human Rights Watch: Israelis attacking known aid worker locations in Gaza. [Source]

Israel: Palestinian healthcare workers tortured. [Source]

American surgeons call for end of U.S. culpability in genocide in Gaza. [Source]

Burnt by Gaza strike, Palestinian boy suffers agonising pain. [Source]

Israeli parliament votes to label UN relief agency a terror organisation. [Source]

We volunteered at a Gaza hospital. What we saw was unspeakable. [Source]

“The International Court of Justice has issued its opinion and the conclusion is loud and clear: Israel’s occupation and annexation of the Palestinian territories are unlawful, and its discriminatory laws and policies against Palestinians violate the prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid.” [Source]

Gaza’s youngest generation faces amputee crisis amid war. [Source]

Gaza man with Down’s syndrome attacked by IDF dog and left to die, mother says. [Source]

Israel’s deadly strike on Al-Mawasi, one of the bloodiest attacks in more than nine months of war in Gaza, used massive payload bombs provided by the United States, according to weapons experts. [Source]

Israelis kill at least 17 Palestinians in another attack on a school for displaced people. [Source]

Israeli snipers accused of killing fleeing Palestinian civilians in Gaza City. [Source]

Gaza children dying in Israel’s ‘targeted starvation campaign’: UN experts. [Source]

UN experts say famine has spread throughout Gaza. [Source]

‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission. [Source]

Illegal Israeli settlers torch Palestinian agricultural lands in West Bank. [Source]

At least 16 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in central Gaza on Saturday. [Source]

Five Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza in past few hours. [Source]

Israeli soldiers filmed using detainees in Gaza as ‘human shields’. [Source]

Photos: Dangerous skin diseases spreading among children in Gaza. [Source]

Israel to approve 6,000+ new settler colonies, illegal under international law, in occupied West Bank. [Source]

Spain applies to join South Africa’s case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide. [Source]

Ten thousand tons of death: the Biden administration has sent more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza. [Source]

Attacked in the field, in the office, and at home, more journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza than any other conflict on record. [Source]

Banning US officials from citing Palestinian death toll ‘disgusting’: Tlaib. [Source]

Every day, 10 Gaza children lose one or both legs due to Israel’s war – UN. [Source]

More than one million of Gaza’s inhabitants face the most extreme form of malnutrition – classified by the IPC as ‘Catastrophe or Famine.’ Seven-month-old Majd Salem is one of them. [Source]

Israeli airstrike kills eight at Gaza aid centre, witnesses say. [Source]

Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian to jeep during raid. [Source]

Israel had prior intel of Oct 7 Hamas blitz but chose not to act. [Source]

Israel arrested a senior doctor in Gaza. Six days later, he died in a Shin Bet interrogation facility. [Source]

‘Immense’ scale of Gaza killings amount to crime against humanity, UN inquiry says. [Source]

Israel committed crimes against humanity during the war in Gaza, including the crime of “extermination,” an independent UN investigation concludes. [Source]

Israel lists alive, overseas Palestinians as fighters killed in Gaza strike. Palestinian authorities expose Israel’s deceit, revealing that Israel’s list of 17 gunmen it claims were killed in school strike names some Palestinians who are still alive, including one who lives overseas. [Source]

Sodomised to death: Stories of torture at Israel’s Sde Teiman base emerge. [Source]

Gaza: Israeli strike on UN school kills at least 27. [Source]

Mass graves and body bags: al-Shifa hospital after Israel’s withdrawal. [Source]

At least 33 Palestinian Red Crescent officials killed in Gaza since October. The Israeli army has attacked and raided 160 healthcare facilities in Gaza, resulting in the closure of 55 health centres and 33 hospitals. [Source]

In pictures: Starvation imposed by Israel takes life of another Gaza infant. [Source]

‘Finish Them!’: Haley inscribes genocidal message on Biden’s bomb to Israel. [Source]

Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations. [Source]

Sources: Internal IDF Report Finds Two Gazans Died After Being Beaten en Route to Israeli Prison. [Source]

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry. [Source]

Baby ‘beheaded’ and children ‘burnt alive’ in Israeli strikes on Rafah. [Source]

French NGO files case with ICC over journalists’ deaths in Gaza. [Source]

Israeli forces to demolish shops, bridge linking Jerusalem-area towns. [Source]

Every single part of the hospital has been destroyed. The whole infrastructure of the hospital has been destroyed. When I spoke to Marwan [a Palestinian colleague] yesterday, he told me there were 107 patients, 60 medical staff. God only knows what has happened to them. I think we’ve seen some of the pictures. Surgeons I know have been executed in the last 48 hours there. Bodies have been discovered in the last 12-24 hours who had been handcuffed, with their hands behind their back. [Source]

Joe Biden has done more than arm Israel. Leaked documents reveal his own officials see him as complicit in Gaza’s devastating famine. An investigation by The Independent uncovers the missteps, missed opportunities and political choices made by the Biden administration that allowed a famine to take hold in northern Gaza. With access to leaked documents, testimony from current and former officials and voices from Gaza, it paints a damning picture of an entirely preventable catastrophe. [Source]

Israeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on aid workers’ convoys and premises in Gaza since October 2023, even though aid groups had provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities to ensure their protection, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the strikes, which killed or injured at least 31 aid workers and those with them. More than 250 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the October 7 assault in Israel, according to the UN. [Source]

US Senator Lindsey Graham sparked controversy after suggesting that Israel should consider using nuclear weapons in Gaza, likening it to the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. [Source]

Defense for Children International documented testimonies from three children who described similar conditions and assaults while serving as “human shields” by the Israeli forces. The statement explained that “the soldiers forced them to walk in front of them in the buildings and alleys of the camp, searched homes, and demanded that residents evacuate. In two cases, the soldiers put their rifles on the shoulders of two children and fired shots.” [Source]

Casualties fell as a result of friendly fire on October 7, but the IDF believes that beyond the operational investigations of the events, it would not be morally sound to investigate these incidents due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities due to the challenging situations the soldiers were in at the time. [Source]

US government: The nature of the conflict in Gaza makes it difficult to assess or reach conclusive findings on individual incidents. Nevertheless, given Israel’s significant reliance on US-made defence articles, it is reasonable to assess that defense articles covered under NSM-20 have been used by Israeli security forces since October 7 in instances inconsistent with its IHL obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm. [Source]

US neurosurgeon: I remember a boy of maybe 12 or 13 years old, who arrived with bleeding from his eye, from being hit by shrapnel. It was clear that he needed surgery, but there was a two-hour line for the operating room. During the wait, a main artery burst inside his brain and blood began spurting from his eye. I’d never seen anything like that before. He died, of course. [Source]

CNN spoke to three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the Sde Teiman desert camp, which holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. All spoke out at risk of legal repercussions and reprisals from groups supportive of Israel’s hardline policies in Gaza. They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being ‘a paradise for interns’; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot. [Source]

A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a ‘full-blown famine’ has taken hold in the north of the enclave of 2.3 million people. [Source]

‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets. Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants. [Source]

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties. [Source]

The U.N. children’s agency said on Sunday over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel’s offensive, adding many kids were suffering from severe malnutrition and did not “even have the energy to cry.” [Source]

In the early afternoon of 29 November last year, several Palestinian boys descended on to their street in the occupied West Bank, where they often played together. Minutes later, two of them lay dead from gunshots fired by Israeli soldiers – Basil, 15, and eight-year-old Adam. [Source]

Israel has successfully blocked the departure of two of the three ships bound for Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla, one carrying 5,500 tons of essential aid. [Source]

Relatives gathered by a tiny sandy grave in Gaza on Friday, where they had buried a baby girl, who lived just a few days after doctors delivered her from the womb of her dying mother following an Israeli airstrike. … Her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani al-Sheikh, 30-weeks pregnant, was seriously injured when the Israeli strike hit the family home in Rafah, the southernmost city in the besieged Gaza Strip, on Saturday night. The baby’s father Shukri and three-year-old sister Malak were killed. [Source]

U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there. Source

During what has already been a devastating six months of conflict in Gaza, the Israeli military and far-right settlers have used the cover of war to conduct continuous attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, often leading to death and forced displacement. These attacks have been underreported in the mainstream Western press, which has also failed to tie Israel Defense Force (IDF) and settler violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to the genocide being committed in Gaza. These processes are all part of an overwhelming push on the part of Israeli authorities to oust Palestinians from their remaining ancestral lands. In other words, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians across Palestine. Source

Israel’s war in Gaza has from the start been a “war on the right to health” and has “obliterated” the Palestinian territory’s health system, a UN expert said on Monday. [Source]

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday an overnight Israeli strike killed nine members of a Palestinian family, including six children, in southern city Rafah. Five children aged one to seven and a 16-year-old girl were among the dead, along with two women and a man, according to the city’s Al Najjar hospital. [Source]

Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said. [Source]

The Israeli settlers who rampaged through the West Bank village of al-Mughayyer on April 12 came in greater numbers and carried more weapons than during any of the previous raids on the Palestinian community, residents said. With few means to defend themselves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, they fear more such assaults on the village. ‘We have stones and they have weapons, and the army supports the settlers,’ said Abdullatif Abu Alia, whose house came under attack. His roof was spattered with the blood of Palestinians wounded as they tried to repel the attackers with rocks. One of them, his relative Jihad Abu Alia, was shot and killed, he said. [Source]

Israeli Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli yesterday called for the dismantling of an army unit with a history of abuses, saying it is killing Palestinians ‘for no real reason’, Anadolu agency reported. Her call came amid reports that the US was preparing to impose sanctions on the Netzah Yehuda battalion over human rights violations committed by the combat unit against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. … Michaeli said on X, ‘The violent and corrupt conduct of the Netzah Yehuda battalion and those around it has been known for years, and nothing has been done to stop it.’ [Source]

UN experts have expressed grave concern over a pattern of attacks that have severely damaged or destroyed more than 80% of schools and universities in besieged Gaza, terming the widespread destruction a potential act of ‘scholasticide.’ [Source]

When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit.
As the ultra-cold liquid evaporated, the temperature inside the tanks rose, destroying more than 4,000 embryos plus 1,000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilized eggs stored at Gaza City’s Al Basma IVF centre. … The embryos in those tanks were the last hope for hundreds of Palestinian couples facing infertility. [Source]

‘The stench of death is everywhere’: Gaza families identify Al Shifa dead. Motasem Salah, director of the Gaza Emergency Operations Centre, said the scenes Monday at the sprawling medical centre were ‘unbearable’. [Source]

Israel blocks food three times more than other aid in Palestine’s Gaza: UN. UN food deliveries in Gaza are ‘much more likely to be impeded or denied’ compared to other humanitarian aid, UN humanitarian office says, adding that aid for northern Gaza is three times more likely to be denied. [Source]

Our memories have vanished: the Palestinian theatre destroyed in a bomb strike.

Germany faces genocide case over Israel weapon sales.

Colombia seeks to join Gaza genocide case against Israel at the World Court.

Charity boss José Andrés says Israel targeted staff ‘car by car’.

UN chief to Israel: 196 aid workers have been killed, why?

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza.

Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital in ruins after two-week Israeli raid.

An Israeli air strike hit a tent camp in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 17, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

IDF imposes kill zones in combat areas because, you know, war.

Israel’s largest land seizure since Oslo accords deals fresh blow to Palestinian statehood.

Israel using famine as ‘a weapon of war,’ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warns.

The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.