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After 10 years of trying to conceive, Palestinian mother Rania Abu Anza loses her two twin babies in an Israeli airstrike

After 10 years of trying to conceive, Palestinian mother Rania Abu Anza loses her two twin babies in an Israeli airstrike

Safa Joudeh: “My father is the ObGyn who treated this women. A countless number of patients he treated have either been killed or lost children in Israel’s onslaught. His fertility clinic was ransacked by Israeli soldiers, set on fire and hit by two missiles. The eggs and embryos that remained there have been lost. Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on life itself.”

The Flour Massacre: Israeli tank gunners & snipers kill and injure around 1,000 Palestinians waiting for food (29 February 2024)

The Flour Massacre: Israeli tank gunners & snipers kill and injure around 1,000 Palestinians waiting for food (29 February 2024)

At dawn, 4:30am on 29 February 2024, a convoy of food aid trucks arrived southwest of Gaza City where people had congregated at the Nabulsi Roundabout on Harun Al-Rashid Street. They were instantly surrounded by desperate Palestinians, who began unloading aid from the trucks. Israeli tanks and snipers opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 112 people and injuring another 750.

A collection of thoughtful reporting about Aaron Bushnell

A collection of thoughtful reporting about Aaron Bushnell

Aaron Bushnell was a US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated outside the US Embassy in Washington DC shouting “Free Palestine” on Sunday 25 February 2024, after explaining in a Twitch livestream that he could no longer be “complicit in genocide” (among other connections to the Israeli military, the USAF acts as the United States’ FedEx for weapons deliveries to Israel.

Nicaragua institutes proceedings against Germany for violations of the Genocide Convention and related international law (1 March 2024)

Nicaragua institutes proceedings against Germany for violations of the Genocide Convention and related international law (1 March 2024)

THE HAGUE, 1 March 2024. Nicaragua today filed an Application instituting proceedings against Germany before the International Court of Justice for alleged violations by Germany of its obligations deriving from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”), the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, “intransgressible principles of international humanitarian law” and other norms of general international law in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly the Gaza Strip.