On June 27, at the Gaza fence, an Israeli sniper shot protester Adam Salem, 15, in the right leg. The Israelis then seized the resident of al-Shati refugee camp and carried him to the Israeli side, where he was operated on in Barzilai Medical Center, in Ashkelon. But Adam relates that doctors soon stopped visiting his room and the soldiers guarding his room abused him, till he was returned to Gaza on July 11 with a gangrenous wound. He tells his story in this video.
WNYC host Brian Lehrer rationalizes Israel’s nation-state law by saying that Israel under Netanyahu is in the same pickle as the U.S. under Trump. While guest Rabbi Farber says that the Israeli army is a “moral armed services… committed to preserving life.”
Friday night, the Swedish Freedom Flotilla boat ‘Freedom’ heading towards Gaza lost all communication at 20:06 local time, merely 40 nautical miles away from the Gaza coast, with 12 crew members, activists and journalists from five countries. It has since been confirmed that the boat was seized.
During the Great March of Return yesterday, an Israeli army sharpshooter killed Ahmad Yahia Atallah Yaghi, 25, east of Gaza city. In a previous protest, the soldiers shot Yaghi with live fire, wounding him in his leg.
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The ‘Freedom’ boat headed for Gaza is expected to be intercepted by Israeli navy on Friday, as it approaches 50 miles from the strip. In an earlier seizure of ‘Al Awda,’ in violation of international law, Israeli sailors arrested Joe Meadors, a survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1968, He was held in Givon prison, and deported to Texas.
Mohammed Alatar’s new documentary about the separation wall built on Palestinian land, titled, “BROKEN,” shows that international law is the only way forward for Israelis and Palestinians seeking to end the conflict, Sam Bahour writes.
The practice of willful killing of civilian protesters at the Gaza fence is part and parcel of an ongoing Israeli policy targeting the civilian Palestinians of the Gaza strip and systematically denying them their rights to movement, work, medical care, study, livelihood and increasingly life itself. The new nation-state law in Israel forthrightly proclaims this racist order, Haidar Eid writes.