‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
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- Written by Annie Kelly, Hoda Osman and Farah Jallad Annie Kelly, Hoda Osman and Farah Jallad
- Published: 25 February 2025 25 February 2025
In interviews with the Guardian and the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), eight of Gaza’s most senior doctors have given harrowing testimonies of the torture, beatings, starvation and humiliation they say they suffered during months of detention.
All of those interviewed say they were targeted because they were doctors. Most were arrested inside hospitals as they worked; others were taken from ambulances or detained at checkpoints after being identified as healthcare workers. All those doctors interviewed were detained under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law, which grants the Israeli military sweeping powers to detain anyone from Gaza they say might pose a security threat.
"They stripped me naked, put a blindfold over my eyes and handcuffed my feet. The beatings started from this first moment"
Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia
Some, including Abu Ajwa, believe they were singled out for extreme violence by prison guards and interrogators because they were doctors.
“One of the senior interrogators had given instructions that because I was a senior consultant surgeon they should work hard to make sure that I lost [the use of my hands] and became unable to perform surgery,” he says.
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The ugly truth of American violence has never been plainer
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- Written by Omar El Akkad Omar El Akkad
- Published: 24 February 2025 24 February 2025
Waiting on a western judicial institution to cast judgment on a killing spree financed and endorsed by the west means, inevitably, watching a disjointed ballet of impossible reconciling. The narrative – as enshrined in countless constitutions and declarations and charters which are so often held up as the differentiating marker of superiority of this world over the other – demands moral purity, opposition to injustice, adherence to the principle that all innocent lives are equal and deserving of dignity. The reality is that an ally of the west is killing civilians by the tens of thousands and it would be politically inconvenient to call this wrong now when for months, years, decades it has been deemed perfectly fine.
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Omar will be talking about his new book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This at Powell's books this Tuesday, Feb 25th 2025.
Action! No to Ethnic Cleansing! No to US-Sponsored Nakba II in Gaza!
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- Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller
- Published: 20 February 2025 20 February 2025
We must raise our voices to stop Israel's next assault on Gaza!
Send a letter to your reps today: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/86fcf9d51ce7f3d69c38b616a06d6032c3c8d585
Action sponsored by Jewish Palestinian Alliance of Oregon: https://www.jpao.org/
US Blank-Check Support for Israel Not Only Enabled Genocide
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- Written by Dr. James J. Zogby Dr. James J. Zogby
- Published: 19 February 2025 19 February 2025
A combination of pro-Israel advocacy groups and political action committees, including right-wing Christian fundamentalists, neoconservative hawks, and weak-kneed liberals, have not only enabled Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians—they’ve done so much more.
Read the full article at: https://www.aaiusa.org/library/us-blank-check-support-for-israel-not-only-enabled-genocide
WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware
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- Written by Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian
- Published: 31 January 2025 31 January 2025
Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.
The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”.
Experts said the targeting was a “zero-click” attack, which means targets would not have had to click on any malicious links to be infected.
Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/whatsapp-israel-spyware