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Items by Julie Webb-Pullman
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Biden’s pier of depravity is a war crime
President Joe Biden – building a pier with the bones of my friends, my family photographs and my birds without beaks will not bury your culpability – just any remaining shreds of humanity. Mr Biden, I cannot let pass the building of a pier with the bones of so many...
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Gaza: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Trapped between the brutal Zionist colonial – nay, genocidal – project on one side, and the Mediterranean on the other, the people of Gaza have literally only one option – to resist. Illegally blockaded for 11 years, illegally occupied for 70, illegally assaulted militarily three times in the past ten...
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To be gassed or not to be gassed: that is the question
It is a question that the international community must answer about Friday’s ‘March of Return’ in Palestine. The stated intention of Israeli authorities to flagrantly breach international law by dropping tear gas from riot control drones inside Gazan territory on this event is deplorable – and preventable. The ‘March of Return’ sit-in is...
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Abu Naim assassination attempt: what next?
The first question to identify the perpetrator in any criminal investigation is inevitably: who benefits? In the case of yesterday’s cowardly assassination attempt on Major General Tawfiq Abu Naim, the General Commander of Internal Security Forces in Gaza, it could have several answers. The most obvious are the Israeli occupation authorities,...
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Remembering Israel’s war on Gaza
Three years on since the Israeli bombardment of Gaza Julie Webb-Pullman recalls a makeshift morgue outside Al-Shifa Hospital, the lack of medical supplies to treat the wounded and the screams of children whose parents who have already been killed. The scenes as I go to work each day are harrowing...
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The ESCWA Report: Guterres falls at the first hurdle
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s first big challenge has seen him falter, and fall. The resignation of the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Rima Khalaf, under pressure from him to withdraw her agency’s report titled Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question...