Israel's "Sheer Criminal Aggression"

Attack on Gaza Flotilla Chomsky Says "No Credible Pretext"


The siege is savage and cruel, designed to keep the caged animals barely alive so as to fend off international protest, but hardly more than that.  It is the latest stage of long-standing Israeli plans, backed by the US, to separate Gaza from the West Bank. These are only the bare outlines of very ugly policies, in which Egypt is complicit as well.

Family of Gaza war victims doubt Israeli justice

AlJazeeraEnglish | July 06, 2010  -  An Israeli soldier has been charged with manslaughter in an Israeli court for the deaths of two Palestinian women during Israel's war on Gaza.

Majda Abu Hajaj and her 64-year-old mother were shot dead while carrying white flags they made out of bed sheets near their homes after the Israeli army forced the women to leave their house.

Gaza chocolatiers under siege

AlJazeeraEnglish | July 02, 2010 - Business in Gaza continues to suffer because Israel is refusing to allow companies to import certain materials which has forces thousands of Palestinians to rely on the use of underground tunnels to smuggle materials into the Gaza Strip.

US to blame for Afghan slaughter.

US-led forces have killed over 2,500 Afghan  civilians last year, according to official figures.

Thu, 01 Jul 2010  |  PressTV

 

US-led forces in Afghanistan have killed many civilians in the southern province of Helmand amid public outrage over rising death tolls in the war-torn county, Afghan sources say.

Afghan sources told Press TV that most of the victims of the US-led forces were civilians while a statement by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Thursday that they had killed "a large number" of Taliban militants in the region and captured a Taliban chief of Naw Zad.