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Rafah Border crossing in 2012. (Gigi Ibrahim, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) By Mahmoud Hashem / Peoples Dispatch The brutal genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continues unabated after five weeks. The majority of the enclave’s hospitals have been rendered inoperational through targeted airstrikes on medical infrastructure or because fuel and power supplies have run out, putting at risk the tens of thousands who have been injured in the last month, the hundreds of thousands

The Al-Shifa hospital ran out of fuel due to the ongoing siege by Israeli forces. Occupation snipers and drones have been positioned all around the hospital complex, opening fire at any sign of movement. By  Tanupriya Singh and Ana Vračar / Peoples Dispatch,  https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/12/israel-wages-war-against-gazas-remaining-hospitals/ The Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the largest medical facility in the besieged strip,…

Palestinians injured by Israel being treated at the Al-Shifa hospital. By Tanupriya Singh and Ana Vračar / Peoples Dispatch The Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the largest medical facility in the besieged strip, was forced to suspend its operations on the morning of November 11 after it ran out of fuel. Patients have already begun to die as Israeli occupation forces have laid siege to the hospital. Israeli snipers and drones positioned all around the hospital have opened fire at any sign of movement...

Hundreds of thousands of people in the US marched on Saturday for the liberation of Palestine from Israeli occupation and to decry the support of their government for Israel. By Peoples Dispatch 6 Nov 23,  https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/06/300000-march-in-washington-d-c-for-palestine/-- Over 300,000 people poured into Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on November 4, in the largest Palestine solidarity demonstration in…

By Peoples Dispatch Senior UN Human Rights official Craig Mokhiber recently resigned over the organization’s failure to address the brutal genocide in Gaza and Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians. In this interview with Vijay Prashad, he

A food distribution programme to displaced persons in North Kivu, an ICRC employee is giving a distribution card to a mother. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Katsuva Kamate. By Tanupriya Singh / Peoples Dispatch Almost seven million people have been internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — the highest number on record— amid an escalation of fighting in a war that has been ongoing for two decades. The country’s eastern provinces have been the worst-affected following...

While other European countries are witnessing mass protests in solidarity with Palestine, Germany has been policing such scenes off its streets, Peoples Dispatch reports. By Peoples Dispatch Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, with roughly 80,000 Palestinians living in

Quds News Network/X By Peoples Dispatch In what has been described as the most intensive bombing of the besieged Palestinian territory since October 7, at least 400 more people were killed in Israel’s indiscriminate strikes in Gaza strip on Sunday October 22. Israel bombings inside Gaza continued on Monday as well with over 60 people killed in overnight attacks alone. The Israeli military claimed on Monday that it bombed over 300 targets in Gaza on Sunday. Their aircrafts continued to target

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At the U.N., Palestine's ambassador questioned the stance by some countries on Israel’s “right to defend,” saying it is a wrong understanding of history that only starts when Israelis are hurt, Peoples Dispatch reports. By Peoples Dispatch Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a “c