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Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire Article Summary Author

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:42:43 +0530

Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire

Six members of a Palestinian family went out for a ride in the car. Only two made it back home.

New York Times, Mars 16...

alking Barefoot in Rome and Jerusalem

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:44:31 +0530

alking Barefoot in Rome and Jerusalem

The war with Iran and the renewed front with Lebanon are heightening the fear, exhaustion, and concern for life here. In this reality, it is easy to feel that the future is...

Walking Barefoot in Jerusalem and Rome

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:12:19 +0530

Walking Barefoot in Jerusalem and Rome

The war with Iran and the renewed front with Lebanon are increasing the fear, fatigue, and concern for life here. In this reality, it is easy to feel that the future is...

Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire Article Summary

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:46:36 +0530

Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire

Six members of a Palestinian family went out for a ride in the car. Only two made it back home.

New York Times, Mars 16...

Walking Barefoot in Rome and Jerusalem

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:46:23 +0530

Walking Barefoot in Jerusalem and Rome

The war with Iran and the renewed front with Lebanon are increasing the fear, fatigue, and concern for life here. In this reality, it is easy to feel that the future is...

Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:32:29 +0530

Family Outing in West Bank Ends in Hail of Israeli Gunfire
Six members of a Palestinian family went out for a ride in the car. Only two made it back home.

New York Times, Mars 16, 2026

The cannon fodder: The reality that seeps through the alarms

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:48:53 +0530

The cannon fodder:
The reality that seeps through the alarms

Uri Misgav
I want to write my opinion on the war. Without filters. It is important to me to do this before, God forbid, a...

עוד משפחה שאבדה הכל, מתחננים לעזרה

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:52:18 +0530

עוד משפחה שאבדה הכל, מתחננים לעזרה
פנייה הומניטרית דחופה מלב עזה ההרוסה, הסובלת ממלחמה כבר שנתיים וחצי, והמלחמה לא פסקה...

אני מתחנן בפניכם, אני מתחנן בפניכם, אני נשבע לכם בשם כל הדתות השמימיות, ובשם...

US Senator Tim Cane: Crucial Senate vote on Iran War

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:59:30 +0530

Friends, I told you yesterday that I would force a vote on my Iran War Powers Resolution and now we have a critical update: The Senate will vote tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, on my legislation to block Donald Trump from unauthorized and...

Enough with the war: Demonstrations in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:51:28 +0530

16:00 | Habima Square Tel Aviv
19:00 | Corner of Allenby/Hafarsim Streets, Haifa
19:30 | Paris Square, Jerusalem

Two weeks have passed since Israel and the US launched a war on Iran...

Drop everything and go out to the Gaza border!

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:56:18 +0300

Drop everything and go out to the Gaza border!

We refuse the occupation of the strip, we refuse starvation!

The government of starvation and extermination has decided to completely...

Adam Keller in Berlin, Sept 5-8, 2024

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:54:26 +0300

Adam Keller in Berlin, Sept 5-8

Dear Friends

The political and non-political decorations accumulated over several decades on the walls of my modest apartment in Holon (suburb of Tel...

On Bastille Day, we demonstrate and call on France to recognize Palestine

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:26:49 +0300

On Bastille Day, we demonstrate
and call on France to recognize Palestine
Le 14 juillet, nous manifestons
et appelons la France à reconnaître la Palestine

In France and around...

Saturday night protests: No to Netanyahu's war!

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:55:37 +0300

Saturday night protests: No to Netanyahu's war!
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa

No to Netanyahu's war!
We will not let the war stop us - we will stop the war!

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Investigate the Gaza Mass Graves!

Mon, 06 May 2024 13:42:33 +0300

During more than half a year of Israel's war in Gaza, we again and again heard of terrible atrocities. Most of them were perpetrated openly and with impunity, with no real investigation and certainly without anyone getting punished. The grisly affair of the recently discovered mass graves seems the latest installment in this comedy of unending horror. This at least should get an objective investigation!
Adam Keller

Political groups in Israel call for
Investigation of Gaza mass graves

We, the undersigned citizens of Israel of activist organizations, are calling for an independent investigation to have a complete and objective inquiry into the horror of the mass graves in the Gaza Strip.

The discovery of mass graves near two hospitals, Al Shifa and Nasser, with hundreds of bodies of Palestinians - some of them medical staff and patients - underscores the need for a thorough investigation, including by independent forensic experts, to be carried out by Human Rights organizations from countries not involved in the war. The findings must be transparent and open to the public worldwide.

In particular, the assertion that some of the bodies were found with their hands tied behind their backs must be thoroughly investigated - if true, it means that extrajudicial executions had taken place.

Should the Israeli government and armed forces prevent such an investigation and deny to Human Rights investigators access to the Gaza Strip, they would not be able to avoid the taint and suspicion that they have something to hide and that heinous crimes were indeed perpetrated.

Adam Keller, spokesperson for Gush Shalom

Yossi Schwartz for the ISL, the section of the RCIT in Israel/Occupied Palestine

UCLA: 2,100 anti-war protestors arrested. Zero counter-protestors.

Mon, 06 May 2024 13:46:12 +0300

National Campaign for Justice

Earlier this week, violence erupted on the campus of UCLA when pro-Israel counter-protesters attacked the peaceful pro-Palestinian encampment with fireworks, chairs, sticks, and...

Young Israelis go to prison rather than take part in the Gaza War

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:43:55 +0300

Hi, my name is Einat Gerlitz, and last year I refused to serve in the Israeli military.

A year ago, I was imprisoned in military prison for 87 days for refusing to enlist. Throughout the process of my refusal, I received the legal, political and social support of Mesarvot Network, the only network for Israeli conscientious objectors.

During these tough times of war, our hope lies in nonviolent civil resistance. That is why I’m proud to be part of Mesarvot Network, especially in the darkest of times, as we refuse to stay silent. Brave young people like Tal and Sofia are refusing to serve a cycle of violence, and by their refusal create an alternative.

Tal Mitnick, 18, was first imprisoned last December, and was the first public anti-war refuser.

He bravely went to prison while carrying the message “there is no military solution”. He is currently imprisoned for the third time, sentenced to 105 days in total. Tal believes that “more killing and more violence won’t bring back the lives lost on October 7.”

“Continuing the circle of revenge: ‘an eye for an eye,’ without thinking about an actual solution that would provide security and freedom to us all, will only lead to more killing and suffering,” as he recently told The Guardian. Tal has experienced hateful comments, has been called a traitor and has been told that he should have been killed in the Be’eri massacre, part of the Hamas attack on Southern Israel.

In a recent phone call from military prison, Tal told me there is no end in sight to these continuous imprisonments. He says that the support he receives from letters people send him helps him stay strong through this current imprisonment of 45 days.

Sofia Orr, 18, refused to serve in the Israeli military on February 25th.

Now she is serving her second prison sentence of 20 days, amounting to a total of 40 days. “I won’t serve an endless cycle of bloodshed” she recently said to The Times. Sofia’s strong belief in peace and in humane values gives her strength through her tough time in prison.

Sofia courageously says that violence cannot solve the situation - neither violence enacted by Hamas, nor by Israel. In a recent interview to France24 Sofia spoke up saying she refuses to enlist to serve the army of a government that only continues the circle of hurt and bereavement. With so much pain at this moment we find it important to publicly resist and refuse to take part in the military.

Sofia asked that I share with you that she had received many threats, and that she feels encouraged by the support that she received from around the world, that enables her and others to speak up and defend their right to resist militarism and fight for human rights.

From: Einat, Mesarvot Network

An appropriate and praiseworthy response to the carnage

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:24:40 +0530

An appropriate and praiseworthy response to the carnage: trade unionists refusing to load munitions for Israel's war in Gaza

Note: We have gotten used to terrible news coming out of the Gaza
Strip...

wedish Human Rights Defender on Hunger Strike

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:34:55 +0530

Tel Aviv, February 21, 2024: Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport have denied entry to a Swedish foreign national and Palestinian human rights defender arbitrarily citing “Public security or public safety or public order...

Support conscientious objector Sophia Or, about to be detained

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:50:59 +0530

In war there are no winners!

Sophia Or, a conscientious young Israeli burned the draft order she received. She intends to go to the recruitment bureau and inform the officers there that she refuses to join the...