WHO Pleads for Immediate Reversal of Gaza Evacuation Order to Protect Health and Reduce Suffering

The World Health Organization (WHO) joins the wider United Nations in appealing to Israel to immediately rescind orders for the evacuation of over 1 million people living north of Wadi Gaza. A mass evacuation would be disastrous—for patients, health workers and other civilians left behind or caught in the mass movement. Paramedics transfer injured Palestinian…

Public Health Staff Plan Strike if Overhaul Not Halted

Staff at public hospitals plan to go on strike if the government doesn’t halt its fascist efforts to overhaul the judiciary, according to a report Thursday. According the Israel Medical Association there is a consensus among public health workers on the matter. Doctors holds a sign saying “The doctors are fighting for the life of…

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Balfour Street Protesters Urge State Investigation into Meron Disaster

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence on Jerusalem’s Balfour Street on Saturday evening, May 1, demanding the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the Mt. Meron festival crush that left 45 dead two days earlier. Police closed several roads in the vicinity as demonstrators filled the streets near the premier’s…

Leading protest activist Sadi Ben-Shitrit at the demonstration at Jerusalem’s Paris Square Wednesday evening, September 30, near the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose resignation the protestors called for. The red Hadash placard reads” When the government is against the people, the people are against the government.”

Car Runs Down Two during Anti-Government Protest in Tel Aviv

Several thousand anti-government demonstrators took to the streets on Thursday across Israel, protesting the latest measures limiting the right to protest during the country’s second coronavirus lockdown. Around 3,000 demonstrators, among them activists from Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), gathered at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, with small clusters of demonstrators marching…