Jeremy Scahill recently wrote: “Israel Is Attempting to Execute a Final Solution in Gaza” and “Netanyahu: Gaza Aid Scheme Offers Israel Symbolic Cover to Finish the Genocide.” Dave DeCamp just wrote the articles “Netanyahu Says Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Condition To End Gaza War” and “Israeli Strikes Kill 104 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours.”
Reuters reports: “Israel draws outcry from Europe as soldiers fire near diplomats on West Bank visit.” The Electronic Intifada just published the piece “Will Israel expand its assault on the West Bank?”
ISSA AMRO, [email protected], @issaamro
Amro is based in Hebron on the West Bank and is founder of Youth Against Settlements. He is regularly threatened, harrased and detained by the Israeli military and settlers for his nonviolent activity such as making films and attempting to prevent home takeovers. He received the 2024 Right Livelihood Award.
He recently posted: “Israeli settlers attacked my house with stones, they came at 4 am to throw stones and [set fire to] my family land, chanting about the death of my brother, and wishing that I will die too or [be] killed.” And: “The war on Gaza must end now, no more starvation, Israeli is not defending itself, it is defending its occupation, apartheid and illegal settlements. Even the Israeli government is going on with it for internal politics in Israel.”
German public television DW News recently reported about Amro: “‘A Palestinian activist is facing growing harassment from Israeli soldiers and settlers after being featured in a BBC documentary that spotlighted the plight of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.”
Following the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., he posted: “The murder of any human being should not be justified nor celebrated by anyone.” A neighbor of Elias Rodriguez, the alledged shooter stated: “guns and bombs are not going to end this genocide,” see video.
On Thursday, Amro reported: “The lawyer who represented the settler who attacked me a few years ago, came to my house to intimidate me as a soldier.”
Last year he was profiled in The New York Times Magazine: “‘Where Is the Palestinian Gandhi?’”