Gaza school children grappling with Israeli war trauma

Children who have started the new school year in the besieged Gaza Strip are grappling with the trauma of the recent Israeli military offensive on the blockaded area.

Schools have opened their doors in the blockaded territory after a three-week delay due to the recent Israeli relentless and merciless aggression on Gaza. The children in the blockaded area who have survived the onslaught are in shock of the loss of their classmates and the extent of destruction in the area.

“I felt so bad when I saw my school destroyed. We used to study and play here. Nadia, my school mate, died [in the Israeli attacks] and we can’t play anymore,” a Palestinian school child told Press TV.
“This is our first day at school. It’s hard to describe the destruction,” another Palestinian child said.

“We were shocked when we heard about Nadia’s death. She was a remarkable student and very active,” Nemal Jedi, a Palestinian teacher, said.

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Iran shoots down Israel spy drone

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down an Israeli spy drone over the Iranian sky before the unmanned aerial vehicle reached Natanz nuclear facility.

The IRGC’s Aerospace Force has intercepted and shot down an Israeli spy drone, the IRGC announced in a statement on Sunday.

It added that the stealth and radar-evading spy drone intended to reach the nuclear facility in Natanz, but was targeted by a surface-to-air missile before it reached the area.

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Iran shoots down Israel spy drone.

Hamas, Israel agree to another truce

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Israel have agreed on a new 72-hour ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Egypt-brokered truce will reportedly come into effect at one minute past midnight (2101 GMT) on Sunday.

“Israel has accepted the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire,” AFP quoted an official close to negotiations between the two sides in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

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Hamas, Israel agree to another truce.

Palestinian protests continue as court resumes hearing of Abu Khdeir murder case

A court in Jerusalem AlQuds has resumed hearing the murder case of Mohammad Abu khdeir, the Palestinian kid that was kidnapped a month ago by Yousif Haim Bin David, 29 years old and two others.

They burnt Mohammad alive before going home to play some guitar as they confessed before. Abu Khdeir’s family and many other activists came to demonstrate in front of the court asking for a life imprisonment for the killers of Mohammad and especially for Bin David

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Palestinian protests continue as court resumes hearing of Abu Khdeir murder case.

‘Tel Aviv out to turn Gaza into Israeli city’

he Israeli regime plans to eliminate all Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip and turn the enclave into a new Israeli city, a political analyst tells Press TV.

The analyst also said that Israel now wants to “internalize” the fact that “this is our country exclusively including Gaza.”

Schoenman said Feiglin’s plan also included the total annihilation of Palestinian resistance fighters and supporters of Hamas movement so that Israel can “turn Gaza into Jaffa, an Israeli city, with a minimal number of hostile civilians.”

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‘Tel Aviv out to turn Gaza into Israeli city’.

Palestine to sue Israel for war crimes

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki is pushing for a war crimes case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel due to the Zionist regime’s brutal aggression of the besieged Gaza Strip.

“Everything that has happened in the last 28 days is clear evidence of war crimes committed by Israel, amounting to crimes against humanity,” al- Malki told reporters after meeting prosecutors at the ICC on Tuesday.

“There is no difficulty for us to show or build the case. Evidence is there … Israel is in clear violation of international law,” he added.

The complaint filed by Palestine details war crimes committed by the Israeli army over the past few weeks in Palestine.

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Palestine to sue Israel for war crimes.

Obama has authority to close Gitmo

An American political commentator says Barack Obama has the authority as the president of the United States to close the Guantanamo prison as he believes torture is bad.

“If the Obama administration feels that torture is not in line with US foreign policy, then it should close the Guantanamo Bay camp that is on occupied Cuban territory,” Editor of Pan-African News Wire Abayomi Azikiwe told Press TV on Sunday. 

He made the remarks after President Obama acknowledged that the United States tortured some people after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the country. 

“I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong,” Obama told reporters at the White House on Friday. 

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Obama has authority to close Gitmo.

Genocide permissible: Says the Times of Israel

An Israeli paper has removed an article from its website, which urged “genocide” in the besieged Gaza Strip, a report says. 

The article titled “When Genocide is Permissible” was published by The Times of Israel on Friday, but was removed hours later, the Moon of Alabama website reported.

Written by Yochanan Gordon, who defended the move on his Twitter page, the article called for committing genocide against the Palestinian civilians in Gaza who have been under a massive Israeli assault in the last 25 days.

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Genocide permissible: Times of Israel.

Bolivia declares Israel a terrorist regime

Bolivia has declared Israel a “terrorist state” and revoked a visa exemption agreement with Tel Aviv in protest at the ongoing Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.

The move “means, in other words, we are declaring (Israel) a terrorist state,” President Evo Morales said during talks with a group of educators in the city of Cochabamba on Wednesday.

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‘World needs opposition against Israel’

Press TV has conducted an interview with Gloria La Riva, ANSWER Coalition, from San Francisco, to discuss Israel’s ongoing aggression against the Palestinians.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Why do you think the West doesn’t condemn the Israeli killing of scores of Palestinian children? Literally, we have President Obama encouraging Israel in doing what it calls self-defense.

La Riva: The West, which is led by the United States, is really seeing itself as benefiting itself from the Israeli settler project, which is its police force inside the Middle East for the wealth, the geo-political strategic position of Israel to oppress the Palestinians and be the danger point for all Arab and the people of the Middle East.

It’s really, really terrible to see the children, the babies – I think that the bombing of the boys on the Gaza beach looked very deliberate because the Israeli government, the Israeli military has no concern about the children dying. Every time that they get their billions of dollars from the United States, Washington, the White House, all those Congress people who vote for every dollar of bombs, tear gas, all the terror weapons, they have blood on their hands as well.

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‘World needs opposition against Israel’.