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In light of the fighting in Gaza and in Southern Israel, Israeli human rights groups are sending out ongoing updates about the impact on civilians. Our aim is to inform the Israeli public of events that are not being covered by the media. Each group is posting the information at [...]

all of the journalistic words have been, are being, said already.

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to me, there’s only one thing worth saying on the journalistic side:
24 israelis have been killed by rocket or mortar attacks from gaza, ever.
more than 300 palestinians have been killed by the israeli blitzkrieg in gaza in the past 2 days.
more than 3,300 palestinians have been killed by the israeli military in gaza since 2000.
and it needs to be said over and over and over again.

beyond the journalistic. words aren’t worth much, or are everything.

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Op-Ed Written By Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Executive Director Hagai El-Ad, and ACRI’s Information Center Director Tal Dahan, in honor of Human Rights Week. This is the first time the op-ed is published in English. The op-ed was first published in Hebrew on Maariv’s website on December 7.
“Now, therefore the General Assembly [...]

Today marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). According to Larry Cox, Director of Amnesty International the UDHR:
came out of the horrors of World War II, the Great Depression and, of course, the indescribable horrors of the Holocaust that made the world realize that something had to be said about [...]

Live blogging is still surreal to me. Remember when you used to go to events, and you’d be lucky if people took photos, or maybe audio recorded speakers? I know, I sound old, and I’m turning 30 in March.
Anyway, check it out, Velveteen Rabbi is seriously giving it to us, post after post, on the [...]

[Editorial note: As the media, particularly in the U.S., does not present these stories, it's important for us to provide information and accounts so that more people can have a deeper understanding of the human rights violations that are occurring in the West Bank and Gaza, and overall for people to have a broader lens [...]