Israel has rejected a UN Commission report that says its army deliberately targets Palestinian children. But there are cases of children being shot by precision weapons, making it difficult to argue they were accidents.
Al Jazeera’s @emmawithrow explains.
💥One boy has been killed and another wounded by Israeli drone bomb dropped on them while getting water for their families in Al Shuja’yia neighbourhood, east of the Gaza City..
When Western carmakers win customers, it's called "the free market."
When Chinese carmakers win customers, it's called "a full-blown assault."
Bark at your daddy, not China.
Julian Assange’s 55th birthday, a reminder of why he was persecuted for over a decade:
Wikileaks under Assange released the Collateral Murder video shows Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen being gunned down by a US Apache helicopter. Several others were killed while the US pilots laughed.
The US wants to extradite and imprison Julian Assange for 175 years.
Infant Nida Ibrahim Dhib, 45 days old, passed away due to the harsh humanitarian conditions in Gaza, amid a severe shortage of infant formula and the absence of the most basic necessities of life in displacement tents.
US-Iran history they don’t teach you:
On this day in 1988, the US warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 665 with two surface to air missiles, killing all 290 passengers on board.
The US refused to issue an official apology or acknowledged wrongdoing, and official investigations were treated as an afterthought.
Months after the tragedy on the campaign trail, President George H. W. Bush said “I will never apologise for the United States. I don’t care what the facts are.”