Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights

10/15/2026

More than 2,000 Gaza patients have died awaiting treatment or evacuation as Israeli crossing restrictions obstruct access to lifesaving care.

10/15/2026

A US federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against the Palestine Chronicle and its editor, Ramzy Baroud, after the three plaintiffs asked to withdraw the case. Judge Tiffany Cartwright granted their request on September 15, closing the case after more than two years of litigation.

The plaintiffs had alleged that the publication was linked to their captivity in Gaza through its publication of work by Palestinian journalist Abdallah Aljamal. The Chronicle denied the allegations throughout the case.

Its lawyer, Dan Kovalik, called the outcome “a big victory” for the outlet and free speech.

10/15/2026

Israeli forces raided Salfit’s medical institutions as expanding settler outposts threatened Palestinian farmland and livelihoods across the occupied West Bank.

10/15/2026

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10/15/2026

Our screenings of the Award-winning, “exemplary” documentary NAZA opens tomorrow, Friday 16th October, at Brunswick Moviebowl

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv by the Oscar winning directors of NO OTHER LAND, this powerful work of journalism features interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers who reveal in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

To book your seats online https://tinyurl.com/4jbsew7z

10/15/2026

At Port Newark-Elizabeth, activists are escalating their tactics to stop weapons shipments to Israel. Mondoweiss reports from the port’s front lines.

10/15/2026

10/13/2026

The Guardian, which co-produced NAZA, plans to stream it free worldwide on theguardian[dot]com in late November 2026, after its cinema run. No exact date has been announced yet, but reports consistently say the second half of the month.

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, in their own words.

10/13/2026

“I was involved in approving a target with 300 [civilian deaths authorised as] collateral damage.” Soldier testimony from Gaza:

Unit: Intelligence
Area: Northern Gaza strip
period: 2023

“[...] I was involved in approving a target with 300 collateral damage. [It was when] IDF forces entered for maneuvering inside the [Gaza] Strip and encountered a very very prepared [Hamas] battalion, good soldiers, strong soldiers. There were many clashes.”

“And then there was a total amok, like to take down the commander of this battalion [but] we couldn’t precisely say where this person was. The strikes on Gaza — they’re in a very very very dense [area.] [...] So even if you get to a relatively precise polygon (a defined area in which the designated subject of a strike is expected to be), you can get very very high collateral damage.”

“So we got to a relatively narrow polygon, and there we kind of stopped. We didn’t manage to get more intelligence that would narrow us down more than this polygon. They said: He is killing soldiers now, he needs to be hit [...]”

“They really wanted to kill this person. And it was the kind of target where it was like exception, exception, exception and in the end it was approved. I know that it went up, I think at least to the chief of staff. The very least a brigadier general, but I believe that further [up,]”

“...You’re able to say that he (the Hamas battalion commander) is located within a range of about ten houses. Generally, the attacks are not investigated because we can’t say how many of them (of the targets) were really killed.”

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This soldier describes the strike on Ibrahim Biari, commander of the Central Jabalia Battalion, in which 126 people, including 68 children, were killed. Such an enormous death toll was not a violation of IDF procedures. In fact, even twice as many civilian deaths would not have exceeded the collateral damage the IDF had permitted.

This was not the only instance in which the IDF authorised hundreds of civilian deaths as collateral damage, but the threshold approved for Biari was not the standard one. The standard, and for that reason, much deadlier collateral-damage threshold was much lower. For the period between October 2023 and at least until December 2024, the IDF allowed up to 20 civilians to be killed as collateral damage for every person deemed a Hamas operative, whether a low-ranking militant or a truck driver.

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