Diyar Guldogan, Anadolu Ajansi. (2025-01-09). Healthcare Workers Tell Congress To Halt Military Aid To Israel. popularresistance.org Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) has called for the US to halt aid to Israel after their colleagues were detained last month by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. | DAG, a global coalition of health care workers, mobilized more than 50 medical professionals on Capitol Hill to advocate for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was detained by Israeli forces along with others during a Dec. 27 raid on the health facility. | The delegation visited members of the House of Representatives and Senate on Wednesday to advocate for urgent congressional action on the h…

John Perry, Covert Action Magazine. (2025-01-07). Human Rights Groups Manufacture Consent For 'Regime Change" popularresistance.org In the words of the United Nations, "human rights" range from "the most fundamental—the right to life—to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty." These rights are supposed to be "inherent to us all." But this lofty ambition has become distorted, not only by the UN itself but by the whole of what Alfred de Zayas calls the "Human Rights Industry." | This industry, headed by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has multiple layers that include UN "expert groups" and "rapporteurs," regional commissions like (in the Western Hemisphere) the Inter-…

Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. (2025-01-07). Destruction Of Gaza's Healthcare Is A Blueprint For Future Wars. popularresistance.org "Kamal Adwan Hospital is no more," stated Dr. Mustafa Barghouti during a webinar organized by the People's Health Movement (PHM) on December 28, 2024. As he spoke, reports of the latest Israeli attacks on the hospital were still emerging. These included the near-total destruction of its laboratory, storage, surgical units, and other critical facilities, alongside the arbitrary detention of its director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. | The devastating outcome was all too predictable, given Israel's systematic assaults on Gaza's healthcare system during the ongoing genocide.