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617 weeks of deprivation of liberty for telling the truth

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The Palestinian people have the right to be protected from acts of genocide

The 17 members of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered their provisional verdict on January 26, 2024. After ruling that South Africa's application was admissible, unlike Israel's, the Court gave its...

South Africa’s complaint against Israel

The ICJ (International Court of Justice), based in The Hague in the Netherlands, has come under fire for its politically-motivated rulings on the war in Ukraine. Is it an instrument at the service of the collective...

Depleted uranium weapons in Ukraine: of course!

At a press conference on September 11, 2023, IAEA Director General Raphaël Grossi asserted that there was no danger in the use of shells containing depleted uranium. Of course! This is an astonishing statement....

« Give us today our daily bread » in Gaza

"We have become desperate in our daily search for bread, in what has now become the primary mission of our lives, stripping us of our humanity and dignity. We pretend not to care about the Israeli missiles flying...

We are the only victims

" The "lethal applications" of Western racism, writes Professor Xiang, are the fear of change, the ontology of bivalent dualism, the invention of the "barbarian" as racial Other, the metaphysics of colonialism...

Endless war and cultural genocide?

"Israeli occupation soldiers bragged about attacking a classroom inside a school in Gaza and vandalizing schoolchildren's property." or "A Palestinian school caught fire after Israeli occupation soldiers fired tear...

Public health and hospitals: 6 days in Gaza

At a time when political discourse seems to be taking a turn in the context of the Palestinian genocide, as the words of Petra De Sutter, Belgium's living Prime Minister (" It's time to impose sanctions against...

How much does a child cost?

Photo PxHere Today, Saturday October 21, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published the names, and in some cases the activity and/or age, of 683 of the 1,400 victims of the Hamas attack of October 7. On the other...

Gaza, the catastrophe is right before our eyes

Since the last post, the situation in the Gaza Strip has only worsened. Data is difficult to collect, but the Palestinian Ministry of Health publishes figures that are only a pale reflection of reality. As of October...

The reality of Gaza in figures

Christophe de Brouwer, Honorary Professor and former President of the School of Public Health at the Free University of Brussels, reminds us of some of the realities of the situation in Palestine, with public health...

Excess mortality, a pretext for lies

Le Soir While the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir published an article on pages 2-3 (the most expensive in terms of advertising after the first page) with a headline on the cover: " Covid increases mortality in Europe...

Really?

It's been more than a year since the socio-political crisis covid-19 fell on us. I do not use the term health crisis because its magnitude does not justify this term. Although surprised at first, the hospitals were...

The Ridicules

Lately, I read one of those pompously called "counter-expertise" papers, which is in the family of American fact checking. It has become the new fashion of our media of fear. Its revival is one of the signatures...