Human rights/civil liberties Archives - Attention to the Unseen

Israeli security minister Ben-Gvir stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video

From elsewhere — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:44:09 +0000

The Guardian reports: Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has sparked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid. Three activists were taken to hospital as result of Israeli violence, lawyers representing the group said. They were subsequently discharged. Dozens of others have suspected broken ribs, resulting in breathing problems. “The team reports systemic violations of due process, and widespread physical and...

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More than 145,000 U.S. citizen children have had one or both parents detained in immigration sweeps

From elsewhere — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:30:39 +0000

Brookings reports: The Trump administration has made detention and deportation the centerpieces of its immigration policy. Around 60,000 people are being held in detention currently, and around 400,000 people have been booked into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention from an interior arrest since the administration began. Detention capacity is likely to expand, with $45 billion allocated to expanding detention facilities in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Though it is mostly adults who are detained and deported, many children...

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How a new Israeli policy cuts off humanitarian aid in Gaza

From elsewhere — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:31:32 +0000

Clayton Dalton writes: On a hazy morning in November, a group of aid workers with Médecins Sans Frontières (M.S.F.), known in English as Doctors Without Borders, crossed into Gaza for a two-month mission. Jennifer Hulse, an emergency physician from the U.K., led a medical team. “We all had as many bags as we could physically carry,” Hulse said. Inside were essential supplies such as surgical tools and engine oil for generators. Her assignment was to help the Gaza Health Ministry...

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Investigation indicates U.S. boat strikes were never a serious counter-drug operation

From elsewhere — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:30:29 +0000

The Guardian reports: A five-month investigation has named 13 previously unidentified victims of US attacks on boats allegedly carrying narcotics in a campaign that has killed nearly 200 people in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. It is unclear if the US has ever identified any of its 194 victims before attacking them, and the names of just three had previously emerged, after their families launched legal cases against the White House. The Trump administration has consistently sought to justify...

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The silence that meets the rape of Palestinians by Israelis

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:20:43 +0000

Nicholas Kristof writes: It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape. Supporters of Israel made that point after the brutal sexual assaults against Israeli women during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu and many U.S. senators, including Marco Rubio, condemned that sexual violence, and Netanyahu rightly called on “all civilized leaders” to “speak up.” And yet in wrenching...

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Israeli army chief says West Bank troops ‘killing like we haven’t killed since 1967’

From elsewhere — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:31:29 +0000

The Guardian reports: The Israeli army chief in the West Bank has said his troops were “killing like we haven’t killed since 1967”, including fatally shooting Palestinian stone-throwers, according to an Israeli report of his comments. The remarks by Maj Gen Avi Bluth, head of the army’s central command, were made in a recent closed forum but were leaked to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. Bluth has so far not denied the authenticity of the Haaretz account. The Israel Defense Forces did...

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Trump’s deportation campaign has harmed scores of kids with tear gas, pepper spray

From elsewhere — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:07:28 +0000

By Lisa Song, Maya Miller and Melissa Sanchez, with research reporting by Mariam Elba This story was originally published by ProPublica The children were walking to school in Broadview, Illinois, or leaving a shopping center in Columbus, Ohio. They were at home in Minneapolis, or sitting in a stroller in Chicago, or at an afternoon protest in Portland, Oregon, alongside dogs on leashes and older people pushing walkers. They were mostly going about their days when federal immigration agents shot...

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Mirroring Gaza, Israel is destroying towns and villages in southern Lebanon

From elsewhere — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:24:55 +0000

NPR reports: The center of the village lies in ruins. A row of single-story shops blown out, goods scattered on the ground, glass shattered along the sidewalk. Homes and buildings are crumpled into themselves, unrecognizable. The mosque is blackened and burned, the minaret split in two. A Lebanese civil defense emergency vehicle is crushed next to the rubble, its windshield smashed. Mansouri, a small village in the undulating hills of Lebanon’s south is about six miles from the country’s ‘s...

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Betrayed: Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who aided U.S. forces to Congo

From elsewhere — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:07:56 +0000

The New York Times reports: After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo, an aid worker briefed on the plan said Tuesday. The group includes interpreters for the U.S. military, former members of the Afghan Special Operations forces and family members of American service members. More than 400 children are among them. The Afghans have...

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Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti facing ‘escalating abuse’ in Israeli jails

From elsewhere — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:44:29 +0000

The Guardian reports: The jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including in one assault last month where prison guards set a dog on the 66-year-old, his lawyer has said. Barghouti is often called Palestine’s Nelson Mandela. He is respected across otherwise feuding Palestinian factions, has broad popular support across occupied Palestine, repeatedly engaged with Israeli officials before his detention and long backed a...

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