Helen McCue
Dr Helen McCue AM is a former United Nations consultant, working in the Middle East with refugees and displaced. Dr McCue has been a strong advocate for Palestinian human rights including the rights of Palestinian refugees for over 40 years. She is co-founder of Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and co-founder of Rural Australia for Refugees (RAR). Dr McCue is the 2024 recipient of the Jerusalem Peace Prize.
Recent articles by Helen McCue
9 January 2025
American-Israeli bombs destroy Australian food aid in Gaza
Last Sunday, (5 January) an American-Israeli guided missile deliberately attacked and destroyed an Australian-funded food aid storage facility in the area of Deir al-Balah in Gaza. It is, in effect, an attack on Australia. Where is the government's condemnation?
17 December 2024
American supported Israeli settlers erode what is left of Palestine
Israel continues to destroy what is left of Gaza with American bombs, slaughtering 50 or more souls daily as they try to survive in flimsy tents on a starvation diet of bread and water, if they are lucky. A genocide is happening now with media silence. After invading Lebanon and killing and maiming thousands of innocent civilians, an emboldened Israel has bombed another sovereign country, Syria.
1 November 2024
Israel shreds the UN as it seeks to ban UNRWA
Israel has knocked yet another nail in the United Nations system.
31 October 2024
“Medicide”: the killing fields of Gaza
How much longer are the world’s leaders going to stand by and watch children being shredded to bits, doctors and nurses killed, arrested, detained and tortured, hospitals destroyed and schools bombed, the environment destroyed, humanitarian aid denied and a genocide committed in Gaza?
9 October 2024
The American-Israeli genocide in Palestine: Twelve months on
The past twelve months have been the most catastrophic for Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba. Everything that is needed to sustain life in Gaza has been destroyed.
2 October 2024
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: bombed to death, yet again by Israel
Innocent citizens in Gaza (80 % of whom are refugees), the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen are being blown to bits in horrific numbers. But it is Palestinian refugees across the region who have been the principal target of this horrific American-Israeli war machine for over 76 years.
5 September 2024
Israel’s 'red lines' over Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors in Gaza
Why won’t there be a long term ceasefire in Gaza any day soon? In spite of the murder of 16,500 children, the most in any modern day conflict, and the injury of 94,000 people, 70 per cent of whom are women and children, it does not end. Add to this horrific loss of human life, the starvation of all the residents, the complete destruction of vast swathes of infrastructure, and the deliberate obstruction and destruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
17 August 2024
Israel’s pattern of bombing schools and shelters in Gaza
American supplied Israel bombs killed at least 100 people as they stood while performing Fajr (dawn) prayers at the Al-Tabin school in the Daraj area of Gaza City on August 10th. This latest school massacre shredded many bodies to pieces, leaving them unrecognisable, resulting in civic defence workers collecting bundles of body parts.
6 August 2024
Israeli MP condones sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners
What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners?
23 July 2024
Israel’s border closures contribute to polio outbreak in Gaza
As the world’s media is mesmerised by political events in the USA and the findings by the ICJ of the illegal occupation by Israel of Gaza and the West Bank have slipped off the headlines, health officials in Gaza have found yet another potential catastrophic virus in the waste water, the poliovirus.
17 July 2024
Israel legislatively and militarily seeks to destroy UNRWA
As the Israeli military obliterates Gaza, massacres refugees living in tents in so called “safe zones” and slaughters 39,000 people including at least 16,000 children, its government works to “finish off” UNRWA.
3 July 2024
Speaking truth to power
Senator Fatima Payman’s riveting conversation with David Speers on Sunday’s ABC Insiders program was powerful, erudite, compassionate and completely in line with Labor Party policy on Palestine.
12 June 2024
Palestinian prisoners starved, abused and mistreated
Since October 7th last year more than 9,500 Palestinians including 635 minors from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem have been held in Israeli jails. More than 3,400 Palestinian detainees, including women and children, have also been placed in administrative detention under the pretext of secret evidence. All prisoners and detainees have been subjected to systematic physical and psychological torture, deprivation of basic needs of human life and minimum levels of treatment.
10 June 2024
Four rescued Israels equals over two hundred dead Palestinians whilst we continue to support a rogue state
To rescue four Israeli hostages Israel massacred two hundred and ten or more innocent Palestinian souls to prove that the War on Gaza was worth it, just to prove their machismo.
29 May 2024
American-Israeli bombs incinerate women and children in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’
In a calculated and vicious attack Israel bombed an area in Rafah, Gaza designated as a “safe zone’ by the Israeli military, incinerating women and children and leaving flimsy plastic tents burning in a horrifying conflagration.
21 May 2024
The Philadelphi Corridor: Egypt joins South Africa’s ICJ genocide case
Why has Egypt confirmed that it will support South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide? The answer lies in the significance of the Philadelphi Corridor or the Salah Al-Din Axis.
17 May 2024
We are silencing our young people
Western Australian Labor Senator Fatima Payman spoke for millions of Australians yesterday as she courageously and bravely broke the Federal Labor Parties code of silence and described in clear tones that Israel was committing genocide and that the Labor Party had to listen to the young of this country and take political action against Israel.
5 May 2024
Israel’s war machine, Australian Universities, and why students are protesting
Australian university students are setting up encampments in universities across Australia. They are not only calling for an end to the war on Gaza and freedom for Palestinians, they are calling for key changes needed in Australian universities’ relationships with Israel, including divestments in weapons research and development and sales and the cessation of links to Israeli Universities involved in the Israeli military complex.
18 March 2024
A war on children: Gaza doctors no longer see normal-sized babies
Israel's war on Gaza is a war on children, a war on their childhood and a war on their future. Children are dying at an alarming rate from malnutrition and dehydration and doctors are no longer seeing normal-sized babies.
4 March 2024
Jerusalem Peace Prize Address: The most disastrous year for Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba
Receiving the Jerusalem Peace Prize is a great honour and I am overwhelmed and humbled indeed. It is particularly poignant at this time as Palestinians in both Occupied Gaza and West Bank are suffering unbelievable, horrific hardship and brutal violations of their basic human rights, for life, for shelter, water and food.
1 March 2024
Palestinians in Gaza massacred, starved and raped
The Australian government remains silent, continues to call Israel our friend, and rewards Israels war machine in a new contract with the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The Federal Government sends more troops to the Middle East while starving Palestinians in northern Gaza are massacred as they desperately seek food for their families, babies in Gaza are dying of starvation and dehydration and the IDF sexually abuses and rapes Palestinian women prisoners.
28 January 2024
Australia's role in further collective punishment on Gazans
Israel has for years been determined to cut aid to the refugees both in Gaza and the West Bank.
16 January 2024
Child amputees and Israel's unchilding reaches new depravity
As the International Court of Justice received submissions from South Africa and Israel on the 11th and 12th of January on the claims by South Africa of an intention to commit genocide by Israel in Gaza, some 20 Gazan children would have lost a limb, forever maimed and severely disabled.
22 December 2023
Caged and dismembered: Israels Unchilding policy for Palestinian children
The victimisation by Israel of Palestinian children is so profound that Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkain, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor, has described it as Unchilding, that is, in order to eliminate the next generation of Palestinians, Israel treats Palestinian children as both nobodies who are unworthy of global children's rights and as dangerous and killable bodies needing to be caged and dismembered, physically and mentally.
28 November 2023
A sinister, quiet, silencing of dissent
This brief temporary ceasefire has given people in Gaza a small reprieve from the ferocious carpet bombing, murdering and destruction unleashed by Israel since Oct 7th. But in spite of the millions and millions of people taking to the streets across the world in protest at Israels war crimes, the killing of women and children in horrific numbers, the sinister quiet silencing of dissent both in Israel and across the world has not ceased.
13 November 2023
No water, no electricity, no oxygen, no way to stay alive
Doctors, nurses, patients and thousands of internally displaced Palestinians are being bombed, terrorised and held hostage in Al Shifa hospital, one of Gaza biggest hospitals. There is no water, no electricity, no oxygen and 37 pre-term babies are slowly dying due to lack of oxygen.
4 November 2023
With focus on Gaza there is escalation of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank
There is a real risk of the Occupied Territory of Palestine in the West Bank spiralling out of control, the UN said this week.
28 October 2023
How can you sleep at night Anthony?
Can you sleep at night knowing that your extremist Israeli mates have killed 3,000 children over the last three weeks? That is one child killed every 13 minutes in Gaza. And that doesn't include the estimated 1,000 little souls laying dead under rubble that distraught fathers cant rescue. Can you hear the screams of the mothers and babies trapped under the bombs from America that you supported? By your silence, and maybe with your voice, in closed rooms, with that unfeeling geriatric friend of yours, Joe Biden.
24 October 2023
Israel has Form and much of it is brutal
Albert Einstein once said that Palestinians (Jews, Christians and Muslims alike) lived in peace and worked together before the European Jews were sent to Palestine. He also said that if Jews could not co-exist peacefully with Arabs then we have learnt nothing in 2000 years of civilisation.
1 March 2023
Haaretz: Israel is now a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime
Following yet another Israeli Settler killing spree and the annexation of the West Bank, Israel is now a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime, writes leading Isreali newspaper Haaretz.
15 January 2023
Israels most right wing government: Who are they?
What do we know about the new Israeli government apart from the now much touted the most right wing government in Israel history? And what does this new government mean for Israel, Palestine and the so called two state solution?