The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Read critical background left out of breaking news alerts…
Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
Following Amnesty report, Biden administration still can’t say “genocide” – Day 425
More apparent prisoner torture, death; Biden admin in denial about genocide; US-made bomb “incinerates” children; the world’s silence about Israel imprisoning its youngest Palestinian child yet; Tom Cotton introduces bill to ban calling occupied West Bank by its name; more.
Amnesty Int’l joins other orgs in calling out Israel’s genocide – Day 424
Israel carries out massacres, ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza; burns sleeping children to death in southern Gaza; kills several in West Bank; a look at IDF “revenge videos”; more.
Trump’s new cabinet is great news for Israel
Philip Giraldi: The new cabinet might be even worse than the old one. Some are joking that it should be called MIGA instead of MAGA. An Israeli newspaper says the Israeli government and Trump’s team are already in discussions regarding how to remove Iran’s government.
A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term ‘genocide’
The Guardian – like most of Western mainstream media – has had an effective ban on the use of the term genocide for what’s happening in Gaza, but at the moment when the genocide has reached its”final stage,” The Guardian is belatedly allowing its use.
UN: food availability ‘at an all-time low’ across Gaza – Day 423
As Gaza starves, Israel mulls the high cost of occupation; Israeli soldiers kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank; sexual assault of Palestinian women; Israel has “enforced with an iron fist” (i.e. violated) Lebanon ceasefire at least 100 times; Australia joins call for end to occupation; Israel and the ICC
‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza
Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s powerfully touching story of his older sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, a trailblazing physician whose life ended when Israel bombed the taxi she was in: “For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief…” Israel has killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors, in the past year.
Israel continues to wreak havoc across Palestine, Lebanon – Day 422
“Safe zone” is code for extermination; Israel destroys 600 Palestinian structures to build Israeli bases in Gaza; Israeli hostage deaths; abuse of Palestinians in Hebron; West Bank demolitions; Lebanon “ceasefire”; silencing Palestinian voices
Over 800 Palestinians killed in West Bank since Oct 2023, as Israel makes plans to take over region – Day 421
Israel fails to secure humanitarian aid deliveries; Palestinians die in prison, assassinated in West Bank; freedom of religion takes a hit in Israel; Israel’s illegal plans for the West Bank; more.
My thoughts on why two FBI agents suddenly appeared at my home
By Alison Weir. Some influential Israel partisans push for U.S. policies that benefit Israel – to suppress important facts about Palestine, Israel, and countries that Israeli leaders deem threats – and Iran has long been a target.
Israel attacks another World Central Kitchen vehicle, commits another “flour massacre” – Day 420
Massacres across Gaza, as Hamas agrees to temporary ceasefire (but Israel does not); Hamas calls for probe into Israel’s use of “vaporizing” heavy weapons; Ben-Gvir’s latest supremacist comments; Biden pulls funding from nonprofit, apparently over Palestine