Category: Daily Updates

Daily news updates after October 7, 2023

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As Gazans die, NYU makes “Zionist” a protected class – Day 325

Israeli obstruction of aid keeps Gaza under polio threat; children’s testimonies of torture; Bedouin hostage rescued (or found by chance); Israel withholding bodies of over 500 Palestinians; West Bank deaths; Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter under threat; Israel’s smear campaign against UNRWA; latest on ICC arrest warrants; White House would defend Israel against Iran attack; “Zionist” is now a protected class at NYU; Chief rabbi of France calls for Israel to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

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Congratulations AIPAC on 500th air delivery of US weapons to kill Gazans – Day 324

US averages over one planeload of weapons per day to Israel; another evacuation order, another disruption in aid for Gazans; new statements from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch on Israeli atrocities; Hezbollah ready to stop trading attacks with Israel, while Israel mulls escalation; another journalist killed in Gaza, as global press groups protest; Israel kills six Palestinians in West Bank; Israel to fund Israeli settlers’ illegal intrusions into Al Aqsa mosque compound; anti-Zionism = antisemitism policy at NYU is worrying; Columbia SJP disappeared; more.

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Gazans flee (again) as Israel, Hezbollah conflict heats up – Day 323

Chaos as Gazans carry out yet another evacuation; massive exchange of fire between Israel (with US help) and Hezbollah; child malnutrition on the rise, as polio vaccines arrive; Gaza’s healthcare workers tortured by Israel; four young men in West Bank die at Israel’s hands; Israel’s extremist Itamar Ben Gvir spreads his extremism; US plans ongoing warship presence in Middle East

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When a phone flashlight is as important to a doctor as her stethoscope – Day 322

Fuel shortage plunges hospital into darkness; Deir al Balah, last “intact” city, faces mass evacuation; Israeli soldiers film themselves destroying mosque, burning Qurans; displacement leads to missing food aid distribution; little chance of polio vaccinations without ceasefire; Israeli forces use Palestinian as human shield; DNC banned speech – in full; Squad warns of AIPAC’s power; more

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As Gazans look for safety, Biden appoints Israel hawk to top position in State Dept – Day 321

Gaza waiting on Israel for polio vaccine; only 9.5% of Gaza remains “safe”; Israeli soldiers still sharing their war crimes on social media; occupation of Gaza after war is illegal; calls for ICC judges to issue arrest warrant for Netanyahu; Western media can be held legally accountable for reporting on Gaza; if war continues, Israel may face collapse in under a year; Lebanon reports over 2,000 casualties from Israeli attacks; more

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Israeli army invades ‘most crowded displacement camp in history’ – Day 320

DNC’s response to Gaza; Israel’s latest “inhumane” evacuation orders; baby with polio is paralyzed as Gaza awaits vaccines; Israeli army invades ‘most crowded displacement camp in history’; ‘Jewish terror’ is jeopardizing Israel’s existence;  Noa Argamani criticizes Israeli media’s misrepresentation of her hostage experience; war without end; more.

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Nowhere left to live, nowhere left to bury the dead – Day 319

“They were trying to exterminate us”: Palestinian children in Gaza tortured by Israeli military; Israeli envoy calls for UN building in Jerusalem to be ‘erased from earth’; No space in Gaza “safe zones” for the living; No space left for the dead: Gaza’s cemeteries overflow; Fleeing Palestinians say death would be more merciful; ‘Torture by Electrocution’ – Israel Releases 25 Detainees from Gaza; Barack Obama makes no mention of Gaza war in DNC speech; more

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“Death is the only certainty” in Gaza – Day 318

Life hangs by a thread in Gaza, as Israel drops bombs, withholds polio vaccines, tortures Palestinian prisoners; illegal Israeli settlers, Israeli gov’t threaten Palestinians in West Bank, East Jerusalem; in the US: silencing pro-Palestine voices on social media, at DNC convention; Blinken is “selling a bridge to nowhere”; more.

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Israel kills quintuplets, as Biden insists “both sides” are dying – Day 317 Roundup

Gazan quintuplets murdered by Israeli bomb; another Palestinian journalist killed; babies need medical attention in hospitals that are about to shut down; doctor from Gaza speaks at DNC – a first; Israeli society supports gang rape of Palestinians; 413 humanitarian orgs call on UN to assure safety of humanitarian workers in Gaza; West Bank death; HRW: Israeli possible war crime against Yemen; Scottish gov’t not speaking to Israel; more.

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Gaza War Is one of the bloodiest this century – Day 316

Lives of patients at Al-Awda Hospital ‘hanging by a thread’; Israeli military claims ‘working’ on getting polio vaccines to Gaza; US-Israel spy network confessions expose embassy role in destabilizing Yemen; Israeli forces shoot Palestinian journalist while she was covering invasion; Civil defense in Gaza reports staggering losses; 273 fires set by Israeli army, settlers in West Bank since Oct 7; Mayor of Chicago calls Gaza war ‘genocidal’; Trump says Harris wants to ‘destroy Israel’; Netanyahu refuses meeting with UK foreign secretary during Israel visit; ‘Murder in Broad Daylight’ – Roger Waters Speaks Out; more

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