Daily news updates after October 7, 2023
Food crisis in Gaza as Israel seals border; Israeli troops steal and sell Palestinian possessions; Palestine Legal accuses US Senate of McCarthyism; US holds secret talks with Hamas; Netanyahu policies reportedly helped pave way for 7 October; Israeli settlers escalate incursions into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan
Israeli tanks fire on ambulances; Gaza ‘running out of basic necessities,’ as Israeli spokesperson claims that Hamas has “enough food to spark an obesity epidemic”; Arab leaders endorse $53bn plan to rebuild Gaza; ‘systematic failures’ on 7 Oct; Palestinians in Israel face persecution; Israel to build wall on Jordan border; colleges allowing pro-Palestine protests could face funding cuts; $95 million in aid for the Lebanese army
Israel prepares Gaza ‘hell plan’ to pile pressure on Hamas; Israel violated ceasefire more than 900 times; only 15 mobile homes entered Gaza out of 60,000; Palestinian detainee tortured to death; West Bank; Elon Musk’s attack on Arab and Muslim orgs; another Barnard College expulsion; jailing Canadians
Netanyahu wants to scrap the ceasefire agreement, and will starve Gaza to get his way; Trump admin agrees to more arms sales to Israel; Palestinian dispossession film gets an Oscar.
Ceasefire is falling apart, as Israel stands ready to resume fighting with greater intensity, continue starving the people of Gaza.
Palestinians in Israeli prisons experience systematic torture, atrocities; Israel’s [terrible] new Gaza plan; Israel seeks 6-week extension of ceasefire phase one; Israeli army concludes it was defeated by Hamas on 7 October; Knesset bill to annex West Bank settlements near Jerusalem; Israelis spit on Christian churches; US approves $3 billion military sales to Israel amid ceasefire talks; man convicted by US court of murdering six-year old Palestinian boy in hate crime
Israel finally releases 600+ Palestinian prisoners after delay; Israel refuses to withdraw from Philadelphi corridor despite agreement; Israeli army’s 7 Oct probe further confirms use of Hannibal Directive on October 7th; Gaza reconstruction, new school year; Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land.
60th Palestinian detainee dies; others show signs of severe torture; US eyes real estate takeover of Gaza under guise of ‘rebuilding’; House committee told to use Hebrew term for Israeli-occupied West Bank; pro-Israel campus news
Tallying detained healthcare workers in Gaza; polio vaccine campaign; B’Tselem: Israeli gov’t is trying to destroy human rights orgs; Israel makes up new ceasefire rules; Netzarim-like land corridor in West Bank; critically ill Pope Francis still talks to Gazan parish regularly; more.
Babies die from cold; Netanyahu poised to back out of three-stage ceasefire deal; garbage crisis in Gaza; Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody; West Bank is becoming more and more like Gaza; NYTimes fails accuracy test – again; another Israeli official makes blatant call for genocide; Trump’s latest pro-genocide policy; calls for war crime investigation of Biden admin; Bernie Sanders tries to stop weapons sales to Israel.