Category: 2023 Israel Gaza War

Facts & analysis on the events of Oct. 7 and since

Human rights abuses across Palestine/Israel, on US college campuses – war on Gaza Day 540

Steps toward ceasefire deal; Israel obstructs search operations for missing medics in Gaza; raid Masafer Yatta; Israel seized 12,800 acres of land in occupied West Bank Since Oct. 7 2023; ICE shady warrants for pro-Palestine students; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologizes re Mahmoud Khalil; US launches 65 airstrikes across northern Yemen in 24 hours.

‘Hallmarks of atrocity crimes’ – war on Gaza Day 539

Israel executes, buries 9 medics in Rafah; Gaza violence bears ‘hallmarks of atrocity crimes’; tons of food waits just over the border; forced displacement is unsafe; Israel releases 30 Palestinian prisoners amid reports of poor health; where to put ethnically cleansed Gazans?; Israel on ‘verge of civil war’ and ‘full-fledged fascist dictatorship’; Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel?; violence against UK Quakers

Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid distribution

Israel’s decision to halt all humanitarian aid to Gaza as a means of pressuring Hamas to release the remaining hostages without any commitment from Israel to end the war — an action that amounts to the war crime of collective punishment — was widely condemned by international actors. 

Betar: The Far-Right Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics

A pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror & genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States.

Israel’s reckless policies across Palestine – war on Gaza Day 537

Notorious prison needs reform, so Israel just relocated detainees; Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katzthreaten to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza; Jenin refugee camp ‘uninhabitable’; Israel refuses to fully open Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for prayer on holiest day of Ramadan; US embassy tells US doctor in Gaza ‘not our role’ to protect hem from Israeli bombings; crises at Tufts and Yale; Motion Picture Academy hangs Hamdan Ballal out to dry; more.

In Gaza, We Now Ask: Will It Be the Cold, Hunger or Airstrikes That Kill Us?

Many Palestinians fled their tents amid airstrikes & icy storms, but where will they go? Where is safety? I saw children selling the simplest of sweets, their faces marked by exhaustion, just to buy a little flour. I asked them, “Aren’t you scared?” They answered: “If we don’t die from the bombing, we’ll die from this cold & hunger.”