Category: 2023 Israel Gaza War

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

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.

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

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