Category: 2023 Israel Gaza War

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

Haaretz: Israel Preparing to Turn Rafah – One-fifth of Gaza – Into Part of Buffer Zone

The Israeli military reports that the area to be confiscated includes the city of Rafah and its surrounding neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian residents will compelled to leave and not allowed to return. 
If the plan is carried out fully, the people of Gaza will be confined to two distinct areas and surrounded by Israeli military zones.

As journalist burned alive, deportations from Gaza begin – War on Gaza Day 549

Israel may or may not allow aid into Gaza; US under fire for ignoring Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American teen; Trump, Netanyahu reaffirm vision for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza; Israel has turned 50% of Gaza into “uninhabitable kill zone”; White House blames Hamas for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics; more.

Israel’s polio vaccine ban targets children – Gaza war Day 548

Polio hazard; UNICEF closes 21 malnutrition treatment centers; Israel has destroyed 90% of Rafah’s residential neighborhoods; video shows Israeli murder of Gazan first responders; Palestinian-American child shot dead in West Bank; 500 illegal Israeli settlers storm Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque; Yemen; Mike Huckabee; more.