Facts & analysis on the events of Oct. 7 and since
“Genocide, ecocide, mass infanticide, rape, sexual assault, torture, slavery, sniping children, bombing hospitals, executing aid workers,” said one critic. “We are funding an endless nightmare and it should haunt us forever.”
Palestinian journalist, his family killed in Israeli airstrike; severe threat of famine as flour runs out; Israel proposes 40-day Gaza ceasefire deal; Pro-Israel groups, politicians demand Francesca Albanese’s UN mandate end now; US suspends dozens of federal grants for Princeton in “antisemitism” crackdown; more US warplanes head to Middle East
A special investigation by The Independent’s chief international correspondents reveals allegations of brutal treatment of Palestinians in Israeli facilities including rape, torture, medical neglect and death. Israel rejects all accusations of wrongdoing.
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest. (The roots began in 1967.)
Israel kille 1,400+ medical staff in Gaza since start of genocide, over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since breaking ceasefire, Israeli forces destroy over 3,000 homes in Jenin refugee camp; bakeries in Gaza close; US strikes Yemen, Trump says Houthis “decimated”; more.
Ha’aretz: At 2 A.M, 140 soldiers & settlers, in uniform or in Shabbat attire, raided a small village in the Hebron hills. The soldiers-settlers woke up the occupants of the houses they entered, herded them into one corner, and proceeded to destroy the house. The responsibility for these crimes lies with the media that ignores these actions, the politicians who stay silent, the judges who roll their eyes, and the entire Israeli public.
Innocent Palestinians are regularly forced by soldiers to enter houses in Gaza to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives. So why is the IDF’s Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opening only six investigations into the use of human shields?
Bodies of 14 crew members executed by Israeli forces recovered in Rafah; Gazans perform Eid prayers under bombardment, atop ruins of mosques; Israel makes counter-offer to Hamas for 50-day ceasefire; Israel blocks access to Ibrahimi Mosque during Eid; Trump threatens Iran with ‘bombing’; Israel’s connection to ‘Signalgate’
Confirmation hearings began this week for President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. “Huckabee uses his Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing,” said one protester at Huckabee’s hearing.
Powerful new testimony at a UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestinian women facing “systematic sexual violence and intimidation by Israeli forces” that has been ignored by all our major ‘mainstream’ media outlets.