The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Read critical background left out of breaking news alerts…
Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
Israel has denied 97% of aid deliveries to northern Gaza – Day 441
Israel rejected 97% of requests to deliver aid to northern Gaza; West Bank death; Houthi missile evades Israeli defense system; Lebanon ceasefire; Syria; MIT.
The BBC can’t be trusted to report on the war in Gaza
The BBC is the most-visited news site on the internet today, and calls itself “the world’s most trusted international news provider.” But can we count on it to tell the truth? Not when Israel is involved, Owen Jones reports.
Defense for Children Int’l: Palestinian children face unrelenting genocide – Day 440
Gazan infant dies of cold; Defense For Children Int’l presents end of year Palestine report; Pope Francis has strong words for Israel; UNRWA head’s op-ed; Israel violates another int’l law; Israel’s torture victims speak out; West Bank death; Christmas in Bethlehem; Americans stuck in Gaza; “The Bibi Files”: documentary film tells all
“Gaza: Life in a Death Trap” – Day 439
Two Israeli massacres at schools-turned-shelters; new report from Doctors Without Borders; Israel admits to blocking aid to Gaza; Netanyahu to skip Auschwitz liberation event in Poland over arrest fears; Israel kills 6 in West Bank; Meta’s pro-Israel bias; Israeli military has a manpower problem; Environmental Protection Agency stands with Gaza
We now have the proof that Meta is censoring Palestinian content
Social media censorship leads to genocide. That’s as seemingly hyperbolic a statement as it gets and yet it’s more or less true…
WATCH: The Israeli Hit List – Iran Remains
The seven countries that the U.S. continues to meddle with and antagonize have a shared history and connection: For decades Israel and the Zionists who pushed for the Jewish state have wanted them to be destabilized, weakened, or eliminated.
“We kill civilians and count them as terrorists,” Israeli reservists admit – Day 438
Northern Gaza hospital ICU destroyed; Human Rights Watch on water; winter in Gaza without shelter, aid; Hamas replenishes its ranks; ‘We kill civilians and count them as terrorists’; West Bank death; Israel “abuses” Lebanon ceasefire; Australian foreign minister scolded by Israel; another US State Dept resignation
16 years in prison, Holy Land Five member Mufid Abdulqader has been released
After 16 years behind bars, Mufid Abdulqader, a member of the Holy Land Foundation Five, has been released from prison into a halfway house. The case of the Holy Land 5 has become a symbol of U.S. unconstitutional overreach since 9/11.
Neocons Try Again in Syria
Virtually all of Obama’s advisers had wanted him to order cruise missiles into Syria… Paul Wolfowitz, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ari Fleischer, David Gergen, Sen. Bob Menendez, wanted the US to attack Syria…
Northern Gaza expected to be “a dismembered and depopulated area” – Day 437
Israel allows desecration of Palestinian corpses by wild dogs; girl crushed in bread stampede; “Generals’ Plan” in full swing, “no Palestinians will return to their homes” in northern Gaza; hopes rise for hostage exchange, ceasefire; West Bank deaths; lawsuit filed against US State Dept for failure to implement Leahy Law; Congress members demand arms embargo on Israel; U.S. defied Spanish embargo; 7K authors boycott Israel-affiliated publishers