More horrific massacres across Gaza, Lebanon; new Israeli bill seeks to bar Palestinians from running for legislature; US announces new Middle East military deployments; Congress members call out Biden’s deployment of US troops and assets without congressional authorization
Category: 2023 Israel Gaza War
Facts & analysis on the events of Oct. 7 and since
UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency has become known for its distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza during the war there. But its real value lies in its schools, says the Christian Science Monitor’s Gaza reporter. If they close, what is the future for Palestinians?
UN: Israel committing “deliberate war crimes” against Gaza’s healthcare system – Day 390
Israel destroys medical supplies, blocks medics from entering Gaza; more reports of abuse in Israeli prison; Gaza aid at its lowest level yet; Israel using facial recognition technology in Gaza; Israel also decimating Lebanon and its healthcare workers; 3 Palestinians assassinated in West Bank; more.
“There’s nothing to sustain life” in northern Gaza city; Biden admin ignores illegal use of US weapons in genocide – Day 389
Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza is a “disaster area”; Biden administration sitting on 500 cases of US weapons used to harm civilians, as American money funds 70% of Israel’s war; latest ceasefire plan a non-starter for Hamas; West Bank Palestinian killed; Israel threatens to bomb ancient Roman ruins; more.
Horrific Israeli massacre kills over 100 in northern Gaza – Day 388
Massacre in Beit Lahiya; famine looms over Gaza; Israel refuses medical evacuations for Gaza’s children; calls for Israel to be ousted from UN; most of the world critical of Israel’s actions, US officials simply curious; more.
Israeli legislature votes to ban critical UN humanitarian aid group – Day 387
Urgent call for doctors in northern Gaza; Israel votes strongly in favor of UNRWA ban, US is disappointed; Marwan Barghouti beaten severely in prison; South Africa adds thousands more pages of evidence to Int’l Court of Justice genocide case against Israel; UN official calls for total weapons embargo on Israel; massive cultural boycott against Israel; more.
Israel has killed over 1,000 in northern Gaza – Day 386
Horror in northern Gaza; more carnage in Lebanon; deaths in West Bank and Israel; Israel’s precarious position at UN; Canada; LA Times; more.
Israel wipes out healthcare in northern Gaza; what’s true and false about Israel’s attack on Iran – Day 385
Northern Gaza’s sick and injured have no options; don’t believe everything you read about Israel’s attack on Iran; Lebanon endures more horrors from Israel’s military; more West Bank deaths.
Israel’s latest targets include children, hospital patients, journalists – Day 384
Israeli forces storm northern Gaza hospital, assassinate Lebanese journalists; Israeli legislature poised to ban primary humanitarian aid org in Gaza; some US voices try to erase Palestine from discourse; more.
In northern Gaza, “We are just waiting for death to come. Or a miracle.” – Day 383
Israeli military cruelty knows no bounds, as another school-turned-shelter is bombed, children are abused, hospitals are depleted, and famine is descending.