Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel continue; Israel deliberately spreads disease in prisons; Israel claims no evidence of humanitarian crisis in Gaza, bombs mosque, prepares to expand ground operation in Gaza; more.
Giraldi: Are you tired of hearing about antisemitism? Simply stop killing Gazans, and the anger directed at Jews might end.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid warned that Netanyahu is mounting a plot to assassinate senior government officials, including Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar & attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara. He points to numerous social media posts calling for their murder.
Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.
The once-fertile farm lands of Gaza, especially along the eastern border, have been reduced to barren wastelands by Israeli military operations. Fields & greenhouses, once teeming with life, have been destroyed, pushing Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink of collapse
American Conservative: Israel ramps up its terror campaign. Nothing has entered Gaza for 50+ days. 2 million people are on the brink. We’re witnessing Israel’s solution to the Gaza question—a humanitarian crisis engineered by the Israeli government to remove an entire people it has deemed the equivalent of locusts.
Israeli attacks have caused life expectancy in Gaza to drop by decades; secondary deaths from malnutrition and disease among others, as well as affecting vulnerable groups, including pregnant women.
Public hearings begin at ICJ; Israeli minister: Gaza emigration ‘most moral and humane thing’; Israel army faces crisis in morale among its troops; US strikes in Yemen kill 68; $67million US fighter jet falls in the ocean; fired for wearing a watermelon pin; more.
David Hearst: The scale of the suffering that Israel has inflicted on all Palestinians within its reach has meant that Hamas’ fate is Palestine’s too
A forensIc study: Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. The unlimited bombing of Gaza has created an unparalleled ecological and biomedical feedback loop. Israel exhales death in Gaza and inhales the Gaza it has vaporized.