Despite what appears to be mounting obstacles, it is the ordinary people who choose to take part in the face of all the odds that give this movement its power.
Israel’s brutality toward Gaza flotilla activists – 3 articles
“Spitting and humiliation are daily. People are afraid to walk in Jerusalem with Christian symbols.”
Rabbi Michael Henkin, one of the leaders of “the religious left,” whose members are in contact with Christian clergy in Jerusalem and the West Bank, says that a new ethos has developed in Israeli society, according to which anything perceived as different is a threat. Hence, while street signs say “Armenian Patriarchate Street,” some call it “Spitting Street.”
How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
1 in 5 amputees in Gaza is a child, UN warns amid prosthetic care crisis
Thousands of people have received amputations since October 2023, but only eight prosthetic technicians, and restricted entry of prosthetic materials. It could take five years or more to meet their needs
6,000 Gazans lack prosthetic and/or rehabilitation care – Daily Update
Gaza’s critical shortages ■ Flotilla activists face death threats; next flotilla group already under attack ■ “We’re killing [Palestinians] like we haven’t since 1967″ – IDF chief ■ Updates on Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Palestine and US politics ■ More
As in Gaza, Israel is targeting rescue workers in South Lebanon, killing more than 100 since March
Lebanese rescue workers now wait 15 minutes after each strike before responding, the only way, they say, to stay alive long enough to reach the wounded amid Israel’s implementation of its Gaza “double-tap” policy in Lebanon.
Israel’s Obliteration Ecocide from Gaza to Lebanon and Beyond
Israel’s warfare in Gaza and Lebanon looks like systems-level destruction of the environmental and infrastructural substrate of life—water, soil, agriculture, energy, and urban continuity.
Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like.
An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
New Member of Trump’s Iran Negotiating Team Comes From Notoriously Pro-Israel Think Tank
Nick Stewart, the director of lobbying at the pro-Israel Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, has joined Steve Witkoff’s Iran negotiating team
Israeli army demolishes Christian monastery, nuns’ school in southern Lebanon
In another assault on Christian culture, the Israeli military has destroyed several religious structures in south Lebanon.