Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

In a bombshell report from the Associated Press, Israeli soldiers confess to systematically using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, though the practice is banned by international law.
Palestinians attest that the Israeli military uses the practice in the occupied West Bank as well. 

Food to Gaza failure; arms to Israel success (90K tons) – War on Gaza Day 599

Israel kills at least 79 in Gaza; US-Israeli aid mechanism falls apart hours after launch, State Dept defends effort; Israel receives 800th planeload of US weapons; Israeli Cabinet ‘secretly’ approves 22 new illegal settlements; journalists under fire in West Bank; more.

Israeli strike turns Gaza shelter into ‘burning mass grave’ – War on Gaza Day 598

Gaza shelter becomes inferno; GHF aid distribution begins?; available cropland in Gaza >5%; Israel set to increase reserve force by 50,000 in Gaza; Israel threatens retaliatory annexation of West Bank settlements; yearly provocative Israeli flag march doesn’t disappoint; former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert op-ed: Enough Is Enough; US politicians pay homage to Netanyahu

Israel has wiped out over 1,000 entire families – War on Gaza Day 597

At least 38 Gazans killed; bakeries in Gaza halt again after only 3 days of operation; ‘killer’ robots; chief of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation resigns, as NGOs distance themselves; Israeli settler violence; Netanyahu’s “siege politics”; CAIR: US bombs killed Red Cross workers; Spain: Gaza is “a gaping wound on humanity”; more.