Since the cease-fire in October, Israeli forces have killed one child or teenager in Gaza every day on average, according to UNICEF. Raghad Ashour, an ambitious 17-year-old student, became one of them when she was hit by an airstrike as she walked home from school.
Roughly 1 million Palestinians are living in stifling tents across Gaza. Most of the rest are still waiting for sheltering supplies. And the hottest part of the summer is still ahead.
Historically, Palestinians have had high rates of literacy, far exceeding global averages. “Education is a central part of Palestinian society’s sense of itself—it’s a crucial crucible for belonging, identity, collective politics.”
“Israel has a long and shameful history of desecrating and abusing Palestinian bodies from the state’s earliest days and throughout its existence,” according to Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization.
The near total aid blockade Israel has imposed on Palestine is leading to mass deaths and starvation across the population. Gaza residents remain almost entirely dependent on dwindling aid kitchen meals, which continue to provide vital, yet insufficient, emergency relief.
Israeli attacks killed at least 16 Palestinians, including children, women and police officers, as Israel’s genocide continued despite the ceasefire.
With over 9,500 missing in Gaza, Palestinians search for family members under the rubble, in the “numbered graves cemetery,” or in Israeli prisons.
Mehdi asks who’s really telling the truth about Gaza in his latest 60-second rant. Benjamin Netanyahu or dozens and dozens of UN officials, legal scholars, historians, and human rights groups?
The scale and rate at which Palestinian children in Gaza are being killed and injured is without precedent in modern conflicts worldwide. Children in Gaza are dying due to Israel’s intentional practices, in acts that amount to war crimes and “the crime against humanity of extermination.”
Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya says deaths caused by collapse of territory’s health system now exceed those due to Israeli airstrikes