News on Nasrallah’s death: weapons used, Israel’s reasoning, “shock and awe” attack, Palestine connection, Iran’s response; the suffering of Gaza’s children; Palestinian prisoner death; Cornell U under fire for action against pro-Palestine student; more.
As Gazans die, Israel launches a second deadly strike across Lebanon; overwhelming majority in UN General Assembly support Palestine’s call for an end to Israel’s illegal occupation; another Palestinian death in Israeli prison, 2 in West Bank; Israel’s pager attack was culmination of years-long scheme; Israeli leader announces “new phase of war” focusing on north, Lebanon; Saudi Arabia vows no normalization with Israel without Palestinian state; more.
Israeli land grabs, settlement expansion and demolitions in Palestinian communities mark the most significant territorial changes in the West Bank in decades.
Ongoing massacres in Gaza schools, homes; the struggle of being a Gazan journalist (as foreign journalists remain banned); 100 medical evacuations from Gaza are a drop in the bucket; Gaza’s massive reconstruction challenge; West Bank: Israel kills 8 Palestinians in Tubas, Tulkarem; “historic” seating of State of Palestine in UN General Assembly; Israel uses white phosphorus in Lebanon again; Biden and Harris change their tune on assassination of Aysenur Eygi; more.
Israel detains polio vaccine team, blocks humanitarian aid (more than usual), bullies South Africa, bullies Palestinian Authority, interferes with UN rape probe, covers up killing of 3 more Israeli hostages, seizes more West Bank land; Biden administration expects Israel to conduct transparent investigation into killing of American activist Aysenur Eygi in West Bank, as it feigns ignorance of who pulled the trigger; Florida politician’s blatant Islamophobia; Netanyahu may be delaying ceasefire as a gift to Trump; rabbi blesses, excuses Israeli rapist of Palestinians; Freedom Flotilla held hostage in Turkey; more.
Official death toll in Gaza approaches 41,000; Biden-Harris fail to condemn killing of US citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces; poll shows Harris would benefit from arms embargo on Israel; global hunger has doubled in 2024, thanks in great part to Biden-backed Israeli assault; the “Wild West Bank,” where Palestinian lives are cheap; Netanyahu misleading the world about Philadelphi Corridor to avoid ceasefire; Israeli forces mutilate Palestinian child’s body; Israeli settler violence; southern Lebanon; BDS win in Maine; more.
Polio vaccination campaign successful so far; bread-line massacre; updates from the West Bank – at least 30 dead since start of invasion; call to declare war on West Bank; strong statement from Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine; Netanyahu apologizes (sort of), but remains defiant; UK initiates partial arms embargo on Israel; Israeli official reveals Israel’s vulnerability without US aid; CAIR calls on Biden to treat all lives equally; US preparing a “take-it-or-leave-it” ceasefire plan; more.
The Israeli army’s first published report about the events of October 7, 2023 praises the general who led Israeli forces in battle at Kibbutz Be’eri on that day for ordering tank fire at a home killing up to 10 Israeli civilian captives.
State and local officials have invested $1.7 billion of the public’s money in Israel Bonds since October 7. An investigation reveals contacts between buyer and seller that experts say may cross a line.
In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not rapists, but the one who filmed them, to make rape of prisoners official policy, to make Nablus in West Bank “look like Rafah,” to legalize Israeli settlement in Gaza, to end US sanctions on violent settlers; Biden admin ok’s more war after prisoner swap (risking ceasefire deal), condemns not AIPAC’s purchase of congressional candidates, but Cori Bush’s warnings against AIPAC; Kamala Harris indicates no tolerance for pro-Palestinian protesters’ message; Walz’s track record on Palestine is not nearly as moral as Dems painted it…