Hopelessness returns to Gaza, as ethnic cleansing looms; in West Bank, healthcare under attack; in Washington DC, Trump vacillates, insults; protests in Trump tower for Mahmoud Khalil; lawsuit for Columbia.
Israel accused of starvation, genocidal acts, sexual violence, use of human shields in Gaza; Trump admin blamed for intimidation, waffling, hijacking civil rights
No clean water, no electricity in Gaza; West Bank: raids, theft; another Israeli minister supports ethnic cleansing; latest on Mahmoud Khalil; 60 universities threatened with federal funding cuts
Hamas issued a 16-page document on Jan. 20, 2024 to ‘clarify the reality of what happened on Oct. 7, the motives behind it, its general context related to the Palestinian cause, as well as a refutation to the Israeli allegations.’ A second item contains reflections by a senior Hamas leader on the attack & its aftermath
Two independent journalists, Sam Husseini & Max Blumenthal, confront Blinken on the US-Israeli genocide. Husseini is literally carried out, manhandled, and handcuffed after Blinken talks about the importance of a free press.
Amnesty International postures about all sorts of trendy human rights everywhere in the world, but then doesn’t cover genocide and spring into effective action… One thing is certain: Amnesty is not part of the solution, it is part of the problem. – Paul De Rooij
Multiple human rights reports show that Palestinian armed groups do not use human shields, but Israel does. Israel’s false claims about Palestinian human shields are just attempts to justify its own targeting of civilians.
Israel has refused entry to some polio vaccine workers; continues to bomb civilians in tents; many Palestinians would prefer death to their current struggle; Amnesty calls Israel’s wanton destruction a “war crime”; Netanyahu’s superfluous demand for control of Philadelphi Corridor; Israeli violence in West Bank spreads; sane words from Jill Stein (with Chris Hedges) in a time of genocide; the unstoppable Khairi Hannoun; IBM’s troubling paradigm; Israel withholds key info from US investigators; when 6 > 40,000; Israel’s pursuit of Jewish supremacy; more.
Gazan quintuplets murdered by Israeli bomb; another Palestinian journalist killed; babies need medical attention in hospitals that are about to shut down; doctor from Gaza speaks at DNC – a first; Israeli society supports gang rape of Palestinians; 413 humanitarian orgs call on UN to assure safety of humanitarian workers in Gaza; West Bank death; HRW: Israeli possible war crime against Yemen; Scottish gov’t not speaking to Israel; 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.