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
Ceasefire is falling apart, as Israel stands ready to resume fighting with greater intensity, continue starving the people of Gaza.
Netanyahu is doing what his government promised all along: level the West Bank just as it did Gaza. The program looks like yet another Nakba.
Palestinians in Israeli prisons experience systematic torture, atrocities; Israel’s [terrible] new Gaza plan; Israel seeks 6-week extension of ceasefire phase one; Israeli army concludes it was defeated by Hamas on 7 October; Knesset bill to annex West Bank settlements near Jerusalem; Israelis spit on Christian churches; US approves $3 billion military sales to Israel amid ceasefire talks; man convicted by US court of murdering six-year old Palestinian boy in hate crime
Tallying detained healthcare workers in Gaza; polio vaccine campaign; B’Tselem: Israeli gov’t is trying to destroy human rights orgs; Israel makes up new ceasefire rules; Netzarim-like land corridor in West Bank; critically ill Pope Francis still talks to Gazan parish regularly; more.
Babies die from cold; Netanyahu poised to back out of three-stage ceasefire deal; garbage crisis in Gaza; Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody; West Bank is becoming more and more like Gaza; NYTimes fails accuracy test – again; another Israeli official makes blatant call for genocide; Trump’s latest pro-genocide policy; calls for war crime investigation of Biden admin; Bernie Sanders tries to stop weapons sales to Israel.
Israeli legal scholar and women’s rights advocate Ruth Halperin-Kaddari leveraged her friendship with the UN’s special representative to produce a report on Oct 7 that implemented Israel’s interests.
“There is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired.” Chas Freeman’s 2009 statement on his decision to withdraw from appointment to Chair the National Intelligence Council
Israel’s assault on Gaza has been the first genocide live-streamed for the world to see. What more pressing task could journalists have than to accurately report on a genocide? Yet Western media often unnecessarily cast doubt on Gaza’s death toll.
Prisoner exchange expected Saturday; Israeli forces kill at least 9 Palestinians in Tulkarem, West Bank; record number of new illegal Israeli settlements, outposts in West Bank; 145 Dems demand Trump retract Gaza comments; Pope Francis, 350 rabbis condemn Gaza scheme; Zionist rabbis call Trump “God’s emissary”; breaking down Trump’s executive order targeting Palestine activists