Latest casualty figures from Gaza, horrific humanitarian situation, Israel’s recent targets, politics of a “pause,” West Bank news.
November 4: Today’s news on Palestine & Israel
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Israeli media: Palestinians recount settler, army torture amid surge in West Bank expulsions
Under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel is displacing rural Palestinian communities en masse. In Wadi al-Siq, the ordeal was particularly horrifying.
Israeli communities near Gaza are on stolen land, former owners consigned to the Gaza ghetto
The Israeli kibbutz settlements surrounding Gaza are built on stolen land. 80% of Gaza’s population are families Israel violently expelled, caged in one small corner of their original lands for 75 years. Residents of these Israeli towns have been able to prosper, swim in pools, dance, sing & celebrate “unity and love” just a few kilometers away from where over 2.1 million people live, usurped from their lands, subjugated to daily humiliation, purposely impoverished and caged in, unable to move, live, fish in the sea, and certainly unable to celebrate “unity and love.”
October 28: Today’s news on Palestine & Israel
Current situation in Gaza; Bombing intensifies; Blackout continues; Israeli troops inside Gaza; Biden admin calls for protection of innocents (while vetoing measure that would do that); children at risk; Israeli settlers; Elon Musk assistance; Russian hostages…
It’s not just Gaza – Israel is also killing scores in the West Bank
While Gaza has been in the spotlight for two weeks, the West Bank has also been experiencing a major spike in Israeli violence
What we know about the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital blast
In the midst of Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza that had already killed over 3,000 people, a Gaza hospital experienced a blast that killed 100s more… Israel had struck the hospital a few days earlier…
Gaza-Israel: Latest news and statistics (the first 25 days)
New info and stats about the ongoing situation – updated regularly – also provides background & history. (This is pinned to the top – see additional new posts below.)
Israeli snipers bring bloodshed to Gaza border…again
Israel resumed the deliberate use of excessive and lethal force against Palestinian protesters in Gaza, killing one and injuring eight
Israel kills six Palestinians in two days
Tuesday and Wednesday saw Israeli military violence in several regions of the occupied Palestinian territories, causing many Palestinian deaths and injuries.
Matt Taibbi Flashback (9/11): CNN Sentences Palestine To Death
Media showed the same 30-second clip over and over… The obvious agenda was to rally viewers around the very crudest response to the news: violence needed to be met with more violence & a political clampdown… Probably no single film clip in recent history had as much of an impact as the Palestine clip. Summing it up was an Israeli expert on terrorism quoted in Reuters: “It is the most important public relations act ever committed in our favor.”