According to the World Health Organization, at least 214 medical staff from Gaza have been detained by the Israeli military since October 7th. In early May, when Israeli authorities announced the death of well-known surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh, the world began to learn about the detention and alleged torture of Gazan medical professionals.
Jabaliya is destroyed; Palestinian paramedics targeted; heart-wrenching video “Dad is gone”; women at risk; UNRWA as “terrorist organization”; two more State Department officials resign over Gaza; horrors across the West Bank; police clear out pro-Palestine protesters at Wayne State U in Detroit; candidate ousted from UK party over “likes,” more
Palestinians in Rafah & across Gaza grapple with ongoing Israeli violence, starvation; UN experts call for embargo; another expert identifies genocide – while a nurse in US gets fired for doing the same; Israel’s covert war on the ICC, Mossad threatened prosecutor; EU rejects Israel’s designation of UNRWA as terrorist org; Biden admin won’t sanction ICC; US appears to scold Israel at UN…
Devastation in Rafah as Israel claims it followed int’l law (while using 2,000-pound bombs); strikes continue all over Gaza; raids all over West Bank; report on Israel’s use of US-made 2,000-pound bombs that even the Biden administration had opposed
House leader Johnson (funded by AIPAC) set to defy ICC; Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinians in Jenin; 896 settler attacks; 10 NGOs call for “media access to Gaza”; some biscuits make their way to Gazans’ mouths; 1,400 Israeli academics call for ceasefire; Gazans getting 1/4 of the water they need; much more…
Gazans killed while fetching water, waiting for medical evacuation; humanitarian aid trickles in; just months after arriving in Rafah, massive numbers of people are leaving; Israeli violence in West Bank, East Jerusalem; medical negligence in Israeli prisons; accusations against Meta, WhatsApp for leaking Palestinian info for targeted killings; Israel claims young children are informers; former Mossad leader says Israel is losing the war, more
Jacques de Reynier, Red Cross representative in Jerusalem in 1948, is considered the most prominent eyewitness to the Deir Yassin massacre, part of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel. Here is his account, translated from the French.
Humanitarian aid trucks attacked (not for the first time); US is angry but impotent (not for the first time); Israel targets aid worker’s car, has no explanation (not for the first time); 450,000 Gazans evacuated from shelters (not for the first time); incitement by Israeli settlers, ministers; US military officer resigns; DNC afraid to hold debate about Gaza; campus protest update; more
Gaza deaths by airstrike, lack of medical supplies, hunger, torture; what is happening in Gaza is a ‘turkey shoot’; Nobel laureate denounces Gaza invasion at Vatican; Gaza prisoners endure ‘barbaric treatment’ by Israeli forces; 226 buildings in West Bank destroyed or damaged by Israeli army in April; Israeli forces use children as human shields;
Colombia President: Netanyahu will go down in history as ‘genocide perpetrator’
Israel expands its attack of Rafah; Biden admin reports that Israeli use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza “likely violated international humanitarian law”; food catastrophe looms as Israel continues to block aid trucks; South Africa wants ICJ to intervene in Rafah; UN General Assembly strongly supports Palestine’s quest for statehood; Israel withholds millions it owes Palestinian Authority; UN wants investigation into mass graves in Gaza