Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza is a “disaster area”; Biden administration sitting on 500 cases of US weapons used to harm civilians, as American money funds 70% of Israel’s war; latest ceasefire plan a non-starter for Hamas; West Bank Palestinian killed; Israel threatens to bomb ancient Roman ruins; more.
Biden administration pauses shipment of deadliest bombs to Israel; new mass grave holds at least 49 Palestinian bodies; Rafah’s largest hospital shuts down as a result of Israeli invasion, as closed crossings cause severe shortages; Israeli military promise Rafah will not be the end of the war; growing number of West Bank home demolitions; Ohio may use old anti-KKK law against pro-Palestine protesters; two new bills in Congress are new-level ridiculous; almost 700 Jewish profs urge Biden not to sign antisemitism legislation; Bahamas recognizes State of Palestine
Blinken avoids congressional oversight in weapon sale to Israel; Israeli military targets UN humanitarian aid convoy, historical sites, steals from Gazan homes; Gazan food insecurity is “catastrophic”; Israeli envoy threatens Lebanon; Gaza medical workers tortured, journalist killed; multiple incidents in West Bank; Friday worship disrupted in Jerusalem
The no-bid deal for arms internationally banned for high civilian death tolls is the biggest purchase from Israel in available US gov’t records.
The US ambassador to Jerusalem, Jack Lew [a Jewish zionist], blocked the cable from wider distribution within the United States Government.
For the past three decades, the US and Israel have signed nonbinding Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) outlining the scope of proposed presidential budget requests to Congress for appropriations of taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel.
The Biden administration may have talked like peacemakers, but a new Israeli investigation shows that in reality they didn’t lift a finger to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
A former State Department advisor warns that the Trump administration is displaying “even less regard for human rights” in Gaza than Biden did
In Gaza, Israeli-imposed starvation, thirst set in; Trump admin readies more weapons, talking with Hamas and entertaining illegal settlement leader; 12-year-old arrested for writing in her notebook; the significance of Mahmoud Khalil’s detention
The Biden administration is attempting to foster a fake dispute over famine numbers in Gaza to obscure the reality of genocide. This phony dispute about the humanitarian reports in the North is designed to pave the way for Israel’s continued assault on the people of Gaza.