The once-fertile farm lands of Gaza, especially along the eastern border, have been reduced to barren wastelands by Israeli military operations. Fields & greenhouses, once teeming with life, have been destroyed, pushing Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink of collapse
American Conservative: Israel ramps up its terror campaign. Nothing has entered Gaza for 50+ days. 2 million people are on the brink. We’re witnessing Israel’s solution to the Gaza question—a humanitarian crisis engineered by the Israeli government to remove an entire people it has deemed the equivalent of locusts.
Israeli attacks have caused life expectancy in Gaza to drop by decades; secondary deaths from malnutrition and disease among others, as well as affecting vulnerable groups, including pregnant women.
Public hearings begin at ICJ; Israeli minister: Gaza emigration ‘most moral and humane thing’; Israel army faces crisis in morale among its troops; US strikes in Yemen kill 68; $67million US fighter jet falls in the ocean; fired for wearing a watermelon pin; more.
Daily Life and Shattered Dreams in Gaza—Writers Share Their Stories
For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it apprehended 15 more. The number of political prisoners in its jails has doubled since the war began.
“Full-scale famine conditions” right around the corner; Gaza authorities say Israel is deliberately killing civilians; Netanyahu calls security chief ‘liar’; Israeli settler violence; UNRWA ban contested in Int’l Court of Justice; universities get tough on Trump – but with “the Palestine Exception”
Dennis Kucinich: Netanyahu’s government is going down, and he wants to take America with him. it was not in America’s interests to go to war against Netanyahu’s hit list: Iraq, Iran, Libya… Now he wants us to do it again
Mahmoud Methqal Ali Abu Al-Haija was shot dead in the abdomen by Israeli forces who opened fire indiscriminately on April 23 in the Al-Thahra cemetery in the Palestinian town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. In 2024, Israeli forces & settlers killed at least 93 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank
Almost no local media are reporting on the JCRC’s ongoing lobbying on behalf of Israel, which JCRC leadership is doing at every level: town, municipal, county, state, and now national.