The complete weaponization of humanitarian aid; wildfires that Israel brought on itself; Int’l Court of Justice v. Israel, Day 4; Israel plans to demolish 106 West Bank buildings; secret ceremony to honor possible war criminals in Israel; US claims it wants resumption of aid to Gaza
Netanyahu expected to approve expanded Gaza war plans; Day 3 of Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel; Israel closes schools for 800 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem; 100 days of Israeli assaults in West Bank; Israel’s plans for Syria; Israel boycotts in Texas; one win for student protesters
Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel continue; Israel deliberately spreads disease in prisons; Israel claims no evidence of humanitarian crisis in Gaza, bombs mosque, prepares to expand ground operation in Gaza; more.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid warned that Netanyahu is mounting a plot to assassinate senior government officials, including Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar & attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara. He points to numerous social media posts calling for their murder.
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.