Israel’s massacre included at least 46 children and 20 women, had Trump’s backing, as all parties ignore Israel’s ceasefire violations; more Palestinian remains, “tortured beyond recognition”; 3 West Bank deaths
Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and a US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match.
‘The army stood by,’ write journalists who see themselves as opponents of the occupation, saying the IDF ‘has the legal and moral duty to protect Palestinians,’ but the army cannot protect those whom it is oppressing.
Israeli settler militias, backed by soldiers, are laying waste to Palestinian communities – beating residents, torching crops, smashing cars, slaughtering animals.
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different.
Returning residents are forced to erect makeshift tents on the rubble and comb through the debris with their hands to find their loved ones’ bodies.
Why the UN Secretary-General’s recent decision to blacklist Hamas, and not Israel, as perpetrators of sexual violence flies in the face of the UN’s own evidence.
In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
Israel kills 7 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, in spite of the ceasefire; Israel admits to restricting aid; Smotrich is talking about Gaza settlements again; ‘new Nakba’ in West Bank villages; Trump, Biden, Newsom
“There is nothing here that can be called life. We remain alive, struggling and enduring only for the sake of survival—nothing more. We have nothing.”