Genocide does not require mass graves; it also includes efforts to destroy a people’s capacity to bring the next generation into being.
Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against Palestinians meets that definition.
Iran Strikes
Israeli leaders appear determined to move up the escalation ladder and pursue a Gaza-like campaign in Lebanon. All indications point to a new and brutal type of war in Lebanon — featuring attacks “unlike anything we’ve seen before” in the country, a war that could drag on even if the war in Iran comes to a close.
While Israel continues to maim people in Gaza, it severely restricts the entry of assistive products, including prosthetics, into the Strip, classifying them as “dual-use” items, ostensibly meaning they can have both civilian and military applications.
War on Iran: news and headlines ■ Lebanon front: Israel goes Gaza ■ Gaza: weather woes ■ West Bank: settler killing ■ Israel in disarray ■ More.
Israeli legislator Yitzhak Kroizer of Ben-Gvir’s far-right party made the remarks in the Knesset after a Palestinian family was gunned down in the West Bank; MK Ayman Odeh filed an ethics complaint, saying ‘everywhere there are innocent people, Israelis and Palestinians’
News today about troops deploying from 82nd Airborne division raises the stakes, with some pointing out there has been no clear strategy for using them
Latest Iran war news, including Hegseth rant ■ Lebanon news ■ Gaza’s new “border” ■ West Bank deaths, ethnic cleansing ■ More
Israel’s strangulation of the West Bank is collapsing every system of Palestinian well-being, enforcing a mandate of expulsion, and stripping Palestinians of their rights.
Latest on Iran: US troops, Strait of Hormuz, Iranian casualties ■ Lebanon: Israel plans to occupy (or annex?), “Gaza playbook” ■ Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya ■ Israel is “strangling,” “erasing” West Bank ■ Gavin Newsom’s retraction ■ More