Bombing and death ongoing, babies abandoned to die by Israel possible crime against humanity, evacuation horrors, West Bank violence against Palestinians, US leaders continue pro-Israel rhetoric, Netanyahu corruption trial and his boast of manipulating the US, updated casualty figures
Three hospitals in Israel admit that their policy is to separate maternity patients according to ethnicity. Palestinian women have found this practice insulting; some experts call it “apartheid.”
Another Gazan shot by Israeli forces while participating in the Great March has died… meanwhile, Gaza cancer patients suffer and die as Israel prevents medicines from entering Gaza, and prevents patients from going abroad for treatment.
Medical work in Gaza is impeded by the unmanageable number of wounded, the complex injuries that will require multiple follow-up procedures, and the shortage of supplies. Add to that the difficulty in getting permission for patients to seek medical attention outside the country – it adds up to an impossible situation.
News from Gaza, Gaza flotilla ■ More settler, anti-Christian violence ■ Jonathan Pollard ■ Moral injury and faux innocence ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon ■ More.
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Gaza’s critical shortages ■ Flotilla activists face death threats; next flotilla group already under attack ■ “We’re killing [Palestinians] like we haven’t since 1967″ – IDF chief ■ Updates on Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Palestine and US politics ■ More
An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
Flotilla activists remain in detention, tortured ■ Israel killing of Palestinians continues in Gaza, West Bank ■ Israel poised to spend tens of billions of dollars on new warplanes ■ More.
What does “ties to Hamas” mean? ■ 1% of debris removed in Gaza, 8K bodies still buried ■ More Israeli violence against Christian sites ■ Updates on flotilla, Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ More.