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.
The malnutrition crisis is entirely manufactured by Israel. Before the war, malnutrition in Gaza was almost non-existent. Since then MSF has treated almost 5,000 children, almost all under 5 years old, for acute malnutrition.
Will life ever get better in Gaza? ■ Flotilla update ■ Ben-Gvir dreams of executions ■ Iran ceasefire on shaky ground, as Trump & Hegseth lie ■ More.
The world’s attention is captured by newer wars fought by Israel and the U.S., but not much has changed in the Gaza Strip since the cease-fire was declared in October. Daily life remains a fight for survival and living conditions are deteriorating.
“One in five Gaza families eats only one meal every day” ■ Flotilla update ■ Demolitions in East Jerusalem ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Much more.
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.