To secure Alexander’s freedom, Trump had to defy Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who shattered the previous ceasefire agreement and resumed his assault on Gaza in March. Israel’s ongoing killing spree came after the US and Hamas came close to a side deal to free Alexander that same month, when Netanyahu also intervened to stop them.
Blindness on the rise in Gaza; Hamas makes a deal with Trump; Israeli officers admit assault on Gaza ‘kills captives’; Pope Leo XIV calls for Gaza ceasefire in first Sunday message; Israeli spyware
Israel kills cancer patients through deliberate delay; torture at notorious Sde Teiman prison is systematic policy known to Israeli army commanders; video shows Israeli agents killing Palestinian in Nablus; explosives bound for Israel are flying out of JFK airport; UK Lawyers for Israel claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza
US aid plan for Gaza looks like ‘bait to force displacement’; Trump cuts ties with Netanyahu; when Israel turned on Kissinger; judge frees Rümeysa Öztürk, warns of grave threat to free speech
Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill sits down with a top leader of the Islamic resistance movement for a wide-ranging discussion on how Hamas views the current moment.
Israel refuses entry of medical teams to Gaza, releases 11 more Palestinian detainees, raids East Jerusalem schools; Trump ‘disappointed’ with Netanyahu
Israel bombs a school instead of a mosque – killing many; why starvation is the weapon of choice for Israel; New details on Israel’s plan for controlling aid in Gaza; nearly 100 Dems in Congress push for humanitarian aid to Gaza; profiting from annihilation.
Israel kills 22 Palestinians sheltering at a school; Gaza’s starvation is a time of moral reckoning for the world; humanitarian groups say Israel’s latest food scheme is a recipe for permanent captivity; US and Houthis reach truce; second US Navy jet is lost at sea
Israel’s “plan” for Gaza is “unworkable, dangerous, and potentially illegal”, aid distribution scheme sounds like a “military strategy,”; Gaza’s morgues overwhelmed; “gender reveal” home demolition; Trump says US will help ‘people of Gaza get some food’; campus protest news
The U.S. government is keeping American casualty numbers for the undeclared war on Yemen secret. This is not normal.