Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza’s displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the entry of medicines are increasing the deadly risk.
Gaza’s medical disaster continues; Et tu, Human Rights Watch?; a rare admission of killing civilians from Israel; Epstein and Israel; Chuck Schumer vows to give Israel whatever it wants
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.
Nightmares in Gaza, West Bank continue; Ehud Barak’s racist chat with Jeffrey Epstein; Israeli settler violence; Human Rights Watch turns against Palestinian right of return?; more.
White House insists that aid must get to Gaza per the ceasefire but its ambassador is clinging to Israeli falsehoods about the only agency that can deliver it.
Salty water in Gaza; Iran headlines; 1 Palestinian killed in West Bank; Israeli expansionism; settler violence; Epstein and Israel; Trump seeks $1B from Harvard for “antisemitism”; more.
The memo alleges that the Chabad Lubavitch movement sought to ‘coopt’ Trump and that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was the ‘real brains’ behind the presidency
President Donald Trump is all set to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, succeeding the independent-minded Jerome Powell.
Will Rafah crossing open to empty Gaza?; headlines on Iran; UNRWA without protections; settlers act as “vigilante militias” in West Bank; apartheid in the open; more arms to Israel with less Congressional oversight; the US occupation of Gaza
UNRWA’s ability to respond is constrained by a severe funding crisis. Several major donors froze or reduced contributions in 2024, leaving the agency scrambling to maintain even its most basic services. Education, which accounts for a sizable portion of UNRWA’s mandate, has been hit especially hard.