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.
As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities
Israeli army pushes to ‘reduce’ Gaza aid; limited reopening Sunday of Gaza’s Rafah crossing; Hamas has no plans to disarm; headlines on Iran, West Bank, Israel; more.