Israeli army kills at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza, 1 in West Bank; strikes on Gaza school/shelters are part of deliberate strategy; ‘forced disappearances’ suspected in US aid group centers; Freedom Flotilla update; former Biden spokesperson Matthew Miller admits Israel was committing war crimes
The US invasion of Iraq devastated the Armenian Christian population there. An Iraq-style war would likewise imperil Iran’s 200,000 Armenian Christians.
‘Napalm Girl’ shocked the world and spurred an end to the war in Vietnam — but viral images of burning children in Gaza can’t even bring a ceasefire. The difference today isn’t public indifference – it’s political impunity.
Israeli forces kill at least 72 Gazans, including at least 1 aid seeker; UN special rapporteur on the right to food declares famine; MSF says US-Israeli effort for Gaza aid feigns compliance with int’l law; Israel forcibly displaces 250,000 from Jabaliya; West Bank news; Macron and Katz’s war of words; horrific carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza; more.
This group held a vigil at Harvard University to commemorate the over 50,000 Palestinian children killed or wounded in Gaza during 600 days of Israeli bombs, bullets, and blockades.
Secular and state-funded religious schools in Israel will soon begin teaching compulsory courses on Jewish and Zionist identity, including religious ceremonies and Bible. Bottom line: the state will decide what it means to be a Jew in Israel.
Germany’s foreign minister threatened measures against Israel on Tuesday, vowing that Berlin would not export weapons used to break humanitarian law.
The annual pogrom in Jerusalem’s Old City included assaults on Palestinians, property destruction, and racist chants. Even when police intervened for a change, the incitement to genocide persisted.
Before the genocide, walking the streets of Gaza was an act of healing. Now, it is a confrontation with pain.
In a bombshell report from the Associated Press, Israeli soldiers confess to systematically using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, though the practice is banned by international law.
Palestinians attest that the Israeli military uses the practice in the occupied West Bank as well.