At least 26 Gazans killed Saturday; starvation as a weapon of state; Israel issues another evacuation order; UN calls for another round of polio vaccine pauses; Gazan medic killed in Israeli prison; Gaza calls for help as cold weather approaches; Israeli settlers + soldiers storm Hebron’s Old City; Netanyahu signals readiness to expand military efforts in Lebanon; UK’s Jewish Chronicle admits it was duped; UAE calls for Palestinian State on “day after”; South African minister calls for global solidarity with Palestine; on Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and Matt Nelson
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Biden administration coddles human rights abusers as Gazans die, Americans protest – Day 342
An American self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston; US students protest for Gaza in spite of restrictions; US shelling out big bucks for goodies for Israel and aid for Egypt; State Dept spox prefers Israeli whitewashing over Washington Post investigation; EU leader called antisemitic for talking about two-state solution; Pope declares Israel’s actions in Gaza “ugly”; more.
Israel is redrawing the West Bank, cutting into a prospective Palestinian state
Israeli land grabs, settlement expansion and demolitions in Palestinian communities mark the most significant territorial changes in the West Bank in decades.
UN estimates “over a million Gazans will go without food in September”; US approves massive arms sale to Israel – Day 341
US approves $164.6M military equipment sale to Israel; Israel continues to block aid to Gaza; WaPo investigation: Israel lied about Aysenur Eygi’s death; Netanyahu tried to fool ICC; EU Foreign Policy chief Borrell blocked from visiting Israel; WHO: 22,000 wounded in Gaza have life-changing injuries; Israel admits it killed at least 2,300 Palestinians in Rafah assault; another Palestinian killed in West Bank; more.
‘Words like Slaughter:’ A comparative study of The New York Times reporting in Ukraine and Gaza
An in-depth comparison of The New York Times coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows how the Times dutifully launders the news to fit the U.S. government’s agenda.
In West Bank, Israel has killed over 700 Palestinians; massacres in Gaza ongoing – Day 340
Ongoing massacres in Gaza schools, homes; the struggle of being a Gazan journalist (as foreign journalists remain banned); 100 medical evacuations from Gaza are a drop in the bucket; Gaza’s massive reconstruction challenge; West Bank: Israel kills 8 Palestinians in Tubas, Tulkarem; “historic” seating of State of Palestine in UN General Assembly; Israel uses white phosphorus in Lebanon again; Biden and Harris change their tune on assassination of Aysenur Eygi; more.
‘Raped by female soldiers’: Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out
The man in the famous photo, Ibrahim Salem, spent eight months in Israeli detention, where rape, electrocution and beatings were routine
US-made bombs incinerate, bury Gazan families in “safe zone” – Day 339
Yet another “safe zone” massacre in Gaza; Gaza’s toxic air a death sentence; HRW: Israel’s surveillance tools risk civilian harm; detained polio vaccine convoy update; did Israel try to undermine vaccination campaign?; politicians stand in the way of arms embargo in US, but not in Canada; Biden: killing of Turkish American activist was “an accident”; South Africa genocide case against Israel update; debate: which candidate loves Israel more?; more.
Israel tries to block at least 3 investigations by UN bodies, holds polio vaccine workers at gunpoint – Day 338
Israel detains polio vaccine team, blocks humanitarian aid (more than usual), bullies South Africa, bullies Palestinian Authority, interferes with UN rape probe, covers up killing of 3 more Israeli hostages, seizes more West Bank land; Biden administration expects Israel to conduct transparent investigation into killing of American activist Aysenur Eygi in West Bank, as it feigns ignorance of who pulled the trigger; Florida politician’s blatant Islamophobia; Netanyahu may be delaying ceasefire as a gift to Trump; rabbi blesses, excuses Israeli rapist of Palestinians; Freedom Flotilla held hostage in Turkey; more.
In a population that treasures education, no school for Gaza’s children – Day 337
Gazan children begin a second year without school; how to starve 2.3 M people in record time; Israel bombs 16 schools-turned-shelters in one month; 69 percent of Gaza’s children receive polio vaccination; Jordanian gunman kills 3 Israelis; Israeli generals’ latest scheme to destroy Hamas; car-ramming in Hebron; Smotrich, Ben Gvir stir up trouble; PA wants illegal settlers out of West Bank; more.