Israel to receive billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets from US; another flour massacre; Hannibal Directive; Israel wants US to pay for multinational aid distribution team; West Bank youth killed; “ecocide” in Gaza; Netanyahu reportedly rejects hostage deal; more
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After 2 months of Israeli failure, ICJ repeats demand for aid to Gaza – Day 174
ICJ losing patience with Israel; US is “playing a dangerous game”; Israel prepares for Rafah invasion; hospital siege drags on with hundreds killed; Israel’s restrictions on Easter celebrations; US not consulting with Palestinians about “day after” in Gaza; Israel not getting every weapon it ordered, but has a new billion-dollar spy plane; Israel attack on Syria; Jewish Dems org going after pro-Palestine Congress members, more
Reports: executions of children, unarmed men by Israel – Day 173
Euro-Med reports 13 children executed in last week; footage of Israeli forces executing, burying unarmed men; the horror of childhood in Gaza; aid sites, hospitals are death traps; Biden admin’s self-contradiction on the world stage; poll says Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza; Israel prepares to censor Al Jazeera; Palestinians suspicious of US temporary pier; State Dept officer’s public resignation; German citizenship test; Netanyahu reaches out, more
“Gaza has shattered humanity’s records for its darkest chapters” – Day 172
“Hellish’ conditions throughout Gaza; 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank; Hezbollah’s promise to leave Israel alone; US may take till May to decide whether Israel is in compliance with int’l law; Israel: “UN resolution means nothing”; post-UN resolution, post-ICJ decision, Israel has made no changes; US refuses to stop aid airdrops after 18 deaths; “there could have been milk”; UN confirms genocide charge; who is arming Israel?
Another Israeli soldier admits to implementing the ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7
Captain Bar Zonshein recounts firing tank shells on vehicles carrying Israeli civilians on October 7. “I decide that this is the right decision, that it’s better to stop the abduction and that they not be taken,” he told Israeli media outlets.
Questions, controversies, tempers swirl around UNSC ceasefire resolution – Day 171
Egos, assumptions, denialism accompany passage of UN Security Council resolution; meanwhile, another confirmation of genocide by Israel; German support for UNRWA; air drop deaths; hospitals under siege; Israel’s “compliance” with int’l law, more
Israeli Soldier’s Video Undercuts Medic’s Account of Sexual Assault
Israel and its friends have struggled to bring credibility to allegations of systematic rape by Hamas members on October 7th – once again, a testimony falls apart.
UN Security Council says Yes to ceasefire; US abstains
At long last, the UN Security Council agrees on a ceasefire demand. (Two aspects have potential impacts not widely discussed.) All that remains is for Israel to comply.
More hospital invasions, massacres, rape – and UNRWA banned in north – Day 170
Now 3 hospitals in Gaza under siege, horrific stories coming out; Israel bans all UNRWA aid deliveries in northern Gaza, as famine draws closer; sexual violence against Gazan women is underreported, say UN rapporteurs; yet another flour massacre kills at least 20; NGOs pressure Biden admin to honestly engage with Israel on compliance with int’l law; Palestinian children in prison; Kamal implies consequences are a possibility if Israel attacks Rafah
A moment of hope, a day of outrageous Israeli crimes – Day 169
UN chief offers words of solidarity with Gaza; meanwhile, Israeli forces commit another “flour massacre,” atrocities in multiple hospitals; kill 3 journalists, torch houses with residents still inside; reports of rapes; upcoming UNSC vote on ceasefire, loss of livestock and livelihoods in Gaza, Israeli hostage dies…