No clean water, no electricity in Gaza; West Bank: raids, theft; another Israeli minister supports ethnic cleansing; latest on Mahmoud Khalil; 60 universities threatened with federal funding cuts
The presence of U.S. mercenaries in Gaza, unscrutinized, highlights a disturbing pattern of American involvement in the region’s violence.
Eight coalition members said the IDF’s strategy was ineffective in defeating Hamas, demanding the army purge northern Gaza of residents by use of sieges, infrastructure destruction and ‘killing anyone without a white flag.’ The policy should be used in other parts of Gaza, they said
Israeli calls for all essentials of life to be cut off in Gaza; Palestinian journalists, aid workers killed; new genocide report; hunger in Gaza; more.
Summer always comes with an Israel-imposed water shortage for Palestinians in the West Bank. This year, it will be worse than usual.
Gaza’s journalists; Israel imprisoned for almost 2 months an 82-year-old Gaza woman with Alzheimer’s disease; Israel makes accusations, provides no evidence against UNRWA, then freezes bank account; spitting at Christian clergy in Jerusalem; West Bank demolitions; Israeli leaders lie, then come clean about an unauthorized Telegram channel that dehumanized Palestinians; Wall Street Journal’s Islamophobic op-ed; latest on US attempts to rationalize strikes in the Middle East; Israel to import workers to replace Palestinians; Bernie Sanders says”no aid to Israel” as Congress is saying yes
South Africa invokes the Genocide Convention against Israel; Wall Street Journal reports: Gaza “most devastating warfare in the modern record”; Abandon Biden campaign expands; schools in Gaza hard hit; Voice of Palestine radio program hacked; vaccines for kids; Israeli military kills another Israeli hostage
Is this water apartheid? Recent viral videos show Israeli Civil Administration overseeing as Israeli soldiers and workers fill Palestinian water wells with cement – in the middle of a sweltering summer. Was this a fluke, or part of a massive, discriminative strategy on Israel’s part? The answer will become clear as we sift through the evidence.
Israeli bombing of a massive fertilizer warehouse in May caused a huge fire and toxic smoke, and resulted in leakage of chemicals into Gaza’s groundwater. UN experts agreed to travel to Gaza to assist with mitigation and creating a report on the incident – but Israel barred their entrance.
On Monday the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Washington Post each published a different news story about Israeli technology – all with a common thread: unscrupulous practices targeting innocent people that Israel considers a threat.