Is Israel testing new weapons on Gaza?; West Bank: Israeli army kills Palestinian youth for throwing stones; Trump sending Israel 20,000 assault rifles that Biden had delayed; “Israel First” Congress members doing their job; Trump wasting massive amounts of money on Yemen; Netanyahu expected in DC on Monday; Brown University next in the crosshairs
Read Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Israel killed at least 77 across Gaza on Wednesday; dangers of war reporting; rescue workers ‘bound, executed, buried in mass grave’; US destroys water source for 50K Yemenis; ICC rebukes Hungary
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest. (The roots began in 1967.)
Powerful new testimony at a UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestinian women facing “systematic sexual violence and intimidation by Israeli forces” that has been ignored by all our major ‘mainstream’ media outlets.
Congress should exercise its authority to stop strikes on Yemen
Israel’s decision to halt all humanitarian aid to Gaza as a means of pressuring Hamas to release the remaining hostages without any commitment from Israel to end the war — an action that amounts to the war crime of collective punishment — was widely condemned by international actors.
Notorious prison needs reform, so Israel just relocated detainees; Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katzthreaten to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza; Jenin refugee camp ‘uninhabitable’; Israel refuses to fully open Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for prayer on holiest day of Ramadan; US embassy tells US doctor in Gaza ‘not our role’ to protect hem from Israeli bombings; crises at Tufts and Yale; Motion Picture Academy hangs Hamdan Ballal out to dry; more.
Many Palestinians fled their tents amid airstrikes & icy storms, but where will they go? Where is safety? I saw children selling the simplest of sweets, their faces marked by exhaustion, just to buy a little flour. I asked them, “Aren’t you scared?” They answered: “If we don’t die from the bombing, we’ll die from this cold & hunger.”
The Palestinian youth inherited from past generations a love of the land, preserving the dream of return, and for that, they must be eliminated.