Final day of ICJ hearings v Israel; Israel ‘backs down’ from Gaza truce talks; World Press Freedom Day; attack on Gaza Flotilla; Trump Admin hiding American casualties from Yemen; Wadee Alfayoumi’s killer gets 53-year sentence
The once-fertile farm lands of Gaza, especially along the eastern border, have been reduced to barren wastelands by Israeli military operations. Fields & greenhouses, once teeming with life, have been destroyed, pushing Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink of collapse
American Conservative: Israel ramps up its terror campaign. Nothing has entered Gaza for 50+ days. 2 million people are on the brink. We’re witnessing Israel’s solution to the Gaza question—a humanitarian crisis engineered by the Israeli government to remove an entire people it has deemed the equivalent of locusts.
Israeli attacks have caused life expectancy in Gaza to drop by decades; secondary deaths from malnutrition and disease among others, as well as affecting vulnerable groups, including pregnant women.
Public hearings begin at ICJ; Israeli minister: Gaza emigration ‘most moral and humane thing’; Israel army faces crisis in morale among its troops; US strikes in Yemen kill 68; $67million US fighter jet falls in the ocean; fired for wearing a watermelon pin; more.
David Hearst: The scale of the suffering that Israel has inflicted on all Palestinians within its reach has meant that Hamas’ fate is Palestine’s too
A forensIc study: Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. The unlimited bombing of Gaza has created an unparalleled ecological and biomedical feedback loop. Israel exhales death in Gaza and inhales the Gaza it has vaporized.
Pope Francis dedicates his Easter Urbi et Orbi message to calling for peace worldwide, for global disarmament and for the release of prisoners.
“Full-scale famine conditions” right around the corner; Gaza authorities say Israel is deliberately killing civilians; Netanyahu calls security chief ‘liar’; Israeli settler violence; UNRWA ban contested in Int’l Court of Justice; universities get tough on Trump – but with “the Palestine Exception”
On one issue — Israel’s war on Gaza — FIRE’s defense of free speech appears less than absolute. On this one issue it appears to have competing priorities