Israeli leaders appear determined to move up the escalation ladder and pursue a Gaza-like campaign in Lebanon. All indications point to a new and brutal type of war in Lebanon — featuring attacks “unlike anything we’ve seen before” in the country, a war that could drag on even if the war in Iran comes to a close.
Israel issued a sweeping displacement order for the entire region south of Litani River as it escalated its bombing campaign across Lebanon.
Israel’s destruction of refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarm is severing families from their homes, emptying communities, and accelerating Palestinian erasure. Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has never been confined to Gaza alone.
With Israel controlling all of Gaza’s major landfill areas, 900,000 tons of solid waste have been dumped across the enclave, exacerbating a public health crisis.
Forced out of their homes once more, thousands of Palestinians have crowded into the Islamic University campus, west of Gaza City, where burning books is the only way to boil water, heat food, and stay warm.
Life for children in Gaza is precarious, haunted with memories and fears, hunger and hopelessness. Losing one or both parents is a very real risk.
Restrictions on movement, severe shortage of jobs as Israel has shut its labour market in the face of the 400,000 Palestinians it employed, with many families now facing hunger and starvation.
Humanitarian aid trucks attacked (not for the first time); US is angry but impotent (not for the first time); Israel targets aid worker’s car, has no explanation (not for the first time); 450,000 Gazans evacuated from shelters (not for the first time); incitement by Israeli settlers, ministers; US military officer resigns; DNC afraid to hold debate about Gaza; campus protest update; more
Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visits the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, where a community of Armenian Christians dating back to the 4th century face displacement at the hands of a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
Under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel is displacing rural Palestinian communities en masse. In Wadi al-Siq, the ordeal was particularly horrifying.