As support for Israel drops in polls, Democrats are increasingly trying to distance themselves from the Gaza genocide by blaming the Israeli far right, which lets a genocidal society off the hook.
The attack on the seed bank is an attack on the local wisdom, ecological heritage, and the work by the farmers to reproduce, preserve, and improve local seeds.
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, releases a statement in reaction to the ground invasion of Gaza City, which could mark the end of the genocide.
The International Rescue Committee’s Bob Kitchen unpacks how Israel’s war and aid restrictions, not food shortage, are driving Gaza’s hunger crisis.
The deliberate starvation of Gaza is part of a long history of Israel weaponising food and water to control, subjugate, and, ultimately, displace Palestinians.
Politicians and media are narrowly aiming their criticisms at Netanyahu’s far-right ruling coalition – but the problem runs much deeper.
Israel has continued to target farmland in the once-abundant Gaza Strip, and wiped out most livestock and working animals – the last means of transport for many amid severe food shortages and limited public mobility
In a press conference, Egyptian president Sisi said Israel’s war has long since ‘surpassed any logic or justification, and has become a war of starvation and genocide’.
In just 24 hours, five more people died of starvation. The total number of recorded deaths from hunger in Gaza has reached 188, including at least 94 children.
Coverage of Israel’s starvation of Gaza was sparse for months; even now, most reporting is skewed away from Israel’s culpability.