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Gaza records first polio case in 25 years – Day 314

[email protected] August 17, 2024 arms embargo, ceasefire, DNC, freedom flotilla, from the river to the sea, humanitarian aid, icc arrest warrant, Jayson Gillham, Mark Smith FCDO, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, pogrom, polio, safe zone, UC Irvine, uncommitted movement

Polio epidemic begins; new flyers about Gaza to distribute; just 11 percent of Gaza for Gazans; Israeli settlers carry out pogrom; Gaza Freedom Flotilla drawing near; Israeli leaders mull how to dodge ICC arrest warrants; German courts grapple with the meaning of “from the river to the sea”; Dems want ceasefire and arms embargo, but will Kamala listen?; senior UK diplomat resigns over Gaza; “Blue Vote Red Line” movement continues to gather signatures; more

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Israeli massacres, evacuation orders, torture continue unabated – Day 302

[email protected] August 5, 2024 ceasefire, evacuation orders, freedom flotilla, Gaza education, humanitarian aid, israeli mass surveillance, israeli settler violence, massacre, palestinian prisoner torture, pope francis

Bombs without warning, Gazans on the move again; more reports of prisoner torture; Gaza’s kids have lost one full school year; Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque; Israel adds new conditions to ceasefire proposal; Amazon provides storage for Israeli military mass surveillance; US military build-up in Middle East; VP contenders Shapiro & Pritzker are Israel partisans…

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Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza

[email protected] July 21, 2024 arbitrary restrictions, banned items, blockade, civilian population, dual use items, freedom flotilla, Gaza, gisha, Israel

Israel had already been limiting the movement of goods and people between Gaza and the West Bank at least since the early 1990s. In 2006, after Hamas won 74 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian legislative elections, Israel escalated its blockade.

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“This morning is one of the darkest in this 7-month-long nightmare,” “The Israeli occupation has sentenced the residents of the Strip to death” – Day 213

[email protected] May 7, 2024 campus protest, ceasefire, evacuation, freedom flotilla, funding hamas, international criminal court, international law, Netanyahu, Rafah, sexual assault

Terror in Rafah as Israeli troops move in – in spite of Hamas’ agreement to ceasefire deal; 600,000 children at risk; Israel’s evacuation plan for Rafah does not meet with US approval, and may be a violation of int’l law; Netanyahu is on the hook for ceasefire decision and leaked “top secret” letter from 2018; UN experts on sexual assault of Palestinians; Republican senators threaten ICC prosecutor; campus protest and Freedom Flotilla news, more

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Netanyahu’s pledge to attack Rafah; NY Times report questioned again – Day 207

[email protected] May 1, 2024 Barak Ravid, boycott, campus protest, freedom flotilla, Gaza, humanitarian aid, Israel, Rafah

Netanyahu will invade Rafah regardless of prisoner deal; profs tell NY Times to review Oct. 7 report; 10,000 decomposing bodies in Gaza; reports of Israeli plan to prevent men from fleeing Rafah; humanitarian aid still dismally low; disturbing campus protest news

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Are Israel, Hamas getting closer to a truce? – Day 205

[email protected] April 29, 2024 campus protest, ceasefire, correspondents dinner, freedom flotilla, genocide, icc, palm sunday, truce, world central kitchen

Israeli leaders nervously await arrest warrants; Leaked Columbia Univ document reveals discriminatory policies for Tel Aviv program; Orthodox Palm Sunday; Israel puts young Christian woman in prison for 4 months (renewable), no charges; World Central Kitchen has returned; Biden ignores Gaza in Correspondents’ Dinner speech…

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Nationwide, Palestine supporters demand their free speech rights – Day 204

[email protected] April 28, 2024 biden ben gvir, freedom flotilla, international law, Olympics, palestine protests, Refaat Alareer, unrwa, water

Protests and repression throughout the US; Israeli airstrike kills family members of revered poet; more UNRWA cases closed; Palestinians to be represented in Olympics; ceasefire talks; Gaza water crisis; State Dept memo: Israel may be violating int’l law; Biden snubs Muslim American voters…

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US backs down on plan to sanction Israeli battalion, in spite of US law – Day 203

[email protected] April 28, 2024 campus protest, freedom flotilla, hostage deal, nasser hospital, netzah yehuda, organ theft, rabbis for ceasefire, rafah invasion, unrwa

US won’t follow through on sanctions on IDF units; Netanyahu calls for crackdown on American students; Emory president defends police violently arresting female prof who tried to stop police beating students; Gazan dead show signs of possible organ theft; Israeli police arrest rabbis marching to Gaza; Israel gives Hamas a “last chance” before Rafah invasion; UNRWA employee case closed; Freedom Flotilla…

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Final count: bodies of 392 Gazan Palestinians discovered in mass graves – Day 202

[email protected] April 26, 2024 bernie sanders, Biden, campus protest, free speech, freedom flotilla, mass graves, military industrial complex, nasser hospital, weapon sales

Gruesome discoveries on Gaza hospital grounds; Israeli strike kills Belgian aid worker & son, 7; premature baby girl has died; another US State Dept employee resigns; military-industrial complex profits from weapon sales to Israel; “Biden has betrayed the soul of our nation”; Freedom Flotilla: Israel plays dirty (again); nonviolent campus protests spread, met with violence

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US Congress just approved billions more in military aid to Israel, as Gazans die – Day 200

[email protected] April 24, 2024 administrative detention, beit lahiya, campus protest, freedom flotilla, google, mass graves, military aid to israel, rafah invasion, West Bank

More weapons to Israel as it plans a potentially genocidal invasion (that US opposes); aid orgs shocked by the recklessness of the plan; Israel holds highest ever number of Palestinians in administrative detention – no charges, no trial; Israel reportedly about to invade Beit Lahiya, denies burying Gazans in mass graves; Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman near Hebron; Google fires more employees over its provision of tech to Israeli gov’t; updates on Freedom Flotilla, campus protests, more

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