Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a dangerous policy of extortion by Israeli forces against families in the Gaza Strip, presenting them with a catastrophic, no-win choice: spy or die.
Israeli forces kill at least 54 in Gaza on Thursday, including 5 aid seekers; 442 known dead of starvation; 2 Palestinians killed in West Bank; in US, support for Israel, Netanyahu drops sharply; Israel threatens Gaza-bound aid flotilla; Microsoft blocks Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians
The two holdouts, Sens. Maggie Hassan and Richard Blumenthal, have canceled meetings with activists and favored their districts’ weapons manufacturers.
Israel no longer bothers to dispute the Gaza Health Ministry figures, which show that the number of civilians killed since October 7 is the highest in any war in the 21st century – Ha-aretz
Over the past week, the Israeli army has detonated around 120 booby-trapped vehicles carrying nearly 840 tons of explosives in residential areas of Gaza City.
If they survive, these six babies will never forget who inflicted this life upon them, who shattered their lives from the very first day.
“By continuing to back and arm Israel as it carries out its relentless campaign of annihilation in Gaza, the risk of US complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide is mounting.”
Israeli troops continue to demolish homes and buildings in Gaza City to make way for a ‘real estate bonanza’ in the strip.
Gaza is being wiped off the map, stone by stone. “Words are losing their meaning and can no longer convey what is happening,” one resident writes
For the sake of the Palestinians who have thus far perished in the latest aggression—and indeed for all those killed since the Nakba—we must tell the full, heartbreaking extent of their suffering.