Evacuations, blockades, attacks on healthcare facilities – even aid from the US – show that Lebanon is on a path similar to Gaza’s; Pentagon is having second thoughts about American presence in Middle East
Tags: houthis
Killing continues across Gaza, Lebanon, under staggering number of Israeli bombs – Day 357
News on Nasrallah’s death: weapons used, Israel’s reasoning, “shock and awe” attack, Palestine connection, Iran’s response; the suffering of Gaza’s children; Palestinian prisoner death; Cornell U under fire for action against pro-Palestine student; more.
Israel attacks Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon with US, NATO weapons – Day 287
Baby born after mother killed in Gaza; Israeli raids in West Bank tripled; Palestinians at the Olympics; Israel gets weapons from countries that have officially halted arms sales; Israel bombs Lebanon, Yemen; Israel’s privileged soldiers will be vaccinated against polio, as Gazans remain at risk; Netanyahu’s intransigent response to ICJ; UK minister calls out pro-Israel lobby; how much aid has the US given Israel since October 7th?; Biden’s withdrawal may be linked to Netanyahu’s visit; Germany criticizes Israel’s opposition to Palestinian state; more.
ICJ ruling offers some vindication after 76 years of Palestinian struggle; Israeli strikes keep killing Gazans – Day 286
Int’l Court of Justice deals a severe blow to Israel; at least 50 killed in Gaza; Israel’s killing of Hind Rajab a war crime; West Bank deaths; Yemeni drone hits Tel Aviv; Eilat Port in Israel declares bankruptcy; calls for Israel to be “unseated” from UN; 200 Congress staffers call for boycott of Netanyahu speech; more.
New worries as polio virus detected in Gaza sewage – Day 285
Polio risk added to long list of crises in Gaza; Amnesty speaks out on Israeli torture, Oxfam speaks out on Israeli water weaponization; LA may hire ex-IDF soldiers to patrol streets; 1,000+ attacks on Palestinian healthcare; Ben Gvir’s provocative prayer visit to Al Aqsa; Netanyahu nixes children’s hospital for Gaza kids; ICC arrest warrants expected soon; Republican and Democratic parties scramble to ingratiate with Israel; much more.
Israel burns Rafah crossing: no exits left for Gazans; US arms sales continue – Day 255
Israel seals Gaza off from the world; Israel kills aid seekers again; aid delivery is too risky; White House event pushes false mass rape narrative again; $1 billion US naval campaign; Israel running low on military manpower; Israel has detained 640 children since Oct 7; Israel lobby news; more
“Water is life, and Gaza is out of water” – Day 121
Gaza’s journalists; Israel imprisoned for almost 2 months an 82-year-old Gaza woman with Alzheimer’s disease; Israel makes accusations, provides no evidence against UNRWA, then freezes bank account; spitting at Christian clergy in Jerusalem; West Bank demolitions; Israeli leaders lie, then come clean about an unauthorized Telegram channel that dehumanized Palestinians; Wall Street Journal’s Islamophobic op-ed; latest on US attempts to rationalize strikes in the Middle East; Israel to import workers to replace Palestinians; Bernie Sanders says”no aid to Israel” as Congress is saying yes
Gaza’s children will likely lose at least a full year of education – Day 120
Bill introduced to give Israel $17.6 billion; Israel continues violating international law in the week since ICJ ruling; death, hunger, disease without medicine, Israeli forces fire at fleeing civilians; Hamas demands Israel release Marwan Barghouti, the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela”; fears of a bloodbath in Rafah, Israel’s next target; Israel’s explanation for desecrating cemeteries; settler violence in West Bank; US vs. the Middle East;
Gazan detainees report “torture like we never saw before” – Day 118
17,000 Gazan children alone, many are freezing, all are hungry and thirsty; Israel’s massive number of “controlled demolitions”; Israeli military ready to head south to Rafah, Gazans are terrified; humanitarian pause may be “weeks” away; Netanyahu’s incendiary remarks about UNRWA; the West is ignoring Houthis’ message; Biden sanctions 4 Israeli settlers; US judge can’t rule on Biden’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, but calls on him to “reconsider his position”
Israel denied 95% of fuel, medicine deliveries to north Gaza – Day 105
Shortages put infants, children at heightened risk; evidence of arbitrary field executions, torture of Gazans; UK Labor leader supports “inalienable right of Palestinian people”; American teen killed in West Bank; possible escalation in Lebanon in the offing; another strike on Houthis; Biden’s unrealistic expectations, Swiss investigating criminal complaint against Israeli president