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Debris undoubtedly hides booby traps, unexploded ordnance, asbestos – Day 208

[email protected] May 2, 2024 Al Jazeera, antisemitism, blinken, campus protest, free speech, humanitarian aid, international criminal court, safe zone, unexploded ordnance

Danger in the debris; humanitarian aid entering Gaza still very low; Blinken pressures Hamas to accept truce proposal; hundreds of Gazans missing in Israel; will Knesset shutter Al Jazeera?; Netanyahu doesn’t want war to end; Israelis attack aid convoy; 2 Palestinian prisoners including a doctor die behind bars; up to 80 years to repair Gaza homes; threat of ICC arrest warrants has Israel, US worried; another pro-Israel bill in Congress; campus repression of pro-Palestine protests intensifies

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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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New mass grave found in Gaza with at least 180 bodies – Day 197

[email protected] April 21, 2024 aid to Israel, execution, humanitarian aid, khan younis, leahy law, mass grave, nur shams, sanctions israel, temporary pier, tulkarem, West Bank

Another mass grave indicates executions; UN says Israel has been lying about numbers of aid trucks; Israel kills 14 in a massive, 50-hour attack in West Bank; Israel loves the new aid package, denounces the new sanction against one military unit; news about the temporary pier being built for Gaza, more

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Promises broken: Israel is still obstructing the entrance of aid to Gaza – Day 194

[email protected] April 18, 2024 Beit Hanoun, Bezalel Smotrich, Biden, ethnic cleansing, famine, genocide, humanitarian aid, Iran, Israeli settlers, itamar ben gvir, moment of truth, Netanyahu, palestinian prisoners

Israel steadfastly starves Gaza; horror in Beit Hanoun; Israeli settlers displace entire communities of Palestinians; Executing Palestinian detainees best way to combat prison overcrowding – Israeli minister; Biden op-ed begs for more money for Israel…

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Mass graves in Gaza reveal mass executions – Day 192

[email protected] April 16, 2024 al-Shifa, beit lahiya, contamination, famine, Gaza, genocide, humanitarian aid, international law, israeli settler, mass grave, tent city rafah, torture, West Bank

Mass graves containing Palestinian bodies found in multiple Gaza locations; released Gazan prisoners report abuse by Israeli forces; humanitarians face “hostile” environment, Israel breaking promise to increase aid; “unprecedented” levels of contamination in northern Gaza; Israel announces tents to be built ahead of attack on Rafah; Israel obstructing UN probe, Israelis obstructing aid; Israel and Iran violated int’l law; West Bank deaths as Israeli settlers and military team up, more

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Israel and US deliberately gutting international law in Gaza

[email protected] April 15, 2024 Biden, genocide, human rights, humanitarian aid

Over the past six months in Gaza, Israel has killed civilians on an industrial scale, turned hospitals into strategic military targets and food into a weapon of war.

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Aid workers risk their lives to deliver food in Gaza: the need is “so great” – Day 189

[email protected] April 13, 2024 anera, famine, genocide, germany, hostages, humanitarian aid, Iran, Israeli settlers, khan younis, Netanyahu, pogrom, water crisis, West Bank

Risking life to feed the hungry in Gaza; journalists reportedly targeted; Khan Younis in ruins; Hamas apparently running out of living hostages, as Netanyahu continues to delay deal; Biden stands with Israel against Iran as Israel tries to drag the US into a war with Iran; rash of attacks in West Bank by illegal Israeli settlers; Germany “silences a witness to genocide”; France, Germany face legal action over arming Israel

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A first: US official acknowledges “famine is underway” in Gaza – Day 188

[email protected] April 12, 2024 assassination, famine, Gaza, genocide, humanitarian aid, iran attack, israeli settlement, land expropriation, Nochi Mandel, palestinian journalist, samantha power, West Bank, world central kitchen

US official finally uses the f-word (famine); Iran retaliation for provocative Israeli attack possibly this weekend; Wash Post lists Gaza aid items Israel has rejected; Israel assassinates head of police in Gaza; Israelis block aid trucks to Gaza; Palestinian journalists targeted; Israel kills 2 in West Bank; Israel steals record amount of WB land in 2024 (and the year is still young)

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UNICEF vehicle targeted, Hamas leader’s family members assassinated – Day 187

[email protected] April 11, 2024 centcom, Erez Crossing, Erik Kurilla, humanitarian aid, Iran, ismail haniyeh, unicef, water in gaza

UNICEF says its vehicle hit by live fire while waiting to enter northern Gaza; Israeli airstrike kills 3 sons, 4 grandchildren of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ top political leader; 13,000 Palestinians reportedly missing in the Gaza Strip; Israel’s dubious plan to ‘flood Gaza with aid’; Israel allows Gaza authorities to restore water pipeline that Israel damaged; Senior U.S. general to visit Israel to coordinate on Iran attack threat

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Israel boasts of humanitarian aid flooding in to Gaza – so, where is it? – Day 186

[email protected] April 10, 2024 foreign press association, gaza pier, hostage exchange, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, Israel, khan younis, layan nasir, palestinian state, sanction, turkey exports, West Bank

Human Rights Watch calls for sanctions on Israel; young Christian woman kidnapped by Israeli forces in West Bank, her whereabouts unknown; Tucker Carlson interviews Bethlehem pastor about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians; Israel mulls hostage-for-prisoner exchange; Turkey initiates restrictions on exports to Israel; Australia may recognize Palestinian state; “What crime is Israel hiding?” asks Foreign Press Association; US pier may cost up to $200 million…

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