What began as one writer’s quest to save his cherished book collection through six displacements became a grassroots effort to salvage the remains of Gaza’s libraries. The newly opened Phoenix Library is also a testament of resilience: ‘We refuse to be a people who just live in tents and wait’
The US and Israel have bombed at least 20 of Iran’s universities. Israel has bombed more than 60 healthcare facilities in Lebanon, while the US-Israel coalition has attacked at least 50 hospitals in Iran.
Israel has killed over 800 teachers and staff, along with 15,000 school-aged kids. Schools are in ruins.
Israeli universities regularly collaborate with the military, which has destroyed all academic life in Gaza. That’s done nothing to slow U.S.-Israeli partnerships.
Truce may be very near, as Gaza’s children suffer; northern Gaza hits 100 days without food, water; Israel tortures to death another Palestinian prisoner; Gaza struggles under the weight of tens of millions of tons of rubble; Israel’s scholasticide in the West Bank; calls for 1 million new illegal Israeli settlers; more.