Israeli forces killed at least 100 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, including at least 41 aid seekers; concentration camp plans on back burner; airdrops; 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank; annexation of Gaza?
“There is no prior experience in my five decades of humanitarian experience that can come close to comparison to the horror we are all seeing in Gaza…. My grandchildren will be learning in school about who did what in the worst crime of the 21st century”… Israeli Heritage Minister said that Israel “is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out… All of Gaza will be Jewish,” he vowed.
Israel kills at least 78 across Gaza, 5 in West Bank; US will pay $1M a day toward shady “aid” services; new Gaza death estimates much higher than before; Iran damage; War Powers Resolution; more.
Gaza is a womb being emptied. It is a place where birth is a death sentence and motherhood is a target. And the world watches as if Palestinian death were an abstract thing.
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Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest. (The roots began in 1967.)
Israel’s decision to halt all humanitarian aid to Gaza as a means of pressuring Hamas to release the remaining hostages without any commitment from Israel to end the war — an action that amounts to the war crime of collective punishment — was widely condemned by international actors.
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Ceasefire is falling apart, as Israel stands ready to resume fighting with greater intensity, continue starving the people of Gaza.
Eight coalition members said the IDF’s strategy was ineffective in defeating Hamas, demanding the army purge northern Gaza of residents by use of sieges, infrastructure destruction and ‘killing anyone without a white flag.’ The policy should be used in other parts of Gaza, they said