ICJ genocide ruling apparently meaningless to Israel, as Palestinian deaths, torture continue apace; Gaza pier debacle comes to an end; water crisis for Palestinian residents of Jerusalem; Israel demolishes high number of West Bank structures; Netanyahu says No to October 7th investigation; Israeli gov’t continues racist, anti-free speech actions; US sanctions one Israeli soldier for years-old crime; more.
Tags: West Bank
Chaos in Gaza, West Bank, and spreading – Day 266
Israel impedes Gaza emergency services, hygiene and trash disposal; Israeli forces killed with their own (repurposed) bomb; US has sent Israel tens of thousands of bombs; debate notes; updates on Lebanon, ICC arrest warrants; Israel is starving Palestinian prisoners, approving new settlements; Gaza pier shutting down again; more.
Gaza peace talks have apparently reached a ‘dead end’ – Day 261
Israel rejects permanent ceasefire; war to go on, but “intense fighting” is ending; Israeli strikes kill 25 more Gazan civilians; Israeli soldier posed naked in Gaza; update on Israeli soldiers’ killing of Hind Rajab, 5; US military members say they can no longer be complicit in Israeli war crimes; children with disabilities suffer from Israeli targeting; Israel has arrested so many Palestinians there’s no room for more; US, Netanyahu disagree on level of US loyalty to Israel; EU leaders: crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point; Hezbollah video shows Israeli security targets; more.
HRW: In Gaza, “the dead are the lucky ones” – Day 258
More evidence indicates widespread Israeli friendly fire on Oct 7th; another Palestinian journalist killed; Israeli admission that Hamas isn’t going anywhere; teenager killed in West Bank; Israeli prison deaths, torture, re-arrests; Palestinian female journalist’s award rescinded after pressure; Israeli liberal groups blocking food to Gaza; some in US baffled by Netanyahu’s comments against Biden; more.
Fear, hunger and displacement follows Israel’s worsening abuse of Palestinians in Hebron
Restrictions on movement, severe shortage of jobs as Israel has shut its labour market in the face of the 400,000 Palestinians it employed, with many families now facing hunger and starvation.
While Gaza suffers physical genocide, the West Bank faces economic genocide
While the world is preoccupied with the horrific genocide in the embattled Gaza Strip, Israel is killing hundreds of Palestinians, seizing more land and strangling the occupied West Bank economically.
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
Palestinians show steadfastness on Eid amid violence, grieving, death – Day 254
Beatings in Jerusalem; bombs, prayers, and gravesite visits in Gaza; Netanyahu doesn’t want humanitarian pauses; 7-year-old detained in West Bank; Israel’s record-high weapons sales; freed Israeli hostage looks well cared-for; Israeli former legislator invokes Hitler; Israel lobby tidbits; more
Gazans struggle to celebrate on Eid, as war rages on – Day 253
No water, no food on Islam’s high holiday; Israel claims more aid is coming; Israel’s air war in West Bank is killing children; extremist Israeli settlers set their sights on south Lebanon; Candace Owens & Briahna Joy Gray say criticism of Israel is media “red line”; more
UN: Israel committed crime of “extermination”; US defense commander was in Israel during Nuseirat massacre – Day 249
US presence in Israel during Nuseirat attack; 3,000 at-risk children could die “before their families’ eyes” without aid; 6 killed in West Bank again; House proposes millions more to Israel; US experts say “policies should be America first, not Israel first; US Congress members have an “AIPAC guy”…