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Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
US singlehandedly blocks Palestine from full UN membership, $26 billion to Israel reaches House floor – Day 195
Biden mulls massive arms sale to Israel; Dems vote to advance $26 billion for Israel to House floor; Israeli “limited” strike in Iran takes world’s eyes off Rafah; another mass grave discovered at Al Shifa Hospital, where Israeli forces stashed at least 30 bodies; ICC may issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders; Israeli violence in West Bank refugee camp; pro-Palestinian students arrested at Columbia U; Google fires employees who stood for Palestine
Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings, Rapes
A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken any action.
Promises broken: Israel is still obstructing the entrance of aid to Gaza – Day 194
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…
Leaked New York Times Memo Tells Journalists To Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones And Missiles
American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran’s retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus.
Israel has killed over 10,000 Gazan women since October 7th – Day 193
In Gaza, deaths of women and children, torture, health risks; drones that broadcast sounds of babies crying used to ambush civilians; Netanyahu denies famine while destroying Gazan farmland; unexploded Israeli bombs found in schools; Palestinian journalists; Israeli settler/military violence out of control; land theft in West Bank; US wants probe into Hind Rajab’s death; Congress says “river to the sea” is antisemitic; USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum canceled, more
Sorry, but Iran is not the aggressor here
Amid the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Western condemnation of the intercepted Iranian attack on Israel is sickeningly cynical.
Mainstream U.S. media is hiding key truths in its coverage of Iran’s retaliatory attack
The assertion that Israel is trying to provoke a wider regional conflict appeared nowhere in the mainstream media coverage of Iran’s retaliatory strike.
Mass graves in Gaza reveal mass executions – Day 192
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
Israel and US deliberately gutting international law in Gaza
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.