The Times of Israel
May 4, 2024
A Hamas source claims that the group has approved the first phase of a hostage release deal, having received a guarantee from the United States that Israel will completely withdraw from Gaza
Anemona Hartocollis - The New York Times
May 2, 2024
At U.C.L.A., a few professors helped negotiate with the university. At Columbia, they guarded the encampment. But not all faculty members are on board.
Aaron Boxerman, Timothy Pratt - The Guardian
College under federal investigation after students with Palestinian and Muslim ancestry allege ‘hostile environment’, Guardian learns
Michael Sainato - The Guardian
UAW Local 4811, largest union of academic workers, also says it will file unfair labor charges over university use of LAPD on protesters
Louis Keene - Forward
No arrests have been made in an attack on four UCLA student journalists covering the melee at a pro-Palestinian encampment Wednesday.
Ali Harb, Jillian Kestler-D'Amours - Al Jazeera
Students say Biden risks ‘losing entire generation of voters’ over his Gaza policy and condemnation of college protests.
Salvador Rizzo - The Washington Post
A group of survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel alleged in a federal lawsuit this week that two leading pro-Palestinian groups in the United States are a propaganda front
Mychael Schnell - The Hill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is poised to join Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, despite tension…
The Washington Post
Hamas political bureau chairman Ismail Haniyeh said Hamas views the Egypt-hosted negotiations in a “positive spirit” and said that a negotiating delegation would travel to Cairo as soon as possible.
Alastair Mccready - Al Jazeera
Rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza will cost as much as $40bn and require an effort on a scale the world has not seen since World War II amid “unprecedented levels of human losses, capital destruction”, the United Nations says.
Sam Biddle - The Intercept
May 1, 2024
Google downplays its military work with Israel, but “Project Nimbus” documents tie the American tech giants to Israel’s deadly military capabilities.
Barak Ravid - Axios
The Israeli government warned the Biden administration that if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, it will take retaliatory steps against the Palestinian Authority that could lead to its collapse.
Jeremy W. Peters - The New York Times
In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.
TOI Staff - Times of Israel
Lebanese news outlet al-Akhbar publishes what it says is the text of Israel’s truce and hostage deal offer to Hamas, as conveyed by Egyptian mediators, which would see at least 33 captives released in a first phase.
Andrew Solender - Axios
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has left many Democrats frustrated over his plans for an antisemitism vote that is proving divisive on their side of the aisle.
Clara Ence Morse, Hannah Dormido, Júlia Ledur - The Washington Post
April 30, 2024
Student groups have led a pro-Palestine protest movement across the country amid the war unfolding in Gaza.
Maggie Astor - The New York Times
The student organization of the Democratic Party condemned colleges’ crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests and called on President Biden to support a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
Aoife Walsh - BBC
Turkey has suspended all trade with Israel over its offensive in Gaza, citing the "worsening humanitarian tragedy" in the strip.
Tim Dickinson - Rolling Stone
University presidents are calling the cops on pro-Gaza protesters, and students, journalists, and professors are paying the price.
Ryan Grim - The Intercept
Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza.
Associated Press - The Washington Post
The terminated Google workers who staged protests over the company’s contract with Israel have filed a formal complaint with the national labor board.
Stephanie van den Berg - Reuters
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, while expressing deep concern about "catastrophic living conditions in Gaza".
Robin Givhan - The Washington Post
Staked on uneven ground and surrounded by the stately architecture of capitalism and power, the tents confront countries and individuals for their failures.
Marietje Schaake - Financial Times
April 29, 2024
Government attempts to regulate the technology must look at its use on the battlefield
Kate Sim, Mohammad Khatami, Zelda Montes - The Nation
We have been demanding that Google cut its ties to Israel's apartheid government for years, and we're not stopping now.
Sally Ibrahim - The New Arab
Five days ago, Amna Hamid, a Palestinian poet and journalist, was also killed with her eldest son by an Israeli airstrike on her house.
Mehdi Hasan - Zeteo
Mehdi’s Monday Memo on Gaza, the UK’s Rwanda plan, and a new Zeteo podcast
Missy Ryan - The Washington Post
Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced skepticism from Arab counterparts as he advocated plans for securing and rebuilding Gaza once the Israel-Hamas war ends.
Maayan Lubell - Reuters
Far-right allies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are raising pressure on the embattled leader to reject a new Gaza ceasefire, jeopardising his government's stability if he backs away from an assault on Hamas in Rafah.
Laura Wagner - The Washington Post
“Screams Without Words,” a New York Times report into sexual violence in the Hamas attack on Israel, has drawn criticism from journalism professors and other.
In a new report, Amnesty International details Israeli attacks in which, it says, U.S-made weapons were used to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Jonathan Allen, Julia Harte - Reuters
Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to dismantle a protest camp on the New York City campus after the Ivy League school declared a stalemate in talks seeking to end the polarizing demonstration.
Tom Bateman - BBC
But all five units remain eligible for US military aid after Israel took action, the state department says.
Robin D. G. Kelley - Boston Review
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
Aaron Boxerman, Tovah Lazaroff, Zvika Klein - The Jerusalem Post
“Where is [US President Joe] Biden? Why is he quiet while Israel will potentially be thrown under the bus?” the source said.
Matthew Green - KQED
Hundreds of San Francisco State University students and faculty set up tents during a rally on Monday. It's the latest Bay Area campus to join a growing national movement.
Marisa Kabas - The Handbasket
April 28, 2024
The kids are alright. The adults are not.
Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman - The New York Times
Israeli and foreign officials say it appears the International Criminal Court is preparing to move against top Israeli and Hamas officials. The prosecutors’ office of the court declined to comment.
Jacob Magid - Times of Israel
Other internal submissions to Blinken find Jerusalem’s assurances credible, ahead of May 8 report to Congress on whether IDF is lawfully using US arms
April 27, 2024
A new Israeli proposal for a possible hostage deal with Hamas includes a willingness to discuss the "restoration of sustainable calm" in Gaza after an initial release of hostages on humanitarian grounds, two Israeli officials told Axios.
Edith Olmstead - The Daily Beast
Around 100 protesters were arrested on Saturday at a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University, but not the one whose hate speech got everything shut down.
Othman Moqbel - Al Jazeera
April 26, 2024
The brutality of Israel’s war on Gaza has opened Western eyes to the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Emma Graham-Harrison, Quique Kierszenbaum - The Guardian
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s legal team and employer speak out after arrest over podcast comments
Colum Lynch - Devex
Confidential U.S. paper predicts "famine inevitable" in Gaza.
The Guardian
Infant dies five days after caesarean delivery following death of mother in Israeli airstrike in Rafah
A pro-Israel House Democrat and Republican plan to introduce legislation creating federally sanctioned "antisemitism monitors" for select college campuses.
Officials say Israel is willing to make further widespread concessions to secure a deal, but won’t allow Hamas to drag out talks in a bid to forestall assault on southern Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison - The Guardian
Top UN demining official outlines scale of devastation as Egypt officials fly into Israel in attempt to revive ceasefire talks
Joshua P. Hill - New Means
Universities, powerful institutions backed by powerful people, are enacting policies that suppress free speech and punish students harshly for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Graig Graziosi, Katie Hawkinson - The Independent
Over 100 students at NYU and Columbia have been arrested this past week over pro-Palestinian protest encampments
Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman, Zeena Saifi - CNN
April 25, 2024
Authorities in Gaza have concluded their search of mass graves at a hospital in the south of the strip and said they have uncovered a total of 392 bodies, including some still wearing surgical gowns.
Al Jazeera
UN spokesperson says mandate from UN legislative body required to take possession of evidence from Gaza’s mass graves.
Sophia Goodfriend - +972 Magazine
Following +972’s 'Lavender' exposé, international law and AI experts explain how Israel's top brass and global tech firms are implicated in the slaughter.
AP News
The University of Southern California's move also comes after the school was criticized for canceling the valedictorian's speech.
Abbas Al Lawati - CNN
Some Hamas officials are signaling that the militant group could give up armed struggle against Israel if the Palestinians get an independent state in territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
Charles M. Blow - The New York Times
April 24, 2024
The suffering in the war in Gaza is unacceptable. Young people will make that point clear this summer in Chicago.
The Associated Press - AP News
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.
Brenden Cole - text/html; charset=utf-8
April 23, 2024
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the U.S. was "inquiring" with Israel over reports of a mass grave in Khan Yunis.
The attack comes after Hezbollah said Israeli forces killed one of its fighters in southern Lebanon.
Alan Blinder - The New York Times
UN News
April 22, 2024
An independent panel released its much-awaited report on Monday about the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), providing 50 recommendations and noting that Israeli authorities have yet to provide proof of their claims.
Key White House figures believe PM will show flexibility to salvage legacy, while others in State Dept think he’s too ideologically entrenched and beholden to far-right partners
Mohammad Jahjouh, Samy Magdy - AP News
April 21, 2024
The latest strikes came as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to its close ally.
Peter Beaumont - The Guardian
Israeli leaders vow to oppose expected measures under Leahy law against the Netzah Yehuda battalion
April 20, 2024
Reports say the US is planning to cut military aid to one Israeli unit over alleged rights violations.
Ayman Mohyeldin - MSNBC
More than one hundred people were arrested at Columbia University in New York City on Thursday after occupying the school's South Lawn for 30 hours in support of Gaza. Among those arrested was Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Chelsea Rose Marcius, Karla Marie Sanford, Vimal Patel - The New York Times
April 19, 2024
Will more stringent tactics subdue protests? Or fuel them?
Violence erupted during an Israeli army raid at the Nur Shams refugee camp in the city of Tulkarem.
Tech giant says employees engaged in ‘completely unacceptable behaviour’ during sit-in at company offices.
Michelle Nichols - Reuters
April 18, 2024
The United States on Thursday effectively stopped the United Nations from recognizing a Palestinian state by casting a veto in the Security Council to deny Palestinians full membership of the world body.
Edith M. Lederer - AP News
The United States has vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine.
The escalation comes more than six months into Israel’s war on Gaza amid heightened tensions across the region.
Oren Ziv - +972 Magazine
Armed settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
Jess Ghannam - Medium
PREPARED BY Anti-Palestinian Racism Research Group in consultation with the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association
Julian Borger - The Guardian
Washington blocks security council resolution supported by 12 member countries, with two abstentions including UK
The Commissioner-General of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) briefed the Security Council in New York on Wednesday as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, telling ambassadors that life-saving deliveries are being blocked by Israel.
Jack Khoury, Josh Breiner, Nir Hasson - Haaretz
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was taken to a police station near Jerusalem and investigated.
28 The Kan public broadcaster reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelved pre-prepared plans for retaliation against Iran’s weekend barrage after speaking with US President Joe Biden shortly after the attack early Sunday.
Reuters
Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, ABC News reported late on Thursday, citing a U.S. official, while Iranian state media reported an explosion in the center of the country, days after Iran launched a retaliatory drone strike on Israel.
Agencies, TOI Staff - Times of Israel
April 17, 2024
British Foreign UK Minister David Cameron said that it was clear Israel had made a decision to respond to Iran’s attack
Joseph Stepansky - Al Jazeera
Defiant rhetoric in Tehran against possible Israeli military action after unprecedented Iranian strikes.
Adam Federman - In These Times
Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Daniel Boguslaw, Ken Klippenstein - The Intercept
Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.
Brett Murphy - ProPublica
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.
Virginia Mayo - San Francisco Chronicle
Sunnyvale police arrested five Google employees who refused to leave a company building Tuesday during a protest demanding an end to its work with the Israeli government.
Ali Bauman, Jesse Zanger - CBS News
April 16, 2024
Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge Monday afternoon in a bid to shut down traffic.
Cate Brown, Hajar Harb, Meg Kelly, Miriam Berger - The Washington Post
A Washington Post examination raises questions about Israel’s assertion that its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within the firing range” of six-year-old Hind Rajab.
Alan J Kuperman - The Guardian
In fact, terror attacks and hostage-taking sparked several recent conflicts that US presidents of both parties labeled genocide
Tim Craig - The Washington Post
Recent pro-Palestinian protests pose a challenge for President Biden and spark debate over whether some tactics could undermine public support for the movement.
Jaweed Kaleem - Los Angeles Times
April 15, 2024
Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of Berkeley Unified School District, will testify in May in front of a congressional committee on charges of antisemitism in her schools.
Rick Hurd - East Bay Times
“I understand they would be upset,” one protester said of drivers. “But if I was in their position, and I knew that something was going on to help end this war, I would understand…
Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim - The Intercept
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.
Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Sunday that Israel has no choice but to respond to the unprecedented missile and drone attack launched by Iran over the weekend, a U.S. official and another source briefed on the
American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran’s retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus.
ABC News
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Protesters are causing major traffic issues across the Bay Area, including in Oakland and on the Golden Gate Bridge, as part of a worldwide economic blockade in solidarity with Palestine.
Alan MacLeod - MintPress News
Amal Clooney's conspicuous silence on Israel's actions in Palestine and Lebanon contrasts sharply with her vocal condemnation of human rights abuses elsewhere, prompting scrutiny of her allegiances and principles.
Asna Tabassum, a major in biomedical engineering and a minor in "resistance to genocide," has been the focus of both on and off-campus groups for her pro-Palestinian views.
April 14, 2024
President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won't support any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.
Maziar Motamedi - Al Jazeera
Iran launched the largest ever drone strike in the world, and the biggest missile attack in its history
April 13, 2024
More Democrats want to sever aid to Israel over its conduct in Gaza, but Congress has little say in the matter.
Keith Gessen - The New Yorker
Foreign-policy analysts whose careers were shaped by the war on terror see troubling parallels.
The New York Times
Israel’s leader has turned his back on America’s entreaties.
Billy Perigo - No Publisher Found
April 12, 2024
Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza.
Andrew Solender, Barak Ravid, Stephen Neukam - Axios
Rob Schmitz - NPR
The holy month of Ramadan concluded this week with Eid al-Fitr, a celebration with food, family and friends. For Palestinians, the war in Gaza has weighed heavily on this year's holiday.
BBC
Doctors who volunteered at a hospital near Khan Younis also said people were clearly malnourished.
Al Arabiya
Norway is ready to recognize a Palestinian state together with other countries, its prime minister said on Friday while hosting Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez, who is seeking support for the cause.
Spain and Ireland are discussing a collective plan to recognise Palestine as a state amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
Edna Mohammed, Stephen Quillen, Virginia Pietromarchi - Al Jazeera
After Khan Younis visit, WHO says health sector broken beyond belief, as Israel strikes mosques, schools and markets.
Middle East Monitor
Germany has banned Palestinian war surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta from entering Berlin to address a conference about his work in Gaza, the surgeon said on social media. In a post on...
Cassandra Vinograd, Eric Schmitt - The New York Times
April 11, 2024
U.S. officials have said they are bracing for a response to an Israeli strike in Syria this month that killed several senior Iranian commanders.
Ruwaida Kamal Amer - +972 Magazine
After the withdrawal of Israeli troops, displaced Palestinians flooded back into the city to see what remained. Many were shocked by what they found.
Times of Israel
Premier tells F-15 pilots military is ‘ready to fulfill our responsibilities to Israel’s security, in defense and attack’; Kurilla to meet Gallant, senior IDF officials
Nikki McCann Ramirez - Rolling Stone
Actor Wallace Shawn has filmed a video for "Reject AIPAC," a pro-Palestine group countering America's biggest pro-Israel lobby.
Chaim Levinson - Haaretz
The war's aims won't be achieved, the hostages won't be returned through military pressure, security won't be restored and Israel's international ostracism won't end
April 10, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complained to IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at last night’s cabinet meeting that he didn’t suggest sending troops into the south as well as the north of Gaza at the start of the war after October 7
Katie Polglase, Zahid Mahmood - CNN
CNN finds new information contradicting IDF's account of night over 100 died in Gaza
Claire Parker, Steve Hendrix, Susannah George - The Washington Post
April 9, 2024
New pressures, particularly on Israel, have raised hopes that negotiators can strike a long-sought Gaza cease-fire deal, although major barriers remain.
Hugo Bachega, Sean Seddon - BBC
Israel's prime minister is facing calls to ramp up war on Hamas by right-wing political allies.
David Weigel - Semafor Americana
A Pittsburgh Democrat who was nearly defeated by pro-Israel spending in 2022 benefits from changing attitudes about the war.
Kelly Garrity - POLITICO
April 8, 2024
“If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so,” Warren said of the case before the ICJ.
Billy Perigo - Time
Two Google workers have resigned and another was fired over a project providing AI and cloud services to the Israeli government and military
The events that led to the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers suggest that there could be problems with the protocols used by the Israeli military, according to legal experts and aid organizations.
Sebastian Usher - BBC
Palestinians describe widescale destruction as thousands go home after Israel pulls out.
Stephen Quillen -
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins two days of hearings to consider Nicaragua’s request that emergency measures be imposed on Germany over its support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
April 7, 2024
From President Biden to the mayors of small cities, Democrats have been trailed by demonstrators who are complicating the party’s ability to campaign in an election year.
Head of aid group struck by IDF calls Gaza campaign ‘a war against humanity itself’
Christopher Mott - Responsible Statecraft
US priorities in the Middle East are warped by the special relationship with Israel
Dove Lieber, Shayndi Rice - Wall Street Journal
Nation that was building new alliances before Oct. 7 now appears as isolated as ever
Sanjana Karanth - Huffpost
The chef said that while the World Central Kitchen attack was devastating, it should not have taken six foreigners' deaths for the world to care about Gaza.
Ari Rabinovitch, Nidal Al-Mughrabi - Reuters
One IDF brigade left in Southern Gaza
Sarah Fortinski - The Hill
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Sunday he was glad to see President Biden threaten Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with consequences for wartime activity, but he called on the White Ho…
Netta Ahituv - Haaretz
April 6, 2024
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Aurora Almendral, Gabe Joselow - NBC News
“This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence,” top Doctors Without Borders official Christopher Lockyear said.
NBC News
April 5, 2024
DF announces results of probe into World Central Kitchen attack; Israel to open Erez border crossing, Ashdod port to let more aid into Gaza; Biden warns Netanyahu in call.
Ivana Kottasová - CNN
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Cecile Mantovani, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber - Reuters
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, although Israel dismissed it as a "distorted text".
The globally observed day of solidarity is held on the last Friday of Ramadan to express support for Palestine.
MJ Lee - CNN
Tracy Brown Hamilton - Fast Company
The protests came after McDonald’s Israel said it would donate free meals to the Israeli military.
Axios
April 4, 2024
April 3, 2024
Yuval Abraham - +972 Magazine
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
Jeff Mason - Reuters
Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car."
James Hider - NPR
The international food charity announced it was pausing aid operations after it said an Israeli airstrike killed seven of its workers in Gaza.
David E Sanger, Peter Baker - The New York Times
President Biden, at least in public, has limited his responses to Israel’s war in Gaza to ever more indignant declarations.
Ben Shpigel, Cassandra Vinograd, Erica L. Green - The New York Times
April 2, 2024
In a sharply worded statement, the president said that Israel had not done enough to protect civilians and noted that the deaths were not a “stand-alone incident.”
The World Bank
The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of the European Union.
Samy Magdy, Wafaa Shurafa - AP News
The charity said the workers were in the process of delivering desperately needed food aid. Israel has said it is investigating.
Cyprus says ships are turning back from Gaza with around 240 tons of undelivered aid after strike
Sean Seddon, Yolande Knell - BBC
April 1, 2024
Israel says its forces killed 200 "terrorists" during the operation in and around al-Shifa hospital.
Prem Thakker - The Intercept
President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel's war on Gaza might impact the decisions of up to a quarter of Democratic voters in November.
March 31, 2024
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday urged President Biden to do more to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government over their treatment of Palestinians and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Kenneth Roth, ex-head of Human Rights Watch, dissects the US president’s ‘classic double talk’ on Israel’s war in Gaza.
Yaniv Kubovich - Haaretz
The Israeli army says 9,000 terrorists have been killed since the Gaza war began. Defense officials and soldiers, however, tell Haaretz that these are often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF
Louisa Loveluck, Shira Rubin - The Washington Post
The merging of two distinct protest movements — one including the families of hostages, the other led by civil society — adds to growing pressure on Netanyahu.
Julian Borger, Ruth Michaelson - The Guardian
Exclusive: Aid officials warn that transferring Unrwa’s functions to other bodies with famine looming would be disastrous
Toby Helm - The Guardian
March 30, 2024
Ex-Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence official Alicia Kearns said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all arms sales to Israel without delay
CNN
Israel Defense Forces have admitted killing two Palestinian men and burying their bodies with a bulldozer after Al Jazeera published a video purportedly showing the incident.
Carrie Kahn - NPR
The Palestinian Authority president has announced a newly revamped cabinet, but there is widespread skepticism that it will bring about meaningful reform — or govern Gaza's reconstruction.
John Hudson - The Washington Post
March 29, 2024
Despite the U.S. and Israeli governments’ growing rift over the Gaza war, the Biden administration continues to authorize major weapons transfers.
Matthew Mpoke Bigg - The New York Times
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday that demands an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Here’s a closer look at where the situation stands.
Gaya Gupta - The New York Times
March 28, 2024
Israeli PM had called off Washington visit after US did not veto UN Security Council resolution on Gaza ceasefire.
The Pentagon is in early “conversations” on potential plans to fund a peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip, Politico reports, citing two Defense Department officials and two other US officials.
The International Court of Justice issued measures strengthening its January order that Israel do more to supply aid to civilians in Gaza.
Global Village Space
Late on Wednesday, Israeli airstrikes targeted various locations in southern Lebanon, resulting in significant casualties.
Adam Taylor, Manuel Canales - The Washington Post
Here’s how plans to provide aid to Gaza by sea and air compare with the conventional method: by truck.
Andrew Feinberg, Bel Trew - The Independent
Andrew Feinberg and Bel Trew report on what’s being said behind the scenes
Gallup
March 27, 2024
A majority of U.S. adults now disapprove of Israel's military action in Gaza, a shift from the prior survey in November.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Alexander Ward, Jonathan Lemire - POLITICO
Biden prefers a personal touch to diplomacy, but changing circumstances in Gaza and Israel might lead to a shifting course.
Esmat Elhalaby - The Baffler
On the university as a tool of colonial domination, or a site of resistance.
Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began.
March 26, 2024
Tone in parts of Israeli media borders on contempt, as prime minister’s growing friction with Biden linked to US abstention
POLITICO
Kenneth Roth - The Guardian
This attack could not come at a worse time for Palestinians. Hunger is widespread in Gaza, and famine is projected in the north by May
Hiba Yazbek - The New York Times
Its military said fighter jets had struck “over 60 targets” in the previous day. There were reports of strikes on residential buildings near Al-Shifa Hospital in the north and elsewhere.
While the US did not veto the recent Gaza ceasefire resolution, it continues to supply arms to Israel.
Winnipeg Free Press
OTTAWA – The United States ambassador to the United Nations implored Canada last month to keep funding the UN relief agency for Palestinians, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says...
Ben Samuels - Haaretz
March 25, 2024
'We have not found them to be in violation, either when it comes to the conduct of the war or the provision of humanitarian assistance,' the State Department said
The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and “the urgent need to expand the flow” of aid into Gaza. There were 14 votes in favour w
Adam Ragson, Natan Odenheimer - The New York Times
Kibbutz residents concluded that two sisters killed on Oct. 7 were not victims of sexual violence.
Suleiman Al-Khalidi - Reuters
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for a massive supply of aid to Gaza to fight starvation, saying there was a growing international consensus to tell Israel a ceasefire is needed in its war on Hamas
ynetnews
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is still planning on meeting Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington, the Pentagon said on Monday.
March 24, 2024
U.S. officials are carrying water on the world stage for an increasingly unpopular Israeli government, while fitfully trying behind the scenes to cajole it down a different path.
Sam Sokol - Times of Israel
Calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s outline for a Haredi draft law a “red line,” war cabinet Minister Benny Gantz declares that his National Unity party will not be able to remain in the coalition if it is passed into law.
Israeli authorities informed the United Nations on Sunday that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.
The Jerusalem Post
IDF Brig.-Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi: A US State Department official claimed that Israel "systematically" sexually abuses Palestinian women.
March 23, 2024
A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says during a visit to the Rafah crossing.
Democratic lawmakers warned the U.S. president that the Netanyahu government's restriction on the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza makes Israel 'ineligible to receive continued U.S. weapons,' and must rectify the situation
Amed Khan - The Intercept
I helped with airlifts in Afghanistan, aid to Ukraine, and building roads in Rwanda. None of it prepared me for the challenges of Gaza.
"We announce the death of the Zionist prisoner, 'Yagev Buchshtav,' 34 years old, as a result of a lack of medi
Jeremy Scahill - The Intercept
“I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto, told Intercepted’s Jeremy Scahill.
Patrick Wintour - The Guardian
March 22, 2024
Draft resolution before UN represents important tonal – but not substantive – shift for White House
Jon Hoffman - Foreign Policy
The special relationship does not benefit Washington and is endangering U.S. interests across the globe.
John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Yasmeen Abutaleb - The Washington Post
The State Department must soon assess whether Israeli assurances are “credible and reliable,” as critics say violations are plain to see.
Jason Burke - The Guardian
James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 11 members in favor, three against and one abstention.
Tariq Kenney-Shawa - The Nation
The secretary of state is very good at projecting empathy about the horror in Gaza. But his actions speak much louder than his words.
Cate Brown - The Washington Post
The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.
David Rothkopf - Haaretz
March 21, 2024
'Children have begun dying of evident starvation': If Israel continues the war in Gaza, while impeding the essential massive delivery of food aid, it will be seen as the primary author of one of the greatest humanitarian crises in modern memory
Andrew Solender, Stephen Neukam - Axios
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to face a sprawling boycott from congressional progressives should he accept a planned invitation to address Congress.
Stephen M. Walt - Foreign Policy
A close look at the foundations of U.S. influence—and the lack of it.
March 20, 2024
Canada becomes the latest country to halt arms sales to Israel, as global calls for other countries to follow suit grow.
Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman - Times of Israel
As Israel and US continue talks on southern Gaza city, with top Jerusalem officials set to hear American proposals in Washington, Blinken to hold discussions during visit Friday
The Nation
"We will support candidates who are opposed by AIPAC, and who are advocates for peace and a new, just US policy toward Israel/Palestine."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel can’t achieve its goal of “total victory” against Hamas without tackling Rafah.
Ynetnews
Despite pressure from Canada's Jewish community and Israeli officials, Canadian parliament votes to end arms exports to Israel; Israeli security officials fear other countries will follow suit
Nick Cumming-Bruce - The New York Times
March 19, 2024
International alarm has been growing over the hunger crisis in Gaza, with food experts predicting an imminent famine in the north of the enclave.
Noah Lanard - Mother Jones
A former Israeli peace negotiator says the president's response has "failed to meet even the lowest of low expectations."
Cassandra Vinograd, Thomas Fuller - The New York Times
A day after agreeing to President Biden’s request to send officials to Washington to discuss Rafah, the Israeli leader said there was no other option but to send forces into the crowded city.
Omer Benjakob - Haaretz
Hundreds of fake accounts amplified three mysterious 'news sites' to advance Israeli interests. Their target: U.S. Democratic lawmakers
Toronto Star
Speaking to the Star on Tuesday, the foreign affairs minister said the change is significant and not merely symbolic.
Darryl Li - Hammer and Hope
Zionism has long been the tip of a spear aimed at the heart of a multiracial left.
The Biden administration is weighing several alternatives to an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah, which it will propose to a high-level Israeli delegation set to visit Washington next week
Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there
Reid J. Epstein - The New York Times
More than 100 donors and activists, including a handful who have given six-figure sums to President Biden, signed a letter arguing that progressive anger could help Donald Trump.
Amos Harel - Haaretz
The terrorist organization's forces in the north of the Gaza Strip have been dismantled. Meanwhile, the ongoing negotiations in Qatar serve Netanyahu's survival goal well - and endanger those hostages who are still alive
Karen DeYoung, Toluse Olorunnipa - The Washington Post
March 18, 2024
President Biden summoned senior Israeli military, intelligence and humanitarian officials to Washington for consultations over Israel’s plans to launch a major military operation in Rafah.
Adam Ragson, Vivian Nereim - The New York Times
Hamas and Israel failed to reach an agreement ahead of Ramadan. Last week, Hamas dropped one of its demands.
UN “stands against” harassment of journalists, rights groups demand release of Ismail al-Ghoul after beating, detention.
House Republicans are quietly sounding out Democrats on another vote on a standalone Israel aid package.
Mondoweiss
Israel’s latest attack on al-Shifa Hospital and the successful delivery of food aid to northern Gaza are connected. Here’s how.
The New Arab
The comments from UN agencies and aid groups come as an IPC report warned that over 1 million people in Gaza were facing 'catastrophic conditions'.
France 24
Israel has vowed to let Palestinians crammed into southern Gaza leave before its planned invasion of Rafah, but experts have warned it was practically impossible to get those civilians out of harm's…
Hajar Harb, Louisa Loveluck, Miriam Berger - The Washington Post
The Israeli military operation at al-Shifa hospital, which it said was targeting Hamas militants, came as experts warned of famine in northern Gaza.
John Hudson, Yasmeen Abutaleb - The Washington Post
Biden embraced Israel after Oct. 7, but that has given him little influence with its leaders as Gaza collapses
Bernie Sanders - Foreign Affairs
March 17, 2024
Replacing greed, militarism, and hypocrisy with solidarity, diplomacy, and human rights.
Ian Casey, Lipika Pelham - BBC
March 16, 2024
The first shipment of food aid is unloaded, but how it will be distributed in Gaza remains unclear.
March 15, 2024
Israeli PM’s decision may be intended to put negotiating pressure on Hamas, observers say, after his cabinet discussed truce proposal
Aaron Boxerman - The New York Times
Many Israelis support the Senate majority leader’s call for early elections, but even Netanyahu’s rivals were reluctant to seize on the criticism while the country is focused on the war in Gaza.
Palestinian officials call latest assault ‘premeditated’ as people seeking humanitarian supplies increasingly targeted.
Aaron Boxerman, Julian E. Barnes, Ronen Bergman - The New York Times
Hamas’s new proposal would allow the release of hostages in exchange for a phased pullback of Israeli troops. It could restart negotiations.
Alexandra Alter - The New York Times
More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.
Paul Nuki, Samuel Lovett - The Telegraph
Agency has reportedly yet to receive proof that aid staff kidnapped women and gave weapons to terror group for attacks
Samia Nakhoul - Reuters
amas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the U.S. that includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences, according to a proposal seen by Reuters.
CTV News
March 14, 2024
Canada has paused non-lethal military exports to Israel since January because of the rapidly evolving situation on the ground, a Canadian government source said on Thursday.
The ‘hug in public, push in private’ strategy for Israel by the Biden administration and its allies is over.
he U.S. on Thursday finalized its draft U.N. Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, traditionally the final step before asking for a vote
New York War Crimes
Rashid Khalidi discusses The New York Times as state media
Naomi Klein - The Guardian
If Jonathan Glazer’s brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the point
The deadly incident comes after an Israeli air strike on an UNRWA-run aid centre kills at least five people in Rafah.
Luke Goldstein - The American Prospect
Documents show that the powerful lobby is spreading its influence on Capitol Hill by calling for unconditional military aid to Israel and hyping up threats from Iran.
Ammon News
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned on Thursday the Israeli occupation authorities’...
Gabriela Baczynska, Nette Noestlinger - Yahoo News
The European Union's top humanitarian aid official said on Thursday he had seen no evidence from Israel to back its accusations against staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), which should continue playing a "critical" role in Gaza.
Shira Rubin, Yasmeen Abutaleb - The Washington Post
The crisis in northern Gaza, current and former officials say, stems from Israel’s failure to develop a postwar strategy, or to plan for a prolonged military occupation.
Perry Baon Jr. - The Washington Post
March 13, 2024
Activists are using tactics that are building momentum for their cause and increasing dissatisfaction with the president’s policy.
IDF fired two rounds at ‘clearly identifiable journalists’ in Lebanon last year when there was no exchange of fire in area
Anushka Patil - The New York Times
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said the attack killed at least one of their workers and injured several others.
Tia Goldenberg - Los Angeles Times
The Israeli military plans to direct many of the 1.4 million displaced Palestinians in Rafah toward 'humanitarian islands' in the territory's center.
While Opposition Leader Lapid decries the most ‘sectoral, detached and profligate budget’ ever, Likud says legislation ‘guarantees the continuation of war until complete victory’
D. Parvaz - NPR
The children were moved out of Rafah by the charity SOS Children's Villages International with the help of the German government. But the transfer has sparked anger among some hardliners in Israel.
Branko Marcetic - Jacobin
The count so far in Washington shows that another nearly 50,000 Democratic voters in a solid blue state opted to vote “uncommitted” last night. How long will the White House resist changing course on Israel’s war?
Adam Ragson, Anushka Patil - The New York Times
March 12, 2024
Prospects for a potential cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas remained dim on Tuesday, as Hamas reiterated its demand for a permanent end to the fighting in Gaza
Robert Jimison - The New York Times
An independent and seven Democrats argued in a letter that the administration had run afoul of a part of a law that bars military aid from going to any country that blocks humanitarian aid.
Barron's
Four US Army vessels departed a base in Virginia on Tuesday carrying about 100 soldiers and equipment needed to build a temporary port on Gaza's coast for urgently needed aid deliveries.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more children in five months than the total number of minors killed in four years of conflict around the world.
Jonathan Rosenblum - The Nation
March 11, 2024
Starbucks worker organizing produced a historic union breakthrough, and this victory came about in part because of solidarity with Palestine.
Benjamin Siegal - ABC News
The "Reject AIPAC" bloc, which includes Justice Democrats and others, plans to organize a campaign to support Democrats like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman
Julian E. Barnes - The New York Times
The document predicted that Israel would struggle to achieve its goal of destroying Hamas in Gaza.
The once-private frustration between Biden and Netanyahu is spilling out into the open.
Israel’s military has issued what amounts to a mild administrative sanction to one of its generals for ordering his troops to blow up a university building in Gaza without permission
Maya Yang - The Guardian
Real estate company, called My Home in Israel, boasts luxury apartments for sale across Israel and the occupied West Bank
Israeli forces have again attacked Palestinians waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout south of Gaza City.
Michael Arria - Mondoweiss
A group of progressive organizations has formed a coalition to fight back against AIPAC in the 2024 election.
March 10, 2024
The White House hoped a Gaza cease-fire deal would be in place by Ramadan. Biden previously said an Israeli offensive into Rafah would cross a “red line.”
The rights organisation cited the following causes in particular: bombing, starvation, dehydration, malnutrition, and lack of access to medical care.
A Dutch Jewish anti-Zionist group is calling President Isaac Herzog to be arrested in Amsterdam for “the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Palestinian people.”
Israel PM insists his priority is to prevent another terror attack like the Oct. 7 Hamas raid.
President Biden has begun a tricky maneuver: breaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Gaza war strategy — while sticking with Israel and its fight against Hamas, which is still holding hostages.
Truthout
Biden told MSNBC the war is "contrary to what Israel stands for" but he has "no red line" for continuing to supply arms.
Clarissa Ward - CNN
March 8, 2024
Protesters gathering at the edge of Gaza say they hope preventing aid from entering the enclave will force Hamas to release captives.
Concerned Veterans for America
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) on Friday responded to President Biden’s State of the Union announcement of an “emergency mission” to Gaza, increasing America’s direct involvement in the conflict and risking American lives.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attack
Chris McGreal - The Guardian
Biden’s support for Israel has continued unabated since his first visit to the country in 1973, on the eve of Yom Kippur war
CNBC
Google fired an employee who protested this week at an Israeli tech event, and also shuttered an internal discussion board that filled up with dissent.
Erica L. Green - The New York Times
The president was speaking off the cuff to a lawmaker on the House chamber floor after delivering his State of the Union address.
Aaron Boxerman, Adam Sella, Eric Schmitt - The New York Times
March 7, 2024
Officials said President Biden was expected to announce in his State of the Union on Thursday that the U.S. military would construct a floating pier off the Gaza Strip to let ships deliver tons of food and other aid.
Forensic Architecture
Victoria Kim - The New York Times
Israel called on the International Court of Justice in The Hague to reject South Africa’s request, which came in a case filed in December charging Israel with genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Prime minister vows to continue offensive as Hamas delegation withdraws from ceasefire talks
“When children are starting” to “die from starvation, that should be a warning like no other,” said a spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian office.
Hamas says negotiations to continue next week even as Israel ‘thwarts’ deal to secure 40-day truce before Ramadan.
Hagai Amit - Haaretz
***Munitions-related issues that have emerged in the war in Gaza will be investigated later. In the meantime they're dictating the army's strategy and leaving Israel totally dependent on its American ally
The U.S. military carried out its third airdrop of aid into Gaza on Thursday, dropping more than 38,000 meals amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal enclave.
Wall Street Journal
March 6, 2024
Weapons transfers underscore Biden administration’s balancing act amid some lawmakers’ concerns about Gaza war
Amanpour - CNN
Sophia Scott, co-director of "Tomorrow's Freedom," and Arab Barghouthi, son of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi, discuss his situation today.
David Folkenflik - NPR
The newsroom union at The New York Times accuses the paper of targeting staffers of Middle Eastern descent during an inquiry into leaks about internal debates over a story on the Hamas attacks.
Trucks attacked by desperate people as logistical obstacles and restrictions imposed by Israel limit urgently needed aid
The U.S. has approved more than 100 weapons sales to Israel since the Gaza War began, underscoring Washington’s extensive involvement in the conflict.
Aaron Boxerman, Andrew Solender, Barak Ravid - Axios
A group of House Democrats is making the case to President Biden that an Israeli invasion of Rafah could violate his requirement that U.S. military aid be used in accordance with international law, Axios has learned.
Many victims of the massacre suffered injuries from 5.56x45mm NATO bullets; this is a type of bullet fired from Israeli army weapons.
Mother Jones
March 5, 2024
UNRWA has been pushed to its “breaking point” after “rash” decisions by the US and its allies.
CBC
The federal government is resuming funding to UNRWA, the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, CBC News has learned.
The effort to pressure the president over his support for Israel garnered a sizable share of the vote, despite being more hastily organized. Voters in other states also voiced unease.
Israeli minister Benny Gantz encountered harsh criticism and tough questions about the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Israel's war strategy during his meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan
Ken Klippenstein - The Intercept
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable says an Israeli offensive against Palestinians in Rafah would have “catastrophic humanitarian consequences.”
Ben Jamal - The Guardian
Instead of seeking to demonise protesters for justice, the government should be putting pressure on Israel, says Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Aid supplies to the rest of Gaza, already sharply curtailed since the start of the war, have dwindled to barely a trickle over the past month. Whole swathes of the territory are completely cut off from food.
March 4, 2024
Authorities may be nearing a cease-fire deal that would swap some Hamas-held hostages for some of Israel’s prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza.
Phyllis Bennis - Al Jazeera
The US president is showing no sign of altering his actual policy of unconditional support for Israel.
Jeremy Diamond - CNN
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas.
Four-year-old Salma was shot in the neck and died in her father’s arms, leaving her family only with memories, photos.
Bassam Masoud, Nidal Al-Mughrabi - Reuters
Hamas and Egyptian mediators said on Monday they were going ahead with talks in Cairo on securing a ceasefire in Gaza, despite Israel's decision not to send a delegation, as Washington pressed again for a truce, the release of hostages and plan to allevia
Carol E. Lee, Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Yamiche Alcindor - NBC News
Three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said the National Security Council toned down parts of Harris' widely covered speech. The vice president's office denied it was watered down.
March 3, 2024
In an apparent change of course, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman says the time has come for the country to go to the polls for a new government.
Avner Gvaryahu - Foreign Affairs
The failure of the IDF’s targeting protocols is producing massive civilian casualties.
Elena Schneider, Melanie Mason - POLITICO
Building on a successful playbook from 2022, AIPAC and other aligned groups are picking their targets — many more of them this time.
US Representative Ken Calvert, a Republican lawmaker from California on the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee, says the panel has drafted a proposal for $17.6 billion in military assistance for Israel.
Israel indicated to have provisionally accepted six-week hostage and truce deal, but Palestinian official says: ‘We’re not there yet’
Health Ministry says ‘massacre’ of Palestinians awaiting bags of flour in Gaza City, as Israel again targets the hungry.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday forcefully called for more humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying that people in the region are “starving” in the face of “inhumane” conditions and urging Israel to do more in one of the strongest pushes by a US official
Michael Crowley - The New York Times
March 2, 2024
Three Air Force cargo planes dropped 38,000 ready-to-eat meals in Gaza, but critics called that insufficient. A U.S. official said it was the beginning of a broader campaign.
Jon Gambrell - AP News
Officials say a ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sunk in the Red Sea after days of taking on water.
Amjad Iraqi - The New York Review of Books
In the city of Rafah, at the southern edge of Gaza, people are consumed by terror and dread. Over the course of nearly five months, IDF airstrikes have
Hamza Fahmy - KRON4
Bay Area communities simultaneously walked alongside millions across the world on Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco on Saturday. The rally is part of an “International Call …
TRT World
"Health workers and civilians are not a target and must be protected at all times," says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
March 1, 2024
The United States will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn
Paul Brown - BBC
BBC Verify analyses footage and Israeli statements to trace what happened when more than 100 Gazans were killed.
Feb. 29, 2024
In a brief statement, the rights organisation said that its research teams observed the event from the very first moments and recorded that Israeli tanks opened heavy fire on groups of Palestinian civilians attempting to receive humanitarian aid west and
Dozens of foreign staff have had to leave and new specialists can’t be brought in, says group representing aid agencies
The Hill
Calls in Congress for increased humanitarian aid and a cease-fire in Gaza grew on Thursday after more than 100 people were killed near a convoy of trucks bringing in aid to civilians in Gaza City. …
Dehumanisation of Palestinians in shadow of Israel’s Gaza war is fuelling hate and violence in the US, advocates say.
George L. Oritz, John Bacon - USA Today
Feb. 28, 2024
The last functioning hospital in northern Gaza shut down Wednesday because of a severe shortage of fuel and medical supplies, a top official at Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia announced.
Lorenzo Tugnoli, Loveday Morris, Sufian Taha - The Washington Post
Israel has intensified its military occupation of Hebron in the West Bank — through arrests and crippling restrictions on the movement of Palestinians.
Hagar Shezaf - Haaretz.com
Order follows a cabinet decision taken last year to authorize 10 West Bank outposts. Peace Now decries 'severe blow to Israel and the two-state solution'
Hamas called on Wednesday for Palestinians to march to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque at the start of Ramadan, raising the stakes in ongoing negotiations for a truce in Gaza, which U.S. President Joe Biden hopes will be in place by then.
Jo Yurcaba - NBC News
The actor and model was among 30 protesters arrested outside NBC headquarters Monday ahead of President Joe Biden’s appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”
Member of ‘Committee of Public Protection’ tells Reuters armed group is upholding law and order after Israeli strikes on Rafah police; report says the patrols were set up by Hamas
Rory Jones - Wall Street Journal
Israel fears militants could use Ramadan for second phase of Oct. 7 attacks.
Palestinian group affirms ‘space for flexibility’ but wants guarantee of total ceasefire and Israeli troops’ withdrawal.
Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has also gone out of service due to a lack of fuel for generators.
Feb. 27, 2024
Palestinian ambassador to UK says Hamas will be consulted but would have no members in government
Brandon Drenon, Madeline Halpert - BBC
BBC partner CBS projects an easy victory for the Democrat in Michigan despite a backlash over his support for Israel.
Aisha Sultan - STLtoday.com
The national Girl Scouts organization apologized for a regional council's legal threat against a St. Louis troop raising money for children in Gaza.
Israel and Hamas as well as Qatari mediators all sounded notes of caution on Tuesday about progress towards a truce in Gaza, after U.S. President Joe Biden said he believed a ceasefire could be reached in under a week to halt the war for Ramadan.
Shane Bauer - The New Yorker
With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession.
Nina Lakhani - The Guardian
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
Salvador Hernandez - Los Angeles Times
Protesters shut down an event at UC Berkeley that featured an Israeli attorney and former member of the Israel Defense Forces.
Feb. 26, 2024
Amid South African accusation of genocide, judges instructed Jerusalem last month to specify efforts to protect civilians; details of report not released to public
Alice Panepinto, Triestino Mariniello - Al Jazeera
The Israeli state is actively encouraging settler violence against the Palestinians as part of its displacement policy.
Gianluca Pacchiani - Times of Israel
A new Palestinian Authority government may be formed before the end of this week, according to Palestinian sources quoted by the Dubai-based Asharq News.
Palestinians in the north of Gaza, growing more hungry and desperate by the day, have been gathering to wait for food assistance that United Nations agencies say can no longer be delivered there.
The president offered a notably hopeful assessment of talks aimed at halting Israel’s military operations in Gaza and exchanging hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
We found eight instances where the Israeli legal team misrepresented the visual evidence they cited, through a combination of incorrect annotations and labelling, and misleading verbal descriptions. These instances are presented and explained in this repo
The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister has announced his government’s resignation. It's seen as the first step in a reform process urged by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ronen Bergman - The New York Times
Israel negotiators are reported to be considering the release of high-profile Palestinians convicted of terrorism in exchange for freedom for some of the hostages in Gaza.
Roya News
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh stated Monday that he submitted his government's resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas
Feb. 25, 2024
13 Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri says comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to CBS’ “Face the Nation” earlier today cast doubt over Israel’s willingness to secure a hostage deal.
James North - Mondoweiss
New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians.
The man, who filmed and livestreamed his protest of Israeli military action in Gaza, had been taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. The U.S. Air Force confirmed he was an active-duty airman.
The negotiations, aimed at securing a temporary cease-fire and the release of some hostages, will follow meetings in Paris last week between an Israeli delegation and mediators from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas will delay an IDF operation in Rafah, but stressed Israel will still conduct the operation later.
The Daily Beast
The likes on X included a tweet calling for Israel to turn the Gaza Strip into a “slaughterhouse.”
Joe Hernandez - NPR
It's unclear whether Hamas would also sign on. The White House national security adviser also called on Republicans in Congress to approve more military aid to Ukraine.
U.S. defense secretary warns the militant group “will bear the consequences if they do not stop their illegal attacks.”
CBS News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin told "Face the Nation" that unless Israel has "total victory" in the war against Hamas, "we can't have peace."
Louise Guillot - POLITICO
Feb. 24, 2024
Efforts to broker a truce appeared to regain momentum after a senior U.S. envoy for the Middle East met with Israeli leaders.
Feb. 22, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters marched inside President Joe Biden’s hotel in San Francisco, reporters accompanying the president say, a rare instance of a protest breaking out at close range inside the presidential bubble.
Feb. 21, 2024
Israeli forces fired on a United Nations convoy carrying vital food supplies in central Gaza on February 5, before ultimately blocking the trucks from progressing
US says World Court should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories.
Even under the most optimistic scenario, an immediate cease-fire, an additional 6,500 Gazans could perish, scientists estimated.
The Israeli military’s top lawyer on Wednesday said that her office had discovered unacceptable conduct by Israeli forces in Gaza
Arab American and Muslim groups, boosted by progressive activists, are urging Democrats to vote “uncommitted” instead of for Biden.
Feb. 20, 2024
The United States said the resolution could have disrupted its negotiations to free hostages and secure a temporary cease-fire, but its vote drew outcry from many diplomats and aid workers.
Center for Constitutional Rights
Anti-Palestinian at the Core: The Origins and Growing Dangers of U.S.
Feb. 19, 2024
War-cabinet member Benny Gantz says hostages must be released by Ramadan
Rep. Nancy Pelosi claims no U.S. weapons have been used to carry our Israeli atrocities in Gaza since October 7, but the evidence proves otherwise.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN experts today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
UNICEF
The situation is especially serious in the north, where one in six children under the age of two is acutely malnourished
The attack on the ship, the Rubymar, took place on Monday night, prompting a distress call from the crew and a response by a warship that is part of a U.S.-led coalition.
Vivian Yee - The New York Times
An Israeli raid reduced one of the territory’s biggest facilities to little more than a shelter, while food and fuel are almost gone at another.
The Israeli foreign minister said Mr. Lula was not welcome in the country until he took back remarks comparing Israeli actions in the war against Hamas to the Holocaust.
Representatives of the Palestinians argued at the United Nations’ top court on Monday that Israel’s decades-long occupation had violated international law and subjected Palestinians to what one said was a choice among “displacement, subjugation or death.”
Farnaz Fassihi, Gaya Gupta - The New York Times
The United States is negotiating a U.N. Security Council resolution that proposes a temporary cease-fire “as soon as practicable” and warns Israel against invading an area of southern Gaza.
Amnesty International
Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since 1967, said Amnesty International, as public hearings begin at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to examine the legal consequenc
Feb. 18, 2024
US says it would veto Algerian draft resolution at the UN Security Council urging ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’.
Approved even by centrist ministers, statement rejects ‘international diktats’ pushing two states; minister Sa’ar compares reported US-Arab proposal to appeasement of Nazis in 1938
Gaza’s second-largest hospital not functional after weeks-long Israeli siege as Qatari PM says truce talks slowing down.
Feb. 16, 2024
US secretary of state and foreign ministers from UK, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan join Israel at security conference
I ask you to use your power, which can stop the killing of our families, to call for an immediate ceasefire and to stop sending weapons to Israel. You and the president may be the only two people with the power to make this stop.
Human Rights Watch
An unprecedented number of countries and international organizations are expected to participate in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) oral hearings on Israel’s occupation beginning February 19, 2024.
Foreign Affairs
Feb. 15, 2024
What the Israel-Hamas war means for the future of human rights and international law.
Voice of America
Cargo from India and China is being trucked across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Israel, bypassing the troubled waterway
Rob Oliphant, parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister, said he's considered quitting
Feb. 14, 2024
A member of the war cabinet warns that Israel could strike at the Lebanese military.
The State Department is reviewing reports of harm to Gazan civilians by Israel’s military as part of a new U.S. program that tracks cases in which foreign militaries use U.S.-made weapons to injure or kill civilians.
Aaron Boxerman, Patrick Kingsley - The New York Times
Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said he had ordered flour shipments not to be transferred to the agency that aids Palestinians, citing allegations that some of its employees were affiliated with Hamas.
Intelligence sources say Israel seeks to counter information sent to the U.S. by the PA, fearing actions against West Bank settlers.
Abby Vesoulis - Mother Jones
"Personally, I would have a harder time going to work for them," says one Biden 2020 staffer.
DW
As an Israeli military campaign causes casualties in densely crowded Rafah, near the Egyptian border, Egypt is under increasing pressure to let displaced Palestinians in.
Digital Forensics Research Lab
More than 130 accounts exhibiting hallmarks of inauthentic coordination targeted US politicians with messaging critical of the UN agency in Gaza
Julian E. Barnes, Michael Levenson, Vivian Yee - The New York Times
Feb. 13, 2024
Israel, Hamas, the United States, Qatar and Egypt are involved in negotiations, which will go on for days. Officials called them promising, but an accord did not seem imminent.
Democracy Now
Will Hind Rajab ever get justice?
Brad Dress - The Hill
Human rights group Amnesty International said four sites hit by Israel in separate targeted attacks in Rafah that killed 95 civilians — including 42 children — were not lawful military targets, acc…
CIA Director William J. Burns and Israeli intelligence chief David Barnea are expected to meet in Egypt to continue negotiations for a possible hostage-release deal.
Alexander Ward, Matt Berg - POLITICO
Public comments by senior Biden administration officials made clear there won’t be a change in approach.
Carol E. Lee, Courtney Kube, Jonathan Allen, Peter Nicholas - NBC News
Feb. 12, 2024
As the reported Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip reaches 28,000, the president continues to believe that unequivocally supporting Israel is the right policy.
The Gazan health ministry said that at least 67 people had been killed in Israeli strikes overnight in Rafah, and that the toll was likely to rise.
According to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, minors make up almost half of the 28,176 Palestinians killed so far.
NRC
Israël: Uitvoer van onderdelen voor F-35-vliegtuigen naar Israël levert volgens het Gerechtshof een risico op van „ernstige schendingen van het humanitair oorlogsrecht”. Nederland heeft zeven dagen om ermee te stoppen.
“Those who say that under no circumstances should we enter Rafah are basically saying lose the war," the Israeli prime minister said.
Richard Pérez-Peña - The New York Times
International pressure has escalated on Israel to restrain its military campaign in the southern Gazan city, where many have fled from attacks in the north.
The court noted a clear risk that the parts are being used in ‘serious violations of international humanitarian law’.
Zolan Kanno-Youngs - The New York Times
Feb. 11, 2024
The president told the Israeli leader on Sunday that protection was needed for Palestinians seeking shelter and called for “urgent and specific” steps on humanitarian aid.
The military offensive in Gaza has persisted despite a United Nations court order to end plausible acts of genocide.
Feb. 10, 2024
Egypt has warned Israel through Western diplomats that it could scrap the 1979 peace treaty if Tel Aviv forces Palestinians out of Rafah into Sinai.
After PM directs IDF to draw up plans for southern Gaza, chief of staff reportedly says government needs to first decide what to do with over 1 million Gazans sheltering there
Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes - The New York Times
Feb. 9, 2024
Haaretz
Moody's decision to not only lower Israel's credit rating, but to downgrade its credit outlook, has caught officials in Jerusalem by surprise.
Yuval Azulay - ctech
Over 100 senior military and government officials participated in a report by Reichman University’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism which details how unprepared the Israeli home front is for an all-out war with Hezbollah
Alissa J. Rubin - The New York Times
As Iranian-backed groups and American forces, both of which have bases in Iraq, lock horns around the Mideast, things are becoming uncomfortable for the Iraqi government.
Rights groups say repeated attacks on medical facilities, doctors and ambulances must be investigated for war crimes.
In a closed-door meeting, the aide offered some of the administration’s clearest notes of contrition for its response to the Gaza war, a sign of rising Democratic pressure on President Biden.
Annie Sparrow, Kenneth Roth - Foreign Policy
The ICC should prosecute Israelis responsible for bombing hospitals, denying access to medicines and vaccines, and causing excessive civilian harm.
Adam Ragson, Patrick Kingsley - The New York Times
As a Hamas delegation went to Cairo on Thursday for more talks about ending the war in Gaza, Israeli officials signaled that their government was still open to negotiation, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strong public rejection of a Hamas pro
U.S. intelligence officials told members of Congress this week that Israel had degraded Hamas’s fighting capabilities but was not close to eliminating the group, the principal war aim of the Israeli government, American officials said.
Feb. 8, 2024
The town is normally home to 280,000 people. But its population has swelled to over 1.5 million – roughly three quarters of Gaza’s population.
Abeer Salman, Celine Alkhaldi - CNN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Hamas' proposals for a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza. Follow for live updates.
London Review of Books
Tom Stevenson writes about Operation Iron Swords
Andreas Kluth - Bloomberg.com
The phrase is a linguistic atrocity, while the concept draws attention to American hypocrisy, in the Middle East and beyond. There’s an alternative.
Evan Dyer - CBC
Feb. 7, 2024
Trudeau government cut funding without seeing evidence to back Israel's claims of UNRWA-Hamas collusion
Matthew Kassel - Jewish Insider
The ads, in the Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Katie Porter, hit state senator Dave Min over a DUI arrest
Since October 7, Israel has systematically flooded the public discourse on Gaza with a stream of false, unsubstantiated, and unverifiable allegations.
Feb. 6, 2024
General Staff team to ask Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram, the commander who gave the order to fire, for his version of events on October 7. The IDF had originally planned to wait until the end of the war before investigating the incident
Amnesty International said on Monday that Israeli forces were killing Palestinians in the West Bank with “near total impunity” as the world’s attention focused on Gaza.
As Israel and Hamas inch closer to a deal to free hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and a cease-fire, the military disclosed that at least 30 of the captives still in Gaza have been confirmed dead.
Ken Tran - USA Today
The House failed to pass over $17.6 billion in assistance to Israel on Tuesday. It's a blow to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempts to kill the Senate’s sweeping, bipartisan deal that would tie foreign aid to changes in border and migrant policy
Tom Coburg - Declassified UK
Feb. 5, 2024
The International Criminal Court has done nothing so far to prosecute Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Is it influenced by the UK’s funding of the ICC, Khan being the UK’s government’s placeman or by US threats to prosecute its officials?
Lindsey Hilsum - Channel 4
In a dossier just six pages long, Israel has alleged that 12 of the agency’s more than thirteen thousand staff in Gaza were involved in the 7th October attacks, leading nations including the UK and the US to withdraw their financial support.
Meron Rapaport - The Nation
Even as the Israeli government dismisses the ruling, the international community has sent a message that Israel no longer enjoys the immunity that’s protected it since 1948.
Connor Echols - The Intercept
Publishers of the school newspaper notified police. Now the students, charged under an obscure anti-KKK law, face a year in jail.
Jamal Nabulsi - Al Shabaka
Alongside efforts to starve and slaughter Palestinians, the Israeli regime is likewise working to expel Palestinians from their land altogether.
Max Boot - The Washington Post
Feb. 4, 2024
Reversing an earlier denial, Israeli military officials have admitted that the Telegram channel 72 Virgins – Uncensored was operated by members of a department of the Israel Defense Forces.
Jon Hoffman - The National Interest
Feb. 2, 2024
Time is quickly running out to prevent further carnage in Gaza and a region-wide war, the ramifications of which will plague the Middle East and undermine U.S. interests for generations.
Alice Speri - The Intercept
Feb. 1, 2024
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Biden but implored his administration to reconsider its “unflagging support” for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Akela Lacy - The Intercept
George Latimer was recruited by AIPAC to challenge Bowman, a member of the Squad who has called for a Gaza ceasefire.
Bodies of Palestinian detainees who were handcuffed, blindfolded discovered in plastic bags near northern Gaza school.
Dec. 23, 2023
The damage in Gaza has outpaced other recent conflicts, evidence shows. Israel has dropped some of the largest bombs commonly used today near hospitals.
Spiegel International - No Value Found
Nov. 3, 2023
The Israeli army has encircled Gaza City, while numerous civilians have been killed in airstrikes. How far can Israel go in its efforts to destroy Hamas? And how might this war end?
The RAND Blog
Oct. 19, 2023
The Hamas attack represented a spectacular failure of Israel's “mowing the grass” strategy in the Gaza Strip. If there's to be any hope of preventing the next war and the one after that, Israel will need to rebuild Gaza into something better than it was.
Oct. 20, 2017
Residents hit by Hurricane Harvey must pledge not to boycott Israel in exchange for federal aid.
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