‘Extraordinary’: Biden administration staffers’ growing dissent against Gaza policy
An education department official resigned this week, and 17 staffers sent an anonymous letter calling for a ceasefire
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UN warns Gaza is now ‘uninhabitable’ as war continues
Humanitarian chief fears ‘famine is around the corner’ with 85% of population displaced and more than 20,000 dead
Letter to UN Secretary-General regarding practices of UN agencies in Gaza, which breach International Humanitarian Law and aid Israel’s war objectives
As hunger and thirst have become a reality for millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the undersigned Palestinian organizations write to raise their serious concerns regarding the amount of aid entering Gaza, its distribution, and consequences of the deference shown by UN agencies to Israel’s unlawful restriction of humanitarian relief.
Prof Hennie Strydom unpacks case brought by SA against Israel at International Court of Justice
Interview with Hennie Strydom, president of SABILA and professor at the University of Johannesburg on the subject of the ICJ referral against Israel.
Children eat rotten food, adults hunt cats: famine is coming for Gaza
Bombing has displaced more than a million in Gaza — but none of them are safe from hunger
Mouin Rabbani: Netanyahu and Senior Israeli Officials Advocate ‘Voluntary’ Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
An analysis of the “voluntary” displacement of the Gaza Strip and related, by Mouin Rabbani
A Bitter Season in the West Bank
The war in Gaza has provided Israeli settlers fresh opportunity and impunity. I see entire villages fleeing in panic.
‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis shows
In the first month of its war in Gaza, Israel dropped hundreds of massive bombs, many of them capable of killing or wounding people more than 1,000 feet away, analysis by CNN and artificial intelligence company Synthetaic suggests.
Satellite imagery from those early days of the war reveals more than 500 impact craters over 12 meters (40 feet) in diameter, consistent with those left behind by 2,000-pound bombs. Those are four times heavier than the largest bombs the United States dropped on ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, during the war against the extremist group there.
Weapons and warfare experts blame the extensive use of heavy munitions such as the 2,000-pound bomb for the soaring death toll. The population of Gaza is packed together much more tightly than almost anywhere else on earth, so the use of such heavy munitions has a profound effect.
“The use of 2,000-pound bombs in an area as densely populated as Gaza means it will take decades for communities to recover,” said John Chappell, advocacy and legal fellow at CIVIC, a DC-based group focused on minimizing civilian harm in conflict.
The UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday by the United Nations and other agencies, highlighting the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
srael’s military campaign in Gaza is among the most destructive in history, experts say
The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group.