[Haaretz Israeli News source->http://www.haaretz.com/]
Hamza and Reda Bsharat, cousins aged 10 and 8, were killed in an airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday. The family says the army then proceeded to ransack their home. ‘These are children, what explosives are they talking about?’
Israeli laureate Maoz Inon accepted his Franco-German human rights prize in the French ambassador’s Tel Aviv residence, while Palestinian activist Issa Amro received his on the street outside an Israeli military checkpoint, calling it ‘a small taste of life under occupation’
In the 1960s and 1970s, left-wing governments of Israel proposed plans to ‘thin’ the population of the Gaza Strip. A perusal of the minutes of meetings reveals that their ideas don’t differ much from those of today’s far-right government
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The University of Leipzig said it had planned the lecture by Prof. Benny Morris as a critical discussion but had to cancel it over students’ opposition and security concerns
The recent weather has intensified the distress across the Gaza Strip, with the tents of some two million refugees flooding from either rainwater or sewage. ‘It can be summed up in two words: despair and catastrophe,’ a Gaza resident told Haaretz
The resolution approved on Sunday did not appear on the government’s agenda published ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved it without it undergoing the customary legal review
The arrest warrants that the International Criminal Court issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant position Israel at an unprecedented moral nadir, as a country whose leaders are accused of grave crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip.
Armed clans in the Rafah area are blocking trucks entering Gaza from Israel, leading some organizations to avoid sending desperately needed humanitarian aid. These incidents are occurring in an area under full IDF control, with the army refraining from action due to concerns that harm to aid workers could provoke international criticism
The soldiers ‘didn’t do anything to stop the pogrom,’ a senior defense official said, ‘they just stood there next to them, saw all of it [take place] and did nothing.’ The body of the Palestinian who was killed was taken for autopsy, but the results are inconclusive as to who shot him
