News and Analysis 12/17/23

If the Israeli rules of engagement can’t protect Jews holding a white flag or Christians entering a church, how can they protect Muslim civilians?

• Israeli Captives Mistakenly Killed in Gaza Held White Flag, Official Says (Aljazeera)
• IDF Kills Two Women Taking Shelter at Gaza Church, Catholic Authorities Say (Washington Post)
• Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Tents, Bury Palestinians Alive: Report (The Cradle)

“[W]e’ve developed this national law enforcement intelligence-sharing network that … [has become] an amplifier of disinformation rather than a corrective to that disinformation”:

• US Police Agencies Took Intelligence Directly from IDF, Leaked Files Show (The Guardian)

Israel appears to be deliberately kill journalists. target hospitals, persecute children and the elderly, and raze cemeteries:

• Is Israel Deliberately Targeting Journalists in Gaza? (Aljazeera)
• Al Jazeera to Refer Journalist Samer Abudaqa’s Killing to ICC (Aljazeera)
• Israel-Hamas War Live: Israel Targets Hospitals, Admits It Killed Captives (Aljazeera)
• Disturbing Reports from the North of Gaza of Mass Detentions, Ill-Treatment and Enforced Disappearances of Possibly Thousands of Palestinians (Reliefweb)
• Israel-Palestine War: Palestinians Appalled by Israeli Razing of Gaza Cemeteries (Middle East Eye)

The school “voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% and 100% each year … is threatened with closure”:

• France’s Largest Muslim School Threatened with Closure amid Scrutiny of Funding, Courses (abc News)

Palestinians can lose their right to reside in Jerusalem “if they travel abroad for longer than a specified period or … marry Palestinians from other areas”:

• Israel-Palestine War: How Israel Has Tried and Failed to Divide Palestinians (Middle East Eye)

“The recent rise of protest movements against police brutality in the U.S. … has connected Black and Palestinian activists under a common cause”:

• Black American Solidarity with Palestinians Is Rising and Testing Longstanding Ties to Jewish Allies (AP / Yahoo)

“[W]e’re trying to get other countries to oppose what Russia is doing in Ukraine, while on the other hand we’re trying to have them support what Israel is doing in Gaza”:

• Biden’s Support of Israel Could Come at a Cost to U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington Post)

“We’re having a ’60s-level moment here, both as far as the repression but also the mass student mobilization”:

• Campus Crackdowns Have Chilling Effect on Pro-Palestinian Speech (NY Times)

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