As Israel uses time bought by US delaying action at the UN to broaden the slaughter …
- More than 20,000 Dead in Gaza, a Historic Human Toll (Washington Post)
- Israel Broadens Gaza Assault Ahead of Security Council Aid Vote (Reuters)
- US Says It Is Ready to Support Amended UN Resolution Aimed at Boosting Aid to Gaza (The Guardian)
- Security Council Moves Closer to Vote on Gaza Resolution; No Fully Functional Hospitals Left in North Gaza (Washington Post)
… “[o]nly nine out of 36 health facilities were partially functional in the whole of Gaza” …
… while “the evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center” …
… and Gazans face “the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country”:
- Gaza Strip: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for 24 November – 7 December 2023 and Projection for 8 December 2023 – 7 February 2024 (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification)
Israel holds thirty times as many hostages as does Hamas, and reports of their mistreatment are horrific:
- More than 8,000 Palestinians in Israeli Jails, Rights Groups Say (The Guardian)
- Palestinian Activist Munther Amira Tied Up, Beaten, and Arrested by Israeli Forces in Aida Refugee Camp (Mondoweiss)
- Israel Admits 19 Prison Guards Severely Beat Palestinian Prisoner Abu Assab that Led to His Death (Wafa)
- Israel Accused of ‘Forcibly Disappearing’ Marwan Barghouthi and Other Palestinian Prisoners (New Arab)
- Israeli Forces Are Abducting and Torturing Palestinian Healthcare Workers in Gaza (Palestine Deep Dive / X)
- Urgently Investigate Inhumane Treatment and Enforced Disappearance of Palestinians Detainees from Gaza (Amnesty International)
As Israel resumes the religious persecution after which Hamas named the Oct. 7 attack …
… and announces “some kind of control over Shejaiya to reduce the shock of the news that its most elite fighting force had essentially been defeated” …
- Golani Units Pulling Out from Gaza – What It Means (Palestine Chronicle)
… “the senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon” explains that Hamas’s vision for the “day after” is elections:
- Hamas Official Calls for Palestinian Elections, National Unity in the ‘Day After’ the War (Mondoweiss)
Resistance to university and social media attempts to silence criticism of Israeli war crimes is rising:
- Pro-Palestinian UC Students Feel They Are Not Supported. Some on the Faculty Are Organizing to Change That (LA Times)
- Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook (Human Rights Watch)
How India has gerrymandered Jammu and Kashmir:
Poets and writers are among the 21,000 innocents slaughtered by the IDF in recent months:
- These Are the Poets and Writers Who Have Been Killed in Gaza (Literary Hub)
The German-Jewish victim of Nazi persecution “remained critical of from 1942 until her death in 1975” and her writing on Germany would be more controversial than Gessen’s own:
Justified outrage followed the Saudi murder of one journalist, but LA Times “staff members who dared to show solidarity with journalists in Gaza were suspended from coverage of the war“:
- Where Is the Outrage over Israel’s Killing of Journalists in Gaza? (Washington Post)
“Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians”:
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