Israeli protests demanding a prisoner exchange deal continue in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Blinken discusses the proposal with Gantz and Gallant. Meanwhile, Gaza authorities say that thousands of children face death from starvation.
Sarah Schulman: «On assiste à une impulsion fasciste visant à empêcher les gens de parler»
Juive américaine, activiste en faveur de la #Palestine, militante de la cause LGBTQIA+ et ancienne d’Act Up, l’autrice Sarah Schulman répond aux questions de Mediapart sur la guerre à #Gaza, l’impunité d’#Israël et la poussée des fascismes en Europe et aux États-Unis.
More than 22,000 people took to the streets of Paris, in a joint protest in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
It is the sixth day in a row that Parisians take to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli war on Gaza, since Israel bombed a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah on 26 May.
Protesters were heard chanting slogans including “no Olympic Games for the genociders”, “we are all children of Gaza” and “no justice, no peace”.
Gaza’s Government Media Office warns that more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of dying due to shortages of food, nutritional supplements and vaccinations.
These children are experiencing severe malnutrition, harming their physical development and making them vulnerable to infectious diseases.
Palestinian children in Khan Yunis [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
The more resistance that the colonized shows, the more brutal the colonizer becomes. Genocidal Israel is now walking in the footsteps of all other settler colonies on their deathbed.
A group of Scots MSPs, headed by the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives Jackson Carlaw have taken met with a key Israeli government official supporting the targeting of hospitals and ambulances in Gaza
The lobbying was made to MSPs on a Building Bridges with Israel cross-party parliamentary group by Oren Marmorstein, Deputy Ambassador of Israel to the UK.
The emergency committee for north Gaza has declared Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, a disaster area.
Palestinians returning to Jabalia after Israeli forces withdrew have found homes and infrastructure destroyed.
Palestinians are struggling to meet their basic needs, including safe drinking water, after Israeli forces destroyed dozens of wells as well as sewage systems and other basic infrastructure.
"Several people were killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes outside of #Aleppo, Syria’s defense ministry said early Monday. According to reports, the attack targeted a copper plant in the town of Hayyan, north of Aleppo in northern #Syria. Video purporting to show the aftermath of the apparent strike showed large flames shooting out of a building
“My husband's siblings and their children now need urgent medical care. In order to achieve this, they need to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, including the fitting of prosthetic limbs for my brother-in-law.”
Bob Feldman, who protested at Columbia University in 1968, on the student uprising today, “I would tell these students: people will always remember what you did today . . . and I believe they have accomplished much more in 2024 than we did in 1968.”
Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
Given a choice between war and getting all its hostages back, Israel has opted for more war, argues Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.
Even if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was replaced, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people as a whole. “Radical change” in Israeli attitude and U.S. support is needed for any improvement in the situation, says Levy.
Former special assistant of the US Interior Department, Lily Greenberg Call, says President Joe Biden is “using the Jewish community” as “justification” for the country’s military support for Israel.
What forced her to resign was that Biden’s support of Israel has threatened both Jewish and Palestinian people, and is incentivised by American military interest in the Middle East.
Fears are growing inside Israel about being blacklisted by the United Nations among countries harming children in conflict zones.
A report is scheduled to be released next month by UN Special Representative Virginia Gamba on the situation of children in conflict zones, which is likely to include Israel among entities violating children’s rights.
If added, Israel will be listed alongside "terrorist groups" such as Daesh/ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram.