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”.
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.
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 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.
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.”
“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.”
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.
Since October 7, scholars have debated whether Israel’s actions meet the legal threshold of genocide. A meticulous new report finds the evidence is clear and overwhelming.
Israel's far-right wants the killings to continue!
Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government over a cease-fire proposal outlined by President Biden on Friday. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Israel#gaza#Hamas
“Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that #WhatsApp is a private messaging app,” he wrote. “It is beyond obscene and makes #Meta complicit in Israel’s killings of ‘pre-crime’ targets and their families, in violation of international humanitarian law and Meta’s publicly stated commitment to human rights.
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.
Amid the chaos and destruction of war, the Gaza Community Mental Health Program stands as a glimmer of hope for agonized and neglected Palestinians struggling to survive the Israeli genocide.
Mayors, police chiefs, and university heads have defended their violent attacks on student protests by claiming “outside agitators” are the cause of unrest. This racist trope was used during the civil rights movement and is equally obscene today.
During an interview with AFP in Jerusalem, an Israeli-American Netanel Aronson believes that there are bigger problems than “this little Rafah” the world should care about, condemning Hamas for starting Israel's war on Gaza.
Another Israeli, Nathalie, a French tour guide has expressed that “it’s never been easy being an Israeli,” adding that “we can feel that we’re really hated.”
Meet Palestinian journalist Bassem al Habal who reports from Gaza in sign language.
Working hard under Israeli bombings despite his hearing disability, Bassem aims to make news accessible for everyone to "know the truth, who is right and who is wrong".
Deaf individuals lack crucial information during disasters due to a lack of sign language interpretation, increasing vulnerability.
"Saying no to Biden means saying yes to more futile, wholesale bloodshed, of Israeli soldiers &, more so, of Gaza's inhabitants; yes to the death of the last of the hostages in Hamas captivity; yes to genocide; yes to war in the north; yes to declaring Israel a pariah state... And someone affirming all of the above should be condemned as a war criminal by his own country, unless we are all war criminals"
Gideon Levy in Haaretz today