A Surgeon on the Desperation in #Gaza: ‘They’re Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice’

Dr. Victoria Rose spent 21 days in the territory in May, treating people who were shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from #Israeli bombs.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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July 9, 2025 Updated 3:12 p.m. ET

“There were ambulances coming in, just bringing dead people, and then there were donkey-drawn carts bringing dead people,” she recalled in an interview in London. “By about 10 o’clock, we had 20 or so dead bodies, and then easily a hundred or so gunshot wounds.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/middleeast/gaza-hospitals-uk-surgeon-israel-attacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VE8._37B.ZNVhLGpFhY9J&smid=url-share

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The tears of Gaza’s men are an act of rebellion

from #972Magazine Sunday Recap newsletter [published in Israel]
07/06/2025

**Other articles**
* #Gaza’s Al-Baqa Cafe was a sanctuary amid the genocide. Now it lies in ruins
* The #Knesset vs #AymanOdeh
*The #UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants
* ‘It comes with the territory’: How #Israel’s archaeologists legitimize annexation

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=185868&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3476b6af4c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-3476b6af4c-1401528606

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#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
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#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
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Israeli tank fire kills 51 people in #Gaza crowd trying to get food

from #Reuters
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

***Summary***
* #Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
* Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
* Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tank-shelling-kills-45-people-awaiting-aid-trucks-gaza-ministry-says-2025-06-17/

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Israel’s greatest threat isn’t #Iran or #Hamas, but its own hubris

from #972Magazine newsletter [published in Israel]

Other articles:
* Trolling the #Madleen reveals the depths of the #Israeli media’s delusion

* How# Israel is engineering #Gaza’s social collapse

* For pregnant #Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death

* The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway

https://www.972mag.com/israels-greatest-threat-isnt-iran-or-hamas-but-its-own-hubris/

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#Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in #Gaza, hospital says

Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by #Israel-backed foundation

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and agencies
Sun 1 Jun 2025 06.04 EDT

"Thousands of people headed toward the distribution site hours before dawn. As they approached the site, #Israeli forces ordered them to disperse and come back later, witnesses said. When the crowds reached the Flag Roundabout, about 1km away, at about 3am, Israeli forces opened fire, the witnesses said."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hospital-says?CMP=share_btn_url

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#Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s calls war in Gaza a ‘genocide’

from #MiddleEastMonitor
May 30, 2025 at 2:23 pm

"“Ben & Jerry’s believes in human rights and advocates for peace, and we join with those around the world who denounce the #genocide in #Gaza,” the board said in a statement viewed by Reuters. “We stand with all who raise their voices against genocide in Gaza – from petition-signers to street marchers to those risking arrest.”"

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250530-unilevers-ben-jerrys-calls-war-in-gaza-a-genocide/

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Chaos and killings: Israeli army kills three during #Rafah aid distribution

#Palestinians express outrage over latest #US-#Israeli initiative designed to bypass #UN's infrastructure for aid delivery in #Gaza

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam
Published date: 28 May 2025 15:53 BST

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/chaos-and-killings-israeli-army-fires-palestinians-kills-three-during-aid-distribution-rafah

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‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: #Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike

Dr Alaa al-Najjar was at work when #Israeli strike destroyed her home, leaving one son and her husband as survivors

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Sun 25 May 2025 14.24 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/25/gaza-doctor-last-goodbye-nine-children-killed-airstrike?CMP=share_btn_url

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#Irish pro-#Palestine activists embrace ‘#Paddystinian’ term as badge of honour

Believed to have originated as an insult by #Israel supporters, neologism is now used to campaign against war in #Gaza

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
Sun 25 May 2025 03.00 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/25/irish-pro-palestine-activists-embrace-paddystinian-term-as-badge-of-honour?CMP=share_btn_url

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Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 8:23 AM EDT, May 24, 2025

"Several Palestinians and soldiers told the #AP that #Israeli troops are systematically forcing #Palestinians to act as human shields in #Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for explosives or militants. The dangerous practice has become ubiquitous during 19 months of war, they said. "

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-army-human-shields-80f358dd2c87a1123f26ffada159701c?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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#Gaza doctor receives charred bodies of her nine children while on duty

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of #Israeli attacks when her children were killed in a strike on their home

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 24 May 2025 11:09 BST

"Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.

The children - the eldest aged 12 and the youngest just six months - were severely burned in the bombing."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-doctor-receives-bodies-her-nine-children-while-duty

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Violent Israeli settlers under #UK sanctions join illegal West Bank outpost

Exclusive: Neria Ben Pazi and Zohar Sabah witnessed visiting base set up to drive Palestinians from homes

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Thu 22 May 2025 14.56 EDT

"Two violent #Israeli settlers on whom sanctions were imposed by the UK government this week have joined a campaign to drive #Palestinians from their homes in the #WestBank village of Mughayyir al-Deir."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/violent-israeli-settlers-under-uk-sanctions-join-west-bank-outpost?CMP=share_btn_url

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Medic survived #Gaza shootings by pleading in Hebrew, #Palestinian Red Crescent says

from #Reuters
By Emma Farge
May 22, 20252:11 PM EDT

Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, told reporters in Geneva that Al-Nassasrah was spared after he pleaded in Hebrew and said his mother was a #Palestinian citizen of #Israel.

"What does Assad say in Hebrew? 'Don't shoot. I am Israeli.' And the soldier got a bit confused," he told reporters. "That confusion ... made him survive."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/medic-survived-gaza-shootings-by-pleading-hebrew-palestinian-red-crescent-says-2025-05-22/

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#Hamas offers to release half of remaining hostages for two month truce

from #TheJerusalemPost
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
MAY 18, 2025 00:17
Updated: MAY 18, 2025 01:06

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854350

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Hamas Says #Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for #EdanAlexander

The U.S. immediately broke the deal, senior #Hamas official Basem Naim tells Drop Site. “They threw it in the trash” and there has been “zero” progress on a #Gaza ceasefire.

from #DropsiteNews
Jeremy Scahill
May 16, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade-israel?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's #Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide

"Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide?" said one researcher. "No."

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
May 15, 2025

"Melanie O'Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, told NRC that #Israel's deliberate blockade on "food, water, shelter, and sanitation" convinced her the #Netanyahu government was carrying out a #genocide, while Segal pointed to "openly genocidal statements" by #Israeli leaders.

"But for all it is about the sum of what would apply separately as 'ordinary' war crimes," NRC reported. "The picture as a whole makes it a genocide. That is how the term is meant, says [British professor Martin] Shaw: 'holistic.'""

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza

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Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force”

The scenes of mass displacement on Wednesday were like a slow-moving human flood flowing through destroyed streets.

From #DropsiteNews
Rasha Abou jalal

May 15, 2025

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2510348&post_id=163626723&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2y9nd&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0OTU4MDQxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNjM2MjY3MjMsImlhdCI6MTc0NzMxMzQ2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5OTA1NDY2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjUxMDM0OCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.3vZFdrgRzkz7sfPX4vqfzTljMO5ygWE57LWGet2KmRY

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Israeli Forces Bombed Two Gaza #Hospitals in One Day

By targeting European Hospital and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the #Israeli military is further decimating #Gaza’s already devastated medical system.

from #DropsiteNews
Kavitha Chekuru
May 14, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/european-hospital-nasser-gaza-israeli-airstrikes?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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#Israel 'sending soldiers to commit war crimes in #Gaza', says former army chief

Moshe Yaalon, who also served as #BenjaminNetanyahu's defence minister, accuses the government of 'losing touch with #Jewish morality'

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By MEE staff
Published date: 9 May 2025 14:10 BST

"Yaalon attacked the current military chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, saying he was not stopping “clearly illegal orders” and was ordering “his soldiers to be war criminals”.

“Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation - it’s a war crime,” Yaalon said..."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sending-soldiers-commit-war-crimes-gaza-says-former-army-chief

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‘Total paralysis’: Gaza municipalities overwhelmed by #Israeli destruction and blockade

Officials warn of health collapse as #Gaza’s infrastructure is bombed and fuel supplies run dry

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 5 May 2025 12:35 BST

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/total-paralysis-gaza-municipalities-overwhelmed-israeli-destruction-and-blockade

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