Israel continued to pound Gaza with airstrikes for the 6th day Thursday. Settler violence in the West Bank claimed five lives, while calls for ceasefire are overshadowed by brazen U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.
While the people of Gaza cheer for resistance in the West Bank and call for armed factions in Gaza to support it, they also fear that escalations with Israel will lead to another war on Gaza.
Alex Cosh talks to Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East’s Michael Bueckert about the Canadian government’s non-response to Israel’s recent attack on Gaza.
Mondoweiss Managing Editor Faris Giacaman shares the evolution of Palestinian armed resistance over the past 25 years, and how it set the stage for the latest Israeli attack on Gaza.
Israel’s latest attack on Gaza shows it is running out of options, and creating popular opposition around the world in the process.
The Mondoweiss Palestine news team discusses what led to the Israeli escalation in Gaza and the West Bank this past week, its impact on Palestinian and Israeli politics, and what Palestinians in Gaza lived through.
On August 9, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the West Bank, including notable Palestinian resistance fighter Ibrahim Nabulsi, “the lion of Nablus,” during a daytime military raid. Nabulsi’s killing is also connected to the ongoing struggle of hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh, who continues to be held under administrative detention in Ramleh Prison. All of these incidents are part of the same story — the Israeli campaign to eradicate Palestinian resistance.
Palestinian families aren’t done crying over the 232 loved ones they lost in Israel’s last “war” in May of 2021. Hospitals haven’t finished treating many of the 1900 people who were injured in that attack, and now this latest round of aggression is piling on the cases they have to treat. Neither were the humanitarian organizations able to rebuild all the damaged sectors in time for the latest onslaught.
Protests and calls for resistance have spread across the West Bank in the first 24 hours since Israel instigated the latest round of violence with the besieged Gaza Strip.
Twelve Palestinians, including a five-year-old child, were killed after Israeli air strikes targeted a civilian tower and several locations in the besieged Gaza Strip.