In the deadliest night of bombardment since the beginning of the war, Israel kills 400 people in 24 hours as hospitals reach breaking point amid shortages of fuel and medicine. Popular calls for ceasefire continue to be ignored internationally.
Each day I attempt to contact my extended family to make sure they are still alive. No family got the chance to evacuate and shelter together, and we aren’t able to mourn our dead together either. The war strips us of everything that makes us human.
Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died were killed. A growing number of reports indicate the Israeli military was responsible for civilian and military deaths.
The scenes today in Gaza feel familiar. And yet, at the same time, what we are witnessing today is worse than anything we have seen before in Gaza.
Let’s not try to apply logic to the Gaza wound and call ourselves a civilized world. I condemn all language now. That’s what I condemn. The only word that matters now: is “Gaza!”
Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes continue in Gaza, while extending them to the West Bank in an airstrike on Jenin. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid stalls, fuel shortages put newborns’ lives in peril, and clashes with Hezbollah intensify.
“Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?” This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
Zionists are weaponizing Jewish identity to unleash “hell” on Palestinians, and the U.S. is sending billions to Israel claiming to have a mandate from American Jews. Now, more than ever, it is uniquely incumbent on us to stand up for Palestinians.
Netanyahu justifies genocide– this is a struggle between “children of light and children of darkness”– and Biden appears to be bargaining over how many Palestinians civilians Israel can kill.
The meager aid convoy of 20 trucks carrying food and medicine will offer Gazans little reprieve. Meanwhile, Israel continues its genocidal bombing campaign while stepping up its arrests in the West Bank and skirmishes with Hezbollah.