This week, Mondoweiss published powerful and essential reporting highlighting the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza and exposing the deeply troubling role of the Israeli and American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. We documented how Palestinians seeking aid at distribution points managed by this shadowy foundation have been dissappeared, fired upon, and even killed. As Abdaljawad Omar wrote, these sites have effectively become “kill zones,” part of a calculated strategy to force displacement by exploiting Palestinians’ desperate need for food and aid. Tareq Hajjaj further illustrated this horror, describing eyewitness accounts of chaos and violence, with American mercenaries standing by as armed looters attacked vulnerable civilians seeking aid.
The so-called humanitarian efforts by Israel and the U.S. in Gaza are not genuine attempts to alleviate the severe famine and suffering their policies have caused. Instead, they represent a cynical manipulation designed explicitly to accelerate displacement, as Israel openly plans to occupy up to 75% of Gaza. These actions are not isolated incidents but coordinated elements of a systematic ethnic cleansing operation, increasingly transparent to anyone paying attention.
Internationally, there is finally a growing chorus of leaders and governments speaking more forcefully against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, with some even beginning to take tangible actions. While this increased global pressure marks a positive step forward, it arrives tragically late. Natasha Lennard from The Intercept recently pointed out that Western liberals have a track record of waiting to speak up until the window for meaningful action has nearly closed, failing repeatedly to prevent or halt atrocities. We must remain vigilant, insisting on accountability and urgent action, not tomorrow, but today.
– Dave Reed, Publisher
Must Read: The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.
Abdaljawad Omar: Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.
Catch-up
🇧🇦 David Kattenburg: Among the demands made in the Sarajevo declaration of the Gaza Tribunal are an “immediate withdrawal” of Israeli forces from Gaza, an end to forced displacement of its people, and resumption of humanitarian aid.
⚕️ Mansoor Malik and Salman Majeed: Medical societies in the U.S. have failed to meet their ethical responsibilities by refusing to take a stand against war crimes and genocide in Gaza.
🇮🇱 Michael Arria in The Shift: On the heels of Trump’s Gulf tour, where he secured trillion-dollar deals with Arab states, Israeli tech leaders are now trying to get in on the action.
✊🏼 CUNY students, staff, and faculty on hunger strike for Gaza: We are the eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system who started an indefinite hunger strike. We have one demand: that CUNY divest from Israel and companies aiding the genocide in Gaza.
🇪🇺 Mitchell Plitnick: Netanyahu is facing increasing pressure from European states, including the threat of sanctions. The unanswered question is whether Trump will actually let Europe take action, or will he once again shield Israel from any accountability.
🇵🇸 Yoav Haifawi: The town of Umm al-Fahm is on the front lines of the struggle against the genocide among the communities of Palestinians that hold Israeli citizenship, or ’48 Palestinians.
📖 PalFest: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine’ examines the mass uprisings against Zionism and for independence from British colonialism. A new English translation of the book offers new insights into the pivotal text.
🇵🇸 Tareq Hajjaj: For the third time this week, chaos broke out at the aid distribution point run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Eyewitnesses said American mercenaries did not intervene once they witnessed armed looting at the site.
🇮🇱 Jonathan Ofir: A recent poll shows that the majority of Jewish Israelis agree that there is a current incarnation of the “Amalek”, the biblical enemy nation, where the divine command was to eradicate them, and that it applies to Palestinians in the modern day.
🇵🇸 Omar Aziz: Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
🇮🇱 Qassam Muaddi: Israel plans on concentrating Palestinians into isolated camps within Gaza after it takes over 75% of the territory, luring Palestinians into those zones by using aid as bait.
