According to a release from Al Mezan, a Gaza-based human rights monitor, at the start of September “38% of essential drugs and 22% of medical disposables were at ‘zero stock’” in Gaza.

There’s a lot of news this week. The new Israeli government is pushing forward on settlement expansion despite surprisingly strong lip service against it from the Biden administration. And the unapologetic support for BDS from Omari Hardy, a progressive candidate for Congress in Florida, has caused a Jewish newspaper to smear him as a reincarnation of Hitler– and the Democratic Majority for Israel has leaped in to smear Hardy as an antisemite.

Beginning in November, Palestinians will need to present proof of vaccine status, confirming they have received three doses in order to cross checkpoints to work in Israel and West Bank settlements. 

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is dead at the age of 84. His enduring legacy will always be his role in pushing the Iraq War although you wouldn’t know that from obituaries and remembrances in the mainstream media.

While Israel is expecting a six-month recoil in coronavirus cases after administering a third, or booster, COVID-19 vaccine that has plummeted new infection, health officials have retooled requirements for their “Green Pass” system, and in the wake of new regulations, Palestinian workers will lose their status.

Big Week for BDS The Irish writer Sally Rooney has rejected an Israeli publisher’s request…

Social media platforms are pulling seemingly innocuous observations that Palestinians are incurring a great deal of harm from Israeli actions under the specter of “hate speech” violations.

Why did Jamaal Bowman vote for an extra billion in Iron Dome funding?

Pro-Israel groups lament they have lost Rep. Ayanna Pressley as a dependable vote.

As COVID-19 testing finally increased in Palestine over the last month so did the number of positive cases and deaths.