Activists in New York City have started a hunger strike for Gaza outside the United Nations in solidarity with hunger strikers in Jordan. Organizers say that the strike will continue until the siege on Gaza is lifted.
University of California, San Francisco medical professionals, workers, and students throughout the UC system are convening the UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine to charge UC leadership with complicity in genocide and the ongoing Nakba.
The cause of Kamala Harris’ disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.
I grew up in Jabalia refugee camp, listening to my mother’s stories about its resistance during the First Intifada, its resistance fighters, and its stubborn defiance of the colonial regime. Today, Jabalia is my only hope.
In one month of continuous killing, it is thought that the Israeli army has ethnically cleansed some 100,000 people out of north Gaza. Those who remain are being starved out and exterminated.
Spokesperson Yitzhak Cohen said the Israel army is close to the complete “evacuation” of north Gaza, and Palestinian residents will not be allowed to return. This marks the first official admission of the intent to permanently expel Palestinians.
The Israeli army has admitted for the first time that it intends to prevent Palestinian residents of northern Gaza to return to their homes.
Civilians fleeing north Gaza are arriving in Gaza City and staying in newly established refugee camps. The camps are already overflowing and there aren’t any more tents.
A scandal over fabricated documents allegedly leaked by an aide to Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed Israel’s efforts to sabotage Gaza ceasefire negotiations.
As the year has dragged on, I can’t help but think my grandparents who experienced the Nakba were luckier. They never had to answer questions like, “What’s your message to a world that has failed you?”