As worries of a regional war intensify, UNICEF says the children of Gaza are running out of time to be saved as they face “severe acute malnutrition” amid Israel’s ongoing siege.
While Palestine’s envoy to the UN says that the Security Council resolution is a step in the right direction, others have called it “toothless” and “utterly meaningless” to civilians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel continues its military raids into Jenin.
As the Biden administration sets its sites on a confrontation with Ansar Allah in the Red Sea, the U.S. is flirting dangerously with the regional conflagration it has been trying to avoid since October 7.
An Israeli airstrike killed the father of an Al Jazeera correspondent in Jabalia, while Houthi rebels launched a missile on a ship scheduled to dock in Ashdod. In the West Bank, Israeli forces executed a Palestinian boy in Tubas in cold blood.
Palestinians have called for a global strike on Monday as Israel continues to kill Palestinians by the thousands, refusing a ceasefire as analysts warn a miscalculation could trigger a regional war.
Israeli forces besiege Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza. Meanwhile, two Lebanese journalists were killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, and Palestinian prisoners continue to face humiliation, abuse and torture inside Israeli prisons.
One of Trump administration’s last acts is promoting terrible famine in Yemen by designating rebel Houthis as a “terrorist” group because they are Iran-backed. The rightwing Israel lobby group Foundation for Defense of Democracies applauds the move.