Netanyahu presses the U.S. toward confrontation with Iran as Israel deepens its grip on the West Bank and Western governments intensify their crackdown on Palestine organizing.

U.S. threats toward Iran ramp up as buried Biden administration warnings about Gaza come to light. Plus: Rafah intimidation, a meningitis outbreak in Gaza, settlement expansion in the West Bank, Israel’s war economy, and a UK court win for Palestine Action.

Rafah may reopen, but Gaza remains under siege conditions and subject to renewed attacks. This week, we focus on the U.S. reconstruction plan and what Gazans are saying about the proposed “Board of Peace”, alongside reporting on the crackdown in the United States and the West Bank.

Trump’s “Board of Peace,” shock doctrine governance in Gaza, West Bank teens under occupation, repression in Germany and Australia, and Israel’s export crisis.

Israel escalates West Bank displacement, tightens restrictions on aid groups, and Gaza’s “Phase 2” ceasefire plan offers little change for Palestinians.

Israel’s “administrative” measures in Gaza and the West Bank are making life unlivable, as the U.S. stages regime change in Venezuela and ramps up domestic repression.

In New York, Zohran Mamdani breaks with the old pro-Israel playbook, Israel tightens the vise on Gaza, and Trump invades Venezuela.

Gaza dispatches from Tareq Hajjaj, Noor Alyacoubi, and Malak Hijazi document death under the rubble, mutual aid reconstruction, and destroyed agriculture—while U.S. stories track doxxing campaigns and new legislation targeting Palestine speech.

Israel continues assassinations in Gaza, renews a West Bank campaign to entrench a new “security reality.” In the U.S., Zohran Mamdani faces early tests as Palestine organizers push for accountability, activists notch divestment wins targeting Israel Bonds, and the New York Times’ Jeffrey Epstein exposé ignores Israel.

This week: Israel moves to lock Gaza’s devastation into a new border, West Bank land grabs near Beit Sahour, U.S. works to counter arms embargoes, the Israel lobby’s free-travel pipeline to Congress, YouTube censorship, Oakland’s people’s arms embargo, and a UK hunger strike.