Tag: Gaza

The UN warns that, should the blockade remain in place, GDP per capita will continue “to decline continuously and precipitously,” placing Gaza’s future in severe jeopardy.

Israeli strikes continue to pound Gaza and have expanded to attacks in Lebanon, where at least 19 people were killed over a 24-hour period.

The Israeli military has also attacked the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, and killed three Lebanese soldiers in a strike in southern Lebanon, all while continuing to defy international calls for a ceasefire.

Rharrit says she found the Biden administration unmovable in its “counterproductive policy,” which she believes has gravely harmed U.S. interests in the Middle East.

We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last October over the push to increase arms sales to Israel.

"These atrocities must end. Civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be protected."

This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations.

We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed.

His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.

Ninety-nine American doctors and nurses recount the horrors they witnessed in Gaza, urging the Biden administration to stop arms sales and enforce a ceasefire.