Saturday, August 15, 2026

Tag: Netanyahu

‘Starvation by design’: Over 55,000 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces...

Palestinians seeking food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites are being killed and injured in rising numbers, as Israel enforces a siege that aid experts and survivors say is deliberately fueling chaos, displacement, and starvation.

No shelter left as Israeli forces displace 180,000 Palestinians in ten...

A renewed wave of Israeli bombings and ground offensives has displaced 180,000 people in 10 days, with schools, homes, and designated “safe zones” turned into mass graves—many funded by U.S. weapons and shielded by diplomatic silence.

Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty...

As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.

14,000 babies at risk of death in Gaza as Israel blocks...

UN and international leaders condemn Israel’s blockade as thousands of trucks wait at Gaza’s border while children face imminent starvation.

‘This is where kids with cancer are’: Israel bombs Gaza hospitals,...

U.S.-backed Israeli strikes destroy hospitals in Khan Younis, killing patients, staff, and journalists as Gaza’s health system nears total collapse under allegations of war crimes.

Israel now occupies over half of Gaza as expanded buffer zone...

Systematic destruction of homes, farmland, and infrastructure in Gaza buffer zone reveals deeper plan for permanent Israeli control, soldiers and experts say.

Israel’s assault kills 174 children in Gaza in one of the...

With at least 174 children killed in a single day, Israel’s renewed bombing campaign in Gaza marks one of the most devastating assaults in the region’s history, violating ceasefire agreements and worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis.

Israel’s renewed blockade and airstrikes leave Gaza’s children starving as Trump...

Human rights groups warn that these actions constitute grave violations of international law and could amount to war crimes.

Israeli forces raid hospitals in Gaza, issue dire evacuation orders amid...

Gaza in turmoil: Israeli hospital raids and evacuation orders intensify humanitarian crisis

‘Outrageous’: Sanders rips Netanyahu for sending Covid vaccines to foreign allies...

The U.S. senator from Vermont denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for sending spare vaccines overseas “while so many Palestinians in the occupied territories are still waiting.”

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?

We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.

Dear Joe

The time has come for a coalition, and that means being open, and honest, and doing the best for the country. So do it.
An ICE Special Response Team performs crowd control outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on June 10, 2026. Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

“An ICE Murder”: Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in Solitary

In the wake of a third ICE death at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, we speak with Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martín was one of the leaders of the May hunger strike at the immigration jail. Martín was transferred to Elizabeth Detention Center, New Jersey’s other ICE facility, during the hunger strike at Delaney. Gabriela is calling for the closure of both facilities. “At first, I was fighting for my husband, but then I started to meet all of these people who are just innocent, and they are the people that make this country great,” says Soto, who blames her recent miscarriage on the stress of her husband being detained. “I am still grieving,” she says. “To me, this is an ICE murder, too.” This comes as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a Salvadoran immigrant, died Saturday after being held for six weeks at Delaney Hall. He is the third immigrant to die at the ICE jail, which has been open since May 2025. Lopez-Cornejo’s mother, Maria Cornejo, says her son took medicine to manage diabetes, seizures and his blood pressure, but had not received his medications regularly since being detained. ICE said in a statement that Lopez-Conejo experienced a “medical emergency” on Saturday and was transported to University Hospital in Newark, but Maria Cornejo says her son died at Delaney Hall. More than 70 people inside the ICE jail have filed lawsuits alleging medical neglect. That neglect was one of the factors that led to the hunger strike. “Individuals are not receiving the kind of healthcare that they in fact need, particularly for chronic health conditions, for pregnancies, for cancers,” says Analilia Mejía, Democratic congressmember from New Jersey. “Being undocumented should not be a death sentence.”