Security contractor says he witnessed ‘barbaric’ and un-American tactics at Gaza aid sites
[interview video and transcript]

from #PBSNewsHour
Aug 1, 2025 6:45 PM EDT

The #GazaHumanitarianFoundation, a #US and #Israeli-backed humanitarian aid initiative, has been delivering aid into #Gaza since May. But since then, the U.N. says hundreds of #Palestinians have been killed outside of GHF aid sites. Nick Schifrin spoke with former security contractor Anthony Aguilar about what he saw there and why he believes the execution of the #GHF mission has failed.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-whistleblower-describes-chaos-and-reckless-force-at-gaza-aid-sites?utm_source=PBS+NewsHour&utm_campaign=4b7eb4b26c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_4_28_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47f99db221-4b7eb4b26c-322794269

#StopStarvingGaza
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#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
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‘The most peaceful person’: Umm Al-Khair mourns activist slain by Israeli settler

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles

• #Israel’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash
• ‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on #Gaza
• Israel’s destroyer-in-chief in Gaza lives in a settlement home marked for demolition
• #Germany’s angel of history is screaming

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=186431&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7c2c32bec8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-7c2c32bec8-1401528606

#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

In #Gaza, Hunger Has Overtaken Bombs as #Israel’s Cruelest Weapon

"We do not need pity. We need pressure on those who are blocking food, those who remain silent, and those who still have the power to stop this but choose not to."

from #DropSiteNews
Jul 30, 2025
Story by Heba Almaqadma

The deprivation from starvation and siege is visible upon people’s faces. People are looking hollow-eyed and tired. We are suffering not just from hunger, but from abandonment. #Palestinians have been turned into symbols of suffering and defiance, whereas what we want is not only to survive, but also to truly live and feel alive once more. Instead, as the whole world watches, for nearly two years we have been brutally murdered and tormented in the most horrific and innovative ways that a human mind can devise.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-famine-israel-starvation-genocide-war

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Letters
The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed

Thirty-one Israeli signatories express their shame, rage and agony over the plight of Palestinians and call for action from the international community

We, Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and our Palestinian neighbours, write this with grave shame, in rage and in agony. Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the Strip. The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/the-starvation-of-gaza-is-shameful-crippling-sanctions-on-israel-are-needed?CMP=share_btn_url

#StopStarvingGaza
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles

• We are starving
• ‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts
• Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer
• Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=186274&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c222ad7327-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-c222ad7327-1401528606

#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

Israel Bombs Gaza School With U.S.-Made Missile During Friday Prayers

The school was sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza City.

from #DropSiteNews
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 25, 2025

#Israel attacked the Cairo Elementary School for Girls in central #Gaza City just as people had gathered in the school yard for Friday prayers, according to multiple eyewitnesses. Many of the displaced in the school are from areas in northern Beit Hanoun, which has been nearly completely destroyed and emptied by the #Israeli military. So far, Israel has not published even a perfunctory justification for the strike and the Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions submitted by Drop Site about the attack.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-gaza-school-us-missile-displaced

#StopStarvingGaza
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity

#StopGazaGenocide
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#news #press #politics @palestine

Brazil to formally join South Africa's ICJ case against Israel

The country cited 'recurring episodes of violence' by Israel and 'shameless use of starvation as a weapon of war'

from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 11:59 BST

It said the international community "cannot remain inactive" in the face of "ongoing atrocities", and that the move is based on the “plausibility that the rights of Palestinians to protection against acts of genocide are being irreversibly impaired”.

[...]
However, campaigners have pointed to Brazil's crude oil exports to Israel - 2.7m barrels were shipped in 2024 alone - prompting calls from Brazilian oil worker unions for the government to implement an energy embargo against Israel.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/brazil-formally-join-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel

#StopStarvingGaza
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

#JeremyCorbyn confirms launch of new party, citing UK complicity in Israeli crimes

Former #Labour leader launches movement with #ZarahSultana, stating that current system is 'rigged'

In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.

The pair also cited #UK complicity in #Israel’s war on #Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.

“It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in your communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jeremy-corbyn-confirms-launch-new-party-citing-uk-complicity-israeli-crimes

#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#UKPolitics
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Brazil joins list of plaintiffs against Israel at ICJ

from #MercoPress
Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

#Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join #SouthAfrica's lawsuit against #Israel at the International Court of Justice (#ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the #Palestinian people.

Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of #Palestine,” extending beyond the #Gaza Strip to the #WestBank.

https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/24/brazil-joins-list-of-plaintiffs-against-israel-at-icj/

#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael #EndTheOccupation
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
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Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

Marwan al-Hams, head of Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital, was captured outside an ICRC field hospital

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST

The #Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the #Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the #ICRC facility in northern #Rafah when undercover #Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.

The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-special-forces-abduct-director-najjar-hospital-gaza

#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
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MAGA acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Tlaib and Omar to cut US funding for Israel

House of Representatives rejected cutting $500m in US funding for Israel, hours after bombing the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By #MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BST

Hardline America Firster and staunch #Trump supporter #MarjorieTaylorGreene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen #RashidaTlaib and #IlhanOmar to strip #Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family #CatholicChurch in #Gaza.

The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the #US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-marjorie-taylor-greene-fails-to-win-votes-cut-funding-israel

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#StopGazaGenocide
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#USA ##USPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine

Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations

[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

from #DropSiteNews
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in #Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 #Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,, a shadowy #US and #Israeli-backed group.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-starvation-campaign-gaza-famine-aid-massacres

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#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in [lead article]

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles

• The suffocation of Sinjil
  
• Autel denies selling drones to Israel. So why are they roaming Gaza’s skies?
• ‘I haven’t been here in 40 years’: Emotional reunions as Druze cross Israel-Syria fence
• My journalist friend was arrested by Israel. He won’t be the last

https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=186117

#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

Talking to the BBC about the Freedom Flotilla’s next boat sailing to break #Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza. Handala — for the children of #Gaza.

a #video from #BBC via #Facebook post by Huwaida Arraf, an activist with the #FreedomFlotilla

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19Rz3QAdyF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[sorry, I was not able to find a non-Facebook link to this.]

#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics
@palestine

#Israeli public ‘fed lies’ about defeating Hamas, commander says

Military officer warns the fight against the Palestinian group could last for years, dismissing claims of imminent victory

From #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 14:02 BST

Hamas, he explained, still maintains “massive infrastructure” in #Gaza. The fight against the group is far from over, he said.

“This is work that will need to continue for a year, for five years, to maintain the achievements. It doesn’t matter if the enemy is called #Hamas, #IslamicJihad, or any other name,” he added.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-public-fed-lies-about-defeating-hamas-commander-says

#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
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#Israel is displacing Palestinians on a scale not seen since 1967. [lead article]

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]
July 16, 2025

Other articles:

• The largest U.S. labor union is under attack. Show your support.
• What we’re doing: JVP-Seattle shuts down #Palantir.
• What we’re reading: “Defending the indefensible”
• Power Half-Hours for #Gaza.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/07/16/israel-is-displacing-palestinians-on-a-scale-not-seen-since-1967

#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
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