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On World Water Day, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was “deliberately causing thirst” in Gaza, where only 1 in 5 households has access to safe drinking water, while the World Food Programme warned that famine was imminent along the northern part of the Gaza Strip.1234 “We have the food ready to go in, we just can’t get in,” said the program’s executive director.5 Israel informed the United Nations that it would bar the issuance of food rations to northern Gaza by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and the United States Congress passed a measure that would cut all U.S ..read more
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1w ago
In Khan Younis, Gazan medical staff told the BBC that they were blindfolded, forced to strip and kneel for hours, doused with cold water, and beaten by Israeli soldiers after the army raided the hospital where they worked.1 The Israeli military announced that it would move displaced Palestinians to “humanitarian islands” in the middle of Gaza should it begin an assault on Rafah; President Joe Biden has designated an attack on Rafah a “red line” that Israel should not cross. “We’ll go there,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also said that New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s cal ..read more
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2w ago
“Extreme hunger” is proliferating in Gaza as the region has reportedly reached the highest proportion of food deprivation in the world; Physicians for Human Rights Israel called the starvation “a moral stain that will stay with us for generations.”123 “There’s no red line [where] I’m going to cut off all weapons [to Israel],” said President Biden; “But there’s red lines that if [Netanyahu] crosses them,” he added, without finishing his sentence; the U.S. has delivered more than 100 military sales to Israel since October 7.45 The U.S. military announced that it will build a floating pier off th ..read more
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Weekly Review
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3w ago
At least 112 Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops southwest of Gaza City as they waited for food and supplies.1 Israeli tanks reportedly drove over the wounded, adding to the death toll, and injured people were transported to hospitals on donkey carts because ambulances were unable to reach the site.23 Initially, Israel claimed that the dead were killed in a stampede to get food; military officials later said the army shot at Palestinians because they felt “threatened.”456 Local elections in Israel saw gains for Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s f ..read more
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Weekly Review
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1M ago
The United States cast the sole vote against a United Nations security council resolution that would have endorsed a ceasefire in Gaza; the dissension was sufficient to veto the action, and represented the third instance of the Biden Administration’s rejection of a cessation of hostilities.1 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his intent to order the ground invasion of Rafah, and said that even the return of the remaining hostages in Hamas captivity would not deter him. “We’ll do it anyway,” he said.2 The UN’s World Food Programme announced that it would halt all deliveries of ..read more
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Will Trump Become a Dictator?
Harper's Magazine
by John R. MacArthur
1M ago
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on February 5, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. There is a fashionable fear spreading among American intellectuals who want to appear devoted to democracy – especially after Donald Trump’s victories in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries. This fear, which has reached near-hysterical levels in recent weeks, is based on the idea that Trump, even if he wins the next election by democratic rules, will try to seize dictatorial power upon returning to the White House. Presented by a bipartisan coalition of liberals and c ..read more
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The Israeli military temporarily released a Palestinian prisoner bound in zip-tie handcuffs to tell the thousands sheltering in a Khan Younis hospital to evacuate before the facility would be bombed; among the refugees was the prisoner’s mother, and Israeli forces shot him fatally after he delivered the message.123 “We don’t expect Gazans really to be able to return to their homes until this mission is completed,” said Matt Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State.4 President Joe Biden phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and conditioned his support of Israel’s air s ..read more
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Despite warnings from the United Nations, the U.S., and other world leaders, Israel escalated its attack on southern Gaza, killing dozens of people in the city of Rafah, where more than a million have sought shelter.12 “The moral thing is to understand that every Arab is a suspect,” said an Israeli soldier, while the head of UNICEF said that “civilians are pushed into a corner” with “nowhere safe to go.”345 Gaza’s death toll since October 7 surpassed 28,000, according to its Ministry of Health, and Israel rescued two of the hostages in Hamas captivity; 132 remain, at least 30 of whom are now d ..read more
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The Malian army and Russian mercenaries were reported to have executed 25 Fulani people during a raid on a village in central Mali.12 Iran hanged four Kurdish men accused of spying for Israel, and the U.S. accused a drug dealer in Canada backed by the Iranian government of a botched murder-for-hire plot to pay $350,000 to the Hell’s Angels to assassinate two defectors.34 In Gaza, Israel’s campaign of bombings, flooding, and bulldozing has damaged or destroyed half of all buildings and caused Palestinians with no access to food to eat grass and drink contaminated water.567 The state of Alabama ..read more
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Weekly Review
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2M ago
The International Court of Justice rejected calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, but demanded that Israel punish public incitements to commit genocide, preserve evidence related to allegations of genocide, and improve humanitarian aid to Gazans; the court concluded that “some of the acts” South Africa accused Israel of committing “appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the [Genocide] Convention.”12 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the ruling “outrageous” and pledged that Israel would continue fighting a “just war like no other,” while Israel’s national security mini ..read more
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