Week in Review
7/19/25
How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Netanyahu prolonged Gaza war for his political needs. IN THE NYT!
Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - July 12, 2025
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Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal in April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going to Stay in Power: NY Times
Plan to Indefinitely Displace Palestinians Threatens to Derail Gaza Truce
Israeli weapons firm Rafael uses Gaza killing in marketing campaign
Post promoting Rafael's Firefly drone shows it tracking and targeting someone in Gaza. This is appalling.
Militarism, Islamophobia, Zionism, nationalism gone berserk. Why would anyone in their right mind or just any decent religious person think this is OK???
Who’s Trying to Kill BDS on Campus?
In light of the recent confirmation that ICE officials were using Canary Mission to select individuals to interrogate and deport, it is important to understand the Canary Mission, so check out this essay.
Harvard Study Finds Israel ‘Disappeared’ Nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Half Children
Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population since October 2023
I moderated the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council webinar: The Gazafication of the West Bank A report from Diana Buttu, Esq Esteemed Human Rights Lawyer. very powerful, over 100 signed up and 48 showed up...
The horror of Gaza’s children’s hospitals
The horror of Gaza’s children’s hospitals: One doctor’s experience of life and death in the warzone, by Tanya Haj-Hassan. A firsthand account of the systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and its especially bad consequences for children, leading many to die from treatable wounds and illnesses.
WHO representative Dr. Rik Peeperkorn stated Nasser Medical Complex “is one massive trauma ward.” The 350-bed capacity hospital is currently treating 700 patients, many wounded in incidents at militarized distribution sites. ICU patients are in every area of the hospital due to the lack of ICU space, without necessary infection controls. A shortage of all critical supplies.
A shortage of fuel and supplies will shut Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, warned hospital director Dr. Mohammed Abu Selmiyah, noting the dialysis unit had closed to preserve electricity for ICUs and operating rooms. A similar situation threatens Nasser Medical Complex. Access to Nasser and Al Amal hospitals is intermittent due to their location in conflict areas and displacement orders. A communication from Nasser on 7/11: “We are working now in the hospital, and the tanks are only a few meters away from us. We are closer to death than to life. The soldiers show no mercy—not to a child, nor an elder, nor a doctor or a nurse. We remain here because we are human and our mission is humanitarian… Don’t forget us. Don’t turn us into numbers…”
Protection Brief: Situation of Older Persons in Gaza
A new UNRWA publication highlights risks facing elders, many of whom have been left without protection, support, or even access to basics needed for survival. Limited mobility, chronic health conditions, and the collapse of health and support systems contribute to their vulnerability, intensified by frequent forced displacement, chronic food and water shortages, and overcrowded, unhygienic living conditions. Israeli restrictions on entry of assistive devices pose additional challenges.
WFP delivers food inside Gaza amid restrictions and growing insecurity
A WFP assessment found 1 in 3 people do not eat daily and more are at risk of starvation. Food aid entering Gaza does not reach the 2.1 million Gazans – half of whom are children. The latest IPC finding warns of the likelihood of famine before 9/30
Aid Groups: Infants Are Dying in Gaza Because Israel Impedes Import of Baby Formula
Aid Groups: Infants Are Dying in Gaza Because Israel Impedes Import of Baby Formula. “International organizations say that the Israeli government insists on them buying baby formula through it and paying customs duty – leaving much aid stuck outside Gaza. Israel denies the allegations, but according to UNRWA, the percentage of Gazan children suffering from malnourishment has doubled since March.”
Backlash grows over Israel’s proposal for prison-like city in Gaza
Israel's plans to push Palestinians to live in harsh conditions in Rafah, southern Gaza, have come under widespread attack by officials and activists who have described the proposed zones as “concentration camps”. Defence Minister Israel Katz said he instructed the army to work on a proposal to “concentrate” Palestinians in Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” built on the ruins of Rafah. The plans, which would affect all 2.2 million people in Gaza, would include screening civilians to ensure that they are not members of Hamas. People would be unable to leave the area as it is secured by the Israeli army and managed by international organizations, he told reporters.
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
Genocide scholar calls Israeli attacks on Gaza a genocide.
By any means necessary: the erasure of Gaza
The world watches Israel starve and decimate my people with impunity while I’m frightened and hungry. by We Are Not Numbers writer Huda Skaik
Israel Wants to Silence Islamic Call to Prayer
Another example of Israeli Islamophobia and racism.... if they cannot see Palestinians (The apartheid wall) and if they cannot hear Muslims (silencing the call to prayer) then maybe Palestinians do not exist....
Israelis push local Muslim officials to lower the volume of the Islamic call to prayer, which sounds five times a day across the city. But silencing it altogether is likely the desired goal, as part of the overall continuing push to Judaize the city.
Israel Once Rescued Children From Rubble. Now It Kills Those Who Try to Save Them
Hala Arafat died in unimaginable agony with her husband and four children. Fourteen members of their family, seven of them children, were killed in the bombing of their home. Anyone who tried to approach them was attacked by drones...
Where is the outrage from the Jewish American community???
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