Jake Sullivan, the White House national security advisor, told reporters on Monday that Israel will be making a mistake if it goes through with its plan to invade Rafah, which would “lead to more innocent civilian deaths, worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis.”
Israel continued its collective punishment of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank on Monday carrying out a deadly raid inside a Gaza hospital while “settlers” vandalized a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) headquarters in Jerusalem.
The United States government produced no evidence to support its claim that TikTok is working to coordinate with the Chinese Communist Party, raising new suspicions as to why Washington is so determined to either ban the popular social media site or sell it off to a U.S. entity.
U.S. President Joe Biden praised Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last week for stating that Israel should hold new elections amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza—but both men—who never held a job outside Washington were shrewd and refused to call for a ceasefire.
With each passing day, it is becoming clearer that Israel’s goal in Gaza is to reoccupy the territory, and deport the 2.1 million Palestinians in the enclave, according to a report last week in The Los Angeles Times.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, last week and defended the genocide being carried out in Gaza and said one cannot support “Israel's goal of destroying Hamas and then oppose Israel when it takes the action necessary to achieve that goal.”
An investigation by a UN agency found that an Israeli tank opened fire on a group clearly identified as journalists in the early days of its siege of Gaza—killing a Reuters journalist and wounding six others in Lebanon.
U.S.-backed IDF militants in Gaza have killed more Gazan children in just over five months than “the number of children killed in four years of wars around the world combined,” according to the UN.
Israel announced last week that it plans on moving displaced Palestinians in Rafah to so-called humanitarian islands in the central part of the country as it carries out its next offensive inside the southern city where over 1.4 million people have been cramped and slaughtered for over a month.
Pro-Israel moneymen who have already targeted top U.S. colleges like Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania with lawsuits over antisemitism on campus said they have their knives out for additional schools.