Germany announced last week that it will continue to provide Israel with weapons, despite earlier criticism from its new conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said last month that Tel Aviv’s actions in Gaza “can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism.”
Luiz Inacio da Silva, the Brazilian president, said last week that Israel’s military action inside Gaza should not be classified as a war, but rather a “premeditated genocide” that is being executed by a “highly prepared army against women and children.”
Rev. Johnnie Moore, an evangelical Christian Zionist who has close ties to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was tapped to lead the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is the joint American-Israeli effort to go around the UN to distribute food and aid to Palestinians.
A recent poll found the vast majority of Israeli Jews support U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians, and nearly half would support killing everyone inside the enclave.
The IDF has tightened its grip on Gaza since renewing the U.S.-backed genocide in March and has forced about 2.1 million Palestinians into about one-fifth of the enclave that is not an evacuation zone now controlled by Israel, according to a report.
The Trump administration last week imposed sanctions on four judges from the International Criminal Court over their decision to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his previous defense minister, Yoav Gallant, based on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
MIT, the famed Ivy League university in Massachusetts, said last week that it barred the 2025 class president from a graduation ceremony after she delivered an unapproved speech about the school’s ties to Israel and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A top Yemeni official issued a warning on Sunday to businesses that operate inside the occupied territories to heed their warning that they’re continued presence puts them at risk of future drone and missile strikes.
Israel has killed at least 54,510 Palestinians and wounded 124,901 since the genocide started in October 2023. There are at least 11,000 people missing.
The decision by George Washington University to ban a student from campus after she spoke out about the Gaza genocide during a graduation ceremony was criticized by the school’s International Youth and Students for Social Equality group that said it is in “full solidarity with all students facing repression.”