The U.S. bribed Egypt with $1.3 billion in military aid to get Cairo to “continue to participate in U.S. policy towards Palestine, which equates to facilitating the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Dr. Annelle Sheline, a research fellow for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute, posted on Wednesday.
Despite Israel’s genocide in Gaza, killing at least 41,206 people, an unsourced Israeli report said Hamas is recovering at a faster pace than the IDF is dismantling the group.
Children in Gaza have missed an entire full year of school, and there is no sign that this school year will be any different given that Israel continues to carry out its campaign to ethnically cleanse the coastal enclave.
Israel’s security cabinet on Saturday said returning Israelis to their homes in the stolen land in the north—along the border with Lebanon—will be named an official goal of the war, raising the likelihood of a major escalation.
Israel’s crackdown on any reporting from inside Gaza has made it impossible for Western journalists to tell the complete story of the horrors unfolding inside the enclave—resorting instead to social media posts, reporters who live there, and telephone calls, according to a critical report in Haaretz.
Israel is dramatically downplaying the number of Israelis displaced amid the worsening conflict in the north with Hezbollah, according to a report last week.
For the past several weeks, The Trends Journal has been documenting the death toll in Gaza.
If there is anyone out there who seriously doubts that it is Israel that is in the driver’s seat when it comes to its relationship with the United States, last week’s filing of criminal charges directed against Hamas’s leadership should be a wake-up call.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced a wave of new ceasefire demands in July—just as negotiators were close to finally reaching an agreement that would end the fighting in Gaza and return the remaining Hamas hostages.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Gaza, but, despite his bluster, has done little to save the Palestinians from Israel’s aggression.