Palestinian resistance in Gaza used one of the unexploded 500 pound bombs dropped by an American provided F-16 to blow up a building they have lured in a group of Israeli soldiers.
So far Israel has admitted to 4 dead and 5 injured, but the Palestinians claim the numbers are much higher.
Multiple #helicopters seen landing in the area to carry the injured and the deads back to #TelAviv.
This is the 4th such #ambush by #Palestinians in the past 2 weeks, followed by massive indiscriminated bombing of civilian targets by #IDF.
Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
from #AlJazeera - #FaultLines
New full-length documentary from Fault Lines,
‘The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza
Fault Lines worked with journalists in #Gaza to profile three families as they try to survive the war.
From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the #Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the #UnitedStates in the war.
"My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here," the child's mother said. "My daughter is traumatized. Whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides."
#UNRWA: 69% of school buildings housing displaced people in the Gaza Strip were exposed to Israeli bombardment or were directly damaged.
This is a new low in any war in recent history.
Any other country would have been subject to countless sanctions, global condemnations and even blockades, but not Israel.
"It's not plausible that the shooter could not have seen that the car was occupied by civilians, including children," an investigation of the five-year-old #Palestinian girl's death found.
While the world has moved on Israel keep committing war crime in Gaza: "Women and children were burned and body parts were everywhere." A young man talked about the brutal details of the massacre of Mawasi neighborhood in #Rafah by the #IDF today.