America is Bankrolling the Holocaust of Our Time
The genocide in Palestine is 100% made in the USA. Israel’s barbarity is our own. We may not understand this, but the rest of the globe does.
The Gaza Health Ministry has released a 1,516–page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names. For the first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0 — children under 1 year old.
Language No Longer the Barrier: Gaza’s Victims Listed in English
Iraq Body Count has published in readable and consistent English over 50,000 names of martyrs as first released in Arabic by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
This increasingly definitive, if still incomplete, list is offered in English in order to widen its global reach, and amplify the heroic documentation efforts being carried out on the ground under severe duress.
This particular conversion aims to maximize the pronounceability of names by non-Arabic speakers to facilitate their reading in public memorializations and similar events.
As the originally published PDF was unsuitable for this purpose, our conversion was derived from a raw data file provided directly to us by the Ministry, who also checked the English version before publication.
From the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Gaza’s Children Are Burning Under American Missiles
Gaza’s children are burning under American missiles, and the international community is complicit in the crime amid disgraceful Arab abandonment.
The escalation of the zionist aggression on Gaza—whose latest chapter was the horrific massacre by bombing an UNRWA clinic in Jabalia, in addition to the intense shelling and widespread fire belts in Rafah following the expanded ground invasion, the bombing of homes over their residents in Khan Younis, and the ongoing starvation war—are systematic acts of genocide supported by the U.S. administration and condoned by the international community, while the Arab world shirks its national responsibilities at a critical historical moment.
The U.S. administration, through its funding and unconditional support, is the primary partner in these crimes. It continues to supply the occupation with bombs that burn children and provides it with political cover to carry out its extermination unchecked. As for the international community, which boasts of defending human rights, it has now revealed its true face—as a partner in the crime.
Even more dangerous is the shameful Arab stance. While Gaza is drowning in bombs, Arab capitals remain silent, despite having wealth, weapons, and influence. How can this impotence continue while entire cities are being wiped out? What greater betrayal is there than seeing an Arab people being slaughtered, only to be met with empty statements?
Let it be clear: there is no room for silence, and no place for neutrality. Anyone who stands idle today is complicit in the crime. Arab peoples must immediately take to the streets, public squares, and in front of U.S. and zionist embassies.
Inaction is betrayal; silence is complicity in the massacres.
It is time to impose a popular blockade on the interests of the states supporting the occupation, sever all forms of ties with the zionist entity, and stop dealing with anyone who funds and supports its crimes.
There is no longer space for condemnations and denunciations—what’s needed now is action to stop the massacres.
The blood of the children of Rafah, Jabalia, and Khan Younis will remain a stain of shame on the foreheads of the conspirators, and those who fail to act today will not escape the judgment of history.
From Ahmed Nashwan: Gaza Has Become Hell
Gaza has become a hell; death is closer to us than survival. There is not a single image of killing and suffering that we haven’t lived through. What the children of Gaza have lived through is something that even the men of the world cannot bear to watch on television. The smell of death lingers in our breaths. They fight us as if we are one of the superpowers, when in reality, we are just an unarmed people. We face the mightiest American bombs with our bodies and the flesh of our small children.
From Dr. Ezzideen Shehab: The Children Need the World to Fight for Their Right to Live
They said today is Palestinian Child Day.
The children didn’t know.
No one told them while they were digging through the rubble.
No one said anything when the bread ran out.
They say it’s a day for children.
But 17,954 of them are already gone.
Some were still red and warm from the womb — 274 babies who never took a full breath.
52 starved.
17 froze.
Not because the world couldn’t help. But because it didn’t.
39,384 children now have no parents.
They go to sleep without anyone saying goodnight.
They wake up without anyone calling their names.
700 were taken this year.
Some are still wearing the same clothes from that day.
Since the war began, 1,055 children have disappeared behind prison walls.
And then there are the ones who stayed —
but lost parts of themselves.
Eyes. Arms. Legs.
Every day, 15 more children become broken in ways no one can fix.
They said today is their day.
But they don’t want a day.
They want their parents.
Their limbs.
Their names.
They want to be more than a number in a headline.
If there is anything left in this world worth saving,
it should be the lives of children.
They don’t need hashtags.
They need outrage.
They need the world to fight for their right to live.
From human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: Darkness is Falling Across the Globe
Every morning, I wake up in a country that is committing genocide. A country that collaborates with the Israeli regime in ethnic cleansing, torture, massacres, summary executions, sexual assault, destruction of schools and hospitals, denial of water and food, the murder of babies, children, women, men, aid workers, journalists, everyone, everything that moves. Everyday, I travel streets where the violent racists supporting the genocide walk free, arrogant in their impunity. They are in our parks, our universities, the halls of Congress. The police protect them and attack the human rights defenders. My government and corrupt bureaucrats in every institution collaborate with these monsters in the persecution of all who dare to dissent. My tax dollars pay for the murder of innocents. But I know that they are weak, because they are few and we are many, and the only weapon they have is fear. If we refuse to fear them, they are disarmed. Solidarity is our weapon. Build the movement. Resist Zionism. Defend human rights. End this.
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Darkness is falling across the globe. In my four decades in the international human rights movement, I have seen much cruelty in all corners of this world. But I have never witnessed the kind of unmitigated evil demonstrated today by political Zionism. Adherents of this ruthless, hateful, deeply racist, & fundamentally violent ideology are now in power in the lawless U.S. government (and that of other Western governments), putting us all at risk. They are not only torturing, raping, & slaughtering innocents in Palestine, bombing & occupying several countries, corrupting governments across the West, arresting and deporting human rights defenders and students in the U.S., harassing those who dare to speak up, and dismantling our democratic institutions, but they are tearing down international law and the very principles of human morality itself. No malign force since the Nazism of the 1930s has represented such a grave threat to the world. Either we will defeat it, or it will destroy us. Thankfully, Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists and others around the globe are standing up in record numbers to fight this evil, and that is the light that we must work to spread.
April 8, 2025
From the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: Israel is Engineering Famine, Starving Palestinians
Israel is engineering famine in Gaza. By blocking food, water, and aid, it is deliberately creating conditions where children starve, hospitals shut down, and entire communities face death. This is not collateral damage. It’s a calculated genocide.
Since March 18, 2025, Israel has intensified its total blockade on Gaza. No food. No water. No fuel. No medicine.
This isn’t a siege—it’s an extermination policy.
93 percent of Palestinians in Gaza now face acute food insecurity, with the Strip entering IPC Phase 5: Catastrophic—the highest level of food insecurity.
This phase means:
Widespread death from starvation
Extreme malnutrition
Collapse of livelihoods and services
Israel has targeted and destroyed all of Gaza’s breadbasket:
Flour mills destroyed
All bakeries shut down
Farmland bombed
Fishing access cut
Food aid blocked at borders
No bread. No wheat. No food.
21 child malnutrition treatment centers have shut down since March 18, after being bombed or ordered to evacuate. These centers served 350 children whose lives no hand by a thread.
Over one million children are cut off from aid.
UNICEF warns: “The lives of one million children are hanging by a thread.”
Children are dying from dehydration, untreated injuries, and starvation.
Fuel blockade means collapse of everything:
No clean water
No functioning hospitals
No ambulances
No refrigeration for food
No power for NICUS or dialysis machines
This deliberate starvation campaign fits the Genocide Convention’s definition: “Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a group.”
Israel is weaponizing hunger, and the world is watching it happen in real time.
U.S.-Backed Israeli Forces Kill 14-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy in West Bank
From the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:
Today, Israel claimed it shot at three “terrorists” throwing stones. What it didn’t say: they were unarmed children. This wasn’t self-defense. It was the deliberate execution of a child on occupied Palestinian land.
The army shot 14-year-old Amer Rabee, a Palestinian-American ninth grader, several times — in the head, chest, and limbs. He died on the spot. The other two children were wounded. All were unarmed.
What Israel is committing is fully-fledged apartheid violence and relentless settler-colonial violence — ongoing, and met with impunity.
The killing of the child Amer was not an isolated or exceptional incident — it was the inevitable outcome of a system built on impunity and growing ever more brutal because of it.
A system that legitimizes crimes against people living under oppression, disguises them as acts of self-defense, and is fundamentally built on the dehumanization of Palestinians, especially their children.
Such a system is beyond repair. It must be dismantled, and all those who sustain it must be held accountable.
April 7, 2025
From The Guardian: Israel Military Razed Gaza Perimeter Land to Create ‘Kill Zone’, Soldiers Say
Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan.
Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima.
The testimonies are some of the first accounts by Israeli soldiers to be published since the latest war started in October 2023 after Hamas’s attack on Israel. They were collected by Breaking the Silence, a group founded in 2004 by Israeli veterans who aim to expose the reality of the military’s grip over Palestinians. The Guardian interviewed four of the soldiers who corroborated the accounts.
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Soldiers were “given orders to deliberately, methodically, and systematically annihilate whatever was within the designated perimeter, including entire residential neighbourhoods, public buildings, educational institutions, mosques, and cemeteries, with very few exceptions”, the report added.
The ultimate result, however, was the creation of “a death zone of enormous proportions”, the report said. “Places where people had lived, farmed, and established industry were transformed into a vast wasteland, a strip of land eradicated in its entirety.”
A sergeant in the combat engineers corps said that once an area in the perimeter “was pretty much empty of any Gazans, we essentially started getting missions that were about basically blowing up houses or what was left of the houses”.
This was the routine, they said: “Get up in the morning, each platoon gets five, six, or seven locations, seven houses that they’re supposed to work on. We didn’t know a lot about the places that we were destroying or why we were doing it. I guess those things today, from my perspective now, are not legitimate. What I saw there, as far as I can judge, was beyond what I can justify that was needed.”
One of the soldiers who provided testimony to Breaking the Silence on condition of anonymity said their unit was told to shoot anyone in the perimeter area on sight. The mentality in their unit, they said, was that there was no such thing as a “civilian” and everyone who walked into the perimeter would be considered a “terrorist”.
But a captain in an armoured corps unit who operated in Gaza earlier in the war, in November 2023, described the border area as a “kill zone”, saying: “The borderline is a kill zone. Anyone who crosses a certain line, that we have defined, is considered a threat and is sentenced to death.”
Another captain said there were “no clear rules of engagement at any point” and described a “generally massive use of firepower, especially, like with tanks”. They added: “There was a lot of instigating fire for the sake of instigating fire, somewhere between [wanting to produce] a psychological effect and just for no reason.
“[We] set out on this war out of insult, out of pain, out of anger, out of the sense that we had to succeed. This distinction [between civilians and terrorist infrastructure], it didn’t matter. Nobody cared. We decided on a line … past which everyone is a suspect.”
How Palestinians would know they were crossing an invisible line was not made clear to them, the soldiers said. “How they know is a really good question. Enough people died or got injured crossing that line, so they don’t go near it.”
The officer said the Palestinians appeared to want to pick edible plants growing in the area. “There was hubeiza [mallow] there because no one went near there. People are hungry, so they come with bags to pick hubeiza, I think.”
Some got away with their food and their lives, the officer said. “The thing is that, at that point, the IDF really is fulfilling the public’s wishes, which state: ‘There are no innocents in Gaza’.”
In an interview with the Guardian, the same officer said the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 made many Israelis feel the “need to pick up a gun”.
“A lot of us went there, I went there, because they killed us and now we’re going to kill them,” they said. “And I found out that we’re not only killing them – we’re killing them, we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.”
From the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: World Must Act With Urgency to Save Palestinians in Gaza, Top UN Officials Say
For over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza.
More than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again, while, at crossing points, food, medicine, fuel and shelter supplies are piling up, and vital equipment is stuck.
Over 1,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured in just the first week after the breakdown of the ceasefire, the highest one-week death toll among children in Gaza in the past year.
Just a few days ago, the 25 bakeries supported by the World Food Programme during the ceasefire had to close due to flour and cooking gas shortages.
The partially functional health system is overwhelmed. Essential medical and trauma supplies are rapidly running out, threatening to reverse hard-won progress in keeping the health system operational.
We are witnessing acts of war in Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life.
New Israeli displacement orders have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee yet again, with no safe place to go.
No one is safe. At least 408 humanitarian workers, including over 280 from UNRWA, have been killed since October 2023.
With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, we appeal to world leaders to act – firmly, urgently and decisively – to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid. Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.
From the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: Israel Publicly Escalates Slaughter of Palestinian Journalists, Amid Total Lack of Int’l Accountability
Photos show journalist Ahmed Mansour engulfed in flames after an Israeli strike targeted a journalists' tent in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
From Common Dreams: Journalist Burned Alive in Tent Strike Among Scores of Gazans Killed by Israeli Forces
April 6, 2025
When Gaza is bombed, it is not just Israel’s war.
It is a continuation of every war the American empire has waged to maintain supremacy.
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This is not Israel’s crime alone.
It is the American blueprint—exported, perfected, and unleashed.
Gaza is not a distant crisis.
It is a moral reckoning for everything the American empire was built on.
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And Gaza is not just a graveyard of Palestinian life.
It is a mirror held to the soul of the West.
From the Costs of War Project:
U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting. This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for regional operations, and an estimated additional cost of operations, it does not include any other economic costs.
This figure includes the $17.9 billion the U.S. government has approved in security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since October 7 – substantially more than in any other year since the U.S. began granting military aid to Israel in 1959. Yet the report describes how this is only a partial amount of the U.S. financial support provided during this war.
Retired Israeli General Yirzhak Brik:
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs—it’s all from the US. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability… Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
From journalist Mahmoud Bassam: The Children Born Under Fire are Guilty of Nothing
My daughter Zeina is two years and a few months old. She was just nine months old when the war began.
Since the moment she opened her eyes to this world, she has known nothing but the sound of bombings, fear, and terror.
She trembles in my arms with every explosion, crying not because she’s hungry, but because the sky is roaring above her head.
A child who has never tasted safety, who hasn’t lived a single day without fear.
Zeina is not alone... In Gaza, thousands of children are growing up in a time that bears no resemblance to childhood.
May God protect them. They are guilty of nothing but being born under fire.
From Ramy Abdu: Mohammed Hirez’s Letter to His Mother
Mohammed Hirez wrote these heartbreaking words after Israel killed his mother:
Do you remember, Mother,
when I used to stay out late sometimes, coming home after midnight?
You’d be sitting in the living room, sleep heavy in your eyes,
and the moment I opened the door,
you’d pretend you were just on your phone,
or that you had simply chosen to stay up.
Every single time—
until I swore to myself never to come home late again,
just so you wouldn’t have to wait up for me.
And tonight, I write this on an April night,
sleeping far from home,
after the drones blocked my path back to what remains of our house—
a house now broken, where the few of us left live beneath a roof
that drops stones with every sound.
And you…
you sleep far away,
on the cold sands of the Egyptian border,
after they unearthed your grave and left it open.
And I can find no path to bury you again
that isn’t crossed by a thousand tanks.
I came home early this time, Mama—
right at the hour of the evening prayer—
but I didn’t find you.
I found a warplane waiting, its bullets ready.
I found you lying on the sand—
without a grave,
without a shroud.
Do you remember this picture?
The final moments of the 2022 war—
you and I on the rooftop, watching the missiles,
checking the time, counting down to the agreed ceasefire.
To celebrate survival.
To celebrate life.
April 5, 2025
From Al Jazeera: UN Says 100 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza Every Day Since War Resumed
The United Nations says at least 100 children have been killed or injured every day in Gaza since the strikes resumed on March 18, even as the United States underscores continued support for Israel.
“Nothing justifies the killing of children,” Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), posted on X on Saturday.
He said Israel was turning the besieged territory into a “no land” for children and lamented that “young lives” were being “cut short in a war not of children’s making”.
“This is a stain on our common humanity,” Lazzarini said.
From Mosab Abu Toha: Humanity Failed, the World is Breaking Down
Unfortunately, nothing we say, nothing we document, nothing we feel, nothing we scream will move the world to action except for demonstrations.
How does a video from today differ from a video from 18 months ago? It’s not any different. The video and screams from 18 months ago didn’t stop any of this. The videos from tomorrow will not save anyone.
Hind Rajab’s recorded call and final words did not save any child. The bombing of tents intensified after the whole world watched Shabaan al-Dalo burning in his tent.
The horrific execution of the 15 ETMs and Civil Defense personnel, even after the video showing that they were buried with their vehicles, even after today’s video filming their last moments, will not change how this world reacts.
I’ve been recently watching my friends posting on their social media that they are dying, begging the world to save them, yet nothing is happening. Some of them were killed in air strikes days later.
There is something wrong with this world.
None of us is destined to live forever to watch all of this but unfortunately the future will not be merciful to anyone anywhere.
Humanity failed and it’s a matter of time before the world breaks down
The U.S. is Disappearing Students for Opposing Genocide
From the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU):
April 4, 2025
From The New York Times: Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.
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The Times obtained the video from a senior diplomat at the United Nations who asked not to be identified to be able to share sensitive information.
The Times verified the location and timing of the video, which was taken in the southern city of Rafah early on March 23. Filmed from what appears to be the front interior of a moving vehicle, it shows a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, clearly marked, with headlights and flashing lights turned on, driving south on a road to the north of Rafah in the early morning. The first rays of sun can be seen, and birds are chirping.
The convoy stops when it encounters a vehicle that had veered onto the side of the road — one ambulance had been sent earlier to aid wounded civilians and had come under attack. The new rescue vehicles detour to the side of the road.
Rescue workers, at least two of whom can be seen wearing uniforms, are seen exiting a fire truck and an ambulance marked with the emblem of the Red Crescent and approaching the ambulance derailed to the side.
Then, sounds of intense gunfire break out.
A barrage of gunshots is seen and heard in the video hitting the convoy.
The camera shakes, the video goes dark. But the audio continues for five minutes, and the rat-a-tat of gunfire does not stop. A man says in Arabic that there are Israelis present.
The paramedic filming is heard on the video reciting, over and over, the “shahada,” or a Muslim declaration of faith, which people recite when facing death. “There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die.
“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says.
From Gaza Notifications: A Generation is Being Annihilated
On the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day:
•39,000 orphans in Gaza—the largest orphan crisis in modern history.
•60,000 children at risk of severe malnutrition.
•Two years without education as schools lie in ruins.
•Polio making a return.
•534 days of genocide.
•47% of Gaza’s population are children.
•Over 1,055 child arrests since October 7.
A generation is being annihilated.
(Source: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics)
From Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: 546 Days of Genocide in Gaza: Key Figures
Israel violated the ceasefire agreement to resume its deadly assault on Gaza— part of an ongoing campaign of genocide that has persisted for nearly 17 months.
17-Year-Old Palestinian Child Prisoner Starved to Death by Israeli Prison Guards
From Defense for Children International - Palestine:
From AP News: Israeli Strike On Gaza School Kills At Least 27 People
April 3, 2025
From Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Israel’s Brutality in Gaza Surpasses All Recent Forms of Terrorism
The nature of Israel’s crimes in the Gaza Strip must be denounced, particularly the crimes’ horrifying scope, methodical execution, and wide-ranging effects, which surpass those of armed groups like ISIS. While the crimes committed by ISIS have been widely denounced by the international community, the same community is now mostly silent—and therefore complicit—as Israel pursues a campaign of declared genocide that aims to exterminate the Palestinian people from their homeland. For almost 18 months, this campaign has been running continuously.
Israeli occupation forces detonated a robot today (Thursday 3 April 2025) rigged with tonnes of explosives in the heart of the densely populated Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. The explosion occurred in an area packed with displaced civilians, though there was no military necessity and no combat activity in the vicinity. This act embodies the conduct of existing terrorist organizations, even surpassing them in brutality and disregard for human life, and bears no resemblance to the conduct of a state bound by international law, regardless of any attempts to distort or evade it.
The explosion killed 21 Palestinians and injured around 100 others, the majority of them women and children. A full residential block was obliterated with its residents still inside, and this is not an isolated incident. Over recent months—particularly in the northern GazaStrip—Israel has increasingly used explosive-laden robots in residential neighborhoods during its ground incursions. At least 150 such detonations have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, and caused wide-scale destruction to homes and other essential infrastructure.
A separate atrocity was committed on 23 March, when Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinian rescue workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent and Civil Defense, along with a United Nations staff member, before executing them extrajudicially—some while their hands were bound. Their bodies were dumped into a pit, and the ambulances they had been traveling in were destroyed. This incident is another blatant example of an intentional Israeli crime mirroring—and exceeding—the brutality of groups like ISIS, as it reveals a clear and deliberate intent to annihilate Palestinians both physically and through psychologically terrorizing residents across the Strip.
From Al Jazeera: Gaza Faces Largest Orphan Crisis in Modern History
In a statement on Thursday, the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day, the agency said 39,384 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents after 534 days of Israel’s assault, which has ravaged the tiny enclave and displaced most of its 2.3 million strong population.
The bureau said among them are about 17,000 children who have been deprived of both parents since October 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal offensive.
“These children are living in tragic conditions, with many forced to take refuge in torn tents or destroyed homes, in a near-total absence of social care and psychological support,” the statement by the bureau said. “The Gaza Strip is suffering from the largest orphan crisis in modern history.”
According to the statement, at least 17,954 children have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, including 274 newborn babies and 876 infants below the age of one year.
From Sara Zaqout: Two Million People Are Being Wiped Out in Silence
Update from northern Gaza...
I’ve tried my best to stay calm and bring a little peace to my mind but we’re so far away from safety and peace
The occupation has begun executing its plan for voluntary displacement, one of the worst plans ever.
They are torturing the people of the Gaza Strip to the very last breath.
The occupation has once again issued warnings and demanded the evacuation of several areas in northern and southern Gaza.
The army has advanced to the outskirts of Gaza and continues to bombard civilians.
Entire areas of Gaza, like Rafah and Jabalia, have been evacuated.
There has been no food available for nearly a month now.
Embassies have shown flexibility in reuniting families and accepting those stranded in Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which means… the beginning of the full evacuation of Gaza’s people, leaving behind those who are unlucky enough to stay trapped and killed.
Talk about Gaza.
Two million people are being wiped out in silence.
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We’re not okay and don’t ask me if I’m safe I’M NOT.
We’re getting killed, who didn’t die first are going to die now every second I imagine one of my relatives dead, I can’t sleep I can’t go out I don’t eat I can’t feel anything all I can see is my mom biting her nails.
April 2, 2025
From Gaza Notifications: Two-Week-Old Infant Beheaded in Israeli Airstrike on UNRWA Clinic in Jabalia
Amal Abu Sa’da, a two-week-old infant, was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a UNRWA clinic in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza. The clinic had been sheltering displaced civilians following mass evacuations from the area.
Amal arrived at the hospital with her head severed, a victim of the strike that killed 15 civilians , including 9 children.
From Gaza Notifications: At Least 81 Palestinians Killed Since Dawn on Wednesday in Israeli Attacks Across Gaza Strip
Southern Gaza (40 killed):
•Airstrikes on homes, displacement camps, and agricultural areas resulted in numerous casualties, including women and children.
•Notably, 12 civilians —mostly women and children—were killed in an Israeli strike on the Abdel Bari family home in Khan Younis, which was sheltering displaced members of the Qaoud family.
Central Gaza (15 killed):
•Israeli airstrikes targeted homes and public areas, killing civilians and members of the Palestinian police.
•Three people were killed in a strike near Omar bin Abdulaziz Mosque in Al-Sawarha, and two bodies were recovered in Al-Mughraqa from an attack the previous day.
Gaza City & Northern Gaza (26 killed):
•22 civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an UNRWA clinic sheltering displaced civilians in Jabalia refugee camp.
•Three civilians were killed in Beit Lahia, and Yasser Fouad Hassanein was shot dead by Israeli forces while collecting firewood in Shuja’iyya.
The death toll is expected to rise as attacks continue across the strip.
From Mondoweiss: Another Massacre. This is Genocide—Systematic, Calculated, and Unrelenting.
Another massacre.
Israeli forces have bombed an UNRWA medical clinic in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 22 Palestinians, including women and children, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
Let’s be clear: this was intentional.
This clinic was a known humanitarian facility run by the United Nations. Israel deliberately targeted it, fully aware it was sheltering displaced civilians seeking medical help.
Gaza’s media office said:
“We condemn in the strongest terms the continuation of the Israeli occupation’s genocide against civilians and displaced people.”
This is not war.
This is a genocide—systematic, calculated, and unrelenting.
Since the start of this brutal assault, Israel has targeted 228 civilian shelters, including schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.
These are not accidents.
These are blatant violations of international law.
Attacking medical clinics, UN facilities, and refugee shelters is a war crime.
And yet, the world continues to allow Israel to act with impunity while Gaza is turned to rubble.
Palestinians are being killed in places where they’re supposed to be safest.
There is nowhere left to run. Nowhere left to hide.
From CNN: Bakeries Close Across Gaza as World Food Programme Warns Food Supplies Are Set to Run Out in Two Weeks
From CNN: Bodies of Missing Aid Workers Found in Gaza Mass Grave Following Israeli Attacks
From The New York Times: ‘I’m Here! Can You Hear Me?’: One Family’s Story of Death in Gaza
April 1, 2025
More Journalists Killed in Gaza Than in Both World Wars, Other Major Wars Combined
From the Costs of War Project:
From The Guardian: Palestinian Paramedics Shot by Israeli Forces Had Hands Tied, Witnesses Say
From BBC: At Least 322 Children Killed Since Israel's New Gaza Offensive, UNICEF Says
From The New Arab: More Than 300 Palestinian Children Killed by Israel in Ten Days of War on Gaza
From Middle East Eye: “I Was So Scared. Then They Started Beating Us.” : 14-Year-Old Omri Salem Told CBS That He Was Forced by Israeli Soldiers at Gunpoint to Be Their Human Shield in Gaza
From +972 Magazine: Israel’s Latest Vision for Gaza Has a Name: Concentration Camp
From The Palestine Chronicle: Over 1,500 Humanitarian Workers Killed in Gaza since October 2023
From Doctors Without Borders: Critical Medicines Running Out in Gaza After One Month of Israeli Blockade
From the Institute for Middle East Understanding: Israel is Killing First Responders With Impunity
After Israeli soldiers began attacking Palestinians in Rafah in March, a group of first responders were dispatched to the area to rescue the injured. Upon arrival, Israeli soldiers shot and killed them.
A week later, humanitarian groups discovered a mass grave with the bodies of 15 of the first responders and their vehicles—an ambulance, a fire truck, and a UN car—crushed and buried under the sand.
This isn’t the first time Israel has targeted, attacked, and killed first responders. Since beginning its genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed at least 408 aid workers.
First responders should never be a target. Yet, Israel continues to target them with impunity despite thorough evidence of its deliberate killing of humanitarian workers.
No one is safe under Israel’s genocide. Not first responders. Not doctors. Not journalists. Not children.
Every international power has a duty to make Israel end its genocide in Gaza.
But instead of using its power to end Israel’s genocide, the US is funding Israel’s attacks on civilians with Americans’ tax dollars.
From journalist Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Made Clear Its Agenda of Annihilation
As more developments unfold on a potential Gaza ceasefire agreement, watch for the US and Israel to blame Hamas once again for "rejecting" a deal.
Here are the facts:
Israel has reneged on the deal it signed on January 17, 2025. It repeatedly violated this deal, including killing more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza during "Phase 1."
Israel refused to send negotiators to work out the technical details of Phase 2 of the deal it signed, a violation of the agreement.
Israel issued sweeping new demands outside the scope of the agreement and demanded Hamas capitulate.
On March 2, Israel imposed a full spectrum blockade on Gaza, banning any food or medical aid to enter the Strip. It also shut down or bombed electricity facilities.
Israel launched a massive terror bombing campaign against Gaza on March 18, killing more than 1,000 people, most of them women and children.
Israel has announced its intent to "permanently annex" Palestinian land in Gaza.
On Saturday, Hamas agreed to a ceasefire proposal, based on a U.S. plan and brokered by U.S. allies Qatar and Egypt.
Netanyahu responded by declaring that the "final stage" of his war plan involves removing Palestinians from Gaza. He calls it implementing the "Trump plan."
Israel has demanded the total demilitarization of Gaza as a condition to end its war. This would strip Palestinians of their legal right to resist occupation.
Israel is holding roughly 10,000 Palestinians in its prisons. Many of them, including children, have not been charged with crimes and are kept in inhumane conditions. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has snatched hundreds of Palestinians for the explicit purpose of using them in "exchange" deals. This is also known as hostage taking.
Israel is holding the dead bodies of hundreds of Palestinians in "cemeteries of numbers" and refrigerated storage.
People who say, "If Hamas releases the hostages, this all ends tomorrow," are engaged in lethal propaganda. Israel has made clear its agenda of annihilation.
March 31, 2025
From UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini: End This Hell On Earth
As if death, diseases, destruction and hunger were not enough for the Palestinians in Gaza
People are treated like pinballs with constant military orders playing with their fate & lives.
The Israeli Authorities issued today more forced displacement orders in Rafah impacting over 140,000 people.
This is causing panic, anxiety & uncertainty on the first day of Eid, a time to be with family & loved ones.
Where are people supposed to move?
Unlike in other conflicts, where populations can find safety, Gaza is being bombarded all across.
It is sealed off like a cage with borders shut & basics not allowed in.
Two million people, half of them children, live there.
How is this allowed, at the world’s watch, with no checks and balances.
One of the darkest times for our common humanity we vowed would not happen again.
It is time to put an end to this hell on earth, starting with a resumption of the ceasefire.
From Dr. Ezzideen Shehab: Famine is Here. Now There is Nothing.
Today, the World Food Programme announced that the last remaining bakeries in southern Gaza have shut their doors. By tomorrow, there will be no bread in Gaza City. No bread in the north. No bread at all.
The word “famine” no longer belongs to tomorrow. It is here. It is now. It has arrived, unannounced, without trumpet or banner, just silence, and the slow death of children.
For seventeen months, Gaza has been buried beneath rubble and smoke. There are no wages. No machines. No cement. No nails. No shops. No streets.
The war did not only destroy buildings, it destroyed the act of living. Entire families, once held together by labor and love, have lived only on aid. And even that was severed two months ago, like the cutting of a final vein.
Now there is nothing. No food. No money. No escape. Only hunger, and the dark knowledge that the world sees, and chooses to look away.
What name do we give to such cruelty?
In an age of satellites and symphonies, of constitutions and courts, of men shaking hands in marble halls, two million souls are being starved with purpose, precision, and patience.
Let no one say: we did not know.
Let no one pretend: it was inevitable.
This is not a famine born of drought or locusts.
This is man starving man.
This is a war not just against life, but against the very idea of life.
And history, though it may take its time, will speak.
And it will speak with bitterness.
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This evening, a knock at the door. My mother answered. A child stood there, not even ten. She asked if this was the doctor’s house. The clinic was closed for the holiday, so she came to the door instead.
I went to see her. She held a kitten, so small it seemed more spirit than flesh.
She found it dying in the street, she said. Couldn’t leave it. Needed a syringe to feed it. A child, with no more than her will and a wounded creature in her hands.
I gave her what she asked. She left. And I was left with shame.
Not the kind that fades. The kind that lingers. The kind that indicts.
How is it that such a child carries more humanity than those who govern, who command armies, who sleep as missiles fall?
How is it that she, without power, without protection, chooses compassion, while men with entire nations in their grip choose cruelty?
We like to believe that childhood is a stage to outgrow, that innocence must yield to realism. But what if they were right all along, and we are the ones who became lost?
How have we become a world where the purest are buried beneath rubble, their names never spoken, their futures traded for slogans?
If children are born knowing mercy, and adults choose destruction, then what is progress?
What is civilization, if not a graveyard of its own ideals?
The world did not fail its children. That would imply helplessness.
The world betrayed them, coldly, knowingly, and worst of all, repeatedly.
From DropSite News: Netanyahu Promises the “Final Stage” of Gaza Genocide Will Lead to Implementation of “Trump’s Plan"
From AntiWar: Israel Kills Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since Breaking Ceasefire
From The Cradle: Israel Continues Massacres in Gaza on Second Day of Eid al-Fitr
From Red. Media: This is a Crime Committed Before Humanity
Fifteen Palestinian rescuers were besieged and executed by the Israeli army. The team—comprised of 8 paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), 5 first responders from the Gaza Civil Defense, and a UN staff member—was killed while responding to a distress call in Rafah.
After more than 8 days of silence and withheld communication, Israel disclosed the site of the mass grave where the bodies of the rescuers were buried. A UN team, present during the excavation and recovery of the bodies, also bore witness to the execution of civilians attempting to escape relentless bombings and the advance of Israeli tanks.
Israel’s blatant violation of humanitarian and international law continues with its ongoing bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has now officially claimed the lives of over 50,277 people, with more than 114,095 others injured.
March 30, 2025
From Haaretz: In Gaza, Almost Every IDF Platoon Keeps a Human Shield, a Sub-army of Palestinian Slaves
Innocent Palestinians are regularly forced by soldiers to enter houses in Gaza to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives.
In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day.
I served in Gaza for nine months, and first came across these procedures, called "mosquito protocol" in December 2023. It was only two months into the ground offensive, long before there was a shortage of dogs from the IDF's canine unit, Oketz, who were used for this purpose. This became the insane, unofficial excuse for this insane, unofficial procedure. I didn't realize then how ubiquitous using human shields, whom we referred to as a "shawish," would become.
Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.
The procedure is simple. Innocent Palestinians are forced to enter houses in Gaza and "clear" them, to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives.
From Safa News Agency: Gaza Faces Disregard for Human Life
From Al Jazeera: ‘Eid of Sadness’: Gaza Marks Festival Amid Israeli Bombings, Lack of Food
From Gaza Notifications: Israeli Airstrikes Kill 20 in Khan Yunis, Majority Women and Children
Since dawn today, Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, have claimed the lives of at least 20 civilians , most of them children and women. The victims identified so far include:
1- Ahmad Mohammad Ismail Abu Tair (child)
2- Jihad Hassan Abu Sultan
3- Amal Sobhi Azzam
4- Habiba Jihad Hassan Abu Sultan (child)
5- Dana Jihad Hassan Abu Sultan (child)
6- Hassan Jihad Hassan Abu Sultan (child)
7- Mohammad Sobhi Abdel-Majid Azzam
8- Basma Sobhi Abdel-Majid Azzam
9- Abdul Karim Ibrahim Fathi Masoud (child)
10- Kamel Abdel-Jawad Al-Akkad
11- Shorouq Mahmoud Al-Qahwaji (child)
12- Yaqeen Mahmoud Al-Qahwaji (child)
13- Ahmad Ibrahim Abu Hajras
14- Ola Abdel-Hamid Al-Qadi
15- Mohammad Rashid Al-Qadi
16- Nour Shafiq Al-Qadi
17- Abdul-Rahman Shafiq Al-Qadi
18- Unidentified – Khan Yunis Refugee Camp
19- Unidentified – Khan Yunis Refugee Camp
20- Unidentified – Khan Yunis Refugee Camp
The death toll may rise as search efforts continue.
March 29, 2025
From CNN: Education in Ruins: Gaza’s Children on Losing Their Right to Learn
From The Independent: Inside Israel’s ‘Torture’ Jails Where Palestinians Held Without Charge Tell of Brutal Treatment
March 28, 2025
From Professor Jason Hickel: Israel Has Massacred More Than 70 Palestinians Every Day For 18 Months
During apartheid, South African armed forces killed 69 civilians in the Sharpeville Massacre. The world was shocked. This event is still taught in history classes.
On average, Israel has massacred more than 70 Palestinian civilians *every day* for the past 18 months.
The Lancet estimates 64,260 Palestinians were killed from October 2023 through June 2024. The study indicates ~59.1% of these were women, children and elderly (37,978).
We can take this as a *minimum* measure of civilians killed by Israel. That's 142 killed per day during the study period. An underestimate, because this ignores all the non-elderly adult male civilians that have been killed.
Even if we ignore all deaths that have occurred since June 2024, and divide the figure by all days through today, that's 71 civilian deaths per day. A Sharpeville Massacre every day for nearly 18 months.
The apartheid regime was one of the most brutal states of its time. And yet Israel dwarfs it in terms of the sheer scale and barbarism of its violence.
From UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher: Israeli Authorities Deny Humanitarian Access to People in Need
From AP News: Israeli Settlers Seen on Camera Assaulting a Palestinian Village: Police Arrest Only Palestinians
From Al Jazeera: The Many Ways Israeli Settlers Steal Palestinian Homes
From Sky News: Gaza's Orphans Have Lost Everything — Even the Dream of Growing Up
March 27, 2025
From DropSite News: Israel’s Systematic Destruction of Life Essentials in Gaza Has Forced Palestinians into a Hunt for Survival
From Truthout: Children in Gaza Are So Hungry They’re Drawing Pictures of Food in the Sand
From Al Jazeera: Kids Under Fire: An Investigation Into Israeli Soldiers Shooting Children
American doctors in Gaza:
“It makes sense to target children if you’re trying to target the future.”
“There’s a definitive pattern of Israeli soldiers targeting quite specifically children.”
“When you see a child is being shot in the head, every day, multiple times, in the abdomen, in the chest, those are intentional.”
American advocacy worker:
“Israeli forces have killed so many children in Gaza that it is most likely we will never know all of their names.”
From Haaretz: In One of the Gaza War's Most Horrifying Nights, the Israeli Army Killed Nearly 300 Women and Children
From The Intercept: Israel Leveled Gaza — Then Killed the Drone Journalists Who Showed It to the World
March 26, 2025
From Al Jazeera: Gaza's Stolen Childhood: Who Were the Thousands of Children Israel Killed?
From Haaretz: 'Slow Death' in the West Bank: Israel's Destruction Leaves Jenin Refugee Camp Uninhabitable
From CBS News: Israeli Soldier Tells CBS News He Was Ordered to Use Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza
March 24, 2025
From Haaretz: Palestinian Family Goes Out for Dinner, Returns to Find Israeli Settlers Took Over Their Home
March 22, 2025
From Chris Hedges: The Last Chapter of the Genocide
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return.
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Israel’s message is unequivocal: Gaza will be uninhabitable. Leave or die.
Since Tuesday, when Israel broke the ceasefire with heavy bombing, over 700 Palestinians have been killed, including 200 children. In one 24 hour period 400 Palestinians were killed. This is only the start. No Western power, including the United States, which provides the weapons for the genocide, intends to stop it. The images from Gaza during the nearly sixteen months of incessant attacks were awful. But what is coming now will be worse. It will rival the most atrocious war crimes of the twentieth century, including the mass starvation, wholesale slaughter and leveling of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 by the Nazis.
Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is the inevitable denouement of its settler colonial project and apartheid state. The seizure of all of historic Palestine — with the West Bank soon, I expect, to be annexed by Israel — and displacement of all Palestinians has always been the Zionist goal.
Israel’s worst excesses occurred during the wars of 1948 and 1967 when huge parts of historic Palestine were seized, thousands of Palestinians killed and hundreds of thousands were ethnically cleansed. Between these wars, the slow-motion theft of land, murderous assaults and steady ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, continued.
That calibrated dance is over. This is the end. What we are witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians. Israel’s demented genocidal dream — a Palestinian nightmare — is about to be achieved. It will forever shatter the myth that we, or any Western nation, respect the rule of law or are the protectors of human rights, democracy and the so-called “virtues” of Western civilization. Israel’s barbarity is our own. We may not understand this, but the rest of the globe does.
From Haaretz: “I Felt Like a Nazi” : Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes
From Common Dreams: Study Finds 96% of Gaza Children Fear Imminent Death—And Half Want to Die
From Amnesty International: “You Feel Like You Are Subhuman”: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Palestine or Barbarism: We Have Failed to Prevent a Genocide
From United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese:
“More Than a Human Can Bear”: Israel's Systematic Use of Sexual, Reproductive Violence Against Palestinians
From the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
Israel-Palestine is not "complicated"
The International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Save the Children, and countless other human rights organizations and institutions around the world all agree that Israel—with ironclad support from the United States—is committing a genocid…
The Kids Were Right
Five months ago, a group of children in the Gaza Strip—speaking in English—stood in front of Al-Shifa Hospital warning the world of Israel’s evident attempts to “exterminate the people of Gaza, their dreams and their future.”
I've remarked elsewhere, the Jews are very much like the Bourbons of France: They've learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Just remember Robert Louis Stevenson's warning: "Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences."
All I could say, is oh my God, where do we go from here anyone who objects to the genocide is accused of being some kind of traitor to this country I didn’t join a genocide with our country. This is not what I am thinking we should continue doing no I grew up in stop the war generation, and we’re still saying stop the war.