Israel/Gaza Hostilities Take Horrific Toll on Children – Human Rights Watch
As Israel’s military flexes south, a UN agency estimates that, for every 3 of the of thousands of children killed in Gaza, another one is missing or trapped under the rubble. One child in Gaza has been killed every 10 minutes. Will the US government continue to give Israel weapons and carte blanche to pound the civilian population as it pleases?
White House grapples with internal divisions on Israel-Gaza – WaPost
“Inside the administration, a growing number of American diplomats, defense officials and aid workers have called for a cease-fire, including more than 1,000 staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development. At the State Department, there have been multiple dissent cables from diplomats urging the administration to use more leverage to stop the violence…
“The central dispute between Biden and Netanyahu is not over a cease-fire, which neither supports, but over the view in Washington that Israel has an unacceptable standard for proportionality. In its effort to eliminate Hamas, Israel is using powerful bombs, leveling neighborhoods and taking down high-rise buildings, tactics that inevitably kill large numbers of civilians and, many argue, further radicalize the Palestinian population.”