Organizers in Palm Beach County, Florida, are fighting to stop the county from investing further in bonds that help fund Israel’s occupation and genocide. The county already holds $1 billion in Israel Bonds, making its investment the largest in the world and roughly three times the next highest investor, the State of Florida. The Our Taxes, Our Needs campaign is ramping up ahead of the county’s…
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Before the war on Gaza began in 2023, freelance work had become a lifeline for thousands of Gazans. It was one of the few ways they could connect with the outside world and secure jobs that offered incomes several times higher than those available locally. According to the United Nations, around 12,000 people in Gaza were earning their livelihoods through online freelance work before the war.
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More evidence has emerged showing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had prior knowledge of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack but did nothing to stop it, ultimately using the attack and the lives of the Israeli captives as justification to carry out genocide in Gaza. A report published in Haaretz reveals that the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed…
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Sadeq Abdelhafiz, 26, noticed an unusual quiet around him as he stood in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza near the cemetery on Salah al-Din Street. A small quadcopter drone (about the size of a floor tile) had fired a volley of bullets just minutes earlier, and it was still there, hovering over the minaret of the nearby Ibn Marwan Mosque, adjacent to the cemetery. Abdelhafiz turned his head…
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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a building damaged by Israeli strikes collapsed in Gaza, killing at least 21 people, including 11 children. An estimated 100 people were living in the six-story building when it collapsed as residents were sleeping. Rescue teams worked to pull out dozens of people from the rubble in the hours that followed, their work made more difficult due to the…
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A major new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem titled “The Elimination Project” accuses Israel of “dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank.” “For too long, Israel’s policies in the West Bank have been treated or looked at as isolated events,” says Ori Givati, director of international relations at B’Tselem.
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