Israel is cutting off food, water, and medicine while bombing Gaza

Israel’s scorched-earth bombing campaign in Gaza won’t stop as long as the U.S. keeps funding it. Instead, Joe Biden is casting doubt on the Palestinian death toll and asking for billions more in U.S. military aid to Israel.




More than 7,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for the October 7 Hamas raid on southern Israel.

Nearly 70 percent of those killed have been women or children, and nearly all of them are civilians, according to the health ministry in Gaza.

The response from the U.S. president has been to cheer on the attacks, to baselessly cast doubt on the Palestinian death toll, and to ask Congress to send another $14 billion to Israel to escalate the attacks.

Experts in international law have said that the killing we’re seeing in Gaza may be an act of genocide, directly funded by the U.S. And Israel’s scorched-earth campaign won’t stop as long as the U.S. keeps funding it.

The Intercept is one of the only U.S. news outlets willing to call this war what it is and report critically on the U.S. aid making it possible.

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The Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, an Israeli think tank, published a paper last week stating that Hamas’s attacks on October 7 created “a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip.”

It’s apparent now that this is exactly what the Netanyahu government intends, cutting off food, fuel, water, and medicine while dropping thousands of bombs on a tiny area one-third the size of Los Angeles. Already, 1.5 million of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents have been ordered to flee their homes.

All of this would stop immediately if the U.S. demanded a ceasefire. Instead, the U.S. vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned all violence against civilians and urged humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

These are truths that the American people must hear but simply will never get from the mainstream corporate media.

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