Gaza, Israel and Palestinians
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Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops systematically force Gazans to go into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
Israel’s renewed effort to “conquer” the strip has forced 300,000 starving Palestinians to flee south in just 48 hours.
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
Palestinians in the village of Bruqin in the northern West Bank said that Israeli settlers attacked them, burning cars and damaging houses.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is days away from implementing a new aid system in Gaza and plans to create a 'sterile zone' there, free of Hamas.
Nakba Day, which marks the mass displacement of Palestinians upon Israel's independence, took on special resonance this year.
Palestinians marked Nakba day on Thursday, commemorating the loss of their land after the 1948 war at the birth of the state of Israel, as Israeli military operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank have again displaced hundreds of thousands.
The city has yanked the license of a woke community garden in Queens that forced members to take a pledge in “solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized people” of Palestine — but the “radicals” behind the space are defiantly vowing to resist the order.