"It’d be nice to at least have a thank you.”
As Gaza starves, Israel guns down children in the West Bank
Quick editor’s note for new readers: I aim to send this out every Saturday or Sunday. It opens with a short reflection on what’s been on my mind, followed by a weekly news roundup organized by region—Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, the US, and occasionally elsewhere. The stories come from American, Arab, Israeli, and European outlets, as well as firsthand testimony, with links to the sources provided throughout, along with my own reporting.
*Sorry… I’m a day late this week. Will explain later.
As photos, footage, and testimony of mass starvation in Gaza flood social media, it seems we’ve hit an inflection point, and the narrative has begun to shift. Politicians and media figures who slavishly backed Israel’s campaign of extermination—tolerating daily bombings and shelling that maim and kill by the hundreds—are now beginning to eke out mild reproaches. Maybe for some of them it’s sincere. For most, it’s likely just a belated attempt to save face now that the world-historic atrocity they’ve enabled is impossible to ignore. They know these images will never go away.
It brought this book to mind, which I highly recommend picking up and reading if you haven’t already:
There’s much more to say about the turn in discourse, but I’ve got a piece coming out on that in the next few days. It’s taken up most of my focus this week—which is also why this newsletter’s a day late—so I’m going to skip the usual reflection and get straight into the roundup.
I’m leading with the West Bank this week, because while the situation in Gaza grows more catastrophic by the day, you could take it out of the picture entirely—and what Israel is doing to the West Bank would still rank among the most brazen geopolitical crimes I’ve seen in my lifetime. My friends over there send me stories and footage of soldier and settler brutality nearly every day, and it rarely, if ever, makes the news.
West Bank
Out Hunting
On Tuesday, Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Ibrahim Majed Ali Nasr during a raid on Qabatiya, south of Jenin. (DCIP)
On Wednesday, after some kids threw stones at an Israeli military vehicle near Jenin, ten Israeli soldiers got out, hunted them on foot through an olive grove, and opened fire—hitting 13-year-old Ibrahim Hamran near the groin, then standing over him for more than an hour as he bled to death. (DCIP)
That same day, Israeli forces shot 15-year-old Mohammad Khaled Hassan Mabrouk near the Al-Ain refugee camp in Nablus as he fled from tear gas; he died two days later after multiple surgeries. (DCIP)
On Thursday, Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Ahmad al-Salah and 17-year-old Muhammad Issa during a raid on al-Khader near Bethlehem. (Al Jazeera)
Israeli forces and settlers have killed 212 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank since October 7. (DCIP)
House Guests
During Israel’s war with Iran, the IDF seized over 250 Palestinian homes across the West Bank—evicting more than 1,300 people, turning the houses into bases and detention centers, and leaving behind ransacked rooms, stolen valuables, drained water tanks, and blankets and cooking pots smeared with feces. (Haaretz)
This Week in Pogroms
Israeli defense officials warned political leaders that settler violence is spiraling beyond their control. (Haaretz)
The Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja, the last remaining shepherding community in its part of the Jordan Valley, is under siege—its water tanks slashed, its sheep stolen, and its residents terrorized by settlers from surrounding outposts as soldiers look on; children have dropped out of school to take turns guarding the village at night, while settlers graze their flocks inside Palestinian yards from morning till dusk. (Haaretz).
Le Monde reported on how hilltop settlers armed with M-16s forced 75 Bedouin families to flee Mouarrajat, running over and stealing their sheep, urinating on homes, and threatening to kill anyone who stayed—one of at least 64 West Bank communities emptied since October 7. (Le Monde)
Settlers and soldiers stormed into At-Tuwani on Friday, the Masafer Yatta village featured in No Other Land, assaulted residents, including Oscar-winner Basel Adra, and drove off with three stolen sheep. (X)
Israeli settlers seized the Ein Samiya spring, diverted its water to a settler-dug pool, vandalized wells that serve 30 Palestinian villages, and raised over $33,000 to rebrand the site as “Shepherds’ Spring”—all while the army stood by and refused to intervene despite repeated attacks and prolonged water outages across the region. (Haaretz)
Three Palestinian families have fled the Biryat Hizma valley east of Jerusalem after settlers shot and wounded three people, torched a farmhouse, and threatened to impound their flock. (Haaretz)
Israeli settlers torched Palestinian homes near Bethlehem during overnight raids between Friday and Saturday on the villages of Kisan and Dayr’ Allah, threatening residents, damaging property, and attempting to seize thousands of acres of farmland; in Dayr’ Allah, settlers had already built an illegal outpost earlier in the week and returned in larger numbers to carry out the arson, prompting 17 families to flee after soldiers failed to dismantle the outpost or stop the violence. (ynet, Haaretz)
Settlers attacked the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh overnight, torching vehicles, vandalizing homes, and scrawling threats, just weeks after earlier assaults on the village’s church. No arrests have been made. (Haaretz)
Military-backed settlers began excavating an archaeological site within an illegal outpost near Aqraba. (MEM)
Who’s In Control
If there was any question left of who runs Israel, the Knesset passed a symbolic resolution to annex all West Bank settlements 71-13 on Wednesday. (Bloomberg)
Hours later, Israel allocated an additional budget of 274.6 million USD for settler infrastructure projects and road rehabilitation to connect West Bank settlements and Israeli cities. (MEM)
Five Likud MKs and ministers called to formally annex the West Bank at a “Sovereignty Conference,” with former US ambassador David Friedman declaring the “two-state illusion is dead” and proposing Puerto Rico-style governance for Palestinians—citizens without voting rights. (JPost)
Dead Americans
Four Palestinian-Americans have been killed in the West Bank since October 7 by Israeli settlers or soldiers, and their families say that instead of justice, they’ve faced detention and US indifference: “Here, for us, being American means nothing.” (Times of Israel)
Keystone Kahanists
Israel’s top West Bank cop delayed arresting a settler accused of arson attacks on Palestinian villages because he was Ben-Gvir’s neighbor and might’ve been at his daughter’s bat mitzvah. “What, am I supposed to arrest them that day? And if they’re invited, then what?” (Haaretz)
Israel’s two main agencies for tackling Jewish terrorism—the Shin Bet and the West Bank Police—have reportedly collapsed into mutual distrust, with Shin Bet officials accusing top cops of leaking intelligence to Ben-Gvir in exchange for promotions and refusing to speak with them by phone. (Haaretz)
The Hills Have Eyes
ICYMI, I went on Chapo Trap House last week to discuss the spiraling situation in the West Bank—I linked to all the leading podcasting platforms here.
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Gaza
The Big Lie
Two senior Israeli military officials admitted they had found no evidence that Hamas systematically stole UN aid, and acknowledged that the UN delivery system had been largely effective in reaching Gaza’s starving population. (NYT)
Make sure to read Adam Johnson’s March 2024 investigation into how the mainstream media laundered Israel’s claim that UNRWA was riddled with Hamas operatives—a false narrative that helped justify defunding the agency, dismantling Gaza’s primary aid network, and starving over 2 million people. (The Column)
A buried USAID report also found no reports alleging Hamas benefited from US humanitarian aid and identified the Israeli military as directly or indirectly responsible for 44 theft or loss incidents. (Times of Israel)
Israeli officers admitted to burying and burning aid from over 1,000 trucks blocked from entering Gaza. (MEM)
Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza-bound Handala flotilla in international waters, seizing 19 activists and two journalists attempting to deliver baby formula and food. (BBC)
Mass Death
Israeli-imposed starvation has killed at least 147 people in Gaza, including 88 children—79 of them in July alone, and 14 in the last 24 hours. (Haaretz)
Experts warn the crisis has reached a tipping point, with deaths likely to rise exponentially. Nearly 1 in 5 young children in Gaza City is now acutely malnourished. (WHO)
Doctors in Gaza describe skeletal infants, fainting nurses, and babies dying because hospitals lack the fluids needed to keep them alive; an American surgeon said many arrived starving and malnourished, and “they haven’t been able to get them back from the brink” despite intensive care. (NYT)
The Washington Post detailed how starvation tears through the body in stages: first it burns glucose, then fat, and finally begins consuming muscle protein, leaving the body unable to nourish its own organs. Breathing slows. Lung capacity wanes. The heart shrinks, blood pressure drops, and the digestive system shuts down, making even food—if it returns—impossible to digest without medical intervention. For adults, this spiral leads to weakness and organ failure. For children, the consequences are even more brutal and permanent. Their developing brains stall, stunting cognitive growth. Many will never regain the ability to learn, focus, or grow properly. Without zinc, they can’t gain weight; without iron, they lose energy and mental clarity; without vitamin A, they risk going blind. Their immune systems collapse, leaving them defenseless against pneumonia, fevers, and diarrhea. “At the simplest level,” said one pediatrician, “your brain stops growing.” (Washington Post)
BBC, Reuters, AFP, and AP warned that their journalists in Gaza are at risk of dying of starvation. (Guardian)
Starving Palestinians are risking their lives by fishing in the Mediterranean Sea despite the IDF prohibiting it. (CNN)
Children are rummaging through trash to survive. (NYMag)
The Response
Netanyahu claimed there is “no starvation in Gaza” and insisted that if not for Israeli aid, “there would be no Gazans.” (Times of Israel)
Trump called the images of starving children in Gaza “terrible” and immediately blamed Hamas for “stealing the food.” (Yahoo)
On Monday, after a round of golf in Scotland, Trump discussed the US investment in GHF: “You really want to at least have somebody say ‘Thank you!' We gave $60 million two weeks ago for food to Gaza. And nobody acknowledged it. Nobody talks about it. And it makes you feel a little bad when you do that… Nobody gave but us, and nobody said, ‘Gee, thank you very much.’ It’d be nice to at least have a thank you.”
He also broke with Netanyahu, saying, “There is real starvation in Gaza — you can’t fake that.” (Haaretz)
Amid the global outrage, Israel announced some changes:
Here’s The Reality
✈️ Experts have called the airdrops woefully insufficient, dangerous, and a PR stunt; the only solution is to lift all aid restrictions and allow the 6,000 trucks waiting at the border to enter Gaza. On Sunday, an airdrop reportedly struck tents sheltering displaced families, injuring at least 11 people. (AJ)
🚒 The IDF does not allow safe movement of UN convoys. During the UN’s last attempt to deliver aid on July 20—despite Israeli assurances of safe passage—the IDF opened fire on the convoy, killing 81 and wounding hundreds more. (Drop Site)
✋ “Humanitarian pauses” haven’t stopped attacks—Israel bombed at least one designated safe zone on Sunday.
💧 Israel severed the power line to the desalination plant in the first place.
Netanyahu reportedly left this announcement to the IDF to avoid backlash from his base. Later, he told them he had no choice: “In any path we choose, we will have to continue to allow the entry of minimal humanitarian supplies.” (Times of Israel, JPost)
Israeli Response
Orit Strock, Israel’s National Missions Minister, said the changes amount to “surrender” to Hamas and warned she has “no reason to be in the government.” (JPost)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said, “This is a moral bankruptcy. While our hostages are in Gaza, our prime minister is sending humanitarian aid to Gaza. I think at this stage, what should have been sent to Gaza is one thing: bombs to blow up, to conquer, to encourage emigration, and to win the war.” (CNN)
Smotrich is threatening to collapse Netanyahu’s government if he doesn’t receive “real and concrete” guarantees of a military-backed plan to defeat Hamas. (J Post)
Here’s how two of Israel’s top papers responded to the changes:
And this story is getting wall-to-wall coverage:
On the other hand, Gideon Levy wrote an unsparing op-ed in Haaretz:
Here’s YNet alerting its Israeli readership to what the West was seeing, a day before the changes were announced:
A different Hebrew-only piece in Ynet described the roots of the aid crisis more bluntly than any mainstream Western outlet: Israel dismantled the existing aid network, replaced it with an American-funded militarized system, and now Gaza is starving as soldiers gun down Palestinians at food centers the government knew would spiral into chaos. (Ynet)
GHF Death Traps
On Thursday, the GHF held a “Women’s Only” aid distribution day at their Saudi district site, promoting it on social media in Arabic:
Israeli troops responded with pepper spray, stun grenades, and live fire, killing two women and orphaning seven children. GHF later released a video showing women “express[ing] gratitude for our efforts.” (BBC)
Al Jazeera published video of an apocalyptic scene as desperate Gazans scramble for aid:
An Israeli reservist admitted soldiers fired on starving Gazans carrying white flags who veered off “approved routes,” saying they’re told to aim for knees but “mistakes happen.” (WSJ)
A retired US special forces officer who worked at GHF aid sites said he witnessed Israeli forces firing into crowds with machine guns and tanks and at civilians fleeing by car: “In my entire career, never have I witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving, civilian population.” (BBC)
The Washington Post published an investigation into the web of private contractors, ex-CIA operatives, and defense-linked firms running the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and profiting from the starvation and murder of Palestinians. (WaPo)
(If you noticed there are key stories about the aid catastrophe missing in this roundup, you can assume they’ll be part of my upcoming piece later this week.)
Bombings, Shellings, etc.
Israel launched a full-scale ground assault on Deir al-Balah—Gaza’s last major city not yet flattened—forcing tens of thousands to flee and severing access to aid routes. (Drop Site)
Israeli special forces abducted Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, Gaza’s top field hospital coordinator, while he was on duty at a Red Cross facility in Khan Younis, killing two civilians—including a journalist—and wounding several others during the raid. (Quds)
An Israeli missile strike on a water desalination plant in Gaza’s al-Rimal neighborhood killed at least five Palestinians. (MEE)
An investigation by +972 and Local Call confirms that Israel is systematically using “double tap” strikes in Gaza—deliberately bombing the same site twice to kill rescue workers, paramedics, and civilians trying to save the wounded. (+972)
An Israeli airstrike killed Palestinian photojournalist Adam Abu Harbid in his displacement tent, critically injuring his wife and children and raising Gaza’s media death toll to 232. (Anadolu)
The IDF is openly threatening to assassinate another prominent journalist in Gaza after he broke down crying while reporting on the hunger crisis:
During Friday prayers, Israel bombed a Gaza City school sheltering displaced civilians, killing at least five, including a baby, and injuring 22, using a U.S.-made Hellfire missile designed for maximum fragmentation. (Drop Site)
At least 50 have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli bombings today. (Anadolu)
General Annihilation
Gaza is running out of burial space. Many cemeteries lie behind Israeli lines, forcing desperate families to dig mass graves, bury children together, or dig up old graves to make room for the newly killed. (Times of Israel)
Israeli forces shelled the World Health Organization’s staff residence in Deir al-Balah, forcing women and children to flee under fire and detaining male staff at gunpoint. Israeli airstrikes also targeted WHO’s main warehouse, triggering explosions and a fire inside. Here is video of the attack. (Guardian)
The IDF claims it accidentally shelled Gaza’s Holy Family Church due to a “weapons malfunction,” but that “modifications were implemented to enhance firing precision, and following the incident, protocols for engaging targets near religious buildings, shelters, and additional sensitive locations were refined. Notably, the IDF has destroyed over 800 mosques in Gaza in 2024 alone without issuing new “protocols.” (Israel Hayom)
In Gaza City, the IDF admits it’s now “fighting infrastructure” rather than Hamas fighters. (Times of Israel)
“I did it for the money, then for revenge,” said one Israeli excavator operator profiting off Gaza’s destruction. The IDF and Defense Ministry are funneling millions into a booming demolition industry that pays civilians up to 5,500 shekels a day to raze Palestinian homes. (Haaretz)
Accusation-Projection
An Israeli soldier told YNet, “We took teenagers and used them as human shields. They walked in front of the force, opened doors in case there was an explosive device or terrorists. We just took people from the humanitarian axis. The whole time they were with us, they were blindfolded and handcuffed. You have to take them to the bathroom and open their zippers and you see them shaking.”
Survivors
A baby was delivered from the womb of a pregnant Palestinian woman killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said on Monday. (Anadolu)
Fifteen hundred high school seniors in Gaza logged in from tents, shelters, and bombed-out ruins to take their final exams online, hoping to attend university. (Al Jazeera)
Middle East Eye profiled 12-year-old Hala Shukri Dehliz, whose scalp was torn off by an Israeli airstrike while she played on a swing—“I was beautiful with long hair. Now, I have none. I just want to comb my hair again.”
Former Human Rights Watch program director Sari Bashi writes in an op-ed that her 82-year-old mother-in-law’s lifelong displacement—from the ruins of Isdud in 1948 to the shattered remains of Gaza today—embodies why Palestinians’ right of return is both legally enshrined and morally urgent. She argues that Israel must transform from an ethnonationalist regime into a rights-respecting democracy. (NYT)
The Day After Plan
At a Knesset event dubbed the “Gaza Riviera,” Finance Minister Smotrich called for the “security annexation” of northern Gaza and unveiled plans to resettle “hundreds of thousands” of Israelis in the Strip—with cities, tech parks, and beachfront hotels—declaring Gaza “an inseparable part of the State of Israel” and insisting “we have great support from the president of the United States.” (Times of Israel).
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz, who hopes to succeed Netanyahu, has created a “special agency” to expel Gaza’s population. (Le Monde)
Ceasefire
After Hamas submitted a new ceasefire proposal this week, the US and Israel abruptly pulled their teams from negotiations, with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff accusing Hamas of “selfish” behavior. (Al Jazeera)
Internal documents obtained by Drop Site show Hamas had agreed to most of the 13-point framework and proposed detailed amendments—rejecting Israeli demands for a 40% buffer zone and calling for UN-led aid distribution and phased Israeli withdrawal. (Drop Site)
Trump declared it was time for Israel to “finish the job.” (Axios)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now admitting, “We need to do some serious rethinking.” (CNN)
Toofless
Twenty-five western nations, the US not among them, declared that Israel’s Gaza war “must end now,” slammed its aid distribution model, and called the plan to herd civilians into a so-called “humanitarian city” a clear violation of international law, yet offered no consequences beyond a vague threat of “further action.” (Times of Israel)
Amateur Hour
In response to a genocide scholar’s detailed case for the term in The New York Times—I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It—a neoconservative blogger with no expertise countered with a piece titled No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza, ignoring every argument and recycling Twitter-tier defenses like: “Then why haven’t they killed even more people?”
Inside the House
For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights groups—B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel—have accused their own government of committing genocide in Gaza. Here’s how PHR reached its decision. (Haaretz)
Israel
The Netanyahus
As Israel starves Gaza, Netanyahu appeared on the Nelk Boys’ podcast and used his airtime to praise Trump and share his love for Burger King. The response was mixed at best. (Haaretz)
“We’re here to fuckin learn to be honest, guys!”
Ryan Grim reports that Benjamin Netanyahu may have blackmailed Bill Clinton by revealing Israel had taped the president’s phone sex calls with Monica Lewinsky—an allegation bolstered by Clinton’s confession to Lewinsky that a “foreign embassy” had been spying on them. (Drop Site)
Extremely Powerful Pink Pussy Hat Energy
A 70-something anti-Netanyahu protester in Tel Aviv is under house arrest after allegedly plotting to assassinate the prime minister with an explosive or RPG, reportedly telling friends she was terminally ill and planned to “take Netanyahu with her.” (Haaretz)
Searching For Accountability
Belgian police arrested two Israeli soldiers at the Tomorrowland festival after a war crimes complaint by the Hind Rajab Foundation and Global Legal Action Network, citing videos of one soldier using a Palestinian as a human shield and another blowing up civilian property; both were questioned and released, but legal proceedings are ongoing. (MEE)
For the tenth time, Israel’s top court gave the government more time to explain why it’s starving Gaza, delaying a response to a May petition by rights groups demanding consistent aid. (Times of Israel)
Hospital Jail
Israel’s prized Sheba Hospital treats a few dozen Gazan patients while holding them under strict permit regimes that bar them from leaving the hospital grounds or returning home, repackaging Israel’s legal obligation to provide care under occupation as humanitarian benevolence. The IDF has bombed 122 health facilities, murdered over 1,400 medical workers, and destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system beyond recognition. (Jewish Currents)
Torture Camps
Two Palestinian rights groups reported that Gaza detainees held in Israeli prisons have been stripped, burned with boiling water, mauled by dogs, and forced to drink alcohol. (MEM)
Israel is currently detaining 28 Palestinian doctors, including eight senior specialists, with no charges, some for over 400 days. Rights groups say more than 400 medical staff have been detained since October 2023. Two top doctors have died in custody, reportedly from torture. (Guardian)
Ten Palestinian boys released after a month in Israeli detention showed signs of malnutrition, exhaustion, and physical abuse, with one teen describing “constant beatings and daily humiliation.” (MEE)
Popular Opinion
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has told Israel’s war cabinet behind closed doors that Operation Gideon’s Chariots has run its course, failed to defeat Hamas, and is actively delaying a hostage deal. (Haaretz)
Amichai Eliyahu, Israel’s Heritage Minister, declared “All of Gaza will be Jewish” and praised the government for “wiping out this evil,” adding that Israel has no obligation to feed Gazans. (ynet)
The Times reports that despite a May poll showing nearly 65% of Israeli Jews say they’re not concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and about 75% believe the military should either ignore or minimally consider Palestinian civilian suffering, a protest movement is growing. (NYT)
Suicide Crisis
A fourth Israeli soldier died by suicide in two weeks. (MEE)
US
Deep Thoughts
“More and more people are dying in Gaza. The president never likes to see that,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. (Israel Hayom)
A senior White House official said Trump “has seen the images and he does not like them,” which is why he had tasked envoy Steve Witkoff with designing a “creative” food aid solution—referring to the GHF, which was conceived in October 2023 and formally registered two weeks after Trump’s inauguration. (WaPo)
Slash and Burn
Trump has pulled the US out of UNESCO for the second time, citing anti-Israel bias and woke causes. (Axios)
A Shift?
The youth wing of the Democratic Party narrowly passed a resolution denouncing Israel’s “ongoing genocide in Gaza” and backing student protests against US complicity. (Times of Israel)
Or Not
In the largest-ever US gathering for West Bank annexation, 30 Senators and Representatives pledged support for full Israeli sovereignty over “Judea and Samaria,” with settler leader Yossi Dagan urging US lawmakers to help “build the land of the Bible” by replacing the term “West Bank” in official documents. (Israel National News)
Vote Blue No Matter Who
Democratic leaders Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer have yet to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the runaway winner of the NYC Democratic mayoral primary. (Axios)
ADL and Friends
Despite 7,000 members of the NEA, the country’s largest teachers’ union, voting to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League over its anti-Palestinian bias and opposition to free speech, the union’s Board of Directors rejected the resolution. (Mondoweiss)
Seven major U.S. Jewish groups, including AIPAC, ADL, and the Conference of Presidents, rejected a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in protest of France’s recognition of a Palestinian state.
Higher Education Meltdown
The Harvard Educational Review quietly canceled an entire special issue dedicated to “education and Palestine,” despite having finalized most of the articles and contracts. (Guardian)
A small group of pro-Israel professors, including CUNY’s Jeffrey Lax and Columbia’s Shai Davidai, is reportedly working with doxxing outfits like Canary Mission and Betar to identify pro-Palestine students, fund deportation efforts, and hand names to the Trump administration. (Drop Site)
On Tuesday, Columbia expelled or suspended more than 70 student activists for peacefully occupying a campus library in May. The following day, the university agreed to a $221 million settlement with the Trump administration over alleged antisemitism. (ABC News)
You can read about how Columbia ignored or downplayed concerns from some of those same students when Assistant Professor Shai Davidai repeatedly doxxed and targeted them online here: Shai Davidai Says Columbia Cleared Him: The University Disagrees.
World
France
Macron announced that France would recognize the State of Palestine. (X)
Netanyahu condemned the decision to recognize a Palestinian state “in the wake of the October 7 massacre, and Secretary of State Rubio called it a “slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.”
We are forever in the wake of October 7th.
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I am in awe of you.
Hi Jasper, loving the roundup + grateful for the time you put into doing it.
Is there a world in which you could link to Internet Archive versions of the Israeli newspaper articles? I am wary of clicking through to give the complicit newspapers any ad revenue.