If Americans Knew

1. Final count: bodies of 392 Gazan Palestinians discovered in mass graves – Day 202

Gruesome discoveries on Gaza hospital grounds; Israeli strike kills Belgian aid worker & son, 7; premature baby girl has died; another US State Dept employee resigns; military-industrial complex profits from weapon sales to Israel; "Biden has betrayed the soul of our nation"; Freedom Flotilla: Israel plays dirty (again); nonviolent campus protests spread, met with violence

2. A statistic 1,000 times too small doesn’t warrant a correction in the NY Times

Four days after a major error about Gazans was published in a front page article, the Times has still failed to publish a correction, even after editors determined a correction was required.

3. Biden announces: $26B in US tax money to Israel will “make the world safer” – Day 201

Biden signs over more aid to Israel, as its military may be using internationally banned weapons, burying civilians alive, killing another journalist, enabling famine and disease, and preparing to invade the most densely populated region of the world; meanwhile, teenager killed in West Bank, Turkiye is being pressured to stop a massive aid shipment from sailing to Gaza; meanwhile, college campuses' growing outcry against the genocide in Gaza, and more

4. Three days under fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem describe the ‘most violent’ Israeli raid in years

"This isn't the first time that the occupation raided Nur Shams," camp resident Baraa al-Ghoul told Mondoweiss, "but this time it was different because the occupation forces used unprecedented violence."

5. US Congress just approved billions more in military aid to Israel, as Gazans die – Day 200

More weapons to Israel as it plans a potentially genocidal invasion (that US opposes); aid orgs shocked by the recklessness of the plan; Israel holds highest ever number of Palestinians in administrative detention – no charges, no trial; Israel reportedly about to invade Beit Lahiya, denies burying Gazans in mass graves; Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman near Hebron; Google fires more employees over its provision of tech to Israeli gov't; updates on Freedom Flotilla, campus protests, more

6. ‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage

It's a decades-old power imbalance: When a teenage Israeli was killed (after Israeli soldiers had killed a Palestinian shepherd), decades-old settler violence reached new levels