If Americans Knew

1. 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

2. ‘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

3. US Senator Incites Violence Against Gaza Protesters

Tom Cotton, US senator from Arkansas, is encouraging grotesque, possibly lethal vigilante violence against demonstrators who oppose genocide

4. Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On ‘Antisemitism’

A mass grave created by the IDF has been uncovered at another Gaza hospital, where Palestinian civilians appear to have been victims of another massacre. Israel is committing genocide while the West fixates on 'Antisemitism'

5. State-backed deadly rampage by Israeli settlers underscores urgent need to dismantle apartheid

Amnesty International: An alarming spike in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians across the West Bank highlights the urgent need to dismantle illegal settlements, end Israel's occupation and its longstanding system of apartheid.

6. Blinken claims State Dept has no double standard favoring Israel – Day 199

Another shameless moment for Blinken, even as he reveals a long list of Israeli human rights abuses; over 300 Gazan bodies discovered in mass graves; Israel prepping for invasion of Rafah; having a baby in Gaza; final report on UNRWA says Israel never offered evidence of wrongdoing; West Bank death; flurry of actions in solidarity with Palestine on US college campuses, more