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'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror

Haaretz - 19:12 Aug 21, 2025

In recent weeks we spoke by video with doctors around the Gaza Strip. Through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What we saw brought the catastrophe into sharp focus
MAGA roiled after Israeli official leaves U.S. following arrest in sex crimes ring

Haaretz - 18:37 Aug 21, 2025

Pundits and Congress members alike flirted with antisemitic conspiracy theories as they expressed outrage that Tom Alexandrovich returned to Israel after posting bail
'Extremely high for modern warfare': Classified IDF report says it could only verify 17 percent of those killed in Gaza as combatants

Haaretz - 17:58 Aug 21, 2025

The Guardian reported that five out of six Palestinians killed in Israel's war in Gaza through May 2025 weren't combatants. Israeli politicians and defense officials often claimed that the civilian-to-combatant ratio could be as low as one for one

Tags: Gaza
An attack on one U.S. Jewish family tells a larger story about today's antisemitism

Haaretz - 17:46 Aug 21, 2025

A video of neighbors in Atlanta taunting David Lubin over the death of his daughter - who was stabbed in a terror attack in Jerusalem - shows how the Gaza war is fueling toxic antisemitism and why separating it from criticism of Israel is crucial
State Department employee fired for questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza

Haaretz - 17:42 Aug 21, 2025

The employee drafted a response on behalf of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying the U.S. does not support the forced relocation of Gazans. He said he also questioned a statement from the embassy that referred to the West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria'
'It's personal and political': Israeli students raise over $50,000 to support friends in Gaza

Haaretz - 17:41 Aug 21, 2025

A group of former students at Israel's Arava institute are funneling aid to Gazan classmates and their families in word-of-mouth campaigns. 'We just don't have the right to stop acting as long as this reality continues,' says one organizer
U.K. summons Israeli ambassador after Israel approves settlement plan dividing West Bank

Haaretz - 17:07 Aug 21, 2025

Britain, along with 21 other international partners, has slammed Israel's settlement plan as a 'flagrant breach of international law' that would undermine the idea of a two-state solution, calling to 'urgently retract this plan'
Israel brings U.S., Israeli social media influencers to Gaza aid sites to fight 'Hamas hunger campaign'

Haaretz - 16:54 Aug 21, 2025

The Diaspora Affairs Ministry sponsored influencers to film and share content from GHF aid distribution sites. 'You guys can hate me for going to see the truth, it won't change the facts. Israel is NOT the reason many Palestinians are starving,' one posted

Tags: Israel
Report: Germany rules visitors to concentration camp can be barred for wearing keffiyeh

Haaretz - 16:37 Aug 21, 2025

A German court ruled that a visitor could be blocked from entering the Buchenwald concentration camp if they were wearing a keffiyeh, after a woman filed a lawsuit for being turned away for this reason, the Guardian reported
Marching on the Gaza border, hostage families say: Gaza takeover plan is a death sentence

Haaretz - 16:16 Aug 21, 2025

As the plans to conquer Gaza City advance, 100 relatives of hostages and their supporters marched to the site of the Nova music festival: 'Most of the Israeli people want to end the war, but the government refuses to listen,' they said
IDF blocks Palestinians from using key West Bank road while Israeli settlers drive freely

Haaretz - 15:41 Aug 21, 2025

The army has closed a main road in the West Bank to Palestinian traffic, except for residents of two villages and those who hold permits to work in the settlements. According to the IDF spokesperson, the restrictions apply only on weekends, but soldiers who served in the area said the restrictions are in effect throughout the week

Tags: West Bank
From Kanye to Coughlin: The dark history of U.S. antisemitism we wanted to forget

Haaretz - 15:33 Aug 21, 2025

We Jews in the U.S. feel – because we are – increasingly targeted for hatred. But this isn't new: Antisemitism has a long history in our country
Turkish ports raise new barriers to Israel-linked ships, sources say

Haaretz - 14:51 Aug 21, 2025

Vessels arriving directly from Israel or departing to Israeli ports would no longer be permitted to dock at Turkish ports. Turkish-flagged ships will also be prohibited from calling at Israeli ports

Tags: Turkish
Israeli leading defense companies reportedly banned from key Netherlands expo

Haaretz - 14:48 Aug 21, 2025

As many European countries opt to keep a low profile on business dealings with Israel, the Dutch defense and security expo will bar Israel's leading industry contractors from participating in November's exhibitions, following a similar French ban from the Paris airshow in June
Three Israeli ministries involved in attempts to fly 40,000 Hasidic pilgrims to Ukraine

Haaretz - 14:40 Aug 21, 2025

The transportation and foreign ministries and the Prime Minister's Office are working on the flights for visitors to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav in September via Moldova, which has approved only 40 of the 120 requested flights
Among ourselves, we say Palestine – but Israelis mustn't know

Haaretz - 13:31 Aug 21, 2025

What we say in private, and what we're allowed to say out loud as Palestinians in Israel
The Jewish woman who insisted on entering a concentration camp – in America

Haaretz - 13:27 Aug 21, 2025

Elaine Buchman Yoneda joined her husband and their son when they were incarcerated in a detention camp for Americans of Japanese descent, from where she continued her anti-Nazi activities. A new book relates her unusual story
Worship of force and endless war will rot Israeli society from within

Haaretz - 12:59 Aug 21, 2025

Short-term victories are obscuring long-term failures, and the cost is rising on every front
Bereaved father of U.S.-born Israeli soldier confronted with antisemitic slurs in Georgia

Haaretz - 12:53 Aug 21, 2025

A father in Atlanta says neighbors have subjected him to antisemitic slurs after he displayed stickers honoring his daughter, who was killed in Jerusalem's Old City in 2023: 'It was the same hate that happened during the Holocaust towards Jews'
Lebanon returns Israeli citizen to Israel after year-long imprisonment

Haaretz - 11:38 Aug 21, 2025

Salah Abu-Hussein's family searched for him for a year before learning he had been imprisoned in Lebanon. Neighbors say he has mental health issues, and Israeli security is investigating how and why he was detained

Tags: Lebanon Israeli

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