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Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

History & Context

Hamas is agreeing to release all hostages and end the war. Israel refuses.

Hamas negotiators worked with Qatari and Egyptian mediators to respond to all issues in the last U.S./Israeli ceasefire draft, focusing on food aid to Gazans and a permanent end to the war. Western media has reported verbatim claims from Netanyahu and U.S. envoy Witkoff that Hamas “is the obstacle to a hostage release deal."
Internal Israeli politics

The political and legal survival of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dependent on continued war and yielding to the demands from far-right ministers to annex Gaza and the West Bank. Their intention is to erase Palestine.
Palestinian oil and gas reserves

Oil and gas resources in the West Bank and offshore Gaza, and control of Gaza’s maritime zone, could provide Palestinians with economic independence and strategic strength. Israel sees this as a threat to its own strategic and economic ambitions.
Israel continues to arrest large numbers of Palestinians, most without charge

Palestinians held in Israeli prisons now number over 10,000, subjected to systematic torture and extra-judicial killing. Israel’s targeting of attorneys, activists and doctors in Gaza is evidence of the intention to destroy medical infrastructure and civil society in Palestine.
Israeli hegemony = U.S. regional influence

Despite growing international support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and recognition of the State of Palestine, unconditional U.S. support for Israel has been an effective block on meaningful political or economic steps to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in Gaza.
An aggressive Israeli lobby in the U.S. and a powerful pro-Israel evangelical voting bloc drive U.S. policy on Israel

The Israeli lobby in the U.S. finances much of the Congress and helps drive U.S. policy on Israel. As do the 80 million evangelicals who make up 25% of the nation’s adult population, 80% of whom voted for Trump in 2024. Many U.S. evangelicals believe Israel’s occupation of all the Holy Land will usher in the “second coming of Jesus.”

Fight for Geopolitical Superiority in the Middle East

The U.S. support for Israel’s assaults on Gaza and the West Bank are part of the drive for U.S. regional influence through Israeli hegemony.

World In Brief

A major Russian missile attack overnight on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv killed at least 21 and damaged the EU and British Council offices. The UK and EU summoned their Russian envoys to demand the attacks stop.

BREAKING Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to annex one section of the Gaza Strip each week for four weeks if Hamas does not surrender and disarm. Hamas has already agreed to release all captives if Israel withdraws. Israel has refused.

BREAKING Addressing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, UN deputy humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya said that the Israeli-engineered famine in Gaza has been confirmed in the north of Gaza, and is expected to spread to the south by the end of September. “Over half a million people currently face starvation, destitution and death. By the end of September, that number could exceed 640,000." In a joint statement, all members of the Security Council, except for the US., backed last week's famine report by the IPC, which Israel condemned.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is reportedly in chaos after the White House moved to fire its head, Susan Monarez, and she refused to resign. Her lawyers said she is being "targeted" for refusing to support widespread changes to U.S. vaccine policies. A wave of agency resignations followed, citing the "weaponizing of public health."

In El Salvador, the congress has approved changes to the constitution that abolish presidential term limits. It allows Nayib Bukele, president since 2019, to run indefinitely. Of the change to the constitution, one opposition MP said: "Today, democracy has died in El Salvador."

Weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's oil refineries have crippled Russia's refining capacity across the country. Gas stations in several regions are without petrol and prices have surged to record highs.

Israel retaliated against a Houthi missile attack by striking Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, targeting the presidential palace, power plants, and a fuel site. At least 10 were killed and 92 injured. The Houthis had fired missiles with submunitions and vowed to continue attacks until a Gaza ceasefire is reached.

BREAKING More than 200 former ambassadors and diplomats from EU states published a joint letter on Tuesday calling for collective action on Israel over its actions in Palestine — to suspend arms exports, halt joint projects, cut academic and economic ties with Israeli institutions, impose sanctions, restrict trade with settlements, ban Israeli military port calls, and prosecute indicted war criminals. They called for action "at the state level or by groups of states” if EU member states refused to take meaningful action.

Colombia faces renewed violence as FARC dissidents and drug cartels launch deadly attacks, including a car bomb in Cali and a drone strike on a police helicopter, killing nearly 19. The assaults threaten President Petro’s “total peace” plan.

U.S. officials seek to deport Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda after he refused a plea deal. His lawyers call it unsafe and retaliatory. A judge has blocked removal until October while his asylum case proceeds.

Denmark has summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires over alleged attempts to interfere with Greenland's status as a Danish territory. Danish intelligence services uncovered a network of “at least three” people involved in “influence operations” in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou, close ally of Emmanuel Macron, seems likely to lose an impending confidence vote next month over an unpopular austerity budget, creating a crisis for Macron's government.

Donald Trump's 50% import tariffs begin today on India, a strong U.S. partner, because of India's purchase of Russian oil and weapons. It's one of the highest tariffs in the world.

As Donald Trump sent warships toward Venezuela, Venezuelan citizens responded to calls from President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend to enlist and help defend the country against "U.S. imperialism."

The UN human rights office is demanding justice after Israel bombed Nasser hospital twice yesterday in quick succession. Nasser was the last functioning public hospital in southern Gaza. As rescue crews and journalists arrived to evacuate the wounded after the first strike, Israel bombed again killing first responders and journalists working for Reuters, Associated Press, Al Jazeera and MiddleEastEye.

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Israel

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

DropSite Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal

Israel

DropSite Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal

Antisemitism: What is the IHRA definition and why is it controversial?

Governance

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Middle East Eye

“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Israel’s War on Gaza

Human Rights

“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Israel’s War on Gaza

From Gaza to Syria: The Unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler Colonialism

MENA

From Gaza to Syria: The Unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler Colonialism

Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue

Governance

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The American Prospect

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Tech/Sci

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