The Biden administration vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza while the State Department is pushing for expedited sale of 45,000 tank shells to Israel.
Updates
8 December 2023
“If we must live”: Ghada Hania’s tribute to Refaat Alareer, whose poem “If I must die” has been widely shared and translated after his assassination by Israel.
The writer Refaat Alareer, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, “was no spectator,” writes Louis Allday. Until the end of his life, he fought as a combatant in his own way against the monstrosities and lies of Zionism.
Since 7 October, writes Aseel Mousa, “whenever I’ve been interviewed by Western media outlets, I am always asked one question: Do you condemn Hamas’ attacks against Israel? It’s as if the conflict between Israel and Palestine began on 7 October, not 75 years ago.”
Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman tells the story of her cousin Shaima, who sustained critical injuries in an Israeli strike that massacred her family, including her two young children. Shaima now “fills her hours watching videos of Oday and Huda on her phone.”
To honor Refaat Alareer, “I will fight with my pencil and my poems,” writes Mahmoud Alyazji, one of the assassinated English literature professor’s beloved students.
A child died after his supply of oxygen was cut when Israel attacked al-Nasr pediatric hospital in northern Gaza. “This child was Yahia Shabet, a patient with muscular dystrophy,” writes Sewar Elejla, who had helped care for the boy earlier this year.