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![A Palestinian woman reacts over the corpse of a family member in front of the morgue of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on July 13, 2024, one of the health establishments to which casualties were rushed after an Israeli strike killed at least 90 people at the Al-Mawasi camp.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2161226806-400x300.jpg)
Survivors Describe Horror as Israel Massacres 90 Palestinians in “Safe Zone”
“What a life we live ... that we have to see the dismembered bodies of our siblings and families fly over our heads.”
![A digital illustration of a cartoonist drawing the Palestinian flag as she's loomed over by two large, shadowy figures in suits, both of them stretching red tape across the composition and holding it to her neck in a threatening manner.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-palestine-censorship2-400x300.jpg)
Israel Faces No Apparent Red Line, But Pro-Palestinian Media Workers Do
Western journalists have faced retaliation following expressions of support, or even concern, for the people of Gaza.
![An aerial view of the Whinstone U.S. Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1235926785-3-400x300.jpg)
Crypto Mining Is Creating an Environmental Crisis for Black Texas Communities
Energy companies plan to build new fossil fuel plants in communities of color to meet the demands of crypto mining.
![Raul (Junior) Nunez milks Holstein cows at Frank Konyn Dairy Inc., on April 16, 2020, in Escondido, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1210114335-2-400x300.jpg)
Finland Is Offering Farmworkers Bird Flu Shots. Should the US Be Following Suit?
As this year's bird flu threatens to spread, some experts criticize the CDC's hesitance to vaccinate high risk workers.
![Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders questions witnesses during a hearing about working hours in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on March 14, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2083892918-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Makes Bid to Block Biden’s New $18 Billion Arms Sale to Israel
“I intend to do everything I can to block further arms transfers to Israel,” the senator said Friday.
![A view of a damaged floating pier, set up by the U.S. to facilitate quicker delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians, after it has been suspended due to adverse weather conditions and rising sea levels in Gaza City, Gaza on May 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-gaza-pier-400x300.jpg)
US Planned to Reanchor Gaza Pier One Last Time — and Even That Failed
Officials announced this week that the pier will soon be permanently disconnected, months earlier than planned.
![Former President Donald Trump leaves after speaking at a campaign rally at the Trump National Doral Golf Club on July 9, 2024, in Doral, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-trump-400x300.jpg)
Video Shows Trump Endorsing Plan for Project 2025 in April 2022
In 2022, Trump applauded Heritage for planning to produce a set of policies that would eventually become Project 2025.
![A Palestinian man inspects the destruction in the Tal Al-Hawa neighbourhood in southern Gaza City on June 5, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-gazad-400x300.jpg)
Entire Families Were Killed During Israel’s Attack on Gaza City
The Civil Defense in Gaza says many of those killed had left shelters in areas that were under evacuation orders.
![A youth walks along a road between the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, on June 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-gaza-400x300.jpg)
Biden Said He’s Not Sending Israel 2,000-Pound Bombs. He’s Sent 14,000 of Them.
“They cannot be used in Gaza … without causing great human tragedy and damage,” Biden said of the bombs he sent Israel.
![Thousands of New Yorkers take to the streets to protest a ban on transgender people serving in the military on July 26, 2017, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0712-trans-rights-400x300.jpg)
Anti-Trans Policy Pushed by Project 2025 Passes Dem-Controlled Senate Committee
Transgender care for members of the military and their dependents is under threat more than ever before.