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![A man walks past the damaged Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on February 15, 2024. The building has since been leveled.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0715-unrwa-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has “Flattened” UNRWA HQ in Gaza in “Blatant” War Crime, Agency Says
“Another episode in the blatant disregard of international humanitarian law,” said the head of UNRWA.
![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.”
![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.
![Children check the destruction at a UN-run school after Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0710-unrwa-school-400x300.jpg)
Israel Attacks 4 Schools in Gaza in 4 Days, Killing 50
Chilling video footage shows the moment a peaceful soccer game erupted into terror as a school was struck on Tuesday.
![U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces emplace the Trident Pier, May 16, 2024, on the Gaza coast.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0710-pier-400x300.jpg)
US’s $320M Gaza Pier Will Be Permanently Removed, Months Earlier Than Planned
The pier has been operational for about a third of the time since it was first installed.
![Palestinians line up for meal rations at a communal food distribution point in Deir al-Balah in the besieged Gaza Strip on June 10, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0709-gaza-c-400x300.jpg)
UN Experts: Israel’s “Genocidal Starvation” Has Created Famine in All of Gaza
Israel’s “targeted starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza is a form of “genocidal violence,” they said.
![This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli bulldozers behind an armored vehicle rolling along the border with the Palestinian territory on April 17, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0708-idf-bulldozer-400x300.jpg)
Report: IDF Uses US-Made Bulldozers to Hide Bodies of Dead Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli soldiers said they use the Caterpillar equipment to hide bodies from view of aid convoys.
![Palestinians children sitting in the rubble of a UN school in Gaza where they are taking shelter, on March 4, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2054150686-400x300.jpg)
Israel Bombs Yet Another UN School in Gaza as It Enters Month 10 of Genocide
The strike killed 16 and injured 75, including children. Israel has destroyed or damaged 80 percent of Gaza's schools.
![Fatma Hijazi, the mother of 10-year-old Palestinian Mustafa Hijazi, who died due to malnutrition and lack of medication, and her relatives mourn in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on June 14, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2156832303-400x300.jpg)
Israel’s Campaign of Starvation in Gaza Has Palestinians Eating Weeds to Survive
The enforced famine continues to worsen as Israel blocks aid. Children and the elderly are suffering the hardest.