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![Israel’s Attempt to Push Palestinians Into Egypt Is Longtime “Colonial Fantasy”](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/SEG2-GUEST-Gazans-Flee-SPLIT-400x300.jpg)
Israel’s Attempt to Push Palestinians Into Egypt Is Longtime “Colonial Fantasy”
Journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls out Israeli ethnic cleansing and the media’s silence in the face of genocide.
![An illustration of a woman wearing the colors and pattern of the Congolese flag with a baby tied to her back. The woman's hands are severed, and floating between them and the arms that they were once attached to is a hunk of coltan, to which the baby's hand is also tied with a red string. Behind this scene are a backdrop of electronic devices that use the rare earth minerals presently being mined in the Congo, and behind the woman's head is both the three-bladed head of a wind turbine as well as a sunburst of light.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1114-kongo-genocide2-e1700238859959-400x300.jpg)
Humanitarian Crisis in Congo Is the Sinister Underbelly of “Green Tech”
The “green tech” industry is reproducing the same colonial and extractive patterns that got us to the climate crisis.
![A screen grab captured from a video shows premature babies under treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit remove from the incubators and transferred to another department in the hospital after Israeli attack on Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on November 14, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1116-gaza-premature-babies-400x300.jpg)
Israel Raids Hospital Again, Demands Palestinians Evacuate Southern Gaza
Meanwhile, Israel ignores a legally binding UN Security Council resolution calling for extended humanitarian pauses.
![Will Israel’s War on Gaza Finally End Its Decades of Legal Impunity?](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/Three-waybooksplit-400x300.jpg)
Will Israel’s War on Gaza Finally End Its Decades of Legal Impunity?
International criminal law experts discuss the long history of Palestinians seeking justice through global institutions.
![President Joe Biden speaks on the terrorist attacks in Israel alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken from the State Dining Room at the White House on October 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1116-biden-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Don’t Let Biden and Blinken Get Away With Aiding a Second Nakba
U.S. support for Israel’s attacks on Al-Shifa and the genocide in Gaza is a violation of international humanitarian law.
![Paramedics carry a man on a stretcher](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1115-palestine-hospital-400x300.jpg)
UN Relief Chief Sounds Alarm as Israel Raids Gaza’s Largest Hospital
Israeli forces' raid of al-Shifa Hospital Wednesday came days after they encircled the facility and began bombarding it.
![President Joe Biden listens during an event at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on October 23, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1114-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Over 400 of Biden’s Own Administration Officials Demand Ceasefire in Gaza
The letter adds to a wave of letters and memos calling for a ceasefire coming from current and former federal staffers.
![Pro-Palestinian supporters and activists stop a vehicle from entering while protesting outside the Paramount Group offices in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, on November 10, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1114-south-africa-palestine-protest-400x300.jpg)
“No Arms to Apartheid”: South African Activists Target Israel-Linked Arms Trader
A group of South African activists shut down the main entrance to Paramount Group, an arms trader with ties to Israel.
![An excavator works on destroyed buildings after Israeli airstrikes in the Southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on October 25, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1114-gaza-r-400x300.jpg)
The Real Origins of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Began Long Before 1948
Historian Zachary Foster discusses the history that has delivered us to this moment.
![Protesters with flags and banners gather to show their solidarity with Palestinians and to condemn Israeli attacks over Gaza, in New York, on November 7, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/11/2023_1114-palestine-400x300.jpg)
Criminalization of First Amendment-Protected Pro-Palestinian Speech Is Spreading
As Israel ramps up its genocide of Palestinians, the critical voices that most need to be heard are being silenced.