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![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as the U.S. Secretary of State gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0718-netanyahu-800x600.jpg)
230 Congressional Staffers Urge Lawmakers to Boycott Netanyahu Speech
The letter represented staffers working across 122 Democratic and Republican offices on Capitol Hill.
![Palestinians look for loved ones in the debris of tents and make shift homes, following an Israeli military strike on the al-Mawasi camp for internally displaced people near the city of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip on July 13, 2024, in which 71 people were killed.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0717-al-mawasi-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has Attacked Gaza “Safe Zone” at Least 10 Times Since Rafah Invasion
The attacks started as early as just two weeks after Israel forced Palestinians to flee to the area.
![An activist settler group of dozens of people, holding Israeli flags, gather at the exit of Ashdod Port near the Gaza Strip and block trucks carrying aid to Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, Israel, on February 4, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0717-israeli-settlers-400x300.jpg)
Report: US Allows Tax Incentives for Donations to Israeli Groups Blocking Aid
Three groups, including one sanctioned by the U.S., have raised $200k in tax deductible donations.
![President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0716-joe-biden-f-400x300.jpg)
Biden Says He’s Done “More” for Palestinians “Than Anybody” as He Backs Genocide
Israel’s genocide, underwritten largely by Biden, has killed at least 39,000 Palestinians so far — but likely far more.
![A view of a damaged vehicle at the site of the Israeli bombing of Al-Mawasi camp the day before, on July 14, 2024, in Khan Yunis.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/2024_0716-gaza-a-400x300.jpg)
Israeli Forces Dropped 2,000-Pound Bombs on Gaza “Safe Zone,” Killing 90
At least one of the eight 2,000-pound bombs used in the massacre was made in the US.
![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.