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Activists in Freedom Flotilla Blocked From Sailing to Gaza
“If Israel thinks that this is the end of our effort … they are sadly mistaken,” says one organizer of the flotilla.
![U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a trilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in the East Room of the White House on April 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147727241-400x300.jpg)
Leaked State Dept. Memo: Israel Likely Violates International Law Using US Arms
A report by 4 State Department bureaus found the Israeli government's assurances “neither credible nor reliable.”
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20 Years After Abu Ghraib, Its Victims Take Their Torturers to Court
Survivors exposed the violence of the “war on terror,” refusing to let it be relegated to the dustbin of history.
![Civil Defence Authority teams work to recover bodies of Palestinians from under the rubble in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on April 21, 2024. The Palestinian Civil Defense Administration in the Gaza Strip said late Saturday that the bodies of 50 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army were recovered from a mass grave in the southern Khan Younis province.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0426-mass-grave-400x300.jpg)
Mass Graves in Khan Yunis Reveal Unspeakable Horror of US-Backed Gaza Invasion
Emboldened by unconditional military and diplomatic support from the US, Israel continues to act with impunity in Gaza.
![Texas State Troopers and other police forces monitor the scene as pro-Palestinian students protest on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0425-ut-400x300.jpg)
UT Austin Faculty Strike in Solidarity With Pro-Palestine Student Protesters
Faculty are acting together, without a union, to break the law and stop work in order to protect the student movement.
![Advocates with lived homelessness experience demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/IMG_5004-400x300.jpg)
SCOTUS Ignores Housing Crisis in Hearing on Laws Criminalizing Unhoused People
As the court hearing took place, unhoused people and their allies rallied outside, demanding “housing, not handcuffs.”
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Cops Raid Palestinian Solidarity Encampments, Arrest Protesters at Yale and NYU
The encampment at Columbia University is entering its seventh day despite mass arrests of protesters there last week.
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Human Rights Advocates Slam UK Move to Deport Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
The Labour Party has vowed to scrap the legislation if it wins control of the government later this year.
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Israel Tied With Iran Among Top Jailers of Journalists in 2023, Report Finds
The Committee to Protect Journalists says 2023 saw the highest number of arrests of Palestinian journalists since 1992.
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Hundreds of Bodies Discovered in Mass Grave in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
Rescue workers said that some of the bodies they found had been buried with their hands tied behind their backs.