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Top Biden Official Admits Famine Is Spreading in Gaza as US Continues Funding It
The famine is “giving rise already to child deaths in the north,” the USAID chief said in a congressional hearing.
Honduras Woman Says Country Denied Her Access to Abortion in UN Complaint
The country’s strict abortion ban violates Hondurans’ rights to “life, health, privacy, autonomy, and bodily integrity.”
Rights Group: 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza Are Missing in Addition to 34,000 Dead
Those missing include people whose bodies have been exhumed and are being held by Israeli forces, Euro-Med Monitor says.
State Department Has Seen Historic Amount of Internal Dissent Over Gaza
Even the Iraq War hadn’t prompted nearly this much internal dissent, former officials said.
Biden Levies Strongest Criticism of Israel Yet as He Continues to Fund Genocide
“I don’t agree with [Netanyahu’s] approach,” Biden said, after months of granting full U.S. support to the genocide.
Dispatch From a Missouri Execution: A Microcosm of the US Death Penalty Fight
The state-sponsored execution of Brian Dorsey on April 9 marked the fifth death row killing in the US this year.
Israel Must Allow Foreign Journalists Entry to Gaza, UN Secretary General Says
“Denying international journalists entry into Gaza is allowing disinformation and false narratives to flourish.”
Sanders Demands US Closely Monitor Aid Entering Gaza as Israel Weaponizes Hunger
“The United States cannot be complicit in the use of starvation as a weapon of war,” the senator said.
Over 1,600 Academics Sign Letter Condemning Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza
All of the universities in Gaza and at least 76 percent of the school buildings in Gaza have been bombed.
Rwanda Genocide Shows Consequences of US Refusal to Prevent Mass Killing
Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, in which up to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.