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![Displaced Palestinian families live in tents in the Al-Mawasi area of Rafah, situated south of the Gaza Strip and near the border with Egypt, on December 7, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0513-al-mawasi-400x300.jpg)
Oxfam Report: Conditions “Ripe” for Cholera, Hepatitis A Outbreak in Gaza
The water and sanitation systems are close to “total collapse,” an official warned.
![Following the Israeli army's ground incursions into certain neighborhoods east of Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinians residing in the area continue to migrate from the eastern neighborhoods of the city towards the west of Khan Yunis on May 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0513-rafah-w-400x300.jpg)
Army Major and Pentagon Officer Resigns Over US Support of Gaza Genocide
“At some point … you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not,” he said.
![A Palestinian family sits with their belongings](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0513-palestine-egypt-400x300.jpg)
Egypt Joins ICJ Case Accusing Israel of Genocide as Gaza Assault Intensifies
Egypt is the third country to request to join South Africa's case, and its request is especially significant for Israel.
![A woman in a blue hijab watches Israeli forces tear down her home](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0513-west-bank-demolition-400x300.jpg)
Israel Continues Unfettered Colonization of the West Bank Amid Genocide in Gaza
The West Bank has posed the biggest challenge to the Zionist settler movement's pursuit of a “Greater Israel.”
![Bernie Sanders stares directly into the camera](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0513-bernie-sanders-400x300.jpg)
Bernie Sanders: Israel Has Gone to War Against the Entire Palestinian People
As Israel escalated its assault on Gaza over the weekend, Sanders said Israel shouldn’t receive any more military aid.
![Pro-Palestinian students and their supporters form a protective chain around a temporary Gaza solidarity encampment outside the office of George Washington University president Ellen Granberg in Washington, D.C., on May 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2151722341-400x300.jpg)
How One Student Gaza Encampment Built a Model for Deaf Accessibility
Deaf pro-Palestine students joined their hearing peers at the now-cleared George Washington University encampment.
![A Palestinian mother feeds her child near a makeshift tent as the Palestinian families seek refuge at the El-Mavasi district as they struggle to find clean water, food and medicine as the Israeli attacks continue in Rafah, Gaza, on February 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1991176809-1-400x300.jpg)
As I Nurse My Baby, I Mourn for All the Mothers in Gaza Whose Milk Is Drying Up
I am spending this day grieving for mothers in Gaza who, dehydrated and under attack, are unable to feed their children.
![Palestinians inspect the destroyed buildings in Ez-Zawayda area after the Israeli attack in the central part of Gaza targeted the town of Ez-Zawayda and the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, resulting in numerous casualties in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on May 11, 2024. It is reported that 20 people, including children and babies, were killed and many others injured in the Israeli attacks on Maghazi Camp and Az Zawayda areas in the central Gaza Strip.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2151923968-400x300.jpg)
Delayed State Dept. Report Covers for Israeli Crimes Committed With US Arms
The long-awaited report, which the Biden admin buried in a “Friday news dump,” accepts Israel's flimsy assurances.
![Pro-Palestinian supporters gather outside Harris County Jail after two people were arrested following a pro-Palestinian encampment on University of Houston campus on May 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2152207008-400x300.jpg)
University Leaders Are in the Wrong. Students and Faculty Won’t Back Down.
Campus activism for Palestinian liberation won’t be halted by university administrators' lawless crackdowns.
![A man snaps pictures from a rooftop as thick, black smoke rises from a fire in a building caused by Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0510-rafah-400x300.jpg)
Israeli Officials Vote to Expand Rafah Invasion Amid “Unspeakable” Disaster
One source said that the expansion of the invasion would cross the Biden administration’s stated “red line.”