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![A Palestinian injured in a strike at a house is brought in for treatment at the Kuwaiti Hospital on January 17, 2024, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1935926874-400x300.jpg)
Destruction of Gaza’s Health System Isn’t a Byproduct, It’s an Aim of Genocide
Israel’s destruction of the health care system in Gaza maximizes the ongoing Zionist project of elimination.
![U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders presides over a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on unions on November 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1793472693-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Moves to Block Funding for Israeli Weapons as Aid Bill Looms
“Twenty-seven thousand dead — two-thirds of them women and children,” said the senator. “This is unacceptable.”
![A student writes down "I am from Palestine" at a temporary classroom in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on December 28, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-1886420525-400x300.jpg)
In My Classroom, Storytelling Helped Unlock New Perspectives on Palestine
As a teacher, I see it as my responsibility to bring Palestine into my classroom, despite my fear of facing retaliation.
![A protester holds a sign depicting President Joe Biden reading "Come November We'll Remember" on December 8, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1834245377-400x300.jpg)
The Political Costs of Biden’s Support for Israel’s War Are Mounting
The president's Gaza policy is isolating the United States internationally and threatening his reelection prospects.
![Activists from the group Jewish Voice for Peace stage a sit-in blockade of the Manhattan Bridge on November 26, 2023, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0202-jvp-400x300.jpg)
Jewish Students Across 15 Campuses Plan “Shabbat for Ceasefire” Gathering
Jewish students say that the gathering is a time to honor the tradition and meaning of Shabbat.
![A view of destruction in the towns of al-Karameh, al-Sudaniyeh and Al-Tawam where their asphalt roads were destroyed by bulldozers and Israeli airstrikes after the Israeli army withdrew from parts of Gaza City and North Gaza for the first time since it started its ground offensive on October 27, 2023, in Gaza City, Gaza, on February 2, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0202_gaza-r-400x300.jpg)
Palestinians Uncover Dozens Killed Execution-Style in Schoolyard in Gaza
Palestinian civilians discovered bodies blindfolded and with their legs and hands tied back.
![Palestinian Solidarity Protesters Rallied at Biden Campaign Event in Michigan](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/Seg1-MayorProtestorsV2-400x300.jpg)
Palestinian Solidarity Protesters Rallied at Biden Campaign Event in Michigan
“The lives of Palestinians should not be measured simply in poll numbers,” said Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud.
![Photos shared by Belgium's foreign affairs minister show the destroyed office building that housed the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in the Gaza Strip, on February 1, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0202-belgium-400x300.jpg)
After Belgium Refused to Cut Off UNRWA Funding Israel Bombed Its Gaza Aid Office
Belgian ministers demanded a meeting with Israel's ambassador envoy to the country to discuss the attack.
![President Joe Biden is pictured in a collage with smoke rising from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0202_biden-gaza-400x300.jpg)
US Is Underwriting Israel’s Crimes — Americans Can No Longer Claim Ignorance
Many of us in the Global South are watching the 2024 election to see if US voters implicitly endorse war crimes in Gaza.
![Palestinians walk amid the destroyed Ayin Calut apartment at the Nasirat Refugee Camp after Israeli forces withdrew from the area in Gaza City, Gaza, on January 17, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0201-gaza-a-400x300.jpg)
Judge Affirms “Plausible” Genocide in Gaza But Dismisses Case on US Complicity
The judge said he “implores [Biden officials] to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege.”