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Doubts Grow Over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks as Gaza Overlooked at DNC
Human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan says US policy essentially incentivizes Israel to refuse compromise in the talks.
![Israeli soldiers sit on a tank near the border with the Gaza Strip as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on June 28, 2024, in Southern Israel, Israel.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0821-gaza-t-400x300.jpg)
New Israeli Road in Gaza Suggests Plan for Permanent Occupation, Analysis Finds
Israeli forces have spent the last nine months building and clearing the land around a road giving access to Gaza City.
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Don’t Fall for Talking Points That Smear Palestine Solidarity Protesters at DNC
Efforts to smear, co-opt and deflate protesters who demand the US end support for the Gaza genocide are well underway.
![Tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks and military jeeps belonging to the Israeli army move along the northern border of Gaza on May 29, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0821-israeli-tanks-400x300.jpg)
Report: Countries and Companies Sending Israel Oil May Be Complicit in Genocide
Over half the fuel shipments to Israel occurred after the World Court's January ruling of “plausible” genocide.
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Trump Was Never a “Moderate” on Foreign Policy
Neither presidential candidate offers a fundamental break from the US foreign policy status quo.
![Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a student-faculty rally at Dickson Plaza at an encampment on the UCLA campus on April 29, 2024, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0820-student-protest-400x300.jpg)
CA Educators Are Resisting Anti-Palestine Bills Pushing “Academic Police State”
Activists say the bills will make public education more hostile for people already targeted by anti-Palestinian racism.
![Palestinian civilians and civil defense teams conduct a search-and-rescue operation after an Israeli airstrike against the Mustafa Hafiz School where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the Er-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza on August 20, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0820-gaza-school-400x300.jpg)
Israel Bombed School That Served as Shelter for Hundreds of Palestinian Families
Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians, including two children, in the bombing of the Mustafa Hafiz School.
![Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to members of the press at David Kempinski Hotel in Tel Aviv on August 19, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0820-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Blinken Blames Hamas for Ceasefire Impasse — But Hamas Supports Biden’s Proposal
Hamas said that the US is “merely buying time for Israel to continue its genocide.”
![President Joe Biden speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0820-joe-biden-dnc-b-400x300.jpg)
Biden Says Civilians Being Killed on Both Sides in Gaza. The Ratio Is 45 to 1.
The civilian death ratio of Palestinians to Israelis is, conservatively, 45 to 1 — and this gulf grows larger each day.
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First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights Asks: Will Dems Take Urgent Action?
The panel was the result of persistent grassroots organizing against US support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.