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![A view of a damaged floating pier, set up by the U.S. to facilitate quicker delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians, after it has been suspended due to adverse weather conditions and rising sea levels in Gaza City, Gaza, on May 27, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0621-pier-400x300.jpg)
US’s Gaza Pier May Soon Be Dismantled Entirely After Series of Failures
The pier has delivered, in essence, no aid to Palestinians languishing under Israel’s extermination campaign in Gaza.
![Palestinians, who fled their homes due to the Israeli attacks on Gaza, try to go on their daily lives under hard conditions in Deir Al Balah, Gaza, on June 19, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0621-gaza--400x300.jpg)
69 Democrats Urge Biden to Grant Refugee Status to Palestinians With Family in US
Palestinians are carved out of the 1951 Refugee Convention, and very few Palestinians have ever been let into the US.
![New Film Investigates US-Backed Killing of Civilians by Israel in Gaza](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/Seg1-filmtitleandsubjectman-400x300.jpg)
New Film Investigates US-Backed Killing of Civilians by Israel in Gaza
In “The Night Won’t End,” Palestinian families recount their horrific experiences amid the Israeli assault.
![Pro-Palestine activists demonstrate after they shut down Lockheed Martin's headquarters entrance to demand an end to their weapons supply to Israel, in Arlington, Virginia, on April 15, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0620-lockheed-martin-400x300.jpg)
30 UN Experts Call on Arms Makers to Stop Weapons Transfers to Israel
These risks are heightened by the ICJ's recent order for Israel to stop its ongoing invasion of Rafah, the experts said.
![Children stand near a crater caused by Israeli bombardment in a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0620-gaza-k-400x300.jpg)
Israel Has “Systematically Violated” Laws Regarding Civilian Harm, UN Finds
The UNHCR analyzed six seemingly indiscriminate attacks likely carried out using US-provided bombs.
![Palestinians inspect their homes destroyed by Israeli forces following operations in the Al-Faraa camp for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0619-West-Bank-400x300.jpg)
UN Human Rights Chief Raises Alarm Over Concerns of Unlawful Killings by Israel
This follows reporting of a surge of Israeli settler violence, supported by security forces, in West Bank since October.
![Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, arrives for a meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 17, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0618-netanyahu-400x300.jpg)
Netanyahu: Blinken Vowed US Is Removing Restrictions on Weapons to Israel
The US doesn’t have any restrictions on weapons to Israel, the White House said, except for one paused bomb shipment.
![U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to reporters after a meeting with families and supporters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza who rallied in Tel Aviv during his visit on June 11, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0618-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Former Official: Biden State Department Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons
State officials have carved out an entirely unique vetting system for Israel in US foreign assistance law.
![Holocaust Scholar Who Lost Job Offer for Calling Out Genocide Speaks Out](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/razsegal-400x300.jpg)
Holocaust Scholar Loses Job Offer After Calling Out Genocide in Gaza
Raz Segal says he was targeted as a “Jew who refuses the narrowing down of Jewish identity to Zionism.”
![Relatives of the Palestinians who died after an Israeli strike hit the Nuseirat refugee camp mourn at the morgue of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza, on June 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0618-gaza-400x300.jpg)
Less Than 2 Weeks After Nuseirat Raid, IDF Kills at Least 17 in Refugee Camp
Israeli forces attacked two homes in Nuseirat that were accommodating families who had recently evacuated from Rafah.