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![Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Rashida Tlaib attend a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in Rayburn Building on March 20, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0627-tlaib-moskowitz-400x300.jpg)
“Genocide Denial”: House Votes to Bar State Dept. From Citing Gaza Death Toll
“My colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist … not even when they’re dead,” said Rashida Tlaib.
![U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin greets Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as he arrives during an honor cordon at the Pentagon on June 25, 2024, in Arlington, Virginia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_0627-lloyd-austin-yoav-gallant-400x300.jpg)
Report: US Has Sent Israel $6.5 Billion in Military Assistance Since October
This amounts to nearly $25 million in weapons and military assistance sent to Israel each day.
![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.
![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.
![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.
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Israel Is Currently Imprisoning at Least 240 Children From West Bank, Group Says
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society says that many children have been subjected to torture while imprisoned.
![Children wait for food being distributed at a camp for internally displaced people where they live due to the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 11, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_06-17-gaza-children-food-line-400x300.jpg)
50,000 Children in Gaza Need to Be Treated for Acute Malnutrition, UNRWA Says
Thousands of children have been cut off from nutrition care due to Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system.
![Palestinian family mourns after Israeli airstrike](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2156989095-400x300.jpg)
93 Countries Back ICC Probe Into Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The US has been working behind the scenes to block the ICC from issuing arrest warrants targeting Israeli officials.