The 2 million people trapped in Gaza, with nowhere to go, are experiencing crisis levels of hunger. Pulling UNRWA funding is a death sentence in an already horrible crisis.
Israel’s policies and Zionist culture have profoundly reduced, dehumanized, and tried to erase the presence and the lives of Palestinian children (and adults) for decades. As Israeli journalist Or Kashti writes in Haaretz, the government continues “to plaster over any crack in the dehumanization of the Palestinians, from the first grade to the grave.”
The Jerusalem District Court acquitted Eyad Hallaq’s killer, and Hallaq’s family is now petitioning the Israeli Supreme Court in light of the State Attorney’s refusal to do so. But the Court has consistently justified the killing of Palestinians.