More than 50 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Tuesday, pushing the death toll to more than 42,000 with nearly 100,000 wounded since October 7th, 2023. The United States is now warning Israel that it has 30 days to address the lack of humanitarian assistance making its way into Gaza or risk further military assistance.
Joining the discussion:
- Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Journalist who spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent with The New York Times.
- Habib Battah is an independent journalist and founder of the Beirut Report.
- Ali Akbar Dareini is a researcher and writer at the Strategic Studies of Public Policy journal in Tehran.
- Sara Yael Hirschhorn is a historian at the University of Haifa and a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem.
An airstrike in Gaza hit a hospital courtyard on Monday, burning tents where people were sleeping.
Strikes also hit an @UNRWA school where families were sheltering. The location was meant to be used as a polio vaccination site.
A ceasefire is urgently needed to stop the… pic.twitter.com/kLfVTHEXQC
— United Nations (@UN) October 14, 2024
There is no safe place for children in Gaza.
This shameful violence against children must end now. pic.twitter.com/uz79ZFdE4T
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) October 14, 2024
“I thought for sure it would be the people working so hard in Gaza.”
A Japanese leader of the group that won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize compared the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/BDP3jsEQGg
— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 15, 2024