Israeli security forces destroy a house in Silwan, February 14, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan

The government has accelerated plans to depopulate the East Jerusalem neighborhood, displacing dozens of Palestinian residents this year.
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The Israeli army is destroying civilian infrastructure, blocking medical access, and conducting mass arrests in its largest West Bank operation in years.
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Demonstrators outside the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

To sacrifice or free the hostages? Israeli protesters have chosen a side

Fearing for the remaining captives, the mass rallies that erupted across Israel were essentially demanding an end to the war — and Netanyahu knows it.
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People gather in memory of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem, September 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin pleaded for their son’s release. But Netanyahu chose to cling to power and spill rivers of blood in Gaza instead.
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Ibrahim Sidda, August 16, 2024. (Oren Ziv)
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  4. ‘This is also America’s war’: Why the U.S. isn’t stopping Israel’s Gaza onslaught
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  2. ‘This is also America’s war’: Why the U.S. isn’t stopping Israel’s Gaza onslaught
  3. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  4. Inside the brutal siege of Jenin
  5. Hersh is gone, sacrificed on the altar of Israel’s ‘total victory’
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  2. Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute
  3. ‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war
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