Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal got together on Capitol Hill with victims' families to demand justice from government

Offensive conducted as UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide.

Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza City as UN commission finds Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

At least 91 were killed in the city on Tuesday as Israel intensifies its offensive, forcing thousands to flee.

MSF, Islamic Relief, Save the Children and CARE International are among the aid groups issuing the joint call.

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

<article data-history-node-id="428008" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-drops-incendiary-grenades-ambulance-gaza-city" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-military-drops-incendiary-grenades-ambulance-gaza-city" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli military drops incendiary grenades on ambulance in Gaza City</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military used a drone to drop incendiary grenades on an ambulance at Al-Sheikh Radwan Clinic in Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. It is currently unknown whether there were paramedics or patients in the ambulance.</p> <p>Healthcare workers, their vehicles, and medical facilities have been a key target of the Israeli miltary since they started their offensive on Gaza since October 2023.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="427946" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-students-return-classrooms-gazas-schools-lie-ruins" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-students-return-classrooms-gazas-schools-lie-ruins" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">As Israeli students return to classrooms, Gaza's schools lie in ruins</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On Monday, 2.58 million&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/middleeasteye.org/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli&nbsp;</a>students returned to their classrooms to begin the new school year.&nbsp;Of these, 180,600 are starting first grade, while 149,000 are entering twelfth grade, their final year of school.&nbsp;</p> <p>In Gaza, meanwhile, the education system has been largely levelled by two years of Israeli bombardment.</p> <p>The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) warned that over 660,000 children in Gaza are being deprived of schooling for a third consecutive year amid Israel’s genocide in the territory.</p> <p>Analysis of satellite images by the United Nations Satellite Centre in April revealed that 97 percent of schools “sustained some level of damage to their buildings”, with 432 school buildings, 76.6 percent of the total school buildings in Gaza, suffering a “direct hit” since 7 October 2023.</p> <p>According to the Palestinian education ministry the schooling of around 700,000 has been suspended, with over 70,000 barred from taking secondary school exams in the past two years.</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-students-begin-school-year-gazas-schools-lie-ruins">here</a>.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel is weighing the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, three Israeli officials said, just as several Western nations move towards recognizing Palestinian statehood this month.

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?

<article data-history-node-id="427870" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/child-injured-or-killed-every-10-minutes-gaza-unicef-spokesperson-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/child-injured-or-killed-every-10-minutes-gaza-unicef-spokesperson-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">A child is injured or killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, Unicef spokesperson says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza has become the "most dangerous place in the world for children", Unicef spokesperson Tess Ingram&nbsp;told Al Jazeera, warning that the territory has transformed into a place where their lives are being destroyed.&nbsp;</p> <p>Ingram noted that a Palestinian child is killed or wounded every 10 minutes, adding that the only way to end the "killing and maiming of children is a ceasefire."</p> <p>The Unicef spokesperson stressed the dire conditions children in the besieged enclave endure, including famine, lack of humanitarian aid, a collapsing health sector and constant Israeli bombardment.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Every child in Gaza has experienced unspeakable levels of fear and suffering, and UNICEF estimates that nearly one million children are in need of psychosocial support,"&nbsp;Ingram said.</p> </div> </div> </article>