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"The Israeli army stormed the hospital on Monday with military vehicles suddenly, opened fire, shelled buildings, and arrested women and men," Moumin Bulbul, 24, who works in the reception department, told Anadolu. "During the arrest, they stripped us forcibly and interrogated us, and some were taken to an unknown place," he added. Bulbul noted that the "Israeli army forced dozens of Palestinians to evacuate towards the south of Gaza City, naked and handcuffed."...

Muslims in the US have been followed by the FBI for many years, but complaints have increased after Israeli attacks on Gaza on Oct. 7, Dina Chehata, civil rights managing attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles office, told Anadolu....

"This is the most serious scandal since the establishment of the army," he said. "We have already lost the war with Hamas, and we are also losing our allies in the world at a dizzying rate."...

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The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza's population into internal displacement amid a crippling blockade of most food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN. Protesters block access to security gates, shut down traffic outside of San Francisco International Airport's international terminal to demand an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the end of all US military assistance to Israel. Israel's war in Gaza...

Declaring, "We are outraged, we are heartbroken," hundreds of protesters turned out to block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech, forcing cars to take "the long way" to the Capitol. Concluding a day-long series of protests across Washington DC, hundreds of people in black shirts reading "Not In Our Name" and "Biden’s Legacy = Genocide" sat and stood along Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol, delaying Biden's speech by about a half hour. Organizers with megaphones led ...

"Some of the obstacles that we have seen from the Israeli political establishment, you have seen ministers in the Israeli government block the release of flour from the port at Ashdod. You have seen ministers of the Israeli government supporting protests that blocked aid from going in to Karem Shalom," spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters, referring to a key border crossing between Israel and Gaza....

14 truck convoy turned back by Israeli forces after 3 hour wait at Wadi Gaza checkpoint, says World Food Program. Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza....

A total of 13,430 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli airstrikes and ground operations since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, the Media Office in Gaza said Monday. It noted that 8,900 women were killed over the course of 150 days, adding that 7,000 people, 70% of whom are women and children, are still under the rubble or missing....

In the face of incontrovertible graphic evidence of Israel "Defense" Force using lethal force to cause over 100 Palestinian deaths, amidst a starving crowd that was trying desperately to get to aid supply trucks, the Biden administration was forced to belatedly organize a single plane flight to drop off 60 tons of aid supplies on a south Gaza beach....