UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated that Israel has no legal authority to bar humanitarian workers from Gaza — because the occupation itself is illegal under the ICJ’s 2024 ruling, and with it the authority Israel claims to expel the 37 aid organizations now facing a March 1 ban.
USAID staff filed an internal cable in early 2024 describing northern Gaza as an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ with bones in the streets and catastrophic food shortages — then US Ambassador Jack Lew and his deputy blocked the cable’s circulation inside government, claiming it lacked balance.
The UN reports that more than 37,000 Palestinians were displaced in the West Bank in 2025 — a record — driven by Israeli military operations, 1,800+ settler attacks, and demolitions. The pace has continued into 2026 as Israel advances plans to register occupied land.
The UN is calling the occupied West Bank’s current crisis the worst since 1967 — with 37,000+ Palestinians displaced in 2025, record settler violence, military operations destroying refugee camps, and a new land registry plan condemned by 80+ countries as de facto annexation.
A masked mob brutally beat an elderly Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank in the latest documented act of settler violence carried out with near-total impunity. The attack comes as a United Nations report formally accuses Israel of decades of severe racial discrimination in the West Bank equivalent to apartheid. United Voices is demanding Congress act.
Ten foreign ministers, including from France, Norway, and the UK, have warned that Israel’s INGO deregistration deadline will shutter one in three Gaza healthcare facilities — as aid organizations refuse to submit Palestinian staff lists that could put workers in danger.
A year of investigations by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call reveals that Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have deeply integrated their cloud, AI, and surveillance infrastructure with the Israeli military — systems that have directly enabled operations in Gaza.

AIPAC Spent $100 Million to Punish Gaza Critics in Congress. Now It’s Running Scared of Its Own Brand.
AIPAC, which spent $100 million to remove Gaza critics from Congress in 2024, is pulling back its electoral strategy ahead of the 2026 midterms — acknowledging that its brand has become toxic as public disgust over Gaza continues to grow.