Palestinian writer and analyst @Muhammad Shehada says that while recent moves by Western nations to recognize Palestinian statehood are filled with caveats and loopholes, they indicate that global opinion is rapidly shifting.

U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."