Seven Palestinians were killed and at least 15 injured in an Israeli airstrike on a busy market in the Al-Mawasi area of central Gaza today, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense and hospital reports. This attack is part of a broader wave of Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, which have claimed the lives of over 40 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, according to local health officials. Video: A daughter mourns her father, killed in Israel’s relentless attacks.
Drop Site’s Middle East editor, @Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس, worked closely with Palestinian journalist and Drop Site colleague @npub16z8v...akuh, who was murdered by the Israeli army in a targeted strike on his vehicle yesterday in northern Gaza. Sharif told @npub1n2k4...050m his death was a ‘tremendous loss,’ and closed by reading aloud a letter the 23-year-old had written, to be published in the case of his death. Hossam asked the world to “not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”
NEW: Rasha Abou Jalal (@Rashaaboujalal1) is a Palestinian journalist and mother in Gaza City. In her latest dispatch for @Drop Site, she recounts a night of terror as Israel went on to kill more than 400 across the enclave. Her report begins: “I woke up at 3 a.m. on March 18th to the sound of a massive explosion above my head, shattering the silence of the night. For a moment, I felt like I had died. I lifted my head from the pillow, still unaware of what was happening around me. The air was filled with grey dust. Suddenly, the screams of my five children pierced my ears. I couldn’t tell whether we were alive or dead and buried under the rubble. I rushed to hold them. More explosions followed—Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza relentlessly and without warning last night. ‘Mama! Are we going to die?’ my terrified 12-year-old daughter, Saida, asked me, her body trembling with fear.” The full dispatch is shared at the link shared below. image
“I saw barefoot children, starving, scavenging grains of rice from the ground—picking them out of the dirt, dividing them among themselves, and eating them, sand and all. I saw young girls in the prime of their youth pushing through the crowd, tears in their eyes, begging for just one meal. I saw grown men standing in line, their eyes fixed on the ground, ashamed of their height, their strength, ashamed that they now had to queue for the bare minimum to survive.”
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Near our clinic, there is a small kitchen that prepares free meals every day. They distribute the food just half an hour before iftar. Yesterday, f...
Israel announces a plan to starve 2.2M Palestinians, European Union issues condemnation of those being starved. Adding: “Israel’s subsequent decision to block the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza **could potentially result in humanitarian consequences.**” image
“Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?” Five Microsoft employees were ejected from a company meeting after confronting CEO Satya Nadella over the company’s contracts with Israel’s military. They wore t-shirts reading, “Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?” Drop Site recently reported that the Israeli military is one of Microsoft’s top AI customers. An AP investigation also found Microsoft AI was used to select bombing targets in Gaza, where Israeli airstrikes leveled entire neighborhoods. “The demands are clear,” said Abdo Mohamed of No Azure for Apartheid. “Microsoft must drop its contracts with the Israeli military.” (Read the Drop Site investigation at the link in reply.)
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BREAKING: Today, @Microsoft workers with #NoAzureForApartheid attended an employee town hall with a simple question for CEO @satyanadella on their ...
“A minute of silence for each of the Bibas children would be appropriate, as would a minute of silence for each of the more than 18,000 Palestinian children murdered in Israel's devastation of Gaza. That silence would extend to over 300 hours." Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace negotiator, addressed the United Nations Security Council today. A video of his full remarks is below.
BREAKING | This Saturday, approximately 800 Palestinian prisoners will be released in the largest phase of the prisoner exchange deal. Among them are 200 women and children, part of 445 total detainees from Gaza set for release—all of whom Israel has acknowledged had no involvement in the October 7 events. The deal will also see the release of the longest-held Palestinian prisoners: ➤ Nael Barghouti (in prison for 44 years) ➤ Alaa Al-Bazian (for 42 years) ➤ Samer Al-Mahroom (for 38 years)
NEWS | Renowned comedian Dave Chappelle revealed during his February 13, 2025, performance in San Francisco that Saturday Night Live producers had told him not to discuss two topics when he hosted the show in January: transgender issues and Gaza. Here’s a clip from his monologue that night 🔽
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The latest sign that anti-Palestinian politicians and lobby groups in America have lost the argument: last night on #SNL, the audience loudly appla...
Sen. Mark Warner, at the Munich Security Conference, wants you to know the real story behind the TikTok ban—that Israel was the driving force behind its passage in Congress: “I want to see if you're going to tell the real story,” Warner said to former congressman Mike Gallagher, a Palantir executive who, alongside Warner, first introduced the bill labeling TikTok a national security threat. Gallagher responded: “The bill was still dead until October 7th. And people started to see a bunch of anti-Semitic content on the platform, and suddenly our bill had legs again.”
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Senator @MarkWarner spills the beans about "the real story" of how the TikTok ban went down. Turns out, its passage had more to do with the Gaza wa...