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In a social media post, the president said the United States and Israel were finalizing a proposal to Hamas. The announcement comes ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington next week.
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"There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes," Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel's war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman spoke with the top U.N. rights watchdog in Geneva this week at the headquarters of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Türk, who has characterized Israel's actions in Gaza as ethnic cleansing, discusses the ongoing suffering of the civilian population, how Israel has attacked the U.N. and its workers, and why he continues to hope "for both Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting the United States next week to meet with President Donald Trump and other top officials in the U.S. administration, supposedly to "capitalize on the success" of the 12-day war against Iran. This comes after nearly 21 months of Israel's war on Gaza that has killed at least 56,000 Palestinians, with daily violence only increasing. "There's basically an airstrike every other minute," says Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada. "There's nonstop artillery fire, gunfire, machine gunfire, as well as Israeli quadcopter drones that are swarming Gaza and shooting people at random." While there have been news reports of a possible ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Shehada says "there are no negotiations," and therefore no end in sight to the daily bloodshed.
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