This last week has seen a dark turn in the continued occupation of Gaza. After over 55 years of occupation and a 16 year long blockade of food and water, on October 7th Hamas retook control of several Israeli settlements using bombs and ground troops and killed over 1300 Israelis, most of them civilians. This […]
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