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At least seven far-right members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, are calling on the country’s defense minister to order the total destruction of northern Gaza’s food, water, and energy sources – most of which have already been obliterated by 15 months of relentless attacks – and the killing of any Palestinian who isn’t clearly surrendering to the attackers.

In a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz dated December 31, the lawmakers assert that the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) campaign to forcibly expel Palestinians from northern Gaza – which critics have called ethnic cleansing – “isn’t being done properly” and is not “achieving the war objectives as defined by the government, which is the dismantling of Hamas’ governing and military capabilities.”

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Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place.

Friday afternoon, President Biden posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to my old friend Joe Galloway. No one could accuse veteran war reporter Galloway of being anti-military or unpatriotic (although some tried). He served four journalistic tours in Vietnam and was the only civilian awarded the Bronze Star during that war, for rescuing wounded American soldiers. He covered numerous conflicts after that, including the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and co-authored the book “We Were Soldiers Once and Young, “ which was made into a popular movie, starring (ahem) Mel Gibson but with Barry Pepper playing Joe.

Along with a team of fellow writers for Knight Ridder, he provided the most skeptical coverage of the invasion of Iraq – a sadly rare thing – and wrote for me when I was the editor of Editor & Publisher. In a more recent movie, Shock and Awe, on that Knight Ridder team, Joe was played by Tommy Lee Jones.

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As Israeli forces stand accused of war crimes during attacks on multiple Gaza hospitals in recent days, Francesca Albanese – the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories – on Monday implored the global medical community to respond by cutting ties with Israel.

“I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel’s full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Albanese wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel's full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide.#FreeDrHussanAbuSafiya https://t.co/qzZ7CqufI6

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) December 30, 2024

Albanese amplified a post by Dr. Rupa Marya – one of the most vocal defenders of Palestinian human rights in the U.S. medical community – calling on Israeli forces to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.

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