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  • Kushner’s “Future of Gaza”: A Humanitarian Obscenity, Not a Peace Plan

    Kushner’s “Future of Gaza”: A Humanitarian Obscenity, Not a Peace Plan

    By Amal Zadok

    Kushner’s “Future of Gaza” is not a peace plan; it is a speculative real‑estate prospectus laid over a mass grave, an investor deck pitched on top of fresh rubble and uncounted bodies.  This brutality dressed in the language of “opportunity” and “master plans” is not statesmanship but moral bankruptcy of the highest order, especially in a territory where tens of thousands have been killed and more than 80% of buildings have been damaged or destroyed by war.

    Skyscrapers on top of corpses

    Jared Kushner arrives in Davos with glossy slides of 180 towers along Gaza’s shattered coastline, talking of ports, airports, logistics corridors and “catastrophic success,” as if he were zoning vacant desert land instead of a territory systematically pulverised for years.  He boasts of timelines of “two or three years” to rebuild Rafah, as though bulldozers and cranes were the missing ingredient rather than the deliberate destruction of an entire society and its basic infrastructure.

    The same presentation that sells Gaza as a “regional hub” requiring tens of billions in capital does not pause to name a single family still digging loved ones from under concrete, a single amputated child, a single mass grave.  When the slides show towers and yacht marinas but never cemeteries and bombed schools, this is not reconstruction; it is a visual coup against reality, a marketing campaign against memory.

    Genocide repackaged as redevelopment

    While Kushner and his patrons speak of “demilitarization” and “free market principles,” Gaza’s human losses remain almost unmentionable, reduced to an awkward footnote to the grand business vision.  Independent tallies already report tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, with epidemiologists warning that war injuries, disease and hunger could easily push the total toward or beyond 100,000 deaths in the medium term; that scale of killing matches the language of genocide and ethnic cleansing far more than it does the vocabulary of “development.”

    This is not a “market opportunity”; it is a demographic wound carved into a trapped population of barely 2.2 million.  The language of the plan is not the language of mourning, justice or accountability; it is the jargon of venture capital—“special economic zones,” “investment funds,” “GDP targets,” “microgrants”—sprayed like perfume over the stench of war crimes.  A territory in which perhaps one in fifty residents has already been killed is being treated as a distressed asset to be flipped, not a society entitled to self‑determination, reparations, and the prosecution of those who orchestrated its devastation before a competent international court.

    The Board of Peace: genocide for a fee

    The so‑called “Board of Peace” is the most obscene twist of all: a one‑billion‑dollar buy‑in for a permanent seat at the table where Gaza’s future will be decided.  This is not peace building; it is a pay‑to‑play cartel that monetises both suffering and sovereignty, turning an occupied, bombed people into the underlying asset of a global prestige club.

    Chaired by Donald Trump and populated by hand‑picked elites, the board offers plutocrats and compliant politicians a new status symbol: “I helped reshape Gaza”—for a price.  The promise that all funds will go to reconstruction does not cleanse the structure of its immorality; buying your way into steering the fate of a stateless population turns human rights into a luxury commodity.  When peace has an entry fee of one billion dollars, justice has already been priced out of the room, and genocide has acquired its own VIP lounge.

    Tony Blair, from Iraq’s lies to Gaza’s loot

    And then there is Tony Blair, whose name and institute have circulated around “day‑after” schemes and advisory circuits linked to Trump’s Gaza ambitions, even if reports now suggest he has been dropped from the final shortlist for the board.  A politician who helped sell the Iraq war on the basis of “weapons of mass destruction” that did not exist, and whose legacy is inseparable from hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead, has no moral authority to co‑design—formally or informally—the future of another Arab population bombed and displaced under the banner of “security.”

    Blair’s presence in this orbit is not an anomaly; it is the system revealing itself.  The same political class that lied a country into war two decades ago now returns, scrubbed and suited, to sanitise an experiment in colonial redevelopment: dispossess, bombard, blockade, then invite the architects and apologists of previous disasters to broker the “rebuild” in partnership with investors.  In this cycle, Western leaders are never exiled by their failures; they are recycled into advisory boards and consulting roles, endlessly monetising the ruins they helped create.

    Erasing Palestinians to sell the land

    Kushner’s masterplan speaks fluently about towers, income levels, industrial zones and data centres, but stutters into silence when it comes to who owns the land, who governs the territory and who grants permission.  There is vague talk of technocrats and executive committees, of partner states and vetted locals, but no meaningful space for Palestinians to define their own future outside the conditions imposed by their jailers and their jailers’ patrons.

    This is how erasure works in the twenty‑first century.  You do not have to deny that Palestinians exist; you simply frame them as a logistics problem inside a larger story about corridors, ports and foreign capital.  You point at destroyed refugee camps and call them “phases” of a master plan.  You turn survivors into statistics and then into target demographics for tourism, cheap labour in someone else’s Riviera built on the ruins of their homes.

    Free markets over mass graves

    At the heart of the plan lies the dogma that “free market economy principles” will heal what bombs have broken.  Its authors talk as if unemployment, poverty and blockade were glitches in a spreadsheet rather than the deliberate tools of a regime of control, apartheid and dispossession.  By pretending that skyscrapers and special economic zones can substitute for justice, they ensure that the structural violence underpinning Gaza’s suffering remains untouched, unexamined and unpunished.

    “Catastrophic success,” Kushner calls it: a phrase so revealing it hardly needs commentary.  Catastrophe is the ongoing reality of Gazans; “success” is reserved for those who can turn that catastrophe into contracts, portfolios and keynote speeches in the Alps.  The dead, the displaced and the starved are not invited to Davos; they are the unacknowledged collateral in someone else’s growth projections and the invisible cost of a new speculative frontier.

    An unforgivable obscenity

    To unveil a glittering business blueprint for “New Gaza” while bodies are still decomposing under collapsed homes is not just premature; it is an unforgivable obscenity.  It tells the world that Palestinian life is so cheap that even their mourning period can be shortened to fit an investment cycle.  It signals to every future aggressor that you can flatten a territory and, if you have powerful friends, return as the visionary who will monetise the ruins.

    This is the line that must be drawn. A just future for Gaza begins with ceasefire, full humanitarian access, and international prosecutions for war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide—not with glossy renders, not with billion‑dollar seats on a “Board of Peace,” not with the rehabilitation of men whose careers are built on lies that killed entire nations.  Until the architects and accomplices of this horror stand in the dock instead of on Davos stages, every tower they imagine for Gaza will be nothing more than another form of occupation, another monument to a world that chose profit over people—and another reminder that no skyscraper, no board, and no master plan will ever be tall enough to cast a shadow long enough to hide the blood on their hands.

    References

    BBC News. (2026, January 21). Jared Kushner lays out Trump‑backed “master plan” for post‑war Gaza. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jared-kushner-lays-trump-backed-master-plan-post/story?id=129461124

    CNN. (2026, January 22). 180 skyscrapers for Gaza: Trump’s son‑in‑law Kushner unveils “masterplan” for enclave’s reconstruction. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/middleeast/kushner-trump-postwar-plan-gaza-board-peace-davos-intl-latam

    Breitbart / UPI. (2026, January 22). Kushner unveils $25B Gaza masterplan including skyscrapers, housing. https://www.breitbart.com/news/kushner-unveils-25b-gaza-masterplan-including-skyscrapers-housing

    BBC News. (2026, January 22). US unveils plans for “New Gaza” with skyscrapers. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7mmpljze7o

    Reuters. (2026, January 22). US pitches “New Gaza” development plan; Israeli fire kills five Palestinians. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-pitches-new-gaza-development-plan-israeli-fire-kills-five-palestinians-2026-01-22

    CNN. (2026, January 18). Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza to require $1 billion payment for permanent membership. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/politics/board-of-peace-gaza-trump-payment-membership

    CNN. (2026, January 20). Trump says Board of Peace established to oversee reconstruction of Gaza “might” replace the United Nations. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/trump-gaza-board-of-peace-united-nations

    ABC News (Australia). (2025, November 18). As Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza gets UN approval, critics warn it turns ruins into real estate. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/rebuilding-gaza-donald-trump-plan-investment-potential/106006900

    The New York Times. (2024, February 21). War and illness could kill 85,000 Gazans in 6 months, new analysis finds. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/health/israel-gaza-war-deaths.html

    Wikipedia. (updated 2026). Casualties of the Gaza war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

    Al Jazeera. (2025, January 15). The human toll of Israel’s war on Gaza – by the numbers. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/the-human-toll-of-israels-war-on-gaza-by-the-numbers

    The Washington Post. (2026, January 22). Trump’s “master plan” for Gaza contrasts with reality on the ground. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/22/trump-kushner-gaza-plan

    The Independent. (2026, January 22). Is Trump building peace – or a property deal on the graves of Gazans? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/trump-gaza-kushner-peace-board-property-b2869059.html

    The Guardian. (2025, December 8). Tony Blair reportedly dropped from Trump’s Gaza “board of peace” shortlist. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/08/tony-blair-reportedly-dropped-from-donald-trump-gaza-board-of-peace-shortlist

    Al Jazeera. (2025, December 9). Tony Blair ruled out of Trump’s proposed Gaza “peace board”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/9/tony-blair-ruled-out-of-trumps-proposed-gaza-peace-board-report

    France 24. (2025, December 9). Tarnished legacy: What role for Tony Blair in Trump peace plan for Gaza? https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251209-tarnished-legacy-what-role-for-tony-blair-in-trump-peace-plan-for-gaza

    ©️2026 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.

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  • Witness to Suffering, Testament to Courage: The Unyielding Spirit of Palestine Under Siege

    Witness to Suffering, Testament to Courage: The Unyielding Spirit of Palestine Under Siege

    by Amal Zadok

    In the heart of every refugee camp, amid the shattered homes, beneath the relentless echo of drones and artillery, the Palestinian struggle endures. It is not a passive legacy. It is the living story of a people refusing to bow to the machinery of oppression. The world has grown used to numbers—statistics of dead, lists of imprisoned, columns of hunger and destruction. But these numbers conceal real lives, resilient souls, and a will for justice that no regime of terror can erase.

    Zionism’s story, as echoed in volumes of scholarship and documentary record, began as a colonial vision intent on overwhelming and displacing Palestine’s indigenous population. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International describe the lived result as apartheid, a cruel system where suffering is manufactured and dignity daily denied.

    Today in Gaza and the West Bank, winter storms flood battered tents, worn-out shelters collapse beneath the weight of cold and rain, and 1.5 million displaced Palestinians struggle to survive. Humanitarian organizations report that 93% of all displacement tents are no longer suitable for shelter, their fabric torn by bombardment and the elements. Families huddle on soggy ground amid the ruins—still alive, still witnessing, still demanding justice as the world shuffles corridors of power and banishes relief to endless administrative red tape.

    Parents describe the agony of watching their babies die in malnutrition wards, denied lifesaving formula by the blockade. Aid convoys are halted, water lines are destroyed, and each shelter becomes a symbol of survival amid engineered deprivation. Despite a fragile ceasefire, access to shelter, food, and clean water remains catastrophic. The UN, local partners, and courageous volunteers scramble to provide what little aid is allowed: winter clothing, blankets, mental health support for traumatized children, and emergency nutrition for the sick and undernourished.

    The siege is relentless. Israeli bombardments erase whole neighborhoods. Households become mass graves. Generations of families vanish inside collapsing buildings and burning camps. Ambulances and clinics are targeted; hospitals run out of medicine, and medical workers patch up bodies only to send them back into tents and hunger. Yet, Gaza’s spirit refuses surrender. “As long as there is life in Gaza, there is hope. We will not surrender. And we will return,” vows a survivor. Each personal tale, each poem and prayer, is a fierce assertion of Palestinian identity against those seeking its erasure.

    Behind every headline, the machinery of crime is visible and documented. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for those responsible—Netanyahu, Gallant, and others—charging them with war crimes for orchestrating mass starvation and carnage. These charges rest not on rhetoric but on medical records, survivor testimony, and forensic analysis.

    Inside prisons and detention centers, the horror is magnified. Reputable sources such as Amnesty International, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights have documented cases of torture and sexual violence. Women and men speak of rape, forced nudity, and assaults during interrogations and raids. These acts are supported by medical exams and investigative reports and are used destructively—to extract confessions, destroy spirit, and mandate silence. Children, too, are targeted: threatened, stripped, abused, and forced to see their bodies as instruments of humiliation.

    This sustained reign of terror is not only documented but openly condemned by human rights experts and legal authorities. Displaced families speak in the language of resilience, refusing victimhood, and insisting on the restoration of dignity. The world is commanded not to look away—to witness the suffering and to respond, not with charity, but with uncompromising justice.

    Legal experts, advocates, and survivors invoke Nuremberg’s legacy, demanding not only trials for the architects of atrocity, but the dismantling of the oppressive system itself. The demand for justice is not vengeance, but restoration: for those who survived torture and rape, for every child lost to blockade and shellfire, for every family left to mourn exile and separation.

    Palestinian suffering is not a tragedy to be pitied, but a summons to action—a reminder that humanity cannot exist while some lives are expendable. Their courage sharpens the case for accountability, their endurance keeps alive the hope of genuine peace. Witnessing suffering must become a rallying cry, pushing the world to confront what it has refused too long to see.

    As long as there are survivors, there will be testimony. As long as testimony endures, there will be judgment for those who inflicted these crimes. The world’s duty is clear: to be not merely spectators, but co-authors of justice for Palestine. Their unyielding spirit is a testament not just to their own courage, but to the possibility of a reckoning—and the birth of a new dignity, unbroken by siege.

    References

    1. Human Rights Watch. (2023). “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

    2. Amnesty International. (2022). “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity.” https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

    3. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (2024). “Occupied Palestinian Territory: Humanitarian Impact Report.” https://www.ochaopt.org/

    4. B’Tselem. (2023). “Statistics on Palestinians in Israeli Custody.” https://www.btselem.org/statistics/detainees_and_prisoners

    5. Al-Haq. (2024). “Accountability for War Crimes: Patterns of Violations in Gaza.” https://www.alhaq.org/

    6. International Criminal Court. (2024). “Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leadership: Netanyahu and Gallant.” https://www.icc-cpi.int/palestine

    7. CNN. (2025). “Turkey issues ‘genocide’ arrest warrants against Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.” https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/world/turkey-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-genocide-intl/index.html

    8. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. (2025). “Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Prisons.” https://pchrgaza.org/en/

    9. BBC. (2023). “Released Palestinians allege abuse in Israeli jails.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67649824

    10. The Lancet. (2023). “Civilian Casualties and Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Medical Perspective.” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00727-5/fulltext

    11. Mondoweiss. (2024). “Months of Israeli torture, abuse, and sexual violence in detention.” https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/months-of-israeli-torture-abuse-and-sexual-violence-in-detention/

    12. The Conversation. (2025). “Israel is on notice for using sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners.” https://theconversation.com/israel-is-on-notice-for-using-sexual-violence-against-palestinian-prisoners-224580

    13. Amnesty International. (2025). “Gaza: Israel’s Use of Starvation Evidence of Genocide.” https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/07/gaza-israel-use-of-starvation-evidence-of-genocide/

    14. The Nation. (2025). “‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World.’” https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-gaza-suffering/

    15. PubMed Central. (2025). “War-Related Trauma in Narratives of Gazans.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123456/

    16. Al Jazeera. (2025). “Displaced Palestinian families suffer as heavy rains flood Gaza tent camps.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/14/displaced-palestinian-families-gaza-tent-camps-flood

    17. Daily Sabah. (2025). “Tents flooded in Gaza as Israel keeps blocking shelter materials.” https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/tents-flooded-in-gaza-as-israel-keeps-blocking-shelter-materials/news

    ©️2025 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.

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  • The Collapse of the Wall of Silence: Gaza Genocide, Scrambling Narratives, and Israel’s Battle to Control Truth

    The Collapse of the Wall of Silence: Gaza Genocide, Scrambling Narratives, and Israel’s Battle to Control Truth

    by Amal Zadok

    The American landscape has been shaken by revelations of systemic horrors in Gaza and the West Bank—atrocities perpetrated with the direct support and rhetorical protection of the Israel lobby, whose grip on U.S. institutions is now visibly cracking.

    Once able to silence opposition and uphold an image of Israel as a beleaguered democracy, the lobby is now scrambling—deploying symbolic gestures like Shabbat dinners and smears of dissenters—while facing an unprecedented tide of public revolt.

    The reality is stark: what is unfolding in Israel-Palestine is not a conflict as traditionally understood, but a genocide and a campaign of ethnic cleansing unmatched in recent memory.

    The Reality of Genocide in Gaza

    No sanitized narrative can obscure what has happened in Gaza since October 2023. As of October 2025, over 75,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces—nearly a third were children, tens of thousands were women, and entire communities were erased in mass bombardments targeting hospitals, schools, residential towers, refugee camps, and basic infrastructure.

    Israeli military databases and independent investigations confirm that more than 80 percent of the dead are civilians. These numbers exceed the civilian death ratio in almost every major conflict since World War II. Yet these grim statistics still fail to reveal the full scale of tragedy: humanitarian monitors and the United Nations repeatedly stress that the official death toll does not include the thousands of people believed to be buried under the mountains of rubble left by ongoing attacks.

    Rescue and medical teams—operating with almost no fuel, equipment, or protection—have confirmed that countless families remain missing beneath destroyed neighborhoods, with decomposing bodies lying for weeks or longer where homes and shelters once stood. This reality suggests that the true number of Palestinians killed by Israeli bombardment is far higher than even the staggering official counts.

    Humanitarian agencies and United Nations bodies have, for more than a year, sounded the alarm: Israel has imposed a medieval siege on Gaza, choking its population with famine and disease, bombing supply convoys, and criminalizing the brave UN workers struggling to keep infants alive. Survivors recount endless nights trapped beneath rubble, parents forced to bury their children in mass graves, and a daily struggle for milk, medicine, and clean water. The term “unfolding genocide” is not hyperbole, but the official language adopted by international human rights experts and by the International Criminal Court.

    Atrocities in the West Bank

    Parallel crimes rage in the West Bank—where Israeli military forces, police, and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in two years, injured over 10,000 more, and orchestrated a reign of terror that includes home demolitions, mass arrests, extrajudicial shootings, and daily humiliation at checkpoints. Settler pogroms—often protected or abetted by IDF units—have targeted Christian communities, farmers, and journalists with impunity. Mosques and churches have been torched.

    Children are shot in back alleys. The world once looked away, but today, mass documentation floods every social feed, and silence has become an impossible luxury.

    Desperation Exposed: The Heritage Foundation as a Microcosm

    Nowhere is the Israel lobby’s new desperation more glaring than in the recent upheaval inside Washington’s influential Heritage Foundation. What began as an internal debate over antisemitism within conservative ranks—sparked by the Foundation president’s defense of Tucker Carlson after a controversial interview with Nick Fuentes erupted into a public spectacle of resignations, leaks, and raw institutional panic.

    The formation and then fragmentation of Heritage’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, with multiple senior members departing in protest, was only the beginning. In a telling moment, junior staff and fellows were encouraged, under the guise of “dialogue,” to attend Shabbat dinners organized within the Foundation, stoking fears that such events served as informal loyalty tests for employees whose backgrounds, beliefs, or criticisms of Israel placed them outside the institutional mainstream.

    Christian staff expressed unease, arguing that, far from promoting real solidarity, these dinners had become symbols of a new orthodoxy: dissent on Israel would cost you career advancement, and refusal carried subtle professional stigma.

    When a high-profile staff member publicly voiced worry about being pigeonholed by faith, the response from leadership was not reassurance but public rebuke: what was offered as a “generous bridge” was felt and understood as a veiled demand to conform.

    As media outlets published leaked internal memos, Heritage’s crisis joined the national conversation—a frontline in a much larger reckoning as long-dormant dissenters at major U.S. institutions break the silence around Israel and resist the old politics of fear.

    The backlash has left the Heritage Foundation fractured and exposed, serving as a clear warning that efforts to manufacture ideological conformity by fusing religion, politics, and foreign policy are now fueling the very backlash the lobby once hoped to suppress.

    The Lobby’s Flailing Control and Symbolic Coercion

    Faced with the impossible moral task of defending policies that amount to genocide, the Israel lobby has reverted to desperate measures. When critics—Jewish, Christian, or secular—question U.S. complicity or demand a severing of ties, the response is not engagement, but ritual theater.

    Staff are pressured to attend “dialogue” events like Shabbat dinners, designed as informal showcases of unity and allegiance, but in reality functioning as soft coercion and loyalty tests. These gestures, now exposed, signal feeble attempts to restore legitimacy as the lobby’s ideological scaffolding collapses.

    No longer content to wield influence behind closed doors, the lobby activates every network—volleys of accusations of antisemitism, the mobilization of anti-hate task forces, and relentless public relations campaigns—but the effect is backfiring. American staff, journalists, and especially young activists are refusing to play the role of compliant audiences. Many see these tactics as what they are: efforts to silence those whose consciences will not allow complicity with the mass murder of innocents.

    The Collapse of the Information War

    For decades, the Israel lobby’s most potent weapon was information control—gatekeeping media, penalizing dissent, and manufacturing consensus. That era is dead.

    Today, horrifying images from the bombed-out ruins of Gaza and the burning fields of Hebron circulate freely; testimonies from survivors, aid workers, and bereaved family members demolish the “fog of war” and make the truth impossible to ignore.

    The lobby’s desperation is not mere paranoia—it is a recognition that public opinion is shifting, fast and deep. Millions of Americans now see through the lies; grassroots movements have exploded across university campuses, faith communities, and even institutions once thought impenetrable, like the Heritage Foundation. Calls for unconditional support of Israeli policy are now challenges to moral integrity, and those who try to defend the indefensible are met with the outrage their positions deserve.

    Moral Reckoning and the Path Forward

    The undeniable reality remains: entire families have been obliterated, children buried beneath rubble, and an entire people faces starvation, disease, and dispossession. The scale of brutality visited upon Gaza, the West Bank, and beyond is a stain on the conscience of our age.

    These crimes demand not only historical reckoning but urgent international action—systemic, coordinated, and unyielding—to dismantle the violent machinery and ideologies that perpetuate such suffering. Justice demands more than words. The world must act for the dead, the living, and for our shared future—because never again must mean never again for anyone.

    References

    1. Action on Armed Violence. (2024, October 28). Civilian casualties in Gaza. https://aoav.org.uk

    2. Brown University Costs of War Project. (2025, October 3). Direct and indirect death from 7 October 2023 to 3 October 2025. https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu

    3. Al Jazeera English. (2025, August 21). Israeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians. https://aljazeera.com

    4. Reuters. (2025, October 7). How many Palestinians has Israel’s Gaza offensive killed? https://reuters.com

    5. United Nations News. (2025, September 24). Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more casualties. https://news.un.org

    6. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. (2025, May 6). End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza. https://ohchr.org

    7. Guardian/972 Magazine, Local Call. (2025, May). Civilian to combatant ratio in Israeli military intelligence database.

    8. The Lancet. (2025, November 3). 3 million Palestinian life-years lost in Gaza genocide.

    9. Washington Post. (2025, November 6). Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson.

    10. Jewish Insider. (2025, November 5). Heritage’s Roberts apologizes for Carlson video, but tensions linger.

    11. Talking Points Memo. (2025, November 5). Heritage Foundation implodes over Carlson-Fuentes controversy.

    ©️2025 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.

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