🚨 Students at Harvard University launched an encampment in support of Gaza in Harvard Yard moments ago, calling for an end to Harvard's moral and material complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Harvard has invested over $200 million of its over $51 billion endowment in companies with ties to zionist settlements in the West Bank, while most of its investments to the zionist entity are kept secret.
The students are demanding financial transparency regarding investments related to the zionist entity, as well as genocide and occupation in Palestine; divestment from these investments and reinvestment in Palestine; and dropping all charges against student activists.
The University has suppressed student voices in support of Palestine time and time again, suspending the Palestine Solidarity Committee just this week on baseless grounds. They have also enabled attacks on pro-Palestinian students from the media and politicians. Today, the students say enough is enough, and that they will no longer tolerate their institution's support for genocide.
This brings the number of ongoing encampments to 19, with more to come.
Photographer Mahmoud Shalha documents how people in Beit Lahiya assembled a platter of food and brought it out to journalists as thanks for their work. All of north Gaza and much of central and south Gaza are devastated by famine, induced by the occupation as part of its campaign of genocide. Beit Lahiya is also currently under renewed aerial bombardment and ground assault. Even so, people risk their lives and give up their own food to make sure journalists are fed.
I'm just going to say that student movements are always powerful because governments fear students. What did they expect from Columbia University? Part of their culture was that students did the same years ago when the Vietnam war was taking place! Look really close to these movements because I feel this is the beginning of the end.
Another multi-billion dollars was approved for Israel meanwhile here in America prices are still soaring, more and more people are unable to afford basic needs, and the government is trying to criminalize homelessness.
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Bakeries finally reopen in northern Gaza as Palestinians continue to fight famine
Bakeries are finally re-opening in northern Gaza for the first time since October. "The enemy has tried killing, death, starvation, and destruction and has not succeeded," Omar Jundia tells Mondoweiss, as he waits for his first fresh bread in months.
Journalist Hossam Shabat reports on weather conditions in Gaza. He writes
Today, temperatures in Gaza reached 37°C (100°F), with most residents living in tents where the temperature is even higher. People lack fans, air conditioning, or access to drinkable water.
This heatwave is expected to increase the risk of heatstroke among the already malnourished and dehydrated population in northern Gaza.
"According to Al Jazeera's Sanad fact-checking agency, analyzed satellite images reveal that Israeli troops have transformed Gaza's only specialized cancer hospital into a makeshift military base. They have stationed dozens of armored vehicles at the facility and constructed earthen fortifications for protection."
"The Israeli occupation forces initially moved their tanks and vehicles into the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, situated south of Gaza City, on November 23, as per the analysis. Since then, Israeli forces have constructed a dedicated supply road from the hospital to the 'Netzarim' corridor, an east-west military route that Israel uses to divide Gaza City from the rest of the enclave." [@/QudsNen on X. April 23? 2024.]