This week: Protests in the West Bank, U.S. and Tel Aviv as Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip kill 121 Palestinians, including at least 27 children, and injuring more than 800.
A Palestinian child injured in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip arrives at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on the night of July 8, 2014.
Smoke rises over the sky of Gaza following an Israeli air strike, July 8, 2014.
Palestinians walk among the ruins of the Abu Leila family house which was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the Al Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City early the morning of July 11, 2014.
Palestinians hold signs reading “Gaza is bleeding” during a solidarity demonstration in the city center of Nablus, West Bank, July 09, 2014.
Israeli army tanks move towards the Israel-Gaza border on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Israeli leaders threatened that a prolonged ground invasion is being considered.
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, July 11, 2014.
An Israeli resident looks at damage from a rocket from Gaza that struck his home in a kibbutz near border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, July 9, 2014.
A home in the severely damaged Al Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, July 11, 2014.
An Israeli man in Sderot looks at his car that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014.
A child inspects the ruins of a house destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the Al Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, July 11, 2014.
Palestinian medical staff care for those injured in Israeli air strikes as they arrive at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on July 8, 2014.
Activists protest outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago, Illinois, condemning the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014.
Israeli activists in center Tel Aviv protest against attacks on the Gaza strip, July 9, 2014.
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Our team has been devastated by the horrific events of this latest war – the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel and the massive retaliatory Israeli attacks on Gaza. Our hearts are with all the people and communities facing violence.
We are in an extraordinarily dangerous era in Israel-Palestine. The bloodshed unleashed by these events has reached extreme levels of brutality and threatens to engulf the entire region. Hamas’ murderous assault in southern Israel has devastated and shocked the country to its core. Israel’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza is wreaking destruction on the already besieged strip and killing a ballooning number of civilians. Emboldened settlers in the West Bank, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to escalate their attacks on Palestinians.
This escalation has a very clear context, one that +972 has spent the past 13 years covering: Israeli society’s growing racism and militarism, the entrenched occupation, and an increasingly normalized siege on Gaza.
We are well positioned to cover this perilous moment – but we need your help to do it. This terrible period will challenge the humanity of all of those working for a better future in this land. Palestinians and Israelis are already organizing and strategizing to put up the fight of their lives.
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