Reports: Israel Bombs Hospital, Killing Hundreds as Biden Vetoes Ceasefire at UN and Goes to Support Israel

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Sharif Kouddous reports: “An Israeli airstrike” hit Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza City, which “was packed with the wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter. At least 500 dead, according to health ministry.” CNN reports: “They followed evacuation orders. An Israeli airstrike killed them the next day.

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The Times of Israel ran a headline titled: “Biden to make wartime solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday.”

On Monday, 2,000 Jewish activists pleaded in front of the White House for a ceasefire.  That same day, the U.S. government vetoed a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire.

REFAAT ALAREER, refatr17@gmail.com, @itranslate123
Alareer is the co-editor of Gaza UnsilencedHis writings have appeared in the New York TimesMembers of his family have been killed by Israel during the current assault.

FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@illinois.edu
Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. His books include Palestine, Palestinians and International Law and World Politics, Human Rights and International Law. He said today: “Hospitals are protected under the Geneva Conventions, the violation of which is a war crime.”

Boyle represented the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, arguing their genocide case against Yugoslavia before the International Court of Justice. He now argues that any nation that is a signatory to the Genocide Convention should apply that to Israel. See text of his talk: “Stopping Zionist Genocide Against The Palestinians.”

JOHN QUIGLEY, quigley.2@osu.edu
Professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University, Quigley’s books include The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict (Cambridge University Press) and The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II.

ABBA SOLOMON, abbasolomon@gmail.comwww.threads.net/@abba.a.solomon
Solomon is author of two books on Zionism, The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel and The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein’s Speech “The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews.”

MAZIN QUMSIYEH, mazin@qumsiyeh.org, Skype: mbqumsiyeh
Qumsiyeh is a professor at Bethlehem University. His books include Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is founding director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability.