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American labor activist Chris Smalls was released from Israeli imprisonment on Thursday after being assaulted by soldiers who abducted him and the rest of the Freedom Flotilla crew.
Smalls, the only Black person on a crew hoping to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, was beaten by Israeli officers.
During debate on a congressional stock trading ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ron Johnson, one of the richest members of Congress worth an estimated $55 million, said the bill would “make it very unattractive for people to step up to the plate and run for office.”
Sen. Ron Johnson is one of the richest members of Congress, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars.
The Trump administration is planning to burn almost $10 million worth of contraceptives that were supposed to be sent to people in low-income countries. Destroying the contraceptives will reportedly cost U.S. taxpayers over $160,000.
A nonprofit says the administration rejected its offer to buy the birth control.
A small, emaciated Palestinian boy in Gaza named Amir was killed by Israeli forces just moments after receiving aid from American contractors in May, former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar has recounted.
Former Green Beret Anthony Aguilar recounted the horrific story of the small child who was just grateful for food.
Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that there is “no starvation” in Gaza, a U.S. doctor who just returned from Gaza says the reality is undeniable and that malnutrition cases are everywhere, in newborn babies, pregnant women, even among the hospital staff.
“It was completely evident that there is no safe place in Gaza,” a US doctor who just returned from the territory says.