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Israeli authorities are using access to water as a weapon against Palestinians, including by systematically depriving people in Gaza of water in a campaign of collective punishment, according to a report released today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

MSF calls on Israeli authorities to immediately restore unhindered access to water, sanitation, and hygiene for Gaza’s 2.1 million residents. Israel's allies, including the United States, must use their leverage to pressure Israel to do so. 

Deliberately denying Palestinians access to water is an integral part of Israel’s genocide. Through data and medical testimonies, the MSF report, “Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza,” documents how the weaponization of water by Israeli authorities is not an isolated act, but part of a recurrent, systematic, and cumulative pattern. The denial of access  to water is occurring alongside the direct and continued killing of civilians, the devastation of health facilities, and the flattening of homes, which has caused mass displacement. Together, these actions constitute a deliberate infliction of destructive and inhumane conditions on Palestinians in Gaza.

Israeli authorities know that without water life ends, yet they have deliberately and systematically obliterated water infrastructure in Gaza — while consistently blocking water-related supplies from entering.

Israeli authorities know that without water life ends, yet they have deliberately and systematically obliterated water infrastructure in Gaza — while consistently blocking water-related supplies from entering.

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Tamir Pardo, the former chief of Israel’s powerful Mossad intelligence agency, drew international attention on Monday by saying that what he witnessed during a tour of the Occupied West Bank reminded him of the treatment of the Jewish people during the Holocaust by Nazi Germany in the 1930s ad 40s.

Pardo, who served as Mossad director from 2011 to 2016, expressed sorrow and shame over what he saw, invoking his Jewish family’s history.

Observers noted that Pardo’s statements—which echo, at least in certain key ways, those of experts and humanitarian advocates who have documented the abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)—would come under harsh rebuke by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) or other pro-Israel hardliners in the United States if spoken by others.

“The former head of the Mossad is comparing the actions of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank to Nazis in the Holocaust,” said journalist Mehdi Hasan. “If someone said that in the West they’d be accused of antisemitism under the IHRA definition.”

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An Israeli human rights group is demanding the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, after a court ordered his detention extended.

Physicians for Human Rights Israel on Tuesday blasted the Beersheba District Court for extending the detention of Abu Safiya, who has been held in prison since December 27, 2024, without being charged with any criminal offenses.

The court justified keeping Abu Saifya detained under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law, which allows for the detention of Palestinians for long periods without trial.

“The court upheld the detention despite arguments that detaining a doctor while performing his medical duties constitutes unlawful detention,” said Physicians for Human Rights Israel. “Dr. Abu Safiya is currently held in Negev Prison under harsh conditions, without access to his medication or receiving medical treatment, despite the deterioration of his health.”

The group added that it is demanding “the immediate release of Dr. Abu Safiya along with 13 other detained doctors, as well as all medical personnel currently held in Israel. We call on the international community to intervene and put an end to this abuse.”

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During Billie Little's roughly two decades working at Thomson Reuters, she felt pride in the company, which is known for its legal database Westlaw, its media company Reuters, and its role as a major data broker.

But as masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed Minneapolis early this year and the country reeled from federal agents fatally shooting Renée Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, Little and other colleagues grew alarmed that ICE agents could be abusing Thomson Reuters investigative tools that provide vast quantities of personal data on people including license plate information.

Little, who worked in legal publishing, was part of a committee of employees that sent a letter to company management in February flagging that ICE could be using Thomson Reuters products unlawfully and asking for greater transparency about the company's oversight of its contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Soon after their effort was made public in the media, however, Little was fired from her role.

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An Egyptian family of six has been taken back into Immigrationtained agaiand Customs Enforcement custody, days after they were released from a detention facility in Texas on Thursday, according to their attorney Eric Lee

Lee said Saturday morning that Hayam El Gamal and her five children were on a private jet in Denver bound for Egypt because of a court order violation.

“This is a very live situation – an absolutely brazen violation of separation of powers,” Lee said.

On Saturday, the family’s attorneys filed an emergency motion to block the deportation. The US district judge Fred Biery of the western district of Texas, who had ordered the family’s release earlier in the week, granted the motion.

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Two women reported to be relatives of assassinated Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani who were arrested in the United States are not, in fact, related to him, according to a news report.

Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina were arrested in early April after their residency permits were rescinded. This came after far-right campaigner Laura Loomer claimed they were related to the late Quds Force leader on social media and said she reported the women to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “posting content sympathetic to the Iranian regime and Ayatollah”.

However, according to Iranian birth records, identification papers, a family will and other personal documents seen by the US-based website Drop Site News, they are not related to Soleimani, even distantly.

Soleimani Afshar was, according to the outlet, involved in anti-Islamic Republic protests in the 1990s and 2000s and spent a week in prison for her activities before moving to the US.

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