Gaza
2017
2017-01-01 (Context) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison donated $16.6M to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a non-profit that operates fifteen regional offices in the U.S. and Panama. A separate post on X suggested he also donated as early as 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
https://x.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1970161628915040484
2018
2018-08-31 News outlets reported the Trump administration eliminated funding during its first term to the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency.
2021
2021-09-16 (Context) News outlets reported that Larry Ellison allegedly offered Netanyahu a post at Oracle.
2023
2023-10-01 Israel reportedly launched a multi-million-dollar global propaganda campaign, paid influencers to say positive things about Israel, and funded tours for MAGA and pro-Trump influencers. In November 2025 FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) filed complaints against the Israeli government.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influencers/
2024
2024-02-15 During an interview at Harvard University, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner called Gaza’s waterfront property very valuable, stating he believed declaring Palestine as a State would be rewarding terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev
2024-04-01 In all fairness, there were multiple anti-war protests condemning the genocide in Gaza while Biden was still in office.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/biden-pro-palestine-protest-israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protest_vote_movements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE9fOY1K1Pk
2024-04-01 Mohammed Hatem of Palestine began posting his own social media content @gym_rat_in_gaza to show resilience amid war by bodybuilding. He has been displaced 13 times and according to a post updated October 2025 weighs 119 pounds.
https://www.instagram.com/gym_rat_in_gaza/?hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Hatem
2024-05-02 Lauren Boebert unsuccessfully tried to tear down a Palestinian flag during a protest at George Washington University.
2024-10-07 Pro Israel groups like Canary Mission peddled conspiracies on social media that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil helped plan Hamas attacks. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also alleged Khalil distributed fliers with a Hamas logo. On March 8 2025 the Trump administration arrested him and shipped him to Louisiana.
2024-10-07 The Heritage Foundation developed Project Esther to “help combat antisemitism”, but some believe the façade of antisemitism is covering up the true attempt to crack down on activism, create censorship, control speech, and an effort to diminish humanitarian rights.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/whats-project-esther/
https://ca.cair.com/updates/project-esther-a-dangerous-blueprint-for-censoring-palestine/
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/project-esther-national-strategy-combat-antisemitism
2025 February
2025-02-04 During a joint press conference, Trump referred to Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
2025-02-04 The White House released an executive order to reevaluate the U.S. commitment to three UN organizations “that deserve renewed scrutiny”: the UNHRC; the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
2025-02-26 Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting Gaza as a luxury resort and himself as a golden idol.
2025 May
2025-05-06 The Free Press - owned by Bari Weiss - published an article titled “The Gaza Famine Myth”. Unrelated but worth noting, CBS offered her a job in September 2025.
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-gaza-famine-myth
2025 July
2025-07-13 The United States and Israel pursued joint efforts to relocate Palestinians to Sudan or Libya.
2025-07-16 Israeli soldiers beat to death 20-year-old US citizen Saif Musallet.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/middleeast/american-killed-israeli-settlers-west-bank-intl
2025-07-25 BBC interviewed a U.S. Green Beret Colonel Anthony Aguilar and his first-person account of Israeli forces shooting at Palestinians trying to get aid.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8045nx9o
2025-07-28 During an interview on Charlie Kirk’s podcast, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki asserted there is no starvation in Gaza, and claimed this was simply Hamas propaganda. He then stated, “We know what starving people look like…the people of Gaza are not starving”. Charlie Kirk replied, “these lies are relentless”. Both went on to make accusations of propaganda.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1949908699411288130
2025 August
2025-08-30 Israel ramped up attacks on Palestine, and the combat zone was expanded to Gaza City.
2025-08-30 Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked visas for Palestinian officials who had planned to attend the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss Palestine becoming a state.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-rubio-un-4bb2a424ecdd8805f9a7a153848b3ad7
2025 September
2025-09-09 Israel bombed Qatar. The White House later stated they weren’t informed of the strike.
2025-09-09 Two global Sumud flotillas came under fire by Israeli drone strike when the flotillas attempted to get aid into Gaza.
2025-09-09 During a Chatham House summit in Israel, President Issaac Herzog stated the war was aimed at preserving Western values.
2025-09-11 After a fact-finding mission, Democratic Senators Chris Van Holland and Jeff Merkley released a report accusing Israel of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing.
2025-09-15 Top U.N. expert Francesca Albanese told reporters in Geneva “”Israel is bombing using unconventional weapons … it is trying to forcibly evacuate Palestinians. Why? This is the last piece of Gaza that needs to be rendered unlivable before advancing the ethnic cleansing of that piece of land”.
2025-09-15 News outlets reported that Netanyahu told Trump about the Israeli strikes on Qatar 50 minutes before the attack. This was after the White House stated they were never informed.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/trump-netanyahu-call-israel-strike-qatar
2025-09-15 (context) Marco Rubio headed to Qatar to engage in talks with the Prime Minister.
2025-09-16 The UN Independent International Commission issued a 72-page report condemning the Israeli government of violating 4-out-of-5 acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go
2025-09-18 Israel’s finance minister described postwar Gaza as a “real-estate bonanza,” claimed the “demolition phase” was complete, and said a business plan was on Trump’s desk.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/middleeast/israel-smotrich-gaza-land-intl
2025-09-21 Britain, Canada, Australia, and Portugal formally recognized Gaza as a State.
2025-09-22 The Trump administration made plans to send $6B in arms sales to Israel including 30 Apache helicopters.
2025-09-24 Global Sumud flotillas were once again attacked by drones while trying to provide aid to Gaza. This time the Israeli military detained the workers. An article published by PBS noteed that so far more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed. For context, the article also cited back in 2010 when flotillas attempted to provide aid to Gaza during a maritime blockade, and ten activists aboard were killed by Israeli commandos.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/middleeast/israel-gaza-flotilla-explainer-scli-intl
2025 October
2025-10-09 Israel’s Cabinet approved Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza strip and the release of remaining hostages held by Hamas.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-hostages-trump-peace-plan-e3d0ce091be56cc29207e566ff1603af
2025-10-10 Even after the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli forces continued to strike Gaza and kill Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister and the Foreign Ministry accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire and responsible for the consequences.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdy5eevn2o
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g-s1-95523/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire
2025-10-20 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old Mohammad Bahjat Mohammad Hallaq in the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWFsTrquPs
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQCH6GzDBDH/
2025 November
2025-11-20 Israeli forces killed a 15-year-old Palestinian Jaja Dullah. Video shows Israeli forces shoot the child in the back, then stand around and watch the child struggle in agony as he bled to death for over 30 minutes before finally dying.
VIDEO (DISTURBING, USE CAUTION) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7oOnkZvqQE
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqwv9vvzx9o
2025 December
2025-12-17 Winter floods devastated Gaza, killing several people.
2026 January
2026-01-16 Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 2-year-old Palestinian baby in the head outside Jenin.
2026-01-30 Israel resumed air strikes on Gaza, killing at least 29 more since the October ceasefire.
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c2vdnvdg6xxt
2026 February
2026-02-16 Israel continued strikes on Gaza, and on this date killed at least 11, making the death toll at least 600 since the US “brokered” a peace deal and wounding at least 1,600.
2026 March
2026-03-24 The UN demanded Israel immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, citing severe abuse and torture. Dr. Safiya had been detained by Israeli forces since December 27 2024 after refusing to abandon his patients during an Israeli raid at a hospital.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya
2026-03-27 Israeli soldiers fatally shot 15-year-old Adma Dahman in the abdomen south of Bethlehem.
https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-child-in-bethlehem-3
2026-03-30 Israel passed a death penalty law specifically for Palestinians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/31/israel-death-penalty-law-international-criticism
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8dkd6lnjdo
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/31/israel-discriminatory-death-penalty-bill-passes
2026 April
2026-04-09 Israel approved 34 new settlements in their occupation of the West Bank.
2026-04-09 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old girl Ritaj Rihan in the head in front of her classmates in Bethlehia.
2026-04-15 JD Vance and Mike Johnson lashed out at the Pope for criticizing Trump’s elective war in Iran. Vance threatened the Pope should “be careful talking about theology,” while Johnson cited “Just War Doctrine.” The Pope later warned against manipulating religion for political, economic, or military purposes and condemned a world “ravaged by a handful of tyrants.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNi3btpaLs&list=WL&index=1
https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/16/pope-leo-cameroon-peace/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-pope-warns-of-tyrants-spending-billions-on-wars https://catholicreview.org/us-bishops-doctrine-chair-defends-churchs-just-war-tradition-after-vance-comments/
SUBSCRIPTION WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-bishops-deliver-brutal-slap-down-to-convert-jd-vance-after-lecturing-pope-leo-xiv-on-theology/
SUBSCRIPTION WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-bishops-deliver-brutal-slap-down-to-convert-jd-vance-after-lecturing-pope-leo-xiv-on-theology/
2026-04-21 An Israeli convoy killed a 16-year-old Palestinian child near Hebron in the West Bank as he was riding his bicycle to school.
2026-04-23 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 15-year-old Yousef Sameh Ishtayyeh during a raid in Nablus West Bank.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2641142/middle-east
2026-04-24 Israeli forces continued their killings in Gaza despite a ceasefire.
2026 May
2026-05-03 Bay Bridge takeover by several vehicles. At least nine people were arrested and 77 vehicles were impounded.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/charges-filed-bay-bridge-takeover/4081559/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bay-bridge-crackdown-traps-illegal-120800984.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJYojZ4DMQ&list=WL&index=5
2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_tXMhvKvTs
2023 https://www.kcra.com/article/protesters-shut-down-bay-bridge-heading-san-francisco/45862462
2026-05-04 Captured activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla reported that Israeli forces subjected detainees to beatings and torture so severe that captives were passing out.
2026-05-07 Israel continued to kill Palestinians, block aid, and prevent reconstruction. Meanwhile, Gaza faced more health crises of sewage contamination, cooking with cardboard, no water or shelter, and rat infestation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4bM3mkrbE&list=WL&index=3
2026-05-11 The BBC censored a documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eh69K_7pAuE
TIMELINE: https://www.camera.org/article/timeline-the-bbc-gaza-documentary-controversy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydv5yngq4o
2026-05-13 Israeli fire killed a 16-year-old Palestinian child Yusef Ali Kaabnah near the town of Jiljilya.
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2054676281531175217
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYTFVXTkWyi/
2026-05-13 Israeli forces shot and killed 44-year-old Zakaria Qatusa in the West Bank as he tired to climb a concrete barrier to find work in Israel to feed his four children.
https://apnews.com/article/west-bank-shooting-israel-palestinians-d230dc14e42fd45f319b4ad083a1495f
2026-05-18 Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim wrote, “The world cannot continue to bow to tyranny and corruption. The oppression against Palestinians and those who mobilize and deliver humanitarian aid must be stopped immediately, and Israel must face justice and accountability!”.
2026-05-24 France’s foreign ministry barred Ben-Gvir from entering France, citing his “incitement of hatred and violence against Palestinians”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1omqCrvapw&list=WL&index=3
2026-05-26 Israeli strikes killed five Palestinians at a refugee camp in central Gaza, including a six-year-old girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1omqCrvapw&list=WL&index=3
2026-05-31 Minister Smotrich marched in the annual Israel Day parade in New York and received backlash for being uninvited due to sanctions for inciting violence against Palestinians and promoting genocide. Mamdani said, “You can see in the participation of the far-right Israeli minister Smotrich as well as a number of other ministers, a vision of annihilation, a complicity in genocide, and frankly a belief that does not have much value for even the sanctity of children in Gaza, and I am offended, as I know many New Yorkers are by their participation”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/democrats-israel-parade-new-york
2026 June
2026-06-04 A family burned alive in Gaza after Israeli strikes. This is not the first time. Civilians were burned alive during Israeli strikes in October 2024 and April 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dPLTz5IlqJk
October 2024: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr54y0qplgvo
October 2024: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/teen-burnt-alive-israeli-strike-gaza-hospital-rcna175595
April 2025: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-israeli-military-burning-children-alive-a-stain-on-humanity/
2026-06-11 Reports indicate Pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safia was abducted from Gaza and is now being tortured in Israel.
2026-06-15 In Britain four Palestine activists were sentenced as terrorists without conviction for protesting in 2024.
2026-06-15 The UK has labelled Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.
https://www.reuters.com/world/britain-wins-appeal-that-palestine-action-ban-was-unlawful-2026-06-15/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/15/uk/ban-palestine-action-uk-appeal-ruling-intl
2026-06-28 Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” announced a sweeping grant of legal immunity against itself. They also announced the rights to obtain public property in Gaza, “free of charge”.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/27/board-of-peace-legal-immunity-un
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-900662
2026-06-29 Israel continued strikes in Gaza in designated safe zones including the killing of 13-year-old Eileen Al-Farra and several other children.
2026-06-29 Israeli soldiers shot 15-year-old Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber in the head.
2026 July
2026-07-02 The largest Presbyterian denomination in the US denounced Israel, declared Israel’s assault on Gaza a genocide, and divested from Palantir and GE for funding the genocide.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-presbyterian-church-votes-recognise-gaza-genocide
2026-07-07 CCTV footage released showed Israeli police throwing a stun grenade into a car then pushing the door shut on occupants.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/07/israeli-officer-stun-grenade-car-west-bank
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/world/video/israel-stun-grenade-qalandiya-vrtc
2026-07-11 Ro Khanna says he was detained by armed Israeli settlers during his visit to West Bank. He said he faced intimidation, racism, and disrespect, and witnessed the aftermath of attacks on Palestinian villages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2NYa2veU-s&list=WL&index=5&t=75s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yazM-nzK_hI&list=WL&index=4
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5964095-khanna-detained-israeli-settlers/
2026-07-12 Israeli soldiers killed 9-year-old Tala Abu Matar
2026-07-13 The Trump administration vowed to disable the International Criminal Court.
https://www.startribune.com/trump-icc-war-crimes-human-rights-israel-gaza/601865813
2026-07-16 Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is still detained by Israel and still being subjected to torture.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-902340
2026-07-17 Israel planned to surround prisons for Palestinians with crocodile infested moats.