Israel’s genocide in Gaza is fully intentional, and other takeaways from the Amnesty International report

December 7, 2024

Jonathan Ofir

Wednesday, a landmark report was issued by Amnesty International, titled: ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.” 

Displaced Palestinians flee past Israeli tanks following military orders to leave Khan Younis and go toward Rafah near the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Photo: Haitham Imad/EFE via ZUMA Press APA Images)

How a hostage family leader became one of the loudest anti-war voices in Israel

December 6, 2024

Edo Konrad and Oren Ziv

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    When Ayala Metzger walks among the ghosts of Nir Oz, it almost feels like she isn’t quite sure whose story she wants to tell first. For the better part of the last year, she has been regularly leading tours along the dusty paths between the kibbutz’s gutted low-rise homes, located just four kilometers from the Gaza Strip. To anyone who will listen, she recounts what happened here on the morning of October 7 in vivid detail, like a forensic scientist reconstructing a crime scene.

Ayala Metzger sits in a cage to symbolize the Israeli hostages’ captivity in Gaza during a protest in central Tel Aviv, March 27, 2024. (Oren Ziv)