The war in Gaza is killing civilians (Palestinian civilians, nowadays) much faster than other recent wars. It has wrecked most of the buildings and most of the hospitals. The schools that have not been wrecked are sheltering people driven out of their homes.

The World Food Programme says that around 700,000 people are facing catastrophic hunger, and that 577,000 of them are in Gaza. Evidently food aid agencies are doing a great job of providing food to people who otherwise would be starving — except in Gaza where Israel is making it too hard.

Israel fired rockets at a car, killing two al-Jazeera journalists in it. Al-Jazeera accuses Israel of intentionally targeting them.

I wonder, how many people were in that car, and what were they doing?

*Artificial intelligence could supercharge threats to civil liberties, civil rights, and privacy.*

*Programs aimed at "situational awareness," like those run by many parts of DHS or police departments preparing for public events, tend to have few safeguards. They often veer into monitoring social and political movements,*

When the authors say "Artificial Intelligence," that includes degenerative systems such as bullshit generators. Spying uses them to converse with people, pretending to be human beings.

Israel still claims it will totally eliminate HAMAS and free the hostages it took, saying that this will require an additional year of fighting.

I don't think it is possible to achieve both of those goals -- they are essentially incompatible. Also, I wonder what fraction of the Palestinian population of Gaza could remain alive after such fighting, with the deadly hunger and thirst which Israel imposes there. I expect it would be much less than 50%.

At some point soon, the US must say to Netanyahu, "We can't let you go on this way."

*The reason for these cynical [Tory] power grabs: the weaker the Tories become, the stronger they need to appear.*