Ha-Joon Chang at his best!: "Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned ... This is not education. It’s indoctrination." ft.com/content/9aabb4…

Most warring states - notably Israel and Russia - fight like terrorist groups, tearing up the rules of war. But we can enforce those rules, and punish suspected war criminals like Putin, Netanyahu and Hamas leaders. Me Financial Times on.ft.com/44MOgbV

An Israeli security source monitored the aftermath of an airstrike in which children were burned alive: "Her daughter was still alive, she was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter."

Air drops provide a fraction of the amount trucks do. If Israel allowed the UN to do its job, there would be no starvation. Trucks of food are there waiting to be delivered if Israel permitted.

For Israeli decision-makers, starvation of the Gaza Strip was in the cards from day one of the war نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

For the first time, Israeli human rights groups say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Irish surgeon on working in Gaza: ‘Wave after wave of dead children’ – The Irish Times irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-th…

"Nothing could have prepared me for the extent of the starvation that I witnessed firsthand in the patients I was treating." Dr Nada Al-Hadithy, a consultant plastic surgeon who has just returned from Gaza, talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Read and watch: channel4.com/news/israeli-d…

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague heidi levine.

Brian Eno: "The early part of this century has seen people realize that neoliberal economics have failed. It has been a machine for concentrating wealth, just as the internet has become a machine for concentrating prejudice..." #interview flaunt.com/blog/people-br…

Israeli courts released violent settler Yinon Levi and he is now back in the village working to expand the nearby illegal settlement, a week after killing Odeh Hathalin. Odeh’s family members are still imprisoned and police refusing to give back his body. via מחוץ לעדר

This is a great piece. Encountered similar disenchantment over the years when meeting people in ex-mining areas. The historical context is beautifully laid out here.

This is the inside, shocking story of a massacre of Sudanese civilians - the most vulnerable population in the world at the time - and why the world let it happen. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Journalist Anas al-Sharif along with four other Al Jazeera staff have been killed by an Israeli attack which targeted a tent for the press outside al-Shifa Hospital’s main gate.

There is "growing evidence" journalists in Gaza have been "targeted and killed by the Israeli army on the basis of unsubstantiated claims that they were Hamas terrorists" according to Irene Khan, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression.

Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza. Here are the names of the journalists Israel has killed in the besieged and bombarded enclave aje.io/vpr7p0

Truly incredible essay about the logistics and political economy of the US occupation of Afghanistan. Which is to say that it’s about sabotage and waste

Four Palestinian journalists killed after IOF struck the upper floor of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. -Reuters cameraman Hossam al-Masri -Al Jazeera photojournalist Mohammad Salama -Freelancer Maryam Abu Daqqa -NBC’s Muath Abu Taha Stop this madness.

Mariam Dagga, our freelancer who was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, had bylined this powerful piece on malnourished children in Gaza just last week apnews.com/article/palest…

Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to look after her parents, her friends told us. She gave a kidney to her father. Her mother, unable to get proper treatment, died from cancer 4 months ago