Sanjana Karanth

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Sanjana Karanth

Israeli forces shot three Palestinian American teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Sunday ― killing one of them in what is the latest incident of the military targeting U.S. citizens, usually without consequence. A group of children were protesting an Israeli raid at the village of Turmus Ayya when Israeli soldiers opened fire on them, hitting three teenage boys who are U.S. citizens, according to local media and the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Sanjana Karanth

Israeli forces bombed a tent full of Palestinian media workers on Monday in Gaza, killing at least two and wounding nine more — just days after a new report concluded that more journalists have been killed in the territory’s crisis than in most other major wars combined. An Israeli strike hit the media tent overnight near a hospital in Khan Younis, setting it ablaze and killing Palestine Today journalist Helmi Al-Faqawi, according to local media.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Sanjana Karanth

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil rebuked what he called the school’s “repression playbook” that has opened the gates for higher education and the federal government to target dissent on campus and abduct students like him for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. Khalil, a green card holder married to a U.S. citizen, was taken by federal immigration agents on March 8 for his role in helping lead last year’s antiwar protests on Columbia’s campus.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Sanjana Karanth

In a fiery speech, Sen. Bernie Sanders tore into Congress on Thursday over the federal government’s military support for Israel — just before the Senate overwhelmingly voted against the Vermont Independent’s resolutions to block billions of dollars in U.S. weapons sales to the country accused of war crimes. Sanders had introduced multiple Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) in the Senate to block more than $8.8 billion worth of arms transfers to the Israeli military.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Sanjana Karanth

The United Nations official who helps oversee emergency relief efforts demanded on Wednesday that the Security Council step up and take concrete action to protect aid workers, at a time when targeted violence against humanitarians in conflict zones is both alarmingly high and increasingly normalized. The UNSC’s member states met to discuss Resolution 2730, which was adopted last year to uphold the safety and security of humanitarian staff operating in armed conflict.