(2024-05-07). Headlines for May 7, 2024. democracynow.org Israel Begins Ground Invasion of Rafah After Hamas Agrees to Ceasefire, Israel Used U.S. Weapons in Lebanon Attack That Killed 7 Health Workers, Students Continue Gaza Solidarity Protests, Defying Arrests, Suspensions, Harvard and MIT Students Defy Deadlines for Ending Protests, Receive Faculty Support, SUNY Purchase Agrees to Student Demands; Columbia Cancels Commencement Ceremony, Gaza Solidarity Encampments Form in Copenhagen, Barcelona; French High Schoolers Join Movement, Belgian Police Arrest 132 Climate Activists During Act of Peaceful Civil Disobedience, Bomb Attacks on IDP Camps In Democratic Republic of…
(2024-05-07). Israel seizes Rafah crossing, cutting off Gaza's last humanitarian lifeline amid famine crisis. nationofchange.org This move effectively cuts off a critical humanitarian aid route to the enclave, where the majority of the population faces imminent famine due to ongoing conflict.
(2024-05-07). Is the UN Failing in Gaza? scheerpost.com 
By Dawn Clancy / PassBlue As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month, 35,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, warnings of genocide and famine are mounting and reports of mass graves with bodies showing signs of torture are emerging. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah, a battered city in southern Gaza where over …
(2024-05-07). Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Effectively Blocked After IDF Seizes Rafah Crossing. truthout.org Israeli forces have seized the Palestinian side of Rafah crossing, which has been the main entry point for humanitarian aid into Gaza since October, putting the entire aid operation in Gaza under threat after imposing what experts say is the worst famine in modern history on Palestinians in the region. The little humanitarian aid that has been allowed into Gaza in recent months has largely come… |
(2024-05-07). Gaza's Collapsing Health System is One of the Goals of Israel's Genocide. scheerpost.com 
(2024-05-07). 'They are starving,' says doctor back from Gaza; world food program warns North in 'full-blown famine'. nationofchange.org We get an update on conditions among the besieged and starving population of Gaza—including of children now suffering from the psychological effects of intense and prolonged trauma—from Dr. Walid Masoud.
(2024-05-07). New Biden Admin Rule Expands Access to Health Exchange for DACA Recipients. truthout.org Last week, the Biden administration announced the finalization of a rule expanding health care options for tens of thousands of people currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program who are uninsured. DACA recipients, who are sometimes called Dreamers, are individuals who were born outside of the United States but were brought to the country as children and… |
(2024-05-07). Great Plains Tribes Face Unchecked Syphilis Outbreak as Federal Response Lags. truthout.org It was 2022 when pediatrician Tom Herr realized just how many babies on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota were already infected with syphilis when they took their first breaths. He was seeing more and more patients who'd spent their first weeks in a tangle of tubes that pumped antibiotics into their tiny bodies. Some had died in the womb. With growing alarm, Herr and other health officials… |
(2024-05-07). Federal Judge Condemns Alabama AG's Abortion Prosecution Warning. truthout.org A federal judge declined Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's (R) request to dismiss two lawsuits, filed by an abortion fund and health care providers, challenging his threat to prosecute organizations that "aid and abet abortions." "The right to interstate travel is one of our most fundamental constitutional rights," U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote in a preliminary ruling on Monday. |
(2024-05-07). Australian health professional faces discipline on bogus antisemitism charges. wsws.org "How can the very people entrusted to 'do no harm' stay silent when over 400 of our healthcare colleagues have been targeted, detained, abused and murdered…"
(2024-05-07). The "bad flu" called covid came and went before the end of 2019. expose-news.com The 2020 covid pandemic was a pandemic of iatrogenic harm instigated by governments and aided by corporate media. Covid, in so far as it is in any way distinct, came and did …
(2024-05-07). TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in health. expose-news.com TIME magazine has published its "100 Most Influential People in Health in 2024" list. Here are some of the criminals stars of the show. TIME heads its list of notorious people: "In …
(2024-05-07). Half the US Senate notifies Biden they oppose WHO's Pandemic Treaty. expose-news.com Last Wednesday, 49 members of the US Senate threw down the gauntlet to President Joe Biden over his administration's secretive plan to make the World Health Organisation ("WHO") Dictator-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, …
(2024-05-07). Mexico Emerges as a Destination for Americans Seeking Reproductive Health Services…Not for the First Time. counterpunch.org 
When its six-week abortion ban went into effect on May 1, 2024, Florida joined nearly two dozen other U.S. states that ban abortion or greatly restrict it. These laws came into effect after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade ended nearly 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the
(2024-05-07). SACCOs, MFIs put Uganda at risk by flouting anti-money laundering rules. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The failure of Savings and Credit Co-operatives (SACCOs) and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to comply with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT) regulations poses a significant threat to Uganda's financial integrity on the global stage. Despite being obligated to adhere to AML/CFT regulations like banks, insurance companies, and NGOs, SACCOs …
(2024-05-07). Molly Katanga makes second bail attempt. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Molly Katanga, accused of murdering her husband, businessman Henry Katanga, has sought temporary release from prison due to her health condition. After being denied bail on April 9th, 2024, by High Court Criminal Division Judge Isaac Muwata for failing to prove exceptional circumstances, Molly has made a second bail …
(2024-05-07). Palestinian Red Crescent: Rafah invasion threatens lives of thousands of civilians and deteriorates already collapsing health system. english.almanar.com.lb 
(2024-05-07). Police dismantle migrant camp near Paris city hall. presstv.ir Police said the dozens of tents posed a potential health and security risk.