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Israel's assault on Gaza has killed at least 213 Palestinians, including 61 children; How Israel is destroying Gaza's public health system, from bombing Gaza's only COVID-19 lab to killing doctors; Palestinians across Israel, Gaza and the West Bank stage a general strike. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In Part 2 of our interview with Palestinian journalist and activist Rami Younis, he describes how Israeli media has contributed to mob violence in recent weeks.

Nearly 200 Palestinians are now dead as Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip enters its second week; Ethnic violence and Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians escalate. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with the head of the leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which is accusing Israel of committing war crimes by killing blockaded civilians and destroying infrastructure on a massive scale.

Congressmember Rashida Tlaib makes a speech on the House floor about the lack of attention to Palestinians' suffering under Israel; We speak to longtime Palestinian diplomat Dr. Hanan Ashrawi and historian Rashid Khalidi about the context of the current conditions in Israel-Palestine and Palestinian resistance; Republican senators try to block prominent voting rights advocate Kristen Clarke from a top position at the Justice Department. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

President Biden gives Israel a green light to continue its assault on Gaza as the death toll continues to climb in the besieged territory after days of aerial bombardment. We go to Gaza, Jerusalem and Nazareth for the latest. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The new PBS series "Philly D.A." gives an inside look at Larry Krasner, the Philadelphia district attorney who was elected in 2017 as he vowed to end mass incarceration and now faces a stiff primary challenge next week; We look at the broader movement to end cash bail and overhaul the probation system with the two creators of "Philly D.A.," as well as a formerly incarcerated activist and a longtime Philadelphia journalist. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 26 Palestinians in Gaza as tension escalates dramatically following weeks of protests in Jerusalem; We look back at the 1985 Philadelphia police bombing of the home of MOVE, a radical Black liberation organization, that killed 11 people, amid revelations that the bones of one or two of the children killed have been used in classes at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Tensions rise as Palestinians continue to protest Israeli efforts to evict dozens of residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem to make room for Jewish settlers; At least 85 people, mostly schoolgirls, die in Afghanistan after an attack outside a school; Ari Berman on the latest Republican attack on voting rights. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

More than 100 countries call on the Biden administration to support a temporary waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID-related medicines and vaccines at the World Trade Organization, but Big Pharma continues to fight the proposal; Longtime activist and scholar Walden Bello on U.S.-China relations. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with Raoul Peck, acclaimed Haitian filmmaker and director of a new documentary series, "Exterminate All the Brutes," which takes an unflinching look at the legacy of European colonialism and genocide around the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Former Illinois Congressmember Luis Guitérrez on the recent Chicago police killings of 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez and 13-year-old Adam Toledo; We look back at the historic 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War when over 12,000 antiwar protesters were detained in Washington in the largest mass arrest in U.S. history; Big Pharma dispatches over 100 lobbyists to preserve COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property rights at the World Trade Organization. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In a major report, Human Rights Watch said this week that Israel commits the crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians; The fallout continues from revelations of improper use of human remains by two Ivy League schools. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We get an update on the COVID crisis in India and how expanding access to vaccine technology could help curb the spread of highly infectious new variants of the coronavirus; Congressmember Ro Khanna on Joe Biden's first speech to a joint session of Congress, during which he proposed trillions of dollars in new spending on infrastructure and shoring up the social safety net. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We spend the hour looking at President Biden's foreign policy record with journalist Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept, which just published a new investigation looking at Biden's stances on war, militarism and the CIA going back to the early 1970s. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe