After making death threats against Jews and government officials, a freelance journalist for the Dearborn, Michigan-based publication The Arab American News, was arrested earlier this week and now faces up to five years in federal prison.
Forty-one-year-old Jeffrey Stevens, who lives in Indiana, was charged with one count of making threats using interstate communication, which carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison.

Official PA daily:

• “[Brazilian President] Da Silva, [the] international hero… said: ‘What is happening to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has not happened in any other period of history. Actually, it did in fact happen, when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.’ These words, which shine with power like the sun, …reflected the truth and embodied the spirit of justice.”
• “The ethnic cleansing state (i.e., Israel)… committed thousands of massacres and holocausts, more shocking and catastrophic than what happened in the world wars and in all the wars throughout all the periods of history”
• “Latin America [countries]… were burned by the fire and barbarism of the American Yankee and other European colonialists”

Die internationale Besorgnis über die drohende israelische Bodenoffensive in der mit Flüchtlingen überfüllten Stadt Rafah im Süden des Gazastreifens wächst. Am Dienstag wird im Weltsicherheitsrat die Abstimmung über eine von Algerien eingebrachte Beschlussvorlage erwartet, in der eine sofortige Waffenruhe gefordert wird.
Sollten die USA als Israels Verbündeter wie angekündigt ein Veto einlegen, müssten sie »die Verantwortung für alles übernehmen, was danach passiert«, sagte ein Diplomat. »Wenn Rafah passiert, gibt es kein Zurück.«

The London High Court rejected a petition to suspend British arms exports to Israel, the lawyers for the plaintiffs say.
A coalition of legal advocacy groups had asked the High Court in January to expedite a judicial review of the UK government’s decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel.

The IDF is constructing a new road across central Gaza as part of its plan to maintain security control over the Palestinian enclave at the end of the war against Hamas, The Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, the new gravel road is being expanded upon some five miles from the Israeli border and stretches from east to west, as the army already has control over the Strip’s north-south roads.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Israel is applying an even more extreme version of apartheid against Palestinians in the West Bank than South Africa had against Blacks before 1994, Pretoria told the world’s top court on Tuesday.
“We as South Africans sense, see, hear, and feel to our core the inhumane discriminatory policies and practices of the Israeli regime as an even more extreme form of the apartheid that was institutionalized against black people in my country,” said Vusimuzi Madonsela, South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, where the International Court of Justice is based.