Israeli military confirms 199 hostages abducted by Hamas and warns Hezbollah not to act | AFP

"We have updated the families of 199 hostages," says Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari, revising up an earlier figure of 155 captives, Israeli and foreigners alike, as he gives remarks on day 10 of the Gaza war. War erupted between Israel and Palestinian-based Hamas on October 7, triggered by a bloody attack by Hamas militants, killing 1,400 people in Israel. Israel has retaliated with strikes on Gaza that so far have claimed at least 2,700 lives.

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How many Palestinians are in prisons across Israel?

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Raz Segal is an Israeli historian who directs the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program at Stockton University. He just wrote a piece in Jewish Currents titled…

“A Textbook Case of Genocide…Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians. I have written about settler colonialism and
Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry, the
weaponization of antisemitism accusations to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, and the racist regime of Israeli apartheid. Now, following Hamas’s attack on Saturday and the mass murder of more than 1, 000 Israeli civilians, the worst of the worst is happening.”