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In the wake of the reelection of Donald Trump, some of the richest people in the world saw their net worths soar as stock prices rapidly shot up. What was different about this election was how central billionaires were in the entire political discourse," says The Lever's David Sirota, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the outsized role of the super-rich in U.S politics, pointing out that both Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned heavily with billionaires, including Elon Musk and Mark Cuban. These people are not giving money simply out of the goodness of their hearts. They want things. They have policy demands," Sirota says. The investors, the donors, like billionaires, are looking for a return on their investment." Sirota, who previously worked as a communications adviser and speechwriter for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, also explains how Elon Musk's influence on Trump's campaign is a preview of the power he could wield if he ends up appointed to the Trump administration.

Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with - healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy - why is it that those issues weren't more up front?" We speak to Bishop William Barber about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's failed election campaigns, Donald Trump's election as president and the urgent need to unite the poor and working class. Barber is the national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach and a co-author of the book White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy. He urges the Democratic Party to recenter economic security and poverty alleviation in its platform and draws on historical setbacks for U.S. progressive policies to encourage voters to get back up" and continue to fight."

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Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of immigrants a centerpiece of his plans for a second term, vowing to forcibly remove as many as 20 million people from the country. Historian Ana Raquel Minian, who studies the history of immigration, says earlier mass deportation programs in the 1930s and '50s led to widespread abuse, tearing many families apart through violent means that also resulted in the expulsion of many U.S. citizens. These deportations that Trump is claiming that he will do will have mass implications to our civil rights, to our communities and to our economy, and of course to the people who are being deported themselves," says Minian. She also says that while Trump's extremist rhetoric encourages hate and violence against vulnerable communities, in terms of policy there is great continuity with the Biden administration, which kept many of the same policies in place.

With former U.S. President Donald Trump returning to the White House for a second term, we speak with Pakistani author and columnist Fatima Bhutto. Bhutto is an award-winning author and writes a monthly column for Zeteo on world affairs. She criticizes Kamala Harris's campaign for relying heavily on celebrity endorsements and vague appeals to joy" while silencing dissent on Gaza as the Biden administration continues backing Israel. You don't need to be a man to practice toxic masculinity, and you don't need to be white to practice white supremacy," says Bhutto.

We speak with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the roots of Donald Trump's election victory and the decline of Democratic support among many of the party's traditional constituencies. Kelley says he agrees with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who said Democrats have abandoned" working-class people. There was really no program to focus on the actual suffering of working people across the board," Kelley says of the Harris campaign. He says the highly individualistic, neoliberal culture of the United States makes it difficult to organize along class lines and reject the appeal of authoritarians like Trump. Solidarity is what's missing - the sense that we, as a class, have to protect each other."

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While Democratic candidates suffered major losses in this year's U.S. elections, elsewhere on the ballot voters supported liberal positions. In the wake of tightening federal and state restrictions on abortion, historic ballot measures enshrining the right to an abortion passed in seven states, while other initiatives to raise the minimum wage and codify marriage equality also won by wide majorities. We're joined by Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center to examine the role of ballot measures, a form of direct democracy, in elections, and why this powerful tool" may be at risk as conservatives flood elected office. Because we are resisting, we are winning on these progressive issues, they are trying to take that power away from us."

Shortly after Donald Trump was announced as the winner of the U.S. presidential election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to enthusiastically congratulate him. Meanwhile, the Israeli military continued its violent assault on Gaza, killing multiple Palestinians in strikes on apartment buildings and homes. We speak to Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri about what we know of Trump's pro-Israel policies and how Trump beat Kamala Harris for the presidency. Trump out-dramatized Harris, and that's how he won," he says.

Donald Trump's performance in the 2024 election surpassed expectations, with the candidate winning the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia and picking up larger shares of more diverse segments of the electorate, including Black and Latino male voters. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, says the blame lies squarely on the Harris campaign, which refused to differentiate itself from unpopular incumbent President Joe Biden. The problem here is with the leadership of the Democratic Party," adds John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation. Nichols and Taylor discuss how Democrats demobilized" young voters and grassroots organizers, to their electoral detriment. Donald Trump, as a president who has very few guardrails, has the potential to take horrific actions," says Nichols. For those seeking to oppose him, says Taylor, There's a lot of rebuilding that has to be done."

In the Arab American-majority city of Dearborn, Michigan, Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris by over six percentage points, with third-party candidate Jill Stein capturing nearly one-fifth of the vote. During the primary elections, a majority of Democratic voters in Dearborn selected uncommitted" over then-presumptive nominee Joe Biden, citing disapproval of the president's handling of Israel's aggression in the Middle East. Uncommitted" voters continued to press the Harris campaign to shift its Israel policy as the election went on, but were routinely ignored. Democrats made a calculation that they did not need Arab American, Muslim American and Palestinian American voters," says Palestinian American organizer Linda Sarsour, who was in Dearborn on election night. We speak to Sarsour about the Harris campaign's failure to secure the support of a previously key part of the Democratic base. We are going to be in big trouble, and I blame that solely on the Democratic Party and one of the worst campaigns I have seen in my 23 years in organizing."

When Donald Trump reenters the White House, he will be met with a newly Republican-controlled Senate, consolidating power in the hands of a party now dominated by supporters of Trump. We take a look at the results of down-ballot races for the Senate and House, and the possibilities for congressional opposition to Trump's agenda with John Nichols, The Nation's national affairs correspondent. Nichols notes that losing Democratic Senate candidates missed opportunities to highlight working-class voters and economic issues, likely to their detriment.

This is a collapse of the Democratic Party." Consumer advocate, corporate critic and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader comments on the reelection of Donald Trump and the failures of the Democratic challenge against him. Despite attempts by left-wing segments of the Democratic base to shift the party's messaging toward populist, anti-corporate and progressive policies, says Nader, Democrats didn't listen." Under Trump, continues Nader, We're in for huge turmoil."

Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States. Ahead of Kamala Harris's expected concession speech, we speak to professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris's historic campaign - and historic loss. The Confederacy won," says Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. It paints a picture of what Americans are willing to embrace," says Goodwin, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and an expert on healthcare law, who warns of the public health dangers of a second Trump administration and discusses the election's implications for reproductive rights.

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As Latino voters are a key voting bloc in the 2024 presidential election in battleground states like Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania, they have been targeted by a rise in Spanish-language misinformation. Most of the false messaging disparages Kamala Harris and supports Donald Trump, says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA, which investigated the phenomenon in a new episode called The Misinformation Web." She interviewed some of the content creators in this blob" of online vitriol and says there is almost no effective content moderation online, nor many reliable fact-checking sources in Spanish to counter the lies.

In a major piece for Mother Jones magazine on Why Ballot Measures Are Democracy's Last Line of Defense," voting rights correspondent Ari Berman discusses abortion ballot measures in 10 states, important downballot races in Wisconsin and elsewhere, and the movement to abolish or reform the Electoral College.

Ari Berman, the voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, details how pro-Trump forces may try to throw out the results of the 2024 election if Kamala Harris wins, with a focus on the swing state of Georgia, the epicenter" of Trump's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. It's very dangerous to imagine what people who don't believe in free and fair elections can do when given the power to oversee those very elections," says Berman.

As voters across the United States head to the polls, we speak with New York Times writer Jim Rutenberg about how Donald Trump may try to preemptively declare victory and challenge election results. The former president has ramped up claims Democrats are a bunch of cheats" and preemptively cast doubt on a win by Vice President Kamala Harris, following a similar playbook as 2020 when he baselessly claimed the election was stolen. Rutenberg spoke to pro-Trump election officials in battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania who say they are ready to refuse to certify local election results as part of a wide-ranging effort to throw the system into disarray. Rutenberg says after the failed insurrection of January 6, 2021, many in Trump's orbit had a clear goal for 2024: We have to go local." He also discusses the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 that makes it harder to stop the final certification of results.

As voters across the United States head to the polls on Election Day, many face a choice between two unsatisfactory candidates," says Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. This choice is especially excruciating" for those who are outraged by our government's continued support for Israel's yearlong genocidal assault on Gaza." He says the 2024 election has echoes of 1968, when many progressives sat out the election because of anger over Vietnam, but Richard Nixon's victory and ultimate expansion of the war proved to be disastrous. It would take many years for some of us to realize we had made a big mistake in sitting out that election. ... Making these decisions at the time of election may be difficult but sometimes necessary to do to open up the way for possible change in the future.

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All eyes are on Michigan as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battle over undecided voters in the crucial swing state, including many of the state's 200,000 Arab American and Muslim voters who reject both the Republican and Democratic parties' stance on Israel and Palestine. We speak to Dearborn, Michigan's Lebanese American Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, who is the first Arab and Muslim mayor of the city, about many of his constituents' loss of support for the Democratic Party and how the Arab American vote could impact the presidential election. Hammoud, like many Dearborn residents, has lost extended family to Israel's attacks on Lebanon, and describes the climate in the city as a blanket of grief." Having called for a ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel, he refused to meet with Trump last week, but has also declined to endorse Harris. Hammoud calls on voters to not sit out the election entirely, but to vote their moral conscience, and says the citizens of Dearborn are willing to put people over party, first and foremost."

As Israel continues to block lifesaving humanitarian aid from entering northern Gaza, humanitarian organizations are describing its siege as apocalyptic" and warning of mass Palestinian starvation and death. The situation is absolutely desperate," says Rachael Cummings of the aid group Save the Children International. Cummings joins us from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, where aid organizations have been halted from entering the north. She responds to news of Israel's bombing of a polio vaccination center in an area that had been marked for an official humanitarian pause, and the Knesset's vote to ban the U.N. relief agency UNRWA.

As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stirs up false claims of voter fraud ahead of Election Day, we look at the role of an increasingly partisan" Federal Election Commission with former FEC general counsel Larry Noble, who explains why voters of a lot of wealth have the ability to influence elections the way that the rest of us don't." As the influence of money in politics grows unchecked, he warns, it has the effect of silencing the voter." Noble also responds to multibillionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk's $1 million giveaways to Pennsylvania voters and discusses the lasting impact of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision on campaign finance law.

As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaign in Pennsylvania on the last day before the presidential election, false claims of voter fraud are spreading. The truth is, none of these lies have been about election integrity. It's always been about power," says Neil Makhija, chair of the board of elections in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania - the battleground state that could decide the election" - in a video essay featured by The New York Times. Makhija joins Democracy Now! to discuss his work expanding access to the vote and debunking the myth of mass voter fraud.

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With just days to go before the November 5 presidential election, fears are growing that Republicans intend to interfere with the official results in order to install Donald Trump as president. At Sunday's Madison Square Garden rally, Trump said he had a little secret" with House Speaker Mike Johnson that would have a big impact" on the outcome, though neither he nor Johnson elaborated on what that entailed. Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation, says the secret is almost certainly a plan to force a contingent election, whereby no candidate wins a majority of the Electoral College and the president is instead chosen by the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a slim majority. Mystal notes that even if Democrats challenge such an outcome, the case would still end up before a Supreme Court with a conservative supermajority that is likely to side with Trump.

We speak with The Nation's John Nichols in Wisconsin, where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are spending a lot of their time in the closing days of the election in a tight battle for the state's 10 Electoral College votes. Nichols also discusses the battle for the Senate, with key races in Wisconsin and Nebraska; how New York races could tip control of the House to Democrats; and why Kamala Harris needs to expand her message beyond the threat of Trump's authoritarianism. At the doors, people want to talk about economics," says Nichols.

Kamala Harris is blasting Donald Trump for vowing to protect women whether they like it or not" at the same time he is calling for Republican Liz Cheney to be shot in the face. We get response from The Nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield and talk about 10 states with abortion rights on the ballot, including Arizona, Nevada, Florida, South Dakota and Missouri. Trump's remarks are a succinct and clear definition of patriarchy," says Littlefield. She argues the 2024 election will be decided in large part by white women and whether they will vote for abortion rights. Trump is laying out the bargain that white patriarchy has offered for white women in this country," says Littlefield. He is saying, 'White women, we will protect you from Brown and Black men.'"

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We speak with former Ohio state senator and Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffer Nina Turner about how the 2024 election has left her and many voters frustrated" and exhausted." While she is not endorsing a candidate, she denounces the white supremacist rhetoric of the Trump campaign, which she notes is as American as apple pie." Turner pushes back on comparisons of the Trump movement to the rise of Nazi Germany, which she argues threaten to whitewash the United States' own anti-democratic history. The unfulfilled promises of this country, the undealt-with anti-Blackness and other types of racism and bigotry have not been dealt with sufficiently," she explains. It is us, and we need to deal with it and not push it off on some other nation."

There can be no middle ground, not in this moment." As the U.S. presidential race draws to a close, Bishop William Barber, the national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School and co-author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, explains why he is endorsing Kamala Harris for president in his personal capacity. In contrast to Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric and policies that will benefit the rich, Barber says we see clearly Harris trying to unify." He makes a theological argument for opposing Trump and also discusses voting rights and access in his home state of North Carolina.

We are joined by U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, who says Israel is committing genocide on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Facing accusations of antisemitism from Israeli and U.S. officials, Albanese is in New York to present her report, titled Genocide as colonial erasure," which finds that Israel's genocide is founded on ideological hatred" and dehumanization" and enabled through the various organs of the state," and recommends that Israel be unseated from the United Nations over its conduct. She argues that Israel's attacks on U.N. employees, including the killings of at least 230 U.N. staff in Gaza, its flagrant violations of U.N. resolutions and international law and the unique status of the first settler-colonial genocide to be ever litigated before [an international] court" justify this unprecedented measure. Israel's continued impunity, Albanese warns, is the nail in the coffin of the U.N. Charter."

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Anti-trans attacks are a key part of Donald Trump's campaign message, and Republicans are spending tens of millions of dollars in the last stretch of the presidential race to flood the airwaves and social media with political ads that focus on transgender rights. Transphobia is not just a plank but a key pillar of the Republican Party," says journalist Imara Jones of TransLash Media. The Republican Party has become an extremist movement." Jones is host of the investigative podcast The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, which just launched a new season about how paramilitary groups have weaponized transphobia to forge ties to Republicans and stoke political violence. Being anti-trans is a signal for extremists as to who is on their side, and that signal then allows them to work together to push the country more and more to its extremes," she says.

Vice President Kamala Harris made her closing argument Tuesday in a major speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., scene of the Trump rally in 2021 that led to the Capitol riot. Harris described Trump as a tyrant who would shred the rule of law if given another four years in office. The Republican campaign, meanwhile, is still dealing with fallout from Sunday's rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, where speakers made a series of racist and dehumanizing remarks about Puerto Ricans, Black people, Palestinians and more. For more on the state of the race with less than a week to go before Election Day, we speak with journalist, author and academic Marc Lamont Hill, who says despite Kamala Harris's flaws, her message to voters is clear: Donald Trump is worse." Hill also discusses President Joe Biden's role in the Democratic campaign, the exaggerated migration of Black men to the Republican camp and the threat of violence if Trump loses again. No one is safe in a Trump presidency. No one is safe the day after a Trump loss," says Hill.

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The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post announced that they would not be endorsing anyone in the U.S. presidential election this year, breaking decades of precedent and overriding planned endorsements of Kamala Harris. The decisions were ordered by the outlets' multibillionaire owners, Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos. We speak with the Los Angeles Times editorials editor Mariel Garza, who quit when the paper killed the endorsement of Harris, and veteran Washington Post reporter David Hoffman, who stepped down from the paper's editorial board in response. We are right on the doorstep of the most consequential election in our lifetimes. To pull the plug on the endorsement, to go silent against Trump days before the election, that to me was just unconscionable," says Hoffman. This is not a time in American history when anyone can remain silent or neutral," adds Garza.

We take a close look at Donald Trump's campaign and racist rally at Madison Square Garden with filmmaker Marshall Curry, who attended the rally and also directed the short film A Night at the Garden, about the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, and notes, The demagogues in 1939 used the same tactics that we see today."

We speak with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on fascism and authoritarianism, who argues that Trump's use of the hallmarks of fascism and violence," including dehumanizing rhetoric, profane and crude discriminatory language and threats to the enemy within," echoes the rise of midcentury fascist rulers like Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.

In the final week ahead of the presidential election, Republican Donald Trump's campaign is facing widespread backlash after his rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, where conservative comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico an island of garbage" and others leaned into racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. We speak to journalist Jean Guerrero, who has published books on Trump's white nationalist agenda and her own Latina and Puerto Rican identity. Trump is seeking to restrict the notion of what it means to be American," says Guerrero. Trump and his supporters are not only othering immigrants and people of color, she argues, but anyone who does not fit a narrow, right-wing view of citizenship. If you are a liberal, if you believe in compassion and equality and freedom for all, you do not belong in Donald Trump's America."

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In the swing state of Arizona, President Biden formally apologized Friday for U.S. government-run Native American boarding schools, which sought to exterminate Indigenous culture by forcibly removing children from their families and placing them in institutions where their languages and customs were suppressed. If the Democrats want the vote of Indian people, we want them to stand with us, not only on issues like the apology around boarding schools, but we also want them to stand with us in the solidarity that we have calling for a ceasefire in Palestine," says Nick Tilsen, founder and CEO of the Indigenous-led NDN Collective. He says that while Biden's apology could be the start of an era of repair" between Indigenous peoples and the U.S. government, the apology must be followed by action. Among the NDN Collective's demands is major investment in preserving Indigenous languages, the rescinding of military honors for U.S. soldiers who took part in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and clemency for imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier. America's longest-living Indigenous political prisoner, who's incarcerated right now at the age of 80 years old in a maximum-security prison, is actually a boarding school survivor," Tilsen says of Peltier.

We speak with Iranian American policy analyst Trita Parsi about Israel's latest attack on Iran on Saturday, when it bombed military facilities and air defense systems in the country. Iran said four soldiers were killed in the attack. Israel also struck air defense batteries and radars in Syria and Iraq. Israel's assault this weekend came about four weeks after Iran launched a missile attack on Israeli military sites in response to Israel's war on Lebanon and Israel's assassination of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, part of a series of actions between the two countries since the outbreak of the war on Gaza last year. The Israelis are just continuously escalating the situation," says Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He warns that Iran's relatively restrained responses to Israeli actions could encourage decision-makers in both Israel and the United States to go all the way" and strike Iranian nuclear sites and other major targets. This, unfortunately, is leading - much thanks to the approach of the Biden administration - towards a much larger escalation."

More than 3,000 Israelis have signed an open letter urging global pressure on Israel to force an immediate ceasefire." The signatories say they are motivated by patriotic duty to stop the country's war crimes in Gaza and beyond, but say the lack of sanctions from other countries has allowed Israel to continue to pursue war, abandon the hostages still held in Gaza, ignore domestic opposition and persecute Palestinian citizens of Israel without real cost. Unfortunately, the majority of Israelis support the continuation of the war and massacres, and a change from within is not currently feasible. The state of Israel is on a suicidal path and sows destruction and devastation that increase day by day," reads the letter. For more, we speak with Neve Gordon, professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, one of the signatories of the open letter, who says international powers including allies like the United States need to put their leg down and say enough is enough." We also speak with him about Israel's well-documented history of using Palestinians as human shields, including in its current war on Gaza.

Israel's three-week siege of northern Gaza has killed at least 1,000 Palestinians. Most of the dead are women and children. On Saturday, Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan Hospital just one day after storming it, with health officials saying that soldiers detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients. This comes as the Israeli government has banned six medical NGOs from entering Gaza despite the dire humanitarian crisis stemming from repeated displacements of the population, widespread disease, injuries from Israeli attacks, hunger and more. Some 43,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its war on Gaza last October, according to local officials, although the true toll is likely far higher. The healthcare infrastructure is destroyed. Many of the local doctors have been either killed or kidnapped. The patients are left stranded; no one is providing any help to them," says Mosab Nasser, CEO of FAJR Scientific, one of the six medical aid groups banned by Israel.

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Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world's U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, we host a debate between American economist Richard Wolff and South African sociologist Patrick Bond over the significance of the conference. This year, the nine BRICS countries invited 13 new partner states" into their alliance, which Wolff calls historic" and a serious economic competitor to the United States and its role in the world." Bond, on the other hand, argues that BRICS should be considered a subimperial" formation, which expands and legitimates the existing world economic system rather than truly disrupting it.

In an extended interview, Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha discusses the situation in Gaza and his new book of poetry titled Forest of Noise. He fled Gaza in December after being detained by the Israeli military, but many of his extended family members were unable to escape. He reads a selection of poems from Forest of Noise, while sharing the stories of friends and family still struggling to survive in Gaza, as well as those he has lost, including the late poet Refaat Alareer. He also describes his experiences in Gaza in the first months of the war, including being displaced from his home and abducted by the Israeli military, noting that the neighborhood in Jabaliya refugee camp that his family first evacuated to last year was bombed by the Israeli military just days ago. Sometimes I want to stop writing because I'm repeating the same words, even though the situation is worse. The language is helpless," Abu Toha says. Why does the world make us feel helpless?"

Israeli soldiers have just conducted what Gaza's Civil Defense is calling a major massacre" in Jabaliya, with more than 150 people killed or injured and dozens of buildings destroyed. It is the latest atrocity amid the military's weekslong siege of northern Gaza. It's getting worse and worse," says Dr. Mohammed Salha in a call from the Jabaliya refugee camp, where he is acting director of Al-Awda Hospital.