Ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump just announced that Palestinians “have no alternative right now” but to leave Gaza, which he labeled “a demolition site.” Far-right officials in Netanyahu’s government have long dreamed of ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza. With Trump now saying he wants “all of them” to resettle, the prospects for permanent depopulation have suddenly escalated. Trump’s rhetoric isn’t just a flight of fantasy. His administration has already asked Congress to give Israel another $1 billion in weapons and demolition equipment. Israel has been laying siege to Gaza for more than 16 months, but this is no time for the world to stop paying attention. The need for independent investigative journalism into Israel’s crimes — and bipartisan U.S. complicity — has never been greater. If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: The Intercept pulled no punches in our coverage of Israel’s U.S.-funded genocide while Joe Biden was president, even as other news outlets denied reality. And we’re continuing to partner with freelance journalists on the ground to expose war crimes and monitor the implementation of the ceasefire agreement. But Trump’s actions since taking office seem designed to provoke and escalate the violence, and Israel launched a major new assault in the West Bank almost as soon as Trump was sworn in. We’re holding Western leaders accountable for their complicity and recently uncovered internal documents showing that European Union foreign ministers had evidence of Israel’s genocide in time to act and did nothing. And we’re investigating the massive amounts of money that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other pro-Israel lobby groups are spending to silence dissent in Congress. To keep providing this kind of hard-hitting investigative reporting, we are counting on readers like you. That’s why we’re asking you today: Will you make a donation of $5 to The Intercept? 
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