From New York, this is Democracy Now. It is a shock, a shock.

What happened was not small really. While coming on the way in the car I saw things, the destruction is unbearable.

Israel's war on Gaza hits the six month mark as Israeli ground troops withdraw from

Hanunis leaving behind a city in ruins. We'll get the latest with

Palestinian physician and activist Dr. Mustafa

barguti. Then we continue our conversation with international law professor

Nave Gordon. The situation in Israel, in Israel admits to it that it controls the area

from the river to the sea and so the situation is that there is one state, the one state is a settler colonial apartheid state and our project now is

how to democratize it.

And millions of people across the U.S. will be donning protective glasses to witness the solar

eclipse today.

We'll speak with a NASA climate scientist about the phenomenon and about climate change,

how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached new record highs.

All that and more coming up.

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The War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Palestinians are returning to the devastated city of Hanunis after Israel withdrew troops

from southern Gaza to prepare for an attack on Rafa.

Residents of Hanyunis say the city has been largely reduced to rubble and smells like death.

The temporary troop withdrawal comes six months after Israel began its

assault on Gaza following the Hamas attack on October 7th. The official death toll

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