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Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of committing acts of extermination and genocide

by intentionally depriving Palestinians in Gaza of water. We'll speak with the group's Israel-Palestine

associate director, then to Syria, where mass graves are being uncovered following the toppling of the Assad regime.

We established that these summary executions took place in the Tadolmone area of Damascus on April 16, 2013.

Since the fall of the Assad government, we have been able to travel to Damascus to see the area for ourselves.

And in California, the federal government will pay a record $116 million to more than 100 women who are sexually abused in a federal prison in Dublin, California.

The reason we're seeing historic, unprecedented lawsuits winning against the federal prison system

is because the issue of staff sexual abuse is rampant across not just the federal prison system,

but every type of carceral facility across the country and when

survivors speak up and link up with advocates on the outside, we're seeing that historic

winds are possible.

We'll speak to an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and one of

the former prisoners at Dublin, who's a plaintiff in the case.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

Fresh Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 25

Palestinians, including children. That includes 16 people killed in Jabalya in northern Gaza,

a strike on Magazi refugee camp that killed four, and bombings in Gaza City that killed

at least five others. Survivors scrambled to retrieve people from under the rubble.

At exactly 1002 at night, we were sleeping. We were sleeping. Suddenly we heard the sounds of

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