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We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian drone and missile attacks. While Jewish neighborhoods are “well protected” by bomb shelters, shelters are much rarer in Palestinian neighborhoods within the highly segregated country, explains Israeli journalist Orly Noy. “This is the meaning of a supremacist, racist regime,” she says.

Noy, whose Iranian Jewish family immigrated to Israel during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, also points out that public focus on Iran has allowed the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to continue with minimal international outcry. This settler and soldier-led violence, coupled with Israel’s ongoing restrictions and humanitarian aid, are “part of the continuing genocide, the infliction of measures and policies meant to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians,” says Amnesty International’s Agnès Callamard. “The control over humanitarian organization is very clear. It is meant to control those who dare speak up, those who are on the ground and are witnesses to the ongoing genocide.”

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman.

As we continue our coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, we go now to Jerusalem, where we’re joined by the Iranian Israeli journalist and activist Orly Noy. Earlier today, Israel launched a wave of new strikes targeting Iran and Lebanon. Meanwhile, retaliatory Iranian missile attacks hit central Israel. The Jerusalem Post reports the strikes killed two people, seriously wounding a third.

The Border Between Gaza and Egypt Had Just Reopened. Then War With Iran Started.

In a recent article, our guest Orly Noy wrote, quote, “Only eight months ago, following the ceasefire with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that ‘in the 12 days of Operation Rising Lion, we achieved a historic victory, which will stand for generations.’ It turns out this ‘historic victory’ did not last even a single year, let alone generations,” Orly Noy writes. She is the editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call and the chair of B’Tselem’s executive board, B’Tselem the Israeli human rights group.

Orly Noy, if you can respond to what’s happening now on the ground, the attacks by Iran in response to Israel and U.S. strike on Iran?

ORLY NOY: Hi, Amy. Thank you so much for having me.

Yes, I mean, I think it was well expected that as the war continues, there will be escalation also in the price that the Israeli society will need to pay for this completely lawless, unnecessary, criminal war that Israel and the United........

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