/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>483810
>Switzerland’s government has signed off on a draft law that bans Hamas and classifies it as a “terrorist organisation”.
>Under the law, which must now be reviewed by parliament, Hamas, its successor groups, and any groups who act on its behalf, would be banned.
>Anyone who violates the ban would face prison or a fine, according to the government.
Technically speaking Hamas would not have come to power in Gaza without the brutality of the Israeli goons wrecking havoc on the Palestinians. So one could correctly argue that all the pro-zionnist brutalitarians are a group who acts on behalf of Hamas.

If Israel falters, the Zionist lobby will implode as the imperial policy in that part of the world would be forced to dramatically shift. All the genocide-cheerleaders would turn into a liability over night.

Israeli rights group accuses government of pursuing ‘Jewish supremacy’

The executive director of the rights group B’Tselem has condemned Israel’s actions over the past 11 months in Gaza, accusing it of pursuing a goal of “Jewish supremacy” since its founding.

“To understand the Israeli government’s criminal conduct over the last 11 months, you have to understand the overall goal of this regime,” Yuli Novak told the UN Security Council on Wednesday during a session on Palestine.

“Since Israel was founded, its guiding logic has been to promote Jewish supremacy over the entire territory under its control.”

Novak criticised the government for exploiting the collective trauma from the October 7 attacks “to violently advance its project of cementing Israeli control over the entire land”.

She said Israel’s ongoing war on the Palestinian people includes daily war crimes in Gaza manifesting as “expulsion, starvation, killing and destruction on an unprecedented scale”.

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in Tubas, drag body using bulldozer

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces shot and killed the 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Far’a refugee camp in the Tubas governorate in the occupied West Bank.

Soldiers “fired several bullets at the child, abused him and prevented ambulance crews from reaching him”, the agency reported.

“Then they dragged him out of the camp using a military bulldozer,” Wafa reports.

The agency identified the victim as Majed Fida Abu Zeina.

The killing came as Israeli forces also bombed a vehicle in the city of Tubas, killing five other young Palestinian men early this morning.

Families of US captives want Biden to make deal with Hamas, without Israel: Report

The families of US citizens held captive in Gaza have asked the White House to make a deal directly with Hamas to secure their release, NBC News is reporting, citing five people familiar with the discussions.

The Biden administration is reportedly currently considering the option, NBC News added.

The report comes after Biden on Monday said Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a Gaza ceasefire deal, in rare public criticism of the Israeli leader from the US president while hundreds of thousands of Israelis have also taken to the streets expressing frustration at the Netanyahu government’s handling of the captive exchange negotiations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/5/israels-war-on-gaza-live-thousands-flee-jenin-homes-at-gunpoint

>>483815
>Technically speaking Hamas would not have come to power in Gaza without the brutality of the Israeli goons wrecking havoc on the Palestinians. So one could correctly argue that all the pro-zionnist brutalitarians are a group who acts on behalf of Hamas.
You don't need to reach that far to come to that conclusion, though.

>>483819
<bolstering Hamas
<transferring money to Hamas
<This part of our strategy
<Netanyahu
Lol can't make this shit up

So these new anti-Hamas laws that are intended to violate press-freedom and democratic-assembly, will end up being used against Zionists.

Did they design it that way ?
Are the Zionists useful idiots, that'll become "loose ends" ?
Or is it just irony ?

Fires break out in southern Lebanon as Israel drops phosphorus shells

The Israeli army has fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus in southern Lebanon, state news agency NNA has reported.

The incendiary weapon caused fires to break out in the area between Tell en-Nhas and el-Hamames, according to NNA.

Human Rights Watch has verified the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in at least 17 municipalities across southern Lebanon since October 2023.

The use of airburst white phosphorus is prohibited under international law.

Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli forces in West Bank

Israeli forces have shot dead an American activist of Turkish origin with a live bullet to her head, according to local media.

The victim identified as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was 26 years old and she arrived on Tuesday, sources told Al Jazeera.

The incident occurred in the town of Beita, near Nablus in the West Bank, during the town’s weekly anti-settlement march.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the activist was volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) as part of a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers.

Eygi is the third ISM volunteer killed by the Israeli forces in Palestine. Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza’s Rafah in 2003 and Tom Hurndall was also killed in Gaza in 2004.

‘Israel is crossing all lines’: Nablus governor on killing of foreign activist

Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas has commented on the killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. The 26-year-old was fatally shot in the head by Israeli forces in Beita near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank during a weekly protest.

“This is her life, a foreign citizen holding American nationality … during peaceful popular protests,” Daghlas said.

“All legal measures will be submitted to the International Criminal Court,” he added in a statement. “The bullets do not distinguish between a Palestinian, a child, a woman, or any nationality.”

“Now her life is lost, she is an American citizen holding American nationality, which means Israel is crossing all lines,” the governor continued. “We appeal to President Biden to stop all support to the occupying state because the occupying state is working hard to bomb hospitals and kill children and kill foreigners, including American nationals.”

There was no immediate comment from the US embassy, and the Israeli military said it was looking into the report.

PLO calls for international accountability over killing of American activist

The killing of 26-year-old Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi is yet another crime that requires the perpetrators to be held accountable in international courts, writes Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in a post on X offering condolences to her family.

Eygi was shot in the head by Israeli forces during a demonstration near Nablus in the northern West Bank earlier today.

Eygi was far from action at protest when shot by Israelis: Witnesses

Witnesses say Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the US citizen shot dead by the Israeli army during a demonstration near Nablus today, was far from the action when she was hit.

“The army was on top of the hill, there was also a sniper on the roof, we were clearly visible, there was nothing happening next to us,” said one witness who was at the protest, adding that “at some point” Israeli soldiers shot two bullets – one that hit “something metal” and one that hit Eygi’s head.

“I found her lying on the ground beneath an olive grove, bleeding to death,” says Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, another witness.

Aware of death of American citizen in West Bank: State Department

“We are aware of the tragic death of an American citizen, Aysenur Eygi, today in the West Bank”, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters in an emailed statement.

“We are urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death, and will have more to say as we learn more. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of American citizens,” he added.

Eygi, who held both Turkish and US citizenship, was killed earlier today after being fired upon by Israeli soldiers during an anti-settlement protest in the occupied West Bank’s Beita, south of Nablus. She was shot in the head.

Israeli media reports damage to buildings following fire from Lebanon

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan has reported that buildings have been damaged in northern Israel’s Metula, after three antitank missiles were fired from Lebanon.

The outlet reported no casualties from the incident.

Hezbollah, the armed Lebanese group that has been carrying out attacks on Israel in a show of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, has not yet issued a statement claiming an attack on Metula, but we will update you as events develop.

Side deal between US, Hamas to return US captives ‘not possible’: Report

A White House official has told CNN that the US will not propose a unilateral deal to Hamas to release US citizens held captive in Gaza, despite earlier reports it was considering the option.

“Because of Hamas’s demands, there has not been a formal offer for a side deal made because no such deal is possible,” CNN quoted the unnamed US official as saying.

Yesterday, the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put out conflicting messages about the prospect of Israel and Hamas reaching a ceasefire. US National Security spokesman John Kirby said that only “implementing details” remained to be hashed out, while Netanyahu said “there’s not a deal in the making”.

ICC drops case against former Hamas leader Haniyeh

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has dropped its case against former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh following his assassination on July 31 in Iran’s capital, Tehran, blamed on Israel.

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan previously sought arrest warrants for Haniyeh, other senior Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

ICC prosecutors have said there are reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant, as well as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and military chief Mohammed al-Masri bear criminal responsibility for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Ben-Gvir requests inclusion of West Bank in Israel’s war objectives

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has requested that PM Netanyahu include the defeat of Hamas in the occupied West Bank among the goals of the war in Gaza.

Ben-Gvir said in a post on X – accompanied by a copy of a formal letter – that Israel must avoid a repetition of the October 7 attack by Hamas. “We must not repeat the mistakes, war on Hamas – also in Judea and Samaria!,” he said, using the Israeli name for the West Bank.

Ben-Gvir has repeatedly and openly called for Israel’s annexation of the West Bank.

Nearly half of Israelis favour ceding control of Philadelphi Corridor: Poll

A new poll released by Israel’s Maariv newspaper suggests that 48 percent of Israelis support relinquishing control of the Philadelphi Corridor in southern Gaza to secure the release of Israeli captives.

Only 37 percent favour maintaining control of the area bordering Egypt, even if it means sacrificing a deal.

The results show significant opposition to the stance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly insisted on keeping Israeli forces stationed at the corridor.

Despite this, Netanyahu remains one of the most popular Israeli leaders, according to the Maariv poll conducted by Lazar Research, outperforming all major prime ministerial contenders, except Naftali Bennett.

In a head-to-head matchup, the poll suggests that 49 percent of Israelis find Bennett, a former prime minister and head of the New Right party, more suitable for the premiership, compared with 34 percent who prefer Netanyahu.

Netanyahu’s stance on Philadelphi Corridor deadly for captives: Captive’s sister

We have reported earlier that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said 90 percent of the Gaza deal had been agreed but some “critical issues” remain, including the Philadelphi Corridor on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip bordering Egypt, where Israel wants to maintain control.

Ofri Bibas Levy, the sister of Yarden Bibas, who was taken captive with his family, told Israeli radio station Reshet Bet that Netanyahu’s stance means that “more abductees will be murdered” in Gaza.

“It’s hard for me to be optimistic, but without our struggle they will not return. When Bibi continues and repeats that they will not give up Philadelphi [Corridor], for me it means that there is no deal and more abductees will be murdered,” she said, referring to Netanyahu.

Palestinian girl killed during Israeli settler attack near Nablus

A 13-year-old girl succumbed to her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces in Qaryout, a village south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

The village was attacked by illegal Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli forces, when Bana Amjad Bakr, 13, was shot in the chest by an Israeli soldiers, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams dealt with the “serious” injury after confrontations broke out in the village. Bakr was then moved to a nearby hospital where she later died.

According to her father, Bakr was shot while she was in her bedroom inside her house.

Israel forces end 10-day siege of Jenin in the occupied West Bank

The Palestinian news agency Wafa has confirmed that Israeli forces have withdrawn from the city of Jenin and its refugee camp after a 10-day siege.

Local people have told the news agency they fear that Israeli soldiers will return to the city after a temporary withdrawal to surrounding military checkpoints.

We will bring you more on this story as information emerges.

Jenin, Tulkarem hold funerals after Israeli siege

Funerals have taken place in Jenin and Tulkarem since the Israeli army has lifted its siege of the occupied West Bank cities, allowing for the burials to take place.

Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad Kanaan, 15, who was killed on Tuesday morning by Israeli snipers during a three-day siege of the Tulkarem refugee camp, was buried after Friday prayers, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

The bodies of two men from the same area were being held by the Israeli army, it added.

Ten people were buried in Jenin after a 10-day siege – eight in the refugee camp and two in the city. According to Wafa, the Israeli army killed 21 Palestinians in the Jenin governorate during its incursion.

Palestinian man attacked at West Bank checkpoint has fingers amputated

Bilal Rabah Dar Atta, a young Palestinian man, has been beaten by the Israeli army as he attempted to cross a checkpoint at the village of Shuqba, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Local sources said the Israeli army shut the door of the Jeep on the man’s fingers. He was later transferred to a hospital where he received treatment for two broken fingers, while another two were amputated.

Human rights groups have warned of growing violence in the occupied West Bank, where the United Nations says more than 600 Palestinians have been killed since October 7.

‘Heinous act’: Hamas decries killing of US activist near Nablus

Hamas has condemned the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a US citizen, who was fatally shot in the head with live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers.

The 26-year-old Turkish-American activist was attending a demonstration in Beita near Nablus when she was shot earlier today.

“This heinous act is a part of the occupation’s crimes against those who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people,” Hamas said in a statement.

These acts are “systematic and ongoing and are committed by occupation forces and settlers alike,” the statement added.

Through these crimes, the Israeli government is attempting to “silence every voice” that speaks out against its policies, it said.

“We call on the international community … to hold the occupation’s government responsible for its fascist acts.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-gazas-aid-situation-beyond-catastrophic-un

Has Hezbollah re-established deterrence with Israel?
Justin Salhani

The intensity of cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israel has lessened after a spectacular exchange of attacks on August 25.

But will Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu try to inflame the border with Lebanon – or has Hezbollah succeeded in re-establishing deterrence?

Qassem Kassir, a political analyst believed to be close to Hezbollah, told Al Jazeera that Hezbollah’s mass rocket and drone attack on Israel on August 25 has “returned things to what they were” before Israel assassinated its top commander Fuad Shukr.

Karim Emile Bitar, professor of international relations at Saint Joseph’s University in Beirut, said “Israel will probably continue to strike certain targets in Lebanon but I doubt that in the near future they will go after a major figure like Fuad Shukr”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/6/has-hezbollah-re-established-deterrence-with-israel

>>483820
>So these new anti-Hamas laws will end up being used against Zionists.
Used by who? That's like saying is Obama going to convict himself of murder for drone bombing children in Syria. It doesn't matter what the law says because the people who enforce it are not going to enforce it against themselves. That's statism 101.

US Muslim group asks FBI to investigate killing of American activist

A Muslim-American advocacy group asked the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the killing of a Turkish-American activist in the occupied West Bank.

“I write to request that the Justice Department investigate and prosecute the Israeli officials, soldiers, and settlers responsible for committing violent crimes against Palestinian-Americans, including slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and peace activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers today in the occupied West Bank,” Robert S McCaw, a director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a letter.

“CAIR calls on the DOJ, working in coordination with FBI and Department of State, to immediately investigate and prosecute the horrific murder of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was allegedly shot in the head by Israeli soldiers while volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement [ISM] to protect Palestinian farmers,” McCaw said.

“In light of this heinous act of violence, we demand the US government act on its own accord and not passively defer to Israeli investigations, which time and again have resulted in predictable exoneration.”

Turkey’s Erdogan condemns ‘Israel’s barbaric intervention’ in the West Bank

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced the killing of a Turkish-American activist in the occupied West Bank and criticized the deadly 10-day Israeli incursion.

“I condemn Israel’s barbaric intervention against a demonstration against the occupation in the West Bank and I pray for God’s mercy for our citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who lost her life in the attack,” he wrote on X.

Turkey’s foreign ministry in a statement also denounced the killing. “We condemn this murder committed by the Netanyahu government. Israel is attempting to intimidate those who come to the aid of Palestinians and those engaged in peaceful struggle against genocide. This policy of violence will not succeed.”

The ministry added Israeli leaders will “inevitably be held accountable before international courts”.

Megiddo prison guards humiliate detainees, Haaretz reports

Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that personnel at the Megiddo prison’s security wing handcuffed and humiliated detainees despite the absence of any unusual incident.

Photos and videos obtained by the daily on Friday show dozens of detainees lying on their stomachs in handcuffs, some without shirts, while a guard dog barks above them.

Last month, a report by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem revealed that more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been converted into a network of camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-gazas-aid-situation-beyond-catastrophic-un

>>483830
Yeah, this.

Activist killing: ‘Shots came from the direction of the army, not anywhere else’
Here are the accounts of two witnesses who observed the killing of Turkish-American activist Ezgi Eygi, 26, in the occupied West Bank village of Beita:

Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli who was participating in Friday’s protest, said the shooting occurred shortly after dozens of Palestinians and international activists held a communal prayer on a hillside outside the northern town of Beita overlooking the illegal Israeli settlement of Evyatar.
''Soldiers surrounded the group as its members prayed and clashes soon broke out with Palestinians throwing stones and soldiers firing tear gas and live ammunition, Pollak said.
The protesters and activists, including Pollak and Ezgi Eygi, retreated from the hill, and the clashes calmed down, he said. He then watched as two soldiers standing on the roof of a nearby home trained a gun in the group’s direction and fired. He saw the flares leave the barrel of the gun when the shots rang out.''
''He said Ezgi Eygi was about 10 or 15 metres (33 to 50ft) behind him when the shots were fired. Pollak then saw her “lying on the ground next to an olive tree, bleeding to death”, he said.
Mariam Dag, another activist at the protest, also said she saw an Israeli soldier on a rooftop. Dag said she then heard the firing of two live rounds. One ricocheted off something metal and hit a Palestinian protester in the leg; the other hit Ezgi Eygi, who had moved back into an olive grove, she said.''
Dag said she ran towards the fallen woman and saw blood coming from her head. “The shots were coming from the direction of the army. They were not coming from anywhere else.”

US lawmakers call for accountability in killing of American activist

Senator Patty Murray of Washington state condemned the killing of American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.

“The government of Israel must deliver answers immediately and hold the perpetrators of this killing accountable,” Murray said in a statement.

Representative Pramila Jayapal called Ezgi Eygi’s death a terrible tragedy and said her office is actively working to gather more information on the events that led to her death.

“I am very troubled by the reports that she was killed by Israeli … soldiers. The Netanyahu government has done nothing to stop settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank, often encouraged by right-wing ministers of the Netanyahu government,” Jayapal wrote in a statement.

“The killing of an American citizen is a terrible proof point in this senseless war of rising tensions in the region.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-gazas-aid-situation-beyond-catastrophic-un

Israel intentially leaks scenes of Palestinian prisoners’ torture: Rights group

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that efforts to undermine the resolve of prisoners by broadcasting torture scenes will not succeed.

“The leaking of these photos and videos is a deliberate act by the current settler government, headed by the fascist Minister [of National Security Ben-Gvir], with the aim of boasting about torturing prisoners,” the rights group said in a statement.

It said the practice was “part of the competition between the ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians more”.

“The other goal … is to influence the image of the Palestinian prisoner in the collective consciousness …, in addition to using them as an additional tool for intimidation operations and spreading terror among Palestinian citizens …”

In August, a report by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been converted into a network of camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Death toll rises to 8 in Israeli attack on school in northern Gaza

We reported earlier that a number of Palestinians had been killed following an Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip.

The Wafa news agency is now reporting that eight people were killed and 15 injured in the attack, which targeted tents where displaced Palestinians were sleeping inside the Halimah al-Saadiyah School.

Court rules women arrested for throwing sand at Israel’s Ben-Gvir to spend night in jail

The Times of Israel is reporting that the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court has ruled that a woman arrested for allegedly throwing sand at Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir must remain behind bars until a hearing on Saturday night.

The 27 year-old woman’s family have expressed concern for her welfare, saying she disappeared for several hours on Friday after being arrested following the incident at a Tel Aviv beach and noting she has no criminal record, according to the Times of Israel.

As national security minister, Ben-Gvir, whose own convictions include incitement to racism and destroying property, has control over Israel’s prisons and police and has been known for advocating harsh policing of protests.

Video shows Israeli soldier taking selfie with Palestinian prisoner in occupied West Bank

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained and verified video footage showing an Israeli soldier taking selfies with a Palestinian taken prisoner in Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The short clip shows Israeli soldiers taking away two bound and blindfolded Palestinian men. The first man is seen being led away by four Israeli soldiers while a fifth Israeli soldier roughly puts his arm around a second prisoner – whose wrists are bound behind his back – and takes at least two selfies with a mobile phone in quick succession as they march.

Human rights monitors have long drawn attention to Israeli soldiers documenting their war crimes in Gaza with mobile phone cameras and uploading images and video clips to social media.

Such material has included Israeli troops destroying Palestinian civilian infrastructure in Gaza, vandalising and stealing from Palestinian homes and schools, as well as abusing prisoners.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1832163584249332157

Protesters demand release of Israeli woman accused of throwing sand at Ben-Gvir

About 20 Israelis have demonstrated in front of the Neve Tirza women’s prison in the central Israeli city of Ramla, demanding the release of Noa Goldenberg, 27, who is accused of throwing a handful of sand at National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on a beach in Tel Aviv.

This is according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The report said the protesters chanted through a loudspeaker: “Noa, we are with you, you are not alone.”

According to the newspaper, “the young woman was documented being led out of the Lev police station in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, handcuffed by her hands and feet”.

Protesters were heard chanting that Ben-Gvir was a “murderer”. “You are responsible for the death of prisoners, your children should know that,” the newspaper quoted them as saying.

https://twitter.com/ynetalerts/status/1832337066065379568

Israeli army arrests Palestinian as car rams into police vehicle in West Bank

The Israeli army has said a Palestinian vehicle collided with a police car at the Eli petrol station near an illegal Israeli settlement north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

The military said in a statement the incident was a deliberate attack and that the driver was apprehended. No casualties were reported.

Killing of American-Turkish activist highlights American double-standard

The US administration has called the killing of American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi a “tragic” event and has pressed its close ally Israel to investigate.

In contrast, the killing of Israeli-American captive Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Gaza was harshly condemned by President Joe Biden, who said, “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.”

Sultan Barakat, a professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, told Al Jazeera that the disparity in the reaction to the killing of an American citizen was noteworthy.

“Unfortunately, when it comes to Israeli impunity they don’t really care,” Barakat said. “If they leave [an inquiry] to the Israeli military, it will go on for weeks and months and then it will be forgotten, like the many cases before this.”

The analyst added that while dangerous, the work of foreign activists remains important “in changing the narrative that Israel has been undertaking in Gaza”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/7/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-in-gaza-west-bank

>>483830
>Used by who? That's like saying is Obama going to convict himself of murder for drone bombing children in Syria.
It is different with Zionism.

Israel and the Zionist apartheid project are not an end in it self, their purpose is imperial power-influence in the Mid-eastern-region. However the largest part of the Pro-Zionist groups do see Zionism as an end in it self. This is a contradiction that has not yet fully manifested.

It is likely that Israel will fail with it's current strategy. They are trying to do what colonial administrations did during the height of European empires (17 to 19 century). That is a defeated strategy. It has shown 100% failure for over half a century. Israel could end up as mostly powerless or fail as a state. And would no longer serve the imperial purpose.

The imperial strategists will change their approach, relocate imperial resources from Israel to something else. They might try to take over Jordan (which is not entirely implausible) or try some radical new military technology like drone-carrier-ships. While unlikely to happen they could copy the Chinese soft-power-strategy of winning influence with infrastructure and other forms of developmental "technical support".

The Zionists who see Zionism as an end in it self, will not accept that and resist with determination. Then the powers that be will likely seek to use repression against them. Always remember empires have permanent interests and temporary alliances.

110 Palestinians killed over 4 days in Gaza; ‘contamination’ by explosives presents new danger: UN

In the four days between Monday and Thursday this week, 110 Palestinians were reported killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza and 230 people were injured, the United Nations reports.

Among the most deadly attacks this week was an Israeli strike on a residential building in central Gaza City on Tuesday that killed nine people, including at least five children and one woman, UN’s OCHA said in its latest situation report.

A children’s nursery was also hit in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, on the same day killing seven people.

Humanitarian workers on the ground in Gaza are also warning of “widespread contamination” of Gaza by explosive remnants of war.

On Tuesday, a Palestinian girl was critically injured in an explosion involving discarded explosive ordnance (EO) in Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, OCHA said.

“Children face a heightened risk of being exposed to EO, as they usually play outside, tend to search for scraps amongst rubbish and rubble, and lack an awareness on the dangers of EO,” OCHA said.

Family statement on killing of ‘beloved’ Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli military

Here’s the statement:

Today our family and our community are in shock and grief, as we wrestle with the reality that our beloved Aysenur Ezgi Eygi is gone.
Like the olive tree she lay beneath where she took her last breaths, Aysenur was strong, beautiful and nourishing.
Her presence in our lives was taken needlessly, unlawfully and violently by the Israeli military.
Aysenur was a loving daughter, sister, partner and aunt. She was gentle, brave, silly, supportive and a ray of sunshine. She wore her heart on her sleeves.
She felt a deep responsibility to serve others and lived a life of caring for those in need with action.
A US citizen, Aysenur was peacefully standing for justice when she was killed by a bullet that video shows came from an Israeli military shooter.
We welcome the White House’s statement of condolences, but given the circumstances of Aysenur’s killing, an Israeli investigation is not adequate.
We call on President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unlawful killing of a US citizen and to ensure full accountability for the guilty parties.
We ask the public for privacy as we grieve and try to make sense of the unimaginable tragedy that is Aysenur’s killing.

Palestinian rights group slams mutilation of Palestinian child’s body dragged by Israeli bulldozer

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has vehemently condemned Israel’s military assault on the occupied West Bank, including the “brutal” mutilation and killing of Majed Fida Abu Zina, 17, from the Far’a refugee camp.

In a statement, PCHR described how Israeli forces left Abu Zina to bleed out for approximately 1.5 hours after shooting him in the leg, neck and chest during a raid on Far’a late on Wednesday night.

“At around 2:30am [23:30 GMT], [the Israeli army] brought in a bulldozer and began desecrating the boy’s body … before dragging and throwing him,” PCHR added.

It was not until around 6:45am (03:45 GMT) that Palestinians were able to retrieve Abu Zina’s “disfigured and unrecognisable” body after Israeli forces withdrew, the statement added.

UN demands full investigation into killing of American-Turkish activist

The UN has called for a “full investigation” into the killing by Israeli forces of American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, while protesting against illegal Israeli settlements in Beita, in the occupied West Bank.

“We would want to see a full investigation of the circumstances and that people should be held accountable,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told a news conference.

He added that civilians “must be protected at all times”.

Recap of US citizens killed by Israeli forces in West Bank and Gaza

Here are some of the US citizens killed in Gaza and the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces in recent years:

Turkish-American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, killed on Friday, in the occupied West Bank.
Canadian-American Jacob Flickinger, 33, killed along with six colleagues from the US-based aid organisation World Central Kitchen, in Gaza, in April.
Palestinian-American Tawfiq Ajaq, 17, killed in January, in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in May 2022.
American citizen Omar Assad, 80, suffered a stress-induced heart attack after he was arbitrarily detained, bound, blindfolded and gagged by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, in January 2022.

Houthis say they shot down a US drone

Yemen’s Houthi group said they shot down a US MQ-9 drone that was conducting hostile acts over the airspace of Marib governorate, the Iran-aligned group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said.

We will share more details as we have them.

Estimates say 500,000 demonstrators hit streets of Tel Aviv
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel because it has been banned by the Israeli government.

This is in fact the largest protest in a single place in Israel’s history. Organisers say 500,000 are on the streets of Tel Aviv and 250,000 others are spread around the country, including West Jerusalem, Haifa, and Rishon LeZion.

This is a week of consecutive protests after the Israeli army announced it recovered the bodies of six captives in Gaza. That didn’t bode well with the Israeli public.

Families of captives are saying this is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fault, he has blood on his hands, and he’s the main impediment to why there hasn’t been a ceasefire deal yet.

The size of the demonstration just goes to show the level of frustration of family members, the Israeli public and the movement after 11 months of war.

Three paramedics dead following Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

Three paramedics died as a result of an Israeli raid in the town of Froun in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

Two other paramedics were also injured during the attack with one left in critical condition, NNA said.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said the team of paramedics was targeted by Israeli forces as it extinguished fires caused by recent Israeli strikes in the area.

The incident is the second of its kind in the last 12 hours. As we reported earlier, an Israeli raid on the town of Qabrikha also wounded two paramedics.

Lebanon PM condemns deadly Israeli strikes on medical team

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced Israel’s deadly attack on paramedics saying “this new aggression against Lebanon is a blatant violation of international laws … and human values”.

Hezbollah ally the Amal movement said two of its members were among the dead. It said they were killed “while carrying out their humanitarian and national duty defending Lebanon and the south”.

A statement from Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said “due to [Israeli] aggression”, 27 emergency personnel and health workers have been killed and 94 others wounded since October.

Two hospitals and 21 health centres have been “targeted” while 32 fire or ambulances have been “put out of service or partially damaged”. It urged an end to the “repeated and deliberate targeting of health workers and civilians”.

Family demands independent probe into killing of US activist in West Bank

The family of a Turkish-American activist shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank urged the United States to launch an independent inquiry into her killing, saying an Israeli probe isn’t “adequate”.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot by an Israeli soldier while taking part in a demonstration against illegal Israeli settlements near the West Bank village of Beita, near the city of Nablus, on Friday, according to witnesses.

An autopsy confirmed Eygi, who died at a hospital, was killed by a sniper’s bullet to the head, Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas told Al Jazeera.

London protests: ‘Time for people to wake up, get out on the streets’

At least 25,000 pro-Palestinian supporters protested in London, with a handful of arrests of mostly counter-demonstrators occurring during the largely peaceful protest that began in Picadilly and ended in front of Israel’s embassy.

A survivor of the Holocaust denounced Israel’s leaders for their conduct during the bloody war on Gaza.

“They should stop immediately, obviously. It is an outrage in the 21st century for genocide to be going on in full sight of the world. I think the leadership of Israel is a criminal band,” said Stephen Kapos at the demonstration.

Protester Bernie McNamee said that after 11 months of doing little to stop the bloodshed, things appear to be changing now.

“We can see the tide is turning,” McNamee said. “We’re seeing companies withdrawing their support for apartheid regimes. We’re seeing it all the time. It’s time for people to wake up, get out on the streets, and let’s support the Palestinians. Seventeen-thousand children dead – we don’t even know how many are underneath the rubble.”

Turkey’s Erdogan calls for Islamic alliance against ‘Israeli state terrorism’

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel.

He made the comment after the killing by Israeli troops of a Turkish-American woman taking part in a protest on Friday against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

“The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries,” Erdogan said at an event near Istanbul.

Recent steps that Turkey has taken to improve ties with Egypt and Syria are aimed at “forming a line of solidarity against the growing threat of expansionism”, which Erdogan said also threatened Lebanon and Syria.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/7/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-in-gaza-west-bank

>>483850
>The imperial strategists will change their approach, relocate imperial resources from Israel to something else. They might try to take over Jordan
>The Zionists who see Zionism as an end in it self, will not accept that and resist with determination.
Who are these imperialist non-zionist israeli leaders who want to stop murdering children in gaza and start a war with an actual nation state military instead? You are talking out of your ass.

>>483866
There are hints that the US is sort of infiltrating the superstructure of Jordan, so they appear to be hedging their bets. And this might be the imperial backup-plan in case Israel craters.

>Who are these imperialist non-zionist israeli leaders who want to stop murdering children in gaza and start a war with an actual nation state military instead?
I find this a confusing statement. You appear to be positing a dichotomy between one faction that wants to slaughter children and one that wants to start wars between nations states.

Zionism is profitable for the imperial system because it's a tool to extract imperial super-profits. If that mechanism fails, many of these will likely stop being Zionists and it'll be like wearing a different hat for them. The backbone of Zionist influence are opportunists who are in it for the cheddar.

The "fully committed Zionists" with full-blown supremacy-brain are also the ones that want those children murdered the most. They are also the ones that want to start wars with other nation states because they think that they can instrumentalize US military might that way.

>>483871
>You appear to be positing a dichotomy between one faction that wants to slaughter children and one that wants to start wars between nations states.
You said that
>The imperial strategists will change their approach
>The Zionists will not accept that
Who are the "imperial strategists" and who are the "zionists"? Give some names.

>Zionism is profitable for the imperial system because it's a tool to extract imperial super-profits.
All of israel's "profits" come from US tax payers. What kind of wealth or resources do you think they are extracting from starving homeless palestinians.

>>483872
>You said that
You must have misunderstood, and i must have explained my self poorly.

>Who are the "imperial strategists"
That is variable. It's easiest to start with the "foreign policy-blob" in Washington, that is in constant flux, many factions striving for power and influence. These factions in them selves are not static either, they change their strategies and allegiances. Some of these are more like family clans, while others are loose organizations for those with shared-interests. The links radiate into many sectors of the rest of the economy and extend through a transnational network into many places of the world. The blob in Washington is definitely the biggest and most-powerful node in this network, but it's not the only one, and while the hole thing tilts towards the US, it's not entirely in line with US interests.

>who are the "zionists"?
There are true-believers who see the creation of Israel as an ethno-nationalist state as an end it self, they usually consider them selves the "special people" above everybody else. It reminds me of historic Nazis calling them-selves "Übermenshen". Then there's the "down-stream-Zionists", who range from partially principled to entirely self-interested opportunists. With the opportunists having grown into the dominant share.

>All of israel's "profits" come from US tax payers.
Mostly true.
However imperial Super-profits is some thing else, it refers to what the imperial system is able to extract from the mid-eastern region because Israel was keeping them in disarray and unable to resist collectively. Right now Israel is turning it self into the big bad enemy that will unify the mid-eastern region in opposition and render it capable of resisting the empire. That means no more super-profits.

This development also creates an opening for the BRICS economic block to expand into that region beyond just Iran. Since BRICS is currently strongly shaped by the Chinese who think that imperial systems are too expensive, and that a system with many centers that maximize mutual-gain will cost less and result in more absolute wealth-gain, it might be that this is not just a change of power but a change in the structure of how international relations are organized.

>>483875
>Who are the "imperial strategists"
>It's easiest to start with the "foreign policy-blob" in Washington
Washington has had a dozen wars in the middle east and Israel has helped with zero of them. Not one IDF troop deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or anywhere else. If Washington wants to invade Jordan there is no reason to expect Israel will stop bombing children in Gaza and help with that either.

So what you really meant was
>WASHINGTON will change their approach, relocate imperial resources from Israel to something else. They might try to take over Jordan
AIPAC owns nearly every single US congressman and senator down to a man. Aid to Israel will not stop. And the US has demonstrated no ability at all to make Israel do anything they want.

>However imperial Super-profits is some thing else, it refers to what the imperial system is able to extract from the mid-eastern region because Israel was keeping them in disarray and unable to resist collectively
Israel hasn't done shit to help US interests in the middle east. That is all AIPAC/neo-con propaganda. The invasion of Iraq was launched from Saudi Arabia. The US relationship with Israel is 100% one sided.

>That means no more super-profits.
The US is fucking broke. The "super-profits" are going from the US working class to the shareholders of Raytheon. The US didn't gain anything from occupying Afghanistan for 20 years. The fact that they pulled out at the drop of a hat so they could pivot to Ukraine is proof of how meaningless it was. War is a scam to extract wealth from workers and give it to the military industrial complex. That's why it doesn't matter where the war is or why it's being fought.

>>483876
>Washington has had a dozen wars in the middle east and Israel has helped with zero of them. Not one IDF troop deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or anywhere else.
Isreal isn't capable of deploying forces in those places, they lack the logistics support for that. But the Israeli do a lot of dirty work.

>If Washington wants to invade Jordan there is no reason to expect Israel will stop bombing children in Gaza and help with that either.
No they're not intending to invade Jordan more like bribing and blackmail their way into the state apparatus in Jordan.

>AIPAC owns nearly every single US congressman and senator down to a man. Aid to Israel will not stop. And the US has demonstrated no ability at all to make Israel do anything they want.
>>Israel hasn't done shit to help US interests in the middle east. That is all AIPAC/neo-con propaganda. The invasion of Iraq was launched from Saudi Arabia. The US relationship with Israel is 100% one sided.
My assumption is that the reason why the Zionist lobby is able to get their needs prioritized is because of the strategical value that Israel had for the imperial system until recently. You're assumption is that Zionist lobby was able to do all of this only on the basis of bribes and perhaps other "political influence techniques". If that was true, why aren't other countries able to do that ?
The US has enormous leverage, because of all the funding and weapons they give the Israeli state.

>The US is fucking broke. The "super-profits" are going from the US working class to the shareholders of Raytheon. The US didn't gain anything from occupying Afghanistan for 20 years. The fact that they pulled out at the drop of a hat so they could pivot to Ukraine is proof of how meaningless it was. War is a scam to extract wealth from workers and give it to the military industrial complex. That's why it doesn't matter where the war is or why it's being fought.
You are correct the imperial system is being applied at home, and the US working class is being imperialized as well.

>>483879
>Isreal isn't capable of deploying forces in those places, they lack the logistics support for that.
If Australia can send troops from literally the other side of the world I'm sure the most advanced and ethical military in the middle east can figure out a way to send troops from 50 miles away.

>the Israeli do a lot of dirty work.
What specifically has our greatest ally done to help the United States? Name one thing. Not just assassinating nuclear scientists in Iran. Name something that actually helped the US.

>No they're not intending to invade Jordan more like bribing and blackmail their way into the state apparatus in Jordan.
Isn't Jordan already a fake country invented by western powers to keep a buffer between Israel and people who hate them.

>Your assumption is that Zionist lobby was able to do all of this only on the basis of bribes and perhaps other "political influence techniques"
It's not an assumption. If you're a senator and you don't do what Israel wants then AIPAC funds your opposition next election. Thomas Massie talks about this quite openly youtube.com/watch?v=FlSIJJdpj4c

>If that was true, why aren't other countries able to do that ?
Israel gets away with it because the american people have been programmed to recoil from being called an anti-semite. No other ethnic group has managed cultivate this level of soft power.

>You are correct the imperial system is being applied at home, and the US working class is being imperialized as well.
You talk about "super-profits" but can't tell me what they are. We got some oil from Iraq. What else? What "super-profits" did we get from Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia? What "super=-profits" is Israel getting from Gaza? Why is the empire on the verge of financial collapse if there's so much "super-profits" being made from military imperialism? It sounds like you read a 50 year old Chomsky book and didn't think it all the way though.

>>483880
>If Australia can send troops from literally the other side of the world
Yes the Aussies do have commando units equipped for that kind of deployment.
>I'm sure the most advanced and ethical military in the middle east can figure out a way to send troops from 50 miles away.
They have lots of toys but the IDF isn't the fierce and highly professional force they once were. Also there are complicating factors, the IDF is despised throughout the middle east, because they have made them selves a reputation for murdering civilians. If they send troops somewhere, they're likely to get shot at by 3/4 of the locals where ever they go. The Australians probably don't get that kind of "leaded" reception.

>What specifically has our greatest ally done to help the United States? Name one thing. Not just assassinating nuclear scientists in Iran. Name something that actually helped the US.
Nothing they did actually helped the US as a country, but they did things at the request of the US ruling class. But also Yes it's mostly stuff like murdering nuclear scientists.

>Isn't Jordan already a fake country invented by western powers to keep a buffer between Israel and people who hate them.
More or less, i gotta remember "fake country" that is a fitting expression.

>It's not an assumption. If you're a senator and you don't do what Israel wants then AIPAC funds your opposition next election.
Sure but if some other country tried to send people that blackmail US politicians these people would get hunted down mercilessly, their organization declared a terrorist organization, and the country it originated from would be subjected to retaliations. So the question remains why isn't this happening to Israel when they do it ?

>Israel gets away with it because the american people have been programmed to recoil from being called an anti-semite. No other ethnic group has managed cultivate this level of soft power.
While this phenomenon of weaponizing false accusations of anti-semitism is real and a destructive anti-democratic political factor, that shit doesn't work against the secret police.

>You talk about "super-profits" but can't tell me what they are.
Imperial Super-profits is the increased profit margin the imperial bourgoisie gets by using imperial coercion, it usually comes from exploiting workers harder but also by taking away some profits from the national bourgoisie.
>We got some oil from Iraq. What else? What "super-profits" did we get from Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia?
I doubt you would be part of the benefactors. The imperial bourgoisie collects super-profits via the Dollar's status as world reserve currency, which means they can print Dollars and put them in their pocket and make the rest of the world pay for it, when they have to buy Dollars to buy Oil. If the imperial bourgoisie prints more than what this system yields, it registers as inflation and US citizens are the ones that pay. The other way they collect super-profits is via the corporate route of taking resources and exploiting labor.

>What "super=-profits" is Israel getting from Gaza?
Technically Israel is exploiting Palestinians as labor and other more gruesome stuff, like a lot of skin grafts are from Palestinian donors, which probably are somewhat less voluntary. But most of it is just taking their land.

>Why is the empire on the verge of financial collapse if there's so much "super-profits" being made from military imperialism?
The imperial system is cracking because, it's getting more expensive to maintain imperial domination while at the same time there is shrinking imperial loot. This is part of the imperial cycle:
invest into imperial conquest, get lots of returns,
reinvest the returns and get even better returns,
but eventually all that can be conquered, has been
and what's left is either not worth the effort, or too well defended.
What is happening now is also that the rest of the world has been catching up on technology so there's more people who can fight back compared to "empiring" in the past.

And a factor that also is somewhat common in the imperial cycle is that the arms-industry gets a lot of political influence and they use it to line their pockets.

I would guess that the Zionist project was probably worth it from an imperial balance sheet until about 2010. After that it might have been a zero sum game, and now this thing is definitely in the red. This genocide had a lot of direct costs, and lots of indirect costs resulting from opportunity-costs on account of the reputation damage of being associated with the worst murder-gang in the middle east.

>>483882
>I doubt you would be part of the benefactors.
i meant to say beneficiaries, not benefactors

Jordan-Israel relations strained, but bilateral security remains strong: Analysis

At least 3 reported killed in West Bank border attack

According to Israeli medics and media reports, three people have been confirmed killed in the attack near the Allenby Bridge on the border with Jordan.

Earlier, Israeli ambulance services said two people had been seriously injured.

Israeli army says 3 killed at border crossing were security guards

Three people killed in the shooting at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge between the occupied West Bank and Jordan were security guards, the Israeli army has clarified.

The military said a truck driver opened fire at the border crossing before being shot dead. It added that the alleged attacker reached the area of the crossing, in the Jordan Valley, in a truck “from Jordan”.

“[The driver] exited the truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces operating at the bridge,” a military statement said.

“Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack,” the military said, later clarifying to AFP that they were “working as security guards” and not in the army or police.

Israel closes all border crossings with Jordan after attack

The Israel Airport Authority has confirmed that all of the country’s crossings with Jordan have now been closed following an earlier attack at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.

A gunman arriving from Jordan killed three Israeli security guards before he was shot dead. It’s the first attack of its kind along the border with Jordan since the war on Gaza began, ratcheting up tensions across the region.

King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge shooter identified as Jordanian cargo driver: Jordanian gov’t

Jordan’s Ministry of Interior said that initial investigations into the shooting incident at King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge earlier today confirmed that the shooter was a Jordanian citizen named Maher Diab Hussein Al-Jazi, according to Jordan’s news agency Petra.

Al-Jazi, a resident of the Husseiniya area in Jordan’s Ma’an Governorate, crossed the bridge as a driver of a cargo vehicle carrying commercial goods from Jordan to the West Bank, the agency said.

The ministry confirmed that the initial results of the investigation indicate that the incident, which took place at the border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, was an individual act.

The ministry said that coordination is under way between the relevant authorities to receive Al-Jazi’s body, which will be buried in Jordan.

Israel has closed all border crossings with Jordan after the shooting resulted in the deaths of three Israeli border guards.

The incident marks the first attack of its kind along the border with Jordan since Israel’s war on Gaza began last October.

Anger at Israel ‘universal among all Jordanians’

Jordan’s former Foreign Minister Jawad Anani has said the anger Jordanians feel at the Israeli war in Gaza “is not limited to Jordanians of Palestinian origin. It is universal among all Jordanians.”

“They feel that the Israelis have crossed every human border. They have violated every human rights of the Palestinians and now when we focus on a given event, somehow we forget the bigger picture,” he told Al Jazeera from Amman, Jordan.

“The bigger picture is very bleak on the Israeli side and they commit so many violations to the point that most Jordanians, if not all of them, are extremely angry about what’s happened,” he added.

Syrian media says Israeli attack kills three: Report

Syrian state-controlled news agency, the Syrian Arab News Agency, reports that Israeli warplanes targeted several sites belonging to the country’s military.

Citing an unnamed military source, the media outlet said the attacks resulted in the killing of three people, the injury of 15 others, and “material losses”.

The attacks hit the rural areas surrounding the city of Hama.

We will update you on this situation as more details emerge.

Israeli settlers destroy olive trees in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers destroyed about 12 olive trees near the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya, in the occupied West Bank governorate of Salfit, on Saturday, local sources told the Wafa news agency.

The settlers from the illegal Israeli Yakir outpost north of Salfit came back to destroy the trees belonging to Palestinian resident, Musleh Youssef Mansour, after earlier vandalising about 20 of his other olive trees, Wafa added.

Palestinians have cultivated olive trees for thousands of years and traditionally begin the annual harvest to make olive oil in September.

Hezbollah targets Iron Dome

The Lebanese group says on its Telegram channel that it launched squadrons of attack drones at the “Al-Zaourah compound” of the Isreali military, targeting its air defence system, known as the Iron Dome.

The drones also targeted the locations and positions of Israeli officers and soldiers, according to Hezbollah, “directly hitting them and killing and wounding them”.

The group said that this attack was in retaliation for Israeli attacks on southern Lebanese villages and towns, specifically mentioning Khirbet Selm, which, as we reported earlier, was hit with three missiles fired by Israeli army warplanes.

Palestinians march in Nablus to honour killed US activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi

Palestinians held a march in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus to honour an American woman killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was participating in a weekly protest against an illegal Israeli settlement near the Palestinian village of Beita when she was shot in the head.

Tens of thousands of Israelis protest as calls for captive deal intensify

Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets on Saturday in a new wave of protests to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign a deal with Hamas to free captives held in Gaza.

An estimated 750,000 people hit the streets across Israel, including Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as the Karkur Junction area near Haifa, according to local media reports.

“I think even those who were, maybe, reluctant to go out, who are not used to protest, who are sad but prefer to be in private space within their sadness, understood our voice must join together to one huge scream: Bring the hostages with a deal. Do not risk their lives,” said one protester in Tel Aviv, Efrat Machikawa, niece of captive Gadi Moses.

Jordan crossing with occupied West Bank to reopen tomorrow

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s General Director of Borders and Crossings Nazmi Muhanna has said that the King Hussein (Allenby) crossing will reopen tomorrow at 10am local time (7am GMT).

Muhanna told the official news agency Wafa that the crossing will be open for travellers only, and will remain closed to commercial trucks.

Attempted car ramming south of Hebron, in occupied West Bank

There was a suspected attempt to run over Israeli soldiers at the Negohot settlement south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli public broadcaster Kan.

Israeli forces fired at the vehicle, with one Palestinian killed and another wounded, the broadcaster reported.

There were no casualties among the soldiers, it added.

We will bring you more updates as we have them on this developing story.

Israeli, Jordanian officials hold secret meeting after crossing attack: Report

Israeli and Jordanian security officials held a secret meeting hours after the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge (Allenby) crossing attack, Israeli broadcaster Kan reported.

The meeting discussed security arrangements and the exchange of information that may help with the investigation, the outlet said.

The attack earlier today occurred on the border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan. Three Israeli border guards were killed.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/8/israel-war-on-gaza-live-israel-kills-31-in-gaza-as-750000-march-in-israel

>>483889
Maybe we designed human rights wrong, and should have included a reciprocity clause.

Death toll in Syria attack rises: Health director

At least 16 people have now been killed and 36 wounded in the Israeli attack on the Hama countryside of Syria, Hama Health Director Maher al-Younes was quoted as saying by Syrian state media.

Six people are still in critical condition, al-Younes added.

On late Sunday night Israeli strikes targeted a number of military sites in Hama, state media reported, adding that the country’s defence systems intercepted and shot down some of them.

Syria’s SANA news agency cited a statement from the director of the public hospital in Masyaf, a city near Hama.

It added that the attack also caused damage to the Masyaf-Wadi al-Uyun highway and a fire in the Hair Abbas area.

Throughout Syria’s 13-year civil war, Israel has regularly carried out air raids in the country – mostly targeting Iran-linked sites. But the Israeli military does not confirm or comment on its operations in Syria.

Hamas denies proposing new conditions in truce talks

Hamas has responded to claims in US media that the group presented new conditions to mediators for the release of Israeli captives.

Spokesperson Basem Naim says the US officials who acted as sources for the story have “poisoned the negotiations”.

“Hamas has not presented any new conditions to the mediators, neither on the issue of prisoners nor any other matters. The movement reaffirms its commitment to what was agreed upon on July 2 of this year, which was based on President Biden’s proposal and the UN Security Council Resolution No 2735,” Naim told Al Jazeera.

“We are ready to immediately negotiate the implementation measures for this deal,” he added.

Israeli army pressing on with northern Gaza attacks
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

There is a clear concentration around the north of the Strip.

One of the latest barrages of strikes hit a residential house in Jabalia, killing six Palestinians, including a woman and two children.

The attack left behind a swathe of destruction, with civil defence workers trying to recover victims under the rubble.

We have also been hearing from witnesses on the north of the Strip that they have been getting new evacuation orders – but they are saying that they have no other places to go to and they are just moving between neighbourhoods.

Funeral of Turkish-American activist killed by Israel begins in Nablus

A funeral procession is taking place in Nablus, occupied West Bank, for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.

The 26-year-old Turkish-American was taking part in a protest against illegal Israeli settlements on Mount Sbeih in Beita, south of Nablus when she was shot dead by Israeli forces.

Photos: Palestinians bid farewell to Aysenur Ezgi Eygi

Mourners have paid their respects to Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, an American-Turkish activist killed by Israeli forces on Friday at a demonstration in the occupied West Bank.

The 26-year-old was taking part in a protest against illegal Israeli settlements on Mount Sbeih in Beita, south of Nablus, on Friday when she was shot.

Turkey exploring options to bring activist Eygi’s body back

As we reported, the funeral procession for American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, killed by Israeli soldiers last week, is taking place in Nablus, occupied West Bank.

The spokesperson for Turkey’s Foreign Ministry Oncu Keceli says Ankara is exploring the option to get Eygi’s to Turkey.

“Land crossings from Palestine to Jordan were shut down by Israel as of yesterday. Upon her family’s request, we are working on the option of bringing the body directly to Turkiye by plane to avoid further delays,” he posted on X.

The 26-six-year-old Aysenur Eygi was taking part in the protest against illegal Israeli settlements on Mount Sbeih in Beita, south of Nablus, on Friday when she was shot by Israeli forces.

Israeli forces raid agricultural land; settler attack reported in Jericho

Israeli authorities have demolished an agricultural facility and uprooted palm trees in the village of Marj Na’jeh, north of Jericho.

A resident told the Wafa news agency that Israeli military bulldozers raided his farm and destroyed it.

An Israeli settler also attacked students of al-Ka’abneh Bedouins School in the Arab al-Melahat community northwest of the city of Jericho, and prevented them from reaching their school.

Wafa cited witnesses as saying an armed settler from the illegal Zohar outpost blocked the students’ way at the start of their school year.

Israeli forces have significantly ramped up their attacks on Jericho and Bedouin communities since the start of the war on Gaza, with some of the incursions turning deadly.

Lebanon looking for diplomatic solution amid rising Israeli attacks
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

There is concern in Lebanon because there has been an uptick in violence along the border, where Hezbollah and Israel have been trading near-daily fire since October.

Caretaker PM Mikati has summoned Western ambassadors to attend an emergency meeting which is still under way. The Lebanese government is not directly involved in this conflict, but it has been trying to reach out to Western nations to find some sort of diplomatic solution and to restrain Israel.

But the confrontations cannot end as long as the war on Gaza continues because Hezbollah has conditioned a halt to firing to an end to the war on Gaza. What Israel wants is security guarantees along the border in order for tens of thousands of residents to return to their homes.

In recent days, Israel has intensified its attacks on what it calls Hezbollah’s assets close to the border. For Hezbollah, too, there has been a sharp increase in the number of rockets it has launched at northern Israel. And there was a drone attack a few hours ago that targeted a residential building in Nahariya.

US military chief in Israel, presented with ‘operational plans in Lebanon’

US military Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Michael Kurilla is in Israel and met its military chief Herzi Halevi and other military officials.

According to the Israeli military, the latest in numerous visits since Iran’s expected retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh focused on “current threats, with an emphasis on threats from Lebanon and Iran in the northern arena”.

Kurilla was accompanied by the head of the Israeli Northern Command to an underground war room where he was presented with what the Israeli military said were “operational plans for Lebanon”.

The US general met Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday.

Drone hits building in Israeli city of Nahariya

A drone launched from Lebanon has struck a high-rise building in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya.

The Israeli military said there were no injuries, adding that a second drone entered Israeli airspace, but did not elaborate.

Images showed the blacked-out side of the building and scattered drone parts around the scene, with one video purporting to capture the drone as it was flying over the area.

Sirens sounded in communities across the coastal area, including in Shlomi and Lehman.

Hezbollah has not yet commented on the attack.

Iran rejects link to targets hit in Syria, condemns Israeli attack

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has rejected reports by Israeli media that a facility associated with or supported by Iran was the target of the Israeli strikes in Syria that killed at least 16 people and wounded 36.

“What official sources from the Syrian government have announced is that there were attacks on some Syrian facilities, including an attack on a research centre affiliated with the Ministry of Defence and the Syrian army,” Nasser Kanaani told reporters during a news conference.

“We condemn this criminal aggression in the strongest possible terms.”

UN rights chief calls on states to challenge Israel over occupation

The UN human rights chief Volker Turk says ending the 11-month-long war in Gaza is a priority and asked countries to act against what he called Israel’s “blatant disregard” for international law in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“States must not, and cannot, accept blatant disregard for international law, including binding decisions of the Security Council and orders of the ICJ, neither in this nor any other situation,” Turk said in a speech at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

He cited an opinion released by the UN top court in July that called Israel’s occupation illegal and said this situation must be “comprehensively addressed”.

Israel has rejected the opinion.

Upcoming defence expo in Australia disrupted by demonstrators

Pro-Palestinian antiwar activists have held protests in Melbourne disrupting a defence expo that is set to open on Wednesday.

Protesters gathered in front of companies connected to weapons manufacturing across Melbourne as police were called to prevent an escalation of the events, according to 7News Melbourne.

Police presence was visible in front of company buildings.

Demonstrations are expected to move across the city to different areas ahead of the Land Forces military expo, where more than 25,000 participants are expected.

On Sunday, Extinction Rebellion activists blocked Montague Street near the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre where the expo is being held.

Pro-Palestinian protesters in Australia have been urging the government to impose sanctions on Israel for its war on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-school-year-starts-without-60000-gaza-students

Dozens killed and injured in attack on al-Mawasi

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and the Wafa news agency are reporting that dozens of people have been killed and injured in an Israeli attack on Palestinians staying in tents in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza.

A spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence that at least 20 tents were hit in the attack, AJA reports.

We’ll bring you more soon.

EU’s Borrell visits ‘warehouses full of aid’ blocked by Israeli authorities

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he saw “endless queues of trucks with goods trying to enter Gaza” on a visit to the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing today.

“I heard the frustration of Red Crescent volunteers managing warehouses full of humanitarian aid blocked by Israeli authorities,” Borrell said in a post on X, noting the banned items included medical equipment, tents and sleeping bags.

“This dramatic situation has to be solved by political means,” Borrell added, renewing calls for a ceasefire and the “release of all the hostages”.

https://twitter.com/JosepBorrellF/status/1833216661526049142

US not probing killing of its citizen Aysenur Eygi in West Bank: Officials

Officials in the United States have said that Washington still does not “know with full certainty what transpired” when a US citizen was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week, stressing that they were waiting for the findings of an Israeli investigation.

The US on Monday also appeared to reject calls for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel declined to acknowledge that an Israeli soldier killed Eygi, but he called for the process to “play out and for the facts to be gathered”.

He also urged Israel to “quickly and robustly conduct” its probe and make the findings public but confirmed the administration is not planning to independently investigate the killing – as Eygi’s family requested.

Read the full story here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/us-not-probing-killing-of-its-citizen-aysenur-eygi-in-west-bank-officials

Israel asks US Congress to urge South Africa to drop ICJ genocide case: Report

Israel is lobbying members of the US Congress to press South Africa to drop its legal proceedings in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the war in Gaza, according to an Israeli Foreign Ministry cable obtained by US news outlet Axios.

“We are asking you to immediately work with lawmakers on the federal and state level, with governors and Jewish organisations to put pressure on South Africa to change its policy towards Israel and to make clear that continuing their current actions like supporting Hamas and pushing anti-Israeli moves in international courts will come with a heavy price,” the cable reads, according to Axios.

The Israeli diplomats were urged to ask Congress members to issue public statements condemning South Africa’s actions against Israel, the outlet said.

South Africa has until October 28 to give the court its arguments for continuing the case against Israel over alleged violations of the Genocide Convention throughout the war in Gaza. It first filed the case in December 2023.

Following that, the court held several hearings and issued provisional orders, most recently in May when it called on Israel to stop its military operation in Rafah.

Palestine, regional orgs urge UN to revisit ICJ probe

The Arab Group, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement delivered a letter to the UN to follow up on the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Israel’s presence in Palestine, Palestinian authorities said.

The groups are calling for the resumption of a special session of the UN General Assembly to address the matter, Palestine’s mission to the UN said in a post on X.

In July, the court ruled that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is illegal, effectively calling for an end to Israel’s occupation.

https://twitter.com/Palestine_UN/status/1833239509863174626

UN says Israel held polio vaccine workers at gunpoint, bulldozed vehicles

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says it is not clear if a polio vaccine campaign will go ahead in northern Gaza tomorrow after Israeli forces detained and threatened UN staff on their way to begin the rollout.

“The convoy was stopped at gun point just after the Wadi Gaza checkpoint with threats to detain UN staff,” Lazzarini said in a post on X, adding that “heavy damage was caused by bulldozers to the UN armoured vehicles”.

Palestinian and international staff travelling with the convoy were detained for more than eight hours but have now been released and are safely back at the UN base, he added.

We reported earlier that the Israeli army said it was detaining a UN convoy to question “Palestinian suspects” and claimed the convoy was not transporting polio vaccines.

Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian detainees could amount to ‘sexualized torture’: UN representative

The United Nations’ special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict Pramila Patten has said that “disturbing reports of sexual violence and other inhuman and degrading treatment” being perpetrated against Palestinian prisoners “could amount to sexualized torture”.

In a statement, the UN representative said Palestinian men and women are reportedly being subject to “widespread sexual slurs and threats of rape and gang rape, repeated and humiliating strip searches and prolonged forced nudity, beatings and electrocution of genitals and anus, insertion of objects into detainees’ anuses, inappropriate touching of women by both male and female soldiers, and photographing or filming of naked or partially undressed detainees in humiliating positions.”

Special Representative Patten recalled the reported recent case of the Palestinian male detainee who was hospitalised in July with severe injuries including to his rectum, due to sexual violence allegedly perpetrated in the Sde Teiman military base.

“I am particularly concerned about recent attempts by some Israeli political actors, to interfere with ongoing justice processes and/or to justify the use of these methods. Sexual violence and sexualized torture in detention settings must never be normalised,” she said.

Israeli army says UN convoy detained in Gaza

The army says in a brief statement that it has detained a United Nations convoy in northern Gaza, claiming it has intelligence that a “number of Palestinian suspects are present” in it.

The army detained the convoy in order to “question the suspects”, it said, adding that this is not a convoy containing polio vaccines.

“The event is not over yet,” the statement concludes.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that the organisation is aware “of an ongoing incident involving UN personnel and vehicles” and was working to establish the facts. He said the top UN priority “is the safety and security of our colleagues” in the Gaza Strip.

We will update you on this incident as we get more info.

Palestinian UN proposal demands Israel leave Gaza in six months

Palestine has circulated a draft United Nations resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within six months.

The Associated Presss obtained the proposed UN General Assembly resolution. It follows a July ruling by the top United Nations court that said Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territories is unlawful and must end.

The Palestinian draft resolution, if adopted, would not be legally binding. It demands that Israel comply with international law, including by immediately withdrawing all military forces from the territories.

The draft resolution not only demands an end to all new settlement activity, but also the evacuation of all settlers and the dismantling of the separation barrier Israel constructed in the West Bank.

It also calls for all Palestinians displaced during Israel’s occupation to be allowed “to return to their original place of residence” and for Israel to make reparations “for the damage caused” to all people in the territories.

Palestine mission circulates draft UNGA resolution on occupied territory

The Palestine mission at the UN has circulated a draft resolution for the General Assembly – to convene on Tuesday – that demands an end to illegal Israeli presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.

It also calls on the 79th UNGA to vote for convening a special committee that would examine Israeli violations, and for convening an international conference that would advance implementation of UN resolutions on Palestinian issues.

As a result of a vote in May, from tomorrow the mission will gain more privileges in line with the effective recognition of a Palestinian state but still will not have a vote.

https://twitter.com/Raminho/status/1832928164902785448

Israeli legislator says Beirut’s Dahiyeh ‘will look like Gaza’

Nissim Vaturi, an Israeli legislator from Netanyahu’s Likud party, has said that “it’s a matter of days” before Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah develops into a full-on war.

Speaking to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, Vaturi laid out his plan for the war, calling for preemptive aerial bombardment lasting for up to five days followed by a ground invasion.

The legislator, who is also a member of Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, claimed that Netanyahu shared his views.

“Dahiyeh will look like Gaza, there is no other way,” he added, referring to the southern suburb of Beirut.

If Israel does attack Dahiyeh, it would not be the first time. The Israeli army levelled entire neighbourhoods there in 2006 during the last war with Hezbollah.

The suburb is home to hundreds of thousands of people, including many supporters of Hezbollah from southern Lebanon.

Vaturi’s comments come as Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told Al Jazeera that Israel has conveyed through mediators that it is not interested in reaching a ceasefire with Lebanon, even if a deal is made to end the war in Gaza.

Israeli opposition leader says military focus needs to shift to Lebanon

Benny Gantz, the head of Israel’s National Unity Alliance, said the Israeli military had crossed a “decisive point” in Gaza and “should concentrate” on its northern border with Lebanon.

“The story of Hamas is old news,” Gantz said, speaking at an event in Washington, DC, according to the AFP news agency.

Witness recounts Israeli killing of Turkish-American activist in West Bank

An Italian woman who was with Turkish-American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi when the activist was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers last week has recounted to the Anadolu Agency what she witnessed during the attack.

Mariam, who only gave her first name, said they were standing in an olive grove near Evyatar, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, when Israeli soldiers opened fire.

“Palestinians prayed the Friday prayer. After the prayer, incidents broke out between the Palestinians and the army. The Israeli army dispersed the crowd using tear gas and then live bullets. We retreated down the hill to the side of the road, and about 200 metres [656 ft] away, there were Israeli soldiers on the roof of a Palestinian house. We were standing by the side of the road in an olive grove. Aysenur was a little behind me under an olive tree,” Mariam told Anadolu from the Rafidia hospital in Nablus.

“We were clearly visible to the soldiers. We were just standing there, not doing anything. Suddenly, I heard two shots. One of them hit a metal object. Then my friends called out my name. Aysenur was lying unconscious under a tree. We called for more people. We put her in an ambulance. We came with her to Beita Health Center and from there, we brought her to the hospital in Nablus. They tried to save her but she died.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-school-year-starts-without-60000-gaza-students

US court urged to review claim that Biden is enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza

Legal, civil and human rights groups are voicing their support for an effort by Palestinians to secure a court review of their claims that Biden is enabling genocide in Gaza, the Center for Constitutional Rights says.

Last month, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the decision of a lower court that dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds even as it said Israel’s assault “plausibly” constituted genocide.

The plaintiffs argue that courts have a constitutional duty to assess the legality of the Biden administration’s actions.

The lawsuit, filed in November, claims Biden, Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are violating international and federal law for failing to prevent and being complicit in an Israeli genocide. It asks the court to order the administration to stop supporting the assault on Gaza with weapons or other means.

Law scholars said the panel, like the district court, “badly misinterpreted the political question doctrine” by claiming courts cannot review allegations of international law violations where US “foreign policy decisions are strongly implicated”.

Human rights organisations asserted that domestic courts are supposed to be the primary enforcement mechanism of international law and, in the context of the US, are the only meaningful forums.

Bombs ‘completely melted and evaporated’ bodies
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir al-Balah, Gaza

The Israeli army has targeted the al-Mawasi area during a predawn attack in which they killed 40 Palestinians and wounded 60 others.

Gaza’s media office has confirmed that of 19 of those who were killed, their bodies were managed to be transferred to hospitals in Khan Younis. But the 22 others, their bodies were completely melted and evaporated due to the size of the bombs used in that attack.

The crater that resulted from the raid is a clear indication of how massive the bombs being used are.

But Khan Younis has also been under intense attacks in the past couple of hours, where a residential building was completely destroyed, and six Palestinians were confirmed killed in that attack.

Here in the central area, the situation is incredibly chaotic, because the army has been targeting the Bureij refugee camp.

The Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that they managed to militarily defeat Hamas and now there are continuing attacks on very densely populated areas.

So the question is, who is Israel attacking?

UN may hold vote next week on resolution calling for end to Israeli occupation of Palestine

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) could vote next week on a Palestinian Authority-drafted resolution calling for Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months.

On Monday, members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement called for the 193-member UNGA to vote on the resolution, a draft of which was seen by the Reuters news agency, on September 18.

The resolution’s key aim is to secure the endorsement of a July advisory opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s highest court, saying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal under international law.

But while the ICJ’s advisory opinion said Israel ending its occupation and dismantling settlements should occur “as rapidly as possible”, the eight-page draft resolution puts a six-month timeline on the move.

The language of the Palestinian Authority’s draft could still change before it’s put to a vote.

Israeli forces raid Red Crescent centre in Tulkarem

Israeli forces have raided the Palestine Red Crescent Society emergency centre in Tulkarem after surrounding it and ordering paramedics and other crew members to leave, the PRCS said on X.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli soldiers raided the northern occupied West Bank city, killing two people – a man and a woman.

Israeli forces arrest two paramedics in Tulkarem

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said two of its personnel were arrested by Israeli forces inside its emergency centre in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces raided the PRCS’s emergency centre after surrounding it and ordering paramedics and other crew members to leave.

Israeli soldiers had already raided the northern occupied West Bank city, killing two people – a man and a woman.

https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1833520723375362573

Israeli missiles caused 9 metre craters in al-Mawasi tent camp: Report

Rescuers searching for survivors in al-Mawasi say Israeli missiles left craters up to 9 metres (30 ft) deep in the tent camp in the southern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting, citing local sources.

Witnesses described chaotic scenes in the area, with fires burning and Israeli reconnaissance planes circle overhead.

The attack took place near a field hospital run by the British charity UK-Med, at the entrance to al-Mawasi.

Death toll rises to 40 in attack on al-Mawasi tents

We’ve been reporting on an Israeli attack on people sheltering in tents in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian media are now reporting that at least 40 people were killed in the attack, and 60 others injured, according to the Reuters news agency.

As we reported earlier, Gaza’s Civil Defence said at least 20 tents where displaced Palestinians were sleeping were hit in the attack.

The coastal al-Mawasi area has been overcrowded with tents since many Palestinians fled there when the Israeli army designated it as a “safe zone” during its ground invasions of the nearby cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.

Houthi-linked media claim US-UK air attack killed two in Yemen’s Taiz

At least two people have been killed and five others injured in a UK-US air attack on a school in al-Jund in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz, according to the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV.

We have reported earlier based on the US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM) inputs that in the past 24 hours, the US forces “successfully destroyed two Iranian-backed Houthi missile systems and one support vehicle in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen”.

US forces also “successfully destroyed one Houthi unmanned aerial vehicle over the Red Sea”, it said in a statement on X.

We also reported that the Yemeni rebel group downed a US MQ-9 drone in Saada province, according to its military spokesperson Yahya Saree.

Since last November, the Houthis have been attacking Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea as an act of solidarity with Palestinians being killed in Gaza. They started attacking ships linked to the US and the UK after their military campaign began in January to end the Houthis’ assaults on shipping lanes in the region.

Death toll rises following Israeli strike on food stand in Gaza City

A fifth person has been confirmed killed after the Israeli military bombed a food stall in Gaza City, northern Gaza, according to local media.

Earlier, we reported that at least four people were confirmed dead following the attack on the popular falafel stand in the al-Shawa Square area of Gaza City.

Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 41,020 people have been killed and 94,925 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.

Of those, 32 Palestinians were killed and 100 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.

Probe confirms Israeli military used US-made bombs in al-Mawasi attack

A new investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency has shown that the Israeli air raid targeting civilians in Gaza’s humanitarian zone was carried out using MK-84 bombs, which weigh 2,000 pounds.

At 12:34am local time (09:34 GMT), several Israeli missiles struck a refugee camp in the al-Mawasi area, located within the humanitarian zone designated by the Israeli army for displaced civilians – west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

The Israeli bombing caused widespread damage to the tents, homes, and facilities in the area.

Photos from the bombing site reveal widespread devastation, with craters 10 to 15 metres (33 – 49 feet) deep, burying dozens of tents.

Civil defence teams faced immense challenges retrieving the bodies of the dead and injured, with rescue operations continuing into the next morning.

Al-Mawasi attacks show humanitarian zones are in name only: NRC

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said repeated attacks on densely populated areas of Gaza demonstrate that Israel’s “unlawful relocation directives have failed to protect or offer any guarantees of safety for Palestinians.”

The humanitarian organisation said al-Mawasi has a population density of more than 30,000 people per square kilometre due to Israel’s multiple Israeli evacuation orders.

“For 11 months, Israel has been forcing Palestinians in Gaza to flee from place to place without offering them genuine assurances of safety, proper accommodation or return once hostilities end,” Jan Egeland, secretary-general of NRC, said in a statement.

“Images of metres-deep craters burying dozens of tents where children and their families slept moments earlier are horrifying,” Egeland added. “The events of last night provide further evidence that there is no safe place in Gaza and that only a ceasefire will prevent further loss of life.”

West Bank-Jordan border crossing reopens to travellers

The border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank – the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge – has reopened to travellers but remains closed to commercial activity, the Israel Airports Authority said.

The closure came after a shooting on Sunday when a Jordanian truck driver killed three Israeli guards at the cargo area of the crossing operated by Israel.

Israeli media said the authority’s move followed orders by security officials.

Gallant says Hamas as ‘military formation no longer exists’

Here is more from Israel’s defence minister, who has been speaking to foreign journalists.

Gallant said Hamas’s military capabilities had been severely damaged after more than 11 months of war and that it no longer existed as a military formation in Gaza.

“Hamas as a military formation no longer exists. Hamas is engaged in guerrilla warfare and we are still fighting Hamas terrorists and pursuing Hamas leadership,” he said.

UK lord resigns as patron of Lawyers for Israel over arms exports

Alex Carlile, a member of the UK’s House of Lords, has resigned as a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) after the group said it planned to challenge the government’s partial suspension of arms exports to Israel, Middle East Eye reports.

Carlile confirmed his resignation to Middle East Eye after he published an article in the Independent newspaper saying Prime Minister Keir Starmer had shown “courage and conviction” by acting on the “clear legal advice” regarding arms sales to Israel and “deciding that the right thing must be done”.

On the same day his opinion piece was published, UKLFI said it had sent a formal letter to the government “threatening legal action unless it cancels the decision to suspend around 30 licences for the export of arms to Israel”.

UN says unclear if third phase of polio vaccine campaign to begin as planned

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says the UN is “not able to confirm whether the polio campaign will begin” in northern Gaza on Tuesday as planned after Israeli forces held a UN convoy at gunpoint on their way to begin the final phase of the rollout.

Teams of health workers have already successfully given at least 441,647 children in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip a shot, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday, as the first two phases went relatively smoothly.

Overall, the UN says it needs to reach about 640,000 children across Gaza to help stop the highly preventable but also highly contagious disease from spreading after the first polio case in 25 years was detected in Gaza in August.

>>483882
>Sure but if some other country tried to send people that blackmail US politicians these people would get hunted down mercilessly
Just listen to yourself you can't start "hunting down" jews that would make you literally hitler. You're also forgetting that israel is an ethnostate, US citizens who are jewish have a loyalty to israel that a US citizen who has a russian great-great grand mother doesn't have to russia. That means israel can get agents into high level government positions much easier than any other country.

>Imperial Super-profits is the increased profit margin the imperial bourgoisie gets by using imperial coercion, it usually comes from exploiting workers harder but also by taking away some profits from the national bourgoisie.
What workers are you talking about. Labor is so irrelevant to the US economy that some states have a $20 minimum wage and nobody bothered to lobby against it.

>The imperial bourgoisie collects super-profits via the Dollar's status as world reserve currency, which means they can print Dollars and put them in their pocket and make the rest of the world pay for it,
Yes and occupying the middle east has nothing at all to do with that. If the argument is that they need a strong military to defend dollar supremacy then wasting that military strength with an endless string of expensive, pointless wars in the middle east directly undermines that argument. The US military is so weak now that countries are openly selling oil for yuan and talking about a brics currency.

>The imperial system is cracking because, it's getting more expensive to maintain imperial domination while at the same time there is shrinking imperial loot.
You're still just taking it for granted that there are "super-profits". How far back do we have to go? What "imperial loot" did we get from vietnam? What "imperial loot" did we get from korea? Maybe there was imperial loot in the 1600s when the british empire found a silver mine guarded by savages with spears. But as far as the US empire goes every war since WW2 has been a scam to siphon money from american citizens to the military industrial complex. That's why the fact that america has lost every single one of those wars doesn't deter them.

>>483988
>That's why the fact that america has lost every single one of those wars doesn't deter them.
Hey that's not true, we beat Panama!

>>483981
4got sauce: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-held-polio-vaccinators-at-gun-point-un

>>483988
>Just listen to yourself you can't start "hunting down" jews that would make you literally hitler.
Nobody said anything about hunting Jews. Besides insinuating that Jews need a license to blackmail politicians is antisemitic. Jews are normal people, they have no use for that.

>You're also forgetting that israel is an ethnostate, US citizens who are jewish have a loyalty to israel
2 problems with that.

1. Political projects to build ethno-states are just a type of organized violence with escalating brutality that eventually self-destructs. To the extend that Israel can be recognized as a state, it has to be the non-ethnocentric parts.

2. Jews live in an international diaspora. Zionists are sometimes former Jews or people with Jewish heritage, but given the historic context of the holocaust, you can't really link Jews to the genocidal project of the Zionists, that's just not fair. The majority of the global Jewish community has distanced it self from that. Especially now, you'd risk stirring up antisemitism by saying Israel is somehow linked to Jews.

>that a US citizen who has a russian great-great grand mother doesn't have to russia.
No that's not a fair comparison, Russia is not trying to be an ethno-state. Their Slavic-civilization thing (or whatever it's called now) does have the aspiration to be universal, it's not a racist project.

>That means israel can get agents into high level government positions much easier than any other country.
Your argument make sense, but only if you accept some of those ethno-centric premises. Which i don't. And from my viewpoint you are saying that essentially it's possible to browbeat the US state machinery into compliance. How can it be so powerful while also being kind of a push-over at the same time ?

>What workers are you talking about.
Initially the US empire only extracted super-profits from workers in the periphery, but eventually the empire came home and began subjecting the imperial core to imperial methods also.

>If the argument is that they need a strong military to defend dollar supremacy then wasting that military strength with an endless string of expensive, pointless wars in the middle east directly undermines that argument. The US military is so weak now that countries are openly selling oil for yuan and talking about a brics currency.
Nothing you said contradicts what I said. You are correct the US has been wasting it's military resources on pointless wars, and also yes the Dollar hegemony is slowly evaporating away as a result.

>You're still just taking it for granted that there are "super-profits".
Because there would be very high levels of inflation in the US if there wasn't.

>How far back do we have to go? What "imperial loot" did we get from vietnam? What "imperial loot" did we get from korea? Maybe there was imperial loot in the 1600s when the british empire found a silver mine guarded by savages with spears.
The US-empire lost badly in Vietnam, so they didn't get anything out of that. But the Korea-war gave the US-empire a vassal state in RoK (South-Korea) which they use to this day to prod the Chinese.

>But as far as the US empire goes every war since WW2 has been a scam to siphon money from american citizens to the military industrial complex. That's why the fact that america has lost every single one of those wars doesn't deter them.
I agree with that, US-empire is stealing from US-the-country too. I'm not saying the rest of the world is the only one getting shafted. Regular US citizens are getting fleeced and subjected to suffering on behalf of this thing too.

https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1833139004402790794
Graphic footage from an Israeli strike targeting the home of the Hanawi family in northern Gaza Strip.

Will be live at 7PM EST

>>484003
>Nobody said anything about hunting Jews.
>>483882
>if some other country tried to send people that blackmail US politicians these people would get hunted down mercilessly
>why isn't this happening to Israel
The way you're having a panic over this is exactly my point by the way. Once jews are involved then suddenly the rules change don't they.

>insinuating that is antisemitic
Are you seriously trying to score rhetorical points by throwing out the antisemitic smear when in your last post you tried to claim it has no power over people.

>Political projects to build ethno-states are just a type of organized violence with escalating brutality that eventually self-destructs.
What's your point, you think israel is not an ethno-state or you think it's not self-destructing right now?

>you can't really link Jews to the genocidal project of the Zionists
I said some american born jews are loyal to israel. You are trying to counter that with not all jews support israel which doesn't make sense.

>No that's not a fair comparison, Russia is not trying to be an ethno-state.
It's not supposed to be a comparison. You asked why is israel getting away with this when other countries can't. Part of the answer is because israel is an ethno-state and other countries aren't.

>Your argument make sense, but only if you accept some of those ethno-centric premises. Which i don't.
On what basis do you reject it? You don't think there are rich and powerful jews in america who are fanatically pro-israel? If you flip the chessboard around think about how jews have always faced persecution throughout history not to mention the holocaust which was an extremely traumatic event. How would that not make them paranoid. The concept of a jewish homeland where any jew anywhere in the world can return to and be protected is a powerful appeal.

>Initially the US empire only extracted super-profits from workers in the periphery
What periphery? What people? What year? This is starting to sound like something you want to be true rather than something that is true.

>Nothing you said contradicts what I said.
1. the US military exists to protect the dollar
2. every US military action in the passed 80 years has don't nothing to protect the dollar and only weakened the empire as a result
Has every US leader for the passed 80 years been an incompetent retard or are you wrong about point 1.? My point is that the US military exists only to scam US tax payers.

>Because there would be very high levels of inflation in the US if there wasn't.
The dollar has lost 90% of it's purchasing power since 1971. How much higher do you want this inflation to be?

>the Korea-war gave the US-empire a vassal state in RoK (South-Korea) which they use to this day to prod the Chinese.
So there has been no other "imperial loot" for the past 70 years?

>I'm not saying the rest of the world is the only one getting shafted.
The rest of the world is getting "shafted" because every fiat currency is stacked ontop of the dollar. So the US passes their debt onto other countries by inflating the dollar and then other countries pass their debt off onto their own people by inflating their local currency. So everyone outside the US get fucked twice by inflation.

That has nothing to do with the US maintaining a military presence in the middle east though. If there was no iraq war or afghanistan war or no israel then the US would still control the world reserve currency. If the US still had their 2001 military strength there probably wouldn't even be a war in ukraine right now. There is simply no argument to be made that israel is vital, or even beneficial, to US prosperity.

ICC prosecutor seeks to confirm death of Hamas leader Deif

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are looking into the reported death of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif and will withdraw their case against him if they can confirm it, legal filings made public show.

Deif, 58, was believed to be one of the masterminds of the October 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel which triggered the Gaza war, and since then directed Hamas military operations against Israeli forces.

Israel said he was killed in an Israeli air attack on Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis on July 13. Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied that.

“The prosecution will withdraw its [arrest warrant] application against Deif if sufficient and reliable information confirms his death,” said the legal document.

Last Friday, the ICC announced it had terminated proceedings against Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran on July 31. The ICC is currently weighing a request for arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders made earlier this year.

ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan is also seeking warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel’s Gaza offensive.

Palestinians take new seat at UN General Assembly

The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, took his place on Tuesday at a table marked “State of Palestine” between Sri Lanka and Sudan.

In May, an overwhelming majority of the General Assembly asserted that Palestine deserved full membership, a move that has been blocked by the United States.

“This is not merely a procedural matter. This is a historic moment for us,” said Egyptian Ambassador Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud.

During the resolution’s adoption, Israel denounced the move.

“Any decision and or action that improves the status of the Palestinians, either in the UN General Assembly or bilaterally, is currently a reward … for terrorism in general and the Hamas terrorists in particular,” said Jonathan Miller, Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UN.

‘Our policy is clear’: Canada halts more arms sales to Israel

Canada has suspended some 30 permits for arms shipments to Israel, including a US company’s Canadian subsidiary’s deal with the US government – a rare move.

“Our policy is clear: We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza. Period,” Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.

“How they’re being sent and where they’re being sent is irrelevant,” she continued, alluding to ammunition that was meant to have been produced by a Canadian division of US defence contractor General Dynamics for Israel’s army.

Canada drew the ire of Israeli leaders when it initially announced it would halt new arms shipments to Israel as of January 8.

Pro-Palestinian protests across Canada – at universities, political events and even the Toronto International Film Festival last week – have continued to put pressure on the government to go further.

UN: Shots fired as vaccination convoy held up by Israeli army

A UN convoy carrying workers for polio vaccination in Gaza was held at gunpoint at an Israeli military checkpoint with shots fired and vehicles rammed by a bulldozer.

Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, called Monday’s incident “the latest example of the unacceptable dangers and impediment that humanitarian personnel in Gaza are experiencing” by Israeli forces.

“The situation escalated very quickly with soldiers pointing their weapons directly towards our personnel in the convoy, the UN vehicles were encircled by Israeli forces, and shots were fired,” Dujarric said.

“One bulldozer dropped debris on the first vehicle while Israeli soldiers threatened staff, making it impossible for them to safely exit the vehicles.”

Turkey urges Arab League to band together to end war on Gaza

Turkey has called on Arab and Muslim states to work together to try to end Israel’s devastating war.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is the first to attend the gathering of Arab states since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended in 2011. Turkey later fell out with many member countries.

“We cannot accept that Palestinian lives, Arab lives and Muslim lives matter less than others,” Fidan said. “Our ranks must be watertight.”

More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza – mostly women and children – since Israel’s war began in October. The war has caused vast destruction and displaced about 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, often multiple times.

US Muslim group blasts Biden’s failure to call family of American killed by Israel

The Council of American Islamic Relations denounced US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for double standards after the killing of American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, by Israeli forces.

“President Biden and Vice President Harris’ failure to call the family of an American citizen murdered by an Israeli sniper is deeply disturbing and disappointing, especially given that both of them quickly contacted the family of an Israeli-American killed by Hamas,” said CAIR’s Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell.

“It is long past time for the Biden administration to start treating all American families as equally worthy of respect and all human beings, including the people of Gaza and the West Bank, as equally worthy of life.”

Israeli court to hear petition seeking permission for lawmakers to visit Palestinian prisoners

The Israeli Supreme Court will hear a petition filed on behalf of a member of the Knesset, Ahmad Tibi, to allow lawmakers to visit Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, the legal rights group Adalah says.

The petition calls for an immediate halt to a policy enforced by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Israel Prison Service, which has prevented Tibi from meeting with prisoners for more than a year.

Tibi and Adalah requested a court order to allow him to visit detainees, including prominent Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been in prison since 2002.

The petition argues the policy discriminates against Tibi because during the same period Ben-Gvir permitted lawmakers from the ruling coalition to visit Jewish security prisoners.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-held-polio-vaccinators-at-gun-point-un

>>484006
Live now!

>>484009
>The way you're having a panic over this is exactly my point by the way. Once jews are involved then suddenly the rules change don't they.
I'm trying to win political arguments, i have to frame my political argumentation with the reality in mind that there is a Zionist propaganda machine that pretends to speak for the Jews while they make false accusations of antisemitism. (which technically is a type of antisemitism)
The secret police on the other hand does not have to play debate club, if they wanted to purge the Zionist lobby for doing foreign interference, they could, there is so much of evidence for that.

>Are you seriously trying to score rhetorical points by throwing out the antisemitic smear when in your last post you tried to claim it has no power over people.
It wasn't directed at you, sorry if you felt attacked. I'm always shadow boxing against a particularly outrageous ultra-zionist TV-pundid i once saw. I'm always trying to define antisemitism in such a way to undermine everything he said to manufacture consent for violence against Palestinians.

>What's your point, you think israel is not an ethno-state or you think it's not self-destructing right now?
Isreal is trying to become an ethno-state (as in having killed or displaced all the Palestinians, and reached some retarded notion of purity-bullshit) and that is causing it to self-destruct. It'll never complete it's quest to become an a "fully realized ethno-state". It'll just degenerate into more obscene brutality until something gives.

>I said some american born jews are loyal to israel. You are trying to counter that with not all jews support israel which doesn't make sense.
I'm going to dispute that the blood and soil shit can really be Jewish. What sets Jewish culture, religion or whatever apart is the hole deal with the diaspora, which is not tied to a single place. So the phenomenon that makes some people excuse the Zionist horrors probably is not related to Jewishness.

>You asked why is israel getting away with this when other countries can't. Part of the answer is because israel is an ethno-state and other countries aren't.
OK lets assume this is true, what's making an ethno-state so much more effective at manipulating other governments ? Also take into account that Isreal's gotten less competent at doing stuff, as time goes on and the amount of Zionist madness increased.

>On what basis do you reject it?
It's just the default position, not believing things until there is evidence to support it. There is no evidence for the ethno-shit.
>You don't think there are rich and powerful jews in america who are fanatically pro-israel?
Yeah I'm gonna assume it's because they got rich off it ?
>If you flip the chessboard around think about how jews have always faced persecution throughout history not to mention the holocaust which was an extremely traumatic event.
The historic lessons from the holocaust is what convinced me to oppose Zionist ideology.
>The concept of a jewish homeland where any jew anywhere in the world can return to and be protected is a powerful appeal.
Israel is considerably less safe for Jews than the US or Europe.
>What periphery? What people? What year?
Ok US imperialism began when the US took over from the British empire, sometime in the 1950s. Maybe the Panama crisis, that's usually considered the end of the British empire. The core of the empire is the US and it's client states, like most of Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia etc. The periphery is most of the world minus the powers that are strong enough to resist US hard-power. Within the core some people get the benefits of empire, some neither gain nor loose, and some that loose out. From the 1970s onwards, the people that benefit from empire get fewer, and they switch over into the second group who neither gain nor loose. In the early 2000s the group of people who loose out, begin to dramatically rise, and now it's about 90% of the population. In the periphery everybody looses because of empire, except for a small faction of comprador elites.

>The dollar has lost 90% of it's purchasing power since 1971. How much higher do you want this inflation to be?
This is not that much, consider that low levels of inflation will still have a significant compound effect over the time-span of over half a century. Also your number is likely inaccurate, if you bought a decent (for the time) computer in the 70s it cost more than what many people would make in a lifetime. Today it's much cheaper. Higher levels of inflation would be a lot worse.

>The rest of the world is getting "shafted" because every fiat currency is stacked ontop of the dollar. So the US passes their debt onto other countries by inflating the dollar and then other countries pass their debt off onto their own people by inflating their local currency. So everyone outside the US get fucked twice by inflation.
I would say close enough, tho there's some countries whose currency reacts differently.

>That has nothing to do with the US maintaining a military presence in the middle east though. If there was no iraq war or afghanistan war or no israel then the US would still control the world reserve currency.
I'm guessing this could be true (the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were lost), but it's really hard to imagine how alternative time-lines play out. If you remove Israel from the time-line I'm guessing Iran would already be the local hegemon and I don't really know to what extent the US could have projected imperial power in that scenario. I guess it kinda depends on the relation between the two, but probably less.
>If the US still had their 2001 military strength there probably wouldn't even be a war in ukraine right now.
This is nonsense, the US was never strong enough to match Russian power-projection in Ukraine.
>There is simply no argument to be made that israel is vital, or even beneficial, to US prosperity.
Israel has never been beneficial to prosperity in the US, true, but we're talking about Israel being beneficial for imperial power, that's not the same as prosperity.

Family slams Israeli inquiry into US-Turkish activist’s killing

The family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has denounced the Israeli military’s preliminary inquiry into the 26-year-old activist’s killing as “wholly inadequate”.

“We are deeply offended by the suggestion that her killing by a trained sniper was in any way unintentional. The disregard shown for human life in the inquiry is appalling,” they said in a statement.

“We reiterate our demand for the US government leaders – President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken – to order an independent investigation into the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting and killing of a US citizen,” they added.

Press freedom group demands ‘immediate entrance’ to Gaza

The Foreign Press Association has denounced Israel’s refusal to allow international journalists into the Gaza Strip and filed a new petition at the Israeli Supreme Court asking for immediate access to the Palestinian enclave.

The FPA, which represents international media groups, said Israel’s behaviour is “shocking” for a country “that professes its commitment to the democratic ideals of a free press”.

“Never before has Israel enforced such a long and strict information blackout,” the FPA said.

The group said it was turning to the Israeli Supreme Court – which upheld the entry ban on security grounds in January – “in hopes to sustain the freedom of the press and democratic fundamental rights”.

It added, “To Israel, we say enough with the excuses. It is time to let us in.”

Slain activist’s partner rejects Biden’s claim that her death was accidental

Hamid Ali criticised the US president for failing to reach out to Eygi’s family following her killing by an Israeli sniper and dismissed his claims that the American-Turkish activist’s death appeared to be an accident.

“For four days, we have waited for President Biden to pick up the phone and do the right thing: To call us, offer his condolences, and let us know that he is ordering an independent investigation of the killing of Aysenur,” Ali said in a statement published by the advocacy group, the Institute for Middle East Understanding.

“She was fatally shot in the head by an Israeli sniper positioned 200 metres away. This was no accident and her killers must be held accountable,” he said.

An Israeli warship has shot at and killed a Palestinian fisherman off the coast of al-Mawasi near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Quds News Network and the Shehab news agency.

We will bring you more information on this incident when we have it.

Israel offers Yahya Sinwar safe exit in exchange for captives held in Gaza

Gal Hirsch, Israel’s envoy on the captives held in the Gaza Strip, announced the offer for the leader of Hamas in an interview with Bloomberg News in Washington, DC.

“I’m ready to provide safe passage to Sinwar, his family, whoever wants to join him,” Hirsch said. “We want the hostages back. We want demilitarization, de-radicalization of course – a new system that will manage Gaza.”

Hirsch told Bloomberg that he put the offer on the table a day and a half ago, but declined to characterise the response so far.

Sinwar, who Israel claims masterminded the October 7 attacks, became the leader of Hamas after his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Iran blames Israel for the killing.

Australian police clash with antiwar demonstrators in Melbourne

Australian police have deployed tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray during clashes with crowds protesting Israel’s war on Gaza outside a defence exhibition in the city of Melbourne.

The clashes came after thousands of demonstrators chanting pro-Palestine slogans and waving Palestinian flags gathered outside the biennial Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition earlier this morning, according to the ABC and SBS broadcasters.

Protesters tried to shut down the event, by throwing eggs and water at delegates in a bid to prevent them from entering the event, SBS reported. Some protesters were seen throwing horse manure at mounted police while others set fire to dustbins in the area, according to the ABC.

Police arrested several people as they moved to contain the protest, according to ABC and SBS, but the number of detainees has not yet been confirmed. The broadcasters described the police operation as the largest in Melbourne since the World Economic Forum was held in the city in 2000.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meanwhile called for police officers to be “respected at all times”. “You don’t say you’re opposed to defence equipment by throwing things at police,” he told Australia’s Channel Seven.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/11/israels-war-on-gaza-live-deadly-attack-on-al-mawasi-prompts-global-outcry

No idea if this is accurate, but I missed this story entirely. Mahmood OD, yesterday, says there's been talk of some sort of attack from Egypt.

>>484058
Seems like more signs of rising tensions between Israel and Egypt.

If Egypt ends up occupying Gaza, maybe they'll treat the Palestinians better.

Death toll in Israeli attack on school rises to nine

A spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence has said that at least nine people, including women and children, have been killed in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip.

Israeli jets struck an UNRWA-run school-turned-shelter for the internally displaced known as al-Jaouni.

The Civil Defence said its teams are still recovering bodies and looking for survivors.

We’re gathering more information and will update you shortly.

White phosphorous attack reported in southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s state-run news agency NNA is reporting an Israeli strike on the southern town of Khiam using phosphorus, a chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs, and rockets that ignites when exposed to oxygen.

The use of white phosphorous by Israel has been documented by watchdogs including Human Rights Watch.

Under international humanitarian law, the use of this type of incendiary ammunition is unlawful in populated areas and does not meet the legal requirement to minimise civilian harm.

Hezbollah claims four attacks on Israeli military sites

Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has said its fighters targeted a group of Israeli soldiers near the Raheb military site near the Lebanese-Israeli border with rockets, without elaborating on the results of the 08:30am (05:30 GMT) attack.

In a separate statement published on Telegram, the group also claimed to have attacked the Ruwaisat al-Qarn military site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms at 10:25am (07:25 GMT) with rockets. It did not say what the results were.

The third Hezbollah attack of the day came at the same time and the same area targeting the Zabadin barracks in Shebaa Farms.

At 12:25pm (09:25 GMT), the group hit a bunker where Israeli soldiers were positioned in the Matla military site “with appropriate weapons”.

There was no immediate comment on the attacks from the Israeli army.

Israeli forces detain Red Crescent crew in Tulkarem

Israeli forces have detained five members of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) ambulance crew in the Tulkarem camp in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Citing the PRCS, AJA added that the group has lost contact with the crew now.

The incident comes as the Israeli military continues an offensive in the north of the occupied West Bank. The assault targeting Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas began on August 28 and is the military’s largest assault on the occupied territory since the second Intifada in the early 2000s.

‘Belt of fire’ in southern Lebanon as Israeli jets drop bombs

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli jets carried out more than 15 air attacks on southern parts of the country, targeting forested areas and orchards between the towns of Zebqin, al-Shaitiya and al-Qleila.

The bombings caused a “belt of fire” stretching between the towns, the agency reported.

ICC prosecutor seeks ‘urgent’ arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Hamas leaders

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called on its judges to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli leaders as well as Hamas’s Sinwar and Mohammed Deif “with utmost urgency”, according to legal filings.

Karim Khan cited “the worsening situation in Palestine” in his renewed appeal.

Khan had first sought the arrest warrants in May, accusing Netanyahu, Gallant and the Hamas leaders of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. But the case has been beset by various procedural delays, including the court’s decision to let the United Kingdom submit observations on the court’s jurisdiction over the case.

The British government ultimately opted not to file those observations.

Khan had also initially sought an arrest warrant for the late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, but said he was withdrawing the case following the politician’s assassination in Tehran in August. The prosecutor also said he would withdraw the request for Deif, the Hamas military commander Israel claimed to have killed earlier this year, if his death is confirmed.

Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees in West Bank’s Burin

Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Yitzhar have damaged dozens of olive trees belonging to a Palestinian farmer in the village of Burin, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli watchdog Yesh Din has said.

Video footage published by the organisation, which campaigns against settler violence, showed five masked individuals holding chainsaws leaving the olive grove as fires engulfed several trees.

“We demand that the military properly prepare to prevent violence against farmers and damage to the trees, and to ensure the harvest takes place,” the organisation said.

The incident occurred at about 6am [03:00 GMT]. In a second post on X, it said settlers later returned to the area and set fire to more trees.

https://twitter.com/Yesh_Din/status/1833778892298952868

Israel says soldier killed in West Bank truck-ramming attack

Israel’s military has confirmed that a soldier was killed when the driver of “a Palestinian truck” rammed into “forces conducting operational activity” in the occupied West Bank.

The suspected assailant was “neutralised” by Israeli forces “and an armed civilian” at the scene of the attack near the Jewish settlement of Givat Assaf, north of Ramallah, an army statement said.

It later identified the dead soldier as 24-year-old Staff Sergeant Geri Gideon Hanghal.

Biden concern over activist’s killing ‘desperation’ to win Arab, Muslim votes

Biden’s condemnation of Israel’s killing of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank has come too late, an analyst says.

The comments will have no impact unless the US stops supplying weapons to Israel, according to Sultan Barakat, professor of public policy at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

“He’s condemning the attack, but then he’s leaving it open for the Israeli army to investigate. So he knows exactly that nothing is going to happen,” he told Al Jazeera.

“So it’s really soundbites. [He’s] desperate in this time of elections, I think desperate to win the Arab and the Muslim vote in the United States.”

Israel ‘contradicts’ itself by claiming Nuseirat attack targeted Hamas
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

It was a massive strike that hit a very densely populated area of the Nuseirat refugee camp that the Israeli army has designated as “a safe zone”.

The grim reality is that the Israeli army is bombing the UN-run shelters under the pretext of them being used as control and command centres by the Palestinian armed groups.

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant just two days ago said that Hamas as a military formation does not exist any more as the Israeli forces managed to eradicate the vast majority of its military capabilities.

Now, the question is, if these capabilities have been diminished in a considerable manner, who is Israel attacking at the moment?

Australian police use ‘serious weapons’ on pro-Palestine protesters: Report

Earlier, we reported there were clashes between pro-Palestine demonstrators and police outside an arms fair in Melbourne.

The national co-convenor for Students for Palestine Jasmine Duff said the police were to blame for the violence.

“They used serious weapons on peace activists that should be banned for use on demonstrators, including pepper spray, which is classified as a chemical weapon,” Duff said in a statement, according to the AP news agency.

“They hit us with batons, including hitting one man so hard he had to go to hospital and they shot us with rubber bullets,” she added.

The organiser of the convention, AMDA Foundation, said it would not comment on protester activity.

Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon along with its rhetoric
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Marjayoun, southern Lebanon

Israel is intensifying its attacks on southern Lebanon. Its officials are also increasingly using inflammatory rhetoric, making warnings and threats that they intend to move the focus from Gaza to Lebanon.

A few days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he instructed the army to prepare the situation along the border.

This is rhetoric that we have been hearing for months now, but Israel may be using this to pressure Hezbollah to agree to pull back from the border.

The Lebanon front is really linked to what is happening in Gaza, and Hezbollah keeps saying that it will continue firing at the Israeli military positions as long as the war on Gaza continues.

Many expect more intense confrontations in the hours and weeks to come.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/11/israels-war-on-gaza-live-deadly-attack-on-al-mawasi-prompts-global-outcry

>>483169
Kikes purposefully target palestinian children because ritual murder of babies and infant is a crucial part of their death cult

They are evil incarnate unironically

>>484028
Over 90% of jews are zionists who want to exterminate Arabs and Persians in the name of Moloch, you cuck

>>484089
Ok Mossad.

>>484091
Go to b, mossad is celebrating jewish slaughter of palestinian babies there, jews can't contain their innate bloodthirst and vileness, I'm just a regular guy

>>484090
>Over 90% of jews are zionists who want to exterminate Arabs and Persians in the name of Moloch,
If that's true, I guess that means that i'll only count the other 10% as real Jews. There are lots of Rabbis who have been arguing that Judaism is incompatible with Zionism, even before the creation of the Zionist state of Israel by the historic British empire. Since those are the ones that preach be nice to people rather than extermination-rants, I'm considering their version as the correct one.

>you cuck
You don't get it.

The Zionists don't care if you say "Jews bad". They'll use you as the boogieman to attempt to justify the horrors that Israel is committing.
If you say they're not real Jews that bugs them a lot more.

South Africa to submit memorial in ICJ case against Israel

South Africa will file a memorial in the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in October, the presidency says in a statement.

“South Africa intends to provide facts and evidence to prove that Israel is committing the crime of genocide in Palestine,” it said. “This case will continue until the court makes a finding. While the case is in progress, we hope that Israel will abide by the court’s provisional orders issued to date.”

The remarks come amid reports that Israeli diplomats are lobbying members of the US Congress to pressure South Africa into dropping the case.

“The case represents a growing global effort towards ensuring peace in the Middle East,” the statement added.

Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel.

US grants Egypt $1.3bn in military aid citing Gaza peace efforts

The US government is overriding human rights concerns by providing $1.3bn in military aid to Egypt, a State Department spokesperson says.

The announcement comes as Washington has relied heavily on Cairo – a longstanding US ally – to mediate so far unsuccessful talks between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire deal to end the bloody war on Gaza.

“This decision is important to advancing regional peace and Egypt’s specific and ongoing contributions to US national security priorities, particularly to finalize a ceasefire agreement for Gaza, bring the hostages home, surge humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in need, and help bring an enduring end to the Israel-Hamas conflict,” the spokesperson said.

Fatally shot activist’s family denounces US leaders for no phone call

The family of slain Turkish-American activist Eygi, 26, criticised the Biden-Harris administration for a lack of communication and reiterated its demand for an independent investigation.

“Let us be clear, an American citizen was killed by a foreign military in a targeted attack. The appropriate action is for President Biden and Vice President Harris to speak with the family directly, and order an independent, transparent investigation into the killing of Aysenur, a volunteer for peace,” the family said in response to a statement by President Biden earlier.

The International Solidarity Movement, the group Eygi volunteered for, said it has “no confidence in any Israeli investigation, given the Israeli army’s longstanding practice of using investigations as exculpatory coverups”.

“We continue to demand a transparent and independent investigation,” it said.

Israeli forces release detained Red Crescent crew

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israeli soldiers released paramedics it detained in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem.

We reported earlier that emergency workers were arrested while transporting a patient from Tulkarem refugee camp.

Death toll of Israeli attack on UNRWA school rises to 18

We’ve been reporting on an Israeli attack. The Government Media Office now says at least 18 people, including women and children, were killed in the air attack on a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza Strip.

The attack on the UNRWA school in Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least two staff working for the UN agency that provides relief to Palestinians, the civil defence agency added.

At least 20 people were wounded. It is the fifth time the shelter has been bombed by Israeli forces since the war on Gaza began last October.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/11/israels-war-on-gaza-live-deadly-attack-on-al-mawasi-prompts-global-outcry

>>484094
>not all j00s

When over 90% of them are baby killing torturous deranged psycho zionazis it's understandable to abhor this group

Judaism maybe was merely a religion once, today is a genocidal colonialist cult, literally nazism against arabs, persians and other mena people