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 No.484995[View All]

One Year of Genocide

Continued from >>483169

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 42,000. With over 10,000 missing, it's expected that current estimates are lower than the actual death toll, and excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

Hamas political leader and negotiator Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by an Israeli bombing.

Israel sabotaged the international supply chain to put bombs in 3,000 pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon, resulting in thousands of injuries and several deaths, in a major blow to both Hezbollah and the Lebanese civilian population.

Israel launched an ongoing series of carpet bombings of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, killing several high-ranking Hezbollah commanders. A strike dubbed "Operation New Order" which used 80 2,000 lb bombs took out several blocks of apartment buildings and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, and also killed an IRGC commander.

In early October, Israel began launching ground invasions of south Lebanon, which are ongoing and have met resistance. Thousands have been killed, and over a million displaced.

On October 1st, in retaliation for the bombing of Tehran which killed Haniyeh, as well as for the killings of Nasrallah and IRGC commanders, and for the attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Iran launched a missile strike on several Israeli airbases and Mossad headquarters.

Israel launched multiple attacks on UN peacekeepers at the southern border of Lebanon, including with chemical weapons.

The Israeli gov't declared the UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organization. Several settler groups launched attacks on the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem before the Israeli gov't decided to seize the building. Israel also banned UN secretary general António Guterres from entering the country.

Israel is alleged to have used depleted uranium munitions in its attacks on Beirut.

Netanyahu visited the US again to speak at the UN in New York, and was met with protests.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Ireland, Egypt, Cuba, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have continued, effectively shutting down the Israeli port of Eilat, which has not seen activity in months.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

On August 29, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review its lawsuit against Biden for genocide complicity, arguing that the courts have a constitutional duty to assess the legality of the Biden administration's actions. On October 2, 2024, the 9th Circuit denied the petition and refused to intervene as a check on abusive executive power.

Starvation deaths have continued to increase in Gaza amid Israel's imposed famine.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

A fourth self-immolation occurred in the US over the genocide when a journalist lit himself on fire in protest of how the media he worked with had spread lies to cover up US-backed Israeli war crimes.

And much, much more!
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 No.485341

https://aje.io/jchmwe?update=3293605
Israel: OoOoOoOooOoh!!! Evil Hezbollah killed our Thai indentured servants, look how evil!
Thailand: Stop sending our workers into a warzone you racist fucks. Don't you have labor laws?
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 No.485342

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1852672386044141656
The Mossad network continues to crumble in Europe; Israeli and ex-Romanian MP who claims to have worked for Mossad arrested in Greece - The Jerusalem Post reports

Israeli citizen Nati Meir, who was a member of the Romanian Parliament and was arrested the last week of October in the Greek island of Rhodes, claims that he is a former Mossad agent who worked for the intelligence agency in Romania, according to a Friday report from Ynet.

This was written in an official affidavit submitted by Meir to a Greek court to prevent his extradition to Bucharest, which requested his arrest this week following an arrest warrant.

In the message it handed over to Interpol, Bucharest claimed that Meir fled Romania in 2016, avoiding an 11-year prison sentence for criminal fraud.

Next week there will be a hearing on Meir's case in the Rhodes court.
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 No.485346

>>485342
>The Mossad network continues to crumble in Europe
So there is hope that Zionist lobby influence might decline too as a result of this ?
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 No.485348

Over 100 staff accuse BBC of bias in coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza

The BBC has been accused by more than 100 of its staff of giving Israel favourable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza and criticised its lack of “accurate evidence-based journalism”.

A letter sent to the broadcaster’s director general, Tim Davie, and CEO Deborah Turness on Friday said: “Basic journalistic tenets have been lacking when it comes to holding Israel to account for its actions.”

First reported by The Independent newspaper on Friday, the signatories included more than 100 anonymous BBC staff and some 200 from the media industry, as well as historians, actors, academics and politicians.

“The consequences of inadequate coverage are significant. Every television report, article and radio interview that has failed to robustly challenge Israeli claims has systematically dehumanised Palestinians,” the letter said.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2/over-100-staff-accuse-bbc-of-bias-in-its-coverage-of-israels-war-in-gaza

UNRWA building in southern Lebanon hit by Israeli strike

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says its premises were attacked in an Israeli strike near Burj Shemali camp in the Tyre area.

“UNRWA is currently conducting an assessment to determine the extent of the damage,” it said in a situation report.

https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1853135052621877550

Ceasefire could impact Iran’s reaction to Israeli strikes: Pezeshkian

Iran’s president says a potential ceasefire between its allies and Israel “could affect the intensity” of Tehran’s response to Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian military sites.

“If they [the Israelis] reconsider their behaviour, accept a ceasefire, and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type of our response,” Masoud Pezeshkian was quoted by state news agency IRNA as saying.

Israeli military launched strikes last week on military bases in Iran, hitting about 20 sites over several hours in Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran.

Israel says Syrian citizen connected to Iran seized

The Israeli military says it has carried out a ground raid into Syria and seized a Syrian citizen allegedly involved in spying for Iran.

It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Israel has carried out air strikes in Syria multiple times over the past year, targeting members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and officials from Iran, the close ally of both Hezbollah and Syria. But it has not previously made public any ground forays into Syria.

The Israeli military said the seizure was part of a special operation “that took place in recent months” though it did not say exactly when it occurred.

The disclosure of the raid comes as Israel has waged an escalated campaign of bombardment in Lebanon for the past six weeks, as well as a ground invasion along the countries’ shared border, vowing to cripple Hezbollah.

On Saturday, an Israeli military official said naval forces carried out a raid in a northern Lebanese town, seizing a man they called a senior Hezbollah operative.

Israeli intelligence estimates that 51 captives are still alive: Report

Of the 101 captives being held by Hamas in Gaza, 51 are still alive, Israel Hayom has reported, citing Israeli intelligence assessments.

Pressure has been mounting on Netanyahu’s administration to secure a deal for the release of the remaining captives.

According to Israeli officials, 251 people were taken captive by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and nearly half of the captives have been released.

Others are still in captivity with some confirmed or feared dead. Hamas has announced multiple times that some of the captives were killed in Israeli attacks.

Health Ministry appeals to international community to send medical teams to northern Gaza

The Health Ministry in Gaza has appealed to international organisations to send medical and surgical delegations to hospitals in northern Gaza.

The ministry said in a statement that Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north is especially in need of help due to the “continued fierce attack by [Israeli] forces”. It also appealed to international organisations to provide ambulances to transport the wounded and sick to hospitals.

Last week, Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan Hospital after detaining dozens of medics and some patients and causing widespread damage to one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza.

The UN special rapporteur on health has used a new term, “medicide”, to describe the widespread and systematic attacks by Israel on healthcare workers and facilities.

More than half of Britons say Israel committing war crimes in Gaza: Poll

The survey, commissioned by Action for Humanity and conducted by the YouGov pollster, found that more than half of Britons across the political spectrum believe that Israel’s actions in the war on Gaza constitute war crimes.

The figure comes up to three in five among supporters of the Labour Party, which currently holds power in the United Kingdom, the poll found.

Some 76 percent of Labour voters also continue to back an end to arms transfers to Israel, it showed. Meanwhile, the total number of Britons that would oppose a ban is lower than one in five, compared with three in five that would support one.

“The majority of people rightly feel the government are not doing enough to stop war crimes from happening. The overwhelming majority of the public demands that the UK government immediately cease all arms transfers to Israel, not just 10%, and take all actions to bring about a sustainable ceasefire,” said Charles Lawley, the director of communications and advocacy at Action for Humanity.

“We believe that, unless the UK government stops ignoring the public, they will at best be impotent in the atrocities being committed in Gaza and Lebanon [and] at worst be complicit in them,” he added.

Bangladeshi worker killed in air attack in Lebanon

Bangladesh’s ambassador to Lebanon, Javed Tanveer Khan, has said in a statement that Mohammad Nizam, 31, was killed on Saturday afternoon during a raid as he stopped at a coffee shop on the way to work in Beirut.

The Foreign Ministry estimates that between 70,000 and 100,000 of its nationals are working in Lebanon, many as labourers or domestic workers.

Dhaka’s government, with the UN’s International Organization for Migration, organised the first flight to bring Bangladeshi citizens home from Beirut last month.

However, Nizam’s older brother, Mohammad Jalaluddin, told the AFP news agency that his brother had not been among the estimated 1,800 Bangladeshis registered for an evacuation flight home.

“We want to bury him in our ancestral home, and are now waiting for the government’s response,” Jalaluddin told AFP.

Thailand submits protest letter to Israel over death of four workers in Metula

The Thai government has sent a letter of protest to Israel requesting that their nationals no longer be sent to high-risk areas to work following a recent rocket attack that killed four Thai workers and injured one, the Bangkok Post reported.

Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa announced that the letter had been sent on Saturday following the deaths of the workers, which were caused by a rocket fired by Hezbollah near the northern city of Metula on Friday.

The minister said Thailand was urging all parties in the conflict to pursue a path to peace. The Foreign Ministry discussed with the Royal Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv a reduction in the number of Thai workers entering Israel for employment.

The protest letter comes after reports of some Israeli employers still bringing Thai workers to high-risk workplaces on short-term contracts.

Turkey delivers UN letter demanding halt to Israeli arms sales

Turkey’s foreign ministry says it submitted a letter to the United Nations, signed by 52 countries and two organisations, calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel.

“We have written a joint letter calling on all countries to stop the sale of arms and ammunition to Israel. We delivered this letter, which has 54 signatories, to the UN on November 1,” said Hakan Fidan at a press conference in Djibouti, where he attended a Turkey-Africa partnership summit.

“We must repeat at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide,” said Fidan. The letter is “an initiative launched by Turkey”.

Among the signatories was Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran and Russia, with the two organisations being the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Yemen’s Houthis will keep blockade on Israeli vessels amid asset sale reports

Yemen’s Houthis say they’ll maintain their maritime blockade against Israeli vessels in response to “intelligence information” regarding Israeli shipping companies selling their assets to other firms.

Yahya Saree, the military spokesperson of the group, said in a televised address that the Houthis would not recognise any changes of ownership and warned against any collaboration with these companies.

The Houthis are an Iran-aligned group based in Yemen and have said their attacks are a response to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, and the international community’s failure to put an end to it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/3/live-israel-attacks-gaza-polio-centre-syria-lebanon-border-crossing
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 No.485352

>>485348
>pic rel
good grief, somebody really put creative effort into coming up with such an elaborate way to torture mothers and their children.

I'm convinced this is why fascists loose so often. It takes effort and time to do this kind of fucked up shit, and that isn't time and effort spend on winning.
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 No.485355

Israeli air raid targeted civilian sites near Damascus: Report

Syria’s official SANA news agency reports about an hour ago, “the Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack” targeting civilian areas south of the capital Damascus.

The agency cited the Syrian defence ministry as saying the Israeli air strike “came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights” and it caused only material damage.

The Israeli military did not comment on the strike, the first on or near the capital since an early October attack that hit a residential building, killing seven people.

The Sayeda Zeinab suburb is a stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah and has been targeted in previous strikes. Syrian and Western intelligence sources say Israeli attacks in Syria have killed numerous Hezbollah and pro-Iranian militia fighters on the outskirts of Damascus.

Smoke rising after bombing of the Syrian capital Damascus

Initial reports indicate an Israeli strike targeted Sayyida Zeinab area, south of Damascus, the official SANA news agency says.

Footage verified by Al Jazeera showed dense smoke rising in the Sayyida Zainab area.

We will bring you more news as we get it.

Nearly 500,000 people have arrived in Syria from Lebanon since September

The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) is reporting that an estimated 472,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria since September 23, following the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

The figure included 32,829 Lebanese refugees and 216,369 Syrians who had fled to Lebanon following the outbreak of the civil war in their country.

The vast majority of those arriving in Syria had fled from southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have carried out intense attacks on a daily basis.

Qassam Brigades claim attack on Israeli forces in Jabalia

Hamas’ armed-wing has broadcast images of their forces targeting four Israeli soldiers and a Merkava tank in the al-Qassasib neighborhood in the Jabalia camp.

“Our fighters targeted a Zionist force that had taken refuge inside a house, killing and wounding its members in the middle of Jabalia,” Qassam Brigades said.

Hezbollah targets Israeli settlement in occupied Golan Heights

The Lebanese armed group says it has bombed Kidmat Tzvi in the occupied central Golan Heights with a rocket salvo. It also targeted the Ayelet Hashahar area in northern Israel with a barrage of projectiles.

The exchange of attacks between Israel and Hezbollah has been going on since October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began launching attacks on Israel in solidarity with Palestinians trapped in Gaza.

Israel has attacked Hezbollah nearly four times more than that of the Lebanese armed group along the 120km (75 mile) border.

Palestinian prisoners’ groups say Israel using scabies as tool of torture

The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club have warned of an impending “health disaster” in the Negev prison, in the occupied West Bank, amid the ongoing spread of scabies among prisoners.

The prisoner rights institutions warned that hundreds of detainees were exhibiting health symptoms from the parasitic infestation, as Israeli authorities were “deliberately depriving prisoners of treatment” and using it as a “tool to torture them physically and psychologically.”

They added that the Israeli authorities were seeking “to kill prisoners by any possible means”, including facilitating the spread of the skin disease by denying prisoners access to showers, clean clothes or washing machines.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, among other organisations, have documented detailed allegations of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment perpetrated against Palestinians inside Israeli prisons, including sexual abuse of women and men.

Israel cancels agreement with UNRWA

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has informed the UN that it has ended the 1967 agreement that recognises the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), according to The Times of Israel.

The move came after the Israeli Knesset passed several laws banning the agency from operating on Israeli-controlled territory.

Netanyahu aborts trip to northern Israeli town after drone attack
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because the Israeli government has banned it from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

By all accounts in Israeli media, Netanyahu is waiting to figure out who’s going to be in the White House come November 5.

In the meantime, he wants to convince Israelis that what he’s doing will actually yield results, that it will bring those thousands of people, who have been asked to move away from their communities in northern Israel, home.

But while he was in northern Israel on Sunday, Hezbollah reportedly fired around 100 rockets.

In fact, he was supposed to go to Metula, which is further north in northern Israel, and he cancelled that trip because 20 minutes before his arrival, a drone had struck the troop formation in that area.

So, on the ground, it’s a bit difficult for him to make a case that what he’s doing will actually get people back to their homes but he needs to bide his time until November 6.

Leaks show Netanyahu has been delaying any possibility of ceasefire
Mohamed Vall
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

A court in Israel has removed a gag on some information from the leaks from Netanyahu’s office, and Israelis, the opposition, and the families of the captives are angry.

The leaks show that Netanyahu has been delaying any possibility of a ceasefire. These leaks include documents that are supposedly written by Sinwar himself, the former leader of Hamas, in which he instructed his fighters to not release the captives until Hamas gets what it wants.

In Israel, it has been revealed that those documents have been faked and they have been secretly leaked to a German newspaper without the knowledge of top officials in the Israeli government.

The military considers this a huge breach of state secrets because they say these documents originated from them and now, without their knowledge, they see them in the international press.

The military, opposition and families of hostages say Netanyahu should be held responsible for this breach of security. Netanyahu has always claimed that it’s Hamas that has been against the deal. But now Israelis are saying – no, it’s Netanyahu who has been against the deal and he has been orchestrating all of this to delay the ceasefire and keep the captives in Gaza.

Iran slams US deployment of B-52 bombers as ‘destabilising’

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has criticised what he calls the United States’s “destabilising presence” after its deployment of B-52 bombers in the region.

“We have always believed that the presence of America in the region is a destabilising presence,” Baghaei said at a news conference in response to a question about the deployment, adding that it “will not deter [Iran’s] resolve to defend itself”.

On Friday, the Pentagon said it is carrying out new military deployments to the Middle East, including additional ballistic missile defence destroyers and several long-range strike bombers.

How do Palestinians in Gaza view the US election?

With days remaining until the US presidential election, Palestinians in Gaza say they are unsure what the victory of either candidate actually means for Israel’s war on the territory.

“The American elections will not affect the war in any way, and will not have an impact. It may affect the American voter but not Palestinians in Gaza,” said Saleh Shonnar, a displaced Palestinian in Deir el-Balah. “The Americans are a partner in the war on Gaza, and in the extermination of children, women and the elderly,” he added.

Mustafa Abu Hamada, another displaced Palestinian, said he was worried about a victory for Trump.

“We hope to God that it [the result of US elections] will be in favour of the Palestinians, because the Palestinians are tired and suffering. Biden spent four years and did not provide anything for the Palestinian people. He was promising a two-state solution, and in the end there is nothing,” Hamada said.

“He was supporting Israeli society, and the only thing he talks about is the captives. What about the people who are dying? We ask the Americans, if Trump succeeds, to have mercy on the Palestinian people.”

Outrage after UK police arrest retired Jewish professor

Several academics and writers have expressed dismay after police in the United Kingdom arrested retired professor and filmmaker Haim Bresheeth after he gave a speech at a pro-Palestinian protest in London.

Bersheeth is a child of Holocaust survivors who grew up in Israel and is also the founder of the activist group, Jewish Network for Palestine.

The group said Bersheeth was arrested on November 1 on “spurious charges of terrorism” but was released later that night. His case has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, it said.

Journalist Antony Loewenstein, in a post on X, described Bresheeth’s arrest as “absurd and dangerous” and noted that he was detained after giving a “considered speech on Palestine”.

Writer Jonathan Cook, in another post on X, said the video recording of Breseeth’s speech meant “we can all hear for ourselves that nothing he said contravened the draconian Terrorism Act”.

Israeli air raids damage Baalbek’s historic and governmental sites

Israeli air strikes have left significant destruction across the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, hitting historic landmarks, government structures, and civilian areas.

In the nearby town of Douris, a civilian house was also targeted, leading to the complete destruction of the structure, the head of the Baalbek Municipalities Union, Shafiq Qassem Shehadeh, told Reuters.

There was also severe damage caused to the surrounding area, including the municipal building and Christian cemeteries, he added, noting that the residential target had not been on Israel’s list of forced evacuations.

On Friday, Lebanon’s health ministry said 52 people were killed in Israeli strikes on more than a dozen towns in the Baalbek region, which has UNESCO-listed Roman ruins.

UN still waiting to see Israel’s evidence against UNRWA

Earlier, we reported that Israel officially notified the United Nations it’s cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the UN relief organisation for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) since 1967.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz ordered his ministry to notify the UN of the cancellation. Katz said the UN “was presented with countless pieces of evidence that Hamas operatives are employed by UNRWA and about the use of UNRWA facilities for terrorist purposes – yet nothing was done about this”.

In response, UNRWA director of communications Juliette Touma said in addition to a UN oversight office’s investigation, UNRWA received one formal accusation directly from Israeli authorities, alleging 100 of its staff were members of Palestinian armed groups.

When UNRWA asked to see the evidence and sought more information and cooperation from Israel about the allegations, it received no response, she said.

Carrefour closes Jordan branches amidst celebrations by Israel boycott movement

The Carrefour retail chain has announced via its Facebook account that it will close all its branches in Jordan starting from today.

This comes at a time when the global movement to boycott Israel, BDS, attributed this decision to the boycott against Carrefour, which started with the war on Gaza, due to its alleged support for Israel.

In a statement, Carrefour Jordan said: “As of November 4, 2024, Carrefour will cease all its operations in Jordan and will not continue to operate within the kingdom. We thank our customers for their support and apologise for any inconvenience this decision may cause.”

The boycott movement in Jordan said on its Instagram account that Carrefour’s decision is a “victory for the Jordanian people”.

Gallant approves 7,000 call-up orders for ultra-Orthodox

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant approved the Israeli army’s “recommendation to issue an additional 7,000 orders for screening and evaluation processes for ultra-Orthodox draft-eligible individuals”.

The order comes after a first round of 3,000 draft orders were sent out in July, sparking protests from the ultra-Orthodox community.

“The defence minister concluded that the war and the challenges we face underscore the [Israeli army’s] need for additional soldiers. This is a tangible operational need that requires broad national mobilisation from all parts of society,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

Under a rule adopted at Israel’s creation in 1948, when it applied to only 400 people, the ultra-Orthodox have historically been exempt from military service if they dedicate themselves to the study of sacred Jewish texts.

The orders come at a time when Israel struggles to bolster troop numbers as it fights a multi-front war, with ground forces deployed to fight Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/4/live-israeli-forces-attack-health-centres-in-gaza-and-lebanon
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 No.485356

https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1853553448949559746
Israeli authorities have arrested a top aide to the genocidal war criminal, Netanyahu, for leaking classified info to the foreign media.

According to Israeli opposition leaders, the classified info was 'faked' and part of a ruse to thwart a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza.

The investigation centres on allegations that Netanyahu’s office promoted to foreign media the claim that Hamas was planning on smuggling hostages out of Gaza over the Egyptian border and creating divisions in Israeli society to pressure Netanyahu into a hostage release and ceasefire deal.
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 No.485357

>>485355
>Outrage after UK police arrest retired Jewish professor
>Bersheeth is a child of Holocaust survivors
>Bersheeth was arrested on November 1 on “spurious charges of terrorism” but was released later that night.
At least they didn't do the gas-chambers
Does that intimidation routine actually work ?
Isn't this causing more anger rather then fear ?
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 No.485358

https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1853275924910813372
BREAKING: A horrific night in Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Hundreds of Israeli terrorist settlers launched a brutal attack on the city of Ramallah, setting fire to numerous Palestinian homes and vehicles.

After setting Palestinian homes and cars on fire, they moved to the main road connecting Ramallah to other cities, where they targeted Palestinian cars passing by, injuring a woman by hurling stones at her vehicle.
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 No.485359

>>485358
I caught my self thinking oh they only did arson and assault, no murder, no rape and no torture, this time.

what a sad sick world
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 No.485365

Update on the first item from this update a few threads back: >>481721

That guy fucking died.
https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1853569271063773555
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 No.485379

File: 1730782081633.jpg ( 189.22 KB , 1178x1609 , 320 million dollar biden p….jpg )

Malaysia working on resolution to expel Israel from UN

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Anwar said his country is part of a core group drafting a resolution proposing Israel’s expulsion from the UN if it is found to have violated international laws in Palestine.

Anwar told the Malaysian parliament on Monday that the draft resolution, which is to be submitted to the UN General Assembly, calls for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice over Israel’s obligations to allow the UN to operate in occupied Palestinian territory.

“The draft resolution is in the negotiation process and we will study if Israel can be removed as a member of [the] UN if there is violation of international laws,” he said.

“Malaysia will ensure that the agenda is heard and given attention so that the atrocities of the Israeli regime can be stopped, besides allowing critical aid to reach the Palestinian people at a time when the massacre continues to worsen,” he added.

The move comes as international condemnation grows over Israel’s decision to ban UNRWA from Israeli-controlled territory.

Syria condemns Israel’s attack on Damascus, calls for UN action

The Syrian Foreign Ministry is calling on UN member states to take “urgent action” to stop “Israel’s aggression” against the country after Israeli forces bombed its capital, Damascus.

The assault, at 5:18pm local time (14:18 GMT) on Monday, targeted “civilian areas south of Damascus, causing significant material damage”, the ministry said in a statement published by the official SANA news agency.

“Syria stresses that the aggressive and criminal practices of the Israeli occupation entity and its continued targeting of civilian areas are the result of the failure to take any serious action to curb this entity and stop its serious violations against the peoples and countries of the region,” the ministry added.

Israel has ramped up strikes on Syria since the escalation of the conflict with Hezbollah in September. These include air raids on military sites in central and southern Syria on October 26, and attacks that killed one soldier and wounded seven in Damascus and the western city of Homs on October 24.

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims three drone attacks on Haifa

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a collection of Iran-backed militias, have claimed three drone attacks on the Israeli port city of Haifa in recent hours.

It said it had attacked a “vital target”, without offering more details. It’s not clear if there are casualties, injuries or damage. Israeli authorities are yet to comment on the attacks.

The group has released footage allegedly showing the launching of one of the drones towards Israel.

Hundreds of Lebanese refugees arriving in Iraq every day, UN says

The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said an average of 400-600 refugees from Lebanon have been arriving in Iraq every day in the past week. Altogether, at least 28,350 refugees from Lebanon have arrived in the country since the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in September, it said.

Most of the refugees are Lebanese, but there have also been an uptick in Syrians and Palestinians, the agency said.

The majority of the refugees are being hosted in Najaf and Karbala, it added.

The agency on Monday reported that an estimated 472,000 people from Lebanon have crossed into Syria in recent weeks.

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have also displaced hundreds of thousands of people within the country. The Lebanese government said 1.2 million people are affected, while the International Organization for Migration said its count shows at least 842,648 people have been forced to flee their homes.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/5/live-israel-bombs-syria-attacks-gazas-kamal-adwan-hospital-again
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 No.485380

>>485365
>That guy fucking died.
>>485379
>pic
Damn that's rough.
23 years old, died for a PR stunt, because the fucking desert nazis couldn't arsed to unblock the food delivery trucks.
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 No.485382

https://twitter.com/wereontheditch/status/1853792864842420355
A senior US diplomat warned of ‘consequences’ if the Occupied Territories Bill passed, offering to ‘connect’ the attorney general with DC for 'the best outcome’

Less than 90 minutes later Micheál Martin announced the bill would merely undergo a ‘review’

The US is now threatening Ireland not to do anything about the genocide.
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 No.485387

>>485382
>A senior US diplomat warned of ‘consequences’
"diplomat"
coerceomat

On the one hand this is appalling interference. But it has to be said this looks pretty desperate if they have to micromanage regional political bodies to maintain Isreal's slaughter privileges.
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 No.485391

Israel kills 54 people in Gaza since dawn

At least 54 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across various areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources who spoke with our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Of those, 39 were in northern Gaza, where Israel launched a major air and ground assault about a month ago.

Hezbollah bombs Meron base in northern Israel

The Lebanese armed group says it has hit the Meron base with a missile barrage.

Hezbollah also said its fighters “targeted a vital objective in the southern occupied territories, marking the sixth such operation today, using drones”.

Israeli ‘aggression’ targets Syria’s al-Qusayr town: State

According to initial information an Israeli “aggression” targeted the industrial zone of the al-Qusayr town in western Syria, near the Lebanese border, Syria’s official SANA news agency reports without specifying the type of the attack or its results.

We will bring you more on this as we get it.

More on Israeli attack on Syria

An Israeli attack hit an industrial zone and some residential buildings in al-Qusayr, Homs province, in central Syria, Syrian state TV reports.

The outlet quoted the Homs province’s health director as saying there were no injuries.

A previous “Israeli aggression” on al-Qusayr on Thursday wounded a number of civilians and caused material damage, state media said.

Israel’s military, which typically does not comment on specific reports of attacks in Syria, claimed in a statement that it had hit weapons storage facilities and command centres used by Hezbollah.

Israel hits residential building south of Beirut: Report

Lebanese state media has reported a strike on an apartment in the Jiyeh coastal area south of Beirut.

The official National News Agency said “a raid targeted a residential apartment in a building in the town of Jiyeh,” where the AFP news agency said a large plume of grey smoke covered the area.

We will keep you updated.

Ireland approves Palestinian ambassador for first time

The Republic of Ireland has confirmed the appointment of a full Palestinian ambassador for the first time, after Dublin formally recognised a Palestinian state earlier this year.

Senior ministers confirmed that Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid would step up from her current position as Palestinian head of mission to Ireland.

In May, Ireland said it was recognising Palestine as “a sovereign and independent state” comprising Gaza and the occupied West Bank and agreed to establish full diplomatic relations.

Netanyahu fires Israeli defence minister

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

Netanyahu said that there have been too many gaps between him and Gallant over the management of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

We will bring you more news on this as we get it.

Israel Katz replaces Gallant as defence minister

Netanyahu has named Foreign Minister Israel Katz as the country’s new defence minister while appointing Gideon Saar in Katz’s former position.

This comes less than 24 hours after Gallant approved the Israeli army’s recommendation to send out 7,000 more draft orders to ultra-Orthodox men.

The issue of drafting ultra-Orthodox men has been a sticking point between Gallant and Netanyahu, whose coalition is dependent on a right-wing bloc.

In a post on X, immediately after news broke out of his ouster, Gallant wrote, “The security of the State of Israel was and will always remain my life’s mission.”

Protests in Israeli against Gallant’s dismissal

Israeli media is reporting that families of captives still held in Gaza are protesting Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s dismissal.

The report said that the dismissal was a “direct continuation of the efforts to torpedo the abductee deal”.

It added that the protesters stated that “we demand the incoming defence minister to express an explicit commitment to the end of the war and to carry out a comprehensive deal for the immediate return of all the abductees”.

Video circulates of Israeli army pouring cement into Lebanon tunnel

Israeli social media accounts have been circulating a video showing the Israeli army pouring a cement mixture into a tunnel they claimed to have uncovered in southern Lebanon.

The video, initially published by journalist Yinon Magal on Telegram on Monday and subsequently deleted the same day, shows several trucks carrying the cement mixture, accompanied by Israeli military vehicles, as they pour the material into the tunnel.

Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency has verified the location of the video to be the Maroun al-Ras area in southern Lebanon.

https://twitter.com/Saher_News_24_7/status/1853500836694933693

Israeli army, security service claim to have arrested PFLP members in Lebanon, West Bank

More than 60 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) organisation have been arrested in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, according to a joint statement by the Israeli army and the Shin Bet internal security service cited by The Times of Israel newspaper.

Founded by George Habash in 1967, the PFLP is a secular Marxist-Leninist political group and part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It is the second-largest group in the PLO after Fatah.

The group’s armed wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, has fought Israel in Gaza alongside Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Gaza looks at US polls with ‘cautious optimism, but also scepticism’
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Deir al Balah, Gaza

So far, there hasn’t been any significant change [in Gaza] from the beginning of the US election campaign.

The people that we talked to have major concerns over two important elements: concern over supplying Israel with more weapons, which will eventually be used to continue the genocidal act across the Gaza Strip. And concern on the impact on humanitarian aid – whether this is going to increase the flow of humanitarian aid, or it will be the same.

Many of the people we talked to said that for a whole year, the US administration headed by President Joe Biden did not do much to change the catastrophic humanitarian situation across the Gaza Strip.

So far, what we’re looking at is cautious optimism, but also scepticism over what is going to happen as soon as the election is over and we have a new president in the White House, because nothing has changed in the past year.

Pro-Palestine activists storm French Football Federation HQ in Paris

Pro-Palestine activists have stormed the headquarters of the French Football Federation in Paris, demanding the cancellation of the upcoming UEFA Nations League match between the French and Israeli teams.

Social media videos, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad, showed activists staging a protest in the lobby, where they waved Palestinian flags and held banners condemning Israel.

According to the French daily Le Figaro, the French Football Federation agreed to meet with the protesters to discuss their demands.

The match is scheduled for November 14.

French politicians, activists slam bill to outlaw criticism of Israel

The proposal of a member of the French National Assembly, Caroline Yadan, to criminalise all criticism of Israel has drawn a strong backlash from activists, intellectuals and politicians in France.

They say the bill, which would ban expressions like “from the river to the sea”, constitutes a suppression of free speech.

“Caroline Yadan seeks to suppress the freedom of thought, criticism, and writing, to prevent condemnation of the genocide committed by Israel in Gaza,” poet Jean-Philippe Cazier wrote on his X account. “She wants us all to become partners in this genocide.”

European MP Rima Hassan also responded via her account, saying: “If there is one state that deserves criticism, it is Israel, the state that has violated all United Nations resolutions for decades and commits the most heinous international crimes.”

Israeli army withdraws several brigades from southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reports that the Israeli army has withdrawn several brigades from southern Lebanon amid progress in efforts to reach a deal.

Citing informed sources, it said officials involved in negotiations assess a deal to be reached with Hezbollah within a week and a half to two weeks.

There has been progress in the talks, mainly in regards to the drafting of a document that will guarantee Israel’s military freedom of operation in southern Lebanon in case the ceasefire enforcement fails.

In the meantime, Israeli forces are waiting for a decision from the political echelon in Jerusalem, the newspaper said.

European companies step back from Israel-linked finance

Several of Europe’s biggest financial firms have cut back their links to Israeli companies or those with ties to the country, a Reuters news agency analysis of filings shows.

While banks and insurers are often vocal about their environmental and governance aims, they are less forthcoming about disclosing their potential exposure to war.

UniCredit put Israel on a “forbidden” list as the conflict escalated in October last year, according to a source familiar with the matter, confirming a study by Dutch NGO PAX.

While in line with the Italian bank’s defence-sector policy of not directly financing arms exports to any country involved in conflict, it goes beyond Italy’s guidelines on arms exports to Israel.

Norwegian asset manager Storebrand and French insurer AXA have sold shares of some Israeli firms, including banks.

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Irish people are now protesting the US ambassador.
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More than 3,000 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon

Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed at least 3,013 people and wounded 13,553 since October 2023, the Lebanese government has said.

Earlier, citing the World Health Organization (WHO), we reported that emergency medical services in Lebanon have reported 201 attacks over the past year on rescue workers. The attacks have resulted in 151 deaths and 212 injuries, WHO said.

Death toll in Israeli attack on Lebanon rises

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that the death toll in an Israeli strike targeting a residential building in a town south of Beirut has gone up to 20.

“The raid by the Israeli enemy on Barja left 20 dead,” the ministry said of the raid on the coastal town about 20km (12 miles) south of the capital.

Flames continued to emerge from the building on Tuesday evening, according to AFP news agency, as several families fled the site.

Why have five been arrested over leaked Hamas documents in Israel?
Simon Speakman Cordall

A fresh political storm has engulfed Netanyahu following the arrest of a number of people in connection with an alleged leak of classified documents from his office.

The documents in question are alleged to be Hamas military strategy documents, found by Israeli military intelligence in Gaza and subsequently manipulated by suspects within, or close to, the PM’s office and defence establishment.

Among the five arrested on suspicion of leaking and manipulating the intelligence is the prime minister’s spokesperson, Eli Feldstein.

Read more of this story here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/11/5/why-have-five-been-arrested-over-leaked-hamas-documents-in-israel

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/5/live-israel-bombs-syria-attacks-gazas-kamal-adwan-hospital-again

Egypt joins Turkey call to UN for arms embargo on Israel

Egypt has joined a call led by Turkey and backed by dozens of countries, urging the UN to halt arms deliveries to Israel.

A Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday said Egypt joined the call as part of “international efforts to pressure Israel to cease its continuous violations of international law and international humanitarian law”.

It also aims to stop “Israeli violations” against Palestinians and protect civilians, the statement read.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Dan

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims drone attacks on Israel

The coalition of armed groups says it has launched a drone attack at an unspecified site in “the southern occupied territories”, referring to Israel’s south.

This morning’s announcement came after a similar claim overnight, saying the group attacked a “vital target” in Israel’s Haifa.

There are no reports of drone attacks in Israel and no sirens have been activated.

Hezbollah launches missiles near Tel Aviv airport

Hezbollah has said that it fired missiles at a military base near Ben Gurion Airport, Israel’s main international gateway.

Israeli media reported that a rocket had landed near the airport. The airports authority, however, said the airport was continuing to operate as usual.

About 40 arrested as Israeli police break up Tel Aviv protests

As we have been reporting, Israeli police used skunk water and other violent measures to disperse crowds of demonstrators protesting in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu’s sacking of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

Police have removed protesters who were blocking the major Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv and setting off fireworks. About 40 people have been arrested, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.

“Everyone here is causing trouble, everyone is being arrested, load the bus,” a police officer said at the scene, according to Haaretz.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Trump victory to test his statements on ending war in Gaza within hours: Hamas

Trump’s victory puts to test his earlier statements that he can stop the war in Gaza within hours, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said to the Reuters news agency.

The Democratic party’s loss is the natural price for its leadership’s “criminal stance” towards Gaza, Abu Zuhri also said.

“We urge Trump to learn from Biden’s mistakes,” the official told Reuters.

Meanwhile, another senior Hamas official told the AFP news agency that the US, under Trump, who claimed victory in the presidential election, must end its “blind support” for Israel in the war in Gaza.

“This blind support for the Zionist entity must end because it comes at the expense of the future of our people and the security and stability of the region,” Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, told AFP.

Hamas position on Trump depends on ‘behaviour towards Palestinians’

“Our position on the new American administration depends on its position and practical behaviour towards our Palestinian people and their just cause,” Hamas says in a statement in response to Trump’s victory in the US election.

“The American president-elect is required to listen to the voices of the American community itself rejecting the aggression on Gaza,” the group added.

“The new American administration must realise that our people are continuing to confront the occupation and will not accept a path that diminishes their rights.”

Iran says it is ready for confrontation with Israel

The deputy chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Fadavi, says Iran is ready for confrontation with Israel, the Iranian Students’ News Agency reported after Trump claimed victory in the US presidential election.

He added that Iran does not rule out a preemptive strike by the US and Israel.

Lebanon files complaint to UN over deadly pager attacks it blames on Israel

Lebanese Labour Minister Mustafa Bayram called the attacks in September an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work”, saying his country had filed the complaint with the International Labour Organization in Geneva.

“It’s a very dangerous precedent,” he said.

The incident involved exploding pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, which killed dozens of people and injured thousands more across Lebanon.

“In a few minutes, more than 4,000 civilians fell, between martyrs and injured and maimed,” said Bayram.

Victims not killed lost their fingers or eyesight, he added.

“We are in a situation where ordinary objects, objects you use in daily life, become dangerous and lethal,” he said.

“If left unchecked, this crime could become normalised … I consider it a moral obligation to my country and to the world.”

Israel has not officially taken responsibility for the attacks, but Bayram said it was “widely accepted internationally … that Israel was behind this heinous act”.

The pager attacks preceded Israel’s escalated air raids across Lebanon after nearly a year of cross-border fire, as well as its ground operation in southern Lebanon.

Battlefield, not political action, will end war: Hezbollah chief

Hezbollah has broadcasted a pre-recorded speech by its Secretary-General Naim Qassem. Here are some highlights of his address:

Tens of thousands of “trained combatants” are ready to fight Israel.
The Palestinian cause is steadfast and will be victorious despite ongoing Israeli aggression.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has goals but no end date for his aggression.
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood created a new path that differs from the reality of the region.
Netanyahu aims to occupy Lebanon and end Hezbollah’s existence.
We expected the war to happen, so we prepared for it and are in a position to confront it.
The resistance fighters and the party carry a solid Islamic doctrine that stands with truth, pride and dignity.
All of our resistance fighters are martyrs who do not fear death.
Only one thing will end this war, which is the battlefield, not political action.
When Israel stops its aggression, there will be a road to indirect negotiations through the Lebanese state.

Two injured in ‘attempted car-ramming’, suspect shot dead

A suspected attacker has been shot dead after allegedly crashing his car into a bus stop near the illegal Israeli settlement of Shilo and getting out with a knife, according to first responders cited by The Times of Israel newspaper.

The attack north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank appears to be an attempted car-ramming and stabbing attack, the daily reported.

Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical organisation, said it is treating two civilians in their 20s who were lightly injured.

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>Irish people are now protesting the US ambassador.
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https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1854307194931417416
Today in Ottawa, we announced the filing of a lawsuit against the government of Canada for violating its duty to prevent genocide.

Our clients, two Palestinian Canadians whose families in Gaza have been devastated by Israel's genocidal rampage, allege that Canada has violated their constitutional rights.

It is time for @JustinTrudeau and @MelanieJoly to answer for their support for Israel's genocidal regime.
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Democrats ‘failed to listen to their core voters’ on Gaza

The US-based Institute for Middle East Understanding’s Policy Project says the Democratic leadership “failed to listen to their core voters” after being warned for months that their support for Israel’s war on Gaza would cost them the support of thousands of voters.

“Democrats failed to turn out the voters who propelled them to victory in 2020,” the group wrote. “For months the polling has shown that Vice President Harris was costing herself votes she needed – from young people, women, people of color, and progressive voters – by not breaking with Biden and by failing to call for an end of weapons to Israel in accordance with US law.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/5/us-election-results-live-polls-shut-in-trump-harris-indiana-kentucky-race

Death toll rises in Israeli attack on Baalbek

We earlier reported that an Israeli strike targeted several houses in Lebanon’s Baalbek area.

The region’s governor Bachir Khodr has now said that at least 30 people were killed and 35 wounded in the attack that comprised 20 raids.

Lebanon’s PM: Israel obstructing all efforts to curb its aggression

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister said that Israel’s assault on his country has morphed into crimes against humanity and a breach of all international charters and norms.

In remarks he gave to Lebanon’s cabinet, Najib Mikati added that Israel is obstructing all international efforts to curb its aggression against his country.

Mikati said he holds the international community responsible for Israel’s relentless genocidal war against his people, destruction of towns and villages, targeting of military service members, medical and civil defence personnel and relief workers, as well as UNIFIL peacekeepers.

Hezbollah says it attacked Israeli naval base with drones, missiles

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said it targeted a naval base near the Israeli city of Haifa with drones and missiles, the fourth attack on the base in as many weeks.

Hezbollah fighters “targeted the Stella Maris naval base northwest of Haifa with a salvo of high-quality missiles and a squadron of attack drones”, the group said in a statement.

Iraq says will not allow its territory to be used in regional conflicts

Iraq’s government has said it would not allow its territory to be used for attacks related to conflict in the Middle East.

After a US National Security Council meeting, a statement said reports were suggesting Iraqi territory might be used as a launch point “pretexts aiming to excuse aggression against Iraq’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

The statement came after a US news site cited an unnamed Israeli intelligence source as saying an Iranian response could come from territory inside Iraq.

The Iraqi government, dominated by pro-Iran groups, has been pursuing a delicate balancing act in an attempt to distance the country from regional tensions sparked by Israel’s wars in Gaza and now Lebanon.

Several Palestinians suffocate after Israeli army fired tear gas in West Bank raid

Wafa news agency is reporting that the Israeli army fired tear gas at Palestinians in al-Khader town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, resulting in several of them suffocating.

The report said that Israeli forces “barged their way into the town, where they deployed in the vicinity of the local mosque and the Tal area, simultaneously while firing barrages of concussion grenades and tear gas canisters towards the villagers, causing a number to suffocate”.

Police seize documents from Netanyahu’s office

Israeli media is reporting that police investigators have seized documents from Netanyahu’s office as part of their investigation into a new security case.

We will bring you more on this as soon as we can.

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Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends.

No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened.

An entire society now a graveyard.
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>Iran says it is ready for confrontation with Israel
Israel is self destructing with it's 57 front war, and even if Iran suffers some damage it would end up being the one left standing and become the biggest power in it's neighborhood.
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>Egypt joined the call as part of “international efforts to pressure Israel to cease its continuous violations of international law and international humanitarian law”.
So are they willing to do a blockade ?
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If you’re just joining us
Here are the latest developments:

In the Gaza Strip:

78 Palestinians have been killed and 214 wounded in the latest 48-hour reporting period, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Gaza’s civil defence agency says that 12 people have now been killed in the Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced people in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.
At least six people have been killed in an Israeli bombing of Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

In Lebanon:

Three Lebanese citizens have been killed in an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Sidon. Five UNIFIL peacekeepers and three Lebanese soldiers were also wounded.

In the occupied West Bank

The Israeli army has rounded up at least 18 Palestinians, including two girls, in raids, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.

In Israel

Lawmakers in Israel’s parliament gave final approval to legislation allowing the government to deport family members of so-called “terrorists” to Gaza and elsewhere, even if they are Israeli citizens.
The Israeli parliament has also given its final approval to a law granting the Education Ministry the authority to fire, without notice, teachers who have identified with a “terrorist act”.

UNIFIL confirms five peacekeepers injured in Sidon strike

UNIFIL has released a statement regarding the Israeli strike on the outskirts of Sidon in Lebanon.

It said that its “newly arrived” peacekeepers were in the vicinity of a drone strike, lightly injuring five of them.

It said the injured peacekeepers were treated by the Lebanese Red Cross on the spot and that they would continue to their posts.

It reminded “all actors to avoid actions putting peacekeepers or civilians in danger,” adding that “differences should be resolved at the negotiating table, not through violence.”

Israel buys 25 US-made F-15 aircraft for $5.2bn

Israel has signed a deal for the purchase of 25 advanced US-made F-15 aircraft worth $5.2bn, the country’s defence ministry has said.

“The Ministry of Defense signed last night (Wednesday) the huge deal for the purchase of the next generation of F-15 aircraft, under which it will purchase 25 advanced fighter jets manufactured by the American company Boeing,” read a statement.

“The transaction, amounting to about $5.2 billion, will be carried out from American aid funds and it also includes an option for the future purchase of 25 additional aircraft.”

Hezbollah claims five attacks on Israeli targets

The Lebanese armed group says its fighters launched rockets at a group of Israeli soldiers at the gate of the Hermon military site near the Lebanese border.

The group also claimed to have targeted the Israeli forces with missiles in the Liman, Hanita and Saar settlements in northern Israel, as well as the Al-Karyot residential complex in northern Haifa.

New Knesset laws pave way for ‘teachers to be targets for persecution’
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

One law allows for the deportation of citizens of Israel of Palestinian descent who happen to be family members of people who have attacked Israel or had planned to attack Israel. They would be deported if they were deemed to have had prior knowledge or if they had expressed sympathy with the act or with so-called terrorist organisations.

All Palestinian factions are labelled as terrorist organisations by Israel.

Any expression of sympathy with the victims of the war in Gaza has been labelled as an expression of support for terror, especially in the past year.

The other law targets Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem, which Israel has annexed illegally, as well as schools inside Israel proper, run by Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Any expression of Palestinian identity, or support for Palestinian aspirations, any use of national symbols would be deemed in a very sweeping, very elastic notion of terrorism, those teachers would be sacked without prior notice.

The Ministry of Education could also defund the schools. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has sounded the alarm, saying that this bill against teachers in particular opens the way for Palestinian teachers to be targets for persecution.

Hamas calls for three days of protests

In a statement, Hamas has called on the “Palestinian people, the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation, and to the free people of the world” to carry out three days of protests.

The statement added that the protests will be “in support of our people, to condemn the war of extermination, to pressure to stop the aggression, and to denounce the American and Western support for the horrific massacres to which our people are being subjected in the Gaza Strip”.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,469 Palestinians and injured 102,561 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Dozens of Lebanon MPs demand UN protection of heritage sites

More than 100 Lebanese lawmakers have issued an appeal to the United Nations, demanding the preservation of heritage sites in areas heavily bombed by Israel during its war with Hezbollah.

“During the devastating war on Lebanon, Israel has caused grave human rights violations and atrocities,” said a letter addressed to UNESCO’s chief, demanding “the protection of Lebanon’s historic sites in Baalbek, Tyre, Sidon, and other invaluable landmarks currently at risk due to the escalation of the atrocities.”

German parliament passes motion to combat anti-Semitism

The German Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, has overwhelmingly approved a resolution to combat anti-Semitism.

The text calls for a ban on public funding for any group “that spreads anti-Semitism, calls into question Israel’s right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israel”.

In cases of anti-Semitic acts in schools and universities, it calls for those responsible to be excluded from classes or even expelled.

The motion received broad support from a range of political parties, including the centre-left Social Democrats, the conservative CDU-CSU, the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats.

About 100 Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Germany said in a statement the resolution would “weaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli government”.

The general secretary of Amnesty International’s Germany chapter, Julia Duchrow, said that while the rights group “explicitly welcomes the goal of adopting measures to fight anti-Semitism, … the resolution adopted today not only fails to achieve this, it could lead to serious violations of basic human rights and legal uncertainty”.

Houthi leader says Trump will fail to end Israel-Palestine conflict

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi group has criticised Trump for supporting Israel, saying the US president-elect would fail to end the Middle East conflict in his second term.

Abdul Malik al-Houthi said a series of normalisation deals between Arab countries and Israel brokered by Trump’s administration during his first term did not help bring the conflict closer to an end.

“Trump failed in the project of … ‘the deal of the century’ despite all his arrogance, haughtiness, recklessness and tyranny, and he will fail this time as well,” Houthi said in his weekly speech.

The Houthis, who have controlled the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, since 2014, have attacked merchant vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and also fired on Israel itself in stated solidarity with the Palestinians.

“Trump himself had a previous presidential term and was keen to provide achievements for the Israelis.”

What matters for Iranian people is the US’s deeds: Iran

Iran says the US presidential election is a domestic issue for Americans and what matters to the Iranians is Washington’s behaviour.

“It is for the American people to elect their president and they have now made their choice,” Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.

He said, “Every new election provides opportunities for revisiting and reconsidering unjust and ill-suited approaches.”

“What matters for us is the US’s deeds,” Baghaei said, adding that Iranians had “very bitter experiences from past consecutive American administrations.”

Hezbollah’s hope not tied to any US administration, lawmaker says

Hezbollah welcomes any effort to stop the war in Lebanon but does not pin its hopes for a ceasefire on any particular US administration, Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-Moussawi said when asked about Trump’s election victory.

‘We warned you’: Arab Americans in Michigan tell Harris
Ali Harb

When Fox News called Pennsylvania for Trump in the early hours of Wednesday, all but confirming that he would be the next president of the US, there were a handful of Arab activists left at a watch party in Dearborn, Michigan.

“Genocide is bad politics,” said one attendee at the event, which had Palestinian and Lebanese flags hanging outside its doors.

As the reality of another Trump presidency set off anger and sorrow from many Democratic commentators, at the Arab American gathering there was a sense of indifference – if not vindication.

Activist Adam Abusalah said part of the reason why Harris lost was her decision to side with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the expense of alienating the Democratic base – Arab and Muslim Americans as well as young people and progressives.

“It’s not our fault. They cannot vilify our community,” Abusalah said.

“We’ve been warning the Democrats for over a year now, and the Democrats continue to downplay what’s going on.”

Uncle of Hezbollah’s late leader Nasrallah reported killed

Hezbollah has reported that an uncle of the movement’s late leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed in an Israeli attack.

In a post on social media, the movement said that sources had announced the death of Nasrallah’s uncle – identified as Abu Haider Nasrallah – in an attack in southern Lebanon’s Bazouriyeh area, in Tyre district.

He was killed alongside his family, Hezbollah said in a short post.

Hassan Nasrallah, 64, was killed in an Israeli strike in September after leading the armed group for 32 years.

Nasrallah was replaced as Hezbollah’s secretary-general by Naim Qassem, the longtime number two to the late leader.

Survey reveals majority of Danes want ban on weapon parts sale to Israel

An opinion poll on the war on Gaza shows that 54.3 percent of Danes are in favour of banning the export of Danish weapon parts to Israel.

International rights groups, including Amnesty International, have repeatedly called for an arms embargo on Israel, citing numerous human rights violations.

The survey, conducted by Analyse Danmark for the Danish news outlet Puls48 between October 31 and November 5, also found:

Almost 70 percent of respondents believe Denmark should intensify its pressure on Israel to guarantee humanitarian aid access to Gaza.
Nearly 45 percent of people favour Denmark supporting South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ concerning allegations of genocide in Gaza.
''Close to 59 percent of respondents favour Denmark officially recognising Palestine as an independent state.
Nearly 55 percent support a national ban on products made in Israeli settlements.''

Ireland to join South Africa’s ICJ ‘genocide’ case against Israel

The Republic of Ireland intends to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) before the end of the year, its foreign minister said.

Micheal Martin’s comments came as the Irish parliament passed a non-binding motion agreeing that “genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza”.

In December, South Africa brought a case before the ICJ, arguing that the war in Gaza breached the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, an accusation Israel has strongly denied.

Several nations have added their weight to the proceedings, including Spain, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Turkey, Chile and Libya.

Ireland said it would file a submission to the court once South Africa had submitted a document supporting its claims, which it did on Monday.

“The government’s decision to intervene in the South African case was based on detailed and rigorous legal analysis,” Martin told lawmakers in the Dail Eireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament.

“Ireland is a strong supporter of the work of the court and is deeply committed to international law and accountability.”

South Africa announced on Monday that it had filed a so-called memorial with the ICJ claiming “evidence” of a “genocide” committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

Gallant says Israel will face consequences if military presence in Gaza continues

Israel’s recently fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has warned that it will prove costly for Israel if it continues its military presence in Gaza.

“I don’t know if it is possible to influence him [Netanyahu] into a ceasefire,” he told families of Israeli captives in Gaza, according to media outlet Days of Palestine.

“I tried and failed. I was isolated in the cabinet, and both the head of the Shin Bet, the chief of staff, and the head of the Mossad agreed with me on the necessity of reaching a deal.”

Moreover, Gallant pointed out that Netanyahu’s stance on the matter was driven by “neither security or political” concerns.

“At the beginning of July, Hamas agreed to a prisoner swap deal, and the conditions have been favourable since then. But until now, we’ve been in disagreement about whether it is ripe or not. I believed, and still believe, that we should be prepared to make a prisoner exchange deal and withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor,” he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/7/live-israeli-strikes-kill-40-in-eastern-lebanon-as-besieged-gaza-starves
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>>485471
Israel can still take the entire region down with it with the Sampson Option.
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>>485480
Yes, but Israel is way over-extending it self with the war-effort which is causing a really sharp internal structural decline. For example the dual-citizenship exodus (estimated over one million). That is not something that can be fixed with nukes.
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France accuses Israel of harming ties after French officials detained by Israeli forces

Israeli forces entered the Church of the Pater Noster on the Mount of Olives, a holy site under French administration in occupied East Jerusalem, and briefly detained two French officials with diplomatic status.

France accused Israel of harming bilateral ties between the countries following Thursday’s incident, which occurred as French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot was due to visit the compound. The site is one of four administered by France in Jerusalem and is deemed part of France.

Israeli authorities had been told not to enter the site before Barrot’s visit, and they were aware the two detained men were from the consulate and had diplomatic status, the Reuters news agency reports, citing unnamed French diplomatic sources.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has said an argument arose between Israeli forces and the French guards, but the pair were released immediately after they identified themselves as diplomats.

US drone shot down in Yemen: Report

Houthi air defences have shot down an American MQ-9 drone in al-Jawf governorate in northern Yemen, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report, citing Yemeni sources.

Video clips circulating on social media reportedly show the moment the drone was downed.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://twitter.com/osSWSso/status/1854676615445291141

Ship approached by armed men in small boat off Yemen

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency says a vessel was approached by a small boat near Yemen that was carrying armed personnel.

The incident is part of a larger sighting where the vessel crew observed nine to 15 small boats in the area off of Aden, the agency said.

All crew members onboard the ship are safe and it continued to its next port of call on Thursday.

The agency has been monitoring activity in the Red Sea region for months since Yemen’s Houthi group stepped up attacks on Israel-linked ships in the waterway, in solidarity with Palestinians in war-torn Gaza.

Gaza people fear Israel trying to empty north before Trump takes office
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

New Israeli evacuation orders were issued for residents in the neighbourhoods of Gaza City – this time not for the residents in the north of the territory such as Beit Lahiya, Jabalia, and Beit Hanoon.

The Israeli army claims these neighbourhoods have been used by Palestinian fighters to launch rockets towards the Israeli territories. It has used this pretext to push people out.

People are saying the Israeli military is racing to empty the northern part of Gaza of residents before US President-elect Donald Trump officially takes his position. The Israeli military in the north is using starvation as a weapon and a deadly campaign to force people to flee.

Palestinians right now are living in open spaces, and they don’t have proper shelter after repeated Israeli attacks on evacuation centres.

Israel blows up houses in Lebanon in 3 border villages: Report

The Israeli army detonated explosives planted inside houses in three border villages in Lebanon that have been battered by the Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports.

Forces carried out bombing operations inside the villages of Yaroun, Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras in the Bint Jbeil area, “with the aim of destroying residential homes there”, NNA said.

The demolitions are the latest in a string of similar incidents in the border area.

Gaza students protest Israeli blockade on studies abroad

Dozens of students held a protest in Gaza calling on educational and humanitarian organisations to make it possible once again to study abroad, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports.

In the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, students demonstrated against Israeli restrictions saying their academic futures are at serious risk.

For the past 13 months, students in the war-torn enclave have been unable to travel or enrol in universities abroad because of the Israeli blockade and ongoing war. Students say they’re missing out on vital opportunities as land crossings from Gaza remain closed.

Before the war began, hundreds of Palestinian students from the Strip studied at universities in countries such as Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and several European nations, many on scholarships, the news agency said.

Israeli warships kill fisherman on coast of Gaza’s Rafah city

A fisherman has been killed and three others injured in shelling by Israeli warships on the coast of the Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

At least 13 others were killed across Gaza overnight, including nine in central Gaza City, one in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town, and three in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave.

Israeli soldier who fired grenades in Gaza to celebrate Trump victory will be ‘disciplined’

The Israeli military said it will take action against a soldier who was featured firing an automatic grenade launcher at buildings in the Gaza Strip to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, The Associated Press news agency reports.

In a video circulated widely on social media, the soldier is seen sitting behind what appears to be a US-made MK19 grenade launcher and, turning to a video camera, declares: “This is on the occasion of Donald Trump’s presidency. God bless America! God bless Israel!”

He then cheers as he fires a burst of at least six grenades towards what appears to be already heavily bombed residential buildings in Gaza. Laughter can be heard in the background as the camera turns towards the ruins of buildings in the distance and the sound of the grenades detonating.

https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1854256258561237373

Israel sends ‘rescue planes’ after Israeli football fans in clashes in Amsterdam

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the dispatch of two rescue planes to Amsterdam to assist Israeli football supporters who are in the Dutch capital for a match between the Maccabi Tel Aviv club and Ajax Amsterdam.

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan news said the decision was made by Netanyahu after a “situation assessment” with the country’s foreign minister and military.

“The Prime Minister demands that the Dutch government and the Dutch security forces act decisively and quickly against the rioters and ensure the peace of our citizens,” Kan news reported.

According to media reports, scuffles broke out between Maccabi fans and pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the city, while there were also clashes between Israeli fans and police hours before the game kicked off.

Hundreds of Maccabi fans had gathered in the central Dam Square and illegally set off fireworks, the DPA news agency reports and police reported that about 20 people were arrested for disturbing public order and illegal possession of fireworks.

Clashes were also reported between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and police before the Europa League game when some 200 protesters tried to march to the stadium and push through a police blockade.

Police kept the demonstrators away from the stadium where Ajax strolled to a 5-0 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Amsterdam riots started by ‘Maccabi hooligans’: City councilman

Israeli football fans instigated the violence in Amsterdam after arriving in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv game, an Amsterdam city council member says.

“They began attacking houses of people in Amsterdam with Palestinian flags, so that’s actually where the violence started,” Councilman Jazie Veldhuyzen told Al Jazeera. “As a reaction, Amsterdammers mobilized themselves and countered the attacks that started on Wednesday by the Maccabi hooligans.”

He said a video emerged of Amsterdam police driving by and “doing nothing” as Israeli fans tore down Palestinian flags at one residence in the city centre.

“The mayor says the police did act, but I would say they acted not at the right moments. They acted only to protect the Maccabi hooligans when Amsterdammers stood up to defend their own people and defend their own houses. And this is when the police showed up to protect the Maccabi fans when they ran away after attacking people.”

Palestine condemns anti-Arab chants in Amsterdam football clashes

Palestine’s foreign ministry condemned anti-Arab chants and the destruction of Palestinian flags in the Dutch capital by fans of an Israeli football club.

The Palestinian Authority urged the Dutch government to investigate those responsible and called for the protection of Palestinians and Arabs in the Netherlands from Israeli settlers and soldiers, the news agency Wafa reports.

The ministry also rejected all forms of violence. Investigations are under way in the Netherlands following multiple violent incidents in Amsterdam involving fans of Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv football club and pro-Palestinian protesters before a Europa League fixture.

Gaza ‘massacres’ lead to scenes like Amsterdam unrest: Hamas

Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri says riots in Amsterdam following a European League match reflect a response to Israel’s continued “massacres” in Gaza with no international intervention to stop the killing.

“The events in Amsterdam confirm that the ongoing genocide in Gaza, broadcast live without international action to halt it and hold those responsible accountable, can lead to such spontaneous reactions,” Abu Zuhri said.

“Ending the genocide in Gaza is fundamental to respecting and protecting human rights, ensuring regional and global peace and security.”

EU chief condemns ‘vile attacks’ on Israelis in Amsterdam

European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she’s “outraged” by “vile attacks targeting Israeli citizens in Amsterdam” after clashes following a football match led to arrests and hospitalisations.

“I strongly condemn these unacceptable acts,” von der Leyen wrote after speaking with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof. “Anti-Semitism has absolutely no place in Europe. And we are determined to fight all forms of hatred.”

Fast facts: Maccabi Tel Aviv football club

We have been reporting on the clashes that broke out between Maccabi fans and pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Amsterdam, as well as the videos shared online showing Israeli fans reportedly tearing down Palestinian flags hung on buildings in the city.

Here is some background about the football club:

The club was founded in 1906 in Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, and was originally named HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association.
It has won more domestic titles than any other Israeli club and has never been relegated from the top tier of Israeli football.
Its fans have a long history of racism and anti-Palestinian behaviour, with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine describing it as “Israel’s most racist soccer club”.
The club has played in both the Champions League and Europa League group stages.
Last season, it played in the UEFA Europa Conference League, reaching the round of 16, the third tier of continental club football in Europe.
The club is languishing at the bottom of the Europa League table this season, at position 35 out of 36.
Its next game in the Europa League on November 28. It is against Turkish team Besiktas, which is based in Istanbul. However, following a decision by the Turkish authorities, the match will be played in a “neutral venue”.

Mossad ordered to prepare plan to prevent sporting event unrest

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the Mossad spy agency to draw up a plan to prevent violence at events abroad following riots after a football match in Amsterdam.

“I have instructed the head of the Mossad [David Barnea] and other officials to prepare our courses of action, our alert system and our organisation for a new situation,” Netanyahu said in a video statement during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry to oversee the evacuation of Israelis from Amsterdam.

Dutch police said 62 arrests were made as a result of the clashes, which erupted after a Europa League football tie between Amsterdam club Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

‘Yesssss!’: Israel reacts to Donald Trump’s return to power in US election
Simon Speakman Cordall

It was telling that even before the US presidential election polls closed on Tuesday night, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir took to X, posting “Yesssss” in English while adding emojis of a flexing bicep and images of the Israeli and American flags.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was only slightly slower in congratulating Trump on his triumph in the US presidential election, becoming the first world leader to do so and framing Trump’s victory as a “powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America”.

Meanwhile, analysts have told Al Jazeera that it will be “slaughter as usual” for Israel in Gaza and Lebanon under the incoming Trump administration.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/8/live-israeli-air-strikes-kill-more-than-100-across-gaza-lebanon
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>>485486
IMHO. The Zionists are testing how far they can go, like when they opened fire on those blue-helmets. Kidnapping French cops is pretty brazen. Summoning and yelling-at the ambassador probably isn't going to deter a repetition of the incident. They probably have been chewed out by angry diplomats soooo many times over the last year that this doesn't even register anymore. The Zionist regime probably doesn't care about their diplomatic status or reputation either because they flushed it already, many many months ago.

A appropriate response might be to send a dozen commando units. 2 of these commando teams could do hostage-extraction and free the kidnapped Frenchmen, in a ruthless manor where Zionist casualties are acceptable, and the other ten commando teams capture Zionists that were involved in the kidnapping operation. Then a press release says that special operatives took down a terror cell that were targeting French cops. Then the ambassador is summoned, and then the complaint registers.

By contemporary standards what is described above counts as disproportionate over-reaction, but it used to be the standard response to undiplomatic conduct. Countries also tended not to fuck with each others officials, as much. Like there wouldn't have been goons jumping that French cop, there would have been a courier that handed him an invitation or something along those lines.

My assumption is that the Zionists have normalized violence and this is just the end-result of a degenerated societal fabric. But i could be completely wrong, there might be a spy-war going on, and this incident is related to that. I wonder…
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Hezbollah fires ‘advanced missiles’ at Israeli airbase

Hezbollah says it launched a missile barrage at an airbase in central Israel, the latest attack by the Lebanese group in more than a month of full-scale war.

Hezbollah said it “targeted the Tel Nof airbase, south of Tel Aviv … with a salvo of advanced missiles”.

There was no immediate response from Israel’s army. Earlier it said in intercepted another several drones targeting the Western and Upper Galilee regions.

At least five strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs
Charles Stratford
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

We’re getting reports of at least five strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

This is an area where tens of thousands of people used to live and that has now been almost flattened.

The majority of the population has left the area, but some residents stayed, and it is possible that we will get reports of casualties in the coming hours, despite evacuation warnings by the Israeli army.

UNIFIL says Israeli army conducted deliberate attack on its premises again

The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says the Israeli army damaged one of its bases in Ras Naqoura, in what it said was a deliberate attack on its premises.

“In response to our urgent protest, the [Israeli army] denied any activity was taking place inside the UNIFIL position,” it said in a statement posted on X.

“Yesterday’s incident, like seven other similar incidents, is not a matter of peacekeepers getting caught in the crossfire, but of deliberate and direct actions by the [Israeli army],” it added.

The UN peacekeeping mission, which denounced similar attacks by the Israeli military on southern Lebanon in recent weeks, reiterated that the “deliberate and direct destruction of clearly identifiable UNIFIL property is a flagrant violation of international law and resolution 1701.”

UNIFIL targeted 40 times in southern Lebanon

The deputy spokesperson for UNIFIL, Kandice Ardiel, has told Al Jazeera the peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon was targeted 40 times, amid continuing fighting between the Israeli military and Hezbollah.

Ardiel said eight attacks were confirmed to have originated from the Israeli army, which requested that UNIFIL evacuate 29 sites near the Blue Line.

The spokesperson said the UN mission is committed to staying in the area despite having witnessed several deliberate attacks.

‘Death to Arabs’ chants omitted in Israeli news coverage of Amsterdam riots
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

In the Israeli media there’s been extensive coverage of the incident, but what’s been omitted is what led up to the confrontations – the anti-Arab chants, “Death to Arabs”, the provocations and so on.

These kinds of chants are mostly normalised in Israeli sports, you hear them at football games all the time.

So that part of the story – the fact that there was such a strong anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian expression by the Israeli fans in Amsterdam, on the field and in the streets – was omitted from the news coverage because it’s so normalised.

Palestine Football Association condemns ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ in Amsterdam

The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has issued a statement saying it was “gravely concerned by the sequence of violent events in Amsterdam”, after clashes involving Maccabi Tel Aviv fans broke out in the Dutch capital.

The PFA condemned the “deplorable incitement to violence, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia expressed by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, who also attacked homes and shops displaying the Palestinian flag in solidarity with the victims of the ongoing genocide”.

“The PFA had presented FIFA with extensive evidence of such hateful expressions, yet concrete action remains lacking,” it said. “The absence of accountability for such entrenched violence and normalised racism has only led to further unfortunate incidents, such as those in Amsterdam.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/8/live-israeli-air-strikes-kill-more-than-100-across-gaza-lebanon

Israeli military bombs school housing displaced people in Gaza City, killing 3

Israeli forces have bombed a school in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza, killing at least three people, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Several more people have been injured in the attack, which struck the Fahd al-Sabah School.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/9/live-israeli-air-strikes-shake-beirut-famine-fears-in-besieged-north-gaza
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>>485482
The BurgerReich is also overextending in the region
https://journal-neo.su/2024/11/05/israeli-strikes-demonstrates-limits-of-western-military-might/
>Even the US, with vastly greater military capabilities than Israel, has found its position in the Middle East increasingly vulnerable with Iran and its allies repeatedly demonstrating an ability to strike at US bases in Iraq and Syria. Both the US and Israel suffer from a critical shortage of air defense missiles required to defend against Iranian drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, further tilting the military balance of power in the region in Iran’s favor.

>Considering the shifting balance of military power in the region, the US and its proxies are faced with a decision – acknowledge limits to Western military power and influence over the region or continue escalating toward war. Because the US is able to employ Israel as a proxy and by doing so, avoid the direct consequences of failure, it enables and encourages Israel to continue expanding a multi-front conflict with Iran and its allies including Syria, Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah despite the growing costs and risks to Israel itself.
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https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1855226124646719827
Netherlands motorcycle rally in support of Palestine

>>485518
It's fucking horrible.
Like, I hate all these people who are running America, this is how mercenaries took over Rome. It's so obvious that the empire is spread thin, and all they do is throw trillions at it to spread it thinner. It's gonna kill so many people outside and still collapse on us anyway, and it's completely obvious.
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>>485518
Yeah it's a big waste of time, effort and resources. They won't be able to make Iran bend, no matter how much they try to force it. This could be the time of repairing or improving infrastructure, universal healthcare, public housing projects, a scientific renaissance, the beginning of the industrialization of space, the expansion of civil liberties, fixing undemocratic wealth distribution, rising living standards, cleaning up the pollution from the oil-age while advancing into the atomic age.
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https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1855154607963750650
Germany's Bundestag has passed a controversial motion equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Dozens of Jewish academics opposed the resolution, saying it will endanger Jewish Germans by associating them with the actions of the Israeli government.
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>>485526
Germany also has a law that says genocide-denial is 5 years prison, it's not getting enforced because otherwise 3/4 of all Zionists would already be behind bars. Zionism is a dying project, it's too violent and too strategically inept. If they terrorize people with political persecution for speech, while they are on their way out, there might be a temptation to use that genocide denial law in retaliation. It's unreasonable and disproportionate, but so is banning criticism of some country.

To be honest this probably will get legally contested successfully and nothing ever comes of it. The judicial probably doesn't want to go to war against the population for what is mostly immaterial concerns. Also illegal gag-laws that forbid criticizing the perpetrators of genocide could be considered complicity in the genocide.

>it will endanger Jewish Germans by associating them with the actions of the Israeli government.

That's what the Zionists aim for, they want to cause antisemitism and make Jews feel unsafe, because they think that it makes more Jews emigrate to Israel. It's unclear whether that scheme actually worked in the past. It certainly won't work now, because Israel is not an attractive place anymore. I think that it will pressure German Jews to lobby to update antisemitism laws so that it includes equating Israel or Zionist ideology with Jews or Judaism.

It's still unbelievably shit that they did this, the majority of the Jewish diaspora is anti-Zionist, why would they try to fuck these people over again. Because this clearly is intended to be used against anti-Zionist Jews, when they try to distance them selves form Israel.

They might be doing this moral compromise because of the weapons supply deal with Israel, they might feel pressure to get dollars from Israel to buy the pricey US gas.
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Syrian soldiers reported injured in Israeli strike near Syria’s Aleppo: Report

Syrian state media reports that several soldiers were injured in an Israeli air attack in the vicinity of the city of as-Safira near Aleppo and Idlib in the north of the country.

SANA, Syria’s state news agency, quoted a military source as saying the Israeli air “aggression” targeted a number of sites in the countryside around the northern cities.

Though Israel regularly carries out missile and air strikes on sites in Syria, claiming to target Iranian-linked armed groups and entities, it rarely accepts responsibility for its attacks, which have intensified since October 7, 2023.

Israel’s overnight air strikes hit near Beirut’s Lebanese University: Report

Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) said the Israeli air strikes hit near the Lebanese University and the Burj al-Barajneh area in the city’s southern suburb.

Israeli aircraft also hit Beirut’s al-Jamous neighbourhood, which was not included in forced evacuation orders issued by Israel’s Arabic-language military spokesman, Avichay Adraee, earlier in the night.

Beirut reverberated with the sound of the missile strikes, which were followed by flames and thick black smoke that blanketed parts of the city, NAA reported.

Israeli strikes kill 11 people in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli strikes on the country’s south killed at least 11 people, including six rescue workers.

We will bring you more on this as soon as we can.

Danish ship denied entry to Spanish port amid allegations of weapons transport to Israel

The container vessel has been denied entry to Algeciras, shipping company Maersk said, denying that the vessel is transporting arms to Israel.

“The cargo to be transshipped through the port does not include any military weapons or ammunition,” Maersk said in a communique.

Spanish daily El Pais earlier this week had cited Spanish government officials saying that the ship, as well as another also belonging to Maersk and due to dock later this month, “will not stop in Spain” because its cargo includes weapons being delivered to Israel.

“To gain clarity for future operations, we have consulted the Spanish authorities to understand why entry was denied for cargo no different than previous shipments that have routinely been transshipped through this port without incident,” the Danish company said.

“It is our understanding that Spain has in its discretion changed its criteria and is now rejecting vessels that carry anything military related going to, or from, Israel, notwithstanding such cargo being legal.”

Spain, which is seeking to convince other European countries to recognise a Palestinian state, has refused docking to shops transporting arms to Israel.

Islamic Resistance in Iraq releases footage claiming drone attack on Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iran-backed militias in the country, has released footage reportedly showing it launching a drone towards a “military target in the north” of Israel.

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military announced it had downed a drone approaching the country “from the east” before it entered the occupied Golan Heights.

https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1855047202432835830

Hezbollah claims downing Israeli drone with surface-to-air missile

The Lebanese armed group says its air defence unit has shot down a Hermes 450 drone with a surface-to-air missile, adding that Israeli warplanes raided the Deir Siriane village in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate where the downed drone fell.

Hezbollah also claimed to have launched missiles at Israeli soldiers in the al-Abad military site near the Lebanese border, as well as in the Manara settlement.

The group also said it targeted Israel’s Kiryat Shmona illegal settlements with rockets.

Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians shortly after their release in northern Gaza

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians from Gaza shortly after releasing them from detention, the Wafa news agency reported, adding that the men had been detained during Israel’s military offensive on northern Gaza in early October.

Wafa cited local sources and witnesses saying that the detainees were freed from Israeli custody at the Zikim military base near the northern Gaza border.

“After their release, the Israeli navy targeted the three men with gunfire from warships as they were near al-Khalidi Mosque, along the coastal road northwest of Gaza City,” Wafa said.

The victims were identified as Ali and Nadi Maarouf, two elderly men, and Hamza al-Hato. Their bodies were transferred to the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

Far-right Dutch leader meets Israeli foreign minister in Amsterdam

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has said he met Israel’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Gideon Saar at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, following violence between Israeli and local football fans in the Dutch capital.

Wilders – the leader of the largest party in the Dutch parliament, the Party for Freedom, who is known for his anti-Islamic rhetoric – said he told Saar of “our common interest to beat anti-Semitism and Jew hate and that radical Islamic values have no place in a free society”.

Saar is in Amsterdam after Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters clashed with police and locals on Thursday before and after a Europa League match with Ajax. The Israeli fans were recorded singing provocative anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian chants and tearing down Palestinian flags in the city.

Ten Maccabi fans were injured in the resulting violence. Israeli authorities have condemned the attacks and organised repatriation flights for the supporters.

Qatar reportedly suspends mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel

Several news agencies, citing an unnamed diplomatic source, are reporting that Qatar has suspended its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel.

A diplomatic source briefed on the matter was quoted as saying that Israel and Hamas, along with the US, were informed after the decision was made. The source added that “as a consequence, the Hamas political office no longer serves its purpose” in Qatar.

However, Qatar is highly likely to return to the efforts if both sides show “serious political willingness” to reach a deal on the war in Gaza, according to one official with Egypt, the other key mediator.

A senior Hamas official said they were aware of Qatar’s decision to suspend mediation efforts “but no one told us to leave”.

Qatar will resume mediation effort once all sides show ‘willingness, seriousness’

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has rejected media reports that it has pulled out of mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas but added that it has “stalled” its efforts until all parties show “willingness and seriousness” to end the war.

In a statement on X, the ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said that Qatar had informed the relevant parties 10 days ago of its intentions.

Al-Ansari also said that reports regarding the Hamas political office in Doha were inaccurate, “stating that the main goal of the of the office in Qatar is to be a channel of communication between the concerned parties”.

https://twitter.com/MofaQatar_EN/status/1855322121989148692

More on Qatar’s mediation efforts

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson also said that the country will not accept that its role as a mediator be used to “blackmail it”.

“Qatar will not accept that mediation be a reason for blackmailing it, as we have witnessed manipulation since the collapse of the first pause and the women and children exchange deal, especially in retreating from obligations agreed upon through mediation, and exploiting the continuation of negotiations to justify the continuation of the war to serve narrow political purposes,” he said in a statement posted on X.

Hundreds march in Netherlands, condemning Israeli wars in Gaza and Lebanon

Hundreds of Arab communities and supporters of Palestine have marched in the Dutch city of Utrecht, condemning the ongoing Israeli wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

In videos verified by Al Jazeera, Palestinian and Lebanese flags are seen being waved during the march to protest the Dutch government’s support for the Israeli wars and complicity in its crimes.

The protesters chanted slogans demanding the liberation of Palestine now and a complete and immediate ceasefire.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCJxERVo2IT/

Ethnic cleansing taking place during news void in north Gaza: Media group

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel has stepped up systematic attacks on journalists and media infrastructure since the start of its northern Gaza campaign.

Israeli strikes killed at least five journalists in October and Israeli forces began a smear campaign against six Al Jazeera journalists reporting on the north, it said.

“There are now almost no professional journalists left in the north to document what several international institutions have described as an ethnic cleansing campaign. Israel has not allowed international media independent access to Gaza in the 13 months since the war began,” CPJ said in a statement.

“It seems clear that the systematic attacks on the media and campaign to discredit those few journalists who remain is a deliberate tactic to prevent the world from seeing what Israel is doing there,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna.

“Reporters are crucial in bearing witness during a war, without them the world won’t be able to write history.”

Iran rejects claims it came up with plot to kill Donald Trump

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denied US charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump.

On Friday, the US charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot it said was ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate Trump, according to the Department of Justice.

Araghchi said the claim was a “repulsive” plot by Israel and Iranian opposition outside the country to “complicate matters between America and Iran”.

In a post on X, Araghchi called for confidence building between the two countries.

“Iran is NOT after nuclear weapons, period. This is a policy based on Islamic teachings and our security calculations. Confidence-building is needed from both sides. It is not a one-way street,” he said.

Palestinian Christians despair as Gaza homeland destroyed by Israel’s war
Joseph Tulloch

When Khalil Sayegh thinks back to his childhood in the Gaza Strip, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius looms large in his memory.

Sayegh, now 29, remembers the weddings, Sunday school classes, music lessons and the visits to the tiny graveyard.

Now, Sayegh lives in Washington, DC, where former President Donald Trump will retake power in January after beating Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in the United States presidential election this week.

Trump’s political comeback has added a new layer of uncertainty for Palestinians – those in Gaza, which Israel has subjected to near-relentless bombardment and ground assaults for the past 13 months, and also those who, like Sayegh, have family there and are watching helplessly from afar.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/11/9/palestinian-christians-despair-as-gaza-homeland-destroyed-by-israels-war

Israeli police arrest 5 as thousands protest for captive exchange deal

Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that at least five people were arrested, including three near Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, during protests.

Thousands of people have been protesting in Israel, calling on Netanyahu’s government to do more to bring home captives who have now been held in Gaza for 400 days.

One person was also arrested in central Haifa, and another person was detained at a protest at the Karkur Junction in northern Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/9/live-israeli-air-strikes-shake-beirut-famine-fears-in-besieged-north-gaza
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>>485539
>Iran rejects claims it came up with plot to kill Donald Trump
>Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denied US charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump.
>On Friday, the US charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot it said was ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate Trump, according to the Department of Justice.
Now i think the trump assassination attempts might have been a false flag to start a war with Iran.
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Dutch police arrest dozens at pro-Palestinian rally after football unrest

Dutch police took away more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters who defied a ban on demonstrations in Amsterdam following clashes this week involving Israeli football fans.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Dam Square chanting “Free Palestine” and “Amsterdam says no to genocide”, in reference to the Israeli war on Gaza.

The three-day ban was imposed on Friday after street fights involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam.

Police said tensions had already built up ahead of the match as Maccabi fans burned a Palestinian flag on the central Dam Square and vandalised a taxi, Amsterdam Police Chief Peter Holla said.

France bans Palestinian flags for match against Israel

The head of the police in the French capital announced a ban on Palestinian flags at the Stade de France during the upcoming match between the French national team and its Israeli counterpart as part of the UEFA Nations League.

In an interview with French media, Laurent Nunez said: “There cannot be any politically motivated messages in the stadiums, including Palestinian flags. Only French and Israeli flags will be present in the stadium.”

The Paris police chief said more than 4,000 security personnel will be deployed, including 2,500 to secure the perimeter of the Stade de France and ensure no security issues arise similar to those in Amsterdam.

US, UK forces raid Yemen’s capital

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that US and UK forces have launched raids on the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Amran governorate and other areas of the country.

US officials have confirmed launching the attacks.

They said that US forces carried out “multiple airstrikes” on “Houthi weapons storage facilities… that contained various advanced conventional weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden”.

War monitor says Israeli strike kills three south of Damascus: Report

The Israeli strike we reported on earlier that targeted an apartment has killed three people, a war monitor has said.

“An Israeli air strike killed three people in the Sayyida Zeinab area,” Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

The watchdog said the apartment belonged “to the Lebanese Hezbollah group … in a stronghold of pro-Iran groups”.

https://twitter.com/Shaar_Safwan/status/1855614931623637185

Rise in death toll after Israeli air raid on Syria’s capital

An Israeli strike on a residential building south of Damascus killed seven civilians – the second such attack in less than a week.

The fatalities in the Sayeda Zainab district included women and children with 20 people also wounded, the defence ministry said in a statement.

There was no immediate comment from Israel, which said last week its air force struck intelligence assets of Hezbollah in the same area.

Whole families killed in Israel’s attack on Jabalia
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

It’s such a sad morning for people in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

At least 32 have been confirmed killed in Jabalia, including whole families – parents with their children and grandchildren.

The attack happened at about 6am local time when people were still inside the house. According to an eyewitness, it was pretty quiet apart from the buzz of drones and quadcopters and the fighter jets that were manoeuvring in the area.

All of a sudden, without any prior warning, the house was bombed. According to an eyewitness, the house was full of women and children who had been displaced from different parts of northern Gaza and had ended up in this particular building.

This is an example of how displaced families, who were forced to evacuate Jabalia and who went elsewhere seeking protection and shelter, are being bombed, killed and maimed. It’s an extension of all the genocidal acts that have been taking place for over a year now and is directed right now 100 percent towards civilians in northern Gaza.

Israeli forces attack Lebanon-Syria border crossing

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli fighter jets struck the Jarmash Qald al-Sabaa crossing between eastern Hermel and Syria late on Saturday evening.

The raid followed a day of attacks on the eastern Baalbek and Hermel regions which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people there.

UN figures show some 473,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria since September following the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah claims several attacks on Israeli targets

The Lebanese armed group says it targeted the Avital site – in the occupied Golan Heights in Syria – with missiles, describing it as “a technical and electronic reconnaissance centre”.

Hezbollah said its fighters also targeted a gathering of Israeli forces in Kahil Heights on the eastern outskirts of the southern Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras.

UN expert slams media coverage of clashes in Amsterdam

Francesca Albanese has called for Western media to be investigated over their coverage of the clashes between Israeli football fans and locals in the Dutch city of Amsterdam.

The call came after some Western media outlets failed to report on or minimised the actions of the fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv during the confrontations earlier this week.

“Once again, Western media should be investigated for the role they are playing in obscuring Israel’s atrocities,” the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory said in a post on X. “In other contexts, international tribunals have found media figures responsible for complicity, incitement, and other international crimes.”

In one video from the clashes, Israeli supporters were heard singing: “Let the [Israeli army] win, and f*** the Arabs!” while another showed them tearing down a Palestinian flag from a building.

Israel has ‘defeated’ Hezbollah: Defence

Israel has “defeated” Hezbollah, the country’s defence chief says, and eliminating its leader Hassan Nasrallah was the “crowning” achievement.

Israel’s plan now is to “change the security reality in the north”, new Defence Minister Israel Katz said.

“The blows we inflicted defeated Hezbollah and the elimination of Nasrallah is the crowning jewel,” he said.

Katz added of Israel’s attack on Gaza: “We managed to maintain legitimacy and prevent decisions by international bodies and countries that asked us to stop the war unconditionally.”

The comments come as Hezbollah continues to fire rockets into Israel and Israeli ground forces struggle to take territory in southern Lebanon.

Children collect plastic and paper from landfill to use for fuel

Journalist Hassan Eslieh from the Gaza Strip has shared a video on X showing children at a landfill in Khan Younis, collecting plastic and paper to be used as fuel for cooking due to the lack of cooking gas and firewood.

The video has been verified by Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency.

https://twitter.com/hassaneslayeh/status/1854797260569080295

Israeli attack kills 20 in Lebanon’s Jbeil: Ministry

At least 20 people, including three children, were killed and six others injured in an Israeli strike on Almat’s Jbeil district in the Mount Lebanon governorate, the Health Ministry says.

Crews continue to remove rubble from the site, it added.

Three paramedics killed in Lebanon’s Sidon district: Ministry

An Israeli air raid on a centre affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority’s civil defence team in Adloun, in Lebanon’s Sidon district, killed three paramedics, the country’s Health Ministry has said.

It condemned the attack, calling the targeting of paramedics an “Israeli war crime”, which adds to the “violence and inhumanity” of the ongoing war.

US ‘freezes’ bulldozer delivery to Israel: Report

The US has frozen the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel amid home demolitions in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The Israeli Defence Ministry had signed a contract to buy the D9 bulldozers, a type of heavy-duty construction equipment produced by Caterpillar, the daily reported.

According to it, the bulldozers were primarily intended for flattening structures in the Gaza Strip, which had led to significant internal criticism in the US, leading to intense pressure on President Joe Biden’s administration, resulting in a freeze on the deliveries.

Several existing D9 bulldozers currently employed by the Israeli army in Gaza need maintenance, the report said.

Israeli settlers cut down trees west of Bethlehem: Report

Israeli settlers have cut down dozens of trees on the outskirts of the village of Nahalin, located west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.

Palestinian security sources said the settlers cut down 40 trees of various types, belonging to Palestinian resident Ahmed Shkarneh.

Two days ago, settlers destroyed 70 olive, grape, and almond trees in the area, Wafa said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/10/live-israeli-warships-kill-3-palestinians-released-from-detention-in-gaza
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https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/11/online-media-banned-in-lebanon/
>It is illegal to report from Lebanon without prior accreditation by the Ministry of Information.

>On the day Niels and I arrived in the country, a new rule was introduced by the Ministry specifically excluding online media from accreditation, which is now limited to print newspapers and broadcast TV stations only.


>All freelance journalists and independent TV production companies are also specifically excluded.


>The specific instruction from the Ministry of Information states:


< not: web or digital or online or production house


>The new policy is given in writing to journalists who apply, by the Press Bureau of the Ministry of Information. I have been unable to find any evidence of it being announced or what its statutory basis is, but that is probably available in Arabic. None of the many Lebanese journalists I am in contact with were aware of this rule or its implications.


>As you will have noticed, by restricting legal publication and reporting from Lebanon to only print newspapers and TV stations – overwhelmingly billionaire- or state-owned – the Lebanese Government is in effect saying “Zionist, pro-Israeli coverage only”.
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>>485555
Hezbollah is increasingly becoming the Lebanese government because they're the ones that are actually defending the country. You have to look at what their policy on journalism is, do they uphold journalism ? The legacy government declaring that it's only real journalism if it's chiseled into a stone tablets is just going to make them more legacy.
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GDF - Why America (Really) Supports Israel

At least 38 killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon

At least 38 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon, including 23 in a raid north of the capital Beirut, the Ministry of Health says.

Further north, an “Israeli enemy strike on Almat in the Jbeil district killed 23 people including seven children“, the ministry said in a statement, adding that body parts were recovered from the site and were being identified.

Footage showed rescuers rummaging with their bare hands through the wreckage of a house that had been completely razed, pulling out bodies wrapped in blankets while an excavator moved the rubble.

The ministry also said Israeli strikes killed three rescuers in south Lebanon, and at least 12 people in the Baalbek region.

Hezbollah attacks Israeli naval base with ‘squadron of drones’

Hezbollah says it successfully targeted the Haifa naval base with unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Lebanese group “launched an air attack at 4pm today [14:00 GMT] with a squadron of attack drones on the Haifa naval base … and hit its targets accurately”, it said in a statement on Telegram.

There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.

In addition, Hezbollah said its fighters attacked the Israeli army near the “border wall” in the town of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon, with missiles.

Iran calls to expel Israel from UN after Syria strike

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, said that Tehran “strongly condemned the aggressive attack carried out today by the Zionist regime against a residential building” in the Damascus area.

Baghaei called for measures against Israel, including “an arms embargo” and its “expulsion from the United Nations”.

Earlier, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported an “Israeli aggression targeting a residential building in the Sayyida Zeinab” area, home to a major Shia shrine, killing at least seven people.

Israeli army chief approves Lebanon ground invasion expansion: Report

Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has approved the expansion of the ground invasion of southern Lebanon, state broadcaster Kan reports.

Israel’s military began “limited, localized, and targeted” ground raids into southern Lebanon against Hezbollah on October 1, days after launching heavy air strikes throughout the country.

Israel’s military and security officials considered announcing the end of the ground offensive last week, Kan reported, but Halevi green-lighted new orders to expand the assault, which could include thousands more soldiers.

Earlier, Israel’s new defence minister, Israel Katz, said Hezbollah had been “defeated”.

Qassam Brigades claims it killed Israeli soldiers in north Gaza

Hamas’s armed wing says it attacked 15 Israeli soldiers with an antitank rocket before it “finished them off” with grenades and light weapons from close range in Beit Lahiya.

There was no comment from the Israeli army.

At least 370 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the ground invasion of Gaza since October 2023. Israel’s military claims to have killed about 18,000 Palestinian fighters.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/10/live-israeli-warships-kill-3-palestinians-released-from-detention-in-gaza
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>>485568
They're saying this at gunpoint on a forced march, while being "interviewed" by an IDF member in full combat gear.
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Israel’s military is building along UN-patrolled demilitarised zone in Syria: Associated Press

Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier, satellite photos analysed by the AP news agency show.

Israeli troops have entered the demilitarised zone during the work, the United Nations confirmed to the AP, a violation of the cease-fire rules governing the area.

The work, which earlier satellite photos show began in earnest in late September, follows the completion by the Israeli military of new roadways and what appears to be a buffer zone along the Gaza Strip’s frontier with Israel.

The Israel military also has begun demolishing villages in Lebanon, where United Nations peacekeepers have come under fire.

So far, there has been no major violence along the Alpha Line, which delineates the demilitarized zone between Syria and Israeli-occupied territory that UN peacekeepers have patrolled since 1974.

Israeli strike on village in Lebanon’s far north kills and injures 28

Lebanese state-run media has said Israel struck a house in the northern Akkar region, one of the farthest attacks from the border in its war on the country, killing and injuring 28 people.

“An enemy strike targeted a house in the village of Ain Yaacoub,” some 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Israel, said Lebanon’s official National News Agency.

Local officials said that displaced people, Syrian nationals and local citizens lived there and that it was the northernmost Israeli attack since Israel launched a full-blown war in September.

Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital says Israeli military fires at it directly

Al-Awda Hospital says drones have fired directly at the medical facility, damaging the administration building, as the Israeli military continues its attack on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

Israeli artillery damaged water tanks, causing water to be cut off in some of the hospital’s buildings, it said in a statement.

Ambulance crews were able to reach the western areas of Nuseirat camp and retrieved several casualties after the Israeli army withdrew. The hospital again appealed to international institutions to provide protection for health facilities in Gaza.

More from al-Awda Hospital after Israeli attacks

Twenty Palestinians have been killed, and more than 30 wounded have been able to reach the hospital after quadcopter attacks on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Despite the danger in those areas, ambulance crews have been able to reach western parts of the camp to retrieve a number of bodies and wounded.
Israeli artillery has shelled the hospital’s water tanks, which cut off water to some of its facilities.

Lebanon says 54 people killed on Sunday

Lebanon’s Health Ministry has put the day’s casualty toll from Israeli attacks on Sunday at 54 killed and 56 wounded.

Israel has killed a total of 3,243 people and wounded 14,134 since the hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli army started on October 8, 2023.

This includes 201 children killed and 1,272 injured, according to the ministry.

Israeli attack on Syria’s Homs countryside: Syrian state news agency

Syrian state news agency SANA says there are initial reports of an Israeli attack on the Shinshar area in Homs’s southern countryside in central Syria.

Houthis target military base in Tel Aviv area, spokesperson says

Yemen’s Houthis have fired missiles targeting a military base in the Tel Aviv area, the group’s military spokesperson has said.

Earlier, Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported that US and UK forces carried out multiple air attacks on the Amran and Saada governorates in Yemen.

In the past, the Houthis have claimed to launch drones and missiles towards Israel in attacks the Yemeni group says are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Iraqi coalition claims responsibility for five drone attacks on Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a coalition of factions, has claimed responsibility for five drone attacks on military targets in Israel.

IRI announced drone attacks in northern and southern Israel in a series of updates on Telegram.

It said its actions are “in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly”.

Earlier, the Israeli military said its air force intercepted four drones “from the east” overnight.

UN condemns mass arrests, violence against Palestinians in West Bank

The UN Human Rights Office has condemned Israeli forces’ mass arrests, ill-treatment and “gratuitous humiliation of Palestinians” during raids in refugee camps and towns across the occupied West Bank.

Information it has gathered shows “a pattern of unnecessary, disproportionate and otherwise unlawful force used in Palestinian communities of Madama, Dura, and the Fawwar refugee camps, among others, over the past month, despite in many cases there being no apparent threat to public order or the security of the occupying forces”, it said.

The office referred to an incident on October 18-19 when Israeli forces raided at least 50 homes in the Fawwar refugee camp in the Hebron governorate and detained 30 Palestinians.

During the raids, people reported widespread abuse, property theft, and violence against householders and detainees.

“One of those detained reported to UN Human Rights Office that Israeli security forces hit him with a heavy object in the head and jaw, while he was handcuffed and blindfolded. Israeli media have reported one case of grave sexual violence against a detainee during this raid.”

Hezbollah claims series of attacks on Israeli sites

The Lebanese armed group says it has attacked the Zevulon military industries base north of Haifa with a missile salvo.

In addition, Hezbollah said its fighters targeted the Shraga base north of Acre city and fired a barrage of missiles at the Krayot area north of Haifa.

Israel’s finance minister sees ‘golden opportunity’ to annex West Bank
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Bezalel Smotrich is not just the Israeli finance minister. He is a minister within the Ministry of Defence in Israel that is responsible for administering the occupied West Bank – and for expanding settlements.

So when he talks about “enforcing Israeli sovereignty”, he is talking about the annexation of the occupied West Bank, which is part of the Israeli government agenda.

He’s saying Donald Trump’s US presidency offers a golden opportunity for the Israeli government to finish the job. He’s told his staff to take the practical steps, the infrastructure steps, needed to ensure this annexation can happen by 2025 when Trump takes office.

So, when Smotrich talks about annexation, many observers say we have to believe him.

Abbas addresses Arab-Islamic summit, asks for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has addressed the Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh. Here are some of the points he raised:

Israel must implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735, which requires an end to its aggression on Gaza.
It must allow aid into the Gaza Strip and withdraw its forces in order for the State of Palestine to regain its sovereignty over Gaza.
It must allow the return of Palestinians to their homes and the reconstruction of what was destroyed in Gaza.
Israel must end its plan to separate Gaza from the West Bank and Jerusalem, its war crimes and the terrorism of Israeli settlers.

Pro-Palestine activists protest in front of Israeli president’s New York hotel

Pro-Palestinian activists have protested in front of the Plaza Hotel in New York City where Israeli President Isaac Herzog is staying, video circulating on social media platforms and verified by Al Jazeera shows.

Demonstrators, wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags, called for an end to the Israeli war on Gaza and expressed support for Palestine.

Some shouted slogans like “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.”

Herzog is in the United States to attend the annual general assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, according to his official account on X.

https://twitter.com/MerruX/status/1855770233124110606

Iran: World awaits Trump government to stop to Gaza, Lebanon wars

Iran says the “world is waiting” for Donald Trump’s incoming US government to halt Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

“The American government is the main supporter of the actions of the Zionist regime [Israel],” First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref told a joint Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit in Saudi Arabia.

“The world is waiting for the promise of the new government of this country to immediately stop the war against the innocent people of Gaza and Lebanon.”

While Trump has promised peace in the Middle East, during his election campaign he said outgoing President Joe Biden should let Israel “finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza.

Lebanon announces UN-backed reconstruction fund

Lebanon’s caretaker PM Najib Mikati has urged countries to continue sending aid amid an “unprecedented” crisis, he said at the Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh.

“The Israeli aggression has led to severe human losses, in addition to economic repercussions, further exacerbating the tragedy, and the World Bank has estimated the losses at $8.5bn,” said Mikati at the Saudi-hosted summit focused on the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

He called for global support for the state – and not any factions.

“I also call for respecting Lebanon’s sovereignty and refraining from interfering in its internal affairs while supporting Lebanon as a state and entity,” Mikati said.

He announced that a reconstruction fund was being created to assist Lebanon’s displaced, which will be overseen by the UN.

Hezbollah says it has not received any ceasefire proposals

Hezbollah says it has not received any proposals for a ceasefire despite Israel’s Foreign Minister saying there has been some “progress” made.

“So far, according to my information, nothing official has reached Lebanon or us in this regard,” the head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammad Afif, said at a news conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

“I believe that we are still in the phase of testing the waters and presenting initial ideas and proactive discussions, but so far there is nothing actual yet,” he added.

We reported earlier that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said progress had been made in Lebanon’s ceasefire talks but that enforcement remained crucial.

Israeli media reported on Sunday that substantial progress has been made in diplomatic negotiations over a proposed Lebanon ceasefire that would require Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River. The reports said Hezbollah would end its military presence near the Israeli border, while the Israeli military would return to the international border.

Israel has not managed to occupy ‘a single Lebanese village’, says Hezbollah

Hezbollah says the Israeli military has been unable to occupy even a single village in Lebanon since launching its cross-border ground operation in September, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.

“After 45 days of bloody fighting, the enemy is still unable to occupy a single Lebanese village,” said Hezbollah spokesman Mohammad Afif.

“We tell the enemies that you will not win your war with air strikes.”

Afif added that Israel’s claims about a significant decline in Hezbollah’s missile stockpile are “just lies”.

“Our forces on the front lines have enough equipment for a long war,” he stated.

He said the group’s relationship with the Lebanese Army “will remain strong” and that demonstrations against Israel around the world indicate that “Israel is isolated”.

(anon's note: the implication here is probably not entirely accurate. The IDF may not have been able to permanently hold any territory off from Hezbollah, but the IDF has still destroyed at least one entire village the IDF forcibly evacuated.)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/11/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-in-gaza-lebanon-syria
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US military strikes multiple sites in Syria

US Central Command says it hit nine targets in two locations it claimed were associated with Iranian groups in Syria, “in response to several attacks on US personnel in Syria over the last 24 hours”.

“These strikes will degrade the Iranian backed groups’ ability to plan and launch future attacks on US and coalition forces who are in the region to conduct D-ISIS operations,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

New Israel defence chief hints at strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities

Israel’s new defence minister suggested an attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

Israel Katz’s comments came during his first meeting with the General Staff Forum, led by Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

“Iran is more vulnerable than ever to targeting its nuclear facilities. There is [now] a possibility of removing the threat,” Katz said. “The primary goal is achievable – to thwart and eliminate the threat of Israel’s annihilation.”

Katz was named last week to replace Yoav Gallant, who used his exit to criticise the Israeli leadership.

Iranian officials have vowed to retaliate for Israel’s October 26 attack on Tehran, which resulted in the deaths of four soldiers.

UN peacekeeping chief travels to Lebanon to support peacekeepers

The UN peacekeeping chief is heading to Lebanon for a three-day visit to support peacekeepers monitoring the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict on the front line.

Undersecretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix arrives on Tuesday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

Lacroix is also scheduled to visit the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Naqoura in southern Lebanon and front-line positions along the UN-drawn boundary between Lebanon and Israel to meet peacekeepers and “thank them for their dedication in carrying out their work under extremely difficult conditions”, Dujarric said.

Israel’s army has repeatedly attacked the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered it to leave – something UNIFIL refused to do.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/11/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-in-gaza-lebanon-syria
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>>485569
>They're saying this at gunpoint
So it's the most ham of hamfisted propaganda

>>485570
>Israel has not managed to occupy ‘a single Lebanese village’, says Hezbollah
Yeah, that Lebanon invasion was dumb.
That kind of attrition is going to do Israel in.
And when the dust settles the US friendly Lebanese government will be gone too. Hezbollah was brought into existence by an Israeli invasion, the Israeli attacking Lebanon again, that'll make them more powerful.

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