/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>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.

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

https://x.com/RazanIRL/status/1855273499675300129
Dublin march

>>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.

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

>>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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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

>>485568
They're saying this at gunpoint on a forced march, while being "interviewed" by an IDF member in full combat gear.

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

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.

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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.

Israeli drone blows up café in Gaza ‘safe zone’ as civilians watch football
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

This is more proof that the Israeli claims about “evacuation zones” and “safe areas” are nothing more than false narratives. In the past hour, there was an attack on a small café in al-Mawasi with at least 10 civilians killed.

People go to this coffee shop to connect to the internet and the outside world or to watch a football game on the big screen. A drone fired at least two missiles at the café while people were inside. A witness said it was packed.

Victims who arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis for treatment were completely disfigured. The drone missiles are packed with nails and shrapnel. The body of a young child has not been identified yet because it was so badly disfigured.

The wounded are still pouring into the hospital with seven people now undergoing surgery.

Arab League chief hints at Israel’s UN expulsion over Middle East wars

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit highlighted an article in a concluding statement at a summit in Saudi Arabia that moved to revoke Israel’s membership in the UN General Assembly over its wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

Aboul Gheit said that suspending Israel’s membership in the world body would not come under the Security Council’s jurisdiction and could be decided by the General Assembly.

“We might witness soon the freezing of the membership [of Israel] through a UNGA majority decision,” he said.

The summit’s concluding statement demanded that all countries ban exports or transfers of weapons and ammunition to Israel and urged the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for civilian and military officials in Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/11/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-in-gaza-lebanon-syria

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims drone attack on Israel

The coalition of Iran-backed armed groups said in a post on Telegram that it launched drones towards an Israeli military target in the south of the occupied territories.

The group, which regularly launches drones towards Israel, did not give further details of its intended target, but said the attack was a “continuation of our approach to resisting the occupation, and in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon”.

The Israeli military meanwhile said it intercepted a drone “crossing from the east” and that sirens were activated in the southern area of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Israeli legislator banned for speaking against ‘slaughter in Gaza’

Israeli legislator Ofer Cassif says he “will not be silenced” after the Knesset Ethics Committee imposed a “complete parliamentary ban, apart from voting” on him for six months, for remarks he made in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

“I will never stay silent on war crimes, famine and the slaughter in Gaza,” said Cassif, a member of the leftist Hadash coalition, in a post on X.

“Such is the state of the so called democracy in Israel, that those who chant their support for genocide and celebrate the killing of innocents are considered heroes, while those who fight for justice and peace are persecuted as ‘traitors’,” he added.

“I am proud to be among those who are persecuted by this bloody evil government and keep on fighting for an immediate ceasefire, for the return of the hostages, for a just peace and the end of the vicious occupation.”

US, UK forces raid Yemen’s Hodeidah: Report

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that US and British forces have launched three air attacks on the At Tuhayta district in the Hodeidah governorate.

There was no immediate comment from the US or the UK.

Al Masirah TV also reported attacks by US and UK forces on the Amran and Saada governorates in Yemen on Monday and on the capital Sanaa and other governorates on Sunday. US and British forces have been attacking Houthi positions in Yemen in response to the rebel group’s assaults on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The Houthis, who control northern Yemen, say their attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The rebel group on Monday claimed a missile attack on a military base near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Israeli attack targets Palestinians waiting for aid in northern Gaza

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli forces bombed a residential building where Palestinians were waiting for aid, northwest of Gaza City, resulting in a number of casualties.

Earlier, an Israeli air raid hit the area of the Gaza Sports Club in Gaza City, causing several injuries.

Houthis say attacks launched on US vessels

Yemen’s Houthi group says its fighters have conducted two military operations in the Red and Arabian seas.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement on X that the group targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea with cruise missiles and drones.

The other operation targeted two American destroyers in the Red Sea with ballistic missiles and drones, according to the statement.

Saree said these operations will not cease until the US-supported wars on Gaza and Lebanon end.

Civilian car targeted in US-UK air strike in Yemen’s Al Bayda province: Houthi-linked media

The United States and the United Kingdom have launched an air strike in Al-Sawmaah district of Al Bayda governorate, targeting a civilian car, according to Al Masirah, a television station run by the Houthi rebel group.

The report also said there were three US-UK air raids targeting the Al Faza area in the At Tuhayta district in Hodeidah province.

The report did not elaborate on the results of the reported attacks.

US Central Command has not announced any new military operations in Yemen.

Phosphorous shells used in Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil, Tyre districts: Report

The outskirts of the Bint Jbeil district’s town of Yater and the Tyre district’s Zebqin in southern Lebanon have been subjected to artillery shelling with incendiary phosphorous shells, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

The report said the attacks, accompanied by artillery shelling of 155mm-caliber, led to the outbreak of fires.

The NNA also said there was a heavy presence of drones and warplanes in the skies of the western Tyre district.

Trump picks pro-Israel Republican Elise Stefanik as UN envoy

Trump has nominated Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to the job of US ambassador to the United Nations.

Stefanik said she was “truly honoured” by the nomination.

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Stefanik, who represents New York, has pushed for unrestricted US military aid to Israel, including in a speech to the Israeli parliament in May this year, and previously threatened to cut funding to universities that allow protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.

She also supports Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.

Two Israelis injured in car-ramming near Bethlehem

The Times of Israel, citing medics, said two Israelis were treated at the scene of a car-ramming incident near the town of al-Khader in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli military said the suspect fled the scene and that troops have launched a manhunt.

Earlier, the Wafa news agency reported that Israeli forces stormed al-Khader after the incident and closed it off. Israeli forces have imposed a tight siege on the town and are firing live bullets at anyone moving there, the agency reported.

Hezbollah targets Israeli logistics base

The Lebanese armed group says it attacked a logistics base east of the city of Nahariya with a “squadron of attack drones”.

Earlier, Hezbollah said it had intercepted an Israeli Hermes 450 drone in the airspace of the western sector, saying “we forced it to leave Lebanese airspace”.

Israeli military still obstructing aid delivery to Gaza: NRC

Israel is obstructing the delivery of aid to Gaza in several ways in violation to its obligations under international law, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said.

“First and foremost, they are obstructing aid from entering through the crossings,” Shaina Low, NRC’s communications adviser, told Al Jazeera. “Aid is arbitrarily rejected and essential supplies are not allowed in, including timber to help people build shelters as they face winter.

“Sometimes the requests to access those crossings are denied for over a month.”

Once the aid enters Gaza, aid workers must request safe routes through which they can safely distribute the aid.

“Israel often denies requests to move from place to place in order to reach Palestinian families that are in desperate need,” Low said.

UN says Israeli construction work violates ceasefire agreement on Syria border

UN peacekeepers have warned that the Israeli military committed “severe violations” of a ceasefire deal with Syria, as its military carried out a major construction project along the border that separates the Israel-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, The AP has reported.

AP quoted the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) as saying that Israeli work along the Alpha Line risked further inflaming tensions in the region.

“Such severe violations of the [demilitarized zone] have the potential to increase tensions in the area and is being closely monitored by UNDOF,” the UN agency said.

The comments come after AP published satellite imagery showing the extent of the works along the frontier.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment. UNDOF said it repeatedly protested the work, which it described as violating the 1974 Disengagement Agreement over the months of construction.

Racist language used in Amsterdam City Council meeting after riots
Step Vaessen
Reporting from Amsterdam

The Amsterdam City Council has held a meeting in the wake of violent clashes between pro-Palestine supporters and fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv last week.

Racist language has been used in this debate when referring to the Moroccan community in Amsterdam. We have seen far-right parties going after Mayor Femke Halsema, saying she is not protecting the Jewish community, while the centre and left-wing parties have been asking why she immediately called the riots anti-Semitic without putting them in context.

This has been a very divisive issue. Far-right parties have called for anti-immigration measures and even deportations of people who are born in The Netherlands, while the other camp has been calling for the narrative to take into account the racist chants by Maccabi fans that led to the events.

Israelis comfortable chanting ‘genocidal hate songs’ during ‘actual genocide’

Orly Noy, editor at the Local Call, an independent Israeli media agency, says that since last week’s violent clashes involving Israeli football supporters in the Dutch capital, “the entire” Israeli media have described the incident as a “brutal anti-Semite pogrom”.

Readers were given the impression that an innocent group of Israeli football fans were brutally attacked, that they feared for their lives and were hiding in different places in the city, she told Al Jazeera.

“How do we get to a place where a group of Israelis feel so comfortable and so confidant to march about one of the major cities in Europe and chant genocidal hate songs while an actual genocide is being committed by their country?” she asked.

Noy added that “there is an incredible amount of detachment” by Israelis who “do not see what the rest of the world is seeing”, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

“For over a year, the Israelis are constantly being given the impression by the Israeli media and the Israeli leadership that we are the sole victims, we are the ones under attack, we are the innocent victims. It’s unbelievable,” she concluded.

At least six people killed in Israeli attack near mosque in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah

An Israeli air strike has targeted an overcrowded area near Al Noor Mosque in the western part of Deir el-Balah city in central Gaza, killing at least six people, according to our team on the ground.

At least 10 critically injured people were received by the American field hospital, our team said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/12/live-israeli-drone-attack-kills-10-in-gaza-cafe-as-tanks-enter-nuseirat

Aid groups say Israel missed US deadline to boost humanitarian help for Gaza

Israel has failed to meet the US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war, international aid organisations said.

The Biden administration last month called on Israel to “surge” more food and other emergency aid into Gaza, giving it a 30-day deadline expiring on Tuesday. It warned that failure to comply could trigger US laws requiring it to scale back military support to Israel.

Israel has announced a series of steps towards improving the situation. But US officials recently signalled Israel isn’t doing enough, though they have not said if they will take any action against it.

Israel’s new foreign minister, Gideon Saar, appeared to downplay the deadline, telling reporters on Monday he was confident “the issue would be solved”. The Biden administration may have less leverage after the re-election of Trump, who was a staunch supporter of Israel in his first term.

Tuesday’s report, authored by eight international aid organisations, listed 19 measures of compliance with the US demands. It said Israel had failed to comply with 15 and only partially complied with four.

The report was co-signed by Anera, Care, MedGlobal, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International and Save the Children.

Israeli forces close entrances to Bethlehem

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces have closed off several entrances leading to the West Bank city amid large-scale raids on several areas in the Bethlehem governorate.

The move came as Israeli forces hunt for a suspect who wounded two Israelis in a car-ramming incident near the town of al-Khader.

Wafa said Israeli forces have used sound bombs and toxic gas, but there are no reports of arrests as yet.

Hezbollah fights back as Israel continues with intense air attacks
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

The Israeli air force is continuing to carry out intense air attacks across southern Lebanon, as well as in other areas where Hezbollah has influence.

In recent days, we’ve seen an increase in the number of attacks in Syria, which the Israeli military considers to be a logistical base for Hezbollah. Israel wants to stop the flow of weapons into Lebanon, but Hezbollah is fighting back.

Yesterday it launched dozens of rockets from southern Lebanon into the Haifa area – Israel’s third-largest city – causing material damage to cars and homes.

Hezbollah’s strategy is to keep this war costly for the Israelis, to put pressure on them and prevent the tens of thousands of their citizens from returning to their homes in the north of Israel.

But many are arguing at what cost?

In the past week alone, more than 240 people have been killed and 600 injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Another riot in the streets of Amsterdam
Step Vaessen
Reporting from Amsterdam, Netherlands

Youth claiming solidarity with Palestinians have attacked a tram in the suburb of the capital.

They set it on fire, smashed windows, and yelled abusive language.

Tensions have been running high here for days following last week’s violent clashes with Israeli football supporters.

The arrival of more than 3,000 Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam last week was not considered high risk by Dutch authorities, although one Jewish activist told police they are widely known for political violence in Israel and many serve as soldiers in Gaza.

“We explained to them that there’s also going to be people who are serving in Gaza, participating in the genocide, and that is another very big risk factor. These are not regular hooligans. For them, coming to Amsterdam was a little bit demonstration, a pro-Israeli demonstration. So it was not only about football,” said Yuval Gal of the Erev Yav Jewish Collective.

A taxi driver who wanted his identity to be protected told us on his lawyer’s phone what happened when he was filming Maccabi’s support of staring down Palestinian flags. “A hooligan dressed in black came to my taxi and tried to drag me out and started to damage the car. Another person came with an iron chain and hit my car several times. I reported this to the police, but they did not take action.”

His lawyer Adem Catbas is documenting other cases of violence and racism committed by Maccabi fans.

Now, an emergency meeting has been called at the City Hall, aiming to provide answers on what exactly happened during last week’s riots. The violent role of Maccabi supporters is becoming clearer and people are challenging the description by politicians of a pogrom against Jews.

Pentagon confirms Houthis attacked US warships

The Houthis targeted two US destroyers with drones and missiles as they transited the Bab al-Mandeb Strait but the warships “defeated” the attacks, the Pentagon said.

The ships “were attacked by at least eight one-way attack uncrewed aerial systems, five antiship ballistic missiles and three antiship cruise missiles, which were successfully engaged and defeated”, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder told journalists.

“The vessels were not damaged, no personnel were hurt.”

The Houthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in attacks they say are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza – a significant international security challenge that threatens a major shipping lane.

The United States and other countries have deployed military vessels to help shield shipping from the Houthi strikes, but acknowledgement of attacks directly targeting American warships is rare.

Four Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza fighting

The Israeli military said in a statement the families of the soldiers have been notified.

The army has been carrying out a large-scale ground invasion in northern Gaza in what Palestinian officials, witnesses and journalists have described as a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Eight humanitarian organisations say Israel hasn’t met any metrics for US law compliance

At the Blinken-Austin letter’s 30-day deadline, eight humanitarian organisations assess that the Israeli government has not met any of the administration’s metrics for US law compliance on relief in Gaza.

The organisations are Refugees International, Anera, Care, Mercy Corps, NRC, Oxfam, MedGlobal and Save the Children.

The agencies published a scorecard on Israel’s compliance with US demands on humanitarian access. Across the board, they said, the Israeli government has failed to comply with US and international law on relief in the besieged coastal enclave.

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Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram protested outside White House today as US said it wouldn't hold Israel accountable for failing to follow law:
“It is a holocaust…genocide. You cannot kill 1000s upon 1000s of children & claim that they are being used as shields. It's bullshit.”''
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Demonstrators arrested outside White House as they ask Biden admin to uphold law & enact arms embargo on Israel.
(Given US letter 30 days ago suggesting policy "implications" if Israel didn't improve conditions in Gaza & that Israel failed, Israel would be in violation of US law)
https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1856553795137781876
The person arrested here is Arizona Democratic Party Progressive Council co-chair @kai_newkirk
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9 people were arrested as demonstrators — including Biden administration resignees — called for the Biden administration to enforce its own laws.

>>485590
>Israeli forces close entrances to Bethlehem
>The move came as Israeli forces hunt for a suspect
Are the Zionists hunting Jesus ?

US House fails to pass bill that could target pro-Palestine groups

Legislators in the US House have voted down a bill that would have granted the Department of the Treasury broad authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits deemed to be supporting “terrorism”.

The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, received 256 votes in favour and 145 against, falling short of the two-thirds majority required to pass.

The Republican-sponsored bill was introduced amid accusations that some Palestinian solidarity groups involved in widespread campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza were “pro-Hamas”.

“Good news! HR 9495 – the ‘Nonprofit Killer Bill’ aimed at silencing Palestine activism – failed to pass in the House tonight,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a social media post responding to the vote.

Israeli forces bomb a medical centre in Beirut

Israeli fighter jets have carried out a series of attacks on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital at dawn, striking the Dar al-Hawra Medical Centre in Harek Hreik several times, according to the National News Agency (NNA).

The strikes came after Israel’s military issued forced evacuation orders for the area.

We’ll bring you more updates as we have them.

US forces attack ‘Iran-aligned targets in Syria’

The US’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out attacks against an Iranian-backed group’s “weapons storage and logistics headquarters facility” following an attack on American personnel on Tuesday.

It did not identify the targeted militia, but said the attack on US forces did not cause injuries or damage.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began, armed groups in Syria and Iraq have launched attacks on US forces in protest over Washington’s support for its ally. The attacks have prompted retaliatory US strikes.

On Monday, the US said it carried out attacks against nine targets associated with Iran-backed groups in Syria.

Surgeon says he treated small children shot by drones in Gaza

Here’s more from the testimony British surgeon Nizam Mamode gave to a UK parliamentary committee about his experience volunteering with the aid group Medical Aid for Palestinians at Nasser Hospital in Gaza.

Many of his memories from his time at the hospital are of drones, he said.

“You have this constant whine, which is psychologically, very affecting, because it represents danger and it’s constantly there,” Mamode told the International Development Committee.

“Those drones are surveillance drones, but they are also drones that shoot people regularly.

“What I think I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area, and then the drones would come down and ‘pick off’ civilians.

“The bullets that the drones fire are these small cuboids. And I fished a number of those out of the abdomen of small children,” he said.

Israel let UN mission deliver aid to north Gaza shelters, then attacked the area

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says Israel has denied or impeded all of its attempts to provide food and healthcare to tens of thousands of people trapped in besieged northern Gaza so far this month.

The agency said Israeli authorities allowed only one mission by the World Food Programme (WFP) to enter on November 11.

The WFP convoy included two trucks carrying life-saving ready-to-eat rations and wheat flour, and one truck carrying bottled water. The aid was delivered to the Mahdia al-Shawwa School, which was sheltering displaced Palestinians, and a nearby public shelter, OCHA said. But shortly afterwards, Israeli forces surrounded the area, shelled it and forced people to flee.

Earlier, Palestinian media reported that Israeli forces had set fire to Mahdia al-Shawwa School and destroyed the building.

Iraqi armed group launches drones at Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it launched a drone attack on “a target in the middle of the occupied territories” in the early hours of the morning.

The umbrella group of Iran-backed militias said the attack was in solidarity with people in Palestine and Lebanon.

The Israeli military said it intercepted a “suspicious aerial target that was launched from the east” before it crossed into Israel.

Iraqi armed group launches more attacks on Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed a second drone attack on Israel, this time on a “vital target in the north of the occupied territories”.

The Israeli military said it intercepted an unmanned aircraft that crossed into Israeli territory in the early morning hours. The drones set off alerts in the western Galilee area, it said.

Earlier, the Iraqi armed group said it launched drones towards a “target in the middle of the occupied territories”. The Israeli military at the time said it intercepted a drone from the east.

What happened at the UNSC meeting on Gaza’s hunger crisis?
Gabriel Elizondo
Reporting from New York City, US

The Israeli ambassador’s comments to the UNSC were shocking, quite frankly.

If you were to listen to Danon, you would think everyone in Gaza has all the food that they could possibly need. Clearly, that is not the case.

And the independent Famine Review Committee that he attacked is a US-backed panel, and all they do is look at food insecurity. They’re not a political organisation and they don’t necessarily have a bias.

The Palestinian envoy said something important.

He asked why Israel does not allow international journalists into Gaza to see for themselves.

Mansour also told the council that Israel’s intentions are clear.

“Israel has decided and implemented famine as a method of war for the purposes of ethnic cleansing and to advance its colonial objectives,” he said.

Slovenia and Guyana – two of the Security Council members that called for this meeting – criticised the lack of international action.

Samuel Zogbar, Slovenia’s ambassador to the UN, said, “Stories of children in Gaza unable to cry due to hunger should force us to act now. Their silence must be deafening for their families, their doctors, their communities”.

He added that “the only silence louder is the one of this council not acting to prevent the worst from happening”.

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, the Guyanese ambassador, called the situation in Gaza “apocalyptic” and said it is “entirely attributable to the persistent violation of international law including international humanitarian law”.

Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh gets US National Press Club’s top award

The Washington, DC-based group said it was awarding its highest honour for press freedom to Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in the Gaza Strip.

It noted that Dahdouh continued to report from the enclave despite suffering “unspeakable personal tragedies”.

This includes learning live on air that an Israeli air attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp had killed his wife, his seven-year-old daughter and his 15-year-old son, along with other family members. Another son, Hamza, who was also an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by a drone attack in January.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 188 Palestinian journalists, according to authorities.

France says Israel wants freedom to strike Lebanon even after ceasefire

France’s foreign minister said Israeli officials are insisting on maintaining a capacity to strike Lebanon at any moment as part of conditions to secure a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Speaking to a parliamentary hearing after holding talks in Israel last week in Jerusalem, Jean-Noel Barrot said it was a condition increasingly voiced among Israeli officials.

“Today, we hear in Israel voices calling for it to keep a capacity to strike at any moment or even enter Lebanon, as is the case with its neighbour Syria,” said Barrot, who held talks with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer and new Defence Minister Israel Katz last week.

Earlier, Israel’s Defence Minister Katz said, “We will not allow any arrangement that does not include the achievement of the war’s objectives – and above all Israel’s right to enforce and act on its own against any terrorist activity.”

France, which has historical ties with Lebanon, has sought to play a role in trying to secure a ceasefire in the Middle Eastern country.

Pro-Palestine demonstrations in Amsterdam

Pro-Palestine demonstrators rallied in central Amsterdam, defying a ban imposed after violence stemming from a football match between Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Dozens of demonstrators, some with Palestinian flags, chanted “Amsterdam is saying no to genocide” and “Free Palestine”.

Police with expanded stop-and-search powers in the Dutch capital have detained or removed hundreds of demonstrators since last week’s clashes under emergency measures imposed until Thursday.

Israeli army says six soldiers killed in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army has issued a statement saying six soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon, as the military continued its ground operation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/13/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-us-finds-israel-is-not-impeding-gaza-aid

Israeli attack targets Syria’s Homs countryside

Syrian state media said that Israel had carried out an air raid in a region near the border with Lebanon.

The SANA news agency said that “the Israeli aggression” on the Homs region had been met with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.

Israel says it has been carrying out strikes to reduce the transfer of weapons from Iran through Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which it said had spread to the town of al-Qusayr, near the Syrian-Lebanese border.

The Israeli military has not commented on the attack.

US files charges in leak of documents on Israel’s plans to attack Iran

The US government has charged an employee in a case of leaked classified documents, The Associated Press reports.

The FBI said in late October that it was investigating the unauthorised release of classified documents on Israel’s preparation for a potential attack on Iran.

We will bring you more on this when further details emerge.

More on man charged with leak of US classified info on Israeli attack plans for Iran

As we reported earlier, a man who worked overseas for the United States government has been charged with leaking classified information prior to Israel’s planned missile attack on Iran last month, according to media reports citing court documents.

The man, identified as Asif William Rahman, was arrested by the FBI this week in Cambodia and was due to make his first court appearance in Guam, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

Rahman was indicted last week in US court in Virginia on two counts of disclosing national defence information under the Espionage Act, and could face a lengthy prison sentence.

The New York Times reported that Rahman was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), adding that the CIA did not comment on the matter.

The leaked documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which analyses images and information collected by US spy satellites, the newspaper reported.

The NGA conducts work in support of secret US military operations.

You can read more about this incident in our full story here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/13/man-charged-in-us-for-leaking-secret-documents-about-israeli-attack-on-iran

Students occupy defence firm’s HQ in Italy to protest Gaza war complicity

About 100 students have occupied Leonardo’s LDOF.MI Turin headquarters to denounce what they say is the Italian defence group’s complicity in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

The students, who unfurled a flag of the Palestinian territories from the roof of Leonardo’s offices, said the company was supporting the war by providing remote technical assistance and spare parts to Israel’s air force.

Images released by the students show them in Leonardo’s offices waving Palestinian flags and carrying spray cans. Outside, they hung banners on the buildings saying “No arms to Israel”, accusing the group of complicity in genocide.

They also clambered on top of a plane in the grounds of the company’s headquarters.

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto condemned the protest, saying that the students were “destroying and defacing” the offices where an “important meeting with the staff of the defence ministry” was taking place.

Israel carries out series of air attacks across southern Lebanon: Report

An Israeli drone has carried out a raid with a guided missile, targeting a motorcycle in the southern Lebanese town of Yahmar al-Shaqif, according to the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).

It also said that two air strikes were carried out by Israeli warplanes in the town of Tebnine and two more in the town of Burj Qalaouiyah.

Also in southern Lebanon, Israel’s warplanes launched a raid on the city of Bint Jbeil and the town of Ainata, followed by a raid on the town of Sultaniya, the NNA reported.

A building was destroyed when Israeli warplanes bombed the vicinity of the Communist roundabout in the town of Kfar Reman, the report said.

At least three people were injured in a drone attack in the town of al-Shaitiyah, according to NNA.

Hezbollah claims first attack on Israeli war ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv

The Lebanese armed group says it carried out its first air attack on Israel’s Kirya military base.

Hezbollah said the base was the headquarters of the Israeli war ministry and general staff, as well as its war management room and the air force’s war control and supervision authority.

The group claimed the attack was carried out with a squadron of attack drones and the targets were hit accurately.

Hezbollah claims attack on military base in northern Israel

The Lebanese armed group says it has carried out an air attack on the Amos military base in northern Israel with a squadron of attack drones.

Hezbollah said the site is Israel’s transportation formation base in the northern region and a central axis in the readiness of the technology division.

The base is located near the Israeli city of Afula.

Clashes near occupied West Bank’s Hebron after Israel demolishes Palestinian homes

Wafa news agency reports that several Palestinians have suffered tear gas inhalation after clashes broke out in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the West Bank.

The clashes between locals and Israeli security forces broke out at the entrance to the town after the forces demolished several Palestinian structures, including two homes.

Israeli forces responded with live bullets and tear gas, Wafa reported.

Elswhere in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers stormed a Bedouin community and began bulldozing lands, Wafa reported.

Areas around Ras Ain al-Auja were cleared by the settlers in what one local activist described as the prelude for their takeover.

The settlers, who were escorted by the Israeli army, entered the community, roamed its streets, and damaged and destroyed local property, according to Hassam Malihat, the general supervisor of Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, who spoke to Wafa.

Israeli forces prep to stay in Gaza until at least end of 2025: Report

Israeli news outlet Haaretz reports that the army has distributed training and planning materials to personnel in recent weeks that show plans to occupy the Gaza Strip for at least the entirety of next year.

Also, Haaretz reports, the extent of Israel’s infrastructure construction and the destruction of buildings in Gaza suggests a long stay for combat troops.

“Wide roads are being built, cellular antennas are going up, water, sewage and electricity networks are going in and of course there are the buildings, some portable and others less so,” the report reads.

‘No time left’ say families of Israeli captives after video release

An Israeli group campaigning for the release of captives held in Gaza says their loved ones have “no time left”.

The comment by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum came after Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian fighter group allied with Hamas, released a video of one of the captives.

“The hostages have no time left – a deal for their release is the only way to bring them all back to us,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/13/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-us-finds-israel-is-not-impeding-gaza-aid

>>485603
>France’s foreign minister said Israeli officials are insisting on maintaining a capacity to strike Lebanon at any moment as part of conditions to secure a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
So a realistic ceasefire (where the firing ceases) necessitates Israel being disarmed/demilitarized.

>>485605
Yep.

US military reports strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen

US Central Command has said its forces struck multiple weapons storage facilities in Yemen on Saturday and Sunday.

“These facilities housed a variety of advanced conventional weapons used by the Iran-backed Houthis to target US and international military and civilian vessels navigating international waters in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden,” CENTCOM said in a statement today.

It added that the strikes were conducted in response to repeated Houthi attacks on “US and international military and civilian vessels navigating international waters in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden”.

The Houthis have pledged to attack ships in the waterways in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel strikes suburbs of Syria’s Damascus

Syrian state news agency SANA says initial reports indicated that an Israeli strike has targeted the Damascus suburb of Mazzeh.

It coincided with another attack on the Qudsaya city, 10km (6 miles) away from Mazzeh, SANA reported.

We will keep you updated.

At least 15 people killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus

At least 15 people have been killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on suburbs of the Syrian capital, according to a Syrian military source cited by the SANA news agency.

We have reported earlier that one building was hit in the suburb of Mazzeh and the other in Qudssaya, west of Damascus.

Israeli, Hezbollah forces clash on outskirts of Lebanon’s Aitaroun village: Report

Israeli ground troops and Hezbollah fighters have been engaged in violent confrontations on the outskirts of the Aitaroun village towards the Ainata village in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).

The agency said there were confirmed casualties among Israeli soldiers.

Elsewhere in southern Lebanon, a farmer identified as Yassin Abdullah Abu Qais was killed in Israeli bombing of the Habbariyeh village.

Hezbollah says it attacks northern Israeli logistical base

The Lebanese armed group says its fighters have launched missiles at a logistical base for the Israeli army’s 146th Division northeast of the Netiv HaShayara settlement and east of Nahariya city.

Hezbollah also claimed an attack on the Jal al-Alam border post in northern Israel “with a missile salvo” and on the city of Nahariya “with a rocket salvo”.

EU’s Borell proposes suspending political dialogue with Israel

Reuters news agency is reporting that the European Union’s top diplomat made the proposal ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers scheduled for next week.

In a letter, he pointed to “serious concerns about possible breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza” adding that “thus far, these concerns have not been sufficiently addressed by Israel”.

“In light of the above considerations, I will be tabling a proposal that the EU should invoke the human rights clause to suspend the political dialogue with Israel,” Josep Borrell is reported to have written.

Political dialogue between the EU and Israel is enshrined in a broader agreement reached between the two parties in June 2000. The suspension likely faces steep odds, as it would require approval from all 27 EU countries.

Reuters reported that several countries are in opposition to such a move. Still, the proposal is likely meant to send a strong message about how Israel continues to conduct the war.

Radio journalist, children killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon

The Union of Audiovisual Media Workers has confirmed that Sakina Mansour Kawtharani, who worked with al-Nour radio station, was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

Kawtharani was killed in a strike on Joun in the Chouf district, the union reported, without providing a date of the attack. Her two children and other members of her family were also killed in the attack, they said.

On Tuesday, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 12 people were killed in a strike in Joun, although it was not immediately clear if that is the same attack in which Kawtharani was killed.

The killing comes after three journalists were killed in an Israeli strike on a guesthouse in southeastern Lebanon on October 25.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/13/live-israeli-attacks-kill-dozens-us-finds-israel-is-not-impeding-gaza-aid

Israeli strike on Gaza ‘safe-zone’ damages MSF clinic

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, says an Israeli air attack that hit the Israeli-designated “safe zone” of al-Mawasi damaged the group’s medical clinic in the area.

“The blast was huge. We didn’t receive an official evacuation order from Israeli forces, we were notified by the residents,” Myriam, an MSF coordinator, said in a post on X.

“Both staff and patients fled the clinic. We later found the facility with equipment destroyed, and shrapnel damaged the desalination plant,” she added.

Hezbollah maintains military capability Israel claims to have destroyed
Imran Khan
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

The recent Israeli activity in Lebanon’s Beirut southern suburbs is perhaps unsurprising given Hezbollah’s attack on Tel Aviv yesterday. Hezbollah still has that military capability that Israel says it has destroyed.

We have been speaking to people in Beirut’s targeted suburbs. They are telling us there is severe damage as a result of the Israeli air raids. Many homes and businesses are simply gone.

When Israel puts these forced evacuation orders on a particular building, it is not just that building – it’s all of the buildings around it that also get emptied out and hit in the air raids.

UN special committee finds Israel’s methods of war in Gaza consistent with genocide

The UN special committee to investigate Israeli practices has released a report that determines mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions are “intentionally imposed” on Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli army.

“Since the beginning of the war, Israeli officials have publicly supported policies that strip Palestinians of the very necessities required to sustain life – food, water, and fuel,” the committee said in a press release.

“These statements along with the systematic and unlawful interference of humanitarian aid make clear Israel’s intent to instrumentalise life-saving supplies for political and military gains,” it continues.

The report’s findings – that Israel intentionally withholds aid from the Strip, uses starvation as a weapon of war and is careless in its infliction of civilian casualties – are consistent with other UN and humanitarian condemnations of Israel’s conduct.

US imposes sanctions on Syria network for benefitting Iran’s IRGC, Yemen’s Houthis

The US has blacklisted 26 entities, individuals and ships that it claims comprise a network associated with Syria-based al-Qatirji Company, which has alleged ties with the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Houthis in Yemen.

The Treasury Department said the Syrian conglomerate was responsible for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the Quds Force and the Houthis through the sale of Iranian oil to Syria and China.

The company was previously designated for allegedly facilitating the sale of fuel between the Syrian government and ISIL (ISIS). Sanctions on it are now being expanded, the US said.

The latest US sanctions include vessels with flags from Iran, Guyana, Palau, Panama and Barbados. The Treasury said some of the blacklisted vessels are managed and operated by India-based and Panama-based entities.

Recommendations in UN special committee report binding in light of Genocide Convention

The report from the special committee of the UN’s human rights office leaves “no doubt about its interpretation”, says Triestino Mariniello, professor of law at Liverpool John Moores University.

“The committee is confirming that Israel is committing genocide through several violations of international law,” Mariniello, who is a member of the legal team representing Gaza victims before the International Criminal Court, told Al Jazeera.

These violations include mass killings, causing serious bodily and mental harm, imposing harsh conditions of life, forced displacement and deprivation.

While the report is not itself binding for UN member states, Mariniello said its recommendations are binding in light of the Genocide Convention, which obliges member states to adopt all possible measures to prevent genocide and punish those responsible for committing it.

Congresswoman Tlaib calls on Blinken to resign after aid deadline passes

The first Palestinian American woman to serve in the US Congress says Antony Blinken must resign as secretary of state after his deadline for Israel to ramp up aid to Gaza passed without any consequences.

Rashida Tlaib, pointing to a picture of a starving Palestinian child, said Blinken set a 350 trucks per day goal for humanitarian aid, but only 57 trucks entered per day in October – even if official Israeli figures can be taken at face value.

“This week, Mr Speaker, Secretary Blinken exposed his lie by announcing that there will be no change to any policy, despite admitting that the Israeli government has failed to comply with all of their demands,” Tlaib said.

“Secretary Blinken has continued to lie to Congress and should resign.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/14/live-israel-bombs-gaza-camps-6-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-south-lebanon

Clashes at Paris football stadium as Israel-France face off

Videos circulating on social media show Israeli football fans clashing with French spectators during their teams’ match at Stade de France in Paris.

Some of the footage, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, showed Israeli fans beating up the French fans in the stands.

Videos showed the stadium was mostly empty before the start of the match due to security concerns following violent clashes in Amsterdam after a football match last week.

Others showed fans booing and whistling while the Israeli national anthem played. Some clips pointed to clashes outside the stadium as well.

Israeli media reported that internal security agency Shin Bet’s chief Ronen Bar accompanied the Israeli team to France and was at the stadium.

https://twitter.com/Thomas_Rannou_/status/1857151734633648340
Translation: Major scuffles in the stands. Israeli supporters appear to have attacked French supporters. To be continued …

Hezbollah says it attacked military base in Tel Aviv

Hezbollah claims that for the first time, it targeted what it identified as the Tel Haim military base in Tel Aviv, some 120km (74 miles) from the border with Lebanon.

Hezbollah said it used “qualitative missiles” to target the base, which it said belongs to the military intelligence division of the Israeli army. It did not comment on the potential impact, and the Israeli military has not commented.

In some of the latest of its over 30 attacks today, Hezbollah said it fired rockets toward the Kiryat Shmona settlement and other communities near the border with Lebanon.

Footage shows aftermath of Israeli strike on Lebanon’s civil defence centre

Footage filmed by Lebanese TV station Al Jadeed shows the aftermath of the Israeli raid that targeted a civil defence centre in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek, in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate.

At least 12 people have been killed in the attack.

https://twitter.com/ALJADEEDNEWS/status/1857146171355005294

Four paramedics killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon

At least six people, including four paramedics, have been killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Arabsalim, in southern Lebanon, the Ministry of Health said.

The National News Agency reported several strikes in southern Lebanon, including one in the centre of Nabatieh that destroyed a commercial complex.

UN peacekeepers report exchange of fire with unknown armed forces in Lebanon

The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said its soldiers engaged in an exchange of fire with unknown assailants, but no one was hurt.

UNIFIL said in a statement that one of its patrols noticed a cache of ammunition near Qallawiyah, but it continued on its route.

When peacekeepers later exited their vehicle to remove debris from the road, two or three unknown people “fired approximately 30 shots in the direction”, prompting the soldiers to return fire and move to safety.

“No one was hurt and there was no damage to the vehicles. It is unclear if the discovery of the weapons cache and the attack are directly linked. We have launched an investigation.”

UN forces have repeatedly come under fire by the Israeli army, which has demanded their evacuation from southern Lebanon as it keeps advancing with a ground operation.

Video shows Israeli strike on Beirut suburbs

A video posted by the Quds News Network shows the moment an Israeli strike hit a building in southern Beirut earlier today and the widespread destruction caused by ongoing air raids in the area.

https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1857082454042931708

Letter by 88 Democratic lawmakers calls for sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers

A letter calling on President Biden to sanction far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich before he departs the White House in January has been signed by 88 Democratic lawmakers.

The letter, which was submitted on October 29 but publicised today, expressed deep concern about “the rise in settler violence, settlement expansion, and measures adopted to weaken the Palestinian Authority and otherwise destabilise” the occupied West Bank.

It said the two ministers have been fuelling violence in the occupied territory, which has consisted of multiple Israeli attacks and raids per day, during which homes are destroyed, livestock are stolen and Palestinians are killed or wounded.

“With radical officials in the Netanyahu government continuing to enable settler violence and enact annexationist policies, it is clear that further sanctions are urgently needed,” the lawmakers wrote.

Eight Jewish lawmakers are also among the signatories.

Netanyahu’s chief of staff suspected of manipulating timeline of conversations on October 7

Israeli police suspect that PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, tried to alter the timelines of the leader’s conversation surrounding the October 7 attacks.

Braverman sought to access the transcripts and timestamps of the calls between Netanyahu and his military secretary Avi Gil to change them in favour of Netanyahu, according to Israeli news outlet Haaretz.

Netanyahu was reportedly first informed of the Hamas attack around 6:29am shortly after air raid sirens sounded across the country, and had two conversations with Gil.

Several weeks after the attack, Gil received information that Braverman had approached a staff member in the PM’s office to gain access to one of the conversations, which took place on a secure phone. Gil reported the matter to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

Earlier this week, it was reported that Braverman was at the centre of a case involving the alleged extortion of a senior officer in Netanyahu’s military secretariat to gain access to the logs of meetings held early in the war.

Israeli parliament to discuss bill banning Palestinian flag

On Sunday, the Knesset will discuss a bill that bans the raising of the Palestinian flag in “state-funded or supported institutions”, Israeli media has reported.

The bill, to be presented to the parliament’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation, targets the flags of “enemy countries” and gives authorities permission to “disperse any gathering in which such flags are raised, and impose a prison sentence of up to one year, in addition to a fine of no less than NIS 10,000 [$2,674].”

This would apply to state institutions such as universities, where protesters have at times used the Palestinian flag to protest against the war in Gaza.

Turkish activists demonstrate on ship carrying arms to Israel

Earlier this month, Turkish activists staged a protest on the MV Kathrin, a German ship that was reportedly carrying eight shipping containers of 150,000kg (331,000 pounds) of explosives to Israel’s largest defence contractor.

The ship had been turned around from several other countries as well before reaching Turkiye.

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1857122324341834204

London court to hear case on UK’s F-35 components exports on Monday

Two human rights groups opposed to Israel’s war on Gaza are continuing their legal action against the British government’s decision not to ban exports of components used in Israeli F-35 fighter jets and other weapons.

The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Al-Haq said the Royal Courts of Justice of London will hold a session on Monday to hear the case on the lawfulness of the exemption for the key fighter jet parts from a UK arms suspension.

“The ongoing challenge could also be expanded to include the UK government’s lack of red lines for imposing a full export ban on weapons to Israel as the groups this week sent the government notice of the intention to take fresh legal action,” the two groups said.

UN peacekeeping chief meets government, army leaders in Lebanon

We reported earlier that the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said that redeploying the Lebanese armed forces in southern Lebanon would constitute “an absolutely central element” of any ceasefire agreement.

He has since met with Lebanon’s parliament speaker and Amal Movement leader Nabih Berri, Defence Minister Maurice Sleem, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, and Army Commander General Joseph Aoun.

Lacroix also sat down with representatives of countries that provide troops to UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon.

Those forces have come under fire from the Israeli military dozens of times in the weeks since Israel significantly ramped up its attacks on Lebanon and launched a ground invasion of the southern parts of the country.

Activists say British firm cut ties with Israeli weapons maker

The Palestine Action network has announced that UK-based machinery supplier Hydrafeed has cut ties with Israel’s largest arms manufacturer Elbit Systems after a pressure campaign.

The group said its activists spotted and “destroyed” machinery built by the company inside Elbit’s factory in Kent in June.

It also said four activists in the US were imprisoned for making a move against Elbit’s factory in New Hampshire and will serve two months.

UN committee says Israel warfare in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’

Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said, pointing to “mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians” since October 7 last year.

The committee said Israel’s siege, blocking of aid, and targeted attacks and killing of civilians, despite UN and ICJ orders, was “intentionally causing death, starvation and serious injury”.

Israel’s warfare practices in Gaza “are consistent with the characteristics of genocide”, the committee said in the first use of the word by the UN in the context of the current war in Gaza. Israel, it said, was “using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population”.

Belgium condemns Israel for trying to annex occupied West Bank

Belgium’s foreign ministry strongly condemned a statement by Israel’s far-right economy minister, Bezalel Smotrich, calling for “exercising sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank.

US ‘unequivocally disagrees’ with UN finding on Israel’s genocide in Gaza

US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel has rejected the findings of the report by the UN that Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

“This is something we would unequivocally disagree with. We think that kind of phrasing and those kinds of accusations are certainly unfounded,” he told reporters about the report that also said Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war.

Patel also questioned a report by Human Rights Watch that said Israel’s forcible displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amounts to “crimes against humanity”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/14/live-israel-bombs-gaza-camps-6-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-south-lebanon

A vote on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination in the UN General Assembly today passed today with just 6 countries voting against: Argentina, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Paraguay, and the United States of America.

>>485631
>Clashes at Paris football stadium as Israel-France face off
In some countries there already are informally labelled "Zionist-free zones". Like in Japan apparently, based on rumors i admit.

Israeli appear to be building them selves a really bad reputation. They're by no means the only "source of football hooligans" and considering how insane the media bias tries to twist reality to make them look good, they must be pulling horrendous stunts to get so much shunning.

>>485631
>UN peacekeepers report exchange of fire with unknown armed forces in Lebanon
"unknown armed forces"

>>485631
>Israeli parliament to discuss bill banning Palestinian flag
Magical thinking.

Nothing happens if you tie a piece of cloth to a pole.

It used to be the case that pole-cloths with symbols were used as visual coordination tool for military formations, to enable soldiers in marching formation to know where the front with the troop commander is and make sure that parts of the formation didn't get confused and wonder off into another direction. In that context it made sense to have rules for pole-cloths because otherwise it could break coordination.

It's probably more than a century that anybody used it for the purpose of commanding troops, because it's obsolete on the modern battlefield and even dangerous. Why would anybody still care about this ?

Rules are a constrained resource. People can only remember a certain number of rules, and they have to expend limited mental concentration to suppress impulses to obey rules. Why would you spend your rules-budget on something as inconsequential as this ?

Israeli forces vandalise, loot home in Qalqilya: Report

Israeli forces have stormed a family home in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya and assaulted one of its inhabitants, according to the Wafa news agency.

During the raid, Israeli forces smashed the family’s furniture while taking gold jewellery, the report said.

Elsewhere – in Qalqilya’s Jaidi neighbourhood – Israeli forces also stormed another home and arrested a young man, according to Wafa.

Two Palestinian prisoners die in Israeli prisons: Report

Sameeh Eleiwi from the occupied West Bank’s Nablus city and Anwar Esleem from Gaza have died in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs cited by the Wafa news agency.

Eleiwi, 61, passed away last Wednesday, six days after being transferred from the Ramla prison clinic to Israel’s Shamir Medical Center near Tel Aviv.

He had been in Israeli prison since his arrest in October last year.

Esleem, 44, died yesterday while being transferred from the Negev Prison to the Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba, Wafa reported.

At least 15 rescuers killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

The number of civil defence workers killed in yesterday’s Israeli attack on Lebanon’s Baalbek Regional Civil Defence Centre in the Douris village, at the entrance to the city of Baalbek, has risen to 15, according to a local official.

Baalbek-Hermel Governor Bashir Khodr said on X that 10 of the bodies were identified.

“The remaining five were recovered in pieces, and DNA tests will be conducted to determine their identities,” he said.

Iran’s Larijani meets with Lebanon’s Berri

Iran’s Ali Larijani has arrived in Beirut and met with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, according to Lebanon’s MTV broadcaster.

Iran’s Larijani pledges to support Hezbollah no matter what

As we reported earlier, Iran’s Ali Larijani, an adviser to the country’s supreme leader, is in Lebanon to convene with top officials.

After meeting with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Larijani stated Iran would support the “resistance” – referring to Hezbollah – in all circumstances, and back the group’s stance in ongoing ceasefire talks.

“We are not looking to sabotage anything. We are after a solution to the problems,” said Larijani.

UN says Gaza aid convoy comes under fire, food stolen

The UN says three drivers were injured when 14 trucks in a 20-truck convoy carrying humanitarian aid were shot at and had food stolen in central Gaza.

The trucks had collected aid from the newly opened Kissufim border crossing with Israel – located near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis – and were travelling to a warehouse in Gaza’s central Deir el-Balah area when the convoy came under fire, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.

The attack was a “law and order” episode and not crossfire between Palestinian fighters and Israeli forces, he said.

“For months we’ve been calling for the opening of more land routes, both into and within Gaza,” Dujarric said.

“But we also need increased access and security assurances, as well as more supplies so they can quickly reach all people across Gaza at the necessary scale,” he said.

“As we’ve said repeatedly, it is also critical that Israeli authorities facilitate the movement of aid workers and supplies across the Gaza Strip,” he added.

Hamas official says group ready for a truce if Israel honours it

Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim says the Palestinian group would accept a ceasefire if it receives a proposal that Israel honours.

Speaking to AFP news agency, Naim – a member of Hamas’s political bureau – called on the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump to push Israel to “end the aggression”.

While campaigning for president, Trump vowed to end the war quickly but also expressed wholehearted support for Israel’s far-right government.

Since winning the election, Trump named several prominent pro-Israel hawks to his administration including Mike Huckabee – who once said “there’s really no such thing as a Palestinian” – to be ambassador to Israel.

Ben & Jerry’s says parent company Unilever silenced it over Gaza support

The parent company of Ben & Jerry’s has attempted to silence the ice cream brand’s support for the Palestinian cause, threatening to dismantle its board and sue its members, according to a lawsuit.

“Ben & Jerry’s has on four occasions attempted to publicly speak out in support of peace and human rights. Unilever has silenced each of these efforts,” according to the lawsuit, filed in New York federal court on Wednesday.

The legal action is the latest spat between the Unilever conglomerate and Ben & Jerry’s over the Palestinian issue.

Three years ago, Ben & Jerry’s announced it would stop selling its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying it was “inconsistent” with its values.

This led Unilever to look for a “new arrangement”, offloading its Israeli Ben and Jerry’s business to a local licensee, which kept the ice cream for sale in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Ben and Jerry’s sued Unilever for selling its business to a licensee. The lawsuit was settled in 2022, but the details remain confidential.

Ben and Jerry’s alleges in its latest suit that Unilever has violated the agreement.

The Vermont-based ice cream maker called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza in January, making it one of the first multinational companies to do so after Israel began bombing Gaza in October 2023. In May, its board expressed support for pro-Palestine protests sweeping US college campuses, saying they were “essential” to democracy.

Incoming US envoy to Israel refuses to say ‘West Bank’

Israeli media network Arutz Sheva has interviewed Mike Huckabee, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel.

Huckabee, a devout evangelical Christian known for his staunch pro-Israel views, told the media he was surprised by his nomination, but eager to take the role.

“[It’s] the only thing that President Trump could have asked me to do that I probably would’ve said yes to,” he said.

Huckabee doubled down on his position that there is “no such thing” as the occupied West Bank, instead referring to the territory as the “promised land” and “Judea and Samaria”, using the biblical term often employed by right-wing Israelis.

UK complicit in Gaza genocide: Britain’s former Labour leader

The UK’s former Labour Party leader and independent MP Jeremy Corbyn has said “there is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.

“If it did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time,” he said.

He called for the UK to “end all arms sales to Israel.”

Corbyn has long been a supporter of Palestinian rights and a staunch critic of Israel’s policies.

In September, the UK announced it had suspended 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel, citing a “clear risk” they could be used in serious breaches of international humanitarian law.

However, human rights organisations and experts said the suspension was not broad enough as it exempted crucial F-35 fighter jet parts.

Israeli military claims to have killed PIJ brigade commander

In its latest war update, the Israeli military says that in coordination with Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence service, its air force struck Alkaman Abed Elslam Khalil Anbar, who it claims was in charge of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) brigade located in Gaza City.

It says Anbar was responsible for the PIJ’s rocket launches from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory and was a “significant figure in the organization’s weapons manufacturing processes”.

The PIJ group has not commented on the Israeli military’s claim.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/15/live-israel-kills-paramedics-women-in-lebanon-strikes-dozens-die-in-gaza

IAEA chief tours sensitive Iran nuclear plants

The UN nuclear chief toured two Iranian uranium enrichment plants that have been the focus of Western concern after Tehran said it’s ready to address “doubts” about its nuclear ambitions.

The visit to Iran by International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi comes after he warned “the margins for manoeuvre are beginning to shrink” over its nuclear programme.

Samuel Hickey, of the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Grossi’s tour of the two plants is “significant for both technical monitoring and symbolic reasons”.

“Natanz serves as Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility while Fordo houses some of its most advanced centrifuges,” Hickey said.

Fordo “is among Iran’s most proliferation-sensitive sites”, he added. Hickey said by allowing Grossi to visit the plants Iran “is signalling that the easiest access to these facilities is through diplomatic engagement”.

Palestine hails UN vote on right to self-determination

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement welcoming the adoption of a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly to recognise “the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination”.

The ministry pointed out that 170 countries voted in favour of the resolution, including states “that have evolved their positions to support this fundamental right”.

Only Israel, the United States and four others voted against it, while nine countries including Palau and Tonga abstained.

The resolution is welcome “at a time when the Palestinian people are facing genocide and ongoing violations of all their rights, including the right to self-determination”, the ministry said, adding this gives hope to Palestinians that the world is ready to “confront genocide, colonial settlement expansion, and settler terrorism”.

Unexploded Israeli shell hits UNIFIL base in Lebanon

Italy said an unexploded artillery shell hit the base of the Italian contingent in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.

Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani spoke to his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar and protested Israeli attacks against its personnel and infrastructure in UNIFIL, an Italian statement said.

Tajani said the safety of the soldiers in UNIFIL had to be ensured and stressed “the unacceptability” of the attacks.

UNIFIL said that deliberate attacks on peacekeepers are a grave violation of humanitarian laws.

Second Israeli strike in two days hits Damascus

Syrian state-run media say Israel has attacked the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus, the second such strike in as many days to hit the neighbourhood, which is home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices.

“Israeli aggression targets Mazzeh area in Damascus,” the official SANA news agency said after reporting a deadly Israeli air raid on the district a day earlier.

As attacks intensify against the backdrop of the war in Lebanon, Israeli strikes in and around Damascus on Thursday killed 23 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.

Thursday’s attack on Mazzeh killed 13 people, including civilians and Iran-backed fighters, while an attack on the outskirts of Damascus killed 10 Palestinian fighters, the monitor said.

New video of Israeli captive Sasha Trupanov in Gaza

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, allied with Hamas, released new footage of Israeli captive Sasha Trupanov who has been held in Gaza since the October 2023 attack.

Trupanov, identified by his relatives in the previous video released on Wednesday, appealed to Aryeh Deri – leader of the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party Shas, a member of Israel’s governing coalition – to help free him and the other captives held in Gaza.

The Shas party supports a deal for their release under the Jewish religious obligation to do everything possible to free captives.

Trupanov, 29, is a dual Russian-Israeli citizen who was abducted with his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen, from the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border. His mother and grandmother were also abducted and released along with Cohen during a week-long truce and captive-prisoner exchange in November 2023. His father, Vitaly, was killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called for the release of Trupanov and another captive, Maxim Herkin, in comments made before the release of the latest clip.

UCLA urged to enhance protest readiness amid major protests: Review

The University of California, Los Angeles should develop clear plans and policies, communication lines and decision-making authority in advance of major protests such as the one against Israel’s war on Gaza, according to an outside review.

The report released on Thursday by 21st Century Policing Solutions, a national law enforcement consulting agency, described a highly chaotic response in late April and early May doomed by the university’s lack of preparedness and critical communication failures.

The institute requested it after its controversial handling of the protests.

Clashes between protesters and counterprotesters on the campus led to more than a dozen injuries, and more than 200 people were arrested at a demonstration the next day after hundreds defied orders to leave.

Muslim leaders who supported Trump express disappointment over cabinet picks

Muslim leaders in the US who supported Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by the president-elect’s cabinet picks.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” said Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who co-founded Muslims for Trump.

Trump nominated Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and staunch pro-Israel conservative who backs Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

He also picked Republican Representative Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations, and who has called the UN a “cesspool of antisemitism” for its condemnation of deaths in Gaza.

“It seems like this administration has been packed entirely with neoconservatives and extremely pro-Israel, pro-war people, which is a failure on the side of President Trump, to the pro-peace and antiwar movement,” said Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Network.

Family of Al Jazeera’s wounded cameraman on hunger strike in push for Gaza evacuation

The family of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi is staging a hunger strike to demand that Israeli forces allow his evacuation from Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have reported.

Al-Wahidi has been in a coma since being shot in the neck on October 9 as he reported on the Israeli ground invasion of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

His mother, who suffers from cancer, said she was afraid that her son might die if not allowed treatment abroad.

Despite appeals from three media freedom organisations, Israeli authorities have not allowed al-Wahidi and fellow Al Jazeera cameraman Ali al-Attar, who is also wounded, to leave Gaza.

Lebanon says US ceasefire proposal unacceptable, talks ongoing

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has confirmed a ceasefire proposal sent by the US is being considered but the text was unacceptable to Lebanon as it stood, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports.

Berri said the proposal included the formation of a committee to supervise the implementation of UN Resolution 1701, which mandates the disarmament of Hezbollah and its withdrawal from the border with Israel beyond the Litani River.

The speaker said this mechanism was objectionable but added discussions were still taking place in a “positive atmosphere”.

Berri also dismissed reports that the proposal included the deployment of NATO forces or other forces in Lebanon or any kind of freedom of movement for the Israeli army in Lebanon.

Why is Israel increasing its strikes on Syria?

A number of strategic considerations are behind Israel’s increasing strikes on Syria, a military analyst says.

“Israel views Iran’s growing influence in Syria as a direct threat to its national security,” Elijah Mangier, a Brussels-based military and political analyst, told Al Jazeera.

Iran has been managing the supply line to Lebanon’s Hezbollah through Syria, where weapons for the group are manufactured and transferred.

Mangier said Israel aims to maintain a “deterrence posture” in Syria. “They are not [aiming] to destroy the whole supply line,” he said, adding that Israel plans to rather insert an element of risk that disrupts its operations.

Israel is also banking on the fact that Syria will not respond to its attacks, he said.

“The Israelis will continue bombing because Syria is not retaliating. The Syrians are keeping themselves away from direct involvement, and that’s why they [Israel] are daring to attack Syria.”

Yemenis hold another ‘million-man march’ to back Gaza, Lebanon

Many in Yemen have again turned up for weekly demonstrations in support of the people of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Images and footage released by Houthi media in Yemen showed people, some of whom were armed, demonstrating in the main square of the country’s capital.

https://twitter.com/MMY1444/status/1857432548785176938

Antiwar demonstrations in Morocco

Thousands of Moroccans participated in protests and solidarity events in support of Lebanon and Gaza, condemning the ongoing Israeli wars.

Large crowds gathered in several cities, including Kenitra, Berrechid, al-Hoceima, Kalaat M’Gouna among others across the country, following Friday prayers.

The rallies, organised by an NGO, the Moroccan Committee for the Support of the Ummah, called for continued support for Palestine and humanitarian aid for Gaza.

Qassam Brigades claims killing of 3 Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza

Hamas’s armed wing says its fighters have attacked Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza and killed three near besieged Beit Lahiya.

“Qassam fighters managed to kill three Zionist soldiers at point-blank range in the vicinity of Abbas Kilani roundabout, north of Beit Lahiya city,” the armed group said in a statement on Telegram.

In Amsterdam, clashes trigger a divisive blame game as old wounds reopen
Giovana Fleck

Amsterdam, the Netherlands – More than a week after clashes in Amsterdam, Tori Egherman, a Jewish writer and researcher who has lived in the Dutch capital for 20 years, still feels angry.

“What makes me angry is that they come, act in the most violent and racist ways, and then leave us to clean up their mess,” she said of the Israeli football club fans involved in last week’s violence.

“This episode only makes Jews and Muslims suffer the most. If we are more divided and can’t work together, there’s little we can do as communities to improve the current situation.”

French court orders release of Lebanese fighter held since 1984

A French court has ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years after being convicted over the killings of two foreign diplomats.

The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the 1982 murders, would be released on December 6 on the condition he leaves France. The prosecutor’s office said it would appeal the decision.

Abdallah is a former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions.

He was given a life sentence in 1987 for his role in the murders of US diplomat Charles Ray in Paris and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in 1982 and in the attempted murder of US Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg in 1984.

Palestinian solidarity march takes place in Israel

Dozens of protesters have gathered in Umm al-Fahm – a town made up almost entirely of Palestinian Israelis located south of Haifa – to demonstrate against Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.

https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1857387315552768140

France condemns demolition of al-Bustan centre

France has strongly condemned the demolition of al-Bustan Association centre in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli authorities on November 13.

“Supported and financed by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and 21 French local authorities, this centre has provided more than a thousand children and young people with cultural and sporting activities as well as essential academic and psychological support,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.

France called for accountability over the demolition, describing it as part of Israel’s illegal settlement policy, which it said “threatens the two-state solution and the status of Jerusalem”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/15/live-israel-kills-paramedics-women-in-lebanon-strikes-dozens-die-in-gaza

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims attack on Israel’s Eilat

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed groups in the region, says its drones attacked “a vital target in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat twice this morning.

The Times of Israel newspaper earlier reported that the Israeli forces said a projectile launched “from the east” – a term it usually uses when referencing Iraq – set off warning sirens in Eilat at about 6am (03:00 GMT).

2 Islamic Jihad leaders confirmed killed in Israeli attack on Syria

Two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures were killed in an Israeli strike on Syria this week.

An Islamic Jihad statement confirmed Abdel Aziz Minawi and Rasmi Yusuf Abu Issa were killed alongside “a group of the movement’s cadres” in the Thursday air raid on offices and apartments in the capital Damascus.

Minawi, born in 1945, was described as a “prominent leader”, and Abu Issa, born in 1972, as Islamic Jihad’s “head of Arab relations”.

The group said the bodies were recovered on Saturday morning. It pledged that their deaths would “only increase our firmness and determination to continue the resistance” against Israel.

Police suppress pro-Palestine protest against Hillary Clinton in Belfast

Irish police pushed back pro-Palestine students and academics who held a protest inside the campus of Queen’s University in Belfast, denouncing the visit of former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Palestine supporters protested Clinton’s visit, accusing her of supporting the Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, which featured Palestinian flags and people drenched in fake blood, was met by police.

Police arrested several protesters leading dozens to demonstrate in Belfast for their release. The former US secretary of state’s visit to Belfast was to participate in the Global Innovation Summit.

https://twitter.com/CYMBelfast/status/1857404826193154327

Dutch government defused crisis over Israeli football violence, prime minister says

A government crisis in the Netherlands has been averted after a cabinet member resigned over the handling of violence involving Israeli football fans in Amsterdam last week.

Moroccan-born Nora Achahbar unexpectedly quit her role as junior finance minister on Friday after far-right leader Geert Wilders blamed Moroccans for attacks on fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Dutch capital on November 7.

Wilders said, “We saw Muslims hunting Jews,” and added they were fuelled by “Moroccans who want to destroy Jews”.

Achahbar’s resignation triggered an emergency meeting in which other cabinet members of her centrist NSC party also threatened to quit. Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said late on Friday his cabinet had reached an agreement that no other NSC members would resign.

Maccabi fans – in Amsterdam to watch their side play Ajax in a Europa League match – were recorded singing anti-Arab chants and tearing down Palestinian flags in the city. (anon's note: they also beat up a cab driver)

Residents were recorded beating and attacking the Israeli supporters as outbreaks of violence erupted across the city.

Protesters hold pro-Palestinian march in Rio before G20

Hundreds of protesters marched in support of Palestinians in Rio de Janeiro, in a demonstration aimed at world leaders about to converge on the city for a G20 summit.

The march, held peacefully under constant rain along Copacabana Beach, was watched by dozens of police and soldiers deployed as security for the summit to be held Monday and Tuesday.

The meeting will see heads of state and government, including US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping, discuss coordination on international issues.

The Rio protesters, a few wearing the keffiyeh scarves, held aloft the Palestinian flag and banners, including one reading “Break Brazil-Israel Relations”, and demanded that Israeli allies stop financing its wars in Gaza and in Lebanon.

Flares fired at Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea

Israeli police said that two flares fired at Netanyahu’s house earlier this evening fell in the garden.

The police said Netanyahu and his wife were not in the house when the incident took place.

An investigation is continuing, it said, adding that “this development is considered a dangerous escalation”.

Hundreds of Israelis demonstrating for a prisoner exchange deal in Gaza

Hundreds of Israelis, including families of Israeli captives in Gaza, are demonstrating at the Karkur Junction north of the country, videos taken by activists and verified by Al Jazeera show.

The protesters were calling on Netanyahu’s government to secure a captives-prisoner exchange deal.

Several dozen protesters waved Israeli and yellow captive solidarity flags, while others stressed the need to make every effort to bring them back safely.

Hezbollah reviewing ceasefire draft

A ceasefire proposal to halt fighting in Lebanon is still being reviewed after a copy was handed over earlier this week by the US ambassador to Lebanon to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who has been negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah.

An unnamed Lebanese official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Berri is expected to give Lebanon’s response on Monday.

Berri told the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat daily newspaper the draft does not include any demand that allows Israel to act militarily in Lebanon if the deal is violated. “We will not accept any infringement of our sovereignty,” Berri was quoted as saying.

One of the items mentioned in the draft that Lebanon does not accept is a proposal to form a committee to supervise the agreement that includes members from Western countries. “The atmosphere is positive but all relies on how things will end,” said Berri.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/16/live-who-chief-slams-israels-killing-of-12-paramedics-in-lebanon-strike

>>485697
So Samidoun is a "designated terror group". Apparently "designated" means they didn't do any acts of terrorism, they've just been cursed by the Canadian government or something. I don't really get it, seems like BS.

Ive never heard of this person before but it sure looks like another one of these cases where they assaulted some political activist for no real reason, other then her political activism being inconvenient for the Zionist lobby.

>>485707
picrel: Justin Trudeau prepares to hand Samidoun the cursed terror apple

>>485708
lol yup

People don't realise how much dopamine is released anytime I see dead goat fuckers in palestine, it feels like justice being served, Palestinians are not moral, they're just weak and deserve everything that is coming their way.

>>485722
>People don't realise how much dopamine is released anytime I see dead
You're taking drugs while watching the zionist gore videos ?
EW! , also why are you telling us ?

>dead goat fuckers in palestine
You might be wrong about the animal rape, those politicians in Israel argued for legalizing prison-rape. That's gotta be a different kink.

>it feels like justice being served
Maybe lay off those drugs.

>Palestinians are not moral
The Zionists are telling us that mass murdering all those children in Gaza makes them moral. I'm guessing you're complaining the Palestinians haven't slaughtered enough kids ?

>they're just weak and deserve everything that is coming their way.
Might makes right is for fools. Nobody is permanently mighty.
The US can't prop up Israel's militarism forever, and you better hope all the other countries in that region who are a lot more powerful than Israel by it self adhere to more evolved principles.

Israeli forces ramp up attacks on Beirut, south Lebanon
Charles Stratford
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

There doesn’t seem to be any let-up whatsoever in the targeting of those southern suburbs of Beirut, that area called Dahiyeh, which is often described as a Hezbollah stronghold and which once had a population of around a million people.

There’s virtually nobody there now.

People used to use the daytime to go back and check on their homes, their belongings and their businesses. But that is now increasingly difficult.

The initial Israeli strikes happened in the relatively early hours of the morning, following forced evacuation orders. And then there was another round of strikes on that area in the afternoon.

That’s not the only area that Israel has been hitting today.

There was another massive wave of strikes on the southern city of Tyre and we understand that the Israeli military has put out forced evacuation orders to at least 15 villages in southern Lebanon.

So, no sign of a let-up in what can only really be described as an escalation by Israeli forces.

The Lebanese Health Ministry is saying that at least two more medics were killed in a strike also in southern Lebanon today. That brings the death toll of rescue workers and medics just in the last two weeks to almost two dozen.

So it shows you the kind of pressure that Lebanon is under, that indeed Hezbollah is under and that the civilian populations of these areas are under.

‘Tens’ killed in Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya

Our correspondent on the ground in Gaza, Hani Mahmoud, is reporting that the attack we reported earlier on the area in north Gaza hit a five-storey residential building hosting about 100 internally displaced Palestinians.

Witnesses told Al Jazeera that many people were killed, and medics told Reuters that “tens” of people were killed and wounded.

The number of dead remains unclear because an insufficient number of paramedics were able to reach the site of the attack, Mahmoud said.

We will bring you more on this shortly.

Preliminary death toll from Israel’s Beit Lahiya strike at 72

Gaza’s Government Media Office says the strike, which we reported earlier, hit a residential tower in the north of Gaza housing six Palestinian families. Dozens more are wounded.

We will continue to update you as information comes in.

Gaza Civil Defense: ‘We are unable to help the people of Beit Lahiya’

Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza rescue organisation, says it cannot reach the site of an attack on Beit Lahiya, north Gaza.

“The department received appeals from residents of a house bombed by the Israeli occupation in Beit Lahiya, but we cannot move to rescue them,” he said.

Two bombs hit a five-storey residential tower in the northern Gaza city, killing “tens” of people, according to medics.

Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli soldiers

The Lebanese armed group says its fighters ambushed Israeli soldiers in the village of Chamaa in southern Lebanon at 11.15pm local time (21:15 GMT) on Saturday, causing several casualties.

The group said fighting was ongoing.

There was no immediate comment from Israel.

Earlier, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli soldiers had retreated from Chamaa, which is 5km (3 miles) from the Israeli border and is the furthest point that Israeli soldiers have reached inside Lebanon since they launched a ground invasion on October 1.

The soldiers blew up several homes and the Shrine of Shimon the Prophet, in Chamaa, before their withdrawal, the NNA reported.

At least 47 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat with Hezbollah since September 30, according to a tally by the AFP news agency.

Israel carried out 145 attacks on Lebanon in the past 24 hours

The Lebanese government has published a report that demonstrates the scale and intensity of Israel’s attacks on the country.

The report by Minister of Environment Nasser Yassin says there have been 145 Israeli attacks across the country in the past 24 hours. Most of them were in Nabatieh and South Lebanon, with 55 raids and 73 raids, respectively.

The report says there have been a total of 13,222 attacks since the beginning of the aggression.

CAIR slams ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden over inaction in Gaza

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has condemned the US president’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

CAIR said in a statement: “While the world witnesses daily atrocities by Israel in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden remains silent as the far-fight Netanyahu government uses American weapons and his administration’s support to slaughter civilians, destroy their homes and force their children to starve.

CAIR said its statement follows reports from Gaza of “dogs feeding on corpses, a prominent Palestinian doctor tortured to death in an Israeli prison, the killing of a Palestinian journalist in an Israeli drone attack, the Israeli burning of a Gaza school storing aid supplies, an Israeli massacre at a school in Gaza, illegal Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian homes, and Israeli field executions in northern Gaza”.

Three arrested after flares fired at Netanyahu’s residence

Israeli police said they have arrested three people after two flares were fired at the Israeli prime minister’s private residence in the northern town of Caesarea, The Times of Israel reports.

There were no additional details.

Earlier, the Israeli police said the flares fell in the garden and that Netanyahu and his wife were not at home at the time.

They described the incident as “a dangerous escalation”.

Clashes as march in Greece shows support for Palestine

Brief clashes broke out as thousands of people marched in Thessaloniki and Athens to commemorate the 1973 student uprising against the Greek military dictatorship.

The marches focused on the Israeli war on Gaza, delivering a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

In Thessaloniki, petrol bombs exploded and protesters burned US and Israeli flags, while in Athens, the march passed by the US Embassy and concluded at the Israeli Embassy.

Earlier in Athens, students carried a flag stained with the blood of those who took part in the 1973 revolt against the military government at Athens Polytechnic University, where several people had died after the military crashed through the gates with tanks.

Hezbollah confirms Mohammed Afif killed in air strike

The Lebanese group confirmed its media relations chief died earlier in an Israeli attack in central Beirut.

The strike also killed three others and wounded 14 in the commercial district of Lebanon’s capital.

“He was not intimidated by the enemy’s threats to kill him, he faced them with great courage and with his famous phrase: ‘The bombing did not frighten us, so how can the threats frighten us?'” Hezbollah said in a statement on Telegram of Mohammed Afif.

“With his brilliant pen and courageous positions, he drew the letters of glory and victories, and instilled terror in the souls of the enemy.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/17/live-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-lebanon-target-shelters-rescue-workers

Yemen’s Houthis announce ‘successful’ attack on Tel Aviv

The Houthis say they have successfully carried out drone strikes against Israel, targeting a number of military and other “vital targets”.

“The UAV force of Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting a number of military and vital targets of the Israeli enemy in Yaffa area and Ashkelon area southern occupied Palestine,” the group said in a statement.

The attack “successfully achieved its objectives”, the statement added. There was no immediate response from Israel.

In July, the Houthi rebels hit Tel Aviv for the first time and Israeli forces extensively damaged Yemen’s crucial port of Hodeidah in response. The militia says it will continue attacking Israel and shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden until the war on Gaza ends.

More on the Israeli attack on Beirut’s Mar Elias neighbourhood

Videos shared on social media show massive flames erupting and thick smoke billowing following the latest Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital, as ambulances rush to the scene in the background.

The footage, verified by Al Jazeera, also shows wounded people lying on the ground as others attend to them.

https://twitter.com/ALJADEEDNEWS/status/1858207672144658573

South Africa strongly condemns Israel’s attack on Syria

“The recent attack of 14 November 2024 in the Damascus suburb of Mazzeh, in proximity to the South African Embassy, other diplomatic missions and United Nations offices, is a blatant disregard of international law and the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic,” the South African Foreign Ministry has said in a statement.

This “continued aggression undermines regional and international peace and security”, it said.

“The more than 120 attacks on Syria since 7 October 2023 have added to the worsening humanitarian crisis currently in the Middle East,” the ministry said.

Under the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, South Africa called on the United Nations to hold to account those responsible.

Death toll in Israeli strike on Lebanese army post rises to 2

Earlier, we reported an Israeli attack on a Lebanese army post in al-Mari, Hasbaiyya area, which killed one soldier and wounded three, one critically.

We are now getting information that another soldier succumbed to his wounds, raising the death toll to two.

“The Israeli enemy directly targeted an army centre [causing] the death of one of the soldiers and the wounding of three others, one of whom is in critical condition,” the army said in a statement.

A separate statement shortly afterwards said “a second soldier” died.

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon again come under fire

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says a peacekeeping patrol was fired upon “about 40 times”.

“A group of individuals”, at least one armed, sought to prevent the patrol from passing in south Lebanon on Saturday, but it continued and was later “fired upon about 40 times from behind, likely from non-state actor members”, UNIFIL said in a statement.

No troops were injured, although “some patrol vehicles had bullet impacts”.

“Once again, UNIFIL reminds all actors to ongoing hostilities across the Blue Line to avoid actions putting UN peacekeepers in danger,” UNIFIL said. “They must respect the inviolability of UN personnel and premises at all times.”

Israel carries out at least 27 air attacks on civilian and religious sites in Lebanon: Report

One of the air attacks, Lebanon’s state media reports, targeted the vicinity of Our Lady of Salvation Church near Saint George Hospital in the Hadath area of Beirut’s southern suburb, while another strike targeted a 12-story residential building near the Mar Michael Church in the Chiyah neighbourhood of southern Beirut.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, but the attacks caused extensive damage to nearby structures.

The attacks came shortly after the Israeli army issued immediate forced evacuation orders for residents in the targeted areas.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/17/live-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-lebanon-target-shelters-rescue-workers

https://twitter.com/AkimotoThn/status/1858079466444263681
Scuffle in front of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo

Democratic legislator calls for probe into AIPAC’s role in election losses

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman from New York, says her party should look at the role played by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in the defeats it suffered in the recent US presidential and congressional elections.

AIPAC is a powerful pro-Israel lobby that spent more than $100m in US political races this year, including in primary elections against progressive Democrats who had criticised Israel’s war on Gaza.

“If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a post on X.

Incoming senate leader calls for sanctions against ICC over Israel investigations

Senator John Thune, the incoming Republican leader of the Senate, says his party will use its majority to pressure the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its prosecutor Karim Khan to stop pursuing an arrest warrant for Israeli officials.

“If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation,” Thune said in a post on X.

“If (Democrat) Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and other supportive legislation – a top priority in the next Congress,” he added.

On May 20, Khan announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu, as well as Israel’s now former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, alongside three Hamas leaders, all of whom have since been killed in Israeli attacks.

The ICC has not yet made a decision on whether to grant the warrants.

Several senior Republicans have long pressed Khan not to investigate Israeli officials, even writing to his office to say they would bar him, and his family, from the United States if he went ahead with the announcement in May.

Israeli forces seize water networks in the northern Jordan Valley

Israeli forces seized water networks belonging to Palestinian farmers in Khirbet al-Deir in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank.

The head of the Ein al-Bayda village council, Omar Fuqaha, told the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces seized four water networks located on several springs in the area belonging to Muhammad Fayez Daraghmeh.

The networks were used by Daraghmeh to irrigate crops grown in that area.

Another farmer in Khirbet al-Deir, Muhammad Sawafta, also said Israeli forces seized his water pumps and solar energy used to operate those pumps, leaving agricultural land planted with grapes and corn without a water source.

Khirbet al-Deir is one of the border areas that Palestinians used to cultivate their lands, taking advantage of the springs there.

Last year, Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, also seized water networks in the area.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/18/live-israeli-attacks-kill-111-in-gaza-as-pope-calls-for-genocide-inquiry

>>485738
It's amazing that Ocasio-Cortez can even say shit like this immediately after joining in the McCarthyite smears of Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian agent.

Hezbollah claims attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese armed group says it targeted a gathering of Israeli forces in the town of Khiam.

Hezbollah also said it targeted Israeli soldiers west of the southern Lebanese town of Aalma ech Chaab with a “squadron of suicide drones”.

Fighters later launched an “air attack with a squadron of qualitative attack drones on sensitive military points – which will be announced later – in the city of Tel Aviv,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

‘Missile hit’ causes fire in central Tel Aviv, police commander says

We’ve been reporting on a long-range missile fired from Lebanon that was allegedly intercepted by Israel’s air force.

According to the Israeli military, shrapnel fell to the ground in the Ramat Gan area of Tel Aviv, causing a major fire in a building.

However, Israeli media outlet Kan News quotes the district police commander as saying, “it is not fragments of an interceptor but a heavy missile hit.”

Power outage after Hezbollah rocket attack on Tel Aviv

The Israel Electric Corporation says a high-voltage line was damaged, affecting the local electricity supply.

After the attack that hit electricity infrastructure in the Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan area, “a high voltage line was damaged affecting the electricity supply in the streets near the strike”, it said in a statement.

“The company’s teams are on their way to repair the damage to the network and restore the electricity supply to the residents,” it said.

Latest on Hezbollah missile fired at Tel Aviv

Footage shot in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan district at 10pm (20:00 GMT) shows a fire that started at the base of a transmission tower as well as surrounding buildings with blown-out windows.

The ambulance service said its first responders evacuated six injured people to hospitals following the strike. One woman is in serious condition.

Israel’s military said it “intercepted one projectile” that crossed from Lebanon while Israeli police said they received reports of rocket debris falling in the Tel Aviv area.

A review of Israel’s air defence systems shows that an interceptor missile “hit a surface-to-surface missile launched from Lebanon at a high altitude, breaking it into several parts”, the army said.

“As a result of the interception, some parts of the missile hit the ground, causing damage and casualties.”

Lebanon to file complaint against Israel at UNSC

Lebanon’s permanent mission to the UN in New York will submit a formal complaint condemning Israel’s continuing assaults on the Lebanese military.

Two soldiers died and three others were injured, including one who is in critical condition, following an Israeli strike on a military outpost on Sunday in the town of Mari in southern Lebanon.

With this latest incident, the total number of Lebanese army soldiers killed in Israeli attacks since October 8, 2023, rose to 36.

The Foreign Ministry said the attacks undermined international efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for a full cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.

Casualties in Tel Aviv after Hezbollah rocket attack

Four people were wounded after a main street of a Tel Aviv suburb was hit by falling shrapnel.

The fragments fell after a missile fired from Lebanon was intercepted by the Israeli military over central Israel, the ambulance service said.

Large blaze in Tel Aviv after raid sirens sound

Video shows a major fire burning in downtown Tel Aviv after emergency warning systems sounded in Israel’s main city.

An apparent rocket strike from Lebanon hit a shopping centre in the Ramat Gan area of Tel Aviv in central Israel.

The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported a rocket hit a bus in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv. Air traffic at Ben Gurion International Airport was also suspended, it said.

Red alert sirens were also activated in Haifa city in the country’s north.

At least 100 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel: Army

The Israeli military says Hezbollah has launched about 100 projectiles from Lebanon into northern Israel, with the country’s air defence system intercepting some.

Israel’s first responders said two people, including a 65-year-old woman with a shrapnel wound to the neck, sustained light injuries in northern Israel and were taken to hospital.

The military said that as of 3pm (13:00 GMT), about “60 projectiles that were fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organization have crossed from Lebanon into Israel today”.

Later it said, “following the sirens that sounded between 15:09 and 15:11 in the Western Galilee area, approximately 40 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory”.

At least one woman was killed and five other people wounded in northern Israel, the emergency services announced earlier.

Netanyahu: Attacks on Hezbollah will continue even with truce

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue to operate militarily against Hezbollah even if a ceasefire deal is reached in Lebanon.

“The most important thing is not [the deal that] will be laid on paper,” Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament. “We will be forced to ensure our security in the north and to systematically carry out operations against Hezbollah’s attacks … even after a ceasefire.”

Lebanon death toll rises to 3,516

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 3,516 people and wounded 14,929 since October 2023, its Health Ministry says.

Ten people died in Israeli air strikes on central Beirut on Sunday.

“The Israeli enemy strike on Ras al-Nabaa in Beirut led to a final toll of seven dead, including a woman, and 16 others wounded,” a ministry statement said.

It added that the “final toll” of an Israeli strike on the Mar Elias district late on Sunday was three dead, including a woman, and 29 wounded.

Gaza ministry says 20 killed in aid-looter crackdown

Gaza’s Interior Ministry says at least 20 people were killed in an operation targeting “gangs” that looted United Nations trucks bringing aid into the war-torn territory threatened with famine.

“More than 20 members of gangs involved in stealing aid trucks were killed in a security operation carried out by security forces in cooperation with tribal committees,” the ministry said in a statement.

“Today’s security operation will not be the last. The phenomenon of truck thefts … has severely impacted society and led to signs of famine in southern Gaza.”

The statement called the operation “the beginning of a broad security campaign that has been long planned and will expand to include everyone involved in the theft of aid trucks”.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing in New York Monday that only 11 of the convoy’s 109 trucks made it to the warehouse where they were expected.

Funeral for Hezbollah spokesman killed in an Israeli strike

A funeral has been held in southern Lebanon for Mohammad Afif, Hezbollah’s head of media relations, a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in central Beirut.

Afif’s coffin, draped in Hezbollah’s yellow flag, was carried through the streets of Sidon on the shoulders of mourners.

“Resistance is the response and the convoys of martyrs create victory,” Afif’s brother, Sadiq al-Naboulsi, said at the funeral.

“Hajj Mohammad Afif was a big figure in the media and therefore the Israelis and Americans were hurt by his voice. For that reason, they assassinated him. The killing of Hajj Mohammad Afif and all the martyrs and leaders will not turn [us] back at all,” he said.

US warns Turkey against hosting Hamas leaders

The United States has warned Turkey against hosting Hamas’s leadership, saying Washington does not believe leaders of a “terrorist organisation” should be living comfortably.

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller did not confirm the reports that some Hamas leaders had moved to Turkey from Qatar but said he was not in a position to dispute them.

He said Washington would make clear to Turkey’s government there can be no more business as usual with Hamas. Some Hamas leaders are under US indictment and Washington believes they should be turned over to the United States, he added.

“We don’t believe the leaders of a vicious terrorist organisation should be living comfortably anywhere, and that certainly includes in… a major city of one of our key allies and partners,” Miller told reporters.

Hamas dismissed the reports as “rumours the [Israeli] occupation is trying to publish from time to time”.

UNESCO’s ‘enhanced protection’ for 34 Lebanon heritage sites

Dozens of heritage sites in Lebanon have been granted “provisional enhanced protection” by UNESCO, which offers a higher level of legal shielding as fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah.

The 34 cultural properties affected “now benefit from the highest level of immunity against attack and use for military purposes”, the UN cultural body said in a statement.

Several Israeli strikes in recent weeks on Baalbek in the east and Tyre in the south hit close to ancient Roman ruins designated as World Heritage Sites.

UNESCO said the decision “helps send a signal to the entire international community of the urgent need to protect these sites”.

“Non-compliance with these clauses would constitute ‘serious violations’ of the 1954 Hague Convention and … potential grounds for prosecution.”

Israeli PM says attack on Iran hit ‘nuclear component’

Netanyahu tells parliament Israel’s attack on Iran last month degraded its defence and missile production capabilities and also hit an element of its nuclear programme.

Families of Israeli captives confront PM Netanyahu in the Knesset
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan
Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it’s been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The scenes have been quite chaotic. Members of the opposition have been thrown out yelling while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking at the podium, saying it’s Hamas who is the main obstacle for a ceasefire deal.

Up until this point, he said, Israel has recovered 145 captives, some of whom were released one year ago during the first and only ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Netanyahu also said there were a number of bodies recovered by Israeli forces in several military operations, which by the way resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.

However, you have family members of Israeli captives who for more than a year have been saying Netanyahu is not doing enough.

Members of the Israeli government as well and a large portion of Israeli society blame the Israeli leadership for why there hasn’t been a deal and for why this war has been going on so long with little to no military achievements.

No roles yet for key figures in Trump’s Arab American outreach

Among the reasons some Arab American voters supported US President-elect Donald Trump was that they believed his prominent supporters would be key in the next administration.

Massad Boulos, a Lebanese businessman and father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, led efforts to engage the Arab American community, organising dozens of meetings across Michigan and other areas with large Arab populations.

Some sessions featured Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence, who was well regarded by those who met with him.

Neither Boulos nor Grenell has been tapped yet for the coming administration although Grenell was once considered a potential secretary of state before Rubio was selected, The Associated Press reported.

“Some people expected Trump to be different and thought Massad would play a significant role,” said Osama Siblani, publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News, which declined to endorse a candidate in the presidential race.

Siblani himself turned down a suggested meeting with Trump after the non-endorsement announcement.

“But now people are coming to us and saying, ‘Look what you’ve done,’” Siblani told the AP. “We had a choice between someone actively shooting and killing you and someone threatening to do so. We had to punish the person who was shooting and killing us at the time.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/18/live-israeli-attacks-kill-111-in-gaza-as-pope-calls-for-genocide-inquiry

>>485739
She's pretty zany!

>Large blaze in Tel Aviv after raid sirens sound
>Video shows a major fire burning in downtown Tel Aviv after emergency warning systems sounded in Israel’s main city.
vid rel:
https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1858589243171631238

>>484995
The exStarminator is trying to change the definition of the word "genocide".

Leaving aside the obvious psychopathy, does it mean the Zionist impunity to commit mass murder is eroding ?

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=i6MWBg6Ap_w

US House to vote again on NGO bill that could target pro-Palestine groups

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the legislation, dubbed the “nonprofit killer” bill, could return to the floor on Tuesday or Wednesday for a new vote that would only require a simple majority after the bill failed to reach a two-thirds majority last week.

“This act … threatens to chill legitimate criticism of Israel and advocacy for Palestinian human rights while undermining free speech, due process, and nonprofit independence,” CAIR said in a statement.

The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, would grant the Department of the Treasury broad authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits deemed to be supporting “terrorism”.

Last week 256 representatives voted in favour of the bill, including 204 Republicans. Among Democrats, 52 voted in favour of the bill while 144 voted against it.

Member of the Knesset cut off while calling Netanyahu a ‘serial killer’

Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and head of the Hadash-Ta’al list in Israel’s parliament, has accused Netanyahu, who was in the chamber at the time, of being a “serial killer of peace”.

“There are 17,385 babies in Gaza which your system has killed, of those 825 are under the age of a year,” Odeh said.

“There are 35,055 babies orphaned in Gaza. The blood of all of them will haunt you,” he added.

A video Odeh shared on X showed other members of the Knesset reacting strongly to his remarks, before three men forced him away from the microphone.

https://twitter.com/AyOdeh/status/1858618216068902983

Israel’s latest attack on Beirut hit near prime minister’s residence, UN headquarters
Ali Hashem
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

Emergency workers are still recovering bodies from the rubble after Israel’s latest attack on central Beirut.

The Zuqaq al-Blat neighbourhood is a well-known and densely populated area. There’s a mosque, there are several coffee shops and, of course, residential buildings.

The significance of this attack is that it’s the third within 24 hours in administrative Beirut. A couple of attacks happened the day before as well, one of them close to the French embassy, killing Hezbollah’s media chief Mohammad Afif. There was also another attack on a market street – Mar Elias – where more people were killed.

The second thing to note about this latest air raid is that it hit just a few metres from the prime minister’s office. We are standing in front of Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s office – the Grand Serail – and just beside it is the UN headquarters in Beirut – the ESCWA.

And this is also coming at a time when negotiations for a ceasefire are taking place. But these attacks – as well as Israel’s ongoing ground offensive in southern Lebanon and the continued rocket fire from Hezbollah – are adding to scepticism of the prospects of a real ceasefire.

Israeli army forced food off trucks before delivery to north Gaza: UN

The UN’s humanitarian office says thousands of Palestinians in the areas of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces are struggling to stay alive because there has been virtually no food or humanitarian aid deliveries for more than 40 days.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric delivered the grim report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, known as OCHA.

“OCHA reports that all attempts by the UN to support people in [Beit Hanoon], Beit Lahiya and parts of [Jabalia] – all of which remain under siege – have been either denied or impeded,” he said.

So far in November, OCHA reports that 27 out of 31 planned humanitarian missions were rejected by Israel and the other four were severely impeded, Dujarric said.

“The result is that bakeries and kitchens in north Gaza governorate have shut down, nutrition support has been suspended, and the refueling of water and sanitation facilities has been completely blocked,” Dujarric said.

Food and medical supplies were supposed to be delivered to Kamal Adwan Hospital but “our partners say the team was forced to offload the food at an Israeli military checkpoint before reaching the hospital, and only some of the medical supplies could be delivered to the facility”, Dujarric added.

Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli base near Tel Aviv

The Lebanese group says it has fired missiles at Israel’s Glilot military intelligence base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

In addition, Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli troops around four southern Lebanese villages, including the flashpoint town of Khiam.

The attacks follow a separate Hezbollah rocket attack on Tel Aviv yesterday that wounded at least six people.

Palestinian armed groups clash with Israeli forces in Jenin

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Palestinian armed groups are clashing with Israeli forces in Jenin and the neighbouring Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.

The Jenin Battalion of al-Quds Brigades said its fighters targeted an Israeli military bulldozer with an explosive device.

UNSC demands the release of ship crew detained by the Houthis

As we’ve been reporting, today marks the first anniversary of the Houthis’ seizure of the merchant ship, MV Galaxy Leader.

The UNSC issued a statement recalling the attack and demanding the immediate release of the vessels and its 25 crew members.

The crew have now been unlawfully detained for almost one year, it said.

“The members of the Security Council emphasized the need to prevent further regional spillover of the conflict and its impact on security and stability in the region and beyond,” the UNSC said. “In this regard, they reiterated the necessity to address the root causes contributing to regional tensions and to the disruption of maritime security in the Red Sea and encouraged enhanced diplomatic efforts by all.”

‘The window is now,’ says Hochstein

Speaking to the media in Beirut, Hochstein said a ceasefire “is now within our grasp” but ultimately it is “the decision of the parties to reach a conclusion”.

“As the window is now, I hope the coming days yield a resolute decision”, he added.

The US envoy said he would not take questions about the ceasefire talks because he does not “want to be negotiating this in public”.

Later today, he said, he will meet with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and other top Lebanese officials.

“I’m committed to doing everything I can to work with Lebanon’s and Israel’s government to bring everything to a close,” he said.

Top Hamas negotiators not in Doha: Qatari Foreign Ministry

A spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majed al-Ansari, says the leaders of Hamas’s negotiating team are currently not in Doha, where they have long been based. However, he said the group’s political office in the Qatari capital has not been closed permanently.

Ansari’s statement follows media reports that many Hamas leaders have moved from Qatar to Turkiye.

Both Hamas and a Turkish diplomatic source quoted by Reuters denied these claims.

Hezbollah leader’s speech postponed

We’re getting reports that the expected address by Naim Qassem has now been postponed.

Earlier, Hezbollah had announced that its leader would deliver a speech.

Israel’s military says it kills Hezbollah rocket commander

In its latest war update, Israel’s military says it has killed the head of Hezbollah’s mid-range rocket unit.

The commander, named as Ali Tawfiq Dweiq, was hit by an aerial strike in the southern Lebanese region of Kfar Jouz, according to the Israeli army.

Dweiq, who held his position for just two months, was accused by the Israeli military of directing the launch of hundreds of projectiles at Israel.

Canadian protesters block staff from entering factory selling weapons bound for Israel

About 100 protesters have blocked morning shift staff from entering the Collins Aerospace factory in Canada, demanding the company stop selling weapons components for fighter jets and attack helicopters bound for Israel, according to a statement released by activists.

“While my family members in Gaza have been killed and continue to be terrorised by Israel’s nonstop bombing attacks, I am sickened to know that parts of these same bomber planes are being made right here at Collins Aerospace’s factory in Oakville, where I live,” said Dalia F, a Palestinian resident of Oakville in Ontario.

The protesters, who began their demonstration before dawn, are also demanding that the Canadian government implement a full arms embargo on Israel.

“The weapons being manufactured here at Collins Aerospace are directly used in the mass killing of Palestinians, violating the very values of humanity and dignity our tradition upholds,” said Rabbi David Mivasair with Independent Jewish Voices Canada. “By profiting from this violence, Canada betrays its moral and legal obligations.”

The protest was organised by the organisations Oakville for Palestine, Labour For Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto,and World BEYOND War.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/19/live-israel-hezbollah-trade-fire-as-netanyahu-downplays-ceasefire-talks

Three Lebanese soldiers killed by Israeli fire in south

The Lebanese army says three soldiers have been killed in an Israeli attack in the south.

“The Israeli enemy targeted an army position in the town of Sarafand in the south, killing three soldiers,” the army said in a statement.

The Health Ministry said the attack also wounded eight people, including “citizens who were nearby”.

Israeli troops use Palestinian paramedics as ‘human shields’: PRCS

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israeli forces used one of its teams as human shields in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

Soldiers detained the paramedics inside a house “while they were en route to evacuate an injured person in the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin during a raid on the house”, the emergency service said.

More than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox Israelis hit with arrest warrants for ignoring draft orders

In July, Israel’s military began sending out draft notices to ultra-Orthodox men, ending a longstanding practice of exempting them from military service.

Out of 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Israelis summoned for the draft, 1,126 of them did not turn up to their designated induction centres, according to Shay Taib, a senior Israel military official with the personnel directorate’s planning and personnel management division. As a result, those Israelis have been issued arrest warrants and risk being designated as draft evaders, he said.

“They will receive a call for immediate recruitment, and anyone who does not come [to the induction centre] will be declared an evader,” Taib said in comments carried by The Times of Israel.

Four UN peacekeepers wounded in rocket attack on Lebanon base

Four Ghanaian peacekeepers have been wounded when a rocket hit their base in southern Lebanon, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says.

UNIFIL said the rocket was most likely fired by “non-state actors”. Peacekeepers and facilities have been targeted in three separate incidents today.

Rockets hit headquarters of Italy’s peacekeepers in Lebanon

Italy says eight rockets have struck the headquarters of its UN peacekeeping contingent in southern Lebanon. No one has been injured.

According to the Italian Defence Ministry, the eight 107mm rockets hit outdoor areas and a warehouse at the base in Chamaa, where no soldiers were present. Italy said it’s investigating where the rockets originated and who is responsible.

It is the second time in a week that Italy has reported rockets or shells hitting its peacekeeping base.

Last week, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani spoke with his Israeli counterpart to demand an investigation after an artillery shell hit the gym on the base. No one was injured in that incident, and the shell did not detonate.

Hezbollah official: We won’t offer any information on negotiations

Mahmoud Qamati, deputy chairman of Hezbollah’s political council, spoke to Al Jazeera about the ongoing war in Lebanon:

Here is a translated summary:

If it weren’t for the strength of the resistance, the US would not have wanted to seek a solution to the conflict.
We expect the approach used in Gaza towards Hamas will continue in Lebanon.
The Lebanese people are being killed by US-made weapons.
We will not offer any information about the ongoing negotiations as we believe this harms the negotiation process.
The Zionist enemy has sabotaged attempts at a political solution in Gaza, and we expect the same to happen in Lebanon.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri faces a difficult and complex task with the negotiations, but he has the necessary competence and is equipped to lead talks.

Iraq’s PM dismisses Israeli complaint over attacks by Iraqi militias

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has dismissed an Israeli complaint to the UN Security Council about strikes by Iraq’s Shia militias on Israel as a “pretext and argument to attack Iraq” and to “expand the war in the region”.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar earlier posted on X a letter to the Security Council saying: “Israel has the inherent right to self-defence … and to take all necessary measures to protect itself and its citizens against the ongoing acts of hostilities by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.”

An umbrella group of Iraqi militias, known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, has regularly launched drone strikes on targets in Israel in recent months in support of its Hamas and Hezbollah allies in the ongoing wars in the Middle East.

Saar said some of the militias are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of mostly Shia armed groups, and urged the Iraqi government to “take immediate action to halt and prevent these attacks”.

Al-Sudani’s office said in a statement that Iraq has refused to enter into the regional conflict while “seeking to provide relief to the Palestinian and Lebanese people”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/19/live-israel-hezbollah-trade-fire-as-netanyahu-downplays-ceasefire-talks

Incoming Senate leader tells Israel: ‘Reinforcements are on the way’

Senator John Thune, the incoming Republican leader of the Senate, has said that Republicans “will make clear that the United States Congress stands squarely in Israel’s corner” when they reclaim the Senate majority in six weeks.

“To our allies in Israel and to the Jewish people around the world, my message to you is this: reinforcements are on the way,” Thune said in a video shared on X.

“We will help the Trump-Vance administration, defend Israel and promote peace in the region.”

Thune also criticised Senator Bernie Sanders’s push to block US arms sales to Israel and renewed calls for sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its investigations into Israeli official’s alleged war crimes.

“The ICC’s rogue actions are a threat to our ally, Israel, and left unchecked, it could pose a threat to America in the future,” he said.

Israel’s latest attack takes death toll among Lebanese soldiers to 41

As we reported earlier, three Lebanese soldiers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an army base in southern Lebanon’s town of Sarafand.

The Lebanese army’s spokesperson, Fadi Eid, told The Associated Press (AP) news agency before the attack in Sarafand that 38 soldiers had been killed in Israeli strikes since October last year. The latest killings bring the overall death toll in the Lebanese army to 41, the AP reported.

The Israeli military has not yet commented on its latest killing of Lebanese soldiers who have for months provided security for Lebanese civilians and engaged in search and rescue efforts amid the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.

Lebanon’s government said on Monday that it plans to file a formal complaint with the United Nations Security Council over “repeated attacks” by Israel on its army, and accused Israeli forces of repeated violations of international law.

French UN troops came under fire in Lebanon: Foreign Ministry

A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol comprising French troops came under fire yesterday, France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that none of its forces were wounded in the incident.

It did not say who was responsible for the shooting, but stressed that the safety and security of UN personnel, property and premises must be ensured.

“France reiterates that it is imperative that UNIFIL be able to exercise its freedom of movement so that it can fully implement its mandate,” the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Since it began its ground incursion into Lebanon more than a month ago, Israel has fired on UNIFL positions and troops dozens of times, wounding soldiers and destroying property.

Earlier this month, UNIFIL’s deputy spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said Israel has targeted the mission 40 times.

Explosions heard near Palmyra: Syrian state media

Syrian state TV has blamed Israeli air attacks for the explosions heard in the centre of the country.

It said initial reports indicate that residential buildings were hit.

We will bring you more on this incident as soon as information comes in.

Death toll in Israeli attack on Palmyra rises to 11

A monitor of Syria’s war has said 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Palmyra in the centre of the country.

The strikes killed “four non-Syrian fighters from pro-Iran groups and seven of Syrian nationality” and wounded “dozens including at least seven civilians”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.

Israeli attack on Syria’s Palmyra kills 36 people: Report

An Israeli attack on Syria’s historic city of Palmyra has killed 36 people and wounded more than 50 when it hit residential buildings and an industrial zone, the Syrian state news agency SANA reports.

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Palmyra’s ancient city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was seized by ISIL (ISIS) in 2015 and partially destroyed before it was recaptured by the Syrian army.

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution on Gaza ceasefire

The Security Council vote on the Gaza ceasefire resolution has ended with 14 votes for it and one vote against.

Hezbollah wants Lebanese sovereignty to be preserved
Ali Hashem
Reporting from Beirut

Naim Qassem didn’t reveal a lot [about Hezbollah’s position to the US ceasefire proposal]. However, the main point that he mentioned was that Lebanon’s sovereignty should be preserved.

This is the main issue that’s still standing between the Israelis and the Lebanese when it comes to the American [proposal]. The Israelis want freedom of action in Lebanon. They want to be able to hit any time they feel that their security is threatened, while the Lebanese are saying that this is not possible.

With respect to the Beirut-Tel Aviv equation, this was an old equation [that dates back to the time] of the late Hassan Nasrallah. What Naim Qassem is saying is that the attack on Tel Aviv was in retaliation to the attacks on Beirut. So, he’s trying to draw an equation in the middle of a war.

Hezbollah chief says response to Israeli strikes on Beirut will be on ‘central Tel Aviv’

Naim Qassem has vowed to retaliate against Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital, saying that this retaliation will be in the “heart of Tel Aviv”.

He also acknowledged that Hezbollah was dealt a blow when its former chief Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel.

But he said that the group is steadfast and resilient and that its fighters can engage anywhere and fend Israeli forces.

“We demonstrated our fortitude, steadfastness, bravery and intrepidness, to the degrees that some of our fighters are competing to get deployed to the forefront,” he said.

‘We cannot be defeated by Israel’: Qassem

Hezbollah’s leader says that negotiations will continue as long as the following are achieved: a total and permanent ceasefire and the preservation of Lebanon’s sovereignty.

“At the end of the day, the Israelis expect to achieve victory that they failed to achieve on the ground,” he said, adding that Hezbollah is prepared for a long war.

“If negotiations fail, we will continue to fight. Those who claim that this is a war of attrition, yes, it’s true, but attrition to the Israeli enemy. We are capable and we will endure,” Qassem added.

Iraq accuses Israel of seeking pretext for future attack

Iraq has accused Israel of attempting to legitimise an attack on its territory, after the Israeli foreign ministry protested to the United Nations about attacks by Iraqi militants.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of armed groups aligned with Iran, has claimed frequent drone attacks targeting Israel in recent months, which they say are in support of their Palestinian ally Hamas.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called on the UN Security Council Monday to pressure Iraq to end the attacks launched from its soil.

Saar said Israel would take “all necessary measures to protect itself and its citizens” from the attacks.

In a statement late Tuesday, the Iraqi government rejected the Israeli complaint.

“These allegations are merely excuses intended to justify planned aggression against Iraq,” it said, adding that it was already taking measures “to prevent the use of Iraqi territory for launching attacks”.

Israeli attack kills 30, wounds 100 near Kamal Adwan Hospital

Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip reports that 30 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded, in an Israeli attack on a residential neighbourhood near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Death toll from Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya rises

More on the attack near the Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the death toll has risen to 66, most of them women and children.

More than 100 others were wounded.

Israel says three soldiers killed in Lebanon in updated toll

The Israeli military has said that three soldiers, including a 70-year-old, have been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon.

Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli authorities announced that a 22-year-old soldier “fell during combat in southern Lebanon”.

Israeli authorities have updated that figure to include two more deaths, including a 70-year-old reservist named Ze’ev “Jabo” Hanoch Erlich.

The Yesha Council, which represents Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, said that Erlich was a “pioneer of research in geography, archaeology and Jewish history of Judea and Samaria” and lived in the settlement of Ofra.

Another soldier was injured in the same incident and has been taken to a hospital for treatment.

Israel has placed ‘poison pills’ into the negotiations

Regarding the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hezbollah, Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East project and former advisor in the Israeli prime minister’s office, says Israel has placed “some poisoned pills” into the negotiations.

Via its American proxy, Israel is trying to achieve in these talks “what it could not achieve on the battlefield”, namely a total victory in Gaza and Lebanon, Levy told Al Jazeera.

“Israel seems to have placed into the negotiations some poisoned pills. This specific one here would seem to be its freedom of operation, something where it violates … another state’s sovereignty – in this case Lebanon – with the freedom to operate in that state,” he said.

“I don’t think that is something that could be part of any deal, but the American administration is happy to carry Israel’s water on this front.

“Either it’s a red herring that they’ll remove, or it’s a way of making sure that the negotiations will not succeed, that they can rely on America and its Western allies to blame the other side.

“Whether it’s a red herring or not is what we might find out in the coming days.”

COP29: Palestinian delegation warns against environmental impacts of war

The Palestinian delegation at COP29 has warned against the climate impacts of the Israeli war on Gaza.

In a speech during the high-level session, Palestinian chairperson for the Environmental Quality Authority, Nisreen Tamimi, said protection of the environment is a basic right, which was being made more difficult by the Israeli war in the besieged coastal enclave.

She also said the war had polluted water sources and spread rubble filled with dangerous material. Tamimi added that the rebuilding efforts would release an estimated 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Turkiye condemns Houthi strike on Red Sea vessel

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has released a statement following a Houthi strike on a cargo ship in the Red Sea, where the Yemen-based group has targeted shipping in what it says is a campaign of solidarity with Gaza.

“We condemn the missile attacks by the Houthis on the Panama-flagged dry cargo ship Anadolu S, owned by a Turkish company, while sailing off the coast of Yemen,” Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“Necessary initiatives are being taken to prevent the recurrence of a similar incident,” it added.

China’s Xi calls for Gaza ceasefire: Report

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a ceasefire in Gaza during a visit to Brazil’s capital, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports.

Xi expressed concerns about the spread of the conflict in Gaza and “called for a ceasefire and an end to the war at an early date” as he met with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the agency said.

Demonstrators protest in Tel Aviv as US Senate to vote on blocking arms sales to Israel

Demonstrators have protested outside the US embassy’s branch office in Tel Aviv, calling for the United States to block arms sales to Israel.

Protesters blocked the road and held signs reading, “Arms Embargo Now” and “Stop the Genocide in Gaza.” One person yelled into a megaphone: “Not a nickel, not a dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes.”

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