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Israel strikes Beirut after US assurances not to

Earlier, Israeli air strikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs hours after the United States said it opposed the scope of attacks on Lebanon’s capital.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday that US officials assured Lebanon that Israel would tamp down its strikes on Beirut. He added Washington was “serious about pressuring Israel to reach a ceasefire”.

Israel has not struck the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital since late last week after hitting the area on a near nightly basis for weeks in attacks that destroyed buildings and killed scores of people.

Almost 340 Israeli artillery, air strikes in 36 hours on southern Lebanon
Imran Khan
Reporting from Hasbaiyya, Lebanon

Artillery shelling from Israel continues and air strikes are also continuing throughout the day.

The Israelis have suggested that they’ve hit 140 Hezbollah targets yesterday alone.

That brings the total in the last 36 hours to nearly 340 individual artillery or air strikes in the southern Lebanese border area alone, a lot of them concentrated near to where we are right now.

The Israelis also say they’ve gone in and destroyed – on the ground – rocket launchers and Hezbollah infrastructure in those front-line villages on the border with northern Israel.

However, Hezbollah is saying that they are fighting back. They are fighting back on the ground and 24 hours ago they did say – and it hasn’t been confirmed – they said they managed to shoot down an Israeli drone.

Death toll from Israeli attack on Qana rises to 15

The death toll from an Israeli strike on the Lebanese southern town of Qana has risen to 15, Lebanon’s civil defence agency says. At least 15 others were wounded.

Qana, 10km (4.5 miles) southeast of the main city of Tyre, was the site of an Israeli artillery strike on a United Nations compound in 1996 that killed dozens of civilians.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strike late on Tuesday.

Israeli strike on Qana village ‘symbolically important’, echoes massacres in 2006, 1996
Laura Khan
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

We know this is very much an active scene in Qana. Rescue are workers digging through the rubble to see if there are any more survivors.

We know at least 10 people have been killed and 15 wounded, and a healthcare centre struck. It’s certainly not the first time. Israeli forces have killed dozens of healthcare workers since the beginning of this conflict with Hezbollah and have hit a number of facilities.

At least 37 healthcare facilities have also been closed down. It led the World Health Organization just a couple of weeks ago to warn about the provisions for mass trauma management, particularly in these active areas in the south of Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley, and also the southern suburbs of Beirut.

We also know that Qana is symbolically important to the people there. In 2006, more than 50 people were killed in Israeli shelling and also, 10 years before, in 1996 at least 116 people were killed in Israeli shelling of Qana. Many of those people were fleeing from the war and trying to find shelter.

We also understand this evening, that there have been a number of strikes in southern Lebanon and across the Bekaa Valley. Mostly civilians are being caught up in the crossfire since the beginning of this conflict in October 2023. More than 2,350 people have been killed so far.

US advocacy group condemns ‘double tap’ attack that killed children, doctor in Jabalia

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned an Israeli “double tap” attack that killed several children, as well as a doctor who tried to save them, in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza.

The Israeli military reportedly returned to bomb the home of the family of a US citizen after an initial strike injured 15 people, including seven children, on Monday night, CAIR said in a statement.

Trapped under the rubble, the family called for help, but Israeli forces also then targeted an ambulance, killing Ahmed Najjar, a doctor, and several children, CAIR said.

CAIR called on US leaders, including the Biden administration, the US State Department and elected officials in Virginia, where the family’s relatives live, to “demand that the Israeli government cease its attacks on” Jabalia.

‘It’s a massacre’: Israeli strikes kill mayor and others in Nabatieh

Earlier we reported nearly a dozen Israeli strikes hit the southern Lebanese town.

Local authorities are reporting Nabatieh Mayor Ahmad Kahil is among those killed. “The mayor of Nabatieh, among others … was martyred. It’s a massacre,” Governor Howaida Turk said.

Kahil was inside the town’s municipal building when it was attacked, said Turk. Rescuers said several others were killed.

Smoke from Israeli strike on Beirut ‘doesn’t suggest’ Hezbollah arms dump hit
Imran Khan
Reporting from Hasbaiyya, Lebanon

This strike took place at about 6:50am. It was actually three air strikes that we hear took place in the Dahiyeh area.

We don’t actually know which building was targeted, but the Israelis say that this was an underground storage facility for Hezbollah weapons.

If it was that, the kind of smoke that we are seeing, and the kind of damage that we are looking at, doesn’t really suggest that it was an arms dump.

Because, if it was an arms dump, when you strike it, those arms go up too [in the explosion] and the damage is so much wider.

This has been a period of relative calm in the Lebanese capital … But after five days it’s now back to Beirut and a very serious attack against that southern suburb.

Israeli forces shoot teenager, then beat him in occupied East Jerusalem

Video has emerged of Israeli soldiers running after, shooting and then beating an injured teenage boy.

Security camera footage shows Israeli soldiers chasing Palestinian children in the town of Biddu, occupied East Jerusalem.

The video shows the moment when a soldier fires towards one of the fleeing boys with an assault weapon. Then the troops start beating the wounded boy as he lies on the ground before arresting him. It’s unclear when the attack happened.

As war rages in Gaza, Israeli forces continue deadly incursions into the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied territory since October 7, 2023.

US sudden ‘concern’ for Gaza is deflection as it prepares for war – Marwan Bishara

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said the US warning to Israel that it has 30 days to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza or risk losing access to US weapons funding is little more than a deflection.

“There is always some sort of American reservation about this, that and the other thing. While at the same time providing more and more arms to Israel. More and more money. And more and more diplomatic shield to Israel as it carries out its genocide. And as it carries out its war crimes in the West Bank and in Lebanon,” Bishara said.

“Every time an American says we are ‘concerned’, one should only roll their eyes,” he said.

“We know that when 1,000 children died [in Gaza], they were ‘concerned’. When more than 40,000 people died, they were ‘concerned’. When Israel expanded the war into Lebanon, they were ‘concerned’”, he said.

“It’s not working any more,” he added.

‘Now or never’: Belgium deputy PM urges recognition of Palestine

Petra De Sutter says her country must “resolutely opt for international law by recognising the Palestinian State”.

“It is now or never. Our proposal on the recognition of Palestine is before the House today. The lack of action is culpable neglect,” she posted on X.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/16/live-ten-killed-as-israel-hits-homes-healthcare-centre-in-lebanons-qana

Mansour to UNSC: ‘General’s Plan’ already in motion in Gaza, Israel seeks annexation

Palestine’s UN envoy calls Israel’s ongoing assault on northern Gaza the country’s “latest plan to achieve what has been its goal all along”.

“We warned since the early days of Israel’s assault that its goal was forcible displacement of the Palestinian people and annexation of the Palestinian territory. What we are seeing in northern Gaza is exactly that,” Mansour said.

“The so-called Israeli General’s Plan is in motion,” he added.

The “General’s Plan” is a strategy put forward by retired Israeli Major General Giora Eliand that aims to lay siege to the few hundred thousand remaining residents of northern Gaza to essentially empty out and ethnically cleanse this part of the territory.

Israeli media have quoted soldiers who said this strategy in effect is Israel’s latest campaign in northern Gaza.

UNIFIL says Israeli tank deliberately targeted position

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has issued a statement saying that an Israeli tank targeted yet another UN position in southern Lebanon earlier today.

The peacekeeping mission said that one of its watchtowers in the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila was struck by an Israeli Merkava tank, destroying two cameras and damaging the tower.

“Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire at a UNIFIL position,” the statement says.

Israel has targeted UNIFIL positions several times in the last week, in an apparent attempt to get the agency to heed its public calls for it to withdraw peacekeeping forces.

Report: Biden official told aid groups Israel too important to face military aid cutoff

The US news outlet Politico has reported that a Biden administration official told humanitarian groups that the White House would not consider suspending arms transfers to Israel, even if it was blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Under US law, blocking humanitarian aid, as Israel has been doing for months, is supposed to trigger the suspension of weapons transfers.

The report focuses on an August 29 meeting between humanitarian official Lisa Grande and more than a dozen aid organisations, where Grande allegedly stated that the US could use pressure in forums such as the UN but would not consider ending arms supplies.

Critics have said for months that the administration’s efforts to pressure Israel to let more aid into Gaza are useless so long as arms transfers, the largest source of US leverage over Israel, are not in danger of being suspended.

Palestine’s UN envoy calls on Security Council to end silence

Riyad Mansour has given an impassioned speech before the UN’s highest body, saying that all members present are witnessing genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza whether or not they are willing to recognise it.

“What is happening in northern Gaza now is another level of monstrosity”, he said, focusing in on Israel’s ongoing relentless pounding of the northern Strip.

“Silence and inaction are not an option. Are you ready to proclaim that while Palestinians refuse to surrender even when faced with collective capital punishment, this council decided to surrender?” he asked the council.

“We know that many members around this table refuse to do so, and we could on them today to fight back, with the tools provided by the [UN] charter and by the law to combat those who are obliterating the charter and the law. This is the responsibility of the council and of each and every state around the world”.

“The massacres have to stop, ceasefire now”, Mansour added.

China calls on Israel to cooperate with humanitarian efforts in Gaza

Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the UN, says the situation in Gaza has deteriorated in the past two weeks and shows no signs of stabilising.

“Israel has not relented in its military operations in Gaza at all but has constantly attacked and bombed schools and hospitals, completely cut off access to humanitarian supplies in northern Gaza and once again forcibly ordered an emergent evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people,” he told the UN Security Council.

Fu called on Israel to “cooperate fully with the UN and other humanitarian entities to facilitate and ensure the safety of humanitarian operations, such as transportation of humanitarian supplies and polio vaccination”.

“They are all human beings like us. Why, when born in Gaza, do they have to suffer like this?”

Iran’s president urges Muslim countries to unite against Israel

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has exhorted Muslim countries to come together against Israel.

“If we, Islamic countries, are united with each other, the Zionist regime will not dare to commit crimes so easily,” the president’s website quoted him as saying during a phone conversation with the ruler of Oman, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq.

Pezeshkian praised Oman’s stance regarding “Israeli crimes” in Gaza and Lebanon and demanded more pressure on those supporting Israel.

There was no immediate report in Omani state media on the call. Oman has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.

Israel trying to make Lebanese border towns ‘unlivable’

Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem says Israel’s systematic destruction of Lebanese towns near their shared border indicates that it is trying to make the area uninhabitable.

“In the south, we saw pictures of Israel detonating a whole village, the village of Mhaibib, that’s just on the border,” he reported from Beirut. “That gives an indication that there is an attempt to make the border villages unlivable so that people won’t get back there even if there is a settlement or an end to the hostilities between the two sides.”

Israeli equipment barred from defence show in France

More than a week after French President Emmanuel Macron called for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel, Israeli arms manufacturers have been told they can take part but not exhibit in the Euronaval defence show in Paris next month.

“The French government informed Euronaval of its decision to approve the participation of Israeli delegations at Euronaval 2024 without any stand or exhibition of equipment,” said the organisers of the show, which is due to start on November 4.

The organisers of the biennial event, which attracts naval defence exhibitors from around the world, said seven Israeli companies would be impacted.

“In accordance with the French government’s decision, Israeli companies and citizens who wish to attend will be welcomed at the show under the conditions listed above,” they added.

UK considers sanctions against Israeli ministers

The economic restrictions would target Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over comments they made about civilians in Gaza and settlers’ activities in the occupied West Bank, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.

Starmer was responding to a question about Smotrich’s comments that starving civilians in Gaza might be justified and Ben-Gvir’s remarks that perpetrators of settler violence in the West Bank were heroes.

EU members of UNIFIL call for revised rules of engagement in Lebanon

A number of European Union (EU) nations that contribute troops to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, the UN’s peacekeeping mission to the country, such as Italy, Spain, and France, made the call without offering clear details.

A letter signed by 16 EU countries who contribute to the peacekeeping mission said that the mission’s rules of engagement need to be more effective following a series of widely condemned Israeli attacks on UNIFIL positions.

“The message we want to send to Israel is that if you stop your army, the UN can also change its approach in that part of Lebanon, so that we can peacefully achieve what you’re now trying to do by attacking Hezbollah’s bases militarily,” Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told RAI television.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/16/live-ten-killed-as-israel-hits-homes-healthcare-centre-in-lebanons-qana

>>484996
So Canadian groceries are more expensive than getting produce in a warzone.

>>485000
>Zionist Assistant Professor Shai Davidai has been suspended from Columbia University’s campus.
I wonder what that guy did. It must have been pretty terrible given how much Zionists tend to get away with.

>>484996
A thousand bucks for a sack of flour ?
yikes

Israel not killing these subhumans fast enough tbh.

Israel says it is investigating whether Hamas’s Sinwar killed in Gaza attack

Israel’s army says it is investigating whether Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in an attack in Gaza.

We will bring you more soon.

Israel security official confirms army DNA testing fighter’s body: Report

An Israeli security official has told AFP news agency that the military was conducting a DNA test on a fighter’s body to confirm whether it was Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar.

“The Israeli military is conducting DNA tests on a body of a militant to confirm whether it is Sinwar,” the official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to media on the issue.

Houthis promise response to US attack

Yemen’s Houthis have promised to retaliate after the US conducted multiple strikes on weapons storage facilities in areas controlled by the group.

“We confirm that the American aggression will not pass without a response,” said a statement from the Houthis’ political bureau.

Earlier, the US announced its B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bombers targeted the facilities that “demonstrate US global strike capabilities to take action against these targets when necessary, anytime, anywhere,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

At least 15 people killed in Israeli attack in Jabalia

Israeli strikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians at an UNRWA school sheltering displaced people in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera’s Moath Kahlout, who is at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, reported that the majority of casualties are children and women.

Israel’s so-called ‘limited’ campaign in Lebanon is expanding
Imran Khan
Reporting from Hasbaiyya, Lebanon

Two sets of evacuation orders have been issued. This is the first time that this has happened in the Bekaa Valley.

Now, when those evacuation orders were issued, it wasn’t long after that the air strikes came in, so that’s likely to be connected.

This is getting people worried because on September 29, Israel said that it was going to mount a limited ground invasion into Lebanese territory.

Now, they have been doing that on the border, but the aerial campaign is getting wider and wider.

Some 32 percent of the south, just where I am, is under Israeli evacuation orders.

The attack on Bekaa now adds to that, and it’s in the east of Lebanon.

In total, some 8 percent of Lebanese territory is now under those Israeli evacuation orders, which is concerning to many Lebanese people.

But we’re now hearing from politicians about what they think the definition of Israel’s saying, using the word limited, actually is.

What is that definition? No one seems to know what limited means for the Israelis.

More on Sinwar claims

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli army has said it is looking into whether Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in an “operation” in Gaza. Hamas has not commented yet.

Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg says the possibility of Sinwar being killed is a “meaningful event” for Israel so the army would not want to officially announce it until they’re “105 percent sure”.

“If Israel has managed to kill Yahya Sinwar that might be the only event on the ground that could potentially get Israel to stop decimating Gaza. That is the symbolic achievement Israel has been looking for,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.

“Israel has been fighting in Gaza ultimately without any sort of clear plan except to kill as many Hamas operatives as possible and destroy as much … as possible,” he added.

No confirmation of attack on Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

In the past few minutes, we received a statement from the Israeli army and intelligence services saying that they had targeted a building and that three Hamas figures were killed, and they were verifying whether one of them was, in fact, the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Sinwar was elected as the leader of the Hamas movement after Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh in Iran earlier in the year.

We have to stress there is absolutely no confirmation. We have not heard from Hamas.

Even the Israeli military sources say it could take hours for them to confirm from their end whether that assassination was actually successful, but if that is correct, this would be the second head of the Hamas movement killed just during this war.

Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, shot by Israeli forces, slips into coma

Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has slipped into a coma following a deterioration in his condition after being shot by Israeli forces in the Jabalia refugee camp on October 9.

Despite appeals from three media freedom organisations, the Israeli authorities have refused to allow al-Wahidi and fellow Al Jazeera photographer Ali al-Attar to leave Gaza for medical treatment. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that it has not received a response from Israeli officials regarding the request for their medical evacuation.

The doctor treating al-Wahidi confirmed that he has undergone several surgeries, but said medics were unable to prevent him from suffering paralysis.

In a statement, Al Jazeera strongly condemned the targeting of its journalists and urged the international community “to take immediate action” to ensure the safety of media workers and civilians in the Gaza Strip, as well as hold the Israeli army accountable for its “repeated crimes against journalists”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/17/live-food-running-out-dozens-buried-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-israeli-siege

>>485013
Leninhat would never say this

Israel’s Lapid says country’s security relies on ‘short’ wars

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says the “concept” of Israel’s security dictates that the war they engage in “should be short”, adding that the war on Gaza was “supposed to last two months”.

Lapid argued that without the opposition, “no one would talk about the abductees, and there is a deliberate effort by the government to hide the issue from awareness”.

But he said that he was angry with French President Emmanuel Macron for suggesting an arms embargo on Israel, which the opposition leader said was “the wrong conduct against Israel at the wrong time”.

He added that the “correct response” to the Iranian attack on Israel was to target its oil facilities.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/17/live-food-running-out-dozens-buried-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-israeli-siege

Yair Lapid, Israel's funnyman.

‘Yahya Sinwar enjoys great popularity in the Gaza Strip’
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

Sinwar has been imprisoned before in Israeli jails. He has a long history of fighting back against Israel, and he was released in a prisoner swap deal in 2011.

Later on, he took leadership of the Hamas movement in Gaza and he has also been responsible for carrying out plenty of military activities and operations against the Israeli army.

People here feel Sinwar holds great symbolism among the Palestinians, and his possible killing would be a great loss for everyone on the ground.

They believe he has been effective in working against Israel in the past year.

People here believed he was hiding underground. But now, if this assassination is confirmed while he was wearing his military uniform, it means that he was following all the latest security developments on the ground.

It means that he has also been in very direct contact with manoeuvring Hamas fighters in separate areas of Gaza, Rafah and Khan Younis.

Till now, people here have been in a great sense of shock, and others have been wondering about who would replace Sinwar, if he has been killed.

Israeli military bombs Syrian port city: Report

The Israeli military has attacked Syria’s Mediterranean port city of Latakia, according to Syrian state media network, SANA. It described the attack as “aggression”, without offering more details.

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

Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Saada city hit by US air strikes: Reports

Yemen’s Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV has reported air strikes on the capital Sanaa and the city of Saada while US outlet ABC News said that the US military attacked weapons storage facilities in the country overnight.

“US Central Command forces conducted multiple air strikes on numerous Iran-backed Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,” ABC News reports, citing a US defence official.

Al Masirah TV said the attack was carried out by US and UK forces.

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

US Central Command claims attacks on Yemen targeted underground weapons facilities

US Central Command has confirmed that it struck multiple sites in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, hours after Yemen’s Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reported attacks on the capital Sanaa and the city of Saada.

“These actions were taken to degrade the Houthi’s capability to continue their reckless and unlawful attacks on international commercial shipping and on the US coalition, and merchant personnel and vessels in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden,” US Central Command said in a statement shared on X.

The statement said the US attacked “hardened underground facilities housing missiles” and other weapons.

Gaza’s media office condemns Israeli attack on school

Gaza’s media office condemned Israel’s attack on the Abu Hussein school for displaced Palestinians in Jabalia, which killed at least 28 people.

“We condemn the Israeli occupation’s commission of this new massacre against civilians, children and women, and we call on all countries of the world to condemn these ongoing crimes against the displaced, civilians, children and women,” the media office said.

It added in a statement on Telegram that they hold Israel and the US administration “fully responsible” for the attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The attack on the school increased the number of shelters and displacement centres targeted by Israel to 192 since the war began more than a year ago.

The attack also comes alongside the collapse of the health situation in the north of Gaza, where about 400,000 people live.

Israeli artillery, air and drone attacks on Lebanon intensify
Imran Khan
Reporting from Hasbaiyya, southern Lebanon

Intense artillery shelling continued overnight and Israeli air and drone attacks are now ongoing.

In the last 30 to 45 minutes, we’ve heard a barrage of Hezbollah rockets from beyond a nearby ridgeline – at least five of them going into northern Israel. We’ve also seen video of buildings on fire, likely as a result of that rocket barrage.

Hezbollah is saying they hit a gathering of what they call enemy soldiers in the occupied Shebaa Farms area, which is very close to the border. So there is still a lot of escalation.

In the previous 36 hours, Israel said they had struck about 340 Hezbollah targets. That’s likely to go up. We know of at least another 100 that were hit yesterday. So we are looking at about 440 targets within 48 hours.

That is a lot of incoming hits and certainly more than we have seen since September 29, when Israel announced that they were going to make this limited ground offensive into Lebanon.

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims attack on Eilat

The coalition of Iran-backed fighter groups in Iraq said it launched a drone attack on Israel’s southernmost city, located on the Red Sea near Jordan.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq statement came several hours after sirens sounded in communities north and west of Eilat.

There have been no reported injuries or property damage.

Fire breaks out in Syria’s Latakia city after Israeli attack: Report

We reported earlier on an Israeli air strike on the Syrian coastal city of Latakia.

Syrian state news agency SANA has now reported that “anti-aircraft defence intercepted hostile targets above Latakia” and fires broke out after the attack. “Fires were triggered by the Israeli aggression” at the entrance to Latakia, SANA said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor, said the Israeli strike “targeted a weapons depot in Latakia city”.

Though Israel’s military has launched hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria in recent years, it rarely admits to its military campaign against what it says are Iran-aligned and supported armed groups in the country.

Lebanese village blown up by Israeli soldiers was home to historic shrine: Report

Mhaibib, A Lebanese village where Israeli soldiers filmed themselves setting off a massive explosion, was home to a 2,100-year-old shrine of significant religious and historic value, the Anadolu news agency reports.

The exact fate of Mhaibib, including the shrine of Benjamin, son of Jacob, was unclear after the explosions, since most residents had already fled following earlier orders to leave from the Israeli army, the village’s leader, or mukhtar, Qassem Ahmed Jaber, told Anadolu.

As we reported earlier, Israeli soldiers filmed themselves smiling and laughing in a video showing the destruction of what appeared to be most, if not all of the historic village.

Israeli forces kill 60-year-old woman picking olives in West Bank: Report

A 60-year-old Palestinian woman was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the village of Faqqua, northeast of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported

The director of the Red Crescent Society in Jenin, Mahmoud al-Saadi, told Wafa that the woman was shot while she was picking olives with her family in the area near the separation and expansion wall built on the lands of the village.

The attack comes after Israeli forces opened fire on an event organised by the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission to help farmers from the village of Kafr al-Labad, east of Tulkarem, pick olives from their lands.

On Wednesday, UN experts said farmers in the occupied West Bank face the most dangerous olive season ever this year after being subjected to intimidation, restricted access to land, severe harassment and attacks by armed settlers.

German Defence Ministry says warship shot down drone off Lebanon: Report

A German warship operating as part of the United Nations’ UNIFIL mission brought down an unmanned flying object off the coast of Lebanon, a spokesperson for the German Defence Ministry told Reuters news agency.

Members of Netanyahu’s party to speak at conference on settling Gaza

Ten members of Netanyahu’s Likud party are scheduled to speak at “Preparing for settlement in Gaza”, a two-day conference hosted by Nachala, a far-right Israeli settler organisation, next week.

Promotional materials for the event, shared by Nachala on X, also promise “practical preparation workshops for settlement in Gaza” as well as a tour of Nirim, a kibbutz in the northwestern Negev desert, near the Israel-Gaza separation fence.

Nachala hosted another conference earlier this year where Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir joined crowds dancing and celebrating and a map was displayed showing plans for 15 illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza.

EU criticises US for giving Israel a month to improve Gaza’s humanitarian situation

The EU’s foreign policy chief has criticised the United States for allowing Israel an entire month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

“The US has been saying to Israel that they have to improve humanitarian support to Gaza, but they gave one month delay,” Josep Borrell told reporters at an EU summit in Brussels.

“One month delay at the current pace of people being killed. It’s too many people,” Borrell added, calling the situation a “catastrophe”.

US officials told Israel on Wednesday it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza or face potential restrictions on US military aid – the strongest warning since the war began a year ago.

Humanitarian groups have accused Israel of deliberately starving and forcibly displacing Palestinians in northern Gaza.

Germany pledges continued military support to Israel

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany plans to continue supporting Israel’s militarily, despite the current siege on northern Gaza and the ongoing offensive in Lebanon.

“It is clear that supporting Israel also means that we are constantly ensuring Israel’s defence capability, for example by supplying military goods or weapons,” Scholz said on the sidelines of an EU leaders’ summit.

He also stressed Israel must comply with international law and that a two-state solution remains the long-term goal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/17/live-food-running-out-dozens-buried-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-israeli-siege

>>485013
> killing these subhumans
The subject is showing a symptomatic expression of a defective brain.
Extermination-brain is a severe illness, the disease progression is often fatal.

Historic treatments:
Re-education-camps and self-criticism struggle-sessions have show only limited effectiveness.
Heavy percussion therapy with ballistic projectiles was effective at significantly reducing the symptoms, but the survival rate of the patients proved to be extremely low.

Contemporary treatments:
Decades of lectures on human-rights have shown only limited effectiveness.
New treatment options are needed.

>>485016
>Israel’s Lapid says country’s security relies on ‘short’ wars
Israel isn't really capable of sustaining anything but short wars without significantly eroding it's economy. So there is some truth in that statement.

However the concept of wars for security that seems nonsense. There is a clear correlation between Zionist regime aggression and the amount of rockets that impact on the Zionist regime occupation.

>But he said that he was angry with French President Emmanuel Macron for suggesting an arms embargo on Israel
>said was “the wrong conduct against Israel at the wrong time”.
Yeah the correct conduct would be to implement the arms embargo, but there's a least a little surplus enjoyment in making the Zionist seethe.

Israeli army, Shin Bet now saying Hamas leader has been killed

A joint statement from the spokespeople for the Israeli army and domestic security agency Shin Bet says Sinwar was killed on Wednesday during an operation in the southern Gaza Strip.

“A force of the 828th Brigade, which operated in the area, identified and eliminated three terrorists. After completing the process of identifying the body, it can now be confirmed that [Sinwar] was eliminated,” the statement reads.

This statement follows a statement moments ago from Israel’s foreign minister saying Sinwar had been killed.

Hamas has still not commented on these claims by Israel.

War is not over, Netanyahu says

The Israeli prime minister says the war is not over and that in Gaza, Beirut and the region, “light is prevailing over darkness,” according to translated remarks.

More to follow …

More from Netanyahu

The Israeli PM, for whom the ICC’s prosecutor has requested an arrest warrant over alleged war crimes, also said in his televised address:

Sinwar was eliminated, but the mission is not over yet and we must recover the kidnapped.
We have dealt a blow to evil, but the mission is not yet complete.
To those holding the kidnapped, we say: Free them and we will let you live.
Hamas will no longer rule Gaza.

‘Israel has full intention to stay in Gaza’

Gideon Levy, an Israeli political analyst and Haaretz columnist, says the – unconfirmed – killing of Sinwar is unlikely to change the fate of the more than 100 captives still held in Gaza because the government’s priority is to remain in the Strip.

“In a normal situation, I would expect the killing of Sinwar to make us do big progress towards releasing the hostages and even putting an end to this war – but not in Israel because the aim is to stay in Gaza,” Levy told Al Jazeera.

“So what will the killing of Sinwar change? And if the release of hostages is on the table again, with whom will we renegotiate? And if we negotiate, who will agree to return all the hostages when Israel aims to stay in Gaza?” he asked.

“And no doubt about this, Israel has the full intention to stay in Gaza, at least for the coming months or, God forbid, even coming years.”

Sinwar did ‘not shy away’ from tough questions: Journalist

Hind Hassan, who conducted a one-on-one interview with Yahya Sinwar in 2021, said he came across as a man “who was defiant” in his beliefs.

Hassan told Al Jazeera she met him “walking down the street in full view” during a period when Israel had been bombing Gaza for 11 days and “everyone had believed he was in hiding”.

Hind said he did “not shy away” from some of the tougher questions.

She said when she asked a question about the claims that Hamas firing rockets into Israel could constitute a war crime, he became “passionate” in his responses.

He said that Palestinians were expected to be “perfect victims, and that’s something that they cannot be”, she said.

He also drew a comparison between the protest movement that sprung up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by US police in 2020, and what happened with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, to the Palestinian cause, Hind said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/17/live-food-running-out-dozens-buried-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-israeli-siege

https://x.com/intifada/status/1846969899995824289
🚨 UK "counterterrorism" police raid home, seize devices of EI’s @AsaWinstanley

>>485002
>vid
What these bandits are doing is kidnapping and torturing children, and because they haven't been released it has to be seen as a hostage situation. I don't understand why their parents are still maintaining a part of that unhinged rationalization narrative.

>>485022
>UK "counterterrorism" police
journalism intimidation psychological terror group

I think there has to be some kind of "thing" that prevents states from waging psychological warfare against it's citizens or better yet civilians in general.

I bet somebody has already formulated coherent theory about that.

Maybe a mind-fuck-prohibition

>>485024
>states waging psychological warfare against it's citizens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
There's a whole book about it called State of Fear.

Reportedly the last footage of Yahya Sinwar before he was killed, released by the IDF, filmed by a drone.

A description from Max Blumenthal:
Yahya Sinwar went out fighting. Dressed in fatigues, his right arm severed, he flung a stick defiantly at the Israel drone filming him. He had submitted to his fate from the moment he unleashed the flood. This video practically ensures the tide will rise.

https://x.com/PAME_Greece/status/1847006899184476231
Reportedly ''Container carrying bullets for the Israeli army has been BLOCKED by
Dockers of #cosco in port of Piraeus, Greece''

Hamas leaders killed by Israel

Since the start of the war on Gaza, Israel has killed a number of Hamas leaders – Here’s a list of the most prominent:

Saleh al-Arouri: The deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau was killed in January this year in an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. He was also one of the founders of the group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades. He had been living in exile in Lebanon after spending 15 years in an Israeli jail.

Marwan Issa: In March, Israel said it had killed Issa, the deputy of Hamas’ then-military leader Mohammed Deif, but Hamas has not confirmed his death. Issa, nicknamed the “shadow man” by fellow Palestinians for his ability to stay off the enemy’s radar, had risen to third in command within Hamas.

Mohammed Deif: The Israeli army claimed to have killed the military commander – and one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing – in an air strike in July on al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. He was also said to be a key figure who planned suicide bombings leading to the deaths of dozens of Israelis. Hamas has not confirmed Deif’s claimed killing.

Ismail Haniyeh: the political leader of Hamas was killed in Iran’s capital Tehran soon after the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian. In 2006, Haniyeh led the group to a legislative election victory briefly serving as the Strip’s prime minister of the Palestinian Authority’s government. Three years later, having stepped down as Hamas head in Gaza, Haniyeh left the enclave and began living abroad, leading the group’s diplomatic efforts as its political chief.

Hezbollah’s ‘operations room’ releases new update. Here are the takeaways

In a statement attributed to its military “operations room”, the Lebanese group stresses that it is inflicting heavy losses on the Israeli army and fending off its ground advances in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah has been using such updates to underscore the recovery of its capabilities and structure after several of its top leaders, including its chief Hassan Nasrallah, were assassinated by Israel.

Here’s what the latest statement said:

Israel has amassed more than 70,000 soldiers and hundreds of military vehicles at the front lines that are being confronted by hundreds of Hezbollah fighters, who are luring them into deadly ambushes.
Hezbollah is gradually escalating its rocket and drone attacks against Israeli troops alongside the border as well as deep inside Israel.
About 55 Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes since the start of the invasion last month, while more than 500 others have been injured.
Hezbollah has destroyed 20 Merkava tanks, four military bulldozers and two surveillance drones.
“In accordance with the leadership of the resistance, the operations room announces moving to a new escalatory phase in the confrontation” that will become clear in the coming days.

‘This is not the end of the war in Gaza’: Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given a speech in English to comment on the claimed killing of Sinwar.

“This is not the end of the war in Gaza. It’s is the beginning of the end,” Netanyahu said.

“This war can end tomorrow. It can end if Hamas lays down his arms and returns the hostages,” he said, directly addressing the people of Gaza.

Israel will guarantee the safety of all those who return the captives, but for those who arm them “Israel will hunt you down and bring you to justice,” the prime minister said.

He also addressed his message to the wider region saying that Iran’s axis of resistance was “collapsing before our eyes”.

Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, have sent out strong signals since news of Sinwar’s apparent killing broke that the country will continue to persecute its war on Gaza.

Death toll from Israeli strike on Maghazi camp rises to 10

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli air strike on a house that belonged to the Talibani family in the Maghazi camp in central, the Palestinian Civil Defence says.

No arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu, Gallant despite chief prosecutor’s request

The Israeli claim that Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, has been killed comes five months after chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Kahn applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

The ICC prosecutors said there are reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant, as well as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, military chief Mohammed al-Masri (known as Mohammed Deif) and Hamas’s late political leader Ismail Haniyeh, bear criminal responsibility for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, in July in what Hamas and Iran say was an Israeli attack.

Israel has claimed to have killed Deif in an attack that killed 90 Palestinians in al-Mawasi in August, although there has not been any confirmation from Hamas.

Israeli army gives more information on claimed Sinwar killing

The Israeli army’s spokesperson Daniel Hagari has spoken to reporters about the killing of the Hamas leader.

Here are the key points of his news conference:

The Israeli soldiers identified three fighters who were fleeing from house to house.
After being shot at by the Israeli forces, the group split.
Sinwar fled alone to a building where the Israeli army sent a drone.
Sinwar, wounded in his hand from the shooting, is seen throwing what looks like a stick towards the drone.
After being killed, he was found with a protective vest, a gun and 40,000 shekels.
In the past months, the Israeli army had found his DNA in an underground tunnel a few hundred metres from the one where six captives had been killed in August.
A video posted on the Israeli army’s website purports to show a man, his face wrapped in a scarf, sitting alone on an armchair inside a heavily damaged apartment. He stares at the drone and throws the stick which falls on the ground. The video ends.

Hamas could look to replace Sinwar with another military figure

Roxane Farmanfarmaian, a lecturer on international relations of the Middle East at the University of Cambridge, told Al Jazeera that some of the possible leaders who might take Yahya Sinwar’s place are more “hardline” than he was.

Others include more pragmatic figures such as Khaled Meshaal, the former head of Hamas’s political directorate, who is more of a “negotiation expert”, Farmanfarmaian said.

She said that since Hamas may have lost its military leader, her inclination is that it will probably choose another military leader rather than a political one at this stage, as the “fight is not over”.

Some Palestinians hope for end of the war
Maram Humaid
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

Some Palestinians in Gaza have expressed hope that the killing of Yahya Sinwar won’t be in vain and that it will put an end to their suffering.

“I really hope that Sinwar’s death will be the end of the war and that he will be a sacrifice for the Palestinian people, like the rest of the martyrs who fell,” said Rasmiya Khalil, a displaced woman now staying in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.

“The world should at least sympathise with us as a people who want to live, including children and women. Help these people to live,” the 53-year-old added.

Her comments were in stark contrast with what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said soon after the Israeli army claimed the killing of Sinwar. He said that “the mission was not over” as dozens of captives are still believed to be inside Gaza – something that will likely drag the war further.

Some in Gaza skeptical about fallout from Sinwar’s killing
Maram Humaid
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

Some civilians in Gaza received the news of Sinwar’s claimed killing with sadness but also with pride, noting that his death would not translate into an end to the conflict.

“Sinwar is the only leader who said no to Israel, but his death does not mean stopping the war. Israel targets every child, woman and man in Gaza, and not just Sinwar,” said Hamza al-Kurd, 50, displaced from the north of Gaza to a makeshift camp in Deir el-Balah.

“Sinwar was a caring father to us. He was killed on the battlefield, engaged and fighting for his people and his land,” Salah Musleh, 30, said.

The Hamas leader’s killing “will not stop the war because it is a war on the Palestinian cause and Palestinian existence.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/17/live-food-running-out-dozens-buried-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-israeli-siege

Deaths, injuries as Israeli military bombs home in Shati camp

Israeli fighter jets bombed the Qadiri family home in the Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City, northern Gaza, killing a “number of citizens” and injuring others, the Wafa news agency reports.

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

Hezbollah says fighters entering ‘escalating’ phase of war with Israel

Hezbollah in Lebanon has announced that it will “transition to a new and escalating phase in the confrontation with Israel”, which will become clear in the coming days.

In a statement, the group also said that Israel’s military losses have reached about 55 soldiers killed and more than 500 injured since the start of Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon on October 1.

Hezbollah also announced that it has destroyed 20 Israeli Merkava tanks, four military bulldozers and two surveillance drones in recent fighting.

45 killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon in 24-hour period: Ministry

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health reports that 45 people were killed and 179 injured in attacks across the country on Thursday.

The latest casualties bring the overall death toll in Lebanon to 2,412 people killed and 11,267 wounded since fighting broke out between Hezbollah and Israel one year ago.

Israeli army says it killed Hezbollah commander

The Israeli army has claimed it has killed Mohammad Hussein Ramal, a Hezbollah commander, in Taybeh, southern Lebanon, in an air strike.

It also said it located and destroyed rocket launchers primed to attack northern Israel, while its troops uncovered Hezbollah weapons in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli Air Force also attacked a cell it said was preparing to fire an antitank missile at Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon.

Reported killing of Sinwar neither intelligence based nor targeted assassination: Analyst

Elijah Magnier, a military and political analyst, said the Israeli and US characterisation of how Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reportedly killed is far from the reality.

“It is not at all an intelligence operation nor a targeted assassination,” Magnier told Al Jazeera.

“It’s a clash between three people, three militants who were in a location and opened fire against soldiers who are invading Rafah,” Magnier said.

Israeli forces “opened fire from their tank, destroying the location and this is how, the next day, they found Sinwar with another commander in a house above the ground and not in tunnels,” he said.

“Everybody is claiming victory, quoting intelligence collaboration … Shin Bet from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Kamala Harris saying we have been collaborating to make sure that we reach out and arrest or bring to justice all of the Hamas leaders, which has nothing to do with the reality of the event on the ground,” he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/18/live-israel-says-hamas-chief-yahya-sinwar-killed-war-on-gaza-to-continue

Reports of telecoms blackout as Israeli forces attack northern Gaza
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

Just in the last hours, there has been more information that the Israeli forces have cut off communication and internet networks to the northern part of Gaza, in particular in Jabalia.

This was a highly predictable step because the army has been obliterating everything in Jabalia – residential homes, key infrastructure and even the communication towers that provide Palestinians with internet connection and signals to communicate with each other.

This means that the military might now expand its operation in Jabalia. They have worked before in destroying residential homes and civilians there are reporting horrific aerial and ground attacks over the past 24 hours.

We know that since dawn today at least 20 Palestinians have been killed, including 11 only in the Jabalia refugee camp.

People run from shelling in Gaza’s Jabalia; house bulldozed with family inside

Videos posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera show heavy smoke enveloping a heavily damaged building in Jabalia in northern Gaza and chaotic scenes as people run for cover amid heavy Israeli shelling.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, meanwhile, report that Israeli bulldozers have demolished a house in the al-Faluja area, where a family of displaced Palestinians are living.

Medical crews were unable to reach the house to evacuate the family before the house was demolished while they were inside.

There are also reports of an ongoing telecoms blackout as Israeli military vehicles and a large number of soldiers advance towards the Jabalia refugee camp from several directions.

How Israel killed Sinwar

Hamas has in the past 90 minutes confirmed that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in combat, fighting against Israeli forces in Gaza.

In a statement, senior leader Khalid Hayya said Sinwar, “weapon in hand”, battled and confronted the Israeli army “until the last moment of his life at the forefront of the ranks”.

The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, also said Sinwar was killed “facing the enemy, not retreating”.

The statements came a day after Israel announced that the Hamas leader had been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza on Wednesday.

The Israeli army said infantry soldiers from the Bislach Brigade were searching an area in Tal as-Sultan, in southern Gaza, when they identified three fighters who were moving between buildings. A gun battle ensued in , during which Sinwar went into a heavily damaged building.

The military released footage from a mini-drone that it said showed Sinwar, badly wounded in the hand, sitting on a chair inside the ruined building, his face covered in a scarf. The video shows him staring at the drone and throwing a stick at it before the video ends.

Not long afterwards, a tank shell was fired into the building, the Israeli military said. Wary of booby traps, Israeli forces did not enter the building until the next day.

“The morning afterwards, they discovered the body and realised this could be Sinwar,” military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters.

When the troops reached him, the found him with a weapon, a flak jacket and 40,000 shekels ($10,731.63).

Dental records, fingerprints and DNA testing provided confirmation of Sinwar’s identity, Israeli officials said.

The Israeli military and media had regularly claimed Sinwar was hiding deep in tunnels under Gaza. But Hamas said in the statement confirming Sinwar’s killing that he was “moving between combat positions steadfastly” in Gaza.

There were also reports that he had surrounded himself with several captives – but when Sinwar was killed, there were none by his side.

Unusual language from Mikati as he rejects Iranian interference
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

It’s unusual language coming from Mikati, who accused Iran of violating Lebanon’s sovereignty. This is the first time the prime minister has made such a statement.

Yes, Lebanon is facing this war but at the same time there’s already a fight for post-war Lebanon which has been the playground for regional powers in a power struggle.

Iran sent two of its high-ranking officials to Lebanon in recent weeks in a show of support, but many understood this as a message to Lebanon that Iran has a seat on the negotiating table.

States helping Israel’s occupation may be ‘complicit’: UN experts

UN experts say countries enabling Israel’s “unlawful occupation” of the occupied Palestinian territories and assisting it despite warnings of war crimes and possible “genocide” in Gaza should be deemed “complicit”.

“Israel’s internationally wrongful acts give rise to state responsibility, not only for Israel, but for all states,” said Navi Pillay, head of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry.

The commission has published a new legal position paper spelling out specific actions required following a recent advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declaring Israel’s occupation since 1967 “unlawful”.

It also examines the implications of last month’s UN General Assembly vote demanding the occupation end within a year.

Iran’s president offers condolences for Sinwar

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a statement offering condolences over the killing of Yahya Sinwar and condemning Israel for his death.

“The news of the assassination and martyrdom of the steadfast fighter, Yahya Sinwar, Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, is both painful and heartbreaking for freedom lovers around the world, especially the brave people of Palestine,” Pezeshkian said. “However, it also clearly highlights the ongoing atrocities of the occupying and child-killing Zionist regime.”

He added that Sinwar fought “heroically” in the final moments before his death.

“The struggle against aggression and the fight to restore freedom and liberation to the rightful owners of the occupied lands is a great movement and a noble cause,” he said. “It will not be stopped by the assassination or elimination of heroes in this battle.”

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip saw Sinwar as a legend
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el Balah, central Gaza Strip

People here inside the Gaza Strip believe that Yahya Sinwar was killed on the front lines, clashing with the Israeli military in Rafah.

The city has been one of the strongholds of the Hamas movement in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, where a [Israeli] military operation has been ongoing for more than four months.

Families here are expressing their condolences, saying that Sinwar was a legend and was [a symbol of] resistance.

Because this man has, with his killing, refuted the old Israeli claims that he was hiding in the underground tunnel systems and was surrounding himself with Israeli captives.

It also raises more questions, including if he was fighting in other areas of the Gaza Strip.

People know Yahya Sinwar. He is an educated, intellectually knowledgeable negotiator leading the team in Gaza to reach a ceasefire deal with Israel.

Now all eyes are focused towards who will replace Yahya Sinwar in the leadership of the Hamas movement in Gaza.

Sinwar exposed Israeli propaganda: Palestinian politician

Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says the Israeli prime minister “wanted an image of victory” but Sinwar, at the end of his life, “gave the world an image of Netanyahu’s failure” instead.

“All the lies [Israel] told about Sinwar were exposed – that he was hiding behind civilians, taking them as human shields, proved to be a lie. The lie that he was hiding behind Israeli captives was also proven to be a lie, and the claim that he was running away and hiding in tunnels was exposed,” Barghouti told Al Jazeera, noting that Sinwar was in Rafah fighting the Israeli army.

“Sinwar revealed how wrong the Israeli propaganda was not only about him, but in general of the situation,” he said.

Hamas likely to have a bifurcation or a hydra approach to leadership

Beverly Milton-Edwards of the Middle East Council on Foreign Affairs says after the assassination of Haniyeh in Iran, it appeared in public that Sinwar was taking over the whole of the movement, including the armed wing as well as the political bureau.

“But at the same time, the leadership met internally and reached [an agreement] to form a decision-making that there would be a parallel leadership, which included [deputy leader] Khalil al-Haya, who knows, grew up with and was close to Sinwar,” she added.

The analyst said it is likely that the movement will have two leaders in the future and has many senior figures among the prisoners in addition to other locations.

She also said what is happening is “a bifurcation or a hydra approach” to leadership, adding that “the leadership or the knowledge about leadership” is likely to become more secret.

Beverly Milton-Edwards reminded that similar secrecy was carried out when Hamas was founded after the first Intifada – the mass demonstrations by Palestinians that started in 1987.

Israeli settlers steal sheep from Jurish village near Nablus

Israeli settlers have stolen a herd of sheep from the village of Jurish, southeast of Nablus, Wafa news agency is reporting.

A group of settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, attacked a young shepherd while he was with his sheep at the junction of Jurish village, according to the report.

Israeli forces detained the shepherd at the scene and the settlers stole the sheep and headed towards the nearby illegal Israeli Migdalim settlement, Wafa reported.

Jordan rejects claim its soldiers crossed into Israel

Jordan’s official news agency, quoting a military source, says Israeli claims that the country’s soldiers crossed the border into Israel are not true.

The agency posted on its website that there was “no truth” in the reports.

The Israeli military said it had identified what it called “a number of terrorists” crossing from Jordan into Israel south of the Dead Sea region and had killed two of them after they opened fire on Israeli forces.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/18/live-israel-says-hamas-chief-yahya-sinwar-killed-war-on-gaza-to-continue

>>485048
>UN experts say countries enabling Israel’s “unlawful occupation” of the occupied Palestinian territories and assisting it despite warnings of war crimes and possible “genocide” in Gaza should be deemed “complicit”.
The UN lacks enforcement abilities. So all this stuff likely won't be applied until after the dust has settled.

The faction that supports fascism of the Zionist type likely calculates that if they win they can't be held accountable. However at the moment the odds stack up against the Zionist project because at the current rate the fascists in Israel will wreck it in about 2 years, at which point it will become a failed state. With some delay the Zionist lobby in the west will weaken accordingly. Simply because a wrecked Israel will no longer service the interests of imperial capital.

I think the money that is currently being funneled into the Zionist bribe, blackmail and harassment machine will be diverted to mostly automated drone ships that uses drones like fractional ammunition.
<the ship carries the drones over the very long distances,
<it launches a a few big drones that carries many little drones over medium distances,
<the little drones only go a short distance until they disperse and attack lots of targets.

The partially automated fractional murder machines probably won't be that much more effective at poking that region, but they'll be cheaper and easier to controle, at that point the Zionists will become a loose end and they'll be persecuted for their crimes.

>Israeli settlers have stolen a herd of sheep from the village of Jurish
so they're the big bad wolf now ?
Somebody warn all those people to not build their houses out of hay.

>>485050
>Biden called Germany the "closest and most important" ally of the US
the rest of the world hears
<be US ally
<have your economy/energy-supply wrecked

>the streets are echoing with a different message.
Giving Biden prestige prizes probably amounts to some kind of intra-elite loyalty proclamation. But for the population it probably feels like somebody is spitting in their face.

Israeli strike kills at least 30 in Jabalia: Wafa

The Palestinian news agency says at least 30 were killed, including 20 children and women, and more than 50 others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza.

Palestine UN envoy: We seek to expel Israel from UN General Assembly

A group of 12 Arab ambassadors has met behind closed doors with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss Gaza at the UN headquarters in New York.

After the meeting, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, told reporters the discussion centred on a need for an immediate ceasefire and bolstering support for UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. Israel’s parliament is currently considering legislation to ban the organisation from operating in the country.

He also said the group is pushing for a new UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire and renewed a call for Israel to be expelled from the UN General Assembly.

“The Security Council has the tools to force its will and to use everything available to it,” Mansour told the press.

“With regard to UNRWA, if they [Israel] continue on the path, among other things, of trying to destroy it, there is no taboo in the General Assembly of questioning the seat of a country that does not respect all of us, nor the General Assembly, nor international law, nor the Security Council, nor the secretary-general.

“A country that behaves in such arrogance and disrespect to its obligation under the Charter of the United Nations does not deserve to have a seat in the General Assembly among us”, he said.

Iranian FM says US should be held accountable for potential Israeli attack

Earlier, we reported on comments from US President Biden saying that he had a better idea of how and when Israel would attack Iran, which it has promised to do in response to a missile attack Iran carried out on Israel late last month.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s minister of foreign affairs, has posted on X saying “Anybody with knowledge or understanding of ‘how and when Israel was going to attack Iran’, and/or providing the means and backing for such folly, should logically be held accountable for any possible causality”.

He accompanied this post with a photo of President Biden, sending a clear message to the US.

Hezbollah says it has launched drones at a military base in central Israel

The Lebanese armed group says the attack is dedicated to its late leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last month in an Israeli air strike on Beirut.

Hezbollah fighters launched “a swarm of explosive-laden drones” at an “air missile defence base” east of the central Israeli city of Hadera, the group said in a statement, adding it came “in response to the targeting of civilians” and “at the service” of Nasrallah.

Earlier, we reported that Hezbollah had targeted the area of Haifa in the north of Israel with a rocket salvo. The Israeli military said it had successfully intercepted that attack.

UN expert on freedom of expression says Israel seeking to stop documentation of crimes

Irene Khan, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, has presented a report to a special UN committee on global threats to freedom of expression arising from the conflict in Gaza.

She highlighted severe attacks on the media, including targeted killings and censorship, and the impunity surrounding these acts. She called for the establishment of an international investigative mechanism for killings of journalists.

Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo asked her about this. Here are some highlights from her response:

“The severe attacks on media in the occupied Palestinian territory, in Gaza, but also in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the targeted killings of journalists, … the banning of Al Jazeera, the tightening of censorship within Israel and in the occupied territories seem to indicate a strategy of the Israeli authorities to silence critical journalism and obstruct documentation of possible international crimes,” she said.

When asked by Elizondo why, of all the documented cases of Israel targeting journalists, none has been investigated or prosecuted, Kahn replied:

“In most cases, impunity occurs because the national state is inactive and, therefore, the international mechanism has to be strengthened. There should be an international independent international mechanism to investigate when killings take place.”

Belgian soldier under investigation for possible war crimes in Gaza: Report

The Belgian prosecutor’s office says it has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by a Belgian soldier fighting for Israel in Gaza, US publication Politico reports.

The news site said the probe focused on a Belgian member of an elite unit of the Israeli military.

Citing multiple reports in local media, Politico said the man is a dual Belgian-Israeli citizen in his 20s from the Brussels municipality of Uccle who serves the Israeli army in the “Refaim” sniper unit.

It said the unit, which has been operating in the besieged enclave since October 2023, consists of 21 people, including three Americans, two French, a German, an Italian and a Belgian man.

Hezbollah eulogises Sinwar

The Lebanese group says the slain Hamas leader has won all the “medals of honour and dignity” in his life of struggle against Israel.

Hezbollah also lauded Sinwar for leading “one of the most humiliating operations in the history of the Israeli occupiers”, referring to the October 7 attack.

“He won the badge of martyrdom as he loved and wished – in the battlefields of struggle, clashing face to face with occupation soldiers to the last breath,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

“The martyrdom of the commander [Sinwar] and those who came before him in the axis of resistance will strengthen the resolve and determination of the resistance in all the battlefields and arenas to proceed on the road of liberating Palestine and eradicating the cancerous Zionist tumour.”

German MP faces criticism for post critical of Israel

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party has faced a backlash after one of its lawmakers, a vice president of parliament, shared an online post which other politicians claimed was anti-Israeli.

Aydan Ozoguz shared a post from the US-based group Jewish Voice for Peace that showed an image of a building on fire with the message “This is Zionism”.

The Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said the post “indirectly questions Israel’s right to exist” and accused Ozoguz of “pouring oil on the fire”.

The Social Democratic Party lawmaker, one of five vice presidents of the German Bundestag, later deleted her message and apologised.

“I realised that the shared post hurt the feelings of fellow citizens who stand up for peaceful coexistence,” she wrote. “That was not my intention and I deeply regret that.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/18/live-israel-says-hamas-chief-yahya-sinwar-killed-war-on-gaza-to-continue

>>485052
>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party has faced a backlash after one of its lawmakers, a vice president of parliament, shared an online post which other politicians claimed was anti-Israeli.
>Aydan Ozoguz shared a post from the US-based group Jewish Voice for Peace that showed an image of a building on fire with the message “This is Zionism”.
I guess they figured out they can't accuse Jewish Voice for peace of being anti-semitic anymore because people kept rolling their eyes, so they had to make up a new accusation.

>The Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said the post “indirectly questions Israel’s right to exist”
Israel does a lot more than question the Palestinian right to exist. They directly try to "un-exist" Palestinians

>The Social Democratic Party lawmaker, one of five vice presidents of the German Bundestag, later deleted her message and apologised.
That's their goal, to get people who criticize them to self-censor.

>“I realised that the shared post hurt the feelings of fellow citizens who stand up for peaceful coexistence,”
Zionists stand for peaceful coexistence ?
The insanity.

Director of Indonesian hospital in Gaza says Israeli tanks have surrounded building

Israeli tanks have completely surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in Bait Lahia, northern Gaza, and cut off the medical facility’s electricity supply, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report, citing Dr Marwan al-Sultan.

Israeli forces have bombed the hospital, targeting the second and third floors with artillery shells, putting medical staff and patients at serious risk, according to al-Sultan.

Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in Gaza also reports that Israeli forces have begun demolishing parts of the hospital.

Israeli army says drone hit Netanyahu’s home

A drone launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, according to his spokesperson.

Netanyahu and his family were not in Caesarea at the time of the attack, the statement said, adding that there were no casualties.

Protesters storm Saudi TV channel in Iraq over labelling Hamas, fighters in region ‘terrorists’

Protests have stormed and ransacked the offices of a Saudi television channel in Baghdad, after the broadcaster reportedly aired a segment that referred to fighters in the region, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iraqi Mobilisation Forces, as “terrorists”.

French news agency AFP reports that between 400 and 500 people attacked the studios of Saudi broadcaster MBC in the early hours of this morning.

“They wrecked the electronic equipment, the computers, and set fire to a part of the building,” an Iraqi interior ministry source told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding the fire had been extinguished and the crowd dispersed by police.

Israel drops leaflets over Gaza showing Sinwar’s body

Israeli planes have dropped leaflets over southern Gaza showing a picture of dead Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar with the message that “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza”, echoing language used by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Whoever drops the weapon and hands over the hostages will be allowed to leave and live in peace,” the leaflet, written in Arabic, read, according to residents of the southern city of Khan Younis and images circulating online.

The leaflet’s wording was from a statement made by Netanyahu on Thursday after Sinwar was killed by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, in the south near the Egyptian border, a day earlier.

Hezbollah sends ‘large rocket salvo’ at Israeli military base

We’ve been reporting about sirens going on in northern Israel.

Hezbollah has now said it fired rockets towards an Israeli military base north of Israel’s Haifa in response to Israeli attacks on its strongholds in southern Lebanon.

“The large rocket salvo” came in retaliation for Israeli attacks on south Lebanon villages, Hezbollah announced after the Israeli army said a barrage of projectiles was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.

Israeli Army Radio is reporting at least 13 people have been injured in these rocket attacks today.

Where has Hezbollah carried out today’s attacks?

Hezbollah says it carried out attacks on:

Safad
Philon base in Rosh Pina, east of Safad
Krayot, north of Haifa
Shlomi settlement
Al-Bassa settlement
Military base in Nesher
Settlement of Kiryat Shmona
A group of Israeli soldiers at the al-Marj site and in the settlement of Zarit
Israel said a Hezbollah drone also hit Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv.

Caesarea hosts strategic assets, politicians and businesspeople
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

We have seen videos posted by the residents in Caesarea on the drone attack on Netanyahu’s residence.

The house was struck in the attack. Neither Netanyahu nor his family were present at the time of the incident.

The Israeli military has imposed a very tight censor and restrictions on the Israeli media and has also sealed off the area.

Businesspeople and politicians live in the area, where a lot of power and strategic assets are concentrated, including military bases and oil refineries.

No warning sirens went off in Caesarea, while they did in the neighbouring areas, such as Haifa.

Hezbollah uses the tactic of launching drones and rockets together at different targets to evade detection.

Iran hosts joint naval drills with Russia and Oman

Naval drills hosted by Iran with the participation of Russia and Oman and observed by nine other countries have begun in the Indian Ocean, according to Iran’s state TV.

The report said that the exercises, dubbed “IMEX 2024”, are aimed at boosting “collective security in the region, expand multilateral cooperation, and display the goodwill and capabilities to safeguard peace, friendship and maritime security”.

The exercises coincide with heightened tensions in the region as Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon rages and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group retaliates by launching attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

Mayor among four killed in Israeli strike on eastern Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting that an Israeli air raid that targeted an apartment in the town of Baaloul in the Western Bekaa district has killed four people, including the mayor of Sahmar, Haidar Shahla.

Several people were wounded in the attack, the report said.

Search and rescue teams are searching for missing people under the rubble.

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Israeli army demolished UNIFIL observation tower in southern Lebanon

An Israeli army bulldozer “deliberately” demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position in Marwahin, southern Lebanon, UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL said in a statement.

“Yet again, we note that breaching a UN position and damaging UN assets is a flagrant violation of international law and Security Council resolution 1701,” read a statement. “It also endangers the safety and security of our peacekeepers in violation of international humanitarian law.”

The incident is the latest in a series of attacks against UN bases in southern Lebanon as the Israeli army is pressuring the peacekeepers to leave their positions.

“Despite the pressure being exerted on the mission and our troop-contributing countries, peacekeepers remain in all positions. We will continue to undertake our mandated tasks to monitor and report,” UNIFIL said.

In Jabalia, Israeli forces ‘detained all men and warned women to leave’

The Israeli military siege of northern Gaza, now in its 16th day, continues with access to food, water, medicine and vital services cut off for an estimated 400,000 trapped residents.

Some of them say they have been separated from their families after Israeli soldiers stormed their shelters and detained dozens of men.

“The Israeli tanks besieged the area and forced all us out of the sheltering school,” a Palestinian woman, carrying a baby on her shoulders, said. “They detained all men and warned all women to leave in groups. We left everything behind, even baby milk.

“The Israelis started shelling us with artillery, their drone and warplanes fired missiles too. Then, they stormed the area with their tanks and opened fire randomly.”

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Israeli army destroys southern Lebanon villages, razing homes and mosques

The Israeli army has almost destroyed several villages in southern Lebanon, razing homes and mosques to the ground, local security sources told dpa news agency.

According to the report, the military blew up the town of Ramyah in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon.

A few days ago, a photo was shared on social media showing Israeli soldiers posing in front of the village’s community building.

A separate report from Lebanon’s National News Agency said Israel was carrying out a large-scale bombing in buildings across the southern Lebanese towns of Adaisseh, Markaba and Rab el-Thalathine.

The reports come as Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told his troops that Israel was not only “defeating the enemy [Hezbollah], but we are destroying them in all the villages along the border, in the places that Hezbollah planned to use as launchpads for attacks against Israel”.

While Israel claims its stated objective is to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon , it has issued a wave of enforced evacuation orders for hundreds of villages in the south causing mass displacement.

It has also bombed towns in the north of the country, as well as locations that are far from Hezbollah-controlled areas.

UN ‘crumbling under the weight of shame’ over Gaza

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said that “in Gaza, the collective shame of the century continues unabated and unstopped, in defiance of every norm of international law”.

In a post on X, she said Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave have been abandoned and subjected to Israeli summary executions, mass forced displacements, and other egregious abuses.

Albanese called it “a disgraceful testament to our global failure to protect basic human rights”.

“The United Nations, once a believed beacon of hope and a force for peace, crumbling under the weight of this shame – and the pressure of the inaction or complicity of its most powerful member states.”

Amnesty International urges European countries to halt arms sales to Israel

Amnesty International has expressed concern over continued arms sales by European nations to Israel amid attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, calling for a complete “arms embargo” due to “severe human rights violations”.

“States should unilaterally impose an embargo on Israel that would include not just weapons and systems that are coming from their states, but stopping participation in supply chains into weapon systems that eventually end up in Israel,” Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International arms control policy advisor and human rights researcher, said in an interview with Anadolu news agency.

European countries are part of the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty, which prohibits them from authorising the transfer of arms that could be used in attacks against civilian targets.

Israeli army says colonel killed in northern Gaza

The army said Ahsan Daksa, 41, was the commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade and his tank was hit by explosive devices during operations in Jabaliya, northern Gaza.

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Iran says Hezbollah behind drone attack on Netanyahu’s residence

Iran’s UN mission says Hezbollah is behind a drone attack on Netanyahu’s residence.

“This action was taken by the Lebanese Hezbollah,” the mission said in response to a question about Iran’s role in the attack, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Lebanese detainee dies in Israeli custody: Report

Israeli Army Radio and broadcaster Channel 12 are reporting that the army has launched an investigation into the person’s death.

The individual was held in southern Lebanon, and the army alleged the detainee belonged to Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group Israel launched a ground operation against weeks ago.

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87 people killed or missing in Beit Lahiya: Health Ministry

A total of 87 people have been killed or are missing under debris after an Israeli attack on the town in northern Gaza, according to the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry.

More than 40 others were injured, it added. The Israeli military said it is checking on the report.

Israeli forces have conducted a large-scale incursion in northern Gaza as they also destroy residential buildings in air and artillery attacks and carry out mass arrests, with tens of thousands of people stuck there.

Fatah says far-right Israeli government ‘fully responsible’ for Beit Lahiya ‘massacre’

Fatah has issued a statement saying it holds “the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the bloody massacre” in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, Wafa reports.

Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority and has partial administrative power in the occupied West Bank, called on “the world” to help “stop the systematic Israeli war of extermination” in Gaza, Wafa reported, adding it was a Zionist conspiracy to displace Palestinians from their land.

“Palestinian people are being subjected to an organised war of extermination led by the far-right government in Israel with the utmost criminality and hatred,” Fatah added.

3 troops killed by Israeli attack in southern Lebanon: Army

The Lebanese military says three of its soldiers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on their vehicle.

More on Israeli attack that killed 3 Lebanese soldiers

We are receiving updates on the strike that killed three soldiers in the south of the country, according to the Lebanese army.

The military said they were killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike that “targeted” their vehicle.

The troops were killed on a road connecting the border village of Ain Ebel to the nearby town of Hanine. The latest deaths bring the number of troop casualties to eight killed since an all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah last month.

Israeli army claims killing of Hezbollah commanders

In a statement, the Israeli military says its fighter jets killed three Hezbollah commanders.

It said the dead included Alhaj Abbas Salameh, a senior figure in the group’s southern command, Radja Abbas Awache, a communications expert, and Ahmad Ali Hussein, who was responsible for strategic weapons development.

It wasn’t clear if the three were killed in what the military said were strikes on Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in southern Beirut or in separate actions. Hezbollah made no immediate comment.

Early on Sunday, two Israeli strikes targeted the Harat Hreik neighbourhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut, hitting a residential building near Bahman Hospital, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said.

Israel to take legal action against Macron over naval trade show ban

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says he ordered legal proceedings against French President Emmanuel Macron after France banned Israeli firms from participating in an upcoming naval trade show.

“[These] are undemocratic steps that are not acceptable between friendly countries and I call on French President Macron to cancel them completely,” he wrote on X in Hebrew.

The decision to bar Israeli firms is the latest incident in a row fuelled by the Macron government’s unease over Israel’s conduct in the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

Israeli air strike kills aid worker in Gaza: NGO

The aid group Mercy Corps says a member of the organisation, Mahasin Khatee, was killed in an attack on Friday.

“We are grieving and send our deepest condolences to her family … our team in Palestine, and to all those who have lost family members and loved ones to violence over the last year of war and unimaginable suffering in Gaza,” a statement by the NGO said.

In April, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution denouncing attacks on UN staff and aid workers as record numbers have been killed in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

Iran says Israeli military sites in its sights

Tehran says it has pinpointed all of the military targets in Israel it will strike should it launch an attack on Iran, its top diplomat says.

“We will not leave any attack against Iran unanswered and Israel will receive a proportionate response. We have identified all our targets there and a similar attack will be made on their targets,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Turkey’s NTV.

He specifically noted any strike on Iran’s nuclear sites.

“Any attack on Iran will be considered crossing a red line for us. Such an attack will not go unanswered. The necessary response will be given to any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities or any similar attack.”

US probes leak of ‘top secret’ documents on Israel’s Iran plan

The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran, three unnamed US officials told The Associated Press news agency.

A fourth US official said the documents appear to be legitimate.

The documents – attributed to the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency and marked “top secret” – indicate Israel is moving military assets into place to conduct a strike in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on October 1.

It is unclear how the US and its European allies are planning to prevent a spiralling escalation of the direct violence between Iran and Israel.

The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military assistance annually, and an additional $18bn in aid since the war on Gaza began in early October 2023.

Attack on Netanyahu’s home may prompt targeting of Iran’s supreme leader

Jean-Marc Rickli, head of global risk at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, says the fact the Israeli leader is pointing the finger at Iran for the attack on his residence in Caesarea could turn into a major escalation.

“If we look at the equivalent of Benjamin Netanyahu being attacked by a drone being considered as an assassination attempt … if we make a parallel with Iran the legitimate target could be the supreme leader,” Rickli told Al Jazeera.

“Israel is trying to establish deterrence against Iran’s proxies and surrogates in the region, not only Hezbollah but the Houthis and other groups. The Israelis are signalling they’re ready to apply what they have done with Hamas and what they started to do with Hezbollah – which is decapitating first the heads of these movements – and then trying to neutralise these movements.”

Israeli settlers plan ‘observer tour’ of northern Gaza during conference

The “Preparing to Settle Gaza” conference, which begins today, will include a “Gaza Observer” tour departing from an illegal Israeli settlement less than 10km (6.2 miles) away from Beit Lahiya where an Israeli attack killed at least 73 Palestinians overnight.

The tour, which begins in the Givat Kobi neighbourhood of Sderot, is part of a two-day event that will also include “practical preparation workshops for settlement in Gaza”, as well as 10 speakers from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party.

“Gaza is the property of our ancestors since time immemorial, we will not rest until we settle it again,” Limor Son Har Melech, a member of the Knesset from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, which is part of Netanyahu’s coalition government, said in a post on X, promoting the conference.

The far-right settler organisation Nachala which is hosting the event, also held another conference earlier this year, where a map showing plans for 15 illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza was displayed.

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>Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says he ordered legal proceedings against French President Emmanuel Macron after France banned Israeli firms from participating in an upcoming naval trade show.
seething Zionists
small amount of surplus enjoyment

>“[These] are undemocratic steps
I somehow always expect Netanyahu to burst into flames when he says words like "democracy".

Suspected hack at Haifa’s port database

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority is reporting that port workers in the northern Israeli city of Haifa have received messages that the port’s computer systems have been hacked and that it will be subjected to a missile attack.

Port officials estimated that workers’ phones were located in an external database that was hacked a few years ago.

“We know you work at the port. It will be one of our targets” was the message that was reported to have been sent.

Haifa has been the target of several attacks by Hezbollah in recent weeks, with some rockets evading air defences.

Israeli strikes target three locations in Beirut

As we’ve reported, Israeli air strikes have targeted southern Beirut yet again.

According to reports, the strikes hit Dahiyeh in three locations: Ozai, Jinah and Haret Hreik.

Vicinity of hospital in southern Beirut targeted

The vicinity of Rafik Hariri Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs has been bombed by Israeli forces, Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting.

Casualties are feared in the attack.

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

Israeli allegations about Hezbollah bunker under hospital create panic in Lebanon
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman

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

There were incredible allegations made by the spokesperson of the Israeli army earlier. He said that according to their intelligence, there is a bunker underneath Al Sahel Hospital in Haret Hreik, Beirut’s southern district.

According to that allegation and that illustrative video that he shared with the press, up to a half billion dollars in cash and gold is stored there.

But of course there is absolutely nothing to corroborate this, and our viewers would remember that the same spokesperson made very similar allegations about a tunnel underneath al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. That allegation did not pan out either, but it did result in the destruction of the hospital.

Now the spokesperson did not say that Israel would bomb it, but he did create a lot of panic in Lebanon. He said that Israel calls on the Lebanese army and Lebanese institutions to reclaim that money, and in that sense, he spoke to something that Netanyahu had earlier said about the Lebanese needing to liberate Lebanon from Hezbollah, fomenting that precarious civil peace in Lebanon.

Lebanon hospital denies Israeli claims of Hezbollah cash bunker

Lebanon’s Sahel General Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs is being evacuated after Israel claimed that Hezbollah has a bunker filled with cash under it, the hospital director says.

Fadi Alameh rejected Israeli claims made earlier that Hezbollah is storing half a billion dollars under the hospital, and called on the Lebanese army to visit and inspect these allegations in order to quash them.

Hezbollah says targeted Israeli army intelligence base near Tel Aviv

There were reports of an explosion earlier today near Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah has just released a statement saying it launched rockets at an Israeli army intelligence base in the city’s suburbs.

Hezbollah fighters launched “quality rockets” at “the Glilot base of the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 in the Tel Aviv suburbs”, the group said, adding the attack was “in defence of Lebanon” and “in response to Israeli aggressions” and dedicated to their slain leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Two civilians killed in missile attack on car in Damascus: Syrian state media

We have some more information about the attack on a car in Syria’s capital, Damascus, that we reported earlier.

Syrian state news agency SANA has quoted a military source as saying the apparent guided missile attack, which was blamed on Israel, had killed two civilians.

“At approximately 5:17pm [14:17 GMT] today, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack targeting a civilian car in the Mazzeh residential neighbourhood in Damascus, which led to the death of two civilians, the injury of three others and material damage to private property in the surrounding area,” the source said.

There was no immediate comment by Israel, which rarely provides information about its attacks in Syria.

Israel has been carrying out attacks against what it says are Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids over the past 12 months.

Israeli military says it shot down drone from Iraq

A drone that crossed into Israel from the East and activated warning sirens in the Jordan valley was shot down, the Israeli army said in a post on X.

In an earlier post on Telegram, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it launched a drone towards a military target in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Hezbollah says it targets Israeli military camp in occupied Golan

Hezbollah says it has targeted the Yoav military camp in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with what it describes as a “large missile barrage”.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army.

Meanwhile, to the west, sirens sounded in the Margaliot and Manara areas of Upper Galilee, according to the Israeli Home Front Command.

Israeli military claims killing of Hezbollah commander in Damascus strike

The Israeli army spokesperson claims that a strike in Syria’s capital killed the commander of a Hezbollah unit who was responsible for the transfer of weapons from Iran.

Hezbollah has not commented yet on the strike.

Israel rejects UN’s request to access Jabalia

Gabriel Elizondo, Al Jazeera’s correspondent at the United Nations, is reporting that a request by the world body to access Jabalia in northern Gaza has been rejected by Israel for the fourth time.

“UN says urgent request to allow access to Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to help rescue people trapped under the rubble has been denied by Israel for the fourth consecutive day,” he said in a post on X.

“A separate request to deliver food, water and fuel was also denied by Israel.”

Northern Gaza has been under an Israeli army siege for 17 days now. At least 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp as the forced expulsion by troops in the north continues.

Israeli police arrest seven citizens accused of spying for Iran

A spy network allegedly gathering information on military bases and energy infrastructure for Iranian intelligence has been broken up, Israeli authorities say.

In a statement, Israel’s internal security agency and police said they “successfully dismantled a spy network involving seven Israeli citizens who were operating on behalf of Iranian intelligence”.

All seven citizens were arrested for engaging in “gathering sensitive information”, the statement said.

More on Israel arresting seven for allegedly spying for Iran

As we previously reported, Israeli authorities have arrested seven citizens who they say were paid by Iran to collect intelligence for more than two years.

In a statement, Israel’s internal security agency and police alleged that the seven collected information about other Israelis and photographed Israeli military installations, including missile defence systems, air force and naval sites, and power plants.

Abed Abou Shhada, a Jaffa-based independent journalist, has told Al Jazeera what was particularly distinctive about this case was the identity of the suspects.

“This is without a doubt groundbreaking both for the Israeli society and the Israeli security services, because usually the people who are automatic suspects in these stories were either … Palestinian citizens or Palestinians from the West Bank,” he said. “But now, it’s Israeli Jewish citizens; two of them are minors and one of them was a soldier who deserted from the military.”

The timing was also particularly important, he noted, as the alleged operations happened at a time of war, with Israel having faced attacks by both Iran and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

Azeri spies in Israel considered ‘reliable’ by Iranian intelligence

Spies operating a network allegedly working for Iranian intelligence in Israel are reported to be immigrants from Azerbaijan, military analyst Elijah Magnier told Al Jazeera.

He said there is a “strong connection between Azerbaijan and Iran in borders but also a strong connection between Azerbaijan and Israel”.

“This is why this makes the Azeri very valuable for both sides where Azerbaijan provides oil to Israel and Israel provides weapons to Azerbaijan,” he said, adding: “This is what makes that community and diaspora extremely attractive” to Iranian intelligence services.

He said the fact that the spies were reported to have carried out 600 missions shows its members are considered “reliable” by Iranian intelligence.

Magnier added that it also represents “a failure” by the Israeli authorities to identify the network “only after two years”.

Palestinians say Israeli army used them as ‘human shields’: Report

Israeli soldiers in Gaza sent captured Palestinians into unexplored houses and tunnels before soldiers, in violation of international law, according to detainees interviewed by The Guardian.

Ramez al-Skafi, a 30-year-old Palestinian, told the UK newspaper that for 11 days in early July, he was sent into one house after another in his home district of Shujayea in Gaza City – effectively becoming “a human shield against booby-traps and Hamas gunmen”, according to the report.

“I tried to resist their proposal, but they started beating me and the officer told me it was not my choice to make and that I have to do whatever they want,” Skafi was quoted as saying by The Guardian.

Skafi was one of three Palestinians interviewed who gave the newspaper similar accounts of being used in the same manner.

Israeli army dynamites houses in southern Lebanese village

The Israeli military has blown up houses in a southern Lebanese border village as clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighters are reported in the area.

“The enemy army blew up houses in the village of Aita al-Shaab,” Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.

Heavy fighting is ongoing between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, “which is trying to advance on the ground” in the region, the report said.

Al Jazeera footage shows Israeli tanks stationed on the village’s outskirts.

Palestinian olive farmers attacked with toxic gas by Israeli forces

Several Palestinian farmers and international activists were attacked with toxic gas by Israeli forces and settlers while picking olives in Beit Lid, east of Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank.

The director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Murad Shteiwi, told the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces and settlers fired live rounds and gas canisters towards those harvesting olives.

Dozens of people suffered suffocation-like symptoms from the gas, Shteiwi added. He said the international volunteers refused to leave the area despite Israeli threats.

This year’s olive harvest season is experiencing repeated attacks by settlers and Israeli troops, including burning and cutting down olive trees and preventing farmers from reaching their land.

Israel bombs finance group in Lebanon

Israeli air strikes hit a Lebanese business association after accusing it of financing Hezbollah’s weapons.

In southern Lebanon, Israeli strikes hit al-Qard al-Hassan branches in the cities of Nabatieh and Tyre overnight, according to the official National News Agency.

On Monday, the Israeli military said it launched a series of attacks against “dozens of facilities and sites” used by Hezbollah in Beirut and southern Lebanon, including branches of the financial institution.

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Iran tells UN Biden signalled US approval, support for attack

Iran’s mission to the UN says that Biden has signalled “tacit approval and explicit support for Israel’s unlawful military aggression against Iran”, citing remarks by the US president in Germany last week.

“The United States will bear full responsibility for its role in instigating, inciting and enabling any acts of aggression by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran… as well as for the catastrophic consequences on regional and international peace and security,” Iran’s UN mission said in a letter to the Security Council.

Biden, on a visit to Berlin, also told reporters that he had an understanding of how and when Israel would respond to the missile attacks by Iran, without elaborating.

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Lebanese hospital offers tour to refute Israel’s bunker claims

The administrator of the Sahel General Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs has offered to give journalists a tour to disprove an Israeli claim that Hezbollah is storing “millions of dollars in gold and cash” there, Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting.

The Israeli army “didn’t show any proof” to back up its claims, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reported from the Lebanese capital.

“But it made the hospital essentially a target, so the hospital director immediately said they would start evacuating” on Monday, Khan said.

Israeli forces have directly attacked hospitals and health workers in both Lebanon and Gaza on multiple occasions, with Israeli officials offering scant and sometimes spurious claims to justify their actions.

US Justice Dept lawyers push for probe into Israel’s killing of Americans: Report

Lawyers at the US Department of Justice have sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to investigate “potential‬‭ violations‬‭ of‬‭ US‬‭ law‬‭ by‬‭ Israel’s‭ government,‬‭ military,‬‭ and‬‭ citizenry”, the news website Zeteo is reporting.

The lawyers highlighted three areas of potential inquiry, the report said: (Illegal) Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, possible war crimes and torture committed by Israeli forces and recent Israeli army killings of US citizens.

That includes American Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was fatally shot by Israeli forces at a West Bank protest in September, and Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was killed by the Israeli army in 2022 while covering a raid in Jenin.

Washington initially called for accountability in Abu Akleh’s killing. But it shifted its position after Israel admitted that its soldiers killed her and dismissed the incident as an accident, refusing to open a criminal investigation.

By September 2022, the US dropped its demand that the perpetrators be prosecuted.

PEN America condemns Israeli censorship of film about Palestinian city

PEN America has condemned the Israeli government’s banning of the sci-fi feature documentary film Lyd, which was meant to be shown at the al-Saraya Theater in Jaffa earlier this month.

“We are particularly concerned about the Israeli government’s demand that al-Saraya Theater submit all future programming for approval by the Ministry of Communications,” PEN said in a statement.

Israeli police stopped the theatre from showing the film after Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miki Zohar said it slandered Israel and its soldiers, The Times of Israel reported earlier this month.

Co-directed by Rami Younis, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Sarah Ema Friedland, a Jewish-American media artist, Lyd tells the story of the Palestinian city south of Tel Aviv. It is also known as Lod in Israel.

“The occupation can take many things, but one thing it can’t take is your ability to imagine,” Younis told Al Jazeera when the film premiered in London earlier this year.

Planes forced to switch runways after Israeli strikes near Beirut airport, says security official

Lebanon’s national airline had to switch landing strips on Monday due to Israel’s attacks near the main runway at Beirut international airport, a Lebanese security source has told the AFP news agency.

“Middle East Airlines switched the runway it was using because the main runway is close to the site of the Ouzai strike,” said the official, who requested anonymity.

UN-supported shelter for women and girls destroyed in south Beirut

The UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, says a shelter for women and girls was destroyed in attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday night.

The space was a “home-away-from-home” that “changed the lives of dozens of women and girls” escaping gender-based violence, the agency said in a post on social media.

It was run by UNFPA partner Amel Association International, it added.

Beirut has come under repeated Israeli bombardment in recent days, including at least 12 Israeli missiles that hit its southern suburbs on Sunday night.

Number of injured in Israeli attack near Beirut hospital rises

The Lebanese Health Ministry says at least 32 people were injured in the attack near Rafik Hariri Hospital, up from a preliminary toll of 24 wounded.

As we reported earlier, at least four people – including a child – were killed in the Israeli assault near the hospital.

Pro-Palestine protesters arrested after occupying US university building

A pro-Palestine protest organiser says US police have arrested demonstrators at the University of Minnesota after a group of students occupied an administrative building at the school.

The organiser said about 30 people occupied Morrill Hall, with a larger group gathered outside the building. They planned to stay until their demands – which include the university divesting from Israel and repealing its political neutrality agreement – are met.

School officials warned people to stay away from the Morrill Hall area, accusing protesters of “causing property damage and restricting [the] entrance and exit from the building”.

It is not known how many protesters were arrested, nor if any remain in Morrill Hall.

A university spokesperson said he had no further updates when contacted by The Associated Press and did not immediately respond to a query asking to confirm the arrests.

Israeli army says it killed other Hezbollah officials with Safieddine

In a post on X, Israeli army said that it killed Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine as well as “Hossein Ali Al-Zima, head of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters, killed in an attack in Dahiyah in Beirut, along with other commanders in Hezbollah”.

There has been no comment from Hezbollah yet on Israeli army claims yet.

Protesters outside Blinken’s hotel are chanting ‘ceasefire now’
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

The families of Israeli captives are the ones who are trying to keep the ceasefire issue alive.

They’re protesting in front of the hotel where Blinken is said to be staying to tell him that that should be the priority.

They’re chanting “ceasefire now” and demanding a deal in any way as it must be reached now because it is still possible to bring the captives home.

That is their one concern, their one demand, while in the Israeli political establishment, so much else is being talked about.

Some media reports are saying that Blinken even offered a road map to the Israelis about how to end the war on Gaza and what “the day after” would look like.

But as far as the Israeli discussions are concerned, the focus and chatter are on everything except a ceasefire.

Israel’s aim is to displace or exterminate Palestinians: Hamas official

Hamas official Osama Hamdan says relentless attacks by the Israeli forces aim to displace or exterminate the Palestinians.

Here are some of the key takeaways from his speech:

Israel has rejected all requests for the entry of aid into northern Gaza.
At least 700 people have been killed during the Israeli military operation in northern Gaza which is in its 18th day.
The credibility of the international community and its institutions is being tested on the charters they were founded on.
Israeli crimes are being carried out with the full US support.
The one-month deadline from the US for Israeli forces to consider allowing aid in confirms it is giving it a deadline to commit more crimes.
Only Palestinians can decide the details of the day after the war.
We demand a UN Security Council meeting to put pressure on Israel to stop the aggression.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/22/live-scenes-of-terror-in-northern-gaza-as-israel-bombs-beirut

Dimitri Lascaris on US/Israeli operations in Cyprus. Also includes a segment where he enters into an exclusive Israeli-operated hotel on the island.

>>485122
Really brings an extra dimension to Cyprus considering half the island is still illegally occupied by Turkiye.

>>485122
This is probably bad news for the people native to Cyprus, if Zionist ideology comes with these Israeli they might try to treat those people like Palestinians.

However overall so many jumping ship is a sign Zionism is weakening and likely has to dial down agression.

Israel minister says he expects US support ‘following attack on Iran’

Israel’s Defence Minister Gallant told visiting US official Blinken that his government expects Washington’s support when it attacks Iran in response to a missile strike earlier this month.

“The United States’s stance with Israel following our attack on Iran will strengthen regional deterrence and weaken the axis of evil,” Gallant said according to a statement from his office.

Iraqi armed groups say launched attack on Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iran-linked groups, says the drone attack was carried out in solidarity with people in Palestine and Lebanon.

The coalition said it aimed at an Israeli target in the Syrian Golan Heights, which is occupied by Israel.

The Israeli military has yet to comment.

Earlier this month, Iraqi drones killed two Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights.

Despite its sophisticated air defence systems, Israel has struggled to deal with low-flying drones launched from Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.

US lawmakers demand probe into attack on journalists in Lebanon last year

Senator Bernie Sanders and 11 other members of Congress are calling on the Biden administration to open an independent investigation into a deadly Israeli attack on a group of journalists in October 2023.

Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed in the bombing and other journalists, including two from Al Jazeera as well as American Dylan Collins, were injured.

“It has now been more than one year since Mr Collins was injured in a targeted Israeli strike while on assignment for AFP,” the US lawmakers wrote in their letter.

“To date, Mr Collins has received no explanation for the attack, and there have been no steps toward accountability. Given the inaction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the United States must open an independent investigation into this incident.”

In March, a UN investigation found that an Israeli tank fired two 120mm rounds at the group of “clearly identifiable journalists” in violation of international law.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/22/live-scenes-of-terror-in-northern-gaza-as-israel-bombs-beirut

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>However overall so many jumping ship is a sign Zionism is weakening and likely has to dial down agression.
It should! But it won't.

Netanyahu rejects Blinken request to publicly reject ‘General’s Plan’: Reports

The Israeli prime minister and his senior aides have sidestepped the US secretary of state’s request for Israel to publicly reject accusations it is pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, according to media reports.

Blinken, who is in the Middle East as part of the US’s latest push for a ceasefire in Gaza, met with Netanyahu and senior aide Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer on Tuesday.

One topic of discussion was the so-called General’s Plan, The Times of Israel and CNN are reporting, both citing an unnamed US official.

Put forward in September by retired General Giora Eiland, the General’s Plan – which calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from northern Gaza and the forced starvation and targeting of whoever stays behind – has been labelled a roadmap to ethnic cleansing by critics.

According to both reports, during the meeting, Netanyahu insisted Israel is not pursuing the plan, but refused a request from Blinken to state so publicly.

Washington believes Netanyahu’s refusal was due to fear of alienating the far-right coalition partners he relies on to remain in power, The Times of Israel said.

Israeli strike hits Al Mayadeen TV office in Beirut

Israel’s military carried out an air strike on an office belonging to a Beirut-based TV station.

Pan-Arab TV channel Al Mayadeen, which is politically allied with Hezbollah, said its office in the area between Jnah and Ouzai on the outskirts of Beirut’s southern suburbs was hit.

“Al Mayadeen holds the Israeli occupation accountable for the attack on a known media office for a known media outlet,” Al Mayadeen TV said.

It added the office had been evacuated. The Israeli army did not issue a warning before the strike.

On November 21, 2023, an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed two Al Mayadeen journalists who were reporting on military activity along the border with Israel.

Six buildings levelled in 17 Israeli strikes on south Beirut

Lebanon state media reported 17 Israeli raids on Beirut’s southern suburbs with six buildings destroyed.

The official National News Agency (NNA) reported at least 17 Israeli raids, marking one of the most violent nights in the area since the Israel-Hezbollah war erupted on September 23.

Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, NNA said, calling the raids “the most violent in the area since the beginning of the war”.

Hezbollah says it used new drones, missiles for first time

Hezbollah says it fired “precision missiles” and launched new types of attack drones for the first time in clashes with Israeli troops.

The Lebanese group said it was able to push back Israeli soldiers during battles in several border villages in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah said it forced Israeli troops to “retreat behind the frontier” after they attempted to infiltrate from the outskirts of the south Lebanon village of Aitaroun.

China’s Xi pledges to boost Iran ties in talks with Pezeshkian

China’s President Xi Jinping pledged to increase ties with Iran during talks with his counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in Russia, state news agency Xinhua reports.

Xi pledged that “no matter how the international and regional situation changes, China will unswervingly develop friendly cooperation with Iran”.

The promise of continued support comes as Middle East tensions soar over Israel’s ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and as the world awaits an Israeli response to Iran’s latest missile attack.

At a BRICS plenary session on Wednesday, Pezeshkian urged members of the grouping to “use all their collective and individual capacities to end the war in Gaza and Lebanon”.

Xi, meanwhile, repeated his call for a ceasefire, saying: “We need to … stop the killing and work tirelessly for a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Palestinian issue.”

Rescuers halt operations in north Gaza during Israeli attacks

The Gaza civil defence agency says three of its rescuers were wounded in northern Gaza in what it called a “targeted strike” that aimed to force them out of the besieged Jabalia refugee camp.

Later, it said all its operations in northern Gaza were suspended after Israeli forces detained five staff members and bombed the only fire truck.

“Our work has completely stopped in the north Gaza governorate, and the situation has become catastrophic there, and the citizens there are now without any kind of humanitarian services,” the agency said in a statement.

The municipality of Gaza City said two city workers were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli strike.

Health and civil emergency officials said dozens of bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in and around Jabalia are scattered on roadsides and under the rubble where medical teams could not reach them.

Tyre targeted by Israel as war spreads in Lebanon

Israel’s war against Hezbollah appears to be spreading with new strikes on Tyre, a UNESCO-listed port city in south Lebanon, which also came after Israeli evacuation orders.

Tens of thousands of people have already fled Tyre as Israel steps up its campaign to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Israel’s evacuation orders this week have for the first time encompassed swathes of Tyre, right up to its ancient castle.

“We are better off dying with dignity than living on the street,” said Batoum Zalghout, 25, who fled for another part of the city. She said she has been displaced with her two children five times.

The Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah “command-and-control centres” in the ancient city recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Al Jazeera condemns Israel’s ‘baseless’ accusations against journalists

Al Jazeera Media Network has denounced Israel’s “unfounded allegations” that six of its journalists reporting in besieged northern Gaza are “terrorists”.

The network views the accusations “as a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region, thereby obscuring the harsh realities of the war from audiences worldwide”, it said in a statement.

“Al Jazeera categorically rejects the Israeli occupation forces’ portrayal of our journalists as terrorists and denounces their use of fabricated evidence,” it said.

The network noted Israeli forces in Gaza have killed more than 100 journalists and media workers in the past year “in an attempt to silence the messenger”.

Daily rocket barrages aimed at Haifa, Tel Aviv concerning Israelis
Mohammed Jamjoom
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

There have been no casualties or damage reported as a result of the rockets aimed towards Tel Aviv. We have seen videos showing Israel’s air defence Iron Dome system intercepting at least a few of those missiles over the skies of Tel Aviv.

It’s the second time today that sirens have sounded in the central region of Israel, including Tel Aviv.

More and more over the past couple of weeks cities such as Tel Aviv in the centre of the country and Haifa in the north have been coming under more attacks from Lebanon.

Haifa is a strategic port city. It’s the third-most populous city in the country and the largest city in the north. It’s the home of Israel’s main naval base, there’s a military presence there, and there are oil refineries.

It is a strategic target and some projectiles in the past few weeks actually hit the centre of the city and caused damage and injuries. That’s causing more concern for Israelis.

Hezbollah says it killed about 70 Israeli soldiers in weeks of clashes

Hezbollah says its fighters killed more than 70 Israeli troops in its clashes with Israeli forces, updating a statement from last week saying 55 were killed since a ground invasion was launched earlier this month.

Israel has said it lost about 20 soldiers inside Lebanon since its ground operations began, and 30 more in Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/23/live-israeli-tank-fire-on-north-gaza-school-beirut-bombed-again

Israeli strike hits building in Syria’s central Damascus area: Report

We reported earlier that explosions had been heard in the Syrian capital Damascus in what was reported to be an Israeli attack.

Syrian state news agency SANA is now reporting that the Israeli attack targeted a residential building in the central Damascus neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties.

Israel has for years conducted regular attacks on targets inside Syria but rarely admits to its military campaign.

Those attacks have escalated amid Israel’s war on Gaza and attack on Lebanon.

On Monday, an Israeli missile attack on a car in Damascus killed two people. Israel’s military claimed it killed a Hezbollah commander in the strike in the Syrian capital.

One killed, 7 injured following Israeli strikes in Damascus, Homs

A Syrian soldier has been killed and seven others have been injured following an Israeli military attack in Damascus and Homs, Syria’s state news agency SANA reports.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli air strikes targeted a residential building in the central Damascus neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa.

SANA now reports that Israeli forces have also bombed a military site in the Homs countryside.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/24/live-israel-pounds-beirut-in-violent-night-of-attacks-on-south-suburbs

At least 770 killed in 19 days of Israeli siege on Jabalia: Gaza gov’t media office

The Government Media Office in Gaza has said that more than 770 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded after 19 days of Israeli military attacks on Jabalia in the northern part of the territory.

It said in a statement that more than 200 civilians, including women, have been “kidnapped”, and dozens more remain missing amid communications issues.

“We express our fear that they may have been executed in the field, as has been done on many previous occasions,” it added.

More than 100,000 wounded and sick people in the northern parts of Gaza are in “urgent need” of assistance, which remains elusive due to the Israeli military’s destruction of the health system and four hospitals in the area, according to the office.

Israeli forces shoot at civil defence crew in Jabalia

The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza has released a video that shows Israeli soldiers directly opening fire on emergency responders as they responded to the bombing of a family home in the al-Fakhoura area of Jabalia, in northern Gaza.

The video shared on Telegram shows emergency responders rummaging through debris at night, only to be forced into cover after being targeted by live ammunition. In the morning, bullet holes could be seen in their vehicles, including a fire truck.

Earlier today, the organisation had also reported that its first responders had to withdraw from another mission in Beit Lahiya after Israeli soldiers opened fire on them.

After we strike Iran, world will understand our preparations: Israeli defence minister

Yoav Gallant has spoken to pilots and technical staff at Hatzerim airbase, telling them that after Israel attacks Iran, the world will understand the preparations that went into such an operation.

“After we attack in Iran, they will understand both in Israel and in other places what your preparation process includes, and the arrangements and your readiness,” Gallant said, according to a video.

Israel has repeatedly said it would retaliate against Iran for launching 180 ballistic missiles on Israel on October 1. Iran said the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, among other reasons, and has promised to respond if it comes under attack.

UN request to bring aid to Kamal Adwan Hospital ‘denied by Israeli authorities’

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that its humanitarian teams led by the WHO have arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza to evacuate critical patients.

“But our request to bring food, fuel, blood and medicines was denied by Israeli authorities,” it said in a post on X.

Richard Peeperkorn, a WHO representative, said it is “incomprehensible” that after more than a year, regular humanitarian missions are being denied.

Israeli military boasts about tens of thousands displaced from Jabalia

The Israeli military has released aerial footage showing the large-scale destruction of Jabalia in northern Gaza as it forced tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee amid an expanding siege and repeated threats for people to leave or face bombardment.

Civilians were seen fleeing the area in large numbers as tanks and blacked-out or destroyed buildings surrounded them.

The military boasted that another 20,000 more Palestinians are now forcibly displaced from the area, “despite the efforts of Hamas to prevent the citizens from evacuating the area”. It claimed that this signifies “the breaking of the Hamas siege on Jabalia”.

The Israeli army also claimed that it had arrested more than 150 Palestinian fighters in the area.

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims drone attack on Israel’s Eilat

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq – a coalition of Iran-linked groups – has claimed a drone attack on a “vital target” in Eilat.

As we just reported, the Israeli army said it shot down two unmanned aircraft that crossed into Israeli waters near Eilat, which is the country’s southernmost city.

Spain freezes purchase of arms from Israel

Spain’s defence ministry has told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that all of Spain’s contracts to buy weapons from Israel have been suspended since October 7, 2023, with the exception of maintenance work.

According to ministry figures from last year, 1.7 percent of Spain’s defence imports came from Israel. The ministry, led by Margarita Robles, said Spain temporarily exported defence-related aircraft parts to Israel for repair and later reimported them.

Before Wednesday, Spain’s foreign minister had only said Spain stopped selling weapons to Israel since its war on Gaza began.

The ministry was responding to a formal letter submitted on Tuesday by ministers of Spain’s far-left coalition party Sumar, which called on its partners in government for a “total arms embargo with Israel”.

Turkey extends role in Lebanon UN peacekeeping mission

The Turkish parliament extended its troops’ participation in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon by a year. Turkey has contributed to UNIFIL since 2006 and currently has 97 troops deployed.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit out at the UN for failing to prevent Israel from firing at its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.

“The image of the UN which cannot protect its own personnel is shameful and worrying,” Erdogan, a fierce critic of Israel, said earlier this month in a televised address.

“Can you believe it? The Israeli tanks penetrate into the UNIFIL zone, attack peacekeeping soldiers, even wounding some of them, but the UN Security Council decides to just watch all this criminality from its stands – that’s what we call powerlessness.”

Hamas fighters destroy Israeli tank in northern Gaza, attack soldiers

The armed wing of Hamas has released a video showing an Israeli Merkava tank being destroyed after running over a planted explosive device in the Tall az-Zaatar neighbourhood east of Jabalia in northern Gaza.

The Qassam Brigades also announced its fighters used 114mm “Rajum” rockets to hit an Israeli command-and-control site along the Netzarim Corridor, the Israeli-established and -controlled strip of land that splits northern and southern Gaza.

Earlier, the group reported a D9 military bulldozer had struck a landmine in as-Saftawi in northern Gaza and another bulldozer was targeted with an antiarmour shell and an explosive device in the al-Faluja neighbourhood of Jabalia.

Israeli attack kills northern Gaza police chief

Israeli forces have killed the director of the municipal police of the northern Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

Mazen al-Kahlout was shot by an Israeli drone near al-Yaman al-Saeed Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp.

Qassam Brigades mourns Hezbollah’s Safieddine

The armed wing of Hamas released a statement to acknowledge the death of the head of the executive council of Hezbollah “in a criminal Zionist raid” in Lebanon.

The Qassam Brigades praised the role Hashem Safieddine played “in supporting the Palestinian people and their resistance”.

It also noted his “great contributions to building and strengthening the resistance front against the Zionist occupation over many years”.

Israeli cyberattacks failing, Iran localising infrastructure: Official

Iran’s top cyber-defence official has said online Israeli attacks against Iranian interests continue, but are facing a “layer-by-layer” defence strategy that has kept them at bay.

“The offensive units of the enemy suffered big hits in the October 7 attacks, and Unit 8200 also took a hit,” Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, told reporters in reference to the Israeli military’s top intelligence unit during a news conference in Tehran.

Jalali did not provide any details about Iran’s measures against cyberattacks amid a looming Israeli military attack on Iran.

He said the explosions of the pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah showed that “we cannot rely on sensitive and security-related foreign technologies” as they could provide avenues of access to enemies.

“The best solution is to employ indigenous systems and infrastructure,” Jalali said.

Iran condemns Israeli killing of its medic in Lebanon as war crime

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the killing of an Iranian medic in Lebanon, calling it a violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Dr Ali Heydari had been based in Beirut “for some time” in order to provide medical assistance to victims of Israeli attacks “based on his human and religious sense of duty”, the ministry said in a statement.

“The act of the Zionist regime in targeting Dr Heydari, who was acting as a medic to treat the wounded and help patients, is a clear violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions that forbid attacks on hospitals and medical centres and doctors and medical professionals, and is considered a war crime,” it said.

The ministry also called on relevant organisations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to document repeated instances of “gross violations of international humanitarian law” by the Israeli military in Lebanon.

Hamas official arrives in Russia: Report

The group’s official has arrived in Moscow on a planned visit and intends to hold a series of meetings with Russian officials, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing a diplomatic source.

UNRWA staff killed in Gaza

UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma tells Al Jazeera that a staff member was killed in an Israeli attack in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

The vehicle that was hit was clearly marked UNRWA, she said, adding that the agency was confirming whether another staff member was also killed in the attack.

As of October 13, the total number of UNRWA team members killed in Gaza since October last year is 228.

Palestine Foreign Affairs Ministry holds UNSC accountable for failures on Gaza

The Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry has released a statement that says it holds the UN Security Council responsible “for the consequences of its continued failure to stop the war of genocide against our people”.

It demanded the council exercise its powers to protect Palestinians, especially those in harsh conditions in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The ministry warned of the dangers of “any proposed plans aimed at perpetuating the separation” of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, adding that international recognition for a legitimate Palestinian state is the only way to resolve the crisis.

It said the positions adopted by countries on the “day after” of the war reveal their true stance on the two-state solution.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/23/live-israeli-tank-fire-on-north-gaza-school-beirut-bombed-again

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>China’s Xi pledges to boost Iran ties in talks with Pezeshkian
>China’s President Xi Jinping pledged to increase ties with Iran during talks with his counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in Russia, state news agency Xinhua reports.
>Xi pledged that “no matter how the international and regional situation changes, China will unswervingly develop friendly cooperation with Iran”.
>The promise of continued support comes as Middle East tensions soar over Israel’s ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and as the world awaits an Israeli response to Iran’s latest missile attack.
>At a BRICS plenary session on Wednesday, Pezeshkian urged members of the grouping to “use all their collective and individual capacities to end the war in Gaza and Lebanon”.
>Xi, meanwhile, repeated his call for a ceasefire, saying: “We need to … stop the killing and work tirelessly for a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Palestinian issue.”
The Chinese are extremely shrewd, they don't back loosers. This means they have concluded that Iran most likely prevails.

Israeli strike kills 3 Lebanese soldiers in country’s south

The soldiers were killed, including an officer, in an Israeli attack during the evacuation of wounded people from the outskirts of Yater village in southern Lebanon, the army said in a statement.

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

Israel’s killing of 3 more Lebanese soldiers ‘a very serious incident’
Imran Khan
Reporting from Hasbaiyya, southern Lebanon

Three more Lebanese soldiers were killed as they were moving people who had been injured out of the village of Yater in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. It’s not actually that far from here.

Since September 29, a total of 13 Lebanese soldiers have been killed.

The Lebanese army is not fighting the Israelis in these cases. What they are doing is providing support services for the Civil Defence or the emergency services.

They are trying to help the civilian population and it is in that role that they have been attacked.

This is a very serious incident for the Lebanese army.

Israeli forces destroy only firetruck in north Gaza, ending rescue services

As it advances into the 20th day of siege and attacks on northern Gaza, the Israeli military has forced a halt to all rescue operations in the heavily bombed area.

These are the latest updates from the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, which also released the image below of its destroyed firetruck.

The Israeli military arrested five civil defence workers in Gaza’s Sheikh Zayed area and took them to an unknown location.
Israeli tanks targeted the only firefighting vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip with their shells and set it on fire.
The fate of three wounded civil defence personnel who were targeted by an Israeli drone in the Beit Lahiya Project area is unknown after contact was lost with them.

Hamas seeks Moscow’s help to push Palestinian unity government for post-war Gaza: Report

Hamas wants Russia to push Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to begin negotiations on a national unity government for post-war Gaza, a senior Hamas official has told the RIA state news agency after talks in Moscow.

Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas politburo member, met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow, the Reuters news agency reports.

“We discussed issues related to Palestinian national unity and the creation of a government that should govern the Gaza Strip after the war,” Marzouk was quoted as saying by RIA.

Marzouk said Hamas had asked Russia to encourage Abbas, who is attending the BRICS summit in Kazan, to start negotiations on a unity government, RIA reported.

BRICS alliance reaffirms support for Palestine’s full UN membership

The BRICS alliance, currently holding its annual summit in the Russian city of Kazan, has reaffirmed its “support for the State of Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations”.

The alliance – initially comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but expanded in 2023 to include Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – also reiterated its “unwavering commitment” to a two-state solution “in line with internationally recognised borders of June 1967”.

The Kazan Declaration also expressed “grave concern” at the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory. It calls for “an immediate, comprehensive and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip”, the release of all captives and detainees on both sides, and for Israel to allow “unhindered” humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Dozens of Israeli settlers perform Talmudic rituals at Western Wall

Dozens of Israeli settlers have performed Talmudic rituals at the Western Wall – which Muslims refer to as the Buraq Wall – in the Old City of Jerusalem in the occupied territories.

A video on Telegram verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency shows the settlers gathering at the holy wall for the Jewish holiday of “Simchat Torah”.

The wall is adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Israeli settlers have repeatedly performed Talmudic rituals in the past few months while escorted by armed security forces.

Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has also stormed the mosque compound multiple times since the start of the war on Gaza, mostly to undermine any efforts to achieve a ceasefire and to challenge the status quo at the holy site.

Iran’s IRGC chief cautions Israel not to rely on ‘limited’ THAAD capabilities

The commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has suggested advanced US missile defence systems will not be enough if Israel prompts an Iranian attack by hitting Iran.

“Do not trust the THAAD systems. They are limited, and you have relied on a limited power,” Hossein Salami is quoted as saying by the IRGC-linked Tasnim news website.

“Whatever you wish to fire, your enemies will fire at you several times stronger. You cannot emerge victorious in this story, and we will defeat you.”

The US has situated one THAAD system in Israel along with about 100 soldiers, and Israel has requested a second system.

Salami also threatened that “a small territory whose economy is 98 percent reliant on the sea must think more as unwise decisions could bring about the downfall of a regime with surprising speed.”

The IRGC chief said the US is making a mistake by “tying its political reputation with the crimes” of the Israelis, adding that the world now knows the US by “the bombs that are falling on the children of Gaza and Lebanon”.

Iran says UN ‘turned into a frustratingly dysfunctional platform’

Iran’s foreign ministry has criticised the UN on the anniversary of its founding in 1945, saying that it has failed to live up to its mandate.

The UN “has turned into a frustratingly dysfunctional platform unable to take any effective collective measures to stop Israel’s maniacal genocide in Gaza and its aggressive war on Lebanon and beyond”, spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei wrote in a post on X.

“The UN is sadly defeating its purpose as US’s unconditional support for occupying regime has so emboldened the regime as to expand its aggressions and atrocities across the region,” he said of Israel.

Baghaei added that the UN must be “revitalised by its responsible membership to reign in the rogue entity’s warmongering”.

‘Women forced into holes’: Israel’s intimidation tactics
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza

We contacted a number of civilians who managed to flee Jabalia in northern Gaza and move to Gaza City.

They shared with us disturbing details about what is going on in the Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahiya, especially in light of forced evacuation orders being issued to families in the north.

They told us the Israeli army surrounded evacuation centres and shelters, and forced men to separate from women, taking them to other locations in the north.

They said the Israeli army dug huge holes in the ground and forced women to jump inside. Israeli tanks later started to move around these holes, throwing up huge amounts of dust as a sort of intimidation tactic.

Later, they gave the women a short amount of time to flee to Gaza City while horrific Israeli attacks were ongoing in nearby areas.

We have also heard that over 150 Palestinians were detained in the northern parts of Gaza and taken to Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/24/live-israel-pounds-beirut-in-violent-night-of-attacks-on-south-suburbs

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>Salami also threatened that “a small territory whose economy is 98 percent reliant on the sea must think more as unwise decisions could bring about the downfall of a regime with surprising speed.”
What's he hinting at ?

Hamas says no truce deal until Israel fully pulls out of Gaza

An Egyptian security delegation has met with a delegation of Hamas leaders in Cairo, part of efforts to resume the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, Egypt’s state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV reports.

Hamas senior official Osama Hamdan told Lebanese pro-Iranian TV channel Al Mayadeen that there is no change in the group’s position. “The hostages held by the resistance will only return by stopping the aggression and completely withdrawing,” Hamdan said.

Previous attempts to reach a Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal have failed.

Nuseirat school 196th to be hit by Israeli military since start of war

The Government Media Office in Gaza has announced that the direct Israeli air strikes on the Shuhadaa al-Nuseirat school in the central part of the enclave brings the number of displacement centres hit since the start of the war to 196.

At least nine children are among the 17 people confirmed killed so far, the office said in a statement, adding that 52 wounded Palestinians have arrived at hospitals in the area.

“The occupation army knew that the school housed thousands of displaced persons and that the majority of them are children and women who were displaced from their bombed homes and residential neighbourhoods.”

The graphic footage below, which has been confirmed by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency, shows the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Israeli air strikes destroy block of flats in Gaza’s Jabalia camp
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

The Israeli military carried out a major attack on al-Hawaja Street, in the western part of Jabalia, causing a sheer level of destruction. At least a dozen residential buildings were blown up.

Based on an assessment the Civil Defence agency, an estimated 150 people were either killed or wounded. Rescue teams are unable to approach the bomb site to bring the injured to hospital.

These are people who refused to leave the Jabalia refugee camp simply because they are exhausted and the road to evacuate was not safe for them. They haven’t been eating or provided with water supplies. So they’re exhausted and decided to remain in their homes.

Hezbollah says Israeli troop casualties in tank attack in south Lebanon

Hezbollah says it destroyed an Israeli tank in Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, killing and wounding the crew.

The Lebanese group said it attacked the tank with a “guided missile”, causing it to catch fire.

Earlier, the group said its fighters were engaged in ongoing “intense” clashes at “point-blank range” using assault weapons and rocket-propelled grenades against Israeli army vehicles in Aita al-Shaab.

On Wednesday, Hezbollah said its fighters have killed more than 70 Israeli troops in its clashes. Israel says it’s lost about 20 soldiers inside Lebanon since its ground operations began, and 30 more in Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel.

‘We can’t really believe anything the secretary of state says’

Talk of reviving a Gaza ceasefire is just “gaslighting” as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels through the Middle East, says the Israel-Palestine advocacy director at the US-based group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).

“We can’t really believe anything the secretary of state says at this point,” Adam Shapiro told Al Jazeera. “What Blinken says about Israel’s war goals doesn’t match what the Israelis say are their war goals. The Israelis are planning for a resettlement of parts of Gaza, if not the entirety of Gaza.”

He also noted the clearing out of the Lebanese population suggests “there’s real reason to believe the settlement of southern Lebanon is on the table”.

“It’s the complete failure of this administration, of this secretary of state, for over a year now to do something meaningful to stop the atrocities that are happening.”

‘We lose at least one person every hour’: Medical supplies run out in Gaza

Health workers in besieged northern Gaza warned of a catastrophic situation as Israel’s army continues its ground incursion and air strikes for a 20th day.

Nearly 800 people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes in the north in recent days.

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital, said about 150 wounded people are being treated there, including 14 children in intensive care or the neonatal department. Israeli tanks shelled the intensive care unit earlier.

“There is a very large number of wounded people, and we lose at least one person every hour because of the lack of medical supplies and medical staff. Our ambulances can’t transfer wounded people. Those who can arrive by themselves to the hospital receive care. But those who don’t just die in the streets.”

US Jewish group demands ‘end to Palestinian genocide’

The US-based Jewish Voice for Peace has demanded an arms embargo by the US government against Israel, comparing its war on Gaza to “the Nazi holocaust”.

“Many of us have parents, grandparents and great-grandparents who survived or perished in Nazi death marches and we have all grown up in the shadow of the Nazi holocaust. The state of Israel is currently perpetrating a holocaust, the deliberate mass slaughter of Palestinian people, with weapons provided by the United States,” the group said in a statement.

The images coming out of northern Gaza “are a terrifying echo of all-too-familiar images of European ghettos and Nazi concentration camps in the 2nd World War,” it added.

“Today we stand with our ancestors at our backs, in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings, demanding an immediate weapons embargo and an end to genocide — we will not act with indifference toward Palestinian suffering.”

Israeli army says it killed UNRWA staffer, alleging he’s a Hamas commander

The Israeli army says it killed “a Hamas commander”, alleging he was also an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and responsible for the killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians during the October 7, 2023, attack.

Asked about the allegations, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees confirmed that Muhammad Abu Atiwi was a staff member. It said his name was included on a list sent by the Israeli government to the agency alleging 100 UNRWA employees were members of Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas.

“The UNRWA commissioner general responded to that letter immediately stating that any allegation is taken seriously. He urged [Israel’s government] to cooperate with the agency by providing more information so he could take action. To date, UNRWA has not received any response to that letter,” it said in a statement to Al Jazeera.

No evidence has yet been “authenticated and corroborated” proving any UNRWA staff members were involved in the attacks on October 7, the agency said.

Hamas says efforts in motion to thwart Israel’s ‘General’s Plan’ for Gaza

Hamas says it is engaged in intense efforts to make sure Israel fails in implementing the so-called General’s Plan of clearing Palestinians from northern Gaza.

“The leadership of the Hamas movement has launched a campaign of intensive political and diplomatic movements and communications to thwart the occupation’s plans and stop the complex crime that the occupation is committing within the framework of the war of extermination and open massacres in the Gaza Strip, specifically in the northern part,” the group said in a statement.

Hamas said it has warned others of the devastating consequences if such a plan is successfully implemented in Gaza, adding: “Delegations from the movement’s leadership are visiting Turkey, Qatar and Russia, and contacts have also taken place in Egypt, the United Nations and Iran.”

Russia’s Putin meets Palestinian leader Abbas at BRICS summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the BRICS meeting.

“We are strongly for a quick end to the bloodshed [in Gaza],” Putin told Abbas in televised comments.

The Kremlin has maintained relations with both Israel and Palestine, but experts say its actual sway over the conflict is limited.

Unlike the United States and European Union, Russia has not blacklisted Hamas as a “terrorist” organisation, welcoming the group’s delegates to Moscow shortly after their victory in the 2006 Palestinian elections and treating it as a legitimate political force.

Germany approves more than $100m in arms exports to Israel

Germany has authorised more than $100m in military exports to Israel in the last three months, Foreign Office data showed, coinciding with the latest legal challenge by human rights groups concerned about the potential use of these weapons in the Gaza war.

Berlin has approved 94,052,394 million euros ($101.61m) in arms exports to Israel since August 2024, according to a government response to a parliamentary inquiry by left-wing lawmaker Sevim Dagdelen.

The new permits followed a significant drop in arms exports to Israel in the first half of the year.

Separately, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) says it has filed an appeal at the Frankfurt Administrative Court on behalf of a Gaza resident, seeking to halt further arms exports.

The appeal says German weapons are contributing to civilian harm in Gaza. The plaintiff, a Gaza resident who lost his wife and daughter in Israeli air strikes, says continuing arms shipments place his life and the lives of others in danger, calling on Germany to stop facilitating these transfers.

Two-state solution would mean ‘correcting the historical injustice towards the Palestinian people’: Putin

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned during the BRICS summit that the Middle East was on the verge of “full-scale war”.

“The military action that started a year ago in Gaza has now spread to Lebanon. Other countries in the region are also affected,” Putin told a meeting in Kazan attended by several world leaders.

“The level of confrontation between Israel and Iran has sharply risen. This is all reminiscent of a chain reaction and puts the whole Middle East on the verge of full-scale war,” Putin said.

Violence in the Middle East will not end until the creation of an independent Palestinian state, Putin said at the summit.

“The key demand for restoring peace and stability on Palestinian territories is carrying out the two-state formula approved by the UN Security Council and General Assembly,” the Russian president said, adding that this would help solve “the historical injustice towards the Palestinian people”.

“Until this question is resolved, it will not be possible to break the vicious circle of violence.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/24/live-israel-pounds-beirut-in-violent-night-of-attacks-on-south-suburbs

https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1849529008301437162
The ICC prosecutor is now being subjected to a smear campaign… which is sort of astounding, since it appears that the ICC judges have been entirely compromised already.

>>485183
>The ICC prosecutor is now being subjected to a smear campaign… which is sort of astounding, since it appears that the ICC judges have been entirely compromised already.
They are trying to destroy the UN institutions that might hold them accountable, for helping the Zionists make a huge bloodbath.

Whether that is prudent is another question. Because these UN institutions could get replaced with something else that does not bend.

>>485185
The ICC isn't technically UN, it's a separate international institution… and generally has a worse reputation than the UN's ICJ. This is still bad though, yeah.

Israel must stop ‘ethnic cleansing’

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has called for pressure on Israel to end “ethnic cleansing”, in strong remarks as he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in London.

Deploring the humanitarian situation in northern Gaza, Safadi told Blinken: “We do see ethnic cleansing taking place, and that has got to stop.”

Blinken said there is an urgency to get to a diplomatic resolution in the ongoing conflict in Lebanon between the Israeli forces and the Hezbollah group.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/25/live-israel-accused-of-massacre-in-new-jabalia-raid-strikes-hit-beirut

What a weird fucking conversation to have to have with somebody where you have to ask them to stop facilitating ethnic cleansing.

This is really damning.

More than 150 casualties following Israeli ‘massacre’ in Jabalia: Report

As we have been reporting, Gaza’s Civil Defence agency has said the Israeli military has carried out a “major massacre” in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza in recent hours, levelling at least 10 residential buildings.

The Wafa news agency, citing local sources, reports that around 150 people, including women and children, have been killed and injured in the attack. It did not specify how many have been killed and how many injured.

The final death toll could rise, with ambulance and rescue crews facing difficulty reaching the site of the attack in the al-Hawaja area in the centre of the Jabalia camp due to restrictions imposed by Israeli forces who laid siege to northern Gaza for three weeks.

Wafa reports that the bombed buildings belonged to the following families: Al-Najjar, Abu Al-Auf, Salman, Hijazi, Abu Al-Qumsan, Aql, Abu Rashid, Abu Al-Tarabish, Zaqoul, and Shaalan.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Israeli military bombs hotel in southern Lebanon, killing journalists: Reports

The Israeli military has shelled a hotel in the town of Hasbaya in southern Lebanon, killing an unknown number of journalists, according to Al Mayadeen and several other news outlets.

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

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims drone attack on Eilat

The umbrella group of Iran-aligned armed forces in Iraq has released a video to announce that it launched a drone towards a “vital target” in Israel’s port city of Eilat.

In the clip, a drone can be seen launched at night, but the group makes no mention of it reaching the target in Israel.

The Israeli military announced in the early hours of Friday that its air defences downed a “suspicious aerial target in the Red Sea region that made its way to the country from the east”.

Children killed inside Kamal Adwan Hospital after oxygen supplies hit by Israeli attack
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

We’re getting distressing details coming from northern Gaza, especially in light of the full-blown attack on the Jabalia refugee camp that has killed many Palestinians in their homes.

The Israeli military has conducted wide aerial and ground attacks on these densely populated areas, where civil defence had emphasised that dozens of Palestinians were wounded and unable to receive help, with some stuck under the rubble.

This morning, the Israeli military stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital and gathered medical staff, patients and wounded people in the courtyard. The military carried out mass arrests from the hospital.

Artillery strikes had hit the hospital earlier in the night, with the ICU being severely damaged. The main water tanks and the oxygen room of the hospital were hit.

We are getting reports that a number of babies and children inside the hospital were killed because of lack of oxygen.

Israeli military forces are still stationed at the hospital, which is a major facility providing care for about two-thirds of the population in north Gaza. Kamal Adwan Hospital may also be destroyed, just like al-Shifa Hospital, which was the largest in the enclave.

Israeli strike puts second Syria crossing out of service: Minister

Lebanon’s Transport Minister said Israeli bombing put a second border crossing between the country and Syria out of service, leaving one official passage between the two nations operational.

“The Qaa crossing has been put out of service after an Israeli strike on Syrian territory, hundreds of metres from Syrian border guards,” Ali Hamieh told the AFP news agency, adding that the strike blocked the passage of vehicles.

Israeli military claims Hezbollah commander killed

The Israeli military said its fighter jets bombed and killed Abbas Adnan Maslam, a commander in Lebanon’s Aitaroun region for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.

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The Lebanese armed group is yet to comment on the alleged killing.

Tehran writes to UNSC to protest Israel’s killing of Iranian nationals in Lebanon

Iran has strongly condemned the killing of two of its nationals by Israel in Lebanon in a letter sent to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calling for accountability.

“The Israeli regime has this time targeted two Iranian nationals in Lebanon, committing a clear violation of international law, especially international humanitarian law,” Saeed Iravani, Iran’s UN mission lead, wrote, according to state media.

He wrote that Iranian woman Masoumeh Karbasi and her Lebanese husband were deliberately targeted by a second Israeli missile after surviving an initial strike on October 19 in Beirut, while Iranian medic Dr Ali Heydari was assassinated on October 22, in a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Iran wants the UNSC to “decisively condemn” these actions and make Israel accountable, Iravani wrote, also calling on Guterres to thoroughly document the actions of Israel in Lebanon.

Israeli settlers storm Gaza security fence

A group of Israeli settlers have breached the Israeli military’s security barrier around the Gaza Strip in recent hours.

Footage from the incident shows the settlers running and waving Israeli flags as they enter an Israeli military buffer zone, where soldiers block them from reaching further into the Palestinian territory and tell them to leave.

The reason for the settler incursion is unclear but its comes after a conference was held this week on in which Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for Gaza to be emptied of Palestinians, and said it was possible for Israeli to take and settle the territory.

Lebanese minister says Israel’s killing of 3 journalists a ‘war crime’

Lebanon’s information minister has said the Israeli military waited for journalists in Lebanon’s southern Hasbaiyya to go to sleep before launching a deliberate air strike on them.

The three slain journalists from the Al Mayadeen and al-Manar TV channels had been transmitting Israeli “crimes” to the world, minister Ziad Makary wrote in a post on X.

“This is an assassination, after monitoring and tracking, with premeditation and planning, as there were 18 journalists present at the location representing seven media institutions,” he said.

“This is a war crime.”

Ten Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah fire in a day
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

The latest attack was an ambush by rockets on the Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. It seems in addition to the soldiers who were there, there were others doing logistical work and supplying the soldiers.

The attack killed five soldiers and left 24 injured, including four in a critical condition.

It comes less than 24 hours after the Israeli army had confirmed the killing of another five soldiers by Hezbollah fire.

We have been following the chatter about this on Israeli media. But because the Israeli military censors and controls the information, there was no confirmation on the story for a long time. The news was basically confirmed earlier this morning.

Israeli forces arrest 18-year-old activist in Kamal Adwan Hospital

Israeli soldiers have arrested 18-year-old Palestinian activist and media worker Abdul Rahman “Aboud” Batah after storming Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza this morning.

Ramy Abdu, the director of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, said in a post on X that the Israeli forces mistreated the teenager, who has 3.5 million followers on Instagram, and took him to an unknown location.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/25/live-israel-accused-of-massacre-in-new-jabalia-raid-strikes-hit-beirut

At least seven explosions heard in Tehran: Report

A Tehran resident has told The Associated Press news agency that at least seven explosions could be heard around the Iranian capital, which rattled the surrounding area.

We will bring you more on Israel’s attack on Iran as information emerges.

Netanyahu and Gallant in underground bunker: Report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are in an underground room at the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, the Israel Hayom newspaper reports.

The report came after Israel said it had attacked targets in Tehran.

Israeli military launches ‘second wave’ of Iran attacks: Report

Israel’s News 12 channel reports that the “second wave” of Israel’s attack on Iran has started, citing explosions in Iran’s south-central Shiraz city.

The news channel gave no further details and there was no official confirmation.

Israel attacks Iran: How we got here

Over the past hour, the Israeli military has confirmed it has launched strikes on military targets in Iran.

It comes weeks after an Iranian attack on Israel on October 1, when it launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles in response to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as the killing of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, among others.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had said at the time the missiles were aimed at “vital military and security targets”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had “made a big mistake” and “will pay for it”, while Iran had vowed to respond to a potential attack in kind.

Regional tensions have been at an all-time high since Israel’s war on Gaza began more than a year ago, killing at least 42,847 people and wounding more than 100,000.

No IRGC military bases west, southwest of Tehran targeted: Report

Iran’s Tasnim news agency says no explosions have been reported so far on IRGC military centres in the west or southwest of Tehran.

“The sounds heard were related to the involvement of the army’s air defensce in three places around Tehran” in response to Israel’s attack, the report said, citing sources.

Additional information about the reason behind the sound of several explosions “will be announced later”, it added.

It came after Fars news agency said several military bases in the west and southwest of the Iranian capital had been targeted in the Israeli attack, according to an initial investigation.

Explosions reported in Syrian capital Damascus

Explosions have been reported in Syria’s capital Damascus, with Syrian air defences continuing to intercept hostile targets, according to the state-run SANA news agency.

Lebanese news outlet Al Mayadeen also reports that its correspondent in Iraq has reported hearing explosions on the outskirts of Diyala and Salah Al-Din governorates.

As we’ve been reporting, large explosions have also been reported on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran.

The source of all these attacks is not yet clear.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

41 people killed in 24 hours in Lebanon

At least 41 people were killed and 133 wounded in the past 24 hours in Israeli military attacks, Lebanon’s Health Ministry says.

Lebanon’s crisis response unit recorded 125 air strikes and incidents of shelling in the past day, mostly concentrated in southern Lebanon and the Nabatieh province, it said.

Several intense attacks targeted the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon, killing four people and wounding four others, Lebanon’s state media said.

Friday’s deaths raise the total toll over the past year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah to 2,634 killed and 12,252 wounded.

Israeli forces ‘shooting’ inside Kamal Adwan Hospital

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli soldiers have opened fire inside the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

“The occupation forces are searching the hospital and shooting inside the various departments, increasing the state of panic and anxiety,” the ministry said.

Two children died in the damaged intensive care unit after its generators stopped functioning and the oxygen station was targeted by Israeli forces, it said.

Three ambulances and the solar panel electricity generation system were destroyed, “hindering relief and transportation operations”.

Gaza’s Jabalia ‘a desolate graveyard where bodies lie in the streets’
Hani Mahmoud

It’s a recurring horror for Palestinians. Looking at images from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, it’s hard to distinguish the wounded on the floor from the dead.

This was the last medical facility for besieged Palestinians in the north and on Friday Israeli troops took it over after shelling the building with tank fire.

Activists say men and some boys were rounded up, forced to undress, interrogated and arrested. A pattern on repeat across hospitals in Gaza for 385 days. Those who stay face a grim choice – be bombed in their homes or risk being shot if they try to flee.

Once the largest refugee camp in Gaza, now Jabalia is a desolate graveyard where bodies lie in the streets. Israeli bombings have disfigured the roads and Israeli soldiers have torched UN-run schools. And everyone who could offer help is a target.

‘Defence activity’ caused some sounds heard in Tehran: Report

Iran’s official IRNA news agency has cited a security source as saying some of the sounds heard in the capital were caused by “defence activity in Tehran, and the air defense was successful during this incident”.

In a separate Telegram post, the news agency said there were no reports of incidents that required assistance. It added that the situation at Mehrabad International Airport and the Imam Khomeini International Airport was “normal”.

Antony Blinken cutting short Middle East trip seen as sign of ‘imminent’ attack
Mohammed Jamjoom
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

There was a lot of speculation that this strike was going to be imminent because US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was supposed to be in the region for, perhaps, a week.

That trip in the region did not last a week. It only lasted a few days. Then he went on to London where he met with several Arab leaders to discuss the situation in the region.

The fact that he left earlier than had been anticipated – and the fact that we know the US has been discussing so often with Israel the scope of this potential attack against Iran – there was a lot of speculation in the media that perhaps this strike could be happening much sooner rather than later.

Tehran international airport continues to operate despite attacks

The director of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport has said the airport is continuing to operate according to schedule, with no security incidents reported, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Extent of Israel’s attacks a major question

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank, says the extent of tonight’s Israeli attacks on Iran remains a major question.

“If the attack is as extensive as the Israelis themselves claim that it is – numerous targets across the country, not just in Tehran – it dramatically increases the likelihood that the Iranians will respond,” Parsi told Al Jazeera.

“And then in the next round, the Israelis are quite likely to go after nuclear sites, and go after oil installations and economic infrastructure – and at that point, we will be inside of a regional war.”

War crimes court replaces judge in Netanyahu arrest case

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has replaced one of the judges deciding on a prosecution request for an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – a move that could lead to further delays in the case.

In May, prosecutors asked for arrest warrants for Netanyahu, his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders, saying there were reasonable grounds the men committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The court has no set deadlines, but has generally taken about three months to rule on requests for arrest warrants in previous cases.

The decision had already been delayed by several rounds of legal filings from Israel challenging the jurisdiction of the court.

‘Aggressive’ US-UK efforts to stop Gaza-Lebanon wars urgently needed

Alon Liel, a former Israeli diplomat, says the international community – specifically the US and UK – must urgently intervene to prevent further “catastrophe” in the Middle East.

“Things have to be done internationally in a more aggressive way in order to stop the war. It’s not only a Gaza or Lebanon catastrophe, we will end up with an Israeli catastrophe, too,” Liel told Al Jazeera.

“To save the region, including Israel, the international community must be more decisive after the American elections.”

He said granting Palestine member-state status at the United Nations is a good first step towards stabilising the Middle East. But “British and American coordination is the key” to halt the escalating fighting.

“It’s so urgent it has to be done in November and December,” said Liel.

‘This must stop now’: MSF denounces killing of staffer in Israeli bombing

The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned the killing of a staff member during a major Israeli attack on Gaza’s southern Khan Younis.

“MSF denounces in the strongest possible terms the killing of our colleague, Hasan Suboh, on October 24 at night during Israeli military operations in Khan Younis,” it said in a statement.

The attack on Thursday killed at least 38 people, including 14 children, the Health Ministry said.

“This is our eighth colleague killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 – and the second in two weeks. Through its war on Gaza, Israel continues to show a fundamental disregard for civilian lives. This must stop now.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/25/live-israel-accused-of-massacre-in-new-jabalia-raid-strikes-hit-beirut

Air defence sirens heard in central Tehran: Iran’s Tasnim news agency

We’ll bring you more information as soon as we can.

Iranian air defence firing at drones
Resul Serdar Atas
Reporting from Tehran, Iran

Iranian officials say the sounds of explosions in Tehran is the air defence system intervening – these are anti-aircrafts shooting at drones.

We can confirm that the majority of these are drone attacks, not missiles or aircraft.

The question is where these have been launched from, Israel or somewhere else? Because usually, these aerial vehicles don’t have a long range.

Iranian officials are not reporting any casualties, they are saying that no military site has been hit in a meaningful way.

Iran ‘ready to respond’ to Israeli aggression: Report

Iran is “ready to respond” to Israel’s attacks on the country, reports the semi-official Tasnim News Agency, citing “informed sources”.

The agency, affiliated with the IRGCs, reports the sources as saying there is “no doubt” Israel will “receive a proportionate response to any action”.

Iran, Israel close airspaces following attacks: Reports

An advisory issued to pilots has said Iranian authorities have closed the country’s airspace following the Israeli military attacks.

It was not immediately clear how long the closure would last.

Israeli authorities have also closed Israel’s airspace until 8:30am local time (5:30am GMT), according to Israeli media reports.

Israeli attacks could involve more phases, and more powerful strikes: Analyst

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank, said Israel’s waves of attacks on Iran was worrying and could indicate the worst is yet to come.

“I think we have to be a bit careful now because we have seen two phases of this. There is a likelihood that there will be a couple more,” Parsi told Al Jazeera.

“Those may end up being more powerful than the first ones because the first ones may have focused on air defence systems – to take those down in order to pave the way for much more powerful strikes afterwards,” Parsi said.

“Everything we are hearing so far about no casualties, limited damage, is essentially an effort to play down the damage of the Israeli attacks, and which indicates that the Iranians don’t want further escalation,” he said.

But, “it’s not clear whether that will remain the case in a couple of hours, if there actually ends up being a phase three, a phase four, and perhaps a phase five,” he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/25/live-israel-accused-of-massacre-in-new-jabalia-raid-strikes-hit-beirut

https://x.com/IRIran_Military/status/1849989640612167940
Footage of Iranian air defense intercepting targets.

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1849988454827909214
More footage.

https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/1849970471296545063
A bush burning near a road in Tehran due to shrapnel/intercepted missiles.

US, Israeli media reporting attacks to last several hours

Doron Kadosh, a reporter with Israel’s army radio, has cited an unnamed source who said the Israeli attacks “are expected to continue for several more hours”.

Israel is preparing for more attacks, as well as for defensive measures in case of a possible Iranian response, Kadosh said.

Citing an unnamed source briefed on Israel’s military planning, The Washington Post also reported that the Israeli “target list contains military assets, particularly missile manufacturing facilities and aerial defense sites”.

Footage shows Iranian air defences intercepting missiles over Tehran

The state-run IRNA news agency has said Iranian air defences have “successfully shot down adversarial targets in the airspace around Tehran province”.

Footage shared online captured what appeared to be interceptions over the Iranian capital.

Tehran residents to start working week shortly

Just a reminder that the sun is due to rise in about half an hour in the Iranian capital.

Saturday is the first day of the working week in Iran and residents of the capital and across the country will soon start to go to their jobs.

Daylight is expected to bring more clarity as questions over the scale of the attack, casualties and targets remain.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/25/live-israel-accused-of-massacre-in-new-jabalia-raid-strikes-hit-beirut

>>485203
>Footage of Iranian air defense intercepting targets.
Looks like they used flak cannons. Which means 3 things.
1 They probably won't run out of ammo any time soon.
2 Flaks are mobile shoot and scoot systems. They can reposition the flaks between attack waves and put decoys in the previous flak location, to make degrading air defenses harder.
3 Flaks are really short range, they must have a lot of these or made really good guesses in placement.

https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1849875002826346620
Masked police in military get-ups are raiding academics' homes in France.

Israeli military confirms Iran assault finished

The Israeli military has “completed the Israeli response to Iran’s attacks against Israel”, according to Israel’s military spokesperson Daniel Hagari.

“We carried out targeted and precise attacks against military targets in Iran – and thwarted immediate threats to the State of Israel,” he said in a post on X.

Hagari said that if Iran carries out retaliatory strikes, Israel will be “obligated to respond”.

Iran says two soldiers killed in Israel’s attack

Two soldiers were killed in the Israeli attacks on Iran this morning, according to a statement from the Iranian army.

Earlier, the military said the Israeli strikes had caused “limited damage”.

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

Israeli forces arrest all male medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital

The Israeli siege of northern Gaza is now in its 22nd day. It has also been targeting Kamal Adwan Hospital.

This is what the Palestinian Health Ministry said:

At the moment, Israeli forces have arrested all male medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in addition to a number of wounded and sick inside the hospital. They detained women in one of the rooms inside the hospital without water or food.
We appeal to all international institutions and concerned authorities to intervene urgently to protect patients and medical staff working at the hospital.

Israel’s assault on Gaza and Lebanon continues amid Iran attacks

The Israeli military’s attacks on several Iranian sites in recent hours come as it continues its deadly bombardments of Gaza and Lebanon.

At least 88 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza on Friday, including 38 people – 14 children among them – in a strike on a residential building in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

In Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said on Friday the death toll from Israeli attacks since October 2023 has surged to 2,634 in recent weeks as a result of the escalating assault on the country.

At least 41 people were killed and 133 wounded in Israeli attacks in the latest 24-hour period, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Friday.

Israel attacks Iran’s ‘means of producing missiles’

As we previously reported, the Israeli military’s senior spokesperson Daniel Hagari has confirmed that Israel has concluded its retaliatory attacks on Iran.

The Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee has offered more details on what has been labelled operation “Days of Reckoning”.

Adraee said:

All of our aircraft returned safely to their bases.
Air Force aircraft, guided by intelligence, have attacked the means of producing missiles launched by Iran towards the State of Israel over the past year, as these missiles constitute a direct and immediate threat against the citizens of Israel.
Iran’s surface-to-air missile systems and other air capabilities were also attacked, which were intended to restrict Israeli air freedom of action in Iran.
The raid has been completed and its objectives accomplished.

Iranian military says Israeli strikes targeted bases in three provinces

Iran’s military has confirmed that Israeli strikes on the country targeted military bases in Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran provinces, causing “limited damage.”

The statement from Iran’s armed forces was read aloud on state television, which showed no images from the sites of the attacks.

Iran’s military claimed its air defences limited the damage inflicted by Israel’s strikes.

Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli attacks on Iran

Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s attacks on Iran as a violation of the country’s sovereignty and a violation of international laws and norms.

“The Kingdom affirms its firm position in its rejection of the continued escalation in the region and the expansion of the conflict that threatens the security and stability of the countries and peoples of the region,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Riyadh also urged all parties to “exercise the utmost restraint and reduce escalation”, warning of the ramifications of continuing military conflicts in the region.

Malaysia condemns Israel’s attack on Iran

Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry has released a statement in response to Israel’s overnight attacks on sites in Iran, labelling the strikes a “clear violation of international law” that “seriously undermine regional security”.

“Malaysia calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and an end to the cycle of violence,” the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry added that Israel’s continued attacks on countries in the Middle East continue to bring the region closer to the brink of a wider war.

Israel reportedly warned Iran in advance of attack
Mohammed Jamjoom
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

Israel has stated that all their aircraft, which were guided by intelligence and involved in the attack on Iran, have safely returned to Israel.

In the hours leading up to these details, we heard some information about how precisely this strike was approved.

We learned that on Friday evening, a call took place during which ministers from Israel’s cabinet spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who then approved the strike plans.

We also know they had been briefed in the days leading up to this call on the parameters of the strike plan regarding Iran.

Another interesting detail we’ve learned is that reports in Israeli media, quoting unnamed Israeli officials, indicate that Israel sent a message to Iran on Friday – before the strike, warning Iran not to retaliate. The reports do not specify how this message was delivered or who conveyed it, only that the message was sent.

That aligns closely with the rhetoric in the statements released by the Israeli army, which have all warned Iran not to retaliate.

They have stated that the retaliation against Iran is over and that they do not want further retaliation from Iran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/26/live-israel-attacks-targets-across-iran-warns-tehran-against-retaliation

>>485211
It seems like Zionism is on the way out, and all the political persecution they doing now will not halt this process.
They appear to be equating political opinions they don't like with "inciting terrorism" and eventually that idiotic logic will get applied to them.

At least 35 killed in bombing of homes in Beit Lahiya

At least 35 Palestinians in besieged northern Gaza were killed in an attack on a residential area that destroyed several buildings in Beit Lahiya.

An unknown number of people are trapped in the rubble. Local media reports said civil defence crews are not able to reach the site because of Israeli fire.

The Health Ministry has described it as a “horrific massacre”. Northern Gaza has been under a three-week ground assault by Israeli forces who are forcibly displacing tens of thousands of residents out of the area.

Hundreds of civilians have been have been killed during the latest invasion.

Israel issues new forced evacuation orders in southern Beirut

The Israeli army issued a warning for Lebanese residents to evacuate several buildings in the Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Hezbollah urges dozens of ‘settlements’ in north Israel to evacuate

Hezbollah ordered residents of at least 25 communities in northern Israel to “evacuate immediately”.

In a video statement, the Lebanese group said those areas have become “legitimate military targets” after Israeli forces stationed there.

Iran’s UN mission accuses Israel of using Iraqi territory for strikes

Israeli warplanes attacked Iran from Iraqi airspace, Iran’s mission to the UN says, blaming the United States for what it called its complicity.

“Iraqi airspace is under the occupation, command and control of the US military. Conclusion: The US complicity in this crime is certain,” it said in a post on X.

Earlier, Iran army chief of staff leveled the same allegation. There’s been no immediate response from the Iraqi or US governments.

Iran raises death toll from Israel’s attack to 4

Iran has raised the death toll from Israel’s attack to four and said all served in the country’s military air defence.

The state-run IRNA news agency announced the deaths Saturday night. It offered no details on where the four men were stationed in the country.

Israel attacked military targets in Iran with predawn air strikes in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired on Israel earlier this month. The strikes marked the first time Israel’s military has openly attacked Iran.

Vital Iranian missile production site may have been hit: Report

Commercial satellite imagery shows that Israeli air strikes hit buildings Iran used for mixing solid fuel for ballistic missiles, which could be a major blow to its ability to mass-produce such weapons.

The judgements were reached by David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector who heads the Institute for Science and International Security research group, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst at CNA, a Washington, DC think tank, the Reuters news agency reports.

Both said Israel struck Parchin, a massive military complex near Tehran. Israel also hit Khojir, according to Eveleth, a sprawling missile production site near Tehran.

Eveleth said the Israeli strikes may have “significantly hampered Iran’s ability to mass produce missiles”.

Iran’s military chief said earlier that only a few radar stations suffered minor damage in the attack, and defence systems shot down most of the “light” missiles Israel launched.

Israeli raid on Lebanese health centre kills paramedic

According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, a paramedic was killed and 12 wounded in an Israeli raid on a health centre in al-Bazourieh, near Tyre, in the south of the country.

The Public Health Emergency Operations Centre – affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health – said in a statement the Israeli raid on the health centre led to the killing of a paramedic and the injury of others, including three paramedics.

The ministry said the total number of killed paramedics “since the beginning of the aggression has risen to 164 and the number of wounded to 275”.

The ministry said it “reiterates its condemnation of the occupation forces’ insistence on targeting medical and health centres and crews and urges the international community to put an end to this long series of inhumane attacks”.

Israeli army blows up houses in Lebanon border village

Lebanon’s National News Agency said “the army of the Israeli enemy has since dawn blown up and destroyed houses” in the border village of Odaisseh.

The Israeli military had earlier reported “the explosion of a large quantity of explosives in Lebanon” that was strong enough to trigger earthquake warnings in large parts of Israel.

Qassam Brigades hit Israeli forces in Jabalia

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters blew up a house where Israeli soldiers were situated, killing some and wounding others.

The Qassam Brigades added that it hit two tanks on Friday, north of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Explosions reported around Damascus in Syria

Syria’s state media is reporting explosions on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, and the central region.

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

Microsoft fired employees who organised vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

On Friday, Microsoft fired two employees who organised a vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Microsoft said it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” without providing details.

The event took place on Thursday afternoon at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.

Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. But they contended that the vigil was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need.

It’s the latest internal turmoil at a tech giant over the Israeli war on Gaza. Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers after protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government as it wages war on the besieged coastal enclave.

Israeli attack on Iran ‘political theatre’

Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) called the Israeli attacks on Iran face-saving “political theatre”.

“The highly orchestrated Israeli attacks on Iran – with targets pre-negotiated with Iran by the US – appear to have been nothing more than political theatre to allow Israel to save face while relying on Iran to act responsibly not to escalate this war further,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s executive director.

“The Biden administration’s claims of victory that its newest THAAD carrots to curb even greater Israeli belligerence really only begs the question of why the US needs to constantly curry favour with an unhinged, bellicose government,” she said in a statement.

UN chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by escalation after strikes on Iran

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres says he’s “deeply alarmed” by the escalation of violence in the Middle East after Israel carried out deadly air strikes on Iran.

Guterres “urgently reiterates his appeal to all parties to cease all military actions, including in Gaza and Lebanon”, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

He called for “maximum efforts to prevent an all-out regional war and return to the path of diplomacy”.

Iran says ‘no limits’ in defending itself

No limits exist when it comes to Iran defending its interests, territorial integrity, and its people, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says.

“Iran does not set any boundaries for itself in protecting and defending its interests and territorial integrity and its people,” the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.

“During our regional trips, we clearly presented Iran’s definitive positions on regional issues and on defending itself and the axis of resistance. Likewise, Iran’s ability to defend itself and Iran’s ability to retaliate against those who intend to invade Iran were explained to all of them.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/26/live-israel-attacks-targets-across-iran-warns-tehran-against-retaliation

‘Entire population of Gaza at risk of dying’: UN expert

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that “the entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch”, in a post on X.

Albanese was responding to an earlier statement from the UN humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya warning that “the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying” under Israel’s siege.

Iraqi armed group claims attack on occupied Golan Heights

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed groups, said it attacked a “vital target” in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights using drones.

Israeli media reported sirens at the Kidmat Tsvi settlement in the occupied Golan Heights at the time of the attack.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has stepped up attacks targeting Israel as the Israeli military intensifies its assault on Gaza and Lebanon. The group has also launched rockets and drone attacks at US forces in Iraq and Syria as part of its campaign.

Iraqi armed group claims third attack on Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it launched drone attacks on a “vital target” in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the Red Sea port city of Eilat.

The statements marked the third time the Iran-backed group claimed attacks on Israel today.

Earlier, the group said it had attacked Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights.

Hezbollah issues first evacuation orders for residents of northern Israel
Dorsa Jabbari
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

Hezbollah’s one-minute video is its first forced evacuation orders to residents of northern Israel.

Now, these warnings are for 25 settlements located in the northern part of Israel, ranging from 3km to 22km (2-14 miles) from the border with Lebanon and this area is home to about 200,000 Israeli citizens.

This is a tactic that we’ve seen the Israeli military use in and around the southern suburbs of Beirut and other parts of Lebanon. And now, Hezbollah is using the same tactic for the first time to warn about their attacks.

This is being seen as another level in this new escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah said on Friday that it had carried out the largest number of operations against the Israeli military, with 48 operations in a 24-hour period. We have also seen over the past week a barrage of attacks in terms of rockets and drones being fired into northern Israel. Hezbollah has been launching anywhere between 100 to 200 rockets and drones across the border into northern Israel – the largest number we’ve seen on a daily basis since this conflict escalated.

So, clearly, both Hezbollah and Israel are becoming more entrenched in their ideologies and their belief that they are going to continue this conflict regardless of the costs.

According to the Israeli military, in the past 48 hours, they have lost at least 10 Israeli soldiers. Hezbollah has not shared the number of fighters who have been killed in the conflict that is currently unfolding in and around southern Lebanon.

Former aide says Netanyahu’s ‘experience with Republicans is very good’

Aviv Bushinsky, a political commentator and Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, told the AFP news agency that Netanyahu’s “experience with Republicans is very good… unlike with the Democrats who are much tougher on him”.

Bushinsky’s comments come after Trump spoke about his close personal relationship with the Israeli prime minister at a rally in Georgia on Wednesday.

“We have a very good relationship,” said Trump, who met with Netanyahu at his Florida residence in July. “We’re going to work with them very closely.”

Those positives will outweigh any concerns, said Bushinsky.

“I think Netanyahu would be willing to take the risk of Trump’s unpredictability,” he said.

Nadav Tamir, a former Israeli diplomat to the US, agreed, noting that Trump is also much more popular among Israelis than his rival Kamala Harris.

“In Israel, more than any other liberal democracy outside the United States, Trump is more popular than Harris,” Tamir told AFP.

Iran’s response to Israel will be ‘certain’, says parliament speaker

Iran’s parliament speaker has said Israel’s attacks on his country were a failure when compared to Iran’s October 1 missile attacks and promised that Tehran will retaliate.

“The Zionist regime has no achievement but genocide and the mass murder of defenceless children and women in Gaza and Lebanon, and today, it has no credibility on the international stage,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a televised opening address to a closed-doors meeting to evaluate the Israeli attack.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in the framework of its inherent right of legitimate self-defence, and Article 51 of the UN Charter, considers itself to have the right to defend itself, and a response to this violation will be certain and in adherence to considerations,” said the former air force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Ghalibaf called the US “the main partner in all the war crimes” of Israel, and said Washington must “reign in” Israel and push it toward reaching a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon in order to stop the killing of civilians.

The parliament speaker thanked regional neighbours for condemning the Israeli attacks on Iran.

Two people wounded in drone attack in northern Israel: Report

Israel’s Channel 12 broadcaster is reporting that a drone attack in Karmiel in the north of the country has wounded two people.

It added that the attack targeted a factory producing aviation components.

The Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying the drone was launched from Lebanese territory and “fell in the industrial area of Bar-Lev”.

It said the incident was under investigation.

We’ll bring you more information as soon as we have it.

Iran calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on Israel attacks

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says he wrote to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to condemn the Israeli attacks against Iran and also call for an immediate session of the UN Security Council.

“Although there is no hope that with the presence of the US and some other countries, any product will come out of the Security Council that would work toward reducing tensions and preventing crimes by the Zionist regime, we are pursuing this,” he told state television.

Tehran’s top diplomat said the meeting would provide a good opportunity for Iran and others in the region who condemned the attack to emphasise their positions.

“The US is standing behind Israel with all its capabilities and is a partner in the crimes of the Zionist regime,” Araghchi said, adding that “the participation of the Americans is clear for us” in the Israeli attacks early Saturday.

“At the very least, they provided the air force of the Zionist regime with an air corridor.”

Lebanon demands condemnation of Israeli invasion in UNSC complaint

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry says it has written to the UN Security Council to document Israeli aggression against Lebanon and demand accountability from the international community.

Lebanon asked the Security Council to “condemn the Israeli invasion of its territories and the violation of its sovereignty, and the widespread and continuous attacks on its security and safety of its people”, the ministry said in a statement.

It added that Lebanon wants an immediate implementation of Resolution 1701 to cease hostilities and get Israeli troops out of Lebanese territory.

“Lebanon stated in the complaint that Israel always ignores international legitimacy and does not respect decisions issued by the United Nations bodies, and that it does not abide by international law or international humanitarian law, escaping accountability and questioning by the international community,” the statement added.

Israeli forces fire at farmers south of Nablus in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces have opened fire at Palestinian olive pickers south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The incident took place near the village of Qusra along the road to Jalud, according to an activist quoted by the official Wafa news agency.

The attack, which comes amid ongoing assaults against Palestinian farmers in the olive harvest season, did not cause any casualties.

Farmers and olive pickers have been subjected to near-daily attacks by violent Israeli settlers and armed forces in the occupied areas in recent weeks.

At least 50 reported injured in bus stop incident
Mohammed Jamjoom
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

The Israeli emergency services have stated that the police consider this to be a terror attack.

A truck or a bus rammed into people waiting at the bus stop. We’re still hearing that some people remain trapped under the vehicle.

We are also seeing reports that there were at least 50 injured and that many were taken to hospital. Emergency crews are at the scene.

We’ve not seen anything confirmed yet with regard to the identity of the driver or where he is from. We’re waiting for that information.

But this is certainly going to cause a lot of concern at a time when a lot of Israelis are feeling vulnerable to the kind of attacks that have happened on the ground in Israel.

Over the course of the past year, we’ve had more ramming attacks, more shooting attacks and more stabbing attacks where Israelis in central and other parts were targeted.

But it is also a time when many communities are facing attacks from the air as well.

Iran’s Khamenei says ‘wrong’ to downplay Israel’s attack

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first comments about the “malignant” Israeli air strikes on Iran early Saturday in a meeting with the families of the four members of the armed forces who were killed.

The Israelis try to make the impact of the strikes appear larger than reality, but any move inside Iran to make them appear smaller would also be “wrong”, he said.

“It would be wrong for us to say that it was nothing and it did not matter,” Khamenei said.

“The calculation error of the Zionist regime must be disrupted. They do not know Iran, its youth, its nation. They have not yet been able to fully comprehend the power, capabilities, initiative and will of the Iranian nation, we must make them understand it.”

Khamenei also opened a Hebrew account on X after the Israeli strikes.

Hezbollah claims four more attacks on Israeli military

Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group says its drones “killed and injured” Israeli soldiers near the northeastern Israeli settlement of Manara, as well as at the Marj military site.

Later, the group said “a military salvo” targeted Israeli forces at the Fatima Gate, a former border crossing between Lebanon and Israel.

Separately, “a large missile salvo” targeted the Zevulun military industries base north of Haifa, Hezbollah said in the latest statement on Telegram.

Israel’s Ben-Gvir pledges to expel families of suspected bus stop attackers

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited the site of the ramming attack in Glilot, central Israel, according to footage published by an Army Radio correspondent and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad.

In the video clip, an Israeli is seen asking Ben-Gvir to expel all the families of the attackers, to which the minister replied: “By God’s will, we will expel them. I just hope that Likud and Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] are with us.”

Relatives of Israeli captives interrupt Netanyahu speech

Relatives of captives held in Gaza have interrupted a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an October 7 memorial ceremony in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu stood motionless at a lectern during the ceremony as people in the crowd shouted, interrupting him for more than a minute, according to footage of the speech verified by Al Jazeera.

One of the protesters repeatedly shouted, “My father was killed”.

Families of the captives along with several Western leaders have called on the Israeli government to broker a ceasefire agreement after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this month.

Critics in Israel have also accused Netanyahu of obstructing mediation for a truce and captives-release deal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/27/live-systematic-extermination-35-killed-as-israel-bombs-north-gaza

>>485228
>Hezbollah issues first evacuation orders for residents of northern Israel
kek, i guess those are by-directional now.

>>485229
To their credit, Israel also tried to take from Iran's playbook in their latest strike on Iran. Someone at CENTCOM (or wherever) must have looked at Iran's first retaliation (to the consulate bombing earlier this year) and admired it. They seem to be attempting to model this latest strike on that, although it's possible that they actually hit much more than we're aware of. It's also not a convincing move, by Israel, to anyone who has been paying any attention, but it at least was subtle compared to what they normally do.

>>485230
Admittedly, the Hezbollah thing is much funnier, though.

>>485230
>Someone at CENTCOM (or wherever) must have looked at Iran's first retaliation (to the consulate bombing earlier this year) and admired it. They seem to be attempting to model this latest strike on that
If that's the case, war for show , probably is a good thing. At least relatively speaking.

>although it's possible that they actually hit much more than we're aware of
I doubt it, somebody would have filmed it.

>It's also not a convincing move, by Israel, to anyone who has been paying any attention, but it at least was subtle compared to what they normally do.
If they finally found the ability to exercise restraint, that would be more impressive than leveling city-blocks.
If you are referring to the missile-bunker-complexes Iran has duck deep underground and into mountains, those might not be vulnerable areal attacks. Did you really expect them to destroy those ?

https://x.com/againstwarvoice/status/1850664337892892798
More Israeli police-on-Israeli protester violence.

Houthis hold exercises to drill defence against potential invasion

The Houthis in Yemen have held exercises to simulate defence against waves of attacks coming from land, sea and air.

The group’s armed forces released images from tactical military manoeuvres on Yemen’s western coasts, saying their moves continue to be “in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples”.

Houthi soldiers trained for responding to “large-scale offensive operations launched by hostile forces through four virtual enemy offensive waves on Yemeni territory, with the full participation of enemy ships and naval warships” in different environments, the group said, adding that they also drilled defending a village against an aerial attack.

https://twitter.com/MMY1444/status/1850510456336593300

More from Hezbollah

Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group claims its air defence units confronted Israeli warplanes with surface-to-air missiles above western Lebanon and forced them to leave the country’s airspace.

It earlier said its fighters targeted Israeli soldiers near the southern Lebanese town of ad-Dhahira “with a rocket salvo”.

“A volley of rockets” also targeted Israeli soldiers in the northern Israeli settlement of Misgav Am, its statement on Telegram claimed.

Rockets were also launched at Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Lebanese towns of Aitaroun and Hula, the group added.

One person killed in truck-ramming incident in Tel Aviv

A man died of his wounds after a truck hit a bus stop in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon, according to medics quoted by Israeli media.

Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center announced the death hours after the incident, which injured dozens of people.

Iran to give ‘appropriate response’ to Israeli attack: Pezeshkian

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran is not looking for war but will give an “appropriate response” to Israel’s recent strikes on the country, according to state media.

The heavily armed arch-enemies have engaged in a cycle of retaliatory moves against each other for months, with Saturday’s strike coming after an Iranian missile barrage on October 1, much of which Israel said was downed by its air defences.

Fatah condemns attack on imprisoned leader Marwan Barghouti

Fatah’s central committee has denounced what it called repeated attacks by Israeli forces on Barghouti, who has been in prison since 2002, and other Palestinian detainees, who have been subject to “horrific violations” since October 2023.

In a statement, the committee said that detainees are being subject to solitary confinement, assault, as well as a denial of food and medical treatment. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs both confirmed that prisoners have been subject to mistreatment since the war on Gaza began.

“As the genocidal war continues in Gaza, Israeli occupation authorities are committing heinous crimes in prisons that are not being documented by cameras,” the committee said in a statement.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/27/live-systematic-extermination-35-killed-as-israel-bombs-north-gaza

>>485239
Jeremy Loffredo was released

Loffredo was one of many journalists in Israel that reported on the Iranian missile strikes. He got abducted by the Zionist gestapo, but Israeli judges ruled him innocent and he has let go.

His report on his stint in a Zionist dungeon and what happened after.
https://rumble.com/v5jy8ul-the-torture-never-stops-part-ii-the-grayzone-live.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

Gallant proposes adding Iran, West Bank to ‘war goals’: Reports

The Israeli defense minister sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s war cabinet, saying Israel’s “war is being conducted without a compass”, according to the Channel 13 News.

Gallant also called for Iran and the occupied West Bank to be added to Israel’s list of war goals, the Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel currently has four objectives in its wars, after Netanyahu last month added Lebanon to the initial list of goals, which were all related to the Gaza Strip.

Iranian media say Israeli strikes also killed civilian

Iranian media have reported a civilian was also killed during the Israeli strikes over the weekend, which Israel said targeted military sites.

Iranian authorities had not reported civilian deaths earlier.

“The martyr Allahverdi Rahimpour, a civilian who was killed near Tehran during the recent attack by the Zionist regime, has been buried,” the Fars News Agency reported.

The Tasnim News Agency also reported the death.

Iran had earlier confirmed four of its soldiers were killed in the Israeli attacks.

South Africa’s legal team says ‘intent is clear’ in Israel’s Gaza genocide
Qaanitah Hunter

Last week, South African legal researchers were in an undisclosed location, racing against time to finalise hundreds of pages of evidence proving Israel’s intent to commit genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, leaders in Israel gathered near the Gaza border, calling for the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip to be emptied of Palestinians.

During the “preparing to settle Gaza” conference, held at a restricted military zone in Be’eri, Israel, last Monday, Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was recorded calling for the “migration” of Gaza’s current inhabitants and the possibility of future Israeli settlement expansion there – something considered illegal under international law.

“[We will] tell them, ‘’we are giving you the chance, leave from here to other countries’,” Ben-Gvir said, while Israeli forces continued their more than yearlong bombardment of Gaza. “The Land of Israel is ours.”

South African diplomats assert statements like these offer undeniable evidence of Israel’s genocidal intent – something they must prove before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in an ongoing case.

Israeli parliament bans UNRWA

Israeli politicians have passed a law to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from inside the country.

What we know about the UNRWA ban

The Israeli parliament has passed a law to ban UN relief agency UNRWA from operating inside the country. According to a human rights organisation in Israel, Adalah, this ban would come into force within three months of the bill’s passage.

This law bans UNRWA from operating in areas under Israeli control, which would lead to the closure of its premises in the occupied Palestinian territory – West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

The proposed legislation would also terminate immediately the agreement between Israel and UNRWA from 1967 in which Israel committed to facilitating UNRWA’s work. This will effectively paralyse the agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate as set out by the UN General Assembly in 1949.

This ban could see UNRWA evicted from headquarters and offices as well as severely block its ability to provide essential services such as healthcare and education to millions of Palestine refugees.

It will also end visas for UNRWA staff.

EU’s top diplomat says banning UNRWA contradicts international law

Josep Borrell said the ban “would de facto render UNRWA’s vital operations in Gaza impossible and seriously hamper its provision of services in the West Bank”.

In a post on X, Borrell said: “This legislation stands in stark contradiction to international law and the fundamental principle of humanity. All UN agencies embody the rules-based international order as they uphold and implement the UN Charter, to which all UN Member States must abide.”

Israeli troops, Palestinian fighters clash in Jenin

The Jenin Battalion of Al-Quds Brigade said in a message on Telegram that its fighters confronted Israeli troops in the city of Jenin and repelled them after “showering them with heavy gunfire”.

Earlier, the Wafa news agency reported that Israeli forces detained a number of young men from the city’s Nazareth Street and raided several shops there.

Israeli forces have sharply stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza more than a year ago. In total, Israeli forces have killed 732 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since October 7 of last year.

Israel to spend $530m on Iron Beam laser air defence system

Israel’s Defence Ministry says it has earmarked $530m to accelerate development of the laser air defence system known as Iron Beam.

The ministry will work with defence companies Rafael and Elbit, the statement said. It quoted Ministry Director-General Eyal Zamir as saying he hoped the new system would “enter operational service within a year”.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is Israel’s national defence research and development arm. Defence company Elbit Systems said in a separate statement the ministry granted it a contract worth about $200m specifically to develop Iron Beam.

Iron Beam would supplement other aerial defence capacities such as the more well-known Iron Dome and David’s Sling.

Iron Dome offers short-range protection against missiles and rockets, such as projectiles fired from Gaza and Lebanon.

David’s Sling and successive generations of Arrow missiles are Israeli-American technology paid for with US aid and built to bring down ballistic missiles.

Survivor recounts Israeli attack that killed 73 people in Lebanon

Hecham Al-Baba was visiting his sister at her home in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon in late September when the Israeli strike hit.

The entire six-storey residential building, with 17 apartments full of families, collapsed, tipping over down a hillside, killing more than 70 people.

At the bottom of the building’s wreckage, al-Baba was trapped in pitch-black darkness for four hours, squeezed with his legs bent under him.

He knew his sister’s family was dead from the constant, unanswered ringing of their phones.

“No one said a word. I didn’t hear a movement,” al-Baba told the AP news agency, as he recalled how finally he heard movement and the sound of a rescuer calling out.

Looking back now, Al-Baba fears “there will be no peace” in Lebanon and Gaza.

“No one will bring me justice. No one,” he said.

Iraqi armed group claims attack on Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it used drones to attack a military target in the north of the occupied territories.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The umbrella group of Iran-backed armed groups, which said it is acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza as well as the people of Lebanon, had claimed three attacks on Israel on Sunday.

Palestinian presidency rejects Israel ban on UN aid agency

The Palestinian presidency has rejected the Israeli parliament’s vote to ban UNRWA, saying it would not allow such a move.

“We reject and condemn the legislation. We will not allow this. The overwhelming vote of the Knesset reflects Israel’s transformation into a fascist state,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the presidency in Ramallah, said in a statement.

Houthis say they targeted three vessels with drones and rockets

Yemen’s Houthi group says it carried out three operations targeting ships in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea.

In the Arabian Sea, it said it targeted “SC Montreal” with two drones and “Maersk Kowloon” with a missile.

The Houthis also said they targeted “Motaro” in the Red Sea with a number of ballistic missiles.

Israel sabotaging polio vaccine campaign, says Gaza Health Ministry

The ministry said that Israeli forces are “preventing campaign teams from reaching northern Gaza, and placing obstacles to [vaccination’s] implementation in Gaza City as well”.

The Health Ministry also said that the vaccination campaign is accordingly at risk, “which means the continued existence of the polio epidemic that will not only threaten Gaza, but also threaten the entire surrounding area”.

After the first confirmed polio case in the territory in 25 years, a massive vaccination effort began last month. The campaign aims to fully vaccinate more than 640,000 children in the besieged territory.

Polio primarily affects children under five and can cause deformities, paralysis and in some cases death.

Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 43,020 people have been killed and 101,110 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.

Of those, 96 Palestinians were killed and 277 wounded in the latest 48-hour reporting period, the ministry added.

‘Largest’ cultural boycott against Israeli institutions launches: Statement

More than 1,100 authors have launched “a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people”, a coalition of solidarity groups has said in a press statement.

The declaration is the biggest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history, it said, adding that “signatories have stated that they cannot in good conscience engage with Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to apartheid and displacement”.

Signatories include winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award.

According to the statement, authors have joined the campaign launched more than 20 years ago by Palestinian civil society, which calls for “those working in cultural industries to refuse working with Israeli academic and cultural institutions that are complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against the Palestinian people and upholding apartheid and genocide.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/28/live-medics-among-seven-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-south-lebanon

I don't know where else to put this, but Consortium News, one of the oldest independent journalism outlets on the web, just had a major Wordpress hack done to them over the last week and their whole website is still offline.

>>485246
And the implication is what ?
Zionist cyber-vandalism ?
Zionist cyber-terrorism ?

Israeli forces set fire to UNRWA school in north Gaza

Israeli forces have burned down the UNRWA-run Al Fakhoura school in the Jabalia refugee camp and are blowing up houses in the area, according to Al Jazeera Arabic and the Wafa news agency.

The attacks come as Israel’s military continues its bombardment across the Gaza Strip, killing at least seven Palestinians in northern Beit Lahiya and 10 others in central az-Zawayda.

Several Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli attack on the Abu Laban family home in Gaza City, Wafa reported, while assaults continued on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre and on Rafah in the south, according to AJA.

At least 62 people killed in Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip

Within the past half hour, the number of people killed in the Israeli attack on a residential building in Beit Lahiya has dramatically increased.

Sixty-two people have been confirmed killed by al-Awda Hospital, a small facility struggling to operate in the north of Gaza.

The death toll is expected to increase as witnesses estimate about 100 people were in the building.

Director at North Gaza hospital issues distress call after deadly Israeli attack

More on Israel’s attack on Beit Lahiya.

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, says dozens of wounded people have arrived at the facility and urged all surgeons to return there to treat them.

Many of the wounded may die because of the lack of resources at the hospital, he told Al Jazeera.

“The world must take action and not just watch the genocide in the Gaza Strip,” he added. “We call on the world to send specialised medical delegations to treat dozens of wounded people in the hospital.”

As we’ve been reporting, the Kamal Adwan Hospital is the main medical facility treating Palestinians in North Gaza and Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff there days ago, leaving only three doctors to care for the wounded.

War monitor says two dead in Israeli attack on Syria-Lebanon border village

A Syrian war monitor says two people were killed in an Israeli strike near Syria’s border with Lebanon, the second strike in less than a week near a key land crossing.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli warplanes “attacked vehicles near Al-Nazariya Village in Al-Qaseer countryside” along the border with Lebanon, adding that “two people inside the vehicles were killed”.

The NGO said the area lies on a smuggling and transportation route between Lebanon and Syria.

The attack comes less than a week after Israel’s military confirmed a similar strike on the nearby Jousieh crossing, claiming it was being used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons.

Lebanese and United Nations officials warned that the attack had jeopardised the main escape route for people fleeing the conflict in Lebanon in search of refuge in Syria.

Israel had previously struck the Masnaa crossing further south, leaving it unusable.

MSF ‘revolted’ by Israel’s ‘repeated killings’ of its staff in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, issued a statement following an Israeli attack that killed its staff member, Hasan Suboh, in Gaza on October 24.

He was the eighth MSF staff member to be killed in Gaza since the beginning of Israel’s war, the group said.

“We denounce these killings in the strongest possible terms and are revolted by the fact that in over one year of war, Israel has acted with total impunity. Israel’s repeated direct attacks, which do not distinguish between military objectives and civilians, must be investigated independently,” it added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/29/live-warnings-israels-unrwa-ban-will-collapse-aid-efforts-in-gaza

>>485245
>Israeli politicians have passed a law to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
>>485245
>EU’s top diplomat says banning UNRWA contradicts international law
>>485249
>Israeli forces set fire to UNRWA school in north Gaza

When is Israel going to get kicked out of the UN ?
They clearly don't give a single shit about anything the UN stands for.
Letting Israel stay will cause diplomatic damage to the UN.

>>485250
Israel was itself established following a UN resolution, one of the earliest major acts of the nascent UN. It is the UN's early shame and a major factor in why Israel is treated better by the UN than it ought to be.

>>485251
I see …

Maybe they should find anti-Zionist Jews and pair them up with the Palestinian UN delegation and start the creation of an Exile-government that works towards a new state that serves both Jews and Palestinians as equals.

Declare the current one in Israel as illegitimate and kick out the Zionist gang out of the UN.

Put the "New-Isreal/Palestine" delegation in it's place. Maybe come up with a better name.

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/23/upenn-cops-students-raid-gaza-palestine/

Last Friday, 13 police officers gathered in the early morning hours outside an off-campus residential building in West Philadelphia. It was the home of several University of Pennsylvania students.

Donning their full tactical gear, including riot helmets, and armed with assault rifles and handguns, the police threatened to break down the door with a battering ram and pointed a gun at a neighbor before storming the residence.

The sound of police coming up the stairs woke the students up. As they stepped out of their rooms, police trained guns on them, according to one student present during the raid who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity for fear of their personal safety.

Police identified themselves as 12 officers from the University of Pennsylvania Police Department and one from the Philadelphia Police Department, the student said, but refused to provide names, badge numbers, or a warrant. Police seized another student’s personal device and took the student in for questioning. They were released later that morning with no charges or arrests made.

In the course of questioning, the student was provided with a copy of the warrant for suspicion of vandalism, according to the first student who spoke to The Intercept. The warrant related to an incident in September where red paint was thrown on the Benjamin Franklin statue on campus.

…

“The raid on Friday was a clear act of institutional and state-sponsored terror,” the student who was present for the raid told The Intercept. “It comes a year after Penn disciplining students, suspending them, sending 300 riot cops to arrest and brutalize us multiple times over, throwing their own students and community members in jail. This is just another outrageous mark in their timeline of escalation.”

>>485253
>Police identified themselves as 12 officers from the University of Pennsylvania Police Department and one from the Philadelphia Police Department, the student said, but refused to provide names, badge numbers, or a warrant. Police seized another student’s personal device
This is confusing.
If they don't provide official credentials, how do people know they're not just robbers in police costumes ?

>>485255
>If they don't provide official credentials, how do people know they're not just robbers in police costumes ?
They don't lol

>>485256
Isn't that super dangerous ?
Like somebody might conclude they're not cops and go heavy metal on them.

Hezbollah appoints Naim Qassem as secretary-general

Hezbollah has announced Naim Qassem will succeed slain leader Hassan Nasrallah as secretary-general of the group.

In a statement, Hezbollah said Qassem was elected due to his “adherence to the principles and goals of Hezbollah”.

“The Shura Council of Hezbollah agreed to elect His Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem as Secretary-General of Hezbollah, carrying the blessed banner in this journey, asking God Almighty to guide him in this noble mission in leading Hezbollah and its Islamic resistance,” the statement said.

More on Israel’s attack on Beit Lahiya

According to our colleagues on the ground, 10 people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a residential area in Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip.

This comes after an earlier Israeli air strike destroyed a five-storey residential building sheltering displaced families in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 109 Palestinians, including children, and wounding dozens.

We will bring you more information as we get it.

Palestine official calls for Israel’s ouster from UN over UNRWA ban

The president of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, has called for Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations if it fails to reverse its ban on UNRWA functioning in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.

Fattouh said Israel’s decision is in clear violation of the UN Charter and part of Israel’s policy is “ethnic cleansing”, Wafa news agency reported.

He urged UN member states to hold a General Assembly session to compel Israel to reverse its legislation or face legal consequences that could result in expulsion from the world body.

The ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) not only jeopardises the rights of refugees but also undermines international legitimacy and goes against UN resolutions concerning the Palestinian issue, Fattouh said.

Eight UN peacekeepers wounded in southern Lebanon

Eight Austrian soldiers belonging to the peacekeeping group the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were lightly wounded in a rocket strike on Camp Naqoura near the Israeli border.

“We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms and demand that it be investigated immediately,” Austria’s Defence Ministry said in a statement, adding it’s unclear where the attack came from.

None of the soldiers needed urgent medical care, it said. UNIFIL has faced a series of Israeli attacks on its peacekeepers. The Israeli government has demanded that UNIFIL leave its positions in Lebanon, an order the UN force has refused.

Iran moves to triple military budget amid Israel tensions

Iran’s government has proposed to triple its military budget, its spokeswoman said, as tensions with archrival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes.

Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani outlined the move that would see “a significant increase of more than 200 percent in the country’s military budget” at a news conference in Tehran.

Irish PM calls on EU to review trade relations with Israel

The Republic of Ireland’s Prime Minister Simon Harris has called on the EU to review its ties with Israel following its ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

“The most important action that the European Union could take right now is reviewing trade relations,” Harris told reporters in Dublin.

“What Israel and the Israeli Knesset did last night was despicable, disgraceful and shameful. More people will die, more children will starve,” he said.

Harris said there’s “no alternative” to UNRWA and will discuss “how Europe now needs to find the moral courage … to act in relation to this”.

Ireland, Spain, Belgium, and Slovenia, which all recognised Palestinian statehood earlier this year, have been calling for the bloc to take more action on the war, he added.

Spain cancels purchase of police ammunition from Israeli firm

Spain cancelled a contract to buy ammunition from an Israeli firm, widening a Spanish pledge not to sell weapons to Israel to include purchases, too.

Madrid said it would stop arms sales to Israel in October 2023, when Israel’s war started in Gaza. “The Spanish government maintains the commitment not to sell weapons to the Israeli state since the armed conflict broke out in the territory of Gaza,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Cadena SER radio earlier reported that the Civil Guard police force agreed to buy more than 15 million 9mm rounds for $6.48m (6m euros) from Guardian LTD Israel.

UN chief writes letter to Israel’s PM protesting UNRWA ban

UN chief Guterres sent a letter to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu protesting a new law that could effectively cripple the UN agency responsible for aiding Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

The regulations approved by the Israeli parliament ban the UN agency from operating in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, and prevent it from communicating and coordinating with Israeli authorities, which could essentially end its work in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In the letter, Guterres said the law could have “devastating consequences” for Palestinians.

“I appeal to you and to the government of Israel to prevent such devastating consequences and to allow UNRWA to continue carrying out its activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, in accordance with its obligations under international law,” Guterres wrote.

“Israel, as the occupying power, continues to be required to ensure that the needs of the population are met.”

Many countries at the UN Security Council want their voices heard
Gabriel Elizondo
Reporting from New York, United States

It’s a quarterly meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

We’ve heard two general themes. Number one is a condemnation of Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, particularly in the north of the country that’s been going on since the beginning of October for several weeks now.

But there’s also a focus on UNRWA. Countries that have spoken have all voiced condemnation of Israel’s parliament passing those bills to ban UNRWA.

Well, over 120 countries in the General Assembly have already come out supporting UNRWA.

So that’s the general theme of this marathon meeting: Showing solidarity with the Palestinian people.

But we’ve heard this before and Israel has heard this before from other member states. Israel has continued to ignore not only the secretary-general but also other member states here at the UN.

So we’ve also heard more calls to end the Israeli impunity, particularly from the Palestinian ambassador.

At UN Security Council, Algeria says post-WWII system is ‘crumbling’

Algeria’s ambassador to the UN, Amar Bendjama, says the international framework built after World War II is crumbling, “unable to stand against an Israeli power shielded from accountability and enjoying total impunity”.

Speaking to the UN Security Council, Bendjama also said:

The situation in northern Gaza is beyond catastrophic, and Israel’s war is not driven by military objectives but by a policy to forcibly displace Palestinians.
Relentless bombing there has denied people – even UN staff – food and medical care.
The healthcare system in Gaza is on the brink of collapse, and the polio vaccination campaign is halted now, leaving children unprotected.
In the south, the situation is rapidly deteriorating too as Israel “weaponises starvation against civilians, especially children, by denying them essential food”.

Hezbollah announces rocket attack against Israeli troops

The Lebanese group says it launched a volley of rockets at a gathering of Israeli soldiers on the edges of the southern Lebanese town of Khiam.

The attack was the 30th military operation claimed by Hezbollah today.

Earlier, Hezbollah released a cryptic image of a crumbling wall with an Israeli flag with the caption: “It won’t be long.”

More from Hamas official Abu Zuhri

As we reported earlier, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said the group has responded to the “mediators’ request to discuss new proposals for a ceasefire agreement”. He added that:

The group is open to any proposals that would end the aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The group is also open to any agreement that would end the suffering of Palestinian people and leads to a permanent ceasefire.
Israeli forces deliberately destroyed the medical infrastructure and Palestinian Civil Defence resources in Gaza.
Statements of condemnation and denunciation from the leaders and various parties of the Palestinian nation are no longer acceptable.
Hamas called on the countries that have normalised relations with [Israel] to immediately sever their bilateral relations.

No Civil Defence to rescue people in latest Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya

According to the Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman, an Israeli air raid on a house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip has led to the death and injury of “many”.

Mahmoud Basal did not provide a number for the casualties, but said there are no rescue or ambulance teams to help those who have been wounded.

“There are appeals and stress calls for Civil Defence teams to save the wounded,” he said. But the Civil Defence’s teams, he said, have been “forcibly displaced due to the Israeli aggression in North Gaza”, with several of its staff detained as well.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/29/live-warnings-israels-unrwa-ban-will-collapse-aid-efforts-in-gaza

>>485266
>US Ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, is continuing her agenda to prepare Lebanon for a "post-Hezbollah era” by mobilizing "sovereignists" in Lebanon.
I know this is just an attempt to court potential imperial collaborators, but a "post-Hezbollah era” that is just delusional.

Israel's recent attacks that have displaced perhaps hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes, the terror attacks of the exploding pagers, all the political assassinations, the attempt at an IDF military invasion, and so on. Have cemented popular Hezbollah support for decades to come.

>Johnson encouraged her allies to hold meetings to advocate for the election of Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Joseph Aoun as President of Lebanon, saying, “He (Aoun) will appoint a strong commander for the Lebanese Army, and we will support the Army in restraining all Hezbollah supporters.
The imperial design is divide and conquer to make the Lebanese military fight against Hezbollah, the reality however could be the bulk of the soldiers changing their allegiance to Hezbollah, which them become the Lebanese military.

>>485269
>I know this is just an attempt to court potential imperial collaborators, but a "post-Hezbollah era” that is just delusional.

True, but the US (and France) have still been trying to pay off the Lebanese PM & military in the hopes they'll fight a civil war for them. It would be a disaster, but that's the strategy.

>The imperial design is divide and conquer to make the Lebanese military fight against Hezbollah, the reality however could be the bulk of the soldiers changing their allegiance to Hezbollah, which them become the Lebanese military.

Maybe. IDK. The Lebanese Army has been extremely cucked already, getting shot by the IDF but not responding at all. It's possible that they change course, but it's also possible it keeps happening.

Excerpts from a declassified CIA document from November 1947. Accurate predictions made before the partition had even occurred.

>>485271
Hezbollah has the hearts and minds of the Lebanese population because they're trying to do something about the genocide in Gaza. If the neocons try to instigate a civil war by making the Lebanese state attack Hezbollah. Hezbollah likely would be able to eat the state machine and purge all the civil-war instigators, and side-step a civil war. The Lebanese soldiers would get absorbed into the fighter cells. Creating a hybrid between a centralized state and decentralize guerilla organization. The resources of a state and the adaptability of guerillas could be very potent.

As a rule of thumb, the neocon schemes backfire now and the opposite of what they want happens. It's that way because everybody has figured them out and they're not capable of analyzing their defeats and learning from it. They're probably also going to loose influence in Jordan because the imperial-friendly regime is loosing it's footing.

UN records seven ‘mass casualty incidents’ in Gaza in one week

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) said the seven incidents took place between the afternoons of October 22 and 29. They are:

October 24: Between 150-200 people were killed or wounded when Israeli forces bombed a residential block of 11 houses in the northern Jabalia refugee camp.
October 24: At least 17 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed and 52 others wounded in an Israeli attack on the Ash Shuhada school in the central Nuseirat refugee camp.
October 24-24: Thirty-eight Palestinians were killed and tens of others, mostly women and children, were wounded when Israeli forces destroyed several residential buildings during an operation in the Qizan an-Najjar and al-Manara areas in southern Khan Younis. About 20 people are reported missing.
October 25: Twenty-five people were killed when Israeli forces bombed two houses in northern Beit Lahiya.
October 26: At least 30 people were killed and dozens wounded after Israeli forces hit a residential block in Beit Lahiya.
October 27: Eleven Palestinians, including a girl and four women, were killed when Israeli forces attacked the UNRWA-run Asma school in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza.
October 29: At least 93 Palestinians were killed or missing following another Israeli attack on a residential building in Beit Lahiya
The list does not include Israel’s latest attack on Beit Lahiya on Tuesday evening which killed at least 19 Palestinians.

Ceasefire draft says Israel can continue to strike Hezbollah targets: Reports

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports Israel’s public broadcaster published the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire draft document, which the US presented to Israel.

It says it includes “a mandate which would allow Israel to conduct air strikes along the border between the two countries, in Lebanese territory, in order to thwart threats brought on by Hezbollah or other groups”.

Drone explosion hits factory in Israel’s Nahariya: Report

A drone that exploded in Israel’s northern industrial area of Nahariya hit a factory producing aircraft components, a report from the Israeli Army Radio has said.

In a separate statement, the Israeli military said it shot down three unmanned aircraft in the country’s north that crossed from Lebanon. Firefighters were working to put out a fire that broke out in the Ziv Bridge area.

Earlier today, the Israeli army said it detected a surface-to-surface missile launched from Lebanon which broke up in the air. A drone was also intercepted, it said.

Drone that crashed in Nahariya came from Iraq undetected: Report

Earlier, we reported how an explosives-laden drone crashed in an industrial area in northern Israel’s Nahariya, hitting a factory producing aircraft components.

The Israeli military confirmed the attack but did not give any origin for it.

The army now believes the drone came from Iraq, rather than Lebanon, and managed to evade radar and air defences, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 12.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been regularly launching drones at Israel during the war on Gaza. This month, the umbrella group of Iran-aligned forces killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded 24 when one of its drones hit a military base in the occupied Golan Heights.

Tens of thousands flee Baalbek as Israeli army bombs south Lebanon
Charles Stratford
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

This is by far the biggest assault by Israel since this escalation started on the historic city of Baalbek. A statement by the Israeli military in the last hour said it targeted what it described as Hezbollah fuel reservoirs in the area.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least 11 people have been killed and 15 others injured. Palestinian Civil Defence units are using loud hailers to warn people to clear out along routes Israel said it wouldn’t hit.

Baalbek is of massive historical importance. The city dates back, by some accounts, 11,000 years.

It’s a city that has been used as a shelter for tens of thousands of people who fled fighting in the south and surrounding areas. So you can imagine this only adds to a sense of panic, the sense of pressure to accommodate these people as they are on the move once again.

Iran says it killed separatist linked to Israel

Iranian state media reports that intelligence agents killed a member of a separatist group, which it accuses of links to Israel, and arrested two others in the country’s northwest.

“Intelligence service agents killed one of the main members of this terrorist group, and two others were arrested,” state television reported, adding their weapons had been seized.

It said they were detected trying to enter Iran’s West Azerbaijan province from northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, where several exiled Iranian Kurdish groups are based, “with the aim of causing riots, terror and insecurity”.

It did not specify what group the members belonged to, only that it was a “group affiliated with the Zionist regime”, referring to Israel.

German court asked to block explosives shipment to Israeli firm

Human rights lawyers have filed a court appeal in Berlin seeking to block a shipment of military-grade explosives aboard a German cargo ship, which they say is to be delivered to Israel’s biggest defence contractor.

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) said the action was filed on behalf of three Palestinians from Gaza, arguing that the shipment of primarily RDX explosives could be used in munitions for Israel’s war in Gaza, potentially contributing to alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The ELSC said the RDX shipment was destined for Israeli Military Industries, a division of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest defence contractor.

Israeli army announces new division to operate on border with Jordan

The Israeli military says the mission of the new division will be to strengthen the defence of the border area and stop the smuggling of weapons while maintaining a “peaceful border and strengthening cooperation with the Jordanian army”.

Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in 1994 and have close security ties.

In August, an attack by an armed truck driver killed three Israeli border guards at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.

Residents flee Lebanon’s Baalbek after Israel forced displacement warning

Residents of Baalbek rushed out of their homes after the Israeli army ordered Lebanon’s main eastern city and its outskirts evacuated for the first time in more than a month of war.

The main roads out of the city were jammed with vehicles as civilians fled in panic, an AFP correspondent reported.

Civil defence vehicles drove around the city, urging everyone to leave immediately over loudspeakers.

“The city is almost empty,” the correspondent said about an hour after the evacuation warning.

Israel’s latest threat includes Roman ruins area in Lebanon

The Israeli military’s newest forced displacement order in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek includes its 3,000-year-old Roman ruins.

The city, which was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, is home to some of the best-preserved Roman temples.

Photos: The Temple of Bacchus, part of the Baalbek archaeological site

Israel’s latest forced displacement order targets Lebanon’s Baalbek, which was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 and is home to some of the best-preserved Roman temples.

Past warnings by Israel have been followed by air strikes in the areas they list.

Here’s a look at one of Baalbek’s most famous Roman ruins, the Temple of Bacchus.

Iran’s defence minister says damage limited in Israeli attack

Iran’s defence minister says Israel tried to hit both Iran’s offensive and defensive capabilities on Saturday, but “was not very successful”.

“The reason is that in the areas that it tried to damage, we had adopted the necessary defensive measures and were informed,” Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran.

“On the other hand, even if something did get damaged, the knowledge of it is indigenous. We even replaced one of the defence systems on the day after.”

When asked about claims that all of Iran’s Russian-made S-300 missile defence systems were destroyed during the Israeli attacks, Nasirzadeh only reiterated that “the knowledge of it is indigenous, so we have no problems in manufacturing defence systems.”

Car in Lebanon’s Baabda on fire after Israeli drone attack

Lebanese media outlets have released footage, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, of a car on fire after an Israeli drone attack in the Araya area of Baabda district in Mount Lebanon Governorate.

Lebanese army personnel closed off one side of the road and kept citizens away from the burning car.

The Lebanese News Agency reported on its official website that an Israeli drone hit a car on the Araya road, causing it to catch fire. The target and potential casualties are still unclear.

https://twitter.com/sawtlebnan/status/1851545985173910003

Medical group says Israel revoked ban on teams entering Gaza

Glia says it was informed it’s no longer banned from entry into Gaza by Israel, calling it a “positive step” that came as a “result of the incredible efforts of governments, organisations, and activists who came together to advocate for the banned organisations to regain access.”

In mid-October, the WHO said eight organisations and more than 50 specialist personnel were blocked from entering Gaza since August. This included Glia and the US nonprofit, the Palestinian American Medical Association.

“We remain extremely concerned that so many organisations, including ours, were arbitrarily banned in the first place. We were not given any rationale for our ban, nor its revocation,” Glia said in a statement.

“Banning our organisation is part of a concerted and escalating campaign of denying Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere their basic human rights to health and health care.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/30/live-israeli-strikes-kill-143-across-gaza-77-killed-in-attacks-on-lebanon

>>485276
<ceasefire draft says Israel can continue to strike
bruh that's a continuefire

Rapporteur urges Israel’s UN membership suspension

A UN special rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership citing repeated violations of international law and the occupation of Palestinian territory.

“I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said at a news conference.

Albanese said she recommends the General Assembly consider the suspension of Israel’s credentials as a member of the UN until it ends violating international law and withdraws the “clearly unlawful” occupation.

“Israel, in the pursuit of realising Greater Israel, is attempting to reduce physically or spiritually … the presence of the Palestinian identity in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

Arab League to hold emergency meeting on Israeli UNRWA ban

The Arab League announced it will be holding an emergency session on Thursday to address Israel’s decision to block the UN agency for Palestinian refugees operating in the Israeli-occupied territories.

In a statement, the League said the session, led by Yemen and requested by Jordan, will bring together permanent representatives at its Cairo headquarters to form a united response to the ban.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/30/live-israeli-strikes-kill-143-across-gaza-77-killed-in-attacks-on-lebanon

Yemeni media reports US, UK raid near Hodeidah University

The Houthi-affiliated Yemeni Security Media said US and British forces have launched an aggression on the port city of Hodeidah by carrying out an air strike in the vicinity of the Hodeidah University in the al-Hawak district.

It did not provide additional details and there was no immediate comment from the US or United Kingdom militaries.

We’ll bring you more when we hear more.

Explosion reported in Israeli city of Nahariya

The Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar news outlet reports that the explosion was the result of a drone launched from Lebanon crashing into a target in Israel’s northernmost coastal city.

Hezbollah also posted footage of the alleged drone attack on its Telegram channel without claiming responsibility.

No casualties or injuries have been reported so far.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Israel’s military carries out drone attack on Nur Shams camp

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces have laid siege to the camp, east of the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, and carried out a drone attack on a square there.

The operation has triggered violent clashes, and the sound of explosions and reconnaissance aircraft can be heard from the area, Wafa reported.

Electricity has also been cut off in the camp and in nearby areas, it added.

It is not clear if there have been any casualties.

Earlier, undercover Israeli forces carried out an assassination in Tulkarem, killing “prominent” Hamas leader, Hussam al-Mallah, in a supermarket.

Hamas mourns commander slain in Tulkarem

We’ve been reporting on an Israeli undercover operation in the occupied West Bank that killed a 30-year-old Palestinian man.

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, issued a statement mourning the death of Hussam Bassam Yousef Malah and describing him as a “prominent” leader of the group.

For its part, the Israeli military accused Malah of planning attacks and claimed that he had been working with two other Palestinian men who were also killed by Israeli forces in separate incidents in recent weeks.

UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon targeted 30 times in October

A spokesman for the force, which is known as UNIFIL, said the 30 incidents had resulted in property damage or injury to peacekeepers and included 20 from Israeli fire or action.

Andrea Tenenti said seven of the Israeli actions were “clearly deliberate”.

For about a dozen other incidents, the origin of the fire could not be determined.

“What has been very concerning are incidents where peacekeepers performing their monitoring tasks, as well as our cameras, lighting and entire watchtowers, have been deliberately targeted by the [Israeli army],” Tenenti told a news conference.

“To be clear, the actions of both the [Israeli army] and Hezbollah are putting peacekeepers in danger,” he added.

The UN peacekeeping force has been deployed in Lebanon since Israel invaded the country in 1978.

French court overturns ban on Israeli companies at defence fair

A commercial court in Paris has ruled against a decision by the French government to ban Israeli companies that supply the wars in Gaza and Lebanon from exhibiting their hardware at the Euronaval defence fair.

The court said organisers of the fair cannot keep Israeli companies from exhibiting at the event based on their nationality and ordered the suspension of “the execution of the measures adopted against” the firms, according to the AFP news agency and The Times of Israel newspaper.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz hailed the ruling as a “significant victory” against the French government’s “unjust and undemocratic decision”.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had said earlier that the measure did not amount to a boycott of Israeli firms, but that it would be “incoherent” for France to allow the promotion of weapons used in the wars while it also pushes for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. He had said companies that whose equipment is not used in offensive actions in Gaza and Lebanon will be able to have stands at the exhibition.

Pro-Palestine supporters interrupt Kamala Harris speech in Pennsylvania

Pro-Palestine supporters interrupted a rally of Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris held late on Wednesday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

They demanded an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people and the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

The protesters held signs reading “Stop the Genocide Now” and continued to disrupt the speech several times, with chants supporting Palestine and calling for an end to the US arming Israel.

Harris responded with a familiar line, saying the protesters have the right to speak, “but let me finish my speech”. Event organisers were seen trying to forcibly remove those carrying the Palestinian flag and their supporters from the hall.

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>Rapporteur urges Israel’s UN membership suspension
>A UN special rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership citing repeated violations of international law and the occupation of Palestinian territory.
>“I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said at a news conference.
>Albanese said she recommends the General Assembly consider the suspension of Israel’s credentials as a member of the UN until it ends violating international law and withdraws the “clearly unlawful” occupation.
So there are people who want to preserve the UN and not let it fade into irrelevance like the league of nations.

Iran says attack by Israel-linked separatist group foiled

The police headquarters in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan have announced that an armed attack on a police station in the Sarbaz county of the province was foiled, according to Iranian state media.

Armed “terrorists” belonging to the Jaish al-Adl separatist group stormed the station but had to flee after receiving a “decisive response” from police. Search is under way to capture the attackers, police said.

Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni “extremist” group that Iran considers to have links with Israel, killed 10 members of Iranian armed forces in the province on Saturday, the same day Israel launched air strikes on Iran. The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned the armed assault in Sistan-Baluchestan as a “cowardly terrorist attack”.

Also, Iranian state media on Wednesday night released a video to show that a member of another separatist group linked with Israel was killed and two others were arrested in the country’s West Azerbaijan province to the northwest.

Israel strikes Syrian town near Lebanon border: State media

An “Israeli aggression” hit a number of residential buildings in the area of Qusayr in the southern countryside of Homs province, in central Syria, the country’s news agency (SANA) reports.

The attack caused “material damage” to the industrial zone of Qusayr and some of the city’s residential neighbourhoods, according to the state media.

Israel typically does not comment on specific reports of attacks in Syria, but it has been carrying out strikes for years against what it says are Iranian-linked targets in the Arab country.

Youth movement calls for hunger strike as famine threatens Gaza

A youth movement has announced the launch of a global hunger strike campaign, called “Support for Gaza”, to attract attention to famine-like conditions in the enclave.

Activists with the Global Youth Movement said they want the siege of Gaza to be broken, the forced displacement of Palestinians to be stopped, and humanitarian aid to be brought into northern Gaza starting from November 1.

The movement said in a statement published by Palestinian media that the strike will not end until the campaign’s demands are met.

This comes as UN and international organisations operating on the ground in Gaza report that food insecurity levels are rising to catastrophic levels in the enclave as the Israeli military blocks most aid.

Israeli police arrest couple accused of spying for Iran: Report

Israeli police say they have arrested a couple accused of spying on Israeli intelligence sites and collecting information on an Israeli academic on behalf of Iran.

The police and the Shin Bet internal security agency said in a statement that the arrested man, Rafael Guliev from the central city of Lod, had surveilled Israel’s Mossad spy headquarters for the Iranians, according to a report by The Associated Press news agency.

He also allegedly collected information on an academic working at the Institute for National Security Studies, a prominent Israeli think tank. The Israeli statement did not identify the scholar.

The statement said Guliev was also entrusted with finding an assassin, though it was unclear if he had actually done so. Guliev’s wife, Lala, assisted in the activities, the Israeli authorities claimed.

Israeli security services say they have uncovered several Iranian spy networks in recent months. Tehran has not directly commented on the cases, including the claims on Thursday.

Civilian deaths in northern Israel as Hezbollah rockets get through
Mohamed Vall
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

It’s a high death toll among civilians today. The Israeli media are reporting there’s been six or seven people killed in rocket attacks in northern Israel, including foreign workers in the city of Metula and one woman in Haifa Bay.

The Israeli army has failed to intercept many rockets with the Iron Dome not working in these areas. About 30 projectiles were launched by Hezbollah today.

Meetings are ongoing in West Jerusalem between Prime Minister Netanyahu and two US envoys, Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk. Netanyahu told them the problem is not signing a ceasefire agreement – the problem is the implementation of the deal.

Netanyahu is basically asking for a mandate for Israel to be able to continue to strike Lebanon even after the sides have signed a truce.

Israeli cabinet set to approve wartime austerity budget

Israeli cabinet ministers are to start voting later today on a long-awaited wartime budget for 2025 that will rein in spending and raise a host of taxes to pay for the military conflicts that have engulfed the country.

Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon have cost the country billions of dollars on spending for defence – for military equipment, compensation for those impacted and manpower after hundreds of thousands of citizens were called for reserve duty.

Netanyahu: Israel can strike any location in Iran if necessary

Netanyahu, in a speech to new military officers, says Israel has unprecedented freedom of action after its recent air strikes against Iran.

“Israel today has more freedom of action in Iran than ever. We can reach any place in Iran as necessary,” Netanyahu said. “The supreme goal I gave to the Israeli [military] and the security branches is to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon.”

Iran warns of ‘unimaginable’ response to Israel attack

Iran promised a “harsh and regretful” response to the deadly Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities.

“The recent action of the Zionist regime in attacking parts of our country was a desperate move and the Islamic Republic of Iran will give it a harsh and regretful response,” Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, a senior aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.

He praised Iran’s air defence performance in “preventing the entry of the Zionist regime fighters into the territory” and said damage from the strikes was “minimal”.

Also on Thursday, General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, warned of an “unimaginable” response to Israel.

“Israel has reached the stage of collapse and these days it acts blindly and without abiding to any rules it commits every crime,” said Salami.

Suspicious ship Kathrin spotted unloading cargo in Egypt’s Alexandria

Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency has identified the location of the cargo ship MV Kathrin at an Egyptian port through high-resolution satellite images captured on Wednesday.

The images show the ship, accused of transporting arms and explosives to Israel, unloading its cargo at the military dock at Egypt’s Port of Alexandria. Several countries previously banned and refused to receive the ship.

The European Legal Support Center said legal action was filed in Germany on behalf of three Palestinians from Gaza, arguing the shipment of primarily RDX explosives could be used in munitions for Israel’s war on Gaza.

“International humanitarian law prohibits all states from transferring weapons to a party in an armed conflict where there is a clear risk that doing so could contribute to war crimes or other serious violations of international humanitarian law,” said Patrick Wilcken, a researcher on military and security issues at Amnesty International.

He confirmed this obligation also includes goods in transit or arriving at any seaport.

Gaza medic realises he’s carrying his own mother’s body

A Palestinian ambulance worker made a horrifying discovery when the bloody sheet was lifted: the corpse on the stretcher was his own mother, killed by an Israeli air strike in central Gaza.

“Oh God, I swear- she’s my mother. I didn’t know it was her,” Abed Bardini sobbed as he leaned over his mother, Samira, cradling her head in his arms. Fellow Red Crescent medics tried to console him, without success.

Bardini had unknowingly sat in the ambulance beside her body, wrapped in a white sheet stained dark with blood, as the vehicle bounced across broken roads for about 2km (1.2 miles) towards Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

Later, his tears exhausted, he sat in the morgue beside Samira’s body with his head in his hands, comforted by his Red Crescent colleagues. They held a funeral prayer over her body in the car park, and then Bardini helped carry the body into an ambulance for burial.

UK court rules in favour of student stripped of visa over October 7 comments

A UK court has ruled that the Home Office failed to demonstrate that a Palestinian law student’s presence was “not conducive to public good” over comments on the October 7 attacks on Israel.

Dana Abu Qamar, a 20-year-old dual Jordanian-Canadian citizen of Palestinian origin, had said: “For 16 years Gaza has been under blockade, and for the first time they are actively resisting, they are not on the defence, and this is truly a once in a lifetime experience.”

She had also said “we are full of pride”, prompting British authorities to revoke her student visa in December 2023.

Now, the tribunal has said the government decision was a “disproportionate interference with her protected right to free speech” under the European Convention on Human Rights, according to The Guardian.

MSF surgeon detained by Israel in north Gaza hospital raid

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its doctors working in a north Gaza hospital has been detained by Israeli forces.

Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopaedic surgeon working at Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza, was detained during an Israeli military raid on the site on October 26, MSF said.

“We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague,” it said. “We call for the safety and the protection of our colleague, and for all medical staff in Gaza who work under impossible conditions and are facing horrific violence as they try to provide care.”

French university cuts ties with Israeli institution over Gaza war

A French university has severed ties with an Israeli higher education institution, accusing it of having “warmongering” stances on the Gaza war, French media has reported, sparking criticism from Paris.

The move comes after students at several French universities have, like some of their peers in the United States, protested or held sit-ins demanding a ceasefire in Gaza over the past year.

The Institute of Political Studies [IEP] in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg cut ties with the Reichman University near Tel Aviv in June, local newspaper Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace reported on Wednesday.

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>Israeli cabinet ministers are to start voting later today on a long-awaited wartime budget for 2025 that will rein in spending and raise a host of taxes to pay for the military conflicts that have engulfed the country.
About a million have emigrated out of Israel already.

>Netanyahu: Israel can strike any location in Iran if necessary
>says Israel has unprecedented freedom of action after its recent air strikes against Iran.
“The supreme goal … is to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon.
This sounds like Israel lacks the ability to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

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>Medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its doctors working in a north Gaza hospital has been detained by Israeli forces.
Zionists kidnapping doctors

Air strikes in Syria kill at least 10 people, mostly civilians

At least 10 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in air strikes on Syria’s Qusayr region bordering Lebanon, where Israel said it hit a Hezbollah weapons depot.

“An Israeli aggression targeted the Qusayr area in the southern Homs countryside,” causing “material damage to the industrial city and some residential neighborhoods”, the official SANA news agency said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based war monitor, said three strikes targeted the town of Qusayr, where Hezbollah operates, and later reported further attacks on the area.

One strike targeted “a weapons depot and a fuel storage facility for Hezbollah in the industrial city of Qusayr”, killing seven civilians and three Syrian fighters working for the Lebanese group, SOHR said. At least 11 other people were wounded.

At least 95 people killed in Gaza since dawn

As we reported earlier, an Israeli attack struck two houses near the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The death toll from that attack has now risen from nine to 16.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli air raids killed at least 95 people since dawn today, the vast majority in the north of the Strip.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 43,204 Palestinians and wounded 101,641 since October 7, 2023 – the majority children and women. At least 10,000 bodies are believed buried under the vast debris in the battered territory.

Israel army killed 1,200 Palestinians in northern Gaza in one month

The Israeli army has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians in its siege of northern Gaza that started nearly four weeks ago, the director of its Health Ministry says.

“The Israeli army continues to commit massacres and target shelters and civilians in Beit Lahiya, resulting in casualties amidst a severely strained healthcare system,” said Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Health Ministry.

“The Israeli occupation is committing murder and destruction due to the absence of oversight or accountability to stop its crimes.”

Al-Bursh accused the Israeli army of “preventing the entry of medical supplies into northern Gaza and imposing a blockade on the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda, and Indonesian hospitals in the northern enclave”.

Israeli army ‘severely damaged’ UNRWA office in occupied West Bank

Israeli bulldozers “severely damaged” UNRWA’s office in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the UN agency’s chief Philippe Lazzarini says.

“The office can no longer be used. It was the hub to deliver basic services to more than 14,000 Palestine Refugees in the camp, including learning for children, health, sanitation & social protection,” Lazzarini said.

During its military incursion, the Israeli army also destroyed roads, water systems, and electricity networks in the camp, he added.

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Hezbollah ‘are the sons of these southern towns’

Mounir Shehadeh, a former Lebanese government coordinator for the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL, says Hezbollah is ready to implement UN Resolution 1701 for a ceasefire – provided that Israel does so.

“[But] Israel has no interest in implementing the resolution, and it has been violating it since it was signed in 2006,” Shehadeh said.

Another stumbling block to a ceasefire is many Hezbollah fighters come from the very villages Israel wants the group to vacate. Hezbollah fighters “are the sons of these southern towns”, noted Shehadeh.

“Someone who was born in these villages and grew up there – and his family is there and his interests are there – how can he be asked to leave his village and head to the north of the Litani [River]?”

Iraq attempts to avoid fight as semiautonomous militias fire at Israel

Iraq is trying to avoid being drawn into the growing regional conflict as Iran-backed armed groups launch attacks on Israel from Iraqi soil.

The issue has divided parties in Iraq’s ruling coalition, all of whom are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and view Israel as an enemy, though some differ over how involved Iraq should be in the regional confrontation.

Shia leaders discussed the risk of repercussions from attacks on Israel and possible Israeli retaliation during two meetings in October, said Ahmed Kenani, a lawmaker from the ruling alliance. Key players in the coalition view direct confrontation with Israel as counterproductive and potentially damaging to Iraq.

“Those groups who have the rockets and drones should go to Gaza and Lebanon to fight Israel rather than pushing Iraq towards destruction,” said Abul Ameer Thuaiban, an adviser to Iraq’s prime minister.

Egypt denies assisting Israel’s military after explosives reports

Egypt’s army denied it assisted Israel’s military after media reports said an Egyptian port received a shipment of high explosives bound for an Israeli defence contractor.

“The Egyptian Armed Forces categorically deny what has been circulated on social media and suspicious accounts and what is being promoted about assisting Israel in its military operations in general and in detail,” the army said in a statement.

Human rights lawyers on Wednesday filed a court appeal in Berlin seeking to block a 150-tonne shipment of military-grade explosives on board German cargo ship MV Kathrin, which they said was for Israel’s biggest defence contractor, Elbit Systems.

Earlier, Egypt’s state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV, citing a high-level source, said there was no truth to news reports that the MV Kathrin delivered military supplies for Israel to Alexandria Port.

VP Harris tries to assuage pro-Palestine demonstrators

Vice President Kamala Harris continues to face awkward public interactions over Israel’s war on Gaza.

At all three of the Democratic nominee’s rallies on Wednesday – in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – pro-Palestinian protesters broke in with chants, banners and even a whistle to criticise Harris for how she and President Joe Biden have handled the war.

When she faced protests at the end of her night in Wisconsin, Harris said: “We all want the war in Gaza to end and to get the hostages out, and I will do everything in my power to make it heard and known. And everyone has a right to be heard, but right now, I am speaking.”

Dearborn City Councilman Mustapha Hammoud said, “It’s nice her rhetoric has softened, but the time for that has passed.”

“Instead of peace, we’ve seen an increase in violence in the war. So, we can’t accept talk. We need actual outcomes,” said Hammoud.

In August, pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted Harris at an event by chanting, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We won’t vote for genocide.”

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Israeli air strikes reported in Beirut

Local media has reported air strikes in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh.

The reports of attacks follow shortly after Israel’s military warned residents in the suburb’s Haret Hreik and Ghobeiry neighbourhoods to immediately flee in advance of the strikes.

Israel’s military issued a map with the forced evacuation order in which two buildings were marked in red and residents staying nearby were told to flee no less than 500 metres (0.3 miles) from the “Hezbollah facilities and interests”, against which the military will “operate in the near future”.

We will bring you more on the reported attacks as information emerges.

At least 10 Israeli strikes have hit Beirut overnight

Israeli fighter jets have carried out at least 10 strikes in Beirut overnight, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reports, after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for several neighbourhoods in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs.

The Israeli raids hit Ghobeiry, al-Kafaat, the Sayyed Hadi highway, and nearby al-Mujtaba Complex, and the old airport road, NNA reported.

“The raids left massive destruction in the targeted areas, as dozens of buildings were levelled to the ground, in addition to the outbreak of fires,” NNA said.

Earlier, we reported the Israeli military issued two evacuation orders in quick succession, ordering residents to flee several neighbourhoods of the Dahiyeh suburb, warning that they would be attacked imminently.

‘Change of tone’ from Lebanon’s PM Mikati over possibility of ceasefire with Israel
Charles Stratford
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

In the attempts to try and forge some ceasefire in Lebanon, there has been very much a change of tone certainly coming from the Lebanese government.

The Lebanese interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati yesterday said that he was cautiously optimistic of some sort of ceasefire agreement or a draft, at least, being discussed, towards some sort of agreement.

Today, his language was very different.

He said that Israel’s forced evacuation of towns and cities in Lebanon was tantamount to war crimes. And he said the continuous Israeli threats do not inspire optimism.

Renewed attacks on Beirut signal Israeli rejection of ceasefire: Mikati

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati has criticised Israel’s “expansion” of its attacks on his country, saying it indicates the Israeli rejection of a ceasefire after more than a month of war.

“[Israel’s] repeated threats to the population to evacuate entire cities and villages, and its renewed targeting of the southern suburbs of Beirut with destructive raids, are all indicators that confirm the Israeli enemy’s rejection of all efforts being made to secure a ceasefire,” Mikati said in a statement.



Iraqi armed group claims drone attacks on ‘vital’ targets in Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose network of pro-Iran armed groups, said it launched four separate drone attacks on vital “targets” in southern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the north of the country on Friday morning.

Three drone attacks targeted southern Israel and one targeted a “vital target” in the Golan Heights, the groups said in posts on social media.

Israel’s media said earlier on Friday that fighter jets had intercepted two unmanned aerial vehicles over the Red Sea that had been launched from the east, without identifying what country or group had targeted Israel with the attack.

Israeli naval ships shell Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp

Our colleague at Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Israeli gunboats patrolling off the coast of Gaza have opened fire on the western part of the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the central area of the Palestinian enclave.

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

Mostly women, children among 47 killed in overnight attacks on Gaza: Report

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli shelling of central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, Nuseirat refugee camp and the az-Zawayda area also left dozens wounded from the Israeli attacks on Thursday night and into Friday morning.

Most of those killed were women and children, Wafa said, as medical sources confirmed that 47 bodies were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah following the Israeli attacks.

The majority of the victims were killed in the bombing of several houses in the Nuseirat area.

The same houses were hit a second time when people rushed to rescue those who survived the first strike, leading to more casualties among the rescuers, Wafa reports.

Search continues for people missing beneath the rubble, the news agency said.

Four Thai nationals confirmed killed near Israel-Lebanon border

Four Thai nationals were killed and one was injured by Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on northern Israel on Thursday, Thailand’s Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa has confirmed on X.

“I instructed our Embassy in Tel Aviv last night to extend every and all assistance to the injured and families of the deceased, and extend my profound condolences to them for their immense loss,” Maris said.

“Thailand continues to strongly urge all parties to return to the path of peace, in the name of the innocent civilians gravely impacted by this prolonged and deepening conflict,” he said.

The first of Hezbollah’s attacks on Thursday saw rockets strike farmland near the border town of Metula, killing an Israeli farmer and four Thai agricultural workers.

A second rocket attack near Kibbutz Afek near the city of Haifa killed two Israeli citizens.

Israeli army to remain in Gaza ‘for many years’: Smotrich

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that “Gaza must be reoccupied”.

“The Israeli army will remain in the Gaza Strip for many years to ensure security,” Smotrich said, in an interview with Israel’s Makor Rishon newspaper.

“The army will maintain operational security control in the long term in Gaza to achieve the objectives of the war and to prevent Hamas from recovering.

“In my estimation, a political settlement will be reached by the end of the year,” he added.

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>this Zionist sitting next to a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. bust
Yeah it's a miracle he didn't melt

Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s Baalbek-Hermel kill 52: Ministry

Israeli strikes in the Baalbek-Hermel region killed 52 people and wounded 72 on Friday, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.

The death toll included 12 people in Amhaz, nine in Younine and six in Harbata.

US announces new Middle East military deployments

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

The forces will begin to arrive in the coming months as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group prepares to depart, according to Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder.

Israeli strike shuts Lebanon-Syria border crossing

Lebanon’s transport minister is reporting that an Israeli air strike near a border crossing between Syria and Lebanon forced it to shut after it had partially reopened.

Ali Hamieh said the strike hit the same location within Syria, just past the Syrian border installation, as an Israeli bombardment last month closed the crossing.

UN positions in Lebanon risk being ‘occupied’

The UN peacekeeping chief said that the Blue Helmet force in Lebanon will hold its line despite facing attacks in recent weeks, adding that its positions would be “occupied” if it left.

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, under-secretary-general for peace operations, said that “UNIFIL peacekeepers are staying, they’re holding their line, and they’re determined to continue doing what they’re mandated to do”.

He said the force had rejected an Israeli request that it move 5 kilometres (3 miles) from the Blue Line.

“First of all, because there is a mandated … we are duty born to the mandate, the peacekeepers need to stay,” Lacroix said. “Second, because we thought that if those positions along the Blue Line are abandoned, then they would likely be occupied by one party or the other. That would be very bad for many reasons, including the perception of impartiality and neutrality of the United Nations.”

On Wednesday, a UNIFIL spokesman said the force had recorded more than 30 incidents in October resulting in property damage or injury to peacekeepers, about 20 of them from Israeli fire or action.

Israeli army blows up mosque in southern Lebanon’s Dhahira

Israeli platforms have published footage of the rigging and detonating of a mosque in the village of Dhahira, in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon.

The footage, verified by Al Jazeera, shows the moment the Israeli army blew up the mosque and surrounding houses.

Israeli air strikes pummelled the area around the southern port city of Tyre following an evacuation warning.

Israel arrests several for leak of classified documents on Gaza

Israeli police have arrested several suspects in relation to a leak of classified documents from the Prime Minister’s Office that contained sensitive information on the war in Gaza.

“Contrary to the publications, no one from the office was investigated or arrested,” it said.

Judge Menachem Mizrahi of the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court partially lifted a gag order regarding the incident, allowing local media to report on it.

Mizrahi additionally said an investigation into a suspected breach of national security caused by the leak of classified information was continuing.

Iran hints at possible missile expansion

Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, told local broadcaster al-Mayadeen that Tehran is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles.

Kharrazi also said that Iran’s nuclear doctrine could change if the country faced an existential threat.

Hamas says Israel ‘not serious’ in Gaza ceasefire negotiations

A senior Hamas official says Israel is not taking the Gaza ceasefire negotiations seriously.

Speaking to the Al-Aqsa TV channel, Osama Hamdan said Israel is not offering any genuine proposals and “is definitively not serious in the negotiations”.

“Any proposal presented to us that meets our people’s demands, ends their suffering and completely halts the Israeli aggression, not temporarily, we will proceed with it without hesitation,” Hamdan said.

He added that Israel has been unable to break the Palestinian resistance despite the yearlong war on the enclave.

Israel has killed more than 43,000 people in Gaza since October last year.

Efforts led by the US, Egypt and Qatar for a permanent ceasefire have so far failed, mainly due to Netanyahu’s refusal to halt the war.

Hamas has said it will not accept any proposal that does not include a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a total end to hostilities.

Turkey sends 1,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Lebanon

A Turkish ship carrying 1,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid has arrived at Beirut’s port, bringing vital supplies to Lebanon amid ongoing Israeli attacks.

The aid, organised by Turkish NGOs operating in Lebanon, included food supplies, medical equipment and essential goods aimed at assisting vulnerable citizens, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported.

This was the third shipment from Turkey to reach Lebanon. On October 9, two ships delivered 300 tonnes of humanitarian supplies.

Yemen’s Houthis promise unwavering support for Gaza, Lebanon

The Houthi group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree says a million-man march held in al-Sabeen Square, the largest square in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, has shown “complete popular and official readiness to continue supporting Gaza and Lebanon”.

He posted a video showing large crowds brandishing weapons and waving Palestinian and Hezbollah flags.

Saree added that the group was ready to respond to any “American-Zionist escalation”.

Israeli army says it killed senior Hamas official

Israeli army claims to have killed a senior Hamas official in an air strike in Khan Younis.

The army described Izz al-Din Kassab as one of the last high-ranking members of Hamas responsible for coordinating with other groups in Gaza.

There has been no comment from Hamas on the claims.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/1/live-israeli-attacks-kill-95-in-gaza-6-medics-among-45-killed-in-lebanon

Israel’s Mossad implicated in espionage scandal in Italy

Israeli foreign intelligence agency Mossad has reportedly been implicated in an espionage scandal targeting Italian prime minister and senior officials, Yedioth Ahronoth reported yesterday.

According to the paper, Mossad has been involved in deals with the Milan-based private investigation firm which is made up of current and former senior members of the security services and who have stolen personal information on politicians, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and public figures, to be used for extortion.

The paper said at least four people are under arrest and dozens more under investigation, adding that cyber security experts and hackers may have breached the servers of Italy’s Interior Ministry.

Italian media outlets described the case as a “conspiracy of the highest level that involves members of the mafia and officials in the intelligence services, along with foreign intelligence services including the Mossad.”

Meloni described the plot as “unacceptable” and a “threat to democracy.”

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto demanded an urgent parliamentary probe, concerned that state secrets may have been compromised, warning that the personal information that was exposed is the tip of the iceberg.

The newspaper said a former senior member of the police who heads Equalize, a private business intelligence firm, is the primary suspect in the investigation who is accused of breaching the servers of government ministries and the police between 2019-2024, to gather secrets and sensitive information which he sold or planned to sell to his clients.

According to a report by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Wednesday, investigators intercepted a visit to the investigation firm by two unidentified Israelis who were described as intelligence agents, who wanted to deal in information regarding Iranian gas that may be of interest to Italy’s government gas company, ENI.

The newspaper said the visit was coordinated by a senior member of the police who worked for Italian intelligence, Mossad’s counterpart.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241101-israels-mossad-implicated-in-espionage-scandal-in-italy/

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1852439963834503639
"Kamala Harris is running ads targeting Jewish voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan that touts how much she loves and is devoted to Israel.

She's targeting Muslims and Arabs with ads with the opposite message: she's horrified about suffering in Gaza."

Ftr I just got one of these after an Owen Jones video. They're not as targeted as she'd like to think.

https://twitter.com/Fio_edwards/status/1852705056547545491
London protest today

https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1852707085173321883
This seems odd!

Al Akhbar:

○ Washington and the US Embassy in Lebanon did not allow Iraqi Airways to land at Beirut airport and establish an air bridge to provide aid for the displaced, insisting that the aid must pass through Jordan for inspection first.

○ Washington also threatened to sanction Middle East Airlines (MEA) if it transported wounded patients from the Israeli pager attacks, on 16 and 17 September, on its flights to receive treatment abroad.

○ The US Embassy in Lebanon also reportedly receives a list of all passenger names traveling through Beirut airport from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Live from No Votes for Genocide Protest in NYC

>>485319
>Washington and the US Embassy in Lebanon did not allow Iraqi Airways to land at Beirut airport and establish an air bridge to provide aid for the displaced, insisting that the aid must pass through Jordan for inspection first.
None of these are enforceable, it's too easy to put in a extra hop and change the transponder.

>Washington also threatened to sanction Middle East Airlines (MEA) if it transported wounded patients from the Israeli pager attacks, on 16 and 17 September, on its flights to receive treatment abroad.
So that means it wasn't just the Israeli who were behind the beeper terrorism

Polio vaccination centre targeted with sound bombs in Gaza City
Hind Khoudary
Reporting from Deir Al Balah, Gaza

We just learned that one of the polio vaccination clinics was targeted in Gaza City with a sound bomb from an Israeli quadcopter.

We know that when the Israelis fire sound bombs or even live ammunition or bullets – there are a lot of fragments that fall after these attack. At least three children were injured in this attack.

The polio campaign restarted despite challenges faced by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Palestinian Ministry of Health. They were denied access, previously unable to cross from the southern Gaza Strip to Gaza City.

But elsewhere in Gaza’s north, thousands of children will not get the polio vaccine because they are unreachable. Israeli forces are not letting UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health reach those areas.

There is a siege there. We’re talking about more than three weeks now of no food, no water, no medicine, no aid.

Four children wounded in attack on Gaza polio vaccination centre

The WHO said six people, including four children, were wounded in an Israeli attack on a polio vaccination centre.

“The Sheikh Radwan primary health care centre in northern Gaza was struck today while parents were bringing their children to the life-saving polio vaccination in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X.

“Six people, including four children, were injured,” he added.

https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1852773716272328933

People ‘fighting over’ food in central Gaza amid intense Israeli attacks: UN

Louise Wateridge, senior emergency officer for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), told Al Jazeera from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza of the hardships now faced by civilians in the war-battered territory.

“There is no food available here. It is very, very difficult for families on the ground,” Wateridge said.

“The situation has become so dire here that, once again, we are seeing a situation where people are fighting over bags of flour. They are fighting over any remaining cans of food, and anything in the area because it is that low in stock,” Wateridge added.

“It’s been an extremely violent day. It’s really intensified, the military operations in the middle area [of Gaza] where I am today,” she said.

Sirens sound near Tel Aviv, several injured as missiles strike two Israeli cities: Reports

Several rocket attacks have been detected in central Israel over the past hour, according to Israeli authorities and media reports.

The Israeli Home Front Command has said sirens are sounding in several areas north of Tel Aviv. The Israeli military has also said it has detected three rockets launched from Lebanon towards the central Israeli city and intercepted “some of them”.

Rockets have reportedly struck the cities of Tira and Hasharon, both northeast of Tel Aviv, causing damage to buildings.

It’s not yet clear if there are any casualties. Initial reports suggest at least seven people have been injured in Tira, according to news outlet Israeli Army Radio.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Number of people injured in Tira rocket attack rises

At least 11 people are now confirmed injured after a rocket struck an apartment building in the city of Tira in central Israel, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reports.

Earlier, we reported several rocket attacks had been detected in central Israel, with the Israeli military saying sirens were sounded north of Tel Aviv after three rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the area.

A rocket also struck the city of Hasharon, northeast of Tel Aviv. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far in that attack.

We will bring you further updates when we have them.

Hezbollah claims drone incursion into northern Israel

The armed group has published a photo on social media said to show its drone flying over the Israeli city of Acre, located some 26km (16 miles) north of the key port city of Haifa.

Local Israeli media and monitors groups had been tracking an “enemy aircraft” for about 40 minutes in Israeli airspace after crossing from southern Lebanon earlier today.

The Israeli military said air attack alerts have been activated in the north and that its monitoring of a “suspicious aerial target” from Lebanon was continuing.

Hezbollah says it launched rockets at intelligence base near Tel Aviv

The Lebanese armed group says it has launched rockets at an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv.

At 2:30am (00:30 GMT), Hezbollah fighters “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of the 8200 military intelligence unit in the suburbs of Tel Aviv”, it said in a statement on Telegram.

Hezbollah claims to have hit Israeli military bases near Tel Aviv and Haifa

The Lebanese armed group says it hit Israel’s Palmachim Airbase in southern Tel Aviv with a squadron of attack drones.

The group said the base includes a military research centre and a radar for the Arrow weapons system.

Hezbollah also said it hit the Zevulon military industries base north of Haifa with a missile salvo, as well as the area of Krayot north of Haifa with another salvo of rockets.

There was no immediate comment from Israel on the attacks.

Lebanese citizen kidnapped from Batroun area: Security sources

A security group kidnapped a Lebanese citizen from the Batroun area in the north of the country at dawn today, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.

A Lebanese security source told AJA that an Israeli commando force, who infiltrated Lebanon by sea, could be behind the kidnapping.

Footage on social media showed scenes from the incident. (https://x.com/Almahatta0/status/1852655828932653267)

Lebanese journalist Hassan Illaik said in a post on X that a large group of Israeli troops made a landing in the resort town and captured the man, before departing on speed boats.

He shared CCTV footage appearing to show soldiers walking in a street, two of them holding a person.

Lebanese Transport Minister Ali Hamiye, who represents Hezbollah in Lebanon’s government, said the video was accurate, but did not give further details.

There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities.

Iraqi groups claim to have carried out drone attacks on Israel’s Eilat

A coalition of groups in Iraq says its fighters have carried out four drone attacks on the southern Israeli resort of Eilat, after Israel said it intercepted three drones approaching from the east.

In a statement, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it was behind the attacks on what it called “four vital targets” in the resort on Israel’s Red Sea coast, all conducted within one hour.

UN special rapporteur says sanctions must be imposed on Israel

Francesca Albanese says there is nothing that prevents a UN member state from abiding by international law, and states individually have an obligation not to aid or assist a state “which is committing atrocities day in and day out”.

“They have to stop those who are still transferring weapons [to Israel]… and also buying or purchasing military and security services from Israel must stop,” she told Al Jazeera.

Albanese said any trade with Israel must be “interrupted”, adding that diplomatic and political sanctions must also be applied.

“Whoever is not taking these steps is either responsible or completely indifferent to the plight of millions of Palestinians,” she noted.

‘Complete hijacking of rules, mechanisms by a group of states’

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory has questioned the so-called international rules-based order amid the ongoing war on Gaza.

“I am very allergic to the international rules-based order. There is no order any more,” Albanese said.

“There are rules, there are mechanisms and there is just chaos. There is a complete hijacking of the rules and the mechanisms by a group of states who expect… to rule the world according to their own rules. And this is chaos, and this is not respectful of multilateralism.”

Japan examining recognition of Palestinian state: Report

Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reports that Japan’s ambassador to the State of Palestine, Yoichi Nakashima, has said that Tokyo is studying the possibility.

Nakashima said in an interview with Palestine TV: “The international community is convinced that there is no solution except for the existence of two states, Palestine and Israel,” Wafa reports.

As one of the largest donors to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Nakashima said Japan is making every effort, along with partner countries, to support the work of the UN agency and its relief operations for the Palestinian people, Wafa reports.

“The scenes of killing and destruction in Palestine touch the hearts of the Japanese because they have suffered from wars in the past,” the ambassador also said.

Lebanon to file complaint to UN over Israeli naval raid abduction

Earlier we reported that a Lebanese citizen was kidnapped from the Batroun area in the north of Lebanon at dawn today.

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has instructed the foreign ministry to submit a complaint to the Security Council over the raid, his office said.

The statement said Mikati contacted Army Commander General Joseph Aoun to be briefed on the ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the case.

The caretaker PM also reached out to the command of the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL), which confirmed that it is conducting the necessary investigations and coordinating with the army on this matter, the statement added.

Mikati emphasised the need to “expedite the investigations to clarify the circumstances of this case and to set matters right”.

The Balfour Declaration was issued 107 years ago today

Here is what you need to know about the declaration that helped turn the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality.

It was a public pledge by the UK declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
The statement came in the form of a letter from the UK’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a figurehead of the British Jewish community.
It was made during World War I and was included in the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
The system transferred rule from the territories previously controlled by the powers defeated in the war – Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria – to the victors, who would administer the newly emerging states until they could become independent.
In the case of Palestine – unlike the rest of the post-war mandates – the main goal of the British Mandate was to create the conditions for the establishment of a Jewish “national home” where Jews constituted less than 10 percent of the population at the time.

You can read more about the topic here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/11/2/more-than-a-century-on-the-balfour-declaration-explained

No members of Israeli army held accountable for killing of journalists

The UN is marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

Its focus has been Israel’s war on Gaza. The UN says the conflict has seen the “highest number of killings of journalists in any war in decades”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says:

Since the war began, 126 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces. That’s the highest number in a year since tracking started in 1992.
Israel has arrested at least 66 Palestinian journalists since October last year.
Almost 4,000 international journalists are accredited by Israel to cover the conflict but only one has been granted entry into Gaza.
No members of the Israeli army have been held accountable for the killing or targeting of journalists.

Israeli army says Hezbollah commander killed in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army claims Jafar Khacher Faor was a unit commander of Hezbollah’s Nasser Brigade rocket unit in the Jouaiya area.

It added that Faor was responsible for several attacks on Israel.

Hezbollah has yet to comment on the incident.

Finland says Israel must comply with ICJ orders

Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says the “entire population” of northern Gaza is “in immediate danger of death”.

“We demand that Israel comply with the interim orders of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),” she posted on X. “Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups must release the hostages immediately and unconditionally.”

In January, the ICJ ruled that Israel must do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza and ensure UN-mandated investigators have “unimpeded access” to the enclave.

South Africa has since returned several times to the ICJ, arguing that Gaza’s desperate humanitarian situation demands new emergency measures.

In late May, the ICJ ordered Israel to immediately halt its offensive in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, a ruling Israel also ignored.

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Israeli soldier killed in grenade explosion in north Gaza

The Israeli military said the soldier was killed overnight on Saturday in the north of the Gaza Strip.

It said it is looking into the circumstances of the incident.

Some 780 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 2023, according to figures published by the Israeli military.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/3/live-israel-attacks-gaza-polio-centre-syria-lebanon-border-crossing

>>485312
So is that an indication that the Mossad's ability to cloak their agents is in decline ?

>>485326
>The WHO said six people, including four children, were wounded in an Israeli attack on a polio vaccination center.
This is basically like attacking children at the doctors office, Israeli society must have has degenerated to an astonishing degree.

>Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says the “entire population” of northern Gaza is “in immediate danger of death”.
>“We demand that Israel comply with the interim orders of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),” she posted on X. “Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups must release the hostages immediately and unconditionally.”
>In January, the ICJ ruled that Israel must do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza and ensure UN-mandated investigators have “unimpeded access” to the enclave.
This is useful in the sense that none of the fascist perpetrators and their collaborators can pretend they didn't know their actions were causing so much death and destruction. But in terms of preventing the atrocity from happening it's having a very limited effect.
It's still progress compared to the holocaust. In that time the fascists of the nazi-type were able to pretend that what they were doing was an orderly exercise of state-craft. The fascists of the Zionist-type are not able to maintain such a pretense.

>>485326
Damorants' interpretation is perhaps to bleak, they might just be stockpiling oil as a hedge, it doesn't mean they anticipate a war where Iran closes down the straight of Hormuz.
We are at
<cause for concern
not
<it's about to go down

>>485337
>So is that an indication that the Mossad's ability to cloak their agents is in decline ?
Maybe!

>This is useful in the sense that none of the fascist perpetrators and their collaborators can pretend they didn't know their actions were causing so much death and destruction. But in terms of preventing the atrocity from happening it's having a very limited effect.
It's very disturbing, yeah.

https://aje.io/jchmwe?update=3293605
Israel: OoOoOoOooOoh!!! Evil Hezbollah killed our Thai indentured servants, look how evil!
Thailand: Stop sending our workers into a warzone you racist fucks. Don't you have labor laws?

>>485342
>The Mossad network continues to crumble in Europe
So there is hope that Zionist lobby influence might decline too as a result of this ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

UNRWA building in southern Lebanon hit by Israeli strike

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israel says Syrian citizen connected to Iran seized

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli intelligence estimates that 51 captives are still alive: Report

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bangladeshi worker killed in air attack in Lebanon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turkey delivers UN letter demanding halt to Israeli arms sales

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/3/live-israel-attacks-gaza-polio-centre-syria-lebanon-border-crossing

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

I'm convinced this is why fascists loose so often. It takes effort and time to do this kind of fucked up shit, and that isn't time and effort spend on winning.

Israeli air raid targeted civilian sites near Damascus: Report

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

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

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

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

Smoke rising after bombing of the Syrian capital Damascus

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

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

We will bring you more news as we get it.

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

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

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

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

Qassam Brigades claim attack on Israeli forces in Jabalia

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

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

Hezbollah targets Israeli settlement in occupied Golan Heights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israel cancels agreement with UNRWA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do Palestinians in Gaza view the US election?

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

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

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

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

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

Outrage after UK police arrest retired Jewish professor

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli air raids damage Baalbek’s historic and governmental sites

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

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

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

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

UN still waiting to see Israel’s evidence against UNRWA

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

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

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

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

Carrefour closes Jordan branches amidst celebrations by Israel boycott movement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/4/live-israeli-forces-attack-health-centres-in-gaza-and-lebanon

>>485355
>Outrage after UK police arrest retired Jewish professor
>Bersheeth is a child of Holocaust survivors
>Bersheeth was arrested on November 1 on “spurious charges of terrorism” but was released later that night.
At least they didn't do the gas-chambers
Does that intimidation routine actually work ?
Isn't this causing more anger rather then fear ?

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

what a sad sick world

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

That guy fucking died.
https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1853569271063773555

Malaysia working on resolution to expel Israel from UN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims three drone attacks on Haifa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>>485365
>That guy fucking died.
>>485379
>pic
Damn that's rough.
23 years old, died for a PR stunt, because the fucking desert nazis couldn't arsed to unblock the food delivery trucks.

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

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

The US is now threatening Ireland not to do anything about the genocide.

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

On the one hand this is appalling interference. But it has to be said this looks pretty desperate if they have to micromanage regional political bodies to maintain Isreal's slaughter privileges.

Israel kills 54 people in Gaza since dawn

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

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

Hezbollah bombs Meron base in northern Israel

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

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

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

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

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

More on Israeli attack on Syria

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

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

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

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

Israel hits residential building south of Beirut: Report

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

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

We will keep you updated.

Ireland approves Palestinian ambassador for first time

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

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

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

Netanyahu fires Israeli defence minister

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

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

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

Israel Katz replaces Gallant as defence minister

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

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

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

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

Protests in Israeli against Gallant’s dismissal

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

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

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

Video circulates of Israeli army pouring cement into Lebanon tunnel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pro-Palestine activists storm French Football Federation HQ in Paris

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

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

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

The match is scheduled for November 14.

French politicians, activists slam bill to outlaw criticism of Israel

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

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

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

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

Israeli army withdraws several brigades from southern Lebanon: Report

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

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

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

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

European companies step back from Israel-linked finance

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

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

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

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

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

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