/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Betar terror attack in Canada:
A pro-Israel woman wearing a Jewish Defence League sweater was arrested in Toronto, Canada after attempting to launch a chemical attack on pro-Palestine protesters using a bottle of reagent-grade ammonium hydroxide, a highly concentrated, toxic laboratory chemical capable of causing severe burns and lung damage.

Footage shows her shaking the bottle, opening the cap, and threatening the crowd before police stepped in.

She was heard shouting excuses about owning a janitorial company, as officers replied, “You weren’t engaged in cleaning when you opened it.”

Fire crews later confirmed the chemical was lab-grade ammonium hydroxide.

Police issued a statement saying a “female was arrested on scene for assault with a weapon and uttering threats.”

Critics say the incident reflects the growing extremism among pro-Israel groups, who have increasingly turned to intimidation and violence against demonstrators supporting Palestine, and calling out Israel's genocide.
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1985259049362076049

>>492090
Grayzone just did a documentary on these thugs. Their founder acts like he's straight out of a Scorsese movie.

Heavy Israeli shelling in Khan Younis as drones circle Gaza’s skies
By Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Gaza City

We are still witnessing a surge of Israeli army activity across Gaza but mostly this has taken place beyond the yellow line in areas under Israeli control.

Since midnight into this morning, we have seen massive Israeli activity conducted in the eastern parts of Khan Younis.

We have eyewitness reports describing constant artillery shelling and a campaign taking place on what’s left of homes in Khan Younis. Farms and houses are being destroyed in eastern parts of Gaza City.

We have also been hearing drones and fighter jets since early morning. These activities are banned by the terms of the ceasefire agreement, but the Israeli military says such activities are to eliminate potential threats that can encircle Israeli troops beyond the yellow line.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/4/live-joy-in-gaza-as-palestinians-freed-by-israel-reunite-with-families

Police fire pepper spray, arrest demonstrators at Sydney defence expo protest
Police in Sydney have fired pepper spray and arrested 13 people as pro-Palestinian protesters tried to blockade a defence expo over the presence of Israeli weapons companies, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is reporting.

Dozens of protesters from the Palestine Action Group gathered outside the International Convention Centre to protest against the presence of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the Australian subsidiary of Elbit Systems at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.

ABC reported riot police and mounted officers clashed with protesters and fired pepper spray.

Palestine Action Group organiser Josh Lees said the protesters were “trying to say that this kind of abomination should not be held in our city”.

Israeli weapons contractors have been the target of protests at other defence exhibitions around the world. In September, representatives of Elbit Systems and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems at an exhibition in Kielce were reportedly called in by Polish police for questioning after a journalist filed a complaint about their involvement in the war on Gaza.

https://aje.io/kcstwh?update=4082047

MintPress:
Israeli media is already hinting that Tel Aviv may “separate the Yemen front from Gaza” — and continue attacking Yemen even after the Gaza ceasefire.

Today, Yemen answered back.

Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said Yemen is “inevitably heading toward a new round” — and warned that “a full-scale confrontation” with Israel will return if occupation and siege continue.

Yemen was the first Arab nation to open a front against Israel when the genocide began — shutting down Israeli shipping, hitting military targets, and crippling Israel's largest shipping port, the Port of Eilat, for two years.

Despite intense U.S. Navy strikes and Israeli bombardments, Yemen’s resistance survived, adapted, and expanded its capability.

Ansarallah's message is clear: If Israel tries to resume the Yemen front, Yemen is ready.

Bodies of captives found in Gaza rubble raise questions over Israeli attacks
By Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Gaza City

The search continues across Gaza, in areas that have been heavily bombarded by the Israeli military over the past months.

It is not a surprise that the bodies of Israeli captives were found in these areas that have been relentlessly targeted by Israeli strikes.

This raises serious questions about the actions of the Israeli military, as it continued to bomb locations where it had intelligence on the ground, only for the bodies to later be recovered from beneath rubble and collapsed buildings.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/5/live-israeli-air-attacks-shelling-demolition-campaign-hit-southern-gaza

Israeli forces enter southern Syria’s Quneitra countryside
The Israeli army has entered the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria.

According to Syria’s state news agency SANA, Israeli troops, backed by two tanks and four military vehicles, advanced into the town of Jubata al-Khashab and set up a checkpoint on the road to Ain al-Bayda in northern Quneitra.

Syria has repeatedly condemned Israel’s incursions and said it remains committed to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement, which established a buffer zone between the two sides.

Syria says Israel has conducted more than 1,000 air strikes and 400 cross-border raids since December 2024.

Since the fall of the Assad government late last year, Israel expanded its occupation of the Golan Heights into the demilitarised zone.

New confrontations between Houthis and Israel ‘inevitable’: Houthi leader
Further confrontations between Houthis and Israel are “inevitable”, the leader of the Yemeni group says.

Speaking on Tuesday, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said the Houthis were preparing for “the next stage of resistance”.

“We recognise the importance of continuing to build upon our preparations for the next round of confrontation with the enemy and those who collaborate with it,” he said, adding that peace and security were not possible “as long as the Israeli enemy continues occupying Palestine”.

The Houthi leader also accused Israel of violating the Gaza ceasefire and blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave.

In recent months, Israeli strikes have killed some of the most senior Houthi military officials, including Chief of Staff Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari, and other leading figures, such as the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-run government.

Lebanon says Israeli attack on car killed one person
The Israeli strike on southern Lebanon that we reported on a while ago has killed one person and wounded another.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said in a statement that an “Israeli enemy strike” on a vehicle in Burj Rahal in the country’s south killed one person and wounded another.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike landed on a road and near a school, causing “panic and terror” among the students.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the incident but had earlier warned it would intensify its attacks on Hezbollah.

Arrested Israeli ex-army lawyer to be detained for at least two more days
Former top Israeli army lawyer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi will be held in custody until at least Friday, a court has ruled, following her arrest over a leaked video that appeared to show soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee.

The ruling from Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court came as Tomer-Yerushalmi appeared at the remand hearing via an online link, according to the Israeli media.

The major general resigned last week after acknowledging that her office was behind last year’s release of the video of alleged abuse at Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. Five Israeli reservists have been charged over the incident.

Netanyahu described the leak as arguably the country’s most “severe public relations attack”.

Israeli forces demolish farms, kill thousands of chickens in West Bank raids
Israeli forces have demolished two Palestinian agricultural sites in the occupied West Bank, destroying a poultry farm and killing thousands of chickens, according to local officials quoted by the Wafa news agency.

In the village of Umm al-Rihan, west of Jenin, Israeli soldiers stormed a poultry farm, electrocuting 7,000 laying hens and demolishing their 1,000sq-metre (10,765sq-ft) structure.

The farm owner estimated his losses at more than 500,000 shekels ($130,000). The head of the village council said military vehicles and a bulldozer carried out the raid behind the separation wall near Ya’bad.

In Wadi Fukin, west of Bethlehem, soldiers demolished an agricultural room belonging to a local farmer, claiming it lacked a building permit.

The incidents follow footage released earlier this week showing Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian hamlet in the South Hebron Hills and slaughtering sheep belonging to Palestinian residents.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/5/live-israeli-air-attacks-shelling-demolition-campaign-hit-southern-gaza

Paramount Reportedly Has Blacklist Of Hollywood Stars

As many shifts continue within Paramount, the studio reportedly has a list of stars that it has blacklisted. Under David Ellison's leadership, numerous changes have already taken effect at Paramount Skydance, including mass layoffs, and there are talks of a potential merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

According to a report from Variety, another change is that Paramount now has a list of actors they will not work with because these individuals have been determined to be "overly antisemetic", "xenophobic", or "homophobic."

In September, Paramount was the first major studio to speak out against an open letter calling for the boycott of Israeli film institutions “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

Emma Stone, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Tilda Swinton, Emma D'Arcy, and Elliot Page were among some of the notable stars to sign the letter. It is unconfirmed whether any of these signatories are among those on Paramount's blacklist.

Part of the reason that Israel is such an important issue to Paramount is that Ellison's father and Oracle co-founder, Larry Ellison, is reportedly a close friend to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Larry Ellison is also a major donor to Friends of the IDF.

The changing political climate at Paramount can also be attributed to Larry Ellison's close relationship with President Donald Trump. The Trump administration greenlit the Paramount and Skydance merger, and Trump has spoken about how Larry and David Ellison are supporters of him.

https://screenrant.com/paramount-hollywood-stars-blacklist/

Watch: Breaking news and analysis on day 762 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada

AJ: Here’s what happened today
We will soon be closing this live page. Here’s a look at the day’s top developments:

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has denounced a wave of Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon as a “heinous political crime” as at least one person was killed and nine others injured in the attacks.
The UN says Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect last month, as Palestinians across the enclave continue to suffer from a lack of food, shelter and other supplies.
More than 10,000 Palestinians remain buried under the rubble in Gaza, according to the National Committee for Missing Persons in Gaza, which described the territory as “the world’s largest mass grave”.
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The UN Security Council has voted to remove sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet US President Trump at the White House next week.

Kazakhstan confirms it will join US-brokered Abraham Accords
The Central Asian country’s government has released a short statement, saying that its “anticipated accession to the Abraham Accords represents a natural and logical continuation of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy course”.

That policy is “grounded in dialogue, mutual respect, and regional stability”, the statement said.

As we’ve been reporting, the Trump administration has been pushing to get more countries to agree to join the Abraham Accords – a series of deals that saw Arab and Muslim-majority states agree to normalise relations with Israel.

Kazakhstan has had diplomatic ties with Israel for decades.

Six people arrested at Maccabi Tel Aviv-Aston Villa football match
Police in the UK say six people have been arrested at the match between Aston Villa and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv in Birmingham tonight.

West Midlands Police said three of those were arrested for “racially aggravated public offences” and another was detained for breach of the peace.

Police had deployed hundreds of officers ahead of the UEFA Europa League match three weeks after Aston Villa barred travelling Israeli club supporters from attending due to threats of violence.

About 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators waved flags outside the stadium while about 40 people also turned up for a smaller pro-Israel counterprotest.

A campaign to ban Israeli teams from European and global football has gained momentum amid the country’s war on Gaza, with rights advocates stressing that more than 400 Palestinian footballers have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past two years.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/6/live-israel-kills-more-palestinians-in-gaza-as-us-peace-plan-given-to-un

https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1986587493052129470
A BBC editor, Raffi Berg, is suing Owen Jones for causing him "fear, anxiety, humiliation, upset and distress”.

Hard to imagine Berg has suffered as much fear, anxiety and distress as the people of Gaza, who have endured a two-year genocide by Israel that 13 of Berg's colleagues accuse him of downplaying.

Berg appears to be upset that Jones reported these BBC whistleblowers as saying he played “a key role in a wider BBC culture of systematic Israeli propaganda".

Maybe Berg intends to argue in court that they are all lying.

The BBC editor, who is supposed to be "impartial" on matters relating to Israel-Palestine, proudly displays on a wall at home a framed letter from Benjamin Netanyahu and a photo of himself with the UK's former Israeli ambassador.

When Jones' story broke, Berg's first reaction was to seek legal advice from the former director of UK Lawyers for Israel. Go figure!

Given the BBC's utterly craven coverage of Israel during the genocide, I can't wait to see how he makes his case.

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of southern Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah.

Israel’s security cabinet convened today to assess the escalating situation in Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 12 reports. The outlet earlier said that Israeli officials are preparing for a potential new confrontation with Hezbollah, aimed at weakening the group and pushing both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government toward what they describe as a “stable agreement” with Israel.

Lebanon’s Army, L’Orient Today reports, submitted its second monthly report today to the Cabinet outlining operations carried out south of the Litani River to locate and dismantle Hezbollah weapons depots and other military infrastructure in the border area.

📸 Israeli airstrike hits an iron workshop and a sawmill between the towns of Tura and Al-Abbasiyeh in south Lebanon.

Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for various towns in southern Lebanon before striking them, including Taybeh in south Lebanon.

Teir Debba, roughly 10 miles north of the Israeli border and a short distance from the Mediterranean coast, was also hit with a massive wave of bombardment.

Aita al-Jabal (عيْتا الجبل), a southern Lebanese village in the Bint Jbeil District, part of the Nabatieh Governorate has also been struck.

It lies right along the Israeli border, only about 1–2 kilometers north of it, making it one of the closest Lebanese towns to Israeli positions. It’s been a major flashpoint in past conflicts, including heavy fighting during the 2006 war and repeated Israeli shelling since the 2024 escalation.

Israel has also bombed Zawtar al-Sharqiyah (زوطَر الشرقية), a town in Nabatieh District, southern Lebanon — about 65 km south of Beirut and roughly 25–30 kilometers north of the Israeli border.

It is well inland compared to front-line towns like Aita al-Jabal or Marwahin. The area sits east of the Litani River and a few kilometers southeast of the city of Nabatieh.

Al Jazeera’s Zeinakhodr Aljaz reports Israeli warplanes struck several towns across southern Lebanon, including areas near Tyre, in one of the sharpest escalations since the November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah. The attacks, she notes, came just hours after Hezbollah released an open letter rejecting any negotiations with Israel and vowing not to disarm. Khodr said the timing is being widely viewed as a direct message from Israel to Hezbollah. She reports residents in southern villages have begun evacuating as tensions reach their highest point in months.

Before the Cabinet convened on Thursday at the Presidential Palace to discuss restoring the state’s exclusive control over arms and disarming non-state actors, Hezbollah sent an open letter morning to President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. The group reaffirmed its rejection of disarmament and ruled out any “political negotiations” with Israel. The statement followed recent remarks by President Aoun that Lebanon “has no choice but to negotiate with Israel,” as U.S. and Israeli pressure for direct talks continues to intensify.

An Israeli warplane has just struck the town of Aytaroun, near Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon — without any prior warning, according to Drop Site sources. The village lies less than two kilometers from the Israeli border and has been repeatedly targeted since the 2024 war. The drone strike appears to have hit an excavator, according to images circulating on social media.

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Israeli officials told the public broadcaster Kan that the latest strikes in Lebanon were conducted “in coordination with the Americans,” noting that U.S. personnel have been stationed at Israel’s Northern Command since the November 2024 ceasefire. The officials said “the United States also recognizes that Hezbollah must be disarmed, in line with the Lebanese government’s own decision.” They added that Israel believes the Lebanese Army is not applying this policy consistently across the country and that progress has been “slower than expected” because of Lebanon’s political turmoil and the presence of Shiite soldiers within some army units.

🟡 Hezbollah, in a formal letter to Lebanon’s president, parliament speaker, and prime minister, reaffirmed its refusal to negotiate with Israel, asserting its “legitimate right to defend itself against Israeli violations”–that is, the right to bear arms.

The letter referenced the November 27, 2024 ceasefire agreement, emphasizing Hezbollah’s full adherence to it while condemning Israel’s continued breaches by land, sea, and air. It rejected attempts to impose new conditions or compel political talks–especially demands for disarmament–saying such issues are matters of Lebanese sovereignty, not the ceasefire’s terms.

Hezbollah urged the government to focus on forcing Israel to implement the existing accord, halt its aggression, and respect Lebanon’s sovereignty.

⭕️ Update: Lebanese President General Joseph Aoun condemned Israel’s latest assault on southern Lebanon as a “full-fledged crime”:

“What Israel committed today in South Lebanon constitutes a full-fledged crime – not only under international humanitarian law, which prohibits the targeting of civilians and forced displacement, but also a blatant political crime.”

He stressed that every time Lebanon signals openness to peaceful negotiation, “Israel responds with intensified aggression, violating sovereignty and defying UN Security Council Resolution 1701.”

Aoun added that the occupation has continued breaching its commitments under the ceasefire, maintaining “a policy of provocation and escalation.” Nearly a year after the truce took effect, he said, Israel’s actions show it “has no interest in a negotiated settlement… your message has been received.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned three alleged Hezbollah operatives, accused of channeling tens of millions of dollars from Iran through Lebanese money-exchange networks, part of a scheme that they claim funneled over $1 billion from Iran’s Quds Force since January 2025.

The US department claimed Hezbollah is exploiting Lebanon’s cash-based economy to secretly move Iranian money and disguise its source. According to Washington, those funds are then used to buy weapons, rebuild Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, and block the Lebanese government from asserting full control over the south.

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⭕️ Hours after the announcement, Israel launched airstrikes on five villages in southern Lebanon.

Israel Threatens Wider Strikes, Including on Beirut - Channel 12

An Israeli military official threatened that if Hezbollah is not disarmed, Israel — “with U.S. backing” — will launch broad attacks across Lebanon, “including in Beirut.” The official told Channel 12 that today’s strikes were “just a preview” of what could follow if the Lebanese Army fails to enforce the ceasefire’s disarmament terms.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1986489347755942267

🚨🇱🇧 Lebanese Army Chief Proposes Halt Hezbollah Disarmament Plan

Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal has reportedly proposed suspending the army’s plan to disarm Hezbollah south of the Litani River, citing ongoing Israeli attacks, Al Mayadeen and Al Jadeed report. The recommendation came during a follow-up cabinet meeting Thursday, reflecting mounting pressure as Israeli strikes intensify across the south. It comes less than three months after the Lebanese government endorsed the framework outlined in U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s proposal, which included the eventual disarmament of armed groups under state authority.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1986528881336328408

Israeli ex-military prosecutor put under house arrest over leaked video
An Israeli court has released army attorney general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi and ordered her placed under house arrest for 10 days, a news report says.

Tomer-Yerushalmi was arrested on Monday over her role in leaking a video showing Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian detainee.

Under the court’s ruling, she is allowed to leave her home only with prior notification to the investigation unit and solely to meet her attorney. She is also barred from contacting others involved in the case for 55 days, public broadcaster Kan reported.

The investigation centres on how the video, filmed inside the notorious Sde Teiman prison, was leaked from within her military unit. The footage that surfaced in July 2024 shows the Palestinian being beaten.

https://aje.io/ns9p5r?update=4091356

Talks ongoing to get dozens of Hamas fighters out of south Gaza
Negotiations are under way to allow about 150 Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels in southern Gaza behind Israel’s “yellow line” to hand over their weapons and walk free.

Securing safe passage for the Hamas soldiers in Israeli-controlled territory is a serious issue seen as a risk to the month-old Gaza truce, news reports quoted unnamed sources as saying.

Egyptian mediators have proposed that, in exchange for safe passage, fighters still in Rafah surrender their arms to Egypt and give details of tunnels there so they can be destroyed, an Egyptian security official told the Reuters news agency.

Israel and Hamas have yet to publicly accept mediators’ proposals. Far-right ministers in Israel’s government – including hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – are vehemently opposing any deal, the Financial Times reports.

Israeli attacks in Rafah spiralled into some of the worst violence since the ceasefire took hold on October 10, with three Israeli soldiers killed, prompting further Israeli attacks that killed nearly 150 Palestinians.

UN calls on Israel to ‘halt mass demolition orders’ in Palestinian village
The UN Human Rights Office in the Palestinian territory has urged Israel not to follow through on demolition orders it issued for “11 homes and vital community infrastructure” in the village of Umm al-Khair.

In a statement, the UN office said the mass demolition orders in Hebron governorate are “emblematic of an ever-escalating wave of Israeli steps to consolidate annexation of the West Bank”.

Israeli authorities have long subjected village residents to “persistent discriminatory land regulations”, while Israeli settlers “have been allowed to expand settlements” and carry out escalating ats of violence, it said.

“Time is ticking – the international community must exercise pressure to protect Umm al-Khair residents from the imminent threat of forced displacement.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/7/live-israel-vows-to-destroy-all-hamas-tunnels-in-gaza-as-attacks-continue

>>492136
>The footage that surfaced in July 2024 shows the Palestinian being beaten.
It actually shows him being violently gang raped by "the most moral army." Not sure why Al Jazeera minced words so much with this one.

11/7/2025:

Iran leader pushes for peace but demands right to defend itself
President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran seeks peace but will not be coerced into abandoning its nuclear and missile programmes.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran has been asking if US sanctions against the country could be lifted.

“We are willing to hold talks under international frameworks, but not if they say you can’t have a [nuclear] science, or the right to defend yourself or else we will bomb you,” state media quoted Pezeshkian as saying.

“We want to live in this world in peace and security, but not be humiliated, and it is not acceptable that they impose upon us whatever they want and we just serve them,” he said.

Hamas now battling Israeli-backed militias for Gaza territory
Since the ceasefire began in early October, Israeli forces have conducted about 190 attacks across Gaza, killing more than 240 Palestinians. The vast majority of this violence occurred close to the “yellow line” ceasefire demarcation.

In parallel, intra-Palestinian violence has increased to its highest levels since the war began in 2023.

“This [Hamas] campaign targeted at least three major clans that the group accused of collaborating with Israel or looting aid,” said Nasser Khdour, Middle East analyst with the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED).

“Hamas forces also clashed with four other Israel-backed militias operating across four of Gaza’s governorates in Israel-controlled zones. As internal violence later declined, Hamas worked to regain control west of the Yellow Line and deployed thousands of fighters and police officers to restore security governance. But as Hamas works to regain control in this security vacuum, intra-Palestinian violence is very likely to continue.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/7/live-israel-vows-to-destroy-all-hamas-tunnels-in-gaza-as-attacks-continue

KernowDamo | Hezbollah Didn’t Bend But Israel Just CRACKED!

Qassam Brigades issues statement on Rafah fighting
The military wing of Hamas has issued a statement saying Israel must take “full responsibility” for the clashes with its fighters in Rafah, who are “defending themselves” in an area under Israeli control.

“The enemy must understand that the Qassam Brigades do not recognise the concept of surrender or handing themselves over to the enemy,” the group’s statement said.

“We place the mediators before their responsibilities, and they must find a solution to ensure the continuation of the ceasefire, preventing the enemy from using false pretexts to violate it and exploit that to target innocent civilians in Gaza.”

The Qassam Brigades also called for additional technical teams and equipment to help in the attempts to recover the remaining bodies of captives.

“The process of retrieving bodies during the previous stage took place under extremely complex and difficult conditions, yet we fulfilled our obligations under the agreement,” it said.

Israeli drone attack hits vehicle in southern Lebanon
An Israeli drone fired three missiles at a truck between al-Sawwaneh and Khirbet Selm in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s state news agency NNA.

The agency said Israeli drones were also seen flying at low altitude over the Tyre district, Nabatieh province, the autism scorelim al-Tuffah region and parts of Bint Jbeil.

Israeli forces reportedly carried out heavy shelling on the outskirts of Alma ash-Shaab, near Tyre.

There has been no immediate comment from the Israeli army.

Tensions along Lebanon’s southern border have continued to mount, with Israel carrying out near-daily air raids on Lebanese territory despite a ceasefire being agreed last year.

Heavy gunfire reported east of Gaza City
Footage shared on Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera shows heavy gunfire in devastated neighbourhoods east of Gaza City.

In the video, sustained bursts of loud gunfire are heard as the camera pans across a landscape of tents and several damaged buildings, while men are heard shouting in the background.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ0n63LjA6h/

Doctor alleges organ harvesting in Palestinian corpses handed over by Israeli forces
By Caolán Magee

A British Palestinian surgeon has told Al Jazeera that photographs he received of Palestinians’ bodies handed over by the Israeli army are “highly indicative of organ harvesting”.

Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah said he was “sent photographs of the bodies that were received by the Ministry of Health from the Israeli army”.

“The bodies show clearly surgically removed lungs, heart, kidneys and liver – done in a professional, surgical way, using sharp bone saws, causing zero damage to surrounding tissues,” he said.

“These bodies also had liquid nitrogen burns on their skin, but no other injuries. It’s unlikely the organs were retrieved post-mortem. All of these bodies belonged to Palestinians whose families said they had been imprisoned alive. So all of this is highly indicative of organ harvesting.”

Abu Sittah said the photographs were taken on October 17, shortly after Israel handed over 120 bodies. His comments support claims by Gaza Government Media Office director, Ismail al-Thawabta, who accused the Israeli army of stealing organs from Palestinian corpses and called for an immediate international investigation.

Israeli government officials have previously admitted (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/12/21/israel-admits-to-organ-thefts) that Israel harvested the skin, corneas, heart valves and bones of Palestinians up until the year 2000.

UNRWA says operations in Gaza continue despite Israeli ban
Tamara Alrifai, director of external relations at UNRWA, has told Al Jazeera that the body has 12,000 Palestinian staff who “have not stopped working in Gaza – even though Israeli legislation has banned the entry of international staff into Gaza”.

She said international colleagues have been managing the agency’s humanitarian response and services remotely.

The inability to engage directly with the Israeli government has also significantly affected daily logistics and UNRWA’s ability to roll out life-saving support programmes, Alrifai added.

Body of Israeli captive Hadar Goldin retrieved from tunnel in Rafah
By Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

Members of the Qassam Brigades, along with teams from the Red Cross, were given the green light by mediators to move to retrieve the body of Israeli captive Hadar Goldin from Rafah, which has been under Israeli control for more than a year and has been decimated to the ground as a result of Israeli military operations.

There are reports that the Israeli captive was retrieved from a tunnel that the Israeli military had inspected multiple times over the past year.

Hadar Goldin was a lieutenant in the Israeli military’s Givati Brigade. He was captured by Hamas fighters in a military ambush back in August 2014, while the Israeli military was working to destroy tunnels in the eastern parts of the city.

The Israeli military says Goldin was killed in action and his body was never returned, for which it has been very critical of Hamas in recent years.

Reports from the Qassam Brigades suggest six of the security members who were escorting his body in captivity were found killed in the same site, which suggests they were killed in Israeli raids.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/9/live-israeli-killings-continue-in-gaza-west-bank-hamas-retrieves-body

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQt2aBwAMmk/
On Tuesday, Nov 4 Somerville - a city just Northwest of Boston - became the FIRST municipality to adopt a ballot measure that explicitly calls for Somerville to boycott and divest from Israel’s apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation of Palestine.

Somerville a city known for its progressive values and historic divestment from South African Apartheid in 1988 and boycotting companies contracting with prison labor in 2020 now has taken a clear stance in support of Palestine.

This grassroots, volunteer effort for Yes on 3 for Palestine mobilized 11,485 Somerville residents to vote to end taxpayer dollars from funding Israel’s apartheid!

This is just the beginning, Somerville for Palestine will continue to organize until Palestine is free!

One killed in earlier Israeli drone strike on south Lebanon
This news comes to us from the Health Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

As we reported earlier, an Israeli army drone attacked a car in the area of Houmin al-Fouqa, a town in south Lebanon, causing it to burst into flames.

World Bank backs UN plan for Gaza transitional governance body
The World Bank has endorsed a US-drafted United Nations resolution to create a two-year transitional administration in Gaza, Reuters reports.

In correspondence sent Saturday, World Bank President Ajay Banga informed US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz that the proposed “Board of Peace” body would enable the bank’s involvement in rebuilding efforts.

“The proposal to establish an authority … by the UN Security Council with the authorizations set out in the resolution would provide the needed framework for engagement by the Bank,” Banga wrote.

The resolution would give the Board of Peace powers to coordinate rebuilding work and economic revival initiatives.

Cost projections have risen from $50bn in February to a revised $70bn estimate, per the World Bank, UN and European Union.

Former Israeli prosecutor investigated for video leak attempts suicide, says police commissioner
The former Israeli military prosecutor, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned and is being investigated for leaking a video appearing to show the abuse [anon's note: violent gang rape, resulting in hospitalization] of a Palestinian detainee, attempted suicide this morning, Police Commissioner Chief Superintendent Danny Levi says.

Tomer-Yerushalmi leaked the video last year to Israel’s Channel 12, triggering a huge backlash against her after reports emerged that she was responsible.

Netanyahu described it as the most “severe public relations attack” on Israel.

How many captives have been returned so far?
The release of Hadar Goldin’s body was part of the United Nations-backed ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel signed in October.

According to the deal, Hamas handed over 20 living captives in return for nearly 2,000 Palestinian convicts and wartime detainees held in Israel.

It also agreed to return 28 bodies of dead captives in exchange for 300 bodies of Palestinians, though not all have been identified, according to Gaza’s health authorities. Goldin is the 24th set of remains.

The Palestinian group has been returning the dead captives one or two at a time, saying it struggles to locate and recover remains due to a lack of heavy machinery to dig through the piles of rubble caused by two years of Israeli bombardments.

Jared Kushner arrives in Israel for talks on ceasefire
US presidential adviser Jared Kushner [anon's note: who has no official role in the Trump government] has arrived in Israel, Reuters news agency reports, where he is expected to meet with Israeli leaders and resolve issues on the now five-week-old ceasefire.

The Times of Israel reported that Kushner, who played a key role in designing and building support for Trump’s 20-point peace plan, would meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, though his schedule isn’t yet public.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/9/live-israeli-killings-continue-in-gaza-west-bank-hamas-retrieves-body

Drop Site / Haaretz:
One of the most striking Israeli government hasbara operations revealed in the new Haaretz report is a proposed “geofencing campaign” by ‘Show Faith by Works,’ a Republican evangelical consultancy. The project would map every major church and Christian college in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado, track worshippers’ mobile devices during services, and later target them with ads portraying Palestinians as terrorists and Hamas sympathizers.

Filings describe it as “the largest geofencing campaign in U.S. history,” seeking to reach 8 million churchgoers and 4 million Christian students. Draft materials cite talking points that “Palestinians chose Hamas,” “celebrated the October 7 massacre,” and “share genocidal intentions with Iran.” The campaign budget exceeds $3 million.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1987669934277636228

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Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”

Palestine Action activist Sean Middlebrough, 33, nicknamed Shibby, has absconded from a UK prison after being released on temporary bail for his brother’s wedding.

In a statement exclusive to The Electronic Intifada, Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place.

After a four-day conditional release on 23 October, Middlebrough did not return to Wandsworth prison in London. Despite regular police checks at his home address, he managed to slip away without his family’s knowledge, sources confirmed to The Electronic Intifada.

Middlebrough, who is from Liverpool in northwest England, was on remand for a third time in connection with an August 2024 action at an Elbit weapons facility in Filton, a town near Bristol in southwest England.

Elbit Systems is one of Israel’s largest arms manufacturers and its British subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, operates 16 sites across the country.

During the Filton action, protestors allegedly drove a van into the factory and damaged Israeli weapons developed there. Middlebrough is accused of causing over $2.5 million in damages.

It resulted in, among other things, the destruction of armed quadcopters widely used by the Israeli military in its genocidal aggression in Gaza.

Six people were arrested on the spot, detained for 36 hours without legal representation or being able to contact family or the outside world, and charged with criminal damage, aggravated burglary and violent disorder. Further arrests by British counterterrorism police over the following year saw a total of 24 people detained in connection with the Filton action, including Middlebrough.

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Middlebrough, whose trial date is set for April 2026 and who had already spent a year in pre-trial detention, was facing a total of over 18 months on remand, far exceeding the six-month pre-trial custody time limit.

“I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison,” Middlebrough said in a statement obtained and verified by The Electronic Intifada. “Outrageously, 23 of my heroic and honorable co-defendants remain in prison following our kidnapping by counterterrorism police.”

The British government proscribed Palestine Action as a “terrorist group” on 5 July of this year, prompting a rare protest against the UK from the UN, which called the banning order a “disturbing misuse of UK counterterrorism legislation.”

Of his arrest, Middlebrough said police used counterterrorist tactics despite him not being charged with terror offenses.

“We were raided, our families detained and guns pointed at our heads despite not being charged with any terror offenses,” Middlebrough said in the statement. “The UN has condemned our treatment as likely ‘enforced disappearance,’ while my co-defendants are indefinitely detained before facing trial.”

Huda Ammori said the terror connection was spurious.

“Whilst the Filton 24 don’t face terrorism charges, the [British prosecutors] say that their charges have a ‘terrorism connection,’ which means if convicted, the judge can increase their sentences and their conditions will become harsher,” Ammori said. “This is the first case in which direct action activists faced accusations of terrorism.”

Middlebrough described conditions in prison as grim and said he was made to share a one-person cell with a stranger.

“I was locked up for up to 23 hours a day. I was barely let out for an hour daily. At the start of my arrest, I didn’t receive proper food.”

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Middlebrough got involved with Palestine Action in January 2022 to protest Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and its gross human rights violations.

In January 2024, he and five others were detained for allegedly plotting to shut the London Stock Exchange down. Middlebrough was remanded and charged with conspiracy to cause public nuisance.

That was the second time he had been remanded to prison on charges that were later dropped.

The first was on 15 May 2023, the day Palestinians commemorate the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing that took place between 1947 and 1949 of two-thirds of the Palestinian people to make way for a Jewish majority in Palestine.

Two Palestine Action protestors forced the temporary closure of Pearson Engineering in Newcastle over its links to Israel. The British company was bought by Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd, an Israeli arms company, in September 2022. The activists caused over $200,000 in damages during a 27-hour rooftop protest.

Though detained for 6 weeks in connection with the action, Middlebrough had his charges – of planning the action – dropped before trial.

“We are not terrorists,” Middlebrough told The Electronic Intifada. “I oppose terror and tyranny in all forms. When we witness a British-backed genocide of the Palestinian people, it is our moral and legal duty to act against it. This is why some of my comrades in the Filton 24 are on an active hunger strike for immediate bail and a fair trial.”

Six imprisoned Palestine Action campaigners have been on hunger strike since 2 November, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which saw the British empire promise a “Jewish homeland” in Palestine.

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“They are the best of us, and we must rally behind their fight,” Middlebrough said about his fellow activists. “While I am free, I will raise their voice beyond the prison walls, for everything that they are and they stand for – a free Palestine!”

Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, accused the British government of using UK terrorism legislation as a political tool to repress those who act to prevent genocide while simultaneously shielding Israeli war criminals from prosecution.

“[Middlebrough] should not have been in prison, and neither should the 32 people currently detained for allegedly taking direct action to stop the genocide in Gaza,” Ammori told The Electronic Intifada.

Each of them, she added, faces up to two years on remand, far exceeding the pre-trial custody time limit.

Activists are being unjustly arrested in order to protect a foreign state engaged in genocide, Ammori said, prompting their hunger strike.

“We should all stand with each of them, however they choose to resist.”

Palestine Action is awaiting a judicial review of the group’s proscription, scheduled to be heard from 25-27 November.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/exclusive-absconded-activist-refuses-be-prisoner-war/51056

Palestinian groups decry Israeli killing of two children near Hebron
Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have condemned the killing of two Palestinian children near an illegal settlement outside of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, calling it part of a wider escalation of Israeli violence across the occupied West Bank.

Hamas said Israel’s “fascist” policy of targeting youths and children amounts to a “heinous crime” carried out by a government of “killing and terror”. It said the shootings will not intimidate Palestinians but will instead strengthen their resolve.

The PFLP also described the killings as a “new crime added to Israel’s ongoing record”, saying they form part of an organised campaign aimed at entrenching settler expansion. It warned that settler groups, backed by the Israeli army, are acting with impunity.

Palestinians from Gaza temporarily held on unmarked plane that landed in South Africa
Officials in South Africa say 150 Palestinians who were left in limbo following a 24-hour ordeal after leaving Gaza to find safety have now been allowed into the country or transit to other destinations.

The group arrived in Johannesburg by plane and was left stranded on the tarmac for nine hours after officials refused to let them get off, as they did not have exit stamps from Israel on their passports.

South African social worker Nigel Branken, who was at OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg, said the Palestinians were effectively trafficked out of Gaza, by what he said is “clearly an Israeli-linked operation”.

He said the Palestinians were made to leave everything when leaving Gaza before being put on an unmarked plane and flown to Namibia. He said they were then flown to South Africa.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/13/live-israel-attacks-gazas-south-north-during-repeatedly-violated-truce

Girl recounts being found alive in Gaza City morgue after Israeli attack
Twelve-year-old Raghad al‑Assar lay unconscious in a Gaza City mortuary for eight hours after being declared dead following an Israeli attack on her home.

Medical personnel initially presumed her dead amid the chaos of the strike, only for signs of life to be detected later.

“We were sitting in our home like everyone else when suddenly bullets, planes and drones came down on us,” Raghad said of the attack that killed two of her sisters and left her with severe injuries and trauma.

read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/13/gaza-girl-shares-story-of-being-found-alive-in-morgue-after-israeli-attack

Civil Defence in Rafah warns of looming humanitarian disaster
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Rafah in Gaza has warned of an imminent humanitarian disaster threatening tens of thousands of displaced people as winter storms are expected to hit the enclave in the coming days.

In a statement carried by the Gaza-based Safa news agency, the Civil Defence said displaced families are sheltering in worn-out tents and destroyed homes in the areas of al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, the outskirts of Rafah and along the coastal strip.

It said these families lack even the most basic protection from cold and rain, cautioning that severe humanitarian consequences are likely unless urgent measures are taken.

Workers in Gaza begin restoring historic Pasha Palace damaged in war
Palestinian workers in Gaza City have begun restoration efforts at the historic Pasha Palace Museum, a centuries-old fortress-turned-museum that has been severely damaged during Israel’s war on the enclave.

Workers used only their hands and buckets to remove sand, debris and broken stone from the site, stacking reusable stones in one pile and rubble in another, as an Israeli drone hovered overhead.

UNESCO has identified damage at more than 100 cultural heritage sites since October 2023, including the Pasha Palace, the Saint Hilarion Monastery and Gaza City’s Omari Mosque.

Almost 1,000 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
More than 900 Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli police today, according to local Palestinian news outlets.

Settlers are Israeli citizens living illegally on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Al-Aqsa has become a regular target of visits by right-wing Israeli politicians and settlers, who storm the compound and perform religious rituals under the protection of Israeli forces.

Under the decades-old status quo maintained by Israeli authorities, Jews and other non-Muslims are allowed to visit the compound during specified hours, but they are not permitted to pray there or display religious symbols.

UK MoD ‘unclear’ on damage caused by Palestine Action: Report
Information obtained by the news outlet Declassified UK has revealed that the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) cannot substantiate any of the reported damage figures that it used to justify the designation of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organisation.

The decision came in July, a month after some of the group’s members broke into the RAF Brize Norton airbase and damaged two planes, for which four members have been charged.

But now, four months after the event, Declassified UK reports the department is unable to clarify the financial impact of the incident. Instead, the organisation says the widely reported figure of 7 million British pounds ($9.2m) originated from a private company named AirTanker Ltd, which leases aircraft to the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Declassified UK says the police had shared this figure with the media, creating the impression that the damage costs came from official sources rather than a private company with close links to the arms trade.

It also stated that the redeployment of both aircraft within weeks of the incident might indicate that the damages were “overstated within certain British media circles”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/13/live-israel-attacks-gazas-south-north-during-repeatedly-violated-truce

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JUST IN:

A 14-year-old autistic Palestinian boy from Yafa (Jaffa) was raped and beaten inside Israeli detention, he was detained on 17 October 2025 during a family visit in Ramallah, when Israeli forces stormed the home at 4:30 a.m. and aimed rifles and flashlights at the children, leaving him unable to stand from fear.

His mother confirmed he has a full autism diagnosis and a 100% disability. In a hearing, he informed Judge Tal Levitas of the assault, yet her non-binding recommendation for transfer or increased supervision was ignored; an appeal against prolonging his detention was later rejected by Judge Yaron Levi in Tel Aviv’s Central Court, sending him back to the same cell where the abuse took place.

This case fits a documented pattern in which the Israeli occupation targets Palestinian children with autism, and the photo shows a Palestinian boy after he threw rocks ahead of a breach by Ultra-Orthodox Jews to the shrine of Atnaeil Ben Kinaz in the Palestinian city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 16, 2025.

Israeli army launches more air strikes as truce violations continue
Israeli attacks inside the Gaza ceasefire’s “yellow line” of demarcation have hit near the cities of Khan Younis in the south and Gaza City in the north, Al Jazeera correspondents on the ground report.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

More than a month into the truce declaration, Israel violated the agreement with at least 282 attacks from October 10 to November 10, killing at least 240 Palestinians and wounding more than 600 others, according to an Al Jazeera analysis.

On October 19 and 29 – two of the deadliest days since the ceasefire began – Israel killed a total of 154 people.

https://aje.io/aa6fkt?update=4108358

Questions loom over UN vote as initial Gaza truce phase nears end
The UN Security Council on Monday is expected to vote on a US proposal for a UN mandate for an international military force in Gaza despite opposition from Russia, China, and some Arab countries.

The first stage of the ceasefire agreement is nearing its end. The next and even more challenging stage calls for the implementation of a governing body for Gaza, and the deployment of an international stabilization force.

Then there’s the proposed disarming of Hamas. It is not clear what happens next.

For Palestinians in the war-ravaged territory, a return to massive Israeli bombardment is terrifying. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 69,100 Palestinians – mostly women and children – since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Netanyahu speaks by phone with Putin, reports the Kremlin
The Israeli prime minister has spoken on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports Russian state media, citing the Kremlin.

The two leaders discussed the ceasefire in Gaza, Iran’s nuclear programme, and efforts to “promote further stabilisation in Syria”, according to the TASS news agency.

Anti-government protesters rally across Israel
The Times of Israel reports nationwide, anti-government rallies are occurring for another week in Israel including in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Many of the demonstrators are urging the government to launch a state inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far resisted.

The biggest rally is taking place in Tel Aviv with activists heading from the Defence Ministry headquarters towards Habima Square, according to the news report.

Nowhere to turn: Gaza displaced struggle under harsh winter conditions
A displaced Gaza woman says she’s in desperate need for help as flooding and winter conditions worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in the war-battered enclave.

“I am the widow of a martyr. I have two children. I don’t have a father, a brother, a sister, or anyone else. I don’t have anyone to turn to. I am a stranger here. There is no one to help me,” she told Al Jazeera.

She said she doesn’t have a mattress, blanket, or clothes for her children.

“I have been crying since morning. Look at this,” she said, pointing to her tent. “How can I get rid of this water inside? How can I deal with my problems? I am young and I just want help.”

Lebanon to file complaint to UN over Israeli wall beyond ‘Blue Line’
The National News Agency reports Lebanon plans to file a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over Israel’s construction of a concrete wall along its southern border that traverses the “Blue Line”, a UN-backed, unofficial ceasefire line between the two countries.

According to the news agency, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun requested the complaint be issued along with recent UN reports confirming the Israeli wall has blocked off some 4,000sq metres (43,055sq feet) of territory to Lebanese people.

Israel killed more than 4,000 people, mostly civilians, in its recent war on Lebanon, and displaced more than a million people. It razed dozens of villages to the ground and invaded – and still refuses to withdraw from – at least five points on Lebanese territory.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/15/live-israel-closely-coordinated-gaza-families-mystery-transit-to-s-africa

UN peacekeepers say Israeli forces fire on them in southern Lebanon
Latest Israeli attack on UNIFIL comes as it continues near-daily strikes on its northern neighbour in violation of yearlong ceasefire.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli soldiers have shot at its peacekeepers in their latest targeting of UNIFIL as Israel continues to attack Lebanon on a near-daily basis in violation of a yearlong ceasefire in its war against Hezbollah.

Israeli forces on Sunday “fired on UNIFIL peacekeepers from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory”, the peacekeepers said in a statement, adding heavy-machinegun rounds hit about 5 metres (5.5 yards) from their personnel.

UNIFIL said the peacekeepers were able to leave safely 30 minutes later after the tank withdrew inside the Israeli position.

Israel said its soldiers who fired at UNIFIL did so due to “poor weather conditions” and mistook the UN patrol for “suspects”.

The Lebanese army also issued a statement: “The army command affirms that it is working in coordination with friendly countries to put an end to the ongoing violations and breaches by the Israeli enemy, which require immediate action as they represent a dangerous escalation.”

In September, UNIFIL said Israeli drones had dropped four grenades close to its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon with one landing within 20 metres (22 yards) of UN personnel and vehicles.

UNIFIL said the shooting “represents a serious violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701”, which ended a 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and also formed the basis of the November 2024 truce.

“Yet again, we call on the [Israeli military] to cease any aggressive behavior and attacks on or near peacekeepers,” UNIFIL said on Sunday.

UNIFIL has been working with the Lebanese army to maintain the truce between Israel and Hezbollah, which brought an end to intensive hostilities that erupted into full-blown war after the start of the Gaza war in October 2023.

Israel killed more than 4,000 people, mostly civilians, in its recent war on Lebanon and displaced more than a million people. It razed dozens of villages and occupied – and still refuses to withdraw from – at least five points on Lebanese territory as stipulated under the deal.

Israel said its strikes on Lebanon target Hezbollah sites and fighters but has not provided any evidence.

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On Saturday, the National News Agency, the official news agency of the Lebanese government, reported that Lebanon plans to file a complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel’s construction of a concrete wall along its southern border that traverses the “Blue Line”, a 120km (75-mile) unofficial border drawn up by the UN between Lebanon and Israel.

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UNIFIL on Friday said the “Israeli presence and construction in Lebanese territory are violations of Security Council Resolution 1701 and of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/un-peacekeepers-say-israeli-forces-fired-on-them-in-southern-lebanon

Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon kills school principal: NNA
An Israeli drone strike has killed one person after targeting Lebanon’s town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre.

The Lebanese government’s National News Agency confirmed that “an attack by an enemy drone” in al-Mansouri “resulted in the martyrdom of its school principal, Muhammad Shweikh”.

The drone targeted an area near the football grounds of Imam Musa al-Sadr Stadium, the agency added, and spawned a fire.

A correspondent for Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar said Shweikh was the principal of al-Mansouri Public School, and that the drone targeted his car.

We’ll bring you more information as we have it.

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Twitter is just outright censoring search results for "Elias Rodriguez."

https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1990421726480531689
Craig Mokhiber - If the UN Security Council adopts Trump’s colonial proposal today, as it appears poised to do, it will represent the greatest betrayal of the Palestinian people, the rules of international law, and the principles of self-determination and decolonization, since the UN adopted the partition plan in 1947 against the will of the indigenous people, setting the stage for 80 years of Nakba. And it will drive the last nail in the coffin of UN legitimacy. But this ruse will not succeed. And history will remember the collaborators who bowed to the empire to allow this to happen.

Commander of allied Hamas faction killed in Israeli undercover attack: Report
An allied faction of Hamas has said that one of its commanders was killed today in what it called an Israeli undercover attack.

The Palestinian Resistance Committees (PRC) confirmed the death of local armed leader Waseem Abdel-Hadi near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Reuters reported.

The group said his death was the result of a “cowardly and treacherous assassination operation”.

There was no immediate comment on the reported killing from the Israeli military.

Israeli army confirms killing two more Palestinians in Gaza, accuses them of crossing “yellow line”
The Israeli army has said it killed two Palestinians crossing the yellow line, a demarcation line separating areas under Israeli control, in two separate incidents.

The army accused both of posing threats to Israeli forces, failing to provide evidence for those claims.

Since a ceasefire came into force in October, sporadic fighting has taken place in Gaza with Israeli forces killing more than 200 Palestinians. Dozens of them have been killed for approaching or crossing the yellow line, which Palestinians say is not often marked or clear.

Israeli settlers burn home, vehicles, injure Palestinians north of Hebron
Israeli settlers burned a house and two vehicles and injured a number of Palestinians in an attack north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa is reporting.

The attack took place in the town of Sa’ir, the agency reported, with the settlers attacking homes, setting one alight.

The Israeli settlers assaulted the Palestinians with batons and sharp instruments, resulting in injuries to a number of women, the agency reported.

It said that the attack took place under the protection of Israeli forces, who blocked fire engines and ambulances from attending the scene.

Germany to resume arms exports to Israel from next week
The German government says it will lift an order suspending some weapons sales to Israel from next week, following the ceasefire agreement reached last month.

“The government will, as a general rule, revert to case-by-case reviews in decisions on arms exports and respond to further developments,” a spokesperson said.

The decision will allow the resumption of exports suspended in August, from November 24, they continued.

Germany, the second-largest exporter of arms to Israel after the United States, announced a suspension of some arms exports to Israel in August, amid mounting popular pressure over the war in Gaza.

The decision affected weapons and systems that could be used in Gaza but not others deemed necessary for Israel to defend itself from external attacks.

Hamas rejects international force, calls for Palestinian-led aid under UN supervision
Later today, the UN Security Council is set to vote on a US draft resolution that would give a mandate for the deployment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) and for the establishment of transitional governance there.

Hamas and other armed groups have criticised the draft resolution, warning it would pave the way for foreign control over Palestinian decision-making. They said it would hand Gaza’s governance and reconstruction to a supranational body, stripping Palestinians of self-rule, and described plans for an international force as imposing foreign guardianship.

The factions insisted that humanitarian aid should be managed by Palestinian institutions under UN supervision. They also rejected disarming Gaza or curbing the right to resist, and called for international mechanisms to hold Israel accountable for rights abuses and border control policies.

More on Hamas position on UNSC vote later today
We have more on Hamas’s position regarding the US draft resolution to be voted on at the UNSC later today.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told Al Jazeera that the draft would replace Israeli occupation with another form of foreign guardianship, giving non-Palestinian entities authority over governance and security without Palestinian-led arrangements.

He urged a UN resolution that reinforces the ceasefire and establishes international peacekeepers in Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/17/live-hamas-rejects-foreign-guardianship-of-gaza-before-un-vote

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Courtney Bonneau - Major expansion at Israeli occupation site in Labbouneh, Lebanon.

HAMAS:

A call to the ummah and the free people of the world to continue mobilizing to pressure the occupation and its backers to stop its attacks, end the siege, and open the crossings.

The worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip requires urgent action to save civilians and bring in aid, tents, and temporary housing.

The tragic conditions our people are living in after two years of genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, the absence of food, medicine, clean water, tents and shelter, and the collapse of the health system, pose a real danger to the lives of unarmed civilians, especially children and women, particularly in winter with heavy rain.

We hold the Zionist fascist occupation fully responsible for its continued violations of the agreement to end the war, its escalating aggression against our people in Gaza, its continued closure of the crossings, and its obstruction of the entry of humanitarian and relief aid.

We call on the guarantor states of the agreement to pressure the occupation to implement the humanitarian protocol and to open the crossings, foremost among them Rafah Crossing, to allow the entry of relief and medical aid, tents, emergency shelter, and to allow the exit of patients and the movement of people both ways.

We reaffirm that the continued international silence and incapacity in the face of the ongoing crimes of the fascist occupation in Gaza will only deepen the humanitarian disaster for more than two million Palestinians who are besieged and deprived of the basics of life because of this brutal genocide.

We call on the masses of our Arab and Muslim ummah and the free people of the world to continue their popular mobilization and public actions to pressure the occupation and its supporters to stop its attacks on civilians, end the siege, and open the crossings in a sustained manner to bring in aid and emergency shelter to the Gaza Strip.

Police use force to disperse pro-Palestine protest in New Jersey
Police in New Jersey used force to disperse a pro-Palestine protest held outside a synagogue in Livingston, where former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant was scheduled to speak.

Demonstrators chanted against Gallant, accusing him of killing Palestinians in Gaza.

Among the protesters were Rabbis who waved Palestinian flags, wore keffiyehs, and carried signs reading “Protect children, arrest Gallant” and “Gallant guilty of genocide”.

The protest escalated when participants blocked the road leading to the synagogue, prompting police to move in.

Videos verified by Al Jazeera show police pushing back a crowd of peaceful protesters, some waving Palestinian flags and holding signs, before pinning several to the ground and dragging them away in handcuffs.

Police used batons to beat protesters who tried to intervene and help those being detained.

In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant over war crimes committed during the war on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/12/israels-war-on-gaza-live-air-strikes-target-northern-gaza?update=4102091

UN torture committee scrutinises Israel
The UN Committee against Torture is currently holding its largest session this month, examining several countries on how they are upholding the Convention Against Torture, to which they are signatories.

First on the list is Israel, in session yesterday and today.

Twenty-eight Israeli officials appeared in front a panel of 10 UN experts on torture in Geneva.

The experts asked Israel: “Does Israel have a law against torture?” The answer from the Israeli delegation was “No.”

“Does Israel apply the agreements it has signed against torture in Gaza and the West Bank?” the continued, to which the answer was also no.

The committee confronted Israel with multiple reports and a long list of violations against Palestinians, which the Israelis denied most of them and offered justifications for the rest, including “self-defense”.

Israel has been the recipient of multiple accusations of torture in relation to its two-year war on Gaza. In one instance, a video leaked from its infamous Sde Teiman military prison appeared to show Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.

In addition, dozens of dead bodies of Palestinian detainees have been returned to Gaza since the start of a ceasefire exhibiting signs of torture.

The UN Committee Against Torture will issue a non-binding summary of its findings at the end of November.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/12/israels-war-on-gaza-live-air-strikes-target-northern-gaza?update=4102335

I still don't understand how this happened, but it seems that the UN security council just gave an endorsement to Trump's neocolonial plan to take over and administrate Gaza. From Consortium News:

>The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution that gives the world body’s imprimatur to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, a territory he said publicly should be ethnically cleansed to develop a Mediterranean resort.
>The council voted 13 nations in favor with two abstentions from China and Russia, which could have vetoed Trump’s plans.
>The resolution essentially revives the colonial mandate system of the League of Nations after the First World War, and the United Nations’ trusteeship system after the Second World War, both schemes in which colonial powers remained in charge of a colonized territory while it was supposed to wean it towards independence.
>The resolution that passed on Monday says “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”
>The resolution “welcomes” the establishment of a Board of Peace (BoP) “as a transitional administration” in Gaza to coordinate reconstruction. The resolution authorizes the board to set up a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza “to deploy under unified command acceptable to the BoP.” Though the resolution does not say who will head the BoP, Trump has made it clear that he would be running it himself.
>Nations will contribute troops to the force “in close consultation and cooperation” with Egypt and Israel. But it will be Donald Trump who ultimately gets to call the shots of this international military force.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/17/un-security-council-gives-us-mandate-over-palestine/

>>492317
It's really bad that China and Russia didn't veto.

Israel’s Knesset approves first reading of bill to cut UNRWA’s electricity, water access
Israel’s parliament has advanced a government bill that would prevent water and electricity providers from offering their services to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

The Knesset today approved the first reading of the bill by a margin of 28 to 8 votes. It will next be brought before the relevant parliamentary committee, according to the Wafa news agency.

Israeli state authorities are already prohibited from having any connection with UNRWA.

However, the latest legislation goes further, aiming to prevent water and electricity from being supplied to properties registered to UNRWA, while also allowing the Israeli state to seize land the UN agency has registered with the Israel Land Authority.

The proposal is seen as the latest attempt by Israel to undermine the work of UNRWA.

Germany withholds support for UNRWA extension for first time
At a preliminary vote in a UN General Assembly subcommittee in New York, the German representative abstained, for the first time withholding support for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees.

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said in Berlin that the government expects “consistent and verifiable reforms within UNRWA” before backing another mandate renewal.

The resolution passed with 144 votes in favour, 11 against and 16 abstentions. A final vote in the full General Assembly, which is set to extend UNRWA’s current mandate from mid-2026 to mid-2029, is scheduled for December.

Wadephul said there had been unacceptable cooperation in some cases with groups hostile to Israel that had fuelled tensions.

Israel has long maintained that several staff members of UNRWA were Hamas operatives. Last month, the International Court of Justice became the latest body to reject that claim, saying Israel has not offered enough proof.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/19/live-13-killed-in-israeli-air-attack-on-refugee-camp-in-lebanon

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Arnaud Bertrand: In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills at least 13
Israel continues to attack Lebanon on a near-daily basis in violation of a yearlong ceasefire with Hezbollah.

At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

The drone strike hit a car on Tuesday in the car park of a mosque in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidon, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported.

At least four people were wounded in the attack, the ministry said, adding that “ambulances are still transporting more wounded to nearby hospitals.”

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/18/israeli-attack-on-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-lebanon-kills-at-least-13

Wave of deadly Israeli air strikes across Gaza despite ceasefire
At least 28 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza today, and many of the sites targeted were sheltering displaced families.Israel has carried out more than 393 ceasefire violations since the truce began in October and says its latest breach was in response to Hamas attacks.

Hamas decries latest Israeli air strikes, rejects Israeli claim of inciting attack
Hamas has released a statement condemning what it calls Israel’s “horrific massacre” in the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis.

The group said it regarded today’s Israeli air strikes on Gaza — which have killed at least 28 Palestinians, including women and children — as a “serious escalation”.

It also denied Israel’s claim that Hamas fighters had fired at Israeli troops first, prompting it to respond with air strikes.

The Israeli claim was “a weak and exposed attempt to justify their ongoing crimes and violations”, said Hamas, who noted that more than 300 Palestinians have now been killed since the Gaza ceasefire was signed last month.

“The policy of demolishing and blowing up houses, and the closure of the Rafah land crossing, has continued, in blatant Israeli defiance of the American and regional guarantor,” it added.

How many attacks has Israel carried out on Lebanon in last 24 hours?
Israel has carried out a wave of deadly strikes in southern Lebanon in the last 24 hours, claiming to go after operatives and infrastructure belonging to either Hamas or Hezbollah.

According to local media reports, Israel’s attacks in the country yesterday targeted:

A car in the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, killing 13 people and injuring four
A car in the city of Bint Jbei, killing one person
A house in the town of Blida
Today’s attacks have targeted the southern Lebanese towns of Chehour and Deir Kifa. The Israeli army has issued threats of additional upcoming attacks in the towns of Tair Filsay and Aynata.

Al-Quds Brigades targets Israeli forces in Jenin
The Jenin battalion of the al-Quds Brigades – the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad – has targeted Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.

The battalion said it targeted Israeli forces with an explosive device during their raid on the village of Silat al-Harithiya.

Jenin has emerged as a flashpoint in the West Bank as Israel escalates its attacks on the Palestinian territory.

Hezbollah condemns Israeli attack on refugee camp that killed 13
The Lebanese group says it condemns “in the strongest terms” Israel’s overnight attack on the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern city of Sidon.

It called the attack a “flagrant violation” of Lebanese sovereignty and the year-old ceasefire that should have stopped Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

“The pillars of the Lebanese state must realise that showing any leniency, weakness, or submission to this enemy only increases its ferocity, savagery, and audacity, and that mere reactive responses that do not rise to the level of aggression will only lead to more attacks and massacres”, it said, calling on the Lebanese state to respond firmly to the attack.

Meanwhile, two towns in southern Lebanon are currently waiting on Israel to strike, after its army issued forced displacement orders for its residents a short while ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/19/live-13-killed-in-israeli-air-attack-on-refugee-camp-in-lebanon

Israeli forces round up more than 100 people in Beit Ummar
Footage seen by Al Jazeera shows Israeli forces detaining a group of blindfolded men in the town of Beit Ummar in the occupied West Bank.

The Anadolu news agency, quoting local sources, reports that Israeli forces have rounded up at least 100 Palestinians in the town, while closing all its entrances.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/19/live-13-killed-in-israeli-air-attack-on-refugee-camp-in-lebanon

Syria’s, Israel’s UN envoys clash after Netanyahu’s ‘provocative’ visit to Israeli-occupied territory
The Syrian and Israeli ambassadors have had a testy exchange at a meeting of the UN Security Council, just hours after Netanyahu visited an Israeli military outpost inside Syria.

Ibrahim Olabi, Syria’s UN envoy, said his government “strongly condemns this provocative tour, which epitomises Israel’s ongoing aggression against Syria and its people”.

“We renew our calls on the UN and this council to take firm and immediate action to halt these violations, ensure their non-recurrence, end the occupation and enforce relevant resolutions, particularly the 1974 disengagement agreement” agreed after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

In response, Israel’s Danny Danon did not directly address Netanyahu’s trip to the part of southern Syria that his country occupies. Instead, he lectured his Syrian counterpart on what his country should do.

“This council has heard Syria’s pledge of reform and reconciliation, but promises alone do not rebuild nations,” Danon said, adding that it was up to Damascus to prove it would protect minorities like the Druze and end what he called “the cycle of indiscriminate killing”.

Olabi retorted that it was actually Israel who had to prove itself before the international community.

“You have struck Syria more than 1,000 times. And we have responded with requests for diplomacy. … We have responded with zero signs of aggression towards Israel,” he said after switching to English to deliver his follow-up remarks.

“We have engaged constructively, and we still wait for you to do the same,” he concluded.

The countries are currently negotiating a security pact.

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: West Bank on verge of Third Intifada, anger will erupt like lava

• "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirms that an explosion in the occupied West Bank is imminent and that the outbreak of a comprehensive third Intifada is closer than ever. It stresses that the execution of the youth Amr al-Marbou and the child Sami Mashayikh in Kafr Aqab at dawn on Friday, along with the ongoing bloodshed and the unchecked violence of settler gangs killing and vandalizing across the West Bank, is the spark that will burn away any remaining illusions of calm, and that the accumulated Palestinian anger will erupt like molten lava against the occupation."

• "The Front explains that our people are confronting a monstrous entity led by a deviant criminal system that mixes megalomania with a sadistic delight in bloodshed. Its practices of burning, destruction, and targeting civilians reveal a deeply entrenched racist and fascist doctrine and a sick psychological structure embodied by a group of killers and deranged individuals who practice violence as a distorted human instinct."

• "The Front stresses that our people will not stand idly by in the face of this criminal sadism, and will not bow to organized state terrorism. The occupation is delusional if it believes escalating its crimes will bring calm—on the contrary, it will fuel an immense revolutionary energy that will impose a full-scale confrontation and turn the West Bank into a battlefield of attrition for the enemy and its settler hordes."

• "The Front issues a warning to the world that the continuation of this fascist entity has become a central hub of genocide and a grave threat to humanity as a whole. It calls on all free forces to besiege this criminal system through comprehensive boycott and removing its legitimacy, and to stop dealing with its leaders as a normal state, but rather as a rogue gang of murderers and enemies of human values. It affirms that stability in the region will only come through uprooting this occupation from its foundations."

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1991937411795079642
⚡️🚨 Hebrew Channel 12:

The US message to the occupation entity is that if it proceeds with the second stage of the Gaza agreement, it will give American legitimacy to act militarily in Lebanon.