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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
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Children cry as they wait to receive meals in Khan Younis photo Doaa
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Al Jazeera - Dec 4, 2024
<<People walk miles searching for bread amid Gaza's war shortages
Millions of Palestinians face the threat of famine as food supplies
reach new lows. Faced with major food shortages after nearly 14 months
of war, Palestinians describe long days hunting for flour or bread in
the conflict-ravaged Gaza Strip. Every morning, crowds form outside the
few bakeries open in the Palestinian territory, as people desperately
hope to secure a little food. "I walked about eight kilometres (five
miles) to get bread," said Hatem Kullab, a displaced Palestinian living
in a neighbourhood of makeshift tents. Since the outbreak of Israel's
war on Gaza last year, charities and international aid organisations
have repeatedly warned of crisis levels of hunger for the enclave's two
million or so people. A United Nations-backed assessment last month
warned of famine looming in northern Gaza as an Israeli offensive all
but halted the arrival of food aid to the area. Water and medicines are
also scarce. People across Gaza now wake at dawn to try to ensure they
can get some flour or bread, as availability reaches an all-time low.
"There is no flour, no food, no vegetables in the markets," Nasser Al-Shawa,
56, said. Like most residents, he was forced to leave his home because
of the bombings and lives with his children and grandchildren in central
Gaza.
The price of the available food has skyrocketed.
Inside Gaza, where more than half of the buildings have been destroyed,
production is almost at a standstill. Flour mills, warehouses storing
flour and industrial bakeries are unable to function because they have
been so heavily damaged by strikes. Humanitarian aid is trickling in but
aid groups have repeatedly complained that Israel places many
constraints on them - an accusation Israel denies. The United Nations
agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Sunday that it was
halting aid deliveries to Gaza via the key Karem Abu Salem (Kerem
Shalom) crossing point, saying that deliveries had become impossible,
partly due to looting by gangs. For Layla Hamad, who lives in a tent
with her husband and seven children in southern Gaza's al-Mawasi, the
UNRWA's decision was "like a bullet to the head". She said her family
had regularly received "a small quantity" of flour from the UNRWA.
"Every day, I think we will not survive, either because we will be
killed by Israeli bombing or by hunger," she said. "There is no third
option." >>
View photos here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/12/4/people-walk-miles-searching-for-bread-amid-gazas-war-shortages
Al Jazeera - Dec 3, 2024
<<Israel continues to pound Gaza, issue new evacuation orders
Israeli military has ordered areas of Khan Younis cleared while at least
14 people were killed in strikes in northern Gaza.
Israel has continued to pound Gaza, killing dozens and issuing new
evacuation orders. The Israeli military launched strikes overnight that
killed at least 14 people in the north of the enclave, according to
reports on Tuesday. Meanwhile, new evacuation orders were issued,
calling on people to leave areas in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Medics reported that eight people were killed in a series of overnight
strikes in Beit Lahiya, while four others were killed in Gaza City. A
further two people were killed in attacks in Jabalia, the largest of
Gaza's eight historic refugee camps in the northern part of the Strip.
Later, the Israeli army ordered residents in the districts of Khan
Younis to flee, prompting a westward exodus in the early morning hours.
<For your own safety, you must evacuate the area immediately and move to
the humanitarian zone,> the army said a statement on X, citing rocket
launches by Palestinian groups. Research states that there are no
<humanitarian zones> in which people can find safety, and that
evacuation orders do not help those fleeing to find safety or shelter
from harm. The use of these terms by Israel is aimed at bestowing
legitimacy on forced displacement and creating the illusion of adherence
to humanitarian law, the Action For Humanity nongovernment organisation
stated.
Palestinian and United Nations officials also say that there are no safe
areas in the enclave. Most of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been
internally displaced, some as many as 10 times since the war began last
year. Palestinian groups have accused Israel's army of trying to drive
people from the northern edge of Gaza with forced evacuations and
bombardments to create a buffer zone. The army denies this and says it
has returned there to prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping in an area
it had previously cleared. The Palestinian Civil Defence said its
operations in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon have been halted for
nearly four weeks due to Israeli attacks on their teams and fuel
shortages. On Tuesday, it said that 88 of its members had been killed,
304 wounded, and 21 detained by Israel since the war started, while 13
of 27 vehicles in the central and southern Gaza Strip were out of
operation due to fuel shortages.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/3/israel-continues-to-pound-gaza-issue-new-evacuation-orders
Al Jazeera - Dec 3, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live - By Virginia Pietromarchi
and Umut Uras
<<LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza as ceasefire with Hezbollah hangs by a thread
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger
seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Gaza's health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed 36 Palestinians
and wounded 96 others in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
The UN says "food availability is at an all-time low across the entire
Gaza Strip" as Israel's blockade continues, with some Palestinians in
the besieged north reporting completely running out of supplies.>>
Read more and video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/3/live-israeli-forces-kill-11-in-south-lebanon-order-new-gaza-displacement
Haaretz - Dec 3, 2024
<<Israel at War Day 424 | Smotrich: Goal of War Is 'Effective
Operational Control' of Gaza for Many Years
RECAP: IDF calls on residents of Khan Yunis in Gaza to evacuate,
intercepts drone from east outside Israel
LEBANON: Rerports: Israeli drone struck in country's south. ISRAEL: IDF
says it struck terrorist cell in West Bank. GAZA: Hamas, Fatah agree to
jointly manage postwar Gaza; IDF intercepts rocket launched from Khan
Yunis. IRAN: U.S. ships intercepted Iran-backed Houthi attacks on U.S.
navy ships in Gulf of Aden, CENTCOM says. SYRIA: Vehicle struck from air
near Damascus airport>>
Read more and video:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-03/ty-article-live/reports-nine-people-killed-in-israeli-strikes-in-southern-lebanon/00000193-8a6b-d91d-affb-aa7f6f8e0000
Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live - By Virginia Pietromarchi
and Umut Uras
<<LIVE: Israel, Hezbollah trade fire; food supplies in Gaza ‘at all time
low’
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger
seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
The UN says “food availability is at an all-time low across the entire
Gaza Strip” as Israel’s blockade continues, with some Palestinians in
the besieged north reporting completely running out of supplies.
Israeli forces have renewed attacks on south Lebanon, killing at least
12 people and threatening a ceasefire with Hezbollah that went into
effect last week.>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/3/live-israeli-forces-kill-11-in-south-lebanon-order-new-gaza-displacement
Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2024
<<'Appalling': ICC president says threats, sanctions put court in
jeopardy
US politicians are threatening to sanction court officials over the
arrest warrant against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. The president of the
International Criminal Court (ICC) has warned that attacks on the
tribunal, which have come largely from Washington and Moscow, "jeopardise
its very existence". Addressing ICC members in The Hague at an annual
conference on Monday, ICC President Tomoko Akane said the court faced
"coercive measures, threats, pressure and acts of sabotage" without
naming the United States and Russia. The court has been facing rebukes
from the two countries after issuing arrest warrants for Israeli and
Russian officials over wars in Gaza and Ukraine. "The court is being
threatened with draconian economic sanctions by another permanent member
of the Security Council as if it was a terrorist organisation," Akane
said in her address.
US politicians have been threatening to impose sanctions on ICC
officials after the tribunal issued arrest warrants against Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav
Gallant over suspected war crimes in Gaza. Last month, US Senator
Lindsey Graham, whose Republican Party will be in control of both houses
of Congress and the White House starting in January, called the ICC a
<dangerous joke> and threatened penalties against the court and any
country that cooperates with it. <To any ally - Canada, Britain,
Germany, France - if you try to help the ICC, we're going to sanction
you,> Graham said on Fox News. In June, the Republican-controlled US
House of Representatives passed a bill to sanction the court in response
to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan's request for the arrest warrants against
Israeli officials. The measure has so far not been considered by the
Senate, which at this point is controlled by Democrats. After the ICC
issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and a Hamas leader last
month, US Senator Tom Cotton suggested using military force against The
Hague-based tribunal. The US and Israel are not members of the ICC, and
they have rejected the court's investigations of alleged abuses in Gaza
and the occupied West Bank. However, the court has ruled that it has
jurisdiction in those areas because the State of Palestine is a
signatory to the Rome Statute, which established the tribunal.
"The court has been subjected to attacks seeking to undermine its
legitimacy and ability to administer justice and realise international
law and fundamental rights - coercive measures, threats, pressure and
acts of sabotage," Akane said.
She called the efforts "appalling".
Last week, the court decried the "recent issuance of arrest warrants
aimed at threatening the liberty and integrity of two judges". Russia
had issued an arrest warrant for ICC Judge Haykel Ben Mahfoudh in
November. Moscow also previously indicted Khan and other court officials
after the ICC issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and
Russian military leaders last year over alleged war crimes committed
during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Akane warned on Monday that the
fall of the court through these threats would "imply the fall of the
rule of law in the international community". "Victims would no longer be
able to obtain justice. For many of them, a world without the ICC is
inconceivable," the ICC president said.
"We firmly reject any attempt to influence the independence and the
impartiality of the court," she added.
The ICC was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against
humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression when member states are
unwilling or unable to do so themselves. Its warrant against the Israeli
leaders marked the first time the court issued an order for a staunchly
close Western ally.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/2/icc-president-warns-threats-and-sanctions-from-us-put-court-in-jeopardy
Leyan
Al Jazeera - Dec 2, 2024
<<The Take: All That Remains – a 13-year-old Gaza amputee’s journey to
hope
Fault Lines follows Leyan on her journey to the US for life-changing
treatment.
A 13-year-old amputee from Gaza named Leyan seeks treatment in the US
At just 13, Leyan, an amputee from Gaza, travels to the United States
for medical treatment. Her journey reflects the immense challenges faced
by thousands of children who have lost limbs in the war, underscoring
their ongoing struggles and the urgent need for the world’s attention.
Our guest, filmmaker Rhana Natour, tells Leyan’s story in All That
Remains, a Fault Lines documentary on Al Jazeera.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/12/2/the-take-all-that-remains-a-13-year-old-gaza-amputees-journey-to-hope
BBC - Dec 1, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<UN suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza crossing
Reuters Trucks carrying humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip
queue at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel.Reuters
The biggest UN agency providing aid to Palestinians has said it is
suspending deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza
because of security concerns.
The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said two recent convoys had been
looted by armed gangs near the Kerem Shalom crossing and called on
Israel to maintain law and order.
Israel has previously said that it facilitates the passage of aid into
Gaza and accused Hamas of hijacking and stealing deliveries.
Kerem Shalom is the main route for delivering aid to the more than two
million people in Gaza, which the UN has warned is on the brink of
famine.
Recent weeks have seen a series of increasingly violent thefts by
criminal gangs, which aid workers have said are now the main obstacle to
the distribution of supplies.
On 16 November, a convoy of 109 lorries carrying food was attacked by
masked men who held the drivers at gunpoint before stealing 97 of the
lorries.
A notorious Gazan criminal family later blocked the main road leading
away from Kerem Shalom for two days, erecting iron barriers and
reportedly firing on lorries trying to access an aid distribution point.
Aid workers and locals have also alleged that armed men operate within
plain sight of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a restricted zone at
the Israel-Gaza border.
Announcing the pause in deliveries, Mr Lazzarini said the road away from
the crossing "has not been safe for months", citing the theft of five
more lorries on Saturday as well as the incident last month.
The announcement also followed the death of three people employed by
World Central Kitchen (WCK), a food charity, and two others in an
Israeli strike on Saturday.
Israel said the target of the strike was a WCK employee who had taken
part in the 7 October attacks.
"The delivery of humanitarian aid must never be dangerous or turn into
an ordeal," Mr Lazzarini said.
He said there had been a "breakdown of law and order" and that the
responsibility to protect aid workers lay with Israel.
"They must ensure aid flows into Gaza safely and must refrain from
attacks on humanitarian workers," he said.
Israel has in recent months opened a number of other crossings into
central and northern Gaza following international pressure to increase
the flow of aid, but Kerem Shalom remains the one through which most aid
enters Gaza.
Food charity pauses Gaza work after staff killed in Israeli strike
US to start immediately on fresh push for Gaza ceasefire
Israel building new military dividing line across Gaza, satellite images
suggest
Speaking at the UN in September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu insisted his government was allowing the equivalent of "more
than 3,000 calories a day for every man, woman, and child" into Gaza.
He accused Hamas of stealing aid deliveries and selling food at
exorbitant prices as a means of maintaining control in the strip.
Responding to Unrwa's announcement, the Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories, which oversees the Israeli government's
civilian policy in Gaza, said there were other humanitarian
organisations delivering aid.
"We will continue to work with the international community to increase
the amount of aid making its way into Gaza, through the Kerem Shalom
Crossing as well as the other four crossings between Israel and Gaza,"
it said.
Last month, a review by the Integrated Food Security Phase
Classification - which is run by the UN and a group of international
charities - said the number of aid shipments crossing into Gaza was
lower than at any time since the current conflict began in October 2023.
It warned that the "humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip [was]
extremely grave and rapidly deteriorating", adding that, under a
"reasonable worst-case scenario, a risk of famine existed for the whole
of the Gaza Strip".
The review said "immediate action [was] required from all actors who are
directly taking part in the conflict, or have influence on its conduct,
to avert and alleviate this catastrophic situation".>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ln5592v46o
Al Jazeera - Dec 1, 2024
<<Four Palestinians killed in Israeli attack near Jenin in occupied West
Bank
Attack on village of Sir brings Palestinian death toll in the territory
to at least 790 since beginning of Gaza war. At least four Palestinians
have been killed in an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank,
according to authorities. The attack occurred in the village of Sir near
Jenin on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. It
said the killings were a result of "the occupation’s aggression".
Israel's military also confirmed that four Palestinians were killed,
describing them as <terrorists>. The Palestine Red Crescent Society,
meanwhile, reported that Israeli forces had been "preventing our teams
from reaching the bombing site". Fares Irshaid, a resident of Sir,
described the attack to the AFP news agency. "In the morning, the planes
came and started bombing this area," Irshaid said. "Shortly after that,
the army stormed the entire area. They declared it a closed military
zone. There was a group of young men, including my nephew and the son of
our neighbours, and we do not know their fate," he told the news agency.
Israel has not released the bodies of those killed although the military
identified one of the dead as 31-year-old Wael Lahluh.
There has been a surge in Israeli military operations and violence by
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began
on October 7, 2023.
At least 780 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, adding to
the 44,429 Palestinians killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war.
Israel said 24 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank during that
period while Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023,
killed at least 1,139 people.
'Drone attack'
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Willem Marx, a journalist based in the West
Bank, said Sunday's operation was initially "a drone attack, using
bullets against cars. It seems the men inside [the cars] then fled on
foot to a nearby agricultural storage space in quite a remote region
just southeast of the city of Jenin," he said. He added the Israeli
military has said those killed were reportedly responsible for several
attacks on Israeli settlers. The military said Lahluh had killed a
23-year-old settler in August. While Israeli settlements are illegal
under international law and are seen as a major obstacle to a future
Palestinian state, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has continued their expansion. The military regularly
intervenes to protect Israeli settlers. The latest Israeli operation was
carried out after Israel last month launched several raids in Jenin,
killing nine people. Two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, were
also killed during an Israeli raid in the West Bank village of Yabad on
November 24, according to the Palestinian Authority.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/1/palestinians-killed-israeli-attack-jenin-occupied-west-bank
Haaretz - Dec 2, 2024 - by Josh BreinerBar Peleg
<<Senior Police, Prison Officials Close to Israel's Ben-Gvir Suspected
of Ethics Violations, Bribery
Israel Prison Service Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi and two senior police
officials were questioned by the Justice Ministry's department for
investigating police officers over alleged leaks. National Security
Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: 'This is a coup'
Israel Prison Service Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi, along with senior
police officials close to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir,
were questioned on suspicion of offenses related to unethical conduct.>>
Source/video:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-02/ty-article/.premium/senior-police-prison-officials-close-to-israels-ben-gvir-questioned-over-ethics-abuses/00000193-86df-d27f-a597-afff64420000
Haaretz - Dec 1, 2024 - by Aluf Benn
<<Opinion | Haaretz Will Not Be Silenced by Netanyahu
Netanyahu has never liked our reporting and our strong stance against
his policy of occupation and annexation, and his overall denial of
Palestinian rights. Now his political henchmen want to delegitimize and
strangle us financially - but we are not alone in the government's
crosshairs
"Wake up, it's war," said Amos Harel, our military analyst, calling me
early on October 7, 2023. It was Simhat Torah, the last of the High Holy
Days, the unofficial end of the Tel Aviv summer, and after staying out
late the night before, I slept through the rocket attack sirens that
went off at 6:29 A.M. "What war, against whom?" I wondered, still dizzy.
"It's Hamas," said Harel as he laid out in crisp detail what would
happen now: a long fight, aggressive Israeli counteroffensive, strong
international criticism.>>
Source/video:
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-12-01/ty-article/.premium/haaretz-will-not-be-silenced-by-netanyahu/00000193-7eba-d548-abf7-ffbef84d0000
Haaretz - Dec 1, 2024 - by Ofer Aderet
<<German University Cancels Lecture by Leading Israeli Historian Benny
Morris Following Student Protests
The University of Leipzig said it had planned the lecture by Prof. Benny
Morris as a critical discussion but had to cancel it over students'
opposition and security concerns. The University of Leipzig in Germany
canceled a planned lecture by Israeli historian Professor Benny Morris
following student protests. In a statement released on Friday, the
university explained that students objected to Morris's planned
appearance because of comments in recent interviews that they described
as offensive and racist.>>
Source/video:
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-12-01/ty-article/.premium/german-university-cancels-lecture-by-leading-israeli-historian-following-student-protests/00000193-81ac-de89-abff-99ff0e1c0000
Le Monde - Dec 1, 2024
<<Kuwait ruler urges 'immediate ceasefire' for Gaza
Speaking at a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday, Emir
Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah hit out at what he described as the
'double standards in the application of relevant international laws,
charters and resolutions.' Kuwait's ruler on Sunday, December 1, urged
an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as he addressed a summit of the Gulf
Cooperation Council held after nearly 14 months of war in the
Palestinian territory.
Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah called on the international
community to implement "an immediate ceasefire, providing international
protection for innocent civilians and ensuring the opening of safe
corridors and the arrival of urgent humanitarian aid." The meeting of
the six-member GCC comes at a time of acute and ongoing uncertainty for
the Middle East following Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and
a subsequent war on Gaza, which has repeatedly threatened to spillover
into a wider regional conflagration. Sheikh Meshal hit out at what he
characterized as the "double standards in the application of relevant
international laws, charters and resolutions" which he said had
undermined "the region's security and stability." He said Kuwait was
"optimistic" about a ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hezbollah in
Lebanon that he said would contribute "to reducing escalation in the
region." Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and other
countries also welcomed last week's truce after a year of conflict that
killed thousands in Lebanon and caused mass displacement on both sides
of the border. Fighting escalated in September after continuous
cross-border strikes, initiated by Iran-backed Hezbollah in support of
Hamas. The Kuwaiti ruler spoke in support of Saudi's work to form a
global body pushing for an independent Palestinian state and lauded
"positive and constructive" work by Iran and the GCC. Saudi Arabia had
appeared close to a normalization deal with Israel prior to October 2023
but Riyadh indicated it was unwilling to move ahead while Israel pursued
its campaign in Gaza, hardening its position in recent months by saying
it would not recognize Israel without an independent Palestinian state.
Anxious about being drawn into tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and
nearby Iran, also precipitated by fighting in Gaza, the wealthy and
traditionally western-allied Gulf monarchies have sought to cultivate
improved relations with Tehran. An Israeli air raid on Iran in October
was the most recent in a series of retaliatory attacks between the two
countries.
Le Monde with AFP>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/12/01/kuwait-ruler-urges-immediate-ceasefire-for-gaza_6734783_4.html
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