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2024
Imagine: a 5-year old Gazaian girl
is begging for buscuits at a UNRWA-post.
The answer of the IDF is she and it gets bombed to as
they call her/it
'just garbage to be cleaned out'
and more actual and revealing news
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October 31 - 29, 2024
"No child gets shot twice
by mistake"...
US surgeon Mark Perlmutter in Gaza
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October 29 - 22, 2024
"The plight of Palestinian
civilians trapped in north Gaza is unbearable,"
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
BBC-footage of young girl captured
BBC - November 1, 2024
<<What happened to the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza
detainees
Supplied A group of dozens of detained Gazan men pictured in their
underwear, during what appears to be an Israeli check for weapons and
signs of any links to Hamas. They are sitting or squatting, some young
and some older. At the far left of the picture, in the middle of the
group, a little girl with dark hair can be seen. The BBC has chosen to
blur the faces of the men nearer the front of the picture. In the
background is a destroyed building, collapsed into rubble. Supplied. In
a group of Gazan men, detained by Israeli forces, a little girl can be
seen (circled). The BBC has chosen to obscure the faces of those most
identifiable. It's hard to see her in the crowd of men. She is the tiny
figure towards the back. The soldiers have ordered the men to strip to
their underwear. Even some of the elderly ones. They gaze up at whoever
is taking the photograph. It is almost certainly an Israeli soldier. The
image appears to have first been published on the Telegram account of a
journalist with strong sources in the Israel Defence Forces. The men
look abject, fearful and exhausted. The little girl, who was noticed in
the picture by a BBC producer, is looking away. Maybe something out of
sight of the camera has caught her attention. Or maybe she just doesn't
want to look at the soldiers and their guns. The military have told the
people to stop here. Bomb-blasted buildings stretch off into the
distance behind them. They are checking the men, for weapons, documents,
any sign they might be linked to Hamas. So often the suffering of this
war is found in the detail of individual lives. The child's presence,
her expression as she looks away, is a detail that poses so many
questions. Foremost, who was she? What happened to her? The photo was
taken a week ago. A week of hundreds killed, many wounded, and thousands
uprooted from their homes. Children died under the rubble of air strikes
or because there wasn’t the medicine or medical staff to treat them.
Working with BBC Arabic Gaza Today programme we began searching for the
child. Israel does not allow the BBC or other international media access
to Gaza to report independently, so the BBC depends on a trusted network
of freelance journalists. Our colleagues approached their contacts with
aid agencies in the north, showing the photograph in places where the
displaced had fled. Within 48 hours word came back. The message on the
phone read: "We have found her!" Julia Abu Warda, aged three, was alive.
When our journalist reached the family in Gaza City - where many from
Jabalia have fled - Julia was with her father, grandfather and mother.
She was watching a cartoon of animated chickens singing, difficult to
hear because of the ominous whine of an Israeli drone overhead. Julia
was surprised to suddenly be the focus of a stranger's attention. "Who
are you?" her father asked, playfully. "Jooliaa" she replied, stretching
the word for emphasis. Julia Abu Warda, aged three, sits on her father's
knee, as he looks down. There is a wary expression in her brown eyes.
She is dressed in a peach-coloured jumper, with her hair in two buns
tied with blue bobbles. The BBC found Julia and her father, Mohammed, in
Gaza City. Julia was physically unscathed. Dressed in a jumper and
jeans, her hair in buns held by bright blue floral bands. But her
expression was wary. Then Mohammed began to tell the story behind the
photograph. Five times the family was displaced in the last 21 days.
Each time they were running from air strikes and gunfire. On the day the
photo was taken they heard an Israeli drone broadcasting a warning to
evacuate. This was in the Al-Khalufa district where the IDF was
advancing against Hamas. "There was random shellfire. We went toward the
centre of Jabalia refugee camp, on the road to the checkpoint." The
family carried their clothes, some cans of tinned food, and a few
personal possessions. At first everybody was together. Julia's dad, her
mother Amal, her 15-month-old brother Hamza, a grandfather, two uncles
and a cousin. But in the chaos, Mohammed and Julia were separated from
the others. "I got separated from her mother due to the crowd and all
the belongings we were carrying. She was able to leave, and I stayed in
place," Mohammed said. Father and daughter eventually moved on with the
flow of people heading out. The streets reeked of death. "We saw
destruction and bodies scattered on the ground," Mohammed said. There
was no way to stop Julia seeing at least some of it. After more than a
year of war, children have become familiar with the sight of those who
have died violent deaths. The group reached an Israeli checkpoint.
"There were soldiers on the tanks and soldiers on the ground. They
approached the people and started firing above their heads. People were
pushing against each other during the shooting." The men were ordered to
strip to their underwear. This is routine procedure as the IDF searches
for concealed weapons or suicide bombers. Mohammed says they were held
at the checkpoint for six to seven hours. In the photograph Julia
appears calm. But her father recalled her distress afterwards. "She
started screaming and told me she wanted her mother." The family was
reunited. The displaced are packed into small areas. Bonds of family are
tight. Word travels fast in Gaza City when kin arrive from Jabalia.
Julia was comforted by the people who loved her. There were sweets and
potato chips, a treat that had been stored away. Then Mohammed disclosed
to our colleague the deep trauma Julia had suffered, before that day of
their flight from Jabalia to Gaza City. She had a favourite cousin. His
name was Yahya and he was seven years old. They used to play together in
the street. About two weeks ago Yahya was in the street when the
Israelis launched a drone-strike. The child was killed. "Life used to be
normal. She would run and play," he said. "But now, whenever there’s
shelling, she points and says, 'plane!' While we are trapped she looks
up and points towards the drone flying over us." Julia rubs one of her
eyes with a hand as she leans against her father, who holds her on his
lap. Mohammed is a young man with dark hair and a trimmed beard. They
are sitting down in a plastic chair, outside. Julia's favourite cousin,
Yahya, was killed in the street in an Israeli drone strike. According to
Unicef - the United Nations children’s agency -14,000 children have been
reportedly killed in the war. "Day after day children are paying the
price for a war they did not start," said Unicef spokesman, Jonathan
Crickx. "Most of the children I have met have lost a loved one in often
terrible circumstances." The UN estimates that nearly all children in
the Gaza Strip - nearly one million - need mental health support. It is
hard to call a child like Julia lucky. When you think of what she has
seen and lost and where she is trapped. Who knows what will return in
dreams and memories in the days ahead. By now she knows that life can
end with terrible suddenness. Her good fortune is in the family that
will do whatever is humanly possible - in the face of air strikes, gun
battles, hunger and disease - to protect her.
With additional reporting by Haneen Abdeen, Alice Doyard, Moose Campbell
and Rudabah Abbass.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l5e4pe1go
Al Jazeera - November 2, 2024 - By Mersiha Gadzo and Urooba Jamal
<<LIVE: Israel kills 16 in Gaza, keeps pounding Lebanon
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger
seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
At least 16 people have been killed across Gaza since dawn, according to
Al Jazeera's team on the ground, including five in Nuseirat, three in
as-Saftawi and eight in Beit Lahiya. At least 25 towns and villages in
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley came under heavy Israeli air strikes on Friday,
killing dozens of people, according to local authorities.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/2/live-israel-massacres-84-in-gaza-air-strikes-kill-dozens-across-lebanon
Al Jazeera - November 2, 2024 - In Pictures Gallery
<<UN should consider suspending Israel over genocide, says special
rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca
Albanese, has called for UN member states to consider suspending Israel
over the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its decades-long illegal
occupation of Palestinian land.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/1/un-should-consider-suspending-israel-over-genocide-says-special-rapporteur
BBC - November 2, 2024
<<Polio vaccinations restart in north GazaMore than 442,000 children in
Gaza's central and southern areas received a second dose of the polio
vaccine last month following the start of the second round.
The final phase of a two-stage polio vaccination campaign has started in
north Gaza on Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The
second phase was postponed in October by UN agencies due to intense
Israeli bombardments, mass displacement and lack of access in the
region.
Gaza recorded its first case of polio in 25 years in August, which left
a baby boy paralysed and prompted the rollout of the programme. The
immunisations are resuming as 15 UN and humanitarian organisations have
described the situation in north Gaza as "apocalyptic" nearly a month
after an Israeli ground offensive began. A humanitarian pause in the
fighting has been agreed upon to allow vaccinations to restart in Gaza
City, the WHO said. The campaign will run for three days. About 15,000
children under 10 years old in towns across north Gaza, such as Jabalia,
Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, "still remain inaccessible" and will be
missed by the vaccination campaign, compromising its effectiveness, the
agency said. The WHO had aimed to give 119,000 children in the area a
second dose of the oral polio vaccine. The agency added that achieving
this target "is now unlikely due to access constraints". The first round
of the vaccine campaign successfully reached 559,000 children under 10
years old over three phases in south, central and north Gaza between 1
and 12 September, during which there were local "humanitarian pauses"
agreed by Israel and Palestinian groups. However, the area agreed in the
latest humanitarian pause "has been substantially reduced" compared to
the first round of vaccinations and is now limited to just Gaza City,
according to the WHO. From the start of the polio vaccination campaign
in Gaza, medical experts stressed that delays in administering the
second dose could jeopardise overall efforts to halt transmission of the
contagious, potentially deadly disease. To interrupt transmission, at
least 90% of all children need to be given a minimum of two doses. The
UN human rights chief said last week that the Gaza war's "darkest
moment" is unfolding in the north of the territory. Hundreds of people
have reportedly been killed since the Israeli military launched a ground
offensive in Beit Lahia as well as neighbouring Jabalia and Beit Hanoun
on 6 October, saying it was acting against regrouping Hamas fighters. At
least 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate from north Gaza
towards Gaza City for safety, the WHO said. The joint statement from UN
agencies, including the WHO, released on Friday, said the situation was
"apocalyptic", with the entire Palestinian population in the area "at
imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence". The UN
estimates that about 100,000 residents remain in dire conditions, with
severe shortages of food, water and medical supplies. The US warned
Israel this week to immediately increase humanitarian aid into Gaza as a
deadline approaches to boost aid or face cuts to American military
assistance. The US envoy to the UN said on Tuesday that Israel's words
"must be matched by action", which was "not happening". Israel launched
a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's attack on
southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were
killed and 251 others were taken hostage. More than 43,160 people have
been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run
health ministry.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2mnlg43k4o
Al Jazeera - November 1, 2024 - In Pictures Gallery
<<Month-old infant among the dozens killed in Israeli strikes on
Nuseirat
Israeli strikes pounded Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp and the surrounding
areas, killing dozens. Children, including a one-month-old infant and
his mother, are among the victims.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/1/month-old-infant-among-the-dozens-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-nuseirat
Le Monde - Nov 1, 2024- By Isabelle Mandraud
<<In the West Bank, a bitter olive harvest, with settlers looming
East of Ramallah, the village of Burqa lives in fear of being attacked
by Jewish extremists whose illegal settlements are expanding. Now that
the harvest season has begun, incidents are increasingly frequent
throughout the occupied territory. Barakat Youssif Sidon warned us to
leave. "They're coming." A strange vehicle, a buggy, had just appeared
on the road driving down the hill overlooking Burqa, a Palestinian
village in the heart of the occupied West Bank. Its inhabitants feared
another attack by Israeli settlers, whose white mobile homes stand out
against the hillside. In the end, nothing happened on Friday, October
25, but the alert highlighted the extreme tension prevailing in this
village a few kilometers east of Ramallah, as the traditional olive
harvest, essential for the income of local households, is in full
swing.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/11/01/in-the-west-bank-a-bitter-olive-harvest-with-settlers-looming_6731276_4.html
A child waiting to be shot again?
Al Jazeera - November 1, 2024 - In Pictures Gallery
Israeli strikes kill 95 Palestinians across Gaza, hospital targeted
The WHO condemns an Israeli attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital that damaged
lifesaving supplies and injured staff. At least 46 Palestinians killed
in Israeli strikes, hospital hit. At least 95 Palestinians have been
killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, mainly in the north
of the enclave where a hospital was attacked, medical supplies were
torched and operations were disrupted, health officials said. A vast
majority of the victims in Thursday's attacks were civilians in northern
Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera. The Israeli military's shelling
of central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, the Nuseirat refugee camp and the
az-Zawayda areas also left dozens wounded from attacks on Thursday night
that continued into Friday, according to the Palestinian news agency
Wafa. Most of those killed were women and children, Wafa reported, as
medical sources confirmed that 47 bodies were taken to the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. Most of the victims were killed in
the bombing of several houses in the Nuseirat area. The same houses were
hit a second time as people rushed to rescue those who survived the
first strike, leading to more casualties, Wafa said. The search for
people missing under the rubble was continuing. Meanwhile, a new United
Nations report said Israel has "perpetrated a concerted policy to
destroy Gaza's healthcare system" that has included "deliberate attacks
on medical personnel and facilities", both of which are war crimes. The
World Health Organization (WHO) condemned an attack on the Kamal Adwan
Hospital in northern Gaza, which caused injuries and damaged recently
delivered lifesaving supplies. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said
the attack "caused injuries to some hospital staff members, and hit a
storage space containing lifesaving WHO supplies brought in via complex
missions, as well as the desalination station and water tanks on top of
the hospital". The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA) said the hospital's third floor was hit, resulting in the
loss of supplies "delivered just five days ago". Israel's war on Gaza
has killed at least 43,204 Palestinians and wounded 101,641 since
October 7, 2023, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health.>>
View gallery here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/11/1/israeli-strikes-kill-95-palestinians-across-gaza-hospital-targeted
|Death toll now rises to 43,259|
and View gallery here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/11/1/israeli-strikes-kill-95-palestinians-across-gaza-hospital-targeted
Al Jazeera - November 1, 2024 - by By Edna Mohamed incl. video
<<Labour government's shift on Gaza not enough, say British Muslims,
scholars
Despite the prime minister taking a slightly tougher line on Israel, the
UK continues to supply weapons, avoid sanctions.
London, United Kingdom - Halimo Hussain, 31, has voted for the Labour
Party at every election since she was able to vote. But that stopped
with the 2024 July election. "I felt that it was impossible to support
the Labour Party while they were actively funding and supporting
genocide ... and endorsing collective punishment [of Palestinians in
Gaza] was unconscionable," Hussain, a British Muslim and a diversity and
inclusion officer from Tottenham in north London, told Al Jazeera. She
explained that in the run-up to the election, her efforts were focused
on independent candidates who were pro-Palestinian. Nearly four months
after the election, Hussain's views on Labour have not changed despite
the party taking a different stance on the war in power than the
previous Conservative government. “I think they’ve semi-acknowledged
that war crimes are taking place but yet are attempting to go through
legal loopholes to keep funding and supporting Israel in its genocidal
assault on Gaza, and that to me is insane," she said, referring to
Britain suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel in early September.
"They will never ever get my vote ever again," she added.
Hussain is not alone. Four months ago, the Labour Party under Keir
Starmer won the general election in a landslide vote. But despite the
win, the party lost support from what has traditionally been a key
support base for Labour: British Muslims upset over the party's stance
on the Gaza war.
Shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack last year, Starmer told LBC
radio that due to the attack, Israel had the right to defend itself and
the "right" to cut water and power in the enclave, in line with
“international law”. But his comments sparked outrage within the party
and its members, with some councillors resigning. He later clarified his
comments and said he did not suggest that withholding essential
resources was appropriate. In February of this year, the Labour Party
called for a humanitarian ceasefire after intense pressure and said in
its party manifesto ahead of the election that it pledges to recognise a
Palestinian state, which would result in a two-state solution with
Israel. Five pro-Palestine candidates who ran on an independent ticket,
including former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, were elected in
July, in a mandate that was widely seen as a rebuke to Starmer's party.
Since then, in the first few months of his leadership, Labour has
recalibrated the UK's positions on the war. In July, the UK resumed
funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Earlier in the year, Israel had accused several UNRWA staffers of
participating in the October 7 attack on its border communities, after
which the United Kingdom had joined multiple Western nations in
suspending funding for the UN agency. Also in July, Britain lifted a
formal objection to the International Criminal Court’s right to issue
arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, before introducing the suspension of some
weapons exports. Yet, these changes are too little, too late, say
British Muslim leaders and advocates for a ceasefire in Gaza. Joseph
Willits, head of parliamentary affairs at the Centre of Arab-British
Understanding (Caabu), a nonprofit organisation on British Middle East
policy that promotes conflict resolution and human rights, said it was
"astounding" that the British government "fails to act" amid the rising
death toll and Israeli attacks across Lebanon. Since October 7, 2023, at
least 43,204 Palestinians have been killed and 101,641 others have been
injured in Gaza. Israel has, since late September, also started carpet
bombing large parts of Lebanon, while sending ground forces into its
northern neighbour. "Israel's genocidal intentions, and stated promises
to ethnically cleanse [Gaza] are as clear as day, and yet still there is
a business-as-usual approach to Israel," Willits told Al Jazeera.
"Israel is not a good faith actor nor an ally, and under no circumstance
should it be treated as such. The UK must not be an ally or complicit in
Israeli atrocities."
'End all arms sales to Israel'
Calls for the Labour government to do more to stop the war are growing.
Last week, more than 100 Muslim councillors from the Labour Party wrote
to Prime Minister Starmer to call for an "immediate and complete
suspension of arms sales to Israel". "We must not be complicit in these
clear violations of international humanitarian law. It is our moral
obligation to act now," the letter read. Willits, meanwhile, said that
while the current government was "marginally less worse" than the
previous administration of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party’s
decision to continue to allow exports of F-35 fighter jet parts to
Israel risked undercutting its global credibility as a voice for
international law. Those jets, he pointed out, were "bombing Gaza and
Lebanon". "If a UK government sees genocide and extermination taking
place in Gaza and fails to act by ending all arms sales to Israel, never
can it ever speak of international law and atrocity prevention when it
is complicit in such atrocities," he said. According to a poll by
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and Caabu last May, 73 percent out of
the 2,053 people who were surveyed between May 1 and 2 supported an
immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and 55 percent wanted to end the sale of
arms to Israel during the war.
Sanctions as an option
Other experts too believe that Starmer's government needs to explore
more steps to hold Israel accountable under international law. Lawrence
Hill-Cawthorne, an international law professor at Bristol University,
told Al Jazeera that while the Labour government has taken a position
that "reflects both better law and better policy" than the previous
government, it has still not recognised its obligations to international
law to "actively" end the war. "Whilst the focus has been on arms
exports to Israel, it is important to remember that the UK has other
international law obligations that require it to take active steps to
bring the current assault on Gaza to an end as soon as possible,"
Cawthorne said, referencing the UK's obligation to international
humanitarian law and specifically the Geneva Convention, which outlines
the way soldiers and civilians must be treated during armed conflict.
"This is because there is clear evidence of systematic, intentional
violations of international humanitarian law." One tool, which the UK
has used against Iran and Russia, is to sanction "Israeli political and
military leadership”, he said. Earlier in October, Starmer said he was
considering sanctioning two far-right Israeli leaders, Finance Minister
Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, due to
their inflammatory comments about Palestinians in Gaza. Starmer was
particularly asked about Smotrich's comments in August where he said
starving Palestinians in Gaza <may be just and moral> to get the Israeli
captives held in the enclave back. In the same month, Ben-Gvir called
Israelis from illegal settlements who were suspected of killing a
19-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank <heroes>. Since
Starmer made comments about the sanctions, the UK has not taken any
action against the two Israeli ministers.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/1/labour-governments-shift-on-gaza-not-enough-say-british-muslims-scholars
Al Jazeera - November 1, 2024
<<UK Prime Minister declines to label Gaza crisis a 'genocide'
Green Party MP Carla Denyer urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to
label the Gaza crisis as "genocide" after Israel's parliament banned
UNRWA and blocked UN aid. Starmer expressed concern about what is taking
place in Gaza but refused to describe it as genocide.>>
Video/Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/31/uk-prime-minister-declines-to-label-gaza-crisis-a
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