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Special reports: TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN   a   NEW: September 11, 2024: Nour, A midwife in Gaza Sept. 4, 2024: "He can't move at all": A Gaza mother's agony over baby with polio... and September 3, 2024: 'Tragic childhood': Gaza children vaccinated against polio, war continues...   Shoroughs' family August 12, 2024: 'Part of me is missing': How Israel's war on Gaza tears spouses apart earlier stories: August 7, 2024: 'My children cry all day from the heat': Life in Gaza’s tent camps... and August 5, 2024: Shorough 'We have nothing left in this world, except our daughter': a young mother on life in Gaza...

Alaa al-Nimer and daughterNimah July 28, 2024 "My baby girl was born on the street": A traumatic birth in Gaza   July 22, 2024 Ms. Maram Humaid: "A letter to my son: As you turn one today in Gaza, I feel joy and sorrow"  July 12, 2024 Noor Alyacoubi - "I'm fighting to keep my baby alive" and other stories Mothers and children: Boom-And again Boom   November '24 Special reports: For actual updates Nov. 2024  Israel's new tactics in north Gaza stoke fears... Why is Germany supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza? 'Endless' wars: What Israel's political drama means for Gaza, Too hesitant too late Overview special reports   Updated: Nov. 2 - Oct. 24: Gazaian journalists under permanent siege by the idf October 23 - 16, 2024: "Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war" All incl. Additional stories of utmost interest

November 14 - 13, 2024 "Israel's warfare methods in Gaza 'consistent with genocide'": UN committee Report says Israel 'using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population'. and more actual and fact-finding news

November 12 - 9, 2024 Food for thought: With the genocide literally deepening onto flesh and bone israels' western allies are also literally deepening not only their 'moral' support but also the deliveries of arms. In other words: thats how low western Humanism can sink. So yes, how are you? Read more and decide for yourself

November 6 - 4, 2024 Food for thought: 'there are no children' Israeli "hooligans" chanted. No wonder, 70% of all civilians killed by the idf and or israeli settlers were women and children, are of 45.000+ others. Gino d'Artali and more (f-)actual news below

June 14, 2024 Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison

Nov. 2 - Oct. 24: Gazaian journalists under permanent siege by the idf  October 23 - 16, 2024: "Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war" Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel    Click here for earlier stories/news

May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila

 
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.


 photo: Raghed Waked-Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Israel's warfare methods in Gaza 'consistent with genocide': UN committee
Report says Israel 'using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population'.
Israel's warfare in the Gaza Strip is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a United Nations committee has said, accusing the country of "using starvation as a method of war". In a report published on Thursday, the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices accused the country of "using starvation as a method of war", resulting in "mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions" for Palestinians. "Since the beginning of the war, Israeli officials have publicly supported policies that strip Palestinians of the very necessities required to sustain life - food, water, and fuel," it said. "These statements along with the systematic and unlawful interference of humanitarian aid make clear Israel's intent to instrumentalise life-saving supplies for political and military gains."
Since October 7, 2023, Israel's war in Gaza has killed at least 43,736 Palestinians and wounded 103,370, the enclave's Ministry of Health said on Thursday.
The latest UN report reflects that published in March by UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, who concluded that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It covers the first nine months of Israel's war in Gaza, which followed the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel in October 2023 in which an estimated 1,139 people were killed and more than 200 taken captive. The report also pointed out that despite repeated UN appeals as well as binding orders from the International Court of Justice and UN Security Council Resolutions, Israel continued to inflict "collective punishment" on the Palestinian population. Israel's extensive bombing campaign in Gaza has "decimated essential services" and "unleashed an environmental catastrophe ... that will have lasting health impacts", it said.
By early 2024, more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives - equivalent to two nuclear bombs - had been dropped on Gaza, "causing massive destruction and the collapse of water and sanitation systems, agricultural devastation, and toxic pollution", the report said.
An Al Jazeera investigation found that within one year of war, the volume of explosives dropped on Gaza had increased to an estimated 75,000 tonnes, producing more than 42 million tonnes of debris. At the same time, the bombings also destroyed 114 hospitals and clinics and killed more than 986 medical workers including 165 doctors, 260 nurses, 184 health associates, 76 pharmacists and 300 management and support staff, as well as 85 Palestinian Civil Defence workers mostly involved in search-and-rescue operations. The report additionally raised "serious concerns" about Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in battle that killed not only Hamas fighters but also civilians, including many women and children. "The Israeli military's use of AI-assisted targeting, with minimal human oversight, combined with heavy bombs, underscores Israel's disregard of its obligation to distinguish between civilians and combatants and take adequate safeguards to prevent civilian deaths," the committee said. An Al Jazeera investigation revealed in April that the AI-assisted system called Lavender was responsible for drawing up kill lists of "as many as 37,000 targets". Meanwhile, the UN committee accused Israel of escalating media censorship and suppressing dissent during the war, adding that its "targeting of journalists are deliberate efforts to block global access to information" about what's happening on the ground in Gaza. "This deliberate silencing of reporting, combined with disinformation and attacks on humanitarian workers, is a clear strategy to undermine the vital work of the UN, sever the lifeline of aid still reaching Gaza, and dismantle the international legal order," it added.
The report urged all UN member states to uphold their legal obligations and stop Israel's violations of international law and hold it accountable.
SOURCE/VIDEO: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/israels-warfare-methods-in-gaza-consistent-with-genocide-un-committee

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<In Pictures - Gallery
Protests in Paris over pro-Israel gala organised by far-right figures. The event, intended to raise funds for the Israeli army, comes before a France-Israel football match in the French capital. Protests erupted in Paris against a contentious gala organised by far-right figures in support of Israel.
The event intended to raise funds for the Israeli military. Called Israel is Forever, the gala was planned by an association of the same name whose stated goal is to <mobilise French-speaking Zionist forces>. Hundreds of protesters marched through central Paris on Wednesday night, denouncing the "gala of hatred and shame". "Imagine if an association were hosting a gala for Hezbollah or Hamas - there's no way the police would allow that," said Melkir Saib, a 30-year-old protester. "The situation is just unfair." The demonstrations took place on the eve of a high-stakes football match between France and Israel at the Stade de France, north of Paris. The authorities in the French capital announced that more than 4,000 police officers and 1,600 stadium staff will be deployed for the game on Thursday. Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was among those invited, but he did not attend amid growing criticism of the event. The invitation to Smotrich drew outrage from local associations, unions and left-wing political parties, prompting two protests in the French capital. The hardliner was denounced this week for saying he hopes the election of Donald Trump as United States president will clear the way for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank - a step that would extinguish Palestinian statehood dreams. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Smotrich's remarks "contrary to international law" and counterproductive to efforts to lower regional tensions. Critics also pointed at Nili Kupfer-Naouri, the president of the Israel is Forever association, who sparked anger last year after Israel's war in Gaza started, posting on social media that <no civilian in Gaza was innocent>. A separate group, including Jewish left-wing organisations opposed to racism and anti-Semitism, gathered near the Arc de Triomphe chanting slogans against the event and Smotrich. French authorities defended the event, with Paris police chief Laurent Nunez saying it posed <no major threat to public order>. Last week, Paris Saint-Germain fans unveiled a "Free Palestine" banner during a Champions League match at Parc des Princes stadium. Clashes also broke out in Amsterdam before and after a football match between Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Netherlands’s Ajax team.>>
View photos here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/11/14/protests-in-paris-over-pro-israel-gala-organised-by-far-right-figures

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Israeli forces demolish mosque in Negev>>
Video and read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/14/israeli-forces-demolish-mosque-in-negev

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Gaza aid supply goes from 'bad to worse' after Israel misses US deadline
Palestinians are forced to queue for hours for food they say is scarce due to Israel's disruption of aid to the enclave, despite the US setting a deadline for the military to improve the conditions.>>
View video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/14/gaza-aid-supply-goes-from-bad-to-worse-after-israel-misses-us-deadline

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Video: Massive explosion hits tent camp in Gaza <safe zone>
Video captured the moment of an Israeli attack on a tent camp in Gaza's al-Mawasi, the area designated by Israel as a <safe zone>. >>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/14/video-massive-explosion-hits-tent-camp-in-gaza-safe

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Protests against pro-Israel gala on eve of France-Israel match
There were clashes in Paris on Wednesday night between French police and pro-Palestine protesters denouncing a pro-Israel gala on the eve of the France-Israel football match.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/14/protests-against-pro-israel-gala-on-eve-of-france-israel-match

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Police detain pro-Palestinian protesters defying Amsterdam ban>>
Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/14/police-detain-pro-palestinian-protesters-defying-amsterdam-ban

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Rights group says Gaza forced displacement is war crime
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes with its deliberate forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and the systematic destruction of the Strip to make it uninhabitable.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/14/rights-group-says-gaza-forced-displacement-is-war-crime


14,000 pregnant women affected by conflict in Lebanon
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov. 14 , 2024
<<Almost 14,000 pregnant women affected by conflict in Lebanon
Almost 14,000 pregnant women have been affected by the conflict in Lebanon, according to a report published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday.
News Center- The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has affected 1.2 million people. Out of 1.2 million people, over 336,000 are women of reproductive age struggling to access essential sexual and reproductive health services, including maternal care, menstrual supplies, and contraception. 13,900 pregnant women are among the affected people, according to a report published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday. "1,550 expected to give birth in the next month," the report said. "Protection risks, including sexual exploitation and abuse, have intensified in overcrowded shelters, where access to support services remains limited."
An estimated 520,000 women and girls were displaced and in desperate need of shelter and safety, UN Women said in a statement in October 2024.
Lebanon's food insecurity is set to worsen if hostilities persist in the Bekaa and the South, which account for more than 60 per cent of Lebanon's agricultural production, the report of the OCHA added. According to the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM), conflict in Lebanon has displaced some 880,000 people within the country. Another 470,000 have fled across the border into neighboring Syria.
Since October 8, 2023, at least 3,365 people have been killed and 14,344 others injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said on Wednesday.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/almost-14-000-pregnant-women-affected-by-conflict-in-lebanon-35982

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<LIVE: UN committee says Israel's methods in Gaza align with 'genocide'
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
UN special committee says Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza are consistent with "genocide", including the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
Humanitarian groups say Israeli forces have killed at least 20 aid workers in Gaza in the past month, including four Oxfam staff travelling in a clearly marked vehicle.>>
Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/14/live-israel-bombs-gaza-camps-6-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-south-lebanon

Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - By Lyndal Rowlands
<<Israel's forced displacement in Gaza amounts to war crime: HRW
Rights group says Israel appears to have plans to permanently prevent Palestinians from returning to parts of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli authorities have caused massive and deliberate forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, in what amounts to a war crime, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found. The international human rights organisation analysed satellite imagery, Israeli forced evacuation orders and statements by senior Israeli officials to show that authorities in Israel are deliberately and permanently making returning to large areas of Gaza effectively impossible for the Palestinian population. "Israeli forces have destroyed the majority of Gaza's water, sanitation, communications, energy and transport infrastructure as well as its schools and hospitals" and "systematically razed orchards, fields and greenhouses" report author Nadia Hardman told journalists in a news conference in advance of the report's release on Thursday. "So much civilian infrastructure has been destroyed that much of Gaza has been rendered uninhabitable," Hardman said. In addition to the widespread destruction carried out by Israeli forces across the besieged enclave, HRW found that Israel has continued to expand three so-called <buffer zones> by razing large areas of Gaza's cities, including Rafah, and building Israeli military access roads and structures to make them permanent features in the Palestinian territory. "A new road constructed by the Israeli military that bisects the north and south halves of Gaza and runs east to west - this <Netzarim Corridor> as it's called - is more than 4km [2.4 miles] wide and at the time of publication keeps expanding towards north Gaza and the south, beyond Wadi Gaza," said Hardman. Several Israeli officials have claimed that military <buffer zones> between Gaza and Israel are necessary so that residents in southern Israel can return to their homes without fearing another attack such as the one led by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Israel's Minister of Agriculture Avi Dichter told reporters on October 19, 2023, that the plan was to create a <margin> around the Gaza Strip that <will be a fire zone. And no matter who you are, you will never be able to come close to the Israeli border>. The Human Rights Watch report said that the razing and destruction of the vast majority of Palestinian homes, fields, orchards, wooded areas and infrastructure in these so-called <buffer zones> was 'one of the clearest examples of forcible transfer in Gaza". Notably, the rights group said that to qualify as a war crime, the forcible transfer of a population must be carried out intentionally. The report’s authors provided almost two dozen statements from senior Israeli ministers supporting the forcible transfer of Palestinians. For example, on April 29, 2024, Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, <There are no half measures. [The Gaza cities of] Rafah, Deir el-Balah, Nuseirat - total annihilation.> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also made similar statements, HRW said, although on January 10, 2024, one day before Israel faced initial hearings on allegations of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netanyahu changed his tune, saying: <Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population.> HRW's researchers found that Israel’s "clear intent" to forcibly displace Palestinians was also shown in other ways, including through the manner it issued forced evacuation orders. HRW researcher Gabi Ivens said they analysed and cross-checked dozens of Israeli military demands to evacuate and found the instructions "were unclear, inaccurate and sometimes contradictory, making it extremely difficult for civilians to know where and when to move".
"Dozens of orders were issued after the time periods specified for safe evacuations had already begun, while others were issued after attacks had already started," Ivens told journalists.
Israeli resettlement of Gaza
This report from HRW comes after three Palestinian human rights organisations last month warned that Israel is systematically "emptying northern Gaza of its residents". Residents of northern Gaza are "fearful that if they leave, then they will never be able to return to their homes and lands, as Israel's plan to resettle through the illegal transfer of its own civilian population and annex northern Gaza is becoming clearer with every day that passes," the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, said in a joint statement. Thousands of Israeli settlers previously occupied the Gaza Strip for nearly 40 years, but the settlements were removed in 2005 under then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. This has not deterred some hardline Israelis from planning to settle the Gaza Strip again. At the end of October, several Israeli politicians from Prime Minister Netanyahu's party attended the <Preparing to Settle Gaza> conference, which included practical workshops on establishing new Israeli settlements in the war-torn Gaza Strip. <Gaza is the property of our ancestors since time immemorial. We will not rest until we settle it again,> Limor Son Har Melech, a member of the Knesset from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, which is part of Netanyahu's coalition government, said in a post on X, promoting the conference.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/israels-forced-displacement-in-gaza-amounts-to-war-crime-hrw

Al Jazeera - Nov 13, 2024
<<UN condemns 'acts reminiscent of gravest international crimes' in Gaza
The UN's aid chief told the Security Council that the world is "witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes in Gaza" where Israel is accused of deliberately starving civilians to force them out of the north.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/13/un-condemns-acts-reminiscent-of-gravest-international-crimes-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Nov 13, 2024
<<Biden dismisses journalist's question on reaching deal for Gaza captives
As US president's term ends, repeated attempts to secure a ceasefire and end Israel's war have not yielded results. United States President Joe Biden avoided answering a question about whether he had any hope of reaching a ceasefire and bringing back Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip before the end of his term. <Do you think you can keep from getting hit in the head by a camera behind you?> the outgoing president said at the White House on Tuesday after an Israeli journalist asked whether a deal might be possible by January. Biden made the comment, according to a White House transcript, at the start of a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog as they were surrounded in the Oval Office by reporters and cameras. Neria Kraus, the journalist who asked the question and posted a video on social media platform X, wrote that "the political reality is such that President Biden, who's committed to bring the hostages home, was not able to give me a clear answer about this very critical question regarding getting a hostage deal by the end of his term". Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been repeatedly blamed - including from within Israel - for sabotaging efforts to put an end to the war as he seeks to keep his far-right government in power. He created a furor in the country after sacking his defence minister, Yoav Gallant. While Israel's new Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said this week that <certain progress> has been achieved in talks about a ceasefire in Lebanon - with Hezbollah maintaining it has not received any peace proposal yet - the Israeli authorities have reported no substantial ongoing talks on Gaza. Some in Gaza and Lebanon are concerned that the re-election of Donald Trump as US president could spell more disaster for the besieged and displaced people in both territories. During the meeting with Herzog on Tuesday, Biden again emphasised that <my commitment to Israel is ironclad and we share a deep friendship.> The Israeli president began by discussing the latest Hezbollah attacks on Israel, but also noted that Israel still has 101 captives in the Gaza Strip more than 400 days after the start of the war on the enclave. Herzog said they need to be returned to Israel safely <as they are going through hell in the dungeons of Gaza>, something Biden agreed with. Qatar said it has suspended its mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel until the parties show "their willingness and seriousness" to end the war in Gaza.
The US said support to Israel will continue after a 30-day deadline to boost aid to Gaza or face cuts to weapons funding expired, despite a warning from eight humanitarian aid groups. Joyce Msuya, the interim chief of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said the world is "witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes in Gaza" as Israel dismissed warnings of famine in the enclave as <slanderous>. On Wednesday, the Israeli military issued more forced displacement orders for Haret Hreik and Ghobeiry municipalities in Lebanon as it launched attacks on the capital, Beirut, while its forces pounded Gaza and pressed on with their offensive in the north of the enclave. Israel's war in Gaza has killed at least 43,712 Palestinians and wounded 103,258 since October 7, 2023, as a dire humanitarian crisis worsens in the enclave. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 3,287 people have been killed and 14,222 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/13/biden-dismisses-journalists-question-on-reaching-deal-for-gaza-captives

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