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November 19 - 14, 2024
Food for thougt:
Grief? hmmm... YES but
undescribeble
but still...the warcrimes of the zionists
are more than...
even if fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv say
'there are no children'
and more actual and revealing 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 |
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.
Grief
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov. 19 , 2024
<<410th day of Israeli attacks on Gaza
At least 43,972 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the
Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a
statement on Tuesday.
News Center- The Gaza's health ministry has released a written statement
on the death toll in 410-day Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
At least 43,972 Palestinians have been killed and 104,008 others injured
in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the
statement said.
At least 50 Palestinians were killed and 110 others injured in the last
24 hours, the ministry added.
According to the statement, there are thousands of dead bodies trapped
under the rubble or scattered on roads and the civil defense crews
cannot retrieve them due to ongoing Israeli attacks.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/410th-day-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-36009?page=1
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov. 18 , 2024
<<Death toll in Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 43,922
At least 43,922 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the
Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a
statement on Monday.
News Center- At least 43,922 Palestinians have been killed and 103,898
others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7,
2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Monday.
At least 76 Palestinians were killed and 158 others injured in the last
24 hours, the ministry added.
According to the statement, there are thousands of dead bodies trapped
under the rubble or scattered on roads and the civil defense crews
cannot retrieve them due to ongoing Israeli attacks.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/death-toll-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-rises-to-43-922-36002?page=1
Al Jazeera - Nov 19, 2024
<<G20 leaders call for 'comprehensive' ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon
Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says poverty and
hunger the 'product of political decisions'.
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies have called for
"comprehensive" ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, while also stressing the
need for cooperation on climate change, poverty reduction, and taxing
the ultrarich. The economic forum met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday as
leaders sought to shore up multilateral consensus on issues of concern
amid heightened global tensions and United States President-elect Donald
Trump's return to the White House in January. Ukraine dominated the
agenda on day one of the two-day summit after Washington gave Kyiv the
green light to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles
supplied by the US. In their final declaration, G20 leaders eked out a
narrow consensus on Ukraine, welcoming "all relevant and constructive
initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace",
while again condemning the "threat or use of force to seek territorial
acquisition".
It, however, made no mention of Russian aggression.
With an International Criminal Court arrest warrant obliging member
states to arrest him, Russian President Vladimir Putin was not in
attendance. Instead, Russia was represented by Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov. The G20 leaders also called for a "comprehensive" ceasefire in
Gaza, in line with a US-proposed United Nations resolution urging a
permanent halt to fighting in return for the release of all captives
held by Hamas. Their statement expressed "deep concern about the
catastrophic humanitarian situation" in the Palestinian enclave. It also
expressed concern over the "escalation in Lebanon" and called for a
ceasefire enabling "citizens to return safely to their homes on both
sides of the Blue Line", a demarcation line dividing Lebanon from Israel
and the occupied Golan Heights. Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva has made extreme poverty and hunger a focus of the
summit, with the group's final statement endorsing cooperation on
effectively taxing "ultra-high-net-worth individuals". Lula, who grew up
in poverty, earlier opened the summit by unveiling a global initiative
aimed at tackling poverty and hunger, emphasising that such challenges
are "not the result of scarcity or natural phenomena" but the "product
of political decisions". Eighty-one countries signed the Global Alliance
Against Hunger and Poverty - which is also backed by multilateral banks
and major philanthropies - including 18 of 19 G20 nations. Argentina,
led by right-wing President Javier Milei, was the only G20 country not
to support it. Argentina also partially dissented from several points in
the G20's final declaration, including content related to the UN's
previous 2030 sustainable development agenda, which Milei has referred
to as <a supranational programme of a socialist nature>. Lula's opening
speech also highlighted the widespread impact of climate change. There
was no climate breakthrough in the final declaration, however, as
leaders merely recognised the need for "substantially scaling up climate
finance from billions to trillions from all sources". They did not
stipulate who would provide the funds, but agreed on the need to set a
goal for how much money rich nations should give poorer ones by the end
of the UN's COP29 climate change summit in Azerbaijan.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/19/g20-leaders-call-for-comprehensive-ceasefires-in-gaza-and-lebanon
Al Jazeera - Nov 18, 2024
<<Large food convoy violently looted in Gaza, UNRWA says
At least 98 vehicles from a 109-truck convoy were lost Saturday in one
of the worst such incidents, the UN agency says.
A convoy of 109 trucks was violently looted on Saturday after entering
Gaza, resulting in the loss of 98 trucks, an official from the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said.
The looting is one of the worst such incidents in the more than
13-month-old Israeli assault on the besieged and bombarded enclave,
Louise Wateridge, senior emergency officer for UNRWA, said on Monday.
The convoy carrying food provided by UN agencies UNRWA and the World
Food Programme was instructed by Israel to depart at short notice via an
unfamiliar route from the Karem Abu Salem [Kerem Shalom] crossing with
Gaza. "This incident highlights the severity of access challenges of
bringing aid into southern and central Gaza," Wateridge said, adding
that injuries occurred in the incident. "The urgency of the crisis
cannot be overstated; without immediate intervention, severe food
shortages are set to worsen, further endangering the lives of over two
million people who depend on humanitarian aid to survive," she said.
UNRWA did not specify who carried out the looting.
Israel claims it does all it can to ensure that enough aid enters the
coastal enclave, and that it does not prevent the entry of humanitarian
aid.
However, a UN aid official said on Friday that Gaza aid access had
reached a low point, with deliveries to parts of the besieged north of
the enclave all but impossible. In the north - namely in Jabalia, Beit
Hanoon, and Beit Lahia - virtually no food has been allowed to enter for
more than a month, ever since Israeli forces renewed a ground assault in
the area, which has been completely cut off from the rest of the Gaza
Strip.
Looming famine
Earlier this month, experts from a panel that monitors food security
said famine is imminent in the north or may already be happening. The UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates
that there are between 75,000 and 95,000 people still in northern Gaza.
The area is being pounded by Israeli forces. According to Palestinian
health officials, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since
the renewed offensive began last month.
Israel has killed at least 43,922 Palestinians since it launched its
devastating assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023. That followed a Hamas-led
attack on southern Israel, in which 1,139 people were killed.
Along with stepping up the bombardment, the Israeli army has issued new
waves of forced displacement orders for residents of northern Gaza. But
many Palestinians have refused to leave despite the catastrophic
humanitarian conditions and the near-daily shelling. Some fear that if
they leave northern Gaza, they risk being attacked by Israeli soldiers
and snipers. Health officials say the siege has crippled the healthcare
system in northern Gaza and is also blocking medical teams from reaching
bombarded sites. Israel has banned UNRWA from operating in the country
and has cut ties with it, claiming the organisation has ties to Hamas,
which UNRWA denies. The agency cautioned on Monday that a halt to its
activities in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem would block it from
coordinating massive aid efforts inside Gaza. "There is no plan B,"
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva,
Switzerland on Monday. The only alternative to UNRWA's work in Gaza is
to allow Israel to run services there, Lazzarini said, repeating calls
for countries to resist the Israeli ban on the organisation, which is
set to come into effect in January. Lazzarini is in Geneva for a
strategy meeting with donors. The ban, he said, is one of the darkest
moments in the agency's history. "I have drawn the attention of the
member states that now the clock is ticking ... We have to stop or
prevent the implementation of this bill," he told reporters. The ordered
suspension of the agency sparked global condemnation, including from key
Israeli ally the United States.
UNRWA provides assistance to nearly six million Palestinian refugees
across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/18/large-food-convoy-violently-looted-in-gaza-unrwa-says
Al Jazeera - Nov 18, 2024
<<Conditions severely worsen in the destroyed shelters of Khan Younis>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/18/conditions-severely-worsen-in-the-destroyed-shelters-of-khan-younis
Al Jazeera - Nov 17, 2024
<<Pope Francis urges inquiry into Gaza genocide allegations
The Catholic Church pontiff made his most explicit criticism yet of
Israel's conduct in extracts from an upcoming book.
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine whether Israel
is committing genocide in Gaza, tackling the issue for the first time in
excerpts from an upcoming book. "According to some experts, what is
happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide," the pope said
in excerpts published on Sunday by the Italian daily La Stampa. "We
should investigate carefully to determine whether it fits into the
technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies," he
added. The book, by Hernan Reyes Alcaide and based on interviews with
the pope, is entitled Hope Never Disappoints: Pilgrims towards a Better
World. It will be released on Tuesday ahead of the pope’s 2025 yearlong
jubilee, which is expected to bring more than 30 million pilgrims to
Rome to celebrate. The Argentine pontiff has frequently deplored the
number of victims of Israel's war in Gaza, where the death toll stands
at 43,846 people, most of them civilians, according to the territory’s
Ministry of Health. But his call for a probe marks the first time he has
publicly used the term "genocide", albeit without endorsing its use, in
the context of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. Israel's embassy
to the Vatican responded later on Sunday with a post on X, quoting its
Ambassador Yaron Sideman. <There was a genocidal massacre on 7 October
2023 of Israeli citizens, and since then, Israel has exercised its right
of self-defence against attempts from seven different fronts to kill its
citizens,> said the statement. <Any attempt to call it by any other name
is singling out the Jewish State.> But campaigners and Palestinian
supporters have dubbed the Israeli offensive as a "war of vengeance"
that has left the Gaza Strip in ruins.
Stepping up criticism
The war in Gaza has triggered several legal cases at international
courts in The Hague involving requests for arrest warrants as well as
accusations and denials of war crimes, crimes against humanity and
genocide. On Thursday, a United Nations Special Committee judged
Israel's conduct of warfare in Gaza "consistent with the characteristics
of genocide", accusing the country of "using starvation as a method of
war". Its conclusions have already been condemned by Israel's key
backer, the United States. South Africa brought a genocide case before
the International Court of Justice with the support of several
countries, including Turkey, Spain and Mexico. In January, the judges at
the court ordered Israel to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts.
The court has not yet ruled on the core of the case - whether genocide
has occurred in Gaza. Pope Francis, leader of the 1.4-billion-member
Catholic Church, is usually careful not to take sides in international
conflicts, and to stress de-escalation. But he has stepped up his
criticism of Israel's conduct in its war against Palestinians. In
September, he decried the killings of Palestinian children in Israeli
strikes in Gaza. He also sharply criticised Israel's air strikes in
Lebanon as going "beyond morality". Francis has not previously described
the situation in Gaza as a genocide in public. But last year, he was at
the centre of a messy dispute after a meeting with a group of
Palestinians at the Vatican, who insisted he had used the word with them
in private, while the Vatican said he had not. Francis has also
frequently called for the return of the Israeli captives taken by Hamas
on October 7, 2023. Of the 251 people taken that day, 97 are still held
in the Palestinian territory, including 34 the Israeli army says are
dead. On Thursday, the pontiff received 16 former captives who were
freed after months of detention in Gaza.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/17/pope-francis-urges-inquiry-into-gaza-genocide-allegations
Al Jazeera - Nov 17, 2024
<<Israel bombs residential building in north Gaza's Beit Lahiya, killing
50
Civil defence spokesman says rescue workers are unable to reach the site
of the attack due to the Israeli siege.
At least 50 people, a third of them children, have been killed in an
Israeli strike in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya city, authorities said, as
deadly bombardments hit the central and southern parts of the besieged
Palestinian territory. Gaza's Government Media Office on Sunday said
Israeli forces struck a multistorey residential building housing six
forcibly displaced Palestinian families in Beit Lahiya. The Ministry of
Health's Director-General Munir al-Bursh told Al Jazeera that almost 30
percent of the victims of the Beit Lahiya "massacre" were children. He
said dozens of others were wounded and many more are feared trapped
under the rubble. Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil
Defence in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that emergency workers were unable to
reach the site of the attack due to the more than 40-day-old Israeli
siege of northern Gaza. With reports of several people trapped under the
rubble, the death toll is likely to rise in the coming hours. There was
no immediate comment from Israel, which has been conducting genocide in
the Palestinian territory for more than a year. It was not the first
time Israel had hit Beit Lahiya, resulting in mass casualties. Last
month, its forces bombed the Abu Nasr family residence in the city,
killing at least 93 people. On Saturday, Israel also attacked the United
Nations-run Abu Assi school in the Shati refugee camp, killing 10
Palestinians and injuring 20 others, including women and children. Last
month, the Israeli army sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and the nearby towns
of Beit Hanoon and Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight
historic refugee camps, in what it said was a campaign to fight Hamas.
Israel claimed the operation killed hundreds of fighters in those three
areas. But Palestinian authorities said the attacks killed mostly women,
children and the elderly, while also leaving tens of thousands starving
to death with no access to food, water and medical help. Earlier on
Sunday, separate Israeli air raids killed at least 17 people in the
Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza. Al Jazeera's Hind
Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said "explosions did not stop"
in central parts of the Strip throughout Sunday morning. "At Al-Aqsa
Hospital, there are 17 killed Palestinians in the morgue. People are
waiting to bury the dead, but there is a shortage of coffins across the
Gaza Strip," she said. "We saw mothers crying, bidding farewells to
their loved ones," Khoudary said, adding that many of those killed,
including four children, were members of the same family. In southern
Gaza’s Rafah city, an Israeli bombing killed five Palestinians,
according to our colleagues from Al Jazeera Arabic.
The Health Ministry said on Sunday at least 43,846 Palestinians have
been confirmed killed in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.
Meanwhile, Palestine's Transport Minister Tariq Zourob told private
sector representatives during a meeting at the Palestinian embassy in
Cairo that, as a result of Israeli attacks, the damage to transport and
communication infrastructure across the enclave had reached $4.8bn. At
least 300,000 tonnes of "solid waste" are reportedly on the roads across
the Gaza Strip, Zourob was quoted as saying by the Palestinian news
agency Wafa on Sunday.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/17/israel-bombs-residential-building-in-north-gazas-beit-lahiya-killing-50
Al Jazeera - Nov 17, 2024
<<"No excuse" for FIFA, UEFA silence over Israeli fan violence>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/quotable/2024/11/17/no-excuse-for-fifa-uefa-silence-over-israeli-fan-violence
Al Jazeera - Nov 16, 2024
<<Israeli air raid on Gaza City school-turned-shelter kills 10 people
The strike took place at a UN-run school in Gaza City's Shati refugee
camp.
An Israeli strike on a school where displaced Palestinians were
sheltering in Gaza City's Shati refugee camp has killed 10 people and
wounded at least 20 others, Palestinian medics said. Rescue operations
were under way at the UN-run Abu Assi school in northern Gaza on
Saturday, health officials said. Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al
Jazeera's Hind Khoudary said that according to locals and witnesses,
most of the people sheltering in the school were displaced from other
parts of Gaza. "Let me remind you there is only one hospital functioning
in the city ... and we know the health situation in hospitals in Gaza
has been horrible ... so it is difficult to help the injured," she said.
Palestinian health officials said at least 30 people were killed by
Israeli military strikes across the enclave on Saturday. The northern
Gaza Strip, in particular, has been under siege for more than 40 days.
"Israeli soldiers have surrounded and imposed a strict blockade on
Palestinians in Beit Lahiya, Jabalia and Beit Hanoon, where Palestinians
are unable to evacuate their besieged homes," Khoudary said. "We have
received many appeals from people in Beit Lahiya who say they're stuck
and need rescuing. They have no food, water or medical aid," she noted.
"Other than air strikes and continuing artillery shelling, the military
has extensively deployed quadcopters that Israeli forces use to fire
live ammunition at Palestinians and kill them in different areas across
the Gaza Strip," Khoudary added. Later on Saturday, the Israeli military
reported that two rockets fired at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip
were intercepted.
The launches show the ability of Palestinian fighters to fire rockets
into Israel despite more than 13 months of an aerial and ground
offensive that turned vast land in the enclave into wasteland and
displaced most of the 2.3 million population. Israel's genocide in Gaza
has killed at least 43,799 Palestinians and wounded 103,601 since
October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during
the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/16/israeli-air-raid-on-gaza-city-school-turned-shelter-kills-10-people
Al Jazeera - Nov 15, 2024 - By Giovana Fleck
<<In Amsterdam, clashes trigger a divisive blame game as old wounds
reopen
Violence that marred a football match between Israeli and Dutch teams
has scarred the diverse city now searching for healing.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands - More than a week after clashes in
Amsterdam, Tori Egherman, a Jewish writer and researcher who has lived
in the Dutch capital for 20 years, still feels angry. As she sits in a
cafe, the poster above her, featuring a black dove, reads "Peace now".
The image was created by Dutch graphic designer Max Kisman when Israel's
latest war on Gaza began and has been distributed free of charge to tens
of thousands since. "What makes me angry is that they come, act in the
most violent and racist ways, and then leave us to clean up their mess,"
she said of the Israeli football club fans involved in last week's
violence. "This episode only makes Jews and Muslims suffer the most. If
we are more divided and can't work together, there's little we can do as
communities to improve the current situation." On November 8, fans of
Maccabi Tel Aviv who had travelled to support the Israeli team playing
the Dutch group Ajax vandalised Palestinian flags and chanted racist,
dehumanising slogans.
There were <no children> left in Gaza they chanted, as they called for
the Israeli army to <win>, promising to <f**k the Arabs>. They also
attacked the homes of city-dwellers with Palestinian flags at their
windows. As they headed to the match on November 9, they again chanted
racist slogans.
After the match, Ajax having won by 5-0, Maccabi fans were chased and
attacked by groups on foot and on scooters in what world leaders,
including United States President Joe Biden, have called an act of
anti-Semitic violence. Five people were hospitalised, dozens were
arrested, and policing has been heightened since. "I am not saying that
the violence wasn't anti-Semitic. I really think it was both provoked
and anti-Semitic," said 62-year-old Egherman, who immigrated from the
US. She added that over the years, she has witnessed "a lot of Jews who
get called out for using a kippah - like many Muslim women are too for
using a hijab". However, she said anti-Semitism is "only acknowledged if
it doesn't come from someone who’s white and Dutch".
'This was completely expected'
Local activist Sobhi Khatib, a 39-year-old Israel-born Palestinian who
arrived in Amsterdam decades ago, said, "The more you break down this
incident, the more you see how this was completely expected." Khatib
recalled student-led pro-Palestine protests earlier in 2024, when police
used batons against demonstrators. "The violence from last week is an
escalation of the institutional violence that has been present and
normalised in Dutch society, especially since [Geert] Wilders was
elected last November," he said, referring to the Islamophobic
politician who leads the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV). The PVV
triumphed in 2023, becoming the largest party in the House of
Representatives. In recent days, the Dutch state has tried to exert
control on activists. After the clashes, Amsterdam's Mayor Femke Halsema
issued an emergency decree banning protests. But some, enraged by
Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, have defied the measure.
Frank van der Linde, an activist and organiser in Amsterdam, tried to
fight the ban legally. "We have to fight against this repression by all
non-violent means," he said, adding that preventing free expression
risks further disruption. "The mayor is shooting herself in the foot."
In a court case, he argued that the decree breached human rights. The
court ruled on November 11 that the ban was legitimate. "Repression is a
trend," concluded van der Linde.
'This conflict deeply impacted the Dutch Moroccans'
The Netherlands is home to a large Muslim minority who comprise about 5
percent of the population. Most have roots in Morocco and Turkey. The
country's relationship with Dutch Moroccans in particular is often
uneasy. <There is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets
unsafe,> Wilders said in a 2017 election campaign. <If you want to
regain your country, make the Netherlands for the people of the
Netherlands again, then you can only vote for one party.> "This conflict
deeply impacted the Dutch Moroccans in the city, much more than the
Palestinians," said Khatib.
Dutch Moroccan student Oumaima Al Abdellaoui, 22, usually spends her
time visiting schools to talk to pupils about cohesion. In 2019, she
co-authored a book about the two cultures in Dutch society. "Everyone in
my communities, both the Islamic community and the Dutch Moroccan
community, is frightened and angry over the blame game. We don't know
what’s coming next,” she said, adding that the community is often
wrongly blamed for societal woes such as a lack of housing or crime.
There's a deep feeling of not being understood and not being protected
by the government or the police." She used the Dutch term <tweederangsburger>
to describe the feeling among many Dutch Moroccans, meaning
<second-class citizen>. "The attacks against the Maccabi fans were
condemnable," she said. "Violence should never be used. But this
violence is a consequence of a build-up of marginalisation, racist
politics, and racism within the police force." As protesters continue to
defy bans, debates rage on responsibility, and minority communities in
the Netherlands remain fearful, while Israel's war in Gaza goes on.
To date, almost 44,000 Palestinians - most of them women and children -
have been killed since October 7, when Hamas launched an incursion into
southern Israel during which 1,139 people were killed and more than 200
were taken captive.
Jelle Zijlstra, a 37-year-old Amsterdam-born Jewish theatre director and
activist, worries that the far-right and anti-immigration political
groups in the Netherlands will capitalise on the street clashes for
years to come. "While all this happened, we forgot to focus on the
people who are suffering the most in Gaza," he said. "What we saw last
week seemed like a scary equivalency that Jews and Muslims are natural
enemies ... Our officials have been quite picky in what types of
anti-Semitism they condemn, usually the type that suits their agenda.
Therefore, they are using Jews to deflect racist policies and
Islamophobic rhetoric." Prime Minister Dick Schoof has termed the riots
and attacks as <unadulterated anti-Semitic violence>, saying there is a
<big difference between destroying things and hunting Jews>. While he
has touted the possibility of stripping passports of <those who have
turned away from society> referring to suspects behind the attacks on
Israeli fans, he has said the Maccabi supporters' violence will be
investigated. When contacted by Al Jazeera, Amsterdam’s chief of police
sent a statement that acknowledged the harassment of those sympathetic
to the Palestinian cause but concluded that above all, <I can imagine
that Israelis feel unsafe ... their wellbeing is our top priority.> The
office of Amsterdam's mayor said Halsema's priority was restoring peace
and order, and she was therefore unavailable for comment. Joana Cavaco,
a 28-year-old member of Erev Rav, an anti-Zionist Jewish collective
based in the Netherlands, argued that blaming people of Arab backgrounds
for anti-Semitism is unlikely to ease tensions and limits open
discussions about Europe's role in the Holocaust. "Anti-Semitism is a
part of Dutch society, it is rooted in this culture," she said. "When it
comes to Holocaust memory, the Dutch point their fingers at the Germans,
without acknowledging that people from the Netherlands have allowed Jews
to die in concentration camps. Those are the questions that we try and
believe should be addressed to mitigate anti-Semitism. This provides
safety." She added that ensuring the safety of Palestinians will also
lead to the protection of Jewish people.
Khatib, the Palestinian activist, said when the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
arrived in Amsterdam, he avoided wearing his keffiyeh in public. "I was
afraid," he said. He remains pessimistic about the future of Amsterdam's
pro-Palestine movement, especially if the national discourse fails to
evolve.
At the end of the interview, another pro-Palestine protest was emerging
at Amsterdam's Dam Square, a short distance away. Khatib placed his
keffiyeh around his shoulders, making sure that it was visible even over
his rain jacket.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/15/in-amsterdam-clashes-trigger-a-divisive-blame-game-as-old-wounds-reopen
Note by Gino d'Artali: After a fierce debate in the Dutch parlaiment
centered around the question if the 'riots' where countered by racist
police-forces hunting Plestinians, Morrocon and Arabs the government did
not fall over it but... they're not out of the woods yet as long as this
government does not recognice that there is a genocide going on in
Palestine.
Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - By Edna Mohamed
<<LIVE: Israel pounds Lebanon and Gaza with 160 strikes
Israeli air strikes hit the Dahiyeh, Haret Hreik, and Chiyah areas in
the southern suburbs of Beirut in the fifth consecutive day of heavy
bombardment of Lebanon's capital. An Israeli drone kills two more
paramedics in Lebanon’s southern Nabatieh governorate as outrage pours
in after at least 12 rescuers died in an air attack on a civil defence
centre.>>
Read more and video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/16/live-who-chief-slams-israels-killing-of-12-paramedics-in-lebanon-strike
France 24 - Nov 15, 2024
<<French court orders release of Lebanese militant Georges Abdallah held
since 1984
A French court Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese
militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years after being
convicted for the killing of two foreign diplomats. The office of
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Friday it would appeal the
decision. The court said Abdallah, who was detained in 1984 and
convicted in 1987 over the 1982 murders, would be released on December 6
on condition that he leaves France, French anti-terror prosecutors said
in a statement, adding that they would appeal the release order. "In (a)
decision dated today, the court granted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
conditional release from December 6, subject to the condition that he
leaves French territory and not appear there again," the prosecutors
said.
Abdallah was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his involvement in
the 1982 murders of US military attache Charles Ray and Israeli diplomat
Yakov Barsimentov in Paris, as well as in an assassination attempt on
Robert Homme, a US consul in Strasbourg. The Lebanese Armed
Revolutionary Factions claimed responsibility for the two murders,
saying they were carried out in retaliation for US and Israeli
involvement in the Lebanese civil war, which erupted in 1975, as well as
Israel's subsequent occupation of southern Lebanon, which began in 1982
and lasted until 2000. During his long incarceration, Abdallah has been
supported by a network of human rights groups, anti-imperialist,
Marxist, and anti-Zionist activists who have denounced what they
consider the judicial mistreatment of "a hostage of the French
government". They compare him to a more celebrated former political
prisoner: Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
'A legal and a political victory'
The US has consistently opposed Abdallah's release, but Lebanese
authorities have repeatedly said he should be freed from jail. Abdallah,
now 73, has always insisted he is a "fighter" who battled for the rights
of Palestinians and not a "criminal". This was his 11th bid for release.
He had been eligible to apply for parole since 1999 but all his previous
applications had been turned down, except in 2013 when he was granted
release on the condition that he would be expelled from France. However
the then interior minister Manuel Valls refused to go through with the
order and Abdallah remained in jail. The court's decision on Friday is
not conditional on the government issuing such an order, Abdallah's
lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, told AFP, hailing "a legal and a political
victory".
A spotlight on French justice system
Abdallah has never expressed regret for his actions.
Wounded in 1978 during Israel's invasion of Lebanon, he joined the
Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
which carried out a string of plane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s
and is banned as a terror group by the US and EU. In the late 1970s,
Abdallah, a Christian, founded his own militant group the LARF, which
had contact with other radical left militant outfits including Italy's
Red Brigades and the German Red Army Faction (RAF). A pro-Syrian and
anti-Israeli Marxist group, the LARF claimed four deadly attacks in
France in the 1980s. Abdallah was arrested in 1984 after entering a
police station in Lyon and claiming Mossad assassins were on his trail.
At his trial over the killing of the diplomats, Abdallah was sentenced
to life in prison, a much more severe punishment than the 10 years
demanded by prosecutors. His lawyer Jacques Verges, who defended clients
including Venezuelan militant Carlos the Jackal, described the verdict
as a "declaration of war". There remains a broad swell of support for
his cause among the far left and communists in France. Last month, 2022
Nobel literature prize winner Annie Ernaux said in a piece in communist
daily L'Humanité that his detention "shamed France".>>
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters):
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20241115-french-court-orders-release-of-lebanese-militant-georges-abdallah
BBC - November 14, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<HRW accuses Israel of war crime of forced displacement in Gaza
As many as 130,000 Palestinians have been displaced by an Israeli ground
offensive in northern Gaza since October. Israel has committed war
crimes and crimes against humanity by deliberately causing the mass
displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW)
says.
About 1.9 million people - 90% of Gaza’s population - have fled their
homes over the past year, and 79% of the territory is under
Israeli-issued evacuation orders, according to the UN. HRW's report says
this amounts to "forcible transfer" and that "evidence shows it has been
systematic and part of a state policy". It also says Israeli actions
appear to "meet the definition of ethnic cleansing". Israel said the
report was <completely false and detached from reality>. <Contrary to
claims in HRW's report, Israel's efforts are directed solely at
dismantling Hamas's terror capabilities and not at the people of Gaza,>
Oren Marmorstein, a spokesperson of Israel's ministry of foreign affairs
posted on X. He added that Israel would <continue to operate in
accordance with the law of armed conflict>. HRW has also accused Hamas
of using civilians as human shields by operating inside homes and
civilian infrastructure. The report was published as Israeli forces
continued a ground offensive in northern Gaza that has displaced up to
130,000 people over the past five weeks. The UN has said 75,000 people
remain under siege with dwindling supplies of water and food in the
towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, where the Israeli military
says it is preventing a Hamas resurgence. US says Israel hasn't breached
its law against blocking aid in Gaza. Under the laws of war, the forced
displacement of any civilians inside an occupied territory is
prohibited, unless it is necessary for their security or for an
imperative military reason. For displacement to be lawful, civilians
must be moved safely and provided with accommodation and essential
supplies. They must also be able to return to their homes after the end
of hostilities in the area. HRW's report - based on interviews with
displaced Palestinians, analysis of Israeli evacuation orders, satellite
imagery showing destruction of buildings, and videos and photos of
strikes - concludes that there is no plausible imperative military
reason to justify the displacement of nearly all of Gaza's population
and that the other conditions for it be lawful have also not been met.
The US-based group says the Israeli evacuation orders have been
"inconsistent, inaccurate, and frequently not communicated to civilians
with enough time", and that they "did not consider the needs of people
with disabilities and others who are unable to leave". Israeli forces
have also "repeatedly struck designated evacuation routes and safe
zones", it adds. It accuses Israeli authorities of blocking "all but a
small fraction of the necessary humanitarian aid, water, electricity,
and fuel from reaching civilians in need", as well as carrying out
attacks that have damaged and destroyed vital resources like hospitals
and bakeries. HRW also alleges that Israel's military has "intentionally
demolished or severely damaged civilian infrastructure, including
controlled demolitions of homes, with the apparent aim of creating an
extended 'buffer zone' along Gaza's perimeter with Israel and a corridor
which will bifurcate Gaza". "The destruction is so substantial that it
indicates the intention to permanently displace many people," it warns.
Israeli government ministers are also cited as saying that Gaza's
territory would decrease and that land would be handed to Israeli
settlers. "Forced displacement has been widespread, and the evidence
shows it has been systematic and part of a state policy. Such acts also
constitute crimes against humanity," HRW says. It also says that the "organised,
violent displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, who are members of another
ethnic group, is likely planned to be permanent in the buffer zones and
security corridors", and that such actions "amount to ethnic cleansing".
In response, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that
the report was <both selectively presents information in a manner that
obscures context, as well as makes certain blatant misrepresentations>.
<The IDF's warnings to members of the civilian population to temporarily
distance themselves from areas expected to be exposed to intense warfare
are made in accordance with the obligation under international law to
take feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm by providing advance
warnings prior to attacks,> it added. <The IDF only operates in areas in
which there is known to be a military presence, and is still at this
time working to dismantle Hamas' military infrastructure in various
parts throughout the Gaza Strip.> The IDF has also previously denied
that it is seeking to create permanent buffer zones and Israeli Foreign
Minister Gideon Saar recently said that displaced people from northern
Gaza would be allowed to return home at the end of the war. Also on
Thursday, a UN General Assembly special committee released a new report
that says Israel's warfare methods in Gaza are "consistent with the
characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and
life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians
there". Israel has vehemently denied that its forces are committing
genocide in Gaza. During a press briefing on Thursday, US state
department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters the US <unequivocally
disagreed> that Israeli warfare methods were consistent with genocide.
<We think that that kind of phrasing and those kind of accusations are
certainly unfounded,> he said.
Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's
unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which
about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 43,700 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according
to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8ygyem84jo
BBC - November 14, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Netanyahu aide investigated over 7 October document changes
Tzachi Braverman, right, reportedly said he altered the documented time
of a call to the prime minister The Chief of Staff to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being investigated by police over
allegations of altering documents relating to the 7 October Hamas attack
to portray his boss in a more favourable light. Tzachi Braverman, one of
Netanyahu's closest advisors, was questioned by the Israeli police Lahav
433 major crimes unit for over five hours on Thursday, according to
reports in Israeli media. Detectives have confirmed an investigation is
under way. The accusation is focused around two telephone calls that
Netanyahu received as the Hamas cross border raid was unfolding on 7
October 2023. Braverman is suspected of having altered the documented
time when Netanyahu first received an update on the attack via a
telephone call from his military secretary at the time, Major General
Avi Gil. The chief of staff is accused of changing the time from 06:40
to 06:29.
He denies having altered the transcript of the call other than to change
the time. "I know that the first call was received at 06:29, that's why
I insisted on changing it," he is reported to have told detectives
during the interrogation. While Gil had phoned Netanyahu at 06:29, as
the Hamas attack began, Netanyahu did not give any instructions, telling
him instead to phone again in 10 minutes, at 06:40, according to a
report in the Haaretz newspaper, It was only during the second phone
call for which Braverman allegedly altered the time stamp to appear as
though it was the first, that Netanyahu ordered Gil to hold a
situational assessment on the developing Hamas invasion, Haaretz
reported. The allegation is that Braverman altered the time, in order to
give the impression that the prime minister had acted more urgently and
more decisively.
The chief of staff denies that. The 7 October attack was the biggest
military and intelligence failure in Israel's history. Several senior
military officials have already resigned over it. Netanyahu has
consistently denied any personal failure. His critics though, believe it
is the prime minister who was ultimately responsible for the failure to
prevent the deadliest attack on the country since the foundation of the
State of Israel in 1948. Various investigations are under way into the
military and intelligence failures and Netanyahu has rejected claims he
is stalling on demands for a full-scale inquiry. This potential scandal
is in its infancy, but it could go on to seriously undermine the Prime
Minister's position. And it comes at a time when Netanyahu is mid-way
through a trial facing corruption charges. He is due to testify in that
trial next month, having failed to have the case thrown out, believing
it is a political witch-hunt.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk18pdnxmmo
Al Jazeera - Nov 14, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live
<<Here's why the Gaza war is 'consistent with genocide", according to UN
body
The UN has released a report on the first nine months of Israel's war on
Gaza where it accuses Israel of genocide by 'using starvation as a
method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian
population'.>>
Source/video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/15/heres-why-the-gaza-war-is-consistent-with-genocide-according-to-un-body
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