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<<The pogrom that wasn’t...
& Food for thougt:
US vetoes UN Security Council
resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire...
or better said: the US is co-guilty of the
genocide!
and more actual and revealing news |
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 |
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.
Al Jazeera - Nov 21, 2024 - by Ali Harb
<<US Senate votes down effort to withhold weapons to Israel amid Gaza
war
The push led by Senator Bernie Sanders falls short, but advocates say it
shows progress for the Palestinian rights movement.
Washington, DC - The United States Senate has rejected a bill that aimed
to block a US weapons sale to Israel amid the country's war on Gaza, an
outcome that rights advocates say does not take away from a growing push
to condition aid to Washington's top ally. A resolution to halt the sale
of tank rounds failed to advance in a 79 to 18 vote on Wednesday, with
prominent progressives and mainstream Democratic senators backing the
effort.
Two more resolutions to halt the sale of other weapons also failed after
winning fewer than 20 votes. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the
so-called Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) in September to oppose
a $20bn weapons deal approved by the administration of President Joe
Biden.
It was the first time ever that a weapons sale to Israel was subjected
to such a vote. While support for the push may appear minimal, it
represents a crack in the bipartisan consensus over unconditional US aid
to Israel. Beth Miller, political director at the US-based advocacy
group Jewish Voice for Peace, said the vote is an "inflexion point" in
the decades-long effort to restrict Washington's military assistance to
Israel. "This is too little too late; this genocide has been going on
for 13 months, but that does not change the fact that this is a
critically important step," Miller told Al Jazeera.
Mainstream support
In addition to Sanders, Senators Peter Welch, Jeff Merkley, Chris Van
Hollen, Tim Kaine and Brian Schatz backed the resolution to block
offensive munitions to Israel. While Sanders is a progressive
independent who caucuses with Democrats, some of the lawmakers who
backed the effort come from the mainstream wing of the party. Kaine was
the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in the 2016 elections
that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to incoming
Republican President Donald Trump. In a statement announcing his vote
earlier on Wednesday, Kaine called for work towards "de-escalation and a
sustainable peace" in the region. "Continued offensive weapons transfers
will worsen the current crisis and add more fuel to the fire of regional
instability," the senator said. "Therefore, while I voted for the $14
billion defense aid package for Israel in April and continue to support
the transfer of defensive weapons, I will vote to oppose the transfers
of mortars, tank rounds, and Joint Direct Attack Munitions [JDAMs] to
Israel."
Ongoing US backing of Israel has been vital for funding the war on Gaza
and Lebanon.
A recent Brown University study found that the Biden administration
spent $17.9bn on security assistance to Israel over the past year,
despite warnings of United Nations experts that the US ally is
committing genocide in Gaza. That assistance has persisted despite
growing Israeli atrocities, including widespread destruction in Lebanon,
sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners and the suffocating siege in Gaza
that has been starving the territory.
White House intervention
While Republicans were united in opposition to the measures, HuffPost
reported that the Biden administration lobbied Democratic senators to
vote against them. Shelley Greenspan, the White House Liaison to the
American Jewish community, appeared to confirm that report. Greenspan, a
former employee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
shared - with an approving emoji - a social media post saying that a
lame duck Biden remains staunchly supportive of Israel, including by
lobbying against Sanders's resolutions.
The White House did not respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) denounced the White
House's lobbying efforts.
"We strongly condemn the White House's dishonest campaign to pressure
Senate Democrats into avoiding even a symbolic vote against the delivery
of more American taxpayer-funded weapons to the out-of-control Netanyahu
government," the group said in a statement. "The Biden administration's
foreign policy in the Middle East has been a disastrous failure."
CAIR is one of dozens of advocacy and rights groups that backed the
resolution.
In a speech on the Senate floor before the vote, Sanders cited that
support ahead of the vote. He said the resolutions are "simple,
straightforward and not complicated". He argued that the measures aim to
apply US laws that prohibit military assistance to countries that block
humanitarian aid and commit abuses. "A lot of folks come to the floor to
talk about human rights and what’s going on around the world, but what I
want to say to all those folks: Nobody is going to take anything you say
with a grain of seriousness," Sanders said. "You cannot condemn human
rights [violations] around the world and then turn a blind eye to what
the United States government is now funding in Israel. People will laugh
in your face. They will say to you, 'You're concerned about China;
you're concerned about Russia; you’re concerned about Iran. Well, why
are you funding the starvation of children in Gaza right now?"
'Moral obligation'
Senator Jacky Rosen, a staunchly pro-Israel Democrat, spoke out against
the resolutions, arguing that restrictions on aid to Israel would
empower Iran and its allies in the region. <Israel has an absolute right
to defend itself, and the aid provided by America is critical,> Rosen
said. If the bills had passed the Senate, they would have needed to be
approved by the House of Representatives and Biden, who would have
almost certainly refused to sign them.
A presidential veto can be overturned with a two-thirds majority in the
House and the Senate.
Several Democrats in the House of Representatives had voiced support for
the JRDs.
Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and
eight other lawmakers said in a joint statement: "President-elect
Trump's return to the White House will only embolden Netanyahu and his
far-right ministers. A vote for the joint resolutions of disapproval is
a vote to politically restrain the Netanyahu government from any
forthcoming efforts to formally annex the West Bank and settle parts of
Gaza."
Miller, of Jewish Voice for Peace, said lawmakers had ethical, legal and
political obligations to vote in favour of the resolutions.
"There is a moral obligation for them to stop arming a genocide. There
is a legal obligation for them to follow US law and stop sending weapons
to a government that is using our equipment in violation of our own law.
And there is a political obligation for them to do what their
constituents are telling them to do," she said.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/us-senate-votes-down-effort-to-withhold-weapons-to-israel-amid-gaza-war
Al Jazeera - Nov 20, 2024 - by Niamh Ní Bhriain Coordinator at
Transnational Institute
<<The pogrom that wasn’t
The events of November 7 in Amsterdam demonstrate that Zionism is
crumbling while Palestinian solidarity is stronger than ever.
On November 6 and 7, fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv
rampaged through Amsterdam ahead of a match between their team and the
Dutch football club Ajax. They assaulted local residents, attacked
private property, destroyed symbols of Palestinian solidarity, and
chanted racist, genocidal slogans that glorified the slaughter of
children in Gaza and the death of all Arabs. While the Israeli fans were
provided with a police escort, pro-Palestine demonstrations were either
cancelled or relocated. On the night of November 7, following the match,
local residents responded to these events by attacking Maccabi fans.
Five people were briefly hospitalised but later discharged and 62 people
were arrested, 10 of whom were Israeli.
A letter, released by the Amsterdam City Council and recounting the
events, noted that "from 01:30 onward [on Thursday night], reports of
street violence rapidly declined". The story could have ended there. It
didn't. Overnight, the Israeli propaganda machine went into overdrive,
and by Friday morning, the world awoke to news that "anti-Semitic
squads" had gone on a "Jew hunt" in Amsterdam. Israeli President Isaac
Herzog denounced the "anti-Semitic pogrom", while Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu announced that military planes would be dispatched to
evacuate Israeli citizens.
A wave of disinformation unleashed from Israel was replicated unchecked
by Western media and the usual cohort of Western leaders, each outdoing
the other at expressing the most outrage. Dutch Prime Minister Dick
Schoof condemned the "anti-Semitic attacks on Israeli citizens" and King
Willem-Alexander lamented that "we failed the Jewish community ...
during World War II, and last night we failed again". Amsterdam's Mayor
Femke Halsema condemned the "anti-Semitic" attacks on "Jewish visitors",
drawing comparisons with historic pogroms.
In the following days, the <pogrom> narrative fell apart, as more
details and witness accounts surfaced. As the dust settled, one thing
became clear: Palestinian solidarity is stronger than ever, and Zionism
is crumbling.
'Weaponisation of Jewish safety'
As major Western media outlets sought to portray the events of November
7 in the terms the Israeli government had outlined, many failed to stick
to the facts. For example, while the violence was presented as <attacks
on Jews>, no such attacks were reported against the local Jewish
community. On that day, a Kristallnacht commemoration, marking the
pogroms against Jews in Germany in 1938, was held in peace. Throughout
the day, no attack on a Jewish institution was reported. What is more,
the violence unleashed by the Maccabi fans on local residents was
under-reported or not mentioned at all by Western mainstream media. The
idea that perhaps what happened was in reaction to the rampage of the
Maccabi fans, many of whom are Israeli Army reservists, who were
glorifying genocide and chanting death to all Arabs, was never
entertained. Members of the local Jewish community who had critical
opinions of what happened were not platformed.
Erev Rav, a Dutch-based anti-Zionist Jewish collective, for example,
called the "weaponisation of Jewish safety incredibly alarming" on
social media. In an interview, the author Peter Cohen, a former
sociology professor at the University of Amsterdam, commented that "the
Christian West has always constructed forms of anti-Semitism, mild and
lethal, doing devastating harm to Jews in Europe". But he was emphatic
that "people who criticise Israel do just that", adding "this does not
make them anti-Semites!".
The spin that Western mainstream media gave to the story - that
<anti-Semitic> Arabs and Muslims attacked Jews -fits into the false but
dominant narrative that anti-Semitism in Europe is now exclusively
harboured by Arab and Muslim immigrants. This not only fuels and
normalises anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia, but also downplays and
obscures the very real and widespread European anti-Semitism.
Palestinian solidarity
Following the events of November 7, Amsterdam was placed under an
emergency ordinance, which outlawed protests, prohibited face coverings
and permitted <preventative searches> by the police. Local residents,
particularly those who have regularly been demonstrating against
Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, perceived this as an undue and
disproportionate infringement on their right to freedom of assembly and
freedom of expression. In defiance of a protest ban, on November 10,
hundreds of people gathered in Dam Square, including myself, in
solidarity with the people of Palestine. Those who turned out to protest
represented a broad spectrum of Amsterdam's population - we were young,
old, Dutch, international, Arab, Muslim, Black, brown, white, and
anti-Zionist Israelis, united in our condemnation of Dutch complicity in
Israel’s genocide. The police responded by confiscating Palestinian
flags, banners and musical instruments, arresting people at random, and
charging with batons. One woman suffered a brain injury as a result of
police violence, according to her lawyer. Some 340 people, including
myself, were detained on buses and driven through the city, accompanied
by several police vans and motorcycles. One might have assumed from the
spectacle that the buses were transporting hardened criminals. In fact,
they were carrying unarmed peace activists detained for protesting
genocide. We were driven to an industrial estate on the outskirts of
Amsterdam and released, apart from one Arab man who was arbitrarily
singled out, arrested and taken away. Afterwards, all that remained of
the police operation was a drone overhead that monitored our movements.
As we made our way back to the city centre, cars began circling around
us and the drivers beckoned for us to get in. They introduced themselves
as the Moroccan drivers whose colleague had been attacked by Maccabi
fans on November 6. In a heartwarming act of solidarity after hours of
police repression, they drove us back to Amsterdam, making sure that we
got home safely. Protesters again defied the demonstration ban on
November 13, with 281 people being detained and more acts of police
brutality.
Game over for Zionism
At first glance, the narrative that came to dominate political
statements and media coverage of the violence in Amsterdam and the
actions of the Dutch authorities may appear as another PR success for
Israel. But it is not. It is yet another indication that the demise of
Zionism is close. We are witnessing a genocidal regime in the throes of
madness, making a last-ditch effort to realise a biblical fantasy of
creating a greater Israel by erasing the Palestinian people. As
historian Ilan Pappe predicted in a recent article, "once Israel
realises the magnitude of the crisis, it will unleash ferocious and
uninhibited force to try to contain it". The desperate attempt to
distort the reality of events in Amsterdam is indicative of this panic,
and the willingness of Western leaders and mainstream media to go along
with this insanity is unforgivable. Following a week of unrest, the
pro-Palestinian movement scored a small victory: Amsterdam’s City
Council passed a motion recognising a "real and imminent genocide" in
Gaza and calling on the government to act. Meanwhile, Mayor Femke
backtracked on her <pogrom> statement, saying it was weaponised by
Israeli and Dutch politicians. A cabinet minister and two
parliamentarians resigned in response to racist comments made within the
government, sparking a political crisis and exposing cracks in the
far-right government.
Though painstakingly slow, the downfall of Zionism has begun, and calls
for a liberated Palestine are louder than ever.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/20/the-pogrom-that
Al Jazeera - Nov 20, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire
Vote marks fourth time Joe Biden’s administration has vetoed a UNSC Gaza
ceasefire resolution since Israel’s war began.
The United States has vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) demanding an "immediate, unconditional and permanent"
ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian
territory continues. The US voted down the measure on Wednesday morning
while the 14 other members of the council voted in favour. While the
resolution called for the release of captives held in Gaza, Washington
had voiced opposition to its demand for an "unconditional" ceasefire.
"We made clear throughout negotiations that we could not support an
unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages," Robert
Wood, the deputy US envoy to the UN, said during the session in New
York. "A durable end to the war must come with the release of the
hostages. These two urgent goals are inextricably linked. This
resolution abandoned that necessity, and for that reason, the United
States could not support it." This is the fourth time that US President
Joe Biden's administration has vetoed a resolution calling for an end to
the war in Gaza since Israel’s military offensive began in October of
last year.
To date, nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli
bombardment of Gaza, which has also plunged the coastal territory into a
humanitarian crisis. Biden - a staunch supporter of Israel - has faced
widespread condemnation from rights advocates for his administration's
stance, including its refusal to condition its assistance to the top US
ally amid the war. The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in
military aid annually, and the Biden administration has authorised $14bn
in further assistance to the country since the conflict in Gaza began.
Beth Miller, political director at the US-based advocacy group Jewish
Voice for Peace, called the US veto on Wednesday "pathetic" and said the
Biden administration’s legacy will be the genocide in Gaza. "That fact
that they continue to parrot over and over again that they're 'working
tirelessly' for a ceasefire while simultaneously blocking efforts to
reach a ceasefire and sending lethal weapons to the Israeli government
... is a sick joke," Miller told Al Jazeera.
Reporting from UN headquarters in New York, Al Jazeera's Gabriel
Elizondo said "clearly the United States is on an island by itself”.
"It's worth repeating that this draft resolution was the product of
weeks of negotiations," Elizondo reported, adding that there is "clear
frustration among the Security Council that there's been inaction on
Gaza".
'Attempt to annihilate'
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon thanked the US for using its veto,
saying the Biden administration was <standing on the side of morality
and justice> by <refusing to abandon the hostages>. <The text ignored
the suffering of the 101 innocent hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza,>
Danon said. But Majed Bamya, the State of Palestine’s deputy UN envoy,
stressed during Wednesday morning’s Security Council session that a
ceasefire would allow all lives to be saved. "This was true a year ago;
this is even more true today. A ceasefire doesn't resolve everything but
it is the first step towards resolving anything," Bamya said. "The world
should not grow accustomed to the death of Palestinians, to seeing
Palestinian children starving, to seeing mothers carrying their children
from one place to another, forcibly displaced," he said. "The fact we
are Palestinians does not make that less shocking or less outrageous.
Maybe for some we have the wrong nationality, the wrong faith, the wrong
skin colour - but we are humans and we should be treated as such." Bamya
added that the world is watching an "attempt to annihilate a nation"
while the tools "designed to respond to these situations are not being
used". "Are Palestinian lives not worth saving, or does Israel have a
licence to kill? Can this council only adopt resolutions and then
witness their blatant breach? This self-inflicted powerlessness has to
stop." Amar Bendjama, Algeria's UN envoy, also voiced frustration on
Wednesday over the US blocking the resolution. "There were significant
concessions during negotiations, yet one member chose to block any
action - any action - from this council," Bendjama told the council.
"Today's message is clear, to the Israeli occupying power first: 'You
may continue your genocide, you may continue your collective punishment
of the Palestinian people with complete impunity. In this chamber, you
enjoy immunity'."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/20/us-vetoes-un-security-council-resolution-demanding-gaza-ceasefire
Al Jazeera - Nov 20, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<How was a UN aid convoy robbed near Israeli military positions?
Israeli and US media have reported aid robberies taking place within
sight of Israeli military positions
The looting of 97 trucks of a UN aid convoy in sight of Israeli military
installations at the Karem Abu Salem crossing (Kerem Shalom for
Israelis) has exacerbated the suffering of the blockaded Gaza Strip,
already in an acute humanitarian crisis. The 109-truck convoy of aid
shipments from several UN agencies was intercepted by armed men on
Saturday night who forced the drivers to unload cargo at gunpoint,
injured aid workers and damaged the vehicles, the UN agency for
Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said. UNRWA did not identify the
perpetrators, only saying the cause was the "total breakdown of civil
order" among a population that the Israeli authorities are, according to
the agency, responsible for ensuring receives enough aid to meet its
basic needs. The television channel, Al-Aqsa, reported that Hamas's
Interior Ministry sources in Gaza had confirmed more than 20 of the gang
members suspected of carrying out the robbery had been killed by Hamas
security forces acting in coordination with tribal committees.
Anyone caught taking part in similar looting would be treated with "an
iron fist", it said.
How serious was this?
Very.
According to Al Jazeera correspondent Maram Humaid, fears among
Palestinians centre on the prospect of the "imminent famine" facing
Gaza's south, in addition to that in the blockaded north. Food,
including basics such as flour and vegetables, is almost impossible to
source and, in the rare instances it can be found, is often priced
beyond the reach of many.
How bad was it before?
Intensely.
The amount of food allowed into Gaza by the Israeli military in October
fell to about a quarter of the average for the rest of the year. In the
north of Gaza, blockaded by the Israeli military since early October,
conditions have been described by UN heads as "apocalyptic". Despite
Israel failing to meet nearly all the conditions set out in an ultimatum
by its chief ally, the United States, to improve the desperate
conditions in Gaza, no action was taken. Moreover, Israel's intention to
essentially ban UNRWA, the UN’s principal aid agency in Gaza, has also
continued unchecked despite international protests. UNRWA head, Phillipe
Lazzarini, told the state-run Turkish press agency Anadolu on Monday
there was no "Plan B" for aid delivery to Gaza, aid that supported the
roughly 2.2 million people trapped within the enclave.
Why didn't the Israeli army do anything when armed groups attacked the
convoy?
It's unclear.
The raid took place near the heavily fortified - by Israel - Karem Abu
Salem crossing between Gaza and Israel.
Palestinians in Gaza have told Al Jazeera of their confusion over how,
in one of the most heavily surveilled territories on the planet, the
presence of so many armed men could have gone undetected. The Washington
Post said it had obtained an internal UN memo from October that said the
gangs in Gaza "may be benefitting from a passive if not active
benevolence" or "protection" from the Israeli army. One gang leader, the
memo said, had established a "military-like compound" in an area
“restricted, controlled and patrolled by the IDF (Israeli army)".
Earlier this month, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on armed
Palestinian gangs routinely raiding aid convoys entering through Karem
Abu Salem, an area ostensibly under the control of the Israeli army. "I
saw one Israeli tank, and a Palestinian armed with a Kalashnikov [rifle]
just 100 metres [about 328 feet] from it," a senior official from an
organisation working in Gaza told the newspaper. "The armed men beat the
drivers and take all the food if they aren't paid [protection money]."
Have Israelis illegally blocked aid before?
Yes.
In May, outgoing Israeli police chief Kobi Shabtai said Ben-Gvir had
prevented him from protecting aid convoys from the Israeli far-right and
settler protesters looking to block relief from reaching Gaza. The same
month, the UK's Guardian newspaper reported that individual members of
Israel's security services and military were tipping off protesters on
the timing and passage of aid trucks into Gaza to allow for their
interception. Late last week, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar
Ben-Gvir told Israel National News that he was opposed to any form of
humanitarian assistance entering Gaza. Criticising the cabinet decision
to marginally increase aid in light of the US ultimatum, the far-right
minister told the channel: <I believe that as long as we have hostages
in Gaza, we must not give any concessions to the Strip, not even to the
civilian population.> >>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/20/how-was-a-major-un-aid-convoy-robbed-near-israeli-military-positions
Al Jazeera - Nov 20, 2024
<<All That Remains
Fault Lines follows the journey of a 13-year-old amputee from Gaza named
Leyan as she seeks treatment in the US.>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/11/20/all-that-remains
Le Monde - Nov 20, 2024 - by By Jean-Pierre Stroobants (Brussels,
correspondent)
<<Violence in Amsterdam reveals political disarray in the Netherlands
The clashes after the football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi
Tel Aviv have reignited debates linked to immigration and insecurity in
a polarized Dutch society.
Dutch populist Geert Wilders acted with intent on the morning of Friday,
November 8, by invoking the term <pogrom.> This term is particularly
loaded with historical connotations in a country slow to acknowledge its
role in the Holocaust, which claimed over three-quarters of its Jewish
population. What had just unfolded in Amsterdam was to bolster his
theory: The perpetrators of the violence were <thugs> of Arab origin,
and this demonstrated the incompatibility between "mass immigration" and
<Islamization,> on the one hand, and a democratic system on the other.
In the hours leading up to these messages from the leader of the Party
for Freedom (PVV), on X, the city had experienced a night marked by
manhunts, insults and beatings, sometimes preceded by random passport
checks. After the Ajax Amsterdam-Maccabi Tel Aviv football match, being
Israeli or Jewish meant facing attacks by violent gangs and being forced
to shout, "Free Palestine!"
In the wake of Wilders' comments, now at the head of the kingdom's
leading party - the PVV won 23.5% of the vote in 2023 - the Israeli
prime minister and the president echoed the use of the term <pogrom.>
Benjamin Netanyahu added fuel to the fire by suggesting the deployment
of a <rescue mission> for the roughly 3,000 or so supporters in the
Netherlands. Television networks, social media and other outlets were
caught off guard by this surge of violence driven by social platforms
whose risk had evidently been underestimated. They reported the events
widely before adopting a more measured perspective and acknowledging the
actual extent of the situation.
Increase in anti-Semitic acts
Five people were briefly hospitalized, and around 30 others sustained
minor injuries, with approximately 60 arrests made so far. This tally
does not diminish the gravity or significance of an appalling evening,
but it clearly falls short of fitting the definition of a <pogrom.> "In
a pogrom, members of the majority of a society attack a powerless and
unarmed minority, with the passive or active backing of the state," Amos
Goldberg, a specialist in the Holocaust at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, recalled in the Dutch-language Belgian daily De Morgen on
November 16. In his view, the events in Amsterdam were "nothing like"
this. While expressing concern about the rise in anti-Semitic acts since
the outbreak of war in Gaza, local Jewish community leaders acknowledged
that their community was not the primary target of the violent groups
active on 7 November. Instead, it targeted Israeli supporters, the most
radical of whom, the Fanatics, had taken down and burned Palestinian
flags, and shouted their desire to <fuck the Arabs> and <avenge> the
hostages held captive by Hamas.>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/11/20/violence-in-amsterdam-reveals-political-disarray-in-the-netherlands_6733398_23.html
Journalist Ahmed Abu Sharia
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov 20, 2024
<<Two more journalists die in Gaza
Journalist Fatima Al-Kariri died from heart attack due to Israeli
bombardment. Journalist Ahmed Abu Sharia was killed in an Israeli
airstrike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.
News Center- The number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks on the
Gaza Strip keeps rising.
On Tuesday, journalist Fatima Al-Kariri suffered from a heart attack due
to Israeli bombardment on northern Gaza. She died shortly after being
transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital.
On the same day, journalist Ahmed Abu Sharia was killed in an Israeli
airstrike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.
190 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
since October 7, 2023, according to Palestinian authorities.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/two-more-journalists-die-in-gaza-36016?page=1
540,000 people have left Lebanon
Womens News Agency - Nov 20, 2024
<<UN: Around 540,000 people have left Lebanon for Syria since September
24
Around 540,000 people have left Lebanon for Syria since September 24,
2024, according to the report published by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday.
News Center- Since October 8,2023, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have
killed at least 3,516 people, injured 14,929 others and displaced 1.4
million people. Around 540,000 people have left Lebanon for Syria since
September 24, 2024, according to the report published by the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday. 63% of
arrivals are Syrians and 37% are Lebanese nationals, the report said.
"The security situation across Syria has remained tense in recent days,
posing risks to individuals as well as to UNHCR and partner staff and
facilities. This has also impacted the movement of people entering Syria
from Lebanon. I've just arrived in Syria where over 540,000 people
fleeing Israeli air strikes in Lebanon have crossed in the last 7
weeks," Dominique Isabelle Hyde, Director of External Relations at UNHCR,
wrote on social media platform X. "Our joint UN teams have been
responding from the onset. I'll be meeting with Syrian returnees and
Lebanese refugees to better understand their needs." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/un-around-540-000-people-have-left-lebanon-for-syria-since-september-24-36013?page=1
The Gazaian Thinker
An A-Z of the children Israel killed in Gaza
Al Jazeera - Nov 20, 2024 - By Mohammed Haddad and Alia Chughtai
The Gaza Strip is a graveyard for thousands of children, the United
Nations has said.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in
Gaza, according to Palestinian officials.
That is one child killed every 30 minutes.
Thousands more are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead.
The surviving children, many of whom have endured the traumatic impact
of multiple wars, have spent their lives under the shadow of an Israeli
blockade, influencing every aspect of their existence from birth.
Among the documented children killed, there are at least:
710 babies below the age of one
1,793 toddlers (1-3 years old)
1,205 preschoolers (4-5 years old)
4,205 primary school children (6-12 years old)
3,442 high school children (13-17 years old)>>
Read here where and how many children were killed:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/11/20/an-a-z-of-the-children-israel-killed-in-gaza
Al Jazeera - Nov 20, 2024 - By Tamila Varshalomidze and Stephen Quillen
<<LIVE: Israel attacks Gaza's Kamal Adwan, kills three soldiers in
Lebanon
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger
seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza says the facility
is experiencing an "extreme catastrophe" with Israeli forces firing on
the building as children and elderly patients suffering from
malnutrition seek treatment there. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, speaking from Gaza, says Hamas will no longer govern the
enclave and announces $5m rewards for the return of Israeli captives
held in the territory.>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/20/live-israeli-tanks-fire-on-gaza-hospital-treating-malnutrition
Al Jazeera - Nov 19, 2024 - By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
<<Palestinian Canadians condemn 'betrayal' of faltering Gaza visa scheme
Advocates call on Canada to apply pressure on Israel to get Palestinians
approved for visas out of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian Canadians have renewed their calls for Canada to take
concrete action to get their loved ones out of the Gaza Strip amid
Israel's unrelenting bombardment, slamming a temporary Gaza visa scheme
launched earlier this year as a failure. Omar Omar, a representative of
the advocacy group Gazan Families, said on Tuesday that he has been
trying to get his relatives out of Gaza for months. "It's been over a
year now, and I'm still asking that my family - stranded in Gaza, under
the continuous threat of losing their lives at any moment - be treated
with the same urgency, the same humanity, that Canada extended to
others,” he said during a news conference in Ottawa. This long fight,
this exhausting advocacy, has drained our resources and everything we
have. We have lost so much back in Gaza, and here in Canada, this
struggle is tearing apart the lives we have tried to build." The
Canadian government launched the special Gaza visa programme earlier
this year to allow Canadian citizens and permanent residents to apply to
bring extended family members from Gaza to the country. But from the
start, the families and immigration lawyers said the process was
confusing and included invasive questions that went beyond what is
typically required, including detailed work histories and any scars or
injuries that required medical attention. They also accused the
government of imposing stricter requirements on Palestinians than on
other people who have sought temporary visas in recent years, such as
Ukrainians. Canada approved more than 960,000 visas for Ukrainians
fleeing Russia's invasion of their country - an 81 percent approval rate
- and nearly 300,000 people have arrived over a two-year span.
In contrast, the Gaza visa programme was capped at 5,000 visas.
Canada's immigration department told Al Jazeera last month that, as of
October 5, only 733 applications from Palestinians "who exited Gaza on
their own" - without help from the government - had been approved. By
that same date, only 334 Palestinians had arrived in the country, the
department said, without specifying why the others had not yet landed in
Canada. "When I saw Canada welcoming thousands of Ukrainian refugees
fleeing war, I felt hopeful. I believed that the same compassion would
extend to my family," Omar said during Tuesday's news conference. "But
it hasn't. The betrayal - the cold refusal - has left me questioning if
there is any heart left in this government, if there is any compassion
left for people like us."
Canada has said it cannot decide who gets to leave the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Egypt control the enclave's southern Rafah border crossing,
and it has been closed for months amid the Israeli military's offensive,
which has killed at least 43,972 Palestinians across Gaza since October
2023. "The primary challenge continues to be the ability for people to
exit, as movement out of Gaza remains extremely difficult or impossible
due to various factors that remain outside of Canada's control," a
spokesman for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada told Al
Jazeera in an email in October. "Canada will continue working closely
with local authorities - at every level - to facilitate the exit of
extended family members and to advocate for their safety." But rights
advocates have said the Canadian government should apply more pressure
on Israel to allow Palestinians approved to come to Canada under the
visa programme to leave the bombarded coastal territory. "If this
government was serious about saving Palestinians, Israel would face
serious consequences for preventing their exit from Gaza," Alex Paterson
of the advocacy group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
said during Tuesday's news conference.
Ultimately, the success of the Ukrainian visa programme "shows what is
possible", said David Matsinhe, director of research, policy and
advocacy at Amnesty International Canada. "This demonstrates very
clearly the government's capacity to act with urgency and resolve during
humanitarian crises," he told reporters in Ottawa. Matsinhe issued a
list of demands for Canada to bolster the Gaza visa scheme, including
removing the cap on the number of applicants and increasing diplomatic
pressure on Israel and Egypt to facilitate the exit of Palestinians.
"This delay, even as relentless bombardment continues, is a tragedy and
prompts a chilling question," he said. "Was this programme deliberately
designed to fail?" >>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/19/palestinian-canadians-condemn-betrayal-of-faltering-gaza-visa-scheme
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