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Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel 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  Click here for earlier stories/news

November 24 - 21, 2024 Food for thought: Here's why the Gaza war is 'consistent with genocide', according to UN body Read more and decide for yourself

November 21 - 19, 2024 <<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

 
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one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
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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 24, 2024 - by By Simon Speakman Cordall
<<Dying in 'Hell': The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel
One of Gaza's most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show. He's not the only one.
Warning: This article includes descriptions or mentions of sexual violence that some readers may find disturbing.
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh's life sat in stark contrast to the manner of the charismatic 49-year-old's death.
The head of orthopaedics at Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital was working at the al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza in December when he and other medics were arrested by the Israeli army for, they said, <national security reasons>. Four months later, Ofer Prison guards dragged Al-Bursh and dumped him in the prison yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand, according to a statement provided by Israeli human rights organisation, HaMoked. Recognising him, some of the other prisoners carried Al-Bursh to a nearby room, and he died moments later.
Entering 'Hell'
Dr Al-Bursh had become a fixture in the lives of many through the video diaries he posted before his arrest.
His videos showed him with his colleagues, digging mass graves in the al-Shifa yard to bury people because Israel would not let their bodies be taken to a cemetery, operating on the injured and the dying with little or no equipment, and waiting together for the Israeli assault on a hospital where thousands had sought safety. The assault came in mid-November when, in scenes captured by Dr Al-Bursh, the Israeli army ordered al-Shifa, its patients, staff and approximately 50,000 displaced people sheltering in the compound to vacate. Dr Al-Bursh made his way to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza where he worked until that too came under fire in November and he moved to Al-Awda Hospital. There he was arrested and entered a prison system that Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem describes as "Hell". Israel often detains healthcare workers like Dr Al-Bursh, holding them in horrific conditions for <investigation>. "Most of the doctors and nurses [held by Israel who spoke to PHRI] reported that the investigation was 'fishing' for information, but they weren't accused [of] any charges," Naji Abbas, Physicians for Human Rights Israel's prisoners' department director said. "Our lawyer visited dozens of healthcare workers who [are] still in Israeli detention for long months without charge or having a fair trial, most of them didn't ever see a lawyer," he added. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reports that Israel has detained at least 310 Palestinian healthcare workers since the war on Gaza began in October 2023. Many of them have reported abuse and cruel treatment including the use of stress positions, withholding food and water and sexual violence, including rape. "The healthcare workers we’ve spoken to have been held for anywhere between seven days and five months," Milena Ansari of Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, whose August report on the arbitrary detention and torture of healthcare workers documented the matter. "Many aren't even charged, they're just asked general questions, like: 'Who's your Imam?' 'What mosque do you go to?' or even 'Are you a member of Hamas?' but without providing any evidence," she said.
Bad becomes worse, becomes 'Hell'
Accounts of the widespread torture and mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are longstanding.
However, all the analysts Al Jazeera spoke to noted two distinct stages in the dramatic deterioration in conditions and surging abuse: firstly after the appointment of Itamar Ben-Gvir as national security minister in 2022, followed by the explosion of maltreatment of detainees that followed the onset of the Israeli war on Gaza in October 2023. "They don't care if you're from Gaza or Jerusalem, whether you're a doctor or a labourer - if you're a Palestinian, you're the enemy," Shai Parness of the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem said. "It's brutal and it's systematic," he said of a system that B'Tselem's August report, Welcome To Hell, characterized as "a network of torture camps".
"It's not just violence, humiliation and sexual abuse, it's everything," Ansari said.
"Accounts of physical and sexual violence were common. Of those who had been abused physically, injuries around the head, shoulders and, in the cases of men, from between the legs and the bottom are fairly common," Ansari added. She detailed the case of one paramedic who told HRW of having encountered another detainee, bleeding from his anus, who described how three Israeli guards had taken it in turns to rape him with their M16 rifles.
'Reduce their rights'
Responding to accusations of overcrowding from the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency in July, Ben-Gvir boasted of the abominable conditions in his prison systems, writing on X: "Since I assumed the position of minister of national security, one of the highest goals I have set for myself is to worsen the conditions of the terrorists in the prisons and to reduce their rights to the minimum required by law." Earlier the same week, he released a video saying: "Prisoners should be shot in the head instead of being given more food. It was bad, it's always been bad," Abbas told Al Jazeera, "But things became really serious after Ben-Gvir's appointment. Since October, it's been like another world. It's been horrifying. Before the war, there were hundreds of Palestinian prisoners with chronic diseases. Now there are thousands more people in detention, which means many more with chronic conditions, who are going untreated." In July, following arrests of Israeli soldiers accused of systematic torture and rape at the Sde Teiman detention facility, Israeli protesters - elected politicians among them - stormed Sde Teiman and the nearby Beit Lid base demanding the release of the arrested soldiers. Writing to Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu afterwards, Ben-Gvir decried the soldiers' arrest for rape and torture as "shameful", saying of conditions in his prison system: "The summer camps and patience for the terrorists are over." According to a statement given to the United Kingdom’s Sky News by the Israeli military, Dr Al-Bursh was taken from Al-Awda to Sde Teiman.
About a quarter of the 100 or so detainees at Sde Teiman were healthcare workers, another inmate, Dr Khalid Hamouda estimated.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/24/dying-in-hell-palestinian-medics-jailed-by-israel

Al Jazeera - Nov 24, 2024
<<EU member states must enact ICC arrest warrants, says foreign policy chief
The EU's foreign policy chief has reminded member states of their obligation to implement the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Josep Borrell also flatly dismissed Israel's assertion that the court's decision was 'anti-Semitic'.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/24/eu-member-states-must-enact-icc-arrest-warrants-says-foreign-policy-chief

Al Jazeera - Nov 24, 2024
<<Director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital injured in attack
The director of the main partially-functioning hospital in besieged northern Gaza has been injured in an Israeli drone strike. Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital and have damaged the facility's generators, fuel tanks and main oxygen station.>>
Source incl. video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/24/director-of-gazas-kamal-adwan-hospital-injured-in-attack

Al Jazeera - Nov 23, 2024
<<More than 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in 48 hours
Director of the Kamal Adwan hospital says several staff wounded in Israeli bombardment.
At least 120 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in two days, Palestinian health officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment across the besieged territory. At least seven people were killed when a residential home was hit overnight in the Zeitoun suburb of Gaza City, health officials said on Saturday. The other deaths were recorded in central and southern Gaza. Israeli air raids caused significant damage to al-Faruq Mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a social media video verified by Al Jazeera. Israeli forces also deepened their ground offensive and bombardment of northern Gaza, where one of the last partially operating hospitals was hit, wounding several workers.
Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said in a statement on Saturday that Israeli forces "directly targeted the entrance to the emergency and reception area several times, as well as the hospital courtyards, electrical generators, and hospital gates". The bombardment "resulted in 12 injuries among doctors, nurses, and administrative staff within the emergency and reception areas", he said. The Israeli military rejected the allegations and said it was <not aware of a strike in the area of the Kamal Adwan Hospital> following an initial review of the situation.
On Friday, Gaza's Ministry of Health said hospitals have fuel left for only about two days before it needs to start restricting services. Israel's military imposed a siege and launched a renewed ground offensive in northern Gaza last month, saying it aimed to stop Hamas fighters from waging more attacks and regrouping in the area. The United Nations warned earlier this week that almost no aid had been delivered to northern Gaza since Israel’s renewed offensive as aid groups and food security experts warn of a famine in the area. In a call with Defence Minister Israel Katz on Saturday, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pressed Israel to "take steps to improve the dire humanitarian condition in Gaza", the Pentagon said.
Israel's assault on Gaza has killed more than 44,000 people and wounded more than 104,000 since October 2023, according to Palestinian health officials. Israel launched its assault on Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which at least 1,139 people were killed and about 250 others seized as captives. A spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Ubaida, said later on Saturday that a female Israeli captive in the group's custody had been killed in northern Gaza in an area under attack by Israel's forces. "The life of another female prisoner who used to be with her remains in imminent danger," he added, accusing the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being responsible and of undermining efforts to end the war.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES, REUTERS:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/23/more-than-100-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-in-48-hours

Al Jazeera - Nov 22, 2024
<<Pro-Palestinian groups sue Dutch gov't for failing to stop Gaza 'genocide'
The NGOs want the Netherlands to ban the export and transit of weapons, weapon parts, and dual-use items to Israel. Pro-Palestinian organisations have taken the Dutch state to court, urging a halt to arms exports to Israel and accusing the government of failing to prevent what they termed a "genocide" in Gaza. They argue that the Netherlands, a staunch ally of Israel, has a legal obligation to do everything in its power to stop violations of international law and the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. "Today, the plaintiffs are here to hold the Dutch state accountable for failing to comply with international law by failing to intervene against violations of the rights of the Palestinian people committed by the state of Israel," Wout Albers, a lawyer representing the coalition, said at a civil court in The Hague on Friday.
"Israel is guilty of genocide and apartheid" and "is using Dutch weapons to wage war", Albers added. The plaintiffs comprise a coalition of Dutch and Palestinian organisations working to defend human rights in the Palestinian territory, with three of the groups in Palestine. In October, the groups requested the court to "include a ban on the export and transit of weapons, weapon parts, and dual-use items to Israel as well as a ban on all Dutch trade and investment relations that help maintain Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory". Reporting from The Hague, Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen said while the court is "looking into whether the [Dutch] state should be obliged to stop sending weapons, the state says that this decision is not up to the court to decide and is foreign policy". Judge Sonja Hoekstra noted: "It is important to underline that the gravity of the situation in Gaza is not contested by the Dutch state, nor is the status of the West Bank." But she said it was about "finding out what is legally in play and what can be expected" of the government. She acknowledged it was a "sensitive case". Albers said, "today is not about judging political choices, but about ensuring fundamental respect for the international rule of law and protection against violations of international law." According to Vaessen, the groups' demands build on previous decisions by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which earlier this year ruled that the occupation of Palestine is illegal. Judge Sonja Hoekstra said it was 'important to underline that the gravity of the situation in Gaza is not contested' by the government and 'nor is the status'. On Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas’s military commander Mohammed Deif for alleged "war crimes and crimes against humanity". Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said his country "respects the independence of the ICC". "We won't engage in non-essential contacts and we will act on the arrest warrants. We fully comply with the Rome Statute of the ICC," he added. It is unclear how far the case brought by the pro-Palestinian groups will go, as the Supreme Court has dismissed several earlier attempts to hold the Netherlands to its obligations to prevent alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. This suit also builds on the outcome of an earlier case which saw a court ordering the government in February to block all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel over concerns they were being used to violate international law.
Israel's war in Gaza has killed at least 44,056 Palestinians and wounded 104,286 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/2024/11/22/pro-palestinian-groups-sue-dutch-govt-for-failing-to-stop-gaza-genocide

BBC - November 22, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Virtually no aid has reached besieged north Gaza in 40 days, UN says
Israel's military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters
Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the United Nations has warned. The UN said all its attempts to support the estimated 65,000 to 75,000 people in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia this month had been denied or impeded, forcing bakeries and kitchens to shut down. Earlier this month, a UN-backed assessment said there was a strong likelihood that famine was imminent in areas of northern Gaza. The Israeli military has said its six-week-long offensive targets regrouping Hamas fighters, and that it is facilitating civilian evacuations and supply deliveries to hospitals. Hundreds of people have been killed and between 100,000 and 130,000 others have been displaced to Gaza City, where the UN has said essential resources like shelter, water and healthcare are severely limited. Meanwhile, the US vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The 14 other Security Council members voted in favour, but the US said the text did not explicitly call for the immediate release of the hostages being held by Hamas as part of a ceasefire. The resolution "demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to be respected by all parties, and further reiterates its demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages".
Israel said the text was a "resolution for appeasement" of Hamas, but France said the resolution "very firmly" required the hostages' release.
Hamas leaders no longer in Doha but office not permanently closed, Qatar says.
Almost 100 Gaza food aid lorries violently looted, UN agency says
At least 34 killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza
UN agencies had planned 31 missions to the besieged areas of North Gaza governorate between 1 and 18 November, according to the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Twenty-seven were rejected by Israeli authorities and the other four were severely impeded, meaning they were prevented from accomplishing all the work they set out to do. "This is happening when the IPC Famine Review Committee said just 11 days ago that parts of northern Gaza face an imminent risk of famine - and that immediate action is needed in days, not weeks," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York. "The result is that bakeries and kitchens in North Gaza governorate have shut down, nutrition support [for children and pregnant and breastfeeding women] has been suspended, and the refuelling of water and sanitation facilities has been completely blocked." Mr Dujarric said access to the three barely functional hospitals there also remained severely restricted, amid what he called "desperate shortages" of medical supplies and fuel. On Sunday, a World Health Organisation-led mission to Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia was able to deliver 10,000 litres of fuel and transfer 17 patients, three unaccompanied children and 22 caregivers to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. However, Mr Dujarric said the aid workers were forced to offload all the food supplies and some of the medical supplies they were transporting at an Israeli military checkpoint before reaching the hospital. The director of Kamal Adwan, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, warned on Wednesday that the situation there was becoming "even more catastrophic". Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry cited him as saying that the hospital had 85 patients receiving "the minimum level of healthcare" and that it needed children's food and infant formula to treat an increasing number of malnutrition cases.
Since Tuesday, 17 children had arrived at the emergency room showing signs of malnutrition and an elderly man had died due to severe dehydration, he added. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). But data from the Israeli military body responsible for humanitarian affairs in Gaza, Cogat, said 472 aid lorries had entered northern Gaza via the Erez West crossing as of 17 November, without specifying whether any of that aid was allowed into the besieged areas. Cogat also said it was continuing to work with international partners to "facilitate broad humanitarian responses for the civilian population in Gaza". On Monday, a boy from Beit Lahia told BBC Arabic's Gaza Today programme that he and his family had fled to Gaza City after the Israeli military dropped leaflets from a quadcopter, ordering their immediate evacuation. "The road from Beit Lahia to Gaza [City] was rough and bumpy with no transport available for us. When we arrived, we didn't find anything... neither food nor drink. We headed to the schools, but there was no space left because the number of displaced... was huge," he said. "As a result, we were thrown into the streets and didn’t know where to go. We are six families living in the streets, sitting on sand, dirt and debris." The IDF said in a statement on Monday that its forces had killed <dozens of terrorists in close-quarters encounters and through targeted strikes> in the Beit Lahia area over the past week. On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency told AFP news agency that a drone had killed two people, including a 15-year-old girl, at a school sheltering displaced families in Beit Lahia. The agency's first responders had also recovered the bodies of seven people killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia, he added. 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 43,980 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.>>
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ypxd3p4eo


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Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov 22, 2024
<<UN: Three Palestinian children killed every week on average in West Bank
Since October 7, 2023, three Palestinian children have been killed every week on average in the West Bank, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, said in a press briefing on Thursday.
News Center- At the daily press briefing on Thursday, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, gave information about the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and answered the questions of journalists. "Our humanitarian colleagues report that since 7 October of last year, three Palestinian children have been killed every week on average in the West Bank, marking a four-fold increase compared to the first nine months of 2023," Stephane Dujarric said. "Meanwhile, violence by settlers continues to displace Palestinian children in the West Bank. Of the more than 1,700 Palestinian displaced by settler violence, intimidation and harassment in Bedouin communities and herding communities, nearly half were children.
Israeli drones dropped bombs on the emergency department and the power generators at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the hospital, said in a written statement on Thursday. "In the shadow of international silence, Israel continues to commit its crimes against the healthcare system in Gaza, especially the Kamal Adwan Hospital."
15 children poisoned
The Palestinian Civil Defense announced on Thursday that 15 children and women were poisoned after eating canned food left by the Israeli army in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City. The Palestinian Civil Defense warned Palestinians not to eat any canned food or food products that they find.
112 Palestinians killed in last 12 hours
In the last 12 hours, Israeli army killed 112 Palestinians, including 64 children and women, and injured more than 120 Palestinians
In its attacks on residential buildings near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, Gaza City, the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and Khan Younis, Ismail es-Sevabite, Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, said on Thursday.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/un-three-palestinian-children-killed-every-week-on-average-in-west-bank-36029

Al Jazeera - Nov 21, 2024
<<White House ‘fundamentally rejects’ ICC warrants for Israeli leaders
The White House says it is working with Israel on a response to the ICC arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. A spokesperson added that the Biden administration disputes the idea that the court has jurisdiction.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/21/white-house-fundamentally-rejects-icc-warrants-for-israeli-leaders

Al Jazeera - Nov 21, 2024
<<How has the UNSC voted since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza?
The US vetoed a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution; here are all the other Gaza resolutions the Security Council has voted on. Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the Israel-Gaza conflict continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 19, 2024.
Video The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent" ceasefire in Gaza - the fourth time the Biden administration has blocked a ceasefire resolution since last October. The remaining UNSC's 14 members voted in favour of the latest resolution to end the war that has killed more than 44,000 Palestinians and turned Gaza into a wasteland. Only four of the 14 resolutions, which have been proposed over the nearly 14 months of Israel's war on Gaza, have passed.>>
Source and video and read here more and about the October 16, 2023, draft resolution:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/how-has-the-unsc-voted-since-the-beginning-of-israels-war-on-gaza

Al Jazeera - Nov 21, 2024
<<Israeli attacks on Gaza kill at least 88, including children in their sleep
Air raids on Beit Lahiya and Gaza City come as humanitarian crisis worsens in besieged territory.
Israel has unleashed a series of air attacks on the Gaza Strip that killed nearly 90 people, including many children in their sleep, as its main ally the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire. At least 66 people were killed in an attack early on Thursday that hit a residential neighbourhood in Beit Lahiya, in Gaza’s besieged north, Palestinian health officials said. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al Jazeera most of the victims "were asleep when they were killed". "A very large number of casualties has arrived, and there are still many bodies hanging on the walls, ceilings. It's mostly children and women," he said in a voice message.
Abu Safia said hospital staff rushed to the site, retrieving bodies, collecting remains and rescuing trapped people. "We are already operating with the bare minimum resources, that is why most of our staff are now busy rescuing the injured ... due to the lack of ambulances and resources," the paediatrician added. "The situation is honestly very dire. We cannot cope with this massive number of injured and casualties that have arrived to Kamal Adwan Hospital." Separately on Thursday, at least 22 people, including 10 children, were killed in Israeli bombardment of Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, a civil defence spokesman said.
1-14: Ceasefire resolution blocked by US
More than 13 months of Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed some 44,000 people, including more than 17,000 children, and wounded 104,000. With aid largely cut off, many in the densely populated territory are now facing the threat of starvation. Israel launched its ferocious military campaign after an estimated 1,139 people, mostly civilians, were killed in an attack led by the Palestinian armed group Hamas on October 7 last year, with some 250 people taken captive. About 100 of them were released after a truce and prisoner swap deal a year ago but negotiations have largely stalled since then. Thursday's overnight attacks took place hours after a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the captives failed to pass when permanent member, the US, cast a lone No vote in the 15-member body. This was the fourth time that US President Joe Biden's administration has vetoed such a resolution since the start of the war. Deputy envoy Robert Wood said the US, which provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military aid annually, could not back the measure because it was not linked to the immediate release of those held in Gaza.
"We made clear throughout negotiations we could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages," he said.
As the latest international attempt to bring an end to the fighting failed, civilians in Gaza continue to bear the brunt, especially in the northern governorate which has been under an Israeli siege for more than six weeks. Israel maintains that it wants to prevent the regrouping of Hamas in the area. In addition to the ongoing shelling, residents across Gaza are struggling to cope with a worsening humanitarian crisis as winter approaches.
Most Palestinians, who have been forced to flee wave after wave of Israeli attacks, live in tents and makeshift shelters that are inadequate for cold wind and rain. The Norwegian Refugee Council has warned that more than one million Palestinians in Gaza do not have sufficient shelter for the coming months.
Food provision is another issue.
Certain pockets across the 2.2 million-strong territory are on the cusp of famine and a growing number of civilians are suffering from acute lack of food. The entry of aid trucks has been severely hampered by Israeli authorities and, lately, by criminal gangs operating in areas under Israeli control, according to reports.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-dozens-including-children-in-their-sleep

Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov 21, 2024
<<88 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza
88 Palestinians were killed in two waves of Israeli attacks on Beit Lahiya and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City overnight, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Thursday.
News Center- 88 Palestinians were killed overnight in two waves of Israeli attacks on Beit Lahiya and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City overnight, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Thursday. 66 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and 100 others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential buildings near Kamal Adwan Hospital, a hospital in Beit Lahia, WAFA said, adding that many more people are still buried under the rubble.
22 Palestinians killed in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood
Israeli warplanes also targeted a six-story building belonging to the "Al-Arouqi" family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, killing at least 22 Palestinians, including 10 children and five women.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/88-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attacks-in-northern-gaza-36020?page=1

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