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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 28- 26, 2024 Food for thought: "Let's not pretend: Although the war corroded Iran's deterrence, the 60-day cease-fire in Lebanon is a temporary lull as far as both Israel and Hezbollah are concerned - and if it was done so Netanyahu can prolong a futile war in Gaza, there is little to rejoice about" Haaretz outlet editor-in-chief. Read more and decide for yourself

November 26 - 25, 2024 Food for thougt: "Over 435 Palestinian women detained by Israel since October 7, 2023..." or better said: it are always the women and mothers first who are in a monstrous way being 'punished' for 'crimes' not committed! and more actual and revealing 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

 
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.


survival?
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Nov 28, 2024
<<People in northern Gaza facing diminishing conditions for survival for over 50 days
Between 65,000 and 75,000 people are estimated to remain in the besieged north Gaza, facing diminishing conditions for survival for over 50 days, UNRWA said in a post on Thursday.
News Center- Between 65,000 and 75,000 people are estimated to remain in the besieged north Gaza, facing diminishing conditions for survival for over 50 days, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Thursday in a post on X. According to the post, the United Nations have attempted 91 times to reach Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun to deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance from October 6 to November 25, 2024; however, "82 of these attempts were outright denied while 9 of them were impeded."
'The situation is beyond miserable'
It has rained heavily the last three days and temperatures have dropped in those three areas, the post said. "Thousands of families, who have fled the besieged areas are now sheltering in the cold and rain without blankets, mattresses or waterproof shelters. The situation is beyond miserable." >>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/people-in-northern-gaza-facing-diminishing-conditions-for-survival-for-over-50-days-36073?page=1

Al Jazeera - Nov 28, 2024
<<Nine members of a family killed in Nuseirat as Israel bombards Gaza
Residential buildings, public facilities and infrastructure attacked across Gaza, as UN accuses Israel of denying 82 of 91 attempts to deliver aid to the north. The Israeli military has targeted residential buildings, public facilities and infrastructure across the Gaza Strip, killing at least nine members of a family in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Reporting from central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said on Thursday that Israeli ground forces were conducting a military operation seeking to expand the Netzarim Corridor - a 6.5km (4-mile) stretch established in the centre of the enclave by the Israeli military that divides northern and southern Gaza. "In doing so, it carries out these attacks to destroy remaining residential buildings ... that the Israeli military claims are being used as observation points by Palestinian fighters," Mahmoud reported, adding that witnesses said there were large numbers of civilians inside these homes. In northern Gaza, Israeli jets carried out air raids, targeting the remaining residential buildings in the town of Beit Lahiya, killing at least four people, Mahmoud said. In the south, at least four people were killed on Thursday morning when Israeli drones attacked a group of Palestinian civilians near a camp for displaced people in the town of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Younis, according to the Wafa news agency. Israel's army has not commented on the recent attacks. It usually claims its operations target Hamas and that it makes efforts to avoid civilian casualties. The United Nations said earlier this month that more than 70 percent of those confirmed killed in Gaza are women and children.
Blocking aid
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on social media platform X that Israeli authorities denied 82 of 91 attempts by the UN to deliver aid to northern Gaza between early October and November 25. Israel also impeded nine other attempts to bring humanitarian supplies to the north of the territory, which has been under an Israeli military siege and constant bombardment for more than 50 days. "The conditions for survival are diminishing for the 65,000-75,000 people estimated to remain there," UNRWA said on Thursday.
Israel's war in Gaza has killed at least 44,282 Palestinians and wounded 104,880 others since October 7, 2023.
There has been no progress in reaching a ceasefire in Gaza, but the United States - Israel's main political and military ally - has said it will make renewed efforts to achieve one. <Over the coming days, the United States will make another push with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and others to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with the hostages released and the end to the war without Hamas in power,> US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, in a parallel conflict, took effect on Wednesday and was holding on Thursday.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/28/nine-members-of-a-family-killed-in-nuseirat-as-israel-bombards-gaza

Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Biden OKs $680m Israel arms sale despite new Gaza ceasefire push: Reports
Approval comes despite US promise to renew efforts on long-elusive Gaza ceasefire after Israel-Hezbollah truce.
The administration of United States President Joe Biden is reported to have provisionally approved a $680m arms package to Israel, even as it asserts that it is pushing for peace in the Middle East. Reports of the arms deal on Wednesday come a day after Biden announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and promised to renew efforts to reach a similar agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza - one he has repeatedly promised but failed to deliver. The arms package had been in the works for months and had been previewed by congressional committees in September and submitted for wider review in October, an unnamed US official told the Reuters news agency, which confirmed an earlier report by the Financial Times on Biden's provisional approval. The latest delivery will include hundreds of small-diameter bombs and thousands of joint direct attack munition kits (JDAMs), both news organisations reported. JDAMs convert <dumb> bombs into precision-guided weapons. The Biden administration has not confirmed the reports, the timing of which highlights the juxtaposition of the US position on the Middle East conflict - on the one hand facilitating ceasefire negotiations while on the other hand selling billions of dollars of munitions to Israel as it kills tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese. On Tuesday, Biden - who has consistently supported Israel and portrays US arms sales to Israel as essential support for an ally - held an address at the White House announcing that a US-brokered ceasefire that would see Israel withdraw from Lebanon within 60 days had been reached. That deal went into effect early on Wednesday. During the address, Biden promised to again seek an end to the fighting that has raged in Gaza since October 7, 2023. For months, previous attempts by Washington to broker a deal have come up short with critics accusing Washington of failing to exert its most meaningful leverage - withholding some of the billions of dollars in arms it provides to Israel. To date, Israel has killed at least 44,282 Palestinians in Gaza since the war began when a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel killed at least 1,139 people. Israeli forces have killed more than 3,800 people in Lebanon in the past 13 months. <Over the coming days, the United States will make another push with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and others to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with the hostages released and the end to the war without Hamas in power - that it becomes possible,> Biden said.
Questions over weapons
The latest weapons package would have been blocked as part of legislation introduced by several Democratic senators to stop about $20bn in arms sales to Israel, the Financial Times reported. However the effort, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, fell short of votes this month. For their part, US officials have repeatedly denied that delays in some arms transfers have been related to Israel’s actions beyond a pause this year of a shipment of 900kg (2,000lb) bombs in a fruitless effort to prevent Israel from launching a major ground operation in Rafah. Speaking to reporters after Biden’s speech, a US official denied that either withholding or promising more weapons to Israel was part of negotiations that eventually led to the Israel-Hezbollah agreement. The official said: <No part of this negotiation involved weapons on either side.> However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday appeared to offer a contradictory account, saying the ceasefire with Hezbollah was needed to <replenish stocks>, among other reasons. <And I say it openly: It is no secret that there have been big delays in weapons and munitions deliveries. These delays will be resolved soon,> Netanyahu said during a national address without specifically naming the US. <We will receive supplies of advanced weaponry that will keep our soldiers safe and give us more strike force to complete our mission.>
Continued support before Trump's return
Advocates said the latest approval from the Biden administration indicates there will be little change in the president's policy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20. In a post on X, the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project said the move shows <President Biden is spending the final days of his presidency going against the will of most Americans, US law, and international law.> It noted that the small-diameter bombs and JDAMs reportedly provided in the package have been linked to Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza. The Biden administration has also been one of the most vocal critics of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) decision last week to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza. The ICC also issued a warrant for Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, who Israel said it has killed. In a statement, Biden called the warrants against the Israeli officials <outrageous> and promised to <always stand with Israel against threats to its security>. Netanyahu's office on Tuesday said it would appeal the court's ruling. Trump is expected to take a more provocative stance against the ICC - and in his overall support for Israel - after he takes office with his Republican Party in control of both the US House of Representatives and Senate after the November 5 elections. Trump's pick for national security adviser, Representative Mike Walz, has already promised a <strong response> to the ICC and the United Nations <come January>. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham went further, promising during a trip to Israel on Wednesday to introduce legislation that <would sanction any country that tried to enforce the arrest warrant against Israel>.<You could be a close ally - Canada, Britain, France, you name it - [but] if you buy into this arrest warrant as legitimate, then you're going to meet stiff, bipartisan resistance in America,” Graham said. <So, to the world, if you empower this folly at the ICC, then you will have a hard time doing business in America and coming to America.> Netanyahu's office confirmed that Graham had met with the Israeli leader during the trip. The prime minister's office said Graham <updated him on the efforts that he is advancing in the US Congress against the ICC and countries that have cooperated with it>.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/27/biden-oks-680m-israel-arms-sale-despite-new-gaza-ceasefire-push-reports

The Guardian - November 27, 2024 - by Thaslima Begum, reporter
<<Reporter's note
Due to Israel's ban on the foreign press, instead of reporting from inside Gaza, I've spent much of the year travelling around the Middle East, speaking to Palestinians who have managed to get out. In Doha, I interviewed photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. In Jerash in Jordan, I visited the neglected refugee camp where a mental health crisis is brewing. And in Cairo, I met families who were struggling to survive after using up all their life savings to flee the besieged territory. Then, a father from Gaza sent me a video of his daughter Mazyouna, a 12-year-old, who had sustained horrific injuries to her face when an IDF rocket hit her home. The video - too graphic to share - made me feel sick to my stomach. It showed the terribly injured young girl being driven to hospital as she bled profusely, her jaw quite literally hanging off. Her father told me he was trying to evacuate Mazyouna for medical treatment but the Israeli authorities had rejected her application five times and her condition was deteriorating.
I contacted Cogat, the Israeli body overseeing the civil administration, several times while writing my story about Mazyouna's situation, but it did not respond to my requests for comment. Only afterwards, when the story had been published, did they get in touch requesting details about her case.
A few days later, I received the wonderful news that Mazyouna had finally been granted permission to leave Gaza. Last week, she was flown to the US with her mother and young sister, where she will receive surgery. While this is incredible news, I can't help but feel it is not enough. One young life was saved because media attention moved the Israeli authorities to act - but not enough to open the door for thousands of children like her, who remain stuck in the war zone that is Gaza and in need of immediate evacuation.>>
Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/21/mazyouna-damoo-girl-face-ripped-off-israeli-missile-permit-evacuation-gaza-medical-treatment.htm

Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024 - By Simon Speakman Cordall and Maram Humaid
<<Hell and high water: Gaza waits for a ceasefire of its own
Conflicting emotions in Gaza as the people there watch the ceasefire in Lebanon take effect.
Families in the rain-soaked devastation of Gaza describe watching the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon with feelings of relief, hope and, for some, the sense of having been entirely abandoned. A general frustration has settled on the central city of Deir el-Balah, where people are exhausted from nearly 14 months of relentless Israeli assault. Several people who spoke to Al Jazeera on Wednesday said that while they were pleased for their "brothers in Lebanon for reaching a truce", they are waiting for their own truce. The people in Gaza, they said, have endured hundreds of times more than what they can bear.
'What about us?'
Maysaa Khalil, displaced from Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood to Khan Younis in southern Gaza a year ago, said that when she heard the news from her husband, she immediately asked: "What about us?" "Why not stop both wars together so long as the same party launched them: Israel?" she asked. "We are happy for Lebanon, of course," she added, "but we feel that we have been forgotten." Meanwhile, Hamedi, originally from Beit Hanoon in the north, said he was optimistic. "I think the beginning stages [of a ceasefire in Gaza] might start in the next three, maybe four, days," he said from the crude shelter of a tent in a camp the United Nations runs for some of the two million of Gaza's displaced people in Deir el-Balah."
His friend Fadi echoed his upbeat mood: "[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has his victory. He has a ceasefire with Hezbollah. The next step will be Gaza. He can negotiate more easily now," he said of the stuttering peace talks in Cairo and Doha that have run almost for the duration of the war. "I'm not sure we'll see any progress in the next few days, but perhaps in weeks." Hussein, who works for an aid agency and is originally from a village in Gaza’s north, was more measured. "I don't know," he said. "We never guessed what the war was going to be like. We never guessed how bad it might be. I don't think we’re ready to guess when it might end. It's true that many are feeling hope now that a ceasefire in Gaza might be possible. However, others are feeling entirely abandoned," he said of the halt in Hezbollah operations launched in support of Gaza. Some are feeling entirely alone, as if the world has forgotten them," he said as conditions in the blockaded enclave continue to deteriorate.
'Gaza's reality is different'
Overnight on Wednesday, as the finishing touches were being put on the ceasefire, Israeli strikes on a school and neighbourhoods in Gaza killed at least 15 people and injured many more. "Throughout last night, the sounds of Israeli strikes on the central region and various areas in Gaza did not stop. This means that Israel is still continuing its war in Gaza," Mohammed Ismail, one of the thousands displaced from Gaza's north to Deir el-Balah, said. He added that he was afraid the announcement of a ceasefire in Lebanon might signal further escalation in Gaza. "The reality for Gaza is completely different," he said. "Israel still wants to implement more plans, and there does not seem to be a real political and international will to stop the war, especially from the United States." As temperatures drop, the rain has begun to fall on Gaza, drenching the cloth tents of the displaced crowded into ill-equipped camps. Other people who have been forced from their homes are living in schools turned into shelters, many of which are operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). "You can't find plastic," Hussein said, explaining that Israel prevented its entry into Gaza, claiming it could be used for military purposes. Hussein couldn't imagine what military application plastic sheeting may have.
"If you can find it, one [sheet] will cost you around 500 shekels [$136]. A tent needs three or four plastic sheets, so instead, families have to use cloth, which offers little or no protection from the cold or the rain," he said. In Gaza's north, suffering an Israeli siege since early October, conditions have been described by UN officials as "apocalyptic".
Excrement in the streets
With nearly all of Gaza’s infrastructure destroyed by Israel during the first six months of its war, displaced people have had no option but to bury sewage in what is now the sodden ground. "You can smell it everywhere," Hussein said of the excrement he said now runs freely down the street.
"Children have to play in it. It's incredible." In a visit to Gaza in mid-November, Netanyahu, who is currently subject to an international arrest warrant on charges of war crimes, gave no indication that Israel's war would draw down. <We are destroying [Hamas's] military capabilities in a very impressive manner,> he said in a video published after the visit. He then offered a $5m reward for the recovery of each of the remaining captives held in Gaza, which the Israeli military's killing of more than 44,000 people in Gaza has yet to produce. Among the charges cited in the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant is "the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare".>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/27/hell-and-high-water-gaza-waits-for-a-ceasefire-of-its-own

Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024
<<What does Lebanon's ceasefire mean for Gaza, as Israeli attacks continue?
"They agree to a ceasefire in one place and not in the other?" As a ceasefire deal is reached in Lebanon, the Israeli military continues to scale up attacks across Gaza, leaving many to wonder why Israel has not brokered a deal with Hamas.>>
Source/video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/27/what-does-lebanons-ceasefire-mean-for-gaza-as-israeli-attacks-continue

Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024
<<Keir Starmer's remarks on genocide in Croatia vs Gaza
What were Keir Starmer's remarks regarding genocide in Croatia and Gaza?>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/compare-contrast/2024/11/27/keir-starmers-remarks-on-genocide-in-croatia-vs-gaza

Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024
<<A 'new page': World reacts to Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
Agreement greeted with relief in Lebanon and beyond, with some pushing for 'urgent steps' to end Israel's war in Gaza. A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has taken effect after 14 months of cross-border fighting that has killed thousands of people. It went into force at 4am (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday. Israel will "gradually withdraw" its forces from southern Lebanon over the next 60 days under the deal, with the Lebanese army joining United Nations peacekeepers in the territory. The deal has been greeted with relief in Lebanon, where thousands of people were making their way home to the south, defying a warning from the Israeli military to stay away from previously evacuated areas.
Here are some key reactions:>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/27/a-new-page-world-reacts-to-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire

Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024 - By Stephen Quillen, Urooba Jamal and Mersiha Gadzo
<<LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza school as displaced Lebanese return south
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has taken effect amid hopes of a permanent end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, as well as more than a year of cross-border fighting. US President Joe Biden says the deal involves Israeli forces withdrawing from Lebanon over 60 days, with the Lebanese army taking control of territory in the south of the country to ensure Hezbollah does not rebuild forces.>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/27/live-countdown-to-lebanon-ceasefire-as-israel-reaches-deal-with-hezbollah


Al Jazeera - Nov 27, 2024
<<What does government boycott of Haaretz mean for press freedom in Israel?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approves proposal to sanction the country's oldest newspaper.>>
Read more and video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/11/26/what-does-government-boycott-of-haaretz-mean-for-press-freedom-in-israel

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