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"Third
countries that enable Israel's "unlawful occupation" of
Palestinian territory
and assist it despite warnings of war crimes and
possible genocide in the Gaza Strip
should be considered "complicit", United Nations experts
say...."
and more actual fact-finding
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October 17 - 15, 2024
Food for thought:
As a more than reliable source
(a nazi-camp 'gypsy' survivor)
told me yesterday
israel is heading straight
to become a extreme fascist dictatorship
and more actual fact-finding news |
October 15 - 12, 2024
SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THE
NEWS AND IMAGES MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB
to say the least
and the million-dead question is:
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur: "It blows
my mind to think that WE KNOW what Israel
is doing and altogether we cannot stop it. Looking at
where we were 100 years ago,
no much progress has been achieved,"
So where will it end?
and more actual fact-finding news
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When one hurts or kills a women
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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 - October 19, 2024
<<Hospitals in northern Gaza under Israeli fire as Jabalia attack kills
33
Israeli forces move further into the centre of Jabalia as tanks surround
three hospitals trapping patients, civilians.
Three partially functioning hospitals treating severely wounded patients
and sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians in northern
Gaza are now out of service after coming under intense Israeli fire, a
Gaza health official told Al Jazeera, as the siege on Jabalia enters its
third week, with at least 33 more people killed in the northern area.
Israeli forces bombed al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia early on Saturday, and
have also shelled Kamal Adwan and the Indonesian hospitals in Beit
Lahiya over the past few hours, Al Jazeera correspondents have reported.
"We cannot count the number of those killed. The numbers are
terrifying," the official told Al Jazeera. At least one person has been
killed and several others were wounded in the strike at the entrance of
the laboratory of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The
Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that because of the military
siege, two intensive care unit patients at the Indonesian Hospital have
died on Saturday. In another Israeli attack on central Gaza’s Maghazi
refugee camp, at least 16 people were killed, the Palestinian official
news agency WAFA said on Saturday, adding that there are still missing
people under the rubble. At least seven people were also reported killed
in a separate Israeli strike on a school sheltering Palestinian refugees
in al-Shati camp, just west of Jabalia. In Jabalia itself, an air strike
on Saturday afternoon killed five more people. Another four people were
reported killed in another Israeli strike in al-Nuseirat refugee camp,
according to our Al Jazeera team from Gaza. In Rafah city, southern Gaza
Strip, two people were killed in an Israeli drone airstrike on the
Khirbet area. In all, the death toll has surpassed the 67 killed in
Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours, as earlier reported by
health authorities in the enclave. At least 450 have been killed since
the siege began two weeks ago. Al Jazeera's Tarek Abu Azzoum, reporting
from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said witnesses in northern Gaza told
him the second and third floors of the Indonesian Hospital, as well as
its courtyard, have been hit, resulting in "a number of casualties". At
least 40 patients are trapped inside the hospital and Israeli tanks have
surrounded it, he said. Meanwhile, the attack on al-Awda Hospital cut
power to the medical facility. Witnesses also told Abu Azzoum the
situation in other parts of Jabalia had "severely deteriorated" since
Friday. "They said that they are surrounded by Israeli tanks and that
destruction is everywhere. They said that the smell of death is in every
corner of the Jabalia refugee camp," he added.
"We have to remember that Jabalia is already under a crippling siege
with no food and water entering the area for the 15th day now," Abu
Azzoum said. Communications and internet services had also been
completely been cut off, disrupting rescue operations, he said, adding
that Israeli forces have been advancing further into the centre of
Jabalia and fighting with Hamas forces. Meanwhile, Palestinian
authorities warned the death toll from the latest strikes on Jabalia
could rise, as some people were believed to be still trapped under the
rubble. The Palestinian official news agency, Wafa, said children were
among the 33 confirmed dead. At least 85 others were wounded, some
critically, raising fears of more fatalities.
The Israeli military said its operation in Jabalia is intended to stop
Hamas fighters regrouping for more attacks. But the Health Ministry in
Gaza said most of the people killed were civilians. On Friday, health
officials appealed for fuel, medical supplies and food to be sent
immediately to the three northern Gaza hospitals which have been
overwhelmed by the number of patients and injuries. The World Health
Organization (WHO) has also accused Israel of preventing at least 50
medical specialists belonging to eight groups from entering Gaza, the
first such case of entire organisations being blocked from participating
in humanitarian efforts in the besieged territory. Northern Gaza, once
home to more than half of the territory's 2.3 million people, was bombed
to rubble in the first phase of Israel's assault a year ago. More than
42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's genocide on Gaza so
far, according to Gaza's health authorities.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/19/hospitals-in-northern-gaza-under-israeli-fire-as-jabalia-attack-kills-33
Al Jazeera - October 19, 2024 - By Umut Uras
<<Live: Drone targets Netanyahu's house, Israel hits Gaza's hospitals
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger
seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Israeli PM's office says Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, north of Tel
Aviv, was target of a drone launched from Lebanon.
At least 44 Palestinians killed and more than 80 wounded in Israeli
strike on northern Gaza's Jabalia and Maghazi refugee camps.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/19/live-israeli-attack-kills-at-least-33-in-north-gazas-jabalia-refugee-camp
Al Jazeera - October 18, 2024 - By Alice Speri
<<'There is no day after': What US, Israel want for Gaza after Sinwar's
death
Analysts say US push for Gaza post-war phase is 'unrealistic' as Israel
vows to continue fighting in besieged territory.
Within moments of the confirmation that Israeli forces had killed Hamas
leader Yahya Sinwar, officials in the United States hailed the killing
as an "opportunity" to turn the page on the war and move on to a "day
after" for Gaza. While offering no clear vision of what the future of
the ravaged territory might look like, White House national security
adviser, Jake Sullivan, described Sinwar's killing on Thursday as a
chance to "bring about a better day for the people of Gaza, the people
of Israel, the people of the whole region". President Joe Biden and Vice
President Kamala Harris echoed that assertion in their own statements.
Israeli leaders, however, had a drastically different message. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war is <not over> and pledged that
Israeli forces would operate in Gaza for <years to come>. But with no
details about Washington's vision for the future of Gaza and no
indication that the Biden administration would meaningfully pressure
Israel towards a political resolution to the conflict, Israel is likely
to proceed with - if not intensify - its military onslaught, analysts
say. And amid the widespread destruction and carnage in Gaza, any
post-war plan will face monumental difficulties in conception and
implementation. H A Hellyer, a geopolitical analyst, dismissed US talks
of a "day after" in Gaza as "laughable". "There is no day after," said
Hellyer. "We all need to recognise that the Israelis have made it very
clear that they’re not leaving Gaza, that the military presence will
remain, so the idea of any sort of political horizon here is just very,
very unrealistic." He added that while Washington is talking about the
future of Gaza, Israel is pushing on with its occupation of the
territory along with the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Syria's Golan
Heights, while also invading Lebanon. Israel "is not showing the
slightest interest in leaving any of these places anytime soon", Hellyer
told Al Jazeera.
The real obstacle
While US officials spoke of Sinwar as an <obstacle removed> this week,
it's unclear how his killing will affect negotiations for a ceasefire
deal that would see the release of Israeli captives in Gaza, which has
failed to materialise for over a year. Hamas has stressed that it backs
an agreement that would lead to a permanent ceasefire, while Netanyahu
has repeatedly pledged to continue the war until total victory. "Sinwar
was not the only obstacle to a ceasefire or indeed the main obstacle to
a ceasefire. That was Netanyahu and that remains Netanyahu," Matt Duss,
executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, told Al
Jazeera. "What this really comes down to is: Will the Biden
administration at long last be willing to put real pressure on Netanyahu
both to end the war and to commit to a day after that is not simply
permanent Israeli occupation?"
US officials say they want the war to end as quickly as possible.
However, they have been unwilling to exercise any of the leverage
available to them, and it is unclear whether Sinwar's killing will
change that. The US supplies Israel with billions of dollars worth of
weapons that are essential to the Israeli military offensive in Gaza and
Lebanon. Biden and Harris have rejected calls for an arms embargo
against Israel. "This is the constant missing piece, not just during the
course of this war, but historically in the US management of the peace
process and their policy toward Israel and Palestine," said Duss. "All
along, consequences and costs are imposed on one side and one side only
- the weaker side, the Palestinian side. The Israelis have complete
impunity to do whatever they want. And that is part of what led us to
this catastrophe." US officials have floated various post-war scenarios
since the beginning of the war - including turning Gaza over to a <revitalised>
Palestinian Authority - which have been flatly rejected by Israel. More
recently, according to an Axios report, the US considered an Emirati
plan for a transitional authority to be created in Gaza.
But US hopes for a ceasefire or a political resolution keep falling
short amid continuing, unconditional support for Israel. "For the war to
end, the US’s main ally in the region, the state of Israel, would have
to change quite significantly what it is doing, and the US has not shown
at any time in the past year a willingness to use the leverage that it
does actually have to force that change in behaviour," said Hellyer. "In
fact, it's done the opposite: When the Israelis are given a red line by
DC and they cross it, there are no consequences. I don't know why
anybody would expect that's going to change in the next few weeks or few
months." For example, earlier this year, Biden warned Israel against
invading the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of
displaced Palestinians have been crammed. Israel ignored the US calls
and launched a massive bombing campaign and ground invasion against the
city. Washington responded by insisting that the offensive that all but
depopulated and destroyed the city was not a major operation.
What day after?
Even if a ceasefire is reached against the odds, planning for Gaza's
future is a momentous task in light of the devastation brought by a year
of war.
"Gaza has just been demolished - its infrastructure, its villages, its
towns, its buildings, its cities. It lies in ruins," said Duss. "How do
you empower a credible governance structure?" In addition to the
staggering death toll of more than 42,500, another 10,000 or more are
feared dead under the rubble. One in every 23 people in Gaza has been
injured over the last year, a quarter of them with life-altering
injuries that require longterm treatment. Some 114 hospitals and clinics
have been rendered inoperable; 150,000 homes have been destroyed, and 96
percent of Gaza's population is facing a severe lack of food and no
access to clean water, according to Palestinian officials in Gaza. "What
day after? What is a day after when you have destroyed more than 70
percent of Gaza and rendered most people homeless and five percent of
the population has been killed?" Zaha Hassan, a human rights lawyer and
a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Al
Jazeera. "It's very hard to hear US officials talking, almost
celebratory, about a day after for Gaza as though the guns have gone
silent, which they have not, and with the scale of what's happened.
How do you even begin to think about how to rehabilitate and remediate
what has happened?" International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors have
sought arrest warrants for Sinwar as well as Netanyahu and Israeli
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over possible war crimes in the ongoing
conflict.
Hassan noted that while Sinwar is dead, there has been no talk of
justice or accountability in US discussions about the future of Gaza.
"Where is justice, and accountability for the mass atrocities and likely
genocide that we saw in Gaza?" The US has forcefully opposed the ICC
investigation of the Gaza conflict, and some lawmakers have called for
sanctions against the court's prosecutor. It is unclear whether US
pressure has delayed the issuance of the arrest warrants, which are yet
to be approved. "The situation is just catastrophic," Hassan said.
"There are just so many questions and not any answers that you're
getting from the US government."
Forever war
Whatever US wishes for turning a page on Gaza may be, unless the US is
willing to shift its approach to Israel, nothing is likely to change
there, experts say. Ori Goldberg, an Israel-based political analyst,
said that Israeli officials appear to have no clear objective beyond the
consolidation of their military presence in Gaza - and little interest
in what their US counterparts may prefer. "Israel is doing what it has
always done: It's bombing and it's killing and it's assassinating, but
there's no plan, there's no progression, there's no sense of anything
happening except death," he told Al Jazeera. "We really don't have any
kind of end game or any kind of real political plan on where this goes
and most particularly on where this ends."
He added that Israel wants the conflict to be a "forever war". So far,
timid US and international criticism has proven largely irrelevant for
Israel.
"Never has a country so flagrantly and so bluntly violated every single
rule in the book. Never has a country done exactly what it wanted
regardless of various attempts to intervene by its friends and allies,"
Goldberg said.
"The US is along for the ride."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/18/there-is-no-day-after-what-us-israel-want-for-gaza-after-sinwars-death
Al Jazeera - October 18, 2024
<<10-year-old brother of Shaban al-Dalou dies from injuries
Abdul Ruhman, the 10-year-old brother of Shaban al-Dalou, has died from
injuries he received in an Israeli strike that ignited a massive tent
fire next to Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital. Their father has now lost two of
his sons and their mother in the tragedy.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/18/10-year-old-brother-of-shaban-al-dalou-dies-from-injuries
Al Jazeera - October 18, 2024
<<Attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon 'unacceptable', says Italy's
Meloni
In Beirut, Meloni and Lebanon's Najib Mikati urge 'diplomatic solution'
as Hezbollah pledges new phase of war against Israel.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called for the strengthening
of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL,
during a visit to Beirut. The premier decried attacks against UNIFIL,
whose forces have been targeted by Israeli troops in recent weeks. "Only
by strengthening UNIFIL while maintaining its impartiality will we be
able to turn the page," Meloni said during a joint news conference with
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday. "I repeat that I
consider targeting UNIFIL is unacceptable," she added in reference to
Israeli attacks involving the mission’s positions and troops. "I ask
once again that all parties strive to ensure at all times that the
safety of each of these soldiers is guaranteed." Meloni, who is regarded
as a strong ally of Israel, is the first head of state or government to
visit Lebanon since an escalation between Israel and Hezbollah last
month. She said that after her visit to Beirut, she would hold talks
with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Italy has about 1,000
peacekeepers serving in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, which has come
under repeated fire by Israeli forces. Five peacekeepers were injured in
a series of incidents last week. In the latest, the UN force accused
Israeli troops of breaking through a gate and entering one of its
positions. Meloni and Mikati agreed that a diplomatic solution must take
precedence over violence, Mikati said during the news conference.
"What is happening today is a lesson for all Lebanese to stay out of
regional conflicts," Mikati said.
'Deliberate' attacks on UNIFIL
Earlier on Friday, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said the force's
peacekeepers are maintaining their positions despite "demands" to move
from the Israeli military. "We've been targeted several times, five
times under deliberate attack," he said via videolink from Beirut.
Tenenti said a unanimous decision was taken by UNIFIL's 50 contributing
countries and the UN Security Council to hold its positions and continue
efforts to monitor the conflict and ensure aid gets to civilians. The
Israeli military "has repeatedly targeted our positions, endangering the
safety of our troops, in addition to Hezbollah launching rockets toward
Israel from near our positions, which also puts our peacekeepers in
danger", he added. Tenenti said deteriorating security in recent weeks
due to the fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces had forced
UNIFIL, which has about 10,000 personnel, to suspend most, but not all,
of its patrols near the Lebanon-Israel border, also known as the Blue
Line. "We are seeing at the moment hundreds of trajectories, and
sometimes more, crossing the Blue Line each day, forcing our
peacekeepers to spend extended hours in shelters to ensure their safety,
which remains our top priority," he said.
New phase of war?
Meanwhile, fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli soldiers, who entered
southern Lebanon more than two weeks ago, continued. The Lebanese group
said on Friday that it is entering a new phase in its fight against
invading Israeli troops, saying its fighters are working according to
<plans prepared in advance> to battle soldiers in several parts of
southern Lebanon. Hezbollah added that it has introduced new weapons
over the past days.
A statement from the group's operations room said Hezbollah's fighters
have used new types of precision-guided missiles and explosive drones
for the first time. A short time later, the Israeli army said it was
calling up an additional reserve brigade for operational missions in
northern Israel.
Hezbollah also said it launched an attack "with a squadron of attack
drones on gatherings of enemy soldiers in the occupied city of Safed" in
northern Israel after attacks on villages in southern Lebanon. It
pledged continued "support" for the Palestinian people after the killing
of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Hezbollah has been trading fire
with Israel for more than a year in solidarity with Palestinians in the
besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip. During that time, the Lebanese
Ministry of Public Health said, more than 2,000 people have been killed
across the country in Israeli attacks. More than 1 million people have
been displaced from their towns and villages in eastern and southern
Lebanon.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/18/attacks-on-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-unacceptable-says-italys-meloni
Al Jazeera - October 18, 2024
<<Countries aiding Israel's occupation may be 'complicit': UN experts
Independent UN commission calls on Israel to halt settlement expansion
and return occupied land to Palestinians.
Third countries that enable Israel's "unlawful occupation" of
Palestinian territory and assist it despite warnings of war crimes and
possible genocide in the Gaza Strip should be considered "complicit",
United Nations experts say. "Israel's internationally wrongful acts give
rise to state responsibility, not only for Israel, but for all states,"
Navi Pillay, the head of the UN Independent International Commission of
Inquiry, said on Friday. The commission has published a new legal
position paper spelling out specific actions required after a recent
advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declaring
Israel’s occupation since 1967 "unlawful". It also examines the
implications of last month's UN General Assembly vote demanding the
occupation end within a year. The three-person commission, established
by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021 to investigate alleged
international law violations in Israel and the Palestinian territory,
pointed first to Israel's obligations. The General Assembly vote meant
Israel was under an international legal obligation to cease all new
settlement activity and dismantle existing settlements as rapidly as
possible, the commission noted. "Israel must immediately put into place
a comprehensive plan of action that will physically evacuate all
settlers from occupied territory," it said. The commission also demanded
that Israel "return land, title and natural resources to the
Palestinians who have been displaced since 1967". All of Israel's
settlements in the West Bank, occupied since 1967 and inhabited by about
700,000 Israeli settlers, including occupied East Jerusalem, are
considered illegal under international law, regardless of whether they
have Israeli planning permission. More than 500,000 Israelis live in
more than 100 settlements across the West Bank. Their existence remains
a major roadblock to since-halted plans outlined in the Oslo Accords
that promised the gradual transfer of Israeli-controlled areas to
Palestinians. Both Israeli army and settler violence in the West Bank
has surged since Israel's war in Gaza began. About three million
Palestinians in the territory are subjected to Israeli military rule.
Failing to prevent 'genocide'?
Other countries also have a list of obligations to fulfil, according to
the commission. Pillay, a former UN human rights chief, said all
countries are "obligated not to recognise territorial or sovereignty
claims made by Israel over the occupied territories". States are
required to "distinguish in their dealings between Israel and the
occupied Palestinian territory", and no country should "recognise
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or place its diplomatic
representatives to Israel in Jerusalem", she said. States must also
refrain from rendering "aid or assistance in maintaining the unlawful
occupation", she said, adding that this included all "financial,
military and political aid or support". The commission likewise insisted
that all states must comply with their "obligations under the Genocide
Convention" and follow the provisional measures ordered by the ICJ in a
case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide in
Gaza. "The commission finds that all states are on notice that Israel
may be or is committing internationally wrongful acts in both its
conduct in the military operations in Gaza and its unlawful occupation
of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem," the position paper said.
"Thus, the commission finds that, unless states cease their aid and
assistance to Israel in the commission of these acts, those states shall
be deemed to be complicit in those internationally wrongful acts," it
added. Israel has long accused the independent UN commission of
<systematic anti-Israel discrimination>. The commission has stressed
that the UN also needs to do more to ensure Israel complies with its
obligations under international law. It decried the UN Security Council
in particular for repeatedly failing to act due to the veto power
wielded by one of its five permanent members, implicitly referring to
the United States, Israel's main ally.
"The commission is of the view that, when peremptory norms of
international law are violated, the permanent members of the Security
Council should not be allowed to exercise their veto as this is contrary
to the obligation to uphold peremptory norms of international law," it
said.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/18/countries-aiding-israels-occupation-may-be-complicit-un-experts
Le Monde - Oct 18, 2024 - By Jean-Philippe Remy (Jerusalem
correspondent)
<<Yahya Sinwar's death opens a new phase in the war in Gaza
The elimination of Hamas's leader by the Israeli army is unlikely to
bring an immediate end to the conflict, but his death has increased the
pressure on the two sides to agree to a ceasefire. The hunt lasted a
year - an eternity. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7
attack, was eventually killed by the Israeli army, which announced his
death on Thursday, October 17. This victory was not achieved due to
readings from the Israeli radars that probed Gaza's subsoil, in the hope
of locating the Islamist movement's leader under the immense network of
tunnels he had helped to build. Nor was Israel's public enemy number one
eliminated in one of the Israeli army's commando operations, which are
based on their intelligence and had, at times, missed him by a hair's
breadth. The fugitive, who was thought to be holed up in underground
bunkers, where it was believed that he was keeping a group of Israeli
hostages around him to use as human shields, was killed in an exchange
of fire with an Israeli patrol in Rafah, in the south of the enclave.
The soldiers didn't know they were shooting at their country's most
wanted man. On Thursday evening, the Israeli authorities released a
video supposedly showing Sinwar's last moments, filmed by a drone. It
shows a wounded man, sitting in an armchair in a ruined house. In a last
gasp, he throws a stick toward the camera filming him. An Israeli army
strike then blows the whole scene up. Three bodies were pulled from the
rubble, including his own, which was partly recognizable. Analyses of
his DNA and teeth, which the Israeli police had kept since his long stay
in Israeli prisons, made it possible to formally identify him. Sinwar's
death means the trio behind the October 7 bloodbath, and the devastating
war that followed, have all been killed: Mohammed Deif, the head of
Hamas's military wing, was killed in a strike in July, and Marwan Issa,
his second-in-command, was eliminated in March.
A year underground
Before his final moments above ground, Sinwar was thought to have spent
a year underground in his maze of tunnels, communicating with the
outside world through messengers, notably to pass on his instructions
concerning ceasefire negotiations. He had made the end of hostilities
conditional on a reciprocal agreement to release Israeli hostages (of
the original 250 captives, 101 remain, according to Israel, half of whom
would allegedly be dead) and Palestinian prisoners, and on the Israeli
army's complete withdrawal from Gaza. This is how he hoped to emerge
victorious from the ruins of the coastal enclave. The ranks of his
messengers, some of whom had been close to him during his two decades in
prison, had thinned as they were eliminated by the Israeli army. Sinwar
had recently stopped sending out instructions, giving rise to
speculation that he may have been killed by the army, unbeknownst to it,
during a bombing raid on Gaza.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/18/yahya-sinwar-s-death-opens-a-new-phase-in-the-war-in-gaza_6729772_4.html
Al Jazeera - October 18, 2024
<<Cori Bush on Palestinian liberation, Kamala Harris and the pro-Israel
lobby>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/10/18/cori-bush-on-palestinian-liberation-kamala-harris-and-the-pro-israel-lobby
Al Jazeera - October 18, 2024
<<Will the US follow Israel into a full-blown war in the Middle East?>>
View the video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/10/18/will-the-us-follow-israel-into-a-full-blown-war-in-the-middle-east
BBC - Oct 17, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Israeli air strike on north Gaza school kills at least 22, medics say
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled Jabalia and other areas of
northern Gaza in response to an Israeli ground offensive
At least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air
strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced families in northern
Gaza, local medics and the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency say. The
director of a local hospital said children and women were among the
casualties from the attack on Abu Hussein Primary School for Boys in
Jabalia refugee camp. Video footage showed people carrying a number of
casualties and fetching buckets of water in an attempt to put out a
blaze inside a tent. The Israeli military said it had <conducted a
precise strike on an operational meeting point for Hamas and Islamic
Jihad terrorists>. It also named 12 men who it said were among <dozens>
of members of the Palestinian armed groups present in the compound at
the time of the strike. The military accused them of being involved in
rocket attacks on Israel and of carrying out attacks on Israeli troops
in Gaza in recent days. Hamas rejected the allegation that the school
was being used for military purposes as "mere lies" and part of a
"systematic policy of the enemy to justify its crime". The director of
the nearby Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,
told the BBC in a voice note that about 25 people were killed and 75
injured in the strike, and that children and women were among the
casualties who had been brought there. "Our hospital is small in size
and we cannot receive all these injured people. Most of the people
presented to us were women or children," he said. The town of Jabalia
and its refugee camp have seen intense Israeli bombardment and fierce
fighting on the ground since the Israeli military launched a ground
offensive 12 days ago to target what it said were Hamas fighters
regrouping there.
More than 50,000 people have fled their homes in response to the
hostilities and Israeli evacuation orders, but UN officials say there
are tens of thousands who are stuck there in increasingly desperate
conditions with water and food running out. Kamal Adwan hospital, along
with the nearby Indonesian and al-Awda hospitals, are facing dire
shortages of fuel and other supplies, according to the UN. "We are
working under fear, under the sound of explosions everywhere. We have a
big challenge in our hospital," Dr Abu Safiya said. "We have a lack of
medicine, a lack of medical supplies, a lack of medical equipment. We
don't have enough staff, especially specialists for our ER." For the
first two weeks of this month, the UN said no humanitarian supplies
entered northern Gaza from Israel's crossings. Aid lorries began to go
in this week after a sternly worded letter was sent by the Biden
administration, warning Israel that if it did not increase aid getting
into Gaza within 30 days it risked losing US military assistance.
Israel said it was not preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and
accused Hamas accused of hijacking and stealing aid deliveries -
something the group has denied. On Thursday, a UN-backed assessment
warned that "the risk of famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip",
adding: "Given the recent surge in hostilities, there are growing
concerns that this worst-case scenario may materialize." The report by
the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said about 1.84
million people were experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity,
with 664,000 of them facing "emergency" levels of hunger and almost
133,000 facing "catastrophic" levels. The last figure is three-quarters
lower than at the time of the last report in June - a fall the IPC
attributed to a temporary surge in humanitarian assistance and
commercial supplies between May and August.
However, the IPC said it expected the number of people facing
"catastrophic" hunger to nearly triple in the coming months because
there had been a sharp decline in aid deliveries and food availability
since September. In response to the report, UN Secretary General António
Guterres said on X: "Famine looms. This is intolerable. Crossing points
must open immediately, bureaucratic impediments must be removed, and law
and order restored so UN agencies can deliver lifesaving humanitarian
assistance." 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 42,430 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according
to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced07pj0q6no
Le monde - October 17, 2024 - By Jean-Philippe Remy (Jerusalem
correspondent)
<<Northern Gaza's Jabaliya camp residents caught in a death trap
The Israeli army is intensifying strikes on the devastated city, where
residents also suffer from Israel's orchestrated restrictions on the
arrival of humanitarian aid. Washington has called for an increase in
aid entering the enclave. How many people are trying to get out of the
Jabaliya refugee camp that has been encircled by the Israeli army in
northern Gaza since October 6, cut off from food and medical care and
exposed to gunfire even in their homes? Probably tens of thousands
remain trapped by operations carried out over the past 10 days by the
162nd division, supported by tanks and drones. The Israeli army claims
to have conducted <targeted raids on dozens of terrorist infrastructure
sites in the area, eliminated dozens of terrorists and confiscated
numerous weapons.> In recent days, the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA has
reported that dozens of people have been killed, including women and
children. According to Gaza's civil defense, there are still victims
under the rubble. The number of inhabitants trapped in Jabaliya, which
has already seen two operations since the start of the war a year ago,
is impossible to determine. Bombardments have made any movement in and
around the camp potentially lethal, with the strikes extending beyond it
into a large part of northern Gaza. Some 430,000 people in total are
trapped in this area, according to a UN agency count. The army's
statements make no mention of the conditions under which the siege of
Jabaliya is being carried out nor of the contradictory orders given to
the residents in the rest of the northern region. While people have been
ordered to leave for the south, doing so has been nearly impossible due
to heavy gunfire. The army's <evacuation orders,> described by Amnesty
International as "Israel's euphemism for forced displacement," are
addressed to a population unable to obey them, even by force. Sarah
Davies, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross,
who was in Gaza until Tuesday, recounted the desperate pleas of families
with children and elderly members who are unsure of how to escape the
bombed-out and starving area. "The logic of the maps with the
evacuations may seem clear from a distance, but in reality, on the
ground, it's impossible to understand where the lines are between
dangerous places and those that should be spared," she said.
US administration alerted
Is the inferno unleashed in Jabaliya part of a wider strategy to
forcibly evacuate this region of northern Gaza through violence and
hunger by cutting off all supplies? In the US, the issue has prompted a
reaction from the administration. On Sunday, October 13, a letter from
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
was sent to their Israeli counterparts, asking them to increase the
volume of humanitarian aid authorized to enter Gaza within 30 days,
warning that failure to do so could bring US arms deliveries to Israel
would to be called into question. It remains to be seen whether these
provisions, three weeks before the US presidential election, have any
chance of being followed up. However, the situation in the enclave is
becoming untenable. Since the spring "the amount of aid delivered has
dropped by more than 50%," they said alarmingly in the letter, which was
leaked to the press.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/17/northern-gaza-s-jabaliya-camp-residents-caught-in-a-death-trap_6729692_4.html
Al Jazeera - October 17, 2024
<<Protester asks Israeli weapons firms for 'baby killing technology'
Video shows a pro-Palestinian protester confronting Israeli weapons
companies at a military convention, asking for 'baby-killing
technology.' Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 17,000
children.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/17/protester-asks-israeli-weapons-firms-for-baby-killing
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