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NEW: September 11, 2024:

Nour, A midwife in Gaza

Sept. 4, 2024:
"He can't move at all": A Gaza mother's agony over baby with polio...
and
September 3, 2024:
'Tragic childhood': Gaza children vaccinated against polio, war continues...

 


Shoroughs' family

August 12, 2024:
'Part of me is missing': How Israel's war on Gaza tears spouses apart

earlier stories:
August 7, 2024: 'My children cry all day from the heat': Life in Gaza’s tent camps...
and

August 5, 2024: Shorough 'We have nothing left in this world, except our daughter': a young mother on life in Gaza...


Alaa al-Nimer and daughterNimah

July 28, 2024
"My baby girl was born on the street": A traumatic birth in Gaza

 

July 22, 2024
Ms. Maram Humaid: "A letter to my son: As you turn one today in Gaza, I feel joy and sorrow"
 July 12, 2024
Noor Alyacoubi - "I'm fighting to keep my baby alive"
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Oct 17, 2024: <<Leaked US warning to Israel to 'let aid in Gaza' is merely a distraction
Oct 15, 2024: <<Deep pain in a beautiful West Bank home: The Arrabis’ dead sons
 
Oct 15, 2024: The horrific Israeli bombing of Al-Aqsa Hospital
Oct 14, 2024: Can't afford to have people silenced during genocide
October 13, 2024: The ICC's credibility is hanging by a thread
October 13, 2024: Cieco: A blind dog's journey from Nabatieh to Beirut, fleeing Israeli bombs
 
October 12, 2024: Israel's mass detention of Palestinians is aimed to break our spirit
  

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October 25 - 23, 2024
"Gaza parents' heartbreak as children’s clothes, shoes fall to pieces..."
and "While arrest warrants in themselves won't stop crimes, they could have a real effect on the ground and potentially save many lives,"
said international law professor Adil Haque,
a seasoned ICC observer...

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<<IDF soldiers should refuse orders that may be war crimes,
Israeli ex-security adviser tells BBC...

|and with it the 'naked truth' will, in the end, face justice|
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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
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June 14, 2024
Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison


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Shireen Abu Akleh
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killed while revealing the true face
of israel
  
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In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj
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Shrouq Al Aila

 
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.


Childrens shoes
Al Jazeera - October 23, 2024 - By Ruwaida Amer
<<Gaza parents' heartbreak as children’s clothes, shoes fall to pieces
Children are underdressed and exposed to the elements a year into Israel's war on Gaza.
A child's feet in tattered shoes because his parents cannot find shoes or clothes for him in Gaza as Israel bombs civilians there
Deir el-Balah, Gaza, Palestine - In a displacement camp, a woman stands outside a tent, hanging laundry on a line. Rawan Badr's face is tired as she places each piece of clothing carefully. A movement makes her look up, it's her six-year-old daughter, Massa. Massa is a cheerful little girl, busying herself with play and making an energetic commentary on everything. Her mother says she also loved dressing up before the war, the bigger and more colourful the dresses, the happier she was showing them off to her friends.
'I lie. We won't return'
The state of the clothing on Badr's clothesline is wretched - faded, stretched, patched and frayed pants and shirts lie limply beside each other.
The 34-year-old and her family - 38-year-old husband, Ahmed, and their children, 11-year-old Yara, eight-year-old Mohammed, Massa and three-year-old Khaled - were displaced from Gaza City in October last year. Badr grabbed only a few items when they left, assuming they would be able to come home soon. Several displacements later, Badr is near despair. "I left everything behind," she says. Now her children's clothes are falling apart as a result of being worn for days on end and being washed on the other days. "Sometimes", Badr says, "Massa asks me about her clothes. She remembers every piece. She asks about her red Eid dress. She asks about her pyjamas that she loves. I don't know how to answer. Every day, I tell her we'll go home 'tomorrow', but I lie. We won't return." Badr stops talking to check the food she has on an open fire. Like parents everywhere, when Badr has money to spare, she tries to buy things for her children. But in Gaza, her choices are limited to worn-out used clothes that are usually the wrong size because there's nothing else available. Then she has to take them to the market, where a tailor at one of the makeshift stalls can alter them a bit to fit. At home, when things tear or get worn out, she does her best to mend them herself using a needle and thread she keeps in a tin. When she was forced to buy a pair of shoes for Massa one day - for about $40 - the family could not afford to buy food for a week.
Between necessity and a little joy
Two of the busiest craftsmen in Gaza today are tailors who do alterations and mending and "eskafis" who repair shoes. Both can be seen on the sidewalks in the Deir el-Balah market in central Gaza. The market is full of displaced, tired people who wander around. Some of them are there looking for food they can afford. Others hunt for other essentials. A lot of them can only look because they do not have any money to buy anything.
On a street corner, Raed Barbakh, 27, has set up a stall and is mending a small pair of trousers that look like they are for a six-year-old as a man and a woman stand in front of him, waiting to take the trousers home. Barbakh himself is displaced, having come to Deir el-Balah with his most essential possession: his sewing machine. "I work from 7am to 7pm," he says. "There are so many customers, their clothes constantly torn or needing to be altered. "For the first time in 10 years of being a tailor, I hate my job. A few days ago, a man displaced from Gaza City came to me with one of his shirts and asked me to turn it into two shirts for a three-year-old child." The man, Barbakh says, was willing to sacrifice one of his few pieces of clothing to make his toddler son happy. With no job, that displaced man is not likely to have money to buy another shirt anytime soon, he adds. "Every day is full of people coming to get clothes repaired. There aren't any new clothes to be bought. It's all old, worn clothes that need repair or alteration. "I used to make clothes from scratch, cut from beautiful new fabric," Barbakh sighs.
'Exhausted with finding solutions for the children'
Next to Barbakh on the sidewalk is a portable cobbler's stand where Saeed Hassan, 40, sits surrounded by shoes people have brought for him to mend. He holds a shoe, carefully examining it to see where it can be mended. His hammer and nails lie next to a bag that looks big enough to fit all his equipment in case he wants to change work locations. Hassan is from Deir el-Balah and works mainly in the market although he sometimes roams among the displacement camps if things are quiet in the market. Sometimes, he says, people bring him shoes that "cannot be repaired. But they ask me to try to fix them any way I can. So I’ll end up adding bits and pieces of material to try to cover any holes, but that's not easy at all."
One day, a man came to Hassan with a couple of pieces of foam and asked him to turn them into shoes for his children. "I can't do that!" Hassan chuckles. "Making shoes isn't easy, and it needs its own tools. Also, a foam shoe won't last long. Look at the streets. Our destroyed streets can destroy iron. "I've never seen things as bad as they are now. People are exhausted by how intense it is simply to find solutions for the children."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/10/23/gaza-parents-heartbreak-as-childrens-clothes-shoes-fall-to-pieces

Al Jazeera - October 25, 2024
<<Can Europe change the course of Israel’s war on Gaza?
A Dutch advisory body says European countries should do more to prevent a larger conflict.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/10/25/can-europe-change-the-course-of-israels-war-on-gaza

Le Monde - Oct 25, 2024 - by By Stephanie Maupas (The Hague (Netherlands) correspondent)
<<Silence from the ICC judges hearing the Netanyahu case
The International Criminal Court judges are due to rule on the request for an arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister, which was issued by the prosecutor five months ago. On March 17, 2023, it took the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) just 23 days to confirm the arrest warrants requested by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his children's rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova. But more than five months after being filed on May 20, ICC magistrates are still deliberating on the arrest warrants requested by the same prosecutor for crimes committed in Israel and Gaza since October 7, 2023. The warrants requested by Khan target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and - if the judges do not obtain proof of his death - Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas's military wing. The three judges' slowness opens the door to possible pressure on them, fueling suspicions about their own independence and raising questions about the very relevance of ICC jurisdiction. "While arrest warrants in themselves won't stop crimes, they could have a real effect on the ground and potentially save many lives," said international law professor Adil Haque, a seasoned ICC observer. For this American academic, "arrest warrants could end up changing the behavior of Israel's allies, including the US and Germany," Israel's main arms suppliers. Over the past five months, the judges have stepped up the number of exceptional procedures. At the request of the United Kingdom - which in early June wished to intervene as amicus curiae ("friend of the Court") only eventually to withdraw - they allowed dozens of states, lawyers and think tanks, including some from evangelical Christian lobbies and the Western far right, to submit briefs. In mid-September, breaking with its usual refusal to deal with the ICC, Israel joined the proceedings, sending two briefs to the judges - one unsurprisingly challenging the Court's jurisdiction, the other asking it to relinquish jurisdiction in favor of the Israeli courts.
The Hague in its own bubble
Israel claims to be in a position to try, on its own soil, those allegedly responsible for violations of international law committed in Gaza. This is in the hope of escaping the sword of the ICC, which only intervenes as a last resort. This is how the United Kingdom, implicated in cases of torture in Iraq, managed to escape the jurisdiction of The Hague court. Since the spring, US leaders such as Senator Lindsey Graham and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have been weighing up this option. According to a seasoned observer of the Court, "if Israel participates, it is undoubtedly because it has obtained a guarantee" that the case will be referred in its favor.>>
Read more here: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/25/silence-from-the-icc-judges-hearing-the-netanyahu-case_6730391_4.html

Le Monde - Oct 25, 2024
<<UN rights chief warns of war's 'darkest moment' unfolding in Northern Gaza
Volker Turk warned that Israel's ongoing military actions could amount to 'atrocity crimes and pointed out that 'more than 150,000 people are reported dead, wounded or missing in Gaza.' The UN rights chief said the "darkest moment" of the conflict in Gaza was unfolding in the north of the territory, warning Friday, October 25, that Israel's actions could amount to "atrocity crimes." Volker Türk pointed out that already "more than 150,000 people are reportedly dead, wounded or missing in Gaza" since the war there erupted just over a year ago. "Unimaginably, the situation is getting worse by the day," he said. "My gravest fear is, given the intensity, breadth, scale and blatant nature of the Israeli operation currently underway in North Gaza, that number will rise dramatically." Turk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, warned that Israel's policies in northern Gaza "risk emptying the area of all Palestinians. We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity." He called on the world's leaders to act, stressing that all states are obligated under the Geneva Conventions to ensure respect for international humanitarian law. His statement stressed the urgency of the situation, warning that "today the darkest moment of the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip, where the Israeli military is effectively subjecting an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation." "The bombing in North Gaza is non-stop," he said. At the same time, "the Israeli military has ordered hundreds of thousands to move, with no guarantees of return. But there is no safe way to leave," he warned. The UN rights chief cautioned that there was "extremely limited access to this part of Gaza, [and] next to no aid has reached the area in weeks, with unlawful restrictions remaining." "Many are now facing starvation." At the same time, he said, "the Israeli military is striking hospitals and staff and patients have been killed and injured or forced to evacuate simultaneously." Turk's statement pointed out that Palestinian armed groups also reportedly continue to operate among civilians, including in places of shelter, putting civilians in harm's way "which is totally unacceptable."
Le Monde with AFP>>
Source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/25/un-rights-chief-warns-of-war-s-darkest-moment-unfolding-in-northern-gaza_6730478_4.html

Al Jazeera - October 25, 2024
<<'Ethnic cleansing' happening in Gaza, Jordan's FM tells Blinken
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that "ethnic cleansing" is taking place in Gaza and Israel must stop its war.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/25/ethnic-cleansing-happening-in-gaza-jordans-fm-tells-blinken


Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 25 , 2024
<<Three journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Lebanon
An Israeli airstrike on a building used by reporters in the town of Hasbaya, in southeastern Lebanon, killed three journalists on Friday.
News Center- An Israeli airstrike on a building used by reporters in the town of Hasbaya, in southeastern Lebanon, killed three journalists on Friday.
The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen channel said early that its cameraman Ghassan Najjar and its broadcast engineer Mohammad Rida were among those killed. The third journalist identified as Wissam Qassem was a cameraman working for Al-Manar channel. The Lebanese ministry of health said three others were injured in the airstrike. Lebanon's Information Minister Ziad Makary said the attack was deliberate and described it as a "war crime'.
The ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon has killed 2,593 people and injured 12,119 others since the start of the offensive on October 8, 2023. 104 children and 194 women are among the killed people. The ongoing Israeli attacks have displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon. More than 486,000 displaced people of Lebanon have taken shelter in Syria.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/three-journalists-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-lebanon-35895?page=1

Al Jazeera - October 25, 2024
<<Israeli forces storm Kamal Adwan Hospital during north Gaza siege
Israeli forces have stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, the main hospital serving the area of north Gaza that's been under Israeli siege for almost three weeks. Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum has been following the story.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/25/israeli-forces-storm-kamal-adwan-hospital-during-north-gaza-siege

Al Jazeera - October 25, 2024
<<Patients, staff trapped in Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital amid Israeli siege
Israeli military surrounds compound of one of the few partially functioning medical facilities in the north after shelling building. At least 600 patients along with their companions, and staff members, are trapped at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya as the Israeli military besieges the medical facility, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has said. Israeli forces raided the hospital in northern Gaza on Friday and ordered patients to move down to the main courtyard, the Wafa news agency reported, as they conducted mass arrests. At least two children have died in the intensive care unit after the hospital's generators stopped and the oxygen station was targeted, the health ministry said in a statement. Among those inside are 195 patients, and 70 medical staff members, the ministry said in its statement, adding that the situation there is "alarmingly deteriorating".
The raid came a day after Israeli tanks shelled the compound of the hospital, one of the few remaining functioning medical facilities in the north of the enclave, as the Israeli siege entered its third week. According to the hospital's director, Hussam Abu Safia, the intensive care unit suffered severe damage from the tank attack. He warned that the hospital could become a mass grave as one patient was dying every hour as a result of the Israeli military assault. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said "we have lost touch with the personnel" at the hospital and called the raid "deeply disturbing”. He wrote in a post on social media platform X, that the hospital "has been overflowing with close to 200 patients - a constant stream of horrific trauma cases. It is also full of hundreds of people seeking shelter". The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces "stormed" the hospital, "detaining hundreds of patients, medical staff and some displaced individuals from neighbouring areas who sought refuge".
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said witnesses and doctors at the scene said fires had broken out, making it difficult for people to evacuate the building and for ambulances to operate. Wounded patients and those with other health complications were dragged outside the buildings into the courtyard of the hospital, Mahmoud reported. "This is happening at a time when fuel was expected to reach the hospital to sustain the power generators," Mahmoud said. "It's hard to imagine that the hospital will be able to sustain its operations now as it comes under direct attack by the Israeli military." He said there was a heavy military presence in the area, with dozens of Israeli tanks surrounding the medical compound. The Israeli military said only that it was "operating in the area" of the hospital based on intelligence that indicated the presence of <terrorists and terrorist infrastructure>.
Hospitals under fire
A second medical facility in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, was put out of service on Monday as Israeli soldiers stormed a school and detained the men there before setting the facility ablaze. The fire reached the hospital generators, causing a power outage.
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud said the solar panels on the rooftop were also damaged, "leaving the Indonesian Hospital without any source of power", including for lifelines such as incubators. Those evacuated from the Indonesian Hospital were displaced to Kamal Adwan Hospital, a mid-size facility struggling to accommodate patients beyond capacity. The United Nations said it had been unable to reach all three hospitals in northern Gaza - Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and al-Awda Hospital - despite demanding access to allow aid in. The UN Human Rights Office said it was "increasingly concerned that the manner in which the Israeli military is conducting hostilities" in northern Gaza, also with the "unlawful interference with humanitarian assistance and orders that are leading to forced displacement".
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
And view video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/25/patients-staff-trapped-in-gazas-kamal-adwan-hospital-amid-israeli-siege

Le Monde - Oct 24, 2024
<<Israel and Hamas signal openness on talks to end Gaza war
After a meeting in Cairo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he welcomed Egypt's readiness to reach a deal 'for the release of the hostages' still held by militants in Gaza, a statement from his office said. Israel said Thursday, October 24, that its spy chief will attend Gaza ceasefire talks and Hamas vowed to stop fighting if a truce is reached, as long-stalled efforts to end the war appeared to gain momentum. Previous bids to stop the year-long war have failed, though the United States has voiced hope the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week could serve as an opening for a deal. A senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that a delegation from the group's Doha-based leadership discussed "ideas and proposals" related to a Gaza truce with Egyptian officials in Cairo on Thursday. "Hamas has expressed readiness to stop the fighting, but Israel must commit to a ceasefire, withdraw from the Gaza Strip, allow the return of displaced people, agree to a serious prisoner exchange deal and allow the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza," the official said. The talks in Cairo were part of Egypt's ongoing efforts to resume ceasefire negotiations, he added. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he welcomed Egypt's readiness to reach a deal "for the release of the hostages" still held by militants in Gaza. After the Cairo meeting, Netanyahu directed the head of Israel's Mossad spy agency to leave for key mediator Qatar on Sunday to "advance a series of initiatives that are on the agenda," the prime minister's office said. Earlier on Thursday, the United States and Qatar said Gaza ceasefire talks would resume in the Qatari capital. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Qatar's leaders in Doha on Thursday on his 11th trip to the region since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel sparked the Gaza war. During the trip, which comes less than two weeks before US elections, Blinken said that mediators would explore new options. He said they were seeking a plan "so that Israel can withdraw so that Hamas cannot reconstitute, and so that the Palestinian people can rebuild their lives and rebuild their futures."Qatar said that US and Israeli teams would fly to Doha, with Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani adding that Qatari mediators had "re-
engaged" with Hamas since Sinwar's death. Blinken repeated his assertion that the killing of Sinwar by Israeli forces last week offered an opportunity for a deal.
'Time is running out'
Israeli and US officials as well as some analysts said Sinwar had been a key obstacle to a deal allowing for the release of 97 hostages still held in Gaza, 34 of whom the Israeli military says are dead. An Israeli group representing families of hostages called on Netanyahu and Hamas to secure an agreement to free the remaining captives. "Time is running out," the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said. On the battlefield, the Israeli military has kept up the pressure on Hamas, launching an operation earlier this month in the north of Gaza where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped. "More than 770 people have been killed" in the territory's north in the 19 days since the operation started, Gaza civil defense agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said, adding that the toll could rise as people were buried under the rubble. He also said a strike on a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza killed 17 people on Thursday, where the Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas militants.>>
Source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/24/israel-and-hamas-signal-openness-on-talks-to-end-gaza-war_6730380_4.html

Al Jazeera - October 24, 2024
<<Al Jazeera locates young girl in Gaza seen carrying injured sister
Qamar and Sumaya Subuh were selling biscuits to earn a small income for their family in Gaza when Sumaya was struck by a car. The images of Qamar carrying her sister slung over her shoulder quickly spread online. Al Jazeera located the sisters and their family.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/24/al-jazeera-locates-young-girl-in-gaza-seen-carrying-injured-sister

Al Jazeera - October 24, 2024
<<Israeli tank fires on northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital
Video from the northern Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank firing shells at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few remaining medical facilities operating in the north amid the Israeli army's ground incursion.>>
View video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/24/israeli-tank-fires-on-northern-gazas-kamal-adwan-hospital


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