SvennoJ 5 days ago
Main points on November 8th
- Israel has launched at least 12 strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs over recent hours, while attacks in the city of Tyre have killed three people and injured 30 others.
- At least 39 Palestinians have been killed and 123 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza over the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
- Nearly 70 percent of those killed in Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza are women and children, the UN Human Rights Office has said in a new report, calling it “a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law”.
- The independent Famine Review Committee, a committee of global food security experts, have warned of a “strong likelihood” of an imminent famine in northern Gaza.
- Ten Israeli football fans have been injured in Amsterdam after instigating violence by carrying out provocative chanting and pulling down Palestinian flags before the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv game, a city council member has told Al Jazeera.
Dutch police officers make a security cordon around a bus after the football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, early on Friday morning
(Err, if they're under attack, shouldn't the police be facing the other way...)
