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SvennoJ 2 days ago
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Main points on November 11th

  • Twenty Palestinians were killed and more than 30 wounded after Israeli tanks stormed the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and quadcopter drones opened fire.
  • Israel’s military also fired artillery and launched drones to strike Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza as the monthlong siege continues.
  • Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians at a tent cafe in the “humanitarian zone” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi, and 20 others in repeated attacks on the central Nuseirat refugee camp, where a new ground incursion is under way.
  • The United Nations pressed Israel to allow access to northern Gaza as fears rise of famine in the besieged area and a US-set deadline to improve humanitarian aid to the Strip looms.
  • The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel’s new Foreign Minister Gideon Saar after he said Palestinian statehood is “not realistic” and denounced Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank.
  • In Lebanon, an Israeli air attack on the northern town of Ain Yaaqoub has killed at least 14 people. Raids in the north have so far been rare.
  • Israel’s new Defence Minister Israel Katz said that “there will be no ceasefire” and “no break in the strikes against Hezbollah” in Lebanon.
  • Katz also hinted at an attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, saying the country “is more vulnerable than ever” and “there is a possibility of removing the threat”.

Trump picks pro-Israel Republican Elise Stefanik as UN envoy

Trump has nominated Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to the job of US ambassador to the United Nations.

Stefanik said she was “truly honoured” by the nomination.

“The work ahead is immense as we see antisemitism skyrocketing coupled with four years of catastrophically weak US leadership that significantly weakened our national security and diminished our standing in the eyes of both allies and adversaries,” she said in a statement.

Stefanik, who represents New York, has pushed for unrestricted US military aid to Israel, including in a speech to the Israeli parliament in May this year, and previously threatened to cut funding to universities that allow protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.

She also supports Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.


Stefanik speaks at a news conference criticising the Biden administration’s restrictions on military aid to Israel, on May 16

It's sure hard work to gaslight, lie and hold up your veto paddle.


See what you are defending:

Israeli legislator banned for speaking against ‘slaughter in Gaza’

Israeli legislator Ofer Cassif says he “will not be silenced” after the Knesset Ethics Committee imposed a “complete parliamentary ban, apart from voting” on him for six months, for remarks he made in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

“I will never stay silent on war crimes, famine and the slaughter in Gaza,” said Cassif, a member of the leftist Hadash coalition, in a post on X.

“Such is the state of the so called democracy in Israel, that those who chant their support for genocide and celebrate the killing of innocents are considered heroes, while those who fight for justice and peace are persecuted as ‘traitors’,” he added.

“I am proud to be among those who are persecuted by this bloody evil government and keep on fighting for an immediate ceasefire, for the return of the hostages, for a just peace and the end of the vicious occupation.”