Recap for November 12th
- Israeli forces pounded Gaza, killing at least 63 people on Tuesday, as the UN’s human rights office denounced Israel’s military for attacks that have resulted in “massive civilian casualties” in recent weeks.
- The Biden administration found that Israel has not impeded humanitarian aid to Gaza and therefore is not violating US law. Washington said it will not limit arms transfers to Israel.
- The assessment came as international aid groups said Israel had not only failed to meet the US criteria but has also taken actions that have worsened the situation in Gaza, especially in the north where the UN has warned of an imminent famine.
- In Lebanon, Israeli attacks have killed dozens of people in recent hours, including 15 in the town of Joun in Mount Lebanon’s Chouf district.
- Hezbollah claimed attacks on an Israeli base near the city of Nahariya as well as a missile assault on Tel Aviv that caused the Ben Gurion International Airport to temporarily halt flights.
- Yemen’s Houthis targeted two US destroyers with drones and missiles as they transited the Bab al-Mandeb Strait but the Pentagon said the warships “defeated” the attacks.
Daily cruelty in Gaza ‘seems to have no limits’, UN aid chief says
The UN’s top humanitarian official told the UNSC that the world is “witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes in Gaza”, and called for urgent action to stop the abuses.
“Most of Gaza is now a wasteland of rubble”, Joyce Msuya told the emergency meeting. “Essential commercial goods and services including electricity have been all but cut off”, leading to increasing hunger, starvation and now, potentially famine.
“The daily cruelty we see in Gaza seems to have no limits,” she said.
Msuya briefed the council on Israel’s ongoing siege on northern Gaza, saying even as Israeli authorities allowed in food and water to some shelters on Monday, soldiers forcibly displaced people from those same areas the very next day.
“People under siege now tell us they are afraid that they will be targeted if they receive help,” she said. “As I brief you, Israeli authorities are blocking humanitarian assistance from entering North Gaza, where fighting continues and around 75,000 people remain with dwindling water and food supplies.”
Conditions of life across Gaza are “unfit for survival,” she stressed.
Msuya went on to urge UN member states to use “diplomatic and economic pressure, responsible arms transfer and combating impunity” to “stop violations of international humanitarian law”, and implored the Security Council to “use its powers under the UN charter”.
Conditions of life across Gaza are unfit for human survival.
Food is insufficient, with famine looming.
The most basic requirements of humanity are being disregarded.
Member States must use their leverage to prevent and stop violations of international humanitarian law now.
— Joyce Msuya (@JoyceMsuya) November 12, 2024
Zeteo weighs in on the real time altering of what happened in Amsterdam and intentional mislabeling of footage of Israeli hooligans.
“They told the opposite of what happened in that footage.”
Photographer Annet de Graaf captured the Israeli Maccabi soccer fan violence in Amsterdam. In her first interview with US media, she tells Mehdi that outlets like Sky News, the New York Times, BBC, and CNN misused her footage and twisted the narrative to frame the Maccabi fans as victims of antisemitic attacks and overlook the anti-Arab racism that fueled the clash.
