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SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Israel has killed 1.8% of Gaza’s population since October 7, official figures show

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 24 percent of casualties in the besieged coastal enclave are young people (ages 18-29).

About 70 percent of the wounded people in Gaza are women and children while an estimated 10,000 people are missing and two million have been displaced, the bureau said.

It added that 620 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank over the same period, 75 percent of whom were below the age of 30.

The bureau’s figures also showed that 34 people in Gaza have died of malnutrition and about 3,500 children are at risk of death due to food shortages.



Israel renews detention of Palestinian journalist for fifth time

An Israeli military court has extended the detention of Rasha Herzallah until October 13 for alleged incitement on social media platforms, according to the Wafa news agency, her employer.

According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Israeli authorities detained the journalist from Nablus in the occupied West Bank and interrogated her on June 2, then placed her under administrative detention without charge or trial.

The organisations said Herzallah is one of more than 94 journalists who have been detained since the Gaza war erupted on October 7.

She is also one of five female journalists currently in Israeli prisons, they said.

Military court extends detentions of five Israeli soldiers accused of rape

Five Israeli soldiers accused of gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner have had their detentions extended until Tuesday.

The Israeli military says military prosecutors requested a two-day extension in the case to hand over “investigative materials” to the defence for review and “the possibility of examining an alternative to arrest”.

Five other soldiers were also detained in the case but released, with one going on national television to defend what he called a “healthy” military.

The detentions at the end of last month at the Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel caused demonstrations by Israelis defending the soldiers.

They don't even want to arrest them...



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SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Rights group finds no evidence of military presence at al-Tabin School

An initial investigation by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has found no evidence of a military presence at the site of the al-Tabin School massacre in Gaza that killed more than 100 people.

“According to all available information and testimonies, there were no military gatherings or command centres at the school, and it was never used for military objectives. Survivors testified that the school was providing shelter to hundreds of children whose families felt safe there,” the group said.

“The narrow layout of the school and the lack of launch pads and shelters would make it impossible for the site to be used for military operations. The building’s cramped layout and tight spaces make it unsuitable for military operations that call for planning and logistical assistance.”


The Western media will never report this or ever call the IDF out on all their lies... CNN:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed to CNN that it hit the compound, saying its air force “precisely struck Hamas terrorists operating within a Hamas command and control center embedded” in the building.

The military also said that before the airstrike, “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and intelligence information.”

In later statements, the IDF said “at least 19 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were eliminated” in the strike. They said “precise munitions” were used and disputed the damage being reported by Gaza officials.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari also said that a top Islamic Jihad commander – Ashraf Juda – was likely at the school that was struck, but it’s not clear whether he was hit.

CNN is not able to independently verify the statements of either side in relation to the strike.

Publishing IDF lies and using bothsidesism as an excuse. No reporting just copy paste IDF statements.

Israeli military claims sending ‘large quantities’ of medical aid to Gaza

The Israeli military has said it sent today many supplies to Gaza, including a truck carrying insulin, vaccines and other medicines.

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) organisation that coordinates aid said in a post on X that efforts will continue.

The UN and international aid organisations working in Gaza have for months reported that the Israeli military is presenting significant blocks on humanitarian aid getting to the besieged territory despite the catastrophic conditions experienced by civilians due to its relentless attacks.

Will it arrive in Gaza though...



SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Israel drops leaflets with cigarettes in Gaza as reward for information

An Israeli quadcopter has dropped leaflets over the tents of displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, footage shared on social media shows. The leaflets, which had single cigarettes attached, said people who call a number with information about fighters in Gaza would receive more tobacco.

The leaflets read: “Hamas is burning Gaza” and “Smoking is dangerous, but Hamas is even more so. Want more? Give us a call.”

Five people killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardments

Five Palestinians have been killed in bombardments on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Nuseirat refugee camp and Rafah, the Wafa news agency reports.

The report, citing local sources, said Israeli jets bombed a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, which killed a Palestinian and wounded others. It added that warplanes also targeted a house belonging to the Hamdan family west of the Nuseirat camp, which killed two people.

Ambulance and rescue crews said they recovered the bodies of two more people from the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, west of Rafah city, after Israeli shelling of a building.

Palestinians forced to be on the move again in southern Gaza

Palestinians have been on the move, especially after the Israeli forces issued new evacuation orders for Khan Younis. Some of them slept on the footpaths without any tents, shelter, food, drinking water or toilet facilities.

Some of them told us that this is the 10th time they have been displaced from Khan Younis. Those Palestinians don’t know where to go because wherever they go they still get targeted.

The Israeli military ordered them to go to the western parts of Khan Younis, but those areas, including al-Mawasi, have also been repeatedly targeted.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), at least 75,000 displaced Palestinians evacuated the southern and western parts of Khan Younis in the past few days.


‘We are all tired,’ says Palestinian girl after Gaza school massacre

Mohammed Mustafa, Palestine’s PM, has shared this video of a girl making a plea to the international community from the Gaza Strip.

After the Israeli air strikes on the school in Gaza City that killed more than 100 Palestinians, the girl says children are worn out.

“It’s not just me, we are all tired. All the children, all the youth have grown weary. Enough, enough,” she said. “We are fed up, oh world, we are fed up.”



SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Two Palestinians shot by Israeli forces in Jenin have died

Jenin Government Hospital’s chief identified the two men as Subhi al-Bath, 36, from Jenin City, and Kifah Dabaya, 34, from Jenin camp, Wafa news agency reports.

Dabaya was wounded and taken by Israeli forces, and later died in detention.

Both men were wounded by Israeli soldiers in a raid on August 6 that killed five men and wounded six.

Since October 7, at least 622 Palestinians have been killed in attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank. The figure includes nine women and 145 children.


Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, chop down olive trees in West Bank

Israeli settlers have pelted cars with stones near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports. In Khirbet Tel el-Himma, northern Jordan Valley, Israeli settlers attacked a house belonging to a Palestinian family and stole livestock, the news agency said.

In Yasouf, east of Salfit, settlers chopped down about 100 olive trees and annexed 6 dunams (6,000 square metres) of land to the settlement of Nofei Nehemia, the head of the village council told Wafa.


Qassam Brigades claims occupied West Bank shooting attack

The military wing of Hamas has claimed responsibility for the shooting attack in Jordan Valley earlier today that killed one Israeli and wounded another. The Qassam Brigades said in a statement that 23-year-old Yonatan Deutsch, who was killed in the attack near an illegal Israeli settlement, was a “Zionist soldier”.

It said the attack was revenge for the more than 100 victims of the al-Tabin school bombing and emphasised that the Qassam Brigades fighters in the occupied West Bank have “renewed their allegiance” to Yahya Sinwar.



SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Germany, Morocco

Video footage shows German police making arrests at a protest in Berlin in solidarity with Palestinians.

Translation: Boy assaulted during arrest at pro-Gaza demonstration in Germany.

Meanwhile, in Morocco, demonstrators have taken to the streets to denounce yesterday’s deadly attack on a school in Gaza City.

Translation: Moroccans demonstrate in Casablanca in denunciation of the dawn-prayer massacre.

Israeli human rights group calls for ‘every means’ to end Gaza war

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says condemnations and media statements are not enough and the “international community must use every means at its disposal to demand that Israel stops the war and progresses towards a hostage deal in order to stop the mass killing of civilians in Gaza and to free the Israeli hostages"


Demonstrators in New York City call for captive deal

A group of Israeli and US demonstrators gathered in Central Park to renew their call for a Gaza ceasefire deal that would bring the Israeli captives back.

“Seal the deal,” they demanded after the US, Egypt and Qatar called on Israel and Hamas to come in for another round of negotiations that would secure an agreement putting an end to the deadly war.


Demonstrators in Haifa call for Gaza agreement

Dozens of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets in the northern Israeli port city to voice their demand for bringing back captives held in Gaza through a deal.

Translation: Demonstration in Haifa calls for exchange deal, denounces Netanyahu’s policies.



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SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Western double standards enable Israeli ‘insolence’: Iran’s president

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has spoken with European Council President Charles Michel about what the Iranian presidency describes as the “crisis caused by the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza and its terrorist actions across the region”.

Pezeshkian, who unveiled his cabinet earlier today, told the official in a phone call that the European Union bloc bears responsibility in the ongoing war.

“Implementation of double standards by the US and a number of Western countries leads to more insolence from the Zionist regime in committing terror and heinous crimes in Gaza and across the region, which has increasingly endangered regional and global piece and security,” he said, according to a readout.


Finally, but can he get it through in the EU parliament with UK, Germany and Italy....

‘Sanctions must be on our EU agenda’: Borrell on Israeli ministers

EU’s foreign policy chief has called for more sanctions on extremist Israeli behaviour after the latest comments by far-right Israeli ministers who are strongly opposed to a Gaza ceasefire deal.

“I urge the Israeli government to unequivocally distance itself from these incitements to commit war crimes and call it to engage in good faith in the negotiations facilitated by the US, Qatar and Egypt for an immediate ceasefire,” Josep Borrell wrote on X.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for cutting off all fuel and aid to the enclave and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said starving children in Gaza would be “justified and moral”.



SvennoJ on 11 August 2024

Hamas wants ceasefire based on existing talks

The group has said it asked mediators to present a plan based upon past talks instead of engaging in new negotiations for a ceasefire deal.

In a statement on its official Telegram channel, Hamas said that it wants a plan “based on Biden’s May 31 ceasefire proposal, the framework laid out by mediators Qatar and Egypt on May 6, and UN Security Council Resolution 2735“.

“These have all been met with Israeli rejections and more Israeli massacres. Israel has shown it is not serious about a permanent ceasefire by carrying out crimes against our people,” including its assassination of its leader Ismail Haniyeh, it said.

Hamas also said that Israel carrying out the “al-Tabin school massacre” is further “proof that it only wants to escalate its aggression”. The group added that despite this, it will continue to adhere to the proposal laid out by the mediators and that it had already agreed to previously.

Israeli media read differently into Hamas’s position on talks

Hamas has been accusing the Israelis, specifically PM Benjamin Netanyahu, of adding new conditions to the deal that’s on the table.

Netanyahu says it was Hamas that was adding conditions. But we do know Netanyahu went into the talks months ago with several major non-negotiable conditions.

Every time there’s some sort of movement on these negotiations, there’s a large-scale attack in Gaza and that derails the talks. That’s what Hamas mentioned in this statement as well with the over 100 killed in the school attack.

Hamas is asking the mediators to essentially present the original deal by US President Joe Biden, and Israeli media is reading into this as Hamas rejecting the talks altogether. But the statement did not say that. They are merely calling on mediators – before August 15 – to put the original deal on the table that Hamas and the Israelis had previously said they agreed to.

This is the three-phase plan that was outlined by the Americans on May 31.

We are waiting for implementation mechanisms: Hamas official

Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan says the Palestinian group still wants to reach an agreement but will not allow Israel to dictate how the process advances.

“Our position is clear, and we are not waiting for a discussion on new papers and titles,” he told Lebanon’s Al-Manar television.

“There is a document we have agreed on, and we are waiting for the announcement of implementation mechanisms, including the cessation of aggression, its withdrawal, sending aid to the [Gaza] Strip, and launching reconstruction.”

Hamdan said Israel wants to avoid ending the war, adding “We won’t believe Netanyahu has agreed to the deal until he stops committing crimes and withdraws his forces from the Gaza Strip.”

The Hamas official said the group anticipates “an accomplishment once thought impossible” by the Iran-led axis of resistance amid a looming retaliatory attack.

Biden says Gaza ceasefire deal is still possible

The US president told CBS News that he believes a ceasefire in Gaza is “still possible” before the end of his term in the White House.

He made the comments in his first interview since he abandoned his re-election campaign last month.

“The plan I put together, endorsed by the G7, endorsed by the UN Security Council, et cetera, is still viable,” Biden told CBS News. “And I’m working literally every single day – and my whole team – to see to it that it doesn’t escalate into a regional war. But it easily can.”



SvennoJ on 12 August 2024

Sirens in northern Israel amid barrage of rockets from Lebanon

The Israeli military activated air raid sirens in northern Israel and said it detected 30 projectiles crossing the border from Lebanon. A number of rockets fell on open areas, it said. There were no injuries.

The military added that it was attacking the sources of the fire.

Hezbollah claims rocket attack on northern Israel

The Lebanese armed group said it fired a “barrage” of Katyusha rockets at the new headquarters of the Israeli military’s 146th Division in Ga’aton in the Galilee, according to Al Mayadeen television.


More Hezbollah rockets appear to be making impact in Israel

We have had Hezbollah in the last few days target some Israeli surveillance equipment. So that could be why some of these rockets are getting through.

In videos and images of the attack, you can see the rockets going through the air and making impact. It seems like this is a specific attack that Hezbollah has launched as a response to Israel’s previous attack on southern Lebanon.

But what’s significant, from what we can see, is that so many of these rockets have managed to get through and make impacts.

We’ve been hearing drones all day and most of the night. When we were out and about, we could hear the drones overhead. Israeli drones. So they are in a state of hyper surveillance as they await Hezbollah’s promised response to the killing of their senior commander Fuad Shukr.


Israeli interceptor missile damages house in northern Israel: Report

Israel’s Ynet News is reporting that an Israeli interceptor missile landed on the roof of a house in the northern  Avdon moshav as the country’s air defences tried to shoot down a barrage of rockets fired by Hezbollah.

The residents of the house had not been told to evacuate, Ynet said in a news alert. “Damage was caused to the roof, no alarm was activated at the scene,” it added.


Hezbollah says it hit surveillance equipment in northern Israel

The Lebanese group says on Telegram that it has struck the target at an Israeli military site close to the town of Metula “with appropriate weapons”. It added the attack carried out at 8:40am (05:50 GMT) hit the equipment directly and destroyed it.


Injuries reported in Israeli strike on Lebanese town

Lebanon’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center says an Israeli raid that targeted the town of Kfar Kila on Sunday injured three people. The Israeli military had announced targeting various targets in southern Lebanon.



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By firing rockets, Hezbollah is testing Israel’s air defences

This was not the promised response by Hezbollah for the killing of its senior military commander.

What we witnessed last night really is what we have been witnessing over the past 10 months. Hezbollah fired rockets across the border, saying that it was targeting a military base, but there were no casualties.

The Israeli military says the rockets fell in open areas. Some of them [had] impacts. What this says really is that Hezbollah has been testing Israel’s air defence system, it’s what they’ve been doing for some time now. They want to know its vulnerabilities, and it has been vulnerable for some time now – not just to rockets or missiles but especially to drones in recent days.

So this is still not the promised retaliation, but this attack is happening amid heightened tension amid reports from US and Israeli intelligence sources suggesting that the promised response by Iran and its ally Hezbollah is coming and could happen as early as Monday.


Air France, Transavia extend suspension of Beirut flights

Air France and its subsidiary Transavia France say they will not fly to and Beirut through August 15 because of continued tensions in the region.

The flights have been suspended since July 29 because of the “security situation in Lebanon” and their resumption “will be subject to a new assessment of the situation on the ground”, Air France said in a statement.

The airline said “the safety of its clients and crews are its absolute priority”.

Numerous international companies have ceased serving Beirut over fears of a military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.


Lufthansa extends flight suspensions over Middle East tensions

The German airline says it has extended its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran, Beirut, Amman and Erbil through August 21, amid fears of an escalation in conflict in the Middle East.

Lufthansa will not be using Iranian and Iraqi airspace during that period, it said in a statement.


Swiss extends flight suspensions to Tel Aviv, Beirut until August 21

Swiss International Air Lines says the airspace over Iran, Iraq and Israel will be avoided until August 21. The airline also reissued a previous statement about extending flight suspensions until August 13.



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Clashes in Jenin as Israeli forces raid towns, cities across West Bank

The Wafa news agency is reporting clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin after the soldiers surrounded a home in the al-Marah neighbourhood and raided a commercial store in the city’s old town.

Palestinian media also reported Israeli raids elsewhere in the West Bank, including in:

  • the city of Hebron
  • the town of Beit Ummar, northwest of Hebron
  • the town of Tal and the village of Talluza in the Nablus governorate
  • the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in the Jericho governorate
  • the town of Kafr Qaddum and the village of Hajjah in the Qalqilya governorate
  • the village of Rafat in the Salfit governorate


Young Palestinian shot, detained in Ramallah

Israeli forces have shot and detained the young man in at-Tira neighbourhood in the occupied West Bank city after shooting him with live bullets, the Wafa news agency reports.

Security sources told Wafa a special force from the Israeli army stormed at-Tira and detained Yaqoub Kamal Musa after firing on his foot.


Israeli settlers set up tents in northern Jordan Valley: Report

Israeli settlers have set up tents in Khirbet Umm al-Jimal in the northern Jordan Valley, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

The head of the village council of al-Maleh, Mahdi Daraghmeh, told Wafa the settlers came with livestock, set up several tents and placed them near the tents of local residents in Umm al-Jimal.

Since Sunday, Israeli forces have imposed a military cordon on the villages in the north, saying they are searching for the perpetrator of a shooting that occurred in the northern Jordan Valley.

Military measures were also tightened at the Tayasir and Hamra military checkpoints in the northern Jordan Valley, obstructing the movement of people and causing traffic jams.


Israeli forces detain 12 in occupied West Bank

The overnight arrests have taken place in Jenin, Hebron, Ramallah, Qalqilya and Jericho, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

Among those detained were former prisoners and a child, a statement by the organisations said.

Since the war began, Israeli forces have detained more than 10,000 Palestinians, they added.