This article is a must read, very well sourced. Excellent summary how we got here from all the way back to 1917.

Why Palestinians Engage in Armed Struggle

https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/why-palestinians-engage-in-armed-struggle/

What is the current terrain faced by Palestinians organizing for national liberation?

As a result of key historical developments and the restriction of fronts along which to organize, Palestinians have no other option than to engage in armed resistance. This resistance is currently preventing total genocide and is a necessary component of national liberation. The other plausible tactics, nonviolent resistance and electoral organizing, are not on their own viable strategies for liberating Palestine at the current political conjuncture.

Nonviolent resistance historically relies on two sources of power: leverage at the point of production (structural power) and leverage through massive numbers of people blocking the day-to-day function of urban society (associational power). In South Africa, strikes at metal and chemical plants in Durban were combined with the Defiance Campaign of nonviolent occupations and civil disobedience to ultimately bring down apartheid.

In Palestine, these sources of power have been largely eliminated because of the total exclusion of Palestinians from Israeli society and institutions. The first process of stripping away this leverage was the construction of the Histadrut, the Zionist labor management federation that displaced Palestinian workers from points of strategic leverage.


Formation of the Histadrut

There is extensive evidence that Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived together in historic Palestine. Following the Balfour Declaration in 1917, British colonialism established Mandatory Palestine as a colonial entity, opening the doors to Zionist colonization. This was followed by waves of displacement of Palestinian farmers from their land, forced proletarianization, and urbanization. At the peak of this displacement in 1937, the popular classes of Palestine engaged in a mass uprising, launching a general strike that lasted nearly six months. Palestinians were brutally repressed by the British Army, with estimates that 10% of the entire adult Arab male population were killed, wounded, or exiled. It was during this era that Israeli labor developed not simply as a tool for state building and labor force management, but also as a method for the exclusion of Palestinians from their possible levers of power.

The Histadrut was a powerful force in displacing striking Palestinian workers and the firms that employed them. In Jaffa, a parallel Zionist-operated port was established during the general strike. By 1939, 75% of the Jewish workforce was organized under the Histadrut. The Histadrut built institutions on the basis of membership, such as healthcare and banking services, including the country’s largest bank and health insurance company. Through collaboration with the state and private enterprises, the Histadrut effectively displaced Palestinian workers from points of leverage by enabling the formation of new enterprises that excluded Palestinian workers. Palestinians cannot strike against the Israeli economy effectively because they have been systematically locked out of it.

Civil Disobedience in Palestine 

The First Intifada (1987-1993) was primarily led by a broad coalition of leftist and secular nationalist forces. This uprising was similar in magnitude and tactics to the Defiance Campaign in apartheid South Africa. However, the Israeli response to the First Intifada far outstripped the South African government’s response. The military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem effectively turned these areas into open-air prisons. Israel turned off electricity, starved people, and killed, imprisoned, and tortured thousands of people.

Despite intense repression, the First Intifada was capable of harnessing widespread support for resisting occupation into a campaign that was sustained until the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israeli government entered into diplomatic negotiations, culminating in the Oslo Accords in 1993. While the Oslo Accords were lauded at the time, they denied Palestinians statehood and gave Israel near-total control over borders, settlements, and security and intelligence forces.

In 2018, a new wave of mass, unarmed resistance began in besieged Gaza. Taking advantage of the capacity of social media to mobilize people quickly and without centralized leadership, the Great March of Return resembled the urban civic mobilizations that swept the Arab world in the 2010s. By 2018, eleven years under a devastating siege had resulted in 44% unemployment – one of the highest in the world – as well as a lack of access to basic medical care and clean drinking water. The Great March of Return involved weekly marches to the border fence of Gaza, which separates besieged Gaza from the land that Palestinians were expelled from during the Nakba in 1948. Over 80% of current Gazan residents are still considered refugees, as the descendants of those expelled who still have no right to return to their lands. These protests were responded to in sadistic fashion by the Israel Defense Forces: they maimed over 9000 and killed 223 people, including 46 children. IDF snipers targeted healthcare workers and children, as documented by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

The article continues about how apartheid is implemented and how it obstructs any peaceful way to achieve change. Then on to the Abraham Accords and further armed resistance as a result.

And this little tidbit

Hamas has also offered to disarm completely if the State of Palestine was recognized by Israel, an offer that Israel has refused. This offer, along with the demand to release Barghouti, represents a strategy of leveraging military capacity as a bargaining chip in diplomatic negotiations and in order to reunite Palestinians from various political tendencies around a common vision of liberation.

https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/why-palestinians-engage-in-armed-struggle/

Successful attacks on Hezbollah emboldened Netanyahu to hit Iran: Analyst

Military analyst Elijah Magnier says it is not accurate that Netanyahu is holding off on a potential attack on Iranian nuclear sites due to public pressure inside its country.

Just before the assassination of top Hezbollah leaders, including Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu “was looking for a way out and was in a corner with a majority of Israeli opinion against him, wanting to stop the war on Gaza and secure the release of all prisoners”, Magnier told Al Jazeera.

“But once he turned his guns toward Lebanon, everything changed,” the analyst said, adding that bombing Yemen twice, killing Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the explosion of the pagers and the walkie-talkies, and hitting Hezbollah boosted his reputation.

Adding Gideon Saar back into his cabinet also granted Netanyahu more support in the Knesset, along with four new seats, Magnier said.

“For the moment, it is in Netanyahu’s interest to keep escalating until November, he needs to know who becomes president in the United States,” he said. “We see possibility to attack Iran will increase manyfolds if Trump wins”.

It always comes back to the US...

Israel says 250 Hezbollah fighters killed in south Lebanon

An Israeli military spokesperson says that Israeli forces have killed around 250 Hezbollah fighters, including a number of battalion and company commanders, since the start of a ground operation in Lebanon.

Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said that the military was still assessing the damage caused by air strikes in southern Beirut on Thursday night, which he said targeted Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters.

Hezbollah has not confirmed the number of fighters killed in combat so far.

Two Israeli soldiers killed in combat in northern Israel

Israeli military officials say two soldiers from the Golani Brigade have been killed in combat in northern Israel.

Two others were severely injured.

Hezbollah says it struck Israeli soldiers in different locations

Hezbollah says it launched a missile attack on the Israeli Nafah base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. In a separate message on social media, the group said it stuck a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Maroun al-Ras plain in southern Lebanon.

And with another salvo, it said it targeted the Kfar Jalaadi settlement, north of Israel. It did not provide details on the number of casualties.

UN official: Israel’s intensifying strikes on Lebanon ‘catastrophic’

A UN official describes Israel’s intensifying bombing of Lebanon, including attacks on the country’s healthcare infrastructure, as “catastrophic.”

“We’re seeing almost verbatim a repeat of what was happening in Gaza with the Israelis’ breaches of international humanitarian law,” Laila Baker, regional director for the UN Population Fund, told Al Jazeera.

She said 40 health facilities have closed in Lebanon in the past week. “The remaining facilities that are open are left overwhelmed and overstretched, in part because of the number of people who are injured – and that includes pregnant women and children – but also because their own health workers have been the target of those bombardments,” she added.

“Lebanon is a small country, and Beirut is a very demographically packed area,” Baker said. “If bombs are falling in the centre of the city, these are families, people, whose lives have been shattered.”


Civilian toll in Lebanon from Israeli strikes ‘totally unacceptable’: UN

These were the words used by UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric during a news conference.

“All parties must do whatever they can at all times to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and ensure that civilians are never put in harm’s way,” he added.

Evacuation flight from Lebanon lands in Poland: Ministry

The country’s Foreign Ministry says a plane carrying several dozen Poles and citizens of other countries who wanted to leave Lebanon has landed in Poland.

Several countries have drafted contingency plans to evacuate citizens from Lebanon after Israel started an intensifying bombing campaign there. No country has launched a large-scale military evacuation yet although some are chartering aircraft as Beirut airport remains open.

The Polish military carried out the flight to Warsaw, and the ministry said on X it is monitoring the situation in Lebanon and is “prepared for various scenarios”.

In Warsaw, a plane from Beirut landed with several dozen citizens of 🇵🇱 and other countries in a humanitarian transport.

The flight was carried out by the Polish Armed Forces. The MFA is monitoring the situation in 🇱🇧, and the 🇵🇱 government is prepared for various scenarios.

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇵🇱 (@PolandMFA) October 4, 2024

African migrants in Lebanon face bombardment and racism

In addition to the Israeli bombs falling on them like everyone else in Lebanon, African migrants in the country say they face discrimination.

Migrants are being rejected from some shelters, which are prioritising Lebanese amid the deadly Israeli attacks. And thousands are struggling under the abusive kafala labour system, a programme that binds a foreign worker to a local sponsor.

“We just want to go back home because we are tired,” Susan Baimba, a migrant worker from Sierra Leone, told Al Jazeera.

African migrants in Lebanon are facing two unique challenges - the struggle of living under Israeli bombardment, and discrimination because of the color of their skin. pic.twitter.com/IGWx08HrJH

— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 4, 2024

UK charters flight to leave Lebanon on Sunday

The UK says it has chartered a flight to leave Beirut on Sunday to support its citizens wanting to leave the country.

“Any remaining British nationals who want to leave Lebanon are urged to register their presence immediately to receive details on how to request a seat,” the government said in a statement.

About 250 British nationals have already been evacuated, it added.

The UK has chartered a flight to leave Beirut on Sunday 6 October.
 
Any remaining British nationals who want to leave Lebanon are urged to register their presence immediately to receive details on how to request a seat.
 https://t.co/hA1MsdUn6f pic.twitter.com/OuyyNF6hyB

— Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (@FCDOGovUK) October 4, 2024

Two Israeli soldiers killed in Iraqi drone strike, Israel says

An Iraqi drone strike killed two soldiers in northern Israel, according to the military officials.

According to the officials, the drone strike yesterday morning was launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq. The group has launched several attacks over the last year in solidarity with Palestinians.

“This is the first time they have resulted in any sort of casualties,” said Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut. “The numbers are quite significant … It’s the first time since 1973 that any sort of Iraqi attack has killed an Israeli soldier.”

The soldiers, members of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade, were killed while at a base in the Golan Heights. Israeli officials had previously said they had been killed “in fighting” but later clarified that they died as a result of the strike.

At least 25 others were injured in the attack.

Israeli army says it struck Hezbollah posts, intercepted 70 rockets

In its latest bulletin, the Israeli army said it struck weapons warehouses and Hezbollah infrastructure, including its intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

The army said it gave warnings to “reduce harm to those not involved” – a statement it has said multiple times since stepping up its bombing campaign in Lebanon more than two weeks ago. Meanwhile, the Lebanese Health Ministry has counted more than 1,700 people killed in the Israeli attacks.

The Israeli army also said it detected at least 70 rockets launched from Lebanon – all of which fell in open areas causing no casualties.

Death toll in Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises again: Ministry

Lebanon’s health minister has said that 2,023 people have been killed “since the start of Israeli aggression on Lebanon”.

The dead include 127 children and 261 women, along with 9,526 wounded.

Many people displaced from Dahiyeh have relocated to central Beirut

There have been at least four strikes in the last few hours. Eleven strikes took place yesterday, and we’ve been hearing strikes daily. The majority of them are in the southern suburbs of Beirut [Dahiyeh].

I have spoken to people from the areas of Dahiyeh, and they’ve been showing me pictures of the homes that they left. Some of them are still intact, but they’re surrounded by destroyed homes and buildings, and many of them are just expecting theirs to be next.

So those areas are completely emptied out, and those people are now piling into central Beirut, many staying with family or friends or in hotels.

The weather is currently quite warm, but of course, we’re going to be heading into the winter months, and with about 1.2 million people displaced across the country, it’s really putting a lot of pressure on already fragile infrastructure here.

De-escalating? US and UK say one thing, do the opposite.

US and British forces strike Yemen: Report

Yemen’s Houthi Al Masirah TV reports that US and British air attacks have targeted Hodeidah airport, Sanaa and Dhamar City.

• There were four air strikes in Sanaa.
• Seven air strikes hit Hodeidah airport and al-Kathib area in the northwest of Hodeidah.
• There was a single air strike south of Dhamar City.

Footage on social media and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency show large plumes of smoke resulting from the strikes in Hodeidah.

UK Ministry of Defence denies involvement in Yemen strikes

The UK Ministry of Defence has categorically denied any involvement in the latest air strikes in Yemen, according to an official who spoke to our Al Jazeera office in London.

Earlier, Yemen’s Houthi Al Masirah TV reported that US and British air attacks had targeted Hodeidah airport, Sanaa and Dhamar City. It said there were four air strikes in the capital, Sanaa, while seven air strikes hit Hodeidah airport and the al-Kathib area in the northwest of Hodeidah.

Footage on social media and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency show large plumes of smoke resulting from the strikes in Hodeidah.

Yemen has been under heavy bombardment for two months by the US and Israel, targeting the Houthi regime.

US claims strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen

As we’ve been reporting, a spate of air strikes have hit Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen today. Houthi-affiliated media said the strikes hit Sanaa, Hodeidah’s airport, the Katheib area northwest of the port city and Dhamar.

Now, the US military says in a statement that it has carried out 15 strikes against targets linked to Iran-aligned Houthi fighters in Yemen today.

“These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels,” US Central Command, the military command responsible for US forces in the Middle East, said on social media.

Earlier this week, Hodeidah also came under attack by Israeli warplanes.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted strikes on 15 Houthi targets in Iranian-backed Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen today at about 5 p.m. (Sanaa time). These targets included Houthi offensive military capabilities. These actions were taken to protect freedom of… pic.twitter.com/w8dC2lacpP

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) October 4, 2024

Reports of more airstrikes in Yemen

Al-Masirah, a TV channel affiliated with Yemen’s Houthis, is reporting that there have been three airstrikes carried out by US and British warplanes on the Al-Jabana area in Hodeidah.

A wave of air strikes hit Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen earlier today.

Al-Masirah said the strikes were carried out by US and British warplanes and hit Sanaa, Hodeidah’s airport, the Katheib area northwest of the port city and Dhamar.

The UK quickly denied involvement in the airstrikes before the US military said in a statement that it had carried out 15 strikes against targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi fighters.

US politicians move to revoke tax-exempt status of rights groups criticising Israel

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a group of 100 rights and legal organisations have sent a letter to US House Speaker Mike Johnson and another official to condemn their pressure on the Internal Revenue Service.

They claim that the authorities have been pushing to illegally revoke the tax-exempt status of 15 US-based Muslim, Arab, Jewish and progressive groups “to punish criticism of the Israeli government”.

“We will continue to fight these politically motivated attacks, and we stand ready to defend any organisation targeted by their McCarthyistic tactics,” the group said.

CAIR and a diverse coalition of 100 civil rights, human rights, press freedom, and legal organizations yesterday sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker @MikeJohnson and U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chair @JasonSmithMO that condemns their recent politically-motivated attempt… pic.twitter.com/Q4S7cJc6va

— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) October 4, 2024

Universities must respect peaceful pro-Palestine activism: UN expert

Universities must respect peaceful activism and revise repressive policies targeting the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement on their campuses, a UN independent human rights expert said.

Gina Romero, special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and association, warned (PDF) on Friday that “the brutal repression of the university-based protest movement is a profound threat to democratic systems and institutions”.

Romero, who issued a report about the often violent repression of the pro-Palestine solidarity movement in more than 30 countries, added that universities risked “alienating an entire generation, damaging their participation and perception of their role in democratic processes, in addition to failing the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes and to contribute to peace”.

The international solidarity movement in support of Palestine has grown exponentially since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. Mass demonstrations and protests, as well as occupations, encampments and other types of peaceful assembly have taken place across the world, with many protests led by university students.

But universities have often responded harshly to the protests, with arrests, suspensions, and a host of measures aimed at restricting support of Palestine.

“Respecting and guaranteeing dissent is essential to ensure the universities remain spaces for free thought, speech and academic freedom,” Romero said.

Universities must respect peaceful activism & revise repressive policies targeting pro-Palestine solidarity movement.
UN expert calls for the protection of peaceful assemblies & an end to stigmatisation, repression & retaliation of the academic community.https://t.co/lzBTyIHxSY pic.twitter.com/R5IpPRVJW7

— UN Special Procedures (@UN_SPExperts) October 4, 2024

US State Department staff gifted wine after sending more bombs to Israel: Report

Senior officials in the US State Department have dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and have worked around the clock to send more weapons as Gaza’s death toll mounts, according to a report by ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism organisation.

Leaked cables and emails show how the State Department approved sales, saying “there was no potential” for the Israel military to misuse the weapons, the report said.

That was despite staff repeatedly highlighting attacks in which large numbers of civilians were killed, ProPublica reported, in what many experts consider to be war crimes.

The article, titled, Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel, draws from internal cables, email threads, memos, meeting minutes and other State Department records as well as interviews with current and former officials throughout the agency.

For example, it reveals how, in late December, staff in the arms transfers bureau in Washington, DC, received Christmas gifts – cases of wine from a winery in the Negev desert – along with personalized letters on each bottle, courtesy of the Israeli embassy.


_{Israeli wine sent to officials in the State Department’s arms transfers bureau in December}

A State Department spokesperson told ProPublica that arms transfers to any country, including Israel, “are done so in a deliberative manner with appropriate input” from other agencies.

An Israeli government spokesperson told the news organisation: “The article is biased and seeks to portray legitimate and routine contacts between Israel and the Embassy in Washington with State Department officials as improper.”

Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations

This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.

The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear. The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.

The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.

“The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.This is “the first livestream genocide in history … If people are ignorant they are wilfully ignorant,” she says.

Israeli military keeps hitting schools, blocking aid in Gaza: UNRWA

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has released its latest situation report for the Gaza Strip, describing deteriorating conditions.

It said the number of people who did not receive any food rations in September stood at 1.4 million, compared to one million in August. The reasons were “Israeli-imposed bureaucratic hurdles, lack of security guarantees within Gaza, insufficient border crossing points and risk of criminal gangs looting humanitarian convoys in southern Gaza”.

An average of only 52 humanitarian trucks entered Gaza in September, which is way below the about 700 trucks per day the population needs.

The Israeli military has now hit or damaged 86 percent of all UNRWA schools-turned-shelters in the enclave, and destroyed at least 71 schools, it said.

Nearly 70 percent of crop fields have been destroyed, and at least 1.9 million people or about 90 percent of the population is forcibly displaced inside Gaza.

🔹On 1-2 October, 3 @UNRWA schools were hit, with at least 21 people reportedly killed. Around 86% of UNRWA schools in #Gaza have been hit or damaged as of 6 September

🔹In the Gaza strip, 1.4 million people did not receive food in September. They were 1 million in August

🔹 In… pic.twitter.com/RJM4NvoHV3

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) October 4, 2024

‘Unbearable escalation’ in Gaza

It has been an unbearable escalation since the early hours of this morning. There has been a clear surge of air strikes on neighborhoods across the Gaza Strip.

In the past few hours, there has been artillery shelling coming from the Bureij refugee camp, and also from the northern Nuseirat camp, where a high-rise block has been completely hit by an Israeli fighter jet which left massive destruction behind.

A residential building in Bureji belonging to an extended Palestinian family has been completely destroyed, according to medical sources in Al-Aqsa Hospital. They told Al Jazeera that five Palestinians have been confirmed killed.

Gaza’s Civil Defence told Al Jazeera there has been a very remarkable effort being made in Khan Younis to recover more Palestinians who were killed since an Israeli military incursion in the eastern areas of the city – they said they managed to recover 15 Palestinians.

In the north, the Israeli military has attacked a very densely populated house in the Shati refugee camp.

There are also growing concerns among Palestinians that the world has forgotten Gaza because all eyes now are on Lebanon and they feel the Israeli military is isolating Gaza while imposing more pressure on civilians.

Protesters in Amman show solidarity with Palestine, Lebanon

_{Downtown Amman, Jordan, comes to a standstill amid large protests, October 4}

Significant as Pro Palestinian protests are banned in Jordan

Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan
https://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/jordan1207/2.htm
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/jordan-end-draconian-crackdown-against-pro-palestinian-activism/

Pro-Palestine protests in Kashmir


_{Kashmiri Shia Muslims shout pro-Palestine slogans during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians and against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, at Mirgund north village of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, October 4}

Another occupied people: The Kashmir dispute is the oldest unresolved international conflict in the world today. Pakistan considers Kashmir as its core political dispute with India. So does the international community, except India. India's forcible occupation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 is the main cause of the dispute./

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan

‘I saw a person’s body hanging on an iron pole’: Tulkarem resident describes deadly Israeli bombing

The building that was bombed by the Israeli military in Tulkarem, an attack that killed 18 people, belonged to the uncle of Tulkarem resident Anas Khariwesh.

He was in the courtyard when missiles hit, causing loud sounds followed by a major explosion.

“We saw body parts flying, and fire ignited in the area. I saw a person’s body hanging on an iron pole nearby. Since October 7, this has been the most powerful bombing,” he told Al Jazeera.

“This is a crime against humanity, a crime against children, women and civilians. My cousin Mahmoud and my cousin Sajaa were martyred during this bombing. Five of our relatives were martyred in this bombing, along with relatives of the building’s owner, who is my cousin. His niece, her husband and three of their children were also killed.”

Anas said the residents of Tulkarem live under siege and oppression, and have no idea where they can go to escape.

“We are not living – this is not a life. No water, no electricity, no communication, no streets, nothing.”

Tulkarem strike funerals

Thousands of Palestinians joined the funeral procession for at least 18 people killed in an Israeli strike on the occupied West Bank yesterday. This was the largest and deadliest strike on the West Bank in decades.

Israeli strike in Tulkarem ‘shocking’: German Foreign Ministry

Germany has described the Israeli air strike on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, which killed at least 18 people, as “shocking”.

“The high number of civilian casualties in an Israeli air strike in Tulkarem is shocking. In the fight against terror, the Israeli army is obliged to protect civilians in the West Bank,” the German Foreign Ministry said on X.

You're actively helping them with diplomatic cover and weapon shipments. That's shocking.

The IDF got their man (8 killed, hundreds more ready to join the brigades...)

Hamas confirms death of its commander in Tulkarem air strike

Hamas has confirmed the death of one of its commanders, Zahi al-Aoufi, in an Israeli strike on the West Bank city of Tulkarem, along with seven other fighters, the group said in a statement on its official Telegram channel on Friday.

The Palestinian group said the members of its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, died as a result of “the brutal bombing of the Tulkarm camp by the occupation aircraft, which caused a horrific massacre in which dozens of citizens were killed and injured.”

The Israeli military said that Oufi was the head of the Hamas network in Tulkarem. The Israeli military said that its fighter jets carried out the attack on Thursday in coordination with Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet.

At least 18 people were killed in the attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.



Father joins case as Turkey continues inquiry into killing of its citizen by Israeli forces

An investigation into the killing of 26-year-old Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot by Israeli forces during protests in the occupied West Bank, is ongoing in Turkey.

Authorities are currently translating a file from Palestinian judicial officials that identifies those responsible for ordering and carrying out the shooting.

Eygi’s father, Mehmet Suat Eygi, has joined the case as a complainant.

In a statement, he explained that his daughter had travelled to the region to document and raise awareness of Israel’s human rights violations.

“On September 6, I learned that my daughter had been shot when Israel attacked Palestinian citizens coming to pray during Friday prayers,” Eygi said.

He emphasized that his daughter had no weapons or dangerous materials and participated peacefully. He filed a complaint against those responsible for her death as well as the institutions and state involved.

Once suspects are identified, Turkish authorities plan to file an indictment and pursue charges of crimes against humanity for Eygi’s killing.

_{A person holds an image of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot dead by Israeli forces, as Palestinians march to honour her in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 8, 2024, two days after her death}