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SvennoJ on 14 October 2024

Israeli military claims Hezbollah has launched 25 rockets from near peacekeeper posts

The Israeli military has posted a video on X reportedly showing a Hezbollah weapons cache near a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) base.

The text accompanying the video claimed Hezbollah has launched “25 rockets and missiles” at Israeli communities and soldiers from “terrorist compounds embedded near UNIFIL posts” over the past month.

It said it found “weapons were stored inside underground compounds located from a few dozen meters to up to a few hundred meters from UNIFIL posts situated near the Blue Line” in southern Lebanon in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Beyond the video, it did not provide any evidence for the claims.

Israeli forces have been responsible for several attacks on UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon, injuring at least five peacekeepers since Thursday. The attacks have drawn widespread international condemnation, including from the US.

Here we go again. UNIFIL is there to inspect the area and observe. They would know from their daily patrols. Yet Israel is trying to claim UNIFIL is turning a blind eye to Hezbollah?


EU alarmed by Israeli attacks on UN mission in Lebanon

The European Union has condemned Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon.

It expressed “particularly grave concern regarding the attacks” by the Israeli military against the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which wounded several peacekeepers.

“Such attacks against UN peacekeepers constitute a grave violation of international law and are totally unacceptable,” a statement said. “We urgently await explanations and a thorough investigation from the Israeli authorities about the attacks against UNIFIL, which plays a fundamental role in the stability of south Lebanon.”

The EU also expressed concern for Hezbollah’s “continued launch of rockets into Israel” and Israeli raids on densely populated areas of Lebanon, “causing a heavy toll on civilians and the displacement of many”.


Ten rockets launched from Lebanon on Haifa: Israeli army

The military says most of the projectiles launched towards the coastal city in northern Israel were intercepted. One dropped in an open area, an army statement said, adding there were no reports of casualties.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed the attack in a statement on its Telegram channel. Hezbollah has intensified its cross-border attacks after the Israeli army’s ground incursion into southern Lebanon.


Warning sirens sound in central Israel after fire from Lebanon

Hostile aircraft warning sirens have been heard in central Israel after a number of projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. The Israeli military said in a statement sirens sounded in the city of Netanya and the surrounding settlements.


Rockets against central Israel intercepted

We are receiving updates on reports of hostile aircraft warning sirens activated in central Israel. A military statement said all of the rockets launched from Lebanon were shot down by the country’s air defences.

The sirens were heard in the Sharon and Wadi Ara areas, it added.



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UN peacekeepers remain at base after Israeli attack in south Lebanon

This Israeli attack on the UNIFIL base is extremely serious. They used a tank to burst down a gate and then launched bombs that were chemical in nature – as the injuries to the peacekeepers suggest.

They were taken for treatment. This is a very serious escalation.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has doubled down, saying the UN peacekeepers have to leave. We don’t know if they’ll leave or not. But right now they remain in their base. Getting rid of an observer force would make the international community blind to what’s happening. This is very concerning for the Lebanese army and the United Nations.


Attacks on UNIFIL by Israel ‘unacceptable’: Spanish foreign minister

Attacks by Israel on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are “unacceptable” and contrary to international rules, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says.

“It is contrary to what we expect from any member state of the United Nations, which is ultimately an organisation that protects world peace,” Albares told reporters.

EU countries, led by Italy, France and Spain, have thousands of soldiers in the 10,000-strong peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, which has been subjected to a number of attacks by Israeli forces in recent days.

Israel has told UN chief Antonio Guterres to immediately move the peacekeepers out of the combat zone. The Spanish foreign minister said only the UN can order the withdrawal of UNIFIL.


A soldier with the UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL


France rebuffs Israeli demand to withdraw UN peacekeepers

France is the latest country to reject demands made by Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to pull back the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.

“The protection of peacekeepers is an obligation incumbent on all parties,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, Spain also refused the demand by Netanyahu, who directly addressed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The statements come after a series of Israeli army attacks on UNIFIL peacekeepers in recent days.




Two drones approaching from Syria intercepted: Israeli military

The Israeli military says it has shot down two drones approaching from Syria, a day after an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) launched by Hezbollah on an Israeli military base killed four soldiers and wounded 60.

“A short while ago, two UAVs that approached Israeli territory from Syria were successfully intercepted by the [air force]. The UAVs were intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory,” it said in a statement.


Israel’s army claims killing of Hezbollah commander

A military statement says Muhammad Kamal Naim, the commander of the antitank system of the group’s elite Radwan Force, has been killed in an air strike. He was responsible for planning and carrying out many attacks on Israel, including firing an antitank missile, it said.

The army added that there have been no casualties in recent rocket attacks from Lebanon. Some rockets were intercepted while the rest fell in open areas, it said.



SvennoJ on 14 October 2024

Nine killed in Israeli attack on northern Lebanese town: Ministry

We are receiving updates on the Israeli air attack on the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon.

The attack that targeted a residential building in the village located in the region of Zgharta has killed at least nine people, according to the initial information shared by the country’s Health Ministry.

Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, it added in a post on X.

It is the first time the Christian-majority area has been attacked by Israeli forces in a year of hostilities, according to the state media.


Israel hits Aitou in northern Lebanon for first time: State media

The air attack struck a residential apartment in the village located in the region of Zgharta, according to the official National News Agency.

It is the first time the Christian-majority area has been attacked by Israeli forces in a year of hostilities, it added.


Lebanese Red Cross: 18 killed in Israeli attack on north Lebanon

The raid hit a residential building in the Christian-majority village of Aitou in the region of Zgharta. The country’s Health Ministry earlier reported the death toll as nine.

The Lebanese Hezbollah group is mainly present in the south of the country and the southern suburbs of Beirut. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military and it wasn’t clear what the target was.

Projectiles hit Karmiel with initial report of casualties: Israeli police

A statement on X says police have received many reports concerning multiple projectile impacts in the Karmiel area and nearby locations in northern Israel. It added the incident resulted in property damage “and preliminary reports suggest there may be casualties at the scene”.



‘Hezbollah war machine has started,’ ex-Guard chief says

The deadly drone attack on the base of Israel’s elite military unit shows Hezbollah’s military capabilities are fully intact after a series of Israeli assassinations in recent months, says the former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohsen Rezaei.

“Hezbollah has restored its combat organisation after facing a wave of assassinations. Now the war machine of Hezbollah has started and hard times are waiting for the Zionists,” Rezaei, now the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, was quoted by the Iranian Students’ News Agency as saying.


Hezbollah claims killing of Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese group says it has engaged in fighting with Israeli soldiers in the village of Aita al-Shaab.

According to a statement, Hezbollah fighters targeted an armoured personnel carrier with a guided missile. The vehicle caught fire and soldiers inside were killed and wounded, it added.

There was no immediate comment by the Israeli army.



Israelis ‘feel safer than during the first month of this war’

Alon Liel, the former director of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, says the feeling in Israel is that the main conflict with Iran is just about to begin.

“We’re getting closer to the date when Iran will be the enemy directly – not the proxies Hamas or Hezbollah. Of course, it’s frightening. We know Iran’s military abilities. We’ve felt it twice for a long period of time when we were in the shelters when rockets from Iran were coming,” Liel told Al Jazeera.

“We know we’re in the middle. We know we’re under attack, and to a certain extent vulnerable. But I would say people feel safer than during the first month of this war.”



SvennoJ on 14 October 2024

WHO says two northern Gaza hospitals resupplied after nine attempts

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said a WHO-Palestine Red Crescent operation managed to resupply two hospitals in northern Gaza.

“WHO and partners finally managed to reach Kamal Adwan and Al-Sahaba hospitals yesterday after 9 attempts this past week,” he posted on X late on Sunday. “The missions were completed amid ongoing hostilities,” he added.

He said drivers had been subjected to “humiliating security screening” and temporarily detained at a checkpoint, “which is unacceptable”.


Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure

For a year, the Israeli military has targeted civilian infrastructure in Gaza, claiming to have destroyed a Hamas “command and control centre” each time it strikes a hospital, school or displacement shelter.

The Israeli military is now attacking the same kinds of buildings in Lebanon, calling it “terrorist infrastructure”.

Separate data from Action on Armed Violence up to 23 September shows that Israel hit civilian infrastructure across Gaza with explosive weapons once every three hours on average since the war began.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict


Bombed school to have been used as polio vaccination site: UNWRA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says an Israeli attack on one of its schools sheltering displaced families in central Gaza’s Nuseirat was to be used as a polio vaccination site.

Gaza’s Government Media Office said 22 were killed and 80 wounded in the Nuseirat attack.

The UN agency also condemned Israel’s overnight attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir el-Balah that inflicted dozens of casualties when a major fire erupted in a tent encampment.

Israeli drones wound 13 Palestinians in Jabalia camp

The civil defence agency says the attack was carried out by Israeli “quadcopters” around al-Fouqa School, which houses displaced people, in the refugee camp in northern Gaza.

A statement on Telegram said rescuers transferred the wounded to the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya.

Israel has carried out a large-scale military incursion in northern Gaza for the past 10 days, mainly against the Jabalia refugee camp.


At least 62 Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past day

Israeli attacks across the enclave also wounded 220 people, according to a statement by Gaza’s Health Ministry. At least 42,289 Palestinians have been killed and 98,684 injured in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, it added.

The death toll from Israel’s yearlong war on Gaza is likely far higher with thousands of bodies buried in the rubble of the vast destruction throughout the Palestinian territory.


10 killed, at least 30 injured at food distribution centre in Jabalia

Palestinian medics report 10 people were killed and at least 30 wounded in Israeli air attacks on a food distribution centre in the besieged Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Casualties included women and children.


Palestinian boys react after Israeli air attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp killed their relative



SvennoJ on 14 October 2024

Second phase of polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza

The World Health Organization says the second phase of the campaign started in central Gaza.

“We urge all parents and caregivers to ensure that their child receives the vaccine,” it said.

Aid groups carried out a first round of vaccinations last month after a baby was partially paralysed by the type 2 poliovirus in August, the first such case in the territory in 25 years.


More on Israel’s attack on Gaza food distribution centre

Earlier we reported on an Israeli attack that killed 10 Palestinians and wounded dozens as they waited in line at a food distribution centre in besieged northern Gaza. Casualties include women and children, medics say.

Witnesses said Israeli forces fired artillery shells at civilians waiting for flour at the centre in the Jabalia refugee camp. Ambulances and medical teams are unable to access the area to move victims to hospitals because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli army, witnesses said.

The Israeli army launched another major ground invasion in northern Gaza 10 days ago. More than 300 people have been killed during the siege, health officials say. Some analysts suggest the attack aims to force Palestinian residents to leave permanently so Israel can establish a military zone.


Khan Younis in ruins


Buildings and infrastructure are in ruins due to Israeli attacks on the city in southern Gaza


Palestinians walk past destroyed buildings


Survivors try to carry on living in the ruins of Khan Younis


Qassam Brigades claims killing of Israeli soldiers in Rafah

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters have detonated an antipersonnel device in an attack on Israeli soldiers while they were trying to enter a house in the southern Gaza city.

The incident in al-Jnaina neighbourhood in eastern Rafah killed and wounded a number of soldiers, the group said. In a separate incident, its fighters attacked two Israeli Merkava tanks with Yassin rockets in the same neighbourhood, the Qassam Brigades said.

There was no immediate comment by the Israeli army.



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Second phase of polio vaccination campaign in Gaza


Palestinian children wait at an UNRWA clinic as the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza

The campaign will last for three days with a possibility of extending it for one more. The first phase ended on September 12 with more than 560,000 children receiving their initial dose of the vaccine.

For the oral polio vaccine, a minimum of two doses is needed to interrupt transmission of the virus.


MSF mourns worker who was killed in Gaza’s Jabalia

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its workers was killed in northern Gaza on October 8 during a renewed Israeli offensive in the area.

Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif al-Shalfouh, 31, was killed “by shrapnel injuries he suffered to his legs and chest” in Jabalia, MSF said in a statement.

“Nasser died from his injuries on 10 October in Kamal Adwan Hospital. He is survived by his wife and two children,” the organisation added, as it condemned “the tragic killing”.

“[Al-Shalfouh] was unable to receive the necessary level of care due to the hospital’s lack of capacity and an overwhelming number of patients in the facility.”

For more than a week now, Jabalia has been under relentless attack by the Israeli army. Al-Shalfouh joined MSF as a driver in March 2023 but had not been working since the war started a year ago, as the group’s activities in North Gaza were severely affected, the medical charity said.


Gaza Civil Defence agency says two members injured in al-Mawasi

The rescue workers were “exposed to Israeli bullets and shells” when they responded to a call by wounded Palestinians in the Israeli-designated “safe zone” in southwestern Gaza.

The injured have yet to be rescued, said a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence.


Displaced Palestinians shelter in a tent camp, at the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip



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Israeli military carries out mass arrests in Jenin

The Israeli military has begun a series of arrests the town of Jaba, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Information Center reports 17 people have been detained.

Israeli forces have also carried out raids in other areas in the occupied West Bank, including:

  • The city of Tubas, where Israeli forces reportedly rearrested a released prisoner
  • The city of Hebron
  • The city of Halhul, north of Hebron
  • The town of al-Asakra, east of Bethlehem
  • The town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, where the Palestinian Information Center said a child was arrested.


Israeli forces carry out mass arrests across Bethlehem

The Israeli military has arrested 25 Palestinians in locations across Bethlehem governorate in recent hours, the Wafa news agency reports.

Here’s a breakdown:

  • Nineteen men have been arrested in the village of al-Asakra, east of Bethlehem
  • Four men have been arrested in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem
  • One man has been arrested in the village of Rakhma, east of Bethlehem
  • One man has been arrested in the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem


Israeli military carries out more West Bank arrests

The Israeli military’s arrest campaign continues across the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

Here’s a breakdown:

  • 10 people were arrested in Jaba town, south of Jenin
  • four people were arrested in Kafr Malek village, east of Ramallah
  • two people were arrested in Yabad town, south of Jenin
  • two men were arrested in Nablus city

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces arrested 25 Palestinians in locations across Bethlehem governorate.


Two people killed in Jenin camp in occupied West Bank

The Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces during their latest incursion into the refugee camp, the Palestinian Health Ministry says.

The Israeli military is carrying out raids in Jenin using bulldozers with snipers reported to be on rooftops and an intense drone presence in the sky.

In August, Israel launched its largest assault on the occupied West Bank since the second Intifada in 2000. Jenin city, home to nearly 50,000 people, was surrounded by Israeli forces as part of a wider attack also on Nablus, Tubas and Tulkarem.



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More on deadly Israeli air strike on northern Lebanon

Footage from Lebanese media shows a large plume of smoke rising from the hilly village of Aitou with several destroyed cars next to a severely damaged residential building.

The strike targeted the building at the entrance to the village. Body parts were scattered in the debris as Red Cross volunteers searched for survivors in the wreckage and ambulances evacuated wounded people. At least 18 people died in the attack, the Red Cross said.

So far, Israeli strikes have mainly been concentrated in southern areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah built its power base. It remains unclear what Israel’s target in Aitou was.




Lebanese Red Cross evacuating wounded, dead from Aitou

Georges Kettaneh, the secretary-general of the Lebanese Red Cross, tells Al Jazeera that his teams are evacuating the wounded as well as bodies from the village of Aitou in the region of Zgharta.

He said the current death toll stands at 22 with the majority of the casualties being civilians. He said the situation in southern Lebanon is also very challenging with people needing the protection accorded to them by international law.


Lebanese Red Cross vehicles are parked at a site damaged by an Israeli air strike in Aitou in northern Lebanon on October 14


At least 18 killed in Israeli attack on northern Lebanon

The strike targeted the building at the entrance to the village.

Body parts were scattered in the debris as Red Cross volunteers searched for survivors in the wreckage and ambulances evacuated wounded people. At least 18 people died in the attack, the Red Cross said.


Aitou death toll rises

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says the death toll in Israeli attack on Aitou has gone up to 21, with eight people also wounded. It added that DNA tests are being conducted to determine the identity of the remains that were removed from the site of the attack.



Israeli army says three launches crossed from Lebanon, intercepted

In a statement, the Israeli army has said that three launches crossed from Lebanon. It added that all three were intercepted and there were no known casualties.

The statement came after air raid sirens were activated in Tel Aviv and other central areas.


US embassy in Lebanon tells citizens to leave ‘now’

The United States embassy in Lebanon says its citizens are strongly encouraged to leave the country “now” during intensified Israeli attacks.

Additional flights the embassy organised for US citizens travelling out of Beirut won’t continue indefinitely, it said in a statement.

Israel’s ground incursion of southern Lebanon has raised fears of an all-out war in the Middle East, forcing many countries to announce plans to evacuate their nationals from the country.

US sending THAAD missile defense to Israel, telling its citizens to leave Lebanon asap. Looks like Israel has a big revenge strike planned against Iran and the US is concerned about retaliation.

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Israel defence chief vows ‘forceful’ response after base attack

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant briefed his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on the deadly Hezbollah drone attack on a military base.

In his talk with the Pentagon chief, Gallant “highlighted the severity of the attack and the forceful response that would be taken against Hezbollah”, his office said.

He also “reiterated the measures” taken by the military to coordinate with peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon and to avoid harming them, after mounting criticism of Israel for repeatedly firing on UN soldiers.

Gallant’s office said he expressed his appreciation to Austin and the US administration for deciding to send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery to Israel “in the coming days”.



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Germany calls UN base infiltration by Israel ‘completely unacceptable’

Germany is the latest Western nation to denounce Israeli army attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon and has asked Tel Aviv for “an urgent explanation”.

“All parties to the conflict, including the Israeli army, are obliged to direct their combat activities exclusively at the military targets of the other party to the conflict,” Germany’s Federal Foreign Office said.

Five peacekeepers have been wounded in attacks that struck their positions since Israel began a ground campaign against Hezbollah. “Firing on UN peacekeeping troops and forcing entry to their bases is completely unacceptable,” said the Foreign Office.

More than 10,000 troops from over 50 countries, including Germany, have been deployed to the UNIFIL mission.


Members of the United Nations peacekeepers (UNIFIL) look at the Lebanese-Israeli border, as they stand on the roof of a watch tower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon


‘Powerlessness’: Erdogan blasts UN inaction after Israeli attacks on peacekeepers

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hit out at the United Nations for failing to sanction Israel over its wars after UN chief Antonio Guterres said Israeli soldiers had “deliberately breached” a UNIFIL compound.

“The image of the UN, which cannot protect its own personnel, is shameful and worrying,” Erdogan said in a televised address. “Frankly, we ask ourselves what the Security Council is waiting for to stop Israel.

“Can you believe it? The Israeli tanks penetrate into the UNIFIL zone, attack peacekeeping soldiers, even wounding some of them, but the UN Security Council decides to just watch all this criminality from its stands. That’s what we call powerlessness.”

As of September 2, Turkey had 92 peacekeepers stationed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).



Hezbollah fires ‘big rocket salvo’ at northern Israel

Hezbollah said it launched a barrage of rockets at the north Israeli town of Safed. It said in a statement that its fighters fired a “big rocket salvo” at Safed, adding it was “in defence of Lebanon” and in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese “cities, villages and civilians”.

Earlier the Israeli army said it intercepted three rockets launched from Lebanese territory.


Italian peacekeepers find incendiary devices on road to south Lebanon base

Italy says a patrol of its UNIFIL contingent has found incendiary devices along a road leading to one of their bases, UNP 1-32A, in southern Lebanon.

In a statement, the Italian Defence Ministry said a team of bomb disposal experts secured the area but were not able to complete the clearance operations because, for reasons still being ascertained, one of the devices ignited.

This led to a fire in the surrounding area but there was no reported damage nor casualties, it added.


More than 100 rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel today

Israeli media outlet Haaretz, citing the Israeli military, is reporting that 115 rockets have been fired from Lebanon into Israel today.


‘Netanyahu is no longer interested in the 1701 UN Security Council Resolution’

Military analyst Elijah Magnier says the comments by the UNIFIL spokesperson, who stated that the role of the peacekeeping force is more important than ever, are significant.

UNIFIL represents 50 nations and 15 UN Security Council members.

However, Magnier said the US “does not disagree with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon” but is asking UNIFIL to remain despite Netanyahu being “no longer interested in the 1701 United Nations Security Council Resolution”.

He said the strike on the Christian village of Aitou, where internally displaced people had been sheltering, killing 21 people was a similar tactic used in Gaza.


A Lebanese army soldier inspects a site damaged by an Israeli air strike in the Christian-majority region of Aitou in north Lebanon, October 14



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China tells Israel ‘humanitarian disasters’ in Gaza must end

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a phone call with his Israeli counterpart.

“Humanitarian disasters in Gaza should not continue and … countering violence with violence cannot truly address the legitimate concerns of all parties,” Wang told Israel Katz, the official Xinhua news agency said.

“The Chinese side believes that renewed conflict and turmoil in the region serves the interests of no one,” Wang added.

Beijing also “hopes that all parties will act cautiously to avoid falling into a vicious circle amid tension between Israel and Iran”. He called for “immediate, complete and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages”.



Ceasefire ‘only way to break the cycle of violence, hatred, misery’: UN refugee chief

A ceasefire “is the only way to break the cycle of violence, of hatred, of misery” in the Middle East, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.

He stressed the urgent need for cessation of hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza to avert a broader regional conflict with ramifications for the whole world.

“A ceasefire that is sustained by a meaningful peace process … is the only way to break the cycle of violence, of hatred, of misery,” said Grandi while speaking at the start of the UNHCR refugee agency’s annual executive committee meeting in Geneva.

Only a ceasefire could “stem the tide to a major regional war with global implications”, he warned, slamming “the terrible lie that the path to peace is found through war”.

“You will have seen the images and heard the numbers; hundreds of thousands of displaced inside Lebanon, seeking reprieve from Israeli air strikes,” Grandi said. “Once again, the distinction made between civilians and combatants has almost become meaningless.”



May Israel’s war on Gaza ‘be the last genocide in human history’

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, has reposted a video on X of a pro-Palestine protest outside the New York Stock Exchange, which was also attended by members of Jewish Voice for Peace.

In the post, she wrote: “Each civic action is humanity in action. May the Gaza one be the last genocide in human history. May We the People have the strength to stop it”.


Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City in the United States on October 14