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SvennoJ on 22 October 2024

Ten killed in Israeli attack on Jabalia school, 3 killed in Beit Hanoon

The Wafa news agency is reporting that the Israeli military targeted the Jabalia Preparatory School with “artillery shelling”, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30 others. The school, located in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, was sheltering displaced Palestinians.

Three people also have been killed and several others wounded after the Israeli military bombed a shelter housing displaced Palestinians in the centre of Beit Hanoon, another city in northern Gaza, Wafa said.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera at least 640 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its siege of northern Gaza 17 days ago.


Injured Palestinians, including children, arrive at hospital in northern Gaza


Palestinians injured in Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp arrive at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Monday


Jabalia has come under Israeli bombardment in recent days amid an Israeli military siege on Gaza’s northernmost areas

At least 15 dead following Israeli drone attack in Beit Lahiya: Report

The Israeli military has carried out a drone attack on a group of Palestinians in the city of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, killing at least 15 people, the Wafa news agency reports. Women and children are among the dead, while more are injured, according to Wafa.


Beit Lahiya hospital director warns that more patients may die

Dr Marwan Sultan, director of Beit Lahiya’s Indonesian Hospital, says he’s concerned that more patients will die due to Israeli actions against the hospital.

“The Israeli occupation army prevents the entry of fuel and medical supplies to the Indonesian Hospital and cuts off electricity to staff and patients,” he told Al Jazeera. “The Israeli occupation army is still besieging the hospital, and dozens of patients may die.”

He added that medical workers are unable to rescue wounded Palestinians. “Dozens of killed and wounded in the streets, and no one can rescue them due to the siege imposed on the hospitals in the north.”

Displaced Palestinians flee Beit Lahiya






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SvennoJ on 22 October 2024

Death toll rises in Gaza

At least 42,718 people have been killed and 100,282 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of those, 115 Palestinians were killed and 487 wounded in the latest 48-hour reporting period, the ministry added.


‘The smell of death is everywhere’: UNRWA

The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has issued an urgent plea for a pause in the fighting in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to reach civilians trapped there.

In a post on X, Lazzarini said UNRWA staff reported being unable to find food, water or medicine in the war-battered region. “The smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble. Missions to clear the bodies or provide humanitarian assistance are denied.”

Lazzarini called for an “immediate truce, even if only for a few hours”, to allow safe passage for families seeking refuge. “This is the bare minimum to save the lives of civilians who have nothing to do with this conflict,” he said.

Israel has blocked 250,000 aid trucks into Gaza: Media office

The Government Media Office in Gaza says Israeli forces have prevented the entry of “more than a quarter of a million trucks of aid and goods” since the war on the besieged territory began in October last year.

The office said this was part of Israel’s strategy of “reinforcing the starvation policy and using it as a weapon of war against civilians and against children, especially by preventing the entry of food, baby milk and nutritional supplements”.

Before the start of the war, some 500 trucks carrying aid and other goods would cross into Gaza daily.


Qassam Brigades claims killing of Israeli soldiers in Jabalia

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters have detonated an antipersonnel explosive device targeting 12 Israeli soldiers, claiming the attack killed and wounded some of them. The incident took place in the al-Faluja area of the Jabalia refugee camp, the group said on Telegram.


Qassam Brigades claims attacks on Israeli bulldozers in Gaza

The armed wing of Hamas says it has struck three Israeli D9 bulldozers in northern Gaza in separate attacks in the al-Faluja area of Jabalia in northern Gaza. The Qassam Brigades said on Telegram its fighters hit two bulldozers with a Yassin 105 rocket and a Shawaz explosive device.

Another bulldozer was attacked with a “ground bomb” on al-Saftawi Street north of Gaza City, it added.


Official says northern Gaza hospitals run out of coffins

“Many wounded have died before our eyes, and we couldn’t do anything for them,” said Munir al-Bursh, the director of the Gaza Health Ministry, who is currently in northern Gaza. “Hospitals also ran out of coffins to prepare the dead, and we have asked people to donate any fabric they have at home,” al-Bursh said in a statement.

Palestinian health officials and the civil emergency service said dozens of bodies of people killed by Israeli fire are scattered on roads and under rubble. Rescue teams have not been able to reach them because of ongoing strikes, they said.


Al-Quds Brigades says fighting ongoing in Jabalia

A field commander from the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has spoken to Al Jazeera about the fighting in northern Gaza. The al-Quds Brigades commander said the group’s fighters have been engaged in fighting with Israeli troops for three days west of the Jabalia camp.

He added that the group had also detonated explosives targeting Israeli vehicles around the area, claiming there were Israeli casualties.


Palestinians carry their belongings as they flee areas north of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip



SvennoJ on 22 October 2024

North Gaza undergoing ‘mass enforced displacement’

Since the early hours of this morning, we’ve been getting confirmed reports of the horror unfolding in the north of the Strip, including the mass enforced displacement of an entire population that has been suffering for the past 18 days – no food, no water supplies and no survival items to support their existence.

This is in addition to the deliberate prevention and obstruction of entry of humanitarian aid in the northern part of the Strip. We are seeing scenes of people carrying white flags and going through checkpoints. It’s heartbreaking because people are being forced out of their homes under heavy bombardment.

What’s scary about these checkpoints is they are equipped with high-tech surveillance cameras and metal detectors. According to people who went through them, many women and children were arrested at these checkpoints.


Israel’s aim is to displace or exterminate Palestinians: Hamas official

Hamas official Osama Hamdan says relentless attacks by the Israeli forces aim to displace or exterminate the Palestinians.

Here are some of the key takeaways from his speech:

  • Israel has rejected all requests for the entry of aid into northern Gaza.
  • At least 700 people have been killed during the Israeli military operation in northern Gaza which is in its 18th day.
  • The credibility of the international community and its institutions is being tested on the charters they were founded on.
  • Israeli crimes are being carried out with the full US support.
  • The one-month deadline from the US for Israeli forces to consider allowing aid in confirms it is giving it a deadline to commit more crimes.
  • Only Palestinians can decide the details of the day after the war.
  • We demand a UN Security Council meeting to put pressure on Israel to stop the aggression.


Israeli strike kills four Palestinians near Khan Younis

The Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting that four people have been killed and many wounded by the Israeli bombing of the Tawbah clinic in Abasan al-Kabira, southern Gaza.


Displaced Palestinians speak of arbitrary arrests amid chaotic displacement in northern Gaza

Kamal Abu Hulailel, a displaced Palestinian child, tells Al Jazeera he and his family were woken up when Israeli forces targeted their home and surrounding buildings in Beit Lahiya. “We were rescued by some people,” he said, adding that his family was unable to retrieve their belongings.

He said the Israeli military forced them to leave and arrested his brothers and cousins, adding that there were Israeli tanks everywhere and he had seen dead and wounded during the more than two-week-long siege of the northern Gaza Strip.

“We were surrounded by the Israelis, who arrested some people and killed some others,” he said. “The Israeli soldiers have beaten a lot of men and have forced other men to stay with only underwear.”


At least 70 Palestinians killed today in Israeli strikes across Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing medical sources, report that 57 of the 70 killed since this morning were in northern Gaza.


At least 7 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on shelter

The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli bombardment of a school-turned-shelter in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, has killed at least seven Palestinians. The report said “Israeli tanks shelled the Zayd ibn Haritha school, which was sheltering displaced persons.”


Three Palestinians killed in Israeli drone strike in Gaza City

At least three Palestinians were killed and several wounded by an Israeli drone strike targeting a group of people in western Gaza City, the Anadolu news agency is reporting. Witnesses said the strike occurred in front of the al-Sousi tower in an industrial area.

The attack comes as Israeli forces continue their deadly siege of northern Gaza, demolishing residential buildings and shelling homes.




Palestinian child dies after being shot by Israeli forces

The Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank says an 11-year-old child, Abdullah Jamal Hawash, has died after he was shot by Israeli forces in Nablus.

In videos posted by local media, the boy is seen throwing a stone at an armoured Israeli jeep in the distance before he is shot and falls to the ground.



SvennoJ on 22 October 2024

Recap for October 22nd

Lebanon marked the most fatalities in a single day as conditions worsen in northern Gaza. Here's the latest

Lebanon marked the most fatalities in a single day since September 30, according to a CNN tally based on data from the Lebanese health ministry.

Meanwhile, Palestinians trapped in three cities of northern Gaza — Beit Lahiya, Jabalya and Beit Hanoun — have recounted scenes of horror over the past two weeks after the Israel Defense Forces launched a renewed incursion on October 5 that it said is targeting Hamas’ presence in the area. This comes as hospitals are running out of supplies and thousands of people in Jabalya Refugee Camp are stranded without water.

Here’s the latest from the conflicts in the Middle East:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Israel:

Latest developments in Lebanon:

  • Possible Hezbollah successor killed: Hashem Safieddine, a possible successor to late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an attack in Beirut about three weeks ago, along with other commanders, the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday. Hezbollah has not yet confirmed the IDF’s claim.
  • Latest strikes: At least 10 people were killed and 31 others injured in two separate Israeli strikes in southern and northeastern Lebanon on Tuesday, the country’s health ministry said.
  • Rising death toll at Lebanese hospital: At least 18 people, including four children, were killed in a deadly Israeli strike outside the Rafik Hariri University Hospital on Monday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said Tuesday. The facility is considered to be the largest public hospital in Lebanon. The IDF said it had targeted a “Hezbollah terrorist site” in a strike near the hospital on Monday.

Dire situation worsens in Gaza:

  • Stranded without water: Water supply at the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza ran out entirely on Tuesday, according to UNRWA, the UN’s main agency in Gaza, as living conditions continue to deteriorate for the thousands of residents who have been trapped there. Concern is also mounting for the many people trapped under the rubble with first responders “blocked from reaching them,” UNRWA said.
  • Kamal Adwan Hospital: The last full operational hospital has run out of blood units, medications and basic medical equipment, like tubes for chest drainage, as it cares for more than 150 patients — 15 of whom are in intensive care, including newborn babies, according to its director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for a response on Abu Safiya’s comments.
  • No aid to northern Gaza: Medicine, medical supplies and food have not entered northern Gaza for 18 days, a Gaza health ministry official said, accusing Israel of preventing international aid convoys from reaching the area.
  • Palestinians killed across northern Gaza: At least 23 Palestinians were killed by Israel in parts of the besieged regions of northern Gaza early Tuesday, according to Gaza Civil Defense. This includes people trying to flee the Mashrou’ neighborhood of Beit Lahiya, where people had received Israeli fliers, calling on them to leave. CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the flier and has reached out to the IDF for comment.


SvennoJ on 22 October 2024

He Bulldozed Palestinians Alive. CNN Is Concerned About His Mental Health



Israel Is ETHNICALLY CLEANSING Northern Gaza - In Full, Shameless Public View


 



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BFR on 23 October 2024


SvennoJ on 23 October 2024

I can do whataboutism too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes




US brought it on themselves though

https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-us-tensions-3d391c0255308a7c13d32d3c88e5f54f

Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran’s prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions stay high with the United States.

While highlighted as a symbol of Western imperialism by Iran’s theocracy, the coup unseating Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh — over America’s fears about a possible tilt toward the Soviet Union and the loss of Iranian crude oil — appeared backed at the time by the country’s leading Shiite clergy.

But nowadays, hard-line Iranian state television airs repeated segments describing the coup as showing how America can’t be trusted, while authorities bar the public from visiting Mossadegh’s grave in a village outside of Tehran.


https://www.jstor.org/stable/26566567

Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Inspired by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's model of Islamic governance, Hezbollah established strong ties with Iran.


The US came in peace is the story now, yet the US has never been an honest broker in the Middle East.

I wonder why a newly formed resistance group would target the financier and backer of Lebanon's invader, especially with ties to Iran which still holds a grudge against the US since 1953.

Death toll of the 1982 Israel war on Lebanon: 19,085 killed and 30,000 wounded.
Including https://responsiblestatecraft.org/sabra-shatila-massacre/

This week marks the 42nd anniversary of the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut carried out by the Israel-backed Christian Phalangist militia. Estimates of the number of Palestinian and Lebanese slaughtered during the roughly 36-hour rampage range from 700 at the very low end to more than 3,000 — almost all of them civilians; the vast majority women, children and elderly.

They had been left behind after the evacuation of fighters from the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut the previous month as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to end Israel’s seven-week siege of the Lebanese capital. The accord was predicated in part on an exchange of notes between the U.S. and Lebanon (and conveyed to the PLO) under which Washington promised to provide “appropriate security guarantees” to “law-abiding Palestinian non-combatants remaining in Beirut.”

Hezbollah at least targeted military personnel...


Yes it's a terrible cycle of violence that needs to come to an end.



BFR on 23 October 2024

I come from a Marine Corps family. Hezbollah and Iran can GO FUCK THEMSELVES !!!



SvennoJ on 23 October 2024

I hope your family was never part of any war crimes themselves, or were a target of retaliation.

For example
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/the-haditha-massacre-photos-that-the-military-didnt-want-the-world-to-see

US military / imperialism isn't any better.



SvennoJ on 23 October 2024

Another day of death, destruction as Israel bombs Lebanon

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli military has continued its aerial bombardment of Lebanon over the past 24 hours.

The areas of Haret Hreik, Burj al-Barajneh and al-Laylaki in the southern suburbs of Beirut have all been targeted, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reported from the Lebanese capital.

The Wafa news agency also said five people were killed and 21 others were injured as the Ksar al-Zaatar area of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon was bombed, with bodies still being recovered from the rubble.

Air raids also targeted various areas in the south, including Marj Harouf and Sinai in Nabatieh, causing massive destruction, Wafa said.


Israel strikes southern Lebanon’s Khiam: Report

Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting two Israeli air raids on the village near the border with Israel. It said Israeli forces targeted the centre of Khiam.


Israel army issues new forced displacement order for Lebanon’s Tyre

The Israeli army has threatened residents of an area in Tyre, ordering them to leave before military operations against Hezbollah’s alleged facilities in the area.

“Hezbollah’s activities force the IDF to act against it forcefully, as it does not intend to harm you. You must immediately move out of the area marked in red and head north of the Awali River,” the army’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee wrote on X alongside a map showing two specific buildings to be targeted.

“Anyone who is near Hezbollah elements, facilities, and combat equipment is putting his life in danger.”


Civilians flee Lebanon’s Tyre after Israeli evacuation warning

Lebanese civilians have fled the southern city of Tyre after the Israeli army issued warnings for residents to evacuate large parts of the city, which is home to thousands of displaced people.

“The situation is very bad, we’re evacuating people,” said Mortada Mhanna, who heads Tyre’s disaster management unit.

Bilal Kashmar, the unit’s media officer, told AFP news agency that many were fleeing the city and heading towards the suburbs. “You could say that the entire city of Tyre is being evacuated,” he said, adding that the once vibrant southern hub had already been emptied of most of its residents.

Only about 14,500 people were still in Tyre on Tuesday, thousands of them displaced from other parts of the south, he told AFP. “Some families, who had not left the city of Tyre before, began leaving their homes to stay clear from areas that the Israeli enemy threatened to target,” Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.


Iranian medic killed by Israeli air strike in Lebanon: State media

An Iranian medic and war veteran who had been dispatched to Lebanon to treat casualties of Israeli attacks has been killed after an air raid targeted his vehicle, according to state media. Dr Ali Heydari was reportedly killed in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon while he was providing medical assistance.

The member of the Iranian medical mission to Lebanon was a veteran of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and was described as a “defender of the shrine”, a title used for Iranians who have served in Syria.

Translation: The car that was targeted by the Israeli terrorist army and Iranian doctor Ali Heydari was martyred in an ambulance.