Israeli army continues assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital and its vicinity

Footage shared online, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows smoke rising from the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after the escalation of Israel’s aggression in the area.

Our colleagues on the ground also report that the Israeli army is burning houses and buildings around the hospital. The wall on the outer perimeter of the hospital has been destroyed and the hospital building damaged.

 
‘Entire population of north Gaza at risk of dying’ due to Israeli offensive

The UN’s leading humanitarian aid official has cautioned that given the rapidly worsening conditions and an intense weeks-long offensive by the Israeli army, “the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying”.

“Hospitals have been hit and health workers have been detained. Shelters have been emptied and burned down,” said Joyce Msuya, acting undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.

Msuya emphasised the distressing effects of the Israeli offensive on healthcare and civilian safety, along with the challenges faced by first responders, stating that they have been “prevented from rescuing people from under the rubble”.

At least 640 Palestinians have been killed there since the siege began in northern Gaza earlier this month.

Palestinians killed in Israeli attack in Khan Younis

Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis resulted in the killing of many Palestinians, local sources told Wafa news agency. The report said that Israeli forces targeted al-Shahayda area north of the town of Abassan al-Kabira, resulting in several casualties among civilians.

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 26 people have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since this morning.

Situation in northern Gaza ‘extremely dire’

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described the situation in northern Gaza as “extremely dire” and said people wishing to evacuate must be assured safe passage.

“Ongoing evacuation orders, and continued restriction on introduction of essential supplies, leaves the remaining civilian population in north Gaza in horrific circumstances,” the ICRC said in a statement.

“Hospitals are being told to evacuate, leaving a potential vacuum of medical services for the many civilians who remain, and are critically under-resourced while new patients continue to arrive.”

Israeli forces fire antitank shells during raid on West Bank house: Report

Israeli forces have stormed the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem and surrounded a house in the as-Salam neighbourhood near the Nur Shams refugee camp. The Wafa news agency reports that the Israeli military fired a number of antitank shells at the house, where they claimed suspects were sheltering.

Soldiers involved in the operation also reportedly used the parents of a Palestinian suspect as “human shields”, in an attempt to get their son to surrender.

Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces during Tulkarem raid

Wafa news agency is reporting that a Palestinian man has been wounded by Israeli forces during the continuing raid of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

The report said that the incident took place in al-Salam neighbourhood, east of Tulkarem city. The Red Crescent Society added that the man, who was shot by Israeli forces, was taken to hospital.

Heavy shooting and firing of shells are being reported in the Israeli raid which is continuing.

Dozens of Israeli aircraft participated in Iran strikes Saturday

Dozens of Israeli Air Force aircraft, including fighter jets, refuelers and spy planes, participated in the strikes on Iran early Saturday, according to an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson.

The strikes landed some 1,600 kilometers (about 994 miles) from Israel, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani told CNN.

He did not provide further details and would not confirm if Israeli jets entered Iranian airspace.

Iran army chief say Israeli jets flew through Iraq’s airspace for attack

Major-General Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, says Israeli fighter jets flew through Iraq’s airspace to launch the deadly attack on his country “in a blatant and illegal act”.

Israel’s air force “used airspace controlled by the US terrorist military in Iraq to launch long-range missiles from a distance of 100km [50 miles] from Iran’s borders,” Mousavi said in a statement.

“These missiles – equipped with lightweight warheads, one-fifth the size of Iranian ballistic missile warheads – were aimed at several border radar installations in Ilam, Khuzestan, and areas around Tehran.”

He said because of Iran’s air defence systems, “the damage was limited”. “A large number of missiles were intercepted and enemy aircraft were prevented from entering the country’s airspace.”

Iran’s UN mission accuses Israel of using Iraqi territory for strikes

Israeli warplanes attacked Iran from Iraqi airspace, Iran’s mission to the UN says, blaming the United States for what it called its complicity. “Iraqi airspace is under the occupation, command and control of the US military. Conclusion: The US complicity in this crime is certain,” it said in a post on X.

Earlier, Iran army chief of staff leveled the same allegation. There’s been no immediate response from the Iraqi or US governments.

Netanyahu: Israel chose its targets, not the Americans

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel chose the targets it attacked in Iran based on its “national interests”, not what was dictated by the United States.

Netanyahu’s office issued the statement in response to what it referred to as a “completely false” local television report that Israel avoided striking Iranian gas and oil facilities because of US pressure.

“Israel chose in advance the attack targets according to its national interests and not according to American dictates. So it was and so it will be,” his office said.

Israeli attack on Iran ‘political theatre’

Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) called the Israeli attacks on Iran face-saving “political theatre”.

“The highly orchestrated Israeli attacks on Iran – with targets pre-negotiated with Iran by the US – appear to have been nothing more than political theatre to allow Israel to save face while relying on Iran to act responsibly not to escalate this war further,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s executive director.

“The Biden administration’s claims of victory that its newest THAAD carrots to curb even greater Israeli belligerence really only begs the question of why the US needs to constantly curry favour with an unhinged, bellicose government,” she said in a statement.

Same was said about Iran's counter attacks. However, political theater or not, it's disguising the root cause and ongoing genocide in Gaza.

US Muslim group calls on Biden to end ‘systematic extermination’

Citing statements by the UN and international advocacy groups about the dire situation in Gaza, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) renewed calls for the White House to stop Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian territory.

“The Biden administration must listen to those who actually care about the systematic extermination of an entire population using American taxpayer-funded weapons and with the unceasing and uncritical support of administration officials who do not seem to care about the far-right Israeli government’s violations of US and international law,” CAIR Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

“This administration’s support for and complicity with genocide must end.”

Norway calls situation in northern Gaza ‘intolerable’

Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide says the “escalating violence in northern Gaza is intolerable” and called on Israel to allow humanitarian access to the area.

In a post on X, he said, “Hunger is rampant, and is expected to cause death at a major scale. Civilians must be protected, and Israel must allow and secure humanitarian access in strict adherence to international law. The world watches in despair.”

Israel president hails US for ‘overt and covert’ cooperation

Israeli President Isaac Herzog hailed the United States as a “true ally” of Israel following the deadly air strikes on Iran.

Applauding Israel’s attack on Iran, Herzog said, “I especially wish to thank our great friend the USA for being a true ally, and for the overt and covert cooperation,” he said in a statement without elaborating.

“Our capabilities that were demonstrated and the goals that were achieved were very important for establishing the security of the state of Israel and the defence of its citizens,” Herzog added.

New ‘horrific massacre’ by Israeli forces in north Gaza

The Health Ministry says one apartment block was destroyed in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town. Palestinians are trapped under the debris after Israeli air strikes and rescue operations are continuing.

The attack is a “horrific massacre”, the ministry said.

At least 35 killed in bombing of homes in Beit Lahiya

At least 35 Palestinians in besieged northern Gaza were killed in an attack on a residential area that destroyed several buildings in Beit Lahiya. An unknown number of people are trapped in the rubble. Local media reports said civil defence crews are not able to reach the site because of Israeli fire.

The Health Ministry has described it as a “horrific massacre”. Northern Gaza has been under a three-week ground assault by Israeli forces who are forcibly displacing tens of thousands of residents out of the area.

Hundreds of civilians have been have been killed during the latest invasion.

Israeli soldiers post taunts, proudly show north Gaza destruction

We haven’t seen any official Israeli commentary on the siege and assault of northern Gaza that has gone on for more than 20 days.

What we have seen are posts on social media by individual soldiers celebrating what they’re doing, tauntingly posting photos of civilians escaping under fire. Or men who have been stripped down to their underwear and taken to undisclosed locations. Or even worse, soldiers celebrating as they burn down homes in Beit Lahiya and Jabalia.

The Israeli military insists all the allegations made by the UN and observers on the ground of the Israeli army preventing medical and humanitarian assistance from going in and targeting civilians are false despite the overwhelming evidence.

MedGlobal condemns arrest of its staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital

The humanitarian organisation operating in Gaza denounced the Israeli military’s arrest of Mahmoud Lubbad, a staff member and the nursing director at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, along with many other medics.

“MedGlobal calls on global leaders, humanitarian organisations, and the public to demand an immediate cessation of all attacks on healthcare workers and to uphold essential protections for medical personnel operating in conflict zones,” it said in a statement.

The organisation highlighted the death of Ibrahim Abu Safia, the teenage son of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia, MedGlobal’s lead physician in Gaza. Dr Abu Safia’s son was killed by Israeli aircraft in Jabalia refugee camp.

Another dive into history.

The untold history of the Israel Defense Forces | The Big Picture

Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground Zionist militias - The Haganah, the Irgun and the Lehi.

They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised Palestinian villages and executed attacks and bombings against the British to force them to give up control of the land. They blew up hotels in Jerusalem, embassies in Europe and assassinated a UN mediator.

After Israel was officiated as a state - the three militias would create the IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become politicians, ambassadors and Prime Ministers. And their dark history would be forgotten.

Israel itself was founded on terrorism. The (precursor of the) IDF even 'invented' the truck bomb.
Zionist terrorism against the British occupation is what led to the 1947 UN partition plan with 55% of the land allocated to the Zionists.



No wonder Israel fights so hard against Palestinian resistance to the occupation.

Unable to reach a settlement the UK withdrew from Palestine shortly after on May 15th 1948, washing their hands off the problem and let the local population fight it out in civil war. (by January 1948 an estimated 1,500 Palestinians and 400 Jews were killed in the fighting)

Ben Gurion then created the IDF and organized the Nakba in 1948 through plan Dalet
https://imeu.org/article/explainer-plan-dalet-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine

I was always told the Arab states started the war against Israel right at its creation and lost in 1948 which led to the Nakba....  Another lie.

"By the time Israel unilaterally declared itself estate on the 14th of May 1948 more than 200 Palestinian Villages had been emptied it's people fleeing at gunpoint or in fear from the stories of massacres that happened in towns nearby. By the 15th of May more than 750,000 Palestinians had been made refugees never to return to their homes again." (15th of may is Israeli independence day)

The Arab states invaded because of the Nakba, but couldn't do much against the combined UK trained and outfitted Zionist militias.

UN statement on September 18th 1948 by UN Secretary General Bernadet



He was assassinated by 4 Lei operatives the day before his statement was published. Even though the Lei operatives were initially apprehended, Lei was pardoned for their actions and formed the Herut (Freedom) party which in 1973 joined forces with former Hagana commander Ariel Chiron to form the Likud party. (Netanyahu presiding today)

Israel was founded on terror assassinations and ethnic cleansing which it still carries out today. Netanyahu's Likud party is rooted in terrorism.
Palestinians have been resisting colonization / occupation since the early 1900's.

History is repeating itself, the same is happening in Northern Gaza now as was happening in 1948 in Palestine.

This next documentary starts all the way back before the creation of the Torah.

Showing the struggle of the Jewish people before Zionism, then shows the events to what's happening today.

The Big Picture – How Israel Won the West



The documentary, The Big Picture: How Israel Won the West, examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world.

It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the creation of Israel and its ensuing occupation of Palestinian territory.

Along the way, what is revealed is a process of transformation: Of how Jews went from being despised by early Christians as “Christ killers”, to being considered part of the white Western world and sharing a common Judeo-Christian heritage.



Correction on this documentary

It has one terrible mistake at 8:25 They perpetuate the myth of exclusion from professions outside of money lending. A claim that has no historical basis and in some cases the exact opposite

​ @cyberninjazero5659 Yeah it was more by choice than restriction, also Christian money lenders did exist.

The question is: Why did the Jews move into these occupations whereas almost all other inhabitants remained engaged in agriculture?

Our thesis is that the distinctive characteristic of the Jews at that time was that almost all Jewish men were literate. The Jews had a comparative advantage in the skilled, high-paid occupations demanded in the new urban centers developed by the Muslim rulers. Why were Jewish farmers (and Jews in general) literate whereas the rest of the rural population was illiterate at the beginning of the seventh century? The Jewish religion made primary education mandatory for boys in the first century when the high priest Joshua ben Gamala (64 fh) issued an ordinance that “teachers had to be appointed in each district and every city and that boys of the age of six or seven should be sent.”4 In the first century fh, the Jewish warrior and writer Josephus underlined that children’s education was the principal care among the Jews. 5

https://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2012/11/dp124.pdf

Another thesis states that Jewish money lenders were often preferred over Christian since they were considered neutral and not part of the many conflicts between Christians.

If medieval Jews had one advantage in participating in the financial business of elites, it was the perception of their neutrality: They were not engaged in the Christian political conflicts that pushed elites to borrow money. Unlike Christian financiers whose business catered to the powerful, Jews could not use finance and credit to create influence and patronage among Christian elites.

For example, in 1359, the elites of the town of Andernach needed to raise funds to pay debts to the powerful Archbishop of Cologne, with whom they had been in conflict for the past few years. Rather than borrowing from Italian financiers, who were already involved with financing the Archbishop and the Catholic Church, the Andernach elites borrowed from the Jewish Bonefant family of Koblenz, a city about 20km away that was home to the second largest Jewish community in German lands.

https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/global-judaism/debunking-myth-jewish-elites-bankers-europe-history/

From the 1800s on it seems all accurate, anti-semitism in Europe was terrible (and still around, next to rampant Islamophobia) Europe created the ongoing conflict in the ME and now pretends their nose bleeds. I'm fed up with the "concerned" and "condemn" nonsense. It's not worth any more than "hearts and prayers" without actions. Paralyzed by guilt or hatred of Muslims?


Anyway not relevant to the current genocide, but I have been getting more interested in history the older I get. And this remark stood out when I watched it, then I saw someone comment on it so did some digging.

Main points on October 26th

• At least 35 Palestinians in besieged northern Gaza were killed in an attack on a residential area that destroyed several buildings in Beit Lahiya with the death toll expected to rise.
• Residents of Beit Lahiya are scrambling to rescue survivors after Israel’s deadly assault as civil defence crews are unable to reach the area due to Israeli attacks, according to our correspondent.
• Israeli forces have detained at least 44 hospital staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving only three doctors to care for nearly 200 patients.
• UN’s top humanitarian official Joyce Msuya said “the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying” as Israel’s weeks-long siege of the region continues.
• Israeli warplanes attacked Iran from Iraqi airspace, Iran’s mission to the UN says, blaming the United States for what it called “complicity”.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel chose the targets it attacked in Iran based on its “national interests”, not what was dictated by the United States.
• The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was not hit by the Israeli attacks.
• Iran’s military chief Major-General Abdolrahim Mousavi said his country “reserves the right to respond at an appropriate time” to the Israeli attacks that killed four soldiers in the country.
• In Lebanon, the Israeli military again issued forced evacuation orders for parts of southern Beirut, while Hezbollah also ordered residents of at least 25 communities in northern Israel to “evacuate immediately”.
• Hezbollah ordered residents of 25 communities in northern Israel to “evacuate immediately” in a reversal from the usual Israeli army orders to Lebanese civilians.