Israeli forces attack Lebanon-Syria border crossing

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli fighter jets struck the Jarmash Qald al-Sabaa crossing between eastern Hermel and Syria late on Saturday evening. The raid followed a day of attacks on the eastern Baalbek and Hermel regions which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people there.

UN figures show some 473,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria since September following the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israeli forces escalate attacks in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese National News Agency has provided an update on Israeli forces who escalated their attacks on Tyre and Bint Jbeil overnight:

In Lebanon, ‘misleading’ and sporadic Israeli evacuation orders instil fear

Since mid-September, Israeli military strikes in Lebanon have intensified, resulting in more than 3,000 deaths. These strikes often occur without proper evacuation warnings, though warnings are sometimes issued, according to observers not always in good faith.

Two-year-old Ayham Ali Mohammad was injured in an air attack on October 22, which destroyed his home, killed his mother and brother, and left him with scars. Despite no warning of the attack, locals managed to rescue him.

Numerous buildings in regions such as Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon, have faced heavy bombings, leaving many injured.

Evacuation orders typically come late at night or early morning and are communicated through various means, such as maps and messages from the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman, drawing criticism for seemingly legitimising bombings under the guise of targeting “terrorist” threats.

Civil defence rescues survivors in Lebanon’s Ras al-Ain, Nabatieh, Bekaa

Lebanon’s civil defence has given an update on rescue efforts after overnight Israeli attacks:

Death toll in Israeli raid on Lebanon’s Almat rises to 23

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health says the Israeli raid on Almat in Lebanon’s Mount Lebanon governorate has killed 23 people, including seven children. The ministry added that the death toll is likely to climb. Another six people have been wounded in the attack.

Three people were also killed and two others wounded in an Israeli strike on Mashghara in the western part of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley late on Saturday, while one person was killed and four others injured in a strike on Sahmar, also in western Bekaa, that occurred the same night, the health ministry said.

Israeli air raid tagets area near Damascus: SANA

Initial reports indicate an Israeli strike targeted an area south of Damascus, the official SANA news agency reports. The agency said that there is an unknown “number of dead and injured in the Israeli aggression on the Sayyida Zaynab area in the outskirts of Damascus”.

Syrian activists and local news outlets published footage on social media sites that was verified by Al Jazeera showing the explosion site.

🚨🚨🚨المشهد من منطقة السيده زينب pic.twitter.com/LflmlI8DTw

— Safwan Shaar (@Shaar_Safwan) November 10, 2024

War monitor says Israeli strike kills three south of Damascus: Report

The Israeli strike we reported on earlier that targeted an apartment has killed three people, a war monitor has said. “An Israeli air strike killed three people in the Sayyida Zeinab area,” Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

The watchdog said the apartment belonged “to the Lebanese Hezbollah group … in a stronghold of pro-Iran groups”.

US, UK forces raid Yemen’s capital

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that US and UK forces have launched raids on the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Amran governorate and other areas of the country.

US officials have confirmed launching the attacks.

They said that US forces carried out “multiple airstrikes” on “Houthi weapons storage facilities… that contained various advanced conventional weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden”.

US and UK forces have been attacking Houthi positions in Yemen, in response to the rebel group’s assaults on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Houthis, who control northern Yemen, say their attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

US ‘freezes’ bulldozer delivery to Israel: Report

The US has frozen the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel amid home demolitions in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The Israeli Defence Ministry had signed a contract to buy the D9 bulldozers, a type of heavy-duty construction equipment produced by Caterpillar, the daily reported.

According to it, the bulldozers were primarily intended for flattening structures in the Gaza Strip, which had led to significant internal criticism in the US, leading to intense pressure on President Joe Biden’s administration, resulting in a freeze on the deliveries.

Several existing D9 bulldozers currently employed by the Israeli army in Gaza need maintenance, the report said.

Israeli protesters mark 400 days since October 7 attacks


_{Hundreds of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday night calling for Netanyahu’s government to do more to bring home captives taken to Gaza 400 days ago}

Protesters around the world rally in solidarity with Palestinians

_{Protesters waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags outside the Embassy of Israel in Pretoria, South Africa on Saturday}

<sub>People carry a banner saying ‘Boycott Israel’ at a protest in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday


People protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday</sub>

_{Pro-Palestinian protesters also took to the streets in Paris, France on Saturday}

Anti-Gaza-war activists protest in front of US Embassy in South Korea

Activists demonstrated in the capital of South Korea, Seoul, in front of the United States embassy against Washington’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza, video verified by Al Jazeera shows.

Protesters marched through the streets while raising Palestinian flags, then stopped in front of the US embassy building, the footage circulating on social media showed.

Demonstrators also shouted slogans against the war in Gaza and US support for Israel, including: “America is a terrorist” and “Palestine is free from the river to the sea” and “Stop the genocide.”

Amsterdam police say it will arrest people defying demonstration ban

Amsterdam police have instructed protesters to leave Dam Square, located in the city centre and said they would arrest people who refuse to leave, the city of Amsterdam said on the social media platform X.

Earlier today, a court in Amsterdam upheld a ban on demonstrations in the city that was imposed after Israeli football fans clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters.

Amsterdam football clashes fallout is polarising, dangerous

Police have surrounded protesters who have come out to vent their anger about the framing of the riots last Thursday night as anti-Semitic.

There is a ban for protesting imposed but people decided to appear anyway. These are student groups, Palestine Solidarity groups, anti-racism groups. Some people have been arrested. Police are trying to remove them from the square. I’ve also seen tourists from India questioned by police.

The mayor and the authorities in the Netherlands and also in Israel have only focused on the violence committed against the Israeli Maccabi football fans. This violence has led to fear among Jewish people in Amsterdam.

But this is not the only side of the story. What happened is that the Maccabi fans – hooligans – came to Amsterdam. They had racist songs glorifying the genocide in Gaza. They attacked people here as well.

More and more pictures are emerging, with these fans with iron poles and sticks also attacking people. And that side of the story is just simply not being told. And that’s why people here are very angry.

This is a protest ban which we also don’t know any history of in Amsterdam. The mayor has always said that protesting in the Netherlands is a fundamental right. So now this ban is very serious and people are very much worrying about what this could lead to, looking at freedom of speech.

There’s a lot of Islamophobic rhetoric also going around. The situation is very much polarised and increasingly dangerous.

Like the Israeli flags are not politically motivated... Banning the Palestinian flag is not going to solve any problems.

Haaretz says Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in north Gaza

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The Israeli daily Haaretz has published an editorial accusing Netanyahu and the military of “conducting an ethnic cleansing operation in the northern Gaza Strip”.

“The few Palestinians remaining in the area are being forcibly evacuated, homes and infrastructure have been destroyed, and wide roads in the area are being built and completing the separation of the communities in the northern Strip from the center of Gaza City,” it wrote.

The editorial echoes statements by Palestinian officials, witnesses and journalists who have said Israel is waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, where civilians under constant bombardment are being denied the right to their homes, food, water, medical support and safe travel. They reject the military claims that its push, which began in early October, is simply aimed at closing in on Hamas fighters in the area.

Qatar’s withdrawal from Israel-Hamas negotiations a ‘tactical’ move

Tamer Qarmout, an associate professor of public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Qatar’s decision to withdraw as a key mediator in ceasefire talks is a “tactical” move to “put pressure” on Israel and Hamas while also signalling Qatar’s “concern” over the new US administration.

“The Qataris have been in a very delicate position,” Qarmout told Al Jazeera, adding Republicans in the US have become more vocally critical of Qatar’s involvement.

“I think Qatar is increasingly concerned about this particular angle – being blackmailed or intimidated, both by certain elements within the US administration and by Israel as well,” he said.

“But at the same time, it’s not the end of the game for [Qatar],” said Qarmout. “They’re freezing [the negotiations], but that doesn’t mean that if the parties seek out Qatar to be involved again, it won’t be there to do this mission.”

Egypt expected to ‘remain active’ in Israel-Hamas negotiations

Tamer Qarmout, the associate professor from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says despite Qatar’s decision to withdraw from Israel-Hamas negotiations, Egypt is expected to “remain active” albeit with a “less visible” role.

“At the political level, they may follow Qatar at some point,” he told Al Jazeera. “But the reality on the ground is that they will still have some open channels with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, because they know them and because they share geography with them.”

Qarmout added that due to its geographic proximity, Egypt has a “unique” connection to Gaza.

“It has more direct ties with the people on the ground since Egypt shares a border with Gaza,” he said.

Incoming Israeli defence minister sets eyes on Iran

Gideon Saar has said that thwarting Iran’s nuclear program and preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons “are the most important things we must do”. Saar made his comments during the ceremony of the ministerial change between himself and Israel Katz – who has taken over the ministry of foreign affairs.

“I take the position of defence minister while understanding the things that are required, and the goals are very clear: Thwarting the Iranian nuclear program and preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons are the most important things,” he said.

That's worded in a confusing way, Katz is the new defense minister replacing Gallant (fired). Saar is the new foreign affairs minister.
It fits with Netanyahu's forever war strategy, Iran is next if he can get Trump onboard.

Netanyahu says has spoken with Trump three times in past few days

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has spoken with US President-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days aimed at tightening the strong alliance between Israel and the United States.

“These were good and very important conversations,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger posed by it. We also see the great opportunities before Israel, in the field of peace and its expansion, and in other fields.”

Israel has ‘defeated’ Hezbollah: Defence minister

Israel has “defeated” Hezbollah, the country’s defence chief says, and eliminating its leader Hassan Nasrallah was the “crowning” achievement. Israel’s plan now is to “change the security reality in the north”, new Defence Minister Israel Katz said.

“The blows we inflicted defeated Hezbollah and the elimination of Nasrallah is the crowning jewel,” he said.

Katz added of Israel’s attack on Gaza: “We managed to maintain legitimacy and prevent decisions by international bodies and countries that asked us to stop the war unconditionally.”

The comments come as Hezbollah continues to fire rockets into Israel and Israeli ground forces struggle to take territory in southern Lebanon.

‘Ruins of life’: Aid worker describes scenes of destruction in north Gaza

Philippa Greer, the head of legal affairs at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), posted footage from northern Gaza City showing the scale of destruction wrought by Israel’s war on the enclave.

The video, taken from a moving vehicle and posted on X, showed destroyed roads and buildings flattened and reduced to rubble.

Greer described seeing Palestinians struggling to carry their belongings in the sun, including “a man carrying a white flag in front of his family” and “women about to collapse, dragging bags over the ground, walking backwards, stopping and closing their eyes”.

Greer also said she saw “a man on the ground in underwear, with soldiers near the checkpoint” and “a woman presumably crossing with him, stalled, distraught, in desperation”.

Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his… pic.twitter.com/O4EDyiM1tC

— Philippa Greer (@philippa_bear) November 9, 2024

Witnesses recount Israel’s attack on Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital

We’ve been covering a deadly Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians on the grounds of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah. Survivors said they had taken refuge in the hospital’s grounds hoping they would be safe there, but that they had been wrong.

“This is the eighth attack since I came here,” said Om Mohammed Wadi, a displaced Palestinian. “My tent, together with a lot of other tents, was burned three weeks ago. We are defenceless civilians. We are not terrorists. We are displaced people who want nothing but security and safety.”

A tent sheltering Palestinian reporters was also hit, wounding several.

“We were a tent full of journalists,” said Moustafa Jaarour. “I had left to interview a young girl and all of a sudden, a helicopter launched a missile without any warning. The missile targeted all these tents. Several of us journalists were injured.”

_{People carry a casualty near a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced people, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, November 9}