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Patient at besieged northern Gaza hospital pleads for mercy

We’ve been reporting on the “catastrophic” conditions at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, which has been under siege for more than a month now.

A dialysis patient said that people at the hospital had no food or water. “There were 24 dialysis patients here in Kamal Adwan Hospital, but after Israeli forces kept attacking the hospital, 20 of them left and now there’s only four of us,” said Fihmy Al Mabhoh.

“We don’t have drinking water or food, not even a piece of bread. We need your mercy. We are peaceful, defenceless civilians. We don’t want war. We need to live in peace and stability.”

The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safia, has called for urgent global intervention as conditions at the hospital deteriorate. Israeli forces raided the facility in October, detaining dozens of staff and leaving only a handful to treat dozens of wounded and sick people.

“Injured people are dying every day because we can’t give them the life-saving surgeries they need,” Abu Safiya said earlier, in another distress call from the hospital. “We have urged the world to help us but nobody has helped us. The Israeli shelling hasn’t stopped.”


North Gaza doctor sounds alarm over cases of malnutrition among children, adults

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, has issued a new statement calling for an end to Israel’s monthlong siege on northern Gaza and accusing it of waging a “war of extermination” in the area.

“We are witnessing alarming cases of malnutrition among children and adults, and we are struggling to provide even one meal a day for hospital workers, amidst a severe shortage of food and medical supplies,” he said in a statement.

“We urgently call for the provision of essential supplies and ambulance services, in addition to lifting the siege on northern Gaza,” he said.

The paediatrician described “unbearable” conditions in the north, saying Israel’s systematic attack on the health system means “lives are being lost every day due to lack of specialized care and resources”.


Immediate action required to avert famine in northern Gaza: UN

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is rapidly deteriorating and “famine is imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip”.

UNRWA said immediate action is required “within days to avert and alleviate this catastrophic situation”.

“Immediate, safe, and unimpeded humanitarian access and a ceasefire now are needed more than ever.”



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Five Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

Israeli forces bombed a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City at dawn, killing at least five Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence. Several people were wounded and the search for missing people is ongoing, the group said.

Israeli attack on northern Gaza kills 32 Palestinians

At least 32 have been confirmed killed in Jabalia, including whole families – parents with their children and grandchildren.

The attack happened at about 6am local time when people were still inside the house. According to an eyewitness, it was pretty quiet apart from the buzz of drones and quadcopters and the fighter jets that were manoeuvring in the area.

All of a sudden, without any prior warning, the house was bombed. According to an eyewitness, the house was full of women and children who had been displaced from different parts of northern Gaza and had ended up in this particular building.

This is an example of how displaced families, who were forced to evacuate Jabalia and who went elsewhere seeking protection and shelter, are being bombed, killed and maimed. It’s an extension of all the genocidal acts that have been taking place for over a year now and is directed right now 100 percent towards civilians in northern Gaza.


Death toll in Jabalia rises, includes 13 children

Wafa is reporting that at least 33 people were killed, including 13 children. Many Palestinians were wounded and some are still missing, it reported. The bombing of the Alloush family home, which was packed with residents and displaced people, resulted in “the complete destruction” of the building, it reported.

The wounded are being transferred to the Baptist Hospital, Wafa added.


Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, November 10



Gaza death toll rises

At least 43,603 people have been killed and 102,929 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of those, 51 Palestinians were killed and 164 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.


PRCS documents transport of injured people in central Gaza

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has shared a video on X documenting its volunteers transporting 14 people wounded in an Israeli air strike “that targeted a tent near Al-Qarara port, south of Deir el-Balah” in central Gaza.


No one left ‘alive’ in Israel’s attack on Jabalia

We bring you more information on the house in Jabalia that was bombed this morning at six. We now have a confirmed report that everybody in that house was killed. The last few remains were removed from under the rubble in the past couple of hours, and it’s believed that the total number of people inside was 32 or 33.

The hope for more survivors has faded, as the rescue mission has stopped in the area due to the dangers involved.

The presence of surveillance drones, which are creating a sense of intimidation for volunteers and for local community members who are trying to help their neighbours and relatives and rescue them from under the rubble, has further complicated efforts.


A boy looks through the window of a vehicle carrying bodies of Palestinians killed in the strike



Israel PM admits giving green light for Hezbollah pager attacks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he approved a deadly September attack on Hezbollah communications devices that exploded in Lebanon – the first time Israel admitted involvement.

“Netanyahu confirmed Sunday that he greenlighted the pager operation in Lebanon,” his spokesman Omer Dostri said of the attacks that killed nearly 40 people and wounded nearly 3,000.

A week after the pager attacks, Israel announced a ground operation in southern Lebanon and began heavy air strikes on areas in Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah strongholds.


First responders carry a wounded man after his handheld pager exploded in Sidon, Lebanon

Why not admit to a full scale terrorist attack, that arrest warrant from the ICC will never come through now Trump has been elected.


Hezbollah attacks Israeli naval base with ‘squadron of drones’

Hezbollah says it successfully targeted the Haifa naval base with unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Lebanese group “launched an air attack at 4pm today [14:00 GMT] with a squadron of attack drones on the Haifa naval base … and hit its targets accurately”, it said in a statement on Telegram.

There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.

In addition, Hezbollah said its fighters attacked the Israeli army near the “border wall” in the town of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon, with missiles.


Israel launches air raids on towns in southern Lebanon

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report the Israeli army launched attacks on the towns of al-Duwayr, Harouf, Jebchit and Shebaa.

Earlier, we reported that the Health Ministry says at least 38 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon, including 23 in a raid north of the capital Beirut.


A resident checks the site of an Israeli air strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon


Several killed in Israeli assault in Lebanon’s Hermel region

At least three people were killed in the town of Qasr, in the Hermel district, following an Israeli attack. Two people were also wounded in the Israeli assault in northeast Lebanon, the Health Ministry added.


Israeli army chief approves Lebanon ground invasion expansion: Report

Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has approved the expansion of the ground invasion of southern Lebanon, state broadcaster Kan reports.

Israel’s military began “limited, localized, and targeted” ground raids into southern Lebanon against Hezbollah on October 1, days after launching heavy air strikes throughout the country.

Israel’s military and security officials considered announcing the end of the ground offensive last week, Kan reported, but Halevi green-lighted new orders to expand the assault, which could include thousands more soldiers.

Earlier, Israel’s new defence minister, Israel Katz, said Hezbollah had been “defeated”.



Rise in death toll after Israeli air raid on Syria’s capital

An Israeli strike on a residential building south of Damascus killed seven civilians – the second such attack in less than a week. The fatalities in the Sayeda Zainab district included women and children with 20 people also wounded, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

There was no immediate comment from Israel, which said last week that its air force struck intelligence assets of Hezbollah in the same area.


Iran calls to expel Israel from UN after Syria strike

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, said that Tehran “strongly condemned the aggressive attack carried out today by the Zionist regime against a residential building” in the Damascus area.

Baghaei called for measures against Israel, including “an arms embargo” and its “expulsion from the United Nations”.

Earlier, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported an “Israeli aggression targeting a residential building in the Sayyida Zeinab” area, home to a major Shia shrine, killing at least seven people.



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Israeli drone kills three Palestinians trying to build water well

Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone attack as people attempted to build a well during a scarcity of water in central Gaza.

The Israeli quadcopter strike hit a group of people installing a waterpipe network in Nuseirat refugee camp. The bodies were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir el-Balah.

Israel continues to face global criticism for attacks on Gaza’s civilians. A United Nations report on Friday said about 70 percent of Gaza’s verified death toll is women and children.


Several killed, wounded after Israeli assault in central Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have reported that an unspecified number of people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on tents housing displaced people in the Nuseirat camp.

Earlier, medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 49 people were killed in Israeli attacks since this morning.


Qassam Brigades claims it killed Israeli soldiers in north Gaza

Hamas’s armed wing says it attacked 15 Israeli soldiers with an antitank rocket before it “finished them off” with grenades and light weapons from close range in Beit Lahiya. There was no comment from the Israeli army.

At least 370 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the ground invasion of Gaza since October 2023. Israel’s military claims to have killed about 18,000 Palestinian fighters.


Israeli forces shell Gaza City neighbourhood

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli artillery fire is ongoing in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City. On Saturday, Israeli forces attacked a school in Gaza City, killing several people, including two journalists.




Israeli troops conduct raids across occupied West Bank

Israeli forces raided the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, the Wafa news agency reports. Soldiers stormed the house of the mayor of Hebron, Tayseer Abu Sneineh.



US continues gaslighting

US official says Hamas stands in way of ceasefire

During an appearance on the US network CBS, United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said that Hamas, not Israel, is standing in the way of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel has been accused of thwarting multiple ceasefire deals. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said his military must retain open-ended control over Gaza’s southern border area with Egypt, something Hamas has outright rejected.

Israel also killed the main Hamas negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in July while he visited Iran. Hamas has been seeking a permanent ceasefire and wants the withdrawal of Israeli forces as part of any deal.

Qatar said on Saturday that it’s suspending its mediator role until Hamas and Israel both show a “sincere willingness” to return to the negotiating table.


‘Implicit admission’ of Israel’s ethnic cleansing: US Muslim group

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sees the reported US freeze of the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel as an “implicit admission” that Israel is using the equipment to force Palestinians out of Gaza.

“By freezing the delivery of bulldozers to Israel, the Biden administration is clearly admitting that the far-right Israeli government is engaged in the war crime of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Despite this implicit recognition that Israel is committing war crimes, President Biden steadfastly refuses to stop sending taxpayer-funded weapons,” said Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director.

Awad noted that Israel’s army continues to use US arms to “kill civilians and destroy homes, hospitals, mosques, churches, UN facilities, schools, and civilian infrastructure in Gaza”.

“The complicity of the Biden administration with Israel’s genocide must end. All weapons deliveries to Israel must be stopped immediately.”


Muslim and Arab leaders fly to Saudi for talks on Middle East crisis

Arab and Muslim leaders have arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Monday summit focusing on Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

Attendees will “discuss the continued Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories and the Lebanese Republic, and the current developments in the region”, the official Saudi Press Agency said.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry announced the summit in late October, during the first meeting of an “international alliance” pushing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This comes one year after a similar gathering in Riyadh of the Cairo-based Arab League and the Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, during which leaders condemned Israeli forces’ actions in Gaza as “barbaric”.

The Saudi state-affiliated al-Ekhbariya news channel broadcast footage on Sunday of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati landing in Riyadh.



Dutch police arrest dozens at pro-Palestinian rally after football unrest


Pro-Palestinian demonstrators face-off with Dutch police during a protest in Amsterdam on Sunday

Dutch police took away more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters who defied a ban on demonstrations in Amsterdam following clashes this week involving Israeli football fans.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Dam Square chanting “Free Palestine” and “Amsterdam says no to genocide”, in reference to the Israeli war on Gaza.

The three-day ban was imposed on Friday after street fights involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam.

Police said tensions had already built up ahead of the match as Maccabi fans burned a Palestinian flag on the central Dam Square and vandalised a taxi, Amsterdam Police Chief Peter Holla said.



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Israeli citizens told to avoid visits abroad after Amsterdam violence

Israel told its citizens to avoid going to cultural and sports events abroad involving Israel in the coming week in the wake of clashes between Israeli football fans and people in the Netherlands.

A statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel allegedly had intelligence that pro-Palestinian groups abroad intended to harm Israelis in cities in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and others.

Authorities in Amsterdam imposed a three-day ban on protests on Friday after street fights involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting team Maccabi Tel Aviv and host team Ajax Amsterdam.

Good, stay the fuck away. Don't want your racist crap in my birthplace nor anywhere else.


Amsterdam violence: ‘A very typical mainstream Israeli reaction’

An Israeli academic says that the Israeli football fans who became embroiled in street brawls in Amsterdam were most likely ignorant about how their country is viewed in the world over the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

“They think what they watch on TV is the same reality globally,” said Menachem Klein, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University. “Others, perhaps, want to teach, as they call it, the ‘anti-Semite Europeans’ a lesson, to show them who is the boss in their own home.”

He called the behaviour of the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans “self-centric” and reflective of “victimhood”.

“It’s a very typical mainstream Israeli reaction, what happened in Amsterdam, to world concerns about what’s happening in Gaza,” Klein told Al Jazeera.

Racist slurs are never OK. Victims don't go around vandalizing homes, attacking people and taxis. I guess this Israeli academic proves his own point, ignorant about what actually happened in Amsterdam.



Main points on November 10th

  • At least 49 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn, with 38 people killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon.
  • Twenty-two women and children are among the dead after Israel bombed a family home in the besieged Jabalia refugee camp.
  • The UN has warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is rapidly deteriorating and “famine is imminent” in areas of northern Gaza, with action needed in days to prevent “catastrophe”.
  • Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that an Israeli air assault on the village of Almat, north of the capital Beirut, killed 23 people including seven children.
  • An Israeli air strike on a residential building in Syria’s capital Damascus killed seven civilians – the second such attack in less than a week.
  • Dutch police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam after they defied a demonstration ban following clashes between Israeli football fans and locals.
  • Arab and Muslim leaders began arriving in Saudi Arabia for a summit on Monday, which will focus on Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.