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SvennoJ 3 days ago

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on tents in Gaza

The Wafa news agency reports that two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded after Israeli forces attacked tents housing displaced people in the central Nuseirat refugee camp. At least three Palestinians were killed.


Palestinian journalist and his wife killed in Israel’s attacks on Nuseirat

A journalist and his wife were killed in overnight attacks inside their tents.

They had set the tents up seeking protection from the unpredictable Israeli bombs after their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp was destroyed a few months ago. This particular area of the northern Nuseirat refugee camp is very close to the edge of the Netzarim Junction. The Israeli army has a very strong and visible presence there.

That area has been relentlessly attacked, and people there are exposed to daily terror, from the heavy machineguns, the quadcopters and the drones that are hovering at a very low level.

Just in the past few minutes, we could clearly hear heavy machineguns from the eastern part of Deir el-Balah city, Bureij refugee camp and the Maghazi refugee camp. It creates a sense of terror for everyone and prevents people even from going to check on their homes. This has been going on for a whole month now on a daily basis.


Israeli forces attack families in Nuseirat refugee camp

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli forces have been targeting the west of the Nuseirat refugee camp with artillery fire and aerial bombing as their tanks advance.

These forces were besieging a large number of families in their homes west of the camp in central Gaza, a correspondent said.


Israeli bombing of Nuseirat refugee camp kills three people

Earlier we reported that Israeli forces have been besieging a large number of families in their homes west of Nuseirat refugee camp, which had come under heavy artillery fire and aerial bombing.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic now report that Israeli bombing of a house in the camp has killed three people and wounded others.


Palestinians trapped in Nuseirat appeal to ICRC for evacuation

At midnight we heard continuous loud explosions and then we noticed that Israeli tanks started to proceed to the edge of Nuseirat.

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured and many families are trapped inside the houses close to where the Israeli tanks are. They’ve been appealing for the ICRC to evacuate them from that area. Just now, shrapnel and Israeli grenades fell on al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.

More than one million displaced Palestinians are in the central area. Those Palestinians are on the outskirts of Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat, and most of them are in the coastal part of those areas.

Thousands of Palestinians were frightened, setting up their tents in those areas when suddenly Israeli forces invaded those parts. There are injured people that were shot with Israeli live ammunition, but no one is able to reach that area because of the Israeli tanks.

There is also Israeli shelling, quadcopters hovering in the sky and hitting Palestinian civilians and homes.


Israeli air raid near al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City

An Israeli air raid has hit the vicinity of the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting, causing a violent explosion.


Israel shells Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza

The Israeli army has fired artillery and launched quadcopter drones to target the main entrance of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Three Palestinians have been injured, according to preliminary reports by the hospital, which is going through a crisis as casualties mount and it has few supplies or personnel to treat them.

The Israeli military is also targeting high-rise buildings overlooking the Netzarim Corridor, a 6km-long [4-mile-long] strip of land established by Israel just south of Gaza City. It stretches from the boundary with Israel to the Mediterranean Sea.

Israel has been expanding the Netzarim Corridor, which now covers 58sq km [22.4sq miles]. There is a heavy military presence, and this has raised concerns among Palestinians over a prolonged Israeli presence in Gaza.



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SvennoJ 3 days ago

What life is like in Hebron in the occupied West Bank

Earlier, the Wafa news agency reported that Israeli soldiers raided the home of the mayor of Hebron. The city is subjected to regular raids from Israeli soldiers, who exert significant control over the lives of Palestinians who live there.

Here is a quick look at what life is like for them:

  • More than 100 Israeli gates and checkpoints prevent Palestinians from coming and going from Hebron’s Old City, with the few residents that remain often describing the historic area as a prison.
  • Many shops in the Old City have had to close, and those that remain have had to put up nets to catch rubbish thrown at them by Israeli settlers living in the houses above.
  • Israeli authorities block Palestinians from driving on and around 65 roads leading to the city centre, including al-Shuhada Street in the Old City.
  • Armed Israeli soldiers regularly patrol the Old City, escorting large groups of Israeli settlers.
  • Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that “systematic abuse and harassment of Palestinians by settlers has become an established part of life in Hebron”.


Israeli soldiers patrol a street in the Old City of Hebron on Saturday


Israeli forces raid cities, towns across occupied West Bank

Here’s a round-up of the overnight operations:

  • Israeli forces carried out a wide arrest campaign in the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah
  • Israeli soldiers raided the home of Hebron’s Mayor Tayseer Abu Sneineh
  • Sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces also stormed the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron
  • Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians from Nablus city and Askar al-Balad
  • Israeli forces stormed the towns of Azzun and Amatin, east of Qalqilya
  • Israeli forces stormed al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, and fired sound bombs that terrified residents, according to the Wafa news agency
  • Israeli forces arrested a young man from the town of Tammun, south of Tubas.


Israeli bullets injure five Palestinians in Jalazone refugee camp

The Palestinian Red Crescent says five Palestinians, including a child, have been injured by bullets fired by Israeli forces in confrontations in the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah.

Earlier, we reported on the raids and arrests Israeli forces conducted across the occupied West Bank overnight.


Israeli army arrests 20 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

The Israeli army has arrested at least 20 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including former prisoners, during a campaign overnight.

Arrest operations were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Qalqilya and Nablus, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement.


Israeli authorities mistreating female detainees: Prisoner groups

Female detainees held in Damon Prison in northern Israel are subject to assaults and “inhumane and unethical procedures,” say the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.

A lawyer for the commission said that Palestinian women prisoners are being held inside their cells for 23 hours a day; they are only allocated one hour for a courtyard break and a shower.

The lawyer also said that the food is of poor quality and there’s not enough of it for all the prisoners. “The women also don’t have enough clothes or covers. Moreover, rooms are overcrowded, as 11 detainees are held in the same room. They are also denied medical checks, treatment and medication,” the lawyer said.



SvennoJ 3 days ago

Mouin Rabbani on What Really Happened in Amsterdam Between Israeli Soccer Fans & Local Residents


Dutch Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani discusses the violence that broke out last week between visiting Israeli soccer fans and pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam. The Dutch authorities made over 60 arrests, and at least five people were hospitalized as a result of the clashes, which local and international leaders were quick to brand as antisemitic, even though observers in Amsterdam have said it was Israeli hooligans who instigated much of the violence. Rabbani says that while it's common for rival teams' fans to get into skirmishes, what happened in Amsterdam was different. "What we're talking about here in Amsterdam is not a clash between the hooligans of two opposing sides, but rather these Israeli thugs attacking people who, in principle, had nothing to do with the game, and then afterwards being confronted by their victims," Rabbani says.

Media COVER UP As Israel CONFESSES Ethnic Cleansing Of Northern Gaza

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More embarrassment for Sky News, western media as Qatari govt busts fake news | Janta Ka Reporter


A statement from the Qatari government has busted the fake news peddled by western media outlets who claimed that Qatar had ordered Hamas leaders to leave the country unless they agreed for a ceasefire in Gaza. Rifat Jawaid has more details on the chronology of events.



SvennoJ 2 days ago

‘Crime of starvation’: NGO calls for Gaza famine zone declaration

The Palestinian NGO Network says this is “in light of the serious repercussions of the restrictions imposed by the occupation on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, especially its north”.

The Israeli military continues to prevent the entry of food, water, and medicine into northern Gaza. It also restricts the entry of aid into other areas of the besieged coastal enclave, with no more than 30 trucks getting in per day, representing 6 percent of basic needs.

The network warned of the “serious repercussions of the crime of starvation practiced by the occupation and preventing the entry of food and other basic needs, especially on the health of children and women who are now in a difficult and complex reality that threatens their lives”.



Israel says it has met most US demands on Gaza aid as deadline looms

Israel says it has achieved most demands made by the US to improve humanitarian conditions in the besieged coastal enclave as a deadline looms to improve the situation or face potential restrictions on US military aid.

Israel has refused to carry out some US demands, including allowing the entry of 50 to 100 commercial trucks a day.

An Israeli official told reporters commercial activity has been halted because Hamas is allegedly controlling the merchants. Restrictions on the entry of closed containers will also not be lifted because of security risks, the official said.

Other demands, including the opening of a fifth crossing into Gaza, have been implemented.

The US told its ally in a letter on October 13 that it must take steps to improve the aid situation in Gaza within 30 days. Tuesday is the deadline. Last week, a committee of global food security experts warned of a strong likelihood that famine is imminent in certain areas of northern Gaza.


UN condemns mass arrests, violence against Palestinians in West Bank

The UN Human Rights Office has condemned Israeli forces’ mass arrests, ill-treatment and “gratuitous humiliation of Palestinians” during raids in refugee camps and towns across the occupied West Bank.

Information it has gathered shows “a pattern of unnecessary, disproportionate and otherwise unlawful force used in Palestinian communities of Madama, Dura, and the Fawwar refugee camps, among others, over the past month, despite in many cases there being no apparent threat to public order or the security of the occupying forces”, it said.

The office referred to an incident on October 18-19 when Israeli forces raided at least 50 homes in the Fawwar refugee camp in the Hebron governorate and detained 30 Palestinians.

During the raids, people reported widespread abuse, property theft, and violence against householders and detainees.

“One of those detained reported to UN Human Rights Office that Israeli security forces hit him with a heavy object in the head and jaw, while he was handcuffed and blindfolded. Israeli media have reported one case of grave sexual violence against a detainee during this raid.”



SvennoJ 2 days ago

Israeli defence minister says ‘there will be no ceasefire’ in Lebanon

Israel’s newly appointed defence minister, Israel Katz, says “there will be no ceasefire and there will be no break in the strikes against Hezbollah” in Lebanon.

But Katz told a forum of top military generals: “If the possibility arises and a good proposal is put forward that would allow us to claim victory, … we will certainly consider it very seriously.”

Earlier, Israel’s new foreign minister said there has been “certain progress” in efforts to end the fighting with Hezbollah. But a spokesman for the armed group said it hadn’t received any official proposal and is prepared to wage a long war if needed.

Israeli forces have killed at least 3,243 people and wounded 14,134 since the hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli army started on October 8, 2023.


Israeli air strike on Lebanon’s Saksakieh kills seven

An Israeli air raid on the town of Saksakiyeh, in southern Lebanon, has killed at least seven people and injured seven others, the Health Ministry said in a statement.


Israeli strike on village in Lebanon’s far north kills or injures 28

Lebanese state-run media says Israel struck a house in the northern Akkar region, one of the farthest attacks from the border in its war on the country, causing casualties among 28 people.

“An enemy strike targeted a house in the village of Ain Yaacoub,” some 150km (93 miles) from Israel, said Lebanon’s official National News Agency.

Local officials said displaced people, Syrian nationals, and local citizens lived there and it was the northernmost Israeli attack since Israel launched a full-blown war in September.

Mayor Majed Drbes says at least 14 people were killed and 15 others wounded. The strike on Ain Yaaqoub hit a building where 30 people were residing. Some people are still trapped under the rubble, said Drbes.

Earlier, an Israeli bombing of Saksakiyeh, in Sidon district, killed at least seven and injured seven more, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.


Israel’s military builds along UN-patrolled demilitarised zone in Syria

Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the border, satellite photos analysed by The Associated Press show.

Israeli troops entered the demilitarised zone during the work, the United Nations confirmed, a violation of ceasefire rules governing the area.

The work, which earlier satellite photos show began in late September, follows the completion by the Israeli military of new roadways and what appears to be a buffer zone along the Gaza Strip’s frontier with Israel.

The Israeli military also began demolishing villages in Lebanon where United Nations peacekeepers have come under fire.

So far, there has been no major violence along the Alpha Line, which delineates the demilitarised zone between Syria and Israeli-occupied territory that United Nations peacekeepers have patrolled since 1974.


This satellite image shows Israeli forces’ work digging along the Alpha Line



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SvennoJ 2 days ago

Israeli attacks kill two Palestinians in northern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report an Israeli drone strike on Jabalia’s an-Nazla, in the northern Gaza Strip, has killed one person and wounded another. In a separate incident, a second Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli attack near al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City.


Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital says Israeli military fires at it directly

Al-Awda Hospital says drones have fired directly at the medical facility, damaging the administration building, as the Israeli military continues its attack on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

Israeli artillery damaged water tanks, causing water to be cut off in some of the hospital’s buildings, it said in a statement.

Ambulance crews were able to reach the western areas of Nuseirat camp and retrieved several casualties after the Israeli army withdrew. The hospital again appealed to international institutions to provide protection for health facilities in Gaza.

More from al-Awda Hospital after Israeli attacks

  • Twenty Palestinians have been killed, and more than 30 wounded have been able to reach the hospital after quadcopter attacks on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
  • Despite the danger in those areas, ambulance crews have been able to reach western parts of the camp to retrieve a number of bodies and wounded.
  • Israeli artillery has shelled the hospital’s water tanks, which cut off water to some of its facilities.


Qassam Brigades says it attacks Israeli military in northern Gaza

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters have targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with rocket fire in the Saftawi area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp.

For more than a month, Israeli forces have laid siege to areas in northern Gaza, including Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya.


One person killed by Israeli drone in Gaza City

One Palestinian has been killed by Israeli drone fire in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City. Earlier, we reported one person was killed in an Israeli assault near al-Shifa Hospital, also in Gaza City.


Israeli attack kills several Palestinians in south Gaza ‘safe zone’

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report five people have been killed in an Israeli assault on an area housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis. An unspecified number of Palestinians were injured.

Israeli warplanes have repeatedly targeted tents housing Palestinians in al-Mawasi, described by Israel as a “safe zone” and home to tens of thousands of displaced people.


‘The whole world has lost humanity’

Israel’s army used a drone to attack a market in central Gaza City, killing at least two Palestinians. One man described the scene:

“We were sitting peacefully inside our shop and all of a sudden it was just like doomsday – loud explosions and shrapnel flying all over the place. I came out to see dozens killed and injured, including very young children.

“I don’t know what weapons the Israelis are pounding us with. We miraculously survived. I have many children who were fortunately sleeping inside. The Israeli occupation forces continue with the killing and starvation of our population. The whole world has lost humanity. Have mercy on us and end this insane war.”

Most of the world never had any humanity to begin with :/



SvennoJ 2 days ago

Social media is not letting this go and why should they. It's one of the clearest examples of media manipulation, suppression and gaslighting by those in power.

I'm pissed as well:

A. Israeli hooligans attacked my hometown
B. The police did nothing to stop them, didn't arrest a single one of that scum, instead protected them
C. The authorities claim the opposite of what happened, pogroms wtf
D. Authorities using this as an excuse to ban peaceful demonstrations and carry out mass arrests

I knew The Netherlands had gone off the rails with Geert Wilders, didn't realize it;s this far gone already.



DEBUNKED: Media Claims Amsterdam Soccer 'Pogrom'




Amsterdam Gets Front-Row Seat to Israeli Propaganda





Original video from the Dutch source

ISRAËLISCHE HOOLIGANS ZETTEN AMSTERDAM OP ZIJN KOP (ENG SUB)



SvennoJ 2 days ago

Maccabi Tel Aviv game at Besiktas moved to Hungary

The Europa League match between Turkish football team Besiktas and Israeli rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv has been moved from Istanbul to Debrecen in Hungary, UEFA announced.

“The match will be played behind closed doors following a decision of the local Hungarian authorities,” the governing body of European football said in a statement.

The announcement comes days after street fights broke out involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Police said tensions built up ahead of the match as Maccabi fans burned a Palestinian flag in Amsterdam’s central Dam Square and vandalised a taxi.

Besiktas already announced the match against Maccabi on November 28 would be played “in a neutral country” for security reasons.

Why is Israel still allowed to play in the EU soccer league...


Demonstrators in Istanbul rally in support of Gaza


Demonstrators attend a protest to express support for Palestinians in Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkiye

US military strikes multiple sites in Syria

The US Central Command says it hit nine targets in two locations that it claimed were associated with Iranian groups in Syria, “in response to several attacks on US personnel in Syria over the last 24 hours”.

“These strikes will degrade the Iranian backed groups’ ability to plan and launch future attacks on US and coalition forces who are in the region to conduct D-ISIS operations,” CENTCOM said in a statement.

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SvennoJ 2 days ago

Palestinians condemn Gideon Saar’s dismissal of independent state

Earlier, we reported that Israel’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Palestinian statehood is not “realistic” after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his demand for a “sovereign” country.

“I don’t think this position is realistic today and we must be realistic,” Saar told reporters.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Saar’s remarks as an “extension of the war of extermination and displacement against our people”. The comments are in “disregard for international legitimacy … and the international consensus on the two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it said.


New Israel defence chief hints at strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities

Israel’s new defence minister suggested an attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Israel Katz’s comments came during his first meeting with the General Staff Forum, led by Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

“Iran is more vulnerable than ever to targeting its nuclear facilities. There is [now] a possibility of removing the threat,” Katz said. “The primary goal is achievable – to thwart and eliminate the threat of Israel’s annihilation.”

Katz was named last week to replace Yoav Gallant, who used his exit to criticise the Israeli leadership.

Iranian officials have vowed to retaliate for Israel’s October 26 attack on Tehran, which resulted in the deaths of four soldiers.


Arab League chief hints at Israel’s UN expulsion over Middle East wars

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit highlighted an article in a concluding statement at a summit in Saudi Arabia that moved to revoke Israel’s membership in the UN General Assembly over its wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

Aboul Gheit said that suspending Israel’s membership in the world body would not come under the Security Council’s jurisdiction and could be decided by the General Assembly.

“We might witness soon the freezing of the membership [of Israel] through a UNGA majority decision,” he said.

The summit’s concluding statement demanded that all countries ban exports or transfers of weapons and ammunition to Israel and urged the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for civilian and military officials in Israel.


Hamas urges Arab, Muslim nations to force Israel to stop ‘aggression’

Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim countries to translate their pledges of support into action and take measures to stop Israel’s bloody war on Gaza.

“The establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital would require more immediate efforts and practical solutions to force [Israel] to stop its aggression and genocide against our people,” Hamas said in a statement.

The comments come after Arab and Muslim leaders demanded at a summit in Saudi Arabia that Israel withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory as a precondition for regional peace.



SvennoJ 2 days ago

Main points on November 11th

  • Twenty Palestinians were killed and more than 30 wounded after Israeli tanks stormed the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and quadcopter drones opened fire.
  • Israel’s military also fired artillery and launched drones to strike Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza as the monthlong siege continues.
  • Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians at a tent cafe in the “humanitarian zone” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi, and 20 others in repeated attacks on the central Nuseirat refugee camp, where a new ground incursion is under way.
  • The United Nations pressed Israel to allow access to northern Gaza as fears rise of famine in the besieged area and a US-set deadline to improve humanitarian aid to the Strip looms.
  • The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel’s new Foreign Minister Gideon Saar after he said Palestinian statehood is “not realistic” and denounced Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank.
  • In Lebanon, an Israeli air attack on the northern town of Ain Yaaqoub has killed at least 14 people. Raids in the north have so far been rare.
  • Israel’s new Defence Minister Israel Katz said that “there will be no ceasefire” and “no break in the strikes against Hezbollah” in Lebanon.
  • Katz also hinted at an attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, saying the country “is more vulnerable than ever” and “there is a possibility of removing the threat”.

Trump picks pro-Israel Republican Elise Stefanik as UN envoy

Trump has nominated Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to the job of US ambassador to the United Nations.

Stefanik said she was “truly honoured” by the nomination.

“The work ahead is immense as we see antisemitism skyrocketing coupled with four years of catastrophically weak US leadership that significantly weakened our national security and diminished our standing in the eyes of both allies and adversaries,” she said in a statement.

Stefanik, who represents New York, has pushed for unrestricted US military aid to Israel, including in a speech to the Israeli parliament in May this year, and previously threatened to cut funding to universities that allow protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.

She also supports Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.


Stefanik speaks at a news conference criticising the Biden administration’s restrictions on military aid to Israel, on May 16

It's sure hard work to gaslight, lie and hold up your veto paddle.


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Israeli legislator banned for speaking against ‘slaughter in Gaza’

Israeli legislator Ofer Cassif says he “will not be silenced” after the Knesset Ethics Committee imposed a “complete parliamentary ban, apart from voting” on him for six months, for remarks he made in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

“I will never stay silent on war crimes, famine and the slaughter in Gaza,” said Cassif, a member of the leftist Hadash coalition, in a post on X.

“Such is the state of the so called democracy in Israel, that those who chant their support for genocide and celebrate the killing of innocents are considered heroes, while those who fight for justice and peace are persecuted as ‘traitors’,” he added.

“I am proud to be among those who are persecuted by this bloody evil government and keep on fighting for an immediate ceasefire, for the return of the hostages, for a just peace and the end of the vicious occupation.”