Yemen’s Houthis announce ‘successful’ attack on Tel Aviv
The Houthis say they have successfully carried out drone strikes against Israel, targeting a number of military and other “vital targets”.
“The UAV force of Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting a number of military and vital targets of the Israeli enemy in Yaffa area and Ashkelon area southern occupied Palestine,” the group said in a statement.
The attack “successfully achieved its objectives”, the statement added. There was no immediate response from Israel.
In July, the Houthi rebels hit Tel Aviv for the first time and Israeli forces extensively damaged Yemen’s crucial port of Hodeidah in response. The militia says it will continue attacking Israel and shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden until the war on Gaza ends.
Ship off Yemen reports missile slammed into Red Sea nearby
A ship passing through the Red Sea says a missile splashed into the sea close by, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency reports. The failed attack occurred 46km (25 nautical miles) west of al-Mukha, Yemen. It did not name the vessel or the owner but cited a security officer as saying the vessel and crew were safe and proceeding to the next port of call.
Death toll rises in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah official
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says four people have now been confirmed killed in an Israeli assault on central Beirut’s Ras Al Naba’a district, which killed Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif.
“The Israeli enemy strike on Ras Al Naba’a led to a final toll of four dead including a woman and 14 others wounded including two children,” a Health Ministry statement said, raising an earlier toll of one dead and three wounded.
Israel army confirms strike ‘eliminated’ Hezbollah spokesman
Israel’s army says it “eliminated” Hezbollah’s media chief Mohammed Afif in the Beirut area. In a statement, it described him as the Lebanese group’s “chief propagandist”.
The military “conducted a precise, intelligence-based strike in the area of Beirut and eliminated the terrorist Mohammed Afif”, it said, adding that Afif was “directly involved in Hezbollah’s terrorist activity against the state of Israel”.
Three others died and 14 Lebanese were wounded in the rare air strike on central Beirut’s commercial district.
Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya lawmaker denies group targeted in Beirut strike
A lawmaker from Lebanon’s al-Jamaa al-Islamiya denied a media report that said that the Islamist group aligned with Hamas and Hezbollah was the target of an Israeli strike on Beirut earlier.
Imad Hout said that “no centre or institution affiliated with the group is located in the area targeted by the strike, and no member of the group was targeted”.
An unnamed Lebanese security source said the attack hit an electronics store in the Mar Elias district, a commercial and residential area in central Beirut. At least two people were killed and 13 wounded in the strike.
A firefighter works to extinguish a fire at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s Mar Elias Street
‘Nowhere in the country is safe’ after central Beirut attack
We reported earlier on an Israeli air strike on Mar Elias Street that killed two people and wounded 22 others – the second such attack in central Beirut in one day. The commercial district hadn’t been targeted by Israel previously.
Lina, 59, whose home in Mar Elias is less than 500 metres (1,600 feet) from the blast site, said the air raid hit a street she uses “every day to go to work”. “It’s a residential area… Nowhere in the country is safe any more,” she said, requesting to be identified only by her first name.
The attacks happened as Lebanese officials considered a US-led ceasefire proposal. “This confirms the crimes of the Israeli enemy and that it wants to negotiate under fire and is expanding and targeting safe and safer areas,” said a Lebanese member of parliament, Faisal al-Sayegh.
Lebanon schools to close for 2 days as Israeli attacks continue
Abbas Halabi, Lebanon’s education minister, announced the closure of public and private schools in Beirut and the coastal regions of Chouf, Matn, Baabda, and Aley. The closures take effect on Monday and Tuesday with remote learning being adopted during this period. Israel has pounded the capital for a week with relentless air strikes.
Nearly a dozen killed in Israeli assault on southern Lebanon city
Israeli attacks on the ancient city of Tyre killed at least 11 people, Lebanon’s Health Ministry says. Forty-eight others were also injured, the ministry added.
Before Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire across the border last year, at least 50,000 people lived in Tyre, a vibrant city which is home to Christians and Muslims. It was emptied of most of its population when Israel’s heavy bombardment in Lebanon began last month.
Firefighters douse the flames as rescuers gather in front of a building hit in an Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre
Hezbollah claims to hit Israeli tank in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese armed group says its fighters targeted a Merkava tank at the Tyre Harfa-Jbeen triangle with a guided missile, destroying it. The attack killed and wounded the crew inside, it said. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military.
Multiple Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians
Dozens of people are missing after an Israeli air strike hit a five-story residential building in Beit Lahiya in Gaza. Omar Abdel Aaal, one of many people fleeing the scene on foot, said, “They bombarded the houses and completely destroyed Beit Lahiya”.
Mahmud Bassal, a Civil Defence spokesman, said, “The chances of rescuing more wounded are decreasing because of the continuous shooting and artillery shelling.” In other strikes across the embattled enclave, Bassal said 15 people were killed in central Gaza while five others were killed in the southern city of Rafah.
In the southern Khan Younis area, the Civil Defence agency said an Israeli drone targeted a group of unarmed people trying to secure aid, killing six Palestinians.
Gaza hospital director says at least 30 killed in Beit Lahiya attack
An Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, killed at least 30 people, the director of a hospital in the city says. Hussam Abu Safia, of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said there were dozens of wounded and others still buried in the debris. The exact death toll remains unclear.
The Health Ministry’s director-general, Munir al-Bursh, told Al Jazeera earlier that 30 percent of the victims of the Beit Lahiya “massacre” were children.
Israel’s latest massacre in Beit Lahiya kills at least 50
There’s been no respite for the people of Gaza more than 400 days into Israel’s bombardment. As we’ve been reporting, at least 50 Palestinians have been killed in an attack on a multistorey building housing forcibly displaced people in northern Beit Lahiya.
Several remain trapped under rubble as paramedics can’t reach the area. Israeli forces have been preventing Civil Defence crews, medics and aid from entering the north since last month.
This is the same attack, but shows hospital counts go to the official death toll, while this report adds the presumed dead.
Still nothing on CNN about this massacre.
Israeli forces bomb ‘safe-zone’ in southern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least four people were killed and several others wounded after Israeli forces bombed the so-called humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi. The victims included two children.
The target of the attack was a tent housing displaced people, AJA reported. The attack comes after a day of heavy Israeli bombardment that killed at least 111 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
Main points for November 17th
Clashes as march in Greece shows support for Palestine
Brief clashes broke out as thousands of people marched in Thessaloniki and Athens to commemorate the 1973 student uprising against the Greek military dictatorship. The marches focused on the Israeli war on Gaza, delivering a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
In Thessaloniki, petrol bombs exploded and protesters burned US and Israeli flags, while in Athens, the march passed by the US Embassy and concluded at the Israeli Embassy.
Earlier in Athens, students carried a flag stained with the blood of those who took part in the 1973 revolt against the military government at Athens Polytechnic University, where several people had died after the military crashed through the gates with tanks.
People hold Palestinian flags during a rally marking the 51st anniversary of a student uprising against the military military government that ruled Greece
Lebanese Australians reminded of past wars as Israel attacks Lebanon again
Israel’s devastating bombing of Lebanon has reverberated around the world, reaching as far as the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne.
In Sydney’s Bankstown neighbourhood and Coburg in Melbourne, where Australia’s vibrant Lebanese community is visible in the local shops, restaurants and places of worship, Israel’s latest war on Lebanon has ignited a new wave of trauma.
“I think 99 percent of the Lebanese in Australia still have family in Lebanon,” Michael Kheirallah, founder and chairman of the Victorian Lebanese Community Council, told Al Jazeera.
“That’s why the community are watching the news almost 24 hours,” he said. “Some of them mentioned to me that they haven’t had sleep for almost two nights, especially when the bombing started happening in Beirut.”
Australian officials stand by as Australian nationals, evacuated from Lebanon due to ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, arrive at Larnaca International Airport, in Larnaca, Cyprus, October 5
Israeli forces kill two more paramedics in Lebanon
The Lebanese Ministry of Health says Israeli forces are continuing to target paramedics and emergency centres in the country’s south, killing at least two rescue workers on Sunday.
One of them was killed in an attack on the Islamic Health Association Centre in Houmine El Tahta in the Nabatieh governorate, and the other in an attack on a health centre in the village of Hanaway, near the city of Tyre.
Israeli forces also bombed an ambulance centre in the town of Bazouriyeh, wounding two more paramedics, the ministry said.
The latest killings come despite growing condemnation of Israel’s killing of paramedics in Lebanon. In the past year, Israeli forces have killed more than 200 medical and emergency workers across Lebanon.
On Friday, Israeli forces killed at least 15 paramedics and five bystanders in an attack on a Civil Defence centre in the town of Douris in eastern Baalbek.
Many killed in Lebanon as Israel launches ‘most violent’ raids on Nabatieh
We are getting more information from Lebanon on deadly Israeli raids overnight.
The National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces launched their “most violent” attacks on the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon since the “beginning of the aggression”, killing several people and destroying a large shopping mall in the city centre.
Israeli forces carried out at least 10 attacks on the city centre and struck dozens of towns and villages in the Nabatieh governorate.
NNA listed the names of at least seven people who were killed in the attacks. The agency said at least six paramedics were also killed.
Israeli forces kill six more paramedics in Lebanon
The National News Agency is reporting that Israeli jets bombed the Islamic Health Authority centre in the village of Arab Salim in the Nabatieh governorate, killing six more paramedics.
It listed their names as Mustafa Hanawi, Hassan Aboud, Muhammad Hanawi, Ahmed Abbas Aboud, Ahmed Mahmoud Aboud and Abbas Aboud.
Earlier, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported that two rescue workers were killed and two wounded in Israeli attacks on Nabatieh and South Lebanon governorates. The Lebanese government and rights groups have accused Israel of deliberately targeting medical and emergency workers in Lebanon, noting that Israeli attacks have killed more than 200 healthcare workers in the past year.
No Lebanon ceasefire without ‘full freedom’ for Israel: Gantz
Israeli politician and former war cabinet member Benny Gantz has said in a post on X that the condition for any agreement with Lebanon should include “full Israeli freedom of action against any violation”, on the back of the newly proposed ceasefire deal.
Last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the main challenge in any ceasefire agreement with Lebanon would be completely disarming Hezbollah, making it impossible “to arm again with new weapons systems”, and ensuring the group’s forces are removed from Israel’s border entirely.
His comments came a day after newly appointed Defence Minister Israel Katz also claimed that the Israeli military had defeated Hezbollah, calling the elimination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, the crowning achievement.
On Sunday, Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s chief spokesman, Muhammad Afif, dealing yet another blow and showing it seeks the group’s destruction.
Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire in southern Lebanon
Hezbollah says it bombed a gathering of Israeli forces in the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon for the third time today. Meanwhile, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Israeli artillery bombed the vicinity of Bazouriyah town in southern Lebanon.
Earlier, they reported that Israeli artillery also bombed the vicinity of the towns of Chihine and al-Jebain.
Barrage of rockets fired into Israeli territory from Lebanon, army says
The Israeli army says about 30 rockets were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the upper and western Galilee areas. The army said on Telegram that some of the rockets were intercepted, and the rest fell into open areas.
For its part, Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at the Shraga base, the administrative headquarters of the Golani Brigade command, north of the Israeli city of Acre.
About 60 rockets cross from Lebanon into Israeli territory, army says
The Israeli army says about 60 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah into Israeli territory today. Earlier, the army reported a barrage of 30 rockets this morning, saying some of the projectiles fell into open spaces in upper and western Galilee in northern Israel.
Like a broken record
Relief group urges Israel to lift restrictions on aid into Gaza
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has issued a statement in response to the UN-backed Famine Review Committee’s warnings of famine in northern Gaza.
“The escalating crisis is primarily driven by the obstruction of humanitarian aid,” said Bart Witteveen, the IRC’s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory. “Over 80% of humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently blocked, with deliveries now at their lowest levels since October 2023,” he noted.
The worst-case scenario may already be under way, he said. “Across Gaza, starvation, malnutrition, and excess mortality due to malnutrition and disease are rapidly increasing.”
He added, “We urge immediate lifting of restrictions on aid into and within Gaza. The Government of Israel must fulfill its obligations to ensure that people across Gaza can access food, medical supplies and other basic necessities needed for the survival of the population. Lives are now hanging in the balance.”
Rights expert urges Pope to read UN reports on Gaza genocide
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, responded to Pope Francis’s call for an inquiry by pointing him to three UN reports investigating Israel’s “genocidal practices” in the past year.
In a post on X, Albanese said she hoped Pope Francis would find the time to read the two reports that she has written this year, as well as that from the UN Committee on Israeli Practices, “which also covers charges of genocide”.
She also noted that the UN special rapporteur on the right to food has issued a report denouncing starvation/destruction of food sovereignty as a genocidal practice.
UN chief calls for ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon at G20
Antonio Guterres renewed the appeal while speaking to reporters in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, ahead of the G20 summit, which kicks off on Monday.
Here’s what he said:
Incoming Senate leader calls for sanctions against ICC over Israel investigations
Senator John Thune, the incoming Republican leader of the Senate, says his party will use its majority to pressure the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its prosecutor Karim Khan to stop pursuing an arrest warrant for Israeli officials.
“If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation,” Thune said in a post on X.
“If [Democrat] Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and other supportive legislation – a top priority in the next Congress,” he added.
On May 20, Khan announced he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu, as well as Israel’s now former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, alongside three Hamas leaders, all of whom have since been killed in Israeli attacks. The ICC has not yet made a decision on whether to grant the warrants.
Several senior Republicans have long pressed Khan not to investigate Israeli officials, even writing to his office to say they would bar him and his family from the United States if he went ahead with the announcement in May.
Families of American October 7 victims suing Iran
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in US district court in Washington, DC, accuses Iran of culpability for the Hamas-led attack on Israeli territory last year, which killed an estimated 1,139 people.
The lawsuit, first reported by The New York Times (NYT), details Iran’s funding of Hamas with the use of documents apparently seized in Gaza and published by the media.
The plaintiffs, according to the newspaper, also obtained a new document that exposes a meeting between Hamas’s senior leadership and Iranian officials in 2022, in which now-deceased Yahya Sinwar requested an additional $7m per month in support from Iran to fund something referred to as “the big project”. The suit and NYT say that this “project” was the October 7 attack.
Forty-six US citizens were killed on October 7, and 12 were among the 254 people taken captive by Hamas and other groups that day, according to the US government.
I hope they're not wasting time based on doctored 'evidence'. And Netanyahu should be implicated as well, from him it's well known he funded Hamas and made it possible for Hamas to keep being funded through Qatar.
The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas
https://www.972mag.com/netanyahu-hamas-october-7-adam-raz/
From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.
When Israeli historian and human rights activist Adam Raz set out to write “The Road to October 7: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Production of the Endless Conflict and Israel’s Moral Degradation,” he knew he was tackling a blind spot in Israeli public discourse. The vast majority of Israelis, Raz believes, fail to grasp the full extent of Netanyahu’s involvement in bolstering Hamas before the current war, and in perpetuating an unending state of conflict.
Raz’s book, released in May of this year, sheds light on a controversial policy whereby Netanyahu’s governments for years routinely approved and encouraged the transfer of Qatari funds into Gaza to prop up Hamas. While noting that the Israeli media has devoted more attention to this policy in the aftermath of October 7, Raz told +972 that this is “just a sliver of the bigger picture,” which is rooted in Netanyahu’s broader opposition to a just resolution to the conflict. “People need to understand the full scope of Netanyahu’s strategy,” he said.
According to Raz, Netanyahu’s priority is not maintaining Israel’s security but preventing any real chance of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the division of land, ending the occupation, or a two-state solution. Keeping the cash flowing to Hamas served this objective by ensuring the Palestinian national movement remained splintered between Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, thus allowing Israel to maintain its dominance over the whole of the land. Even after the devastating events of October 7, Raz warns that Netanyahu’s playbook remains unchanged.
But sure go sue Iran, just another distraction.
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