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SvennoJ 1 day ago

Quadcopter drops grenade near Kamal Adwan Hospital, medic critically injured

A recent report says a quadcopter dropped a grenade at the entrance of the Kamal Adwan Hospital where medical staff happened to be walking. One medic who was critically injured is undergoing surgery. Other people who were in the area were also injured – they are being treated now in the hospital but without the necessary medical supplies.

It’s very difficult now for anyone to provide any proper medical care whatsoever – earlier attacks have severely damaged the oxygen station and all the pipes supplying the incubators, as well as the ICU and its needed oxygen supplies.

Just the shortage of oxygen has already caused the death of one of the babies in the incubators.


WHO chief ‘deeply concerned’ by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed concern over the drone attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

“WHO is deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of 80 patients, including eight in the intensive care unit, and staff inside the hospital,” he said. “The attack caused damage to the electricity generator on which the entire hospital relies, leaving the oxygen system out of service.”


Casualties after Israeli attack on central Gaza

Two people have been killed and several wounded in an Israeli assault on Nuseirat camp. Earlier, we reported an Israeli attack killed three people in Gaza City, and two more died in an assault west of the southern city of Rafah.


‘Israel – you kill civilians,’ cries relative of boy killed in Gaza

Funerals have been held for at least 20 victims of an Israeli attack on a building in Gaza City with children among the dead.

“The building was hit three times. … Nobody’s left. All of them are dead,” Ibrahim al-Dayeh, a relative of a boy killed in the attack, said while surrounded by other grieving Palestinians. “A whole family lies here. A whole family’s been wiped away – entire families wiped from the civil registry because of you, Israel. You kill civilians.”

Several displaced families had been sheltering in the building in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City when the Israeli strike occurred.


People grieve during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City


Israeli forces deliberately displacing citizens from northern Gaza: Civil Defence

Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal spoke to Al Jazeera about the situation in northern Gaza. Here is a translated summary of what he said:

  • Several areas in the northern Gaza Strip are being subjected to continuous Israeli bombardment.
  • The occupation is deliberately displacing citizens from this region.
  • About 2,300 people have been killed or are missing since the start of the Israeli military operation in northern Gaza in early October.
  • The shortage of fuel is a major problem for rescue crews, severely hindering their ability to reach those in need.


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SvennoJ 1 day ago

"A Great Day for Justice": Gaza Lawyer Raji Sourani on ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant


We speak with the celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza.

Israel called it "an antisemitic decision," and the Biden administration said it rejects the charges on the grounds that the ICC does not have jurisdiction. But many other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands, have vowed to comply with the court's decision, which obligates states party to the Rome Statute that established the court to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter their territory.

Sourani, now in Cairo after fleeing Gaza when his house was bombed by Israel, applauds the ICC for withstanding intense pressure from Israel and the United States to carry out its mandate. "They feel they are fully immune, they are free to do whatever they can, they will never be held accountable, and why their appetite for crimes [is] growing like a snowball every day," Sourani says of the Israeli government.



A historical step towards ending Israel's impunity ! FRANCESCA ALBANESE reacts to ICC decision


In this conversation, Frank Barat and Francesca Albanese discuss the recent arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli leaders, including Benjamin Netanyahu. They explore the implications of these warrants for international law, the reactions from various states, and the broader context of accountability for war crimes and genocide in Palestine. Albanese emphasises the historical significance of the ICC's decision and the ongoing challenges faced by Palestinians, while also addressing the responsibilities of member states in enforcing these warrants.



Would The UK Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu?

With an arrest warrant issued for Benjamin Netanyahu, the government say they would uphold international law but stop short of saying they would arrest the Israeli PM. Plus: Keir Starmer causes a stir by appearing to court asset management firm BlackRock.



“Muslims Don’t Matter”: Former British Conservative Cabinet Minister On Living In Constant Fear


“It is me waking up and realizing that the country that my grandfathers fought for, the country that my child still in uniform, fights for and protects, is failing to protect me. That in this country, four generations on we don't matter, we don't belong.”

Former member of the British Conservative Cabinet Minister, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi shares her fears and vulnerabilites as a Muslim entrenched in politics in the UK and discusses racism, bigotry, and Islamophobia, which are the themes of her latest book, “Muslims Don’t Matter.’

 



SvennoJ 22 hours ago

‘Israel will not be held accountable’

Palestinians in Gaza view the International Criminal Court’s historic decision to seek the arrest of Israeli leaders for suspected war crimes as international recognition of the enclave’s plight. But those queueing for bread at a bakery in the southern city of Khan Younis were doubtful it would have any impact.

“The decision will not be implemented because America protects Israel, and it can veto anything. Israel will not be held accountable,” said Saber Abu Ghali as he waited in the crowd.

Saeed Abu Youssef, 75, said even if justice were to arrive, it would be decades late. “We have been hearing decisions for more than 76 years that have not been implemented and haven’t done anything for us.”

More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, about 70 percent children and women, much of which has been laid to waste.


A Palestinian woman bakes bread in a makeshift oven in Khan Younis

One day the US and Israel will be held accountable for all their war crimes in the ME. But they're right, it won't be anytime soon. The US is still too powerful and too desirable/profitable for countries to go against.



Arms to Israel: Will countries halt sales in wake of ICC arrest warrants?

Western nations that sell arms to Israel may be forced to re-evaluate their trade agreements after arrest warrants were issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for “war crimes” in Gaza, analysts say.

All 124 countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute of the ICC are now legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they set foot on their territory.

The question of whether countries supplying arms to a country whose leaders are accused of crimes against humanity could be considered complicit is unclear. But experts say some suppliers will have to consider carefully if they wish to continue to support Israel in its war on Gaza.

Even though it's crystal clear the USA is fully complicit, there's no one that can hold them to account :/ But maybe this opens up the door to sue / block companies supplying arms to Israel, like activists in the Netherlands, UK and Germany have been trying to do.



SvennoJ 22 hours ago

Israel launches new air strikes on southern Beirut

At least three new night-time strikes hit the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut late Friday into early Saturday, images from state media show.

“Enemy military planes have targetted the southern suburb of Beirut by carrying out a strike near Ghobeiry,” said national news agency Ani.


Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on a building in the Chiyah district of Beirut’s southern suburbs


‘A brutal enemy’: Lebanese denounce Israel after latest attacks

Beirut residents described the latest attacks by Israel’s air force with dozens killed in the past day.

Mohammed Alaa el-Din, a resident of Aamachki who lost family members in an Israeli strike on his house, described the attack.

“Five minutes after leaving my house to visit my sister, I looked back and saw the missile targeting my home. I rushed to see what had happened, but I found no trace of my house. There was a large crater where it used to be, and I began collecting body parts [of the victims] scattered hundreds of metres away,” said Alaa el-Din.

Abeer Darwich also survived an Israeli strike on her home.

“I’m living in this building that Israel attacked today. This is not a targeting, this is an aggression because [Israel] attacked peaceful people in their homes, people’s residences, and the commercial shops below,” she said.

“Israel suddenly decided this because it is an usurper, a brutal enemy. The whole world needs to know, those who are defending Israel, that it is an usurper, a brutal enemy that’s killing civilians in their homes.”


Israeli military says Hezbollah fired 80 rockets on Friday

The Israeli military said that it counted about 80 rocket launches crossing from southern Lebanon into northern Israel on Friday. Earlier, we reported that Hezbollah had fired three waves of rockets, a total of 30 projectiles, in less than 20 minutes, towards northern Israel, according to Israeli Army Radio.

The Lebanese armed group says it has launched the rockets at Israeli forces in the Deir Mimas triangle.

No casualties have been reported.



SvennoJ 22 hours ago

Power runs out at northern Gaza hospital

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting electricity was cut off at Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israeli forces bombed the generators. Earlier, health officials in Gaza warned all hospitals will have to stop or reduce services “within 48 hours” because of a lack of fuel, accusing Israel of blocking its entry.

An Israeli strike hit the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, one of three medical facilities barely operational in besieged northern Gaza, injuring six medical staff, some critically, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

 

Israeli military attacks kill 7 in Gaza City, 3 in Khan Younis

An Israeli strike on a building in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City in northern Gaza has killed at least seven people, including children, and wounded several others, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Three people have also been killed and 24 wounded after an Israeli attack on a house near tents housing displaced people in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.





Palestine slams Israeli decision to suspend administrative arrest for settlers

In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the move will “encourage supremacist settlers to commit acts of terrorism against Palestinians and their properties, escalate crimes against them, and further foster their impunity”.

The statement noted only a few Israelis from illegal settlements were detained in “token arrests” as part of “a revolving door policy”.

The ministry demanded “international effective action to rein in settlers’ militias, end their impunity”, and protect Palestinians from Israeli occupation violations.


Israeli forces detain, assault ambulance crew in Nablus

The Israeli military has assaulted an ambulance crew and detained a female ambulance officer in the village of Osarin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.

An ambulance driver told Wafa that Israeli forces detained the crew members, assaulted and interrogated them, before searching their vehicle and arresting the female paramedic for several hours.

Israeli military raids have been reported in other locations across the occupied West Bank, including:

  • The city of Nablus, where Palestinian fighters targeted an Israeli bulldozer with an explosive device in the old Askar camp
  • The city of Tulkarem
  • The town of Kafr Abbush, south of Tulkarem
  • The village of Husan, west of Bethlehem
  • The town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem
  • The village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus

Translation: The moment an Israeli occupation bulldozer was targeted with a highly explosive device on the main street in the old Askar camp, east of Nablus, in the West Bank.



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SvennoJ 22 hours ago

Main points on November 22nd

  • Israel’s assault on Gaza has continued, with medical sources telling Al Jazeera Israeli attacks have killed at least 38 people across the Strip over the past day.
  • Health officials in the besieged Palestinian enclave have also warned that all hospitals will have to stop or reduce services “within 48 hours” because of a lack of fuel, with the power already cut at Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israeli forces bombed the generators.
  • An Israeli attack has killed seven people in Lebanon’s eastern Baalbek area, including the director of the Dar al-Amal University Hospital in the town of Douris.
  • Israeli forces have also carried out repeated raids on Beirut’s southern suburbs over the past day, including a missile strike that levelled a multistorey building in the Chiyah district.
  • Four Italian soldiers were slightly injured after two rockets hit a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon, with the peacekeeping mission saying they were “likely launched by Hezbollah or affiliated groups”.

Israeli Raids in the Occupied West Bank Fuel a New Wave of Resistance

Tulkarem-based journalist and researcher Anan Quzmar joins the show to break down Israel’s escalating violence in the occupied West Bank.

Quzmar calls the violence a “natural outcome” of the “Israeli leadership’s ideological trajectories of further entrenching the occupation and displacing Palestinians” and the “continued international support shielding Israel from accountability.” Israel’s frequent violent incursions, Quzmar explains, are “indirect recruitment for insurgency rather than counter-insurgency,” adding, “you are forcing people into a desperate situation where they are more likely to pick up guns and try and resist.”


Why is the arrest warrant for Netanyahu not being welcomed?


James O'Brien questions why an international arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been welcomed, adding 'it is extraordinary this is debatable'.

 



SvennoJ 8 hours ago

Violent explosion rocks Lebanese capital Beirut

A large explosion has rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut, the Reuters news agency reports. Initial reports suggest at least four missiles have struck an unspecified location in central Beirut, Reuters reports, citing security sources.

Israeli fighter jets have been carrying out repeated raids on the city over the past 24 hours.


Israeli strike hits building in Basta area of Beirut

Earlier, we reported that at least four missiles had struck an unspecified location in Beirut. Several local news outlets, including Al Mayadeen, are now reporting that at least one missile has struck a residential building in Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood near the city centre.

Footage from the strike shows widespread damage and rescue crews climbing over the rubble searching for survivors.



Four missiles fired at building in central Beirut: Report

An eight-storey building was reportedly destroyed in the Israeli air strike on Beirut that has killed at least four people and injured more than 30 in the city’s central Basta neighbourhood, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports.

At least four missiles were reportedly fired at the building, and the blasts shook the Lebanese capital at around 4am local time [02:00 GMT].

Rescue crews and paramedics are still at the site of the attack, which marks the fourth Israeli air strike this week targeting a central area of Beirut.

To date, most of Israel’s air strikes on Beirut have targeted the southern suburbs, which are known as a stronghold of support for Hezbollah.


Video footage shows aftermath of Israeli missile attack in central Beirut

Here’s footage of the aftermath of the Israeli missile attack on a residential building in the Basta area of central Beirut earlier today, verified by our fact-checking agency Sanad.


Target of Beirut attack was Hezbollah official’s home: Report

The target of Israel’s air strike on a building in the Basta area of central Beirut was a “prominent Hezbollah leader”, Israel’s Channel 14 reports, without offering more details.

At least four people have been killed in the attack and dozens injured.


Israel carries out raids in two areas of southern Beirut

Israel has struck Beirut’s southern suburbs, about an hour after its military issued forced displacement orders for two areas there.

Israeli forces carried out a “violent” raid in the Hadath area, near the Lebanese University, the official National News Agency (NNA) said. It also hit the Choueifat area, the NNA reported.


Death toll in Israeli attack in central Beirut rises to 11: Civil defence

The death toll in the Israeli strike in central Beirut’s area of Basta earlier this morning has risen to 11, alongside 23 wounded, the Lebanese civil defence says.

The civil defence also said that it carried out a number of rescue operations throughout the country since last night. These included:

  • Pulling out two wounded from under the rubble as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the town of Majdal, in Lebanon’s south.
  • Retrieving the bodies of five people from under the rubble in the Douris area in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate.
  • Extinguishing fires in Beirut, its southern suburbs, as well as in Lebanon’s Southern governorate.


SvennoJ 8 hours ago

Lebanese authorities demand sovereignty protection in talks with Israel

Filippo Dionigi, a senior lecturer of international relations at the University of Bristol, has told Al Jazeera that Lebanese authorities are demanding a monitoring mechanism as part of ceasefire talks with Israel.

The monitoring mechanism would be composed of the Lebanese army, UN peacekeepers and potentially other countries – such as the US or France – to guarantee the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, he said.


Israeli strikes on Beirut ‘simply a game’ to derail ceasefire talks

At about 4am local time, just about four or five hours ago, we saw a powerful series of strikes on the Basta neighbourhood here in central Beirut.

It destroyed this one multistorey building and caused a large amount of damage to the blocks of flats surrounding it. This is a very population-dense area and it marks at least the fourth Israeli strike this week carried out in central Beirut.

There’s a great deal of speculation that this was yet another targeted assassination of some senior Hezbollah leader. There’s been no confirmation either way, but this does fit a pattern: multiple strikes, no warning, on an area that is densely populated with missiles meant to penetrate deeply.

Every time that Israel approaches any sort of breakthrough, or the United States … approaches some kind of breakthrough with another party, Israel undermines those talks with a series of strikes carrying out targeted killings of senior members.

And it really goes along with the sentiment here in Beirut. People say that these ceasefire talks are simply a game. Simply Israel playing games. Not just with Palestinians, Not just with the Lebanese. But also with the United States, undermining its closest ally.

Whenever they come to a breakthrough, they undermine the talks with an uptick in violence and the targeted killing of people that by all accounts they should be talking to.


Israel seeks to maximise military leverage in Lebanon before Trump takes office

The Israeli military’s latest ground push and air strikes in Lebanon show it is trying to take out as many top Hezbollah leaders as possible and maximise its leverage in future negotiations, says Luciano Zaccara, a professor of Gulf politics at the Qatar University Gulf Studies Center.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to delay any ceasefire until US President-elect Donald Trump assumes power – a strategy that has paid off, Zaccara told Al Jazeera.

“I think Netanyahu’s trying to push as far as possible before Trump arrives to power … then I think it might be the time he decides to start negotiating, but with a much better position on the ground,” he said.

Ultimately, totally rooting out Hezbollah, which is deeply connected with Lebanese society and politics, is “most likely impossible” so “strategically speaking, the military option is not the solution for Israel”, Zaccara added. “They need to sit down and negotiate something.”



SvennoJ 8 hours ago

Israeli drone kills two fishermen in southern Lebanon’s Tyre city

Just behind me – 20-30 metres [65-98 feet] from where we are standing – a drone targeted a couple of fishermen. They were immediately killed. We saw this with our own eyes.

This is part of a pattern of strikes that has been taking place in recent weeks here in Tyre and extending towards Beirut’s southern suburb and the Bekaa Valley.

Since 2am [00:00 GMT], we have heard loud artillery shelling, part of the ongoing Israeli ground invasion. It seems overnight the Israelis were able to push towards al-Bayada.

From where we are, we’ve been seeing fierce engagement between Hezbollah fighters and Israelis. We have documented at least two launches of antitank missiles towards Israeli tanks.

With the Israelis having these positions on al-Bayada, it seems they are now trying to cut off the coastal lines in Naqoura. There are also intensive battles on the eastern side, in Khiam. If Israeli forces are able to take Khiam and Naqoura, then the whole border line will be under Israeli control.

Translation: From the targeted location on Tyre beach, southern Lebanon.

These two fishermen used to come here every day. They would cast their nets and wait for some fish to sell to whoever remains in the city. Today, they were hit with a drone and killed. Emergency services rushed to the beach and tried to take the bodies to the hospital.

This is not an isolated situation. It is a pattern. Yesterday, six civilians were killed in this area, including two paramedics. Three other paramedics were killed near Jezzine. A lot of civilians who have nothing to do with the war – just trying to help or trying to live – are being killed.


Intense Israeli shelling, air attack reported in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil area

About 50 artillery shells have fallen within two hours on the residential neighbourhoods of the Bint Jbeil village in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).

Israel also shelled the Beit Yahoun village in the Bint Jbeil district and carried out an air attack against the Kounine village, the agency said.


Death toll rises from Israeli strike on central Beirut

At least 15 people have been confirmed killed so far from the early-morning Israeli strike that slammed into a building in central Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

As we reported earlier, a total of 63 people have been wounded. “Efforts to remove the rubble are ongoing,” the ministry added.  “A large amount of body parts … are being identified,” the ministry said in a statement. “The final death toll will be determined after DNA tests are carried out.”


Firefighters battle flames after a building was hit in the attack


At least five killed in Israeli attack in south Lebanon’s Roummane

At least five people have been killed in an Israeli attack on the village of Roummane in the Nabatieh governorate of southern Lebanon, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).

Israeli aircraft also carried out four raids in the Tyre district: two on Bazouriyeh, one raid on the town of al-Shaitiyah, and one raid on the town of al-Bayada, all in southern Lebanon, NNA said.


Israeli artillery hits Lebanon’s Tyre and its outskirts

There were air strikes on the outskirts of Tyre earlier today, but more recently there have been relentless artillery attacks. This is a new aspect of this war since Israel started its ground invasion of Lebanon.

We’re talking about massive destruction in the city and its outskirts. Buildings are destroyed, the roads are in very bad shape and there’s debris everywhere. Many of the people of these areas decided to leave.

By the coastline, smoke can be seen rising from al-Bayad, which has now become the focal point for intense exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah says they’ve repelled the first wave. We’re hearing machinegun firing, and Hezbollah has also been using antitank missiles. Israeli forces are trying to take the coastline and close the roads to Naqoura and encircle it from the north, and we know they’re already trying to get in from the east.

The two fishermen who were killed earlier along the coastline are the latest part of a pattern of killing civilians. Yesterday, two paramedics were killed, along with multiple civilians in Jezzine. In south Lebanon, three other paramedics and the director of a hospital were killed.


At least six killed in Israeli raids on Lebanon’s Nabatieh, Bekaa

The Lebanese Health Ministry says at least five people have been killed and three wounded after renewed Israeli air raids on the town of Roumine, in the southern district of Nabatieh. Two of the wounded are in critical condition, it said.

The ministry added that one person was killed and two others wounded as a result of another Israeli raid on the area of al-Fikani in the Bekaa Valley.



SvennoJ 8 hours ago

Israeli strike in Syria reported to have killed Hezbollah commander

The Israeli military reportedly killed a senior Hezbollah commander who is said to have helped plan an attack on US soldiers in Iraq in 2007, according to US media.

Citing an anonymous senior US defence official, NBC news reports that Ali Mussa Daqduq – who allegedly played a key role in the Karbala raid, in which fighters disguised as an American security team entered a base, opened fire and killed five US soldiers – was killed in a recent air strike in Syria.

It was not immediately clear when or where in Syria the killing took place, nor whether it targeted Daqduq specifically, the senior defence official told NBC. Daqduq was captured by US forces but later released by the Iraqi government following the US’s withdrawal from the country.


A US soldier next to a picture of Ali Mussa Daqduq during a news conference at the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad in July 2007

Makes you wonder how close US and Israel military intelligence are working together. With Hezbollah it seems Israel is as much carrying out revenge for the USA as trying to create a buffer zone.


Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate at Manhattan museum over Israel links

Pro-Palestinian activists have disrupted a conference by the president of the Morgan Museum in Manhattan, protesting against his alleged ties to Israel and investments in Israeli institutions.

Videos posted online, which have been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, showed activists chanting and distributing flyers that condemn “complicity in genocide” due to investments in manufacturing arms that are being used to kill Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.