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17.10.2024 - 01:40 [ United Nations ]

Security Council meets on north Gaza as ‘supplies for survival’ run out

Reality is brutal in Gaza and gets worse every day, while essential humanitarian supplies and assistance are being blocked at every turn, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday.

Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefed ambassadors on the situation in the north, where fighting has escalated.

Hospitals are running out of fuel and critical medical supplies, and food stocks are dwindling.

Ms. Msuya said that since her last briefing a week ago, the people of Gaza have suffered multiple mass casualty incidents due to Israeli airstrikes, with nearly 400 reportedly killed and almost 1,500 injured.

The world has also witnessed images of patients and displaced persons sheltering near Al Aqsa hospital burning alive, while scores more are suffering from excruciating burns.

Additionally, more than 20 people were killed and injured in a strike on a school serving as a shelter in Nuseirat.

17.10.2024 - 01:01 [ Palestinian News and Information Agency – WAFA.ps ]

Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 42,409, over 99,153 injured

Israeli occupation forces committed six massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 65 Palestinians and the injury of 140 others, according to medical reports.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 42,409 reported fatalities, with an additional 99,153 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

16.10.2024 - 05:11 [ theCradle.co ]

Israeli opposition leader calls to revive ‚South Lebanon Army‘ to assist with occupation

(October 10, 2024)

Lapid advocated regime change in Lebanon, saying, “the international community will need to appoint a sort of oversight committee for Lebanon to manage its civilian life for a set period until elections can be held and a new government can take control.”

Crucial to this effort would be the establishment of a collaborator Lebanese army loyal to Israel and its Western and Gulf allies.

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Lapid claimed it would be easy to recruit Lebanese by paying soldiers in a new army $500 a month. New recruits would then be trained by French, Emirati, and US military officers.

The South Lebanon Army (SLA) was established by Israel in 1976 after the collapse of the Lebanese government due to civil war.

16.10.2024 - 04:56 [ theConversation.com ]

IDF actions against UN peacekeepers suggest Israel may be considering occupying part of southern Lebanon

Since 1978, Unifil has lost 337 peacekeepers, making Lebanon the most costly, in human terms, of all the UN peacekeeping operations. But despite these risks it has remained in post. Throughout Unifil’s deployment, IDF has put it under pressure both directly and through a proxy force, the South Lebanon Army (SLA). As such Unifil has a strong institutional memory of staying put in the direst of circumstances which makes it unlikely to recommend a drawdown.

16.10.2024 - 04:49 [ Haaretz ]

Israeli Minister Claims Lebanon Cannot Be Defined as State, IDF Should Establish ‚Buffer Zone‘ Inside Its Territory

(September 22, 2024)

Israel‘s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli accused Lebanon of not fulfilling the definition of a state and argued that the Israeli military should establish buffer zones inside of Lebanon in order to protect Israeli citizens living in the country‘s north.

16.10.2024 - 04:02 [ Fananews.com ]

Death Toll from Israeli Aggression on Gaza Surges to 42,344

In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Health – Gaza said that that Israeli occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 55 Palestinians and the injury of 329 others

16.10.2024 - 00:05 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Slaughter In Gaza And Lebanon As War With Iran Approaches

(October 9, 2024)

On Tuesday State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller told the press that the Biden administration no longer supports a ceasefire with Hezbollah, saying “We support Israel’s efforts to degrade Hezbollah’s capability” instead. Two weeks ago CNN reported that the administration has also essentially given up on a ceasefire in Gaza.

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And we haven’t even talked about Iran yet.

15.10.2024 - 21:22 [ Council on American-Islamic Relations ]

BREAKING: CAIR Says ‘No Need to Wait 30 Days’ After Biden Admin Threatens to Limit Arms for Israel in Response to Gaza Aid Blockade

In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:

“Although we welcome the Biden administration’s long overdue threat to withhold weapons from the Israeli government, waiting 30 days to do so is unacceptable. The Israeli government is starving and killing the Palestinian people today, right this very moment, in violation of U.S. law. The Palestinian people cannot wait another month for the Biden administration to uphold the law and end its complicity in the Israeli government’s campaign of slaughter and starvation.”

15.10.2024 - 20:53 [ Medical Aid for Palestinians - MAP.org ]

Northern Gaza is being erased – Global leaders must act now to end Israel’s atrocities

The Israeli forces’ assault on Gaza has escalated to a horrifying level of atrocity. Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map. Under the guise of “evacuation,” Israeli forces have ordered the forced displacement of an estimated 400,000 Palestinians trapped in northern Gaza, including Gaza City. This is not an evacuation – this is forced displacement under gunfire. Since 1 October, no food has been allowed into the area, and civilians are being starved and bombed in their homes and their tents.

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Signatories:

– ActionAid

– Action For Humanity

– Afri (Action from Ireland)

– Amos Trust

– Bloody Sunday Trust

– Centre for Global Education

– CESVI

– Children Not Numbers

– Christian Aid

– Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)

– Comhlamh Justice for Palestine

– Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu)

– Embrace the Middle East

– Feminist Humanitarian Network (FHN)

– Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS)

– Global Justice Now

– HelpAge International

– Interpal

– Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

– Islamic Relief

– KinderUSA

– Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)

– Médecins du Monde Spain

– Middle East Children‘s Alliance

– Muslim Aid

– Novact Institute for Nonviolence

– Oxfam

– Plan International Jordan

– Sabeel-Kairos UK

– Sadaka-The Ireland Palestine Alliance

– TDH Italy

– Trócaire

– Trinity College Dublin Students‘ Union/ Aontas Mac Léinn Choláiste na Tríonóide (TCDSU/AMLCT)

– Vento di Terra

– War Child

– War on Want

– WeWorld

– Welfare Association

15.10.2024 - 20:50 [ 9news.com.au ]

US suggests military aid to Israel is at risk in letter demanding more aid for Gaza

The Sunday letter, jointly written by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, is addressed to Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer.

15.10.2024 - 20:36 [ BastillePost.com ]

Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 42,344

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,344, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Tuesday.

During the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 55 people and wounded 329 others, bringing the injuries to 99,013 since the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out in early October 2023, it added.

14.10.2024 - 18:08 [ Middle East Eye ]

Germany‘s Holocaust guilt does not justify support for Israeli fascism

The heavy historical burden has compelled Germany to support Israel unconditionally in all international forums. While such support might be understandable in the context of historical relations, using it as a pretext to overlook Israel’s ongoing human rights violations in Gaza is both ethically and politically unjustifiable.

14.10.2024 - 18:04 [ theCradle.co ]

Nearly two percent of Gaza’s population killed by US-Israel war machine

(August 12, 2024)

The bureau said in a statement that Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians. “This constitutes around 1.8 percent of the total population in the territory,” PCBS said.

According to the data, approximately 24 percent of those killed by Israel in Gaza are youths.

14.10.2024 - 16:34 [ Middle East Eye ]

War on Gaza: Israeli attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital burns Palestinians alive

It was the seventh such attack targeting the Al-Aqsa Hospital complex, according to the Palestinian government media office in Gaza.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee confirmed that the Israeli air force had conducted the attack, and said that the hospital was a „command and control centre“ used by Hamas. He provided no evidence for the claim.

14.10.2024 - 08:56 [ New York Times ]

How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza

An investigation by The New York Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents, throughout the war in Gaza, have regularly forced captured Palestinians like Mr. Shubeir to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions to avoid putting Israeli soldiers at risk on the battlefield.

14.10.2024 - 08:00 [ Yenisafak.com/ ]

Gaza death toll surpasses 42,200 as Israel kills 52 more Palestinians

At least 52 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll since last year to 42,227, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday.

12.10.2024 - 22:42 [ Middle East Eye ]

Jordan calls for UN Security Council to impose arms embargo on Israel

Jordan has called on the UN Security Council to impose a total arms embargo on Israel, citing its attacks on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, UN peacekeepers, journalists, humanitarian workers, and Lebanese soldiers.

„Countries that truly want an end to the dangerous regional escalation and seek peace and security in the Middle East must immediately stop supplying Israel with the weapons it is using in its aggressions,“ Jordan‘s foreign minister Ayman Safadi wrote on X.

12.10.2024 - 22:32 [ EgyptIndependent.com ]

UN says no food has entered northern Gaza since start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of starvation

No food has entered northern Gaza since the start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of going hungry, the World Food Programme told CNN on Friday.

12.10.2024 - 21:27 [ EgyptIndependent.com ]

Netanyahu re-employs the five-finger plan in Gaza

Israel’s five-finger plan dates back to 1971, when it was formulated and implemented by the commander of the southern region in Israel at the time, Ariel Sharon, which aimed to divide the Gaza Strip across five regions that include military bases and settlements.

It sought to impose a new demographic situation in Gaza to reduce Arab population centers and cut off communication between them.

12.10.2024 - 18:52 [ Middle East Eye ]

Death toll in Gaza reaches over 42,000 since last October

The death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks since last October has risen to 42,175, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

An additional 98,336 people have been wounded during this period, the ministry reported.

12.10.2024 - 05:10 [ Jonathan Cook ]

War on Gaza: Israel wants to finish the job Washington started after 9/11

In 2007, former Nato commander Wesley Clark recounted a meeting at the Pentagon shortly after the US invasion of Afghanistan. An officer told him: “We are going to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries in five years. We’re going to start with Iraq, and then we’re going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.”

Clark added of the neoconservatives: “They wanted us to destabilise the Middle East, turn it upside down, make it under our control.”

As I documented in my 2008 book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations, Israel was supposed to carry out a central chunk of Washington’s post-Iraq plan, starting with its war on Lebanon in 2006. Israel’s attack there was supposed to drag in Syria and Iran, giving the US a pretext to expand the war.

This was what the US secretary of state of the time, Condoleezza Rice, meant when she spoke of the “birth pangs of a new Middle East”.

The plan went awry largely because Israel got bogged down in phase one, in Lebanon. It blitzed cities like Beirut with US-supplied bombs, but its soldiers struggled against Hezbollah in a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.

The West subsequently found other ways to deal with Syria and Libya.

12.10.2024 - 00:00 [ Al Jazeera English / Youtube ]

Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations

Oct 3, 2024 #aljazeeraenglish #lebanon #israel
This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.

The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.

11.10.2024 - 23:21 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Israel Jails US Journalist, Fires On UN Peacekeepers, Bombs Beirut, Kills More Kids, Etc

I used to be able to write individual articles about the individual bad things the US empire is involved in around the world. These days I’m increasingly finding it necessary to cram a bunch of them into a single daily write-up to touch on as many of them as I can.

11.10.2024 - 23:20 [ theGrayzone.com ]

Israel jails Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo, releases him pending investigation

Israeli soldiers arrested the Jewish-American reporter and three other journalists at a checkpoint in the West Bank on October 8. According to one of the jailed reporters, @the_andrey_x, the soldiers blindfolded them tightly, roughed them up, drawing guns on them at one point, and hauled them off to detention in Jerusalem.

“The soldiers… illegally requested that the journalists hand in their phones, and when they refused, the soldiers pointed a gun at one of the journalists, hit him with their hands and the barrel of a gun, then dragged him out of the car and slammed him onto the concrete. When lying on the ground, they pointed 2 guns at his head. The rest of the journalists exited the car and the military raided it, confiscating phones, cameras, and personal items,” said @the_andrey_x.

Andrey recalled that in the course of abusing the journalists, “The soldiers told the female Israeli photographer that she should have been raped by Hamas.”

While Loffredo’s colleagues were released after 11 hours, the “Judea and Samaria” division of the Israeli police opened an investigation into Loffredo for supposedly “aiding the enemy in a time of war.”

11.10.2024 - 20:36 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel seizes Unrwa headquarters‘ land in occupied East Jerusalem

According to Israel Hayom, the free daily newspaper, the Israel Land Authority announced the confiscation of the land in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem.

Dan Iloz, a Likud MP, told the paper that the „expropriation of land in Jerusalem is an important step, but not enough“ and denounced Unrwa as „a hotbed for terrorism under a humanitarian guise“.

11.10.2024 - 20:02 [ Washington Post ]

Israel steps up its battles with the United Nations

Netanyahu has issued statements essentially calling for regime change in both Lebanon and Iran, while Israel’s boosters in the United States see in its expanding wars an opportunity to “remake” the political map of the Middle East.

11.10.2024 - 16:35 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Krieg in Nahost: Scholz kündigt weitere Waffenexporte nach Israel an

„Wir haben Waffen geliefert, und wir werden Waffen liefern“, stellte Scholz in seiner Rede vor den Abgeordneten klar. Die Bundesregierung habe Entscheidungen getroffen, „die auch sicherstellen, dass es demnächst weitere Lieferungen geben wird“.

11.10.2024 - 16:30 [ Reuters ]

Germany will send more weapons to Israel soon, Scholz says

„We have not decided not to supply weapons. We have supplied weapons and we will supply weapons,“ Scholz told parliament at an event to commemorate the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, countering an accusation from opposition leader Friedrich Merz.

The government had made decisions „that also ensure that there will be further deliveries soon,“ the chancellor said.

11.10.2024 - 05:59 [ Reuters ]

UN inquiry accuses Israel of crime of ‚extermination‘ in destruction of Gaza health system

„Children in particular have borne the brunt of these attacks, suffering both directly and indirectly from the collapse of the health system,“ said Pillay, whose 24-page report covering the first 10 months of the war will be presented to the U.N. General Assembly on Oct. 30.

11.10.2024 - 04:42 [ MAP.org.uk ]

Palestinians in Gaza are facing an imminent existential threat, warn 15 organisations

The UK is failing to stand up for international law, as Israeli forces are forcibly transferring civilians from northern Gaza to the south and relentlessly bombarding the area, making it uninhabitable and stripping away the essential conditions that sustain life. The Government must demand that Israel end its heinous attacks, and take action to oppose any annexation or shrinking of Gaza. Its current silence is tantamount to complicity.

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Signatories:

– Action For Humanity
– Amos Trust
– Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
– Welfare Association
– Caabu
– Sabeel-Kairos UK
– Amnesty International UK
– Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS)
– Islamic Relief UK
– Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR)
– Trócaire
– War on Want
– Action Aid UK
– Global Justice Now
– Oxfam GB

11.10.2024 - 02:51 [ MondoWeiss.net ]

Israel’s Genocide Day 370: Israel strangles northern Gaza in apparent implementation of the ‘Generals’ Plan’

Analysts have considered Israel’s current operations in northern Gaza to be the first step in implementing the vision laid out by retired Israeli general Giora Eiland in an article he published in the early months of the war. Eiland’s article received the endorsement of several Israeli military officials and generals earlier in September and has since come to be called the “Generals’ plan” in the media. The plan aims at sealing off northern Gaza and rendering it uninhabitable, forcing the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in it to flee to the south and turn the entire north into a depopulated military area.

11.10.2024 - 02:41 [ SABA.ye ]

Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 42,065 since start of offensive

According to the Palestine Today Agency, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in its daily report that the enemy forces committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 55 citizens and the injury of 166 others during the past 24 hours.

The ministry pointed out that thousands of victims are still under the rubble and the roads are not accessible to ambulance and civil defense crews.

11.10.2024 - 02:29 [ Middle East Monitorr ]

28 Palestinians killed as Israel strikes another shelter school in Gaza

An Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 Palestinians, including women and children, today, while three hospitals in the north were told to evacuate putting patients’ lives at risk, medics say.

Reuters reported the strike, in which many more were wounded, happened in the city of Deir Al-Balah, where a million people have taken shelter after fleeing Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of the Strip.

10.10.2024 - 22:10 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Iran: “Revolutionsgarden” kommen wieder mal ihren rechtsradikalen Kumpanen in Washington und Jerusalem zu Hilfe

(9. März, 2016)

Jeder Idiot, wenn auch kein “Linker” heutztage, begreift, dass ein Angriff von außen nur die herrschenden, autoritären und auf Krieg angewiesenen Kräfte stärkt.

Jeder “Politiker”, jeder Militär, jeder Funktionär ist zum Erbrechen, wo man nur hinschaut.

Fazit:

Im Westen nichts Neues.

09.10.2024 - 04:10 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Hurrikan „Milton“: Biden verschiebt Deutschland-Besuch

(8. Oktober 2024)

„Angesichts der vorhergesagten Route und der Stärke des Hurrikans“ werde der Präsident seine Reise nach Deutschland und Angola verschieben und sich darum kümmern, die Vorbereitungen auf den Sturm zu überwachen, hieß es in einer Erklärung des Weißen Hauses in Washington.

US-Außenminister Antony Blinken sagte seine Deutschlandreise wegen Hurrikans ebenfalls ab. Blinken werde vom Außenministertreffen der ASEAN-Staaten in Laos in die Hauptstadt Washington zurückkehren, erklärte Ministeriumssprecher Matthew Miller.

09.10.2024 - 04:05 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Der amerikanische Präsident in Deutschland – Joe Biden besucht seine Kolonie

(7. Oktober 2024)

Für den 10. Oktober hat sich US-Präsident Joseph (Joe) Biden wenige Monate vor dem Ende seiner Amtszeit zu einem Abschiedsbesuch in Deutschland angesagt.[1] Fraglich, ob er erwünscht ist, aber es ist davon auszugehen, dass er mit allen Ehren empfangen wird. Wie das Weiße Haus mitteilte, werde er führende deutsche Politiker treffen, um „die enge Verbindung der Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland als Verbündete und Freunde weiter zu stärken und sich über gemeinsame Prioritäten abzustimmen“.

09.10.2024 - 02:16 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli soldiers beat renowned Palestinian activist to death in Hebron

Ziad Abu Helaiel was a popular tribal figure in the West Bank, famous for peacefully confronting Israeli soldiers during demonstrations and standing between them and protesters.

Abu Helaiel‘s son, Murad, told AFP that around 3am on Monday, a group of Israeli forces stormed their home in Dura, south of Hebron, trying to arrest one of their relatives.

„My father tried to stop them, so they struck him twice on the chest, then pushed him, causing his chest to collide with the door, which led to his martyrdom,“ Murad said.

08.10.2024 - 20:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

UK peer: No hope of peace if Netanyahu is PM of Israel

Lord Michael Levy, the former Middle East adviser to Tony Blair, told BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday: “The whole Middle East is potentially in a blow-up situation. And if that happens … how much further can that go for all of us in the world today, there must be a way forward.

“I don’t think there’s any hope for peace with [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu in power,” he added. “I would like to think that Netanyahu could be part of a positive way forward. Regrettably, I just don’t think that is possible at all.”

07.10.2024 - 22:31 [ SABA.ye ]

Netanyahu changes name of Gaza genocide war from „Iron Swords“ to „Resurrection War“

According to the Zionist news website „Ynet“: „Netanyahu said in a special session of the government on the first anniversary of the October 7 attack that he wants to rename the „Iron Swords“ war to the „Resurrection War“.

07.10.2024 - 22:30 [ Ahram.org.eg ]

Hamas armed wing vows ‚long war of attrition‘ against Israel

„We choose to keep up the fight in a long war of attrition, one that is painful and costly for the enemy,“ said Abu Obeida, spokesman of the militant group‘s armed wing.

He also warned that scores of people taken captive into Gaza on October 7 last year were enduring a „very difficult“ situation.

His statement, broadcast on Al Jazeera, came on the one-year anniversary of the Aqsa Flood operation.

07.10.2024 - 21:50 [ Middle East Monitor ]

‚Free fall descent into barbarism‘: UN Agency head laments 1 year of war on Gaza

The UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) head, Philippe Lazzarini, on Monday described the situation in Gaza as a “free fall descent into barbarism”, underscoring the desperate need for diplomacy and an end to the violence, Anadolu Agency reports.

On X, he said the Gaza Strip, home to two million people, has been transformed into “an unrecognisable sea of ​​rubble after twelve months of relentless air strikes and warfare.”

07.10.2024 - 21:30 [ CBC.ca ]

1 year of war has rendered Gaza unrecognizable. Many fear there is little left to salvage

Rough estimates by international organizations suggest it will take at least 15 years to clean up the 42 million tonnes of debris generated by the buildings, roads, bridges and other infrastructure destroyed or damaged in the conflict,

„The recent conflict in the Gaza Strip has produced a volume of debris that is 14 times greater than the combined total from all conflicts over the past 16 years,“ a UN analysis of satellite imagery from this past July found.

06.10.2024 - 22:00 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Never Let Your Government Tell You Who Your Enemies Are

Our real enemies are in Washington and London and Tel Aviv. In Berlin and Paris and Canberra. In secretive government agencies in the state of Virginia, and in imperial propaganda institutions in New York and Hollywood.

06.10.2024 - 19:11 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel deports two German citizens: Ben Gvir

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said that two „terrorist-supporting anarchists with German citizenship“ who allegedly entered an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and „disturbed and clashed with soldiers“ have been deported.

“A special team that I established in the Israel police as soon as the war broke out acted with determination and speed to arrest and deport them,” the far-right minister wrote in a post on X.

“That’s the only way it works.”

06.10.2024 - 18:40 [ Middle East Eye ]

Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli bombing after threats to end Gaza coverage

Hamad was reporting on the new Israeli incursion just moments before he was killed.

A colleague with access to his account on X said that Hamad had been sending videos about the assault late into the night.

During their last phone call at 6am (3am GMT), Hamad said: “There they are. There they are. It’s over.”

A few months before his killing, Hamad shared a screenshot with his colleagues of a threatening WhatsApp message he received from an Israeli number.

The message read: “Listen… If you continue spreading lies about Israel, we‘ll come for you next and turn your family into… This is your last warning.”

04.10.2024 - 19:16 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

The Middle East Is Always At War Because The West Keeps Pushing It That Way

I hate when people say “Bah the middle east has always been at war, it’s just how they are.” No you asshole, it’s been at war because of western interventionism and Israel.

04.10.2024 - 13:06 [ Al Jazeera ]

Live: Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, occupied West Bank

Israel launches the heaviest air strikes on Beirut so far with dozens reportedly killed across Lebanon over the past day.
At least 18 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli jet fighter attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank with the death toll expected to rise.

04.10.2024 - 12:31 [ Yahoo.com ]

Lebanon says Israeli strike cuts off main road to Syria

Lebanon said an Israeli strike on Friday cut off the main international road to Syria, after Israel said Hezbollah was transporting weapons through the tiny Mediterranean country‘s principal land border crossing.

The strike, which Israel has not commented on, comes after 310,000 people, mostly Syrians, have in recent days fled the war pitting Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon for relative safety in neighbouring Syria.

04.10.2024 - 12:14 [ FirstPost.com ]

After deadliest-in-decades airstrike in West Bank, Israel pounds Lebanon-Syria border crossing

According to AFP, the recent Israeli strikes were conducted near Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria. Lebanon Transport Minister Ali Hamieh said that the Israeli authority struck the Lebanese side of the border, cutting off a road used by Lebanese fleeing to Syria.

04.10.2024 - 12:00 [ DeccanHerald.com ]

At least 18 killed in Israeli strike on West Bank refugee camp: Palestinian Health Ministry

The Israeli military earlier said in a statement that it had conducted a strike on Tulkarm, without providing more details.

01.10.2024 - 18:04 [ France24.com ]

Israel calls on residents to evacuate over 20 areas in south Lebanon

The Israeli military on Tuesday called on residents in more than 20 areas of southern Lebanon to evacuate, hours after saying it launched ground raids across the border.

01.10.2024 - 12:19 [ Washington Post ]

U.S. downplays talk of Iraq withdrawal, says troops will stay in Syria

(September 27, 2024)

The announcement, coming two weeks after the Iraqi government said it had reached a deal with the Biden administration to remove most U.S. troops over the next two years, underscored Washington’s hesitancy to telegraph its military movements at a time of extreme volatility in the Middle East. But it also sowed confusion over the eventual end state of the Pentagon presence in the country.

26.09.2024 - 17:33 [ NewArab.com ]

Israel sends scores of unidentified, decomposing bodies of Palestinians to Gaza

The Gaza health ministry has demanded that Israel provide details about their identities and how they were killed after Israel sent the bodies across the border loaded into a container.

Health officials at Khan Younis‘ Nasser Hospital urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene and retrieve the information from Israel.

26.09.2024 - 16:36 [ Middle East Eye ]

Ben Gvir threatens to quit Israeli government if ceasefire agreed in Lebanon

„If a temporary ceasefire is signed, Jewish Power will not be committed to the coalition,“ Ben-Gvir said, referring to his far-right party.

„If the temporary ceasefire becomes permanent, we will resign from the government.“

26.09.2024 - 16:28 [ Reuters ]

Israel rejects US-backed Lebanon ceasefire proposal

Asked about Israel‘s rejection of a U.S.-backed Lebanon ceasefire proposal, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told MSNBC: „The world is speaking clearly for virtually all of the key countries in Europe and in the region on the need for the ceasefire.“

26.09.2024 - 01:40 [ United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ]

UNHCR scales up support as people flee Lebanon for Syria

Thousands of Lebanese and Syrian people are fleeing Lebanon for Syria in desperation as Israeli airstrikes continue to devastate civilian lives. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up its support to the growing number of displaced people.

Hundreds of vehicles are backed up in queues at the Syrian border. Many people are also arriving on foot, carrying what they can. Large crowds, including women, young children and babies are waiting in line after spending the night outdoors in falling temperatures. Some carry fresh injuries from the recent bombardments.

26.09.2024 - 00:30 [ International Organization for Migration ]

Over 90,000 People Displaced by Latest Military Escalation in Lebanon – IOM Scales Up Its Response

Beirut, 25 September – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has released its latest Mobility Tracking displacement update showing at least 90,350 people have become newly displaced since 19 September, following the latest military escalation in Lebanon.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, nearly 600 people have been killed, including 50 children, and approximately 1,700 injured, since Monday.

IOM Director General Amy Pope, speaking from the United Nations General Assembly in New York reiterated a call for diplomacy, peace and de-escalation.

25.09.2024 - 22:29 [ Reuters ]

Israel army chief says strikes in Lebanon prepare possible ground assault

„You hear the jets overhead; we have been striking all day,“ General Herzi Halevi told Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon, according to a statement from the military.
„This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah.“

25.09.2024 - 22:18 [ Ynetnews.com ]

IDF mobilizing 2 reserve brigades to north signaling possible ground war in Lebanon

The mobilized reserve brigades are integrated armored-infantry brigades that have previously been mobilized in this war, and will return to increase the defensive operations in the Galilee Division, as well as participating in a ground invasion of Lebanon if one begins.
Earlier on Wednesday Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin said Israel has ‚entered a different stage of the campaign‘ and threatened a ground entry into Lebanon, after another morning with dozens of rockets launched in attacks on areas of northern Israel, and waves of Israel Air Force attacks from the air throughout Lebanon, including north and south of Beirut.

25.09.2024 - 22:06 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli minister calls to push Lebanon‘s ‚Shia enemy population‘ away from border

(23 September 2024)

Writing on X, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said over the weekend that a buffer zone should be created in southern Lebanon.

He said that „even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions“, Lebanon „does not meet the definition of a country“.

He also posted images of maps questioning the current borders of Syria and Lebanon, referencing the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 that carved up the Levent into British and French spheres of influence.