Israel continues to wreak havoc across Palestine, Lebanon – Day 422 [email protected] December 3, 2024 digital rights violation, extermination, Hebron, home demolition, israeli hostages, lebanon ceasefire, netzarim corridor Palestinians who fled their homes due to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip struggle with cold weather conditions in makeshift tents, in the southern city of Khan Younis, November 25, 2024 (Hassan Jedi/Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Gaza’s health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed 36 Palestinians and wounded 96 others in the latest 24-hour reporting period. At least 25 people were killed when Israeli warplanes hit and leveled an inhabited home in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, a local source said on Monday. Women and children were sheltering there. More than 3,700 people have been killed or reported missing during 60 days of Israeli military’s operations in northern Gaza, the enclave’s media office said Monday. 1,750 are reported detained. In Lebanon, in spite of a ceasefire, Israeli forces killed at least 11 on Monday. Palestinians try to extinguish the fire in a store after an Israeli attack on the Omar al-Mukhtar market in Gaza City on Monday, Dec. 2 Palestinians try to extinguish the fire in a store after an Israeli attack on the Omar al-Mukhtar market in Gaza City on Monday, Dec. 2 (Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu) There are no ‘humanitarian zones’ or ‘evacuation orders’ in Gaza As you read this, many families in Gaza are weighing whether they should flee their current shelter and risk having to endure the harsh winter out on the streets or risk being bombed and killed where they are. There is no guarantee that they will be safe from Israel’s bombs and bullets if they choose either option. These are dilemmas no human should ever have to endure, yet recent research by Action For Humanity found that 98 percent of the 200,000 people in the “humanitarian zones” in central Gaza have had to wrestle with them. In fact, according to our findings, more than a quarter of these people have had to move 10 or more times in the past 13 months. The research, based on the testimonies of displaced Palestinians on the ground, revealed that Israel’s “evacuation orders” often give people just an hour, and sometimes even less, to pack up what remains of their lives and run for their lives. And when they agree to “evacuate”, they are often still chased by a hail of bullets as they try to find new shelter in another “humanitarian zone”. The devastating details in the report, titled Erasure by Design, make it clear that there are no real humanitarian zones in Gaza and that the “evacuation orders” Israel issues are not aimed at getting Palestinians out of harm’s way. The use of these terms by Israel, its allies and international media serve only to whitewash what is happening before our eyes in Gaza: land grabs under the threat of extermination. It is doing so to ensure nowhere in Gaza is safe for Palestinians. It is trying to kill two birds with one stone: creating the illusion of adherence to humanitarian law while laying the groundwork for illegally expanding Israeli territory. The reality on the ground is clear: There are no “humanitarian zones” or “evacuation orders” but only threats of extermination and islands of medieval suffering not fit for basic survival, let alone dignified living. Israeli army razes 600 buildings in Gaza to build dozens of military bases, expand Netzarim Corridor The Israeli army has been expanding its construction of military bases, outposts, and communication towers in the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, the New York Times (NYT) reported on 2 December. The military has demolished over 600 buildings around the corridor in the past three months “in an apparent attempt to create a buffer zone,” the report states. Satellite images reviewed by NYT showed the Israeli army has built at least 19 large bases throughout the area and dozens of small ones, suggesting plans for a long-term occupation. “While some were built earlier in the war, the imagery also shows that the pace of construction appears to be accelerating: 12 of the bases were either built or expanded since early September,” NYT writes. As a result of the construction, the corridor has slowly grown into a 46.6 square-kilometer military zone occupied by Israeli forces. Children stare at the destruction following an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 7 November 2024 Children stare at the destruction following an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 7 November 2024 ((AFP)) Hamas says 33 Israeli captives killed in Gaza Hamas says 33 captives held by the group in Gaza have been killed since the start of Israel’s nearly 14-month-old war in the besieged enclave. The group issued a video statement on Monday saying the captives were killed “because of the stubbornness of the war criminal” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “his ongoing aggression”. Hamas made the announcement as key mediators, including Egypt, Qatar and the United States, launch another effort to reach a ceasefire that would see the release of Israeli captives. The push comes after a recent truce in Lebanon raised hope for a diplomatic breakthrough. Hamas’s video lists and dates the incidents in which the group said captives were killed. Most of them were air strikes. However, some were rescue attempts by the Israeli military gone wrong. Hamas offered to release all Israeli hostages in the early days of the war. The Israeli air force bombed a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi camp near south Gaza's Khan Younis, a so-called ‘safe zone,’ killing two children – Jawad and Sareen – on 1 December. The children's mother and a sibling were also injured in the attack, according to medics. The Israeli air force bombed a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi camp near south Gaza’s Khan Younis, a so-called ‘safe zone,’ killing two children – Jawad and Sareen – on 1 December. The children’s mother and a sibling were also injured in the attack, according to medics. (Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg/Getty) B’Tselem: “Unleashed: Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Soldiers in the Center of Hebron” In the West Bank, the view of all Palestinians as enemies who should be treated with unyielding force is translating into further oppression of the entire civilian population, by the various arms of the Israeli regime. A record number of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in 2024, and the number of detentions and administrative detainees reached a historic high. Since the beginning of the war, many attacks on Palestinians by soldiers and settlers have been documented throughout the West Bank. The attacks were aimed at Palestinians suspected of no wrongdoing and often carried out in plain sight, in full view of officers and commanders. Soldiers are being urged to take more “proactive” and “offensive” actions, while the public is demanding – or, at least, accepting – revenge on all Palestinians for the crimes of Hamas. They see themselves as authorized to play the role of prosecutor, judge and executioner in any encounter with a Palestinian. In practice, every soldier has been granted virtually unlimited power to use violent means of oppression. They know they will not be held accountable for their conduct. B’Tselem’s field researchers gathered testimonies from Palestinians who were attacked by soldiers in the city center of Hebron between May and August 2024. Their accounts indicate a rise in the scope, type and severity of violence that soldiers are currently employing against Palestinians in the West Bank. Read the report, “Unleashed: Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Soldiers in the Center of Hebron” here. Palestinian child stands at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron in the occupied West Bank Palestinian child stands at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron in the occupied West Bank (Middle East Eye/Mosab Shawar) Israel has demolished over 1,500 West Bank facilities in 2024, says UN Israeli forces have demolished 1,528 Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, according to the latest figures published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The UN data, published on 29 November, indicated that 3,637 Palestinians have been displaced as a result of an ongoing Israeli demolition campaign. The destroyed infrastructure included inhabited residences (700), agricultural infrastructure (398), and livelihood-related assets (205), such as shops and businesses. The lsraeli aggression on Jenin City earlier in 2024, northern West Bank, caused widespread destruction. The lsraeli aggression on Jenin City earlier in 2024, northern West Bank, caused widespread destruction. (social media) ‘Significant progress’ made by Hamas, Fatah on post-war Gaza govt: Report Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Fatah party have made “significant progress” towards forming a joint governing body to administer a post-war Gaza Strip during talks in the Egyptian capital Cairo, Al-Araby al-Jadeed reported on 2 December. The source said, “There is a general consensus among all on the need to seize the opportunity to resolve the differences and end the suffering of the Palestinian people.” In late July this year, Hamas, Fatah, and 12 other Palestinian factions signed a Chinese-brokered reconciliation agreement during meetings in Beijing. Washington has been pushing its own plans for post-war Gaza, which involves the installment of a “reformed” PA under the tutelage of an Arab-International mission. The Palestinian resistance factions have rejected western initiatives for post-war Gaza and maintain that the fate of their people must remain in their hands. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to reject the PA and Fatah’s involvement in any post-war government in Gaza. The premier has advanced his own plans for the ‘day after’ the war, which involves indefinite Israeli security control over the strip. Israel strikes Lebanon again and again, but hopes ceasefire will hold Israel has a unique and unilateral interpretation of the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, whereby Israel has given itself the right to enforce that agreement with “fire”. So far, according to UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire at least 100 times. These were the words of the Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, “We will maintain the ceasefire with fire”, meaning that Israel can strike at Hezbollah on Lebanese territory and beyond. Israel views any infraction, any movement, any activity of Hezbollah as a violation that it has the right to respond to. US envoy Amos Hochstein has expressed frustration and fear that these Israeli attacks could threaten this fragile ceasefire. In the meantime, Israel continues striking but is still hoping that this ceasefire would hold. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told his French counterpart in a phone call that his country is, in fact, enforcing the ceasefire – which stipulates Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the Israel-Lebanon border area – rather than violating it, Sa’ar said on X Monday. On Monday alone, in spite of the ceasefire, Israeli forces killed at least 11 Lebanese. RECOMMENDED READING: The ‘Ceasefire’ in Lebanon is a Ticking Bomb Following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, residents of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh began returning to their homes on November 30, 2024. Following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, residents of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh began returning to their homes on November 30, 2024. (Houssam Shbaro – Anadolu Agency) Over 500 digital rights violations against Palestinian content recorded in November: Report Sada Social, an organization dedicated to documenting digital rights violations against Palestinian content online, reported over 500 violations in November. The organization documented extensive digital suppression across multiple platforms in its monthly report. Meta platforms accounted for 57% of the violations, followed by TikTok at 23%, YouTube at 13% and X at 7%. Additionally, 30 WhatsApp accounts belonging to Palestinians were removed, including two news groups. These actions deepen “digital policies that suppress Palestinian voices and limit their reach to audiences,” the organization said. It also noted that a persistent “digital blackout” continued in northern Gaza, “severely hindering residents’ ability to communicate.” Digital policies regularly suppress Palestinian voices and limit their reach to audiences, according to Sada Social, an organization dedicated to documenting digital rights violations against Palestinian content online Digital policies regularly suppress Palestinian voices and limit their reach to audiences, according to Sada Social, an organization dedicated to documenting digital rights violations against Palestinian content online (AA) MORE NEWS: The Intercept: How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism Drop Site News: REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza Mondoweiss: Leak reveals UK lawyers, Israeli government planned ‘special unit’ to counter human rights reporting. Here’s what we know. STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 2, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 2, 2024: at least 45,303* ( 44,502 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified. This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 801 Palestinians (~167 of them children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (at least 47 from Gaza). At least 43 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. About 345,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – December 2, 2024: at least 111,904 (including at least 105,454 in Gaza and 6,450 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 2, 2024: ~1,584 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 406*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Nov 29); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,961, with 16,520 injuries. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) Why more than 500 scholars think Israel should be unseated from the UN Leaked documents reveal US intel cutout’s Iranian counter-revolution plans Israeli attacks on Gaza leading to increase in birth defects On-the-Ground Reporting Dismantles Israeli Claim Bolstering Case for War With Iran Netanyahu cries ‘anti-Semitism’ as Israeli Maccabi hooligans instigate riots in Amsterdam Latest effort to cancel Palestine activist David Rovics More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-wreak-havoc-palestine-lebanon-day-422/

Pope Francis calls for global investigation into possible genocide in Gaza – Day 406 [email protected] November 17, 2024 Adnan al-Bursh, genocide, palestinian journalist, pogrom, pope francis, shati refugee camp RECOMMENDED READING: Israeli Troops Shoot and Kill Another Palestinian Boy Because He ‘Threw Stones’ IMEMC Daily Reports. Mondoweiss: Hezbollah demystified STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 16, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 16, 2024: at least 44,631* ( 43,846 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified. This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 785 Palestinians (~167 of them children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons. At least 43 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. About 345,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 16, 2024: at least 110,040 (including at least 103,740 in Gaza and 6,300 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 16, 2024: ~1,579 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 401*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Nov 2); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,452, with 14,599 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) On-the-Ground Reporting Dismantles Israeli Claim Bolstering Case for War With Iran Netanyahu cries ‘anti-Semitism’ as Israeli Maccabi hooligans instigate riots in Amsterdam Latest effort to cancel Palestine activist David Rovics More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute https://israelpalestinenews.org/pope-francis-calls-for-global-investigation-into-possible-genocide-in-gaza-day-406/

Synagogue of Satan Owns Trump and His Administration Jonas E. Alexis, Senior EditorNovember 17, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here By Joachim Hagopian The list of Trump’s Zionist Israeli Firsters racing to Armageddon in the Middle East keeps growing all week to fulfill the Masonic plot/prophecy of the Zionist vs. Islam World War III nightmare we are all now facing with Trump as the next US president. With some saying that Trump is the anti-Christ, I’m now starting to wonder. Placing two hardcore Zionist neocon Jews Brian Hook and Howard Lutnick in charge of his admin transition team headhunting kosher Jew loyalists with input from Chabad son-in-law Jared Kushner should have clued us in where we’re fast headed, straight to an all-out Jewish State war against Islam. All week, almost every single cabinet member in Trump’s administration is a Zionist zealot in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself by eliminating by genocidal death every Palestinian from their ancient homeland. Every one of these Israeli first, warmongering extremists that Trump has selected all point to Iran as America’s biggest enemy obstacle to protecting Israel, not America. These war lovers are clearly not lovers of America. Trump’s readymade war cabinet members are bloodthirsty doomsdayers placed in charge to ensure America is brought into World War III fighting yet another Greater Israel Project war where American soldiers will be bleeding on foreign soil in perhaps the bloodiest war in all of history. All these men and women Trump is now surrounding himself with are doing the dirty bidding of Zionist Israel and its founder the Rothschild City of London banking cabal. Trump’s all-star cast to hell-on-earth began with hard-right, war loving, China hating, Jew loving Marco Rubio as soon-to-be boss in control shaping America’s foreign policy over the next four years. Right after October 7th last year, Rubio tweeted: Israel has no choice but to seek the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza. There simply is no diplomatic solution or ‘measured response’ available. This tragically necessary effort will come at a horrifying price. But the price of failing to permanently eliminate this group of sadistic savages is even more horrifying. Never mind that October 7th was another Israel inside job like 9/11. Rubio on a Fox radio show earlier this year actually likened the Israeli Zionist invasion in Rafah to the Western Allied Normandy invasion going after Hitler. You really think someone capable of contorting and twisting reality that much is capable of running America’s foreign policy without running amuck with more crafted US arrogance and unending bullshit grandstanding? In June Rubio was a lead sponsor of a bill that would prevent puppet Biden from placing conditions on Israel’s supply of US arms. If the US stopped sending bombs, the genocide would stop. But owned and controlled Senator Rubio cannot go against his higher paygrade just to save little children from being blown to pieces, hell no. Marco Rubio also promoted bill to halt humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians, succumbing to Israeli pressure to suspend all UN aid relief into Gaza. The degrading evil these lowlifes stoop to under threat of losing AIPAC bribery or sexual blackmail for diddling little kids. Congress is full of these psychopathic degenerates. The Florida senator also engineered legislation sabotaging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, accusing it of being “the single most destructive campaign of economic warfare facing the Jewish state today.” All week long, Trump unanimously handpicked one Zionist Israeli firster after the next, all committed to protecting Netanyahu’s selfish war criminal interests far and above protecting any interests of our own fellow American citizens struggling to feed their family. Right alongside this depraved US Secretary of State soon guiding our foreign policy, the US Secretary of Defense is even more important in protecting our national interests and safeguarding every single American citizen. The Trump choice for this grave responsibility in two months falls into the trigger-happy hands of Fox News host since 2014, Pete Hegseth, who urged the US to bomb Iran, including its mosques, schools and hospitals. Using the same lame Israeli excuse to justify taking out thousands of innocent civilian lives, be they children, women and the infirm, to neutralize the alleged embedded enemy amongst the civilian population, Hegseth plans to resort to any measure necessary to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Back in early 2020, prior to Iran developing underground nuclear stockpiles, war hawk Hegseth after murdering Gen. Soleimani was imploring then President Trump to go gangbusters bombing away at Iranian civilians. What better time than now to say, we’re starting the clock, you’ve got a week, you’ve got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities. We take out key infrastructure. We take out your missile sites. We take out nuclear developments. Since Iran nearly five years later already possesses nuclear weapons as a viable means of mutual deterrence against nuke-happy Israel with its notorious shameless Sampson option, as the stalwart, anti-Iran war dick, the prospect of Hegseth provoking a military confrontation against Israel’s archrival Iran in the coming months and years appears to already be an inevitable, done deal. Convinced Iran is hiding nukes under its cultural historical sites, or under its schools, mosques and hospitals, identical to the oft-repeated standard Israeli claim toward Hamas and Hezbollah hiding behind its civilians, this pro-Israel war hawk wacko went on public record insisting that the US “rewrite the rules,” adamantly calculating it’s worth dropping US bombs on Iranian soil and killing innocent civilians. Having served as a junior officer in the Army National Guard with tours fighting Greater Israel Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a stint at Guantanamo, Hegseth defended US soldiers accused of war crimes. Despite minimal administrative experience, as an ass-kissing Trump loyalist, highly critical of current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s weakened and woke DEI infested armed forces, yet another ballbuster wants to have a go at Iran, music to the ears of Israel-controlled Trump who regards this Princeton-Harvard grad as more than qualified to defend Israel, waging the Big War against all Middle East Muslims. Like Bibi Netanyahu, Pete Hegseth pays mere “lip service” to the Israel-Palestine “two state solution,” calling it “effectively dead.” This guy’s all in for protecting Israel, regarding all Palestinians including children as [present/future] Islamic terrorists sponsored by Iran, thus worthy as expendable cannon fodder in self-defense of the supremacist Jewish State, and equally all in to bringing on biblical Armageddon prophecy. Hegseth talks as if he is straight out of Israel’s militant, bloodthirsty Likud Party, wanting to genocide more Palestinians and Lebanese. In his own bold words, blasting Iran on his employer Fox network right after the January 3rd, 2020 US assassination of Iran’s most acclaimed, popular war hero General Qassam Soleimani, this raging war-aholic nutcase urged: I don’t want to hit cultural sites on purpose. But if you’re using one to harbor your most dangerous weapons, then that should be on the target list. With Hegseth an Evangelical Christian Zionist constituting the largest religious group in the US, claiming 1 out of 4 American voters, he believes biblical prophecy must be fulfilled, starting with the Rothschild bloodline banking dynasty’s successful founding of the Jewish State in 1948, convinced it was the temporal marker ushering in the “End Times” on earth, according to biblical scripture. During his first term in office when President Trump moved the Israeli capital to Jerusalem in 2018, the birthplace of the three major monotheistic religions, Christian Zionists again interpreted it in accordance with their version of biblical prophecy as scribed in the Schofield bible. In fact, evidence indicates that US Zionist Jewish attorney Samuel Untermeyer funded Cyrus I. Schofield to reinterpret the King James version, propagating this Zionist biblical account. The Evangelical belief that we have entered the End Times and Christian Zionists must on faith alone rabidly support Israel as their fundamental religious duty to bring forth the battle of Armageddon in northern Israel between one side led by the second coming of Christ and the other the Mark of the Beast anti-Christ, and each army’s amassed 400,000 soldiers dying in the process, it’s all according to the Zionist Schofield bible. This is why so many millions of Christian Zionists in America are so fanatically blind in their unconditional support and acceptance of Israel’s unholy wars in the Middle East, including supporting the mass slaughter of Palestinians. Similar to how many Zionist Jews rationalize negative, woefully destructive, immoral actions as ends that always justify the means, Zionist Christians are similarly inclined. Thus, wiping out enormous numbers of Muslims isn’t such a big deal if it brings back Lord Jesus. Compliments of Michael Tracey’s twitter post, to get an idea where this ingrained Zionist dogma comes from in the next US Defense Secretary’s head, the following is an extract from Hegseth’s 2020 book American Crusade, Fight to Stay Free: America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete…. If you love America, you should love Israel. War lover Hegseth truly hates Iran and loves Israel. Even calling the Iran government an “evil regime.” That Trump would exploit this twisted mindset and seek out Christian Zionists as key critical members of his administration, including the one responsible for America’s self-defense in charge of our war policy, it has to be concluded as an extremely foreboding, even disastrous omen of things to come, and that World War III is more than imminent. So, what does the President-elect do this week? He picks not one but two card-carrying Christian Zionists to fill his administration’s important posts. His other Christian Zionist is former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, chosen as Trump’s US Ambassador to Israel. Huckabee isn’t just a Christian Zionist zealot, he’s an evangelical pastor preaching the Armageddon Jesus second coming gospel having made over 100 trips to Israel. He’ll be working to ensure that President Trump keeps at least one of his campaign promises, not to the American voters, but making good on his boss’ boss Miriam Adelson for her $100 million bribe in exchange for Trump delivering the Palestinians’ West Bank to Israel. After Trump moved the Israel capital to Jerusalem, according to a July 2019 Middle East Monitor headline, an elated “Mike Huckabee hopes Trump may annex West Bank settlements.” This US Zionist has come out and matter-of-factly stated: There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian. I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria. Huckabee refuses to recognize Gaza or the West Bank, but only the biblical terms. So when Trump made his announcement public, to all Americans he was lying through his teeth rubbing it in when he claimed: Mike [Huckabee] will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East! Yeah, eliminating the non-entities in Gaza and West Bank that Huckabee will not acknowledge is hardly about to bring peace, but unquestionably it will bring Armageddon, which is exactly what this insane Christian Zionist Huckabee wanted all along. These forked-tongue devils Trump and company are intent on ruining us all, not just the Palestinians. Huckabee has often declared that illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Israel’s apartheid genocide occupation of Gaza and West Bank do not even exist, because they’ve always been ordained by Huckabee’s warped God as rightfully belonging to “the chosen people.” And as such, he never accepted the “two-state solution.” Again, Christian Zionists make up a quarter of the American electorate, so placing high-profile Christian Zionists in his administration not only pays off his debt to those overwhelming numbers that fervently voted for him but also those big donor Jews like Adelson who own him. But even more important to Trump, he is paying off his debt bondage to the Rothschild City of London clan that repeatedly bailed his ass out of past bankruptcies, and now all the powerbrokers that made certain Trump was reinstalled for a second term to obediently follow through fulfilling his paymasters’ demand that World War III happen far sooner than later. After all, culling the human herd ranks #1 as top priority for the psychopathic controllers and their minions. Moving on to Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor which does not need Senate approval is Florida Congressman Mike Waltz, who also opposes diplomacy in favor of aggressive interventionism in the form of hardcore military action against US invented enemies Russia, China and Iran. Waltz is another Army National Guard Greater Israel Project war veteran who fought in Afghanistan. Trump knows that choosing Zionist road warriors in his administration can be counted on to obediently line up to declare war against any and all readymade “axis-of-evil” enemies – Russia, China and Iran. Rep. Mike Waltz sits on the US Armed Services Committee and in the past has also called for the US to drop bombs on Iran, regarding the higher paygrade Israel as “the greatest ally we’ve ever known.” According to the Rothschild owned Associated Press, the current issues facing US president’s national security advisor involve continuing support for Ukraine against Russia, with as of late a special focused concern on the strategic defense pact between Moscow and North Korea (i.e., only the US is allowed allies), and the escalating mess in the Middle East between Israel and its sworn enemy Iran that includes its so-called proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. These former military officers who already rushed to Israel’s aid fighting in earlier Greater Israel Project wars in the Middle East, Waltz as a Green Beret colonel no less, are instant readymade war hawks eager to deploy US boots on the ground in combat in whatever and wherever hostile hotspot direction their Synagogue of Satan superiors point them to. With two wars raging and a third hotspot heating up in Pacific Asia, Waltz is ready to waltz into World War III headfirst in all three theaters of operation. After all, this guy comes locked and loaded in the NSA driver’s seat ready to send US boots on the ground to battle anywhere City of London wants him. This Cold War interventionist hardliner has never seen a war he doesn’t like. Regarding the one in Ukraine, Mike Waltz wants US troops fighting alongside Kiev forces, operating US longer-range weapons striking targets deeper inside Russia. And if that’s not enough provocation to ignite WWIII directly against Russia, possessing the strongest, most armed advanced, battle-hardened military in the world, then Waltz has plenty of other warzones to fight. His pet peeve has always been China. Seems each of these Trump war lovers have a particular hankering for their favorite enemy combat zone. This Trump road warrior Mike Waltz established his favorite enemy to be Red China, permanently, deeply immersed in Cold War mindset with a particular hardon for starting a hot war against Beijing: We are in a cold war… the Chinese Communist Party has entered a Cold War with us, seeks to supplant us, and seeks to defeat us… We need to make it very clear to China that invading Taiwan, which will then allow China to control about 50 percent of global trade and GDP, isn’t acceptable. The fact that it was the City of London moneychangers that purposely allowed Taiwan to control over 90% of the world production of cutting-edge microchips essential for smartphones, data centers and advanced military equipment, means that among the many engineered mega-crises, creating global supply chain disruption becomes just another one of their weapons. It’s all been meticulous mapped out by nefarious globalist design to bring the world to its knees. This military interventionist Waltz is just another globalist stooge being used to fast track WWIII. Despite the US longtime established one-China policy, Waltz wants to abandon it to arm the island of Taiwan “to the teeth” against his nemesis Communist China because that’s all part of the central bankers’ grand scheme – World War III on multiple warfronts. After selecting a Christian Zionist US ambassador to mighty Israel, US and Israel are in synch now exterminating the rest of the Palestinians as homage to the Greater Israel Project. Next, we turn to Trump’s selection of New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She follows an already illustrious parade of globalist female US uniparty traitors -Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and now replacing Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Incoming Elise wants to jail all Americans critical of Israel for “anti-Semitism.” In December last year, Stefanik brought the three Ivy League women presidents in to grill them in her Congressional hearings, so she could grandstand haranguing them (instrumental in getting them fired) for daring to allow their students to exercise their First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly protest over US and Israel’s daily slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Like so many anti-constitutional traitors in Congress, through their blatant words and actions, they continue getting away with never upholding their sworn oaths to protect and defend the US Constitution, which in itself renders them traitors. Trump lies with every traitor he brings aboard his Israel first government: Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter. No, she’s not, she is the exact opposite as another treasonous Trump Israel Firster. You will not be a member of this administration unless you are an Israel first and Americans last Trumper. The Biden regime treasonously places foreign invaders first over Americans’ self-interests while the Trump regime places Jews and Israel interests over and above every American’s. A November 13th Mondoweiss article stated this about the incoming US ambassador to the UN: In May, Stefanik delivered an address to the Israeli Knesset where she called for ‘wiping those responsible for October 7th off the face of the earth’ and ‘crushing’ the Palestine solidarity movement, which she said was motivated by ‘blood lust.’ How fair do you think this person will be at the UN? About a two-state solution and finally granting Palestinians the right to self-determination. It’s all too obvious Stefanik will use US veto power in the UN Security Council to block all resolutions promoting the sovereign free state of Palestine. And it appears Trump and his entire administration will do the same. Stefanik, and all of the Trump appointments, show that whichever uniparty is in charge, Americans are treated last, again all part of the criminal elites’ agenda to destroy America and Americans, right along with Palestinians and Lebanese. All these traitors that invert the truth now are allowing their criminal misdeeds to define what and who they really are. It is legally, ethically and morally wrong to conflate any criticism of an apartheid murderous Jewish State regime for their endless, ghastly, unthinkable yet unprosecuted crimes, which every person of conscience must condemn who knows right from wrong. All our government traitors are obedient to Israel first over their own country and fellow citizens they’re supposed to be serving because to keep their jobs in Washington, they must remain loyal to AIPAC bribery dictates as Israeli firsters in good standing. AIPAC operates as a foreign agency in America without registering as such, which makes it an illegal unconstitutional criminal operation. Moreover, Robert F. Kennedy was killed fighting Israel over this very issue, moving to require AIPAC’s bribery scheme to register as a foreign agent while a half decade earlier his brother President John F. Kennedy was murdered 61 years ago this week trying to prevent Israel from developing nuclear weapons. Israel has never been a US ally. Remember the USS Liberty. Yet criticism today of this pariah nation treated with total above the law impunity renders an honest critic of Israel a criminal. How twisted and illegal and unconstitutional is that? We’ve been invaded by Israel, City of London and their bribed traitors in America for far too long. Earlier this year, Congress passed and apparently is now enforcing a law criminalizing American citizens speaking out against Israeli genocide branding them with antisemitism charges, with Trump vowing to lock them up in what’s become Gulag Amerika. Those that bark the loudest as US traitors serving the interests of Israel over those of America appear to be the most rewarded in Trump’s administration promotions. This inversion of constitutional law and justice is an unacceptable disgrace reflecting just how far America no longer a constitutional republic has sunk in moral turpitude and treasonous criminality. When Israel banned the UN humanitarian relief team from supplying food, clean water and medicine to starving Gazans suffering genocide at the hands of the criminal state of Israel, Elise Stefanik actually celebrated Israel’s ban accusing the UN agency UNRWA of “instilling antisemitic hate in Palestinians.” Aggressive neocon bulldog Stefanik as yet another Israeli firster joins the most Jewish president’s administration that is betraying all Americans’ right to free speech voicing the God honest truth, yet Stefanik gets rewarded with a new important gig inflicting further veto harm at the UN Security Council. Showing that President-elect Trump is also a traitor violating the US Constitution’s First Amendment free speech rights in his now Gulag Amerika, in September he warned: Here is what I will do to defeat anti-Semitism and defend our Jewish citizens in America: My first week back in the Oval Office, my Administration will inform every college president that if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support. So, this dangerous Israel/City of London controlled opposition polarizer is also flagrantly equating any criticism of Israel genocide as unlawful anti-Semitism hate speech. This proves that City of London and Israel both rule over America, and that the Jewish banking cabal reigns supreme over genocide pariahs Israel and America as well as apparently the entire world. Donald Trump chose South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to become the next Secretary running the US Department of Homeland Security, who like Trump, Stefanik and his entire team of Zionist Nazis, plan to imprison all those brave enough citizens speaking the truth about pure evil in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Israel and world. Plain and simple, by its actions alone, the Jewish State is a pariah state, understandably hated by millions around the globe who know right from wrong and will continue speaking against its abominable genocidal crimes. Trump and his traitors will not stop us from speaking the truth. US traitors refusing to uphold our constitutional rights are committing treason imprisoning people of conscience for merely speaking against evil, and the traitors complicit in genocide will be held to account for their egregious crimes as well. Trump chose his former Director of National Intelligence and another China hawk John Ratcliffe as the new CIA Director. The anti-China list keeps growing. All are hardliner interventionists that cast aside any prospect for diplomacy, cooperation and peace. Instead, the road ahead is paved with confrontation, escalating tension and conflict, spilling over into disaster for entire global population as World War III. Former Hawaii Representative that switched parties Tulsi Gabbard will be Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. It appears this military officer may be about his only person on his team possessing a reasonable, sound mind. Her views tend to be non-interventionist, some call “isolationist,” and without experience involving the 17 intelligence agencies she will oversee, her selection has already drawn harsh criticism from insiders accusing her of cozy relations with “dictators” Bashar Al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. From my perspective, the leader of Syria that the US belligerent attempted to illegally overthrow for years that was aided and somewhat protected by Putin is a positive accomplishment since it defied and defeated US criminality. She took a lot of heat for her bold act of diplomacy when she met with Assad. But again, I value fair-minded diplomacy over color revolutions and war, and those entrenched in Deep State geopolitics that are the CIA, DNI, FBI and the other over a dozen other US intelligence agencies all regularly engage in criminal behavior. As an outsider and not the typical slimeball that runs these types of organizations that regularly circumvent law and ethics, likely Tulsi will receive lots of pushback and resistance if she attempts to reform America’s notoriously criminal spy industry. As far as Robert Kennedy Jr picked to run the US Health and Human Services Agency, this is also an important positive choice. Kennedy’s stand against the deadly COVID vaccines has been heroic, and perhaps he can hold Big Pharma and fellow conspirators in the medical field, government and media accountable for their holocaust crimes against humanity. He faces an enormous challenge considering how evil and powerful his adversarial criminal organizations are stacked against him. One troubling issue, despite Israel’s part in his father and uncle’s murders, he appears also to be owned by Israel. Nearly the unanimous lot of Trump’s administration are neocons, all pro-Israel extremists that are totally anti-Iran, anti-China and anti-Russia. As aggressive interventionist warmakers and Synagogue of Satan order-followers rushing humanity to catastrophic World War III, the future looks dark and very bleak. At least Tulsi and RFK Jr are the one bright spot in all of this and definitely represent a step in the right direction, though it seems they are unwelcome outsiders amidst a hostile danger zone full of criminals, thus facing immense adversity and opposition trying to make progress to drain the shark-infested swamp. Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of “Don’t Let the Bastards Getcha Down” exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder, invariably weeding out the best and brightest, leaving mediocrity and order followers rising to the top as politician-bureaucrat generals designated to lose every modern US war by elite design. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In Los Angeles he found himself battling the largest county child protective services in the nation within America’s thoroughly broken and corrupt child welfare system. The experience in both the military and child welfare system prepared him well as a researcher and independent journalist, exposing the evils of Big Pharma and how the Rockefeller controlled medical and psychiatric system inflict more harm than good, case in point, the pandemic hoax and kill shot genocide. As an independent journalist for the last decade, Joachim has written hundreds of articles for many news sites, including Global Research, lewrockwell.com, currently https//jameshfetzer.org, Inteldrop.org and https://thegovernmentrag.com. As a published author of a 5-book volume series entitled Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy & the Deep State, Joachim’s books and chapters are Amazon bestsellers in child advocacy and human rights categories. His A-Z sourcebook series fully document and expose the global pedophilia scourge and remain available free at https://pedoempire.org/content s/. Joachim also hosts the weekly Revolution Radio broadcast “Cabal Empire Exposed” on Friday morning at 7AM EST (ID: revradio, password: rocks!) VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion. 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Israel blocks food aid, rejects ‘biased’ warning of famine in Gaza – Day 399 [email protected] November 10, 2024 Adham Al-Masri, famine, humanitarian aid, starvation in gaza “The rocket struck them. There were no wanted or targeted people there and there was nobody else in the street. Just the children who were killed,” said Mohammed Zanoun, a relative of the dead children. Among the dead were two journalist siblings – Ahmad Abu Sakhil and Zahra Abu Sakhil – together with their father, Muhammad. The number of journalists killed since October 2023 stands at 188. NOTE: The UN Human Rights Office recently stated that it has found close to 70 per cent of the dead in Gaza to be children and women, indicating a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, including distinction and proportionality. Israeli forces execute three Gaza detainees shortly after release Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians from the Gaza Strip this afternoon, shortly after releasing them from detention. The men had been detained during Israel’s military offensive on northern Gaza in early October. According to local sources and eyewitnesses, the detainees were freed from Israeli custody at the Zikim military base near the northern Gaza border. After their release, the Israeli navy targeted the three men with gunfire from warships as they were near Al-Khalidi Mosque, along the coastal road northwest of Gaza City. The victims, identified as two elderly men, Ali and Nadi Ma’arouf, and young man Hamza Al-Hato, were transferred to the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where their bodies were received. ALSO READ: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans chant racist slogans upon return to Israel from Amsterdam Screen image from an Israeli Channel 12 report on the sexual assault and rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison. Screen image from an Israeli Channel 12 report on the sexual assault and rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison. (screen image) Ethnic cleansing taking place during news void in north Gaza: Media group The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel has stepped up systematic attacks on journalists and media infrastructure since the start of its northern Gaza campaign. Israeli strikes killed at least five journalists in October and Israeli forces began a smear campaign against six Al Jazeera journalists reporting on the north, it said. “There are now almost no professional journalists left in the north to document what several international institutions have described as an ethnic cleansing campaign. Israel has not allowed international media independent access to Gaza in the 13 months since the war began,” CPJ said in a statement. “It seems clear that the systematic attacks on the media and campaign to discredit those few journalists who remain is a deliberate tactic to prevent the world from seeing what Israel is doing there,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna. “Reporters are crucial in bearing witness during a war, without them the world won’t be able to write history.” A press jacket hangs near the site of Saturday’s helicopter attack against tents housing war-displaced Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza A press jacket hangs near the site of Saturday’s helicopter attack against tents housing war-displaced Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza (Abedelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera) Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Tubas On Saturday, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and injured two others in ‘Aqqaba town, north of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part. Media sources reported that the invasion was initially conducted by undercover soldiers who surrounded a home while military helicopters and drones flew overhead and over several areas of Tubas. The sources added that the soldiers attacked the surrounded home with live fire, causing extensive damage, killing Adham Zayed Ezzat Al-Masri, 25, before taking his body away. The soldiers also fired barrages of live rounds during the invasion, wounding a 50-year-old Palestinian with a live round to the chest. Medics rushed him to a hospital where his wounds were described as serious. Additionally, the soldiers assaulted another 49-year-old Palestinian, causing lacerations and bruises to several parts of his body. Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 781 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 167 children, and injured 6,300. Israeli army besiege a house belonging to a Palestinian family with military armored vehicles in Tubas, West Bank on November 09, 2024. Israeli army besiege a house belonging to a Palestinian family with military armored vehicles in Tubas, West Bank on November 09, 2024. (Nedal Eshtayah - Anadolu Agency) NYT: Israeli officials briefed Jared Kushner on Gaza war for several months For several months, Israeli officials have given briefings about the war in Gaza to Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, who worked on Middle East issues during his first term, and David Friedman, who served as Mr. Trump’s ambassador to Israel, said two Israeli officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive meetings. MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 9, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 9, 2024: at least 44,384* ( 43,603 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified. This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 781 Palestinians (~167 of them children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons. At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. About 345,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 9, 2024: at least 109,229 (including at least 102,929 in Gaza and 6,300 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 9, 2024: ~1,574 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 396*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (most recent: Nov 2); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,136, with 13,979 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) Latest effort to cancel Palestine activist David Rovics More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-blocks-food-aid-rejects-biased-warning-famine-gaza-day-399/

As in Gaza, so in Amsterdam: Israelis wreak havoc, then claim victimhood – Day 398 [email protected] November 9, 2024 amsterdam, genocide, Khaled Abu Zir, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Netanyahu, West Bank, Wikipedia, Yechiel Leiter Palestinians, including children, living in the Nuseirat refugee camp wait with empty pots to receive food distributed by an aid organization as they are unable to meet many vital needs, including basic food supplies, in Gaza City, Gaza on November 08, 2024. (Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff It’s genocide and starvation as usual throughout Gaza. Another journalist killed by Israeli forces in Gaza Israeli forces have killed yet another Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip as the regime pushes on with its onslaught on the territory. On Friday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said the journalist was a local radio broadcaster. Khaled Abu Zir’s death raised the number of journalists and media workers killed by Israel in Gaza to 184 since October 2023. The media office called on the international community to hold the regime to account for its crimes against Palestinians, especially journalists. The Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC) said on Saturday that the Israeli war on the besieged territory has been the deadliest for members of the press than any other conflict over the past eight decades. The PJPC also said that “the killing has become the main weapon to silence journalists in Gaza.” An estimated 10 percent of all journalists working in Gaza have been killed since October 2023, as the Israeli authorities still ban the entry of foreign media workers. Palestinians sift through rubble of their homes, searching for anything worth salvaging. Palestinians sift through rubble of their homes, searching for anything worth salvaging. (Anadolu) Israeli hooligans provoke clashes in Amsterdam after chanting anti-Palestinian slogans NOTE: Mainstream media have painted the Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam as victims of antisemitic attacks. Below are accounts by eyewitnesses who indicate that the Israeli fans instigated violence, and “antisemitism” was not involved; rather, the focus of the protests was the genocide in Gaza. For more on the media bias pervasive during this war, start with this and this; for more on the decades-long pro-Israel media bias, check out this and this. Israeli hooligans provoked clashes with Dutch youth in Amsterdam on Thursday after they chanted racist anti-Arab slogans, tore down Palestinian flags and ignored a minute of silence for the Spanish flood victims. Travelling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans stirred trouble on Wednesday and Thursday in different parts of of the Dutch capital ahead of their Uefa Europa League match against Amsterdam club Ajax. Hooligans were seen removing at least two Palestinian flags from what appeared to be the front of local residents’ homes a night before the match, according to the AD daily newspaper. An Arab taxi driver was also attacked by mobs who appeared to be with the Israeli fans, although police said they couldn’t identify the nationality of the attackers as no arrests were made. A group of Israeli fans gathered in the Dam Square on Wednesday were filmed sparking confrontations with locals, shouting “Fuck you” at some of them and “Fuck you Palestine”. Ahead of the match on Thursday, fans heading to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium were seen shouting: “Let the IDF [Israeli army] fuck the Arabs”. They also refused to participate in a minute of silence before kick-off for at least 200 people who died in the Valencia floods. The police have not made any known arrests of the Israeli fans involved in provocative act ahead of the match. Nicholas McGeehan, who is a founder of FairSquare, highlighted the track record of racist chanting by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and criticised how Dutch authorities painted them as “innocent victims of antisemitism.” “Israel’s most senior leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have openly courted far-right football supporters in Israel and have received their violent support in return. The well-documented racism and violence exhibited by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam mirrors the thuggery of the Israeli government in Gaza and Lebanon,” McGeehan told MEE. “This does not excuse the violence that was meted out to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, but to present them as innocent victims of antisemitism is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. “To rid European football of the type of genocidal chanting we saw from Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, Uefa should remind the Israel Football Association of its obligations under article 7(7) of its statutes to stamp out racist behaviour, and impose appropriate sanctions if the IFA does not take action.” Israeli forces’ lethal tactics in occupied West Bank ‘exceed law enforcement standards,’ UN warns The UN on Friday reported an escalation of Israeli army’s actions in the occupied West Bank, warning that it seems to “exceed law enforcement standards.” Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN deputy spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay said at a news conference that “multiple operations by Israeli forces in the north this week included air strikes and other lethal war-like tactics, which appear to exceed law enforcement standards.” “According to initial information, eight Palestinians were killed and four others injured during Tuesday’s operations in Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarm,” she added. Meanwhile, Tremblay reported that from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4, “Israeli settlers carried out 35 attacks against Palestinians that caused casualties or property damage, including olive trees that were vandalized.” Streets with destroyed buildings are seen after an Israeli raid in Tulkarm, West Bank, on 7 November 2024. Streets with destroyed buildings are seen after an Israeli raid in Tulkarm, West Bank, on 7 November 2024. (İssam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency) After Months of Debate – Wikipedia Describes Israel’s War on Gaza as ‘Genocide’ Wikipedia has decided to rename the page – initially titled ‘Genocide allegations in the 2023 Israeli assault on Gaza’ to simply ‘Gaza Genocide’. This change follows a community vote among contributors to the free, open-content online encyclopedia, which is written and edited by an international body of volunteers. Drawing on expert opinions, Wikipedia editors, determined there was enough evidence from scholars and human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, to substantiate the term “genocide” in the page title. Though this change does not hold legal significance, it could impact global public opinion culturally and politically. The updated ‘Gaza Genocide’ article references nearly 800 sources, including human rights and field reports. Among these, several reports come from The Palestine Chronicle’s coverage of the war. Additionally, the page highlights references made by Israeli politicians, such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invocation of the ‘Amalekites’ from biblical texts, stirring further discourse on Israel’s intentions. Translated into 16 languages, including Arabic, Turkish, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Indonesian, the page begins by noting that “experts, governments, UN agencies, and NGOs have accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in the ongoing war.” More scandals emerge from Netanyahu’s office, including spies, blackmail, top secret documents Informed sources revealed to Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office may be involved in intimidating and blackmailing an army officer to obtain top secret documents. The involvement of two senior officials in Netanyahu’s office in obtaining and publishing sensitive materials from surveillance cameras related to a senior army officer is being investigated. According to the sources, investigations are underway to determine whether this is another incident in which senior officials ignored procedures, instructed subordinates to act against the rules and violated basic information security and privacy protection principles. The sources shared: “Spies were recruited by Netanyahu’s office in the Israeli army to steal top secret documents and transfer them to the office, followed by forged publication in the media to serve the narrative against the hostage deal.” The newspaper revealed that two senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Office were found to have embarrassing personal documents pertaining to a senior officer in the Israeli army. It noted that the former spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister, Eliezer Feldstein, who is suspected of involvement in leaking secret documents to the press, had previously been dismissed from the Israeli army during his reserve service at the beginning of the Gaza war. Netanyahu appoints hardline backer of settlements as Israeli envoy to US Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Yechiel Leiter as Israel’s ambassador to Washington on Friday, replacing current ambassador Michael Herzog. Leiter is considered close to Netanyahu and previously served as Netanyahu’s chief of staff. Leiter was born in the US and immigrated to Israel about 40 years ago. He actively supports settlements, especially in the Old City of Hebron, and lives in the Eli settlement in the occupied West Bank. A statement issued by Netanyahu’s office said that Leiter has a profound knowledge of the US administration and society, noting that Leiter’s son was killed during the war on Gaza a year ago. According to the statement by the Prime Minister’s office: “Yechiel Leiter is a talented diplomat, an articulate speaker and has a deep understanding of American culture and politics. “I am convinced he will represent the State of Israel in the best way and wish him luck in his new role.” The Intercept: With Gaza’s Education System in Ruins, Parents Take Matters Into Their Own Hands Electronic Intifada: How close is the Israeli army to collapse? Palestine Chronicle: The Israeli Settlers and Their Stones – The Daily Journey of Palestinian Students in West Bank STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 8, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 8, 2024: at least 44,331* ( 43,552 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified. This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 779 Palestinians (~167 of them children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. About 345,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 8, 2024: at least 109,065 (including at least 102,765 in Gaza and 6,300 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 8, 2024: ~1,574 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 396*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (most recent: Nov 2); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,117, with 13,888 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) Latest effort to cancel Palestine activist David Rovics More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer https://israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-amsterdam-israelis-wreak-havoc-claim-victimhood-day-398/ http://donshafi911iamthefaceoftruth.blogspot.com/2024/11/as-in-gaza-so-in-amsterdam-israelis.html

Israel dropped over 85,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since start of genocide – Day 396 [email protected] November 7, 2024 beit lahiya, bombs dropped on gaza, campus protest, deportation, ethnic cleansing, massacre, military aid to israel, Netanyahu, Rashida Tlaib, university of minnesota, unrwa, west bank deaths Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says Israeli military Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area. In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the IDF Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that since troops had been forced to enter some areas twice, such as Jabaliya camp, “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes”. He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but not the north, since there are “no more civilians left”. International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon. (Read the full article here.) Israeli Strike on Home in Northern Gaza Kills 25, Including 13 Children An Israeli strike on a home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, killed at least 25 Palestinians, including 13 children, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Tuesday. Medical sources told WAFA that people are still missing under the rubble, meaning the death toll could rise. Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital, which has come under repeated Israeli attacks, said the home that was targeted was sheltering several displaced Palestinian families. According to The Associated Press, Israel claimed it targeted a weapons storage facility but, as usual, offered no evidence for the claim. Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Friday, Nov. 1 Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Friday, Nov. 1 (AFP/Getty Images) Israel dropped over 85,000 tons of bombs inside Gaza since start of genocide The Israeli military has dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs inside the besieged Gaza Strip since the start of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, according to a statement by the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority. Palestinian officials say the continuous bombing “has caused the destruction of vast areas of agricultural land and contaminated soil with toxic chemicals, which will hinder agriculture in the enclave for decades.” Furthermore, the officials say Israeli attacks have caused significant damage to Gaza’s water sources, “causing polluted water to seep into groundwater basins, [posing] a health and environmental crisis that endangers hundreds of thousands of residents for future generations.” Earlier this year, the UN warned that removing tens of millions of tons of rubble left in the aftermath of Israel’s bombardment could take 15 years and cost between $500-600 million. Moreover, rebuilding destroyed homes could take at least until 2040. In economic terms, the UN Conference on Trade and Development said in a report released last month that if the war ends soon and Gaza returns to the status quo before 7 October 2023, it could take 350 years for its economy to return to its precarious prewar level. RECOMMENDED READING: Israel’s Scholasticide and the Irrelevance of US Politics: 11,923 Palestinian students didn’t go back to school this fall because Israel killed them Palestinian journalists at work during the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Palestine, on October 15, 2023. Palestinian journalists at work during the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Palestine, on October 15, 2023. (Momen Faiz / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Israel signs $5.2B deal to acquire advanced F-15 fighter jets Israel, which continues to strike both Gaza and Lebanon, announced signing a deal to purchase 25 next generation F-15 fighter jets from US aviation giant Boeing. In a statement, the Defense Ministry said the agreement, signed on Wednesday, is part of a broader aid package approved by the US administration and Congress earlier this year and includes an option for 25 additional aircraft. The jets will be “equipped with cutting-edge weapon systems” and integrated with advanced Israeli technologies, the statement said. According to the ministry, the upgraded aircraft will help the air force “maintain its strategic superiority in addressing current and future challenges in the Middle East.” Delivery of the aircraft will begin in 2031, with four to six aircraft to be supplied annually. Residents conduct a search and rescue operation after the Israeli army targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Strip on October 27, 2024 Residents conduct a search and rescue operation after the Israeli army targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Strip on October 27, 2024 (Ayman Alhesi/Anadolu Agency) New criminal probe alleges Netanyahu tried to make discussions of the war “untraceable” Israeli police are investigating “criminal incidents” reportedly linked to meetings held by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet at the start of the war on Gaza in October last year, Israeli media reported on 5 November. “The police’s Lahav 433 investigation unit is conducting a criminal probe related to incidents from the start of the war, including several open investigations,” a police statement said, adding that further details remain under gag order and are barred from publication. The Times of Israel added that reports appearing in Hebrew media earlier this year claimed that Netanyahu had been “attempting to keep his conversations regarding the management of the war in Gaza untraceable.” Senior figures in the security establishment allegedly fear that efforts were being made to edit the minutes of wartime discussions held with Netanyahu after discovering discrepancies between transcripts of the meetings and what officials in attendance had heard first-hand. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2024 (NAAMA GRYNBAUM/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Knesset Passes Law to Deport Relatives of Resistance Fighters for Up to 20 Years Israel’s Knesset approved a bill on Wednesday to allow the deportation of relatives of resistance fighters (their word: “terrorists”) from Israel for up to 20 years. A temporary five-year provision was also passed, enabling the imprisonment of minors under 14 years of age who are convicted of homicide as part of a terror act. It was proposed by Likud lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky, and states that family members may be deported by the Interior Minister to to Gaza “or another destination determined by the circumstances” if it is found that they “knew in advance of the [so-called] terrorist’s plan and did not take necessary measures to prevent it.” The interior minister would also have the authority to deport a relative who “expressed support or sympathy for the act of [so-called] terrorism or published praise, admiration, or encouragement.” A decision on the deportation will be made after a hearing. The law, which was fast-tracked, is considered extreme, and the Attorney General’s office did not issue an opinion on it after a representative claimed that despite the Attorney General’s request, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on the matter was not submitted. The law applies to the immediate family of [so-called] terrorists: parents, siblings, children, and spouses. Israeli citizens who meet the criteria will be deported for at least seven years and up to 15 years. Non-citizen deportees will face a minimum of 10 years and up to 20 years. Additionally, the police will have the authority to enforce deportations, “including the power to enter any premises, remove individuals, and use reasonable force.” NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for a group that resists occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance. Hamas has clearly and openly stated that its enemy is not the Jewish people, but the supremacist ideology of Zionism – the ideology under which Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them to Gaza and other locations. Red Cross officials wait outside Israel’s Ofer Prison as thousands of displaced Palestinians go to check on their homes as the 4-day humanitarian pause begins for prisoner exchange and aid in Ramallah, Gaza on November 24, 2023. Red Cross officials wait outside Israel’s Ofer Prison as thousands of displaced Palestinians go to check on their homes as the 4-day humanitarian pause begins for prisoner exchange and aid in Ramallah, Gaza on November 24, 2023. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] (Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency) UN signals to Israel: Replacing UNRWA would be your responsibility The United Nations responded to Israel’s decision to cut ties with the Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA), by saying it has no responsibility to replace the agency’s operations in Gaza and the West Bank, signalling it was Israel’s problem as the occupying power, according to a letter excerpt seen by Reuters. Under a new law, Israel ended a 1967 cooperation agreement with UNRWA that covered the protection, movement and diplomatic immunity of the Agency. The law will also ban UNRWA’s operations in Israel from late January. UNRWA has said that its operations in Gaza and the West Bank are now at risk of collapse. “I would note, as a general point, that it is not our responsibility to replace UNRWA, nor do we have the capacity to do so,” UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres’ chef de cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, wrote to a senior Israeli foreign affairs official late on Tuesday. The mention of responsibility is a veiled reference to Israel’s obligations as an occupying power. The UN views Gaza and the West Bank as Israeli-occupied territory. International humanitarian law requires an occupying power to agree to relief programs for people in need and to facilitate them “by all the means at its disposal” and ensure food, medical care, hygiene and public health standards. NOTE: According to the Congressional Research Service, UNRWA’s budget for 2023 alone was $1.47 billion. RECOMMENDED READING: Israel Is Restricting Aid More Than Ever, UNRWA Warns as Millions Starve Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian, Israeli Forces Kill Another Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, on Wednesday night, injured several citizens and abducted others, during a prolonged military assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the citizen, Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Saadi, 53, succumbed to a critical gunshot wound inflicted on him by occupation forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its ambulance crews transported a critically injured citizen to hospital for treatment, while sources at the Ibn Sina Hospital said that they received a seriously injured man who was shot in the thigh, later announcing his death. The PRCS added that occupation forces shot Saadi with three live rounds while he was in the “Hursh Al-Sa’ada” neighborhood in the western part of Jenin city. On Wednesday afternoon, an Israeli colonizer killed a Palestinian man after an alleged car-ramming attempt near the illegal “Shilo” colony, built on citizens’ lands northeast of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. The General Authority of Civil Affairs informed the Palestinian Health Ministry that the young man, Harith Khaled Abdullah Jabara, 32, succumbed to critical gunshot wounds during an alleged car-ramming attempt. The Health Ministry announced that occupation forces shot Jabara after his vehicle crashed at the entrance to the “Shilo” settlement, near the town of Turmus Ayya, injuring two Israeli colonizers. Israeli media reported that two Israeli settlers sustained minor injuries, while an armed colonizer shot and killed the suspect after he exited his vehicle. Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 777 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 167 children, and injured 6,300. Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Saadi, Harith Khaled Abdullah Jabara, killed Wednesday Nov 6 in the West Bank Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Saadi, Harith Khaled Abdullah Jabara, killed Wednesday Nov 6 in the West Bank (IMEMC) Election: In Dearborn, Rashida Tlaib Did Nearly Twice as Well as Kamala Harris Harris refused to distance herself from the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Tlaib railed against it. Voters in the biggest U.S. city with an Arab-majority population shifted decisively toward Donald Trump on Tuesday, in a stinging rebuke of the Biden administration’s policies in the Middle East. Trump claimed 43 percent of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, to Kamala Harris’s 36 percent. Jill Stein claimed 15 percent of the vote in the city, where the Green Party had notched less than 1 percent in 2020. Trump’s margin of victory in Dearborn represents a massive reversal from the 2020 election, when Joe Biden won 69 percent to Trump’s 30. The huge shift toward Trump will not be decisive in a race where he cruised to a Electoral College victory without the help of Michigan, the state with the highest percentage of Arab Americans. The state had yet to be called Wednesday morning. Still, it was a telling sign of how completely the administration has lost Arab Americans over the war. Down-ballot results suggest that the move was motivated in large part by anger toward the Biden administration rather than dissatisfaction with Democratic policies overall. Letter to U of Minnesota admin protesting suspension of students for protesting Gaza War Dear President Cunningham and Colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our concern about the decision of the administration of the University of Minnesota (UMN) to indefinitely suspend eight students who participated in an occupation of a university building, Morrill Hall, on 21 October 2024. Whatever one thinks of the students’ action, we regard the university’s decision to bar them from classes, dormitories, dining halls and campus jobs as an unduly harsh sanction that violates their rights to education and sustenance. The fact that this sanction was imposed without the students having had the opportunity to defend their actions in a properly conducted disciplinary process makes it all the more egregious. The university’s actions in this regard seem aimed at deterring students from exercising the dictates of their conscience on matters of urgent public concern. They also contravene the University of Minnesota’s laudable tradition of countenancing contentious student protests… (Read the full letter here.) Pro-Palestine protesters stand firm as Chicago police officers prepare to begin arrests at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois on May 4, 2024. Protests on US school campuses are continuing nationwide, with pro-Palestine encampments calling on institutions to divest investments in Israel and in support of a ceasefire in Gaza Pro-Palestine protesters stand firm as Chicago police officers prepare to begin arrests at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois on May 4, 2024. Protests on US school campuses are continuing nationwide, with pro-Palestine encampments calling on institutions to divest investments in Israel and in support of a ceasefire in Gaza (photo) According to the World Health Organization, across Gaza as a whole, 556,774 children under age 10 -- or 94% -- received two doses of the polio vaccine in recent weeks. According to the World Health Organization, across Gaza as a whole, 556,774 children under age 10 — or 94% — received two doses of the polio vaccine in recent weeks. (social media) MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. The Cradle: Israel’s war on Lebanon’s history and heritage Common Dreams: From Netanyahu to Orbán, Global Far-Right Figures Celebrate Trump Win Middle East Eye: How Arab autocrats enabled Israel’s Gaza genocide STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 6, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 6, 2024: at least 44,159* ( 43,391 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 778 in the West Bank (~166 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 6, 2024: at least 108,647 (including at least 102,347 in Gaza and 6,300 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 6, 2024: ~1,574 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 396*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (most recent: Nov 2); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,050, with 13,658 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. 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Gazans trapped alive under rubble, Israel blocks their rescue – Day 395 [email protected] November 6, 2024 arms embargo, israel katz, israeli settler violence, Lebanon, West Bank, yoav gallant Palestinians carrying essential belongings flee their houses after Israel issued new evacuation orders in the north of the enclave as living and humanitarian conditions deepening due to intense Israeli attacks on Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip on November 05, 2024 (Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff In Gaza, at least 61 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Tuesday. In the West Bank, at least 7 people were killed in an Israeli military raid and air attacks. Palestinian Civil Defense seeks global help after receiving appeals about people trapped alive under rubble in Gaza The Palestinian Civil Defense reported on Tuesday, “We are receiving urgent pleas about the presence of survivors under the debris of some homes and residential buildings that were demolished by the Israeli occupation (forces) in the Beit Lahia project area in northern Gaza,” and called for “international human rights and humanitarian organizations to intervene urgently to allow access for rescue teams and work to save those trapped beneath the rubble.” The Civil Defense added, “Citizens in northern Gaza are facing death and Israeli extermination in silence, while the occupation has entirely disrupted our teams’ operations, confiscated their vehicles and equipment, displaced them, and arrested some,” and described Israel’s actions as a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.” The agency noted that for the 14th consecutive day, the Israeli army has prevented teams from conducting their operations in northern Gaza. After weeks of intense bombing by Israeli warplanes, northern Gaza has taken on an apocalyptic look. After weeks of intense bombing by Israeli warplanes, northern Gaza has taken on an apocalyptic look. (screengrab) Key Highlights from weekly Gaza report: UN office for humanitarian affairs For almost a month, all attempts by humanitarian organizations to deliver food to people in the besieged areas of North Gaza governorate have been blocked by the Israeli authorities. In central and southern Gaza, more than 100 kitchens producing 400,000 meals a day are at risk of shutting down due to supply shortages. Health-care conditions in North Gaza remain critical with the Kamal Adwan Hospital hit twice in the past week and the delivery of life-saving supplies to the Al Awda Hospital denied. Over 42 million tons of rubble and a large concentration of explosive hazards pose an imminent threat to civilians, while the entry of specialized personnel and equipment and the conduct of explosive ordnance disposal activities are restricted. Ten per cent of all journalists working in Gaza have been killed since October 2023, reports the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, as the Israeli authorities still ban the entry of foreign journalists. Two elderly Palestinians in northern Gaza die waiting at Israeli checkpoint The two elderly individuals, both ill and in wheelchairs, passed away in the afternoon as they waited for several hours at the checkpoint, witnesses said. They had been trying to cross the Israeli checkpoint with their families and other displaced Palestinians from the town of Beit Lahia, they added. The two elders were held by Israeli forces at the checkpoint near the Civil Administration area east of the Jabalia refugee camp, enduring hours-long delays . Witnesses said that the displaced people, including the two elders, were forced to wait for long hours under the sun in harsh conditions at the Israeli checkpoint, as they sought passage following Israeli warnings for residents to evacuate the area. Early Tuesday, the Israeli army dropped leaflets over several neighborhoods in Beit Lahia, ordering residents and displaced people to evacuate the area and head south via Salah al-Din Road, east of the Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli military destroyed the only firefighting vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip The Israeli military destroyed the only firefighting vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip (Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza]) West Bank: Israeli operation that killed 8 Palestinians ‘involved lethal war-like tactics’ At least eight people were killed in an Israeli military raid and air attacks on the occupied West Bank. UN chief’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that Tuesday’s operations in Jenin “involved lethal war-like tactics”. At least seven people have been killed after Israeli forces carried out a raid in the occupied West Bank. Dujarric added that the operation “seems to exceed law enforcement standards”. “This has included air strikes and shoulder-fired explosive projectiles, resulting in fatalities.” The dead included Hani Ali Bani Awda, 52, who was killed and dismembered when Israeli forces fired anti-tank grenades at his home in the town of Tamoun, south of Tubas, and Aref Mohammed Aref Bani Awda, 40. Mohammad Hassan Musa Asous, 44, and Shawqi Fayyad Hassan Asous, 40, were assassinated by Israeli forces in the village of Ash-Shuhada, southwest of Jenin. Also on Tuesday, Israeli forces killed four Palestinian men during a brutal attack on the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank: Abdullah Khaled Abu Zaid, 22, Majdi Hamza Saba’neh and Omar Mustafa Saba’neh, and Nasr Kamil. Palestinians from the occupied West Bank who were killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday, Nov. 5 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank who were killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday, Nov. 5 (IMEMC) Israel builds military outposts in Gaza After weeks of footage showing the Israeli occupation army demolishing the homes of displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, Israel’s Channel 14 reported yesterday that the occupation state has now begun building military outposts in Rafah. Netanyahu sacks defense minister Gallant; his replacement is anti-Palestinian to the core Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on 5 November, citing a lack of mutual trust and disagreements on the “management” of the war in Gaza and Lebanon. In a one-sentence letter handed to Gallant personally, Netanyahu tells the outgoing war chief, “Your tenure will end 48 hours from the receipt of this letter.” “I would like to thank you for your service as defense minister,” the letter, released by the premier’s office, concludes. “Unfortunately, although in the first months of the war there was trust and there was very fruitful work, during the last months this trust cracked between me and the Defense Minister,” Netanyahu said in a video statement released Tuesday night. He also accused Gallant of indirectly aiding Israel’s enemies. “I made many attempts to bridge these gaps, but they kept getting wider,” he said. “They also came to the knowledge of the public in an unacceptable way, and worse than that, they came to the knowledge of the enemy — our enemies enjoyed it and derived a lot of benefit from it.” Foreign Minister Israel Katz will replace Gallant as head of the defense ministry. Gideon Saar, a minister without a portfolio who was recently rumored to be Gallant’s replacement, will be appointed as foreign minister. Three of Gallant’s most prominent remarks that have drawn international scrutiny and allegations of potential violations of international law: On Oct. 9, 2023, Gallant announced a “complete siege” on Gaza, saying: “There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed.” (A severe blockade has sparked international criticism, with concerns that it constitutes collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law.) In the same announcement, Gallant referred to Hamas militants as “human animals,” declaring: “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.” (The language has been condemned for its dehumanizing tone, which could incite violence against civilians.) In August 2023, Gallant warned of potential action against Hezbollah, stating that Israel could “return Lebanon to the Stone Age” if attacked. (That remark was interpreted as a threat to use disproportionate force against civilian infrastructure.) Israel Katz, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, has already taken some memorable actions against Palestinians, including: Two days after October 7th, Katz issued an order to “immediately cut off the water supply from Israel to Gaza,” adding, “Electricity and fuel were cut off yesterday…All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave.” Katz also declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres “persona non grata in Israel” for criticizing the country’s war on Gaza. While serving as Israel’s foreign minister, he threatened “severe consequences” for nations that officially recognize Palestinian statehood. Nearly 150 of the 193 United Nations member states recognize Palestine. In 2022, as a member of the legislature he said, “Yesterday I warned the Arab students, who are flying Palestine flags at universities: Remember 48. Remember our independence war and your Nakba, don’t stretch the rope too much. […] If you don’t calm down, we’ll teach you a lesson that won’t be forgotten.” In one of his final acts as foreign minister, Katz on Monday initiated the process of annulling the 1967 agreement between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). (Left to right) Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, newly appointed defense minister Israel Katz (Left to right) Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, newly appointed defense minister Israel Katz (Wikimedia Commons) 52 Nations Call for Global Arms Embargo on Israel The Foreign Ministry of Turkiye sent the UN a letter signed by 52 nations and two organizations calling for a halt in military transfers to Israel, stating the Israeli army is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for the arms embargo on Israel while speaking at a news conference in Djibouti on 1 November. While attending the Turkiye–Africa collaboration meeting, Fidan announced that the group letter was sent to the UN and that it must be “repeated at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide.” Israeli settlers acquire hundreds of high-caliber rifles to ‘prepare for war’ in West Bank Israeli settler and leader of the Samaria Regional Council in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Yossi Dagan, has purchased more than 500 rifles to arm emergency security teams, and is now working to further upgrade their equipment in preparation for a future war with Palestinians, Masar News reported on 5 November. Dagan purchased dozens of advanced sniper rifles after raising almost one million shekels ($270,000) from supporters of the Council around the world. Masar News notes that “These moves indicate a major shift in the settlers’ strategy” and show the settlers’ readiness for war in the West Bank. Early last month, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced that over 120,000 firearms have been distributed among Jewish settlers in the West Bank since the outbreak of the Gaza war last year. “Over 120,000 weapons were distributed to eligible citizens, while tens of thousands more received conditional approvals,” he said on his X account. “We intend to continue arming Israel. That’s what we did, and that’s what we’ll continue to do!” NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are a violation of international law, and considered by many Palestinians to be the main barrier to any lasting peace agreement. Some settler groups, moreover, have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces. In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Jewish settlers Israeli security forces amid raid in Hebron, West Bank Jewish settlers Israeli security forces amid raid in Hebron, West Bank (Anadolu/Getty Images) Israel manages massive destruction in Lebanon, but no real “progress” According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) on 5 November, “Within the framework of the destructive war waged by the Israeli military on Lebanon, in an area roughly three kilometers deep that extends from Naqoura to Khiam, more than 37 towns have been totally wiped out, and more than 40,000 housing units have been completely destroyed” (emphasis added). Israel released footage on Monday showing the detonation of entire neighborhoods, and scores of houses in southern Lebanon’s Mays al-Jabal. Several videos of home demolitions carried out by Israeli forces have surfaced since Tel Aviv launched its failed ground operation in southern Lebanon, which began at the very start of October. Despite the destruction, Israeli forces have been unable to achieve the goal of pushing Hezbollah away from the border, establishing a buffer zone, and securing the return of tens of thousands of settlers who were evacuated from their northern settlements at the start of the war last year. Yedioth Ahronoth reported last week that despite deploying 50,000 soldiers to Lebanon, the army was unable to “capture even a single village.” It notes that five divisions were deployed, three times the force that was sent into south Lebanon and defeated in 2006. The Hebrew newspaper also reported on 4 November that Israel is facing a serious shortage of troops. Images of Ramyah, a village in southern Lebanon, before and after the Israeli military blew up at least 40 buildings in the past two weeks, according to a Times analysis. Images of Ramyah, a village in southern Lebanon, before and after the Israeli military blew up at least 40 buildings in the past two weeks, according to a Times analysis. (Munira Khayyat, via X; Georges Haddad, via X) Israeli attacks have killed 151 emergency workers in Lebanon The World Health Organization (WHO) says emergency medical services in Lebanon have reported 201 attacks over the past year following the hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. The attacks have resulted in 151 deaths and 212 injuries, it said. The violence “is hindering the rescue and relief efforts, and ultimately contributing to high death rates,” it added. Medics in Lebanon have accused Israel of directly targeting them in attacks that rights experts say amount to war crimes. A view of damaged building after Israeli airstrike on Beirut, Lebanon on October 3, 2024. It was reported that 6 people were killed and several people were wounded in the attacks. A view of damaged building after Israeli airstrike on Beirut, Lebanon on October 3, 2024. It was reported that 6 people were killed and several people were wounded in the attacks. (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images) New Israeli Law Empowers Education Ministry to Immediately Dismiss Arab Teachers Suspected of Sympathy With “Terrorist” Orgs (like UNRWA) Israeli lawmakers passed a law on Tuesday authorizing the education minister to withdraw funding from schools where “expressions of sympathy with terrorist acts are occurring or being permitted.” The law also allows the Education Ministry’s director general to summarily dismiss teachers without prior notice if they “demonstrate sympathy with a terrorist organization” or “issue statements praising, supporting or encouraging” terrorist acts. The legislation passed with 55 votes in favor and 45 against. Following the law’s passage, Amit Halevi, who introduced the law, declared, “Today, the Knesset is taking the most crucial step in the war against our enemies: striking at terrorism’s strongest foundation – education.” He added, “This law will ensure that Israeli students are educated in justice, science, and compassion, rather than terrorism, injustice and barbarism.” NOTE: The Israeli government has declared a number of groups to be part of or sympathetic to Hamas (allegedly a terrorist group), or even terrorist groups in their own right, including six Palestinian civil society groups; UNRWA (the UN humanitarian arm for Palestinian refugees); various Israeli leaders have also accused Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization, the United Nations as a whole, Jewish Voice for Peace, and IfNotNow of backing or spreading propaganda from Hamas, as well as Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, college students and Jewish professors all over the world; similarly the entire countries of Spain, South Africa, as well as the US State Department, and all the children of Gaza over the age of four – all are alleged supporters of Hamas (and thereby “sympathetic toward a terrorist organization”). (Links to accusations that these and many other groups and individuals are Hamas supporters are here – with thanks to Mehdi Hasan.) NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for a group that resists occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance. Hamas has clearly and openly stated that its enemy is not the Jewish people, but the supremacist ideology of Zionism – the ideology under which Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them to Gaza and other locations. RECOMMENDED READING: How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. Palestinians walk near a pile of rubble on a rainy day in Jabaliya, Gaza on September 01, 2024. Palestinians walk near a pile of rubble on a rainy day in Jabaliya, Gaza on September 01, 2024. (Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency) MORE NEWS: Al Jazeera: Malaysia working on resolution to expel Israel from UN Drop Site News: In Internal Email, LA Times Owner Cites Gaza Among Reasons He Decided Not to Endorse Harris or Trump Mondoweiss: Turmoil at the ICC as fears rise over Israel and the U.S. interference STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 5, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 5, 2024: at least 44,159* ( 43,391 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 768 in the West Bank (~166 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 5, 2024: at least 108,647 (including at least 102,347 in Gaza and 6,300 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 5, 2024: ~1,574 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 396*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (most recent: Nov 2); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,002, with 13,492 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer https://israelpalestinenews.org/gazans-trapped-alive-rubble-israel-blocks-rescue-day-395/

TRUMP VICTORY thanks to ZIONIST MUSK-VANCE AXIS - VT Foreign Policy November 6, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here VERSIONE IN ITALIANO “I am the 47th president, we have made history.” With this announcement Donald Trump jubilantly showed up just before reaching 270 Grand Electors: at the last count he obtained 277. Breaking Update here – Kremlin names Two Reasons Preventing Putin from Congratulating Trump “Game, set and match”. This was instead written by Elon Musk on X, billionaire founder of Tesla and owner of the former social platform Twitter, while the vote counting with Trump continued. Victory of the Zionist Axis against the Biden-Harris Liberticides The victory of the Republican candidate Trump is the triumph of the “teatro-cracy” theorized by Plato: that is, the government of the scenic representation in which the New York tycoon has been able to be a master, even exploiting the failed public debate with his Democratic rival for the White House (Kamala Harris) to his advantage, accusing her and the journalists of NBC News of bias. VANCE & TRUMP… Two Hard Zionists for Ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza His success is a regurgitation of US freedom against the business-oriented and liberticidal administration of Biden-Harris who, with the imposition of mandatory vaccines and the censorship of every voice of dissent on the pandemic emergency, managed to make people forget even that the Covid gene serums were financed by Trump’s own Warp Speed ​​project and that it was he who imposed masks and lockdowns on the advice of virologist Anthony Fauci. Although he had defined him as “a man of the Deep State”, the Deep State of international intrigues today identifiable with the New World Order. “White House’s Pressure on Meta to Censor SARS-Cov-2 Lab Leak Theory”. Zuckerberg email disclosed But if Trump won he must thank one of the main components of the NWO: the Zionist Lobby to which he has always shown himself devoted and which supported him in the electoral campaign through two of its prominent members such as the billionaire Elon Musk and his Pentagon partner James David Vance. Precisely the choice of Vance as the vice-presidential candidate, a conservative exponent of the Grand Old Party (the Republicans), materialized in the aftermath of the July 13, 2024 attack in Butler, Pennsylvania as if it were a clear coded message of assent to the Deep State… The Role of Vice President Vance intrigued with the Pentagon Precisely the role of Vance, a self-styled Catholic who however defends the right of Israelis to genocide in Palestine, could be the discriminant capable of making the difference between a Trumpian reenactment of MAGA (Make American Great Again) now clouded by the imprisonment of its ideologue Steve Bannon and an exuberant administration but still grateful for the funding of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee). SHADY AFFAIRS of TRUMP’s VP alongside PENTAGON-CIA’s Globalists of Ukrainian Bio-Labs. Vance Partner of Biodefense Trust funded by Fauci for Moderna Vaccine In this sense, the 47th President of the United States of America risks becoming a gigantic photocopy of the Government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy: an extremist executive on national security policies (such as immigration) and totally complicit in the enormous speculations of the Arms Lobby in wars and of Big Pharma in health strategies in view of new announced pandemics. Precisely the two war scenarios that Trump will have to face will be the indicator of his effective “slavery towards the Deep State”, if you will. New COVID WAVE “PLANNED”? BioNTech is Expecting Pandemic-Level Vaccine Sales in Autumn… The Infamous Legacy of the Conflicts in Ukraine and the Holy Land The conflicts in Ukraine and the Holy Land (Palestine, Lebanon and Syria), in fact, are infamous legacies of a long-standing strategy of the New World Order that is no longer even managed by Washington but by Langley, headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Virginia, from where in the distant 1983 the plot to attack Syria and start the subsequent Arab Springs began. Intel Reminder. CIA TOP SECRET FILE: US WAR IN SYRIA PLANNED SINCE 1983 The same must also be said for the conflict in Ukraine. It is an evolution of the Civil War in Donbass that began with the 2014 coup that was prepared long after the Kiev Security Forum of 2007 in which the then American president George Walker Bush participated together with many exponents of the Zionist Lobbies who, not by chance, have brought a secular Zionist like Volodymyr Zelensky to the leadership of Ukraine today. The Ukrainian president has become a full-fledged hitman for NATO and George Soros (who orchestrated the 2014 regime change), so much so that he was capable of having one of his own delegates killed for the peace negotiations with Russia a few weeks after the start of Moscow’s special military operation to stop the genocide of pro-Russians in the country. Exclusive! NEW NATO CHIEF: A SOROS’ FRIEND WHO FUNDED KIEV COUP. Ex Dutch PM Rutte Supported LGBTQ against Pedophilia Ban in EU In his election campaign, Trump aired his commitment to ending the war between Moscow and Kiev, but some of his close collaborators, such as Mike Pompeo, have instead released his own military plan to continue it, so much so as to induce the Kremlin to not have much hope for a change of direction. It should also be remembered that when in 2016 President Trump tried to block 400 million dollars in military aid destined for Kiev, Congress impeached him with the obvious little hands of the American sergeant majors stirring in the torpid. Kremlin on Ukraine War: “Russia has no illusions about Trump”. Putin’s Spokesman Reactions to Pompeo’s WSJ Article This is why the most obvious risk is that the new US administration will focus on national economic policies and will pay little or no attention to the ongoing conflicts, allowing them to proceed by inertia until the risk of a nuclear conflict that could be favored by the United Kingdom and the European Union, by virtue of the historic international alliance between Rothschild, Rockefeller, Soros and Gates… The thorniest issue remains that of the genocide of the Israeli Army of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Palestine, which is also spreading to Lebanon. Trump’s Alliance with the Genocide Netanyahu Trump in his previous administration showed total acquiescence towards the Zionist leader by legitimizing the military protection of the Golan Heights (taken from Syria by Israel) despite a UN resolution that ordered their immediate release. “Israel must leave the Golan”. The UN’s slap against Trump and Bibi-Briberies He ordered the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (2020) and ordered the killing with a US Air Force drone of Qasem Soleimani, the general commander of the Iranian Quds Forces of the Guards of the Islamic Republic who helped Syria defeat the terrorists of ISIS. In the same attack, on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed, the head of the Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces who for years have accused the caliph Al Baghdadi founder of the Islamic State of having been a CIA and Mossad agent (Israeli counterintelligence). AL BAGHDADI: ISIS CALIPH AND MOSSAD-CIA AGENT HIDDEN BY US This is why his arrival at the White House will certainly be seen as a harbinger of new tensions in the Middle East by Iran and its allies. In this context, not only the role of Vance, who will be the point of reference for an international business committee with the Pentagon, but also that of Elon Musk will have a significant weight. Elon Musk’s IT Challenge to Bill Gates Billionaire and founder of Space X, Elon Musk “could be the biggest winner of a second Trump term” in the White House. This is what ‘Nbc News’ wrote in a portrait of the Tesla CEO in which it is emphasized that Musk “and his business empire could reap enormous rewards” from a return of the former US president to the White House. Project Syndicate funded by Soros, Gates and McKinsey to Promote Ukraine War as Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations For the IT tycoon of South African origins but naturalized American, there is a big challenge at stake against his rival Bill Gates, a megadonor of the Democrats, who has polarized Microsoft’s artificial intelligence both in the field of NATO military technologies (see the DIANA project in Turin) and in the health sector through his NGOs for global immunization linked to the WHO. It is clear that with the help of Trump and his supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who had also attempted to endorse Biden and Harris but was not taken into consideration), Musk could prove to be a crucial antagonist of Gates’ military and health policies, now a point of reference both in Italy and in the EU. WUHAN-GATES – 77. Biden’s US GOVT, EU are PAYING Scientists to HIDE SARS-Cov-2 Man-Made BioWeapon But it remains to be seen what positions Vance will have, who has millionaire interests, through Battell, a giant of the Pentagon’s contractors, precisely with the bacteriological laboratories controlled all over the world by the CIA. Three Conservative Catholics against Transgenderism Certainly the collaboration between three conservative Catholics like Trump, Vance and RFK Jr. can represent a new course capable of curbing the abortion drift and transgender policies on minors, denounced as an abomination also by Musk. But it will remain to be seen whether their ties with the Zionist Lobby will not prevail over their Christian aspirations. Elon Musk demands Life in Prison for Child Sex-Change Defending DeSantis Bans in Florida This is why the new Republican president will first have to prove that he is not a puppet of the New World Order, as Italian Prime Minister Meloni has become in the space of a year after her affiliation with Rockefeller’s think tanks. In fact, she has chosen to be one of the “Pawns in the Game”, like those described in his book by the Commodore of the Canadian Navy William James Guy Carr in which he traces the birth and war objectives of the NWO. FREEMASONRY & ZIONISM – 1. Apocalyptic “Cataclysms” by Synagogue of Satan: Genocides in Palestine & Plotted Pandemic for Lethal Vaccines. On the other hand, Trump himself cannot prove too inconvenient to the Deep State, already considered at the origin of his UkraineGate impeachment by a former director of the CIA, in order to avoid ending up like Abraham Lincoln and JFK, killed in mysterious attacks and replaced by their Freemason deputies… The fact that he has a vice president so close to the “Deep State” at his side makes these dark plots that have governed the political world for decades practicable at any time due to the increasingly close ties between Freemasonry and Zionism. Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio director of Gospa News investigative journalist since 1991 VT columnist since 2019 © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS reproduction prohibited without authorization follow Fabio G.C. Carisio on Twitter and Gospa News on Telegram MAIN SOURCES GOSPA NEWS – CONSPIRACY – FREEMASONRY – NWO GOSPA NEWS – WAR ZONE GOSPA NEWS – WEAPONS LOBBY FREEMASONRY and ZIONISM – 2. Toward Diabolical Apocalypse. Guardian Forecast Hundreds of Casualties in Israel. Then Thousands in West for Nuke Winds WUHAN-GATES – 62. MANMADE SARS-Cov-2 FOR GOLDEN VACCINES: Metabiota, CIA, Biden, Gates, Rockefeller intrigued in Ukraine, China and Italy WEAPONS LOBBY – 13. “Military Schengen Plan” in EU developed by CEPA’s Lobbyists & US-UK WarLords for Ukraine. Russia warns NATO UKRAINEGATE, CIA-DEEP STATE’S PLOT AGAINST TRUMP with two whistleblowers and Italian ties NATO’s COUP IN UKRAINE: THE GENESIS – 4. Putin: “Plan vs Russia since 2008”. After Kiev Security Forum on Gas & Virus Warfares “Zionist lobby group AIPAC puts US govt. in Chokehold for funding Genocide in Gaza”. Ex Congressional staffer said In Honor of JFK’s Immortal Legacy: A presentation by Rising Tide Foundation President Cynthia Chung IL SIONISTA TRUMP CONTRO L’ATLANTISTA HARRIS. Presidenziali USA: Duello a Colpi di Menzogne di due Servi del NWO e dei Signori delle Guerre Fabio G. C. Carisio Fabio is investigative journalist since 1991. Now geopolitics, intelligence, military, SARS-Cov-2 manmade, NWO expert and Director-founder of Gospa News: a Christian Information Journal. His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more… Most popolar investigation on VT is: Rumsfeld Shady Heritage in Pandemic: GILEAD’s Intrigues with WHO & Wuhan Lab. Bio-Weapons’ Tests with CIA & Pentagon Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting. For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime. With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians. In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence. In 2020 published the book, in Italian only, WUHAN-GATES – The New World Order Plot on SARS-Cov-2 manmade focused on the cycle of investigations Wuhan-Gates His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator. 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PALESTINIANS GENOCIDE Act 2. Zio-US Supporter of Biden-Harris Plans to Deploy Mercenaries to Gaza for a Netanyahu’s Lager Fabio G. C. CarisioOctober 25, 2024 VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. by Yaniv Cogan and Jeremy Scahill – originally published on Drop Site All Links to previous Gospa News investigations have been added in the aftermath for the ties withe the topics covered in this post VERSIONE IN ITALIANO The Israeli government is actively considering a plan to deploy operatives from private U.S. logistics and security companies in the Gaza Strip under the auspices of delivering humanitarian aid, according to Israeli media reports. Israel’s security cabinet convened Sunday evening to discuss the proposal and is expected to approve a “pilot” program and begin conducting test runs in the next two months, according to Israeli media reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “agreed to examine” the plan last week, according to Haaretz. A “gated community” in Gaza where Palestinians would be subjected to biometric screening The media reports portray the plan as the brainchild of Israeli-American businessman Mordechai “Moti” Kahana, the CEO of Global Delivery Company (GDC), who describes his for-profit business as “Uber for War Zones.” Kahana, a passionate supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, has spent the past year aggressively trying to find a role for his company in Israel’s war on Gaza. Among Kahana’s goals is to create a “gated community” in Gaza where Palestinians would be subjected to biometric screenings in order to receive humanitarian aid. For months, there has been discussion in Israel of creating “humanitarian bubbles” in northern Gaza where aid could be distributed after Israeli forces declare Hamas fighters have been eliminated from the areas. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has championed the idea. Rumors have been swirling in Israel about how this might be achieved and who might run the operations. Update – “TOWARDS A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE”. Russia Warning on BIDEN’s US Policies in Ukraine and Middle East. Moscow: “Outrageous Harris” “GDC and its subcontractor have had extensive discussions with the Israeli government including the Ministry of Defense, the Israeli Defense Forces, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the modalities for this initiative,” GDC said in a statement on Monday. The company asserted that “well trained private security is the only realistic way” to deliver aid to Gaza “as long as the nations are unwilling to put their troops on the ground in Gaza and UN peacekeepers are seen as ineffective.” It added, “Personnel working for our security sub-contractor are trained and equipped for non-lethal and lethal methods of crowd control. They are trained to use deadly force only as a last resort if their lives are in danger. IDF forces on the other hand are combat troops who lack the training, equipment and discipline to avoid deadly force unless absolutely necessary. Using combat soldiers for this mission is almost sure to lead to civilian casualties.” An American Neo-Nazi who Fought within Azov Battalion Avowes the Crimes of his Ukrainian ‘colleagues’ GDC’s pilot proposal with Constellis, partner of Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company GDC’s pilot proposal includes a plan to partner with Constellis—a successor and parent company to what was once Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company founded by Erik Prince. Constellis maintains it has no ties to Prince. The company operates in Israel on a Pentagon contract to provide security for U.S. personnel working at a discreet radar facility in the Negev desert 30 miles from Gaza. The site was established to provide early warnings of Iranian ballistic missile attacks. Among Constellis’s subsidiaries is the mercenary company Triple Canopy, which has long worked for the U.S. government and private companies in war and conflict zones across the globe. Constellis did not respond to a request for comment. While Kahana has been presented in Israeli media as generating the proposal for a private security force to deliver aid to Gaza, it is unclear if the Israeli government is actually considering his specific offer or exploring alternative private security contractors. A private U.S. security company would need approval from the State Department to offer armed services to a foreign entity or the Israeli government. In its statement Monday, GDC said it planned to follow up with the Israeli government and would “seek to meet with the government of the United States, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations active in Gaza.” OTHER WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE BY WESTERN FOREIGN FIGHTERS. Moscow will Probe on Mercenary’s Atrocities against Russian POWs The barrage of media reports stating the Israeli government is increasingly occupied with humanitarian aid distribution logistics comes at a time when Israeli policy on the ground demonstrates it remains unwavering in its commitment to wage a war of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. The entire discussion of “day after” plans for Gaza and the rumors and reports about proposals for private security may be a smokescreen. Whether Israel is seriously considering a plan to deploy a private force or not, it has made clear it intends to remain in Gaza indefinitely and has no plans to end its genocidal operations. “Uber for War Zones” Kahana frequently posts on Twitter (X), expanding on his vision for a “humanitarian” operation in Gaza in which eligibility to receive humanitarian aid is conditioned on passing biometric tests to determine if one is a “terrorist.” “Terrorists will get a bullet,” he vowed in one tweet. In response to questions from Drop Site News, Kahana added that it would be “similar to Miami without [a] golf course and swimming pool.” “It won’t be [a] ghetto,” he wrote, “they can go in and out anytime but it will have the goal of safe and secure communities with local Palestinian leadership and government.” GDC and company would be “just [providing] security.” GDC founder Moti Kahana in Jerusalem on February 18, 2016. GDC has counted among its employees Stuart Seldowitz, the disgraced Obama administration official who was charged with a hate crime after harassing a halal food cart vendor. Kahana said Seldowitz was his “humanitarian diplomacy senior consultant.” GDC reportedly cut ties with Seldowitz soon after the incident, but Kahana said he is open to Seldowitz working with GDC in Gaza. “He is still a friend,” Kahana told Drop Site. “He helped GDC to save over 5,000 Muslims in Afghanistan, and he is welcome to do the same thing in Gaza with us.” Kahana himself has a record of incendiary statements, describing U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib as Hamas’s “designated ambassador to the U.S.” and the underground tunnel system used by Al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza as the “system of the rat.” GDC currently employs several former high-ranking Israeli officers—Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a member of the extremist Think Tank “HaBitchonistim” which has advised Netanyahu since the outset of the genocide, and Lieutenant colonel Doron Avital, as well as former Chief Intelligence Officer David Tzur. GDC’s team also includes recently retired U.S. Green Beret Col. Justin Sapp, a consultant for Constellis and a veteran of covert CIA paramilitary operations in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. Its logistical director is former U.S. Navy officer Michael Durnan. ZIO-NAZIS GENOCIDES IN HOLY LAND. Netanyahu starts Christians Massacre in Lebanon after Muslims ones in Gaza On Monday, Kahana tweeted that GDC would start its Gaza project as soon as it received approval and added, “our team leader who will be running the Gaza [project] conquered [Mazar-i-Sharif] in Afghanistan after September 11.” In a subsequent interview with YNet, Kahana said he was speaking about Sapp, the former Green Beret. Kahana has boasted that his company has operated for 14 years in five wars: Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza. “Our slogan is ‘We Deliver,’” he wrote on X in March. GDC, a for-profit business operating since at least 2019, grew out of Kahana’s previous New York-based nonprofit called Amaliah. “My company is like a war-zone Uber/UPS for people and goods,” Kahana said in July 2023. “I can be here on my farm [in New Jersey] directing an operation in the Middle East.” GDC and Constellis have worked together in Ukraine Constellis is listed as an official partner on GDC’s site and GDC and Constellis have worked together in Ukraine, according to The Jewish Chronicle and confirmed by Kahana to Drop Site News. While GDC moved sunflower oil out and diesel into the country, Constellis provided security services. Constellis is one of the largest private security companies in the world. It claims to have operated in more than 50 countries and has several divisions and subsidiaries. In 2022, its subsidiary Triple Canopy won a 10-year contract to provide security to the U.S. embassy in Iraq worth an estimated $1.3 billion. It also owns Olive Group, a British private security and training firm. Final Countdown to Complete 1948’s Nakba. Israeli Govt admits the ZioNazi Genocide’s Goal: Depopulate Gaza Strip In a recent tweet, Kahana shared a screenshot of a presentation dated May 30 describing the proposed pilot, which at the time was slated to begin in July and focus on Beit Hanoun. Constellis is named as a partner. Haaretz reporter Amos Harel, while not naming Constellis, said in a recent podcast interview that the company Israel was considering outsourcing the project to “had apparently worked with the Americans in Iraq.” Kahana has described the security force he would work with as “made up of ex-combatants, veterans of elite units from the USA, England and France. The common denominator of all of them is that they are not Jewish.” Russia. “NATO Troops directly involved in Ukraine Conflict”. Many Foreign Fighters Killed: 1,427 Polish, 466 US, and 344 UK nationals Kahana has been trying to get the Israeli government’s attention back in October 2023 he touted a plan to leverage humanitarian aid in order to secure the release of Israeli hostages. At the time, his plan was rejected by the Israeli government as “[sounding] like Hamas propaganda stemming from the pressure they are under.” In November 2023, Kahana joked about ethnically cleansing Gaza and moving its population to Jordan, and likened anti-genocide protesters in the US to “the mice in the tunnels of Gaza.” Referring to footage of a Palestinian child who arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital having survived an Israeli attack, covered in dust and blood and trembling uncontrollably, he wrote, “No worries. 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Israeli attacks intensify on Gaza, Lebanon, with no end in sight – Day 364 [email protected] October 6, 2024 Emmanuel Macron, Gaza, Lebanon, massacre, West Bank Palestinians inspect the rubble of mosque, which was damaged in Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on October 6, 2024. (Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The Israeli army killed 23 more Palestinians and injured 66 in attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday. These figures do not include the death toll from the overnight bombardment across Gaza. Israeli strikes across Lebanon Saturday killed 23 people and injured 93 others, according to the country’s health ministry. Anadolu Agency reports: NORTHERN GAZA: Israel carried out more than 100 airstrikes in northern Gaza overnight, killing at least 30 Palestinians and injuring dozens, marking the deadliest Israeli escalation since May. Following the attack, the Israeli military ordered residents to evacuate their homes and relocate to the Al-Mawasi “safe” zone in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, claiming “the region remains an active combat zone.” (WATCH How safe is Gaza’s al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’?) CENTRAL GAZA: At least 24 Palestinians, including children, were killed, and 93 others injured early Sunday morning in two separate Israeli airstrikes targeting a mosque and a school that were sheltering displaced civilians in central Gaza. BEIRUT: Israeli warplanes carried out more than 30 overnight airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburb, marking the “heaviest night” of attacks since Israel expanded its military offensive against Lebanon on Sept. 23. Israeli officials claimed that the strikes were based on “precise intelligence,” and targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, as well as weapons caches, which Israel alleges are stored in residential buildings. Palestinians flee to safety with whatever belongings they can take with them after the Israeli army’s heavy air and artillery attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on October 06, 2024. Palestinians flee to safety with whatever belongings they can take with them after the Israeli army’s heavy air and artillery attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on October 06, 2024. (Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea – Anadolu Agency) Israeli military claims bombed mosque was Hamas command center Al Jazeera reports: The Israeli military has claimed, without providing evidence, that the “Shahada al-Aqsa mosque” it bombed in Deir el-Balah was being used as a “command and control complex”. Posting on X, the Israeli military also claimed that “many steps were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians” before bombing the mosque, which was housing displaced Palestinians. At least 18 people have been confirmed killed so far. Footage of the aftermath of the attack, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, shows rescue crews scrambling to pull bodies from under the rubble. NOTE: Israel justifies every strike with essentially the same words, “the site was a Hamas command and control center”; it makes the same claims, “many steps were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians,” often adding that it used “precise” munitions. The bombing sites consistently show no evidence of Hamas use, attacks are often carried out without warning to civilians to evacuate, and cause massive damage and loss of life. (More here.) The occupation launched a bombardment on the Al-Wasifi family's house in Al-Nuseirat camp (Anadolu) Site of an Israeli bombing of the home of the Al-Wasifi extended family, Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza, in September (Anadolu) Israeli army admits to targeting mosque in southern Lebanon Anadolu Agency reports: The Israeli army admitted on Saturday that it targeted a mosque in southern Lebanon, claiming that Hezbollah members were present and using it as an operations base. The Israeli army claimed in a statement that its airforce carried out a “precise strike late Friday night on Hezbollah fighters operating from a command center located within the mosque near Salah Ghandoor Hospital in Bint Jbeil.” The Israeli army claimed that Hezbollah members were using the mosque for “planning and executing attacks against Israeli forces.” This is the same pretext that the Israeli army used to destroy mosques and churches in the Gaza Strip. Lebanese Red Cross teams conducted search and rescue operations in the rubble of collapsed buildings following an Israeli army attack in Nabatieh province of southern Lebanon, on September 27, 2024.[Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency] Lebanese Red Cross teams conducted search and rescue operations in the rubble of collapsed buildings following an Israeli army attack in Nabatieh province of southern Lebanon, on September 27, 2024. (Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency) West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill a Former Prisoner Near Tubas IMEMC reports: Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man, on Saturday, after abducting him in the village of Wadi al-Far’a, southwest of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank. Kamal Bani Oda, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Tubas, reported that Israeli forces shot Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Awaisa, 30, with several live rounds, before abducting him. He added that the slain young man was a former prisoner who was released in September 2024, after spending two years in occupation prisons. Media sources said that a large army force stormed Wadi al-Far’a village, on Saturday morning, and surrounded the home of the Awaisa family, before invading the home, shooting the former prisoner with several live rounds, and abducting him. NOTE: The entire West Bank has been under Israeli occupation since 1967; all its official entrances and exits are controlled by Israeli soldiers, making its Palestinian inhabitants virtual prisoners. Many are families that were ethnically cleansed from Israel during Israel’s founding war (see this and this and this) and its 1967 war. Israeli forces often invade them; one example is here. In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Two senior Hamas commanders killed in Lebanon strikes Middle East Eye reports: Two senior Hamas commanders were reportedly killed in Israeli strikes in northern Lebanon. Field commander Saeed Atallah Ali was reportedly killed in a strike targeting the Beddawi camp for Palestinian refugees near the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Mohammed Hussein al-Lawis was killed in another strike targeting the Beqaa Valley town of Saadnayel. Hamas confirmed both deaths. NOTE: These men are just the latest in a string of Israeli assassinations of resistance leaders, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian officials. Analysts suggest Israel is leaving itself no one to negotiate a ceasefire with. Global leaders denounce Israel’s latest escalations Anadolu Agency reports: Irish foreign minister expresses ‘deep’ concern over escalation in Lebanon Spain’s king calls for end to ‘indescribable destruction’ in Gaza UK foreign secretary condemns Israeli strikes on Lebanese health facilities German foreign ministry deplores deadly Israeli attack on West Bank refugee camp French president buckles under pressure from Netanyahu Various agencies report: Anadolu Agency: French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called for halting arms shipments to Israel over its operations in Gaza, stressing the need to prioritize a political solution in the region. Macron claimed that France was not sending weapons to Israel for use in Gaza, and insisted that Israel should adhere to international and humanitarian law. AFP continues the story: Hours later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for calling for a halt to arms supplies to Israel, which is fighting wars in Gaza and Lebanon. “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilized countries should be standing firmly by Israel’s side. “Yet, President Macron and other Western leaders are now calling for arms embargoes against Israel. Shame on them,” Netanyahu said in a statement issued by his office. “Israel will win with or without their support, but their shame will continue long after the war is won”, Netanyahu added. Then. from Middle East Eye: Macron’s office walked back his statement, emphasizing that he “supports Israel’s security and demonstrates it,” that he mobilized France’s military to aid Israel twice, and that he “personally told the Iranian president of France’s commitment to Israel’s security.” “It is in this context that the president calls for an end to arms exports intended for use in Gaza,” the statement continued. “We must return to diplomatic solutions.” “France is Israel’s steadfast friend,” the Elysee concluded. MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. The Guardian (Raja Shehadeh): When will this horror end? When Israel realizes that the cost of destroying us is too high Mondoweiss: The United States and Israel set out to remake the Middle East, again STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 5, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 5, 2024: at least 42,611* ( 41,870 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,859 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 741 in the West Bank (~160 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 5, 2024: at least 103,366 (including at least 97,166 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 5, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,011 (at least 127 children, 194 women) and 9,535 injuries (690 of them children). An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced. The death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon has reached 2,011, with 9,535 wounded since Oct. 8, 2023, according to local authorities on Friday. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer An arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea — it’s the law Israel is redrawing the West Bank, cutting into a prospective Palestinian state Gaza breakdown: 20 times Israel used US arms in likely war crimes U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan. ‘Words like Slaughter:’ A comparative study of The New York Times reporting in Ukraine and Gaza Cracks in the Dome: Israel’s security mirage Israel Suddenly Has A Problem With Attacks On Population Centers Americans are always the last to know…about Israel’s crimes Does Any Other Country besides Israel have the Right to Defend Itself? ‘Raped by female soldiers’: Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out Alison Weir trending on social media – what the buzz is about Israeli media’s coverage of the rape of Palestinian detainees shows support for sexual violence in service of genocide Inside Israel’s torture, rape, and dehumanization centers I’m a pediatrician. The scars I saw on Gaza’s children will take generations to heal. What Harris’s Jewish outreach director said at a private DNC afterparty ‘Strong record of supporting the U.S.-Israel relationship’: a look at Tim Walz’s votes on Palestine as a member of Congress Nearly Two-Thirds of All Campaign Funds for Cori Bush Challenger Came From AIPAC Israeli army probe covered up “friendly fire” killings on October 7 Are US officials’ investments of public funds in Israeli bonds ethical? How much is too much? Honoring the memory of a Gazan Olympic hero: Majed Abu Maraheel https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-attacks-intensify-gaza-lebanon-no-end-in-sight-day-364/

Yes, American-made bombs killed Hezbollah leader Nasrallah (and thousands more) – Day 358 [email protected] September 30, 2024 ecocide, farming in gaza, Gaza, genocide, Jared Kushner, Lebanon, pope francis, us weapons to israel Palestinians living in makeshift tents in the Hamad area of Khan Younis, Gaza migrate with their belongings following Israel’s evacuation warning on August 16, 2024 [Doaa Albaz – Anadolu Agency] (photo) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israel killed at least 28 people in the Gaza Strip Sunday. At least four Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Umm al-Fahm School in the town of Beit Lahia, which serves to shelter displaced civilians in the northern Gaza Strip. The Lebanese health ministry has reported that Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 109 individuals and left 364 others wounded across the country. An entire family of 17 members was wiped out by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday in the town of Zboud, in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese media said. In Yemen, at least four people were killed and 49 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the western city of Al Hudaydah on Sunday, the Houthi group said. Around 17,000 children killed in Israeli war on Gaza, Palestinian authorities say Anadolu Agency reports: Around 17,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip since last October, according to local authorities on Sunday. “Around 25,973 Palestinian children now live in Gaza without one or both parents due to the Israeli aggression,” Ismail al-Thawabta, who heads Gaza’s government media office, told Anadolu. He said at least 16,859 children, including 171 infants, have been killed in Israeli attacks since Oct. 7, 2023. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has repeatedly warned that “Gaza’s children have endured unimaginable horrors” under relentless Israeli attacks. A child holds a doll among the rubble of a heavily damaged house as nine people, including three children, were killed in an attack by the Israeli army on the house of Akram al-Najjar, a lecturer at University of Jerusalem in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Jabalia, Gaza, on September 11, 2024. Mahmoud ssa / Anadolu via Getty Images A child holds a doll among the rubble of a heavily damaged house as nine people, including three children, were killed in an attack by the Israeli army on the house of Akram al-Najjar, a lecturer at University of Jerusalem in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Jabalia, Gaza, on September 11, 2024. Mahmoud ssa / Anadolu via Getty Images (photo) Gaza: Israel’s destruction of agricultural land is expression of its insistence on committing genocide Euro Med Monitor reports: Israel has once again destroyed hundreds of dunams of agricultural land, depriving Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip of agricultural land and resources vital to survival, all in support of its illegal blockade of the Strip and tight restrictions on the entry of food supplies for almost a full year. This is an expression of Israel’s insistence on committing genocide against Palestinians in the enclave. Israel has forced over 75% of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian people’s hands, either by isolating it in preparation for illegally annexing it to its military “buffer zone” or by bulldozing or otherwise damaging it, thereby destroying the Strip’s supply of fruits, vegetables, and meat. This destruction is part of a larger Israeli plan that dates back to last October. Under this plan, Israeli forces have worked to eliminate almost 80% of the agricultural land in the Gaza Strip from use by Palestinians. Israel has done this either by isolating it in preparation for its forcible annexation to the so-called “buffer zone” or by bulldozing or destroying it by other means, such as bombardment—all of which are in violation of international law. According to the Euro-Med Monitor field team, Israeli forces stormed the area of Al-Shimaa in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, early on Tuesday morning (25 September 2024). Accompanied by military bulldozers, the forces began their bulldozing operations, destroying more than 500 dunums of newly replanted agricultural land, which was supposed to sustain the needs of the people living in northern Gaza, who are subject to an arbitrary siege and systematic starvation by Israel. The Israeli destruction of these agricultural lands, the majority of which were filled with eggplants, reflects Israel’s insistence on preventing the Palestinian people from depending on the region’s agricultural food basket during a period when sufficient supplies of vegetables and other foods are being kept out of the northern Gaza Strip. This has led to a severe famine, to the point where a significant portion of the people in the north have been forced to eat tree leaves and bake ground-up animal feed instead of flour. (Read the full report here.) Palestinian security in Gaza says spying devices found in displacement camps Middle East Monitor reports: The Palestinian security services in Gaza have in recent days seized Israeli spying equipment planted in a shelter for displaced families in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian resistance media platform reported on its Telegram channel yesterday. The platform quoted a security officer as saying that “the [Israeli] occupation intelligence had disguised the seized spying devices with different shapes, so they appear as part of the surrounding and natural environment including in the form of a rock.” The officer suggested the Israeli intelligence planted the spying devices via Quadcopter drones, calling on everyone “not to tamper with any suspicious devices and to contact the security officers immediately.” Tent camp near Al-Aqsa Hospital that was hit by a deadly Israeli air attack [Abdallah FS Alattar/Anadolu] Tent camp near Al-Aqsa Hospital that was hit by a recent deadly Israeli air attack [Abdallah FS Alattar/Anadolu] (photo) From Gaza to Lebanon: Israel’s Bombing Campaign Backed by Media Propaganda MintPress News reports: Western corporate media outlets, including the BBC, CNN, and The New York Times, have been working overtime to justify Israel’s recent assault on Lebanon, which claimed the lives of approximately 600 people in a single day. These reports have repeatedly claimed that the Israeli strikes were targeting “Hezbollah positions,” an assertion that has been widely echoed without substantial scrutiny. Israel’s large-scale onslaught against civilian areas throughout Lebanon, which began on Monday, was covered by Western corporate media as “strikes on Hezbollah.” CNN’s story on the first day of the assault, after around 500 people had been killed across Lebanon, was titled, “Israeli Strikes Targeting Hezbollah Kill Hundreds Across Lebanon.” The New York Times set up a live events feed labeled “Israel Strikes Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon.” Even Reuters and the Associated Press, two of the most reputable Western news providers, framed the events as an escalation from “both sides,” covering Israel’s attack on Hezbollah. A Reuters article published Tuesday opens with a telling lede: “An Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Tuesday as cross-border rocket attacks by both sides increased fears of a full-fledged war in the Middle East, and Lebanon said only Washington could help end the fighting.” Israel has made no secret of the fact that it is targeting civilians, as demonstrated by its release of a CGI video showing mockups of Lebanese villages, where missiles are allegedly stored in homes. Despite this, much of the Western media has yet to acknowledge these admissions. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispelled any remaining doubt when he delivered a message in English to the people of Lebanon in which he claimed, “Hezbollah has been using you as human shields.” He further stated, “They’ve placed rockets in your living rooms” and “missiles in your garage.” (Read the full analysis here.) Garbage situation in Gaza is catastrophic Various agencies report: UNRWA, the United Nations group serving Palestinian refugees, says: Mountains of garbage are piling up in Gaza middle areas as sewage leaks onto streets. Families have no choice but to live beside the accumulated waste, exposed to the reek and the threat of a looming health disaster. Sanitary and living conditions across Gaza are inhumane. According to ReliefWeb, the waste management system in Gaza, already limited before the war, has now completely collapsed as collection vehicles have been destroyed and access to official landfills is refused by the Israeli military. Waste attracts rodents and insects resulting in the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera or skin diseases, while waste burning, a disposal method that locals use to manage the current emergency, worsens air pollution which in turn can result in further respiratory problems. People, many of whom are children, scavenging waste for food and sustenance, face additional risks from hazardous materials, which include medical waste and industrial chemicals. There are also growing indications that conflict pollution is risked with the spread of antimicrobial resistance, a development that can deepen the medical health crisis. Large waste dumps are also a threat to the soil and groundwater, as leachate, a toxic mix that spills from the waste, seeps into the land and affects groundwater, while in the long-term, increased methane release from landfills contributes to an increase of greenhouse gas emissions. Mountains of garbage in Gaza Mountains of garbage in Gaza (photo) Mountains of garbage in Gaza Mountains of garbage in Gaza (photo) Lebanon says around 1 million people displaced due to Israeli attacks Anadolu Agency reports: Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Sunday that around one million people have been displaced due to Israeli attacks, marking the largest wave of displacement in the country’s history. “Lebanon is experiencing the largest wave of displacement in its history,” he told a press conference following a meeting of the government’s emergency committee in Beirut. “Our priority is to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression through continued diplomatic efforts. We have no other choice,” he noted. Mikati also reaffirmed Lebanon’s commitment to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. Thousands of Lebanese and Syrian people fled to Syria, many through the al-Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, 45 km from the Syrian capital Damascus Tens of thousands of Lebanese and Syrian people fled to Syria, many through the al-Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, 45 km from the Syrian capital Damascus (photo) Israel’s state comptroller accuses army of obstructing investigations into Oct. 7 failures Anadolu Agency reports: Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman accused the military on Sunday of hindering investigations into the failures that led to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. “No external body has shown objectivity in examining the failures,” Englman said during a conference by Israeli media outlets The Jerusalem Post, Maariv and Walla. He said his office is conducting a series of investigations related to the failures that led to the Oct. 7 attack. “We are nearing completion of this report, but to finalize it, we need to meet with three individuals in the military,” Englman added. He emphasized that Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi believes that the State Comptroller’s office should not intervene in military issues, declaring him “wrong.” The State Comptroller’s office is Israel’s central institution for overseeing various state agencies to ensure public financial accountability. View of the damage after Israeli forces targeted the Ibn al-Haytham School east of Gaza City. [Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu] View of the damage after Israeli forces targeted the Ibn al-Haytham School east of Gaza City, mid September. [Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu] (photo) US senator confirms Israel used US one ton bombs in Nasrallah strike Reuters reports: The bomb that Israel used to kill Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last week was an American-made guided weapon, a U.S. senator said on Sunday. Mark Kelly, chair of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, said Israel used a 2,000-lb (900-kg) Mark 84 series bomb, during an interview with NBC. His statement marks the first U.S. indication of what weapon had been used. “We see more use of guided munitions, JDAMs, and we continue to provide those weapons,” Kelly said, using an abbreviation that stands for Joint Direct Attack Munitions. “That 2,000-pound bomb that was used, that’s a Mark 84 series bomb, to take out Nasrallah,” he said. The Israeli military said on Saturday it had eliminated Nasrallah in a strike on the group’s central command headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs. The Israeli military has declined to comment on what weapons were used in the attack. The Pentagon was not immediately available for comment. JDAMs convert a standard unguided bomb using fins and a GPS guidance system into a guided weapon. AL JAZEERA ADDS: Israel media says about 85 so-called “bunker-buster” bombs were used in the attack on Hasan Nasrallah. Also known as “ground penetration munition”, these missiles burrow deep into the ground before they detonate. They have the power to destroy underground facilities and reinforced concrete buildings. The crater left by the IDF's strike on Nasrallah's underground bunker in Dahieh, Beirut | Photo: Arab media The crater left by the IDF’s strike on Nasrallah’s underground bunker in Dahieh, Beirut | Photo: Arab media (photo) Washington’s failure to condemn Israel’s pager terrorism “can only be called racist” Ralph Nader writes in Common Dreams: Furtively booby-trapping a consumer product like a pager or two-way radio opens a new phase of warfare. This savagery prompted Leon Panetta, former director of the CIA and former secretary of defense, in an interview on the CBS “Sunday Morning” news show to charge Israel with “terrorism.” No prominent national security figure has ever assailed Israel this way. Herewith his words: The ability to be able to place an explosive in technology that is very prevalent these days. And turn it into a war of terror. Really, a war of terror. This is something new. I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism…This is going right into the supply chain, right into the supply chain. And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question, what the hell is next? Panetta would never have uttered these words without the concurrence of the CIA and the Department of Defense. Still no consequences for Netanyahu by the U.S. government. Netanyahu has made the push button a trigger for mayhem and murder—acts of large-scale terrorism. He and his predecessors have always characterized offensive acts violating the laws of war as “acceptable” defensive tactics. The supine Congress and White House regularly rubber-stamp their violations of several U.S. laws on behalf of the Israeli government. (See the letter sent to John Kirby on September 12, 2024). Consider the aftermath. No denunciation by U.S. President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, or Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Alarmingly, there were no editorials in the following week criticizing Netanyahu in The Washington Post and The New York Times. Imagine if Hezbollah did this to Israeli society. The devaluation of Palestinian and Lebanese lives can only be called racist. U.S. blowback analysts are apprehensive about the spread of Israeli-style “red button” explosives and the ingenious, and ever-cheaper armed drones. They see such technologies as potential threats within the U.S. Such is the peril of nations whose leaders wage constant profitable, preventable wars and decline to wage muscular peace with comparable determination. Ambulances are being dispatched to the area in Beirut, Lebanon while security forces take precautions after at least eight people, including a child, were killed in a mass explosion of wireless communication devices known as pagers on September 17, 2024 [Houssam Shbaro – Anadolu Agency] Ambulances are being dispatched to the area in Beirut, Lebanon while security forces take precautions after at least eight people, including a child, were killed in a mass explosion of pagers on September 17, 2024 [Houssam Shbaro – Anadolu Agency] (photo) Pope says Israel’s bombings in Lebanon, Gaza ‘immoral’ Anadolu Agency reports: On Sunday, the pope was asked about Israel’s targeted killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Friday’s strike on Beirut, which led to many casualties and reduced several buildings to rubble. “Every day I call the parish of Gaza. More than 600 people are there, inside the parish and the college, and they tell me about the things that are happening, including the cruelties that are occurring there,” he told journalists. “[D]efense must always be proportionate to the attack,” he added. “When there is something disproportionate, a domineering tendency that goes beyond morality is evident,” the pope said. “A country that, with its forces, does these things—I’m talking about any country—that does these things in such a “superlative” way, these are immoral actions,” he added. “Even in war, there is morality to be safe-guarded. War is immoral, but the rules of war indicate some morality. But when this is not respected, you can see—as we say in Argentina—the “bad blood” of these things.” Jared Kushner says Israel must ‘finish the job’ in Lebanon Al Jazeera reports: Jared Kushner, who served as a senior adviser during former US President Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, has said calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon is “wrong”. In a post on X, Kushner said Israel “cannot afford now to not finish the job” and dismantle Hezbollah completely.“They will never get another chance. After the brilliant, rapid-fire tactical successes of the pagers, radios, and targeting of leadership, Hezbollah’s massive weapon cache is unguarded and unmanned,” said Kushner, who is also the Republican candidate’s son-in-law. He added that the “right move” for the US is to allow Israel to “finish the job. It’s long overdue”. In March, Kushner sparked controversy when he publicly praised the “very valuable potential” of “waterfront property” in Gaza, in comments that gave a window into what Trump’s policy on Palestine could be during his second term. During Trump’s presidency, Kushner played a major role in negotiating the “Abraham Accords”: normalization deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Palestinians slammed the agreements as “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people”. At one point, Trump’s son-in-law described Gaza as having no historical context – “It was the result of a war – you had tribes that went different places and then Gaza became a thing.” Before leading in the creation of Trump’s so-called Deal of the Century, Kushner claimed his expertise on the subject came from reading 25 books about Palestine. Russian foreign minister urges Israel to abandon ‘essentially terrorist methods of settling political scores’ Anadolu Agency reports: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged Israel on Saturday to abandon “essentially terrorist methods of settling political scores” as he commented on the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Lavrov said at a news conference in New York that he had the impression that Israel is trying to provoke Iran and the Lebanese resistance group, Hezbollah, to push the US into direct involvement in the conflict in the Middle East. The Russian diplomat noted that Nasrallah’s murder was not the first provocative step by Israel. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in July in the Iranian capital of Tehran where he went to take part in the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi. Before that, Israel attacked the Iranian diplomatic mission in the Syrian capital of Damascus. “Apparently, Israel wants to create a reason for the US to get involved in this war. And in order to create this reason, it has been provoking both Iran and Hezbollah. In this situation, Iranian leadership is behaving extremely responsibly,” he said. “I don’t think this is the right course, I am convinced that the bloodshed must be stopped.” Asked about Israel’s willingness to implement UN Security Council resolutions, Lavrov said: “I do not see Israel’s desire to carry out any peace plans.” Lebanese Red Cross teams conducted search and rescue operations in the rubble of collapsed buildings following an Israeli army attack in Nabatieh province of southern Lebanon, on September 27, 2024. [Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency] Lebanese Red Cross teams conducted search and rescue operations in the rubble of collapsed buildings following an Israeli army attack in Nabatieh province of southern Lebanon, on September 27, 2024. [Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency] (photo) IMEMC Daily Reports. Foreign Affairs: America Needs a New Strategy to Avert Even Greater Catastrophe in the Middle East Palestine Chronicle: ‘Only the People Save the People’ – Spain Goes on General Strike against Genocide in Gaza Anadolu Agency: Germany to deny citizenship to those using pro-Palestinian slogan on social media Anadolu Agency: Thousands rally across Australia calling for cease-fire in Gaza, Lebanon STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 29: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 29, 2024: at least 42,334* (41,615 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,859 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 719 in the West Bank (~148 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – September 29: at least 102,059 (including at least 96,359 in Gaza and 5,700 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 29, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is 1,640 (104 children, 194 women) and 8,408 injuries. More recently, since September 16, 1,030 have been killed, 6,352 have been injured., with 6,352 injuries, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Saturday, September 28. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 53 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. 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Israel’s defiance on full display; Biden admin commences hand-wringing – Day 356 [email protected] September 28, 2024 blinken, google, Hezbollah, humanitarian aid to gaza, nasrallah, Netanyahu, un general assembly walks out, West Bank The Israeli military conducts an airstrike on the Dahieh area located south of Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in plumes of smoke rising from the site on September 28, 2024. [Houssam Shbaro – Anadolu Agency] The Israeli military conducts an airstrike on the Dahiyeh area located south of Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in plumes of smoke rising from the site on September 28, 2024. [Houssam Shbaro – Anadolu Agency] (photo) Mass Walkout as ‘Global Pariah’ Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly Common Dreams reports: A large number of diplomats and other officials walked out of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to defend his nation’s slaughter of more than 41,000 people in the Gaza Strip during the past year and over 700 in Lebanon this week. Journalists and critics of the “global pariah” shared photos and videos of people filing out of the hall before Netanyahu’s address—which came just a day after 25 anti-genocide protesters were arrested for blocking his motorcade in Manhattan. While there was some audience applause from the sparsely populated room on Friday, Al Jazeera Arabic’s Rami Ayari explained that “the people you hear cheering the PM during the speech are in the gallery who he brought for that purpose.” Netanyahu began his Friday address by taking aim at the world leaders who throughout the week have condemned the recent escalation against Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as the past year of Israeli forces bombing and starving Palestinians in Gaza. “I didn’t intend to come here this year. My country is at war fighting for its life,” Netanyahu said. “But, after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers standing at this podium, I decided to come here and set the record straight.” Armed with more of his infamous maps of the Middle East, the right-wing leader went on to claim that “Israel seeks peace,” while also pledging to wage war on Hamas-governed Gaza until “total victory” and telling “the tyrants of Tehran” that “if you strike us, we will strike you.” Noting that Netanyahu also spoke of “savage enemies who seek to destroy our common civilization,” James Zogby, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute, said: “Words spoken by the man who has been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. This is a disgrace. Abusing the General Assembly platform to lie and incite.” JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE (JNS) ADDS: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. envoy to the global body, and Robert Wood, the political special affairs ambassador who tends to take her place at the Security Council, did not appear to be in the room. An excerpt from Netanyahu’s defiant speech to the UN – to a largely empty chamber, except for the guest area, which was filled with Israel supporters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also declared, I say to you, until Israel – until the Jewish state – is treated like other nations, until this anti-Semitic swamp is drained, the UN will be viewed by fair-minded people everywhere as nothing more than a contemptuous farce. Popularity of Netanyahu’s Likud party grows as Israel pounds Lebanon: Survey Al Jazeera reports: A poll conducted by Israeli daily Maariv shows that Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon have significantly boosted the popularity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. If elections were held today, Likud would lead with 25 seats in the Knesset, compared with 19 for its main rival, the opposition National Unity party led by Benny Gantz, the survey showed. This is the first time since the war on Gaza began last year that Likud has gained such an advantage, the newspaper said. Blinken faces calls to resign after lying to Congress to cover for Israel’s genocide Middle East Monitor reports: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is facing mounting pressure to resign after a report earlier this week uncovered that he misled Congress about Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza. The 62-year-old, who is a staunch Zionist, is said to have misled the American people to maintain US weapons flow to Israel despite fears that the apartheid state is committing genocide in Gaza. The report details how Blinken contradicted findings from his own department’s experts and USAID in a May report to Congress, stating that Israel was not “prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance” to Gaza. It’s believed that Blinken misled the government because US law prohibits the supply of arms to countries blocking American humanitarian aid. Israel is a small country lacking the means to manufacture weapons at a rate required to execute regular wars and preserve its so-called deterrence capacity. Israel’s ability to carry out a year-long assault on Gaza would be severely hampered without the constant supply of weapons from the US and its western allies. (Read the full article here.) RECOMMENDED READING: “Laws Of War” Biden-Blinken Style US to ‘adjust’ its military force posture in Middle East Al Jazeera reports: President Joe Biden directed the Pentagon to “assess and adjust as necessary US force posture” in the Middle East, the White House says, following repeated Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut collapsed at least six residential towers in the heavily populated Dahiyeh area. “He has directed the Pentagon to assess and adjust as necessary US force posture in the region to enhance deterrence, ensure force protection, and support the full range of US objectives,” the White House said in a statement. Secretary of State Blinken said Friday, “I want to be clear that anyone using this moment to target American personnel, American interests in the region – the United States will take every measure to defend our people.” MILITARY TIMES ADDS: The U.S. has kept an increased military presence in the Middle East throughout much of the past year, with about 40,000 forces, at least a dozen warships and four Air Force fighter jet squadrons spread across the region both to protect allies and to serve as a deterrent against attacks, several U.S. officials said. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, equipped with F-35C fighters to the Middle East last month. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, equipped with F-35C fighters to the Middle East last month. (photo) West Bank: Israeli forces destroy food warehouse during raid WAFA reports: A convoy of Israeli military vehicles stormed the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya in the early hours of Friday morning. Israeli forces toured the city’s Kafr Saba neighborhood, where they raided a workshop and a food warehouse, destroying the contents of the latter. Destruction following a raid by Israeli forces in Tulkarem Camp, occupied West Bank, oPT. [East Jerusalem YMCA/ Save the Children] Destruction following a raid by Israeli forces in Tulkarem Camp, occupied West Bank, oPT. [East Jerusalem YMCA/ Save the Children] (photo) Israel accused of breaking global labor law by withholding Palestinian worker pay The Guardian reports: Ten trade unions have accused Israel of breaching international labor law by holding back pay and benefits from more than 200,000 Palestinian workers since 7 October. The Israeli government stands accused of “blatant” violations of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) protection of wages convention, tipping many Palestinians into extreme poverty. Workers from Gaza and the West Bank, employed in Israel, did not receive payment for work completed prior to last October 7th, and have received no wages since, according to the complaint. A complaint filed on Friday aims to recover the wages of Palestinian workers who previously worked in Israel. Israel revoked work permits for about 13,000 Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip to work legally in Israel following the Hamas attack on 7 October, according to the complaint, leaving those workers with unpaid wages from September and October. Those wages would have normally been paid on 9 October. An additional nearly 200,000 Palestinian workers from the West Bank employed in Israel have not been permitted to enter Israel, and have received no termination notices, according to the brief, which argues they are owed wages stipulated by their employment contracts for their previous work and subsequent months. The unions allege that Israel is violating the ILO’s protection of wages convention, which has been ratified by a hundred member states, including Israel in 1959… (Read the full article here.) RECOMMENDED READING: Israeli industrial zones exploit Palestinian workers, steal Palestinian land Scene from Jenin refugee camp Scene from Jenin refugee camp (screengrab) US’ Blinken urges diplomacy as Israel intensifies attacks in Lebanon Anadolu Agency reports: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called for path to diplomacy as Israel intensified its strikes in Lebanon, warning both Israel and Hezbollah to “stop firing”. “The most important thing to do through diplomacy is to try first to stop firing in both directions, and then to use the time that we would have in such a ceasefire to see if we can reach a broader diplomatic agreement,” Blinken told reporters at a news conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. “The path to diplomacy may seem difficult to see at this moment, but it is there, and in our judgment, is necessary, and we will continue to work intensely with all parties to urge them to choose that course,” he said. NOTE: Blinken’s both-sides-ism sidesteps the facts: Israel has been responsible for about 82 percent of the cross-border attacks. Google Was Set to Host an Israeli Military Conference. When We Asked About It, the Event Disappeared. The Intercept reports: The Israel Defense Tech Conference, aimed at tech companies working with the Israeli military, was scheduled for November at the Google for Startups campus in Tel Aviv. The event, according to a listing posted on the event management app Luma, was pitched at “founders, investors and innovators” looking to network and learn more about the defense tech space. It was co-sponsored by Google; Fusion Venture Capital; Genesis, a startup accelerator; and the Israeli military’s research and development arm, known as the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D, or Ma’fat). Google was not only listed as the physical host of the event and one of its sponsors, but the event listing also included a notice that attendees “approve of sharing [their] details with the organizers (Fusion & Google)” as part of signing up. When The Intercept contacted Google and the other companies and venture capital firms on the event page, the event page disappeared. Google spokesperson Andréa Willis told The Intercept in an email, “Google is not associated with this event.” Willis did not respond when asked how this could be possible if Google is hosting and co-sponsoring the event, or why the event page went down. None of the other companies or venture capital firms on the event page responded to requests for comment. After months of sustained protests against Google’s relationship with Israel, the company appears to be trying to muddy that relationship, at least in the public eye, while continuing its collaboration with the Israeli military… (Read the full investigation here.) israeli espionage against the US hits 366 billion Israeli espionage against the US is hurting the US economy – and has been for years. (photo) MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. Anadolu Agency: OPINION – Israel needs to face trial for organ trafficking: Claims and confessions Middle East Eye: The BBC is weaponizing its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel’s crimes STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 27: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 27, 2024: at least 42,304* (41,586 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,715 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 718 in the West Bank (~148 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 23 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – September 27: at least 101,910 (including at least 96,210 in Gaza and 5,700 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 27, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since Oct. 8 has reached 1,540 including women and children, with some 5,410 injured, a Lebanese official said Wednesday. The number of displaced individuals registered in approved shelters is 77,100. The actual number of displaced people has likely surpassed 250,000. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***More than 40 of the deaths listed above were Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah in fighting at the Israel-Lebanon border. The figure does not include the reportedly 53 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. 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Israel kills and kills while maintaining innocence; Biden supports Israel in front of the world – Day 353 [email protected] September 25, 2024 biden's UN speech, hezbollah rockets, Lebanon, targeting civilians, torture, weapons to israel Palestinians searched for survivors in Gaza City after an Israeli strike on Monday.Credit...Omar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images (photo) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff The Palestinian civil defense in Gaza has said that 56 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by Israeli bombing over the past 24 hours. A mother and four of her children were killed on Tuesday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The death toll from Israel’s assault on Lebanon has risen to at least 569 people since Monday, according to Lebanon’s Health Minister Firas Abiad. A Lebanese journalist, Hadi al-Sayed from Al Mayadeen Media Network, has been killed by an Israeli air strike. Civil defence teams and local residents launch search and rescue efforts following the attack by the Israeli army on the home of the Al-Wasifi family in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, located in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in casualties, including children, in Gaza City, Gaza on September 24, 2024 [Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency] Civil defence teams and local residents launch search and rescue efforts following the attack by the Israeli army on the home of the Al-Wasifi family in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, located in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in casualties, including children, in Gaza City, Gaza on September 24, 2024 [Moiz Salhi – Anadolu Agency] (photo) Israeli military offers animation, wild speculation as pretext for attacking civilian structures – again IAK reports: The Israeli military released an animated video purporting to illustrate how Hezbollah has been storing enormous weaponry inside Lebanese civilian homes. While offering no evidence (or explanation of how heavy weapons could get to the upper floors of buildings), Israel is using this “information” to justify its targeting of civilian structures across southern Lebanon. In addition to the alleged weapons storage, one expert said, “Israel believes that they have sufficient documented evidence that there are a network for fortifications and tunnels in the vicinity of homes.” This “evidence” has not been shared. The animations are reminiscent of Israel’s earlier depiction of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which it alleged was a cover for a massive underground “command and control center” for Hamas. No evidence was provided before the Israeli military relentlessly attacked the hospital, and no such structure was ever found. As if to clarify further to the West Israel’s innocence in the killing of Lebanese civilians, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared in English Tuesday, “I say to the people of Lebanon: Our war is not with you. Our war is with Hezbollah. I told you yesterday to evacuate homes in which there is a missile in the living room and a rocket in the garage. Whoever [does not] will no longer have a home.” The irony of Israel’s demand that Hezbollah stop firing rockets Various outlets report: Israeli former War Cabinet member Benny Gantz reportedly threatened on Tuesday that if Hezbollah does not stop launching rockets at Israel, Tel Aviv will carry out a ground operation in southern Lebanon. The warning is heavy with irony, as Israel has been responsible for about 82 percent of the cross-border attacks. Just one day earlier, on Monday 23 September, Israel’s military conducted over 1,500 strikes in Lebanon, while Hezbollah fired about 240 rockets. On Tuesday, the IDF itself reported that Hezbollah fired over 300 rockets from Lebanon, a record since beginning of war. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said of Monday’s efforts – which resulted in hundreds of Lebanese deaths, “Today was a masterpiece… This was the worst week Hezbollah has had since its establishment, and the results speak for themselves. In fact, the Israeli military described the air strikes on Lebanon as one of the largest campaigns in its history, with 250 fighter jets dropping 2,000 munitions. US delaying Israeli request to replenish munitions and missile interceptors Middle East Eye reports: The Biden administration may be slow-rolling a new Israeli request to refill its arms and munitions stockpiles, raising some questions among US officials whether or not it is trying to apply pressure on Israel to stop a full-scale offensive on Lebanon, Middle East Eye can reveal. Israel submitted an “extensive” three-page request last week for additional munitions and armaments to the Biden administration, a senior US official and former US official told MEE. Last week’s request includes more US military aid and foreign military sales, the latter of which Israel buys with its sovereign funds. A few of the many children wounded by shrapnel – some also severely burned – in the course of Israel's now nine-month-long attack on Gaza. The weapons create small pieces of shrapnel that leave barely discernible entry wounds but create extensive destruction inside the body. A few of the many children wounded by shrapnel – some also severely burned – in the course of Israel’s now nine-month-long attack on Gaza. The weapons create small pieces of shrapnel that leave barely discernible entry wounds but create extensive destruction inside the body. (collage) Vast majority of Monday’s casualties in Lebanon were civilians: Health Minister New York Times reports: Lebanese Health Minister Dr. Firass Abiad said on Tuesday that the “overwhelming majority, if not all,” of the people killed and wounded by Israel’s bombardment in Lebanon on Monday were civilians. The latest health toll from Lebanon’s Health Ministry puts the number killed by the Monday bombing at 558, which includes 50 children and 94 women. Nearly 2,000 were wounded in the attack. The toll in Israel’s bombardment is about half of the toll for the entire 2006 Lebanon War, which lasted 34 days. In CNN interview, Iran’s president warns against Lebanon turning into ‘another Gaza,’ says Hezbollah can’t face Israel alone CNN interview: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told CNN that Israel must be stopped from turning Lebanon into “another Gaza,” adding that Hezbollah “can’t do that alone.” Israel’s extensive strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon are “a human and humanitarian crisis” that risks tipping the region into wider conflict, Iran’s new president told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an exclusive interview. “The danger does exist that the fire of events that are taking place (in Lebanon) will expand to the entire region,” Pezeshkian said. When asked whether Iran will counsel Hezbollah to restrain itself in its response to Israeli strikes, Pezeshkian said Hezbollah is facing a country “armed to the teeth and has access to weapons systems that are far superior to anything else.” “We must not allow for Lebanon to become another Gaza at the hands of Israel,” he warned. “Hezbollah cannot do that alone. Hezbollah cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, European countries, and the United States of America.” Pezeshkian spoke with CNN as world leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday, in which hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are expected to dominate the discussion agenda. Pezeshkian warned that events could spiral into a regional conflict, which “can be dangerous for the future of the world and planet Earth itself, so we must prevent the ongoing criminal acts being committed by Israel.” New Testimonies of Horrific Torture in Israeli Prison Camp IMEMC reports: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission has released a new report detailing the horrific conditions in the Israeli torture prison in the Negev desert. The testimonies of the eight detainees included details of the crimes of torture, abuse, and horrific attacks to which they were subjected, specifically during the first period of their detention, before they were transferred to the Negev prison. According to the available data from the Gaza detainees in the Negev prison, there are about 1,200 detainees from Gaza in the Negev prison. It is worth mentioning that the Israeli occupation authorities imposed the crime of enforced disappearance on thousands of detainees in Gaza. Several months ago, in light of some legal amendments that were made, human rights organizations were able to make limited visits to detainees in Gaza. However, many of them are still subject to enforced disappearance, in addition to thousands of missing persons. The Israeli occupation also refuses to this day to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit them or to know any information related to them. This is in addition to the set of major obstacles that legal teams have faced since the beginning of the war in following up on them and visiting them. (Read some prisoners’ testimonies here.) West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Near Hebron IMEMC reports: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, and injured three others, late Tuesday night, after invading the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, north of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Medical sources at the Yatta Governmental Hospital announced that the young man, Yahya Daniel Awad, 29, succumbed to his critical injuries after occupation forces shot him in the chest with live ammunition. Sources added that occupation forces fired many live rounds and tear gas canisters, shooting four young men with live rounds, including Awad. The other three survived. It is important to mention that the slain young man was a married father of a young child, and his wife is pregnant with their second child; he was an employee of the Hebron Municipality. Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 717 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 160 children, and injured 5,700. UN refugee agency says 2 staffers killed in latest Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon Andalou Agency reports: The chief of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, confirmed Tuesday that two staffers were among the hundreds who have been killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. “Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon are now relentlessly claiming hundreds of civilian lives. And I am very saddened to confirm that two UNHCR colleagues were also killed yesterday,” Filippo Grandi wrote on X. Grand extended condolences to their families, friends and colleagues on behalf of all at the UNHCR. Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the refugee agency specifically for Palestinians, wrote on September 11th that Israel had killed at least 220 UNRWA staff since the war began. “Humanitarian staff, premises and operations have been blatantly and unabatedly disregarded since the beginning of the war,” he said, warning that “the longer impunity prevails, the more international humanitarian law and the Geneva conventions will become irrelevant. Emergency workers look through the remains of buildings after an Israeli attack on the Nabatiyeh Al Faouqa area close to Lebanon's border Emergency workers look through the remains of buildings after an Israeli attack on the Nabatiyeh Al Faouqa area close to Lebanon’s border (photo) In swan song to UN General Assembly, Biden’s bias was on full display IAK reports: In his final address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Joe Biden arguably spent more time reciting the events of October 7th than discussing the developments in the ensuing 350+ days. When Biden did mention the people of Gaza, it was in passive terms: they have been killed, dislocated, crowded into tents – why and by whom, and where the firepower came from, he didn’t say. Regarding the West Bank, he acknowledged the “rise of violence against innocent Palestinians” without an indication of the source of the violence – Israel’s extremist settlers, backed by the Israeli military. But his verb choices when referring to Hamas were both specific and evocative:’ “slaughtering” and “massacring,”; and he was unequivocal about Israel’s supposed “right” to defend itself (in fact, Israel has no such right, but Palestinians do have the right to resist their occupier). Biden also declared, “Full-scale war is not in anyone’s interest,” adding, “Even as the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible” – a solution he claims to have been “working tirelessly to achieve,” while selling massive quantities of non-diplomatic weapons to Israel. President Joe Biden will leave the international community – especially the Middle East – less safe and less stable than ever. RECOMMENDED READING: ‘Disastrous failure’: How Biden emboldened Israel to attack Lebanon In UN address, South African president welcomed international support for genocide case against Israel Andalou Agency reports: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday welcomed international support for the genocide case against Israel his country filed last December at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Ramaphosa said, The violence that Palestinian people are being subjected to is a grim continuation of more than half-a-century of apartheid that has been perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel. We South Africans know what apartheid looks like. We lived through apartheid, we suffered and died under apartheid, we will not remain silent and watch as apartheid is perpetrated against others. The only lasting solution is the establishment of the Palestinian state, a state that will exist side by side with Israel, with East Jerusalem as its capital. South Africa filed the case with The Hague-based tribunal late last year, accusing Israel, which began a relentless offensive against Gaza last October, of failing to uphold its commitments under the 1948 Genocide Convention. Several countries – including Türkiye, Nicaragua, Palestine, Spain, Mexico, Libya and Colombia – have joined the case, which began public hearings in January. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (photo) Hundreds cross into Syria from Lebanon: Report Al Jazeera reports: Some 500 people have crossed from Lebanon to war-torn Syria, a Syrian security official told the AFP news agency, fleeing the deadliest Israeli bombardment since Hezbollah and Israel fought a devastating war in 2006. “Around 500 people crossed the border through the Qusayr and Dabousiya crossings between 4pm (1300 GMT) and midnight,” Monday, the security official told AFP, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Vehicles were still crossing in the early hours of the morning,” he added. IMEMC Daily Reports. Jill Stein calls for end to US arms supplies to ‘murderous’ Israel over Lebanon attack STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 24: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 24, 2024: at least 42,212* (41,495 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,715 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 717 in the West Bank (~148 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 23 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – September 24: at least 101,706 (including at least 96,006 in Gaza and 5,700 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 24, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. Hezbollah reports a death toll of 502 fighters since October 8, 2023. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***More than 40 of the deaths listed above were Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah in fighting at the Israel-Lebanon border. The figure does not include the reportedly 53 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. 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In a population that treasures education, no school for Gaza’s children – Day 337 [email protected] September 9, 2024 Bezalel Smotrich, education in gaza, Hebron, illegal settlement, international court of justice, international law, itamar ben gvir, jordanian gunman, polio vaccine, starvation in gaza On the occasion of the International Day for the Protection of Education from Attack, observed on 9 September each year, several Palestinian associations and institutions issued a position statement calling upon the international community and the Member States of the United Nations to take immediate action to protect Palestinian education from Israeli military attacks. The position statement called for an immediate ceasefire and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, educational infrastructure, and called to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against education and children. They emphasized the need for immediate UN assistance to protect schools, continue the educational process, fund programs to compensate for the education lost, to help provide artificial limbs, polio vaccines, and the opening of border crossings for the treatment of Gaza children in hospitals abroad. According to the UN, 80% of Gaza’s schools have been destroyed or damaged, preventing some 620,000 students from completing their education. At least 10,000 students have been killed in Israel’s ongoing aggression on Gaza, and 13,444 others have been wounded; 397 teachers have also been killed. The interim report issued in March 2024 by the World Bank, UNRWA, and the European Union estimated the cost of damages to the education sector at $341 million. Particularly but not exclusively in the Middle East, Palestinians have long had a reputation as high-performing graduates, often proficient in at least two languages, and frequently going on to pursue successful careers in engineering, business, or medicine. At the same time, the Palestinians are the world’s largest refugee population, with the longest-running case of protracted displacement. Culturally, education has remained a top priority. More than 95% of children aged 6-12 in Gaza attended school before the war, and most graduate from high school. Additionally, 57% of students at the Islamic University of Gaza were female. NOTE: Since the war began on Oct. 7, schools have been bombed or turned into shelters for displaced people, leaving Gaza’s estimated 625,000 school-aged children unable to attend classes. All 12 of Gaza’s higher education institutions have been destroyed or damaged, leaving nearly 90,000 students stranded, and more than 350 teachers and academics have been killed, according to Palestinian official data. Palestinians inspect the area after an Israeli attack hit the az-Zahra school in the east of Gaza City on August 8 [Anadolu Agency/Dawoud Abo Alkas] Palestinians inspect the area after an Israeli attack hit the az-Zahra school in the east of Gaza City on August 8 [Anadolu Agency/Dawoud Abo Alkas] (photo) Israel attacks 16 schools-turned-shelter centers in Gaza in a single month Euro Med Monitor reports: Since the beginning of August, the Israeli occupation army has bombed 16 schools being used as shelters in the Gaza Strip, 15 of them located north of Gaza Valley. Two hundred and seventeen Palestinians have been killed in the reported attacks, while hundreds more have been injured, a large number of casualties being women and children. In the past week, the Israeli army has increased its targeting of civilians in the Gaza City and North Gaza governorates by bombing residential buildings, civilian gatherings, and commercial stalls there, in addition to shelter centers and their surrounding areas. There is no legitimate reason to target schools above the heads of displaced individuals, and this act is a blatant violation of the principles of distinction, military necessity, proportionality, and the obligation to exercise appropriate caution. Every time it launches an attack, the Israeli army attempts to justify its actions by claiming that it is attacking military targets, but it never offers any proof to support these assertions. By killing and forcibly displacing as many Palestinians as possible from their land, these attacks are a part of the genocide being carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip. According to preliminary investigations conducted by the Euro-Med Monitor field team, the Israeli army has deliberately destroyed all of the remaining shelters in the north of the Gaza Strip, including schools and public facilities. This destruction has been committed with the goal of establishing a coercive environment, in order to compel the civilian population to leave their neighborhoods and evacuate to the central and southern sections of the Strip. Palestinians inspect the destroyed building after an Israeli attack at the Et-Tabiin school where displaced people took shelter in the Ed-Deraj neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza on August 10, 2024. [Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency] Palestinians inspect the destroyed building after an Israeli attack at the Et-Tabiin school where displaced people took shelter in the Ed-Deraj neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza on August 10, 2024. [Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency] (photo) Health Ministry reports 69% of children in Gaza vaccinated against polio WAFA reports: The Ministry of Health announced today that 69% of children in Gaza, aged from birth to 10 years, have received the first dose of the polio vaccine – an achievement reached within seven days of launching the campaign. As of Saturday evening, 441,647 children have received the vaccination. The campaign is ongoing in several areas. Health teams from the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with UNRWA, the World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF, are persevering with the vaccination efforts despite the ongoing Israeli aggression and the significant challenges posed by the current security situation affecting the movement between vaccination centers. A baby receives a polio vaccine in Gaza A baby receives a polio vaccine in Gaza (photo) How did Israel starve 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza so quickly? Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, reports (excerpts): Certain actions inherently increase the risk of starvation and indicate intent to starve a population. The most well-recognized starvation act is the weaponizing of humanitarian aid. This can be the restriction and blocking of humanitarian aid, or it can be using humanitarian aid as leverage for political negotiations or means to control local populations. Prior to 7 October 2023, approximately half of the people in Gaza were food insecure and more than 80 per cent relied on humanitarian aid; the total siege [of October 9] was an immediate catalyst for starvation. Israel made its intentions to starve everyone in Gaza explicit [on October 9, when it announced a “total siege”], implemented its plans, and predictably created a famine throughout Gaza. By destroying and poisoning agricultural land, decimating ports and fishing vessels, Israel has destroyed approximately 93 per cent of the economy of the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector. Israel has not only denied and restricted the delivery of humanitarian aid and violated its obligations to ensure that the aid that is let through reaches the population, it has also created a climate of horror by targeting humanitarian workers and civilians seeking humanitarian aid. The total siege that began on 9 October 2023 was a continuation of Israel’s 24-year blockade, and 75-year attack against Gaza’s food system. (Read the full report here.) Displaced Palestinian children wait at a food distribution point in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.Eyad Baba / AFP - Getty Images Displaced Palestinian children wait at a food distribution point in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.Eyad Baba / AFP – Getty Images (photo) In major Israeli security breach, Jordanian gunman kills three guards at West Bank crossing Andalou Agency reports: Three Israelis were killed in a shooting attack at the border with Jordan on Sunday, according to Israeli media. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said a truck driver opened fire at King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Magen David Adom emergency service said three men were critically injured in the attack before they were pronounced dead. The alleged attacker was shot dead, Haaretz newspaper said. The Israeli army said the attacker arrived from Jordan, disembarked, and opened fire on guards at the crossing. Israel Hayom adds: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “we will stand together. We will wield the sword of David together and with G-d’s help, we will win,” referring not only to the attack but also to the ongoing war against Gaza.”There are those who ask – ‘Shall the sword devour forever?’ [II Samuel 2:26]. In the Middle East, without the sword, there is no ‘forever’.” “Generals’ Plan” floated to take over northern Gaza seems to ignore one important point Israel National News reports: The ‘Commanders and Reserve Soldiers’ Forum presented to the public the “Generals’ Plan” to defeat Hamas, which was written at the initiative of several generals and other senior officers, since the current strategy is not effective enough to overwhelm Hamas and get the hostages back. According to the plan, the entire area north of the Netzarim. Corridor, i.e. Gaza City with all its neighborhoods, would become a closed military area in which the entire population, estimated by the army to be approximately 250,000 people, would be required to leave within a week. “We mark two fairly safe exit corridors that will be secured by IDF forces,” according to the plan.” Those who leave will receive food and water. But in a week the entire territory of the northern Gaza Strip will become a military zone, and as far as we’re concerned, no supply will enter this military zone.” One of the generals stated that “therefore 5,000 terrorists who are in this area would in this situation either surrender or starve to death.” The forum stated that the outline complies with the rules of international law because it allows the population to evacuate from the combat zone before the siege is imposed. NOTE: This plan completely overlooks the fact that Hamas has tunnels all over Gaza, and would be able to get not only food, but also weapons. The hostages may also be kept in northern Gaza. Palestinians examine the destruction left behind after the Israeli army’s withdrawal in Tal al-Hawa, Gaza City [File: Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu Images] Palestinians examine the destruction left behind after the Israeli army’s withdrawal in Tal al-Hawa, Gaza City [File: Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu Images] (photo) Israel knows ‘nothing’ about tunnels in Gaza, says released captive The Cradle reports: Adina Moshe, an Israeli woman formerly held captive by Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza, stated that the Israeli military knows nothing about Hamas’ underground tunnel network, Channel 12 reported on 8 September. Moshe was taken captive by Hamas on 7 October and released on 24 November as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the US between Hamas and Israel. Moshe said that after her release, she was debriefed by the Shin Bet (‘Shabak’), Israel’s internal security service. “The internal security service asked me to draw a map of the tunnels in Gaza because they know nothing about them,” Israel’s Channel 12 quoted her as saying. During a speech she gave during the protests in Israel, Moshe indicated that the Shin Bet had sent her an engineer on its behalf who asked her to explain what Hamas’ tunnels, telephones, and wires looked like, what their branches were and where they were located. She told the engineer that “the tunnels in the Gaza Strip are a huge, huge maze that extends underground throughout the Strip, and military pressure will not help bring back the prisoners.” Adina Moshe, an Israeli woman formerly held captive in Gaza, said, "The [Israeli] internal security service asked me to draw a map of the tunnels in Gaza because they know nothing about them." Adina Moshe, an Israeli woman formerly held captive in Gaza, said, “The [Israeli] internal security service asked me to draw a map of the tunnels in Gaza because they know nothing about them.” (photo) West Bank resistance: attempted car ramming south of Hebron Al Jazeera reports: There was a suspected attempt to run over Israeli soldiers at the Negohot settlement south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli public broadcaster Kan. Israeli forces fired at the vehicle, with one Palestinian killed and another wounded, the broadcaster reported. There were no casualties among the soldiers, it added. The Israeli military has effectively transformed the city of Hebron and nearby towns in the southern West Bank into what resembles a “large prison” by severing access with military checkpoints and iron gates, Palestinians told Anadolu. The Israeli military has effectively transformed the city of Hebron and nearby towns in the southern West Bank into what resembles a “large prison” by severing access with military checkpoints and iron gates, Palestinians told Anadolu. (photo) Senior Israeli officers accuse government of encouraging escalation in West Bank Andalou Agency reports: Senior Israeli military officers have accused the country’s political leadership of inciting escalation in the occupied West Bank. The officers said far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are “directly responsible” for the rise in violence in the occupied territory, warning that the situation could spiral into a full-blown uprising, with many young Palestinians already facing unemployment and lack of opportunities. “We are trying to prevent the population from fully joining the violence,” a military officer told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, adding that the ongoing Israeli restrictions have exacerbated tensions in the area. Attacks on Palestinians by illegal Israeli settlers also push young Palestinians to join armed groups in the West Bank, the daily warned. “This situation can’t continue. We are on the verge of a major explosion in Judea and Samaria (West Bank),” another senior military officer said. The Israeli officers warned that provocations by government officials as Ben-Gvir’s intrusions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and his attempts to allow Jewish prayers at the flashpoint site risk inflaming tensions in the West Bank and the whole Arab world. Last week, the Israeli army launched its largest military operation in the northern West Bank in two decades, killing at least 40 people and causing massive destruction in the area. Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on February 22, 2024 [Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images] Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on February 22, 2024 [Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images] (photo) “My life’s mission is to thwart the Palestinian state,” says extremist Israeli minister WAFA reports: The far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterated his inciting statements against the Palestinian people, emphasizing on moving forward with implementing plans to control the West Bank and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. The extremist Israeli minister said in a post on X that “The mission of my life is to build the land of Israel and thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state. That is why I have taken upon myself, in addition to the position of Minister of Finance, responsibility for civil issues in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).” “I will continue to work with all my might so that the half a million settlers who are on the front line and under fire enjoy the rights of every citizen in Israel and establish the facts on the ground,” he added. Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli far-right lawmaker and leader of the Religious Zionism party, speaks during a rally with supporters, Sderot, Israel, Oct. 26, 2022 Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli far-right lawmaker and leader of the Religious Zionism party, speaks during a rally with supporters, Sderot, Israel, Oct. 26, 2022 (photo) Palestinian Authority calls on UN to enact Int’l Court of Justice ruling, removing 500,000 Jews living illegally in the West Bank Jewish News Syndicate reports: The Palestinian Authority is circulating a draft resolution asking the United Nations General Assembly to urge Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria [Israel’s name for the occupied Palestinian West Bank] and remove some 500,000 Israeli citizens living in the territory within six months. NOTE: Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are a violation of international law. According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12 on Sunday, the resolution, which cites a July 19 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, is expected to be brought to a vote next week. The ruling declared that “Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law.” The draft text also urges U.N. member states to impose sanctions on officials in Jerusalem, ban trade with Jewish businesses in Judea and Samaria, and block weapons sales to Israel if they might be used in the area. Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon, attacked the P.A.’s move and called on the 193 members of the General Assembly to “outright reject this shameful resolution and instead adopt a resolution condemning Hamas, calling on it to release all the hostages immediately. In related news, Reuters reports: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said in a speech at the start of the five-week U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva, “States must not – cannot – accept blatant disregard for international law, including binding decisions of the [UN] Security Council and orders of the International Court of Justice, neither in this nor any other situation.” He cited the opinion released by the UN top court in July that called Israel’s occupation illegal and said this situation must be “comprehensively addressed.” Israel has rejected the opinion. A group of Jewish settlers under the protection of Israeli soldiers raids the Old City area of Hebron, West Bank on August 17, 2024. [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency] A group of Jewish settlers under the protection of Israeli soldiers raids the Old City area of Hebron, West Bank on August 17, 2024. [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency] (photo) MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. Common Dreams: From Gaza to the Occupied West Bank, Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians Is Underway Palestine Chronicle: Momentum grows to stop Canada’s tax breaks for genocide Andalou Agency: ‘Such a brave soul’: Friend remembers Turkish American rights activist killed by Israeli forces STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 8: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 8, 2024: at least 41,662* (40,972 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,715 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 691 in the West Bank (~148 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 200,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 23 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – September 8: at least 100,461 (including at least 94,761 in Gaza and 5,700 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how man Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 8, 2024: ~1,452 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 288*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***Approximately ten of the deaths listed above were Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah in fighting at the Israel-Lebanon border. The figure does not include the reportedly 53 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. 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Israel kills American activist, terrorizes prisoners, as Biden admin shrugs – Day 335 CNN reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday was as clear as he has ever been that he does not believe a ceasefire and hostage deal is likely in Gaza in a sharp rebuke to the Biden administration’s insistence it’s close at hand. “There’s not a deal in the making,” Netanyahu told Fox News. “Unfortunately, it’s not close.” His comments stand in stark contrast to the relentlessly hopeful messaging from the Biden administration over the past months. On Sunday, President Joe Biden claimed that the parties were on the verge of a deal, and on Wednesday, a senior administration official claimed 90% of the agreement had been completed. That, Netanyahu said, is “exactly inaccurate.” UN Humanitarian Affairs: Israel is blocking entrance of explosive ordnance disposal equipment OCHA reports: The ongoing escalation of hostilities is resulting in widespread contamination by Explosive Ordnance (EO). While the exact number of EO-related casualties is unknown, there have been cases of people who died due to the explosion of EO, according to humanitarian partners. On 3 September, a Palestinian girl was reportedly critically injured by the explosion of an EO in southwestern Khan Younis and succumbed to her wounds on 4 September. Children face a heightened risk of being exposed to EO, as they usually play outside, tend to search for scraps amongst rubbish and rubble, and lack an awareness on the dangers of EO. Despite ongoing efforts by humanitarian partners to conduct in-person and digital Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) campaigns, educational material as well as minimum standard Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) equipment are refused entry into Gaza by Israeli authorities, therefore limiting the capacity of the mine action response. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster is concerned with the staggering increase in the cost of basic hygiene items. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), in July, the price of soap has increased 1,177 per cent and shampoo has increased 490 per cent across the Strip, compared to July 2023. Israeli army kills Palestinian girl in West Bank: Health Ministry Al Jazeera reports: A 13-year-old girl succumbed to her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces in Qaryout, a village south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. The village was reportedly attacked by Jewish settlers backed by Israeli forces when Bana Amjad Bakr was shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams dealt with the “serious” injury after confrontations broke out in the village. Amjad Bakr was shot while she was in her bedroom, her father said. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she died. Settler attacks are common in the West Bank and have increased in scale and intensity since October 7. The Israeli army and settlers have displaced more than 1,200 Palestinians and destroyed hundreds of structures, according to UN figures. Israel pulls out of Jenin, but denies end of West Bank offensive Middle East Eye reports: Israeli forces have pulled out of Jenin after a 10-day assault, but the military has denied it is ending its operation in the occupied West Bank. The offensive, which has so far left at least 39 Palestinians dead, saw soldiers backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers targeting the city and its adjacent refugee camp, forcing the flight of many of the residents. Palestinians started returning to their Jenin homes on Friday, while those who had been trapped by the offensive were able to venture outside for the first time in more than a week. Israel said on Friday that it would continue its operation in Jenin until its “objectives are achieved”. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says at least 40 people (6 of them youths) have been killed in the West Bank since August 28 when Israeli forces launched a large-scale incursion into several towns and cities: 21 Palestinians were killed in Jenin; 8 in Tubas; 8 in Tulkarem; and 3 in Hebron. Footage originally shared by Israel’s Channel 14 correspondent showed Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children, women and men in Jenin, occupied West Bank, and forcing them to walk in one line. This is not Gaza. This is in the West Bank Israeli soldiers share footage with Netenyahu’s channel 14 depicting them humiliating young Palestinian girls, women and elderly in Jenin during their invasion to the city pic.twitter.com/y2DZz1rImP — Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) September 6, 2024 France arrests nurse who volunteered in Gaza Middle East Monitor reports: France yesterday arrested then released nurse Imane Maarifi who spent 15 days volunteering as a medic in the Gaza Strip. Notably, the arrest took place at a time when French soldiers who fight in Gaza enjoy total impunity. Thomas Portes, a lawmaker from the La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed (LFI) party, wrote that Maarifi has been released from custody. “The search of the home in front of the family leaves no doubt about the desire to intimidate the voices that are raised to support the Palestinian people and demand an immediate ceasefire,” he wrote on X. Maarifi attended pro-Palestinian rallies in France to share her testimony about the crippling situation in Gaza. She has also expressed her demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a boycott of companies supporting Israel. [email protected] September 7, 2024 Ayşenur Eygi, btselem, ceasefire, international solidarity movement, israeli settler violence, palestinian prisoners, Tally Gotliv, unexploded ordnance, west bank death, white phosphorus, Yuli Novak Photos and videos obtained by Haaretz show dozens of detainees lying on their stomachs while handcuffed, some without clothes, as a guard dog barks over their heads. The Prison Service described this as a "routine exercise." (screenshot) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli army kills American International Solidarity Movement volunteer during demonstration in West Bank Various sources report: During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) human rights activist named Ayşenur Eygi. The demonstration, which primarily involved men and children praying, was met with force from the Israeli army stationed on a hill. Initially, the army fired a large amount of tear gas and then began using live ammunition. Ayşenur, who we (ISM) consider a martyr in the struggle, was the 18th demonstrator to be killed in Beita since 2020. She was an American citizen of Turkish descent. She was involved with the Faz’a campaign, an organization that aims to support and protect Palestinian farmers from violations by illegal Jewish settlers and military forces. The Israeli forces fired two rounds. One hit a Palestinian man in the leg, injuring him. The other round was fired at international human rights activists who were observing the demonstration from a distance, striking the human rights activist in the head. Neither Ezgi nor the other wounded person posed any threat to the soldiers stationed on the hills adjacent to the site of the weekly march. Eygi died shortly after being transported to a local hospital in Nablus. The Israeli military admitted to firing at the demonstrators and said it was looking into reports that a foreign national was killed. The Israel Defense Forces said it “responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them”. The US has not said whether Eygi had been shot by Israeli troops. “We are urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death, and will have more to say as we learn more,” Matthew Miller, a state department spokesperson, said. Asked if the US would take action against Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: “First things first – let’s find out exactly what happened and we will draw the necessary conclusions and consequences from that.” Eygi’s family released a statement declaring, “A US citizen, Aysenur was peacefully standing for justice when she was killed by a bullet that video shows came from an Israeli military shooter,” adding, “Given the circumstances of Aysenur’s killing, an Israeli investigation is not adequate.” “We call on President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unlawful killing of a US citizen and to ensure full accountability.” Ayşenur Eygi, 26, ‘was not a naive traveler – this experience was, according to one of her professors, the culmination of all her years of activism. Her friends say she was a longtime activist “bearing witness to oppression.” She was remembered by friends and former professors as a dedicated organizer who felt a strong moral obligation to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians. Eygi, who is also a Turkish citizen and leaves behind her husband, graduated from UW earlier this year with a major in psychology and minor in Middle Eastern languages and culture, Fani said. She walked the stage with a large “Free Palestine” flag during the ceremony, Fani said. Ezgi is the third ISM volunteer to be killed by the Israeli forces in occupied Palestine. Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza’s Rafah in 2003 after an Israeli soldier crushed her with a bulldozer. Tom Hurndall was killed in Gaza in 2004 by an Israeli sniper. An Israeli soldier shot Brian Avery in the face in Jenin in 2003. He survived the attack but was permanently maimed. The bullet ripped through his cheek and smashed his eye socket and jaw bones. RECOMMENDED READING: Instead of Taylor Force Act, Congress should consider Rachel Corrie Act, Orwah Hammad Act Israeli Prison Guards Filmed Abusing Detainees; Prison Service Says It’s a ‘Routine Exercise’ Ha’aretz reports: Israeli Prison Service personnel in the security wing of Megiddo Prison handcuffed and humiliated detainees on Friday morning, despite no unusual incident occurring in the prison. Photos and videos obtained by Haaretz show dozens of detainees lying on their stomachs while handcuffed, some without clothes, as a guard dog barks over their heads. The Prison Service described this as a “routine exercise.” The Prison Service said in response that it “maintains an operational routine for the safety of the prison inmates and the public. In this case, too, in an operation that includes intelligence [gathering], soldiers of the ‘Nachshon’ unit…raided terrorist cells, searched them and seized assault weapons and prohibited materials.” The service failed to present any of the assault weapons allegedly seized. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) has urged the United Nations to open an independent investigation. The group has also said that the Israeli authorities are “deliberately” leaking images and footage of the torture of Palestinian detainees, explaining in a statement that this was “part of the competition between the ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians more”. UNICEF says Israelis refusing to facilitate polio vaccine campaign Al Jazeera reports: UNICEF says it is making every effort to distribute the polio vaccine in Gaza during the agreed-upon pauses in fighting. However, it reported that Israel continues to deny medical teams access to communities in certain areas of southern Gaza. Nearly 355,000 children have received the vaccine in spite of Israel’s lack of cooperation. Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Khan Younis: Israeli legislator calls on police to probe B’Tselem activist for ‘aiding the enemy’ Middle East Monitor reports: Israel’s Likud Party Knesset Member Tally Gotliv called for the execution or life imprisonment of human rights activist Yuli Novak following her speech at the UN Security Council on Wednesday. Novak, the executive director or Israeli rights group B’Tselem, told the UNSC: “Since Israel was founded, its guiding logic has been to promote Jewish supremacy over the entire territory under its control.” She added that the far-right Israeli government has been “cynically exploiting” its citizens’ “collective trauma” since the 7 October 2023 infiltration of Israel by Palestinian resistance fighters. It is doing this, she explained, “to violently advance its project of cementing Israel[i] control over the entire land … committing war crimes almost daily.” Gotliv called for Novak to be probed by Israel Police “for the suspected serious crime of assistance to the enemy in war.” She said that such a crime was an offense under the penal law, “which carries the death penalty or a life sentence”. “Novak has shamefully put the state of Israel, currently engaged in a war for survival, at risk and assisted Israel’s enemies on various fronts,” the lawmaker wrote, accusing the activist of telling lies about Israel committing war crimes. Gotliv was among the legislators that joined Israeli crowds to protest the arrest of soldiers accused of gang-raping a Palestinian detainee from Gaza held in the Israeli Sde Teiman prison. NOTE: B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people. Netanyahu is unequivocal about ceasefire and hostage agreement with Hamas: ‘There’s not a deal in the making’ Israel shells Lebanon with white phosphorus bombs, performs ground invasion drills The Cradle reports: According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), Israel targeted southern Lebanon with white phosphorus on Friday. “The area between Tal Nahas and Al-Hamams towards the Marjayoun plain is being subjected to artillery shelling with phosphorus shells, which caused fires to break out,” NNA said. Israeli threats against Lebanon have escalated once again. The Israeli military said on 6 September that its Yiftah Brigade carried out drills this week simulating a ground invasion of Lebanon, moving along a “mountainous route” and “complex terrain.” NOTE: Use of white phosphorus in civilian areas is considered a war crime due to its extremely dangerous effects on the human body. White phosphorus ignites instantly when in contact with oxygen. It can burn through the human body, including through bone, causing severe, excruciating damage. It can also cause extreme harm when inhaled, with risks of suffocation, cardiovascular failure, coma, death, and other lifelong effects. The substance burns at temperatures of up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. The Cradle: Israel’s energy insecurity: How blackouts could paralyze the occupation state +972 Magazine: Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan Middle East Monitor: ‘Game of demographics’: How Israel aims to wipe out Palestinians from Occupied East Jerusalem Middle East Eye: ‘I recognized her by her roller skate’: Israeli strike on Gaza kills children playing in the street The New Arab: Is Israel using Gaza’s ‘mowing the lawn’ strategy in the West Bank? STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 5: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 5, 2024: at least 41,546* (40,878 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (28%), 16,715 children (41%) as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 691 in the West Bank (~148 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 200,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 23 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – September 5: at least 100,098 (including at least 94,454 in Gaza and 5,700 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how man Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 5, 2024: ~1,452 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 288*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***Approximately ten of the deaths listed above were Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah in fighting at the Israel-Lebanon border. 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