Israel abducts alleged Hezbollah official in unprecedented sea raid

William Christou The Guardian  /  November 2, 2024 Commandos land in northern Lebanon in highly unusual operation to capture supposed militant group member. Beirut – The Israeli military abducted who it said was a senior Hezbollah official in an unprecedented operation on Saturday morning during which Israeli commandos landed on the shores...

‘Death is everywhere’: fears grow that Israel plans to seize land...

Malak A. Tantesh & Julian Borger The Guardian / November 2, 2024 Increasingly violent siege of north raises suspicions about Netanyahu’s war aims. Gaza/Jerusalem – Israel has tightened its siege of northern Gaza in the face of warnings from the UN and other aid agencies that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives...

‘There is no alternative’: Israel’s ban on vital UNRWA services will...

Bethan McKernan & Julian Borger The Guardian  /  November 2, 2024 Israel’s anti-UNRWA legislation will sever aid to 2.3 million people, unless Benjamin Netanyahu can be convinced to veto it Ramallah/Jerusalem – Bin bags were piling up at one end of the chaotic main thoroughfare in Shuafat refugee camp on Friday morning...

Nineteen reported injured in central Israel after projectile launch

Reuters  /  November 2, 2024 CAIRO – Nineteen people in central Israel's Sharon region were injured, the Israeli police said, after the military reported the launch of three projectiles from Lebanon into Israeli territory early on Saturday. The national ambulance service previously reported that seven people in the central Israeli town...

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon and Gaza kill dozens as rockets are...

AP  /  November 2, 2024 Israel targets north-eastern Lebanon and Beirut, while bombardment of Gaza raises fears of worsening humanitarian conditions for civilians. Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 52 people and wounded scores more, the Lebanese health ministry said, while rockets fired from Lebanon fell on Israel on Saturday. Israeli...

Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declines to endorse Kamala Harris

Edward Helmore The Guardian  /  November 2, 2024 The Palestinian American ‘squad’ member has been critical of Harris and the Democratic party’s inaction on Gaza. Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib declined to endorse Kamala Harris at a union rally in Detroit, where the war in Gaza is the top issue for the largest...

US to deploy B-52s, warships to Middle East as aircraft carrier...

Reuters  /  November 2, 2024 WASHINGTON – The United States said on Friday it will deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets, refuelling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East, in a readjustment of military assets as the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group prepares to leave the region. The Pentagon said in...

[OCHA] Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those...

OCHA  /  November 1, 2024   Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME – We the leaders of 15 United Nations and humanitarian organizations urge, yet again, all parties fighting in Gaza to protect civilians, and call on the State of Israel to cease its assault on Gaza and...

Israel has all but ended medical evacuations from Gaza

Amba Guerguerian Drop Site News  /  November 1, 2024 For the past 6 months, only 237 patients have been evacuated out of Gaza. An increasing number of Palestinians in Gaza, including children, are dying as a result of Israel severely curtailing the number of medical evacuations it grants, according to the United...

Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza’s most devastated region

Samy Magdy, Julia Frankel & Joseph Krauss AP  /  November 1, 2024 JERUSALEM – More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip. In northern Gaza, Hamas militants carry...



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Een aantal dossiers van het Palestina-komitee over o.a. de Nakba en de Israëlische politiek.

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Settlers attack disabled Palestinian in Nablus. (Middle East Monitor, 15 februari 2022) Over 150 Palestinians wounded in Isael's West Bank agression. (Middle East Monitor, 12 februari 2022) The health care crisis in Gaza demands immediate acting to alleviate unnecessary suffering. (Middle East Monitor, 9 februari 2022) Israel killed...

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Internationale en nationale vakbondsactiviteiten en achtergrondinformatie ten behoeve van Palestina-solidariteit. Gaza: two months after war Palestinian enclave remains paralysed. ( Middle East Eye, 31 juli 2021) Israel's violations of Palestinian workers rights: Covid 19 and systemic abuse. ( Al Shabaka.org. 15 juli 2021) Women entrepeneurs in Palestine. (Brighton-Palestine Connect- video) Palestine's forgotten oil...

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Op 22 november 1967, enkele maanden na beëindiging van de Juni-Oorlog, nam de Veiligheidsraad van de VN Resolutie 242 aan, die sindsdien op het diplomatieke niveau uitgangspunt vormt voor de opstelling van Europese staten in de Kwestie Palestina. De resolutie is in de ogen van Palestijnen en veel andere...