Israel presses forward on two fronts and reports 8 combat deaths...
Kareem Chehayeb & Samy Magdy
AP / October 3, 2024
BEIRUT – Israel pressed forward on two fronts Wednesday, pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and conducting strikes in Gaza that killed dozens, including children. As Israel vowed to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a...
Gulf leaders support Palestine – but many would not mind seeing...
Patrick Wintour
The Guardian / October 3, 2024
The escalating Middle East conflict could create a dangerous vacuum – or an opportunity – for several states.
The coincidental timing of an emergency meeting of Gulf foreign ministers in Doha with a visit to the same city by the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian,...
Israeli strikes kill six in central Beirut as blasts heard across...
William Christou
The Guardian / October 3, 2024
Strike on medical centre is the second attack on the centre of Lebanon’s capital this week and comes after the IDF suffered their deadliest day against Hezbollah since 8 October.
Israeli strikes on a central Beirut medical centre have killed at least six people,...
A wider Middle East war can still be stopped
International Crisis Group (ICG) / October 3, 2024
Emboldened by recent operational successes, Israel is contemplating how to answer Iran’s 1 October ballistic missile barrage. The Biden administration should do all it can to urge a calibrated response that allows tensions to ease.
A year after Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack...
Six things to know as Israel ramps up its assault on...
Khury Petersen-Smith
CounterPunch / October 3, 2024
As of this writing, Israel’s rampage in Lebanon has killed more than a thousand people in two weeks, wounded thousands more (including many maimed for life), and displaced hundreds of thousands.
The Israeli onslaught — including the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a 2,000 pound, U.S.-made...
US would not support Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, says...
Peter Beaumont & Julian Borger
The Guardian / October 2, 2024
Top Israeli diplomat at UN warns his country’s retaliation for Iranian missile attack will be heavier than Tehran ‘could ever have imagined’
Joe Biden has said he would not support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites, as the US sought...
Repeat of 2006 ? – why Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon...
Federica Marsi
Al-Jazeera / October 2, 2024
The failures of the past loom large as Israel launches a new military foray into southern Lebanon.
The last time the Israeli military had boots on the ground in Lebanon was a debacle.
The monthlong war that began in July 2006 saw Israeli soldiers bogged down...
Barred from Israel, UN chief warns Middle East ‘fast becoming an...
Jake Johnson
Common Dreams / October 2, 2024
"This deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop. Time is running out," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday reiterated his urgent call for an end to violence and a diplomatic resolution in the Middle East shortly after...
UN calls Israel’s ban on its top leader a political statement...
Edith M. Lederer
AP / October 2, 2024
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations on Wednesday called Israel’s ban on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres entering the country a political statement by its foreign minister and stressed that the world body’s contacts with Israel will continue “because they have to.”
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters...
US doctors tell Biden, Harris they ‘witnessed crimes beyond comprehension’ in...
Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams / October 2, 2024
"A cease-fire must be imposed on the warring parties by withholding military support for Israel and supporting an international arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian armed groups."
Nearly 100 U.S. healthcare providers who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip over the past year sent President...
achtergronden
dossiers
Een aantal dossiers van het Palestina-komitee over o.a. de Nakba en de Israëlische politiek.
nieuws
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...
vakbeweging
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...
diplomatie
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...