Qatar in talks with Hamas, Israel to swap Israeli hostages for Palestinians in Israeli...
Andrew Mills & Nidal al-Mughrabi
Reuters / October 9, 2023
DOHA/GAZA – Qatari mediators have held urgent calls to try to negotiate freedom for Israeli women and children seized by the militant group and held in Gaza in exchange for the release of 36 Palestinian women and children from Israel's prisons,...
Palestinians speak Israel’s language
Chris Hedges
Consortium News / October 9, 2023
Israel follows the colonial playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian...
Israel-Palestine war: They were told to leave their homes – they did and they...
Maha Hussaini
Middle East Eye / October 9, 2023
Palestinians in Beit Hanoun were instructed by Israeli army to leave their homes and head for city centre. Hours later, the city centre was targeted.
Palestinians in Beit Hanoun woke up on Sunday to clear instructions from the Israeli army: leave your homes and head...
The Gaza war is lost: but will Netanyahu concede ?
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / October 9, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with and to eliminate all threats to Israel’s ‘security’.
The Israeli military, too, has contributed to the Israeli hasbara that Tel Aviv would be able...
Israel massacres Palestinian families in Gaza reprisal strikes
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / October 9, 2023
Israel was shaking the ground in Gaza by pounding it from air, land and sea overnight Sunday as a major confrontation that began with a surprise assault launched by Hamas stretched into its third day.
The official figure gave 700 fatalities in...
Israel drafts 300,000 reservists as it goes on the offensive
Reuters / October 9, 2023
JERUSALEM – Israel has drafted a record 300,000 reservists in its response to a multi-front Hamas attack from Gaza and is "going on the offensive," the chief military spokesperson said on Monday.
Since Saturday's surprise assault, Israeli aircraft have been pounding Gaza targets while...
A Second October War in Israel-Palestine
ICG / October 9, 2023
On 7 October, Hamas carried out a massive assault on Israel, drawing immediate comparisons to the 1973 conflict, when the Egyptian and Syrian armies similarly breached Israeli defences. In this Q&A, Crisis Group lays out what happened and where the fighting may be...
How the Hamas attack on the Supernova festival in Israel unfolded
Harriet Sherwood
The Guardian / October 9, 2023
Thousands of young people were partying at dawn when Palestinian militants opened fire.
What was the party in the desert ?
The Supernova music festival, billed as “a journey of unity and love” with “mind-blowing and breathtaking content”, began at around 10pm on Friday,...
Israel’s response to its 9/11 risks missing the lessons of America’s 9/11
Jeet Heer
The Nation / October 9, 2023
Ignoring intelligence failures and doubling down on bad policy is the worst response to terrorism.
For once, a big news event is producing historical analogies that are not hyperbolic but, if anything, understated. Hamas’s brazen incursion into Israeli territory on Saturday, which...
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 3: Israeli Defense Minister orders full siege of Gaza ‘No...
MWPB / October 9, 2023
The Mondo Weiss Palestine Bureau (MWPB): Fighting between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, led by Hamas in Gaza, continued into their third day on Monday, as Israel declared a complete siege of Gaza.
Palestinian Ministry of Health (as of 11:00 am local time): 493...
