What Gaza was
Eman Alhaj Ali
Mondoweiss / November 3, 2024
As the year has dragged on, I can't help but think my grandparents who experienced the Nakba were luckier. They never had to answer questions like, “What’s your message to a world that has failed you?”
It has been a year since the onslaught...
Netanyahu in fresh storm over Gaza hostages after arrests linked to alleged leak
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / November 3, 2024
Court says arrests followed investigation into suspected breach of national security that had ‘harmed Israeli war aims’
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is at the centre of a new political storm related to a hostage deal in the Gaza war after the arrest...
Israel investigates leaks that appear to have bolstered Netanyahu as Gaza truce talks stalled
Tia Goldenberg
AP / November 3, 2024
TEL AVIV, Israel – An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as...
Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again
Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel & Lee Keath
AP / November 3, 2024
They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.
Bombardment is pounding around them as Israel wages a new offensive against Hamas fighters that it...
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...
As UN warns entire population of Gaza is at risk of death, Bill Clinton...
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / November 2, 2024
Ann Arbor – Bill Clinton is a Rhodes scholar and a voracious reader. He is not a stupid man. He is, however, morally stupid. I’m not referring to his personal life but to his remarks on Israel’s behaviour in its total war on...
‘Death is everywhere’: fears grow that Israel plans to seize land in Gaza
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 be a catastrophe...
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 fired into Israel
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.
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