HRW – Lebanon: Israeli attacks on medics apparent war crimes
Human Rights Watch / October 30, 2024
Israel’s allies should suspend arms sales.
Beirut – The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented three attacks, involving apparent war crimes, in which Israeli forces unlawfully struck medical personnel, transports,...
More genocide: Israel bans UNRWA, guaranteeing further spike in maternal and infant deaths in...
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / October 29, 2024
Ann Arbor – The Israeli parliament on Monday passed legislation declaring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), authorized by the UN General Assembly in 1949, to be a terrorist organization. It is an extraordinary and dangerous step for a UN member...
Israel’s ban on UNRWA continues a pattern of politicizing Palestinian refugee aid – and...
Nicholas R. Micinski & Kelsey Norman
The Conversation / October 29, 2024
The Israeli parliament’s vote on Oct. 28, 2024, to ban the United Nations agency that provides relief for Palestinian refugees is likely to affect millions of people – it also fits a pattern.
Aid for refugees, particularly Palestinian refugees, has...
Palestine’s economy teeters on the brink after a year of war and unrelenting destruction
Dalia Alazzeh & Shahzad Uddin
The Conversation / October 29, 2024
The Palestinian economy has been devastated beyond recognition. Israel’s intense military operations in Gaza have led to unprecedented destruction, wiping out much of the enclave’s essential infrastructure, private property and agricultural resources.
Meanwhile, the occupied West Bank is also under severe...
The US and Israel have nothing to gain from their war on the UN
Mohamad Elmasry
Al-Jazeera / October 29, 2024
By attacking the UN and the rules based international order it seeks to uphold, these two rogue states are merely hastening their own decline.
It’s ironic that the United States and its closest ally, Israel, a state born out of the horrors of World War...
US: academics have a responsibility to speak out against Palestine repression
Alan Singer
Truthout / October 29, 2024
As universities crack down, academics must not let pro-Israel McCarthyism silence our public voices.
In times of crisis, academics must be public intellectuals. Why invest our lives in becoming experts in history, society, policy, science, or any other field of study and then remain isolated...
‘Not for long’, says Israeli Defense Minister after Hezbollah names new leader
Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams / October 29, 2024
"The road to your arrest and The Hague won't be long either, you genocidal war criminal," one observer retorted.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday on social media that Hezbollah's pick of Naim Qassem to lead the Lebanon-based political and paramilitary group would...
Lebanon-Tyre: It’s raining bombs in a city by the sea
Belén Fernández
Al-Jazeera / October 29, 2024
Lebanon’s Tyre has seen Israeli-wrought destruction before and has recovered. It will rebuild yet again.
On Monday, the Israeli military set about maniacally bombarding the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, striking residential buildings left and right and converting the scene into a typical Israeli-induced horror-scape....
Israel approves two bills that could halt UNRWA’s aid delivery to Gaza – what...
Joseph Krauss, Julia Frankel & Melanie Lidman
AP / October 29, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work.
The laws ban the agency, UNRWA,...
Hezbollah cleric Naim Qassem picked to lead the Lebanese militant group
Bassem Mroue
AP / October 29, 2024
BEIRUT – Hezbollah announced Tuesday it has chosen cleric Naim Qassem to lead the Lebanese militant group after the killing of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb in late September.
The group said in a statement that Hezbollah’s...
