CNN has just tried to garner even more impunity for Israel and its genocide
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / October 28, 2024
When Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza in which it has killed at least 43,000 Palestinians, and displaced the entire population, CNN’s way of showing some humanity in the face of such violence was to focus on the trauma of those...
Israel’s strikes on Iran reportedly hit air defence systems protecting energy sites
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / October 27, 2024
Strikes also targeted military sites linked to Tehran’s nuclear programme and ballistic missile production.
Details have emerged suggesting Israel used precision air and drone strikes in its unprecedented attack on Iran this weekend to target air defence systems protecting crucial oil and gas facilities,...
Iran’s supreme leader says military should decide how to respond to Israeli attack
Patrick Wintour
The Guardian / October 27, 2024
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says ‘evil committed by Zionist regime’ should not be downplayed nor exaggerated
Iranian military officials should decide how to respond to Friday night’s Israeli attack on Iran, but the event should neither be minimised nor exaggerated, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali...
[Gaza revisited] A Lebanese family held a Sunday gathering – an Israeli strike toppled...
Sarah El Deeb
AP / October 27, 2024
AIN AL-DELB, Lebanon – It was Sunday, family time for most in Lebanon, and Hecham al-Baba was visiting his sister. She insisted he and their older brother stay for lunch, hoping to prolong the warm gathering in stressful times.
The brother declined. Like many...
An urgent call to save the staff and patients of Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital
Craig Redmond
Al-Jazeera / October 27, 2024
As I write, thousands of people in northern Gaza are on the move, attempting to escape the worst nightmare imaginable. Forced from their homes and temporary shelters, they are leaving behind everything they have known. The landscape of devastation is reminiscent of some of...
How American media incited genocide
Gregory Shupak
Al-Jazeera / October 27, 2024
Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings in Gaza.
Despite the US government’s incessant claims that it is working to secure a ceasefire, the genocide that has unfolded in Gaza over the past year has been a joint US-Israeli...
‘Israel is trying to erase our presence’: Palestinians say ‘generals’ plan’ to clear north...
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / October 26, 2024
Many believe new offensive, along with tightening of siege, is following blueprint for removing remaining population.
Hospitals shelled, shelters set alight, men and boys separated from their families and taken away in military vehicles; a year into Israel-Hamas war, civilians clinging on in northern...
Germany’s Greens need to be denazified
David Cronin
The Electronic Intifada / October 26, 2024
Soon after joining Ireland’s Green Party in the 1990s, I attended a few discussions about the roots of ecological politics.
I don’t recall contributing much to those discussions. I just sat and listened to activists who were more clever and better informed than...
Israel kills the journalists – Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye / October 25, 2024
Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’
Israel knew that, if it could stop foreign correspondents from reporting directly from Gaza, those journalists would end up covering events...
Fears grow that Israel is seeking to reopen Lebanon’s internal fault lines
Jamie Dettmer
POLITICO / October 25, 2024
Israel wants ‘to set sectarian groups at each other’s’ throats’ says the spiritual leader of the Druze community.
CHANAY, Lebanon — Sheikh Akl Sami Abi al-Mona, the spiritual leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, knows full well the horrors of sectarian conflict. His father...
