‘Catastrophic situation’ at children’s hospital as Israel renews Gaza attacks
Malak A Tantesh, Emma Graham-Harrison & Jason Burke
The Guardian / October 10, 2024
Director of only major hospital in north of strip still offering specialist care says it cannot evacuate all its patients
The director of the only major hospital in the northern Gaza Strip now offering specialised care for children...
The agony and ecstasy of an empire: The United States in the Middle East
Reza Behnam
CounterPunch / October 9, 2024
Over the past year, mindful that I have been blessed to live under Oregon’s tranquil skies, I reflect upon the Palestinians and Lebanese who begin and end theirs days under skies fraught with drones and bombers.
I also think of the Israeli pilots who have...
Destruction of Gaza heritage sites aims to erase – and replace – Palestine’s history
Pilar Montero Vilar
The Conversation / October 9, 2024
In 2016, British photographer James Morris published Time and Remains of Palestine. The images in this book bear witness to an absence of architectural monuments, and to the invisible moments of history buried in the rubble and wastelands of Palestine.
Situated at the...
Biden and Netanyahu in first call for weeks – with focus on Israeli plans...
Rachel Hagan
The Independent / October 9, 2024
Middle East is waiting for Israel’s response to missile barrage from Tehran
President Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held their first call in weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground invasion into south Lebanon and considers how...
Biden and Netanyahu speak as Gallant warns of ‘deadly’ surprise attack on Iran
Bethan McKernan & Julian Borger
The Guardian / October 9, 2024
Leaders talk for first time in weeks as US administration seeks to weigh in on Israel’s plans.
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke for the first time in weeks on Wednesday amid expectations of an imminent Israeli strike on Iran, which...
‘The human toll is staggering’: aid groups triage yet another Middle East crisis
Christina Lu
Foreign Policy / October 9, 2024
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon has triggered a new wave of displaced people in a region already under record strain.
As Israel expands its military campaign in Lebanon, aid groups and humanitarian organizations are racing to help as many as 1.2 million people—or nearly a quarter of the country’s...
After a year of extermination, Palestine is still alive
Qassam Muaddi
Mondoweiss / October 9, 2024
Palestinians have endured 76 years of the Nakba and now the 2024 genocide. Despite Israel and the West's desire to erase our existence, we continue to declare, "We won’t leave."
A year ago, Palestinians began to experience new levels of their ongoing catastrophe, the Nakba,...
Israel kills journalists, threatens hospitals in north Gaza
Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada / October 9, 2024
In Gaza this week, Israel carried out a series of massacres in the north and central areas, targeting school shelters and the tents of displaced people.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces have imposed a siege on the Jabaliya refugee camp for...
Israel invaded Lebanon because the United States let it
Séamus Malekafzali
The Nation / October 9, 2024
The levelling of Lebanese border towns is the continuation of Israel’s Gaza policy: total destruction and ill-defined objectives.
The threats had come so often, in so many different forms, that its start came without much fanfare or outside attention—which is surely how Israel preferred...
400,000 trapped in hell of northern Gaza, UN says, as death toll passes 42,000
Rachel Hagan
The Independent / October 9, 2024
Up to 51,000 children in the besieged Gaza strip could be unaccompanied or separated from their parents.
At least 400,000 people remain trapped in northern Gaza, the UN has said, as Israeli forces press on with a raid on the Jabalia refugee camp.
The commissioner...
