Is ‘total’ Gaza blockade a collective punishment against Palestinians ?
Al-Jazeera / October 9, 2023
Israel announces a blockade on the Gaza Strip, meaning more than 2 million people will suffer for the acts of a few.
Israel has announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip two days after fighters from the Hamas group carried out deadly attacks inside Israel,...
Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran
Marwan Bishara
Al-Jazeera / October 9, 202tober 9, 2203
The Israeli prime minister’s persistent obsession with the Islamic Republic may finally drag the US into another disastrous regional war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September...
End Israel’s brutal military occupation, and legitimate resistance won’t be necessary
Motassem A. Dalloul
Middle East Monitor / October 9, 2023
Israel has attacked Palestinian villages, town and cities; homes and holy sites; and crops, as well as people for decades. The occupation state and its “democratic” allies around the world ignore human rights and international law, allowing Israel to...
‘A massive war crime’: Israel announces total blockade of Gaza Strip
Jake Johnson
Common Dreams / October 9, 2023
‘Starving 2 million people who cannot move and are under a land siege and naval blockade is genocide.’
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a "complete siege" of the Gaza Strip on Monday, pledging to block food and fuel from entering the...
Thousands of Gaza residents take refuge in UN schools from Israel air raids
Ruwaida Amer
Al-Jazeera / October 9, 2023
At least 73,000 Palestinians left their homes near the Israeli frontier in Gaza’s east and are staying in 64 UN schools.
Since the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip began on Saturday, more than 73,000 Palestinian residents living along the eastern regions near...
Hezbollah fires on Israel after several members killed in shelling
Al-Jazeera / October 9, 2023
Iran-backed armed group fires on Israeli military positions after Israel killed several Hezbollah members in shelling attacks.
The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has fired a barrage of rockets into Israel after at least three of its members were killed during an Israeli bombardment of southern...
Israel announces ‘total’ blockade on Gaza
Al-Jazeera / October 9, 2023
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says blockade will include ban on admission of food, electricity and fuel.
Israel has announced a “total” blockade of the already besieged Gaza Strip, including a ban on food and water, after Hamas carried out the biggest attack on...
Day 3 roundtable on Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood
Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intfada / October 9, 2023
“The whole room is filled with gunpowder. … We don’t deserve this. We’re not animals like the Israelis think. Our kids deserve better.”
This is what our contributor Refaat Alareer, an academic and writer in Gaza City, told us on a special...
Israel-Gaza war: America’s failures have added up
James Zogby
The National / October 9, 2023
‘I mainly fault successive US administrations for failing to play its self-proclaimed role of promoter of human rights and peace’
It has been horrifying to watch this most recent iteration of wanton violence in the Israeli-Palestinian arena. But it should not have been...
Indecency’s conspiracy of silence: Hamas, Israel and the use of force
Binoy Kampmark
CounterPunch / October 9, 2023
Shock and horror. But to and for whom? At 6.30 am on October 7, the State of Israel was certainly in shock. From the south, its citizens faced attacks by, as news reports put it, air, sea and land executed by the...
