Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza mostly blocked for the last 2 months, UN says
AP / December 11, 2024
UNITED NATIONS – Humanitarian aid to north Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days, the United Nations said Tuesday. That has left between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to food, water, electricity...
How Israel’s regional war contributed to the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria
Daniel L. Douek
The Conversation / December 11, 2024
When Hamas strategist Yahya Sinwar ordered the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 Israelis, he was planning to deal a mortal blow to an Israel weakened by internal divisions.
Sinwar, killed by Israeli forces in Gaza a year later, likely...
Why Jewish settler intimidation of West Bank farmers is about far more than the...
Jason Burke
The Guardian / December 11, 2024
The symbolism of the olive tree for Palestinian nationalism has fed into the rise in violence and damage in the last year.
Deir Istiya – The olive trees cover the dry, rocky slopes around Deir Istiya, spreading deep into the valley to its west,...
Israel destroys 80% of Syria’s military capabilities
Middle East Monitor / December 11, 2024
The Israeli army told journalists on Tuesday that it had completed the main part of its aggressive military campaign against Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, targeting the military capabilities of the Syrian state. The occupation army claimed that it...
Claims of Hamas fighters in Gaza hospitals may have been exaggerated, says senior ICC...
Harry Davies
The Guardian / December 11, 2024
Andrew Cayley, of the international criminal court, questioned reports used to justify Israeli military strikes.
Claims about the presence of Hamas fighters in hospitals in Gaza under siege by Israel’s military have been “grossly exaggerated”, a top prosecutor at the international criminal court (ICC)...
UN official Sigrid Kaag briefs Security Council on deteriorating situation in Gaza Strip
Middle East Monitor / December 11, 2024
The UN Senior Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Reconstruction in Gaza has briefed the Security Council on the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Centre has reported.
“The situation in Gaza is completely devastated and the picture is bleak as civilians...
Israeli raids across West Bank – scores of Palestinians detained
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / December 11, 2024
Israeli authorities also issued new and renewed administrative detention orders against 36 Palestinian detainees, according to Palestinian prisoner organizations.
Israeli forces have detained dozens of Palestinians from various towns across the West Bank, amid military incursions into the occupied territory.
In the city of...
From South Africa to Syria, rising perils for Palestine solidarity
Patrick Bond
CounterPunch / December 11, 2024
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they come at a time that poses profound problems for solidarity with Palestine.
In Johannesburg, these problems...
Over 4,000 malnourished children admitted for treatment in Gaza since July – UN
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / December 11, 2024
‘The immediate entry of more food supplies in Gaza is crucial to address the deepening hunger crisis’ across the Strip.
The number of children admitted for treatment due to malnutrition in Gaza has increased to 4,000 per month since July, according to the...
These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza
Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah El Deeb & Julia Frankel
AP / December 11, 2024
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband and then 4-year-old daughter in March, when Israeli soldiers raided a family home in northern Gaza. She is haunted by those chaotic last moments, when...
