The death toll in Lebanon crosses 3,000 in the 13-month Israel-Hezbollah war, Health Ministry...
Bassem Mroue & Melanie Lidman
AP / November 4, 2024
BEIRUT – The 13-month war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said on Monday, more than double the number of people killed since their last major war two decades ago.
The war...
Alleged Netanyahu leak may have harmed Gaza hostage deal, says court
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / November 4, 2024
Doctored intelligence files allegedly leaked by Israeli PM’s office ‘harmed the achievement of Israel’s war aims’.
An alleged intelligence leak from Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has ballooned into a major scandal for the Israeli prime minister after a court partly lifted a gag order on...
Save the Children in Gaza: Israel bombs polio vax site, bans UNRWA in attacks...
Democracy Now ! / November 4, 2024
Guest : Rachael Cummings – Save the Children International’s humanitarian director and team lead in Gaza.
Links : Save the Children
As Israel continues to block lifesaving humanitarian aid from entering northern Gaza, humanitarian organizations are describing its siege as “apocalyptic” and warning of mass...
No Other Land and the brutal truth of Israel’s occupation
Ahmed Moor
The Nation / November 4, 2024
The unsparing documentary—one of the year’s most powerful films—has still not found a distributor in the US.
No Other Land follows Basel Adra, a young Palestinian man from Masafer Yatta, a collection of 20 villages in the West Bank, who began recording Israel’s destruction...
What Gaza was
Eman Alhaj Ali
Mondoweiss / November 3, 2024
As the year has dragged on, I can't help but think my grandparents who experienced the Nakba were luckier. They never had to answer questions like, “What’s your message to a world that has failed you?”
It has been a year since the onslaught...
Netanyahu in fresh storm over Gaza hostages after arrests linked to alleged leak
Bethan McKernan
The Guardian / November 3, 2024
Court says arrests followed investigation into suspected breach of national security that had ‘harmed Israeli war aims’
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is at the centre of a new political storm related to a hostage deal in the Gaza war after the arrest...
Israel investigates leaks that appear to have bolstered Netanyahu as Gaza truce talks stalled
Tia Goldenberg
AP / November 3, 2024
TEL AVIV, Israel – An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as...
Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again
Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel & Lee Keath
AP / November 3, 2024
They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.
Bombardment is pounding around them as Israel wages a new offensive against Hamas fighters that it...
Israel abducts alleged Hezbollah official in unprecedented sea raid
William Christou
The Guardian / November 2, 2024
Commandos land in northern Lebanon in highly unusual operation to capture supposed militant group member.
Beirut – The Israeli military abducted who it said was a senior Hezbollah official in an unprecedented operation on Saturday morning during which Israeli commandos landed on the shores...
As UN warns entire population of Gaza is at risk of death, Bill Clinton...
Juan Cole
Informed Comment / November 2, 2024
Ann Arbor – Bill Clinton is a Rhodes scholar and a voracious reader. He is not a stupid man. He is, however, morally stupid. I’m not referring to his personal life but to his remarks on Israel’s behaviour in its total war on...
