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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20240101 | Calls for Gaza ceasefire ring out as world enters 2024 | ceasefire | “No celebration until liberation!” As the world ushered in a new year, hundreds refrained from celebrating to instead call for a ceasefire in Gaza. As Israel’s assault continued into 2024, Palestinians expressed their hopes for peace. |
| 20240101 | Injured Palestinian boy in Gaza no longer recognises his own face | children | “I hope my face comes back as it used to be.” 11-year-old Palestinian boy Ali Mushtaha was injured in an Israeli attack on his family’s home in Gaza which left his face burnt and disfigured. |
| 20240101 | Israel's war on Gaza silences its historic mosques | churches & mosques | With over 300 mosques damaged, a void is felt across Gaza as the soul-stirring call to prayer is absent |
| 20240101 | Israel is pulling thousands of troops from Gaza as combat focuses on enclave’s main southern city | dystopian war | Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began as forces continued to bear down on the main city in the southern half of the enclave. |
| 20240101 | Israel to pull some troops from Gaza as war enters new phase | dystopian war | Israel is withdrawing some forces from Gaza to shift to more targeted operations against Hamas, and is partially returning reservists to civilian life to help the economy as the war looks set to last well into the new year, an Israeli official said. |
| 20240101 | Israel signals tactics shift, troop pullback as US carrier heads home | dystopian war | Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza City districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave along with intense bombardment. |
| 20240101 | Israel pullback signals 'gradual shift' to lower intensity: US | dystopian war | Israel's decision to withdraw some troops from Gaza appears to signal the start of a shift to lower-intensity operations in the north of the Palestinian enclave, although there was still fighting going on there, a U.S. official said on Monday. |
| 20240101 | Israel to withdraw some troops from Gaza amid new campaign planning | dystopian war | Official says intense new phase of war to last at least six more months as country also prepares for Lebanon conflict |
| 20240101 | Displaced Palestinian mother in Gaza gives birth to quadruplets | forced displacement | This Palestinian mother has given birth to quadruplets in Gaza after fleeing with her family from the north. |
| 20240101 | Hunger hits animals and people alike at Gaza zoo | food, water, fuel & electricity | In Rafah zoo, dozens of destitute Gazans are camping between the cages where starving monkeys, parrots and lions cry out for food 12 weeks into Israel's offensive. |
| 20240101 | Death toll approaches 22.000 people | genocide | Palestinian death toll approaches 22,000, as Israeli officials confirm thousands of soldiers set to be moved out of enclave |
| 20240101 | Childhood vaccine doses enter Gaza through Rafah crossing | health / children | Thousands of doses of vaccines against childhood diseases including polio and measles have begun entering the Gaza Strip to help deal with a growing health emergency in the besieged enclave, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday. |
| 20240101 | Aid to Gaza meets only 10% of population needs | humanitarian aid | Israel must increase humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza as the aid entering the enclave meets only 10% of its needs, according to the Israeli media |
| 20240101 | Medical teams in Gaza Strip exhausted dealing with large numbers of patients' injuries: Doctor | humanitarian crisis | A British doctor of Palestinian origin said medical teams in the Gaza Strip are exhausted, dealing with large numbers of patients |
| 20240101 | Israel army warns Gaza war will continue throughout 2024 | IOF | Israel warned its war on the Gaza Strip will continue throughout 2024 as unrelenting strikes killed two dozen people in Gaza and the Palestinian resistance group fired a rocket barrage at the stroke of midnight. |
| 20240101 | IDF warns of 'prolonged' conflict in 2024 | IOF | The IDF has sent some of its reservists home to boost the country's economy and "gather strength" for more fighting later. |
| 20240101 | Israel army says war will continue throughout 2024 | IOF | Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 35 people Sunday, hospital officials said, as fighting raged across the tiny enclave a day after Israel’s prime minister said the war will continue for “many more months,” resisting international calls for a ceasefire. |
| 20240101 | Hamas regional commander killed in Israeli air strike, says IDF | IOF | UNVERIFIABLE CLAIM -- Adil Mismah, a regional commander of Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces, was killed on Monday by an Israeli air strike on the central city of Deir al-Balah, the IDF said. |
| 20240101 | Israel says war in Gaza expected to continue throughout 2024 | IOF | The Israeli military has said it expects the conflict in Gaza to continue throughout 2024. |
| 20240101 | Israel’s Supreme Court overturns a key component of Netanyahu’s polarizing judicial overhaul | Israelis | Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul Monday, delivering a landmark decision that could reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas. |
| 20240101 | Second Israeli minister calls for return of settlers to Gaza | Israelis | An Israeli minister on Monday called for the return of settlers to Gaza and said Palestinians should be encouraged to leave, a day after similar remarks by another far-right politician. |
| 20240101 | Ben Gvir orders meat ban for Palestinians detained over 7 October attacks | Israelis | Far-right national security minister accuses prison service head of acting 'like the UN' by not changing menus |
| 20240101 | Analysis: Is the Israeli army as militarily successful as it claims? | opinion | As we enter 2024, the Israeli army can claim some successes in the war on Gaza — and also has failures to reckon with. |
| 20240101 | Hezbollah says three of its fighters killed in southern Lebanon | Lebanon | Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on its Telegram account on Monday that three of its fighters were killed in southern Lebanon. |
| 20240101 | Hezbollah says Israel 'not in a position' to impose Lebanon border 'options' | Lebanon | The deputy leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said Sunday that Israel was "not in a position" to impose its preferences over the resistance group's presence in the border area while its war in Gaza rages. |
| 20240101 | UK defence secretary says British forces will repel Houthi attacks | Lebanon | Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels that target cargo ships in the Red Sea. |
| 20240101 | Al-Qassam Brigades fire rockets at Tel Aviv, surroundings | resistance | The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, fired a large number of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and its surrounding areas early Monday, triggering sirens |
| 20240101 | Essay: Israel flattened my home, killed my family. I still lit a candle for 2024 | targeting families in whole or in part | story -- Displaced and humiliated, I held on to the hope that my Gaza City home had survived the bombing. Then the photos came. |
| 20240101 | Israeli officer takes Palestinian infant from Gaza Strip | targeting families in whole or in part | An Israeli soldier revealed that an officer took a Palestinian infant from Gaza after Israeli airstrikes likely claimed the lives of her family |
| 20240101 | Tens of thousands hold anti-Israeli protest in Istanbul | Turkey | Tens of thousands marched in Istanbul Monday to protest "murderer" Israel's war in Gaza and the killing of Turkish soldiers by outlawed Kurdish militants in Iraq. |
| 20240101 | ‘Completely alienated’: British Muslims on Labour, Tory stance on Gaza war | United Kingdom | Surveys have shown a sharp drop in support for both of Britain’s big parties among Muslims over their refusal to criticise Israel for its war. |
| 20240101 | UK defence secretary says British forces will repel Houthi attacks | United Kingdom | Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels that target cargo ships in the Red Sea. |
| 20240101 | UK warns willing to take 'direct action' over Red Sea attacks | United Kingdom | Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said Monday that Britain is "willing to take direct action" against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who have repeatedly attacked Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea. |
| 20240101 | UK 'willing to take direct action' against Houthis amid Red Sea attacks | United Kingdom | British defence secretary says situation in the Red Sea is serious after US attacks boats launched from Yemen over the weekend |
| 20240101 | Top UK, Iranian diplomats discuss Houthi attacks in Red Sea | United Kingdom | British Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a phone call on Sunday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the increasing number of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on vessels in the Red Sea, |
| 20240101 | Analysis : Why Labour needs to decide whether to break the consensus on Israel | United Kingdom | Airstrikes against Houthi rebels and the prospect of a year-long Gaza conflict will test cross-party thinking at Westminster |
| 20240101 | Hamas' armed wing seizes Israeli drone in northern Gaza Strip | resistance | Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Monday that it seized an Israeli reconnaissance drone in the Gaza Strip |
| 20240101 | 2023 worst year for settler violence against Palestinians, watchdog says | West Bank | Israeli settlers killed at least 10 Palestinians and torched dozens of homes in the occupied West Bank in 2023, making it the "most violent" year on record for settler attacks, an Israeli watchdog said Monday. |
| 20240101 | US sinks Houthi boats in the Red Sea: How did the fight unfold? | Yemen | Shipping company Maersk halts operations after maritime escalation between the Houthis and US forces. |
| 20240101 | Iran deploys warship to Red Sea amid soaring tensions | Yemen | Alborz warship enters Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Iranian media reports a day after Yemen’s Houthis say 10 fighters killed. |
| 20240101 | Iranian warship Alborz enters the Red Sea - Tasnim | Yemen | Iran's Alborz warship has entered the Red Sea, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, at a time of soaring tensions on the key shipping route amid the Israel-Hamas war and attacks on vessels by forces allied to Tehran. |
| 20240101 | Iranian warship enters Red Sea as tensions soar | Yemen | The Alborz warship has entered the Red Sea, where a US-led maritime coalition has been deployed to stop attacks from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels. |
| 20240101 | Iran warship enters Red Sea amid heightened tensions: Tasnim | Yemen | Iran's Alborz warship has entered the Red Sea through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait, Tasnim news agency reported Monday, at a time of heightened tensions over the globally important waterway. |
| 20240101 | US Navy ending aircraft carrier's Middle East deployment | Yemen | The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will return to its home port, the U.S. Navy said on Monday, ending its deployment to the eastern Mediterranean, which started in support of Israel after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants. |
| 20240101 | Israel signals tactics shift, troop pullback as US carrier heads home | Yemen | Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza City districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave along with intense bombardment. |
| 20240101 | UK warns willing to take 'direct action' over Red Sea attacks | Yemen | Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said Monday that Britain is "willing to take direct action" against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who have repeatedly attacked Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea. |
| 20240101 | UK 'willing to take direct action' against Houthis amid Red Sea attacks | Yemen | British defence secretary says situation in the Red Sea is serious after US attacks boats launched from Yemen over the weekend |
| 20240101 | Top UK, Iranian diplomats discuss Houthi attacks in Red Sea | Yemen | British Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a phone call on Sunday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the increasing number of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on vessels in the Red Sea, |
| 20240101 | Iran rejects US and UK calls to end support for Houthi Red Sea attacks | Yemen | Iran security chief praises ‘brave actions’ of Houthi rebels who have targeted Israeli-linked vessels in shipping lane |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20240102 | Hamas freezes talks on Gaza ceasefire after Arouri’s assassination: Source | ceasefire | Hamas has frozen discussions about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip or a possible hostage deal with Israel, according to a Palestinian source on Tuesday |
| 20240102 | French warship becomes safe haven for Gaza's wounded | humanitarian | French helicopter carrier off the Egyptian coast fitted with operating rooms, scanners and laboratories is offering life-saving treatments. |
| 20240102 | Israel bombs Palestine Red Crescent building, as genocide probe looms | humanitarian | At least 207 killed in a day in Gaza, as Israel says it will go to the Hague to contest South African accusation of genocide against Palestinians |
| 20240102 | Casualties reported as Israel jets strike Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in southern Gaza | humanitarian | Israeli fighter jets struck the eighth floor of the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Tuesday amid reports of casualties |
| 20240102 | Israel promises to fight genocide accusation at ICJ | Israelis | South Africa launched case against Israel, saying the magnitude of death and destruction in Gaza meets the threshold of the 1948 Genocide Convention. |
| 20240102 | Israel says it will defend itself against genocide accusations at world court filed by South Africa | Israelis | Israel will defend itself before the United Nation’s top court against charges that it has engaged in genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, officials said Tuesday, setting the stage for what is likely to be a landmark case in international law. |
| 20240102 | Israel to appear before ICJ to counter South Africa's Gaza case | Israelis | Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague to contest South Africa's genocide accusations over the war with Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli government spokesman said on Tuesday. |
| 20240102 | Israel to fight South Africa's Gaza genocide claim in court | Israelis | Israel will fight South Africa's claim that it is committing "genocidal" acts in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, an Israeli spokesman has said. |
| 20240102 | Israel will defend itself against claims of 'genocide' at ICJ | Israelis | Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to challenge South Africa’s lawsuit accusing the apartheid state of “genocide” and seeking an interim order to halt military operations in Gaza |
| 20240102 | Israeli Cabinet members call for emigration of Palestinians from Gaza | Israelis | “We must…encourage the emigration of the residents of Gaza.” Senior members of the Israeli government are proposing the emigration of Palestinians as a solution to the end of the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20240102 | Senior Israel ministers call for ‘voluntary emigration’ of Palestinians, building of Jewish settlements in Gaza | Israelis | Two senior Israeli ministers in the country’s ruling far-right coalition cabinet have called for the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza and the expansion of settlements, as the post-war fate of millions in the Strip continues to be debated upon. |
| 20240102 | US slams Israeli ministers' statements on resettlement of Palestinians outside Gaza | Israelis | The U.S. State Department on Tuesday slammed recent statements from Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir that advocated for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza, calling the rhetoric "inflammatory and irresponsible." |
| 20240102 | Knesset Member accuses Israeli ministers of inciting genocide | Israelis | MK Ahmad Tibi, leader of the Ta'al Party, criticises Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for inciting genocide. |
| 20240102 | Netanyahu’s government trying to bribe Israelis to return to Gaza envelope: Settlement official | Israelis | The head of the occupied southern settlement council revealed on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is trying to bribe settlers with financial incentives to encourage them to return to the settlements in the Gaza envelope. |
| 20240102 | Only 15% of Israelis want Netanyahu to keep job after Gaza war, poll finds | Israelis | Only 15% of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay in office after the war on Hamas in Gaza ends, though many more still support his strategy of crushing the militants in the Palestinian enclave, according to a poll published on Tuesday. |
| 20240102 | How has Israel’s brutal Gaza war mobilised international youth? | opinion | Young people have been driving protests throughout the world, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 20240102 | What does a ‘new phase’ in Israel’s war on Gaza entail? | opinion | Israel has announced it will pull out some of its forces from Gaza, more than two months after it launched a ground invasion of the besieged Palestinian territory, a step that could potentially lead to a new phase in its war against Hamas. |
| 20240102 | Explosive drone shot down at Iraqi Kurdistan airbase stationing US troops | Iraq/US | An explosive drone targeting the US-led anti-jihadist coalition in Iraq was shot down at Erbil airport on Tuesday, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said. |
| 20240102 | Israeli army launches attacks on targets in Syria and Lebanon | Lebanon/Syria | As war in Gaza rages, Israel is continuing its campaign against Syrian military and Hezbollah targets, sparking fears of regional spillover. |
| 20240102 | Israel fears possible Lebanon front | Lebanon | Hezbollah militants in Lebanon are firing more and more rockets across the border into northern Israel. The threat of these cross-border strikes escalating into a wider war is a serious concern for Israel and the region. |
| 20240102 | Top Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut suburb | Lebanon | At least six people killed in Israeli drone strike on Lebanese capital, state media report. |
| 20240102 | Israel assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon's Beirut | Lebanon | Hamas confirms the targeted killing of deputy head in Dahiyeh, a residential area in southern Beirut |
| 20240102 | Hamas confirms death of Saleh Arouri, deputy head of its political bureau | Lebanon | An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. |
| 20240102 | Hamas says deputy leader killed in blast in southern Beirut | Lebanon | Hamas deputy head Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday evening by an Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs, according to the group's Al Aqsa TV station. |
| 20240102 | Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut suburb | Lebanon | At least six people killed in Israeli drone strike on Lebanese capital, state media report |
| 20240102 | Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast | Lebanon | An explosion in Beirut on Tuesday killed Saleh Arouri, a top official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. |
| 20240102 | Israeli drone kills deputy Hamas chief in Beirut -security sources | Lebanon | Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday night in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a stronghold of the allied Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. |
| 20240102 | Strike in Beirut kills Hamas deputy leader | Lebanon | Lebanese media has said Hamas official Saleh Arouri was among those killed when an Israeli drone hit a Hamas office in Beirut. |
| 20240102 | Iran condemns Israel’s assassination of Hamas deputy Chief in Lebanon | Lebanon/Iran | Iran, on Tuesday, strongly condemned an Israeli attack that killed Hamas deputy Chief, Saleh Al-Arouri, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut |
| 20240102 | Netanyahu demands media silence concerning Hamas deputy Chief's assassination in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office demanded that ministers not make statements to the media regarding the assassination of the deputy Chief of the political bureau of Hamas in Beirut, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported Tuesday |
| 20240102 | Hamas freezes talks on Gaza ceasefire after Arouri’s assassination: Source | Lebanon | Hamas has frozen discussions about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip or a possible hostage deal with Israel, according to a Palestinian source on Tuesday |
| 20240102 | Hamas vows 'will never be defeated' after Israel assassinates three Palestinian leaders in Beirut | Lebanon/Gaza | Israel - building on a rich track record - assassinated three Palestinian leaders in Lebanon as the army continued a vicious war against Gaza. |
| 20240102 | Survivors of Israel’s siege of Beirut see history repeating itself in Gaza | Lebanon | Residents of Beirut see parallels with Israel’s tactics 42 years ago and today’s campaign on the Palestinian enclave. |
| 20240102 | Syria says Israeli attack on Damascus outskirts caused material damage - SANA | Syria | An Israeli air strike that came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights today targeting positions in the outskirts of Damascus caused some material damage, Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported |
| 20240102 | Turkey detains 34 people suspected of ties to Israel's Mossad -senior official | Turkey/Israelis | Turkish authorities have detained 34 people suspected of being linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service and of targeting Palestinians living in Turkey, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday, adding Mossad also recruited members in the country. |
| 20240102 | Turkey detains 33 accused of spying for Israel | Turkey/Israelis | Turkey on Tuesday announced the detention of 33 people suspected of planning abductions and spying on behalf of Israel's Mossad intelligence service. |
| 20240102 | Turkey detains 34 alleged Mossad agents | Turkey/Israelis | Turkey announced on Tuesday it had detained 34 people suspected of planning abductions and spying on behalf of Israel's Mossad intelligence service. |
| 20240102 | Turkey: Police arrest 33 alleged Mossad spies in nationwide sweep | Turkey/Israelis | Ankara nabbed the alleged operatives weeks after Israel's Shin Bet chief threatened to hunt down Hamas officials living in the country |
| 20240102 | Malta-flagged container ship reported seeing 3 explosions towards its port quarter off Yemen -Ambrey | Red Sea | British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Tuesday that a Malta-flagged container ship reported seeing three explosions towards its port quarter, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Yemen's Mocha. |
| 20240102 | Blair dismisses rumour of role in Israel’s ‘voluntary resettlement of Gazans’ | United Kingdom | The Tony Blair Institute has denied the rumour that the former British prime minister is being linked to a “role” in the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in Gaza. |
| 20240102 | Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president | United States | Harvard University's president has resigned after facing allegations of plagiarism and criticism over her comments about antisemitism on campus. |
| 20240102 | Harvard president resigns after rows over plagiarism, anti-Semitism | United States | The president of Harvard University resigned Tuesday after coming under ferocious attack over plagiarism accusations and her response to anti-Semitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| 20240102 | Israel’s allies using ‘McCarthyist tactics’ to ‘cynically weaponised’ anti-Semitism | United States | The former Executive Director of Harvard Hillel, Bernie Steinberg, has written a scathing denunciation of the “the cynical weaponization of antisemitism by powerful forces who seek to intimidate and ultimately silence legitimate criticism of Israel and of American policy on Israel.” |
| 20240102 | Biden under pressure to act amid new fears of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza | United States | Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza. |
| 20240102 | Israel withdraws thousands of troops from Gaza in possible precursor to scaled-back offensive | war on Gaza | The planned troop withdrawal came on the same day that Israel's Supreme Court struck down part of Netanyahu's polarising judicial overhaul. |
| 20240102 | Israel promises to fight genocide accusation at ICJ | war on Gaza | South Africa launched case against Israel, saying the magnitude of death and destruction in Gaza meets the threshold of the 1948 Genocide Convention. |
| 20240102 | Israeli soldier ‘brought baby back to Israel’ from Gaza | war on Gaza | An Israeli army captain took a Palestinian baby girl from her home in Gaza back with him to Israel, according to an interview with a friend. Rights groups are calling for an investigation. The soldier has since died from Gaza war wounds, and the baby’s identity and whereabouts remain unknown.
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| 20240102 | Palestinians condemn ‘kidnap’ of infant girl by Israeli officer | war on Gaza | An Israeli soldier revealed last week that an officer took a Palestinian infant from Gaza after air strikes likely claimed the lives of her family
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| 20240102 | Israel maintains onslaught as Gaza death toll tops 22,000 | war on Gaza | Gaza’s health ministry says 22,185 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza since October 7. |
| 20240102 | 1,600 Israel soldiers suffer shell-shock symptoms from Gaza war: Report | war on Gaza | At least 1,600 Israeli soldiers have developed shell-shock symptoms since Israel expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on 27 October, according to local media on Tuesday |
| 20240102 | Report: Israel building walls, barriers around main road near Gaza | war on Gaza | The Israeli Defence Ministry will erect barriers and walls around a main road that passes near the besieged Gaza Strip, ahead of a move towards a “third phase” of the aggression against the besieged enclave |
| 20240102 | Number of Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails reaches 4,910 during war on Gaza | West Bank | The number of Palestinian detainees from the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in Israeli prisons has reached 4,910 since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip on 7 October, according to the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club. |
| 20240102 | Palestinian shopkeeper describes ‘daily’ abuse by Israeli soldiers | West Bank | A Palestinian petrol station attendant was kicked and stepped on by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. He says this sort of mistreatment happens on an almost daily basis. |
| 20240102 | Palestinian farmer forced to pay $13,500 to release 19 cows seized by Israel | West Bank | Israeli occupation authorities yesterday imposed a fine against a Palestinian farmer as a condition for the release of his 19 detained cows. |
| 20240102 | Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president | Zionism / US | Harvard University's president has resigned after facing allegations of plagiarism and criticism over her comments about antisemitism on campus. |
| 20240102 | Harvard president resigns after rows over plagiarism, anti-Semitism | Zionism / US | The president of Harvard University resigned Tuesday after coming under ferocious attack over plagiarism accusations and her response to anti-Semitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
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| 20240103 | Killing of Arouri sends menacing message to Hamas chiefs, may hamper truce effort | new ceasefire talks | The killing of a Hamas chief in Lebanon removes a big name from Israel’s most-wanted list but could drive the Palestinian group's exiled leaders deeper into hiding, hampering efforts to negotiate further Gaza ceasefires and hostage releases. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Algerian footballer Youcef Atal convicted in France over post on Gaza war | global effect | A Nice court handed Atal a suspended sentence for reposting a video the 27-year-old said he did not fully watch before sharing. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Departure of Harvard's Claudine Gay plays into campus culture wars | global effect | Claudine Gay's resignation as president of Harvard University is being celebrated as a high-profile victory by conservatives who have objected to her on ideological grounds since shortly after she took the job in July 2023.
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| 20240103 | Genocide ‘enablers’ push out first Black woman president of Harvard | global effect | The president of Harvard University who in recent weeks has been at the centre of an anti-Semitism row at the US campus has resigned. | ||||||
| 20240103 | US imam in critical condition after shooting outside mosque in New Jersey | global effect | An imam was shot early this morning outside of a mosque in Newark, New Jersey, authorities confirmed. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Argentina arrests foreigners in suspected 'terrorist plot' | global effect | Argentina's government said Wednesday that three foreigners, citizens of Syria and Lebanon, had been arrested under suspicion of planning a "terrorist act", as the country hosts a major Jewish sporting event. | ||||||
| 20240103 | EU foreign policy chief says world must ‘impose’ solution to Gaza war | global response | Josep Borrell warns that the killing of a Hamas leader in Lebanon could lead to an escalation of the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Hostage Sahar Baruch killed during rescue attempt, IDF confirms | Hamas resistance attack | Hostage Sahar Baruch, taken by Hamas from Israel during the 7 October attacks, was killed during a rescue attempt on 8 December by Israeli forces, the military has confirmed. | ||||||
| 20240103 | After tumbling in polls, Netanyahu clings to power and aims to improve political standing during war | Israelis | In the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s days in office seemed numbered. | ||||||
| 20240103 | US condemns far-right Israeli ministers’ call for Palestinians to ‘emigrate’ from Gaza | Israelis | The United States on Tuesday denounced controversial comments by two far-right Israeli ministers who said Palestinians should be encouraged to emigrate from Gaza and called for Jewish settlers to return to the besieged territory. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel 'negotiating with African states' to receive exiled Palestinians | Israelis | A report in an Israeli media outlet says several African countries might be willing to accept those ethnically cleansed from Gaza | ||||||
| 20240103 | 'It could have hit a child in Gaza': Israel writer criticises President's signing on shell | Israelis | An Israeli writer criticised, on Wednesday, President Isaac Herzog for signing an artillery shell before it was fired towards the Gaza Strip last week, saying that it could have hit a child there. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza | Israelis | Letter to attorney general and state prosecutor demands action to stop ‘explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes’ | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel forces violently beat Palestinian before demolishing home in Jabal Al-Mukaber | Jerusalem | Israeli forces are seen assaulting and opening fire at Palestinians in the town of Jabal Al-Mukabbir in Jerusalem | ||||||
| 20240103 | Palestinians protest killing of senior Hamas official in Lebanon | Lebanon/West Bank | Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have protested the killing of Hamas’s deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri who was targeted by a drone strike in Lebanon. The UN is calling for restraint, saying the Beirut attack risks a devastating escalation in the region. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Deadly explosions target Soleimani death anniversary | Iran | At least 103 people have been reported killed at the event marking the fourth anniversary of Soleimani’s death. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Iran says at least 103 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain general | Iran | Two bombs exploded Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. drone strike in 2020, Iranian officials said, killing at least 103 people as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240103 | More than 100 killed in 'terrorist attacks' near tomb of Iranian Guards' Soleimani | Iran | Two explosions killed more than 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday to commemorate top commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020, Iranian officials said, blaming unspecified "terrorists". | ||||||
| 20240103 | More than 100 killed in blasts at ceremony for slain Iranian general Soleimani | Iran | Two explosions minutes apart Wednesday in Iran targeted a commemoration for slain general Qassem Soleimani, killing at least 103 people and wounding more than 140, according to Iran's official news agency. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Twin blasts near Iran's general Qassem Soleimani's tomb kills at least 100, wounded 141: State media | Iran | At least 103 people were killed, and 141 wounded in Iran Wednesday as two bombs in quick succession struck a crowd commemorating slain general Qasem Soleimani on the anniversary of his killing, state media reported. | ||||||
| 20240103 | At least 103 dead in bomb blasts near Iran general Qasem Soleimani's tomb - state TV | Iran | At least 103 people have been killed by two bomb explosions near the tomb of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the US, Iran's state media report. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Deadly blasts near grave of slain Qassem Soleimani | Iran | Iranian state TV says more than 100 people have been killed in blasts near the grave of Iran's late top commander on the anniversary of his death. Qassem Soleimani was killed in an US drone attack in Iraq in 2020. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Iran blast: Scores killed in 'terrorist attack' at Qassem Soleimani's tomb | Iran | Two explosions in Iranian city of Kerman occurred during anniversary event for slain Iranian general, state media reported | ||||||
| 20240103 | Analysis: Whoever is behind Kerman bombing risks igniting regional war | Iran | US points towards Islamic State or Sunni extremists but Iran has accused Israel | ||||||
| 20240103 | Hezbollah will ‘fight without restraint’ if Israel wages war on Lebanon, Nasrallah warns | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned that his group would "fight without restraint" if Israel wages war on Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Strike on Hamas leader in Lebanon sends tension spiking across Middle East | Lebanon/Israelis | UN says further escalation could have devastating consequences for people in both Israel and Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Hamas leader's killing raises fears of wider war, Israel keeps up bombardment of Gaza | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli forces kept up their assault on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and told civilians to leave a refugee camp in the north of the Palestinian enclave after the war reached into Lebanon with the killing in Beirut of the Hamas deputy leader. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Killing of Arouri sends menacing message to Hamas chiefs, may hamper truce effort | Lebanon/Israelis | The killing of a Hamas chief in Lebanon removes a big name from Israel’s most-wanted list but could drive the Palestinian group's exiled leaders deeper into hiding, hampering efforts to negotiate further Gaza ceasefires and hostage releases. | ||||||
| 20240103 | How will Hezbollah respond to assassination of Hamas leader Arouri? | Lebanon/Israelis | Fears of a wider war have hit Lebanon again as Hezbollah is expected to retaliate against Israel's deadly Beirut bombing | ||||||
| 20240103 | Hezbollah's Nasrallah says Saleh al-Arouri killing 'will not go unpunished' | Lebanon/Israelis | Nasrallah praises actions of Houthis and says Israel's killing of Hamas leader is attempt to 'present image of victory' | ||||||
| 20240103 | Hezbollah Head vows group will not 'be silent' after Israeli killing of Hamas deputy Chief | Lebanon/Israelis | The Head of Lebanon’s powerful armed group, Hezbollah, said on Wednesday that Israel’s killing of the deputy Chief of allied Palestinian faction Hamas in Beirut was “a major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent”. | ||||||
| 20240103 | General strike held across West Bank over Israel’s killing of Hamas leader | Lebanon/Israelis | Shops, banks and commercial facilities shut across occupied cities, while protests set to be held at midday over killing of Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel’s Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike | Lebanon/Israelis
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The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Mossad chief says Israel is committed to finding and killing all Hamas leaders | Lebanon/Israelis
See also Turkey/Israelis |
Comments by David Barnea follow assassination of Hamas deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon | ||||||
| 20240103 | UN 'concerned' about Lebanon escalation | Lebanon/UN | The UN mission in Lebanon has warned about the possibility of escalation in the region after a Hamas leader was killed in Beirut. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Syria: US base in Al-Omar oil field attacked | Lebanon/US/Syria | The US-led international coalition base in Al-Omar oil field in Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor Governorate was the target of a missile attack on Tuesday evening. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Yemen's Houthis say they 'targeted' container ship, no damage reported | Red Sea | Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Wednesday they had "targeted" a container ship bound for Israel, a day after the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the militant group had fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles in the southern Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Yemen Houthis claim to attack Israel-bound ship in Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi group said, Wednesday, that it had attacked an Israel-bound ship in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Ocean cargo rates climb after new Red Sea ship attacks | Red Sea | Ocean freight rates are surging after a missile attack and attempted hijacking of a Maersk ship this weekend prompted carriers to suspend plans to restart transits through the Red Sea, a key artery to the vital Suez Canal trade route. | ||||||
| 20240103 | US led coalition warns Houthis of ‘consequences’ after Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | The Houthis have argued that their attacks on ship linked to Israel are an act of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240103 | No justification for indiscriminate killings in Gaza; this is Israel's 'barbarism': Turkish FM | Turkey/Israelis | There is no justification for the indiscriminate killing of tens of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, said on Wednesday, describing the ongoing Israeli army attacks on Palestinian territory as “barbarism”. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Jordan: 2024 will be year of death unless Netanyahu’s plans in Palestine are stopped, says FM | Jordan/Israelis | Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Sunday that 2024 will be known as the year of death, unless the agenda of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is stopped. | ||||||
| 20240103 | UN 'concerned' about Lebanon escalation | United Nations | The UN mission in Lebanon has warned about the possibility of escalation in the region after a Hamas leader was killed in Beirut. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Departure of Harvard's Claudine Gay plays into campus culture wars | United States | Claudine Gay's resignation as president of Harvard University is being celebrated as a high-profile victory by conservatives who have objected to her on ideological grounds since shortly after she took the job in July 2023.
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| 20240103 | Genocide ‘enablers’ push out first Black woman president of Harvard | United States | The president of Harvard University who in recent weeks has been at the centre of an anti-Semitism row at the US campus has resigned. | ||||||
| 20240103 | US imam in critical condition after shooting outside mosque in New Jersey | United States | An imam was shot early this morning outside of a mosque in Newark, New Jersey, authorities confirmed. | ||||||
| 20240103 | US 'not seeing acts of genocide' in Gaza, State Dept says | United States | The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian enclave.
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| 20240103 | Blinken heads back to Middle East amid regional escalation fears | United States | U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East on Thursday, continuing the Biden administration's intense diplomacy over Israel's three-month long conflict with Hamas, as fears of a broader regional conflagration grow. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Photos: Ruin and desperation in Gaza as Israeli onslaught continues to rage | war on Gaza | Heavy bombardment in central and southern Gaza has created devastating scenes. | ||||||
| 20240103 | War on Gaza: Will South Africa prosecute its citizens fighting for Israel? | war on Gaza | Scores of South Africans have fought for Israel over the past two decades, but no soldier has ever been charged for violating the law. Experts say the situation is unlikely to change | ||||||
| 20240103 | Turkey backs South Africa 'genocide' case against Israel at ICJ | war on Gaza | Ankara says Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza should not go unpunished in another deterioration in ties between the two states | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel mulls hiring Alan Dershowitz to represent country in ICJ genocide case | war on Gaza | Reports from the US say Israeli PM Netanyahu wants the controversial lawyer to defend Israel at the International Court of Justice | ||||||
| 20240103 | ICJ slates hearings in Gaza genocide case for 11-12 January | war on Gaza | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in proceedings launched by South Africa against Israel over the Gaza war on 11 and 12 January, it said on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240103 | US condemns far-right Israeli ministers’ call for Palestinians to ‘emigrate’ from Gaza | war on Gaza | The United States on Tuesday denounced controversial comments by two far-right Israeli ministers who said Palestinians should be encouraged to emigrate from Gaza and called for Jewish settlers to return to the besieged territory. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel 'negotiating with African states' to receive exiled Palestinians | war on Gaza | A report in an Israeli media outlet says several African countries might be willing to accept those ethnically cleansed from Gaza | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel in discussions with Congo to resettle Palestinians from Gaza | war on Gaza | |||||||
| 20240103 | UN Special Rapporteur calls forcible transfer of Gazans 'act of genocide' | war on Gaza | The forcible transfer of people in Gaza is an “act of genocide,” a UN Special Rapporteur said on Wednesday, warning other states to not be part of such a move. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel holding bodies of 450 Palestinians since 7 October | war on Gaza | Israel is holding the bodies of 450 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the so-called “cemeteries of numbers”, a local NGO claimed on Tuesday, reports Anadolu. Among the bodies are 18 Palestinian detainees who died inside Israeli jails, added the National Campaign for the Retrieval of Bodies of Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20240103 | UN official in Gaza condemns Israeli attack that killed a baby in hospital | war on hospitals | “No child in the world should be killed, let alone one sheltering under the emblem of a humanitarian organisation,” says Gemma Connell, the Gaza team leader from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). She has condemned an Israeli attack on Khan Younis which killed five people, including a newborn baby, who were sheltering at the El Amal City Hospital run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS). | ||||||
| 20240103 | US intel confident militant groups used largest Gaza hospital in campaign against Israel: AP source | war on hospitals | The U.S. is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold “at least a few” hostages seized during their bloody Oct. 7, 2023, attack and to house command infrastructure, an American intelligence assessment declassified Tuesday and shared by a U.S. official found.
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| 20240103 | US believes Hamas used Al Shifa Hospital but evacuated before Israeli operation- source | war on hospitals | U.S. spy agencies assess that Islamist group Hamas and another Palestinian group fighting Israel used Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital to command forces and hold some hostages but largely evacuated the complex days before Israeli troops entered it, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, citing declassified U.S. intelligence. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel, settlers commit 146 violations against Bedouin communities in December | West Bank | The Israeli occupation and its settlers committed 146 violations against the Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank last month, Al-Baydar Organisation for the Defense of Bedouin Rights said. | ||||||
| 20240103 | Israel holds 661 Gazans in prison, unknown number in detention facility | West Bank | The Israeli occupation is holding 661 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in its prisons. This number does not include Palestinians who have been disappeared since 7 October and are held in the Sde Teiman facility near Be’er Sheva | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israeli defence minister outlines new phase in Gaza war | day after politics | Yoav Gallant says Israeli officials want a ‘Palestinian entity’ to run civilian affairs in Gaza after the war. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Former Harvard head said she was called 'N-word,' got death threats | global effects | Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the "N-word" countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on antisemitism and plagiarism allegations. | ||||||
| 20240104 | US: New Jersey imam shot dead outside mosque | global effects | The gunman remains at large as a New Jersey interfaith alliance demands the shooter be brought to justice | ||||||
| 20240104 | Australia airline staff slammed for wearing 'intimidating' Palestine flag badge | global effects | Flight attendants of the Australian airline, Qantas, faced criticism and calls for termination after being photographed last month wearing Palestinian flag badges during a flight from Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israeli Police Ask Victims and Witnesses to Testify About Hamas Sexual Violence | Hamas resistance attack | Most of the victims of Hamas sexual violence on October 7 were killed, taken hostage or are in a state of psychological distress and unable to testify. Israel's police investigators are now appealing to the public to encourage living victims or witnesses to contact them and give evidence | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israeli police having difficulty finding sexual assault victims from 7 October attack, says report | Hamas resistance attack | Haaretz report says police are unable to link existing evidence with victims described in the evidence | ||||||
| 20240104 | Hunger hits displaced Palestinians and animals in Gaza zoo | humanitarian | ‘Living among the animals is more merciful than what we get from the warplanes in the sky.’ | ||||||
| 20240104 | Gaza's child amputees face further risks without expert care | humanitarian | Eleven-year-old Noor's left leg was almost entirely torn off when her home in Jabalia, Gaza was hit by an explosion in October. Now her right leg, fitted with a heavy metal bar and four screws drilled into the bone, may have to be amputated. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Palestinian killed as Israel targets Red Crescent HQ in Gaza | humanitarian | The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced the death of a Palestinians and the injury of six others as Israel targeted a building belonging to it in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Palestine looks into sea corridor between Cyprus and Gaza | "humanitarian" | Palestine has assigned Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki to look into the details of the proposed sea corridor between Cyprus and the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240104 | EU countries condemn Israeli far-right ministers’ call to resettle Gaza’s Palestinians | Israelis | EU nations have denounced two Israeli far-right ministers' calls for the ‘voluntary emigration’ of Palestinians from Gaza and the building of Israeli settlements in the besieged territory. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Germany rejects Israel calls to displace Palestinians from Gaza | Israelis | Germany has condemned statements made by the Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich regarding the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israel MK calls for occupying Gaza, demolishing all houses | Israelis | An Israeli Knesset member from the far-right Religious Zionism Party, Zvi Sukkot, yesterday called for occupying the Gaza Strip and annexing it to Israel, as well as demolishing all houses there.
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| 20240104 | Straight genocidal talk! Israeli Knesset members call for starving and destroying all Gazans - VIDEOS | Israelis | A right-wing Israeli official has called for starving the 2.4 million Palestinian population in the under-siege Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240104 | UN rights envoy 'very disturbed' by Israeli calls to remove Palestinians from Gaza | Israelis | The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has said he is “very disturbed” by high-level Israeli officials’ statements on plans to transfer civilians from Gaza to third countries. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israel judiciary accused of silence concerning offense to violence by officials against Palestinians: Lawyer | Israelis | An Israeli lawyer accused the Israeli judiciary of silence, Thursday, regarding offense to violence by officials against Palestinians, including genocide in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240104 | Hamas leader's assassination won't shake Palestinian group: Ex-Israel premier | Israelis | The assassination of Hamas deputy Chief, Saleh Al-Arouri, will not shake the Palestinian group, former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak said. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israel to expel hundreds of Israeli Arabs, Jerusalem residents alleging terrorism | Jerusalem | Israel is preparing, Thursday, to expel hundreds of Arabs and residents from East Jerusalem to Palestinian Authority areas, citing alleged ties to terrorism, according to Israeli army radio. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Islamic State group claims responsibility for Iran suicide bombings killing at least 84 people | Iran | The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike, the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades as the wider Middle East remains on edge. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Iran attack, Tehran vows revenge | Iran | Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions in Iran that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in Iraq in 2020 by a U.S. drone | ||||||
| 20240104 | IS claims responsibility for deadly Iran bombings that killed 84 | Iran | The Islamic State group (IS) has said it carried out a bomb attack in Iran on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani's assassination by the US. | ||||||
| 20240104 | 'Islamic State' claims responsibility for bombings in Iran | Iran | More than 80 people were killed and scores more injured in the blast at a ceremony marking the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleiman. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Islamic State 'claims responsibility' for terror attack in Iran that killed 84 | Iran | Once-powerful group has made something of a return with a string of attacks of varying size in different countries. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly Iran bombings | Iran | The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in Iraq in 2020 by a U.S. drone. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Iran vows revenge after deadliest attacks since 1979 revolution | Iran | Iranian leaders vowed revenge, on Thursday, for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people at a ceremony to commemorate top Revolutionary Guards Commander, Qassem Soleimani, on the anniversary of his death in a US drone attack | ||||||
| 20240104 | Will Iran retaliate after the deadly bombings in Kerman? | Iran | Iran threatens retaliation after two blasts killed more than 80 people during commemorations for an assassinated general. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Beirut bombings: Israel’s long history of assassination attempts in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | A drone strike on the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh this week killed several Hamas leaders including Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy leader of the group’s political wing and founder of the military wing, Qassam Brigades. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Netanyahu’s bait: Why Israel might have killed Hamas leaders in Beirut now | Lebanon/Israelis | The assassinations bear the marks of an Israeli operation. But the timing might also be about Israeli domestic politics. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Hamas leader's killing in Beirut complicates US efforts to prevent Gaza war spillover | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah could use backchannel with the US to 'calibrate' its response to Israel's assassination of Saleh al-Arouri, experts say | ||||||
| 20240104 | Hamas leader's assassination won't shake Palestinian group: Ex-Israel premier | Lebanon/Israelis | The assassination of Hamas deputy Chief, Saleh Al-Arouri, will not shake the Palestinian group, former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak said. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israeli military strikes south Lebanon stoking fears of widening conflict | Lebanon/Israelis | Attacks on Hezbollah military infrastructure follow the killing of Hamas leader in Beirut, which Israel has not claimed. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israel shells southern Gaza as Hamas deputy buried in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli shelling killed more than 20 Palestinians on Thursday, including 16 in Khan Younis in a southern coastal area of the Gaza Strip packed with people who had fled from other parts of the enclave, Gaza health officials said. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Hezbollah says 4 members killed engaging with Israeli forces near Lebanon border | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah said today that four of its members had been killed in an armed engagement with Israeli forces near the border of southern Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Saleh al-Arouri: Thousands attend Hamas deputy leader's funeral in Beirut | Lebanon/Israelis | Thousands of people have attended the funeral of the deputy Hamas leader, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, two days after his assassination in an attack in the Lebanese capital. | ||||||
| 20240104 | How does Israeli intelligence recruit operatives in Turkey? | Turkey/Israelis | Israel uses wide range methods to cultivate spies in Turkey to chiefly target Palestinian and Middle Eastern nationals | ||||||
| 20240104 | Drone strike in Baghdad kills top Iran-backed militia official | US/Iraq | A drone strike killed a senior Iran-backed militia member in Baghdad on Thursday, the paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) said in a statement. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Airstrike in central Baghdad kills Iran-backed militia leader as regional tensions escalate | US/Iraq | A U.S. airstrike on the headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad on Thursday killed a high-ranking militia commander, militia officials said. | ||||||
| 20240104 | U.S. strike kills militia leader blamed for Iraq attacks - U.S. official | US/Iraq | The U.S. military carried out a retaliatory strike in Baghdad on Thursday that killed a militia leader it blames for recent attacks on U.S. personnel. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Iraq's Hashed force says 'US strike' kills senior commander | US/Iraq | A "US strike" in Baghdad on Thursday killed a military commander of the Hashed al-Shaabi, the militia officials said, with an Iraq security official reporting two deaths in a drone attack | ||||||
| 20240104 | Iraq blames US-led coalition for deadly drone strike in Baghdad | US/Iraq | Senior commander of Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces group is among those killed. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Iraq blames US-led coalition for ‘aggression’ after strike kills pro-Iran military commander | US/Iraq | A "US strike" in Baghdad on Thursday killed a military commander of the Hashed al-Shaabi, an ex-paramilitary faction of the grouping said, with an Iraqi security official reporting two deaths in a drone attack. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Houthis launch sea drone to attack ships hours after US, allies issue ‘final warning’ | Red Sea | An armed unmanned surface vessel launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles” of U.S. Navy and commercial vessels in the Red Sea before detonating on Thursday, just hours after the White House and a host of partner nations issued a “final warning” to the Iran-backed militia group to cease the attacks or face potential military action. | ||||||
| 20240104 | US warns Houthis to cease attacks on Red Sea vessels or face potential military action | Red Sea | The United States and 12 allies issued what amounted to a final warning to Houthi rebels on Wednesday to cease their attacks on vessels in the Red Sea or face potential targeted military action. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Houthi leader vows 'American aggression' against our forces will not go unpunished | Red Sea | The leader of the Houthi group issued a threat Thursday that said American aggression against his forces in the Red Sea will not go unpunished | ||||||
| 20240104 | Blinken heads back to Middle East amid regional escalation fears | Red Sea | U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East on Thursday, continuing the Biden administration's intense diplomacy over Israel's three-month long conflict with Hamas, as fears of a broader regional conflagration grow. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Met police war crimes investigation: ICJP condemns Boris Johnson’s efforts to pervert course of justice | United Kingdom | Today, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave an interview to The Telegraph saying he was concerned about “the worrying politicisation of the Met police”, in relation to investigation of war crimes in Gaza. ICJP utterly condemns the reckless and dangerous language used by Johnson and will consider making a complaint about his conduct. | ||||||
| 20240104 | UK: Boris Johnson accused of obstructing investigations into war crimes in Gaza | United Kingdom | The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has accused former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of trying to pervert the course of justice regarding investigations conducted by the Metropolitan Police into allegations that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza specifically, and in Palestine in general. The organisation is considering the submission of a formal complaint against him. | ||||||
| 20240104 | UN rights envoy 'very disturbed' by Israeli calls to remove Palestinians from Gaza | United Nations | The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has said he is “very disturbed” by high-level Israeli officials’ statements on plans to transfer civilians from Gaza to third countries. | ||||||
| 20240104 | US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread | United States | US Secretary of State Blinken to visit nine countries as Israel’s war on Gaza widens to Lebanon and threatens to engulf region. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Blinken heads back to Middle East amid regional escalation fears | United States | U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East on Thursday, continuing the Biden administration's intense diplomacy over Israel's three-month long conflict with Hamas, as fears of a broader regional conflagration grow. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Blinken back to Middle East for tough talks on Gaza aid, escalation | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads back to the Middle East on Thursday on his fourth trip since the Israel-Hamas war, expecting tough talks as he presses for immediate new aid for battered Gaza and de-escalation in the region. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Jewish protesters calling for Gaza ceasefire shut down California assembly | United States | Pro-Palestinian protesters from anti-Zionist Jewish groups disrupted proceedings during the first day of California legislature by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and thanking legislators in advance for urging an end to Israel’s war. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Former Harvard head said she was called 'N-word,' got death threats | United States | Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the "N-word" countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on antisemitism and plagiarism allegations. | ||||||
| 20240104 | University of Penn professors in Israel speak out on US campus anti-Semitism | United States | Until three months ago, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor, Michael Kahana, said he had never felt the need to wear a yarmulke, or Jewish skullcap, to his classes
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| 20240104 | Netanyahu says Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu denies South Africa's statements about genocide in Gaza, asserting Israel's military operations in Gaza are ‘the most just and moral there is’. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Another 19 Israel soldiers injured in Gaza fighting, army says | war on Gaza | The Israeli army said, Thursday, that 19 more soldiers had been injured in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours | ||||||
| 20240104 | Strike kills 12 people, mostly children, in Gaza area declared safe zone by Israel | war on Gaza | An Israeli strike flattened a home Thursday in an area of southern Gaza that the military had declared a safe zone as Israeli troops pressed their assault in the nearby city of Khan Younis. Palestinian hospital officials said the blast killed at least 12 people, almost all of them children. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Survivors recount harrowing Israeli field executions | war on Gaza | In Gaza City, Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinians at point blank range, killing them in front of their families | ||||||
| 20240104 | Israel dropped 65,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza in 89 days | war on Gaza | Israel has dropped more than 45,000 bombs on Gaza weighing more than 65,000 tonnes, the Gaza Media Office has said. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Photos: Palestinians flee Nuseirat refugee camp once again amid attacks | war on refugee camps | Residents say the Israeli army issued new evacuation orders as it continues to intensify attacks on the area. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Dozens of Palestinians blindfolded and detained in occupied West Bank raid | West Bank | Dozens of Palestinian men have been filmed blindfolded and lined up single file as Israeli forces detained them during a raid on a refugee camp in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20240104 | West Bank city and refugee camp besieged for second day by occupation forces | West Bank | The Israeli occupation forces launched a number of attacks and raids in the occupied West Bank this morning, and continued their siege of Tulkarm and its refugee camp for the second day in a row. | ||||||
| 20240104 | Unmatched Surge in Settlement Activity in the West Bank Since the Onset of the Gaza War | West Bank | In the aftermath of three months of war in Gaza, we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in settlement activities, including the construction of outposts, roads, fences, and roadblocks initiated by settlers. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel 'in talks with Rwanda and Chad' to exile Palestinians | day after politics | Israeli news site reports Israel offered aid and weapons to Rwanda and Chad as incentive to accept Palestinian refugees | ||||||
| 20240105 | D R Congo denies talks with Israel to welcome Palestinian migrants | day after politics | The Democratic Republic of Congo has denied any negotiations with Israel regarding the possible reception of Palestinian migrants from bombarded Gaza on its soil | ||||||
| 20240105 | What is Israel’s latest ‘day after’ plan for Gaza? | day after politics | In a vision laid out for post-war Gaza, defence minister Gallant said an undefined Palestinian entity will take charge. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel's defense minister outlines post-Hamas Gaza | day after politics | Yoav Gallant says Palestinians would be in charge after Hamas — designated a terrorist organization by the EU, Germany and other governments — is defeated. But Palestinians have a bleak view of Gaza's future. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israeli minister outlines plans for Gaza after war | day after politics | Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined proposals for the future governance of Gaza once the war between Israel and Hamas is over. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel lays out vision for post-war Gaza | day after politics | Israel's defence minister on Thursday laid out the next steps after the war with Hamas, offering up early plans for how Gaza would be run if and when Israel takes full control of it. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel could keep security control of Gaza after Hamas defeat, says defence minister | day after politics | Yoav Gallant’s proposal suggests Palestinians would run day to day administration of territory | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel defence minister proposes security control over Gaza | day after politics | Yoav Gallant introduces plan that would have Israel keep security control over Gaza | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israeli defence chief's post-war plan does not say if displaced Gazans may return home | day after politics | Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant's plan for the administration of the Gaza Strip after the conclusion of the Israel-Hamas war, which he submitted to the press on Thursday, says that Palestinian organisations should run the territory, but does not specifiy which. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Palestinians will keep Gaza, minister says | day after politics | Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Gaza will be under Palestinian control post-war, but Hamas will be gone. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Gaza will not be governed by Tel Aviv, Hamas, Israel DM says | day after politics | Gaza will not be under the governance of either Hamas or Israel after the war, according to Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant. | ||||||
| 20240105 | It’s not up to Israel to determine the future of Gaza, French foreign minister says | day after politics | Gaza is Palestinian land and its future is not up to Israel to decide, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told CNN on Friday, after two Israeli ministers called for resettling Gazans outside of the enclave. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel tries to appease US with proposals for Gaza as Blinken heads to Middle East | day after politics | Washington wants concessions from the Netanyahu administration, as critics say plans lack detail or commitment | ||||||
| 20240105 | What Israelis, Palestinians, US and others say about 'the day after' the Gaza war | day after politics | As the conflict in Gaza nears a three-month milestone, Israelis, Palestinians, Americans and others have begun talking more openly about what comes next once the war is over. | ||||||
| 20240105 | OpenAI boss Sam Altman says Muslims in tech world fear retaliation in speaking up | global effects | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Thursday he felt members of the Muslim and Arab communities in the tech industry were uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, in an apparent reference to the impact of the ongoing war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240105 | US and Europe start new diplomatic push to quell Gaza war | global effects | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Europe's senior diplomat Josep Borrell began a new diplomatic push on Friday to stop spillover fromthe Gaza war into Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Red Sea shipping lanes. | ||||||
| 20240105 | McDonald's CEO blames 'misinformation' for Middle East losses | global effects | McDonald's chief executive officer has claimed the negative impact of boycott campaigns alleging its support of Israel is hitting regional business.
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| 20240105 | McDonald's CEO acknowledges ‘meaningful business impact’ amid boycott calls | global effects | McDonald’s Chief Executive, Chris Kempczinski, announced that the company has experienced a “meaningful business impact” following calls for a boycott of the fast-food chain. | ||||||
| 20240105 | State led censorship, suppression of Palestine solidarity across Europe, new report finds | global effects | European governments are systematically censoring and repressing solidarity for Palestine, a new report by CAGE international has found. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel's internal political divisions burst into open after "fight" in security cabinet | Hamas resistance attack | The argument was over how to handle investigations into the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel — including the Israeli military’s failure to foresee it, and how to prosecute the war from now on. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israeli cabinet meeting on soldiers’ conduct ends abruptly after row | Hamas resistance attack | Lawmakers pressed for a probe over Israeli soldiers’ conduct and mistakes leading up to the 7 October Hamas attack, breaking out into a row | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel far-right ministers criticise committee investigating 7 October attacks | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, and Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Friday criticised a committee formed by Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, to investigate the 7 October, 2023, attacks by Hamas | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hostage dies as Israel lays out vision for post-war Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | An Israeli hostage kidnapped during Hamas' attack on October 7th and held in Gaza has died while in captivity, according to his community of Kibbutz Nir Oz. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Plan for internal Israeli military probe of Oct. 7 attack angers some ministers | Hamas resistance attack | A plan by Israel's military to mount an internal investigation into the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the Gaza war is drawing criticism from rightist government ministers, who want a more sweeping review of policy towards the Palestinian enclave. | ||||||
| 20240105 | 25 Israeli hostages have died since October 7, prime minister's office says in an update | Hamas resistance attack | The number of people taken hostage on October 7 whom Israel believes are dead and still being held by in Gaza has been updated to 25 | ||||||
| 20240105 | Report: Israel Police unable to find victims, witnesses of alleged Hamas sex crimes | Hamas resistance attack | Israel Police are struggling to locate the victims or witnesses of alleged sexual assaults that are said to have occurred during Hamas’ infiltration of Israel on 7 October, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported. | ||||||
| 20240105 | For many displaced families in Gaza, survival follows a strict routine | humanitarian | Stranded in a corner of southern Gaza, members of the Abu Jarad family are clinging to a strict survival routine. | ||||||
| 20240105 | For civilians or Hamas? 'Dual use' issue complicates Gaza aid efforts | humanitarian | Water purifiers, medical supplies and tent poles are among items Israel has blocked from entering Gaza on aid trucks, according to an Egyptian Red Crescent document and sources in Gaza, but Israel denied blocking any such items. | ||||||
| 20240105 | French, Jordanian airforces drop medical aid to Gaza - Elysee | humanitarian | The French and Jordanian air forces have dropped seven tonnes of urgent humanitarian and medical aid for a field hospital set up in Gaza's second city, Khan Younis, a French presidency official said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Gazans face the "highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded," UN relief chief says | humanitarian | Famine is "around the corner" as people in Gaza face the "highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded," according to Martin Griffiths, the United Nations' top emergency relief official. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare: UNICEF | humanitarian | UNICEF Executive Director on Friday warned that over 1.1 million children are threatened by intensifying conflict, malnutrition and disease in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240105 | Fighting has 'disabled' 12,500 Israeli soldiers, estimates show | Israelis | Yediot Ahronoth finds defence ministry's assessment of total wounded soldiers is much higher than published figures | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel imposes restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque worshippers | Jerusalem | The Israeli police imposed strict restrictions on the entry of worshippers to Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem to perform Friday prayers | ||||||
| 20240105 | Another journalist succumbs to wounds in Gaza | journalists | Another Palestinian journalist succumbed to his wounds sustained in Israeli army fire in Gaza City, the Government Media Office in Gaza said on Friday | ||||||
| 20240105 | Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly Iran bombings | Iran | The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in Iraq in 2020 in a US drone strike. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Iran mourns those slain in Islamic State-claimed suicide blasts as death toll rises to 89 | Iran | Iranian officials tried Friday to link Israel and the U.S. to an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing while speaking to a mass funeral for some of the 89 people killed in the attack, seeking to intertwine the assault with wider Middle East tensions from the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Iran’s Raisi promises retaliation at funeral for victims of twin bombings | Iran | Authorities say 11 suspects arrested after attack in Kerman during a memorial for top commander Qassem Soleimani on Wednesday . | ||||||
| 20240105 | Islamic State attempts a comeback | Iran | Islamic State, the Sunni Muslim militant group which claimed responsibility for two deadly blasts in predominantly Shi'ite Iran this week, has been operating in the shadows since it was largely crushed by a U.S.-led coalition. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Iran arrests 11 suspects over bomb blasts, mourners demand revenge - state TV | Iran | Iranian authorities said on Friday that security forces had arrested 11 people suspected of involvement in two bomb blasts | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hezbollah leader says his group must retaliate for suspected Israeli strike in Beirut | Lebanon/Israelis | The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah said Friday that his group must retaliate after a presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighborhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official, or else all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attack. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hezbollah leader vows response following killing of Hamas deputy leader in Beirut | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has responded strongly to the killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh Al Arouri in Beirut, stating that a retaliation is "undoubtedly coming." | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hezbollah chief says response to killing of senior Hamas official is ‘inevitable’ | Lebanon/Israelis | Hassan Nasrallah says assassination in Beirut has changed nature of his group’s conflict with Israel, raising fears of escalation | ||||||
| 20240105 | Response to killing of Hamas leader in Beirut 'inevitable', says Hezbollah chief Nasrallah | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Friday that the group will "inevitably" respond to the assassination of Hamas's deputy political leader in Beirut this week, saying it "cannot remain silent" to such an incursion on Lebanese territory. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Netanyahu seeks ‘fundamental change’ on Lebanon border | Lebanon/Israelis | The Israeli prime minister, at a meeting with US special envoy Amos Hochstein, did not specify what his plans entailed, the Associated Press reported. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Lebanon to file urgent complaint against Israel with UNSC | Lebanon/Israelis/UN | Lebanon has announced that it intends to file a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel after the assassination of Hamas politburo Deputy Head, Saleh Al-Arouri, and other leaders of the Al-Qassam Brigades in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday evening, local media reports. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hezbollah chief warns Lebanon could be ‘exposed’ to more Israeli attacks | Lebanon/Israelis | Nasrallah again pledges retaliation for killing of Hamas deputy chief al-Arouri, says Hezbollah ‘cannot be silent’. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hezbollah head says Lebanon could be 'exposed' to more Israeli attacks | Lebanon/Israelis | The head of Hezbollah said on Friday Lebanon would be "exposed" to more Israeli operations if his powerful Lebanese armed group did not respond to the killing of the deputy chief of Hamas on the outskirts of Beirut. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Hezbollah conducted 670 operations against Israel in last 3 months: Nasrallah | Lebanon/Israelis | The Hezbollah Chief, on Friday, said that the Lebanese group carried out 670 operations against Israel over the past three months | ||||||
| 20240105 | Shipping giant Maersk to avoid Red Sea routes for ‘foreseeable future’ | Red Sea | Due to ‘volatile’ situation amid Houthi attacks, ships will go around Africa, increasing journey times and shipping costs. | ||||||
| 20240105 | India providing security escort for container ships around Red Sea-govt source | Red Sea | India's defence ministry is providing protective escorts to Indian container ships in the high seas around the Red Sea as the security situation there continues to simmer, a government source said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240105 | White House's Bernstein: 'limited' impact from Red Sea | Red Sea | The conflict in the Middle East and the disruption to shipping in the Red Sea have so far had only "limited" impact, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein said on Friday, adding that U.S. officials will continue to monitor the situation. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Blinken in ME for tough Gaza talks; regional conflict surges | US/Middle East | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed back to the Middle East in his fourth trip to the region since the Gaza war began on 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Blinken heads to Mideast for Gaza talks | US/Middle East | US top diplomat Antony Blinken is traveling to the region amid growing international concerns about a widening conflict. Meanwhile, Israel's defense chief has outlined a postwar plan for Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Armed drone targets US base in northern Iraq - statement | US/Iraq | An armed drone on Friday hit Iraq's al-Harir airbase, where U.S. and international forces are stationed, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Iraq prepares to close down US-led coalition's mission - PM | US/Iraq | The Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the U.S.-led international military coalition from the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's office said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Iraq PM says determined to end presence of US-led coalition | US/Iraq | Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said on Friday he was determined to "put an end" to the "international anti-jihadist coalition" in his country, after a US strike in Baghdad killed a pro-Iran commander. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Iraq: PM says government to start process of removing US-led forces | US/Iraq | Announcement follows anger after US drone strike killed a leader of an Iran-backed armed group in Baghdad | ||||||
| 20240105 | Calls for Ofcom probe after 'racist' interview with Palestinian politician | United Kingdom | Julia Hartley-Brewer suggested Mustafa Barghouti is 'maybe not used to women talking' during exchange on TalkTV | ||||||
| 20240105 | Scottish leader says UK refusal to call for immediate truce in Gaza 'shameful' | United Kingdom | Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf, on Friday urged the British government to use its position as a “trusted ally of the Government of Israel” to demand an end to “indiscriminate attacks” that have claimed more than 22,000 lives in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240105 | Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare: UNICEF | United Nations | UNICEF Executive Director on Friday warned that over 1.1 million children are threatened by intensifying conflict, malnutrition and disease in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240105 | US offers $10 million for Hamas financial information | United States | The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on five Hamas financiers or anything leading to the disruption of the Palestinian militant group's financial mechanisms, the State Department said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240105 | White House's Bernstein: 'limited' impact from Red Sea | United States | The conflict in the Middle East and the disruption to shipping in the Red Sea have so far had only "limited" impact, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein said on Friday, adding that U.S. officials will continue to monitor the situation. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Blinken in ME for tough Gaza talks; regional conflict surges | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed back to the Middle East in his fourth trip to the region since the Gaza war began on 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Blinken heads to Mideast for Gaza talks | United States | US top diplomat Antony Blinken is traveling to the region amid growing international concerns about a widening conflict. Meanwhile, Israel's defense chief has outlined a postwar plan for Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel launches attacks across Gaza amid spike in regional tensions | war on Gaza | Health ministry in Gaza says 125 people have been killed and 318 injured in a 24-hour period. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Fighting has 'disabled' 12,500 Israeli soldiers, estimates show | war on Gaza | Yediot Ahronoth finds defence ministry's assessment of total wounded soldiers is much higher than published figures | ||||||
| 20240105 | Over 5,000 disabled Israeli soldiers admitted to rehabilitation in 2023: Report | war on Gaza | Among the newly disabled soldiers, “3400 were added since the beginning of the war” on 7 October, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel soldier robs comrades in Gaza | war on Gaza | According to Israel’s Reshet Bet radio station on Thursday, the incident occurred on 11 October, four days after the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240105 | 'There's nothing left' in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders official says | war on hospitals | After arriving in the besieged Palestinian enclave last month, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) official said “there’s nothing left” in Gaza due to relentless Israeli strikes | ||||||
| 20240105 | Israel continues attacks on Gaza’s refugee camps to force people south | war on refugee camps | Heavy bombardments are reported near Deir el-Balah, including at the Nuseirat, al-Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps as Israeli forces residents to evacuate south. | ||||||
| 20240105 | 6 killed overnight in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Gaza | war on whole families | At least six people were killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240106 | Israel-Gaza war: The huge challenges facing Israel's 'day after' plan | day after politics | When Hamas attacked Israel, almost exactly three months ago, Israel was unprepared. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Palestinians will decide Gaza’s future, not Israel, PLO insists | day after politics | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh said Saturday that “the future of the Gaza Strip is determined by the Palestinian people, not Israel.” | ||||||
| 20240106 | European countries oppose Israeli idea of Gaza population's forced relocation | day after politics | European countries have come a long way since Israel’s three-month war on Gaza began, as their stance that “Israel has the right to do just about whatever it wants” slowly shifts towards “Israel has no such rights”. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Israeli author says Hamas presents a united front | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli author Guy Aviad says Israel is yet to see any signs of weakness or retreat within Hamas, who insist they will not consider or discuss a hostage exchange deal unless it is on their terms. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Israel’s ‘refuseniks’: ‘I will never justify what Israel is doing in Gaza’ | Israelis | On December 26, Israel's first conscientious objector since the start of its war against Hamas, Tal Mitnick, was sent to prison after refusing to serve in the army. | ||||||
| 20240106 | UK petition calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador over using 'genocidal language' | Israelis | A Change.org petition calling for the expulsion of Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely has gained significant traction, amassing over 80,450 signatures within a single day.
COMMENT Tzipi Hotovely is known for her racist rants against Palestinians including her denial that Nakba had taken place. |
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| 20240106 | Israel minister calls for 'ways more painful than death' for Palestinians | Israelis | Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu urged that Israel “must find ways for Gazans that are more painful than death” to defeat them and break their morale, as the US did with Japan. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Thousands protest in Israel demanding captive release, government to resign | Israelis | Protesters angry at the government rallied in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem calling for return of captives held in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Former US general: Israel may win in Gaza, but fail in the region | opinion | US General Mark Kimmitt says Israeli talk of annihilating Gaza ‘sounds good on TV’ but is impractical and illegal. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Safe zones: Israel’s technologies of genocide | opinion | The designation of safe areas in Gaza allows the Israeli army to carry out war crimes more efficiently and then to deny them. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Genocide in Gaza: The context | opinion | After three months of destruction, displacement and the killing of Palestinians, we take a deep dive into the way the Gaza story has been covered. | ||||||
| 20240106 | War on Gaza: The voices that really matter are the journalists on the ground | opinion | Tense exchange between TalkTV presenter and Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti highlights the structural biases of western media | ||||||
| 20240106 | 'Nobody will win' from wider Middle East conflict - Borrell | EU/Middle East | The EU foreign policy chief said escalating violence in the region was getting more concerning. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Death toll in Islamic State-claimed suicide blasts rises to 91 | Iran | The death toll from a suicide bombing in Iran claimed by the Islamic State group has risen to at least 91, state TV reported Saturday. | ||||||
| 20240106 | US intelligence confirms Islamic State's Afghanistan branch behind Iran blasts | Iran | Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State’s (ISIS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘response’ to Hamas leader’s killing | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanese group says it targeted Meron air base following the killing of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Israel, Hezbollah trade fire across Lebanon border amid alarm over Gaza war spillover | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group said on Saturday it had fired rockets at Israel, and its arch-foe said it had struck a "terrorist cell" in retaliation, as top U.S. and EU diplomats visited the region to seek ways to halt spillover from the war. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Hezbollah fires rocket barrage at Israel base after Aruri killing | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it fired more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base on Saturday in response to the killing in Beirut of Hamas's deputy leader. | ||||||
| 20240106 | IDF, Hezbollah fire across Lebanon border | Lebanon/Israelis | The IDF attack followed "about 40 [rocket] launches from Lebanese territory" that crossed into Israel | ||||||
| 20240106 | Israeli jets strike Lebanon following Hezbollah rocket fire | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel has struck a number of targets in southern Lebanon, following rocket attacks by Hezbollah earlier on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Hezbollah says it hit Israeli observation post with 62 rockets | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it hit a key Israeli observation post early on Saturday with 62 rockets as a "preliminary response" to the killing of Hamas' deputy chief earlier this week. | ||||||
| 20240106 | EU foreign policy chief warns against Lebanon getting dragged into conflict | Lebanon/Israelis/EU | European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell sounded the alarm on Saturday about Lebanon being dragged into a regional conflict in a spillover from Israel's war with Hamas. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Merchant vessel approached by six craft near Yemen, says UK | Red Sea | Six small craft approached a merchant vessel about 50 nautical miles from the Yemeni city of Mocha on Saturday before leaving the area, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization said. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Iran Guards commander challenges 'enemy' naval presence in region | Red Sea | The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed on Saturday to reach "the enemy" far and near as tensions soar on key shipping routes where Tehran’s allies have been attacking vessels. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Will the Houthi Red Sea attacks destabilise Yemen’s fragile peace? | Red Sea | The strikes have helped the Yemeni group gain recruits – and analysts worry that a domestic build-up of might could strain ceasefire attempts. | ||||||
| 20240106 | US military says it downs another drone over Red Sea | Red Sea | just in 19:09 | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken meets Erdogan for talks on Gaza as Hezbollah rockets target Israel | US/Turkey/Lebanon | On the first stop of a Mideast tour focused on Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks in Istanbul on Saturday with Turkish officials on how to de-escalate regional tensions, speed aid deliveries to Gaza and begin planning for postwar governance. | ||||||
| 20240106 | US diplomat Blinken meets Turkey’s Erdogan, kicking off Gaza diplomacy tour | US/Middle East | The US secretary of state will also travel to Israel and the occupied West Bank, as the war in Gaza rages on. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken opens latest urgent Mideast tour in Turkey as fears grow that Gaza war may engulf region | US/Middle East | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off his latest urgent Middle East diplomatic mission in Turkey on Saturday, as fears mount that Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza may explode into a broader conflict. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken meets Turkey's Erdogan as Gaza diplomacy tour begins | US/Middle East | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have spiked across the Middle East since Israel's war with Hamas began in October. | ||||||
| 20240106 | US and EU launch twin diplomatic mission to calm tensions in Middle East | US/EU/Middle East | Escalation of violence comes as US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and Europe’s Josep Borrell begin tours of the region | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken says Turkey is committed to a ‘positive’ role in postwar Gaza as he opens a diplomatic push | US/Middle East | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from broadening even more. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Hamas chief calls on Blinken to focus on ending Israel war on Gaza in current ME tour | US/Middle East/Hamas | Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to use his current Middle East tour to end Israel's "aggression" as war rages in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Hundreds block off Westminster Bridge in call for Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | Protesters also call for UK to stop arms sales to Israel and end to Israeli occupation of Palestine | ||||||
| 20240106 | UK petition calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador over using 'genocidal language' | United Kingdom | A Change.org petition calling for the expulsion of Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely has gained significant traction, amassing over 80,450 signatures within a single day.
COMMENT Tzipi Hotovely is known for her racist rants against Palestinians including her denial that Nakba had taken place. |
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| 20240106 | US diplomat Blinken meets Turkey’s Erdogan, kicking off Gaza diplomacy tour | United States | The US secretary of state will also travel to Israel and the occupied West Bank, as the war in Gaza rages on. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken opens latest urgent Mideast tour in Turkey as fears grow that Gaza war may engulf region | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off his latest urgent Middle East diplomatic mission in Turkey on Saturday, as fears mount that Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza may explode into a broader conflict. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken meets Turkey's Erdogan as Gaza diplomacy tour begins | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have spiked across the Middle East since Israel's war with Hamas began in October. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Blinken says Turkey is committed to a ‘positive’ role in postwar Gaza as he opens a diplomatic push | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from broadening even more. | ||||||
| 20240106 | Israel fears ruling from International Court of Justice to stop its army attacks on Gaza | war on Gaza | Following South Africa’s lawsuit, Tel Aviv is concerned and anticipating a possible verdict from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) compelling Israel to halt its ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240106 | Boy survives Gaza strike that kills family after futile search for tents | war on whole families | Fearful of Israeli air strikes on buildings, Rami Awad spent days looking for tents so that he could move his family to the relative safety of an outdoor camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, but he could not find any, according to his brother Mohammed Awad. | ||||||
| 20240106 | How Israel wiped out one family in a 'safe zone' in Gaza | war on whole families | Nariman Duhair lost her sister and 10 relatives when Israel bombed their home in Rafah and is now left raising her wounded niece | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240107 | U.S. opposes displacement of Palestinians, Blinken assures Jordan | day after politics | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Arab leaders on Sunday that Washington opposes the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank, as he looked to kickstart talks on Gaza's post-war future. | ||||||
| 20240107 | For Israel's hostage families, despondency sets in as world attention shifts | Israelis | As Israel's vigil for its hostages in Gaza moves into a fourth month, a sense that time is passing while world attention shifts elsewhere has deepened the anguish felt by their families as hopes have faded for a deal to secure their release. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv, urge dissolution of parliament, early elections | Israelis | Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in the capital Tel Aviv, demanding the dissolution of parliament and the holding of early elections, local media reported | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israel taps Supreme Court ex-president Barak for ICJ panel | Israelis | Israel has named its former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak as its addition to an International Court of Justice panel due this week to hear a genocide allegation filed against it, an Israeli official said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israeli government grappling with ‘plague of leaks’: Netanyahu | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government is grappling with a “plague of leaks” | ||||||
| 20240107 | Knesset Deputy proposes Gaza’s civilians return to their original Palestinian villages | Israelis | Knesset Deputy Ahmad Tibi addresses Israeli fascists and confronts the motivation for the war on Gaza. He rejects the notion that the war is on Hamas and reasserts his position that it is a war on the entirety of the Palestinian people | ||||||
| 20240107 | Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh’s son killed in Gaza by Israeli attack | journalists | Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh is mourning his son, Hamza Dahdouh, who has been killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted his car in southern Gaza. In October, Israeli forces killed Wael’s wife, other son, daughter and grandson. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Hamza, son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh, killed in Israeli attack in Gaza | journalists | An Israeli attack targeted the car he was travelling in with two other journalists. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israeli strike kills two Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say | journalists | An Israeli air strike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were out reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the journalists' union there. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Al Jazeera bureau chief's son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza | journalists | The eldest son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief killed by Israeli air strike | journalists | Journalists Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya killed after missile targets their vehicle in Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20240107 | 2 Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks, including Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh, son of prominent journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, says government media office | journalists | An Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza, has killed Hamza Al-Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Chief Journalist, and journalist Mustafa Thraya, targeting their car. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Violence flares up in West Bank, journalists killed, Israel wraps up north Gaza offensive | journalists | An apparent Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, including the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Abbas, Sisi to discuss ways to stop Gaza war in Cairo | Egypt/PA | |||||||
| 20240107 | Iranians question Russia ties after Israel killed key commander in Syria | Iran/Russia | An Israeli missile attack that killed a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force in Syria last week has sparked criticism of the military partnership between Russia and Iran. | ||||||
| 20240107 | EU's Borrell meets Lebanese army chief amid border tension with Israel | Lebanon/EU | EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell held talks on Sunday with Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun on the situation along the country’s border with Israel | ||||||
| 20240107 | ‘Victory photo’: Will Beirut killings help embattled Netanyahu politically? | Lebanon/Israelis | Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low. The Beirut assassinations won’t fundamentally change that, analysts say. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Lebanon airport screens display anti-Hezbollah message after being hacked | Lebanon/Israelis | The information display screens at Beirut’s international airport were hacked by domestic anti-Hezbollah groups Sunday, as clashes between the Lebanese militant group and the Israeli military continue to intensify along the border. | ||||||
| 20240107 | US shoots down drone launched by Houthis in Red Sea | Red Sea | The US said Saturday it shot down a drone launched from Yemen in the Red Sea amid rising tensions with the Yemeni rebel group Houthis | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken on Middle East tour to prevent regional escalation of Gaza war | US/Middle East | The United States’ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is conducting an urgent tour of the Middle East in an effort to calm regional tensions, as fears continue to grow regarding a potential escalation of the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken in Jordan to discuss regional tensions over Gaza war | US/Middle East | The top US diplomat has met with Jordan's king and foreign minister during a tour of the Middle East, aiming to stop the Gaza war from spreading. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Gaza conflict runs risk of metastasizing, Blinken warns | US/Middle East | The top U.S. diplomat swept through the Middle East on Sunday, warning that the Gaza conflict could spread across the region without concerted peace efforts, although Israel's leader vowed to continue the war until Hamas was eliminated.
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| 20240107 | Israel-Hamas war: Too many Palestinians killed — Blinken | US/Middle East/Israelis | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was imperative that Israel do more to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Jordan’s King Abdullah II presses Blinken to push for a ceasefire in Gaza | US/Middle East/Jordan | The top US diplomat is travelling across the Middle East amid growing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken meets Jordanian and Qatari leaders on new Mideast push to keep Gaza war from spreading | US/Middle East/Jordan | On another urgent diplomatic mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Arab partners to press for their help in tamping down resurgent fears that Israel’s three-month war against Hamas in Gaza could spread. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Jordan king presses Blinken on Gaza ceasefire, aid | US/Middle East/Jordan | Jordan's king urged the top United States diplomat on Sunday to push for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an end to the humanitarian crisis brought by three months of war, the royal palace said. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Jordan, US reject forced displacement of Gazans amid Israeli war | US/Middle East/Jordan | Jordan said Sunday it has agreed with the United States on rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240107 | U.S. opposes displacement of Palestinians, Blinken assures Jordan | US/Middle East/Jordan | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Arab leaders on Sunday that Washington opposes the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank, as he looked to kickstart talks on Gaza's post-war future. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Turkiye expects US sale of F-16 jets to be concluded: Fidan tells Blinken | US/Middle East/Turkey | Ankara expects Washington to conclude the process for the sale of F-16 fighter jets, the Turkish foreign minister told his US counterpart in an Istanbul meeting on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken holds talks in Qatar about Gaza conflict | US/Middle East/Qatar | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East in an effort to contain the conflict in Gaza. His latest talks have taken place in Qatar, whose officials have served as key mediators between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken says Gazans ‘must not be pressed to leave’ as war enters fourth month | US/Middle East/Qatar | On a visit to Qatar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel must do more to protect civilians in Gaza and that Palestinians displaced by the war must "return home". | ||||||
| 20240107 | Turkiye expects US sale of F-16 jets to be concluded: Fidan tells Blinken | United States | Ankara expects Washington to conclude the process for the sale of F-16 fighter jets, the Turkish foreign minister told his US counterpart in an Istanbul meeting on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken on Middle East tour to prevent regional escalation of Gaza war | United States | The United States’ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is conducting an urgent tour of the Middle East in an effort to calm regional tensions, as fears continue to grow regarding a potential escalation of the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken meets Jordanian and Qatari leaders on new Mideast push to keep Gaza war from spreading | United States | On another urgent diplomatic mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Arab partners to press for their help in tamping down resurgent fears that Israel’s three-month war against Hamas in Gaza could spread. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken in Jordan to discuss regional tensions over Gaza war | United States | The top US diplomat has met with Jordan's king and foreign minister during a tour of the Middle East, aiming to stop the Gaza war from spreading. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Jordan’s King Abdullah II presses Blinken to push for a ceasefire in Gaza | United States | The top US diplomat is travelling across the Middle East amid growing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Jordan king presses Blinken on Gaza ceasefire, aid | United States | Jordan's king urged the top United States diplomat on Sunday to push for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an end to the humanitarian crisis brought by three months of war, the royal palace said. | ||||||
| 20240107 | U.S. opposes displacement of Palestinians, Blinken assures Jordan | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Arab leaders on Sunday that Washington opposes the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank, as he looked to kickstart talks on Gaza's post-war future. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Jordan, US reject forced displacement of Gazans amid Israeli war | United States | Jordan said Sunday it has agreed with the United States on rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israel-Hamas war: Too many Palestinians killed — Blinken | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was imperative that Israel do more to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken holds talks in Qatar about Gaza conflict | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East in an effort to contain the conflict in Gaza. His latest talks have taken place in Qatar, whose officials have served as key mediators between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Blinken says Gazans ‘must not be pressed to leave’ as war enters fourth month | United States | On a visit to Qatar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel must do more to protect civilians in Gaza and that Palestinians displaced by the war must "return home". | ||||||
| 20240107 | Gaza conflict runs risk of metastasizing, Blinken warns | United States | The top U.S. diplomat swept through the Middle East on Sunday, warning that the Gaza conflict could spread across the region without concerted peace efforts, although Israel's leader vowed to continue the war until Hamas was eliminated.
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| 20240107 | What’s behind Antony Blinken’s latest visit to the Middle East? | United States | US secretary of state has made at least five trips to the region since war on Gaza began. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East – for his fifth visit since Israel began its war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israel signals bombardment of northern Gaza set to end | war on Gaza | The Israeli military has ‘dismantled’ Hamas in the north, but suggests the onslaught will continue in the rest of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israel signals it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza as the war enters its fourth month | war on Gaza | The Israeli military signaled that it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure there, as the war against the militant group entered its fourth month Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Hamas command in north Gaza destroyed, Israel says | war on Gaza | The Israeli army says it has "completed the dismantling" of Hamas's command structure in the northern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israel presses attack in southern Gaza as deadly war enters fourth month- as it happened | war on Gaza | The Israeli occupation army signaled that it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure there, as the war against the militant group entered its fourth month Sunday. Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis was hit by fresh Israeli air strikes, killing and wounding several people. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israel taps Supreme Court ex-president Barak for ICJ panel | war on Gaza | Israel has named its former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak as its addition to an International Court of Justice panel due this week to hear a genocide allegation filed against it, an Israeli official said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Gaza death toll from Israeli onslaught tops 22,800 | war on Gaza | At least 22,835 Palestinians have been killed and 58,416 others injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said Sunday | ||||||
| 20240107 | Hamza, son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh, killed in Israeli attack in Gaza | war only whole families | An Israeli attack targeted the car he was travelling in with two other journalists.
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| 20240107 | Israeli strike kills two Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say | war only whole families | An Israeli air strike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were out reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the journalists' union there. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Al Jazeera bureau chief's son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza | war only whole families | The eldest son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief killed by Israeli air strike | war only whole families | Journalists Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya killed after missile targets their vehicle in Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20240107 | At least eight Palestinians, two Israelis killed in West Bank violence | West Bank | Seven Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, authorities say. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Six Palestinians, Israeli police officer killed in West Bank clashes | West Bank | Israeli forces killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday, and an Israeli police officer was killed, Israeli officials said. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israeli drone attack kills four brothers during Jenin raid | West Bank | A distraught mother searching a hospital found out four of her sons were killed in a drone strike during an Israeli raid on Jenin. An IED blast in the occupied West Bank city killed at least one Israeli soldier. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israeli forces kill seven Palestinians from same family during Jenin raid | West Bank | Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians during an early morning operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, all cousins, including two sets of brothers. | ||||||
| 20240107 | 6 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing in area of Jenin in occupied West Bank | West Bank | At least six Palestinians were killed early Sunday when Israel bombed a civilian gathering area in the Jenin Governorate in the northern occupied West Bank | ||||||
| 20240107 | Violence flares up in West Bank, journalists killed, Israel wraps up north Gaza offensive | West Bank | An apparent Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, including the son of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Young Palestinian girl killed when Israeli police fire at suspected attackers in West Bank unrest | West Bank | Israeli police on Sunday opened fire at a pair of suspected attackers who rammed their car into a West Bank checkpoint, fatally shooting a young Palestinian girl in an adjacent vehicle, according to police and medical officials. | ||||||
| 20240107 | Israeli police kill Palestinian girl during response to ramming attack | West Bank | Israeli police killed a young Palestinian girl in a car at a West Bank crossing when they opened fire on another car suspected of a ramming attack, Israeli emergency services said. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240108 | Baerbock urges less 'intensive' operation | global response | On a visit to Israel, Germany's foreign minister called for the Israeli government to ease its military campaign in Gaza amid rising Palestinian casualties. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Activists gear up for global 'day of action' ahead of 100th day of war | global response | A number of cities from across the world will be holding solidarity protests on 13 January to demand Israel cease its assault on Gaza | ||||||
| 20240108 | UN experts demand accountability for sexual torture during Hamas attacks | Hamas resistance attack | U.N. experts on Monday demanded accountability for sexual violence against Israeli civilians during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, saying that mounting evidence of rapes and genital mutilation point to possible crimes against humanity. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Tales and play-tents sustained Israeli mother and daughter in Gaza captivity | Hamas resistance attack | When the Hamas gunmen stormed in, smashing and setting fire to the country home where Danielle Alony was spending a holiday weekend with her daughter Emilia, she hugged the five-year-old close and said: "I'm sorry, my love. We're going to die." | ||||||
| 20240108 | The IDF Must Investigate the Kibbutz Be'eri Tank Fire Incident – Right Now | Hamas resistance attack | There is no demand more justified than that of relatives of people killed in the hostage incident at Kibbutz Be'eri to investigate the army's actions and to receive answers about the circumstances of their loved ones' deaths. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Haaretz demands investigation into killing of Israeli hostages by tank fire | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli media outlet, Haaretz, on Monday called for an investigation into the killing of Israeli hostages by a tank fire near the border with the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240108 | UNICEF: 'There is no safe place for a child in Gaza right now' | humanitarian | Three months on from the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel's counteroffensive in Gaza, the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave is increasingly dire. | ||||||
| 20240108 | UK rules out airdropping aid into Gaza, saying it prefers maritime routes | humanitarian | British Defence Minister, James Heappey, said his government has no plans of airdropping humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling such a move a “very imprecise way of doing business” | ||||||
| 20240108 | Palestinians desperate to flee Gaza pay thousands in bribes to ‘brokers’ | humanitarian | Fixers with alleged links to Egyptian intelligence are making a fortune in ‘fees’ from people hoping to exit through the Rafah crossing | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israeli MPs hold meeting on building settlements in Gaza | Israelis | Members of the Israeli Knesset met to discuss Gaza's future after the war, and called for the recruitment of settlers prepared to move there | ||||||
| 20240108 | Netanyahu 'not qualified to lead' Israel: Opposition leader | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “is not qualified to lead the country”, opposition leader, Yair Lapid, said Monday | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israel shifts to deadlier strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria | Israelis/Iran/Syria | Israel is carrying out an unprecedented wave of deadly strikes in Syria targeting cargo trucks, infrastructure and people involved in Iran's weapons lifeline to its proxies in the region. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Jordan's King Abdullah: Israel's 'brutal' war creates generation of Gaza orphans | Jordan/Israelis | Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel had created a whole generation of orphans with its "brutal" war in Gaza, where he said over 30,000 people, mostly women and children, had been killed or were missing as a result of the conflict. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Jordan's king warns Blinken of repercussions of ongoing war in Gaza | Jordan/Israelis | Jordan’s King Abdullah II yesterday warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the catastrophic consequences of the continued war on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Netanyahu threatens Hezbollah, Israel control base struck, Palestinian girl killed by Israeli police | Lebanon/Israelis | summary article | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israeli strike kills an elite Hezbollah commander in the latest escalation linked to the war in Gaza | Lebanon/Israelis | An Israeli airstrike killed an elite Hezbollah commander Monday in southern Lebanon, the latest in an escalating exchange of strikes along the border that have raised fears of another Mideast war even as the fighting in Gaza exacts a mounting toll on civilians. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israeli strike kills a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in a strike in south Lebanon on Monday, sources familiar with the group's operations said, inflicting a heavy blow after three months of hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli frontier. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Suspected Israeli strike in Lebanon kills senior Hezbollah commander | Lebanon/Israelis | The Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its commanders has been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon believed to have been carried out by Israel. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israeli strike kills high-level Hezbollah commander in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel on Monday killed a top commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in a strike on southern Lebanon, adding to fears of a spillover of the conflict in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Hezbollah says Israel kills top commander amid fears of Gaza war escalation | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel and the Lebanese armed group have frequently exchanged cross-border fire over the past three months. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israel threatens to 'copy-paste' Gaza situation on to Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel has threatened to "copy-paste" the destruction of Gaza onto Lebanon if Hezbollah does not halt its attacks from the north. | ||||||
| 20240108 | DM warns Hezbollah Israel can ‘copy and paste’ its war on Gaza in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, threatened Hezbollah during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the war against Gaza could be repeated in Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Netanyahu threatens to turn northern Lebanon into Gaza amid escalation with Hezbollah | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday warned Hezbollah against underestimating the Israeli army amid an exchange of cross-border fire with the Lebanese group. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israel targets southern Lebanon with phosphorus bombs | Lebanon/Israelis | The Israeli army targeted several areas in southern Lebanon with phosphorus bombs on Monday, state media reported | ||||||
| 20240108 | Houthi leader says Houthi attacks paralysed Israeli ports in occupied territories | Red Sea | Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, head of Yemen’s Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, said Houthis will continue to target vessels in the Red Sea due to Israeli crimes against the people of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Pentagon says not planning a US withdrawal from Iraq | US/Iraq | The Pentagon said on Monday it was not currently planning to withdraw its roughly 2,500 troops from Iraq, despite Baghdad's announcement last week it would begin the process of removing the U.S.-led military coalition from the country. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Turkey: Police leaks to press reveal more details about Israeli spy network | Turkey/Israelis | Israeli intelligence officers used health workers to obtain information about Palestinians residing in Turkey, new leaks show.
COMMENT Report is related to 20231203 - Israeli security chief in recording vows to hunt down Hamas abroad |
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| 20240108 | UK rules out airdropping aid into Gaza, saying it prefers maritime routes | United Kingdom | British Defence Minister, James Heappey, said his government has no plans of airdropping humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling such a move a “very imprecise way of doing business” | ||||||
| 20240108 | WHO axes medical aid delivery to north Gaza in absence of security guarantees | United Nations | The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been compelled to cancel a mission to bring medical supplies to northern Gaza on Sunday after failing to receive security guarantees. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Blinken meets Arab leaders in diplomatic push over Gaza war | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was holding more talks with Arab leaders on Monday as part of a diplomatic push to stop the war in Gaza spreading further. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Blinken brings US push on post-war Gaza planning and stopping conflict to UAE and Saudi Arabia | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened his third day of meetings on an urgent Mideast diplomatic mission to prevent Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza from exploding into a broader regional conflict | ||||||
| 20240108 | U.S. top diplomat Blinken to visit Israel as Gaza suffers bloodiest 24 hours of this year | United States | Israeli attacks inflicted the highest daily Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war so far this year, health officials in Gaza said on Monday, as the U.S. Secretary of State visited the region in a bid to prevent the conflict from expanding. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Antony Blinken: 'This conflict could easily metastasize' | United States | US and EU diplomatics are continuing their efforts in the Middle East to keep the Israel - Hamas war from spreading.
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| 20240108 | Israeli wife of billionaire who campaigned to oust Harvard president faces plagiarism accusations | United States | The billionaire hedge fund manager who took part in a campaign to oust Harvard’s former president on charges of antisemitism and plagiarism is embroiled in a new dispute over allegations that his wife plagiarised Wikipedia and other scholars in her academic work. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israeli wife of billionaire who campaigned to oust Harvard president faces plagiarism accusations | United States | The billionaire hedge fund manager who took part in a campaign to oust Harvard’s former president on charges of antisemitism and plagiarism is embroiled in a new dispute over allegations that his wife plagiarised Wikipedia and other scholars in her academic work.
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| 20240108 | Calls for Gaza ceasefire interrupt speech by US President Biden | United States | A speech by President Joe Biden at a church on Monday was interrupted by calls for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240108 | US officials renew calls for Israel to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza | United States | Palestinian Health Ministry says 249 people killed and 510 wounded in Israeli assault on Gaza over 24 hours. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israel says it is scaling down north Gaza operations. What does that mean? | war on Gaza | The Israeli army did not claim to have destroyed Hamas’s forces, but rather to have eliminated its ‘senior commanders’. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israel says to shift to ‘long’ third phase of Gaza war | war on Gaza | Israel plans to shift to a “long” third phase of the war in the Gaza Strip, Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on Monday | ||||||
| 20240108 | With each strike, fears grow that Israel, the US and Iran’s allies are inching closer to all-out war | war on Gaza | In the last week alone, an Israeli airstrike has killed a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, Hezbollah struck a sensitive Israeli base with rockets and Israel killed a senior Hamas militant with an airstrike in Beirut. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Hundreds missing from Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israeli bombardment | war on hospitals | WHO and UN officials say patients arrive every few minutes in central Gaza hospital operating with 30 percent of staff. | ||||||
| 20240108 | WHO axes medical aid delivery to north Gaza in absence of security guarantees | war on hospitals | The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had been compelled to cancel a mission to bring medical supplies to northern Gaza on Sunday after failing to receive security guarantees. | ||||||
| 20240108 | More than 10 children losing legs in Gaza every day as dire health crisis grows, aid groups say | war on hospitals | More than 10 children on average have lost one or both of their legs every day in Gaza since October 7, with many amputations performed without anesthesia, a charity said Sunday, underscoring the dire humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave following more than three months of Israeli bombardment. | ||||||
| 20240108 | MSF withdraws medical teams from Gaza hospital as Israeli attacks rise | war on hospitals | Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced the withdrawal of its employees from the central region of the Gaza Strip, including Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, in light of the increasing attacks by the Israeli occupation army. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Palestinian girl loses her sight and her family in Gaza attack | war on whole families | “Do you know where my mom and dad are?” An 11-year-old girl who lost her sight in an Israeli attack in Gaza was left in the hospital asking for her parents’ whereabouts, unaware they had been killed. | ||||||
| 20240108 | An Al Jazeera journalist is the fifth member of his family killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza | war on whole families | An apparent Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza on Sunday, including an Al Jazeera journalist who lost four close relatives earlier in the war. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israeli police kill four-year-old girl after checkpoint ‘ram attack’ | West Bank | A four-year-old Palestinian girl was shot and killed when Israeli police fired on suspected attackers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Netanyahu threatens Hezbollah, Israel control base struck, Palestinian girl killed by Israeli police | West Bank | summary article | ||||||
| 20240108 | ‘Freedom is paid for in blood’: In the occupied West Bank, families long to bury their dead | West Bank | An Israeli strike killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, four of whom were brothers. | ||||||
| 20240108 | Israel settlements undermine peace in Middle East - German FM | West Bank | German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, criticised on Monday Israel’s policy of constructing and expanding illegal settlements on Occupied Palestinian Territories | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240109 | In Israel, Blinken looks to planning for post-war Gaza as bombardment, fighting continue to rage | day after politics | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced tough talks with Israeli leaders on Gaza’s post-war future Tuesday, while Israel’s military pushed ahead with its offensive in the beleaguered territory. Heavy bombardment and fighting shook refugee camps, sending Palestinians scrambling to find safety and hampering aid groups’ efforts to get relief to the population. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Egypt rejects Israeli request to monitor buffer zone with Gaza - sources | day after politics | Egypt has rejected a proposal by Israel for greater Israeli oversight over the buffer zone on the Egypt-Gaza border and is prioritising efforts to broker a ceasefire before working on post-war arrangements, three Egyptian security sources said. | ||||||
| 20240109 | No talk on Gaza's future until ceasefire reached: Egypt | day after politics | Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, said Tuesday that the future of the Gaza Strip cannot be discussed until reaching a ceasefire in the Palestinian Territory | ||||||
| 20240109 | Saudi Arabia interested in Israel normalisation deal after war | day after politics | Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UK says it is interested in normalising relations with Israel after the war in Gaza, but that any deal must lead to the creation of a Palestinian state.
COMMENT The deal dates from September 2023 |
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| 20240109 | Saudi Arabia still interested in Israel normalisation after war on Gaza ends | day after politics | Prince Khalid bin Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UK, says normalisation must lead to the creation of a Palestinian state.
COMMENT The deal dates from September 2023 |
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| 20240109 | Palestinians desperate to flee Gaza pay thousands in bribes to ‘brokers’ | dystopian terror | Fixers with alleged links to Egyptian intelligence are making a fortune in ‘fees’ from people hoping to exit through the Rafah crossing | ||||||
| 20240109 | Israeli nurse spent Gaza captivity aiding elderly hostages underground | Hamas resistance attack | A nurse who was among scores of Israelis abducted to Gaza says she spent her captivity in an underground tunnel, treating elderly fellow hostages, some hard of sight or hearing, with meagre medical supplies for which she had to haggle with Hamas | ||||||
| 20240109 | Self-built makeshift shelters for displaced Gazans 'over-crowded': UN humanitarian office | humanitarian | Self-built makeshift shelters for Palestinians displaced by a deadly Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip are over-crowded, the UN humanitarian office said Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Herzog: Gaza genocide claim at ICJ 'atrocious and preposterous' | Israelis | Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Tuesday that "there is nothing more atrocious and preposterous" than a lawsuit filed in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in its Gaza offensive. | ||||||
| 20240109 | MK faces impeachment after accusing Israel of genocide | Israelis | Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli Knesset, signed a petition filed by South Africa accusing Israel of committing Genocide in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Murder of Palestinian in Israel sparks fresh concern over structural racism | Israelis | Amidst Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip that has now claimed over 23,000 Palestinian lives, violence and insecurity have spiked amongst the Palestinian minority citizens living inside Israel. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Israel demolishes Jerusalem home of Palestinian brothers | Jerusalem | Israeli today demolished the homes of Palestinians Murad and Ibrahim Nimr in Sur Baher town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. | ||||||
| 20240109 | War on Gaza: The West will stand in the dock alongside Israel at the genocide court | opinion | Israel’s allies aren’t just turning a blind eye to Gaza’s killing fields. They have cheered on the bloodshed, provided diplomatic cover and supplied the arms | ||||||
| 20240109 | Hezbollah says commander killed by Israeli strike in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel on Monday killed a top Hezbollah commander in a strike on south Lebanon, the Iran-backed group and a security official said, as regional tensions soar amid the Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Hezbollah targets Israeli base to avenge Lebanon killings | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanon's Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah said it targeted a command base in northern Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for the killings of one of its commanders and a Hamas leader. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Hezbollah launches drone strike on base in northern Israel. Israel’s military says there’s no damage | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah said it launched a drone strike at the Israeli army’s northern headquarters Tuesday in retaliation for recent strikes in Lebanon that killed top Hamas and Hezbollah officials. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Hezbollah drones strike in northern Israel follow Lebanon assassinations | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah launched a series of drone attacks from Lebanon into northern Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for the killings of several fighters. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Israel and Hezbollah edge closer to war as drone hits key Israeli command base | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel and Hezbollah edged closer towards full scale war on Tuesday, as the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group launched explosive drones at a key Israeli command base, declaring the attack part of its response to recent high-level Israeli assassinations in Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Lebanon ready for talks on long-term border stability, PM says | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati told a senior United Nations official on Tuesday that his country was ready for talks on long-term stability on its southern border with Israel. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Changing rules of engagement in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Saleh Al-Arouri, the second-in-command in Hamas, was killed in a missile attack carried out by a drone on a multi-storey building in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut on 2 January that also resulted in the deaths of six other military commanders of the Al-Qassam Brigades | ||||||
| 20240109 | U.N. experts condemn 'extrajudicial' killing of Hamas figure in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis/UN | U.N. experts in international law on Tuesday condemned the killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri and other fighters in drone strikes on Lebanon, saying this amounted to the crimes of extrajudicial killings and murder. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Hezbollah hits Israeli base, says it does not want wider war | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah attacked an Israeli army base with explosive drones deployed from Lebanon on Tuesday, hitting the position for the first time in what the Iran-backed group declared part of its response to recent Israeli assassinations in Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240109 | 'I cannot sleep in peace' - Israelis fearful as Hezbollah tensions soar | Lebanon/Israelis | Efrat Eldan Schechter is "a native" of the Northern Galilee and never even considered moving anywhere else to bring up her family - that is until the events of 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken meets with Israeli leaders in bid to avert regional war | Lebanon/Israelis/US | The US secretary of state's visit follows meetings with Arab leaders who insist on a 'practical pathway' to a viable Palestinian state | ||||||
| 20240109 | Germany Inc calls on Berlin to join military efforts to protect Red Sea vessels | Red Sea | Corporate Germany on Tuesday called on Berlin to provide military support to make the Red Sea safe for container vessels, warning that a prolonged disruption of trade may lead to production hiccups in Europe's top economy. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Red Sea threats | Red Sea | The American-led Naval Coalition of 12 countries guarding maritime trade in the strategic Red Sea has not deterred Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen from threatening international trade. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken calls for Israel to avoid civilian harm as he seeks 'way forward' | US/Israelis | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Israel's leaders to avoid civilian harm in the war in Gaza and maintain a path towards the creation of Palestinian state, at meetings with Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken to discuss 'way forward' in Gaza as he meets Israeli leaders | US/Israelis | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss the "way forward" in Israel's war in Gaza as he meets with leaders including Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday after touring Israel's Arab neighbours. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken tells Israel to avoid ‘further civilian harm’ in Gaza | US/Israelis | In Tel Aviv, the US secretary of state says that while Israel has a ‘right’ to prevent terrorist attacks, a sustainable peace includes the creation of a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Antony Blinken tells Israel: Palestinian rights are key to peace | US/Israelis | US secretary of state rejects calls for immediate ceasefire but urges ally to make ‘hard decisions’ as fighting continues | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken warns toll on civilians 'too high' | US/Israelis | Top US diplomat Antony Blinken has called on Israeli PM Netanyahu to ease the plight of Gaza's civilians. He said an escalation of the conflict with Islamist militants Hamas is in no one's interest. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Gaza civilian toll ‘far too high’, says Blinken after meeting Israeli leaders | US/Israelis | The cost of the Gaza war on civilians, especially children, was “far too high”, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday following his meeting with Israeli leaders. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken brings Arab message to Israel: Keep hope of Palestinian state alive | US/Middle East/Israelis | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Israeli leaders to avoid harming civilians in the war in Gaza and to seek a path towards the creation of Palestinian state as a way to resolve the long-running wider conflict. | ||||||
| 20240109 | In Israel, Blinken looks to planning for post-war Gaza as bombardment, fighting continue to rage | US/Israelis | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced tough talks with Israeli leaders on Gaza’s post-war future Tuesday, while Israel’s military pushed ahead with its offensive in the beleaguered territory. Heavy bombardment and fighting shook refugee camps, sending Palestinians scrambling to find safety and hampering aid groups’ efforts to get relief to the population. | ||||||
| 20240109 | UK's Cameron says he's worried Israel may have breached international law in Gaza | United Kingdom | Britain's foreign minister David Cameron said on Tuesday he was worried that Israel might have breached international law in Gaza, and that the advice he had received so far was that Israel was compliant but there were questions to answer. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Cameron 'worried' Israel may have breached international law | United Kingdom | UK foreign secretary says he is concerned about Israeli actions but has not been explicitly advised of breach by government lawyers | ||||||
| 20240109 | UK Foreign Secretary refuses to say Israel occupies Gaza | United Kingdom | Under questioning by Parliament, the British Foreign Secretary dodged the question of whether Israel is occupying the Gaza Strip, over two months after the Israeli army started a ground invasion of Gaza that has taken thousands of lives.
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| 20240109 | UK government accepts Israel has legal duty to provide basic supplies to Gaza | United Kingdom | David Cameron urges Israeli authorities to clear barriers to aid deliveries amid risk of ‘widespread hunger’ | ||||||
| 20240109 | WHO says still seeing a large number of Palestinian casualties of Israeli bombing 'every single day' | United Nations | The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday its ability to provide aid and support struggling hospitals in war-ravaged Gaza was "shrinking", despite international demands for more aid to be allowed in. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken meets with Israeli leaders in bid to avert regional war | United States | The US secretary of state's visit follows meetings with Arab leaders who insist on a 'practical pathway' to a viable Palestinian state | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken calls for Israel to avoid civilian harm as he seeks 'way forward' | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Israel's leaders to avoid civilian harm in the war in Gaza and maintain a path towards the creation of Palestinian state, at meetings with Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken to discuss 'way forward' in Gaza as he meets Israeli leaders | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss the "way forward" in Israel's war in Gaza as he meets with leaders including Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday after touring Israel's Arab neighbours. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken tells Israel to avoid ‘further civilian harm’ in Gaza | United States | In Tel Aviv, the US secretary of state says that while Israel has a ‘right’ to prevent terrorist attacks, a sustainable peace includes the creation of a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Antony Blinken tells Israel: Palestinian rights are key to peace | United States | US secretary of state rejects calls for immediate ceasefire but urges ally to make ‘hard decisions’ as fighting continues | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken warns toll on civilians 'too high' | United States | Top US diplomat Antony Blinken has called on Israeli PM Netanyahu to ease the plight of Gaza's civilians. He said an escalation of the conflict with Islamist militants Hamas is in no one's interest. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Gaza civilian toll ‘far too high’, says Blinken after meeting Israeli leaders | United States | The cost of the Gaza war on civilians, especially children, was “far too high”, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday following his meeting with Israeli leaders. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Q&A: Former Biden appointee says US policy is ‘dehumanising’ Palestinians | United States | Tariq Habash about why he resigned from the Biden administration amid Israel’s war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken brings Arab message to Israel: Keep hope of Palestinian state alive | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Israeli leaders to avoid harming civilians in the war in Gaza and to seek a path towards the creation of Palestinian state as a way to resolve the long-running wider conflict. | ||||||
| 20240109 | In Israel, Blinken looks to planning for post-war Gaza as bombardment, fighting continue to rage | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced tough talks with Israeli leaders on Gaza’s post-war future Tuesday, while Israel’s military pushed ahead with its offensive in the beleaguered territory. Heavy bombardment and fighting shook refugee camps, sending Palestinians scrambling to find safety and hampering aid groups’ efforts to get relief to the population. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Blinken says US wants to see end to Israel-Gaza war | United States | “We want this war to end as soon as possible.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to reporters following his meetings with Israeli leaders and other regional leaders who all share concerns about the Israel-Gaza war spreading. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Israeli forces say they locate large underground weapons factory in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli forces located what they said was the largest weapons production site so far found in Gaza, with underground workshops they said were used to produce long-range missiles capable of hitting targets in northern Israel | ||||||
| 20240109 | As Israel proclaims 'targeted' phase of war, Gazans find little change | war on Gaza | Palestinians see little respite from Israeli bombardment that has shattered Gaza despite Israel's announcement of a new "more targeted" phase of its war and the top U.S. diplomat's renewed push for protection of civilians during a visit. | ||||||
| 20240109 | WHO says still seeing a large number of Palestinian casualties of Israeli bombing 'every single day' | war on Gaza | The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday its ability to provide aid and support struggling hospitals in war-ravaged Gaza was "shrinking", despite international demands for more aid to be allowed in. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Israeli military says nine soldiers killed in Gaza | war on Gaza | The Israeli military said on Tuesday nine more soldiers had been killed in Gaza, bringing its total war losses there to 187. | ||||||
| 20240109 | 'Sickening scenes' in Gaza hospitals as Hezbollah commander killed | war on Gaza | The latest developments from the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Hamas chief says Israel failed to achieve 'declared objectives' of Gaza war | war on Gaza | Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Israel failed to achieve any of its "declared objectives" since the beginning of its war on Gaza, asserting that the 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood operation did not come in a vacuum. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Experts assert strong evidence in South Africa's genocide case against Israel | war on Gaza | Experts who find the evidence in the ‘genocide’ case filed by the Republic of South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) predict that a decision against Israel will come out from the interim precautionary hearings to be held on 11-12 January
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| 20240109 | 9,000 Israel soldiers received psychiatric treatment since start of Gaza war | war on Gaza | Data released by the Israeli army yesterday revealed that nearly 13,000 soldiers in the regular forces and reserves required some level of medical care since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip on 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Gaza: heavy fighting continues in south of enclave | war on Gaza | After weeks of US pressure to ease its military offensive, Israel says that its forces are moving from full-blown warfare to a more targeted campaign in northern Gaza, while maintaining intensive combat in southern areas | ||||||
| 20240109 | 4 Israeli soldiers, officers, killed in Gaza | war on Gaza | The Israeli army today announced the death of four soldiers and officers and the injury of six others during ground battles with Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip, according to the Sama news website. | ||||||
| 20240109 | Israeli military vehicle runs over body of Palestinian | West Bank | An Israeli military vehicle has been filmed running over the body of a Palestinian who was shot during a raid on Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240110 | Israeli air strikes destroy Sheikh Zayed Mosque in northern Gaza | churches, mosques, schools | The Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Gaza suffers extensive damage due to Israeli air strikes. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Blinken seeks Palestinian governance reform for postwar Gaza as deadly Israeli strikes continue | day after politics | Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday about reforming the Palestinian self-rule government, as part of U.S. efforts to rally the region behind postwar plans for Gaza that also include concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Fighting in central Gaza rages near hospital, as Blinken seeks postwar plan | day after politics | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Wednesday to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about reforming his government, as Blinken sought to rally the region behind postwar plans for Gaza that include concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Abbas ‘committed’ to reform of Palestinian Authority, says Blinken | day after politics | Following a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Palestinian leader was committed to reforming the Palestinian Authority so "it can effectively take responsibility for Gaza”. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Egypt denies false claims of additional fees at Rafah crossing | dystopian terror | Diaa Rashwan, the head of Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) vehemently denied on Wednesday recent “unfounded allegations” circulating on social media and certain news outlets claiming that additional fees are being imposed on Palestinians at the Rafah Border Crossing, linking Gaza to Egypt. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Blinken seeks more aid for Gaza as hostage talks restart in Egypt | new ceasefire talks | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday to seek governance reforms, part of a plan to rally the region behind a postwar vision for Gaza that includes concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Red Sea attacks: retailers rush to avoid delays to spring collections | global effects | Retailers worldwide are stocking up on goods before China's Lunar New Year holiday and seeking air or rail alternatives to transportation via the Red Sea in a scramble to avoid empty shelves this spring, executives and experts told Reuters.
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| 20240110 | Campaign in support of South Africa's genocide case against Israel garners more than 320,000 signatures | global response | A campaign in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has gathered thousands of signatures Wednesday | ||||||
| 20240110 | ‘Devastated, heartbroken’: Against the odds, Gaza aid providers keep going | humanitarian | They’ve lost colleagues, families and homes. Israel has painted them as the enemy. But UNRWA and others refuse to stop. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Blinken seeks more aid for Gaza as hostage talks restart in Egypt | humanitarian | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday to seek governance reforms, part of a plan to rally the region behind a postwar vision for Gaza that includes concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | WHO cancels sixth aid mission to Gaza over security concerns | humanitarian | The World Health Organization cancelled another planned medical aid mission to Gaza on Wednesday over security concerns, the sixth such cancellation in two weeks, and sounded a fresh alarm over the spread of infectious disease there. | ||||||
| 20240110 | WHO cancels aid delivery to Gaza | humanitarian | The World Health Organization said it again cancelled a Gaza aid mission citing security concerns. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Health sector in Gaza being slowly choked off: UN Relief chief | humanitarian | The UN Relief chief warned, Wednesday, that the health sector in the Gaza Strip is getting worse due to the ongoing onslaught by Israel | ||||||
| 20240110 | 'The people of Israel do not want war': Israeli First Lady Michal Herzog | Israelis | The wife of Israeli Zionist President Isaac Herzog reacted to the ongoing war in Gaza, as well as the Hamas atrocities of October 7. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israeli MP says 'no innocents' in Gaza and it should be 'burned now' | Israelis | Nissim Vaturi's inflammatory comments are latest among ruling Likud party lawmakers, ahead of genocide case at ICJ | ||||||
| 20240110 | Researchers call on Holocaust remembrance centre to condemn genocidal language in Israel | Israelis | A group of researchers studying the Holocaust called on the leadership of Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial body, to condemn language in Israeli discourse that they say can be construed to be calling for genocide in Gaza against Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israeli army appears to change tack on strike that killed Gaza journalists | journalists | Al Jazeera journalists Hamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were killed in a targeted strike on their car in Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Yemen's Houthis step up attacks in Red Sea as Israeli bombardment kills more journalists | journalists | British naval vessel was involved in shooting down drones and missiles fired by the Yemeni group, which is targeting ships heading to Israel | ||||||
| 20240110 | ICC to investigate Israel attacks on Gaza’s journalists | journalists | The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that it is investigating possible offences against Palestinian journalists in the midst of Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israeli army kills journalist Heba al-Abdallah and her family | journalists | The journalist was killed in a missile strike on her home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza | ||||||
| 20240110 | Arab neighbours warn against Israeli reoccupation of Gaza | Jordan/Middle East/Israelis | Egypt and Jordan warned against any Israeli reoccupation in the Gaza Strip and appealed for uprooted residents to be allowed to return to their homes as the Arab countries' leaders met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday.
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| 20240110 | Jordan summit warns against Israel's reoccupation of Gaza Strip | Jordan/Middle East/Israelis | A 3-day Arab summit in Jordan’s port city of Aqaba warned against Israel’s reoccupation of parts of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Arab neighbours warn against Israeli reoccupation of Gaza | Jordan/Middle East/Israelis | Egypt and Jordan warned against any Israeli reoccupation in the Gaza Strip and appealed for uprooted residents to be allowed to return to their homes as the Arab countries' leaders met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday.
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| 20240110 | Jordan summit warns against Israel's reoccupation of Gaza Strip | Jordan/Middle East/Israelis | A 3-day Arab summit in Jordan’s port city of Aqaba warned against Israel’s reoccupation of parts of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240110 | UN rights rapporteur: Israeli strikes on Hamas in Lebanon breach international law | Lebanon/Israelis/UN | Ben Saul, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, says Israel’s strikes targeting Hamas leaders in Lebanon clearly breach international law and set a dangerous precedent for other global conflicts. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | A Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, local media have reported. According to Anadolu Agency, Nabegh Al-Qaderi was a member of the Hezbollah-linked Resistance Brigades. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Tensions at southern border force Lebanon to delay new FX platform | Lebanon/Israelis | Months of shelling across Lebanon's southern border between armed group Hezbollah and Israel has delayed the launch of a currency exchange platform, a senior central bank source told Reuters on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Yemen’s Houthis launch their largest Red Sea drone and missile attack, though no damage is reported | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired their largest-ever barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea, forcing the United States and British navies to shoot down the projectiles in a major naval engagement, authorities said Wednesday. No damage was immediately reported. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Yemen's Houthis launch biggest attack yet in Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen's Houthi rebels on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a large-scale drone and missile attack in the Red Sea described as the biggest yet in the international shipping corridor. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Yemen's Houthis step up attacks in Red Sea as Israeli bombardment kills more journalists | Red Sea | British naval vessel was involved in shooting down drones and missiles fired by the Yemeni group, which is targeting ships heading to Israel | ||||||
| 20240110 | US, UK forces shoot down 21 drones and missiles fired by Houthis | Red Sea | No injuries or damage reported in what the US military said was the 26th attack by the Yemen-based group since November 19. | ||||||
| 20240110 | US, UK forces repel 'largest attack' by Houthis in Red Sea | Red Sea | U.S. and British naval forces shot down 21 drones and missiles fired by Yemen-based Houthis on Tuesday towards the southern Red Sea, the United States said, with Britain hinting at further measures to protect international shipping lanes. | ||||||
| 20240110 | US and UK navies repel largest attack yet by Houthis in Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen's Houthi rebels fired their largest-ever barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea, forcing the United States and British navies to shoot down the projectiles in a major naval engagement, authorities said Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240110 | US and UK hint at military action after largest Houthi attack in Red Sea | Red Sea | The US and UK have hinted they could take military action against Yemen's Houthi rebels, after they repelled the largest attack yet on Red Sea shipping. | ||||||
| 20240110 | UN Security Council to vote on a resolution demanding Houthi rebels stop attacks on Red Sea shipping | Red Sea/UN | The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution that would condemn and demand an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea area | ||||||
| 20240110 | Red Sea security must be achieved without a new war, Italian minister says | Red Sea/UN | Yemen's Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping must be stopped without triggering a new war, the Italian defence minister said on Wednesday, as the Iranian-backed militia steps up attacks on commercial vessels. | ||||||
| 20240110 | UN 'very concerned' over attacks on Red Sea trade | Red Sea/UN | The United Nations raised the alarm on Wednesday over increasing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, blamed by Western countries on Huthi rebels, and the risk of escalation in the region. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Will Iraq finally push US troops out because of Gaza? | US/Iraq | After the US assassinated the leader of an Iraqi militia in Baghdad, the Iraqi government says it will kick US troops out. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Drone targeting coalition troops in Iraq shot down | US/Iraq | breaking news at 21:59 CET | ||||||
| 20240110 | PHOTO GALLERY: Ramallah uproar - Blinken confronts the cost of US support to Israel war | US/PA | no description | ||||||
| 20240110 | Turkiye says use of veto at UN 'has become an arbitrary and detrimental tool' | Turkey/Israelis | The use of the veto at the United Nations Security Council has become an “arbitrary and detrimental tool,” Turkiye’s deputy UN representative said Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Morocco says ready to deliberate petition to halt normalisation with Israel | Morocco/Israelis | The Moroccan government said, Wednesday, that it is ready to deliberate a petition calling for halting normalisation with Israel | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israel, South Africa trade barbs on eve of genocide case | South Africa | South Africa and Israel exchanged allegations on the eve of hearings at the top U.N. court which will hear South African claims that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its Gaza offensive. | ||||||
| 20240110 | What is South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ? | South Africa | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been asked to consider whether Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
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| 20240110 | Campaign in support of South Africa's genocide case against Israel garners more than 320,000 signatures | South Africa | A campaign in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has gathered thousands of signatures Wednesday | ||||||
| 20240110 | South Africa asks countries not to join genocide case against Israel | South Africa | South Africa has expressed its desire to “unilaterally” complete the genocide case it had filed against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). | ||||||
| 20240110 | UN Security Council to vote on a resolution demanding Houthi rebels stop attacks on Red Sea shipping | United Nations | The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution that would condemn and demand an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea area | ||||||
| 20240110 | US defends its veto of call for Gaza cease-fire while Palestinians and others demand fighting stop | United Nations | The United States defended its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of hostilities in Gaza at a U.N. meeting Tuesday and again faced demands by the Palestinians and many other countries for a cease-fire now in the Israel-Hamas war – as well as by a group of rabbis in the gallery. | ||||||
| 20240110 | WHO cancels sixth aid mission to Gaza over security concerns | United Nations | The World Health Organization cancelled another planned medical aid mission to Gaza on Wednesday over security concerns, the sixth such cancellation in two weeks, and sounded a fresh alarm over the spread of infectious disease there. | ||||||
| 20240110 | UN 'very concerned' over attacks on Red Sea trade | United Nations | The United Nations raised the alarm on Wednesday over increasing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, blamed by Western countries on Huthi rebels, and the risk of escalation in the region. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Health sector in Gaza being slowly choked off: UN Relief chief | United Nations | The UN Relief chief warned, Wednesday, that the health sector in the Gaza Strip is getting worse due to the ongoing onslaught by Israel | ||||||
| 20240110 | US top diplomat urges Israel to make hard choices, work with Palestinians | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel on Tuesday to make "hard choices" to normalize relations with more of its neighbours, a new appeal to smooth the path to creating a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Blinken meets Palestinian leader Abbas in occupied West Bank | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday, after pressing Israel's leaders to offer a pathway to a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Blinken seeks more aid for Gaza as hostage talks restart in Egypt | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday to seek governance reforms, part of a plan to rally the region behind a postwar vision for Gaza that includes concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Fighting in central Gaza rages near hospital, as Blinken seeks postwar plan | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Wednesday to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about reforming his government, as Blinken sought to rally the region behind postwar plans for Gaza that include concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Hunter College alum threaten to withhold donations unless school divests from Israel | United States | Powerful alumni from elite institutions like Harvard and University of Pennsylvania have called on their schools to take a more pro-Israel position amid fighting in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240110 | Despair in Gaza as fighting intensifies despite Israel promise to scale back war | war on Gaza | Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza intensified on Wednesday despite a pledge by Israel that it would pull out some troops and shift to a more targeted campaign, and pleading from its ally Washington to reduce civilian casualties. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Family of woman shot dead on Gaza ‘safe route’ calls for justice | war on Gaza | The family of a Palestinian woman shot dead while fleeing on a designated ‘safe route’ in Gaza has told Al Jazeera they want help getting justice. Video shows Hala Khreis walking with her grandson, who was holding a white flag. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Fighting in central Gaza rages near hospital, as Blinken seeks postwar plan | war on Gaza | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on Wednesday to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about reforming his government, as Blinken sought to rally the region behind postwar plans for Gaza that include concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Gaza grandmother gunned down by Israeli sniper as child waved white flag | war on Gaza | Shocking video shows Hala Rashid Abd al-Ati being shot and killed while leaving Gaza City, as her grandson, who had his arms interlocked with her, was waving a white flag | ||||||
| 20240110 | Despair in Gaza as fighting intensifies despite Israel promise to scale back war | war on Gaza | Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza intensified on Wednesday despite a pledge by Israel that it would pull out some troops and shift to a more targeted campaign, and pleading from its ally, Washington, to reduce civilian casualties | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israel army demolishes thousands of Palestinian homes in Gaza: Report | war on Gaza | “The army has completed the demolition of thousands of Palestinian homes that, over the years, provided sites for launching attacks and monitoring Israeli communities,” Yedioth Ahronoth media outlet said. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Photos: Terrified people flee Israeli attacks at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital | war on hospitals | On top of approaching tanks and bombings, quadcopters have been shooting at helpless displaced civilians on the ground. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Gaza's children mourn parents killed by Israeli bombardment | war on whole families | When 7-year-old Laila al-Sultan wakes up at night she shouts for her father, killed in the same Israeli air strike that injured her leg in a Gaza war thought to have deprived thousands of Palestinian children of one or both parents. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israeli army kills journalist Heba al-Abdallah and her family | war on whole families | The journalist was killed in a missile strike on her home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza | ||||||
| 20240110 | Video appears to show the Israeli army shot 3 Palestinians, killing 1, without provocation | West Bank | Security camera video from a West Bank village shows a young man standing in a central square when he is suddenly shot and drops to the ground. Two others rushing to his aid are also hit, leaving a 17-year-old dead, moments before Israeli military jeeps roll in. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israeli vehicles drove over Palestinian killed in army raid, camera footage shows | West Bank | Security camera footage recorded outside a house in the West Bank city of Tulkarm showed Israeli security forces vehicles repeatedly running over the body of a Palestinian man shot during a raid by Israeli forces. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Videos: Israel army admits driving over Palestinian's body | West Bank | Israel's army said on Wednesday admitted its vehicles ran over the body of a Palestinian man, after being shot, in the occupied West Bank, but claimed it was 'unintentional'. | ||||||
| 20240110 | Israel cages Palestinian towns in West Bank with iron gates | West Bank | The movement of Palestinians is severely constricted as Israeli army erects gates and barriers at entrances of towns and villages | ||||||
| 20240110 | 'Unprecedented surge' in settlement activity in West Bank since war on Gaza | West Bank | In the three months since the war on Gaza was launched there has been an “unprecedented surge in settlement activities, including the construction of outposts, roads, fences, and roadblocks initiated by settlers”, Israeli rights group Peace Now has said. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20240111 | Gaza war: What will the Palestinians' future look like? | day after politics | As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, one of the most pressing issues for many Palestinians is whether they will be able to return to their homes in Gaza in a post-war scenario. | ||||||
| 20240111 | ‘It’s like living in a mortuary, waiting for someone to bury you’ | dystopian terror | With Israel isolating the northern Strip, displaced Palestinians in Gaza City are grappling with the immediate perils of starvation and disease. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Eurovision: Finnish artists want Israel barred from contest over Gaza war | global response | More than 1,400 Finnish music industry professionals have signed a petition urging a ban on Israel from Eurovision over alleged "war crimes" in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Eurovision: Finnish artists call for Israel to be banned from contest | global response | Over 1,400 Finnish musicians signed a petition demanding Israel to be excluded over war crimes in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240111 | 79 Finnish diplomats sign letter criticising country's response to Israel attacks on Gaza | global response | Seventy-nine Finnish diplomats signed a letter that criticised the country’s response to Israeli attacks on Gaza, media reports said Wednesday | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israel: 'Insinuations of forced displacement are unacceptable,' says EU foreign policy chief | global response | The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said today that statements by Israeli government representatives about making life impossible for civilians in Gaza, ultimately forcing them to leave, are “disturbing, counterproductive and dangerous” | ||||||
| 20240111 | Slovenia: foreign minister says Israel certainly ‘breached’ international law in Gaza | global response | Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon has said that Israel has certainly breached international humanitarian law in Gaza, considering the high number of civilian deaths and unbearable devastation. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Friendly fire may have killed their relatives on Oct. 7. These Israeli families want answers now | Hamas resistance attack | Relatives of civilians killed at a kibbutz in southern Israel during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas are demanding the military immediately investigate signs that some may have been killed by Israeli security forces as they battled militants holding hostages. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israeli military says it found traces of hostages in an underground tunnel in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | The Israeli military said Wednesday it has found evidence that hostages were present in an underground tunnel in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, which has become the focus of Israel’s ground offensive. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israel says it found hostage traces in Hamas tunnel, fighting rages in central Gaza, post-war plans | Hamas resistance attack | The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had found traces of hostages in an underground tunnel in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza, where fighting continues. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israeli hostage families shout their love to the captives across Gaza fence | Hamas resistance attack | Relatives of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas stood by the Gaza fence on Thursday, taking turns to shout messages of love and support into a microphone in the hope that the captives would hear them. | ||||||
| 20240111 | ‘Why I support ICJ Gaza genocide case against my country, Israel’ | Israelis | Israeli politician Ofer Cassif announced his support for the Gaza genocide lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ, and is now facing an attempt to get him kicked out of parliament. He explains why he did it. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Lebanon and Israel ‘prefer’ diplomatic end to tensions, US envoy says | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border attacks since the early days of the Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Dubai's deputy police chief urges Arabs to reconsider approach towards Israel | Middle East | Dubai’s Deputy Police Chief, Dhahi Khalfan, has called on Arab leaders to reconsider their relations with Israel in light of its war on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Iran’s navy seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman that was at the center of a major US-Iran crisis | Persian Gulf | Iran’s navy captured an oil tanker Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that only months earlier had seen its cargo of Iranian oil seized by the United States over sanctions linked to Tehran’s nuclear program, further escalating the tensions gripping the Mideast’s waterways. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Iran seizes oil tanker involved in US-Iran dispute in Gulf of Oman - state media | Persian Gulf | Iran seized a tanker with Iraqi crude destined for Turkey on Thursday in retaliation for the confiscation last year of the same vessel and its oil by the United States, Iranian state media reported, a move likely to stoke regional tensions. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Iran seizes oil tanker off Oman in dispute with US | Persian Gulf | Iran's navy seized a ship off Oman to retaliate for the "theft" of its oil from the same tanker last year by the United States, state media said Thursday. | ||||||
| 20240111 | France patrolling with US-led Red Sea mission, focused on own ships | Red Sea | French forces are patrolling the Red Sea as part of a U.S.-led international mission to protect ships from attacks, but they remain under national command and their priority it to escort French-linked vessels, one of their commanders said on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Any US attack on Yemen’s Houthis will ‘not go without response’ | Red Sea | The Houthis’ leader says any US attack will trigger a greater response as the group steps up attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Yemen's Houthis leader: Any U.S. attack would not go without a response | Red Sea | Any U.S. attack on Yemen's Houthis will not go without a response, the group's leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said on Thursday in a televised speech. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Yemen rebels threaten US, Britain with bigger reprisals | Red Sea | The leader of Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels threatened on Thursday the United States and Britain with even larger attacks in the Red Sea after their navies intercepted a major one. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Attacks on Red Sea shipping mount, but confronting Huthis carries risks | Red Sea | A spate of attacks by Yemeni rebels on Red Sea shipping has disrupted the vital trade route, but experts say stopping them appears difficult at best -- and risky at worst. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Yemen's Houthis say Red Sea attacks do not threaten peace with Riyadh | Red Sea | The chief negotiator for Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday the group's attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea do not threaten its peace talks with Saudi Arabia, blaming Israel's war in Gaza for dragging the Middle East into more regional conflict. | ||||||
| 20240111 | ‘Still no endgame’ as Blinken concludes latest Middle East tour: Analysts | US/Middle East | Critics question whether Blinken’s trip is an exercise in ‘face-saving’ as US faces criticism over stance in Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Blinken says path to a Palestinian state can stabilise region, isolate Iran | US/Middle East | Top US diplomat stresses the need for a path to Palesitnian statehood as he ends latest visit to the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Blinken sees a path to Gaza peace, reconstruction and regional security after his Mideast tour | US/Middle East | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his latest urgent Mideast tour on Thursday in talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as American officials claimed modest success in getting wide regional support for planning for reconstruction and governance in Gaza after Israel’s war with Hamas ends. | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa tells the UN top court Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as a landmark case begins | South Africa | In a case that strikes at the heart of Israel’s national identity, South Africa formally accused the country of committing genocide against Palestinians and pleaded Thursday with the United Nations’ top court to order an immediate halt to Israeli military operations in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240111 | Nelson Mandela’s support for Palestinians endures with South Africa’s genocide case against Israel | South Africa | Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South Africa’s apartheid system of forced racial segregation. | ||||||
| 20240111 | ‘Why I support ICJ Gaza genocide case against my country, Israel’ | South Africa | Israeli politician Ofer Cassif announced his support for the Gaza genocide lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ, and is now facing an attempt to get him kicked out of parliament. He explains why he did it. | ||||||
| 20240111 | A quick guide to South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel | South Africa | As Israel defends itself against genocide charges, pro-Palestine campaigners hope the World Court will put an end to Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20240111 | What is South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ? | South Africa | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been asked to consider whether Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa has brought a genocide claim against Israel: What are the merits of the case? | South Africa | South Africa’s genocide case against Israel will start to be heard this week at the International Court of Justice in The Hague - so what will happen in the court? | ||||||
| 20240111 | ICJ hearing: Why South Africa is accusing Israel of genocide | South Africa | In an unprecedented first, South Africa is taking Israel to the International Court of Justice for violating the Genocide Convention in its unrelenting bombardment and siege of Gaza since 7 October 2023 | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa accuses Israel at ICJ of breaching Genocide Convention | South Africa | A continent away from the war in Gaza, South Africa accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians there and pleaded with the United Nations’ top court on Thursday to order an immediate halt to the country’s military operation. Israel has vehemently denied the allegations. | ||||||
| 20240111 | French historian: Israel destroyed 4,000-year-old culture in Gaza | South Africa | French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu says Gaza’s rich civilization has endured centuries of wars, but not Israel’s war. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Protesters rally outside court hearing on Gaza genocide case | South Africa | Protesters in support of Palestine and Israel gathered ahead of the Gaza genocide hearing at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Protesters outside ICJ hearing demand Israel is held accountable | South Africa | Osama Bin Javaid is outside the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands where pro-Palestine protesters have gathered to support South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Protests as UN top court hears genocide case against Israel over Gaza war | South Africa | In case brought to International Court of Justice, South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide, demands end to offensive. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Reaction to South Africa's UN court case against Israel's war in Gaza | South Africa | South Africa accused Israel on Thursday of subjecting Palestinians to genocidal acts at the opening of hearings at the top U.N. court on a case the country brought against the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Israel says the case is baseless. | ||||||
| 20240111 | ICJ hears South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza war | South Africa | South Africa accuses Israel of violating the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention, established in the wake of the Holocaust. | ||||||
| 20240111 | ICJ hears South Africa's genocide case | South Africa | South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to compel Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa presents its case against Israel at the ICJ | South Africa | The two-day public hearing for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) commenced today with Petoria saying Tel Aviv had “crossed the line” in its response to the events of 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Genocide case against Israel begins in The Hague | South Africa | Israel and South Africa are set to face off at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the next two days. The court will hear a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Day one of the ICJ genocide hearing against Israel: Key takeaways | South Africa | South Africa laid out a list of alleged genocidal acts by Israel while seeking an injunction against the war. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israel faces unprecedented genocide case at Hague, but bombing continues | South Africa | Lawyers for South Africa call for Israel to be forced to 'immediately suspend' attacks in Gaza as it accuses country of breaching the UN Genocide Convention | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa says Israel’s campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. What can the UN do about it? | South Africa | Israel will defend itself in the United Nations’ highest court starting Thursday against allegations that its military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. | ||||||
| 20240111 | At World Court, South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza | South Africa | South Africa accused Israel on Thursday of carrying out genocide in Gaza and demanded that the U.N.'s top court order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israel's Netanyahu says hypocrisy and lies on display at World Court | South Africa | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that hypocrisy and lies had been presented to the U.N.'s top court, adding that South Africa's accusation against Israel of genocide in Gaza could only happen in a world turned upside-down. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case | South Africa | Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday condemned South Africa's genocide case against Israel in Gaza as "hypocrisy and lies" | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israel Google ad accuses South Africa of 'blood libel' when searching for ICJ 'genocide' case | South Africa | The accusation of 'malicious blood libel' appears at the top of Google’s results page when searching for ‘ICJ hearing’ | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israeli MP calls South Africa's genocide case at ICJ a 'privilege' | South Africa | Likud party member Nissim Vaturi doubles down on earlier comments calling to 'burn down' Gaza | ||||||
| 20240111 | Hamas praises the case made by South Africa’s legal team at The International Court of Justice | South Africa | Lawyers for South Africa asked judges at Thursday’s hearings to impose binding preliminary orders on Israel, including an immediate halt to military campaign in Gaza as it reached its 97th day. South African lawyers said the latest Gaza war is part of a decades-long oppression of the Palestinians by Israel. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Palestinians thank South Africa for genocide case against Israel | South Africa | Palestinians gathered in Nelson Mandela Square in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, for a rally in appreciation of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice at the Hague. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Israel officials support Gaza destruction, court hears | South Africa | Israel's plan to "destroy" Gaza comes from "the highest level of state", the UN's top court has heard. | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa accuses Israel of 'genocidal intent' at The Hague | South Africa | Amid Israel's ongoing three-month war in Gaza, more than 23,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed | ||||||
| 20240111 | South Africa's case against Israel divides opinion in Africa | South Africa | Proceedings have opened at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where South Africa accuses Israel of "genocidal acts" in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | S. Africa demands end to Gaza offensive: 'Highest UN court is going to inject law into this dispute' | South Africa | South Africa accused Israel on Thursday of carrying out genocide in Gaza and demanded that the U.N.'s top court order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. | ||||||
| 20240111 | First day of ICJ hearings in South Africa's genocide case against Israel in Gaza | South Africa | Watch the full proceedings of the first day at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing for South Africa's genocide claim against Israel in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Gazans’ future depends on decision of International Court of Justice: South Africa | South Africa | South Africa, on Thursday, demanded the International Court of Justice (ICJ) impose provisional measures on Israel to halt its assault on Gaza, while asking Israel to take measures to “prevent genocide” | ||||||
| 20240111 | US refrains from comment after first day of ICJ genocide case | South Africa | 'It is important that we not comment on specific points raised in the day's hearing,' says State Department spokesperson | ||||||
| 20240111 | UK antisemitism monitor inside police operations room during Gaza war protests | United Kingdom | Presence of Community Security Trust, which accuses protesters calling for ceasefire of inflaming antisemitism, raises fresh concerns about 'politicised policing' | ||||||
| 20240111 | 'No ceasefire, no vote': Pro-Palestinian prosecutors rally against UK controversial anti-boycott bill | United Kingdom | Hundreds of prosecutors gathered outside the UK Parliament on Wednesday to express their strong opposition to a contentious “anti-boycott bill” that aims to restrict public bodies from conducting financial campaigns against foreign countries and territories | ||||||
| 20240111 | Conduct of British TV host exposes West's 'bias' towards Israel: Palestinian MP | United Kingdom | A Palestinian parliamentarian said the conduct of a British TV host has exposed the Western “bias” towards Israel amid its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240111 | Third hearing of bill granting Israel special legal protection in UK law passes | United Kingdom | The UK government’s anti-boycott bill, which grants special legal protection to Israel, passed its third reading following a debate in the House of Commons yesterday. Titled the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters), the bill was backed with 282 votes for and 235 votes against. The bill now makes its way to the House of Lords. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Blinken says path to a Palestinian state can stabilise region, isolate Iran | United States | Top US diplomat stresses the need for a path to Palesitnian statehood as he ends latest visit to the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Exhausted Gaza medics struggle to help casualties from Israeli bombardment | war on Gaza | Injured Palestinians pour into al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip as exhausted medics try to help casualties from Israel's ground assault and bombardment. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Gaza: 10,000 children killed in nearly 100 days of war | war on Gaza | More than 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli air strikes and ground operations in Gaza in nearly 100 days of violence, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, with thousands more missing, presumed buried under rubble, Save the Children said. | ||||||
| 20240111 | Gaza daily deaths exceed all other major conflicts in 21st century: Oxfam | war on Gaza | Human Rights Watch also says Israel’s war on Gaza has included ‘acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes’. | ||||||
| 20240111 | 'Deep concern' for patients and staff at Gaza's al-Aqsa hospital | war on hospitals | Doctors from the UK who have been working at what they say is the only functioning hospital in the central Gaza Strip have told of their "deep concern" for patients and staff remaining there - as fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas has reportedly intensified in nearby areas. | ||||||
| 20240111 | 6 Palestinians killed as Israel jets bomb ambulance in Gaza | war on hospitals | At least six people were killed in an Israeli air strike on an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip yesterday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240112 | Israel destroyed 380 mosques since 7 October | churches, mosques, schools | The Israeli occupation army has destroyed 380 mosques and three churches in Gaza since the beginning of its aggression on 7 October, the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip revealed yesterday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Half a Million Gazans Are Suffering From Acute Hunger. | dystopian terror | The scope of the crisis in Gaza is becoming clearer; according to the UN, Israel is creating conditions that are making life in Gaza impossible; but Israeli leaders are unbothered | ||||||
| 20240112 | Oil prices surge on Red Sea escalation | global effects | Oil prices surged four percent on Friday after US and UK forces launched strikes against Yemen's Houthis, fueling concerns about a wider conflict in the crude-rich region. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Oil prices rise on US-UK strikes over Red Sea attacks | global effects | Oil prices jumped by 4% after the US and UK launched strikes in Yemen over recent attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Oil prices steady despite Middle East tensions, but risks are rising | global effects | In recent weeks, missile and drone attacks on cargo ships crossing the Red Sea have caused the biggest disruption to global trade since the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite delayed supplies, however, oil prices have remained surprisingly stable. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Anti-war activists in New York City, Washington protest U.S., UK strikes in Yemen | global response | A few dozen anti-war activists gathered at Times Square in New York City and outside the White House late on Thursday to protest U.S. and British strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, saying the step threatened to widen the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Europe split over US-UK strikes on Houthis in Yemen | global response | Italy, Spain and France stood out on Friday by not taking part in U.S. and British strikes against the Houthi group in Yemen and not even signing up to a statement put out by 10 countries justifying the attack. | ||||||
| 20240112 | World reacts to US, UK attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen | global response | Here are some of the international reactions to the most recent escalation in the region. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Reactions to US, British strikes against Houthis in Yemen | global response | The United States and Britain launched a series of strikes on Yemen on Thursday aimed at the Iran-backed Houthi militia that started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late last year. Reactions included: | ||||||
| 20240112 | Russia condemns US and UK for 'irresponsible' strikes on Yemen | global response | Russia condemned the United States and Britain on Friday for their military strikes on Yemen, which Moscow said amounted to an irresponsible adventure that risked sowing chaos across the entire Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Why is the EU mostly silent on South Africa's genocide case against Israel? | global response | The first hearing in a landmark lawsuit against Israel enters its second day on Friday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ). | ||||||
| 20240112 | UK says strikes on Houthi military targets were self defence | global response | U.S. and British strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen were a limited act of self defence and London does not immediately plan any further missions, its junior defence minister said on Friday.
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| 20240112 | Red Sea trade route still months away from safety, says Maersk boss | see global response | Trade in the Red Sea has significantly reduced ever since the start of the Houthi conflict and could still be several months away from returning to normal levels. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel deal with Qatar to get medicines to hostages in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | Israel has made an arrangement with Qatar that will allow the delivery of medicines to hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli prime minister's office said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel makes deal with Qatar to get medicine to hostages in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | Israel has negotiated an arrangement with Qatar that will allow for the delivery of medications to hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza "in the next few days", the Israeli prime minister's office said Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | "They Want to Silence Us": Knesset Member Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case | Israelis | Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif is being threatened with expulsion from Israel's legislature after he signed a petition supporting South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of acts of genocide. Cassif says the impeachment is based on an antidemocratic law that suppresses free speech. "They want me and my friends to shut up," he says of the government's persecution of dissenting legislators. "We've been against the war from the beginning because we are against bloodshed." | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel deal with Qatar to get medicines to hostages in Gaza | Israelis | Israel has made an arrangement with Qatar that will allow the delivery of medicines to hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli prime minister's office said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel makes deal with Qatar to get medicine to hostages in Gaza | Israelis | Israel has negotiated an arrangement with Qatar that will allow for the delivery of medications to hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza "in the next few days", the Israeli prime minister's office said Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel government spokesman slammed for expressing alleged genocidal intent | Israelis | A tweet by Israeli government spokesman, Eylon Levy, has been slammed for allegedly expressing genocidal intent against Palestinians. The London born, who served in the Israeli Occupation army, took aim at South Africa, in comments that appeared to hold all Palestinians guilty of Hamas’s attack on 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Jordan blames Israel for regional tensions, backs S.Africa in 'genocide' case | Jordan/Israelis/Lebanon/Red Sea | Jordan said on Friday Israeli "war crimes" against Palestinians were to blame for heightened regional tension and violence in the Red Sea which it said threatened to ignite a wider war in the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel soldiers on northern border dig in and wait as tensions mount | Lebanon/Israelis | For Israeli troops on the northern border with Lebanon, the government’s strategy of avoiding full-scale war with the Hezbollah troops just a few hundred metres away is embodied in the pages of a 68-year-old training manual | ||||||
| 20240112 | Will Morocco stay the course on Israel normalisation? | Morocco/Israelis | Despite popular anger against Israel, Morocco is unlikely to break up with Tel Aviv, analysts say. | ||||||
| 20240112 | UK, US expected to launch strikes against Houthis 'within hours' | Red Sea | Britain is expected to join the United States in conducting air strikes on military positions belonging to the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen "within hours", the political editor for the Times newspaper reported on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US, British militaries launch massive retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen | Red Sea | The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Britain and America launch massive airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | British jets based in Cyprus targeted Houthi missile and drone facilities after weeks of threats to shipping in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US and UK launch air strikes against Yemen’s Houthis | Red Sea | US and UK forces have launched air, ship and submarine strikes against Yemen’s Houthis in response to the group’s attacks on Red Sea shipping over Israel’s war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Houthi attacks on shipping in Red Sea persist, U.S. and allies strike back | Red Sea | The United States and Britain carried out strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement's attacks on ships in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US and Britain strike Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on shipping | Red Sea | U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Iran-backed Houthi forces for attacks on Red Sea shipping, widening regional conflict stemming from Israel's war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | How the US, UK bombing of Yemen might help the Houthis | Red Sea | Iran-aligned group calls attacks ‘barbaric’, says it will continue to target ships heading towards Israel. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen show war in Gaza has already spread | Red Sea | It is time to stop talking about the risk that the war in Gaza will spread elsewhere in the Middle East. It has already happened. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Houthi rebels vowing to retaliate for US-UK strikes possess significant military arsenal | Red Sea | Yemen's Houthi rebels, who vowed to retaliate against US and British strikes early Friday against key military sites, have built up a significant arsenal, including cruise missiles and drones. | ||||||
| 20240112 | World reacts to US, UK attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | The Yemeni group could gain from a raised domestic and international profile, with a superpower taking them on. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Big protests break out in Yemen after U.S.-British attacks | Red Sea | Tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in several cities on Friday to hear their leaders condemn U.S. and British strikes on their country in response to attacks by Houthi militants on Red Sea shipping. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Oil prices surge on Red Sea escalation | Red Sea | Oil prices surged four percent on Friday after US and UK forces launched strikes against Yemen's Houthis, fueling concerns about a wider conflict in the crude-rich region. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Oil prices rise on US-UK strikes over Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Oil prices jumped by 4% after the US and UK launched strikes in Yemen over recent attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Oil prices steady despite Middle East tensions, but risks are rising | Red Sea | In recent weeks, missile and drone attacks on cargo ships crossing the Red Sea have caused the biggest disruption to global trade since the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite delayed supplies, however, oil prices have remained surprisingly stable. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Anti-war activists in New York City, Washington protest U.S., UK strikes in Yemen | Red Sea | A few dozen anti-war activists gathered at Times Square in New York City and outside the White House late on Thursday to protest U.S. and British strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, saying the step threatened to widen the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Europe split over US-UK strikes on Houthis in Yemen | Red Sea | Italy, Spain and France stood out on Friday by not taking part in U.S. and British strikes against the Houthi group in Yemen and not even signing up to a statement put out by 10 countries justifying the attack. | ||||||
| 20240112 | World reacts to US, UK attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | Here are some of the international reactions to the most recent escalation in the region. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Reactions to US, British strikes against Houthis in Yemen | Red Sea | The United States and Britain launched a series of strikes on Yemen on Thursday aimed at the Iran-backed Houthi militia that started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late last year. Reactions included: | ||||||
| 20240112 | Russia condemns US and UK for 'irresponsible' strikes on Yemen | Red Sea | Russia condemned the United States and Britain on Friday for their military strikes on Yemen, which Moscow said amounted to an irresponsible adventure that risked sowing chaos across the entire Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Hundreds of thousands protest in Yemen after US and UK strike Houthi targets | Red Sea | Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in several cities on Friday to condemn the US and UK strikes on their country, in response to weeks of disruptive attacks on Red Sea shipping by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who say they act in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Anger and defiance in Yemen following US-UK air strikes on Houthis | Red Sea | Supporters and opponents of Houthis throw weight behind rebel group's actions in Red Sea | ||||||
| 20240112 | US and UK interests now legitimate targets: Houthis | Red Sea | The Houthis strongly condemned on Friday the brutal aggression carried out by American and British forces on Yemen, saying that all US and British interests have become "legitimate targets." | ||||||
| 20240112 | Erdogan accuses U.S., Britain of trying to turn Red Sea into 'sea of blood' | Red Sea | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed the U.S. and British strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen as a disproportionate use of force and accused the two countries of trying to turn the Red Sea into a "sea of blood". | ||||||
| 20240112 | Saudi Arabia calls for restraint after air strikes on Yemen | Red Sea | Saudi Arabia called for restraint and "avoiding escalation" in light of the air strikes launched by the United States and Britain against sites linked to the Houthi movement in Yemen, the kingdom's foreign ministry said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Iran says US-UK attack on Houthis will fuel instability in region | Red Sea | Iran on Friday condemned the U.S.-British attack on Houthis in Yemen, warning that it will fuel "insecurity and instability" in the region, Iranian state media reported. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Egypt voices concern over airstrikes in Yemen, warns of expansion of conflict | Red Sea | Egypt has expressed its concern over the escalation of military operations in the Red Sea region following the airstrikes carried out by US and British forces in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Egypt voices concern over airstrikes in Yemen | Red Sea | Egypt, on Friday, voiced concern over escalation of military operations in the Red Sea region and airstrikes inside Yemen | ||||||
| 20240112 | Yemen's enigmatic Houthi leader is fierce battlefield commander | Red Sea | Abdul Malik al-Houthi, enigmatic leader of Yemen's Houthi fighters whose attacks on Red Sea shipping have drawn fire from the U.S. and British militaries, created the defiant force challenging world powers from a ragtag militia in sandals. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Has Biden violated the US Constitution by bombing Yemen? | Red Sea/US | Lawmakers say Biden should have sought permission from Congress before launching strikes on 16 Houthi sites. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Did Biden break the law by ordering Yemen airstrikes? | Red Sea/US | Some members of the U.S. Congress have charged that President Joe Biden violated the Constitution by authorizing overnight strikes on Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Rishi Sunak says UK acted in ‘self-defence’ with Yemen airstrike | Red Sea/UK | PM defends lawfulness of military action against Houthis as MPs call for parliamentary scrutiny | ||||||
| 20240112 | US, UK defend strikes on Yemen's Houthis as legal under international law | Red Sea/US/UK | The United States and Britain on Friday defended to the U.N. Security Council the legality of strikes they launched against Yemen's Houthis for attacking Red Sea shipping while Russia and China accused the Western allies of raising regional tensions. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Netanyahu says ICJ case shows an ‘upside-down world’ | South Africa/Israelis | Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has blasted the opening of the genocide case against his country at the ICJ, saying that the procedure shows an “upside-down world” in which Israel is “fighting terrorists, fighting lies”. “The hypocrisy of South Africa screams to the heavens,” Netanyahu said. “Where was South Africa when millions were killed and displaced in Syria and Yemen by Hamas’s partners?” | ||||||
| 20240112 | International double standards a key problem: Human Rights Watch | South Africa/Israelis | The NGO’s executive director, Tirana Hassan, told Al Jazeera that the organisation had documented war crimes being committed in Gaza since the start of the war, “including the crime of starvation as a weapon of war” as well as “collective punishment through the restriction to basic food, water, fuel, and life-saving humanitarian assistance, which has been imposed by the Israeli blockade”. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel likely to argue self-defence, focus on October 7 at ICJ: Professor | South Africa/Israelis | Michael Lynk, a Canadian law professor, says his “educated guess” is that Israel will show footage from the Hamas attack, arguing that it is defending itself in Gaza. “When you’re in a weak position as a lawyer representing a client, you want to try to argue your very best facts and try to get the court to focus on those and draw them away from the arguments, the facts and the law that the other side has [put forward],” | ||||||
| 20240112 | Genocide allegations: Israel to defend itself at top UN court | South Africa/Israelis | At the International Court of Justice, South Africa has laid out a detailed and chilling case, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. It calls Israel's military campaign a long and systematic pattern of intentional genocidal acts meant to displace and kill Palestinians. Later on Friday, Israel will defend itself against those accusations. |
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| 20240112 | Israel defends itself at the UN’s top court against allegations of genocide against Palestinians | South Africa/Israelis | Accused of committing genocide against Palestinians, Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court Friday that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and said that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel rejects genocide charges, tells World Court it must defend itself | South Africa/Israelis | Israel on Friday rejected as false and "grossly distorted" accusations brought by South Africa at the U.N.'s top court that its military operation in Gaza is a state-led genocide campaign against Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20240112 | The legal adviser of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making the opening statements | South Africa/Israelis | Here is a summary of some of Becker’s arguments so far South Africa has put forward a “distorted factual and legal picture”. South Africa attempted to weaponise the term genocide against Israel. Hamas committed a “wholesale massacre”. The case made yesterday “ignored” the events of October 7. |
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| 20240112 | Shaw says Israel’s decision-makers sought to abide by law | South Africa/Israelis | Recap of what has happened so far on the second day Israel has put forward two legal advisers to defend itself against allegations it is committing genocide in its war on Gaza. The lawyers have argued that: ... |
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| 20240112 | Israel’s legal defence off to weak start | South Africa/Israelis | Bishara said the lawyers’ efforts to deflect blame for Israel’s attacks and ignore the context of Israel’s 75-year occupation of Palestine came across as “illogical”. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Sender claims Israel facilitated humanitarian aid | South Africa/Israelis | Sender, representing Israel at the hearing, claims that Israel “no doubt meets the legal test of concrete measures, aimed specifically at recognising and ensuring the rights of the Palestinian civilians in Gaza”. | ||||||
| 20240112 | ICJ genocide case: South Africa’s five-point argument against Israel | South Africa/Israelis | Israel will defend itself against South Africa’s arguments – from the denial of food and medicines to forced displacement, mass killings and more – on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | In Day 2 of hearings, Israel rejects South Africa’s allegation of genocide | South Africa/Israelis | As the second day of hearings began Friday at the United Nations’ top court, Israel is rejecting allegations levied by South Africa that its campaign against Hamas amounts to genocide against the Palestinian people, saying that, if anything, it is Hamas that is guilty of genocide. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Palestinian viewers are captivated and moved by case at UN’s top court accusing Israel of genocide | South Africa/Israelis | Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem spent Thursday captivated by the proceedings in a faraway courtroom, closely following the first hearing in an unprecedented case brought by South Africa that accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Turkey providing documents for genocide hearings against Israel -Erdogan | South Africa/Israelis | Turkey is providing documents for a case brought by South Africa against Israel at the U.N.'s top court on a charge of committing genocide against Palestinian civilians, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel says South Africa distorting the truth in ICJ genocide case | South Africa/Israelis | Israel has said South Africa has distorted the truth in its case at the International Court of Justice, where it is accusing Israel of genocide.
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| 20240112 | Israel accuses South Africa of ‘profound distortion’ at ICJ genocide hearing | South Africa/Israelis | Israeli legal team calls South African accusation of genocidal acts in Gaza ‘a partial and deeply flawed picture’ | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel blames Hamas for 23,000 Palestinian deaths at ICJ | South Africa/Israelis | Israel's legal representatives argue that there is 'no genocide' in Gaza and deny that Israel bombed hospitals | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel wraps up defense against accusations of genocide | South Africa/Israelis | no description | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel, South Africa face off in Gaza genocide case | South Africa/Israelis | South Africa laid out a fierce genocide case against Israel, which Israel slammed as deeply warped. South Africa wants the court to halt Israel's Gaza offensive. Emotions ran high as both sides presented their case. | ||||||
| 20240112 | What happens after ICJ hearings? | South Africa/Israelis | Although 'provisional measures' could be expected within few weeks, a final verdict on South Africa's case could take years | ||||||
| 20240112 | Watch in full: Second day of ICJ case hears Israel's defence against South Africa's genocide claim in Gaza | South Africa/Israelis | Watch the second day of the ICJ proceedings as the court hears Israel's arguments against South Africa's case for an emergency order to stop Israeli military action in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240112 | Germany to join UN case on Israel's behalf, says "no basis for genocide charge | South Africa/Israelis | Germany’s government said Friday that it will request to join the International Court of Justice case as third party on Israel’s behalf, saying there is “no basis whatsoever” for genocide accusations. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Germany to intervene in genocide case against Israel: Official | South Africa/Israelis | Germany is planning to intervene in the ongoing genocide case against Israel at the UN’s top Court, a government spokesman said on Friday | ||||||
| 20240112 | ICJ genocide case: What are Israel’s arguments and do they hold up? | South Africa/Israelis | Israel defended itself from South Africa’s accusations of genocide in a three-hour long session on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | "They Want to Silence Us": Knesset Member Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case | South Africa/Israelis | Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif is being threatened with expulsion from Israel's legislature after he signed a petition supporting South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of acts of genocide. Cassif says the impeachment is based on an antidemocratic law that suppresses free speech. "They want me and my friends to shut up," he says of the government's persecution of dissenting legislators. "We've been against the war from the beginning because we are against bloodshed." | ||||||
| 20240112 | US issues sanctions targeting revenue supporting Houthi attacks | United States | The U.S. on Friday issued sanctions targeting commodity shipments financing Iran's Quds Force and Yemen's Houthis as Washington stepped up pressure on the Iran-backed Houthis over attacks on international shipping. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US not looking for conflict with Iran: White House | United States | The United States does not seek conflict with Iran despite carrying out strikes on Yemen's Houthis to stop their attacks on Red Sea shipping, the White House said Friday. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Progressive Democrats fume over Houthi strikes as Republicans offer rare praise | United States | Progressive Democrats have harshly criticised the US decision to launch retaliatory strikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US lawmakers lambaste air strikes on Yemen as 'unconstitutional' | United States | President Joe Biden cannot launch air strikes in Yemen without congressional approval, say several members of Congress and Senate | ||||||
| 20240112 | Biden, the reluctant escalationist, seeks calm after Yemen strikes | United States | President Joe Biden took office vowing to negotiate an end to a bloody war in Yemen and to remove US troops from harm's way. | ||||||
| 20240112 | BIDEN ADMIN DEPLOYED AIR FORCE TEAM TO ISRAEL TO ASSIST WITH TARGETS, DOCUMENT SUGGESTS | United States | Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US quietly sent American Air Force unit to aid Israel in Gaza genocide | United States | The US is quietly providing intelligence to Israel for targeting purposes in Gaza, deploying US Air Force “intelligence engagement officers on the ground,” according to a deployment order obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and published at the Intercept. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israeli air strike kills 11 in Gaza; UN says Israel blocks aid to north | war on Gaza | Israel's latest attacks on Gaza have killed at least 151 people, including 11 in a single house, Palestinian health officials said on Friday, while the U.N. humanitarian office accused Israel of blocking its efforts to send aid to the north. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel continues 98-day war in Gaza despite genocide accusations | war on Gaza | The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip continues for the 98th consecutive day, with intense airstrikes on the central and southern besieged strip. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Israel's war erases Gaza's religious and cultural heritage | war on Gaza | The widespread destruction of historical site in Gaza deprives Palestinians of physical representations of their history and memories | ||||||
| 20240112 | BIDEN ADMIN DEPLOYED AIR FORCE TEAM TO ISRAEL TO ASSIST WITH TARGETS, DOCUMENT SUGGESTS | war on Gaza | Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240112 | US quietly sent American Air Force unit to aid Israel in Gaza genocide | war on Gaza | The US is quietly providing intelligence to Israel for targeting purposes in Gaza, deploying US Air Force “intelligence engagement officers on the ground,” according to a deployment order obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and published at the Intercept. | ||||||
| 20240112 | Main hospital in central Gaza warns of catastrophe as generators run out of fuel | war on hospitals | The local authorities in Gaza, on Friday, said the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the main hospital in the central Gaza Strip, is about to halt its health services due to running out of fuel | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240113 | Pro-Palestine protests held around the world as Gaza war nears 100 days | global response | Tens of thousands of demonstrators are marking a ‘global day of action’ in cities around the world. | ||||||
| 20240113 | A global day of protests draws thousands in London and other cities in pro-Palestinian marches | global response | Children joined thousands of other demonstrators making their way through central London for a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday, part of a global day of action against the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Palestinians in 75 years. | ||||||
| 20240113 | 'Half a million' march in London as part of worldwide pro-Palestine protests | global response | Protests in at least 120 cities and 45 countries seek to increase pressure for a permanent ceasefire | ||||||
| 20240113 | Hundreds of thousands attend 7th national march for Palestine in London | global response | A pro-Palestine march began on Saturday in the heart of London, marking the seventh demonstration in the British capital since Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip began in early October | ||||||
| 20240113 | Hundreds of thousands rally globally for Gaza on eve of 100 days of war | global response | From London to Kuala Lumpur to Johannesburg, people take to the streets in protest and to demand a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Switzerland pro-Palestinian activists bash the country’s ‘neutrality’ during new protest | global response | On the Global Day of Action for Gaza, protesters in Switzerland called for a permanent ceasefire in the region, accusing the country of being “complicit in genocide” despite its declared neutrality. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Counting the days: Families of Hamas hostages prepare to mark loved ones’ 100th day in captivity | Hamas resistance attack | Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a marking pen and in thick black strokes writes down the number of days her son, Hersh, has been held hostage by Hamas militants. | ||||||
| 20240113 | During 100 days of war, a Gaza doctor pushes through horror and loss in his struggle to save lives | humanitarian | For a few hours every day or night, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss tries to sleep on a thin mattress in an operating room. He swings in and out of half-consciousness, both too tired to open his eyes and too tense to let go. Thunderous shellfire often rattles the windows of the hospital he directs in the southern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240113 | 24-hour protest for release of Israeli hostages kicks off in Tel Aviv | Israelis | Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza gathered for a 24-hour protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for their release and mark the nearly 100 days since the Hamas attack on October 7. | ||||||
| 20240113 | 53% of Israelis believe Tel Aviv did not defeat Hamas, 22% believe army lost war | Israelis | Fifty-three per cent of Israelis believe that Israel has not yet defeated Hamas in the Gaza Strip, while 22 per cent shared their view that Tel Aviv has already lost the war. | ||||||
| 20240113 | ‘It is a time of witch hunts in Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths | Israelis | Meir Baruchin, who was fired and jailed for criticising the military, says that many who agree with him are afraid to go public | ||||||
| 20240113 | Al Jazeera rejects Israeli army's 'false justification' of journalist's killing | journalists | The Qatar-based network says Hamza al-Dahdouh and his colleague were killed 'simply for doing' their jobs | ||||||
| 20240113 | US launches new strikes on Yemen’s Houthis as conflict escalates | Red Sea | The attack comes a day after US, UK raids on Iran-aligned group’s facilities sparked protests, calls for retaliation. | ||||||
| 20240113 | US launches strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | The United States has responded to attacks by Houthi rebels on the Red Sea with a second day of military action. | ||||||
| 20240113 | US military strikes another Houthi target in Yemen despite UN requests | Red Sea | The US military carried out another strike on a Houthi-controlled site in Yemen early Saturday, targeting a location which they considered to pose a threat to commercial vessels in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240113 | US carries out fresh strikes on Yemen as Houthis vow to keep attacking ships in Red Sea | Red Sea | The United States carried out a fresh strike Saturday on a Huthi rebel target in Yemen, US Central Command said, after the Iran-backed militants warned of further attacks on ships in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240113 | ‘Dangerous’: US attacks on Yemen’s Houthis belie push for de-escalation | Red Sea | US acting as ‘arsonist and firefighter’, experts say, by urging Middle East de-escalation but backing Israel’s Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20240113 | US launches fresh strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, military says | Red Sea | Bombing comes after Houthis threaten retaliation and anti-ship ballistic missile is fired at vessel in Red Sea | ||||||
| 20240113 | Yemen's Houthis vow 'strong response' after new US strike | Red Sea | The Houthi movement threatened a "strong and effective response" after the United States carried out another strike in Yemen overnight, further ratcheting up tensions as Washington vows to protect shipping from attacks by the Iran-aligned group. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Muslim Brotherhood denounces US-British aggression against Yemen | Red Sea | The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan condemned the US-British aggression on Yemeni territory at dawn on Friday, considering it: “A blatant assault on brotherly Yemen and its national sovereignty, and condemnable military behaviour in the context of protecting the criminal Zionist enemy that is waging a genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip.” | ||||||
| 20240113 | Houthis mistakenly target tanker carrying Russian oil, security firm says | Red Sea | Houthi militants mistakenly targeted a tanker carrying Russian oil in a missile attack on Friday off Yemen, British maritime security firm Ambrey said. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Al-Houthi thanks those rejecting strikes on Yemen, announces ‘beginning of confrontation’ | Red Sea | The Supreme Political Council of the Houthis member Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi on Friday thanked the countries that rejected the US-British strikes on Yemen, declaring: “The beginning of the confrontation on the fronts.” | ||||||
| 20240113 | Have the Houthi Red Sea attacks hurt Israel’s economy? | Red Sea/economy | Most of Israel’s trade is through the Mediterranean, unaffected so far. Still, longer-term risks for Israel’s economy are growing, say analysts. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Red Sea crisis could shatter hopes of global economic recovery | Red Sea/economy | World Bank warns of surging energy prices, slower growth and higher inflation as threat rises of disruption to world trade | ||||||
| 20240113 | Houthi attacks on ships disrupt global trade | Red Sea/economy | Many shipping companies are avoiding the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, rerouting their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope. The detour creates delays and extra costs, with disrupted supply chains affecting global trade. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Egypt calls for reducing Red Sea tension | Red Sea/Egypt | Egypt called for reducing tensions in the region on Friday evening, expressing “deep concern” following the escalation of military operations in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240113 | The West's military action against the Houthis is doomed to fail | Red Sea/opinion | Attacks on Red Sea shipping will continue until the US and UK help remove Houthi justifications for them by demanding an Israel-Hamas ceasefire | ||||||
| 20240113 | Did the US just get lured into war with the Houthis? | Red Sea/US | U.S. President Joe Biden's blistering strikes on Yemen followed weeks of warnings to the Houthis to stop attacking Red Sea shipping - or else. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Biden: US delivered private message to Iran about Houthi attacks | Red Sea/US | President Joe Biden said on Saturday the United States had delivered a private message to Iran about Iran-backed Houthis responsible for attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240113 | US sanctions 2 companies for supporting Yemen’s Houthis | Red Sea/US | The US sanctioned on Friday sanctioned two more companies for financially supporting Yemen’s Houthis, a State Department spokesman said on Saturday | ||||||
| 20240113 | In 100 days, the Israel-Hamas war has transformed the region. The fighting shows no signs of ending | Israeli war | Sunday marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Israel presses on with Gaza offensive approaching 100 days of war | Israeli war | Israel kept up bombardments in the Gaza Strip on Saturday as its deadly war on the enclave's Hamas rulers approached 100 days with no end in sight. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Germany's Middle East diplomacy reaches limits | Israeli war | Germany's top diplomat, Annalena Baerbock, has been in the Middle East again this week in an attempt to mediate. But there are doubts about how much Germany can achieve as the situation escalates. | ||||||
| 20240113 | 100 days into Gaza war, Biden fails to achieve basic policy goals | Israeli war | US efforts to cobble together a plan for post-war Gaza lay bare the contradictory goals the administration has failed to resolve | ||||||
| 20240113 | 4,000 Israeli soldiers disabled in ongoing Gaza war | Israeli war | Hebrew news site, Walla, said late Friday that 4,000 Israeli soldiers have become disabled since the beginning of the war against the Gaza Strip in October, with estimations suggesting that the number could rise to 30,000 | ||||||
| 20240113 | 53% of Israelis believe Tel Aviv did not defeat Hamas, 22% believe army lost war | Israeli war | Fifty-three per cent of Israelis believe that Israel has not yet defeated Hamas in the Gaza Strip, while 22 per cent shared their view that Tel Aviv has already lost the war. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Shot in ‘cold blood’: Killing of Palestinian grandmother sparks outcry | killing of civilians | Relatives of Hala Khreis, who was with her grandson and waving a white flag, relive the moment of her ‘execution’. | ||||||
| 20240113 | More than 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli Gaza strikes while fears grow the conflict could widen | killing of civilians | More than 30 Palestinians, including young children, were killed in Israeli bombardments overnight into Saturday in the Gaza Strip, officials said, while a new U.S. strike against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen heightened fears that the Israel-Hamas war could escalate into a regional conflict. | ||||||
| 20240113 | More than 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza Strip | killing of civilians | More than 30 Palestinians, including young children, were killed in two Israeli airstrikes overnight into Saturday in the Gaza Strip, officials said, as concerns continued to grow over a lack of fuel and supplies for overburdened hospitals. | ||||||
| 20240113 | 135 more Palestinians killed as Israel continues onslaught on Gaza: Health Ministry | killing of civilians | At least 135 Palestinians have been killed and 312 others injured in the last 24 hours, as the Israeli forces continued their onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Saturday | ||||||
| 20240113 | Germany rejects genocide charges brought against Israel by South Africa | South Africa/Israelis | The German government on Friday rejected the genocide charges directed against Israel by South Africa before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), warning against “political instrumentalization” of this charge.
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| 20240113 | South Africa's genocide case against Israel: Both sides play heavy on emotion in ICJ hearing | South Africa/Israelis | The UN's top legal body has now heard two days of powerful legal argument on the "crime of all crimes": genocide. | ||||||
| 20240113 | ICJ's ruling in genocide case against Israel to be test for global community, says US lawyer | South Africa/Israelis | If the International Court of Justice (ICJ) imposes the provisional measures sought by South Africa after producing compelling evidence meeting all of the elements of genocide against Israel, the international community, particularly Washington will be put to the test, a senior US lawyer told Anadolu in The Hague. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Yedioth Ahronoth: ‘South Africa presented detailed case of facts’ | South Africa/Israelis | Israeli writer for Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth, Nadav Eyal, has reported that South Africa submitted “a detailed, organised case full of facts and quotes against Israel” to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). | ||||||
| 20240113 | South Africa president: ‘I’ve never felt as proud as today’ | South Africa/Israelis | South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, commented on his country’s genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), expressing: “I have never felt as proud as I felt today when our legal team was arguing our case in The Hague.” | ||||||
| 20240113 | Gazans cannot be forcibly displaced: UN Security Council | United Nations | The UN Security Council said Friday that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip cannot be forcibly displaced and must be able to return to their homes | ||||||
| 20240113 | Republican caucuses? Iowa’s Arabs and Muslims are more concerned with Gaza | United States | Alienated by Republicans, some Arab American advocates in Iowa say they will not vote for President Joe Biden either. | ||||||
| 20240113 | 100 days into Gaza war, Biden fails to achieve basic policy goals | United States | US efforts to cobble together a plan for post-war Gaza lay bare the contradictory goals the administration has failed to resolve | ||||||
| 20240113 | Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk | war on hospitals | Israeli military attacks in the vicinity have left patients and medical staff to an uncertain fate. | ||||||
| 20240113 | Tally of Palestinians detained in occupied West Bank climbs to 5,835 since Oct. 7 | West Bank | The Israeli army detained 15 more Palestinians in overnight military raids across the occupied West Bank, prisoners’ affairs groups said on Saturday | ||||||
| 20240113 | Israel continues night raids in occupied West Bank | West Bank | According to the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, the targets of the raids were the cities of Hebron, Nablus, Bethlehem and Qalqilya. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240114 | Global pro-Palestinian protests call for Gaza ceasefire | global response | Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in major world cities to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Rallies were held the day after Israel defended its 100-day war against genocide charges at the ICJ. | ||||||
| 20240114 | A global day of action: Huge rallies in Europe and beyond call for ceasefire in Gaza | global response | Tens of thousands of people gathered in many of the world's capitals on Saturday to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A pro-Israel rally was set to take place in London on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Displaced Palestinian doctor provides medical care in tent in southern Gaza | humanitarian | Palestinian doctor Fidaa Al-Qurshali provides primary care and medical services to displaced patients inside a medical tent at a camp in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240114 | Ex-Shin Bet director Ayalon calls on Israel to release intifada leader Barghouti | Israelis | Ami Ayalon says Israel will not have security until Palestinians have their own state | ||||||
| 20240114 | Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa was ‘targeted’, left to bleed by Israel: Report | journalists | The cameraman died despite aid organisations and journalists applying pressure to get him rescued, The Intercept found. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Relentless Palestinian journalism brings Gaza to the world | journalists | Israel’s war in Gaza – now in its 100th day – is among the most documented wars in history, thanks almost entirely to the relentless work of Palestinian journalists who have done so at immense personal risk to themselves | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israel vows not to ‘stop’ as Gaza death toll nears 24,000 on day 100 of war | Israeli war | Massive destruction, displacement, hunger and loss in Gaza are ‘staining our shared humanity’, the United Nations says. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israeli PM Netanyahu warns 'no one will stop us' as fighting reaches 100-day mark | Israeli war | Netanyahu was speaking after the International Court of Justice at The Hague held two days of hearings on South Africa's allegations that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians - a claim that Israel has fully rejected. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Netanyahu insists on fight until ‘total victory’ as Israel marks 100 days of war | Israeli war | Thousands attend 24-hour rally in Tel Aviv to call for hostages’ release as death toll in Gaza reportedly nears 24,000 | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israel's 100 days of relentless war on Gaza | Israeli war | Today marks 100 days since Israel started its assault on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240114 | 100 days since Hamas attacked Israel, triggering war in Gaza | Israeli war | One hundred days ago, the previously unthinkable happened in Israel. A state, born out of adversity and war only 75 years ago, woke up to what some have since described as a threat to its very existence. | ||||||
| 20240114 | As Israel-Hamas war reaches 100-day mark, here’s the conflict by numbers | Israeli war | Now 100 days old, the latest Israel-Hamas war is by far the longest, bloodiest, and most destructive conflict between the bitter enemies.
COMMENT 20240107 - Palestinian government media office reported 107 journalists in Gaza in 93 days while CPJ and AP reported today 82 journalists killed. |
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| 20240114 | Hamas says many Israeli hostages likely killed as war enters 100th day | Israeli war | Many of the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are likely to have been killed, a spokesman for the group's armed wing said Sunday, blaming the Israeli leadership for their fate. Meanwhile, thousands of Israelis continued their 24-hour protest in Tel Aviv calling for the release of hostages. | ||||||
| 20240114 | 100 days of Israel-Hamas war: the conflict by numbers | Israeli war | The war, which began on 7 October 2023, has now reached its 100th day and seen thousands of deaths, millions of displacements and countless buildings destroyed.
COMMENT 20240107 - Palestinian government media office reported 107 journalists in Gaza in 93 days while CPJ and AP reported today 82 journalists killed. |
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| 20240114 | Fierce fighting in Gaza as war hits 100 days | Israeli war | Israeli tanks and aircraft hit targets in southern and central Gaza on Sunday and there were fierce gun battles in some areas as the war reached 100 days since the Oct. 7 attack led by gunmen from the Islamist Hamas movement. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Mental strain, deepening risks as Israel's war with Hamas reaches 100 days | Israeli war | One hundred days after Hamas gunmen broke out of Gaza to launch the deadliest attack in Israel's history, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, Gaza lies in ruins and the Middle East is sliding towards a wider, more unpredictable conflict. | ||||||
| 20240114 | 100 days of war in Gaza: Besieged Palestinians feel isolated, abandoned and afraid | Israeli war | Israel’s expanding ground offensive has forced desperate Palestinians to ferry their children from place to place in search of ever-elusive safety | ||||||
| 20240114 | Explainer: What's the Israel-Palestinian conflict about and how did it start? | Israeli war | Israel and Hamas have been waging war for 100 days since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group went on the rampage in southern Israel, triggering an Israeli military campaign in which nearly 24,000 Palestinians have been killed.
COMMENT Explainer is inaccurate. see our X-post |
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| 20240114 | Israeli finance minister proposes tax hike on bank profits amid Gaza war | Israeli war | Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proposed on Sunday a plan to increase taxes on bank profits from its current rate of 17% to 26% in 2024 and 2025 amid the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240114 | Biden losing patience with Israel's Netanyahu over Gaza: Report | Israeli war | US President Joe Biden is losing patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the conflict in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israel risking serious escalation by killing Hezbollah leaders, say diplomats | Israeli war | Targeted assassinations in Lebanon could rupture fragile understanding between two sides, say envoys | ||||||
| 20240114 | A ‘cultural genocide’: Which of Gaza’s heritage sites have been destroyed? | Israeli genocide | Nearly 200 sites of historical importance have been destroyed or damaged in Israeli air raids on the Palestinian enclave in the past 100 days. | ||||||
| 20240114 | 100 days of Israel’s relentless war on Gaza | killing of civilians | Israel has bombed and attacked Gaza for 100 days straight, killing close to 24,000 people. Here are just some of them. | ||||||
| 20240114 | In Gaza, a family suffer painful wait for children's bodies | killing of children | Daubed in red paint on a fallen wall, the names Omar, Abdullah and Massa mark the spot where the three children were buried alive by an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip in November, their relatives say. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israel vows not to ‘stop’ as Gaza death toll nears 24,000 on day 100 of war | killing of civilians | Massive destruction, displacement, hunger and loss in Gaza are ‘staining our shared humanity’, the United Nations says. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israeli soldiers kill 4 militants infiltrating from Lebanon, military says | Lebanon | Israeli soldiers exchanged fire with militants attempting to cross from Lebanon into Israel and killed four of them, the Israeli military said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Fire from Lebanon kills 2 Israeli civilians as the Israel-Hamas war rages for 100th day | Lebanon | Two civilians were killed in northern Israel on Sunday after an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit their home in a town near the border, raising new concerns of a second front erupting against the backdrop of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Guided missile kills Israeli woman, son near Lebanon border | Lebanon | A guided missile launched from Lebanon killed a 76-year-old woman and her son in a village in northern Israel on Sunday, medical officials said, hours after the Israeli military said it killed four heavily armed militants trying to enter from Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20240114 | 100 days of war in Gaza: The risk of a full-out conflict with Lebanon's Hezbollah hasn't faded | Lebanon | Careful clashes and international pressure have prevented the war from expanding, but the door for miscalculation remains wide open | ||||||
| 20240114 | Lebanon’s Hezbollah ready for ‘unrestricted warfare’ with Israel | Lebanon | Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday that his group is ready for “unrestricted warfare” with Israel amid an exchange of cross-border fire between the two sides. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Hezbollah says US strikes on Yemen’s Houthis harm maritime security | Lebanon | Hassan Nasrallah said security in the Red Sea and regional countries hinges on putting an end to Israel’s war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Egypt, China stress priority of safety, security of Red Sea navigation | Red Sea | Egypt and China are closely following developments in the Red Sea, focusing on the priority of ensuring the safety and security of navigation, the two countries said in a joint statement on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Activists protest at British base in Cyprus used in Yemen strikes | Red Sea | Pro-Palestinian activists protested at the gates of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Sunday, angry that the British base was used as a launch pad for strikes against the Houthi militia in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240114 | UK will back words with actions against Houthis in Yemen - Cameron | Red Sea | Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the UK is "prepared to back our words with actions" against the Houthis, after taking military action in Yemen over their attacks in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Houthi rebels report new US airstrikes in Yemen amid Red Sea tensions | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi rebels reported new US-British airstrikes in the western province of Hodeidah on Sunday | ||||||
| 20240114 | Yemen’s Houthis to continue military actions against Israel | Red Sea | The Houthi group in Yemen said Saturday it will continue military actions against Israel and prevent its vessels from passing through the Red Sea | ||||||
| 20240114 | Red Sea tensions simmer as all sides warn of possible further attacks | Red Sea | UK says west will back words with action as Houthis threaten reprisals and Hezbollah says all navigation in area is in danger | ||||||
| 20240114 | Hezbollah says US strikes on Yemen’s Houthis harm maritime security | Red Sea | Hassan Nasrallah said security in the Red Sea and regional countries hinges on putting an end to Israel’s war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Namibia condemns Germany for defending Israel in ICJ genocide case | South Africa/Israelis
Namibia/Germany |
The Namibia presidency slams Germany for failing to draw lessons from its own genocide against Namibian people in the early 20th century. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Namibia criticises German support for Israel over ICJ genocide case | South Africa/Israelis
Namibia/Germany |
Namibia has condemned former colonial ruler Germany for rejecting a case at a UN court accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240114 | Genocide case against Israel: Where does the rest of the world stand on allegations? | South Africa/Israelis | The accusations levelled against Israel by South Africa are certainly momentous - but what support do they really have globally? | ||||||
| 20240114 | What will be the outcome of the ICJ genocide case against Israel? | South Africa/Israelis | Israel has presented its defence at the International Court of Justice in response to genocide case brought by South Africa. A two-day public hearing of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has concluded. |
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| 20240114 | Internal anger with Biden and Congress reaches boiling point | United States | After 100 days of war, scores of staffers on Capitol Hill and in the Biden administration are demoralised and uncomfortable working for the US president | ||||||
| 20240114 | Palestinians struggle to revive market in Jabalia’s refugee camp | war on refugee camps | Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, set up a market after the withdrawal of Israeli army forces from several areas, despite destruction and difficult living conditions | ||||||
| 20240114 | West Bank Palestinians decry Israel's raids as 'revenge' | West Bank | Amid the warren of Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, armed Palestinian militants wander around and greet passers-by from the ruins left by an Israeli raid. | ||||||
| 20240114 | With all eyes on Gaza, Israeli settlers are waging a second Nakba in the West Bank | West Bank | Overseen by the military, Israeli settlers are killing Palestinians and forcing others from their land as the bloodbath continues in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240114 | Palestinian minor killed by Israeli army fire in West Bank | West Bank | A Palestinian minor was killed by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Sunday | ||||||
| 20240114 | Israel arrests sisters of late senior Hamas leader in West Bank | West Bank | The Israeli army on Sunday arrested two sisters of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri, who was assassinated in Beirut earlier this month. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20240115 | Hungry Palestinians crowd aid truck in Gaza | dystopian terror | There were scenes of chaos as hundreds of Palestinians crowded an aid truck delivering food in Gaza, in a sign of how Israel’s war has created a desperate situation for people there. | ||||||
| 20240115 | UN agency chiefs say Gaza needs more aid to arrive faster, warning of famine and disease | dystopian terror | Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed 24,000. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Video shows chaos of aid delivery on Gaza beach | dystopian terror | A huge crowd of people ran and jostled on a Gaza City beach as news of a flour delivery spread, their hunger and desperation obvious in the chaos unfolding on the sand beside the rubble and twisted metal of flattened buildings. | ||||||
| 20240115 | How Israel killed Palestinians waiting for food trucks in northern Gaza | dystopian terror | On 11 January, Israeli tanks and quadcopters opened fire on Palestinians waiting for food trucks on Al-Rasheed street, killing and injuring scores of civilians | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israel kills Palestinians searching for food aid in Gaza City | dystopian terror | Israeli occupation forces have killed two Palestinians and wounded several others as they approached a UN-run aid convoy on the coastal road of Gaza City. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Egypt refutes Israel’s claims it is hindering aid entering Gaza | dystopian terror | “The greatest obstacle to the entry of aid and its arrival in sufficient quantities to the Gaza Strip for 100 days is caused by the intentional intransigence of the Israeli occupation authorities that control the other crossings of the Strip,” the SIS said in a statement yesterday. | ||||||
| 20240115 | UNRWA: Egypt has never closed the Rafah Crossing | dystopian terror | Al-Qahera News TV channel quoted Lazzarini as saying that the Israeli war machine did not distinguish between humans, stones, or even animals, confirming that everyone is vulnerable to its massacres and that he is going to Gaza to see the situation on the ground. | ||||||
| 20240115 | ‘Tents everywhere’ as Rafah struggles to hold a million Palestinians | dystopian terror | Displaced multiple times by the war, many in Gaza's southernmost city are living in makeshift shelters without sufficient food, water, or blankets. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Egypt refutes Israel’s claims it is hindering aid entering Gaza | Egypt | Egypt’s State Information Service has refuted Israel’s claims at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Cairo is putting obstacles before the delivery of aid into the besieged Gaza Strip amid Israel’s devastating war on the enclave. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Inflation risk from Red Sea disruption, warns economist | global effects | Inflation is at risk of rising again, according to a leading economist, following attacks on ships using a vital trade route through the Red S | ||||||
| 20240115 | French lawmaker says he is threatened for denouncing Israel massacres in Gaza | global effects | French lawmaker, Aymeric Caron, of the left-wing Ecological Revolution for Living (REV) Party said on Monday that he continued to receive threats for denouncing Israeli massacres in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israel must know there are limits to right to self-defence: Ex-Austrian president | global response | Israel must know there are limits to its right to self-defence, a former Austrian president said on Monday, referring to Tel Aviv’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 24,000 Palestinians and reduced almost the entire enclave to rubble | ||||||
| 20240115 | Colombia president: Netanyahu is responsible for massacres in Gaza | global response | Colombian President Gustavo Petro said that the mass murder of Palestinaisn in Gaza “occurs in direct bombings by [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu against the civilian population of Gaza.” | ||||||
| 20240115 | Hamas appears to show dead bodies of two hostages after warning Israel | Hamas resistance attack | Hamas appeared to show the dead bodies of two Israeli hostages on Monday after warning Israel they might be killed if it did not stop its bombardment of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Hamas airs video of Israeli hostages, says it will disclose their fate | Hamas resistance attack | Hamas aired video on Sunday showing three Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza in which they urged their government to stop the offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group and bring about their release, as both sides marked the 100th day of the war. | ||||||
| 20240115 | They were Israel's 'eyes on the border' - but their Hamas warnings went unheard | Hamas resistance attack | For years, units of young female conscripts had one job here. It was to sit in surveillance bases for hours, looking for signs of anything suspicious. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israeli war cabinet member calls for 'grand deal' to secure release of captives in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | Gadi Eisenkot, whose son and nephew were both killed in Gaza fighting, said the time to bring back the captives is 'running out' | ||||||
| 20240115 | UN chief Guterres calls for 'immediate humanitarian ceasefire' in Gaza | humanitarian | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas surpassed 100 days. | ||||||
| 20240115 | UNRWA: Egypt has never closed the Rafah Crossing | humanitarian | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas surpassed 100 days. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Egypt refutes Israel’s claims it is hindering aid entering Gaza | humanitarian | Egypt’s State Information Service has refuted Israel’s claims at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Cairo is putting obstacles before the delivery of aid into the besieged Gaza Strip amid Israel’s devastating war on the enclave. | ||||||
| 20240115 | US can't call for restraint while backing Israel's war in Gaza | Iran | The United States cannot call for restraint while supporting Israel's war in Gaza, Iran's foreign minister said on Monday, while calling for a diplomatic solution to the war in the enclave. | ||||||
| 20240115 | ‘Extreme confrontations’: Israeli air and artillery strikes pound Gaza | Israeli war | Israel's relentless artillery shelling has been targeting central and southern areas of Gaza. At least 67 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israel car-ramming & stabbing attack: One elderly woman killed, 17 others injured in Raanana | Israeli war | On Monday afternoon in Ra'anana, Israel, an Israeli elderly woman succumbed to injuries in a suspected stabbing and car-ramming attack, with 18 more injured. Described as 'unusual' by Israeli police, the assailant used a stolen vehicle, stabbing a woman, and subsequently ramming pedestrians. The attacker, reportedly from Hebron, along with a relative, is in police custody. Since October 7, Israel has barred Palestinian labourers from the West Bank, but authorities have not disclosed how the suspects entered Ra'anana. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Fatal ramming, stabbing near Tel Aviv | Israeli war | Several people have been wounded after a motorist rammed into them and stabbed several others in the Israeli city of Raanana. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Woman killed, 17 hurt in suspected Palestinian car-ramming attack | Israeli war | A 70-year-old woman has been killed and 17 other people injured in what police say was a terrorist attack in Israel. | ||||||
| 20240115 | At least one dead and 18 injured in suspected car-ramming terror attack in Israel | Israeli war | At least one woman in her 70s has died and dozens were injured in a ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Ra'naana, to the north of Tel Aviv, on Monday. | ||||||
| 20240115 | 'Piles of body parts’: Gaza’s Maghazi residents find families ‘in pieces’ | Israeli war | A warning this report has some images that viewers may find distressing. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israeli cabinet passes amended 2024 budget adding $15 billion for war | Israeli war | Israel's cabinet on Monday passed a disputed 2024 state budget with amendments adding 55 billion shekels ($15 billion) of spending after over three months of war with Hamas, the Finance Ministry and Prime Minister's Office said. | ||||||
| 20240115 | White House calls on Israel to scale back Gaza offensive | Israeli war | The US says “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israel must know there are limits to right to self-defence: Ex-Austrian president | Israeli war | Israel must know there are limits to its right to self-defence, a former Austrian president said on Monday, referring to Tel Aviv’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 24,000 Palestinians and reduced almost the entire enclave to rubble | ||||||
| 20240115 | Netanyahu defiant that ‘not even the ICJ will stop us’ | Israeli war | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a defiant message to the international community, wherein he basically challenged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop the apartheid state from achieving “total victory” in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Ben-Gvir labels Turkish President Erdogan a ‘full-on Nazi’ | Israelis | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, labelled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “full-on Nazi” after Israeli football player Sagiv Yehezkel was arrested in Turkiye. | ||||||
| 20240115 | ‘Shame’: Palestine UN mission decries Blinken’s post ignoring Gaza killings | Palestine | In his social media post marking 100 days of Israeli war, US secretary of state makes no mention of Palestinian deaths. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Palestine to Africa: How maps lie — and some tell the truth | Palestine | Conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, the Indian Ocean and other areas also spill over into the realm of cartography. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Hamas chief Haniyeh calls for Palestinian unity and elections | Palestine | Hamas political chief says war against Israel presents an opportunity to reorganise Palestine Liberation Organisation to 'include everyone' | ||||||
| 20240115 | Are the Houthi Red Sea interceptions going to bring about a regional war? | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthis hit a US owned ship on Monday, a day after attacking a US navy destroyer in the Red Sea, indicating that the group will not be deterred by recent air attacks on Yemen by the United States and United Kingdom. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Inflation risk from Red Sea disruption, warns economist | Red Sea | Inflation is at risk of rising again, according to a leading economist, following attacks on ships using a vital trade route through the Red S | ||||||
| 20240115 | UK’s alleged use of Cyprus bases to arm Israel and hit Yemen draw protests | Red Sea | Monitors and media reports claim Britain is supplying Israel’s army for its war in Gaza from military bases in Cyprus. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions | Gulf Of Aden | Houthi rebels fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after they launched an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, officials said | ||||||
| 20240115 | Yemen's Houthis hit US-owned dry bulk ship, no injuries - US Centcom | Gulf Of Aden | Houthi forces in Yemen struck the U.S.-owned and operated dry bulk ship Gibraltar Eagle with an anti-ship ballistic missile, U.S Central Command said on Monday, although there were no reports of injuries or significant damage. | ||||||
| 20240115 | US-owned ship hit by missile off Yemen as more tankers steer clear | Gulf Of Aden | Houthi militants struck a U.S.-owned ship carrying steel products with a ballistic missile on Monday south of the port of Aden as the group vowed to keep up attacks after U.S. and British strikes on its sites in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Missile fired by Houthi rebels hits US-owned ship off Yemen, US military says | Gulf Of Aden | A missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after Yemen's Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, officials said. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Vessel hit by missile east of Yemeni port of Aden, says UK | Gulf Of Aden | A vessel was reportedly hit by a missile south-east of the Yemeni port city of Aden, a British maritime information source said on Monday | ||||||
| 20240115 | Rishi Sunak defends his decision for the UK to join the US in ‘limited’ strikes on Yemen’s Houthis | Red Sea | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the U.K. Parliament on Monday that U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, conducted alongside the United States, were “limited, not escalatory” and came in response to a threat to British vessels | ||||||
| 20240115 | Houthi attacks expose China's commercial stakes in Red Sea | Red Sea | China has called for an end to attacks on civilian vessels in the Red Sea that have dramatically widened the Hamas-Israel conflict and placed Beijing's commercial interests along the Suez Canal at risk. | ||||||
| 20240115 | US says it shot down anti-ship cruise missile from Houthi-controlled areas | Red Sea | U.S. fighter aircraft shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired from Houthi militant areas of Yemen toward a U.S. destroyer operating in the Southern Red Sea, the U.S. military said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20240115 | QatarEnergy halts Red Sea LNG shipping amid attacks, seeking security advice | Red Sea | QatarEnergy, the world's second largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, has stopped sending tankers via the Red Sea although production continues, a senior source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. | ||||||
| 20240115 | India exporters face rising costs after Houthi Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | The cost of Indian exports has more than doubled due to the Yemeni Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, industry officials said on Monday | ||||||
| 20240115 | Yemen's Houthis say they will target US ships | Red Sea | The Yemeni Houthi movement will expand its targets to include U.S. ships, an official from the Iran-allied group said on Monday. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Houthis vow to keep up Red Sea attacks after US-led strikes | Red Sea | The chief negotiator for Yemen's Houthis said on Monday the group's stance has not changed since U.S.-led air strikes on its positions, and warned that attacks on ships headed to Israel will continue. | ||||||
| 20240115 | More oil tankers shun southern Red Sea after US-led strikes in Yemen | Red Sea | At least six more oil tankers were steering clear of the southern Red Sea on Monday, as disruptions on the vital route for energy shipping increase in the wake of US-led strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Houthis to continue confronting Israel in support of Gaza | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi group confirmed yesterday that it will continue to confront Israel in support of the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a genocidal Israeli bombing campaign for more than 100 days. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Germany is not fit to say what is genocide, given their past atrocities: Herero activist | South Africa/Israelis | Bangladesh and Colombia have joined South Africa in accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Namibia has also criticised Germany for supporting Israel in the genocide case at the International Court of Justice brought by South Africa. |
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| 20240115 | Bosnian author cuts ties with German publisher over ‘silence on Gaza genocide’ | South Africa/Israelis | Lana Bastasic says that her German publishers have failed to be vocal on the war on Gaza and ‘systematic censorship’ in Germany | ||||||
| 20240115 | South African genocide case legal team returns to heroes’ welcome | South Africa/Israelis | The South African legal team that presented last week’s Gaza genocide case to the International Court of Justice was cheered and applauded by waiting crowds when they returned to an airport in Johannesburg. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Netanyahu defiant that ‘not even the ICJ will stop us’ | South Africa/Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a defiant message to the international community, wherein he basically challenged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop the apartheid state from achieving “total victory” in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israel’s argument at The Hague was that it is incapable of genocide | South Africa/Israelis | Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and blatant hostility. In a famous cabinet meeting in 1955, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion famously knocked back the suggestion that the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine had been instrumental in creating the State of Israel. “No, no, no!” he roared. “Only the daring of the Jews created the state, and not any oom-shmoom resolution.” | ||||||
| 20240115 | Turkey frees Israeli footballer detained over Gaza war reference in match | Turkey | Turkish court releases player, pending trial, after he displayed bandage reading ‘100 days. 07/10’ while celebrating scoring a goal. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Footballer released after Turkey detention | Turkey | Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel has been released, after being detained for a gesture made during a match in Turkey. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel leaves Turkey over 7 October message | Turkey | The Antalyaspor footballer left the country on Monday following the incident which saw the player's brief detention | ||||||
| 20240115 | Turkiye deports Israel football player for commemorating 100 days of ongoing Gaza war | Turkey | Turkish authorities are deporting Israeli football player, Sagiv Jehezkel, after his arrest for commemorating 100 days since the start of Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza during a football match. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Ben-Gvir labels Turkish President Erdogan a ‘full-on Nazi’ | Turkey | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, labelled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “full-on Nazi” after Israeli football player Sagiv Yehezkel was arrested in Turkiye. | ||||||
| 20240115 | UK’s alleged use of Cyprus bases to arm Israel and hit Yemen draw protests | United Kingdom | Monitors and media reports claim Britain is supplying Israel’s army for its war in Gaza from military bases in Cyprus. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Rishi Sunak defends his decision for the UK to join the US in ‘limited’ strikes on Yemen’s Houthis | United Kingdom | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the U.K. Parliament on Monday that U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, conducted alongside the United States, were “limited, not escalatory” and came in response to a threat to British vessels | ||||||
| 20240115 | UK government say the lslamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and moves to ban it | United Kingdom | The U.K. government said Monday that the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and should be banned as a terrorist organization | ||||||
| 20240115 | UK declares Hizb ut-Tahrir to be a ‘terrorist’ group | United Kingdom | Britain today declared the global Hizb ut-Tahrir movement to be a proscribed “terrorist group”, making it a criminal offence to belong to what it described as an anti-Semitic organisation | ||||||
| 20240115 | Home Secretary announces plan to ban Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir | United Kingdom | The organisation, which uses non-violent means to achieve its goal of a Caliphate in Muslim lands, has been criticised over demonstrations held against Israel's war on Gaza | ||||||
| 20240115 | Gary Lineker sparks row after seemingly supporting Israel sports ban | United Kingdom | A later rescinded retweet by Lineker seemed to support calls for Israel to be banned from international sporting events over the Gaza war | ||||||
| 20240115 | Lineker faces backlash for reposting tweet calling for sanctions against Israel | United Kingdom | Israel’s cheerleaders in Britain are pushing for the BBC to sanction Gary Lineker after the former England footballer reposted a tweet to his 8.9 million followers amplifying the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. | ||||||
| 20240115 | UN chief Guterres calls for 'immediate humanitarian ceasefire' in Gaza | United Nations | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas surpassed 100 days. | ||||||
| 20240115 | UNRWA: Egypt has never closed the Rafah Crossing | United Nations | The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, was quoted in Egyptian media as saying that Cairo has not closed the Rafah border crossing since 7 October, refuting claims made by Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that limited aid supplies entering Gaza were as a result of restrictions by Egypt. | ||||||
| 20240115 | ‘Shame’: Palestine UN mission decries Blinken’s post ignoring Gaza killings | United States | In his social media post marking 100 days of Israeli war, US secretary of state makes no mention of Palestinian deaths. | ||||||
| 20240115 | White House calls on Israel to scale back Gaza offensive | United States | The US says “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Axios: US' Biden frustrated with Israel's Netanyahu | United States | US President Joe Biden and senior American officials are frustrated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for rejecting Washington’s requests related to the war on Gaza, Axios news website reported, citing US officials. | ||||||
| 20240115 | 2 Palestinian children shot in the head by Israel in Nablus | West Bank | Four Palestinian were injured and another was disappeared after Israeli occupation forces stormed the occupied West Bank city of Nablus today, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. | ||||||
| 20240115 | Israel increasing repression of female Palestinian prisoners | West Bank | The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Authority has warned that the administration of Israel’s notorious Damon Prison continues to impose retaliatory punishments and brutal repressive measures against female Palestinian detainees, which have escalated since 7 October. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20240116 | Displaced Palestinians find no shelter in Rafah | dystopian terror | Over a million Palestinians have fled south to Rafah, on Gaza's border with Egypt. But makeshift tents offer no protection from the cold and Israel's bombs | ||||||
| 20240116 | In Gaza, Israel has turned water into a weapon of mass destruction | dystopian terror | By denying Palestinians safe water since the war began, Israel has created an unparalleled health crisis and risks causing irreversible ecological damage. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Jordan says Israel is placing 'big impediments' to aid for Palestinians | dystopian terror | Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, said on Tuesday Israel was placing many obstacles to the entry of aid into Gaza, worsening the plight of Palestinians there | ||||||
| 20240116 | Aid officials believe there are ‘pockets of famine’ in Gaza | dystopian terror | Aid officials in Gaza believe that “pockets of famine” already exist in the territory, with parents sacrificing remaining food for their children, an apple costing $8 and fuel for cooking almost impossible to find. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Strike threat over claim pro-Israeli lobby forced out Australian journalist | global effects | Sacked last month, Antoinette Lattouf joined the ranks of journalists dismissed for expressing support for Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Eurovision 2024: Nordic artists calling for Israel to be banned | global response | Following calls for boycott since it was confirmed that Israel would be participating in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, more and more petitions are demanding the exclusion of Israel, over alleged war crimes in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Malaysia leader slams the West for turning blind eye to Israel 'atrocities' in Palestine | global response | Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, criticised Western countries on Tuesday for their continued silence about the situation in the Gaza Strip and said Israel is committing the “ruthless massacre” of Palestinians | ||||||
| 20240116 | Majority of Germans think Israel’s Gaza offensive is ‘unjustified’ | global response | A new poll has found that the majority of Germans are becoming more critical of the Israeli government’s policies and the ongoing military offensive in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240116 | ‘Jews against genocide’ protesters disrupt Austrian parliament | global response | “Never again for anyone.” Dozens of protesters disrupted the Austrian parliament calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The ‘Not in Our Name Vienna’ group is at odds with Austria’s support for Israel and wants to see an end to the killing of Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20240116 | A freed Israeli hostage relives horrors of captivity and fears for her husband, still held in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | Standing in the ruins of her home in the Nir Oz farming village on the Gaza border, Sharon Alony Cunio gazed at the distant skyline of Khan Younis, the Palestinian city where Hamas militants dragged her more than three months ago. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Mother of killed Israeli calls Hamas videos 'psychological warfare' | Hamas resistance attack | The mother of an Israeli hostage accidentally killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza has described hostage videos released by Hamas as "psychological warfare".
COMMENT Israelis allegedly used the Hannibal directive |
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| 20240116 | EU adds Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar to terrorist list | Hamas resistance attack | The move allows the bloc to freeze Sinwar's funds and other financial assets in EU member states, and to prohibit EU-based operators from making economic resources available to him. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel and Hamas agree deal on medicine for hostages and more aid for Gaza, says Qatar | Hamas resistance attack | Qatar on Tuesday said it has mediated a deal between Israel and Hamas to allow the delivery of medicine to hostages in Gaza and increase the quantity of humanitarian aid delivered to residents of the devastated Palestinian territory. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel occupation forces drone killed ex-soldier who crossed into Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | A former Israeli soldier who crossed the nominal border into the besieged Gaza Strip in late October was killed by an army drone, Haaretz has reported. The drone operator identified the man as a Palestinian. | ||||||
| 20240116 | US preparing to send more aid to Gaza | humanitarian | The US has said it intends to increase aid to Palestinians after Israel said it was ending its "intensive" operations. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iran says Baluchi militant group bases attacked in Pakistan -state media | Iran | Two bases of Baluchi militant group Jaish al Adl in Pakistan were targeted by missiles on Tuesday, Iranian state media reported, a day after Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards attacked targets in Iraq and Syria with missiles. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iran launches airstrikes on ‘Sunni militant bases’ in Pakistan | Iran | Pakistan says attacks killed two children and wounded three others in ‘unprovoked violation’ of its airspace. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iran says Revolutionary Guards attack Israel's 'spy HQ' in Iraq, vow more revenge | Iran | Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they attacked the spy headquarters of Israel in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media reported late on Monday, while the elite force said they also struck in Syria against the Islamic State. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iranian Revolutionary Guard says it attacked ‘spy centres’ in Erbil | Iran | Iranian state media reported on Monday that the Revolutionary Guard said it attacked “spy centres and gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” in Erbil, Iraq. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iran strike sparks dispute with Iraq as fears of regional upheaval grow | Iran | An Iranian missile strike on targets in northern Iraq set off an unusual dispute between the neighbouring allies on Tuesday, with Baghdad recalling its ambassador in protest and Tehran insisting the attack was intended to deter threats from Israeli spies. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iran says Revolutionary Guards attack Israel's 'spy HQ' in Iraq, vow more revenge | Iraq | Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they attacked the spy headquarters of Israel in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media reported late on Monday, while the elite force said they also struck in Syria against the Islamic State. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iranian Revolutionary Guard says it attacked ‘spy centres’ in Erbil | Iraq | Iranian state media reported on Monday that the Revolutionary Guard said it attacked “spy centres and gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” in Erbil, Iraq. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iran strike sparks dispute with Iraq as fears of regional upheaval grow | Iraq | An Iranian missile strike on targets in northern Iraq set off an unusual dispute between the neighbouring allies on Tuesday, with Baghdad recalling its ambassador in protest and Tehran insisting the attack was intended to deter threats from Israeli spies. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iraq recalls ambassador, summons Iran’s chargé d’affaires over strikes in Irbil | Iraq | Iraq recalled its ambassador from Tehran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad on Tuesday in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians overnight, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Baghdad recalls Iran ambassador after deadly attacks in Kurdistan region | Iraq | Baghdad recalled its ambassador from Iran on Tuesday after its eastern neighbour launched missiles into Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, leaving at least four people dead. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Iraq vows to take Iran to UN after attack on Israeli ‘spy base’ | Iraq | Civilians killed in strikes on Erbil include millionaire Kurdish businessman and his family, medical sources say | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel National Security Minister calls for Occupation of Gaza | Israelis | Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is continuing the pattern of extreme comments by Israeli officials by calling for the Occupation of Gaza, which has been victim to a genocidal campaign by Israel since October 7 | ||||||
| 20240116 | PA is an enemy and should not be dealt with, says extremist Ben-Gvir | Israelis | Israel’s extreme far-right national security minister said on Monday that he strongly opposes bringing Palestinian workers from the West Bank into the occupation state, given that the Palestinian Authority is an “enemy” and should not be dealt with. Itamar Ben-Gvir made his comment in a post on X, amid intense controversy within the Israeli political system about the issue. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel football player leaves Turkiye after arrest for commemorating 100 days of ongoing Gaza war | Israelis | Israeli football player Sagiv Jehezkel has left Turkiye after Turkish authorities released him, following his initial arrest for commemorating 100 days since the start of Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza during a football match | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel Has Bought a Mass Online Influence System to Counter Antisemitism, Hamas Atrocity Denial | Israelis | Israel has responded to its "clear loss" to Hamas on the digital battlefield by making its first-ever purchase of a technological system capable of conducting mass online influence campaigns, | ||||||
| 20240116 | Gaza combat resurges as Israeli tanks storm back into areas they left | Israeli war | Israeli tanks stormed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip they had left last week, residents said on Tuesday, reigniting some of the most intense combat since the New Year when Israel announced it was scaling back its operations there. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel’s new $15bn war budget: What’s it for and what gets cut? | Israeli war | The Israeli government approves an increase to its annual budget, but not without a lot of infighting. | ||||||
| 20240116 | After over 100 days of war, Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza and fire rockets at Israel | Israeli war | Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more that 100 days into Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel keeps up military pressure on Hamas | Israeli war | Israel's military continues to rule out a complete cease-fire in Gaza. Its goal remains the elimination of Hamas, which Israel and other nations designate as a terrorist group. While it announced plans to tone down operations in the south of the territory, recent strikes there again killed dozens. | ||||||
| 20240116 | National Resistance announces targeting of an Occupation boat in the sea off the coast of Gaza City | Israeli war | The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) announced on Monday that it had targeted one of the Occupation’s gunboats with a guided missile in the sea of Gaza City, in response to the bombing of Palestinian homes in the Tal Al-Hawa area, south-west of Gaza City. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Jordan says Israel is placing 'big impediments' to aid for Palestinians | Jordan | Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, said on Tuesday Israel was placing many obstacles to the entry of aid into Gaza, worsening the plight of Palestinians there | ||||||
| 20240116 | Jordan: king warns of increase in extremist rhetoric among Israeli officials | Jordan | King Abdullah II of Jordan has warned of an escalation in “extremist” rhetoric by Israeli officials, reiterating the need for international pressure to stop the Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Royal Court has said. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest for journalists | journalists | Journalists in Gaza are facing the deadliest war against their profession in history. Dozens have been killed and injured in Israel’s bombardment of the besieged enclave. Al Jazeera’s Nada Qaddourah breaks down the situation. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Blinken says Arab countries not keen to rebuild Gaza if it will be 'levelled' again | Middle East | Arab countries are not keen to get involved in the rebuilding of Gaza if the Palestinian enclave will be “levelled” again in a few years and stress the importance of Palestinian statehood for any regional settlement, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday | ||||||
| 20240116 | Palestinian envoy Husam Zomlot says UK guilty of hypocrisy | Palestine | The Palestinians' top envoy to the UK has accused the government of "double standards and hypocrisy" in its policies towards them. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Qatar tells WEF in Davos that Red Sea crisis will not be defused without first resolving Gaza crisis | Qatar | Qatar has warned that tensions and crisis in the Red Sea will not be resolved without first resolving Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the international community must recognise the “real issue” and root cause. | ||||||
| 20240116 | EU states give nod to Red Sea mission to deter Houthis -diplomats | Red Sea | European Union member states have given initial backing to a naval mission to protect ships from attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia in the Red Sea, European diplomats said on Tuesday, after the launch of a U.S.-led mission in the region. | ||||||
| 20240116 | US claims seizure of Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Houthis | Red Sea | The haul is the first since the Houthis began attacks on Red Sea shipping in November. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Yemen’s Houthis claim attack on ship in Red Sea as US confirms new strike | Red Sea | Malta-flagged ship hit by missile as US military says it launches a new strike against Houthi targets in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240116 | US attacks Houthi anti-ship missiles, vessel hit in Red Sea | Red Sea | The U.S. military carried out new strikes in Yemen on Tuesday against anti-ship ballistic missiles in a Houthi-controlled part of the country as a missile struck a Greek-owned vessel in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240116 | US targets Houthi anti-ship missiles in new strike on Yemen, officials say | Red Sea | The U.S. military on Tuesday carried out a new strike in Yemen against four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles, two U.S. officials told Reuters, the latest move against the Iran-aligned group over its targeting of Red Sea shipping. | ||||||
| 20240116 | The US strikes the Yemen-based Houthis again, hitting anti-ship missiles, US officials say | Red Sea | The U.S. launched a new strike against the Yemen-based Houthis on Tuesday, hitting anti-ship missiles in the third assault on the Iranian-backed group in recent days, the U.S. military said. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Red Sea attacks: Greek vessel hit by missile fired by Houthi rebels | Red Sea | The Greek-owned bulk carrier Zografia was sailing from Vietnam to Israel when it was struck on Tuesday. It is said to have suffered only minor damage. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Yemen Houthis claim to attack Israel-bound ship in Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi group claimed, Tuesday, to have targeted an Israel-bound ship with naval missiles in the Red Sea | ||||||
| 20240116 | Why attacks on Yemen offer Houthis a 'golden opportunity' | Red Sea | The Houthi rebels are already winners in the current Red Sea confrontation, observers say. Thanks to US strikes, they have boosted their own legitimacy in Yemen and further afield. Even critics have praised them. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Qatar tells WEF in Davos that Red Sea crisis will not be defused without first resolving Gaza crisis | Red Sea | Qatar has warned that tensions and crisis in the Red Sea will not be resolved without first resolving Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the international community must recognise the “real issue” and root cause. | ||||||
| 20240116 | UK maritime agency reports another ‘incident’ off Yemen | Red Sea | A UK maritime agency, on Tuesday, reported another “incident” off the coast of Yemen amid ongoing tension in the region | ||||||
| 20240116 | Saudis could recognise Israel if Palestinian issue resolved - foreign minister | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Tuesday the kingdom could recognise Israel if a comprehensive agreement were reached that included statehood for the Palestinians, ambitious talk as the war between Israel and Hamas shows no sign of easing. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Saudi Arabia says Israel recognition still possible | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia on Tuesday suggested recognition of Israel could still be on the cards if the Palestinian issue were resolved, as strikes continued to pound the besieged Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240116 | No sign Israel making progress on achieving its goals in Gaza: Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia said, Tuesday, that there is no sign Israel is making progress towards achieving its goals in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240116 | Saudi Arabia has sent aircraft, ships and trucks with aid for Gaza | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia has sent 36 aircraft, five ships and 172 trucks filled with aid as part of the ongoing humanitarian campaign to relieve the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip since October. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Altruism, opportunism or both: What pushed South Africa to ICJ over Gaza? | South Africa/Israelis | Pretoria’s intent is under scrutiny as it presents an all-important case against Israel’s war in Gaza at the ICJ. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Turkey's Erdogan orders officials to skip Davos over Gaza war: Report | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of Davos in 2009 during a debate with then-Israeli President Shimon Peres over Gaza | ||||||
| 20240116 | Erdogan boycotts Davos economic forum in protest against support for Israel | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek and other senior officials not to participate in the World Economic Forum due to the organisers’ support for Israel in its military offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israel football player leaves Turkiye after arrest for commemorating 100 days of ongoing Gaza war | Turkey | Israeli football player Sagiv Jehezkel has left Turkiye after Turkish authorities released him, following his initial arrest for commemorating 100 days since the start of Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza during a football match | ||||||
| 20240116 | Rishi Sunak accused of 'endangering safety' of Muslim MP | United Kingdom | The British prime minister called on Labour MP Zarah Sultana to condemn Hamas and the Houthis during a debate on the Gaza war | ||||||
| 20240116 | Complaint filed alleging UK ministers' complicity in Israeli war crimes | United Kingdom | Evidence handed to Metropolitan Police war crimes unit also includes details about British nationals fighting in the Israeli army | ||||||
| 20240116 | Keir Starmer dumps Labour Party policy to recognise Palestinian statehood | United Kingdom | The Labour leader has said that the party will now only recognise Palestine as a state as part of a two-state solution | ||||||
| 20240116 | US preparing to send more aid to Gaza | United States | The US has said it intends to increase aid to Palestinians after Israel said it was ending its "intensive" operations. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Blinken says Arab countries not keen to rebuild Gaza if it will be 'levelled' again | United States | Arab countries are not keen to get involved in the rebuilding of Gaza if the Palestinian enclave will be “levelled” again in a few years and stress the importance of Palestinian statehood for any regional settlement, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday | ||||||
| 20240116 | Palestinian man killed while opening occupied West Bank barrier | West Bank | A young Palestinian man Mohammad Sayil was killed by Israeli forces when he went to open a barrier blocking a street in Beit Jala in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20240116 | Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Two people killed in Dura near Hebron, and one person killed near Tulkarem, according to Palestinian Health Ministry. | ||||||
| 20240116 | What might be the consequences of Israeli violence in occupied West Bank? | West Bank | Violence has surged in the occupied West Bank since Israel launched its assault on Gaza in October 2023. | ||||||
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| 20240117 | Gaza post-war housing reconstruction to cost ‘at least $15bn’ | day after | At least $15 billion will be needed to rebuild housing in the Gaza Strip, Palestine Investment Fund chairman Mohammed Mustafa said on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum. Much of the besieged enclave has been destroyed by Israel’s bombing of the Palestinians in the coastal enclave. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Palestinians’ tents in Gaza offer no shelter from Israeli bombardment | dystopian terror | “It’s a tent. I came to find my family in pieces.” A Palestinian father recalls an Israeli attack on his family’s tent in central Gaza that killed three of his children after they were displaced from the north. | ||||||
| 20240117 | 'Risk of exodus from Gaza is serious and imminent', ex-Palestinian PM Fayyad warns | ethnic cleansing | Interiew with Salam Fayyad, a former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and now a visiting senior scholar at Princeton University in the United States. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Karim Benzema takes French interior minister to court for 'Muslim Brotherhood' claim | global effect | The former Real Madrid and France national team star vehemently rejects Gerald Darmanin's accusation that he is linked to the group | ||||||
| 20240117 | Christian protesters singing for Gaza ceasefire in US Congress arrested | global response | Around 150 people were arrested after a sit-in protest inside the US Congress calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Members of the group Mennonite Action sang songs and hymns as they called for peace and justice. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Polish lawmaker who extinguished Hanukkah candles loses immunity | global response | Poland's parliament has voted to remove the immunity from prosecution of a lawmaker who used a fire extinguisher to put out Jewish Hanukkah candles in the country's parliament in December, an incident that caused international outrage. | ||||||
| 20240117 | British Palestinians call on the UK to facilitate Gaza ceasefire | global response | The British Palestinian community has called upon the UK to “urgently exert its influence” to secure an immediate and permanent ceasefire, saying it is a first step towards any solution to alleviate the suffering of all. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Ben & Jerry's joins calls for 'permanent and immediate' ceasefire | global response | Ben & Jerry's becomes one of the first multinational companies to call for a 'permanent' end to violence in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid headed into Gaza after Israel-Hamas seal first deal since truce ended | Hamas resistance attack | The aid, which includes medicines for the Israeli captives that Hamas is still holding, was making its way from Egypt on Wednesday, after being flown from France to Qatar. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Qatar and France send medicine for hostages in Gaza as war rages on and regional tensions spike | Hamas resistance attack | A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas was en route to Gaza on Wednesday after France and Qatar mediated the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a weeklong cease-fire in November. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid for hostages, civilians arrives at Gaza border as Israel steps up strikes |
Hamas resistance attack | Aid destined for Israeli hostages and Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip was delivered to Egypt on Wednesday for transfer across the border, following a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid for Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians arrives at Gaza border | Hamas resistance attack | Aid destined for Israeli hostages and Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip was delivered to Egypt on Wednesday for transfer across the border, following a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Trauma replaces joy for mothers giving birth during Israel’s war on Gaza | humanitarian | Three Palestinian women tell of giving birth in Jabalia refugee camp under the threat of Israeli shelling and bombing. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid headed into Gaza after Israel-Hamas seal first deal since truce ended | humanitarian | The aid, which includes medicines for the Israeli captives that Hamas is still holding, was making its way from Egypt on Wednesday, after being flown from France to Qatar. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Qatar and France send medicine for hostages in Gaza as war rages on and regional tensions spike | humanitarian | A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas was en route to Gaza on Wednesday after France and Qatar mediated the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a weeklong cease-fire in November. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid for hostages, civilians arrives at Gaza border as Israel steps up strikes |
humanitarian | Aid destined for Israeli hostages and Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip was delivered to Egypt on Wednesday for transfer across the border, following a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid for Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians arrives at Gaza border | humanitarian | Aid destined for Israeli hostages and Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip was delivered to Egypt on Wednesday for transfer across the border, following a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Sisi warns of danger of military escalation in region | Egypt | Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi warned on Wednesday of the danger of the military escalation in the region on multiple fronts, reiterating the vital need to defuse the current critical situation through an immediate and urgent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20240117 | The militant group in Pakistan targeted by Iranian strikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Iran's foreign minister has said its missile and drone strikes in Pakistan on Tuesday evening targeted a militant group that it claimed was linked to Israel. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iran strikes on Balochi militant group in Pakistan kill two children | Iran (Pakistan) | Iran says it targeted an 'Iranian terrorist group' in neighbouring country, following outcry from Islamabad | ||||||
| 20240117 | Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan said neighbouring Iran has violated its airspace resulting in the death of two children, hours after Iranian state media said missiles targeted two bases of militant group Jaish al Adl on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Pakistan recalls ambassador to Iran over airstrike by Tehran that killed 2 people | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan recalled its ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday, a day after Iran launched airstrikes on Pakistan that it claimed targeted bases for a militant Sunni separatist group. Islamabad angrily denounced the attack as a “blatant violation” of its airspace and said it killed two children. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Pakistan recalls envoy from Iran after 'unprovoked' missile strikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan recalled its ambassador from neighbouring Iran on Wednesday to protest at a "blatant breach" of its sovereignty after Tehran said it launched missile attacks on militant bases in southwestern Pakistan. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Pakistan recalls ambassador from Tehran, blocks Iran's envoy after air strike | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan recalled its ambassador from Iran Wednesday and blocked Tehran's envoy from returning to Islamabad after an Iranian air strike killed two children in the west of the country a day earlier. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Pakistan recalls envoy from Iran, bars Iranian official from returning to post | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan has recalled its ambassador from Iran, a foreign ministry spokesperson in Islamabad said on Wednesday. The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan who is visiting Iran will not be allowed to go back to his post. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iran says it targeted 'terrorist group' in Pakistan | Iran (Pakistan) | Tehran's top diplomat said on Wednesday that his country's armed forces targeted an "Iranian terrorist group" in Pakistan the day before after Islamabad said the strike killed two children. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iran admits carrying out deadly strike on Pakistan territory | Iran (Pakistan) | Iran has admitted carrying out a missile and drone attack on western Pakistan on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iran hails strikes in Pakistan as it is warned of ‘serious consequences’ | Iran (Pakistan) | Iran claims attack in south-west Balochistan province destroyed two strongholds of Sunni militant group | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iran foreign minister in Davos: Attacks on Israel will end if Gaza war stops | Iran | Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday that attacks against Israel and its interests by the "Axis of Resistance" will stop if the Gaza war ends, warning that the conflict could heighten tensions across the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iran demonstrates missile capabilities with regional strikes | Iran | With its strikes on Iraqi, Syrian and Pakistani territory, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) is showing it has become a major regional military power. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iraq says Arab League condemns Iranian ‘aggression’ on Erbil | Iraq | The Arab League has adopted a resolution condemning Iranian strikes in the northern city of Erbil, Iraq said on Wednesday | ||||||
| 20240117 | Iraq PM: Iran's bombing of Erbil a dangerous development | Iraq | Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani said yesterday that Iran’s bombing of the city of Erbil represents an “aggressive act” and a dangerous development that undermines the strong relationship between Baghdad and Tehran. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Report: Mental health system in Israel faces crisis | Israelis | Israel is facing a wave of severe psychological traumas amidst the mental health system’s inability to meet the demands for assistance, according to Israeli psychiatric experts. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Gideon Levy on How Israel's Press Is Failing to Cover the War's True Toll | Israelis | We speak with acclaimed Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, columnist for Haaretz and a member of its editorial board, about how the Israeli media has covered the war on Gaza, the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and more. Levy says the domestic Israeli media all but ignores the Palestinians being killed, focusing mostly on its own soldiers and the families of hostages. "The Israeli average viewer doesn't see Gaza at all," he says. "They are betraying our first mission: to tell the full story." Levy also says there are growing questions about the IDF's response to the October 7 Hamas attack that cannot wait until the end of fighting in Gaza. That includes intelligence failures in the lead-up to the attack, as well as reports of troops killing Israeli civilians when they opened fire on homes taken over by Hamas militants. | ||||||
| 20240117 | At Davos, Blinken calls a pathway to a Palestinian state a necessity for Israeli security | Israeli war | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state, insisting such a move could help unify the Middle East and isolate Israel’s top rival: Iran. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel presses assault in southern Gaza, Jordan says field hospital badly damaged | Israeli war | Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sending tanks westwards and prompting accusations from Jordan that its field hospital in the city had been badly damaged by nearby shelling. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Intense Israeli strikes in south Gaza city as hostages sent medicine | Israeli war | Residents of Khan Younis in southern Gaza say they have faced one of the most intense nights of air strikes since the start of Israel's offensive.
COMMENT The US claimed today that the Israelis have scaled down |
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| 20240117 | Another night of intense bombardment in Khan Younis & Rafah | Israeli war | In the Gaza Strip, heavy Israeli bombardment struck extensively, encompassing land, air, and sea assaults. The southern region bore the brunt, particularly Khan Younis and Rafah city. Overnight, Rafah's central area and Shaboura refugee camp faced bombings, resulting in 23 fatalities, including four children, and over 10 critically injured. The most devastating impact occurred in Khan Younis, specifically the western side, which was previously designated a 'safe zone' for displaced people by Israel, and has faced repeated targeting. Intense strikes near Khan Younis's Nasser Hospital reveal a concerning pattern, with tanks and armoured vehicles deployed on the main road leading to the medical facility. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel pummels Khan Younis, damaging field hospital and razing cemetery | Israeli war | Israeli jets and tanks kill several Palestinians near Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza after night of 'terrifying' attacks | ||||||
| 20240117 | Aid for hostages, civilians arrives at Gaza border as Israel steps up strikes |
Israeli war | Aid destined for Israeli hostages and Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip was delivered to Egypt on Wednesday for transfer across the border, following a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Gaza: More women, children among dead after Israeli strikes | Israeli war | As negotiations for peace and humanitarian aid for Gaza largely stall, the UN has criticized global inaction, saying that "the world is standing by" as Palestinian civilians suffer. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Attacks against Gaza could continue into 2025, says Netanyahu | Israeli war | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly informed local council leaders from communities near Gaza yesterday that he foresees the attacks against Gaza extending into 2025. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Turkiye top diplomat to discuss Gaza with Jordan counterpart | Jordan | Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, will discuss the Gaza conflict during a two-day visit to Jordan, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Journalists of French agency rally for blocked Gaza colleagues | journalists | Journalists working for French agency around the world staged rallies Wednesday to show solidarity with nine colleagues in Gaza, with agency chiefs calling on Israel to ensure their safety and let them leave the war-torn territory. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Growing fears that Lebanon will be drawn into Israel’s war on Gaza | Lebanon | There are growing fears that Lebanon could be drawn into the Gaza conflict. Since the war began in October tension's been rising in southern Lebanon where Israeli military and Hezbollah have exchanged fire.Israeli warplanes struck a target near the border town of Hula on Tuesday. The Israeli military also said it hit a Hezbollah anti-tank missile launcher near Kafr Kila. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel’s war on Gaza triggered a war on free speech in the West | opinion | Last month, I was arrested over a single tweet I wrote in support of Palestinian resistance against Israel’s military. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Gaza will be the grave of the Western-led world order | opinion | By supporting Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the West has shredded what remains of its credibility and brought the ‘rules-based’ world order it purports to lead to the point of no return. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US redesignates Yemen’s Houthis as ‘global terrorists’ | Red Sea | The designation, which does not take effect for 30 days, could be lifted if the Houthis cease their attacks, US officials say. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US relists Houthis as terrorists in response to Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | The U.S. government on Wednesday returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups in the latest attempt by Washington to stem attacks on international shipping. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US to re-designate Houthis as terror group | Red Sea | The US will re-designate Yemen's Houthi rebels as "global terrorists", National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US re-designates Yemen's Huthis as 'terrorist' entity | Red Sea | The United States announced Wednesday that it will put Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels back on a list of "terrorist" entities due to their repeated attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US re-designates Yemen Houthis specially designated global terrorists | Red Sea | The US, on Wednesday, re-designated Yemen’s Houthi group as specially designated global terrorists in response to the Iran-backed group’s attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden | ||||||
| 20240117 | Yemen's Houthis say Red Sea attacks will continue after US 'terror' designation | Red Sea | from live blog | ||||||
| 20240117 | Houthis say US designating them as 'global terrorists' won’t hinder support for Palestine | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi group said, Wednesday, that a US decision to re-designate the group as “global terrorists” will not deter them from supporting Palestine | ||||||
| 20240117 | US pledges new sanctions over Houthi attacks will minimize harm to Yemen’s hungry millions | Red Sea | The United States on Wednesday put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists, piling financial sanctions on top of American military strikes in the Biden administration’s latest attempt to stop the militants’ attacks on global shipping. | ||||||
| 20240117 | After US designates Houthis as terrorists, UN warns Yemen 'highly dependent' on aid, imports | Red Sea | The UN warned, Wednesday, that Yemen is “highly dependent” on commercial and humanitarian imports after the US re-designated the country’s Houthi group as foreign terrorists. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US redesignates Houthis as global terrorists amid Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Houthis say any such a move is a declaration of war as US says penalties will be designed to limit harm to civilians | ||||||
| 20240117 | Biden ‘playing with fire’ by redesignating Yemen’s Houthis as ‘terrorists’ | Red Sea | Advocates say labelling the Houthis a ‘global terrorist group’ risks worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Attacks in the Red Sea: After US-UK strikes, what next for Yemen? | Red Sea | From Lebanon to Iraq and Syria, the ripple effects of the war between Israel and Hamas are being felt, but nowhere more so than Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Italy pushes for quick decision on EU maritime Red Sea force | Red Sea | Italy would like a political decision made to create an EU maritime security mission for the Red Sea by next week so that it can become operational as soon as possible, its foreign minister said on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Italy, France, Germany working on European naval mission in Red Sea | Red Sea | Italy is working with France and Germany on a European naval mission in the Red Sea where tension remains high. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Red Sea tensions reach Europe: Dutch port of Rotterdam feels squeeze on trade | Red Sea | Dutch shipping companies fear they’ll be targeted by Houthi rebels after the Netherlands became the only EU country to support US and UK strikes last weekend in Yemen. That’s according to the Nether-lands Shipowner association. Tensions in the Red Sea are affecting more than 40 percent of trade from Asia to Europe causing delays in Europe's largest port in Rotterdam. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Gaza genocide case: We expect court to find suspicion | South Africa/Israelis | Palestinian politician and activist Mustafa Barghouti tells DW he expects the International Court of Justice to order Israel to stop the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel lawyers broke every possible record for ‘feigned innocence’ at ICJ over Gaza war: Journalist | South Africa/Israelis | Israeli lawyers at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) broke every possible record for ”feigned innocence” amid a deadly onslaught on the Gaza Strip, an Israeli journalist said Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Turkiye top diplomat to discuss Gaza with Jordan counterpart | Turkey | Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, will discuss the Gaza conflict during a two-day visit to Jordan, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20240117 | UK regulator investigating charity over event with British-Israeli soldier | United Kingdom | Charity Commission says it has contacted trustees at the Boys Clubhouse, which supports vulnerable Jewish young men, after it advertised Levi Simon as a 'special star guest' at lunch event | ||||||
| 20240117 | British Palestinians call on the UK to facilitate Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | The British Palestinian community has called upon the UK to “urgently exert its influence” to secure an immediate and permanent ceasefire, saying it is a first step towards any solution to alleviate the suffering of all. | ||||||
| 20240117 | UK advocacy group submits legal dossier of ministers' alleged complicity in Israeli war crimes | United Kingdom | A criminal complaint against senior UK politicians, including ministers, alleging their complicity in war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip has been issued by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP). | ||||||
| 20240117 | UN chief says parties to Gaza war 'trampling' on international law | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that parties to the conflict in Gaza were "trampling" on international law and urged them to implement an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20240117 | International law being ignored — Guterres | United Nations | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated his call for a Gaza cease-fire, saying warring parties were "trampling" on international law. | ||||||
| 20240117 | After US designates Houthis as terrorists, UN warns Yemen 'highly dependent' on aid, imports | United Nations | The UN warned, Wednesday, that Yemen is “highly dependent” on commercial and humanitarian imports after the US re-designated the country’s Houthi group as foreign terrorists. | ||||||
| 20240117 | At Davos, Blinken calls a pathway to a Palestinian state a necessity for Israeli security | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state, insisting such a move could help unify the Middle East and isolate Israel’s top rival: Iran. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Christian protesters singing for Gaza ceasefire in US Congress arrested | United States | Around 150 people were arrested after a sit-in protest inside the US Congress calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Members of the group Mennonite Action sang songs and hymns as they called for peace and justice. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US federal workers risk livelihoods in push for course change on Gaza war | United States | Government employees call a ‘day of mourning’ in the latest sign of internal discontent over Biden administration policy. | ||||||
| 20240117 | US Senate rejects measure to force human rights report on Israel | United States | The U.S. Senate rejected a resolution on Tuesday that would have frozen security aid to Israel unless the State Department produces a report within 30 days examining whether Israel committed human rights violations in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel presses assault in southern Gaza, Jordan says field hospital badly damaged | war on hospitals | Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sending tanks westwards and prompting accusations from Jordan that its field hospital in the city had been badly damaged by nearby shelling. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel pummels Khan Younis, damaging field hospital and razing cemetery | war on hospitals | Israeli jets and tanks kill several Palestinians near Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza after night of 'terrifying' attacks | ||||||
| 20240117 | Jordan says southern Gaza hospital badly damaged by Israel shelling nearby | war on hospitals | Israel stepped up its assault on Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, pushing tanks westwards and prompting accusations from Jordan that its field hospital in the city had been badly damaged by nearby shelling. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Palestinian shop-owner used as human shield by Israeli forces | West Bank | A Palestinian shop-owner was used as a human shield by Israeli forces after they raided his mobile phone store in Dura, in the occupied West Bank. Ongoing Israeli raids in the territory have caused the worst spike in violence there for almost two decades. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israeli forces kill nine Palestinians in West Bank strikes | West Bank | Five people were killed near Balata refugee camp in Nablus, and four in Tulkarm amid ongoing raid on the city | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel kills 9 Palestinians in occupied West Bank air strikes | West Bank | Israeli air strikes killed nine Palestinians in two locations in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Reuters has reported. The West Bank has seen a surge of violence by Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers while the world’s focus has been on Israel’s “genocide” taking place in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240117 | West Bank strike: Israel accused of targeting civilians in deadly attack | West Bank | Israel is accused of having targeted a group of Palestinian civilians with no links to armed groups and who posed no threat to Israeli forces, according to witnesses in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20240117 | ‘We don’t know where he is’: Israel’s administrative detention rates soar after October 7 | West Bank | Since the October 7 Hamas attacks and the resulting war with Israel, the number of Palestinians in administrative detention has exploded. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Illegal Israeli settlements: Increase in illegal land grabs in occupied West Bank | West Bank | There has been an unprecedented increase in Israeli settlement expansions and land grabs across the Occupied West Bank since October 7th. The Peace Now organisation monitors settlement activity and in a report says Israel has fast-tracked the construction of roads and outposts. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israeli forces stormed the house of Ayser Barghouti in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank | West Bank | The Israeli occupation forces stormed several cities and towns in the West Bank. They stormed the city of Ramallah and imposed a siege on the Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood in the city. They also raided the house of prominent Palestinian doctor, Ayser Barghouti. | ||||||
| 20240117 | Israel's Army Drafted and Armed Thousands of Settlers. Accounts of Their Violence Are Piling Up | West Bank | 'Regional defense' battalions have grown fivefold since the war in Gaza started, and there are more and more accounts of settlers serving in them assaulting and threatening Palestinians | ||||||
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| 20240118 | Israel Detonates Last University in Gaza | churches, mosques, schools | Israa University, along with its under-construction medical center, has become the latest casualty of the 103-day long Israeli genocide in Gaza after every other university has already been bombed and destroyed by Israeli forces during this ongoing onslaught of every part of the Gaza Strip.
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| 20240118 | Meshaal: Hamas rejects ‘two-state solution’ | day after politics | The head of Hamas’s diaspora office, Khaled Meshaal, has reiterated the movement’s rejection of the two-state solution, saying the Palestinian people demand liberation from the Israeli occupation, independence and the establishment of a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20240118 | EU lawmakers stop short of seeking unconditional Gaza ceasefire | global effects | The European Parliament stopped short on Thursday of calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying this should happen only if hostages held in the besieged Palestinian enclave were released and Hamas dismantled. | ||||||
| 20240118 | France says EU to adopt sanctions against Hamas on Monday | global effects | The European Union will adopt sanctions Monday against Hamas in response to the Palestinian group's October 7 attack on Israel, France said Thursday. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Hizb ut-Tahrir ban: British MPs vote to add Islamic group to terrorism list | global effects | UK government accuses organisation of praising Hamas's attack against Israel; Hizb ut-Tahrir says it will challenge ban by 'all available legal means' | ||||||
| 20240118 | Berlin's Berghain cancels Arabian Panther gig over DJ's pro-Palestine views | global effects | The move by Berlin's Berghain club is the latest in a series of cancellations affecting pro-Palestine artists in Germany | ||||||
| 20240118 | Meet the European Jews standing against Israel's war with Hamas | global response | Having suffered throughout history, Jewish peace activists told Euronews Jews should identify with the oppressed and defend their rights - "whoever that oppressor may be." | ||||||
| 20240118 | In a first, the European Parliament calls for a 'permanent ceasefire' | global response | The European Parliament has for the first time called for a "permanent ceasefire" in Gaza and the start of political efforts to find a solution to the war between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Greece rejects the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza | global response | Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis met with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Egypt yesterday and reiterated that Athens seeks to ensure that there will be no displacement of Palestnias from Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Indian Navy rescues crew after Houthis hit ship off Yemen | Gulf of Aden | The Indian Navy said on Thursday it had rescued the crew of a U.S.-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by Yemen's Houthi movement as tensions in the region's sea lanes disrupted global trade. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Indian Navy says crew of vessel attacked in Gulf of Aden is safe | Gulf of Aden | India's navy said on Thursday that it responded to a drone attack distress call from a Marshall Islands-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Aden and that the ship's crew were safe, with a fire on board under control. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Aid for Israeli captives, Palestinians reaches Gaza despite challenges | Hamas resistance attack | Shipment of medical supplies, other aid is being distributed as part of a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israeli strike kills 16 in southern Gaza; no word on whether medicines reached hostages | Hamas resistance attack | An Israeli airstrike on a home killed 16 people, half of them children, in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, medics said early Thursday. The military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged territory where it has told civilians to seek refuge. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Hostage's mother says he was poisoned by Israeli army in tunnel | Hamas resistance attack | The mother of a hostage who died says her son inhaled fumes from weapons deployed by the Israeli army in Gaza but officials have not confirmed a cause | ||||||
| 20240118 | Army operations in Gaza will not return captured Israelis, analyst says | Hamas resistance attack | A senior military correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Amos Harel, said the Israeli army’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip did not result in returning Israeli captives despite officials’ promising it would do so. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Netanyahu government faces vote of no confidence over hostage issue | Hamas resistance attack | Israel’s Labor Party announced on Wednesday that it is going to submit a proposal to the Knesset for a vote of no confidence in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government due to its inability to return hostages from the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Gaza healthcare system:15 hospitals are functioning but barely | humanitarian | The healthcare system in Gaza is collapsing, another casualty of Israel's war on Hamas. A delegation from the World Health Organization has just returned from there and is once again warning of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the strip. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Gaza's hospitals overwhelmed, says WHO | humanitarian | The UN health agency said Gaza's remaining hospitals can't cope with the growing number of wounded people in the war between Israel and Hamas militants | ||||||
| 20240118 | Fifty aid trucks enter Gaza through Egypt’s Rafah crossing | humanitarian | The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) delivered on Thursday 50 humanitarian aid trucks carrying food, medical supplies, and more to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Aid for Israeli captives, Palestinians reaches Gaza despite challenges | humanitarian | Shipment of medical supplies, other aid is being distributed as part of a deal brokered by Qatar and France. | ||||||
| 20240118 | UN: Palestinians are dying in hospitals as estimated 60,000 wounded overwhelm remaining doctors | humanitarian | Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with the tens of thousands people hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, a U.N. health emergency expert said Wednesday, while a doctor with the International Rescue Committee called the situation in Gaza’s hospitals the most extreme she had ever seen. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Hepatitis A spreading in Gaza's overcrowded shelters | humanitarian | A Hepatitis A epidemic has broken out in the Gaza Strip due to overcrowding in displacement shelters, the Health Ministry said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Pakistan launches airstrikes in Iran, killing 9, after an earlier attack by Tehran | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan’s air force launched retaliatory airstrikes early Thursday in Iran against alleged militant hideouts, killing at least nine people and further raising tensions between the neighbors. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Pakistan fires retaliatory strike at Iran, stoking regional tension | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan said it used rockets and drones to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran on Thursday, in a retaliatory strike two days after Tehran said it attacked the bases of another group within Pakistani territory | ||||||
| 20240118 | Pakistan hits 'terrorist hideouts' in Iran after Tehran strikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan said Thursday it carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, with Tehran reporting a death toll of nine civilians after staging its own air raid in Pakistan earlier this week. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Pakistan carries out airstrikes on targets in Iran | Iran (Pakistan) | Iranian state media said at least nine people had been killed in explosions. It comes two days after Tehran attacked positions inside Pakistan that Islamabad said killed two children. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Pakistan carries out retaliatory strikes on militant targets in Iran | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan said Thursday it had carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, a day after Tehran launched attacks on Pakistan territory earlier this week. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Pakistan targets Baloch separatists in Iran with ‘retaliatory’ missile strikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan has launched “retaliatory” missile strikes into Iran today targeting “terrorist organisations the Balochistan Liberation Army and Balochistan Liberation Front,” it has been reported. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Iraqi leader again demands US-led coalition leave | Iraq | Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani on Thursday repeated his call for the US-led international anti-jihadist coalition to depart his country amid soaring regional tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israeli soldiers are filming themselves mocking Palestinians | Israelis | Israeli soldiers have been filming themselves mocking Palestinians and posting it on social media as they continue their offensive in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Harsh Israeli rhetoric against Palestinians becomes central to South Africa’s genocide case | Israelis | Fighting “human animals.” Making Gaza a “slaughterhouse.” “Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” | ||||||
| 20240118 | Netanyahu government faces vote of no confidence over hostage issue | Israelis | Israel’s Labor Party announced on Wednesday that it is going to submit a proposal to the Knesset for a vote of no confidence in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government due to its inability to return hostages from the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israeli strike kills 16 in southern Gaza; no word on whether medicines reached hostages | Israeli war | An Israeli airstrike on a home killed 16 people, half of them children, in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, medics said early Thursday. The military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged territory where it has told civilians to seek refuge. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israel killed a Palestinian's family. Then they tortured him | Israeli war | Mohammed al-Kilani was among a family of 55 sheltering in Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City. Then Israeli forces stormed their apartment, executing his father, wife and 12-year-old son | ||||||
| 20240118 | Army operations in Gaza will not return captured Israelis, analyst says | Israeli war | A senior military correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Amos Harel, said the Israeli army’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip did not result in returning Israeli captives despite officials’ promising it would do so. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Report: Half of Israel army battalion refused to fight in Gaza | Israeli war | About half of the soldiers in an Israeli army reserve battalion have reportedly refused to enter the besieged Gaza Strip and engage in fighting there claiming they have not received the correct training to do so, the Hebrew Kan Reshet Bet radio reported yesterday. | ||||||
| 20240118 | An airstrike on southern Syria, likely carried out by Jordan’s air force, kills 9 | Jordan | An airstrike on southern Syria early Thursday killed at least nine people and was probably carried out by Jordan’s air force, Syrian opposition activists said, the latest in a series of strikes in an area where cross-border drug smugglers have been active. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Suspected Jordan strikes on southern Syria kill 10 - monitors, local media | Jordan | Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children early on Thursday, according to local Syrian media and monitors tracking the conflict. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Suspected Jordanian air strikes in southern Syria kill 10 - activists | Jordan | At least 10 people, including children, have been killed in suspected Jordanian air strikes in south-western Syria, local activists and media say. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israel must let displaced Palestinians in Gaza return to their homes, says Jordan FM | Jordan | Israel should allow displaced Palestinians in Gaza to return to their homes, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said today. According to Reuters, Safadi made his comment during a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Amman. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israeli arrests of Palestinian journalists soared in 2023: CPJ | journalists | More than a dozen Palestinian journalists held in Israeli jails since the start of the Gaza war on October 7. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza; death toll rises to 119 since 7 October | journalists | Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, taking the toll to 119 since 7 October, the government media office said | ||||||
| 20240118 | Hezbollah rejected US overtures, still open to diplomacy to avoid wider war | Lebanon | Iran-backed Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington's initial ideas for cooling tit-for-tat fighting with neighbouring Israel, such as pulling its fighters further from the border, but remains open to U.S. diplomacy to avoid a ruinous war, Lebanese officials said. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israel uses white phosphorus shells in airstrikes in southern Lebanon: Report | Lebanon | The Israeli army launched airstrikes using white phosphorus shells in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to Lebanese media. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Blinken has commitment from 5 Arab leaders to help rebuild post-war Gaza | Middle East | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has apparently been given a commitment by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and de facto leader Mohammed Bin Salman, and four other Arab leaders, to help rebuild post-war Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Why does the US act as Israel’s lawyer? | opinion | Former US diplomat Aaron David Miller says prospects for a ‘conflict-ending solution’ have entered ‘a long, dark tunnel’. President Joe Biden’s failure to demonstrate the same regard and sympathy for Palestinian suffering as he has shown Israel has turned the United States into “Israel’s lawyer,” says former US State Department official Aaron David Mill | ||||||
| 20240118 | Arab regimes ignore popular support for Palestine at their peril | opinion | Pushing ahead with these Israel normalisation deals could prove risky, amid unprecedented Arab support for the Palestinian cause | ||||||
| 20240118 | Qatari finance minister says Gaza war to slow Middle East economies | Qatar | The war in Gaza will hit economies across the Middle East if it is not resolved and the conflict urgently needs a non-military solution. | ||||||
| 20240118 | US in new strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | The U.S. military said on Wednesday its forces conducted strikes on 14 Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired from Yemen, in the fourth day of U.S. strikes in less than a week. | ||||||
| 20240118 | US military launches another barrage of missiles against Houthi sites in Yemen | Red Sea | The U.S. military fired another wave of ship- and submarine-launch missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites Wednesday, U.S. Central Command said, marking the fourth time in days it has directly targeted the group in Yemen as violence that ignited in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war continues to spill over in the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20240118 | US launches new strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | On fourth day of strikes, the US military says it targeted 14 Houthi missiles that were ‘loaded to be fired’ from Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240118 | US launches fresh strikes against Houthi sites | Red Sea | US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American forces targeted 14 missile sites. The Houthi missiles presented an "imminent threat to merchant vessels and US Navy ships in the region," the military said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. | ||||||
| 20240118 | US launches fourth round of strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen | Red Sea | American forces targeted 14 missiles that were ready to launch in Yemen, the US military said Wednesday, after Washington re-designated the Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a "terrorist" entity for their attacks on merchant vessels. | ||||||
| 20240118 | What the designation of ‘terrorist’ means for Yemen’s Houthis | Red Sea | Experts say that Biden’s re-designation of the Houthis as a terrorist group is unlikely to curb Red Sea attacks. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Houthi: Any measure that harms Yemen is a 'declaration of war' | Red Sea | Any action taken by the international community that harms Yemen’s interests will be seen as a “declaration of war” by the Houthis and will lead them to expand the ban on the passage of Israeli ships. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Suez Canal diversions pile pressure on Egypt's distressed economy | Red Sea | A sharp downturn in revenue after sea attacks by Yemen's Houthis diverted away shipping away from the Suez Canal has struck a painful new blow to Egypt's already deteriorating economy, adding urgency to the need for reforms and help from abroad. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Maersk says winter weather, Red Sea disruption cause congestion | Red Sea | Weather-related disruption at ports in northern Europe and the diversion of vessels away from the Red Sea are causing congestion at container terminals. | ||||||
| 20240118 | West vs. Houthis: Experts warn Middle East a ‘powder keg’; call for political solution to Red Sea standoff | Red Sea | As the standoff between the West and the Houthis grows in proportion, experts are sounding the alarm over possible escalation in the wider Middle East region, calling for a political solution to the brewing crisis. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Harsh Israeli rhetoric against Palestinians becomes central to South Africa’s genocide case | South Africa/Israelis | Fighting “human animals.” Making Gaza a “slaughterhouse.” “Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” | ||||||
| 20240118 | An airstrike on southern Syria, likely carried out by Jordan’s air force, kills 9 | Syria | An airstrike on southern Syria early Thursday killed at least nine people and was probably carried out by Jordan’s air force, Syrian opposition activists said, the latest in a series of strikes in an area where cross-border drug smugglers have been active. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Suspected Jordan strikes on southern Syria kill 10 - monitors, local media | Syria | Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children early on Thursday, according to local Syrian media and monitors tracking the conflict. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Hizb ut-Tahrir ban: British MPs vote to add Islamic group to terrorism list | United Kingdom | UK government accuses organisation of praising Hamas's attack against Israel; Hizb ut-Tahrir says it will challenge ban by 'all available legal means' | ||||||
| 20240118 | UK counter-terrorism police questioned teen at airport over Palestine protests | United Kingdom | Teenager wearing Palestine flag and family member grilled for forty minutes under schedule 7 of UK Terrorism Act | ||||||
| 20240118 | UN: Palestinians are dying in hospitals as estimated 60,000 wounded overwhelm remaining doctors | United Nations | Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with the tens of thousands people hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, a U.N. health emergency expert said Wednesday, while a doctor with the International Rescue Committee called the situation in Gaza’s hospitals the most extreme she had ever seen. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Situation in Gaza 'probably worse even than we can see': Top UN humanitarian official | United Nations | interview | ||||||
| 20240118 | Biden gov’t preparing for a post-Netanyahu era in Israel, US media says | United States | Divisions between the Biden administration and that of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “have only become more pronounced since [Secretary of State] Blinken’s visit to Israel.” | ||||||
| 20240118 | Palestinian Red Crescent reveals destruction at Gaza City hospital | war on hospitals | Workers with the Palestinian Red Crescent have documented the destruction left by Israeli attacks on a hospital in Gaza City. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Gaza: Khan Younis battle threatens biggest hospital still working | war on hospitals | Israeli forces advancing into the southern Gaza Strip's main city pounded areas near the biggest hospital still functioning in the enclave on Thursday, sending patients and residents fleeing a battle they feared would lay the city to waste. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israel pounds Khan Younis, threatening biggest hospital still working in Gaza | war on hospitals | Israeli forces advancing into the southern Gaza Strip's main city of Khan Younis pounded areas near the biggest hospital still functioning in the enclave on Thursday, sending patients and residents fleeing a battle they feared would lay the city to waste. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Palestinians fear ground raid on Nasser Hospital | war on hospitals | Two consecutive nights of heavy Israeli bombardment in the vicinity of the biggest hospital still functional in the Gaza Strip has left Palestinians increasingly worried about a potential ground raid on the medical facility. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Maghazi residents left reeling after Israeli forces withdraw | war on refugee camps | Palestinians in central Gaza refugee camp struggle to pull their loved ones out from under rubble amid mass destruction. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian in West Bank raid | West Bank | Palestinian health officials said Israeli occupation forces killed a man Thursday during a two-day operation in the occupied West Bank area of Tulkarem, a day after raids in the territory left 10 dead. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israel kills Palestinian in Tulkarm, blows up home | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces today killed a Palestinian man, critically wounded a child and destroyed homes and roads in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm and its refugee camps. | ||||||
| 20240118 | Israel admits torture of Palestine prisoner led to his death | West Bank | The Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs announced today that evidence and testimony confirm the torture inflicted on Palestinian prisoner Abdul-Rahman Marei by Israeli prison guards on 7 November resulted to his death six days later. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240119 | Journalist questions bombing of Gaza university | churches, mosques, schools | “It’s not troubling to you?” A reporter questions the US State Department about Israeli justification for destroying Israa University in Gaza City in what appears to be a controlled demolition.
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| 20240119 | Netanyahu rejects Palestinian statehood | day after politics | During a press conference Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he objects to Palestinian statehood that does not guarantee Israel’s security after the Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Netanyahu opposes Palestinian state | day after politics | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again rejected US calls for a two-state solution. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli PM Netanyahu opposes establishing Palestinian state after war | day after politics | Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected calls from the United States to take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war and scale back its military offensive in Gaza | ||||||
| 20240119 | US says 'no way' to solve Israel security, Gaza war without Palestinian state | day after politics | There is "no way" to solve Israel's long-term security challenges in the region and the short-term challenges of rebuilding Gaza without the establishment of a Palestinian state, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Labor MP condemns Netanyahu’s rejection of Palestinian state as a step toward apartheid | day after politics | Julian Hill labels Israeli prime minister’s position ‘appalling’ as he calls for financial consequences for Israeli settlers | ||||||
| 20240119 | Revealed: Josep Borrell's 10-point peace roadmap for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | day after politics | The document, which has not yet been made public and is set to be discussed by the bloc's foreign ministers during a meeting on Monday, outlines a series of procedural steps that Borrell believes could eventually bring peace to the Gaza Strip, establish an independent Palestinian state, normalise relations between Israel and the Arab world, and guarantee long-term security in the region. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Palestinians seeking refuge at Khan Younis hospital say there's nowhere to go | dystopian terror | Hundreds have sought shelter at the Nasser hospital after Israeli forces 'indiscriminately' shelled residential buildings as they push deeper into the city | ||||||
| 20240119 | Palestinians paying mediators thousands of dollars to escape into Egypt | dystopian terror | With security at the Rafah Border Crossing tight, desperate Palestinians are paying mediators - some of whom are linked to Egyptian security forces - up to $10,000 to leave Gaza
COMMENT 20240109 - Palestinians desperate to flee Gaza pay thousands in bribes to ‘brokers’ 20240110 - Egypt denies false claims of additional fees at Rafah crossing |
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| 20240119 | Access denials by Israel prevent humanitarian deliveries: UN | dystopian terror | The access denials by the Israeli military are preventing humanitarian deliveries into the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesman said on Friday | ||||||
| 20240119 | 8 days without phone, internet services due to Israel's bombing | dystopian terror | Telecommunication and internet services in the besieged Gaza Strip have remained completely cut off for eight consecutive days; the lengthiest outage since 7 October. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Netanyahu: Only greater Israel will exist from ‘river to the sea’ | dystopian | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never disguised his opposition to Palestinian sovereignty throughout his long tenure in office. But his latest public rejection of an independent Palestinian state reveals a deepening rift between allies of the apartheid state and the death nail of a resolution Western leaders have been banking on to end the colonial march of Zionism. | ||||||
| 20240119 | UN: unlawful killing of Palestinians by Israel must stop | dystopian terror | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called for an end to the unlawful killing of Palestinians subjected to siege and intense attacks by Israel. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Alarm as Israeli forces move closer to crowded areas in southern Gaza | dystopian terror | Prospect of close combat in overpopulated area ‘deeply concerning’, say aid officials, while Gaza’s largest functioning hospital may have to close. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Fears grow for largest remaining hospital in Gaza as Israeli forces bombard Khan Younis | dystopian terror | Staff say situation at Nasser hospital ‘catastrophic’ as Israeli airstrikes hit metres away | ||||||
| 20240119 | Non-Aligned Movement criticises Israel’s war on Gaza at Kampala summit | global response | Foreign ministers within the 120-member bloc have adopted a resolution at the summit, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Non-Aligned Movement leaders denounce Israel's military campaign in Gaza | global response | Leaders of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries on Friday denounced Israel's military campaign in Gaza and demanded an immediate ceasefire there, during the annual summit of the 120-member bloc. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Urging UN reform, Turkiye Vice President says most countries reject Israel onslaught on Gaza | global response | While Israel’s indiscriminate attacks have left Gaza devastated, the overwhelming majority of the international community has rejected this injustice, Turkiye’s Vice President told the Non-Aligned world leaders. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israel's Eurovision Song Contest participation draws protest | global response | Amid the war against Hamas in Gaza, calls to ban Israel from the popular event held this year in Malmo are growing louder. | ||||||
| 20240119 | International community should ‘strongly intervene’ in Israel-Palestine conflict: EU Foreign Policy chief | global response | EU Foreign Policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Friday said that the international community should “strongly intervene” in the Israel-Palestine conflict. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli minister says only a deal can free captives as rifts split cabinet | Hamas resistance attack | Gadi Eizenkot’s comments come amid disagreement in the war cabinet about how to handle the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli minister says deal needed to free hostages, rescue raid unlikely | Hamas resistance attack | A lightning raid to free Israeli hostages in Gaza is extremely unlikely to succeed and a deal will soon be needed if they are to be released alive, Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief Gadi Eizenkot said. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Eisenkot: Key Israeli war leader challenges Netanyahu over Gaza strategy | Hamas resistance attack | A key member of Israel's war cabinet has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not telling the truth about the country's military goals in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Snubbed by Netanyahu, Red Cross toes fine line trying to help civilians in Israel-Hamas conflict | humanitarian | The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and staff, and disparaging remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are just the latest headache for the Geneva-based humanitarian group. | ||||||
| 20240119 | People are getting sick because of Israel’s war on Gaza | humanitarian | Doctors in Gaza are warning that diseases like Hepatitis-A are rapidly on the rise due to Israel’s war forcing people to live in unsanitary conditions. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Nearly 20,000 babies born into Gaza war 'hell', says UN | humanitarian | The United Nations said Friday that nearly 20,000 babies had been born in conditions "beyond belief" in Gaza since the war there erupted more than three months ago. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Mexico, Chile refer Israel-Hamas conflict to ICC over potential crimes | ICC | Mexico and Chile expressed "growing worry" on Thursday over "an escalation of violence" after several months of war between Israel and Hamas in a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over possible crimes. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Mexico and Chile request ICC probe over possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza | ICC | Mexico and Chile have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe possible war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians in its ongoing war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Palestinians welcome Chile and Mexico’s call for ICC probe into Gaza war | ICC | Two countries express ‘growing worry’ over ‘escalation of violence’ in a referral to the International Criminal Court over possible crimes. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Iran's desire for 'a seat at the table' felt in Davos | Iran | At a dinner in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani hosted business and political leaders to showcase Iraq's improved security and finances. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Iran launches air defence drill amid rising regional tensions -state media | Iran | Iran said on Friday that it successfully carried out an air defence drill using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwestern to southeastern coasts, amid heightened tensions in the region. | ||||||
| 20240119 | 'Playground of choice': Iran mobilises to drive US troops out of Iraq | Iran | The US has the cudgel of the American dollar to prevent its expulsion from Iraq, but will the Biden administration use it? | ||||||
| 20240119 | ‘Credibility at stake’: Why did Iran strike inside Pakistan amid Gaza war? | Iran (Pakistan) | Tehran’s attacks on Pakistani, Iraqi and Syrian territory have only one thing in common, say analysts: a show of strength at a time Iran feels especially threatened. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Raised tensions after Pakistan and Iran exchange airstrikes in border regions | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan’s air force launched retaliatory airstrikes early Thursday in Iran allegedly targeting militant hideouts, an attack that killed at least nine people and further raised tensions between the neighboring nations. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Pakistan tells Iran it wants to build trust after tit-for-tat strikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan expressed its willingness to work with Iran on "all issues" in a call between their foreign ministers on Friday after both countries exchanged drone and missile strikes on militant bases on each other's territory. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Pakistan-Iran diplomatic ties restored after missile and drone strikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan and Iran have restored diplomatic ties according to the caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar's office. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Pakistan says ready to work with Iran on 'all issues' | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistani Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has spoken to his Iranian counterpart and wants to normalize ties. Fears of regional conflict grew after tit-for-tat strikes on each other's territory | ||||||
| 20240119 | Pakistan moves to de-escalate crisis with Iran after deadly airstrikes | Iran (Pakistan) | Pakistan's political and military leaders on Friday moved to de-escalate tensions with Iran after this week's deadly airstrikes by Tehran and Islamabad that killed at least 11 people and marked a significant escalation in fraught relations between the neighbors. | ||||||
| 20240119 | ‘Criminal complaints’ filed against Israeli President Herzog in Switzerland | Israelis | Swiss prosecutor confirmed the filing but would not reveal details about the nature and number of the complaints. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Switzerland says Israeli president subject of criminal complaints at Davos | Israelis | Swiss prosecutors on Friday confirmed that Israeli President Isaac Herzog had been the subject of criminal complaints during his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, as Israel finds itself accused of committing war crimes in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israel financed Hamas to weaken the Palestinian Authority, Josep Borrell claims | Israelis | Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has accused Israel of financing Hamas to "weaken the Palestinian Authority of Fatah." | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli minister says only a deal can free captives as rifts split cabinet | Israelis | Gadi Eizenkot’s comments come amid disagreement in the war cabinet about how to handle the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war against Hamas in Gaza | Israelis | A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Rifts emerge over Israeli handling of war, as UN warns of catastrophic situation in Gaza | Israelis | A member of Israel's War Cabinet has cast doubt over the strategy for releasing hostages, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rejection of the United States calls to scale back its offensive. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Netanyahu: Only greater Israel will exist from ‘river to the sea’ | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never disguised his opposition to Palestinian sovereignty throughout his long tenure in office. But his latest public rejection of an independent Palestinian state reveals a deepening rift between allies of the apartheid state and the death nail of a resolution Western leaders have been banking on to end the colonial march of Zionism. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Heavy shelling in northern Gaza despite Israel's shift to low intensity phase | Israeli war | Dozens killed from Israeli strikes in northern and central Gaza, and West Bank experiencing highest levels of violence yet | ||||||
| 20240119 | Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war against Hamas in Gaza | Israeli war | A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli minister says only ceasefire can free hostages, as cabinet rift deepens | Israeli war | Gadi Eisenkot launches blistering attack on Netanyahu’s campaign, saying ‘total victory’ over Hamas is unlikely | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israel has destroyed two thirds of Hamas regiments, Netanyahu says | Israeli war | Israel has destroyed around two thirds of Hamas' fighting regiments in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the war until "complete victory."
COMMENT There's no independent data that supports the claim nor did Hamas report about facing such a heavy loss. |
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| 20240119 | Israeli minister says only a deal can free captives as rifts split cabinet | Israeli war | Gadi Eizenkot’s comments come amid disagreement in the war cabinet about how to handle the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war against Hamas in Gaza | Israeli war | A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Rifts emerge over Israeli handling of war, as UN warns of catastrophic situation in Gaza | Israeli war | A member of Israel's War Cabinet has cast doubt over the strategy for releasing hostages, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rejection of the United States calls to scale back its offensive. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials over how to handle the war against Hamas in Gaza | Israeli war | A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli press review: Official warns 'absolute defeat' of Hamas not possible | Israeli war | In a televised interview for Israel’s Channel 12, Israeli war cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot said that an “absolute defeat” of Hamas was not a realistic objective, putting him at odds with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||||||
| 20240119 | UN says Palestinians detained by Israeli forces humiliated, beaten | Israeli war | Rights official says Palestinian men detained by Israeli security forces in unknown locations for between 30 to 55 days. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Thousands of Gaza Palestinians likely detained, tortured by Israeli forces: UN | Israeli war | Thousands of Palestinian men may have been detained by Israeli forces, since the beginning of Israel's Gaza war on 7 October, often facing conditions that could amount to torture, the UN's human rights representative in the Palestinian territories said Friday. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli strikes kill dozens Palestinians as Israel presses air, ground invasion of Gaza | Israeli war | Israeli strikes in Gaza killed 77 civilians and injured dozens more in recent hours, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, citing medical sources. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Netanyahu: Only greater Israel will exist from ‘river to the sea’ | Israeli war | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never disguised his opposition to Palestinian sovereignty throughout his long tenure in office. But his latest public rejection of an independent Palestinian state reveals a deepening rift between allies of the apartheid state and the death nail of a resolution Western leaders have been banking on to end the colonial march of Zionism. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Ex-Jordan FM: Hamas cannot be ignored, PA does not represent anyone | Jordan | Former Jordanian Foreign Minister, Marwan Muasher, said yesterday the Palestinian Authority is at its weakest and “hardly represents anyone,” while the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has become “an active force on the Palestinian scene whose presence cannot be ignored.” | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israel army confirms killing Director of Al-Quds Today channel in Gaza | media | The Israeli army confirmed, on Friday, it killed the Director of Al-Quds Today channel, Wael Abu Fannouna, in the Gaza Strip, claiming that he held the position of deputy head of the media system affiliated with the Islamic Jihad Movement.
COMMENT Considered a war violation as it is about the Israeli practice of conflation of Palestinians in Gaza and Hamas as one and the same |
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| 20240119 | Now eyeing a longer haul, the US reshuffles its warships in the Mediterranean | Mediterranean | When attacks with missiles and drones surged in the Red Sea late last year, crewmembers of the USS Bataan worked round the clock to make sure they were shot down before reaching passing merchant vessels. | ||||||
| 20240119 | US says ‘not at war’ with Houthis; Biden admits strikes not halting attacks | Red Sea | Remarks after US conducted its fifth round of strikes against targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Red Sea shipping attacks pressure China's exporters as delays, costs mount | Red Sea | For Chinese businessman Han Changming, disruptions to Red Sea freight are threatening the survival of his trading company in the eastern province of Fujian. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Yemen's Houthis say they do not seek to expand Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Yemen's Houthis have said they did not intend to expand their attacks on shipping in and around the Red Sea further, beyond their stated aims of blockading Israel and retaliating against the United States and Britain for air strikes. | ||||||
| 20240119 | More grain ships divert from Red Sea after attacks | Red Sea | Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea region have in past days led to a sharp rise in the number of grain cargoes being diverted around the Cape of Good Hope, rather than using the Suez Canal, grain traders and analysts said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Egypt's credit outlook revised to 'negative', as Red Sea attacks hit Suez Canal revenues | Red Sea | Rating's agency Moody's cuts credit outlook from 'stable', as Houthi attacks spark decline in traffic volumes across key Egyptian waterway | ||||||
| 20240119 | EU's Red Sea naval mission will not involve combat: Foreign Policy chief | Red Sea | The European Union will not send its ships into combat missions in the Red Sea, the bloc’s Foreign Policy chief said . | ||||||
| 20240119 | ‘Until Israel stops!’: Yemenis rally for Houthis, Palestinians in Sanaa | Red Sea | Thousands took to the streets to express their solidarity with Gaza and to protest against US attacks on Yemen. | ||||||
| 20240119 | France may not accept ICJ ruling because it’s ‘morally wrong’ to charge Israel with genocide | South Africa/Israelis | France has joined the ranks of Western nations refuting allegations that Israel is engaging in genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne has suggested that Paris may not accept the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s ruling against Israel for genocide, because it “crosses a moral threshold”. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Urging UN reform, Turkiye Vice President says most countries reject Israel onslaught on Gaza | Turkey | While Israel’s indiscriminate attacks have left Gaza devastated, the overwhelming majority of the international community has rejected this injustice, Turkiye’s Vice President told the Non-Aligned world leaders. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Foreign Office lawyers ‘unable to conclude if Israeli bombing was lawful’ | United Kingdom | Documents reveal humanitarian law investigation was far more intensive than David Cameron suggested | ||||||
| 20240119 | UK's Cameron okayed arms sales to Israel despite Foreign Office legal concerns | United Kingdom | Legal document shows unit advised foreign secretary of 'serious concerns' Israel had breached international law as early as 10 November | ||||||
| 20240119 | Questions raised about UK-Israeli air force chiefs' meeting | United Kingdom | The Ministry of Defence says last week's meeting was 'long planned' but will not disclose whether UK concerns raised about attacks on Gaza | ||||||
| 20240119 | Complaint submitted against UK charity raising money for Israeli soldiers | United Kingdom | The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has submitted a formal complaint to the Charity Commission in the UK to complain about the activities of UK Toremet, a British registered charity that “continues to facilitate the supply of materials to the Israeli army, in apparent contravention of Charity Commission regulations”. | ||||||
| 20240119 | UN says Palestinians detained by Israeli forces humiliated, beaten | United Nations | Rights official says Palestinian men detained by Israeli security forces in unknown locations for between 30 to 55 days. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Access denials by Israel prevent humanitarian deliveries: UN | United Nations | The access denials by the Israeli military are preventing humanitarian deliveries into the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesman said on Friday | ||||||
| 20240119 | UN: unlawful killing of Palestinians by Israel must stop | United Nations | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called for an end to the unlawful killing of Palestinians subjected to siege and intense attacks by Israel. | ||||||
| 20240119 | US says 'no way' to solve Israel security, Gaza war without Palestinian state | United States | There is "no way" to solve Israel's long-term security challenges in the region and the short-term challenges of rebuilding Gaza without the establishment of a Palestinian state, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Biden discussed developments in Israel, Gaza with Netanyahu, White House says | United States | U.S. President Joe Biden discussed developments in Israel and Gaza with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Friday, the White House said, as the Israeli military continued a major advance in the southern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Israeli drones attack hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent says | war on hospitals | The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israel of firing on Friday at a hospital in Khan Younis, as a major advance in the main city in the southern Gaza Strip threatened the few healthcare facilities still open. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Fears grow for largest remaining hospital in Gaza as Israeli forces bombard Khan Younis | war on hospitals | Staff say situation at Nasser hospital ‘catastrophic’ as Israeli airstrikes hit metres away | ||||||
| 20240119 | 'Our children won't forget': Grief and anger over Israeli raids on West Bank camps | West Bank | Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, Israel has stepped up its raids in the occupied West Bank, storming refugee camps and arresting dozens of people. | ||||||
| 20240119 | Another Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in West Bank, taking death toll in latest raid to 8 | West Bank | Another Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, taking the death toll in a nearly two-day-long military raid in the occupied city of Tulkarm to eight, the official Wafa news agency and witnesses said today. | ||||||
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| 20240120 | Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty in post-war Gaza, rebuffing Biden | day after politics | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he “will not compromise on full Israeli control” over Gaza and that “this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” rejecting U.S. President Joe Biden’s suggestion that creative solutions could bridge wide gaps between the leaders’ views on Palestinian statehood. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Denial of Palestinian statehood 'unacceptable', says UN chief | day after politics | The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state "must be recognised by all", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Uganda on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Netanyahu’s rejection of Palestinian state unacceptable, says David Lammy | day after politics | Shadow foreign secretary says Israeli president must explain how post-conflict Gaza will operate | ||||||
| 20240120 | Discord over two-state solution opens rift between the US and Israel | day after politics | US President Biden and Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu held their first phone call in nearly a month on Friday following the Israeli PM's rejection of a Washington-backed call for Palestinian sovereignty, with Biden and Netanyahu appearing to be at odds on the issue of a two-state solution to follow the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Netanyahu defies Biden, insisting there’s ‘no space’ for Palestinian state | day after politics | The Israeli leader is under pressure over course of the Gaza war but is doubling down on opposition to a two-state solution | ||||||
| 20240120 | Access denials by Israel prevent humanitarian deliveries: UN | dystopian terror | The access denials by the Israeli military are preventing humanitarian deliveries into the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesman said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Gaza food crisis: Northern Gaza hardest hit by food scarcity | dystopian terror | Israel’s continuous bombing campaign across all parts of the strip has left Palestinians in Gaza struggling to find food. And it's those in the north who are suffering the most. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Israel drops leaflets seeking intel on captives, as Gaza attacks continue | Hamas resistance attack | Israel’s military drops flyers showing faces of captives in southern Gaza, as protesters in Israel call for Netanyahu to make a deal to free them. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Fighting across Gaza as Israel drops leaflets seeking its hostages | Hamas resistance attack | Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip on Saturday while its planes dropped leaflets on the southern area of Rafah urging Palestinians seeking refuge there to help locate hostages held by Hamas, residents said. | ||||||
| 20240120 | In Strategic Bind, Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas | Hamas resistance attack | Some Israeli commanders said the overnment's two main goals were mutually incompatible. To eradicate Hamas, the military would have to engage in a lengthily war that would most likely cost the hostages' lives. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Displaced families return to ruined homes | humanitarian | Faced with intensifying hostilities in southern Gaza, some of the families that fled bombardment in the north have decided to head home. But returnees to areas like Jabaliya are struggling to survive amid the ruins, with food and water in short supply. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Indonesia files lawsuit against Israel at ICJ | Indonesia/Israelis | Israel’s Maariv newspaper reported that Indonesia has filed a new lawsuit against the Israeli occupation at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran says 'reserves right' to avenge deadly Israeli strike on Damascus that killed four Guards' members | Iran | Iran on Saturday said it "reserves the right to respond" after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the spy chief for Syria and three other members had died in an Israeli strike that tore into a multi-storey residential building in Damascus. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran warns air strike on Syria will not go unanswered | Iran | Iran's president said an air strike on the Syrian capital that killed five senior members of Iran's security forces will not "go unanswered". | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran accuses Israel of deadly Damascus strike | Iran | Iran says several members of its Revolutionary Guard were killed in an airstrike that hit a residential area in Syria's capital, Damascus. Iran blames Israel for the attack. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran accuses Israel of killing Revolutionary Guards spy chief in Damascus | Iran | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has lost four members in strike on Syrian capital | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran launches satellite that is part of a Western-criticized program as regional tensions spike | Iran | Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran successfully launches Sorayya satellite, state media report | Iran | Iran has successfully launched its Sorayya satellite into orbit, Iranian state media reported on Saturday, in a move likely to increase Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear ambitions. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran says it launched a satellite despite Western concerns | Iran | The Soraya satellite has reached a higher orbit in a new milestone for Iran's aerospace program. Western nations fear that the space technology could be used to develop nuclear weapons. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran launches satellite - part of a Western-criticised programme | Iran | Iran says it has conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a programme the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran launches Sorayya satellite, sets 'new record' | Iran | Iran on Saturday announced the successful launch of a satellite into the highest orbit yet amid escalating tension with the West over its ballistic missile program. | ||||||
| 20240120 | US personnel suffer minor injuries in Iraq base attack, official says | Iraq | U.S. personnel suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq's security forces was seriously wounded in an attack on Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base on Saturday, a U.S. official said. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Missiles hit US-led coalition base in Iraq: Security sources | Iraq | At least a dozen missiles were fired on Saturday at a military base used by US-led coalition forces in western Iraq. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Israel officer: ‘Hamas cannot be eliminated, neither now nor in the future’ | Israelis | Retired Israeli army officer Ahron Bregman has asserted that Hamas cannot be overthrown, neither now nor in the future | ||||||
| 20240120 | ‘Refuse to fight’: Jewish, Arab activists call for peace in Israel’s Haifa | Israelis | Israeli Jews and Palestinian Israelis come together to demand an end to the war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Protesters in Tel Aviv call for change to Netanyahu government | Israelis | Thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, accusing the veteran leader of mishandling the nation's security and calling for a new election. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Israeli protesters demand return of hostages, early elections | Israelis | Thousands of people demonstrated in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for the return of hostages held in Gaza and early elections to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||||||
| 20240120 | End attacks on Gaza, Israeli hostage's sister asks Israel, calling for protests outside Netanyahu's home | Israelis | A sister of one of the hostages held by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas since Oct. 7 has asked the Israeli government to halt attacks on the Gaza Strip, blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “contradictory” stance on the issue, which has put the hostages’ lives at risk. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Barak criticises Netanyahu: ‘In the absence of a realistic goal, we will end up mired in the Gaza quagmire’ | Israelis | Former Israeli occupation Prime Minister Ehud Barak criticised the policies of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that the course of the war might indicate Israel being “mired in the Gaza quagmire”. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Seeking to divide Palestinians, Netanyahu split Israelis | Israelis | The prime minister believed that keeping Hamas alive was the key to preventing a Palestinian state. In the wake of the October 7 attacks, Israelis are confronted with the flaws in that plan | ||||||
| 20240120 | 'This protest movement is growing' | Israelis | Thousands of people demonstrated in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for the return of hostages held in Gaza and early elections to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Israelis opposing war receiving 'death threats,' says Knesset member Ofer Cassif | Israelis | Firebrand Israeli lawmaker Ofer Cassif, who has been criticized for backing South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, says “there is an assault going on” against those who are opposing Tel Aviv’s military campaign in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Israel says its Gaza plans clash with 'Palestinian sovereignty' | Israeli war | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on Saturday to push back against U.S. President Joe Biden's remarks about Palestinian statehood after the war against Hamas in Gaza ends. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Women and children are the main victims of the Israel-Hamas war with 16,000 killed, UN says | Israeli war | Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality said Friday. | ||||||
| 20240120 | UN say women and children main victims of conflict as IDF hit Damascus | Israeli war | Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality has said. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Palestinians tell of fears for the future as war destroys Gaza | Israeli war | As Israel intensifies its offensive on Khan Younis, Palestinians in Gaza have spoken of their fears for the future. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Israel officer: ‘Hamas cannot be eliminated, neither now nor in the future’ | Israeli war | Retired Israeli army officer Ahron Bregman has asserted that Hamas cannot be overthrown, neither now nor in the future | ||||||
| 20240120 | In Strategic Bind, Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas | Israeli war | Some Israeli commanders said the overnment's two main goals were mutually incompatible. To eradicate Hamas, the military would have to engage in a lengthily war that would most likely cost the hostages' lives. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Middle East missile attacks raise Gaza escalation risk | Middle East | Missile attacks in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Saturday threw into sharp focus the increasing risk of the war in Gaza triggering a wider regional conflict pitting Iran and its allies against Israel and the United States. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Hamas: ‘Netanyahu’s statements about tightening grip on region confirm fascist Zionist policy’ | Palestine | The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas confirmed: “The remarks by the war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu regarding the Zionist entity tightening its grip on ‘the entire region from the sea to the river’ is confirmation of the fascist Zionist policy based on denying the existence of our Palestinian people and their rights, and the approach of genocide and ethnic cleansing practised by the Zionist entity against our people, without regard for international laws and conventions.” | ||||||
| 20240120 | Senior Hamas delegation holds political talks in Moscow | Palestine | A senior delegation from the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas met with the special envoy of the Russian president and held political talks with him on ways to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iranian and Hezbollah commanders help direct Houthi attacks in Yemen | Red Sea | Commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon's Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources saying. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Oil supply tightens in Europe over Red Sea disruptions | Red Sea | The volume going to Europe from the Middle East has nearly halved amid continuing attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. | ||||||
| 20240120 | US strikes another Houthi anti-ship missile | Red Sea | U.S. Central Command forces on Saturday struck a Houthi anti-ship missile that was aimed into the Gulf of Aden and prepared to launch, the U.S. military said, with the latest round of strikes coming hours after the United States struck three other Houthi anti-ship missiles. | ||||||
| 20240120 | US again targets Yemen's Houthis in new strikes | Red Sea | The United States carried out fresh strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels Saturday, the military said, targeting an anti-ship missile that was "prepared to launch." | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran and US use Saudi Arabia to swap messages and cool Gaza tensions | Saudi Arabia | Nine months after Tehran and Riyadh buried the hatchet, Saudi officials are playing a key role as a go-between alongside Oman, Qatar and Switzerland | ||||||
| 20240120 | Why did Arab states not join South Africa's case against Israel in the ICJ? | South Africa/Israelis | South Africa's historic case against Israel has raised a debate in the Arab world about why Arab states did not join in this action or file a similar case at the ICJ to protect Palestinians | ||||||
| 20240120 | Residential building destroyed in attack that killed IRGC members in Syria | Syria (Israelis) | An apparent Israeli air strike in the Syrian capital killed five of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard military advisers. | ||||||
| 20240120 | An Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital killed at least 5 Iranian advisers, officials say | Syria (Israelis) | An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Reported Israeli airstrike on Damascus kills Iranian commander | Syria (Israelis) | Syrian state media and an Iranian media outlet reported that the individual killed was likely a member of the Revolutionary Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Deadly Israeli strike on Damascus targets Iran's Revolutionary Guards | Syria (Israelis) | Iran's Revolutionary Guards said five of its members were killed by an Israeli strike in Damascus on Saturday, with the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights saying the missile targeted an area where Guard members and pro-Iran Palestinian factions were meeting and giving a death toll of at least 10 people. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran’s IRGC says 5 members killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus | Syria (Israelis) | Iran confirms killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members as regional tensions flare up amid Israel’s war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran says 'reserves right' to avenge deadly Israeli strike on Damascus that killed four Guards' members | Syria (Israelis) | Iran on Saturday said it "reserves the right to respond" after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the spy chief for Syria and three other members had died in an Israeli strike that tore into a multi-storey residential building in Damascus. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran warns air strike on Syria will not go unanswered | Syria (Israelis) | Iran's president said an air strike on the Syrian capital that killed five senior members of Iran's security forces will not "go unanswered". | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran accuses Israel of deadly Damascus strike | Syria (Israelis) | Iran says several members of its Revolutionary Guard were killed in an airstrike that hit a residential area in Syria's capital, Damascus. Iran blames Israel for the attack. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Iran accuses Israel of killing Revolutionary Guards spy chief in Damascus | Syria (Israelis) | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has lost four members in strike on Syrian capital | ||||||
| 20240120 | Erdogan: ‘The West is content to watch Netanyahu barbarities against Palestine’ | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared: “Those who pass judgment on human rights and freedoms have turned a blind eye to the children, babies and women brutally killed over the last 105 days.” | ||||||
| 20240120 | Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt David Lammy speech in London | United Kingdom | Shadow foreign secretary tries to continue as demonstrators shout and criticise Labour’s stance on Israel-Gaza war | ||||||
| 20240120 | Netanyahu’s rejection of Palestinian state unacceptable, says David Lammy | United Kingdom | Shadow foreign secretary says Israeli president must explain how post-conflict Gaza will operate | ||||||
| 20240120 | Women and children are the main victims of the Israel-Hamas war with 16,000 killed, UN says | United Nations | Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality said Friday. | ||||||
| 20240120 | UN say women and children main victims of conflict as IDF hit Damascus | United Nations | Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality has said. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Denial of Palestinian statehood 'unacceptable', says UN chief | United Nations | The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state "must be recognised by all", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Uganda on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20240120 | UNICEF: 1 child born every 10 mins in Gaza since start of war | United Nations | The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has reported that 20,000 children have been born in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its devastating genocidal war on 7 October, 2023, as conveyed by UNICEF communications expert Tess Ingram, in a statement in Geneva, Switzerland. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Access denials by Israel prevent humanitarian deliveries: UN | United Nations | The access denials by the Israeli military are preventing humanitarian deliveries into the Gaza Strip, a UN spokesman said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Hijacking truth: How OSINT in Gaza fell prey to groupthink | war on hospitals | Open source research is essential to Gaza coverage, but pressure to conform plays into the hands of propagandists. | ||||||
| 20240120 | Palestinians accuse Israeli forces of executing 19 civilians in Gaza | war on whole families | Footage, witness accounts shared with Al Jazeera reveal how Israeli soldiers carried out executions in Gaza last month.
COMMENT The source stops short to mention that it was an UN body who called for an investigation as that body doesn't have the mandate. |
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| 20240120 | Father of American teen killed in West Bank by Israeli fire rails against US support for Israel | West Bank | The father of an American teen killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank railed against Washington’s military support for Israel, as hundreds of mourners buried the 17-year-old in the family’s ancestral Palestinian village Saturday. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240121 | Gaza residents told to flee or be shot: Israeli forces push refugees out of school | churches, mosques, schools | Many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been displaced more than once during Israel's war. Some of them say Israeli soldiers forced them out of their shelter and threatened to shoot them. Among those evicted were some elderly and children. | ||||||
| 20240121 | Gaza University destroyed: Israel accused of targeting education centers | churches, mosques, schools |
As Israel continued its strikes across the Gaza strip, students are saying Israeli forces are deliberately targeting education facilities. Several university campuses have been destroyed since the war began and the United Nations says, the damage could lead to a lost generation. COMMENT |
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| 20240121 | Israel’s Netanyahu doubles down on opposition to Palestinian statehood | day after politics | Israeli PM rejects Palestinian sovereignty over Gaza and the occupied territory, rebuffing President Biden’s push for two-state solution. | ||||||
| 20240121 | Gaza residents told to flee or be shot: Israeli forces push refugees out of school | dystopian terror | Many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been displaced more than once during Israel's war. Some of them say Israeli soldiers forced them out of their shelter and threatened to shoot them. Among those evicted were some elderly and children.
COMMENT Considered dystopian terror as Israelis also shoot at people who already follow the order the leave. |
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| 20240121 | Non-aligned summit concludes as member countries call for a ceasefire in Gaza | global response | The so-called Non-Aligned Movement of Developing Countries, known as NAM, is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for aid to flow into the strip without any restrictions. The statement came on the last day of this year's NAM Summit. | ||||||
| 20240121 | Israeli bombardment of Khan Younis: Mounting casualties across Gaza strip | Israeli war | At least 165 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours in Gaza. Israeli forces carried out air strikes and shelled targets overnight and into the morning in Khan Younis. The number of dead has now hit 24,927, with nearly 63,000 injured. | ||||||
| 20240121 | Netanyahu stoking regional tensions to ‘delay political reckoning’: Jordanian FM | Jordan | Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi tells Al Jazeera that Israel's war on Gaza could lead to a wider conflict. The attacks in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon come as Israel continues to bomb the Gaza strip - sparking fears that the war could lead to a regional conflict. | ||||||
| 20240121 | Several Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on a civilian car in Rafah, and on refugee camps | war on refugee camps | The Israeli military has pounded Gaza overnight and into the morning on Sunday. Gaza's health ministry says at least 165 Palestinians have been killed since Friday. That's brought the death toll to almost 25,000 since October. |
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| 20240121 | Palestinian-American teen one of hundreds killed by Israelis in West Bank | West Bank | They are using US tax dollars to ‘kill our own children’, says father after Israeli soldiers and settlers opened fire, killing his 17-year-old son. | ||||||
| 20240121 | Israeli Forces demolished several houses in Hebron in the occupied West Bank in an overnight raid | West Bank | Israeli forces demolished several houses in Hebron in the occupied West Bank in an overnight raid. Homes of three Palestinian men accused of killing an Israeli soldier, in Jerusalem in November were destroyed. Raids are now a nightly occurrence since the war on Gaza began. They often leave a trail of destruction in their wake including damaged roads, shops and homes. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20240122 | False Israeli allegations of Egypt failing to secure Gaza border undermine peace treaty: SIS chief | ||||||||