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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231101 | ‘Children were carrying other injured children’: Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | children | An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave. |
| 20231101 | Biden’s Israel funding request gets scrutiny, hits early hurdle | collusion & complicity | US rights group says president’s request to Congress for Israel aid suggests US may ‘bankroll’ displacement of Palestinians. |
| 20231101 | Biden facing tough questions over Israel’s strikes on civilians | collusion & complicity | President Joe Biden and his top national security officials are increasingly confronting questions about Israel’s commitment to minimizing civilian deaths and how scenes from Gaza could affect his domestic political standing. |
| 20231101 | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken set to travel to Israel and Jordan | collusion & complicity | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel and Jordan at the end of the week, the Department of State has announced, as tensions remain high amid Israel’s escalating war against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231101 | Gaza’s phone and internet connections are cut off again, as Israeli troops battle Hamas militants | communication | Palestinians reported another widespread outage of internet and phone service in Gaza early Wednesday, hours after Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings near Gaza City and as ground troops battled Hamas militants inside the besieged territory. |
| 20231101 | Gaza suffers another communications blackout amid Israeli bombardment | communication | Israel has cut Gaza’s telecommunication and internet services for a second time despite humanitarian aid agencies warning that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231101 | Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital ‘full, overpacked’, director says | eliminating health care system | The latest massacre on a bakery near Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital has left several killed and has overwhelmed the facility, the hospital’s director says. |
| 20231101 | Israeli siege forces Gaza’s only cancer hospital to shut amid fuel shortage | eliminating health care system | Palestinian health authorities have said that the only hospital offering cancer treatment in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel amid Israel’s continuing blockade of the territory. |
| 20231101 | Bolivia cuts ties with Israel; other Latin American countries recall envoys | global response | Countries blame Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ attack on Gaza and reiterate calls for a humanitarian ceasefire. |
| 20231101 | Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel as Chile and Colombia recall their ambassadors | global response | Bolivia’s government severed diplomatic relations with Israel on Tuesday, accusing it of carrying out “crimes against humanity” in Gaza, and Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to Israel as they criticized the Israeli military offensive against Hamas militants. |
| 20231101 | Jordan recalls ambassador to Israel to protest Gaza ‘catastrophe’ | global response | Jordan has announced it is “immediately” recalling its ambassador to Israel in response to the war in Gaza, accusing Israel of creating an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”. |
| 20231101 | Jordan says it is recalling its ambassador to Israel over the war in Gaza. | global response | |
| 20231101 | Open hatred of Jews surges globally, inflamed by Gaza war | global response | In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are "stinking Jews" and should stay off the slide. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes proliferate on social media, attracting thousands of "likes". |
| 20231101 | FBI director warns of increased risk of terror attacks in wake of Gaza war | global response | FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in the past few weeks and suggested Hamas’ offensive on Israel could inspire threats like those motivated by the Islamic State group years ago. |
| 20231101 | Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability for failing to prevent Hamas attack, instead blaming others | Hamas resistance attacks | A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities during the Oct. 7 incursion that triggered the current Israel-Hamas war. Conspicuously absent from that roll call is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 20231101 | Limited Gaza evacuations via Rafah to be allowed after Qatar brokers deal -source | humanitarian crisis | Qatar has mediated an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the U.S., which will allow limited evacuations from besieged Gaza, a source briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| 20231101 | Foreign passport holders enter Rafah crossing | humanitarian crisis | Dozens of people entered the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday. It appeared to be the first time foreign passport holders have been allowed to leave the besieged territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war more than three weeks ago. |
| 20231101 | Foreigners, wounded set to leave Gaza as Israeli offensive intensifies | humanitarian crisis | A number of foreigners and critically wounded people were set to leave the Gaza Strip under a Qatari-mediated deal on Wednesday as Israeli forces pressed their offensive against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231101 | As more Palestinians with foreign citizenship leave Gaza, some families are left in the lurch | humanitarian crisis | Dozens of Palestinians with foreign passports crossed through the war-torn Gaza Strip’s only exit for the second straight day Thursday, escaping Israel’s suffocating siege into the empty Egyptian desert. But the evacuation rush left families divided by citizenship status in painful limbo. |
| 20231101 | Seven captives killed by Israeli air strike on refugee camp: Hamas | IOF / Hannibal directive | Seven captives, including three foreign passport holders, were killed in Israel’s bombing of Jabalia refugee camp yesterday, Hamas has announced. |
| 20231101 | Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability for failing to prevent Hamas attack, instead blaming others | Israelis | A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities during the Oct. 7 incursion that triggered the current Israel-Hamas war. Conspicuously absent from that roll call is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 20231101 | Inside Benjamin Netanyahu’s mind: How is Israel’s PM plotting the war? | Israelis | Gal Hirsch has no known experience in hostage negotiations, and in 2006, he left the Israeli forces, disgraced over his role in military failures during the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 20231101 | Egypt Deploys Dozens Of Tanks, Armored Vehicles Near Gaza; IDF’s Ground Ops Yield First Result | regional response | According to the Times of Israel, there are “dozens of vehicles” near the border. The deployment of heavy military vehicles and tanks is due to Egypt’s suspicion of a possible inpouring of refugees from Gaza. Rafah is the only border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231101 | Nine Israeli soldiers killed by Hamas anti-tank missile hitting vehicle in northern Gaza | resistance | Nine Israeli soldiers were killed in the northern Gaza Strip, when the armored personnel carrier they were in was hit by an anti-tank missile fired by Hamas fighters, bringing the total number of troops killed since 7 October to 326, the Israeli army said on Wednesday. |
| 20231101 | The other mass displacement: while eyes are on Gaza, settlers advance on West Bank herders | West Bank | Shortly after armed Israeli settlers threatened to kill them if they did not leave, 24 Palestinian households totaling 141 people, half of whom are children, were displaced from Khirbat Zanuta in the southern West Bank. |
| 20231101 | Yemen's Houthis enter Mideast fray, hardening spillover fears | Yemen | Yemen's Houthis have waded into the Israel-Hamas war raging more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in Sanaa, declaring on Tuesday they had fired drones and missiles at Israel in attacks that highlight the regional risks of the conflict. |
| 20231101 | Israel says it thwarted aerial attacks by Yemen’s Houthis near Red Sea | Yemen | The Israeli military said Tuesday it had thwarted an aerial attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, as fears rise across the region that the Israel-Hamas war could widen. |
| 20231101 | Israel deploys missile boats in Red Sea as Houthis attack from Yemen | Yemen | The Israeli military said it had deployed missile boats in the Red Sea on Wednesday as reinforcements, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more. |
| 20231101 | 'Pallywood': Gazans falsely accused of staging injury and death online | Zionism / social media | Pro-Israeli accounts are accusing Palestinians of using crisis actors to fake their suffering in order to elicit online sympathy. One particular viral video turned out to be of a real amputee who survived a West Bank refugee camp raid in July 2023. |
| 20231101 | UN official who denounced Gaza ‘genocide’ had been under review after Israel lobby complaint | Zionism / UN | A senior UN official who sent a letter denouncing the organization's failure to protect civilians in Gaza had been subject to a review into allegedly biased social media posts after a pro-Israel lobby group complained. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231102 | Biden ‘covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide’ in Gaza: AJ analyst | collusion & complicity | Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says US President Biden is “covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “Biden and Blinken are still giving cover to Israel, diplomatic and otherwise – and the promises of peace – in order for Israel to continue with this genocide,” Bishara said. |
| 20231102 | Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000 | genocide | Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. After nearly four weeks of war sparked by Hamas’ deadly rampage in Israel, U.S. and Arab leaders raised pressure on Israel to ease its siege of Gaza and at least briefly halt its attacks in order to aid civilians. |
| Comment: tally heads to genocide | |||
| 20231102 | Anti-Semitic riot in Russia's Dagestan leaves some local Jews shaken | global response | There were few visitors to Derbent's sprawling Jewish cemetery in Russian's Muslim-majority Dagestan region on Thursday, but some of those laying flowers on relatives' graves said an anti-Semitic riot four days earlier had left them feeling unsettled. |
| 20231102 | France's Jewish community faces a surge in anti-Semitism | global response | Witnessing the explosion of acts of anti-Semitism in France since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, many members of France's Jewish community are struggling to adapt to their new reality. |
| 20231102 | Hezbollah leader set to weigh in on Middle East war | Lebanon | Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech that will be scrutinised for clues on how the group's role in the conflict might evolve. |
| 20231102 | Hezbollah, Israel exchange fire as violence spikes at Lebanese border | Lebanon | Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday it mounted multiple strikes on Israeli army positions including its first using explosive drones, and Israel launched air strikes on southern Lebanon in a sharp escalation of violence. |
| 20231102 | Biden ‘covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide’ in Gaza: AJ analyst | opinion | Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says US President Biden is “covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “Biden and Blinken are still giving cover to Israel, diplomatic and otherwise – and the promises of peace – in order for Israel to continue with this genocide,” Bishara said. |
| 20231102 | Bahrain says envoy to Israel returned home, Israel says ties stable | regional response | Bahrain said on Thursday that the Gulf state's ambassador to Israel had returned home and the Israeli ambassador in Manama had left the kingdom "a while ago", confirming an earlier statement by parliament linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| 20231102 | Tunisia debates bill to criminalise normalisation of ties with Israel | regional response | The Tunisian parliament has started debating a bill that would criminalise any normalisation of ties with Israel as the bombardment of Gaza intensifies and the death toll surpassed 9,000. |
| 20231102 | What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll? | targeting civilians | The ministry is the only official source for Gaza casualties. Israel has sealed Gaza’s borders, barring foreign journalists and humanitarian workers. The AP is among a small number of international news organizations with teams in Gaza. While those journalists cannot do a comprehensive count, they’ve viewed large numbers of bodies at the sites of air strikes, morgues and funerals. |
| 20231102 | Biden calls for ‘pause’ in Israel’s war in Gaza for the first time | United States | President Joe Biden has voiced support for a humanitarian “pause” to Israel’s war in Gaza as the United States presses to evacuate all Americans trapped in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231102 | UN experts say Palestinians face ‘risk of genocide’ | United Nations | United Nations experts say they “remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide” amid Israel’s unrelenting attacks on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231102 | UN team talks of 'grave risk of genocide' | United Nations | Israeli forces thrust deeper into Gaza City - the Gaza Strip's main city - in their assault on Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, but the militant group resisted their drive with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels. |
| 20231102 | UN experts say ceasefire needed as Palestinians at 'grave risk of genocide' | United Nations | United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at "grave risk of genocide". |
| 20231102 | Israeli settler attacks fuel the fire as Gaza war rages | West Bank | Mourning his father and brother, Mohammed Wadi says armed Israeli settlers from outposts overlooking his olive-growing West Bank village no longer aim low when they shoot at Palestinian neighbours. "Now, they shoot to kill," he said. |
| 20231102 | Germany banning pro Palestinian rallies citing "historic guilt" | Zionism / Germany | Germany has banned any activities in support of Palestine and a Palestinian organization called Sami-doun. The nation has been one of the strongest backers of Israel's government and policies - citing "historical wrongs". |
| 20231102 | German minister announces complete ban on Hamas activities | Zionism / Germany | Germany will from Thursday ban the activities of Hamas, already a designated terrorist organisation in the country, as well as pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, the interior minister announced on Thursday. |
| 20231102 | US House passes Republicans' Israel-only aid bill, faces dead end in Senate | Zionism / US | The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats' insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House's promise of a veto. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231103 | Blinken discusses ‘humanitarian pauses’ as Israel encircles Gaza City | ceasefire | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he discussed “humanitarian pauses” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose forces continue to hammer the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231103 | Israel resists US pressure to pause the war to allow more aid to Gaza, wants hostages back first | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are released. |
| 20231103 | Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’ | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231103 | 1,200 children still buried under debris: Ministry | children | Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra is now holding a press briefing in Gaza. These are among the latest statistics he has provided: 1,200 children still buried under the debris 136 paramedics killed 25 ambulance vehicles completely destroyed 126 hospitals and another 50 medical centers targeted. Referring to Thursday’s limited number of wounded that left through Rafah border crossing, Ministry of Health spokesperson al-Qudra says: “We need to have at least 800 victims with critical medical conditions to leave Gaza. We cannot medically attend those cases here within Gaza Strip hospitals, already collapsing. In the past few days, we lost many victims who were critically wounded.” |
| 20231103 | Hezbollah tells U.S. to halt Israel's Gaza attack to prevent regional war | collusion & complicity | The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned the United States on Friday that preventing a regional conflict depended on stopping the Israeli attack on Gaza, and said there was a possibility of fighting on the Lebanese front turning into a full-fledged war. |
| Comment: collusion & complicity refers to the US | |||
| 20231103 | Israel pushes thousands of detained cross-border workers into war-torn Gaza | dystopian war | Thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, previously working in Israel and the occupied West Bank and then detained by Israel, are being pushed into the war-torn enclave, according to media reports. |
| 20231103 | Israel deports thousands of Palestinian workers back to Gaza’s war zone | dystopian war | Israel on Friday deported thousands of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory, Palestinian authorities said, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted. |
| 20231103 | New strike near Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | We’re getting reports of a new attack in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. |
| 20231103 | 1,200 children still buried under debris: Ministry | eliminating health care system | Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra is now holding a press briefing in Gaza. These are among the latest statistics he has provided: 1,200 children still buried under the debris 136 paramedics killed 25 ambulance vehicles completely destroyed 126 hospitals and another 50 medical centers targeted. Referring to Thursday’s limited number of wounded that left through Rafah border crossing, Ministry of Health spokesperson al-Qudra says: “We need to have at least 800 victims with critical medical conditions to leave Gaza. We cannot medically attend those cases here within Gaza Strip hospitals, already collapsing. In the past few days, we lost many victims who were critically wounded.” |
| 20231103 | Israeli drone missile hits front gate of al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | The health ministry in Gaza says an Israeli attack killed at least 14 Palestinians who were fleeing from the bombarded territory’s north to its south. Witnesses said the strike hit al-Rashid road, Gaza’s coastal road which the Israeli military has previously told civilians to take to travel south. “The occupation committed a new massacre against displaced civilians and killed 14 citizens, children and women,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement. |
| 20231103 | Dozens feared dead in attacks on Gaza road, al-Shifa Hospital gate: Ministry | eliminating health care system | Al-Qudra, the Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman, says dozens of people are feared dead in today’s attacks on al-Shifa Hospital and a coastal road in Gaza. Hundreds are believed to be injured, he added. “If no safe passage is provided for the delivery of fuel and medical supplies and the departure of victims, we will continue to lose more lives. We are helpless here,” al-Qudra said. |
| 20231103 | Several killed in Israeli attack on ambulance convoy: Gaza Health Ministry | eliminating health care system | Several people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli attack on an ambulance convoy near the al-Shifa Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry. |
| 20231103 | Israeli military says hit an ambulance being used by Hamas | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military said on Friday that one of its aircraft hit an ambulance which soldiers assessed was being used by a Hamas unit close to their position in the battle zone. |
| 20231103 | Two back-to-back massacres: Israeli airstrikes on hospital & school in Gaza leave 35 dead & 100 injured | eliminating health care system | An Israeli airstrike against a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced civilians kills 20 and injures 30 just five hours after three airstrikes against Al-Shifaa Medical Complex, Al-Quds, and the Indonesian hospitals in Gaza killed at least 15 and injured tens others. |
| 20231103 | Hamas officials say 13 killed in blast outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | At least 13 people have been killed in a blast outside Gaza City's biggest hospital, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says. |
| 20231103 | Israel strikes Gaza ambulance; Netanyahu rejects halt without hostage release | eliminating health care system | Israel struck an ambulance near a Gaza hospital on Friday in an attack the military said targeted militants, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls by Washington's top diplomat for a halt to fighting unless hostages held by Hamas are freed. |
| 20231103 | US surveillance drones flying over Gaza to help with hostage search | Hamas resistance attack | The US military is flying surveillance drones over Gaza as part of American efforts to help Israel locate the more than 240 hostages still held by the terror group Hamas, according to multiple US officials familiar with the matter. |
| 20231103 | Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’ | humanitarian crisis | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231103 | Israeli families bring genocide complaint against Hamas to ICC | ICC | The families of nine Israeli victims of last month’s Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, according to their lawyer. The families also want Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, prosecuted for suspected war crimes, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders, lawyer Francois Zimeray said in a statement on Friday. |
| 20231103 | ‘Arrested, tortured and insulted’, say workers returned to Gaza by Israel | imprisonment / torture | Israel has released 3,200 workers from Gaza back to the coastal enclave after they were arrested and stranded following the October 7 attacks. |
| 20231103 | Israeli families bring genocide complaint against Hamas to ICC | Israelis | The families of nine Israeli victims of last month’s Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, according to their lawyer. The families also want Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, prosecuted for suspected war crimes, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders, lawyer Francois Zimeray said in a statement on Friday. |
| 20231103 | Israel resists US pressure to pause the war to allow more aid to Gaza, wants hostages back first | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are released. |
| 20231103 | Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah leader threatens escalation with Israel as its war with Hamas rages on | Lebanon | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his powerful militia is already engaged in unprecedented fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border and threatened a further escalation as Israel’s war with Hamas nears the one-month mark. |
| 20231103 | Relief in Lebanon as Hezbollah’s Nasrallah holds off on wider Israel war | Lebanon | Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah on Friday called for a ceasefire in Gaza while holding off on announcing any broader conflict with Israel, bringing relief to Lebanon where many were fearing the prospects of war. |
| 20231103 | Hezbollah steps back from all-out war on Israel over Gaza - for now | Lebanon | The Hezbollah leader took his time to respond to the past month of bloodletting which has turned the Middle East into a tinder box. |
| 20231103 | Pirates, emperors and the Middle East axes of evil | opinion | Unmasking the US/Israel rhetoric of war, human rights, and geopolitical strategy in Palestine. |
| 20231103 | Israeli settler violence in West Bank: Increase attacks against Palestinians | West Bank | More than 130 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank either by Israeli forces, or in attacks by Israeli settlers. Hundreds of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231104 | US and Arab partners disagree on the need for a cease-fire as Israeli airstrikes kill more civilians | ceasefire | he United States and Arab partners disagreed Saturday on the need for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as Israeli military strikes killed civilians at a U.N. shelter and a hospital, and Israel said the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers were “encountering the full force” of its troops. |
| 20231104 | Arab leaders press Blinken for Gaza ceasefire after school blasts | ceasefire | Arab leaders publicly pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Palestinians said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in a U.N.-run school being used as a shelter. |
| 20231104 | Blinken rebuffs Arab states' push for immediate Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Arab leaders on Saturday urged an immediate ceasefire in Israel's military offensive in Gaza, pressing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to convince Israel, but the top U.S. diplomat said such a halt right now would only allow Palestinian militant group Hamas to regroup and attack Israel again. |
| 20231104 | Divides remain between US and Arab partners after Blinken meets counterparts in Jordan | ceasefire | Sharp divides persisted between the United States and its Arab partners on their response to Israel’s war against Hamas after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Middle Eastern counterparts in Amman, Jordan on Saturday. |
| 20231104 | Erdogan cuts ties with Netanyahu as Israeli PM rejects call for humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Turkey has announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel for consultations, due to Israel's refusal to accept a ceasefire in Gaza. Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was recalled in view of "the ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by Israel's continued attacks on civilians and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. |
| 20231104 | Turkey recalls ambassador to Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy in Gaza’ | ceasefire | Turkey says it has recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israel’s sustained bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231104 | US Representative Tlaib accuses Biden of supporting genocide against Palestinians | collusion & complicity | U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, has accused President Joe Biden of supporting a "genocide" against Palestinians and warned of repercussions in next year's election. |
| 20231104 | Repeated Israeli attacks on hospitals | eliminating health care system | More than 9,200 Palestinians have been killed since the war began on October the 7th. Overcrowded hospitals are struggling to treat the wounded. Healthcare workers say they need far more medicine and supplies than the trickle of aid that trucks are bringing into Gaza |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | eliminating health care system | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Gaza's healthcare system on verge of collapse | eliminating health care system | The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Tel Aviv on Friday He said Israel should do more to protect Palestinian civilians Israel answered in Gaza with yet more Palestinian blood. In a single day areas around three hospitals were hit This one at the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital -al Shifa These people had hope - the convoy of ambulances was heading to the Rafah crossing To enter Egypt and its occupants to get treatment But Israeli strikes killed any glimmer of hope they had of escaping this war. |
| 20231104 | Israel admits airstrike on ambulance near hospital that witnesses say killed and wounded dozens | eliminating health care system | Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people. |
| 20231104 | Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | eliminating UNWRA | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | eliminating UNWRA | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Protesters rally around the world demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza | global response | Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across the world for a weekend of demonstrations demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 20231104 | Protest marches by thousands in Europe demand halt to Israeli bombing of Gaza, under police watch | global response | Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators demanding a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza marched in Paris, Berlin and other European cities on Saturday. |
| 20231104 | Protesters march in major cities to demand Gaza ceasefire | global response | Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protests in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Washington DC on Saturday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and castigate Israel after its military intensified its assault against Hamas. |
| 20231104 | Israel-Hamas war divides opinion in South Africa | global response | There's strong public backing for the Palestinian people in South Africa — not least from the government, which has long been a supporter of their cause. But it's a divisive issue. Many in South Africa's Jewish community want to see the government take a more balanced stance. |
| 20231104 | Hamas armed wing: More than 60 hostages are missing due to Israeli airstrikes | Hamas resistance attack | The armed wing of Palestinian militant faction Hamas said on Saturday that more than 60 hostages were missing because of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. |
| 20231104 | Aid not sufficient in Gaza : UN says cannot keep up with humanitarian need | humanitarian aid | The UN's humanitarian chief says its refugee agency for Palestinians can't keep up with the needs in Gaza. Martin Griffiths was briefing member states at the United Nations in New York. |
| 20231104 | Between 350,000 to 400,000 people still in northern Gaza, says US special envoy | humanitarian crisis | Between 350,000 to 400,000 people remain in northern Gaza, US special envoy David Satterfield said Saturday, as Israeli forces encircle Gaza City. Israel has told Gazans to evacuate the north of the Strip and move south as the war against Hamas intensifies. |
| 20231104 | The UN says more than half of Gaza's population have been uprooted from their homes | humanitarian crisis | After four weeks of war, one and a half million Gazans, out of an estimated 2.7 million have now been displaced. |
| 20231104 | A new mother struggles to care for her baby under bombardment in Gaza | humanitarian crisis | Little food, no water, no medicines, anguished parents struggle to meet their children's needs while their own bodies weaken |
| 20231104 | Israel admits airstrike on ambulance near hospital that witnesses say killed and wounded dozens | IOF | Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people. |
| 20231104 | ‘Extremely challenging’: Israel’s Gaza ground assault faces stumbles | IOF | A week after it sent ground forces into Gaza, Israel said its military had surrounded Gaza City in the north of the territory, killed 10 Hamas commanders who helped plan the October 7 attacks on Israel, and scored “impressive successes” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 20231104 | Israel ramps up attacks in Gaza, striking schools, hospitals and mosques | Israeli escalation | A day after Israel struck a convoy of ambulances transporting critically wounded patients from the al-Shifa Hospital to the Rafah border crossing, the Israeli army has intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, hitting schools, mosques and more hospitals. |
| 20231104 | Israeli media’s reaction to the horrors in Gaza | Israelis | After three weeks of a punishing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel is still refusing to allow international journalists in. News outlets and audiences are entirely reliant on local Palestinian reporters, who risk their lives to provide a window into the war. |
| 20231104 | Protesters mass outside Israeli PM Netanyahu's house as anger grows | Israelis | Police held back protesters outside the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, amid widespread anger at the failures that led to last month's deadly attack by Hamas gunmen on communities around the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231104 | Israeli jets hit Lebanon as Hezbollah fires more powerful missile | Lebanon | Lebanon's Hezbollah said it carried out simultaneous attacks on Israeli positions at the Lebanese border on Saturday, as residents of south Lebanon reported some of the fiercest Israeli strikes yet during weeks of cross-border clashes. |
| 20231104 | Can Marwan Barghouti, the ‘Palestinian Mandela’, bring peace to Gaza? | opinion | Hamas has said that the group would only release all 240 Israeli hostages held in Gaza if Israel agrees to free all Palestinian prisoners. Among those locked up is Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 for deadly attacks against Israelis. For many Palestinians, their “Nelson Mandela” is a leader-in-waiting. |
| 20231104 | Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | schools | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | schools | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Gaza workers: Palestinians return from Israeli captivity | targeting civilians | Many of the thousands of Palestinian workers Israel has sent back to Gaza say they were beaten and starved in Israeli captivity. The workers had been detained since Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7th. |
| Comment: Deporting occupied people into a territory under siege, while the occupying war belligerent is obliged to guarantee the safety of the people, is a war crime. | |||
| 20231104 | Palestinian American mourns 42 family members killed in a single day in Gaza | targeting families in whole or in part | A Palestinian American family is mourning the loss of 42 relatives killed by an airstrike in a single day in Gaza |
| 20231104 | Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | targeting forced displaced people | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | targeting forced displaced people | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Erdogan cuts ties with Netanyahu as Israeli PM rejects call for humanitarian pause | Turkey | Turkey has announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel for consultations, due to Israel's refusal to accept a ceasefire in Gaza. Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was recalled in view of "the ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by Israel's continued attacks on civilians and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. |
| 20231104 | Turkey recalls ambassador to Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy in Gaza’ | Turkey | Turkey says it has recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israel’s sustained bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231104 | Blinken reaffirms US support for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed Washington’s position calling for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to protect civilians and allow foreign nationals to leave, as the Israeli military bombarded a UN shelter and hospital in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231104 | Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’ | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231104 | Occupied West Bank Violence | West Bank | How has the Israel-Gaza war affected people in the occupied West Bank? Correspondent Nida Ibrahim takes us through what’s been happening. |
| 20231104 | ‘An existential threat’: Antisemitic attacks soar across Europe amid Israel-Hamas war | Zionism / EU | “This takes us back to the darkest times,” Chief Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer told CNN, as he surveyed piles of destroyed holy books in a blackened and burnt out ceremonial hall. |
| 20231104 | French police hunt suspect in stabbing of Jewish woman | Zionism / France | Police were hunting for a man who stabbed and wounded a Jewish woman in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, while a swastika was found graffitied at her home, police and the city's mayor said. |
| 20231104 | French Jewish woman stabbed in her home in France’s Lyon, police hunts suspect | Zionism / France | Police were hunting for a man who stabbed and wounded a Jewish woman in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, while a swastika was found graffitied at her home, police and the city's mayor said. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231105 | Netanyahu again rules out ceasefire until Hamas returns hostages from Gaza | ceasefire | Netanyahu on Sunday again rejected calls for a ceasefire in Gaza until all of the more than 240 hostages captured by Hamas during its 7 October attack were returned. |
| 20231105 | Israel rebuffs mounting calls for ceasefire; Lebanon strike angers Hezbollah | ceasefire | Israel rebuffed growing international pressure for a ceasefire and continued intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the top U.S. diplomat scrambled to contain a crisis that threatened to cause further escalation in neighbouring Lebanon. |
| 20231105 | Israeli hostages’ relatives call for concessions to secure their release | ceasefire | Relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to make significant concessions to secure the freedom of their loved ones. |
| 20231105 | Ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup, says Blinken | ceasefire | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to regroup and carry out further attacks. |
| 20231105 | Blinken rejects push by Arab states for immediate Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has rejected the demand by Arab nations to support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza because he says Hamas could still attack Israel. |
| 20231105 | Abbas joins Arab leaders in calling for Gaza truce in meeting with Blinken | ceasefire | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Antony Blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire to the war in Gaza during a meeting with the top US diplomat in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to Abbas’s spokesperson, adding to a growing chorus of Arab leaders stressing the need for a truce as the death toll in Gaza approaches 10,000. |
| 20231105 | Gaza loses telecom contact again. Israel strikes refugee camps as it rejects a pause in fighting | communication | Gaza came under the third total communications outage since the start of the war, with Palestinian telecom company Paltel confirming all services were down late Sunday and saying Israel had again disconnected them. Internet access advocacy group NetBlocks.org reported a “new collapse in connectivity” across the besieged enclave. |
| 20231105 | These numbers show the staggering toll of the Israel-Hamas war | genocide | The latest Israel-Hamas war has quickly become the deadliest and most destructive of the five wars fought between the sides since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority. |
| 20231105 | Netanyahu suspends Israeli minister over Gaza nuclear comment | genocide II | Netanyahu on Sunday disciplined a junior member of his cabinet who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza, where the war with Hamas is inflicting a spiralling Palestinian civilian toll. |
| 20231105 | Netanyahu reprimands Israeli minister over Gaza ‘nuclear option’ comment | genocide II | The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has disciplined a junior member of his cabinet who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza. |
| 20231105 | Austria sees rise in anti-Semitic attacks against backdrop of Israel-Hamas war | global response | A sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Austria over the past few weeks have sparked concerns of a spillover of the Israel-Hamas war in the central European nation. |
| 20231105 | Protest marches from US to Berlin call for immediate halt to Israeli bombing of Gaza | global response | From Washington to Milan to Paris, tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched Saturday, calling for a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. |
| 20231105 | Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire | global response | Tens of thousands of people have marched in Washington DC in support of Palestine, demanding an end to Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The United States has resisted calls to support a ceasefire despite the soaring death toll. |
| 20231105 | Pro-Palestinian crowds try to storm air base housing U.S. troops in Turkey | global response | Turkish police used tear gas and water cannon as hundreds of people at a pro-Palestinian rally on Sunday tried to storm an air base that houses U.S. troops, hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due in Ankara for talks on Gaza. |
| 20231105 | ‘Biden, you can’t hide’: Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire | global response | Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the United States capital to demand a ceasefire in Gaza as Washington continues to resist calls for an end to the war despite the mounting death toll. |
| 20231105 | Iranian state media confirm meeting between Khamenei, Hamas' Haniyeh in Tehran | Iran | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met with the leader of Tehran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, a day after a Hamas official said they held a meeting in recent days. |
| 20231105 | Blinken tries to assure Abbas in a West Bank stop aimed at containing fallout from the war | Israeli escalation | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an intensifying Biden administration drive to reduce the suffering of Gaza’s civilians under Israeli bombardment and to start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory. |
| 20231105 | Blinken tries to assure Abbas in a West Bank stop aimed at containing fallout from the war | Israeli escalation | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an intensifying Biden administration drive to reduce the suffering of Gaza’s civilians under Israeli bombardment and to start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory. |
| 20231105 | Blinken visits Iraq in bid to prevent Gaza spillover | Israeli escalation | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday, as he tours the Middle East attempting to tamp down tensions after war erupted between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas last month. |
| 20231105 | Blinken makes unannounced visit to Iraq | Israeli escalation | Blinken met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad for more than an hour. He also visited the US Embassy, where he received a security briefing on the threat to US facilities. |
| 20231105 | ‘The reaction is extreme’: Palestinians fear arrest if they voice sympathy for Gaza civilians | Jerusalem | Dua Abu Sneineh was shocked when a group of police officers – between 10 and 15, she said – barged into her home in East Jerusalem early on October 23. “I was not even considering for a moment that they would be coming for me,” she told CNN. |
| 20231105 | Israel launches major strikes on Gaza as violence flares up on Lebanon boundary | Lebanon | Gaza was rocked by a series of huge explosions on Sunday evening and communications with the coastal strip were cut, as violence also escalated on Israel’s northern boundary with Lebanon. |
| 20231105 | Hezbollah and Hamas’ military wings in Lebanon exchange fire with Israel. Tension rises along border | Lebanon | The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Monday it fired rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese side of the border. |
| 20231105 | Why Israel wants to erase context and history in the war on Gaza | opinion | On October 24, a statement by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres caused a sharp reaction by Israel. While addressing the UN Security Council, the UN chief said that while he condemned in the strongest terms the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, he wished to remind the world that it did not take place in a vacuum. He explained that one cannot dissociate 56 years of occupation from our engagement with the tragedy that unfolded on that day. |
| 20231105 | Gaza could see return of PA in case of a ‘political solution’, says Abbas | Palestinian Authority | The Palestinian Authority (PA) could return to power in the Gaza Strip only if a “comprehensive political solution” is found to the Israel-Palestine conflict, according to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. |
| 20231105 | Blinken visits West Bank to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas | Palestinian Authority | U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken said the Palestinian Authority (PA) should play a central role in the future of the Gaza strip, a U.S. official said after a visit to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as Blinken tours the region amid spiraling tensions over Israel's war with Hamas. |
| 20231105 | Israel bombs al-Maghazi refugee camp, killing dozens, Gaza officials say | targeting forced displaced people | Israel’s military has bombed at least three refugee camps in Gaza, including al-Maghazi camp, in the last 24 hours and killed dozens of people, Palestinian officials have said. |
| 20231105 | At least 45 killed at Al-Maghazi refugee camp | targeting forced displaced people | The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people have been killed in what it said was an Israeli air strike at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. |
| 20231105 | Blast at Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza kills dozens | targeting forced displaced people | Dozens were killed and many more injured in a blast at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip late Saturday night, according to an official at a nearby hospital and eyewitnesses who spoke with CNN. |
| 20231105 | 'We are failing again': UN, US resignations highlight splits over Israel's Gaza assault | United Nations | While many Western leaders and officials were quick to express their support for Israel in its war against Hamas, there have been signs of dissent in senior US and UN circles over the West’s unwavering backing of Israel's massive retaliatory bombardments on Gaza. Some have even quit their posts. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231106 | UN chief Guterres urges ceasefire as Gaza becomes ‘graveyard for children’ | ceasefire | United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has strengthened his calls for a ceasefire as Palestinian authorities reported that more than 10,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza. |
| 20231106 | Biden, Netanyahu discussed potential 'tactical pauses' in Gaza fighting | ceasefire | U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the potential for "tactical pauses" in fighting in Gaza for humanitarian reasons and possible hostage releases in talks on Monday, according to a spokesperson. |
| 20231106 | Blinken wraps up frantic Mideast tour with tepid, if any, support for pauses in Gaza fighting | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a grueling Middle East diplomatic tour on Monday in Turkey after only limited success in efforts to forge a regional consensus on how best to ease civilian suffering in Gaza as Israel intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231106 | Protesters calling for Gaza cease-fire block road at Tacoma port while military cargo ship docks | ceasefire | Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza blocked traffic Monday at the Port of Tacoma, where a military supply ship had recently arrived. |
| 20231106 | The devastating effects of war on Gaza's children | children | Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 10,022 people, including 4,104 children, have been killed in the territory since Israel's campaign began. |
| 20231106 | 1M followers for 13-year-old gamer killed in Israeli attack | children | This aspiring 13-year-old gamer was trying to build a following on his YouTube channel before he was killed in an Israeli air attack in Gaza. Since his death, people have helped to achieve one of Awni Eldous’ main ambitions. |
| 20231106 | US plans precision bombs transfer to Israel -source | collusion & complicity | President Joe Biden's administration has informed the U.S. Congress that it is planning a $320 million transfer of precision bombs for Israel, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday. |
| Comment: On November 5, 2023 the Israeli air force mistakingly posted on X a photo showing one of theirs Apache helicopter gunship which we clearly could see an Hellfire AGM 114N missile, which is an thermobaric precision missile. | |||
| 20231106 | BBC reports from southern Gaza after 'intense' air strikes | communication | After a night of intense air strikes and an internet blackout, the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf says "we are struggling to get credible information". |
| 20231106 | EU seeks alternative delivery routes as it ramps up Gaza aid | eliminating UNWRA | by-pass politics -- The EU will spend a total of $108m in humanitarian aid for the civilians in Gaza, Ursula von der Leyen says. |
| Comment: this comes after the Israelis and Cyprus had discussed a similar move. | |||
| 20231106 | 'Not sure I'm lucky to be alive': Gazans fear worse is to come as public health 'catastrophe' looms | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organization is warning of an "imminent public health catastrophe" in the Gaza Strip. The displacement of 1 million people, overcrowding in shelters and a lack of fuel needed to run sewage, waste and water desalination plants have created a perfect storm for the spread of disease. |
| 20231106 | Israeli forces target solar panels at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces have targeted the solar panel system at a building in the al-Shifa Hospital complex, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, which is already on the brink of collapse with fuel, water and medicines running out. |
| 20231106 | Gaza health ministry says Israel strike on hospital building kills one, Israel denies | eliminating health care system | The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip said on Monday an Israeli air strike hit a building in the Al Shifa hospital complex, killing one Palestinian, but Israel denied it attacked the hospital. |
| 20231106 | Israeli Army Says It Did Not Strike Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, Rejects Hamas Claim | eliminating health care system | Comment: there are plenty of evidence on X |
| 20231106 | Malnourished, sick and scared: Pregnant women in Gaza face ‘unthinkable challenges’ | food, water, fuel & electricity | Before the latest escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas, pregnant women in the Gaza Strip could have health check-ups, get advice on nutrition and prepare their homes for the arrival of their babies. Today, thousands are living in shelters where there is not enough food or clean water, and they dread the prospect of giving birth on the floor with no doctor or midwife to help. |
| 20231106 | Israeli forces target solar panels at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israeli forces have targeted the solar panel system at a building in the al-Shifa Hospital complex, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, which is already on the brink of collapse with fuel, water and medicines running out. |
| 20231106 | Teenager trapped in Gaza slams Canada’s lack of help | forced displacement | Palestinian-Canadian teenage girl has been hoping in vain to leave Gaza and cross into Egypt. She tells Al Jazeera that Canada’s government has failed its citizens trapped under Israeli bombardment by just providing ‘useless’ tips instead of a way to get out. |
| 20231106 | Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as Palestinian deaths surpass 10,000 | genocide | The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza’s largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war |
| 20231106 | More than 10,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza | genocide | More than 10,000 people have been killed in 31 days of relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials, with no signs of a ceasefire in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231106 | More than 10,000 Palestinians killed since 7 October, say health officials | genocide | The grim toll includes more than 4,100 children and 2,640 women. |
| 20231106 | Gaza death toll tops 10,000; UN calls it a children's graveyard | genocide | Gaza is becoming a "graveyard for children", U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, amplifying demands for a ceasefire in the enclave, where Palestinian health authorities said the death toll from Israeli strikes had exceeded 10,000. |
| 20231106 | South Africa joins diplomatic boycott of Israel over Gaza war | global response | Top diplomat says Israel’s retaliation against the Hamas attacks has become a ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians. |
| 20231106 | South Africa recalls ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel and accuses it of genocide in Gaza | global response | South Africa’s government has recalled Monday its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it a “genocide.” |
| 20231106 | Woman arrested after driving car into Indianapolis building she thought was `Israel school’ | global response | A woman who allegedly drove her car into a building in Indianapolis after watching coverage of the Israel-Hamas war told officers she believed the building was an “Israel school,” according to police and court records. |
| 20231106 | Malnourished, sick and scared: Pregnant women in Gaza face ‘unthinkable challenges’ | humanitarian crisis | Before the latest escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas, pregnant women in the Gaza Strip could have health check-ups, get advice on nutrition and prepare their homes for the arrival of their babies. Today, thousands are living in shelters where there is not enough food or clean water, and they dread the prospect of giving birth on the floor with no doctor or midwife to help. |
| 20231106 | Israeli officers torture, humiliate Palestinian workers | imprisonment / torture | A Palestinian labourer recounts to Middle East Eye his eyewitness account of alleged torture by Israeli soldiers during interrogation and detention before returning to Gaza |
| 20231106 | Iranian President Raisi to attend Gaza summit in Saudi Arabia | Iran | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to attend a summit in the Saudi capital on Sunday addressing the Israel-Hamas war, a source familiar with the preparations told AFP on Monday. |
| 20231106 | Blinken makes unannounced Iraq trip amid Israel-Gaza war spillover fears | Israeli escalation | Top US diplomat’s visit comes after Lebanon accuses Israel of killing four civilians in air raid. |
| 20231106 | Israelis overwhelmingly are confident in the justice of the Gaza war, even as world sentiment sours | Israelis | At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis, across the political spectrum, are convinced of the justice of the war. |
| 20231106 | Israel arrests Gaza patients in Jerusalem hospital | Jerusalem | Unable to go home, some Gaza patients and relatives referred to Makassed Hospital were arrested after medical permits expired. |
| 20231106 | A woman and 3 children are killed by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon, local officials say | Lebanon | An Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on Sunday evening killed four civilians, including a woman and three children, raising the likelihood of a dangerous new escalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. |
| 20231106 | Hezbollah says Israel to 'pay price' after strike kills 3 children in Lebanon | Lebanon | |
| 20231106 | Slain Lebanese schoolgirl sisters are latest victims of Mideast war | Lebanon | Sisters Rimas, Daline and Lianne Ayyoub were preparing to travel to Beirut for temporary schooling there because of escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah militants in their native southern Lebanon. |
| 20231106 | Hezbollah and Hamas’ military wings in Lebanon exchange fire with Israel. Tension rises along border | Lebanon | The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Monday it fired rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese side of the border. |
| 20231106 | Hamas armed wing says it fired 16 rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon | Lebanon | The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has said that it fired a barrage of rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon in response to Israeli strikes on Gaza. |
| 20231106 | In Tunisia, pro-Palestinian fervour used to push for anti-NGO law | regional response | The war on Gaza has granted Tunisia a rare moment of political unity, fuelling public appetite for new legislation that risks fracturing civil society groups and potentially isolating the country on the international stage. |
| 20231106 | Jordan open to 'all options' as Gaza conflict intensifies | regional response | Jordan said on Monday it was leaving "all options" open in its response to what it called Israel's failure to discriminate between military and civilian targets in its intensifying bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231106 | Iranian President Raisi to attend Gaza summit in Saudi Arabia | regional response | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to attend a summit in the Saudi capital on Sunday addressing the Israel-Hamas war, a source familiar with the preparations told AFP on Monday. |
| 20231106 | Riled by Israel's Gaza plans, Egypt pushes back | regional response | Egypt is telling the US that Israel’s stated goal to remove Hamas from governing the Gaza Strip is an unrealistic war aim, according to sources familiar with the matter. |
| 20231106 | Four Palestinian militants killed by Israeli forces in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli security forces killed four Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Monday in the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have spiralled in the wake of the war in Gaza. |
| 20231106 | ‘Our hearts burn’: Gaza’s olive farmers say Israel war destroys harvest | West Bank | Since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7, farmers have been unable to access their farmland and crops. |
| 20231106 | Israeli minister calls for security zones around West Bank settlements to keep Palestinians away | West Bank | Israel's hardline nationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Monday for security zones to be set up around Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, keeping Palestinian farmers away during the olive harvest season. |
| 20231106 | Israeli troops arrest Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli troops on Monday arrested a Palestinian activist, regarded in the occupied West Bank as a hero since she was a teenager, on suspicion of inciting violence, but her mother denied the claim and said it was based on a fake Instagram post. |
| 20231106 | Yemen's Houthis launch a new batch of drones against Israel -statement | Yemen | Yemen's Houthis launched a new batch of drones against sensitive targets inside Israel on Monday, according to a statement from their armed forces broadcast by TV channel Al Masirah. |
| 20231106 | 'Anne Frank' nursery name change causes anger in Germany | Zionism / Germany | Organizers of protests because of the incident say that changing the name would be sending a "bad signal" at a time where "antisemitism and right-wing extremism are on the rise". |
| 20231106 | Ailing Pope Francis meets with European rabbis and condemns antisemitism, terrorism, war | Zionism / Vatican | Pope Francis met with European rabbis on Monday and decried antisemitism, war and terrorism in a written speech he declined to read, saying he wasn’t feeling well. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231107 | UN Security Council fails to agree on Israel-Hamas war as Gaza death toll passes 10,000 | ceasefire | Despite more than two hours of closed-door discussions Monday, differences remained. The U.S. is calling for “humanitarian pauses” while many other council members are demanding a “humanitarian cease-fire” to deliver desperately needed aid and prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza. |
| 20231107 | After Biden and Blinken push, Netanyahu says Israel open to ‘little pauses’ in Gaza, no cease-fire | ceasefire | After more than a week of public pressure from the U.S. for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday allowed that his government might be open to only “little pauses” in its assault on Hamas. The Israeli leader sought to play down differences with his country’s most vocal backer on the world stage at a time of rising scrutiny of the sharply rising civilian toll of fighting. |
| 20231107 | 70 Children in Danger as Israel Threatens to Bomb Rantisi Hospital in Gaza | children | The spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israel has ordered the evacuation of the Rantisi Children’s Hospital in preparation for bombing it. |
| 20231107 | Protesters block US military ship allegedly carrying weapons for Israel | collusion & complicity | The demonstrations in Tacoma, Washington, are the second to greet the supply ship, after similar protests in California. |
| 20231107 | Barcelona dockers refuse to handle military material amid Gaza war | collusion & complicity | The Barcelona port stevedores' union has refused to load and unload any military material amid the war in Gaza and urged the protection of civilian populations in areas of conflict, following a similar move by Belgian transport unions last week. |
| 20231107 | Israel says its forces operating in 'heart of Gaza City' | day after politics | Israel said on Tuesday its forces were operating deep in Gaza City in their battle to wipe out Hamas in the Palestinian enclave, and that the Islamist militant group's leader was trapped inside a bunker. |
| 20231107 | Israel fights Hamas in ‘depths’ of Gaza City and foresees control of enclave’s security after war | day after politics | The Israeli army said Tuesday that its forces are battling Hamas fighters inside Gaza’s largest city, signaling a major new stage a month into a war that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled swaths of the territory. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah |
| 20231107 | Israel to take 'security responsibility' for Gaza | day after politics | Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely when its war with Hamas ends, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. |
| 20231107 | White House warns Israel against reoccupying Gaza as Netanyahu signals what a post-war Strip could look like | day after politics | The White House maintained Tuesday that it doesn’t believe Israeli forces should reoccupy Gaza following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments that the country will have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends. |
| 20231107 | Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as an advance on the urban center looms | dystopian war | The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza’s largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war. |
| 20231107 | Rights groups warn of Gaza mass displacement | dystopian war | Palestinian rights groups say about 1.5 million people are displaced in Gaza amid unrelenting Israeli bombardments, threat of being pushed out of enclave “imminent”. |
| 20231107 | Gaza suffers most air strikes in a month in Middle East since 2020 | dystopian war | The Gaza Strip has experienced the highest number of air strikes recorded within a single month for any country or territory in the Middle East going back to 2020, according to a data analytics firm tracking Israel’s assault. |
| 20231107 | ‘We saw death’: families flee past tanks as Israel begins to storm Gaza City | dystopian war | Waving white flags and holding their hands above their heads, Palestinian families fled past tanks waiting to storm Gaza City in the next stage of the war that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said will give Israel “indefinite” control over the besieged territory. |
| 20231107 | 70 Children in Danger as Israel Threatens to Bomb Rantisi Hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israel has ordered the evacuation of the Rantisi Children’s Hospital in preparation for bombing it. |
| 20231107 | UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said one additional staff member has been killed in the Gaza Strip in the past day. | eliminating UNWRA | In the last 24 hours, one additional UNRWA colleague was killed, and another seriously injured. 89 UNRWA colleagues have been killed and at least 26 injured since the start of hostilities. This is the highest number of United Nations aid workers killed in a conflict in the history of the United Nations. |
| 20231107 | Rights groups warn of Gaza mass displacement | forced displacement | Palestinian rights groups say about 1.5 million people are displaced in Gaza amid unrelenting Israeli bombardments, threat of being pushed out of enclave “imminent”. |
| 20231107 | ‘We saw death’: families flee past tanks as Israel begins to storm Gaza City | forced displacement | Waving white flags and holding their hands above their heads, Palestinian families fled past tanks waiting to storm Gaza City in the next stage of the war that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said will give Israel “indefinite” control over the besieged territory. |
| 20231107 | 'We will not be exiled' - the final messages of Gaza's victims | forced displacement | Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza since 7 October has flattened entire neighbourhoods and left the besieged enclave resembling an apocalyptic nightmare. |
| 20231107 | 'Anti-Semitic' graffiti possibly ordered from abroad, Paris prosecutor says | global effects | The daubing of dozens of Stars of David on buildings in Paris and its suburbs, widely condemned as anti-Semitic, may have been carried out at the "express demand" of an individual residing abroad, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday. |
| 20231107 | Countries sever ties with Israel over its war on Gaza | global response | Will diplomatic pressure force the US and Israel’s other Western allies to reconsider their support for the war? |
| 20231107 | Hamas leader refuses to acknowledge killing of civilians in Israel | Hamas resistance attack | A senior Hamas leader has refused to acknowledge that his group killed civilians in Israel, claiming only conscripts were targeted. |
| 20231107 | Red Cross says humanitarian convoy came under fire in Gaza City | humanitarian aid | The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy came under fire in Gaza City on Tuesday but was able to deliver medical supplies to Al Shifa hospital. |
| 20231107 | Aid to Gaza must 'scale up enormously' through more entry points, EU says | humanitarian aid | The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid warned on Tuesday that support for civilians in Gaza must be stepped up "enormously," urging all parties to open other entry points into the Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231107 | Pentagon: US bases in Iraq, Syria attacked 38 times in under a month | Iraq | US forces stationed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 38 times in less than a month by Iranian-supported resistance factions, according to the Pentagon, including six incidents in the past two days. Yesterday, it was reported that drones were shot down, attempting to target the Ain Al-Assad bases in Iraq’s Anbar governorate and Al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border. |
| 20231107 | The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why | Israelis | This is an editorial |
| 20231107 | Palestinian journalist Mohammad Abu Hasira killed in Israeli strike on Gaza | journalists | An Israeli air raid has killed Palestinian journalist Mohammad Abu Hasira along with 42 family members near Gaza City, according to local media reports. |
| 20231107 | 'This might be my last video': A Gazan journalist reports on the humanitarian crisis | journalists | Since October 7, Gazan journalist Madhat Hajjaj has sent us dozens of eyewitness reports as the Israeli bombing continues. In a video sent to the Observateurs editorial team on November 6 from the Al-Shifa Hospital, he said that "people are fighting for a sip of water" after a night of unprecedented bombardment. The Palestinian Authority has accused the Israeli army of targeting hospitals, bakeries, generators and water tanks. |
| 20231107 | How Lebanon’s Hezbollah group became a critical player in the Israel-Hamas war | Lebanon | When the Lebanese militia Hezbollah announced last week that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, would deliver his first public speech since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, much of the region held its breath. |
| 20231107 | Hezbollah MP: group will respond 'double' over Lebanese civilians hurt | Lebanon | A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond "double" to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon. |
| 20231107 | US envoy flies to Beirut in a surprise visit, says Washington doesn’t want Gaza war to expand | Lebanon | A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut Tuesday that Washington doesn’t want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago. |
| 20231107 | Israel commits 'new massacre' in Gaza as Netanyahu vows 'indefinite' security control | targeting civilians | The Israeli military killed "dozens" of civilians in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah on Tuesday in what the Palestinian health ministry described as a "new massacre", as Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will maintain "indefinite" security control over the coastal enclave. |
| 20231107 | Pentagon: US bases in Iraq, Syria attacked 38 times in under a month | Syria | US forces stationed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 38 times in less than a month by Iranian-supported resistance factions, according to the Pentagon, including six incidents in the past two days. Yesterday, it was reported that drones were shot down, attempting to target the Ain Al-Assad bases in Iraq’s Anbar governorate and Al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border. |
| 20231107 | Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support | Turkey | Turkey's parliament removed Coca-Cola (KO.N) and Nestle (NESN.S) products from its restaurants on Tuesday over their alleged support for Israel amid the conflict in Gaza, according to an official statement and a source who named the two companies. |
| 20231107 | UN Security Council fails to agree on Israel-Hamas war as Gaza death toll passes 10,000 | United Nations | Despite more than two hours of closed-door discussions Monday, differences remained. The U.S. is calling for “humanitarian pauses” while many other council members are demanding a “humanitarian cease-fire” to deliver desperately needed aid and prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza. |
| 20231107 | US envoy flies to Beirut in a surprise visit, says Washington doesn’t want Gaza war to expand | United States | A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut Tuesday that Washington doesn’t want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago. |
| 20231107 | Blinken seeks G7 unity on Israel-Hamas war among items on crisis-heavy global agenda | United States | Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia on Tuesday with an appeal for the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies to forge consensus on how to deal with the crisis. |
| 20231107 | Biden’s outreach to US Arabs and Muslims ‘falling flat’ amid Gaza war | United States | Anger is growing, even as US administration holds meetings with advocates and announces anti-Islamophobia strategy. |
| 20231107 | US says does not support Israeli ‘reoccupation’ of Gaza after war | United States | National Security Council spokesperson says US President Joe Biden believes a ‘reoccupation by Israeli forces of Gaza is not the the right thing to do’. |
| 20231107 | In the midst of Israel’s assault, people of Gaza still don’t want the PA | West Bank | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel would govern the security of the Gaza Strip for an “indefinite period” after the ongoing war, in comments that came amid a growing debate over what the besieged strip might look like after the war. |
| 20231107 | Call for Meta to end dehumanisation of Palestinians on its platforms | Zionism / social media | The Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition is urging Meta to end the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the suppression of their narratives online. |
| 20231107 | Islamophobia, anti-Semitism rises in EU amid Israel-Hamas war: Official | Zionism / EU | Hate speech targeting Muslims and Jews in Europe is rising as the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages, a European Union official tasked with combating Islamophobia has warned. |
| 20231107 | Fake Mossad account creates online confusion | Zionism / social media | Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, fake accounts have been popping up impersonating government entities. The latest one causing confusion and spreading disinformation is one pretending to be the Israeli national intelligence agency, Mossad. |
| 20231107 | Jon Voight 'disappointed' by daughter Angelina Jolie’s 'lies' about Israel Hamas war | Zionism / US | Angelina Jolie’s father Jon Voight has slammed his estranged daughter’s views on the Israel Hamas war and accused her of spreading “lies” on social media. |
| 20231107 | London Palestine protests: Groups resist calls to cancel Armistice Day march | Zionism / UK | Pro-Palestine groups have vowed to continue marching for Gaza in central London on Saturday as the police join government calls to cancel a planned demonstration. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231108 | G7 calls for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza | ceasefire | Top diplomats from the Group of Seven (G7) have called for “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s bombardment in order to deliver aid to desperate Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231108 | G7 nations urge ‘urgent action’ to help civilians trapped in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting | ceasefire | Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies called Wednesday for “urgent action” to help civilians trapped in an increasingly dire situation in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting to allow aid in and people out, in announcing a unified stance on the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231108 | More than 1,000 USAID employees sign letter backing Israel-Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Hundreds of staffers at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed a letter calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, as a growing number of government employees voice dissent against US support for Israel’s military offensive there. |
| 20231108 | 59 mosques destroyed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since Oct. 7: Interior Ministry | churches & mosques | 136 mosques, 3 churches have been partially damaged in airstrikes |
| 20231108 | Germany reports massive surge in arms exports to Israel | collusion & complicity | The government allowed exports of almost €303 million ($323 million) to Israel up to 2 November – almost 10 times as much for the entire 2022 (€32 million), according to the German Economic Ministry. |
| 20231108 | Palestinian Authority would be appropriate governance for Gaza, US officials say | day after politics | The United States believes that the Palestinian Authority “is the appropriate place to look for governance eventually” of the Gaza Strip, a State Department official said. |
| 20231108 | Israel cannot reoccupy Gaza at end of conflict, says Antony Blinken | day after politics | US secretary of state echoes White House line, while UK favours rule by ‘peace-loving Palestinian leadership’ |
| 20231108 | Former UN expert stresses Israel’s occupation of Gaza never ended | day after politics | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has become the latest United States government official to warn Israel that it cannot “reoccupy Gaza” after the war with Hamas, in response to recent comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| Comment: the occupation of Gaza began in 1956 during the Suez Crisis following the nationalizing of the French-British controlled Suez Canal by Egypt. The Israelis were asked to attack Egyptian troops in Gaza. The enclave is part of the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT) thus indeed still under occupation | |||
| 20231108 | 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' | dystopian war | The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. |
| 20231108 | Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza runs out of fuel, shuts down key services | eliminating health care system | Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City has shut down “most operations” after running out of fuel and withstanding daily Israeli bombardments around the medical complex since Sunday. |
| 20231108 | ‘Handed a death sentence’: UK doctor forced to return to Gaza from Egypt | eliminating health care system | A British consultant cardiologist based in Swansea has said he is being “handed a death sentence” after being forced to return to Gaza over the border from Egypt at the Rafah crossing on Wednesday. |
| 20231108 | Israel-Hamas fight heats up in Gaza City, accelerating exodus of Palestinians to the south | food, water, fuel & electricity | Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban fighting between Israel and Hamas heats up. |
| 20231108 | 'Living on biscuits': The fear of starvation and thirst sets in for Gaza's residents | food, water, fuel & electricity | A full siege imposed on 9 October, followed by the bombing of bakeries, supermarkets and water tanks, has forced people to take extreme measures to find any food or water |
| 20231108 | ‘No running water’: War-displaced Gaza families bathe, wash in polluted sea | food, water, fuel & electricity | Escaping dirty conditions in overcrowded schools, Gaza families displaced by Israeli bombing are being forced to bathe and wash in polluted seawater. |
| 20231108 | Starved by Israel's blockade, Gaza's displaced children go hungry | food, water, fuel & electricity | Euronews correspondent in Gaza, Nebal Hajjoo, spoke to families living hand to mouth, not knowing if they'll be able to buy bread. |
| 20231108 | Israel-Hamas fight heats up in Gaza City, accelerating exodus of Palestinians to the south | forced displacement | Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban fighting between Israel and Hamas heats up. |
| 20231108 | 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' | forced displacement | The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. |
| 20231108 | Thousands of Palestinians flee northern Gaza in ‘desperate journey | forced displacement | Thousands of Palestinians have left northern Gaza on foot, waving white flags and moving southwards in search of refuge that has become increasingly elusive as Israel pounds the entire enclave with air strikes. |
| 20231108 | People forcibly displaced from north Gaza are fleeing on foot | forced displacement | Palestinians have been fleeing north Gaza on foot to escape Israel’s air attacks and ground offensive as its forces push further into the area, after issuing orders for people to leave. |
| 20231108 | India bars protests that support the Palestinians. Analysts say a pro-Israel shift helps at home | global effects | From Western capitals to Muslim states, protest rallies over the Israel-Hamas war have made headlines. But one place known for its vocal pro-Palestinian stance has been conspicuously quiet: Indian-controlled Kashmir. |
| 20231108 | Star of David graffiti in Paris - the Russian connection | global effects | French police believe a graffiti campaign featuring Star of David stencils may have been the work of Russian intelligence. |
| 20231108 | Ukrainian letter of solidarity with the Palestinian people | global response | More than 300 Ukrainian scholars, activists and artists express their solidarity with Palestinians in an open letter. |
| 20231108 | South Africa says it will issue 'demarche' to Israeli Ambassador | global response | South Africa is in the process of issuing a “demarche” to Israeli Ambassador, Eliav Belotsercovsky, the Director-General of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Zane Dangor, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. |
| 20231108 | Spain’s Ione Belarra: Israel must end ‘genocide’ of Palestinians in Gaza | global response | Ione Belarra, the Spanish minister for social rights and leader of the far-left Podemos party, also condemned world leaders for an apparent double standard – saying while human rights abuses in Ukraine have been decried, there is a “deafening silence” on the victims of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231108 | Cut diplomatic ties with Israel over “genocide,” Spanish minister says | global response | Spanish Minister of Social Rights Ione Belarra told Al Jazeera that her country should cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its “genocide” against Palestinians. She also criticised the EU’s “hypocrisy” in its muted response to Israel compared to its swift actions against Russia. |
| 20231108 | Belgium wants sanctions against Israel for Gaza bombings - deputy PM | global response | Belgium's deputy prime minister called on the Belgian government on Wednesday to adopt sanctions against Israel and investigate the bombings of hospitals and refugee camps in Gaza. |
| 20231108 | Italy to send hospital ship close to Gaza coast | humanitarian aid | Italy will send a hospital ship close to the coast of Gaza to help treat victims of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Italian Defence Minister, Guido Crosetto, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. |
| 20231108 | Iraq donates 10m litres of fuel to support hospitals in Gaza | humanitarian aid | Iraq said it is donating ten million litres of fuel to operate generators and keep hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip operational. |
| 20231108 | Israel's military spokesperson says Hamas has lost control in northern Gaza | IOF | UNVERIFIABLE CLAIM: Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza as thousands of residents have moved south, Israel's military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing on Wednesday. |
| 20231108 | Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital | IOF | Sanad, Al Jazeera’s digital investigation agency, has disproved the latest claim by Israeli authorities that there is a tunnel for Hamas fighters under the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Hospital, commonly known as the Qatari Hospital. |
| 20231108 | From outrage to hate: In the wake of October 7, Israel's far right seeks to extend its influence | Israelis | Ministers from Israel’s extreme right have been making increasingly controversial statements since the Hamas attacks on October 7 in a game of one-upmanship that has seen the right wing seek to extend its influence over Israel’s government and beyond. |
| 20231108 | Israeli Supreme Court refuses to allow protests against Gaza war | Israelis | The Israeli Supreme Court today rejected petitions submitted to it against the police’s decision to prevent demonstrations in the Arab community in protest against the war in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231108 | Hezbollah's anti-ship missiles bolster its threat to US navy | Lebanon | Powerful Russian anti-ship missiles acquired by Hezbollah give it the means to deliver on its leader's veiled threat against U.S. warships and underline the grave risks of any regional war, sources familiar with the group's arsenal say. |
| 20231108 | Hezbollah warns of regional war if Gaza bombing goes on | Lebanon | The second in command of Hezbollah - the powerful Iranian backed militia in Lebanon - has said Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza risks wider war in the Middle East. |
| 20231108 | Gaza interior ministry: Israeli air strike kills at least 19 near hospital | targeting civilians | At least 19 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house near a hospital in north Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, the enclave's interior ministry said, as thousands of civilians fled southward to avoid fierce Israeli-Hamas ground fighting. |
| 20231108 | Turkiye halts energy projects with Israel in the absence of a ceasefire: Minister | Turkey | Turkiye will not discuss any energy-related projects with Israel without a ceasefire in Gaza, as it would be disrespectful to Palestinians who are experiencing great brutality, a senior official said late Tuesday, local Turkish media outlets reports. |
| 20231108 | Labour’s refusal to call for Gaza ceasefire derails UK opposition party | United Kingdom | On Tuesday night, a Labour frontbencher quit the party over Starmer’s position – the latest in a string of resignations. |
| 20231108 | Labour MP resigns from front bench to call for a ceasefire | United Kingdom | A Labour source told Middle East Eye that Imran Hussain resigned from the front bench before the party could fire him for supporting a ceasefire in Gaza |
| 20231108 | No grounds to ban pro-Palestinian march, says Met chief | United Kingdom | A pro-Palestinian march due to take place on Armistice Day would only be banned as a "last resort", the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said. |
| 20231108 | Activists accuse England police force of pressuring travel company to cancel trips to London to prevent pro-Palestine protest | United Kingdom | The police force in England is accused of having contacted transport companies and asking them to cancel trips to London this weekend in order to prevent people from attending the massive pro-Palestine rally planned for Saturday. |
| 20231108 | UN chief says Gaza deaths show something 'wrong' with Israel tactics | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that the number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip shows that there is something "clearly wrong" with Israel's military operations against Hamas Palestinian militants. |
| 20231108 | Collective punishment of Palestinian civilians 'amounts to war crime': UN Human Rights chief | United Nations | Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians “amounts to a war crime,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday |
| 20231108 | Blinken reiterates US opposition to Israel or Hamas running post-war Gaza | United States | Gaza cannot be run by either Israel or Hamas once the continuing conflict is over, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, reiterating the stance of the White House. |
| 20231108 | Blinken urges united future Palestinian government for Gaza and West Bank, widening gulf with Israel | United States | Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for the Palestinian territories once Israel’s military campaign against Hamas winds down. |
| 20231108 | Americans divided over Israel response to Hamas attacks, AP-NORC poll shows | United States | Americans have become more likely to describe Israel as an ally that shares U.S. interests and values since the war with Hamas began, but they’re divided over whether Israel has gone too far in its response to last month’s attack, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. |
| 20231108 | The family of a Palestinian activist jailed for incitement says young woman’s account was hacked | West Bank | The family of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi insists she didn’t write the words for which she now sits in an Israeli jail. |
| 20231108 | Birzeit University raided by Israeli occupation forces | West Bank | The campus of Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah has been raided by Israeli occupation forces, Wafa news agency has reported. |
| 20231108 | Israeli parliament bill criminalises ‘consumption of terrorist materials’ | West Bank | Israel’s parliament has passed an amendment to the country’s counterterrorism law that introduces the “consumption of terrorist materials” as a new criminal offence. |
| 20231108 | France’s political parties bitterly divided over Paris march against "anti-Semitism" | Zionism / France | A call for a weekend march in Paris against anti-Semitism sparked bitter squabbling between political parties Wednesday despite a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in the country. |
| 20231108 | Volunteer removed from New York City Marathon for pro-Palestine sign | Zionism / US | Organisers say no 'political' messaging was allowed despite the presence of a 'Run for Israel' tent at the race |
| 20231108 | Steinmeier says Arabs in Germany should distance themselves from Hamas | Zionism / Germany | German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Germans of Arab and Palestinian descent should take steps to distance themselves from anti-Semitism and the Palestinian group Hamas as pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the country have triggered controversy. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231109 | Mossad, CIA chiefs meet Qatar PM in Doha on Gaza hostage deal -source | ceasefire | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israeli Mossad chiefs met with the Qatari prime minister in Doha on Thursday to discuss the parameters of a deal for hostage releases and a pause in Hamas-Israel fighting in the Gaza Strip, a source briefed on the meeting told Reuters. |
| 20231109 | France promises €100 million aid for Palestinians as Macron calls for humanitarian pause in fighting | ceasefire | France will allocate an additional €80 million to humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people this year, bringing the total to €100 million, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday. |
| 20231109 | Pro-Palestine activists in Melbourne disrupt Israeli shipping company | collusison & complicity | Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters in Australia disrupted the supply of an Israeli cargo shipping company by blocking trucks from entering a container terminal in the port city of Melbourne. |
| 20231109 | Blinken urges united future Palestinian government for Gaza and West Bank, widening gulf with Israel | day after politics | Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for the Palestinian territories once Israel’s military campaign against Hamas winds down. |
| 20231109 | Israel's attacks on Gaza: The weapons and scale of destruction | destruction | For over a month, Gaza’s night sky has been lit by the red glow of missile flashes, delivering death and destruction to its 2.3 million residents. It is the same during the day, except the colours are different, as Gaza’s blue skies are blackened with plumes of smoke rising from newly leveled homes. |
| 20231109 | Satellite photos analyzed by AP show an axis of Israeli push earlier this week into the Gaza Strip | dystopian war | Israeli troops have pushed into Gaza City along a key coastal road on the Mediterranean Sea as part of their war on Hamas, according to satellite images from earlier this week analyzed on Thursday by The Associated Press. |
| 20231109 | Israeli tanks make slow Gaza advancements as urban clashes grow | dystopian war | Palestinian sources warn that the Israeli army's current ground offensive is the precursor to another occupation of the besieged enclave |
| 20231109 | Displaced, hungry and abandoned - One Palestinian woman's Gaza odyssey | forced displacement | Palestinians who fled their homes in the north of Gaza continue to be attacked by the Israeli air force |
| 20231109 | Israel to begin daily four-hour ‘pauses’ in fighting in north Gaza, US says | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to begin daily four-hour pauses in fighting in northern Gaza to allow people to flee hostilities, the White House has announced, in what it called a step in the right direction. |
| 20231109 | Israel agrees to pauses in Gaza attacks, US says, but fighting rages | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to pause military operations in northern Gaza for four hours a day from Thursday, the White House said, in the first sign of a respite in more than a month of fighting that has killed thousands and stoked fears of a regional conflict. |
| 20231109 | Israel agrees to 4-hour daily pauses in Gaza fighting to allow civilians to flee, White House says | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza starting on Thursday, the White House said, as President Joe Biden pressed Israelis for a multi-day stoppage in the fighting in a bid to release hostages held by the militant group. |
| 20231109 | Israel to begin daily four-hour ‘pauses’ in fighting in north Gaza, US says | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to begin daily four-hour pauses in fighting in northern Gaza to allow people to flee hostilities, the White House has announced, in what it called a step in the right direction.
Comment: They didn't confirm officially . |
| 20231109 | Brazil-Israel ties strained as Mossad trumpets Hezbollah bust | global effects | An unusual statement by Israeli spy agency Mossad saying it had helped foil a Hezbollah attack in Brazil is the latest incident to strain relations between Israel and Latin America's largest nation against the backdrop of the Gaza war. |
| 20231109 | German Chancellor pledges to protect Germany's Jews in the rise of "anti-Semitism" | global effects | The German Chancellor has pledged to protect Germany's Jews, in the face of rising "anti-Semitism" since the start, of the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231109 | France slams Russian networks for 'exploiting' crises with posts of Star of David graffiti in Paris | global effects | The French foreign ministry accused Russian online networks of attempting to "exploit international crises to sow confusion" in France and in Europe by sharing photos of the Stars of David appearing around Paris, graffiti that has been widely suspected of being an "anti-Semitic" statement. |
| 20231109 | Fighting "antisemitism" and Islamophobia in France | global effects | Amid the latest Israel-Hamas conflict, antisemitic incidents have surged in France, which is home to Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities. But one initiative in the south of Paris is trying to calm tensions by bringing together Muslims and Jews. |
| 20231109 | 'Crimes are being committed': Belgium deputy PM Petra De Sutter calls for sanctions against Israel | global response | “Israel’s bombing increases the Palestinians’ total hopelessness," said Petra De Sutter. "Without a real solution, the violence will continue to repeat itself." |
| 20231109 | French President Macron hosts Gaza aid conference and appeals to Israel to protect civilians | global response | Western and Arab nations, international agencies and nongovernmental groups stressed the urgent need for aid for Gaza civilians at a Paris conference Thursday, held as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory worsens amid Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against Hamas. |
| 20231109 | Macron says protecting civilians ‘non-negotiable’ at Gaza aid conference | global response | French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a humanitarian pause in fighting between Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza, saying that Israel must take steps to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 20231109 | 'All lives have equal worth': Macron urges Israel to protect civilians at Gaza aid conference | global response | French President Emmanuel Macron opened a Gaza aid conference on Thursday with an appeal for Israel to protect civilians as it fights Hamas, saying “all lives have equal worth” and that fighting terrorism “can never be carried out without rules.” |
| 20231109 | NGOs express disappointment at international conference organised by Macron for Gaza | global response | Thirteen NGOs held a news conference, Thursday, in Paris to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, after attending an international conference on humanitarian aid for the Gazan population. |
| 20231109 | Pro-Palestine activists in Melbourne disrupt Israeli shipping company | global response | Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters in Australia disrupted the supply of an Israeli cargo shipping company by blocking trucks from entering a container terminal in the port city of Melbourne. |
| 20231109 | Why Latin America’s ‘pink tide’ is taking a stand against Israel | global response | As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza enters its second month, world leaders have increasingly voiced concern over the rising death toll and suspected human rights violations in the Palestinian territory. |
| 20231109 | Islamic Jihad group in Gaza shows new hostage video | Hamas resistance attack | The armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza released a video on Thursday showing an elderly woman and a young boy who were among around 240 hostages seized by militant gunmen who attacked Israel on Oct. 7. |
| 20231109 | Israel sees 'sign of life' in Gaza hostage video | Hamas resistance attack | The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has posted videos of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza. |
| 20231109 | Israel berates New York Times, CNN, Reuters, AP over Hamas attack photographers | Hamas resistance attack | Israel accuses foreign media of having forewarning of Hamas’ attacks through freelance photographers in Gaza. |
| 20231109 | Reuters denies any suggestion it had prior knowledge of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel | Hamas resistance attack | Reuters denied on Thursday suggestions by media advocacy group HonestReporting that it and other international news organisations had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers. |
| 20231109 | Negotiations said to be underway for 3-day humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza to let aid in, hostages out | humanitarian aid | International mediators were closing in on a possible deal Thursday for a three-day humanitarian cease-fire in exchange for the release of around a dozen hostages held by Hamas, according to two Egyptian officials, a United Nations official and a Western diplomat. The deal would also allow a small amount of fuel to enter the territory for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began. |
| 20231109 | France promises €100 million aid for Palestinians as Macron calls for humanitarian pause in fighting | humanitarian aid | France will allocate an additional €80 million to humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people this year, bringing the total to €100 million, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday. |
| 20231109 | ‘We are facing a disaster’, Mayor of Gaza’s Maghazi camp warns | humanitarian crisis | In an area less than 3 square km (1.1sq miles), 100,000 people are struggling to survive. This small patch of Gaza is rapidly becoming uninhabitable. |
| 20231109 | Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza’s close-knit society | humanitarian crisis | Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. |
| 20231109 | ‘We saw death’: Egyptian nationals trying to leave Gaza stuck at Rafah | humanitarian crisis | It was a long-awaited family reunion. In October, Reem Rasmi travelled from her home in Egypt to the Gaza Strip to visit her sister’s family after five years. Her nephew was getting married, and it was time to celebrate. |
| 20231109 | Red Cross reports on Gaza’s critical situation | humanitarian crisis | On treating patients in Gaza’s war zone, Dr. Tom Potkor, chief surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports on the drastic situation. |
| 20231109 | Three rights groups file ICC lawsuit against Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’ | ICC | Three Palestinian rights groups have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging the body to investigate Israel for “apartheid” as well as “genocide” and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. |
| 20231109 | US forces under fire in Middle East as America slides towards brink | Iraq | A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. |
| 20231109 | The war on Gaza: A masterclass in disinformation | Israelis | Israeli government tries to deflect responsibility, sow doubt as it seeks to define the narrative in the war on Gaza. |
| 20231109 | News outlets reject allegations of complicity in Hamas attack inside Israel | journalists | Four international media outlets have denied accusations they had prior knowledge of the October 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel after an article by a pro-Israel media watchdog group HonestReporting questioned their work with Gaza-based freelance photojournalists. |
| 20231109 | Protest delays US Ambassador's visit to Lebanon's top Sunni religious authority | Lebanon | Dozens in Lebanon, on Thursday, protested against an upcoming visit to the country’s highest Sunni religious authority by the US Ambassador in Beirut. |
| 20231109 | Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are by design, not default | opinion | The gruesome scenes of death and destruction in Gaza are a reminder that for Israel, violence is not incidental, accidental or coincidental. It is part and parcel of its colonial DNA. |
| 20231109 | 'Eliminating Hamas is not going to happen,' Palestinian PM says | Palestinian Authority | Speaking to FRANCE 24 one month after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Mohammad Shtayyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, called for "an immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, but said that "the Israelis don't want any ceasefire because today the Israelis are in the mood of revenge". |
| 20231109 | US hits alleged Iran-linked ‘weapons storage’ facility in Syria | Syria | Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the move was in response to continued attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq. |
| 20231109 | Palestinians arrested for ‘terrorism’ over WhatsApp status | West Bank | Video shows the moment a Palestinian woman and her husband were arrested in Israel on terrorism charges over her WhatsApp status. She’s one of many Palestinian citizens of Israel who’ve been arrested, suspended or expelled from jobs and universities, since October 7. |
| 20231109 | Deadly assault on Jenin refugee camp as West Bank raids intensify | West Bank | At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and 20 others injured during a raid by Israeli forces in Jenin city and refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said. |
| 20231109 | 11 Palestinians killed in large Israeli raid on Jenin | West Bank | At least 11 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in a sweeping military raid and drone strikes on Jenin city and refugee camp on Thursday. |
| 20231109 | Braverman slammed after calling UK pro-Palestine protesters ‘hate marchers’ | Zionism / UK | Suella Braverman, the British home secretary, has faced criticism after describing pro-Palestine protesters as “hate marchers” and accusing police of double standards.
COMMENT Hindus in India also hate Muslims. Braverman has family members in the Israeli occupation forces, and have businesses in the territory of the Israeli entity. |
| 20231109 | The UK’s interior minister sparks furor by accusing police of favoring pro-Palestinian protesters | Zionism / UK | Britain’s interior minister on Thursday accused the country’s largest police force of being more lenient toward pro-Palestinian demonstrators than other groups, deepening a political feud sparked by the Israel-Hamas war |
| 20231109 | Calls to sack Braverman grow amid furore over pro-Palestine rallies remarks | Zionism / UK | The political future of British Home Secretary Suella Braverman hangs in the balance as she faces anger within her own Conservative Party after making unauthorised comments about the country’s pro-Palestine demonstrations, which she called “hate marches” and for criticising the police. |
| 20231109 | Washington Post cartoon on Gaza condemned as racist | Zionism / US | The Washington Post has taken down a cartoon that’s been condemned as a racist depiction of Palestinians and Arabs. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231110 | Will Israel’s ‘humanitarian pauses’ mean much for Gaza? No, say experts | ceasefire | Analysts say the temporary cease in fighting is not only glaringly inadequate but a PR move led by US interests. |
| 20231110 | Gaza’s Christians fear ‘threat of extinction’ amid Israel war | churches & mosques | When Israeli bombs began pummelling the once-bustling streets of Gaza City, Diana Tarazi and her family fled to the Holy Family Church, the only Roman Catholic place of worship in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231110 | Jewish fears as German support for Israel is challenged on streets | collusion & complicity | Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's "ashamed and outraged" at recent antisemitic attacks in Germany. |
| 20231110 | Pro-Palestinian protesters block entrances to UK's BAE defence plant | collusion & complicity | Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the entrances to a BAE Systems (BAES.L) factory in southeast England on Friday, targeting Britain's biggest military supplier to call for an end to arms sales to Israel. |
| 20231110 | Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | collusion & complicity | The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. |
| 20231110 | UN rights chief urges probe of Israel's 'high-impact' weapons | collusion & complicity | The U.N. human rights chief on Friday called for an investigation into what he called Israel's use of "high-impact explosive weapons" in Gaza, which he said was causing indiscriminate destruction in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| Comment: 'high-impact' weapons refers to bunker buster bombs, and general purpose bomb of 2.000 and 5.000 pounds delivered by the US. | |||
| 20231110 | Israeli bombardments damage more than half of Gaza’s housing units | domicide | Israeli bombardments have caused damage to more than 50 percent of housing units across Gaza, according to local officials. |
| 20231110 | Israel-Gaza war ‘devastating’ Palestine economy, UN warns | economy | Gaza is experiencing ‘unimaginable’ levels of destruction as the Palestinian economy suffers after a month of war. |
| 20231110 | In Gaza, hospital procedures without anaesthetics prompted screams, prayers | eliminating health care system | The little girl was weeping in pain and screaming "Mummy, Mummy" while the nurse stitched up her head wound without using any anaesthetic, because none was available at the time at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. |
| 20231110 | Health centres in north Gaza under siege in ‘day of war against hospitals’ | eliminating health care system | Battles have intensified around several hospitals in northern Gaza, with some receiving direct hits and reports of casualties among patients and tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians sheltering at the facilities, as Israeli troops continue their advance. |
| 20231110 | Gaza’s hospitals on the brink of collapse | eliminating health care system | Gaza’s Ministry of Health says 21 hospitals are out of service, others are running out of fuel, medicine. |
| 20231110 | Which of Gaza’s hospitals is Israel threatening? | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks surround four hospitals in Gaza as bombardments, shelling, and shortages of fuel and supplies hit other medical centers. |
| 20231110 | Gaza hospital ‘surrounded by tanks’ as other healthcare facilities say they’ve been damaged by Israeli strikes | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks have surrounded a Gaza hospital, its director told CNN, as the territory’s largest healthcare facility came under a reported “bombardment,” heightening fears Friday that Israel’s military campaign is further endangering Gazan patients and medical staff. |
| 20231110 | Strikes at hospitals in Gaza trigger exodus of thousands sheltering there | eliminating health care system | Thousands of Palestinians sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war at Gaza City’s main hospital fled south Friday after several reported strikes in and around the compound overnight. They joined a growing exodus of people escaping intense urban fighting in the north -- including near other hospitals -- as Gaza officials said the territory’s death toll surpassed 11,000. |
| 20231110 | Palestinians flee Al Shifa hospital after deadly strike | eliminating health care system | Ayman Al-Masri joined thousands of people seeking safety in southern Gaza on Friday after fleeing the enclave's main hospital in what Palestinian officials said was an Israeli air strike. |
| 20231110 | Israel strikes Gaza’s biggest hospital complex, health officials say | eliminating health care system | Israel has attacked four hospitals in Gaza, including the enclave’s biggest medical complex, resulting in what appear to be multiple casualties, the health ministry in the Hamas-governed enclave has said. |
| 20231110 | UN mourns record death toll in war with over 100 employees killed in Gaza | eliminating UNWRA | More than 100 United Nations employees have been killed since the Israel-Hamas war began in Gaza, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Friday, making it the deadliest conflict ever for the U.N. in such a short period of time. |
| 20231110 | 'Far too many' Palestinians have died, says Blinken, as death toll passes 11,000 | genocide | Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza as Israel's military pushed deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants. Officials from the Hamas-run health department in the besieged enclave said the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 11,000 people. |
| 20231110 | Canada PM Trudeau condemns violence after shots fired at Jewish schools | global effects | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday condemned recent violence as unacceptable after shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal overnight and clashes between students at a university in the same city late on Wednesday. |
| 20231110 | Counterprotest groups plan to confront pro-Palestine marchers, say Met police | global effects | Large groups are preparing to travel to London to “confront” a pro-Palestine march on Armistice Day that organisers predict will be one of the biggest demonstrations ever seen in Britain, the Metropolitan police has said. |
| 20231110 | ‘Inhumane’: Top Belgium officials criticise Israeli bombing of Gaza | global response | PM De Croo describes Israel’s relentless and bloody campaign as ‘disproportionate’, as a left-wing politician calls for sanctions. |
| 20231110 | From sport to music, Chile’s Palestinian diaspora rallies to support Gaza | global response | Chile is home to the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, making the community a political force. |
| 20231110 | Saudi crown prince, African leaders call for end to war in Gaza | global response | Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Friday called for an end to the war in Gaza, a stance later echoed in a declaration with African leaders attending a summit in Riyadh. |
| 20231110 | Pro-Palestinian protesters block entrances to UK's BAE defence plant | global response | Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the entrances to a BAE Systems (BAES.L) factory in southeast England on Friday, targeting Britain's biggest military supplier to call for an end to arms sales to Israel. |
| 20231110 | Indian unions call for end to labour deal with Israel | global response | Israel requests Indian workers to replace thousands of Palestinian workers whose work permits were revoked after 7 October attacks |
| 20231110 | Israel revises down toll from October 7 attack to ‘around 1,200’ | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli officials say the original death toll of 1,400 included unidentified corpses now believed to be Hamas fighters. |
| 20231110 | Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to 'around 1,200' | Hamas resistance attack | A spokesperson for Israel's foreign ministry said on Friday that the death toll from the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel had been revised to around 1,200 from a previous government estimate of 1,400. |
| 20231110 | ‘A death sentence’: British doctor flees Gaza but is sent back to war zone | humanitarian aid | A British doctor who escaped Gaza with his family has been sent back to the war zone after Egyptian officials told him his name wasn’t on the list of evacuees, according to a British Member of Parliament. |
| 20231110 | UN rights chief urges probe of Israel's 'high-impact' weapons | IOF | The U.N. human rights chief on Friday called for an investigation into what he called Israel's use of "high-impact explosive weapons" in Gaza, which he said was causing indiscriminate destruction in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| Comment: 'high-impact' weapons refers to bunker buster bombs, and general purpose bomb of 2.000 and 5.000 pounds delivered by the US. | |||
| 20231110 | Iran warns of ‘inevitable expansion’ of Israel-Gaza war | Iran | Israel’s intensifying ‘aggression’ against Gaza civilians makes spillover inevitable, Iran’s top diplomat says. |
| 20231110 | US troops face further attacks in Iraq | Iraq | United States troops in Iraq have been targeted in new attacks using drones and explosives, military and security sources reported. |
| 20231110 | Netanyahu says not seeking to ‘occupy’ Gaza but ‘demilitarise’ it | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country does not intend to “occupy” or govern Gaza after the end of its war with Hamas, but the enclave must be “demilitarised, deradicalised and rebuilt”. |
| 20231110 | ‘Now isn’t the time’: Israel’s left conflicted on future after Hamas attack | Israelis | From politicians to regular citizens, Israel’s left faces an identity crisis amid hyper charged nationalism since October 7. |
| 20231110 | Israel says it will divert some far-right coalition party funds to war effort | Israelis | Israel's finance ministry said on Friday it would divert to the war effort some 1.6 billion shekels ($440 million) this year out of billions earmarked for parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition government. |
| 20231110 | Israel must revive 'two-state solution', former PM Ehud Olmert | Israelis | Olmert slammed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying he had failed his citizens and boosted Hamas while weakening the Palestinian Authority: "He is in a nervous breakdown." |
| 20231110 | An encounter with two bereaved Israeli peace activists in Jerusalem | Israelis | Ya’akov Godo lost his son and Maoz Yinon lost his parents in the Hamas-led attack on 7 October but both argue that war is futile |
| 20231110 | News outlets deny claims they had prior knowledge of Hamas attack on Israel | media | Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times and CNN say suggestions are untrue, outrageous and reckless |
| 20231110 | Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | regional effect | The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. |
| 20231110 | US launches 'self-defence' strike on weapons unit in Syria | Syria | The US used two F-15 aircrafts to launch a 'self-defence strike' in Maysulun in eastern Syria on 8 November. The strike was targeted at what the Pentagon calls a weapons storage unit used by Iran's revolutionary guard and its affiliates. Officials say this was in response to attacks on US personnel in Iraq and Syria. |
| 20231110 | US military buildup off Israeli coast requires balancing act between deterrence and escalation | Syria | US warplanes conducted air strikes on a weapons storage facility in Syria used by Iran-backed militants on November 8 in retaliation for the growing number of attacks on US military interests in the region, the second such strikes in less than two weeks. |
| 20231110 | Gaza officials say Israeli strikes kill 27 amid US unease at death toll | targeting civilians | Israeli air strikes hit three Gaza hospitals and a school on Friday, killing at least 27 people, and a ground battle was under way at another hospital, Palestinian officials said, as the U.S. voiced fresh disquiet at the war's mounting death toll. |
| 20231110 | Civilian death rate in Israeli airstrikes higher than in past conflicts, study finds | targeting civilians | Monitoring group says increased fatality average in latest Gaza air campaign may indicate shift in strategy |
| 20231110 | Blinken says 'far too many' Palestinians killed as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday denounced the soaring number of Palestinians killed as Israel pushed ahead with its war against Hamas in Gaza, saying more needs to be done to protect the civilians. |
| 20231110 | Blinken says ‘far too many’ Palestinians have died as Israel wages relentless war on Hamas | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “far too many” Palestinians have died and suffered as Israel wages a relentless war against the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip. He urged Israel to minimize harm to civilians and maximize humanitarian assistance that reaches them. |
| 20231110 | Blinken brings a notable shift in US language toward Israel as pressure mounts at home and abroad | United States | When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented the civilian death toll in Gaza on Friday, it marked a subtle but notable shift in US language toward the Israeli government. |
| 20231110 | Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | United States | The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. |
| 20231110 | German police crack down on pro-Palestine rallies, raising alarm | Zionism / Germany | Officers seized several banners at a recent Berlin protest, fuelling fears that free expression does not extend to the Palestinian cause. |
| 20231110 | UK PM Sunak under pressure to sack interior minister over police criticism | Zionism / UK | British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was under growing pressure on Friday to sack one of his most senior ministers, Suella Braverman, after she published an inflammatory article attacking the police's handling of a planned pro-Palestinian march. |
| 20231110 | Opposition to Armistice Day march for Gaza is a sign of UK’s moral crisis | Zionism / UK | UK government’s efforts to ban Saturday’s pro-Palestine march exposes its abandonment of some core British values and is indicative of a similar trend across the Western world. |
| 20231110 | Rishi Sunak faces Tory civil war as he holds off sacking Suella Braverman | Zionism / UK | Home secretary’s allies claim over 50 MPs are backing her but moderate Tories say PM must take action |
| 20231110 | TikTok faces calls for ban amid claims of anti-Israel ‘indoctrination’ | Zionism / US | US lawmakers renew calls to restrict app amid anxiety about growing pro-Palestinian views among young people. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231111 | EU Socialists MEP: Israeli pauses in Gaza not enough | ceasefire | Pedro Marques, deputy leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, has told DW the move is a "step in the right direction" and shows the results of international pressure. Pedro Marques said citizens on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East need to be protected. |
| 20231111 | Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls, rules out role for PA in post-war Gaza | ceasefire | Netanyahu on Saturday rejected mounting international calls for a ceasefire and ruled out a role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in post-war Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Hundreds of thousands rally in London demanding Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Many far-right counterprotesters clash with police, arrested to ‘prevent breach of peace’. |
| 20231111 | Australian arms exports to Israel in focus amid court case, port protests | collusion & complicity | Legal action and protests at Australian ports put spotlight on Australian weapons exports to Israel. |
| 20231111 | Amnesty chief calls out West’s ‘double standards’ over Gaza war | collusion & complicity | “The double standards of those governments… are the bigger threat to human rights right now.” Amnesty International chief Agnes Callamard has called out the West’s approach to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Calling for a ceasefire is never hateful, it’s Suella Braverman who is stoking division | collusion & complicity | Demanding an end to British complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza should not be a controversial position |
| 20231111 | Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls, rules out role for PA in post-war Gaza | day after politics | Netanyahu on Saturday rejected mounting international calls for a ceasefire and ruled out a role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in post-war Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Israeli troops besiege Gaza hospitals as Arab leaders denounce ‘war crimes’ | eliminating health care system | On the 36th day of the Israel-Palestine armed conflict, Israeli tanks and infantry advance on civilian neighbourhoods in Gaza, as health sector nears collapse |
| 20231111 | Israeli forces close in on al-Shifa Hospital, trapping thousands | eliminating health care system | Thousands of people are holed up in Gaza’s largest hospital, which Israel claims is a Hamas command centre. |
| 20231111 | Israeli forces surround north Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | Shelling, gunshots and explosions took place outside Gaza City hospitals on Friday as Israeli forces continued their ground operation against Hamas. |
| 20231111 | ‘We are minutes away from death’: Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital under attack | eliminating health care system | Palestinian health officials say babies in incubators are fighting for their lives as Israel lays siege to the hospital compound. |
| 20231111 | Pleas from inside Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital under siege | eliminating health care system | Israeli attacks on Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified in the past few hours, with staff reporting “a catastrophic situation”, MSF says. Palestinians sheltering inside are appealing to the international community for help. |
| 20231111 | 39 babies at risk of death at Al-Shifa Hospital due to lack of oxygen: Palestinian Health Ministry | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday that 39 children in the care ward of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza are at risk of death at any time due to a lack of oxygen, which coincided with heavy air and artillery bombardment of the hospital and its surroundings by Israeli forces |
| 20231111 | Gaza health system reaches ‘point of no return’, says Red Cross | eliminating health care system | Attacks on medical facilities and personnel have pushed Gaza’s overstretched health system to a “point of no return”, the Red Cross said on Friday. The warning came hours after Al-Shifa, the biggest hospital in the Strip, came under bombardment, according to the World Health Organization. Footage from the besieged Palestinian enclave showed Israeli tanks around several hospitals in Gaza City. |
| 20231111 | Baby dies in incubator and more at risk as power runs out at al Shifa hospital, Palestinian officials say | eliminating health care system | A newborn baby has died and dozens more are at risk at Gaza's largest hospital after it ran out of power, Palestinian officials have said. |
| 20231111 | Gaza’s main hospital goes dark in intense fighting as Israel’s attacks put it at odds with allies | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops and Hamas gunmen battled Saturday outside Gaza ‘s largest hospital where frantic doctors said the last generator had run out of fuel, causing the death of a premature baby and four other patients. Thousands of war-wounded, medical staff and displaced civilians were caught in the fighting. |
| 20231111 | Gaza's main hospital goes dark as leaders urge Netanyahu to end 'aggression' | eliminating health care system | The leaders of Arab and Muslim countries have rejected the Israeli argument of "self-defence" in the Gaza Strip and demanded an immediate end to Israeli military operations in this territory. |
| 20231111 | Israel's war on "Hamas homes" in Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | Palestinian officials said a baby died and dozens more patients were at risk from Israeli fire around Gaza's largest hospital on Saturday, while Israel said it had killed a Hamas militant who had stopped another hospital from being evacuated. |
| 20231111 | Israel is bombing hospitals in Gaza with Israeli doctors’ approval | eliminating health care system | We, Palestinian doctors in Israel, are forced to watch in silence massacres unfolding, which some of our Israeli colleagues are encouraging. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | eliminating UNWRA | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Nakba survivor displaced in Gaza as tens of thousands flee south | forced displacement | A 90-year-old Nakba survivor was displaced from her home in Gaza City to the south, covering 5 kilometres on foot as tens of thousands of Palestinians flee Israel’s air and ground attacks in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231111 | French far-right leader Marine Le Pen raises a storm over her plan to march against antisemitism | global effects | French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend a weekend march to protest rising antisemitism in France, with critics saying that her once-pariah party has failed to shake off its antisemitic heritage despite growing political legitimacy. |
| 20231111 | France’s Macron urges Israel to stop bombing and killing civilians in Gaza | global response | The French president says he hopes other leaders, including those in Washington, will join him in his call for a ceasefire. |
| 20231111 | Macron calls on Israel to stop killing Gaza's women and babies | global response | In an interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there was "no justification" for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel. |
| 20231111 | EU Socialists MEP: Israeli pauses in Gaza not enough | global response | Pedro Marques, deputy leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, has told DW the move is a "step in the right direction" and shows the results of international pressure. Pedro Marques said citizens on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East need to be protected. |
| 20231111 | Colombia president: ‘It’s called Genocide, they do it to remove Palestinians from Gaza’ | global response | Colombian President Gustavo Petro tweeted on X on Friday: “It’s called Genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over.” |
| 20231111 | Irish lawmakers to debate expulsion of Israeli ambassador, referral of Israel to International Criminal Court | global response | Lawmakers in the Irish parliament, Dail, will vote on the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador next week |
| 20231111 | Japan urges two-state solution in Middle East | global response | Japan said Friday the implementation of a two-state solution in the Middle East and support for the economic independence of Palestine are of utmost importance |
| 20231111 | Belgian MP joins solidarity protest for Palestinians: ‘We need to sanction to end this occupation’ | global response | Al Jazeera spoke to Simon Moutquin, A Belgian MP who attended that rally in Brussels, and called for sanctions against Israel. |
| 20231113 | What is a ‘human shield’ and why is Israel using the term in Gaza? | imprisonment / human shield | Rights organisations have accused Israel of war crimes as an overwhelming majority of the 11,100 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks are civilians, two-thirds of them women and children. |
| 20231111 | Iranian President Raisi in Saudi Arabia for Gaza summit | Iran | Ebrahim Raisi is attending an extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh on Gaza, which comes amid reported Arab divisions. The visit is his first to Saudi Arabia since the two countries restored ties in March. |
| 20231111 | Israelis in fear and denial as society slides towards fascism | Israelis | Palestinian students, academics, doctors, and dissenting Jewish Israelis are among those caught up in an escalating wave of repression |
| 20231111 | Israel kills seven more Hezbollah fighters on border with Lebanon | Lebanon | Iranian foreign minister says wider regional conflict inevitable as death toll among militant group rises to 78 |
| 20231111 | Hezbollah says front with Israel will remain active | Lebanon | The head of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah said on Saturday that his armed group had used new types of weapons and struck new targets in Israel in recent days, and pledged that the front in the south against its sworn enemy would remain active. |
| 20231111 | Hezbollah says it is introducing new weapons in ongoing battles with Israeli troops | Lebanon | The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Saturday his fighters have introduced new weapons, including a missile with a heavy warhead in the ongoing fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border, adding that they will keep using the tense frontier to pressure Israel. |
| 20231111 | HonestReporting accepts news groups had no prior warning of Oct. 7 Hamas attack | media / Israeli | The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on Friday he accepted as "adequate" statements by four media organisations that they had no previous knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, adding he was "so relieved". |
| 20231111 | Iran President Raisi says action, not words, needed on Gaza | regional response | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the time had come for action over the conflict in Gaza rather than talk as he headed to Saudi Arabia to attend a summit on the war between Israel and Hamas militants. |
| 20231111 | Arab-Islamic summit rejects justifying Gaza war as Israeli self-defence | regional response | Leaders meeting in Saudi Arabia demanded aid be allowed to enter Gaza, called for cessation of arms exports to Israel. |
| 20231111 | Arab and Muslim leaders demand immediate end to Gaza war | regional response | Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, rejecting Israel's justification of its actions against Palestinians as self-defence. |
| 20231111 | UAE plans to maintain ties with Israel despite Gaza outcry, sources say | regional response | The United Arab Emirates plans to maintain diplomatic ties with Israel despite international outcry over the mounting toll of the war in Gaza and hopes to have some moderating influence over the Israeli campaign while safeguarding its own interests, according to four sources familiar with UAE government policy. |
| 20231111 | Gaza's main hospital goes dark as leaders urge Netanyahu to end 'aggression' | regional response | The leaders of Arab and Muslim countries have rejected the Israeli argument of "self-defence" in the Gaza Strip and demanded an immediate end to Israeli military operations in this territory. |
| 20231111 | Sisi discusses de-escalation in Gaza with Saudi Crown Prince, Turkish President | regional response | Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed de-escalation efforts in Gaza in meetings on Saturday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | schools | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Drone attack launched on US military base | Syria | The US Al-Tanf military base in southern Syria, located in the Syrian desert near the Jordanian border, was attacked on Friday by unidentified drones, according to local sources. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | targeting forced displace people | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Turkey's Erdogan, strident on Gaza, to visit Germany | Turkey | President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Berlin next week, amid strained Turkish ties with other NATO partners. Erdogan's stark position on the conflict in Gaza is only the latest example of discord. |
| 20231111 | Hundreds of thousands rally in London demanding Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | Many far-right counterprotesters clash with police, arrested to ‘prevent breach of peace’. |
| 20231111 | Hundreds of thousands join largest march in London so far against Gaza war | United Kingdom | Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London chanting “Stop bombing Gaza” and “Ceasefire now” in the largest Palestine solidarity demonstration held in the country so far. |
| 20231111 | London pro-Palestinian march passes off peacefully but police clash with far-right protesters | United Kingdom | Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched peacefully through central London on Saturday, even as right-wing counter-protesters clashed with police, after a week of angry debate over whether to permit the event on a day when Britain honored its war dead. |
| 20231111 | Gaza casualties: 'Most of the children in my family photo are dead' | targeting families in whole or in part | Whole families have been wiped out in Israel's air strikes on the densely populated streets of Gaza, where many Palestinians live in multi-generational homes. Three Palestinians in the UK told the BBC that more than 20 of their relatives had been killed in one blow - and many were still stuck under the rubble. |
| 20231111 | 50 martyred inside Al-Buraq School following missile, artillery bombardment | targeting forced displaced people | The director of Al-Shifa Hospital announced the recovery of about 50 martyrs from inside Al-Buraq School in Gaza after an Israeli missile and artillery bombardment targeted it on the 35th day of the attack on Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | targeting forced displaced people | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Palestinians flee as Israel raids Jenin camp in occupied West Bank | West Bank | People were allowed a two hour window to flee the clashes which killed 14 Palestinians |
| 20231111 | Germany urges end to violence in West Bank | West Bank | German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Israel is responsible for the safety of Palestinians in the West Bank. In Gaza, medical staff say the territory's main hospital is no longer operational. DW has the latest. |
| 20231111 | How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank | West Bank | Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International |
| 20231111 | Macron condemns rising antisemitism | Zionism / France | Far from a distant observer, one of a chorus of countries offering opinions on the Israel-Gaza war, France feels very much caught up in the conflict. |
| 20231111 | US media on Israel-Gaza: What’s lacking? | Zionism / media | Freedom of expression is under the gun in the Land of the Free. We look at what media in the United States is missing in Israel’s war on Gaza – and why it matters. |
| 20231111 | Why are Western media accused of bias on Israel-Palestine? | Zionism / media | A letter signed by hundreds of international journalists says Western media coverage of the Gaza war has been biased in favour of Israel and against Palestine. Newsrooms are accused of dehumanising Palestinians. Are the allegations fair? |
| 20231111 | UK revokes Egyptian TV host’s visa for ‘backing Hamas’ at rally: Report | Zionism / UK | Moataz Matar has been put on a watch list, which means he will be unable to return to the UK. |
| 20231111 | London police arrest dozens as pro-Palestinian rally draws counter-protests | Zionism / UK | More than 100,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched through central London on Saturday, with police making more than 80 arrests as they sought to avert clashes between the marchers and groups opposed to the rally. |
| 20231111 | More than 80 counter-protesters arrested during pro-Palestinian march in London | Zionism / UK | Police arrested more than 80 counter-protesters who attempted to confront those taking part in a huge pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday. |
| 20231111 | Did the home secretary provoke far-right protests in London? | Zionism / UK | The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has blamed the Home Secretary for the unrest, saying Suella Braverman’s comments had made the police’s job much harder. Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for her to resign – saying she had emboldened the far-right. She hasn’t commented. |
| 20231111 | Calling for a ceasefire is never hateful, it’s Suella Braverman who is stoking division | Zionism / UK | Demanding an end to British complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza should not be a controversial position |
| 20231111 | Labour seen as more divided by voters after tension over conflict in Gaza | Zionism / UK | The latest Opinium poll shows Keir Starmer’s personal rating has slumped but the Tories are also suffering from internal divisions |
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| 20231112 | Hostage release talks fail as Netanyahu again dismisses calls for ceasefire | ceasefire | |
| 20231112 | German chancellor opposed to 'immediate' ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he opposed an "immediate" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as calls multiply globally to halt the conflict triggered by Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation. |
| 20231112 | Dubai air chiefs summit, sponsored by Israeli firm, avoids discussing strikes as Hamas war rages | collusion & complicity | As Israel unleashes one of the most-intense aerial bombing campaigns the Middle East has ever seen, leaders from the world’s top air forces met Sunday in the United Arab Emirates to talk about almost anything that wasn’t an airstrike. |
| 20231112 | US does not want to see firefights in Gaza hospitals, Sullivan says | collusion & complicity | The United States wants to avoid armed fighting inside hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which endangers the lives of civilians, and has conveyed its view to Israeli forces, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS News on Sunday. |
| Comment: Israelis don't firefight in hospitals but simply destroy them with US delivered munitions. | |||
| 20231112 | Israel says Palestinian Authority in current form should not run Gaza | day after politics | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thrown up more doubts about the future of the Gaza Strip, saying that the Palestinian Authority in its current form should not take charge of the coastal enclave. |
| 20231112 | Hundreds of al-Shifa patients face expulsion | eliminating health care system | AJE live blog
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| 20231112 | Heavy fighting rages near main Gaza hospital and people trapped inside say they cannot flee | eliminating health care system | Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital rejected Israel’s claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out. |
| 20231112 | Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? | eliminating health care system | The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital. |
| 20231112 | Major Gaza hospitals suspend operations as Israel "hunts Hamas" | eliminating health care system | Two major hospitals in northern Gaza closed to new patients on Sunday, with staff saying that Israeli bombardment and a lack of fuel and medicine meant those already being treated could die. |
| 20231112 | Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 13, destroy al-Shifa’s cardiac ward | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops are closing in on al-Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of medics, patients and displaced people are trapped |
| 20231112 | Netanyahu says Hamas refused Israeli fuel offer for Gaza's Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, which suspended operations after running out of fuel, but that the militants had refused to receive it. |
| Comment: We have watched a phone call interview by Al Jazeera in which the presenter ask the doctor for his reaction on the Israeli offer. He said that there is no contact with the Israelis | |||
| 20231112 | Israeli president denies it is striking Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking Gaza's largest hospital. |
| Comment: Al Jazeera was live broadcasting the situation at the Al Shifa Hospital. There were air strikes outside in the perisphere of the hospital to keep civilians trapped at the compound of the hospital. | |||
| 20231112 | Indonesian staff at Gaza hospital ‘resigned to fate’ as Israelis close in | eliminating health care system | Indonesian medical volunteer in Gaza, Fikri Rofiul Haq, says he will remain at the hospital and will not evacuate. |
| 20231112 | Hundreds leave Gaza via reopened crossing | forced displacement | Several hundred foreign nationals and some injured Palestinians have been allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing. Meanwhile, Al-Shifa Hospital staff have reported continued fighting nearby. |
| 20231112 | Shots fired at Jewish school in Canada again, amid tensions over overseas conflict | global effects | A Jewish school in Montreal was hit by gunfire early on Sunday, making it the third time in less than a week that a Jewish school in the Canadian city was hit amid heightened tensions over the conflict between Israel and Gaza, police said, according to local media. |
| 20231112 | French politicians, citizens march in Paris against soaring antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war | global effects | More than 100,000 people marched in Paris on Sunday to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231112 | More than 100,000 people march in Paris against "anti-Semitism" | global effects | Thousands of marchers joined French lawmakers in Paris on Sunday to condemn a surge in anti-Semitism in France during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, but arguments over political participation clouded an intended show of unity. |
| 20231112 | French march against "antisemitism" shakes up far right and far left | global effects | Something unprecedented is happening this weekend in Paris, brought about by the war between Israelis and Hamas and its spill-over in Europe. |
| 20231112 | Israeli losses in Gaza war: 361 servicemen and 162 military vehicles | IOF | The total death toll of Israeli servicemen since the beginning of its war on the Gaza Strip reached 361. |
| 20231112 | Isaac Herzog challenged on air strikes and says Mein Kampf found on Hamas fighter | Israelis | Israel's president Isaac Herzog says a copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf was found on the body of a Hamas operative at a base they were using in northern Gaza. |
| 20231112 | Palestinians in Lebanon disappointed that Hezbollah won’t escalate | Lebanon | A week after a much-anticipated speech about Israel’s assault on Gaza that did not declare war on Israel, Hezbollah reiterated that message on Saturday. |
| 20231112 | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group wound 7 Israeli troops, 10 others along border with Israel | Lebanon | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel’s military and rescue services said. |
| 20231112 | London protests: Met condemns 'extreme violence' of far-right | United Kingdom | The Met Police has condemned "extreme violence from right-wing protesters" who it says set out to confront Saturday's pro-Palestinian march. |
| 20231112 | US does not want to see firefights in Gaza hospitals, Sullivan says | United States | The United States wants to avoid armed fighting inside hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which endangers the lives of civilians, and has conveyed its view to Israeli forces, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS News on Sunday. |
| 20231112 | Israeli raids kill 3 more Palestinians in West Bank, health officials say | West Bank | Israeli raids in the northern West Bank have killed three Palestinians, according to authorities, as violence in the occupied territory escalates amid the war in Gaza. |
| 20231112 | Internet collapses in Yemen over 'maintenance' | Yemen | Internet access across the war-torn Yemen collapsed Friday and stayed down for hours, with officials later blaming unannounced “maintenance work” for an outage that followed attacks by the country’s Houthi rebels on both Israel and the US. |
| 20231112 | German chancellor opposed to 'immediate' ceasefire in Gaza | Zionism / Germany | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he opposed an "immediate" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as calls multiply globally to halt the conflict triggered by Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation. |
| 20231112 | Most Germans fear Gaza violence will spark terror attacks | Zionism / Germany | More than half of survey respondents said they thought a serious attack was likely. At the same time, less than half thought the German government's response to the war in Gaza was balanced. |
| 20231112 | Billionaires are teaming up for pro-Israel, anti-Hamas media drive: Report | Zionism / global | A billionaire real estate tycoon in the United States is rallying support for a high-dollar media crusade to boost Israel’s image and demonise the Hamas armed group amid global pro-Palestinian solidarity protests. |
| 20231112 | How America’s bloodthirsty journalism cheers on Israel’s war on Gaza | Zionism / US | American journalists like Jake Tapper mince no words in justifying the Israeli annihilation of the Palestinian people. |
| 20231112 | US media 'otherises' Palestinians | Zionism / US | Rummana Hussain, an editorial board member and columnist at The Chicago Sun-Times, describes how the US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza has "otherised" Palestinians. |
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| 20231113 | Hamas armed wing says it discussed freeing 70 hostages in return for 5-day truce | ceasefire | The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel. |
| 20231113 | Too close and too cold, premature babies in grave peril at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital | children | The tiny babies lie side by side, some wrapped in green fabric roughly taped around them for warmth, others wearing only nappies, a picture of vulnerability, their lives in grave danger with every minute that passes. |
| 20231113 | EU nations condemn Hamas for what they describe as use of hospitals, civilians as ‘human shields’ | collusion & complicity | The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in the war against Israel. |
| 20231113 | EU condemns Hamas for using people as human shields | collusion & complicity | UNVERIFIABLE CLAIM: The European Union has condemned Hamas for using hospitals and civilians in them as shields. |
| 20231113 | Jordan arrests 25 planning pro-Gaza sit-in | collusion & complicity | Activists say the arrests of would-be protesters appears to be an escalation by authorities against the kingdom's pro-Palestine demonstrations |
| 20231113 | Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza | collusion & complicity | Suggestion put forward by Netanyahu as international disquiet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza grows |
| Comment: In February 2008, Blair was recorded as telling the quartet that he has a good relationship with Ehud Barak who was the Israeli defense minister at that time. Much further back in time, Blair forged close ties with Michael Levy, a leader of the Jewish Leadership Council. That was in 1994. | |||
| 20231113 | Gaza’s two biggest hospitals cease operations as WHO warns of rising deaths | eliminating health care system | UN agency says three nurses killed at Al-Shifa, as WHO calls for immediate Israel-Gaza ceasefire to halt loss of life. |
| 20231113 | Too close and too cold, premature babies in grave peril at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | |
| 20231113 | Al-Ahli now the ‘only hospital in all of Gaza City’: Doctor | eliminating health care system | Surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta spoke to Al Jazeera from al-Ahli Hospital, which he said was now the only operating hospital in all of Gaza City after al-Shifa and al-Quds were forced to almost completely close. “Ever since the collapse of al-Shifa Hospital, we have become the only functioning Hospital in Gaza City,” he said. “If you recall, this is the hospital that was targeted initially by the Israelis at the beginning of the war and so parts of the hospital were damaged,” he said, referring to the October 17 blast at the hospital. Israel has denied it was behind that explosion, which Palestinian health officials said killed over 470 people. “After the collapse of al-Shifa, we turned the forecourt and the grounds of the hospital into a field hospital,” he said. “We have over 500 wounded here. There are only three surgeons here and two operating rooms”. “We’ve been having to perform excruciating painful procedures on the wounds of the patients to stop them becoming infected with no analgesia or anaesthetic,” he said. “Because we have such limited supplies, we’re keeping them for the most life-saving surgery.” |
| 20231113 | Battles "force" Palestinians out of hospitals in Gaza, leaving patients, babies and medics stranded
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eliminating health care system | Battles around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last shelters in northern Gaza, stranding critically wounded patients, including newborns, and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, health officials said Monday.
COMMENT We have notified the source for its inaccurate headline. They changed into "Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals", which is still inaccurate. Read other reports on this issue. |
| 20231113 | Gaza’s Aqsa hospital warns patients, babies may end up in mass graves soon | eliminating health care system | Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital warns that patients’ next transfer will be to mass graves if Israeli aggression continues. |
| 20231113 | Al Shifa hospital has tanks at its gates | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks took up positions at the gates of Gaza City's main hospital on Monday, the chief target in Israel's battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip and where medics said patients including newborns were dying for lack of fuel. |
| 20231113 | Israeli forces at gates of Gaza’s main hospital with hundreds trapped | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces have reached the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital as hundreds of patients, including dozens of babies, remained trapped inside. |
| 20231113 | ‘In the circle of death’: Gaza doctors say patients are under siege in al-Shifa | eliminating health care system | Dozens of corpses lay on the courtyard outside Gaza’s largest hospital, covering the ground next to a blue refrigerated truck that had long ceased to be able to keep the bodies cool. |
| 20231113 | Gaza hospitals caught on front line of Israel-Hamas war | eliminating health care system | Hospitals and medical facilities have become caught up in intense fighting as Israel presses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City. |
| 20231113 | Stray dogs eat corpses at al-Shifa hospital amid total siege | eliminating health care system | A Palestinian doctor at the besieged al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City warned on Monday that premature babies are at risk of imminent death after fuel ran out in the facility, with several infants already dying due to lack of powe |
| 20231113 | ‘Patients are dying’: What we know about Gaza hospitals under Israeli siege | eliminating health care system | All the hospitals in northern Gaza forced to shut down as Israeli forces continue to attack medical facilities. |
| 20231113 | Death and disease as Israeli troops approach Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Medics say al-Shifa’s patients, including newborns, are dying due to the lack of fuel as Israeli forces encircle it. |
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| 20231113 | UNRWA says fuel shortage will shut down aid work in Gaza within 48 hours | food, water, fuel & electricity | The refugee agency for Palestinians has said that aid work is at a breaking point as the Israeli siege cuts off access to fuel. |
| 20231113 | Palestinians face food, water shortages in southern Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned its operations in war-torn Gaza would shut down within two days due to fuel shortages as fighting rages between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231113 | Palestinians rely on traditional clay ovens to cook food | food, water, fuel & electricity | The lack of basic resources in the lives of Palestinians today has left them with no choice but to return to traditional methods of cooking, and one of these methods is the making of clay ovens. The United Nations has said access to bread in the south is "challenging" because "the only operative mill in Gaza remains unable to grind wheat due to a lack of electricity and fuel". Before the war, a little over 80 per cent of Gazans lived in poverty and almost two-thirds were dependent on international aid, especially for food, according to the UN |
| 20231113 | Israel hinders the entry of aid to Gaza, not Egypt : Egyptian Foreign Ministry | food, water, fuel & electricity | The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, accused Israel on Monday of hindering the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, denying that Egypt closed the crossing at any stage of the crisis. |
| 20231113 | More death and destruction in Gaza as Israeli attacks continue | genocide & gender genocide | More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the war began. |
| 20231113 | In China: Online antisemitism spikes amid Israel-Hamas war | global effects | Anti-Jewish hate is sweeping across Chinese online platforms. People are praising both Hamas and Adolf Hitler, for example, and posting anti-Israel abuse. In a country that normally heavily censors its internet, those comments largely are being allowed to stay up. |
| 20231113 | Anti-Semitism remains a major 'problem inside Europe still today | global effects | More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against anti-Semitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| 20231113 | More than 180,000 join marches against anti-Semitism in France | global effects | Prominent politicians join rally in Paris following surge in anti-Semitic incidents since start of war in Gaza on October 7. |
| 20231113 | Indonesian President Joko Widodo heads to US amid Gaza tensions | global response | Widodo is under pressure over the war, which has killed more than 11,000 in a month, but is likely to take a low-key approach. |
| 20231113 | Muslim shops in India are boycotting Israeli products | global response | These Muslim shopkeepers in India are no longer stocking Israeli and US products in support of the people of Palestine, and it’s started a movement amongst the local community. |
| 20231113 | The different ways people are mobilising to support Palestine | global response | From boycotting to protesting, here’s how people are mobilising to support Palestinians and put pressure on governments and companies to stop backing Israel as it continues its bombardment on Gaza. |
| 20231113 | UN observes minute’s silence, lowers flags for 101 staff killed in Gaza | humanitarian aid | The United Nations has paid tribute to 101 staff who have been killed in Israel's bombardment of Gaza. No other conflict has killed as many UN employees. |
| 20231113 | Israel hinders the entry of aid to Gaza, not Egypt : Egyptian Foreign Ministry | humanitarian aid | The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, accused Israel on Monday of hindering the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, denying that Egypt closed the crossing at any stage of the crisis. |
| 20231113 | Egypt condemns Israeli shelling of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza headquarters | humanitarian aid | Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in a statement on Monday the Israeli occupation forces' shelling of the headquarters of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza. |
| 20231113 | Israeli army deletes post claiming ambulances, hospitals ‘legitimate targets’ | IOF | Israel’s military deleted a post on X suggesting ambulances and hospitals are “terrorist infrastructure” and “legitimate military targets”. It claimed ambulances and hospitals were used by Hamas for its fighters and its military operations. “This is against international law and turns them into legitimate military targets,” the army wrote. Diana Buttu, lawyer and former legal adviser for the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said Israel has in the past made similar allegations but never proved them. “But even if it tries to do that, we have to bear in mind what Israel is trying to do is commit genocide against Palestinians and it has to be stopped now,” she said. |
| 20231113 | ‘No rules at all’: Ex-UN official denounces Israeli lawlessness | IOF | Mukesh Kapila, a former UN humanitarian agency coordinator, says he has spent 30 years working in numerous conflicts around the world but describes Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza as “unique”. He says that is because the most modern weapons are being used in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Kapila also denounced Israel’s repeated attacks on emergency services workers and overwhelmed medical facilities. “What we’re seeing now is that all rules have broken down and there are no norms because this is a war on a whole society. There are really no rules at all. What we need to happen, therefore, is a rescue from outside,” he told Al Jazeera. |
| 20231113 | ‘Very risky’: Israel faces months-long campaign against Hamas Gaza tunnels | IOF | As the Israeli army expands its reach in northern Gaza, Hamas tunnels pose major challenges for its troops. |
| 20231113 | Israel weapons makers leave stands empty at Dubai Airshow | Israelis | The exhibition stands of Israeli weapons makers Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems were empty at the start of the opening day of the weeklong Dubai Airshow on Monday, amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. |
| 20231113 | Journalists in south Lebanon say targeted in Israeli strikes | journalists | Journalists in southern Lebanon said they were targeted Monday in Israeli strikes, which Al Jazeera network said lightly wounded its photographer. |
| 20231113 | At least two killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon as tensions soar | journalists | Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon as Israel also targeted journalists covering the war. |
| 20231113 | Journalists in south Lebanon say targeted in Israeli strikes | Lebanon | Journalists in southern Lebanon said they were targeted Monday in Israeli strikes, which Al Jazeera network said lightly wounded its photographer. |
| 20231113 | At least two killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon as tensions soar | Lebanon | Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon as Israel also targeted journalists covering the war. |
| 20231113 | At least two killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon as tensions soar | Lebanon | Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon as Israel also targeted journalists covering the war. |
| 20231113 | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group wound 7 Israeli troops, 10 others along border with Israel | Lebanon | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel’s military and rescue services said. |
| 20231113 | Lebanon front with Israel heats up, stoking fears of wider war | Lebanon | Weeks of hostilities across the Lebanese-Israeli border have escalated, with growing casualties on both sides and a war of words fuelling concerns of a widening conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. |
| 20231113 | For news organizations, the flood of Gaza war video is proving both illuminating and troubling | opinion | A camera livestreaming the skyline of Gaza City captures streaks of light. Dash-cam video from a car in Israel spots a killer coming into view. A satellite identifies tank tracks in the dirt, and a mall security camera catches the moment a bomb in Gaza detonates. |
| 20231113 | To understand Israel-Palestine, first understand the history of racism and antisemitism | opinion | Anti-Jewish hate is rarely seen as part of a European racism that encompassed colonialism and slavery, with each distinct prejudice influencing the other |
| 20231113 | US conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria, retaliating for attacks on US troops | Syria | The Pentagon and U.S. officials say U.S. fighter aircraft conducted airstrikes on locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, likely causing casualties and destroying weapons stored at the two targets that were struck — a training facility and a safe house. |
| 20231113 | US forces in Syria attacked four times in less than 24 hours | Syria | U.S. and international forces in northeastern Syria were attacked with drones and rockets at least four times in the past 24 hours, though there were no casualties and only minor damage, a U.S. military official said on Monday. |
| 20231113 | US airstrikes target more Iran-backed bases in Syria | Syria | The US has conducted "precision" air strikes in Syria on facilities used by the Iranian revolutionary guard, the Pentagon has said. |
| 20231113 | In a flash, Melissa Joudah lost 60 family members and use of her legs | targeting families in whole or in part | An Israel air raid that killed the toddler’s family also fractured her spine and paralysed her from the chest down. |
| 20231113 | UK’s Braverman sacked following pro-Palestinian protests comments | United Kingdom | The government said that Suella Braverman has left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle ahead of next year’s vote. |
| 20231113 | As Israel-Hamas war flares, chaos grips Britain with Braverman sacked | United Kingdom | A cabinet reshuffle kicks off a new week in British politics, amid concerns for civil liberties. |
| 20231113 | Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza | United Kingdom | Suggestion put forward by Netanyahu as international disquiet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza grows |
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Comment: In February 2008, Blair was recorded as telling the quartet that he has a good relationship with Ehud Barak who was the Israeli defense minister at that time. Much further back in time, Blair forged close ties with Michael Levy, a leader of the Jewish Leadership Council. That was in 1994. |
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| 20231113 | US officials sign memo criticizing White House for ‘unwillingness to de-escalate’ Israel-Hamas war | United States | Memo gives glimpse of intense internal opposition to Biden’s strategy in the war, in which he has maintained support for Israel |
| 20231113 | Biden’s initial confidence on Israel gives way to the complexities and casualties of a brutal war | United States | In the early days and hours after the horrific Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden spoke with stark declarations and unqualified support for the longtime U.S. ally. |
| 20231113 | US started to soften its rhetoric after civilian onslaught | United States | The United States, long known as Israel's biggest moral and financial backer, staunchly defended the Jewish state's right to defend itself in the weeks following the outbreak of the war. As the death toll mounts, American officials have started to soften their rhetoric, perhaps signalling that they are finally ready to put their foot down on Israel's indiscriminate assault on Gaza |
| 20231113 | Biden's Israel policy risks alienating Arab American voters | United States | US President Joe Biden's unwavering support for Israel is eroding approval in Michigan's large Arab American community. The state could be crucial to Biden's bid for reelection. |
| 20231113 | US rights group sues Biden for alleged ‘failure to prevent genocide’ in Gaza | United States | A New York civil liberties group is suing Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza. |
| 20231113 | ‘Not just a number’: A protest and a funeral in the West Bank | West Bank | Even as Palestinians in the West Bank protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re facing increasing attacks themselves. |
| 20231113 | Israeli violence increases against Palestinians | West Bank | Amid Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza, human rights groups have documented an alarming increase in settler violence and forced displacement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. |
| 20231113 | Israeli forces kill elderly Palestinian taxi driver | West Bank | Eyewitnesses say Issa Ali al-Qadi, 66, was shot in his taxi by soldiers conducting a raid on an orphan charity |
| 20231113 | For news organizations, the flood of Gaza war video is proving both illuminating and troubling | Zionism / media | A camera livestreaming the skyline of Gaza City captures streaks of light. Dash-cam video from a car in Israel spots a killer coming into view. A satellite identifies tank tracks in the dirt, and a mall security camera catches the moment a bomb in Gaza detonates. |
| 20231113 | UK’s Braverman sacked following pro-Palestinian protests comments | Zionism / UK | The government said that Suella Braverman has left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle ahead of next year’s vote. |
| 20231113 | As Israel-Hamas war flares, chaos grips Britain with Braverman sacked | Zionism / UK | A cabinet reshuffle kicks off a new week in British politics, amid concerns for civil liberties. |
| 20231113 | Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza | Zionism / UK | Suggestion put forward by Netanyahu as international disquiet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza grows |
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| 20231114 | Biden optimistic over hostage deal | ceasefire | Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza are on the march to demand more be done to secure their release. US President Joe Biden has said he believes a deal can be reached and "it's going to happen." |
| 20231114 | Lives of 36 babies in Gaza hospital at risk despite Israeli incubator offer | children | The lives of 36 babies at Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital were hanging in the balance on Tuesday, according to medical staff there who said there was no clear mechanism to move them despite an Israeli effort to supply incubators for an evacuation. |
| Comment: First, the hosptial has no shortage of incubators but has no fuel to have to generator start producing electricity to let the incubators provide oxygen. Second, the director in the Al Shifa Hospital did not receive the reported offer. | |||
| 20231114 | Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery | collusion & complicity | Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 20231114 | Amid the ruins, Palestinians struggle to survive in Gaza | dystopian war | As Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, families labour to find food and water to keep their children alive. |
| 20231114 | Heavy rain in Gaza brings new problems and fears for Palestinians | dystopian war | Heavy rain in Gaza on Tuesday brought new concerns and challenges for Palestinians, many of whom are homeless and living in makeshift tents after weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Rains increase suffering of those living in makeshift tents in south Gaza | dystopian war | A heavy downpour in Gaza that followed six weeks of war has brought with it new concerns and challenges for thousands of Palestinians who have lost their homes, those forced to live in flimsy tents and others fleeing south to escape the Israeli military bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Israeli Ambassador: ‘I have zero empathy’ | dystopian war | In an extended interview, Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, whether she has empathy for the Palestinian people. She stated that she has “zero empathy” for people who lost their land and refuse to recognise the Jewish right to their homeland. |
| 20231114 | Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery | dystopian war | Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 20231114 | Giving birth with no painkillers under the bombs in Gaza | eliminating health care system | "My child doesn't have a name yet because of the war. She's four days old," says Keifaia Abu Asser. Sitting on a straw mat in a corner of a school shelter run by the UN in Rafah, in southern Gaza, Keifaia cradles her baby daughter, who is wrapped in a red blanket. |
| 20231114 | Calls grow to evacuate Gaza’s largest hospital as Israel and Hamas battle just outside | eliminating health care system | Palestinian authorities on Tuesday called for a cease-fire to evacuate three dozen newborns and other patients trapped inside Gaza’s biggest hospital as Israeli forces battled Hamas in the streets just outside and seized more ground across northern Gaza. |
| 20231114 | Mass grave at Gaza main hospital, call for evacuation, fuel shortage hampers aid flow | eliminating health care system | Palestinian authorities proposed a Red Cross-supervised evacuation of patients and newborns from Gaza's largest hospital beset by fighting on Tuesday. |
| 20231114 | Doctors move premature babies at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Dozens of premature babies at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital have been moved into an area that still has electricity as doctors try everything they can to keep the babies alive with basic medical care. |
| 20231114 | Lives of 36 babies in Gaza hospital at risk despite Israeli incubator offer | eliminating health care system | The lives of 36 babies at Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital were hanging in the balance on Tuesday, according to medical staff there who said there was no clear mechanism to move them despite an Israeli effort to supply incubators for an evacuation. |
| Comment: First, the hosptial has no shortage of incubators but has no fuel to have to generator start producing electricity to let the incubators provide oxygen. Second, the director in the Al Shifa Hospital did not receive the reported offer. | |||
| 20231114 | Bodies pile up as Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital becomes a no-go zone | eliminating health care system | Witnesses report animals mauling the remains of victims, as an Israeli siege of the hospital makes it impossible to leave or enter without risking death |
| 20231114 | Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital forced to bury dead patients in ‘mass grave’ | eliminating health care system | Hospital director says 179 bodies interred together in courtyard as Israeli forces encircle the facility. |
| 20231114 | Palestinians dig mass grave inside Israeli-encircled Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Palestinians trapped inside Gaza's biggest hospital were digging a mass grave on Tuesday to bury patients who died under Israeli encirclement, and said no plan was in place to evacuate babies despite Israel announcing an offer to send portable incubators. |
| 20231114 | Palestinians digging mass graves inside al-Shifa hospital, health official says | eliminating health care system | Palestinians trapped inside Gaza’s biggest hospital are digging mass graves, with no means of keeping corpses from decomposing due to Israel’s siege, an official there says. |
| 20231114 | Out of medicines, care: Gaza’s cancer patients face death amid Israel war | eliminating health care system | With no proper treatment and care, the 2,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip live in catastrophic health conditions. |
| 20231114 | Israel’s attacks on hospitals ‘should be investigated as war crimes’: HRW | eliminating health care system | Health facilities and ambulances have protected status under international humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch affirms. |
| 20231114 | Is Hamas hiding in Gaza’s main hospital? Israel’s claim is now a focal point in a dayslong stalemate | eliminating health care system | Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. |
| 20231114 | Israel shows alleged Hamas ‘armory’ under children’s hospital in Gaza. Local health officials dismiss the claims | eliminating health care system | The IDF invited news media to visit a medical center for children on Monday, where a spokesperson alleged parts of the basement had been a Hamas “command and control center” and may have been used to hold hostages. |
| 20231114 | "See what CNN reporter saw inside hospital basement in Gaza" | eliminating health care system | CNN goes into Gaza on an embed with the Israeli army. Nic Robertson describes the destruction he witnessed, as well as the basement of a children's hospital. Israel says Hamas uses hospitals as a base, something Gaza doctors say is not true. |
| Comment:
First: this is an compiled footage. Second: he says that he entered the building five days ago. So, CNN came five days later. Third: at 5:45, you suddenly have to watch a scene showing weapons on the floor. But, you don't see the moment that they all arrived at the building, which building and where that building is. Fourth: no one is seen going into the building and being in the basement. |
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| 20231114 | US and UK raise pressure on Israel to protect hospitals | eliminating health care system | Israel is facing mounting international pressure to protect civilians trapped in Gaza's hospitals, as it released what it said was evidence of a Hamas base in one medical facility. |
| 20231114 | Al Shifa Hospital becomes focus of conflicting narratives | eliminating health care system | Fighting has reached the gates of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: Israeli ground troops have almost fully encircled the medical buildings which it says sit above Hamas’s underground headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas and hospital staff deny the claims and say Israeli forces have trapped patients and civilians inside in dire conditions. |
| 20231114 | Unverified rumours of Russia arming Hamas persist, as war rages in Gaza | global effects | An expert renews claims that the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel were ‘coordinated’ with Moscow, despite a lack of evidence. |
| 20231114 | Gaza uncovers EU divisions | global effects | Europe’s response to the war on Gaza marks a sharp shift from traditional perspectives. |
| 20231114 | Yanis Varoufakis on Israel-Gaza: ‘We Europeans have created this’ | global response | Economist and former Greek minister of finance, Yanis Varoufakis, joins Marc Lamont Hill to discuss Europe’s historic responsibility and current role in the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20231114 | Indonesian President Joko Widodo urges Biden to help end Gaza ‘atrocities’ | global response | Widodo calls for a ceasefire ‘for the sake of humanity’ as he sits down with US president at the White House. |
| 20231114 | Indonesians boycott McDonald’s, Starbucks over support for Israel | global response | Boycott follows McDonald’s Israel’s announcement that it donated free meals to the Israeli military. |
| 20231114 | Scholz says Erdogan accusing Israel of fascism is 'absurd' | global response | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is due to meet with the Turkish president in Berlin on Friday. Scholz said he will continue to emphasize why he considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization. |
| 20231114 | Amid the ruins, Palestinians struggle to survive in Gaza | humanitarian crisis | As Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, families labour to find food and water to keep their children alive. |
| 20231114 | Heavy rain in Gaza brings new problems and fears for Palestinians | humanitarian crisis | Heavy rain in Gaza on Tuesday brought new concerns and challenges for Palestinians, many of whom are homeless and living in makeshift tents after weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Rains increase suffering of those living in makeshift tents in south Gaza | humanitarian crisis | A heavy downpour in Gaza that followed six weeks of war has brought with it new concerns and challenges for thousands of Palestinians who have lost their homes, those forced to live in flimsy tents and others fleeing south to escape the Israeli military bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Cairo: Efforts to de-escalate crisis | humanitarian crisis | Top-level meetings are continuing in a bid to contain the conflict in Gaza and respond to dire humanitarian needs |
| 20231114 | UK rows back on ex-PM’s claim Israel is outside remit of international criminal court | ICC | Government appears to withdraw from past assertion by Boris Johnson amid shift to more pointed criticism of Israeli campaign in Gaza |
| 20231114 | Israel confirms death of captive soldier shown in Hamas video | IOF / Hannibal directive | Israel's military on Tuesday confirmed the death of a soldier held captive in Gaza after Hamas issued video of her alive followed by images of what the Palestinian faction said was her body after she was killed in an Israeli strike. |
| 20231114 | Israeli military says it found signs hostages were held in Gaza hospital | IOF | The Israeli military shared video and photographs on Monday showing what it said were weapons stored by Hamas in the basement of a children's hospital in Gaza where it also said hostages appear to have been held. |
| Comment: We found three videos on this issue but they could not be concluded as hard conclusive evidence as the videos contains individual scenes, not one continuously running scene from the moment of reaching the hospital, entering the hospital, going to the room they claim that hostages were held. You only see that they are already in a basement of unknown building. | |||
| 20231114 | Israeli Ambassador: ‘I have zero empathy’ | Israelis | In an extended interview, Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, whether she has empathy for the Palestinian people. She stated that she has “zero empathy” for people who lost their land and refuse to recognise the Jewish right to their homeland. |
| 20231114 | Israeli minister supports ‘voluntary migration’ of Palestinians in Gaza | Israelis | Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls the move the ‘right humanitarian solution’. Critics call it ‘ethnic cleansing’. |
| 20231114 | Israeli minister calls for voluntary emigration of Gazans | Israelis | A senior far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government said on Tuesday Gaza could not survive as an independent entity and it would be better for Palestinians there to leave for other countries. |
| 20231114 | Israel's foreign minister says UN chief not fit to lead | Israelis | Israel's foreign minister said on Tuesday that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was not fit to head the global body, saying he had not done enough to condemn militant group Hamas and was too close to Iran. |
| 20231114 | In Israel, some residents are scared to speak out about the war | Israelis | In Israel, amid the trauma of the 7 October massacre by Hamas and the subsequent Israeli military offensive in Gaza, a silencing of dissenting voices has ensued. |
| 20231114 | Journalists allegedly targeted by Israeli strike in south Lebanon | journalists | Watch the moment a live broadcast was interrupted by a suspected Israeli attack on journalists near the Lebanese border town of Yaroun, injuring an Al Jazeera cameraman. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
| Comment: The attack was on November 13, 2023 | |||
| 20231114 | Hezbollah’s strategic calculation: Israel, Gaza and the domestic equation | Lebanon | Between Hamas, Israel and Iran, Hezbollah treads carefully in the trenches, not to jump callously into war. |
| 20231114 | Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery | regional response | Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 20231114 | US and Iran-backed groups trade fire in Syria. Will it get worse? | Syria | Dozens of strikes by Iran-backed groups have targeted US interests in the region as Washington keeps backing Israel. |
| 20231114 | Mass grave at Gaza main hospital, call for evacuation, fuel shortage hampers aid flow | targeting civilians | Palestinian authorities proposed a Red Cross-supervised evacuation of patients and newborns from Gaza's largest hospital beset by fighting on Tuesday. |
| 20231114 | Airstrike kills renowned doctor in Gaza and relatives who sought shelter together | targeting families in whole or in part | It was the call Shaymma Alloh had been dreading, the news from Gaza she hoped would never come: The house where 26 members of her family were sheltering was hit by a missile strike. |
| 20231114 | Airstrike kills renowned doctor in Gaza and relatives who sought shelter together | targeting forced displaced people | It was the call Shaymma Alloh had been dreading, the news from Gaza she hoped would never come: The house where 26 members of her family were sheltering was hit by a missile strike. |
| 20231114 | Gaza war pushes tumultuous Israel-Turkey ties into ‘deep freezer’ | Turkey | Turkey’s forthright support for Palestine could affecting efforts to revive ties with Israel. Here’s a timeline of their rocky relations |
| 20231114 | UK rows back on ex-PM’s claim Israel is outside remit of international criminal court | United Kingdom | Government appears to withdraw from past assertion by Boris Johnson amid shift to more pointed criticism of Israeli campaign in Gaza |
| 20231114 | Palestinian rights groups file genocide lawsuit against Biden and two of his cabinet members | United States | President Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members are being sued for complicity in genocide, in Gaza. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several groups including American citizens with relatives in Gaza. It aims to stop the US military from sending funding to Israel. |
| 20231114 | US President Biden sued for ‘complicity’ in Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza | United States | Federal complaint calls for an end to the US’s $3.8bn in annual military support to Israel. |
| Comment: The complaint is here. | |||
| 20231114 | US announces third round of sanctions targeting Hamas | United States | US Treasury Department has said that the sanctions were jointly coordinated with the UK and target Hamas financing. |
| 20231114 | Anti-Palestinian sentiment rises amid bipartisan US support for Israel | United States | Both Republican and Democratic politicians have shown staunch support for Israel despite the mounting death toll in Gaza. |
| 20231114 | Demonstrators in Washington back Israel, denounce antisemitism | United States | Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington on Tuesday for a "March for Israel" to show solidarity with Israel in its war with Hamas and condemn rising antisemitism. |
| 20231114 | Biden says Gaza hospital must be protected as tanks close in | United States | US president says he hopes to see ‘less intrusive action’ at Al-Shifa Hospital as patients and staff remain trapped inside. |
| 20231114 | Biden's message to hostages in Gaza: 'Hang in there, we're coming' | United States | "Hang in there, we're coming," Biden said at the White House, when asked by reporters what his message to family members of hostages was. |
| 20231114 | White House seeks to restrain Israel in Gaza amid growing internal dissent | United States | More than 500 appointees and staff members criticized Biden’s unwavering support for Israel in letter demanding ceasefire |
| 20231114 | Surge in Israeli forces killing West Bank Palestinians | West Bank | With scores of Palestinians killed across the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, rights groups have accused Israel of giving soldiers free rein to shoot on site while war rages in Gaza. |
| 20231114 | Israeli army conducts fresh deadly raid in West Bank | West Bank | A 15-hour-long attack in Tulkarm leaves seven Palestinians dead and takes West Bank death toll to nearly 200 in five weeks |
| 20231114 | Yemen’s Houthis say they fired ballistic missiles towards Israel | Yemen | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched ballistic missiles on various Israel targets, including in the Red Sea city of Eilat, the group’s military spokesperson has said. |
| 20231114 | Israeli Ambassador: ‘I have zero empathy’ | Zionism / Israeli | In an extended interview, Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, whether she has empathy for the Palestinian people. She stated that she has “zero empathy” for people who lost their land and refuse to recognise the Jewish right to their homeland. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231115 | U.N. Security Council schedules a vote on a resolution urging humanitarian pauses, corridors in Gaza | ceasefire | After four failed attempts, the U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution which would call for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip” in the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231115 | Security Council calls for pause amid Israel assaults on Gaza hospitals | ceasefire | The United Nations security council has voted to adopt a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in fighting in Gaza, and greater efforts to allow humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged territory. |
| 20231115 | UN calls for pauses in Gaza fighting | ceasefire | The UN Security Council adopted a resolution for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip." |
| 20231115 | US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows | ceasefire | U.S. public support for Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. |
| 20231115 | US public support for Israel's war on Gaza reaches new low, polling shows | ceasefire | Only 31 percent of respondents support US sending weapons to Israel, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll |
| 20231115 | Qatar seeking Israel-Hamas deal to free 50 hostages and 3-day truce | ceasefire | Qatari mediators on Wednesday sought to negotiate a deal between Hamas and Israel that included the release of around 50 civilian hostages from Gaza in exchange for a three-day ceasefire, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters. |
| 20231115 | 50 killed and and dozens injured by Israel in Sabra mosque massacre | churches & mosques | At least 50 civilians were killed on Wednesday, dozens more injured, in an Israeli strike on a mosque housing hundreds of displaced in Sabra neighbourhood in western Gaza, Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing reported. |
| 20231115 | Israel’s raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Thousands of people, including patients, are trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital amid deadly Israeli siege. |
| 20231115 | Israeli forces raid Gaza’s biggest hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces have been carrying out a raid on Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, after surrounding it for several days. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud is in Gaza with an update. |
| 20231115 | Israeli forces storm al-Shifa hospital where thousands seek refuge | eliminating health care system | Fate of premature newborns, critically-ill patients, displaced families and medical staff unknown after Israeli forces break through hospital walls |
| 20231115 | After several days of siege, Israeli forces storm Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza has become a symbol of the widespread suffering of Palestinian civilians during the war. |
| 20231115 | 'Barbaric': Israeli raid on Gaza's main hospital condemned | eliminating health care system | The IDF has said it entered al-Shifa hospital in a "targeted operation" against Hamas militants. |
| 20231115 | ‘Terror’ amid Israel’s raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israel’s army raids Gaza’s largest hospital, visiting violence and humiliation on patients, staff and displaced people trapped inside, witnesses say. |
| 20231115 | Thousands trapped as Israeli forces raid Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Raid follows days of heavy attacks on the area, where thousands of displaced people and patients are sheltering. |
| 20231115 | Hamas blames US for giving Israel ‘green light’ to raid al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Group ruling Gaza says the White House gave Israel a green light ‘to commit more massacres against civilians’. |
| 20231115 | US ‘did not give OK’ for Israeli raid of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The United States has denied giving Israel a green light for a raid on al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip after backing Israeli claims that the medical facility was being used for military purposes. |
| 20231115 | Israel faces wave of international condemnation over hospital raid | eliminating health care system | Turkey’s president calls Israel ‘terror state’ while US says it will not veto UN resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pause |
| 20231115 | ‘Hospitals are not battlegrounds’: World reacts to Israel’s al-Shifa raid | eliminating health care system | World leaders and international aid organisations have strongly criticised Israel’s assault on al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231115 | WHO says Israel raid on Gaza hospital is totally unacceptable | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organisation head said, on Wednesday, that the Israeli military incursion into Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza was “totally unacceptable”, Reuters reports. |
| 20231115 | Al Shifa Hospital should be 'safe haven for civilian population', says ex UNRWA chief | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces raided Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday morning, targeting what they say is a Hamas command centre in tunnels beneath thousands of patients and civilians seeking refuge from intense combat. |
| 20231115 | ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops entered Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital in a ‘targeted operation’ at 3am and remained there well into the afternoon |
| 20231115 | Analysis: Israel’s ‘eliminating health care system’ vs Hamas military exaggerations | eliminating health care system | Since Friday, the only Israeli column that has moved is the one that attacked al-Shifa Hospital on Wednesday. |
| 20231115 | What al-Shifa doctor told Israeli forces ahead of raid | eliminating health care system | Israel’s military has been calling doctors working inside Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, where its forces has been carrying out a raid. One doctor recorded his conversation. Here’s what he told the Israeli army. |
| 20231115 | Israel searches for traces of Hamas in raid of key Gaza hospital packed with patients | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops on Wednesday stormed into Gaza’s largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility, where newborns and hundreds of other patients have suffered for days without electricity and other basic necessities as fighting raged outside. |
| 20231115 | Israeli military "says" it uncovers Hamas command centre, weapons at Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops "found an operational command centre" and assets belonging to Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza's biggest hospital, Israel's military said on Wednesday, during a campaign that has stoked global alarm over the fate of civilians inside. |
| 20231115 | Israeli military shows video of arms it says were found at Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops found Hamas weapons and combat gear in Al Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip during a search on Wednesday, chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. |
| 20231115 | Israel-Hamas war live: Israel raids Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Hamas rejects Israeli claims it uncovered weapons during hours-long raid at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian foreign ministry also warns against Israel’s ‘misleading fabrications’ about al-Shifa, where thousands are taking shelter. Hamas denies it is using hospitals in Gaza, such as al-Shifa, as command centres, accusing Israel and the United States of trying to justify “brutal massacres“. |
| Comment -- The doctors at the hospital have repeatedly called for an neutral investigation and have also said to the Israelis that if they continue to claim that Hamas is using the hospital, they should now come and takeover the whole complex and the responsibility of all the patients and the displaced people at the compound. The Israelis refused by not responding. | |||
| 20231115 | Why is Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital so important for the Israeli army? | eliminating health care system | The largest hospital in the besieged enclave already faced shortages before Israeli forces blew up its medicine warehouse. |
| 20231115 | Supplies alone won’t save Gaza hospital patients and evacuation remains perilous, experts say | eliminating health care system | As concerns grow for patients stranded inside Gaza’s biggest hospital, experts warned that transporting vulnerable people, including babies, is a perilous proposition under even the best circumstances. |
| 20231115 | Israeli raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital: A military operation ‘beyond revenge’ | eliminating health care system | Israeli soldiers stormed Gaza's largest hospital on Wednesday, targeting what they believe is a major Hamas command centre located beneath the hospital complex. |
| 20231115 | How and why did Gaza hospitals become primary targets? | eliminating health care system | Israel has repeatedly targeted medical facilities and ambulances in the besieged strip, claiming they are used by Hamas, but experts are questioning the legality of the attacks |
| 20231115 | Canada’s Justin Trudeau tells Israel to end ‘killing of babies’ | collusion & complicity | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged Israel to ‘exercise maximum restraint’ in its war on Gaza. |
| Comment: Canada has a pro-Israeli policy and is a arms supplier to the Israelis | |||
| 20231115 | Gaza telecom companies warn of coming blackout | communication | The two main telecommunications companies in Gaza have warned of a “complete telecom blackout in the coming hours” due to a lack of fuel amid an Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory. |
| 20231115 | Gaza telecom companies warn of coming blackout | food, water, fuel & electricity | The two main telecommunications companies in Gaza have warned of a “complete telecom blackout in the coming hours” due to a lack of fuel amid an Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory. |
| 20231115 | First fuel truck since start of Israel-Hamas war enters Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The first truck delivering fuel to the Gaza Strip since the war began has arrived in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231115 | First fuel delivery to UN in Gaza, Israel says hospitals cannot benefit | food, water, fuel & electricity | The first truck carrying fuel into Gaza since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip today crossed from Egypt to deliver diesel to the United Nations, though it will do little to alleviate shortages that have hampered relief efforts |
| 20231115 | Israeli troops watch warily as Gaza residents join slow march south | forced displacement | Thousands of Palestinians, carrying just a few possessions, move slowly through rubble of city they once called home |
| 20231115 | ‘Informed solidarity’: Why India’s Kerala saw mass rallies for Palestinians | global response | The southern Indian state’s political parties, activists and Muslim groups have held rallies and events, demanding immediate ceasefire by Israel. |
| 20231115 | Belize joins diplomatic backlash against Israel over Gaza bombardment | global response | Belize’s decision follows similar moves by fellow Latin American states Bolivia, Colombia, Chile and Honduras. |
| 20231115 | S Africa: World must urge Israel to stop ‘crime against humanity’ in Gaza | global response | Top diplomat Nalendi Pandor says she sees ‘very clear similarities’ between Israel’s occupation and system of apartheid. |
| 20231115 | Cancer patients evacuated from Gaza heading to Turkiye for treatment | humanitarian aid | Several cancer patients evacuated from Gaza, and their escorts, have departed for a military airport in north-eastern Egypt on Wednesday to be transported to Turkiye for treatment. |
| 20231115 | As Israel’s war on Gaza rages, humanitarian crisis worsens | humanitarian crisis | Health, sanitation, water and food services near breaking point as fighting intensifies. |
| 20231115 | Lawyers for Gaza victims file case at International Criminal Court | ICC | A group of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that Israel’s actions amount to the crime of genocide. |
| 20231115 | Israeli army kills elderly Palestinian after taking PR photo on 'safe corridor' | IOF | Bashir Hajji's granddaughter says he was shot in the head and back after a photo showing soldiers helping him was taken.
Comment: We found the original information on a Instagram account of a relative who called viewers to share her post. |
| 20231115 | Iran's 'Axis of Resistance' against Israel faces trial by fire | Iran | Iran's supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three senior officials: You gave us no warning of your Oct. 7 attack on Israel and we will not enter the war on your behalf. |
| 20231115 | Hostages' fates haunt Israel as war intensifies | Israelis | Their smiling faces look down from the sides of skyscrapers, walls between Tel Aviv's restaurants and bars and a giant video screen at a shopping mall entrance. |
| 20231115 | X is failing to moderate antisemitic and islamophobic hate speech, according to a new report | media / social media | The non-profit organization analyzed 200 examples of reported hate speech on the platform and found that 96 per cent of the posts remained online a week later. |
| 20231115 | Sisi discusses latest developments in Gaza with France’s defence minister | regional response | President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Wednesday the latest regional developments, particularly the war on Gaza, with French Minister of Defense Sébastien Lecornu, who is currently on a visit to Cairo. |
| 20231115 | Building bridges: Palestinians and Israelis fight for peace amid war | regional response | As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, violence is also on the rise in the occupied West Bank, fuelling tensions and creating divides amongst the Jews and Arabs living side by side in the region. |
| 20231115 | Egyptian activists call for 'convoy of conscience' to break Gaza siege | regional response | Union organisers say Sisi's government 'has not done its best' to challenge the Israeli blockade on Gaza and assert its sovereignty over the Rafah border crossing |
| 20231115 | Libya PM's wife: Palestine excluded from Human Rights Declaration | regional response | Palestine and its people “are not included” in the international Human Rights Declaration, said the wife of the Prime Minister of Libya, Amina Ali Mohammed Al-Shawush Al-Dilaw, on Wednesday. |
| 20231115 | It's 'very sad' that women, children 'suffer the most' in Middle East conflict: Azerbaijani First Lady | regional response | Azerbaijan’s First Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva, on Wednesday, said that it is “very sad” that civilians, particularly women and children, are the ones who suffer the most from the ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. |
| 20231115 | What role does Syria play in the Hamas-Israel conflict? | Syria | Israel is bombing Syrian airports while militias inside Syria are firing rockets at Israel. But how important is Syria really in this conflict? |
| 20231115 | 50 killed and and dozens injured by Israel in Sabra mosque massacre | targeting civilians | At least 50 civilians were killed on Wednesday, dozens more injured, in an Israeli strike on a mosque housing hundreds of displaced in Sabra neighbourhood in western Gaza, Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing reported. |
| 20231115 | Cancer patients evacuated from Gaza heading to Turkiye for treatment | Turkey | Several cancer patients evacuated from Gaza, and their escorts, have departed for a military airport in north-eastern Egypt on Wednesday to be transported to Turkiye for treatment. |
| 20231115 | Turkey’s Erdogan calls Israel a ‘terror state’, criticises the West | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Israel a “terror state”, stepping up his condemnation of the Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip ahead of a sensitive visit to Germany. |
| 20231115 | Turkey's Erdogan labels Israel a 'terror state', slams its backers in West | Turkey | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Israel was a "terror state" committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza, sharpening his repeated criticism of Israeli leaders and their backers in the West. |
| 20231115 | UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’ | United Nations | Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defence’ under international law because Gaza is a territory which it occupies. Her comments came in a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia. |
| 20231115 | Yasser Arafat memorial destroyed by Israeli forces | West Bank | An Israeli bulldozer destroyed a memorial to former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Scholars say the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage during conflict can constitute a war crime. |
| 20231115 | Yemen’s Houthis have launched strikes at Israel during the war in Gaza. What threat do they pose? | Yemen | For years, the Houthi rebels controlling northern Yemen have chanted slogans at their mass rallies calling for the destruction of Israel. But they never acted on it until the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7 |
| 20231115 | US Navy ship shoots down drone from Yemen -officials | Yemen | A U.S. Navy warship shot down a drone in the Red Sea that emanated from Yemen, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in what appeared to be only the second time the United States has brought down projectiles near its warships since the Israel-Hamas conflict began. |
| 20231115 | Ai Weiwei's London exhibition called off over Israel social media post | Zionism / UK | Artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel-Gaza conflict. |
| 20231115 | Israel supporters gather in Washington DC amid Gaza war | Zionism / US | Chants of ‘no ceasefire’ were heard as tens of thousands of people joined a rally in Washington DC in support of Israel as it continues its war in Gaza. |
| 20231115 | US evangelicals drive Republican support for Israel | Zionism / US | Republican support for Israel has been near monolithic since the 7 October attack by Hamas. |
| 20231115 | March for Israel Speaker Hagee Once Said God "Sent Hitler to Help Jews Reach the Promised Land" | Zionism / US | Speakers at Tuesday's "March for Israel" on the National Mall included Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Christian fundamentalist House Speaker Mike Johnson and radical Christian Zionist pastor John Hagee, who once said God "sent Hitler to help Jews reach the Promised Land." Sarah Posner, a reporter focused on the American Christian right, discusses Hagee and Johnson's backgrounds and explains how Hagee and other extremist evangelical Christians and Jewish Zionists use each other to advance their own movements. Rabbis for Ceasefire's Alissa Wise notes the "influence of Christian Zionism on U.S. foreign policy is way understated" and should be vigorously countered by white American Christians, just as white American Jews have mobilized a high-profile opposition to Israel's genocide of Palestinians. |
| 20231115 | X is failing to moderate antisemitic and islamophobic hate speech, according to a new report | Zionism / social media | The non-profit organization analyzed 200 examples of reported hate speech on the platform and found that 96 per cent of the posts remained online a week later. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231116 | Biden issues strident defence of refusal to call for ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire | Biden has presented an unapologetic defense of his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that Hamas represents a continuing threat to Israel and that Israeli forces were seeking to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 20231116 | EU top diplomat calls for civilians to be protected during visit to Israel | collusion & complicity | The European Union's top diplomat on Thursday reiterated from Israel his call for civilian lives in Gaza to be protected as he started a five-day tour of the region. |
| 20231116 | EU foreign affairs chief tells Israel not to be ‘consumed by rage’ in response to Hamas attacks | collusion & complicity | The EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, has urged Israel not to be “consumed by rage” in its response to the Hamas attacks of 7 October as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, acknowledged splits in Europe on the conflict. |
| Comment: In 1995, The EC and the Israelis signed a association agreement that have put the EU into the position of collusion. On December 17, 2014, the General Court of the European Union had annulled on grounds of on factual imputations derived from the press and the internet, the listing of Hamas as a terrorist organization. On January 24, 2024, the EU listed Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar on its terrorist list over the event on October 7th. | |||
| 20231116 | Revealed: The Munitions U.S. Supplied Israel for Gaza War | collusion & complicity | Tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells, thousands of bunker-buster munitions and 200 kamikaze drones |
| 20231116 | Biden to Netanyahu: ‘Occupying’ Gaza would be a ‘big mistake’ | collusion & complicity | US president reiterates commitment to political solution as Israeli troops continue raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital.
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| Comment: What did US president Harry Truman, who was a Zionist, on May 14, 1948 eleven minutes after European Zionist migrants seized historic Palestine? | |||
| 20231116 | Biden issues strident defence of refusal to call for ceasefire in Gaza | collusion & complicity | Biden has presented an unapologetic defense of his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that Hamas represents a continuing threat to Israel and that Israeli forces were seeking to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 20231116 | US will not share intelligence connecting Hamas to Al Shifa hospital -White House | collusion & complicity | The United States will not share any Israeli intelligence or elaborate on its own intelligence assessment that Hamas used Gaza's Al Shifa hospital as a command center and possibly as a storage facility, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | US doubles down on claims Hamas used al-Shifa as a command centre | collusion & complicity | The United States has doubled down on claims that Hamas had operated from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces raided the medical facility. |
| 20231116 | US 'deeply concerned' that attack wounded Jordanian medics in Gaza -Sullivan | collusion & complicity | The United States expressed deep concern on Thursday that Jordanian medics were wounded in shelling near their field hospital in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | British Parliament approval of continuing genocidal war by Israel is disgraceful; confirms its participation in this crime | collusion & complicity | The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) emphasised that the British Parliament’s vote to continue the Israeli extermination war on the people of the Gaza Strip is dangerous, disgraceful to the British nation and does not reflect the position of its people, who came out in millions in all UK cities to reject this war. |
| 20231116 | Telecommunications cut off in Gaza after fuel runs out | communication | Telecom companies Jawwal and Paltel say the network went out of service after ‘all energy sources’ were depleted. |
| 20231116 | Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis | communication | Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout even as Israel signaled its offensive could next target the south of the territory, where most of the population has taken refuge. |
| 20231116 | Biden to Netanyahu: ‘Occupying’ Gaza would be a ‘big mistake’ | day after politics | US president reiterates commitment to political solution as Israeli troops continue raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital.
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| Comment: What did US president Harry Truman, who was a Zionist, on May 14, 1948 eleven minutes after European Zionist migrants seized historic Palestine? | |||
| 20231116 | UN chiefs reject Israel unilateral proposals for so-called Gaza 'safe zones' | dystopian war | The heads of numerous United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organisations said Thursday they would not take part in Gaza "safe zones" declared by Israel. |
| 20231116 | Starving children 'crying for milk' inside al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | The director of al-Shifa Hospital has given the latest update from inside the besieged medical facility in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Israel raids Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital for second day | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops enter the medical complex from the south, reportedly destroying a wall and interrogating medical workers. |
| 20231116 | Israeli commandos combing through Gaza's Al Shifa hospital -military official | eliminating health care system | Israeli commandos are searching through every building and every floor of Gaza's Al Shifa hospital and new information is emerging all the time, an Israeli military official said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | Dialysis patient dies during Israeli raid of al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | A spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health said a dialysis patient died during Israel's raid of the al-Shifa hospital. |
| 20231116 | What has Israel ‘found’ in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital? | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military claims it has found rifles, grenades and military vests — but so far, no Hamas command centre. |
| 20231116 | Al-Shifa: What we (BBC) know about Israel's raid on Gaza's main hospital | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a "targeted operation against Hamas". |
| 20231116 | US will not share intelligence connecting Hamas to Al Shifa hospital -White House | eliminating health care system | The United States will not share any Israeli intelligence or elaborate on its own intelligence assessment that Hamas used Gaza's Al Shifa hospital as a command center and possibly as a storage facility, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | US doubles down on claims Hamas used al-Shifa as a command centre | eliminating health care system | The United States has doubled down on claims that Hamas had operated from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces raided the medical facility. |
| 20231116 | HRW: Israeli evidence so far insufficient to revoke Shifa's protections | eliminating health care system | Images released by Israel of weapons it says it soldiers found inside Gaza's biggest hospital are not sufficient to justify revoking the hospital's status as protected by the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | Information provided by Israeli military as evidence proven false | eliminating health care system | Since October 7, Israel's military has routinely made claims about the conflict - and later retracted them. Information provided as evidence has been proved false or wrong multiple times. |
| 20231116 | Hamas denies Israeli claims about Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Hamas denied that it operated out of medical facilities in Gaza, as Israeli forces continued their operation at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Hamdan dismissed Israeli information about Hamas operations at Al Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza as "lies", and condemned US support for them as "silly and stupid". |
| 20231116 | IDF says Hamas hiding evidence of use of Shifa hospital as command centre | eliminating health care system | Medical administrators in Gaza reject claim by Israeli military as ‘outlandish excuse’
COMMENT IDF is trying to save its already ugly face after we and many others have debunked their "evidence". |
| 20231116 | Critics reject Israeli claim al-Shifa Hospital used as Hamas command centre | eliminating health care system | Israel has long accused Hamas of using the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a cover for its military operations. Israeli forces have raided the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for the second consecutive day, following days of encircling the largest medical facility in Gaza. They claim to have found what they call “grab bags” containing weapons and uniforms belonging to Hamas fighters. |
| 20231116 | Is Shifa Hospital really a Hamas ops hub? | eliminating health care system | Raiding Gaza’s largest hospital | Pushing people out of southern Gaza ‘safe zones’ | Strip being cut off from communications with the outside world | What are Israel’s goals in Gaza? | |
| 20231116 | Video of 'nurse' denouncing Hamas occupation of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is staged | eliminating health care system | A video claiming to show a nurse at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital has gone viral. Denouncing Hamas’s occupation of the facility, the nurse said that Hamas is stealing all of the hospital's food, fuel and medicine in the video. A closer examination of the clip, however, revealed that it is most likely staged. |
| 20231116 | Israeli tanks surround Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City | eliminating health care system | The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced, on Thursday, that Israeli tanks are besieging Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza City, and its ambulance teams are unable to reach the injured people due to the intense clashes |
| 20231116 | Red Crescent says Israeli tanks lay siege to Gaza's al-Ahli hospital | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli tanks were laying siege to Gaza's al-Ahli hospital in a “violent attack” on Thursday, after a surgeon confirmed the hospital was no longer able to provide surgery. |
| 20231116 | Indonesian hospital 'completely shuts down', says hospital director | eliminating health care system | The Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza has completely shut down after enduring weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231116 | ‘Terrifying’: Death and despair continue in Gaza as Israeli attacks rage on | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces raided al-Shifa Hospital in the north, while continuing bombardments in the south and central regions. |
| 20231116 | Medics fear for patients inside main Gaza hospital, cut off after Israelis arrive | eliminating health care system | Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza's biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered. |
| 20231116 | IDF continues Gaza hospital raid, Biden 'hopeful' about hostage release, Netanyahu urged to quit | eliminating health care system | Summary article |
| 20231116 | US 'deeply concerned' that attack wounded Jordanian medics in Gaza -Sullivan | eliminating health care system | The United States expressed 'deep concern' on Thursday that Jordanian medics were wounded in shelling near their field hospital in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | UN agency warns of 'deliberate attempt' to 'paralyse' its Gaza operations | eliminating UNWRA | Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, warned Thursday of a deliberate attempt to paralyse its operations. |
| 20231116 | Gaza faces communications blackout due to lack of fuel | food, water, fuel & electricity | Mobile phone and internet services have gone down across the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel for back-up generators, Palestinian telecoms companies say. |
| 20231116 | UN says Gaza aid being 'strangled' | food, water, fuel & electricity | The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said it could suspend operations in Gaza due to lack of fuel. Meanwhile, Israel has said it located "intelligence materials" at the al-Shifa hospital complex. |
| 20231116 | UN Palestinian Agency says Gaza operations being deliberately strangled | food, water, fuel & electricity | The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said, on Thursday, he believed there was a deliberate attempt to “strangle” its humanitarian work in Gaza, warning that the Agency may have to entirely suspend its operations due to a lack of fuel |
| 20231116 | UN says food systems are collapsing in Gaza, with aid for just 10 per cent | food, water, fuel & electricity | The World Food Programme (WFP) in Palestine has warned that food systems in the Gaza Strip are collapsing, and that current aid only meets 10 per cent of food needs. |
| 20231116 | Egypt: Rafah crossing is open and pressure must be put on Israel, says foreign minister | food, water, fuel & electricity | Egypt’s Foreign Minister has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to allow aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing. |
| 20231116 | Telecommunications cut off in Gaza after fuel runs out | food, water, fuel & electricity | Telecom companies Jawwal and Paltel say the network went out of service after ‘all energy sources’ were depleted. |
| 20231116 | Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis | food, water, fuel & electricity | Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout even as Israel signaled its offensive could next target the south of the territory, where most of the population has taken refuge. |
| 20231116 | Palestinian telecom firm announces complete blackout of services in Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | |
| 20231116 | Options for evacuating Gaza's Al Shifa hospital limited - WHO official | forced displacement | The United Nations is looking for ways to evacuate Al Shifa hospital in Gaza but options are limited by security and logistical constraints, a senior World Health Organization official said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | Israel orders evacuation in parts of southern Gaza amid fears of escalation | forced displacement | Residents in eastern Khan Younis have received leaflets telling them to flee as UN rights chief warns there is no safe place in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza receive notices to evacuate | forced displacement | Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza said they received evacuation notices Thursday, a signal that Israel’s ground invasion is about to expand in the south. |
| 20231116 | Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns | forced displacement | Israel has dropped leaflets into southern Gaza telling Palestinian civilians to leave four towns on the eastern edge of Khan Younis, raising fears that its war against Hamas could spread to areas it previously said were safe. |
| 20231116 | Israel's 'grave violations' against Palestinians 'point to a genocide in making': UN experts | genocide | “Grave violations” committed by Israel against Palestinians since Oct. 7 “point to a genocide in the making,” a group of independent UN experts said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | S Africa’s ruling ANC to back opposition motion to close Israeli embassy | global response | President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for war crimes in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | South Africa's ANC backs motion to close Israeli embassy | global response | South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said on Thursday that it would support a parliamentary motion calling for the Israeli embassy in South Africa to be closed. |
| 20231116 | Norway parliament says be ready for Palestinian state 'recognition' | global response | Norway's parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on the government to be ready to recognise an "independent" Palestinian state, in a new sign of Europe's anxiety over Israel's war on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231116 | Amnesty International places mock body bags outside White House | global response | Protesters with Amnesty International placed red roses on top of white-shrouded body bags, laid outside the White House in Washington on Wednesday as they called on US President Joe Biden to press for a ceasefire in Gaza, where the death toll continues to grow. |
| 20231116 | Italy opposition leader Conte asks government to stop arms supplies to Israel | global response | Leader of populist opposition party, 5-Star Movement (M5S) and former Premier, Giuseppe Conte, called on Italy’s far-right government to stop arms supplies to Israel, criticising its “lack of courage” in dealing with the conflict in Gaza |
| 20231116 | Israeli police launch Oct 7th probe into Hamas sexual violence following 'pressure of civil society' | Hamas resistance attack | Israel police's investigation into suspected sexual violence against women by Hamas militants on October 7th involves allegations ranging from gang rape to post-mortem mutilation which could amount to war crimes, but are extremely difficult to document. |
| 20231116 | Egypt: Rafah crossing is open and pressure must be put on Israel, says foreign minister | humanitarian aid | Egypt’s Foreign Minister has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to allow aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing. |
| 20231116 | UN agency warns of 'deliberate attempt' to 'paralyse' its Gaza operations | humanitarian aid | Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, warned Thursday of a deliberate attempt to paralyse its operations. |
| 20231116 | Israel’s opposition leader calls on Netanyahu to resign over Hamas attack | Israelis | Yair Lapid says the country has lost confidence in Netanyahu’s leadership after the security failure on October 7. |
| 20231116 | Israeli opposition leader says time has come to replace Netanyahu | Israelis | Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Thursday it was time to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that there would be broad support to form a unity government led by Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party. |
| 20231116 | Israeli police launch Oct 7th probe into Hamas sexual violence following 'pressure of civil society' | Israelis | Israel police's investigation into suspected sexual violence against women by Hamas militants on October 7th involves allegations ranging from gang rape to post-mortem mutilation which could amount to war crimes, but are extremely difficult to document. |
| 20231116 | Shelling intensifies at Lebanon-Israel border | Lebanon | Shelling intensified across Lebanon's frontier with Israel on Thursday, with Lebanese armed group Hezbollah saying it had fired missiles at eight positions across the border and Israel saying it had retaliated with artillery. |
| 20231116 | What war crimes laws apply to the Israel-Palestinian conflict? | opinion | article is a explainer -- War between Israel and Palestinian militants since the cross-border attack by Gaza's ruling Islamist group Hamas on Oct. 7 has caused a large civilian death toll. |
| 20231116 | Anti-Israel rhetoric in Jordan intensifies as kingdom braces for chaos | regional effects | Officials and analysts say strong words out of Amman reflect fears that protests in Jordan or fighting in West Bank could spill over borders with existential consequences |
| 20231116 | Saudi Arabia detains worshippers praying for Gaza in holy sites | regional effects | Islah Abdur-Rahman was taken away by soldiers, and says his experience was an insight into what it's like to be silenced |
| Comment: Saudi crackdown is strongly related to the interest to join the Abraham pact that was was mastermind by Netanyahu and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner in 2020, and meant to isolate the Palestinians from the Arab world. It has nothing to do with the United Nations Resolution 181 as claimed by many Western online sources. | |||
| 20231116 | Jordan says it won’t sign energy and water exchange deal with Israel | regional response | Top diplomat says Amman’s priority is to end ‘Israel’s barbarism in Gaza’, which can no longer be seen as self-defence. |
| 20231116 | How the dead are counted in Gaza | targeting civilians | As battles there intensify, the chaotic situation - with bombardment by Israeli forces, on-the-ground fighting, communications blackouts, fuel shortages and crumbling infrastructure - makes getting accurate information on the numbers of people who have died extremely demanding. |
| 20231116 | Their families wiped out, grieving Palestinians in Gaza ask why | targeting families in whole or in part | The night a blast struck his family’s home in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic. |
| 20231116 | Lack of supplies, ongoing strikes intensify tragedy in Gaza | targeting families in whole or in part | Four-year-old Ahmad Shabat lost 17 family members and ended up losing his legs after being hit for the second time by Israeli offensive strikes. The UN warns that the lack of supplies would worsen the situation for survival in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231116 | In Gaza, Ahmad lost his family then his legs to Israel’s bombing | targeting families in whole or in part | Ahmad Shabat lost his legs in an Israeli air attack outside a United Nations school in Nuseirat refugee camp that killed his uncle. |
| 20231116 | Turkey's Erdogan visits Germany amid divisions over Israel | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming to Berlin for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. With their positions on the war in the Middle East far apart, it's unlikely to be a friendly visit. |
| 20231116 | More than 50 UK Labour MPs break ranks to vote for Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | A group of 56 Labour lawmakers go against the party line to officially urge a truce in Israel’s war in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Keir Starmer suffers major Labour rebellion over Gaza ceasefire vote | United Kingdom | Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 of his MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire. |
| 20231116 | Third of London Labour MPs rebel over Gaza ceasefire vote | United Kingdom | Nearly a third of Labour's London MPs voted against the party line to support a motion calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20231116 | Starmer calls for Labour unity after rebellion in Gaza vote | United Kingdom | Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants Labour to be "as united as we can" after a series of frontbench resignations over the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20231116 | Activists in the UK blockade factories in protest against Israeli weapons production | United Kingdom | A group of activists in Liverpool occupied the offices, early Thursday, of Fisher German, property managers of an Israeli weapons factory in Shenstone in the UK |
| 20231116 | British Parliament approval of continuing genocidal war by Israel is disgraceful; confirms its participation in this crime | United Kingdom | The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) emphasised that the British Parliament’s vote to continue the Israeli extermination war on the people of the Gaza Strip is dangerous, disgraceful to the British nation and does not reflect the position of its people, who came out in millions in all UK cities to reject this war. |
| 20231116 | UN chiefs reject Israel unilateral proposals for so-called Gaza 'safe zones' | United Nations | The heads of numerous United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organisations said Thursday they would not take part in Gaza "safe zones" declared by Israel. |
| 20231116 | Cousin of Palestinian activist beaten by Israeli soldiers | West Bank | Soldiers were filmed violently assaulting cousin of killed activist, Nizar Banat, in front of his screaming children. |
| 20231116 | Israeli forces kill three Palestinians after alleged West Bank attack | West Bank | Israeli police say six members of the security forces were wounded in a shooting attack at a checkpoint near Bethlehem. |
| 20231116 | Israeli forces kill three Palestinian gunmen who opened fire in West Bank - police | West Bank | Three Palestinian men opened fire at a checkpoint on a road between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday, wounding six Israeli security force members before the attackers were shot dead, Israeli police said. |
| 20231116 | Hamas claims responsibility for shooting near Jerusalem that killed Israeli soldier | West Bank | Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility Thursday for a gun attack near Jerusalem that killed a soldier, saying it was in response to the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. The news came after Gaza’s main telecommunications companies Paltel and Jawwal said services in the enclave were down due to a lack of fuel. |
| 20231116 | France calls West Bank Israeli settler violence 'policy of terror' | West Bank | France on Thursday condemned violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, calling it a "policy of terror" aimed at displacing Palestinians and urging Israeli authorities to protect Palestinians from the violence. |
| 20231116 | Key members of Netanyahu’s cabinet ‘throwing fire on the flames’ | West Bank | Jake Tapper breaks down the comments made by several members of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet that he says are increasing tensions amid Israel’s war with Hamas. |
| 20231116 | Montreal Jewish community in shock over synagogue firebombing, school shootings | Zionism / Canada | Canada's Jewish community expected a backlash but was surprised by its scale. In the mostly Jewish town of Hampstead on the island of Montreal residents are dismayed and worried over an outbreak of anti-Semitic acts tied to the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231116 | Germany’s police target a suspected group with links to Hezbollah | Zionism / Germany | Hundreds of German police have raided the properties of suspected members of a group with links to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. Germany’s interior ministry says it conducted searches in 54 buildings in 16 states, including in Berlin, Hamburg, and Lower Saxony. |
| 20231116 | German police raid Islamic centre over alleged ties to Iran, Hezbollah | Zionism / Germany | Police target 54 sites in seven states. Minister says, ‘We are acting against Islamists, not against a religion or another state.’ |
| 20231116 | German police raid suspected pro-Hezbollah Islamist group | Zionism / Germany | The Interior Ministry has said it is searching objects related to the Islamic Center of Hamburg, which is suspected of supporting the militant group Hezbollah. |
| 20231116 | Cancelled or sacked over support for Palestine | Zionism / global | Support for Palestine has been on display around the world, but with that hundreds of people have found themselves sacked for speaking out against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Synagogue in Slovenia defaced with nazi graffiti amid rise in antisemitism across Europe | Zionism / global | The Jewish Community Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which hosts one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe, was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. |
| 20231116 | Western donors cut off funding to Arab groups amid Israel’s war | Zionism / global | The West’s silence on Israel’s assault on Gaza and violence in West Bank also risks a deeper rift with Arab groups, activists say. |
| 20231116 | Ai Weiwei London exhibition 'effectively cancelled’ over Israel social media post | Zionism / UK | Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel Hamas war. |
| 20231116 | US Capitol police clash with protesters calling for Gaza war ceasefire | Zionism / US | Police use pepper spray and fire projectiles containing chemical irritants on ‘non-violent’ protesters in Washington, DC. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231117 | Protesters demanding Gaza ceasefire shut down US bridge | ceasefire | Protesters shut down San Francisco’s Bay Bridge during rush hour as they called for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 20231117 | Stanford students refuse to end Gaza sit-in until demands met | ceasefire | Students vow to continue weeks-long protest until the prestigious US university divests from Israel and condemns Israeli war crimes in Gaza and occupied territories |
| 20231117 | More than 20,000 children injured in attacks | children | Israel has killed more than 4,600 children in Gaza in just over five weeks. About 20,000 more have been injured. |
| 20231117 | Canada officials face threat of prosecution for complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza | collusion & complicity | The Canadian government is the latest to be issued with a notice of intention to seek prosecution of politicians for complicity in Israeli war crimes in Gaza. |
| 20231117 | Biden facing growing internal dissent over Israel's Gaza campaign | collusion & complicity | US President Joe Biden is under growing pressure to rein in Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231117 | The Elders: Biden, the world needs you to act now for peace between Israel, Palestine | collusion & complicity | In an open letter issued to Biden yesterday, the Elders said: “As polarisation increases, the world needs you to set out a vision for peace. That vision must give hope to those who reject extremism and want the violence to end.” |
| 20231117 | The historic Great Omari Mosque in Gaza 'hit' by an Israeli air strike | culture & heritage | Gaza's oldest mosque, the Great Omari Mosque located in the Old City, has reportedly been hit by an Israeli air strike on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. |
| 20231117 | 'Bombings everywhere': No escape for Gaza's displaced | dystopian war | Airstrikes, destroyed houses and loved ones annihilated by bombs: Palestinians who fled the north of the Gaza Strip on Israeli orders have found no trace of the safety promised to them. |
| 20231117 | Israeli air strikes bomb Nuseirat despite labeling it as a ‘safe zone | dystopian war | Israeli air strikes bomb the Nuseriat area, which is labeled as supposedly safe. MEMO’s correspondent Mohammed Asad reports that there were many martyrs, and injured in the latest bombing in the area, and that it should no longer be considered a safe zone. |
| 20231117 | Over 800,000 Palestinians still in Gaza City, northern areas despite Israeli ground attacks | dystopian war | The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported on Friday that over 800,000 Palestinians remain in the besieged Gaza City and northern areas, despite ongoing Israeli destructive ground operations |
| 20231117 | Gaza hospitals face difficult task of evacuating patients | eleminating health care system | Gaza's war-torn hospitals are overflowing with patients in need of emergency care. Those with chronic health conditions are no longer receiving meaningful treatment, but evacuating them to other countries is complicated and dangerous. |
| 20231117 | The US does not show proof of Hamas use of hospitals. | eliminating health care system | The US is sticking by its assessment that Hamas uses hospitals as command-and-control centers. This, despite the lack of evidence shown so far, so how do they explain the scant proof Israel has provided? |
| 20231117 | Critics reject Israeli claim Al Shifa hospital used as Hamas command centre | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army says it found a cache of weapons and ammunition during a ground operation in the Al Shifa hospital compound. Israel has long accused Hamas of using the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza as a cover for its military operations. They claim to have found what they call “grab bags” containing weapons and uniforms belonging to Hamas fighters. |
| 20231117 | Doctor says Israeli forces 'found nothing', supplies low at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | A doctor at the Gaza Strip's Al Shifa hospital said on Friday Israeli forces had "found nothing" during searches of the hospital complex, and that food and water were running out. |
| 20231117 | IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ | eliminating health care system | Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military has claimed |
| 20231117 | Analysis: What’s Israel’s next target after Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital? | eliminating health care system | Israel has yet to offer evidence that Hamas is using a network of tunnels below the hospital as a command centre |
| 20231117 | Israel’s claims of providing incubators ‘false’, says al-Shifa director | eliminating health care system | The director of al-Shifa Hospital tells Al Jazeera that newborn babies require immediate attention, but they are running out of medical supplies. “On some occasions, we are forced to leave patients to die because we are helpless, we cannot perform any surgical operations on them, the least we can do is give them some painkillers to let those victims die in peace,” Muhammed Abu Salmiya said. He added that many newborn premature babies died as the incubators ran out of oxygen. The Israeli army said earlier this week that it would be providing incubators to al-Shifa Hospital, but Salmiya says this is a lie. “The Israeli occupation forces claim to have provided incubators to the hospital, but this is not true; this is false. In addition, we are not in need of incubators; we have already incubators in the hospital, yet we are out of fuel to generate electricity [for the incubators],” he cried. |
| Comment: We have evidence that a few incubators were brought into the hospital but found it propaganda as incubators need electricity to operate. But, the Israelis have cut the electricity. They also cut the fuel supply needed to run the power generators. | |||
| 20231117 | Israel army destroys medical departments at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The Ministry of Health in Gaza has stated that the Israeli army destroyed medical departments in its attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. |
| 20231117 | Gaza hospitals face difficult task of evacuating patients | eliminating health care system | Gaza's war-torn hospitals are overflowing with patients in need of emergency care. Those with chronic health conditions are no longer receiving meaningful treatment, but evacuating them to other countries is complicated and dangerous. |
| 20231117 | Report: Hamas leader stopped prisoner swap talks after Israel stormed Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Leader of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, stopped contacts with mediators handling the file of Israeli prisoners of war being held in Gaza, after the Israeli occupation army stormed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
| 20231117 | Al-Shifa Hospital director in Gaza says no water or oxygen left | eliminating health care system | The director of the Gaza Strip's main hospital raided by Israeli soldiers says the facility has now run out of oxygen and water, and patients "are screaming from thirst". |
| 20231117 | More than 20 patients die at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital amid Israeli raid | eliminating health care system | Health ministry spokesman says at least 24 people have died at Gaza’s largest hospital due to power cuts. |
| 20231117 | 24 patients died in Israeli-occupied Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza in last 48 hours: Palestinian health ministry | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian health ministry said that 24 patients at Israeli-occupied Al-Shifa hospital in the under-bombardment Gaza Strip had died within 48 hours due to power outages. |
| 20231117 | Ambulances detained, searched by Israeli forces | eliminating health care system | There have been near daily Israeli strikes in, or near Gaza's hospitals compounds. The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties governing conduct during armed conflict. And their message is clear: hospitals and medical personnel are off limits during war. |
| 20231117 | UN stops delivery of food and supplies to Gaza as communications blackout hinders aid coordination | food, water, fuel & electricity | The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. |
| 20231117 | Aid agencies say they can’t send food and other supplies to Gaza because of communications blackout | food, water, fuel & electricity | Communications systems in the Gaza Strip were down for a second day Friday with no fuel to power the internet and phone networks, causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies even as they warned people may soon face starvation. |
| 20231117 | UN warns of widespread hunger in Gaza amid collapse of food systems and fuel shortage | food, water, fuel & electricity | The Gaza Strip is suffering a substantial food deficit, leading to widespread hunger, with almost the entire population of the Palestinian enclave in urgent need of food assistance, warned the UN World Food Programme (WFP). |
| 20231117 | UN says starvation imminent in Gaza, no let-up in Israeli assault | food, water, fuel & electricity | U.N. aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended again on Friday due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, deepening the misery of thousands of hungry and homeless Palestinians as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the enclave. |
| 20231117 | ‘Starvation and disease’ stalk Gaza as fuel shortages block aid: Agencies | food, water, fuel & electricity | UN aid deliveries to Gaza are suspended again due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown. |
| 20231117 | Israeli ministers outraged over 'limited' fuel set to enter Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The opposition comes despite the UN saying the lack of fuel is jeopardizing 'the entire architecture of the humanitarian response' in Gaza as raw sewage is flowing in the streets |
| 20231117 | Israel says it will let more aid into Gaza as UN warns of hunger and disease | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israel agreed on Friday to let fuel trucks into Gaza and promised "no limitation" on aid requested by the United Nations, appearing to bow to international pressure after warnings that its siege of the Palestinian enclave would cause starvation and disease. |
| 20231117 | WFP warns Gaza residents face 'imminent threat of death by starvation' | food, water, fuel & electricity | The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) warned late Thursday that Gaza residents currently face an "imminent threat of death by starvation" as Israel continues to bombard the strip, causing severe energy and food shortages |
| 20231117 | UN warns of Gaza starvation as concerns rise about safety in the south | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israeli military expansion seen as likely alongside acute shortages of of food and water |
| 20231117 | UN Refugee Agency needs 160,000 litres of fuel every day to run operations in Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, said on Friday it requires 160,000 litres (42,268 gallons) of fuel daily to conduct its essential operations in the Gaza Strip, |
| 20231117 | Egypt delivers 150,000 litres of diesel to Gaza in 10-truck convoy | food, water, fuel & electricity | 10 fuel trucks carrying 150,000 litres of diesel entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, Sky News Arabia reported on Friday. |
| 20231117 | Israel says it will allow two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israel says it will allow two trucks carrying diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip each day. |
| 20231117 | Israel says it will let more aid into Gaza as UN warns of hunger and disease | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israel agreed on Friday to let fuel trucks into Gaza and promised "no limitation" on aid requested by the United Nations, appearing to bow to international pressure after warnings that its siege of the Palestinian enclave would cause starvation and disease. |
| 20231117 | Gaza hospitals face difficult task of evacuating patients | forced displacement | Gaza's war-torn hospitals are overflowing with patients in need of emergency care. Those with chronic health conditions are no longer receiving meaningful treatment, but evacuating them to other countries is complicated and dangerous. |
| 20231117 | People across the world protest against Israel’s war on Gaza | global response | Demonstrators the world over have rallied in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, condemning the high rate of civilian casualties in Israeli attacks and calling for an immediate ceasefire. |
| 20231117 | As Israel bombs Gaza, Ireland’s enduring support of Palestine gets stronger | global response | Writers, politicians, and activists in Ireland, which is often an outlier in the West on the Middle East conflict, call for peace. |
| 20231117 | Aid agencies say they can’t send food and other supplies to Gaza because of communications blackout | humanitarian aid | Communications systems in the Gaza Strip were down for a second day Friday with no fuel to power the internet and phone networks, causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies even as they warned people may soon face starvation. |
| 20231117 | UN stops delivery of food and supplies to Gaza as communications blackout hinders aid coordination | humanitarian aid | The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. |
| 20231117 | Footage shows Israeli soldiers celebrating amid Gaza bombardment | IOF | Recent footage has exposed a disturbing scene of Israeli soldiers singing and celebrating, mocking the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The soldiers are seen making derogatory slurs towards Gazans, including calling them 'animals', while proudly joking about violence, death, and destruction. |
| 20231117 | Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians | IOF | Weapons tested in each war Israel wages see a spike in global demand. The current Gaza war is the latest laboratory for its arms industry. |
| 20231117 | Body of Hamas captive Yehudit Weiss found near Gaza hospital, Israel says | IOF | Weiss, a 65-year-old mother of five, found in ‘structure’ adjacent to al-Shifa Hospital, officials say. |
| 20231117 | Israel says body of hostage recovered near al-Shifa hospital | IOF | Yehudit Weiss, abducted from Be’eri kibbutz by Hamas, found dead in building next to hospital after raid |
| 20231117 | Israel says it found a Hamas tunnel at al-Shifa hospital | IOF | Israel's military has said its soldiers have discovered a tunnel shaft used by Hamas militants at al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. The Israeli military released a video of the tunnel entrance, which could not be verified, after they took control of the complex |
| 20231117 | Israel’s claims of providing incubators ‘false’, says al-Shifa director | IOF | The director of al-Shifa Hospital tells Al Jazeera that newborn babies require immediate attention, but they are running out of medical supplies. “On some occasions, we are forced to leave patients to die because we are helpless, we cannot perform any surgical operations on them, the least we can do is give them some painkillers to let those victims die in peace,” Muhammed Abu Salmiya said. He added that many newborn premature babies died as the incubators ran out of oxygen. The Israeli army said earlier this week that it would be providing incubators to al-Shifa Hospital, but Salmiya says this is a lie. “The Israeli occupation forces claim to have provided incubators to the hospital, but this is not true; this is false. In addition, we are not in need of incubators; we have already incubators in the hospital, yet we are out of fuel to generate electricity [for the incubators],” he cried. |
| Comment: We have evidence that a few incubators were brought into the hospital but found it propaganda as incubators need electricity to operate. But, the Israelis have cut the electricity. They also cut the fuel supply needed to run the power generators. | |||
| 20231117 | Iran told US it doesn't want regional escalation, says report | Iran | Iran used back channels to tell US that regional escalation was not its priority, while also telling Hamas it would not join the fight, Tehran's top diplomat tells the Financial Times |
| 20231117 | Israel will hit Hamas all over Gaza – including ‘in the south’, IDF says | Israeli escalation | Israeli troops will hit Hamas targets wherever they can find them, including in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Israel's chief military spokesman said on Friday, as forces continued their ground operation in the northern part of the besieged enclave. |
| 20231117 | Israel ‘not successful’ in minimising Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu | Israeli escalation | Israeli leader says the army is trying to get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate. |
| 20231117 | Netanyahu says Israel 'not successful' at minimising Gaza casualties but blames Hamas | Israeli escalation | Israel's prime minister has said it is trying to minimise civilian casualties in the war in Gaza but has been "not successful", blaming this on Hamas. |
| 20231117 | Israel ‘not successful’ in minimising Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu | Israeli escalation | Israeli leader says the army is trying to get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate. |
| 20231117 | Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | Israeli escalation | Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. |
| 20231117 | The fate of Hamas’ captives could tear Israeli society apart | Israelis | As the influence of the religious right has grown, Israel's social contract with its conscripts has frayed. The death of 240 Israelis in Gaza could break it forever |
| 20231117 | Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | Israelis | Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. |
| 20231117 | Insight: Forever war? Israel risks a long, bloody insurgency in Gaza | Israelis | Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a credible post-war plan to withdraw its troops and move toward the creation of a Palestinian state, U.S. and Arab officials, diplomats and analysts said. |
| 20231117 | Under the cover of war, Israeli forces impose restrictions on Al-Aqsa prayers | Jerusalem | Since the start of the conflict, Israeli police forces have barred most Palestinians from attending Friday prayers at the site |
| 20231117 | Does Israel have the right to self-defence in Gaza? | opinion | article is a explainer -- Many experts believe Israel’s case is weak because Gaza has in effect been under Israeli control. |
| 20231117 | US sanctions Iran-backed militia members in Iraq conducting strikes against American forces | regional effects | The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on six people affiliated with the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah, which is accused of being behind a spate of recent attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria following the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel. |
| 20231117 | Egypt FM: No US pressure to accept Palestinian displacement in exchange for debt relief | regional effects | Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has categorically rejected reports claiming Israel and the United States are pressuring Egypt to accept the displacement of Palestinians in exchange for canceling Cairo’s debts. |
| 20231117 | Scores of Palestinians dead, wounded from Israeli bombing of Gaza school sheltering displaced people | schools | There were scores of deaths and injuries from an Israeli bombing on Friday that targeted a Gaza City school sheltering displaced people, Palestine TV reported. |
| 20231117 | ‘We’re alive’, then dead silence: A Gaza family trapped in Israel’s war | targeting civilians | No one knows the fate of the Khayal family who tried to flee south during four-hour pause last Friday but were shot at. |
| 20231117 | Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand | targeting civilians | The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. |
| 20231117 | Israel bombs Jabalia Camp throughout the night | targeting civilians | At least 11 Palestinians were killed after an Israeli air attack targeted a residential building in a residential area of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231117 | Rescue workers race to find survivors in Jabalia | targeting civilians | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been targeted again in the latest Israeli air strikes. Residential buildings in Jabalia were hit, killing at least 11 people. |
| 20231117 | Israel ‘not successful’ in minimising Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu | targeting civilians | Israeli leader says the army is trying to get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate. |
| 20231117 | Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | targeting civilians | Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. |
| 20231117 | Israeli air strikes bomb Nuseirat despite labeling it as a ‘safe zone | targeting forced displaced people | Israeli air strikes bomb the Nuseriat area, which is labeled as supposedly safe. MEMO’s correspondent Mohammed Asad reports that there were many martyrs, and injured in the latest bombing in the area, and that it should no longer be considered a safe zone. |
| 20231117 | Scores of Palestinians dead, wounded from Israeli bombing of Gaza school sheltering displaced people | targeting forced displaced people | There were scores of deaths and injuries from an Israeli bombing on Friday that targeted a Gaza City school sheltering displaced people, Palestine TV reported. |
| 20231117 | Turkiye rejects Netanyahu's 'unfounded slander' against President Erdogan | Turkey | Turkiye, on Wednesday, rejected “unfounded slander” from Israel’s Prime Minister against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying Israeli officials have “no right to talk about the law” |
| 20231117 | Can the UN Security Council stop Israel’s war on Gaza? | United Nations | The UN Security Council has agreed to call for ‘humanitarian pauses’ after a crucial vote |
| 20231117 | Israel must 'stop' its attacks, and especially halt any push into south Gaza: UN Human Rights office | United Nations | The UN Human Rights office said on Friday that Israel should “stop” its attacks in Gaza, and pushed for a ceasefire, especially if it is pushing its operations into southern Gaza |
| 20231117 | White House condemns Musk for spreading 'hideous' antisemitic lie | United States | The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous" antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans." |
| Comment: The X-post concerns this article | |||
| 20231117 | Medical staff ordered out of Jenin hospital during Israeli raid | West Bank | Palestinian medical workers were forced out of a hospital with their hands in the air during an Israeli raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Thursday night |
| 20231117 | Israeli forces raid Jenin, surround Ibn Sina hospital in occupied West Bank | West Bank | A number of hospitals were surrounded and at least three people killed as Israeli forces launched a major raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231117 | Casualties reported in Hebron, occupied West Bank | West Bank | Local Palestinian sources report that an intense exchange of fire has taken place in the Ras al-Joura area in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231117 | US’ Blinken urges Israel to stop settler violence in West Bank | West Bank | Top US diplomat makes plea amid surge in reports of settler violence since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231117 | Israel kills Hamas militants in Jenin raid as violence surges in West Bank | West Bank | Hamas says three fighters died, while Israeli military says it killed at least five, as tensions rise |
| 20231117 | The dangers of weaponising anti-Semitism | Zionism / global | Scholars and experts unpack the meaning and use of anti-Semitism during the Israel-Gaza war |
| 20231117 | The dangers of weaponising anti-Semitism (video version) | Zionism / global | As the death toll continues to rise in Gaza, some experts warn of a potential genocide. Israeli leaders have at times justified their attacks on the besieged strip by invoking the history of persecution of Jewish people, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling Hamas’s attack on October 7 “the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Holocaust”. How is Jewish history influencing Israel’s response in the war on Gaza? |
| 20231117 | White House condemns Musk for spreading 'hideous' antisemitic lie | Zionism / social media | The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous" antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans." |
| Comment: The X-post concerns this article | |||
| 20231117 | White House criticises Elon Musk over 'hideous' antisemitic lie | Zionism / US | The White House has accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous lie" about Jewish people, after the X owner appeared to respond approvingly to an antisemitic post on the platform.
Comment: The X-post concerns this article |
| 20231117 | TikTok under pressure to suppress pro-Palestine voices in alarming crackdown on free speech | Zionism / US | Social media giant, TikTok, has come under pressure from pro-Israel celebrities and “Jewish influencers” crackdown on pro-Palestine voices and content, according to a shocking new report by the New York Times. |
| 20231117 | The Elders: Biden, the world needs you to act now for peace between Israel, Palestine | Zionism / US | In an open letter issued to Biden yesterday, the Elders said: “As polarisation increases, the world needs you to set out a vision for peace. That vision must give hope to those who reject extremism and want the violence to end.” |
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| 20231118 | First group of wounded Palestinian children from Israel-Hamas war arrives in United Arab Emirates | children | The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip reached the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, part of a pledged relief effort by the country to aid 1,000 children. |
| 20231118 | Israel does not distinguish between north and south Gaza: Hamas | dystopian war | Beirut-based Hamas representative Osama Hamdan says today’s attack on al-Fakhoora school in Khan Younis proves that no part of Gaza is safe. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 32 in south Gaza amid calls for civilians to flee | dystopian war | Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians on Saturday, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it turns to attacking Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 32 in south Gaza amid calls for civilians to flee | dystopian war | Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians on Saturday, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it turns to attacking Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. |
| 20231118 | Israel orders hospital evacuation: Al Shifa patients and medical staff forced to leave | eliminating health care system | At least 7-thousand people working and sheltering at the Al Shifa hospital complex in northern Gaza have been ordered to leave by Israeli forces. Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing the Al Shifa hospital compound, after being ordered to leave by Israel's military. More than 300 patients are heading to southern Gaza WITHOUT the help of ambulances. |
| 20231118 | Israeli forces order Shifa hospital evacuation in 'next hour'. | eliminating health care system | Israeli army ordered the evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital "in the next hour" over loudspeakers on Saturday morning, an AFP journalist at the scene reported. |
| 20231118 | Panic as Gaza’s al-Shifa evacuates, Israel army denies ordering it to do so | eliminating health care system | More than 7,000 people, including critical patients, were housed in the hospital that Israeli troops have besieged for days. |
| 20231118 | Shifa Hospital patients, staff and displaced leave the compound | eliminating health care system | Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, health officials said, leaving behind only a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move and Israeli forces in control of the facility. |
| 20231118 | Israeli army forces evacuation of Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army ordered patients, refugees, and medical staff to evacuate the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by the occupation army, forcing them to make the more than 20-kilometre-long trek south on foot. |
| 20231118 | Al-Shifa now almost ‘deserted’: Hospital director | eliminating health care system | Speaking to Al Jazeera from Gaza’ largest hospital, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, says only him and few others, including staff and patients, were left at the hospital. Here are his translated comments: The hospital is completely deserted. Some of the remaining patients and victims are lying in the corridor. The center of the hospital is surrounded by Israeli soldiers. They are in total control. Even we, the very few medical staff that remains, cannot move freely. Many of those in critical conditions including newborns and kidney patients will die imminently if they are not evacuated. Food at the hospitals is also running out. |
| 20231118 | Israelis deny ordering evacuation of al Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli military spokesperson Peter Lerner has denied ordering people in al Shifa Hospital or Khan Younis to evacuate and said the south of Gaza is "safer" for people. He said "Hamas are hiding behind civilians" and that there's no time limit on ground operations within Gaza - adding it will likely be "a long battle". |
| 20231118 | US weapons expert debunks Israel’s denial of Gaza hospital strike | eliminating health care system | Speaking to MEMO, weapons expert and US Army veteran Dylan Griffith challenged Israel's claim that it was a Palestinian 'misfired rocket' and not the Israeli military that struck the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on 17 October 2023, killing over 500 Palestinian civilians. Griffith examines the available visual evidence to refute Israel's version of events, which has now been endorsed by US President Joe Biden. |
| 20231118 | Gaza hospitals director rejects Israeli statement on al-Shifa evacuation | eliminating health care system | Mohammed Zaqout insists that Israeli forces gave staff and patients at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza the order to evacuate this morning. “I categorically deny these false allegations [that evacuation was requested] … despite the difficult situation, the medical staff were working and operating … we were forced to leave at gunpoint,” he told Al Jazeera. |
| 20231118 | What AJE knows about evacuation of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Doctors say at about 450 patients have been evacuated and about 120 had to be left behind after Israeli forces gave Gaza’s largest hospital one hour to evacuate. With communications heavily restricted, |
| 20231118 | How hospitals became ‘fair game’ in Israel’s war on Gaza | eliminating health care system | Has the media helped turn hospitals into targets in Gaza? Plus, what has October 7 meant for anti-war and anti-apartheid narratives in Israel? |
| 20231118 | ‘Scream to the world, stop genocide’: Indonesian medics rally for Gaza | eliminating health care system | Medical workers in Indonesia call for an end to attacks on hospitals and healthcare staff by Israeli forces in Gaza. |
| 20231118 | WHO: 170 Israeli attacks on West Bank healthcare facilities | eliminating health care system in the West Bank | The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Friday that more than 170 Israeli attacks were launched on healthcare facilities in the occupied West Bank alone since 7 October. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli forces strike al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza | eliminating UNWRA | Israeli air raids have hit the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | At least 50’ dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school | eliminating UNWRA | According to AFP, the Gaza Ministry of Health says that ‘at least 50’ are dead after the Israeli army bombed al-Fakhoora school early this morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement that the al-Fakhoora School attack proves that Israel’s declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip area of all Palestinian presence. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks | eliminating UNWRA | Palestinians in northern and southern Gaza targeted with relentless bombardment, as patients are also forced out of al-Shifa Hospital in wheelchairs and beds |
| 20231118 | At least 80 dead in Israel strike on Gaza refugee camp as ceasefire calls rebuffed | eliminating UNWRA | The Hamas health ministry has reported the deaths of more than 80 people in two separate Israeli strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Israel bombs another UN-affiliated school in Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of people | eliminating UNWRA | At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed following an Israeli air strike on Al-Fakhoura school, run by UNRWA, in the northern Gaza Strip according to local reports. |
| 20231118 | ‘Nothing discriminate’ about bombing Fakhoora School from air: Analyst | eliminating UNWRA | Fakhoora School is like the al-Shifa of schools in Gaza; it’s been targeted like al-Shifa has. This school was bombed in 2009, 2014, and this is the second time this month that it’s been bombed. There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and deaths. |
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| 20231118 | UN rapporteur: ‘Israel must stop using water as a weapon of war against Palestinians’ | food, water, fuel & electricity | United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo-Agudo on Friday called on the occupying state to stop using water as a weapon of war against the Palestinians and called on it to provide clean water and fuel to the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Gaza’s food is running out amid Israel’s ‘war of starvation’ | food, water, fuel & electricity | The closure of crossings to the Gaza Strip, displacement of thousands and bombing of bakeries have worsened the food crisis. |
| 20231118 | Israel agrees to allow ‘minimal’ two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | Decision was made in part to prevent spread of diseases that would ‘harm’ civilians and its own troops on the ground, Israeli official says. |
| 20231118 | Genocidal incitement': Anti-Palestinian rhetoric and hate speech | genocide II | UN human rights experts have called on the international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 36 Special Rapporteurs released a joint statement, saying there is increasing evidence of QUOTE 'genocidal incitement to destroy the Palestinian people.' |
| 20231118 | Emotions run high at pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations around the world | global response | In the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, people across the globe have taken to the streets en masse — some in support of Israel and some in support of Palestinians. |
| 20231118 | Five countries ask International Criminal Court to investigate the situation in Palestinian territories | global response | The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan says his office has received a referral from five countries to investigate whether crimes have been committed in the Palestinian territories as part of Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. |
| 20231118 | South Africa's referral of Israel to ICC divides opinion | global response | South Africa's decision to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza has triggered intense discussions locally and abroad. |
| 20231118 | More than 100 pro-Palestine rallies to take place across UK, say organisers | global response | Groups behind ceasefire protests attended by hundreds of thousands say local action will replace London march this week |
| 20231118 | Title is in Hebrew | Hamas resistance attack | The headline reads in English: "Assessment in the security establishment: Hamas did not know in advanced about the Nova festival; and recognized it from the air." Subtitle reads in English: |
| 20231118 | Al-Qassam Brigades reveals truth about occupation finding bodies of 2 female captives | Hamas resistance attack | Al-Qassam Brigades announced that the occupation’s claims that the bodies of Israeli captives were found in hospitals in the Gaza Strip were false and that they were undergoing treatment there. |
| 20231118 | Israel media: ‘Hamas has not been broken. Destroying it, rescuing hostages is impossible’ | Hamas resistance attack | Experts and former Israeli security officials confirmed that it is impossible for Tel Aviv to combine its declared goal of destroying the Hamas Movement and rescuing the hostages. |
| 20231118 | Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says | Hamas resistance attack | First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths. |
| 20231118 | Israel agrees to allow ‘minimal’ two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza | IOF | Decision was made in part to prevent spread of diseases that would ‘harm’ civilians and its own troops on the ground, Israeli official says. |
| 20231118 | Israel says it will increase military offensive in southern Gaza | Israeli escalation | Israel bombed an apartment block in southern Gaza early on Saturday, killing 26 people, soon after announcing plans to intensify operations in areas where the Israeli military had told civilians to flee for their safety. |
| 20231118 | Israel does not distinguish between north and south Gaza: Hamas | Israeli escalation | Beirut-based Hamas representative Osama Hamdan says today’s attack on al-Fakhoora school in Khan Younis proves that no part of Gaza is safe. Israel has claimed that southern areas of the Gaza Strip are safe from bombardment, he said, but it is clear that its army does not distinguish between any parts of the besieged coastal enclave. “Today, another massacre, this time in al-Fakhoora UNRWA school, which was bombed by Israeli warplanes. Once again, the school is also located within the Khan Younis area, an area alleged by [Israeli] occupation forces to be safe. They continue to propagate false reports with the hope to evacuate the entire north part of Gaza,” he said at a press conference. |
| 20231118 | ‘Killing babies won’t bring our babies back’: Kin of Israeli Hamas victims | Israelis | Despite their grief, relatives of the victims of Hamas’s attack are among those arguing against revenge on Gaza. |
| 20231118 | ‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM | Israelis | From families of Hamas captives to politicians in his own government, Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low. |
| 20231118 | Title is in Hebrew | Israelis | The headline reads in English: "Assessment in the security establishment: Hamas did not know in advanced about the Nova festival; and recignized it from the air." Subtitle reads in English: |
| 20231118 | Israel media: ‘Hamas has not been broken. Destroying it, rescuing hostages is impossible’ | Israelis | Experts and former Israeli security officials confirmed that it is impossible for Tel Aviv to combine its declared goal of destroying the Hamas Movement and rescuing the hostages. |
| 20231118 | Hezbollah, Israel trade strikes at Lebanese border in latest escalation | Lebanon | Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile fire in areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday, officials on both sides said, in the latest flare-up of violence which the United States worries will cause conflict to spiral in the Middle East. |
| 20231118 | Israeli drone fires missiles at aluminum plant in south Lebanon | Lebanon | An Israeli drone fired two missiles at an aluminum plant outside the southern Lebanese market town of Nabatiyeh early Saturday, causing a fire and widespread damage, National News Agency said. There was no word on casualties. |
| 20231118 | Genocidal incitement': Anti-Palestinian rhetoric and hate speech | media / social | UN human rights experts have called on the international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 36 Special Rapporteurs released a joint statement, saying there is increasing evidence of QUOTE 'genocidal incitement to destroy the Palestinian people.' |
| 20231118 | X ad boycott gathers pace amid antisemitism storm | media / social | Firms including Apple, Disney and IBM have paused advertising on X amid an antisemitism storm on the site. |
| 20231118 | IMF could augment Egypt’s loan programme over effects of Gaza war | regional effects | Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says the Israel-Gaza war has had an economic impact on neighbouring countries. |
| 20231118 | IMF considers increasing Egypt's $3 billion loan programme amid Gaza war: Managing director | regional effects | Amid the devastating Israeli war on Gaza, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering expanding Egypt's $3 billion loan programme by an unspecified amount, Kristalina Georgieva, the fund’s managing director, said on Friday. |
| 20231118 | How is the war affecting Israel's partner Jordan? | regional effects | Public opinion in Jordan is hardening against Israel's war strategy in Gaza, but taking in Palestinians remains as unlikely as ending the peace treaty after almost 30 years. |
| 20231118 | Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah says attacks aim to 'drain' US, sanctions 'ridiculous' | regional effects | Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah (KH) militia, a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran, brushed off U.S. sanctions on the group over attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria and said on Saturday such strikes aimed to "drain the enemy". |
| 20231118 | Jordan’s foreign minister offers blistering criticism of Israel as its war on Hamas rages on | regional response | Jordan’s foreign minister offered blistering criticism Saturday of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, describing it as “blatant aggression” against Palestinian civilians that threatens to engulf the wider Middle East. |
| 20231118 | Jordan doubts Israel can destroy Hamas as Gaza war rages | regional response | Jordan's foreign minister voiced doubt on Saturday that Israel could reach its goal of obliterating Hamas with its heavy bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip long dominated by the Palestinian Islamist movement |
| 20231118 | Jordanian FM calls for holding Israel accountable | regional response | |
| 20231118 | Sisi reaffirms Egypt’s stance to EU chief on need for immediate ceasefire in Gaza | regional response | Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s stance on the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and the delivery of relief aid to Palestinians, during a meeting Saturday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Cairo. |
| 20231118 | Erdogan denounces Israeli attacks on hospitals and places of worship | regional response | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech on Friday alongside the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressing the media in a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. |
| 20231118 | Arab forces will not go to Gaza, says Jordanian minister in rebuke of Israel | regional response | Ayman Safadi clashed with Joe Biden’s senior Middle East adviser on Saturday, saying a humanitarian pause should not be conditional on the release of hostages held by Hamas. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli forces strike al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza | schools | Israeli air raids have hit the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | At least 50’ dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school | schools | According to AFP, the Gaza Ministry of Health says that ‘at least 50’ are dead after the Israeli army bombed al-Fakhoora school early this morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement that the al-Fakhoora School attack proves that Israel’s declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip area of all Palestinian presence. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks | schools | Palestinians in northern and southern Gaza targeted with relentless bombardment, as patients are also forced out of al-Shifa Hospital in wheelchairs and beds |
| 20231118 | At least 80 dead in Israel strike on Gaza refugee camp as ceasefire calls rebuffed | schools | The Hamas health ministry has reported the deaths of more than 80 people in two separate Israeli strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Israel bombs another UN-affiliated school in Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of people | schools | At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed following an Israeli air strike on Al-Fakhoura school, run by UNRWA, in the northern Gaza Strip according to local reports. |
| 20231118 | ‘Nothing discriminate’ about bombing Fakhoora School from air: Analyst | schools | Fakhoora School is like the al-Shifa of schools in Gaza; it’s been targeted like al-Shifa has. This school was bombed in 2009, 2014, and this is the second time this month that it’s been bombed. There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and deaths. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 28 Palestinians in southern Gaza | targeting civilians | At least 28 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on two residential areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 32 in south Gaza amid calls for civilians to flee | targeting civilians | Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians on Saturday, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it turns to attacking Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli forces strike al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | Israeli air raids have hit the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | At least 50’ dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school | targeting forced displaced people | According to AFP, the Gaza Ministry of Health says that ‘at least 50’ are dead after the Israeli army bombed al-Fakhoora school early this morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement that the al-Fakhoora School attack proves that Israel’s declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip area of all Palestinian presence. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks | targeting forced displaced people | Palestinians in northern and southern Gaza targeted with relentless bombardment, as patients are also forced out of al-Shifa Hospital in wheelchairs and beds |
| 20231118 | At least 80 dead in Israel strike on Gaza refugee camp as ceasefire calls rebuffed | targeting forced displaced people | The Hamas health ministry has reported the deaths of more than 80 people in two separate Israeli strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Israel bombs another UN-affiliated school in Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of people | targeting forced displaced people | At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed following an Israeli air strike on Al-Fakhoura school, run by UNRWA, in the northern Gaza Strip according to local reports. |
| 20231118 | ‘Nothing discriminate’ about bombing Fakhoora School from air: Analyst | targeting forced displaced people | Fakhoora School is like the al-Shifa of schools in Gaza; it’s been targeted like al-Shifa has. This school was bombed in 2009, 2014, and this is the second time this month that it’s been bombed. There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and deaths. |
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| 20231118 | Germany's Scholz criticises Israel's settlements in occupied West Bank | West Bank | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticised Israel's settlement policy in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and repeated calls for a two state solution for Israel and Palestinians. |
| 20231118 | Israel kills 6 Palestinians in West Bank airstrikes | West Bank | Six Palestinians were killed early Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent and Fatah sources said. |
| 20231118 | Elon Musk to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X | Zionism / social media | Social media firm boss says he will sue media watchdog that said ads were being placed alongside antisemitic content |
| 20231118 | Germany’s historical guilt haunts opponents of Israeli war in Gaza | Zionism / Germany | Germany’s responsibility for the Holocaust underlines Berlin’s staunch defence of Israel and its bans on expressions of Palestinian solidarity, which authorities blame for a rise in anti-Semitism. But critics say the state is failing German Jews opposed to Israel’s policies and stifling the freedom of expression of immigrants. |
| 20231118 | Pastor calls for destruction of Dome of the Rock, inciting violence in Gaza | Zionism / US | Pastor Greg Locke, a prominent Christian Zionist, has made alarming comments advocating for violence in Gaza and the demolition of the Dome of the Rock. In a statement filled with incendiary language, Locke called Islam a ‘satanic death cult’ and proposed using a missile to destroy the Dome of the Rock to facilitate the construction of the Third Temple, a move he believes would usher in the coming of Jesus. |
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| 20231119 | Russia and Iran call for ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire | Russia and Iran's foreign ministers on Sunday called for a ceasefire in Gaza and said that urgent assistance must be given to the civilian population there. |
| 20231119 | Gaza hostage deal closer than ever, US official says | ceasefire | A deal to secure the release of some of the hostages held in Gaza by Hamas militants is closer than ever in the Islamist group's war with Israel, a White House official said on Sunday. |
| 20231119 | London protests demand a ceasefire and an end to the war | ceasefire | Protestors in London rally demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Memo engaged some of these protestors and many expressed their demand for an end to the war |
| 20231119 | Israel-Hamas hostage deal edges closer despite fierce fighting in Gaza | ceasefire | Hamas gunmen battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza's largest refugee camp on Sunday, but despite the fighting U.S. and Israeli officials said a deal to free some of the hostages being held in the besieged enclave was edging closer. |
| 20231119 | Israel hopeful of Hamas deal to release hostages in 'coming days' | ceasefire | The Israeli ambassador to the US says he is hopeful a deal for the release of a significant number of hostages will be reached "in the coming days". |
| 20231119 | Israeli government said to be close to signing a deal to free hostages | ceasefire | Israeli government sources have told Euronews a deal to release people kidnapped by Hamas militants in Israel on 7 October is almost completed. Our correspondent Shona Murray said it is also understood the White House is pressuring Israel to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231119 | U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages | ceasefire | Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the deal. |
| 20231119 | White House says no deal between Israel and Hamas yet -spokesperson | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have not yet reached a deal on a temporary ceasefire, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday night. |
| 20231119 | Babies evacuated from al-Shifa and transferred to southern Gaza | children | Thirty-one premature babies, trapped in hospital without life-sustaining equipment, have been evacuated by ambulance. |
| 20231119 | Premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital | children | Thirty-one premature Palestinian babies have been evacuated from Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as a "death zone". |
| 20231119 | 31 ‘very sick’ babies have been evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital, where trauma patients remain | children | Health officials said Sunday that 31 “very sick” premature babies were safely transferred from Gaza’s main hospital to another in the south and will later go to Egypt, as scores of critically wounded patients remained stranded there days after Israeli forces entered the compound. |
| 20231119 | 15 children, accompanying family members arrive in UAE from Gaza for treatment | children | Fifteen people from the Gaza Strip landed in Abu Dhabi late Saturday on the first flight under an initiative to carry 1,000 Palestinian children and their families to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
| 20231119 | 'The number of premature babies born in Gaza has increased since the conflict began' | children | 'The number of premature babies born in Gaza has increased since the conflict began' |
| 20231119 | Europe is following the US into another disastrous war | collusion & complicity | opinion -- UK and EU leaders blindly following US foreign policy on Israel and Gaza obviously learned nothing from the catastrophic western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| 20231119 | London protests demand a ceasefire and an end to the war | collusion & complicity | Protestors in London rally demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Memo engaged some of these protestors and many expressed their demand for an end to the war |
| 20231119 | Dissent over US policy in the Israel-Hamas war stirs unusual public protests from federal employees | collusion & complicity | Federal government workers from the State Department to NASA are circulating open letters demanding that President Joe Biden pursue a cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas. Congressional staffers are picking up microphones in front of the Capitol, speaking out to condemn what they say is the silence of lawmakers about the toll on Palestinian civilians. |
| 20231119 | Aid charities urge Rishi Sunak to condemn Israel’s siege in Gaza | collusion & complicity | Leaders of some of Britain’s biggest aid charities are urging Rishi Sunak to use his opening speech at a global food summit in London on Monday to condemn Israel’s siege in Gaza, which they say is causing 2 million people to go hungry and taking 1 million children to the brink of starvation. |
| 20231119 | Israeli army removes 500 patients from Al-Shifa Hospital to meet their fate on Gaza streets | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army forcibly evacuated about 500 patients from Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of Gaza city, including those who had been injured by its extensive onslaughts, and left them to meet their fate on the streets as they were in serious conditions and needed extensive medical care, the government’s media office in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday |
| 20231119 | WHO visits al-Shifa hospital, calls for immediate evacuation | eliminating health care system | Amid hundreds of people leaving al-Shifa hospital in Gaza and confusion over whether Israeli military or hospital staff ordered the exodus, the World Health Organization has now called for an immediate evacuation after an hour-long visit of the site |
| 20231119 | ‘Giving up is not an option’: Volunteer doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital | eliminating health care system | Volunteers experience gruelling hours, face lack of medical supplies and a collapse of healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231119 | Humanitarian team describes Al Shifa Hospital as 'death zone' | eliminating health care system | A humanitarian assessment team visited Al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza and saw signs of shelling and gunfire in what was described as a "death zone," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. |
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| 20231119 | WHO calls al-Shifa a 'death zone' | eliminating health care system | The WHO called for an evacuation in Gaza’s largest hospital, deeming it a "death zone." A report says that Israel and Hamas have reached a tentative deal to halt fighting and free dozens of hostages. DW has the latest. |
| 20231119 | How and why did Gaza hospitals become primary targets? | eliminating health care system | Israel has repeatedly targeted medical facilities and ambulances in the besieged strip, claiming they are used by Hamas, but experts are questioning the legality of the attacks |
| 20231119 | Israel bombs Kamal Adwan Hospital's newborn ICU, at least 1 baby killed | eliminating health care system | Israel hit early Sunday, November 19, the newborn Intensive Care Unit of Kamal Adwan Hospital located in the besieged Gaza Strip |
| 20231119 | Nakba generation relive trauma of displacement in Gaza | forced displacement | Umm Ghadeer’s earliest memories are of the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948 in which about 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland after the creation of Israel. |
| 20231119 | Israeli army orders civilians in northern Gaza Strip to flee south amid escalating attacks | forced displacement | The Israeli army on Sunday ordered Palestinian civilians in Gaza to move to further south with severe attacks in four more areas in the northern Gaza Strip |
| 20231119 | France to send new medical supplies, hospital ship to Gaza | humanitarian aid | France will send more medical supplies and a second hospital ship to Gaza, President Emmanuel Macron's office said in a statement on Sunday. |
| 20231119 | France sending warship to provide medical aid to Gaza | humanitarian aid | France is preparing to send its Dixmude helicopter carrier to the eastern Mediterranean to offer medical assistance in Gaza, the office of the French president said Sunday. |
| 20231119 | Saudi Arabia dispatches humanitarian aid, ambulances for Palestinians in Gaza | humanitarian aid | Two Saudi relief planes arrived on Sunday at El-Arish International Airport in Egypt to be transported to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). |
| 20231119 | Disorder, disciplinary issues rampant amongst Israel forces in Gaza | IOF | Israeli soldiers partaking in the invasion of the Gaza Strip have been accused of acting in undisciplined and disorderly fashion, with Israeli generals warning that such behaviour could endanger occupation forces in the besieged land strip |
| 20231119 | IDF publishes footage of what it says is Hamas tunnel at al-Shifa hospital | IOF | Israel says opening was discovered beneath floor of a garage within Gaza medical complex’s walls |
| 20231119 | Iran unveils upgraded hypersonic missile as Khamenei touts Israel ‘failure’ | Iran | The Iranian show of force comes amid heightened US military presence in the region after Israel began bombing Gaza. |
| 20231119 | Two journalists killed by Israeli bombing on Bureij refugee camp | journalists | In the past 24 hours, six media professionals have been killed by Israeli bombing, including journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Salim. They were hit by an Israeli air strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. At least 55 Palestinian media workers have been killed since October 7 |
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| 20231119 | Europe is following the US into another disastrous war | opinion | UK and EU leaders blindly following US foreign policy on Israel and Gaza obviously learned nothing from the catastrophic western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| 20231119 | Palestinian President Abbas urges Biden to help Gaza | Palestinian Authority | After overnight Israeli strikes killed more civilians across Gaza, Mahmoud Abbas directly addressed US President Joe Biden urging him to end to the war and the humanitarian crisis by putting pressure on close ally Israel. |
| 20231119 | ‘Boycott Israel’ breathes new life into 100-year-old Egyptian soda brand | regional response | Campaign to boycott Western producers linked to Israel has reignited demand for soda brand founded by Greek beekeeper. |
| 20231119 | Ministers from Arab, Muslim countries embark on China visit to end Gaza war | regional response | Ministers from Arab and Muslim-majority countries are to head to China tomorrow as part of the first leg of a tour aimed at ending Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said. |
| 20231119 | Only 'very minor' issues remain on deal to release hostages, Qatar's PM says with Borrell | regional response | A deal to free the hostages seized by Hamas during the October 7 attack in southern Israel now hinges on "very minor" practical issues, Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, said after talks in Doha with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday. |
| 20231119 | Al-Qassam Brigades says it eliminated 6 Israeli soldiers in Gaza city | resistance | The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, announced on Sunday that it had killed six Israeli soldiers at zero range in the Juhor ad-Dik neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza city |
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| 20231119 | 15 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Khan Younis, Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | At least 15 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday, according to Palestinian media |
| 20231119 | ‘Horrifying’: Dozens reported killed in Israeli attacks on camps, schools | targeting forced displaced people | At least 31 people killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps, officials say. |
| 20231119 | 'Horrendous events' in Gaza in past days 'beggar belief': UN rights chief | United Nations | The level of violence ravaging Gaza in recent days is unfathomable, the UN rights chief said Sunday, with attacks on schools harbouring displaced people and a hospital turned into a "death zone". |
| 20231119 | Disabled man among two Palestinians killed in West Bank by Israeli raids | West Bank | More than 200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces since war broke out |
| 20231119 | Israeli army detains dozens, including women, journalists, in West Bank raids | West Bank | The Israeli army detained three women and two journalists among 70 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, a local nongovernmental organization said Sunday |
| 20231119 | Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea, Israel blames Iran | Yemen | Houthi spokesman says the group’s fighters have hijacked the ship, reportedly owned by an Israeli businessman. |
| 20231119 | Yemen's Houthis hijacked an Israeli-owned vessel in the Red Sea | Yemen | Yemen's Houthis on Sunday hijacked an Israeli cargo vessel in the Red Sea, sailing from Turkey to India. |
| 20231119 | Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack cargo ship in Red Sea | Yemen | Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say they have seized an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea. |
| 20231119 | 'From the river to the sea': A controversial slogan | Zionism / Germany | The slogan "From the river to the sea" is often chanted at pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Some maintain it's antisemitic, while others describe it as a call for equal rights. It has now been banned in Germany. |
| 20231119 | Anti-Muslim racism in France surges with 'full impunity' | Zionism / France | French Muslims condemn weaponisation of Hamas attack in Israel to incite fresh round of antisemitism allegations |
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| 20231120 | Israel and Hamas appear close to hostage release deal, say officials | ceasefire | Agreement could involve limited ceasefire in Gaza Strip and release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails |
| 20231120 | Al Jazeera reporter visits premature babies in Gaza ward | children | Dozens of premature babies have been moved out of the main hospital in Gaza City after it was taken over by Israeli forces. The infants are now in a hospital in Rafah, where Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed has seen how they are being cared for. |
| 20231120 | 31 premature babies are evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital, but scores of trauma patients remain | children | Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza’s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations. |
| 20231120 | Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt | children | A group of 28 prematurely born babies evacuated from Gaza's biggest hospital were taken into Egypt for urgent treatment on Monday |
| 20231120 | Babies evacuated from Gaza to Egypt | children | The Palestinian Red Crescent has said 28 premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital have been taken to Egypt for treatment. Meanwhile, a strike was reported at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza |
| 20231120 | WHO Chief confirms evacuation of 12 premature babies to Egypt | children | The World Health Organisation confirmed that a dozen premature babies had been evacuated from Gaza and flown to Cairo with their families. |
| 20231120 | Nowhere is safe for children living in Gaza | children | Monday marks World Children’s Day, but for many in Gaza their hopes and dreams have been shattered. Gaza’s health ministry says more than 40 percent, of the around 13,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks, are children. |
| 20231120 | WHO: Three premature babies remain in south Gaza to receive treatment | children | The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that three premature babies will be remaining behind at the Emirati hospital in south Gaza to receive treatment. |
| 20231120 | ‘No end in sight’: Gaza’s traumatised children need psychological aid | children | Doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital say children are showing signs of trauma and distress after seeing parents, relatives killed. |
| 20231120 | Children in Israel and Gaza feel impact of Hamas conflict | children | Children have borne the consequences of the latest Israel-Gaza conflict. Hamas is holding dozens of child hostages in Gaza, and Israel's siege of the Palestinian enclave is creating a desperate situation for many others |
| 20231120 | UNICEF: Children in Gaza are exposed to shocks of destruction, attacks, displacement | children | The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the Middle East and North Africa region said yesterday that “children in the Gaza Strip are exposed to the shocks of continuous destruction, attacks, displacement, and severe shortages of food, water, and medicine.” |
| 20231120 | 880 Palestinian children detained by Israel this year: NGO | children | The Israeli army has detained 880 Palestinian children since the start of this year, a local non-governmental organisation said Monday |
| 20231120 | World Children’s Day tragedy: Gaza’s 5,500 lives lost to Israel’s attacks | children | One out of every 200 children in Gaza has been killed by Israeli attacks in the past six weeks. |
| 20231120 | US National Security Council condemns seizure of Galaxy Leader cargo ship near Yemen | collusion & complicity | “The Houthi’s seizure of the vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew. We will consult with our UN partners for the appropriate next steps.” |
| 20231120 | Macron tells Netanyahu ‘too many civilian losses’ in Israel’s war on Gaza | collusion & complicity | French president spoke to Israeli prime minister as Paris prepared more humanitarian aid for Gaza. |
| 20231120 | Spread of epidemics in Gaza brings Israel closer to victory: Retired general | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | "The way to win the war faster and at a lower cost for us requires a system collapse on the other side and not the mere killing of more Hamas fighters," Major General Giora Eiland wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. |
| 20231120 | Influential Israeli national security leader makes the case for genocide in Gaza | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | In an Op-Ed titled "Let’s Not be Intimidated by the World," Israeli ret. Major General Giora Eiland argues that all Palestinians in Gaza are legitimate targets and that even a “severe epidemic" in Gaza will "bring victory closer.” |
| 20231120 | At least 8 killed in Israeli strikes on Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Staff at one of northern Gaza’s largest hospitals are appealing for urgent help from the UN and the Red Cross after Israeli forces surrounded the medical facility and bombarded the area, killing at least eight people in the hospital complex. |
| 20231120 | 12 reported killed at Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Palestinian authorities and the WHO said 12 people were killed at another Gaza hospital encircled by Israeli tanks. |
| 20231120 | IDF closes in on Indonesian hospital in Gaza as 12 people reportedly killed | eliminating health care system | Medical worker says ‘women and children are terrified’ amid fears of repeat of events at al-Shifa hospital complex |
| 20231120 | Hamas accuses Israel of deadly hospital strike, intense fighting in Gaza, hostage deal 'close' | eliminating health care system | Hamas said on Monday that the Israeli army launched a deadly strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, accusing it of "waging war" against hospitals. |
| 20231120 | Medical staff appeal for urgent UN intervention as Israeli strikes hit Indonesian hospital | eliminating health care system | Israel is carrying out further bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip. Overnight, shelling in the north hit one of Gaza's biggest hospitals, killing at least 12 people. Staff at the Indonesian hospital are appealing for urgent intervention from the UN and Red Cross. |
| 20231120 | Israeli tanks besiege Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks have surrounded northern Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital after artillery fire killed at least 12 Palestinians in the complex, according to the war-torn enclave’s Ministry of Health. Ashraf al-Qudra, Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesperson, told Al Jazeera on Monday that “the situation is catastrophic” in the Indonesian Hospital, where hundreds of people remain trapped. |
| 20231120 | Israeli tanks besiege Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | reading version |
| 20231120 | Israeli forces battle militants around another Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces pressed their offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza on Monday, battling militants around a hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, raising Palestinian fears of another painful standoff and evacuation of a medical facility.
COMMENT Collected videos are showing an Israeli siege on the Indonesian Hospital. No evidence of any engagement between resistance and the invaders |
| 20231120 | Israeli strikes hit hospital, residential buildings in northern Gaza | eliminating health care system | A shell hit the second floor of a hospital in northern Gaza, killing at least 12 people, according to the Hamas-led Health Ministry and a medical worker, as Israeli troops focus on clearing medical facilities where they say Hamas militants take cover. |
| 20231120 | Israel army hits surgery floor of Indonesian Hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Health Ministry reported, on Monday, that the Israeli army had targeted the surgery floor of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, causing significant damage to its medical equipment |
| 20231120 | Israeli tanks surround north Gaza's Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks have reportedly encircled northern Gaza's Indonesian Hospital, where the Hamas-run health ministry said 12 people were killed overnight. |
| 20231120 | WHO chief 'appalled' by attack on Gaza's Indonesian hospital | eliminating health care system | The head of the World Health Organisation said he was "appalled" by an attack on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza that he said had killed 12 people, including patients, citing unspecified reports |
| 20231120 | Doctors Without Borders says MSF staff trapped after clinic 'came under fire' in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The MSF clinic in Gaza City came under fire this morning. Our colleagues saw that a wall was torn down and part of the building was engulfed by fire as heavy fighting took place all around it. An Israeli tank was seen in the street. |
| 20231120 | ‘A genocidal war’: Surgeon says Israel strategically destroying Gaza health | eliminating health care system | Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah is a surgeon who worked at both the al-Shifa and al-Alhi Baptist hospitals in Gaza. He tells Al Jazeera he believes the destruction of the health sector is part of an Israeli military strategy to wipe out the Palestinian population in Gaza – by ensuring no one survives. |
| 20231120 | Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals? Psyops, say analysts | eliminating health care system | Targeting hospitals is psychological warfare Israel can get away with with the US’s tacit approval, say analysts. |
| 20231120 | Pregnant women in Gaza lack access to healthcare, clean water | eliminating health care system | An estimated 50.000 pregnant women are living in dire conditions in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on. |
| 20231120 | Israel trying to break Gazans' spirit by deliberately bombing hospitals in besieged enclave: Turkiye President | eliminating health care system | Israel is trying to break the resilience of Gazans by deliberately bombing hospitals in the besieged enclave, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Monday, referring to repeated, deliberate attacks on Gaza hospitals in recent weeks |
| 20231120 | ‘There is no evidence’ of Hamas command centre under al-Shifa | eliminating health care system | Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says videos released by the Israeli army don't seem to prove Al Shifa was Hamas' command centre. |
| 20231120 | 12 killed in Israeli air strike on Unrwa school in Bureij refugee camp | eliminating UNWRA | Israeli air strikes have killed at least 12 Palestinians sheltering in a Unrwa school in the Bureij refugee camp. |
| 20231120 | More than 10 killed as Israeli jets strike UN-run school in Gaza: Hamas | eliminating UNWRA | More than 10 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian group Hamas said |
| 20231120 | Israel cutting Gaza's water causing public health crisis | food, water, fuel & electricity | The lack of clean water is resulting in “grave concerns” by public health experts of an imminent infectious disease outbreak in Gaza, including waterborne illnesses like cholera and typhoid, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned |
| 20231120 | Pregnant women in Gaza lack access to healthcare, clean water | food, water, fuel & electricity | An estimated 50.000 pregnant women are living in dire conditions in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on. |
| 20231120 | Food running out across besieged strip | food, water, fuel & electricity | Thousands of Palestinians who fled Israeli bombing in Northern Gaza, are now facing severe hunger in the south. The Israeli siege is preventing food and water supplies from reaching those in need. With no fuel, many are resorting to burning firewood to cook. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Displacement project of Palestinians from Gaza doomed to fail | forced displacement | The Israeli project aimed at displacing Palestinians from Gaza is “impossible to achieve”, senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, has said. |
| 20231120 | Better than a tent: The Gaza family living in ruins of their bombed home | forced displacement | The Naji family decided to stay in their home, which was destroyed in an Israeli air attack, rather than being displaced |
| 20231120 | Gaza death toll rises to 13,300 | genocide | The Palestinian health ministry said at least 13,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its assault on the besieged enclave. |
| 20231120 | Knesset deputy speaker calls for burning Gaza | genocide II | The deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has called for the burning of Gaza, which has been under relentless Israeli bombardment since 7 October. |
| 20231120 | Russian diplomacy leverages Israel-Hamas war for moral high ground | global effects | The latest Middle East conflict could help Russia escape punishment for aggression and war crimes in Ukraine, say experts. |
| 20231120 | Israel recalls ambassador to South Africa after ANC backs calls to close Israeli embassy | global effects | Israel's foreign ministry confirmed it had recalled its ambassador to South Africa for consultations after a series of "statements from South Africa". |
| 20231120 | Israel recalls its ambassador to South Africa for consultations | global effects | Israel has recalled for consultations its ambassador to South Africa following the "latest statements from South Africa", Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. |
| 20231120 | China tells visiting Muslim diplomats it’s willing to help ‘restore peace in the Middle East’ | global response | China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told a visiting delegation of Muslim officials that Beijing is willing to help “restore peace in the Middle East”. |
| 20231120 | In Beijing, Arab and Muslim ministers urge end to Gaza war | global response | Arab and Muslim ministers called on Monday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as their delegation visited Beijing on the first leg of a tour to push for an end to hostilities and to allow humanitarian aid into the devastated Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231120 | China-Middle East summit told ‘Israel seeks to end Palestinians’ presence’ | global response | Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki’s comments come at a Beijing meeting seeking solutions to end the war. |
| 20231120 | Israelis claim foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital | Hamas resistance attack | Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. |
| 20231120 | Israel says CCTV footage shows hostages were taken to Gaza hospital | Hamas resistance attack | The Israeli military has released footage which it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza's largest hospital after the deadly Hamas attacks of 7 October. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Israel 'fabricating lies' to justify its genocide | Hamas resistance attack | Israel “deliberately fabricated lies and false narratives” about what took place on 7 October in order to justify the genocide it is committing in Gaza “with the aim of displacing Palestinians from their land”, Hamas said in response to Israeli media reports which reveal many revellers were killed by Israeli helicopter fire. |
| 20231120 | Gaza winter: More misery for displaced Palestinians | humanitarian crisis | Displaced Palestinians living in tents in Southern Gaza are bracing for winter. They fear cold weather will make their living conditions under Israeli bombing even worse. |
| 20231120 | Relatives of Gaza hostages say stop talk of execution for Hamas detainees | Israelis | Relatives of some of the 240 people held by Hamas in Gaza urged far-right Israeli lawmakers on Monday not to pursue proposed capital punishment for captured Palestinian militants, saying that even talk of doing so might endanger the hostages. |
| 20231120 | Family of Gaza hostage urges Israel not to legalise 'death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners' | Israelis | A relative of an Israeli hostage in the Gaza Strip has urged Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, not to push forward with the controversial draft law on “executing Palestinian prisoners.” |
| 20231120 | Hostages’ families clash with Israeli politicians over talk of death penalty | Israelis | Far-right politicians want to execute militants convicted of 7 October attacks, but relatives say this risks lives of Gaza hostages |
| 20231120 | Israel floats programme for ethnic cleansing disguised as humanitarianism | Israelis | Israel’s intelligence ministry has proposed a “worldwide refugee resettlement scheme” as a “solution” to what the occupation state refers to as its “Gaza problem.” |
| 20231120 | Anger at Netanyahu gov’t as Israel soldier death toll rises | Israelis | Israeli writers expressed their dissatisfaction and anger at the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, in the wake of the increasing number of officers and soldiers killed in the ongoing battles with the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231120 | Jewish school students throw Molotov cocktails at Palestinian homes | Jerusalem | Two Yeshiva students, from a traditional Jewish educational institution that focuses on Rabbinic literature, have been indicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem. |
| 20231120 | Gaza journalists appeal for support amid ongoing Israeli attacks | journalists | Journalists in Gaza made an appeal on Monday for assistance and solidarity to enable them to persist in their work amid ongoing Israeli attacks |
| 20231120 | Gaza strikes kill family members of journalist targeted by death threats | journalists | Deadly strikes hit the Gaza home of a news photographer days after an Israeli media advocacy group questioned his coverage of Hamas' Oct. 7, prompting death threats against him on social media. |
| 20231120 | Hezbollah says attacks Israeli troops with drones, artillery, missiles | Lebanon | Lebanon's Hezbollah movement said it targeted troops in northern Israel with drones, artillery and missiles on Monday, claiming a string of new attacks. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Displacement project of Palestinians from Gaza doomed to fail | resistance | The Israeli project aimed at displacing Palestinians from Gaza is “impossible to achieve”, senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, has said. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Israel 'fabricating lies' to justify its genocide | resistance | Israel “deliberately fabricated lies and false narratives” about what took place on 7 October in order to justify the genocide it is committing in Gaza “with the aim of displacing Palestinians from their land”, Hamas said in response to Israeli media reports which reveal many revellers were killed by Israeli helicopter fire. |
| 20231120 | Israel trying to break Gazans' spirit by deliberately bombing hospitals in besieged enclave: Turkiye President | Turkey | Israel is trying to break the resilience of Gazans by deliberately bombing hospitals in the besieged enclave, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Monday, referring to repeated, deliberate attacks on Gaza hospitals in recent weeks |
| 20231120 | UN protectorate in Gaza is not a solution, says Guterres | United Nations | A UN protectorate in Gaza would not solve the conflict there, the body's Secretary-General said Monday, calling instead for a "transition period" involving Arab nations and the United States and leading to a two-state solution. |
| 20231120 | Guterres says establishing a UN protectorate in Gaza 'not a solution' to unrest | United Nations | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said establishing a UN protectorate in Gaza would not solve the unrest in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231120 | Killings of civilians in Gaza 'unparalleled, unprecedented' during UN chief's term, says Guterres | United Nations | The UN chief, on Monday, decried events in Gaza since 7 October, calling them a “killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented” since he took office |
| 20231120 | UN human rights chief says Israeli air strikes in Gaza are ‘horrendous’ | United Nations | The UN human rights chief is describing Israeli air strikes in Gaza as horrendous and beyond belief. At least 13,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, including thousands of women and children. As Israel continues bombing residential areas in Gaza, people are using their bare hands to reach those still under the rubble. |
| 20231120 | With the world’s eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war | West Bank | When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231120 | Palestinian in West Bank shot by Israeli forces succumbs to wounds | West Bank | Mohammed Ali Saeed Owais, a 25-year-old from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, was pronounced dead by the Palestinian Ministry of Health on Monday. Owais succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces around two weeks ago, the ministry added. |
| 20231120 | US National Security Council condemns seizure of Galaxy Leader cargo ship near Yemen | Yemen | “The Houthi’s seizure of the vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew. We will consult with our UN partners for the appropriate next steps.” |
| Comment: the US has fragrantly violated international laws many times in both Iraq, Afghanistan and in Vietnam. | |||
| 20231120 | Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea, Israel blames Iran | Yemen | A Houthi military spokesman has confirmed to Al Jazeera that their fighters in Yemen have hijacked a ship owned by an Israeli businessman, in the Southern Red Sea. At least 22 people were onboard the Galaxy Leader which was enroute from Turkey to India. Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he described as an 'Iranian attack'. |
| 20231120 | Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage | Yemen | Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route Sunday and took its 25 crew members hostage, officials said, raising fears that regional tensions heightened over the Israel-Hamas war were playing out on a new maritime front. |
| 20231120 | US National Security Council condemns seizure of Galaxy Leader cargo ship near Yemen | Yemen | “The Houthi’s seizure of the vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew. We will consult with our UN partners for the appropriate next steps.” |
| 20231120 | Japan seeking talks with Houthi hijackers of Red Sea Israeli-linked ship | Yemen | Japan has approached Yemeni rebels in a bid to secure the release of the Galaxy Leader, hijacked in Red Sea. |
| 20231120 | Yemen's Houthis try turning Red Sea into 'crucial frontline' | Yemen | The hijacking of the 'Galaxy Leader' cargo ship in the Red Sea is a further escalation by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in their support of Hamas. Yet it's unlikely the militia will be a serious threat to Israel. |
| 20231120 | What’s the impact of the Houthis hijacking a ship in the Red Sea? | Yemen | The Iran-backed Houthis say the move was a response to Israel’s assault on Gaza. A partly Israeli-owned cargo vessel has been hijacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Houthis say the move was a response to Israel’s assault on Gaza. Israel described the incident as an “Iranian act of terrorism”. Tehran has rejected the allegation. So, what impact could this have? And what are the possible military and economic implications? |
| 20231120 | Canada: censoring pro-Palestine voices triggers backlash at university | Zionism / Canada | The University of Ottawa is under fire for suspending a medical student over pro-Palestine social media posts. A petition signed by nearly 50,000 people has accused the faculty of misusing its authority, and intimidating residents and students through censorship. |
| 20231120 | Jewish school students throw Molotov cocktails at Palestinian homes | Zionism / Israelis | Two Yeshiva students, from a traditional Jewish educational institution that focuses on Rabbinic literature, have been indicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem. |
| 20231120 | Censorship and safety: How the Israel Hamas war is affecting students at schools in Britain | Zionism / UK | pro-Palestinian views were being suppressed inside schools, with some Jewish pupils in a "dark zone of depression". |
| 20231120 | TikTok: ‘The biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis’ says actor Sacha Baron Cohen | Zionism / US | "The biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis": Jewish celebrities urge TikTok to address antisemitism as hateful content on the rise since 7 October. |
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Ceasefire talks |
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| 20231121 | Intense Israeli air strikes hit Gaza amid growing signs of truce | ceasefire | Jabalia in northern Gaza and Khan Younis and Rafah in the south are among the areas hit. |
| 20231121 | Muslim country group to push for Gaza truce -Turkish source | ceasefire | A newly formed group of senior officials from several Muslim countries will visit the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and others to press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a Turkish foreign ministry source said on Tuesday. |
| 20231121 | Scottish Labour backs calls for full ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | ceasefire | Scottish Labour has formally backed demands for a full ceasefire in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, widening the party’s divisions on the conflict. |
| 20231121 | Qatar-mediated deal between Israel, Hamas 'closer than it has ever been' - source | ceasefire | A Qatar-mediated agreement between Israel and Hamas for the release of hostages and a multi-day pause in hostilities is in its "final stages" and is "closer than it has ever been," a source briefed on the talks told Reuters on Tuesday. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu hints at 'progress' on hostages | ceasefire | Israel's PM suggested there may be "good news soon" on a hostage release deal, which the US said could be close. The Hamas militant group is negotiating via Qatari mediators on a temporary truce. DW has more. |
| 20231121 | Biden: "Very close" to securing release of some hostages held by Hamas | ceasefire | U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said a deal is "very close" to free some of the more than 200 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu summons Israeli war cabinet as signs grow of a hostage deal | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his war cabinet on Tuesday amid growing signs of an imminent deal on the release of hostages who were taken by Hamas militants to the Gaza Strip more than six weeks ago. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu meeting with ministers amid signs hostage deal to be approved | ceasefire | Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting his most senior ministers on Tuesday evening amid strong indications his government was due to approve a deal for the release of some of the more than 240 mostly Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231121 | Hamas leader says militant group ‘close’ to truce agreement with Israel | ceasefire | Ismail Haniyeh, the most senior political leader of Hamas, has said a truce agreement with Israel may be close, raising hopes of both a pause in the Israeli offensive in Gaza and the release of at least some of the Israeli hostages the militant organisation is holding there. |
| 20231121 | Hamas ‘approaching Gaza truce agreement’ with Israel, says leader Haniyeh | ceasefire | The deal is expected to see the group exchange captives for Palestinian prisoners with Israel for a temporary ceasefire. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu, Hamas leader indicate deal on Gaza truce and hostages is close | ceasefire | The leader of Hamas said on Tuesday a truce with Israel was close and Israel's prime minister said he hoped for good news soon about hostages, the most optimistic signs so far of a deal to pause the devastating war in Gaza and free captives. |
| 20231121 | Israel-Hamas hostage deal talks in 'final phase' - Qatar | ceasefire | However, insiders say some key obstacles to an agreement remain. |
| 20231121 | Analysis: How Israel could gain from a pause in the Gaza war | ceasefire | A break in hostilities could benefit Israel militarily, even though it could hurt Prime Minister Netanyahu politically. |
| 20231121 | Israeli Cabinet to consider possible deal for release of some hostages held by Hamas | ceasefire | Israel and the Hamas militant group on Tuesday appeared close to a temporary cease-fire deal that could bring the first pause in fighting in a devastating six-week war and result in the release of dozens of hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231121 | Israel, Hamas closer to agreeing to hostage release deal | ceasefire | Sources close to the negotiations say Israel could secure the release of some of the 240 hostages taken by the militant Hamas group in return for a few days of cease-fire and the release of Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231121 | Israel’s Ben-Gvir warns of ‘disaster’ amid imminent hostage deal with Hamas | ceasefire | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, warned Tuesday that an imminent hostage deal with Hamas would end in “disaster” |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu: Israel will continue war after ceasefire ends | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to his ministers on Tuesday ahead of a prisoner swap deal, said that talk of the war ending was “nonsense”. |
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| 20231121 | US has sent Israel data on aid groups locations to try to prevent strikes | collusion & complicity | The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities |
| Comment: this entry under this context because the claim contradicts with Washington's knowledge about Israeli use of delivered bombs in previous Gaza wars | |||
| 20231121 | The genocide lawsuit against Joe Biden | collusion & complicity | Palestinian-Americans have filed a lawsuit against US leaders. |
| 20231121 | Keeping Gaza online: Telecom heroes risk life and limb under Israel’s bombs | communication | Making a maintenance trip in Gaza now literally means taking your life into your own hands. Why do they do it? |
| 20231121 | Have the US and Israel agreed on Gaza’s future? | day after politics | article is a explainer -- Disagreements persist, but analysts say the US has shown no readiness to draw any red lines for Israel. |
| 20231121 | Retired Israeli general says spread of disease in Gaza 'will bring victory closer' | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | Retired Israeli General Giora Eiland said that the spread of deadly diseases in Gaza will help Israel achieve its war aims, while suggesting that the entire population of the territory was a valid target |
| 20231121 | Former Israel general says 'severe epidemics' in Gaza would help Israel win the war | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | A retired senior Israeli general has said that Israel should not ‘shy away’ from permitting the outbreak of severe epidemics amongst Palestinians in southern Gaza as it will bring Israel ‘closer to victory.’ |
| 20231121 | MSF says three doctors killed in strike on north Gazan hospital | eliminating health care system | French medical charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday that three doctors, including two of its own, were killed in a strike on the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, saying it was "horrified" by the incident. |
| 20231121 | MSF says three doctors killed in strike on north Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | French medical charity, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), said on Tuesday that three doctors, including two of its own, were killed in a strike on the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, saying it was “horrified” by the incident, Reuters reports. |
| 20231121 | Hospitals in northern Gaza completely out of service: Health official | eliminating health care system | Gaza’s health ministry spokesperson says occupancy rate in hospitals in the enclave’s north has reached 190 percent as they overflow with the wounded. |
| 20231121 | Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies | eliminating health care system | Palestinian health officials in Gaza said Tuesday that they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of parts of the enclave’s health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops. |
| 20231121 | WHO: planning under way to evacuate three Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organization said on Tuesday three hospitals in Israeli-besieged northern Gaza had requested help with evacuating patients and that planning for that was under way, expressing regret that doing so would rob people of a lifeline. |
| 20231121 | UN head mourns loss of one its employees | eliminating UNWRA | The head of the World Health Organisation mourned the “devastating” loss of one of its employees in Gaza alongside her six-month-old baby, husband, and two brothers. |
| 20231121 | US has sent Israel data on aid groups locations to try to prevent strikes | eliminating UNWRA | The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities |
| Comment: this entry under this context because the claim contradicts with Washington's knowledge about Israeli use of delivered bombs in previous Gaza wars | |||
| 20231121 | As people run out of fuel in Gaza, clay ovens are back in demand | food, water, fuel & electricity | In the midst of the Israeli war, the people of Gaza, seeking ways to bake bread or cook what little food they have, return to traditional methods. |
| 20231121 | EU faces growing Muslim animosity over Gaza war stance - Borrell | global effects | The European Union faces growing animosity across the Muslim world and beyond due to accusations of pro-Israel bias and double standards over the war in Gaza, the bloc's foreign policy chief has warned. |
| 20231121 | BRICS countries discuss Gaza conflict but don't agree joint declaration | global response | Leaders of the BRICS bloc of developing nations and other countries they have invited to join from next year discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday, but failed to agree a joint declaration. |
| 20231121 | BRICS condemns Israel war on Gaza in signal to the West | global response | The grouping, which has previously focused on economic issues, called for an end to ‘war crimes’ in the Gaza conflict. |
| 20231121 | BRICS calls for 'sustained' truce in Israel-Hamas war | global response | The leaders of South Africa, Russia, China, Brazil, India in the BRICS bloc called for Israel and Hamas to "exercise maximum restraint," and urged allied countries to prevent the conflict from expanding |
| 20231121 | US has wrecked chances of peace in Middle East, Putin tells Brics summit | global response | US unilateralism has wrecked the chances of peace in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, told a crisis Brics meeting on Gaza as he attempted to woo leaders of the global south. |
| 20231121 | South African leader accuses Israel of war crimes. Putin and Xi strike more cautious note at meeting | global response | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes and acts “tantamout to genocide” in Gaza during a virtual meeting Tuesday of leaders of developing countries, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. |
| 20231121 | S.African lawmakers vote to suspend diplomatic ties with Israel, shut embassy | global response | South African lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of closing down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and suspending all diplomatic relations until a ceasefire is agreed in its war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231121 | Israel recalls ambassador to South African ahead of parliamentary vote to shut down Israeli embassy | global response | Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa, Eliav Belotserkovsky, back to Jerusalem “for consultations” ahead of a parliamentary vote in the African country to decide the fate of the Israeli embassy on Tuesday |
| 20231121 | German Jewish writer slams Germany's unconditional support for Israel | global response | A well-known German-American writer of Jewish origin, on Tuesday, criticised Germany’s unconditional support for Israel, urging Berlin to rethink its policy towards the Jewish state |
| 20231121 | Scottish Labour backs calls for full ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | global response | Scottish Labour has formally backed demands for a full ceasefire in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, widening the party’s divisions on the conflict. |
| 20231121 | Urgent review of EU development aid to Palestine finds no inadvertent financing of terrorism | humanitarian aid | The European Commission said on Tuesday it will proceed with payments of development aid to the Palestinian territories this month after its internal screening identified no diversion of funds to terrorist groups. |
| 20231121 | EU says no Palestinian aid going to Hamas, programmes to continue | humanitarian aid | The European Union said on Tuesday a review of its development aid to Palestinians, ordered after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, found no evidence of funds going to the militant group and that its assistance would continue. |
| 20231121 | Residents and displaced Gazans receiving bags of flour at the UN Relief | humanitarian aid | In Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, bags of flour are distributed to residents and displaced Gazans at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) distribution center. The Palestinian territory, facing a prolonged Israeli-led blockade and besieged since the outbreak of war on October 7, is grappling with significant shortages of food, water, fuel, and limited access to essential medical supplies. |
| 20231121 | Red Cross president meets Hamas chief in Qatar to 'advance humanitarian issues' | humanitarian crisis | The Red Cross said Monday that its president had travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh "to advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza". |
| 20231122 | Iraq condemns US strikes that killed Iran-aligned fighters | Iraq | Iraq's government condemned overnight U.S. airstrikes south of Baghdad that killed eight members of Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah, saying they were a "dangerous escalation" not coordinated with authorities. |
| 20231121 | Intense Israeli air strikes hit Gaza amid growing signs of truce | Israeli escalation | Jabalia in northern Gaza and Khan Younis and Rafah in the south are among the areas hit. |
| 20231121 | Hezbollah vows to retaliate against Israel's killing of journalists in South Lebanon | Israeli escalation | Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa. |
| Comment: see also 'journalists' and 'Lebanon' | |||
| 20231121 | Israeli state TV video shows children singing about Gaza | Israelis | “Within a year we will eliminate them all.” A video by Israel’s public broadcaster of children singing about Gaza has caused a backlash online, including among many Israelis. |
| 20231121 | Israeli government, Hamas hostage relatives clash over bill | Israelis | The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has proposed a new bill that would impose the death penalty for Hamas militants involved in the October 7 attacks. Family members of the hostages Hamas kidnapped that day condemned the proposal, saying it put their loved ones at risk. |
| 20231121 | Israel recalls ambassador to South African ahead of parliamentary vote to shut down Israeli embassy | Israelis | Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa, Eliav Belotserkovsky, back to Jerusalem “for consultations” ahead of a parliamentary vote in the African country to decide the fate of the Israeli embassy on Tuesday |
| 20231121 | Attacks on the rise in West Bank and East Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Following the Hamas militant group's 7 October attacks and Israel's subsequent ground offensive in Gaza, there have been apparent reprisals against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills three journalists near Lebanon border | journalists | Al Mayadeen TV said an Israeli attack ‘deliberately’ targeted its correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me’mari. |
| 20231121 | Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill 2 journalists for a pan-Arab TV channel | journalists | An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed two journalists who were reporting for a Beirut-based TV station on military activity along the border with Israel, according to Lebanese officials and the broadcaster. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills two reporters, third person in Lebanon - media, PM | journalists | An Israeli strike killed two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a third person near the border with Israel on Tuesday, Lebanese state media and the channel, Al Mayadeen, said. |
| 20231121 | Lebanon PM says Israeli strikes killed journalists | journalists | Four people, including two journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, local media say, as exchanges of fire intensify along the border. |
| 20231121 | Hezbollah vows to retaliate against Israel's killing of journalists in South Lebanon | journalists | Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa. |
| 20231121 | Israel shares video of Hamas gunman executing woman on Oct. 7 | journalists | Israel on Monday released security camera footage from Oct. 7, which shows Hamas gunmen who crossed into Israel chase people from an outdoor music festival, with one seen executing a woman at point-blank range. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills three journalists near Lebanon border | Lebanon | Al Mayadeen TV said an Israeli attack ‘deliberately’ targeted its correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me’mari. |
| 20231121 | Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill 2 journalists for a pan-Arab TV channel | Lebanon | An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed two journalists who were reporting for a Beirut-based TV station on military activity along the border with Israel, according to Lebanese officials and the broadcaster. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills two reporters, third person in Lebanon - media, PM | Lebanon | An Israeli strike killed two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a third person near the border with Israel on Tuesday, Lebanese state media and the channel, Al Mayadeen, said. |
| 20231121 | Lebanon PM says Israeli strikes killed journalists | Lebanon | Four people, including two journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, local media say, as exchanges of fire intensify along the border. |
| 20231121 | Hezbollah vows to retaliate against Israel's killing of journalists in South Lebanon | Lebanon | Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa. |
| 20231121 | Have the US and Israel agreed on Gaza’s future? | opinion | article is a explainer -- Disagreements persist, but analysts say the US has shown no readiness to draw any red lines for Israel. |
| 20231121 | Bahrain government websites briefly inaccessible after purported hack claim over Israel-Hamas war | regional effects | The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a statement claimed hackers took them down over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231121 | Algeria President Tebboune, Turkiye President Erdogan discuss need for accountability over Gaza 'genocide' | regional response | Algerian President, Abdelmajid Tebboune, said Tuesday that he and Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, emphasised the importance of prosecuting those responsible for “genocide” in the Gaza Strip before the International Criminal Court |
| 20231121 | Saudi Crown Prince demands stopping weapon exports to Israel | regional response | Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, demanded a cessation of weapons exports to Israel during an online extraordinary BRICS summit Tuesday, according to the Saudi official channel, Al-Ekhbariya |
| 20231121 | Jordan, Qatar discuss ways to stop ‘brutal Israeli aggression' against Gaza Strip | regional response | Jordanian Prime Minister, Bisher Al-Khasawneh, and Qatari Minister of State for International Cooperation, Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater, discussed in Amman the “brutal Israeli aggression” against the Gaza Strip and cooperation to avert a humanitarian catastrophe |
| 20231121 | Fifteen killed, 22 injured in Israeli strike on a residential building in southern Gaza | targeting civilians | Fifteen people were killed and 22 others injured in an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Tuesday night, according to Al Jazeera TV and a Telgram channel affiliated to Hamas. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strikes kill 10 Palestinians, 22 wounded | targeting civilians | Palestinian media outlets have reported a major strike in the Hamad Town area of Khan Younis. |
| 20231121 | Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies | targeting civilians | Palestinian health officials in Gaza said Tuesday that they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of parts of the enclave’s health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops. |
| 20231121 | Attacks on the rise in West Bank and East Jerusalem | West Bank | Following the Hamas militant group's 7 October attacks and Israel's subsequent ground offensive in Gaza, there have been apparent reprisals against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. |
| 20231121 | Video of Yemen’s Houthi rebels seizing Red Sea cargo ship | Yemen | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released video of the moment the group seized an Israel-linked cargo ship, by landing a helicopter on it in the Red Sea. |
| 20231121 | Seized Galaxy Leader ship in Yemen's Hodeidah port area -owner | Yemen | The Galaxy Leader commercial ship was "illegally boarded by military personnel via a helicopter" on Nov. 19 and is now in the Hodeidah port area in Yemen, the vessel’s owner said on Monday. |
| 20231121 | Two ships divert course away from Red Sea area after vessel seized by Houthis | Yemen | Two commercial ships that diverted their course in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden were connected to the same maritime group whose vessel was seized by Yemen's Houthis, according to shipping data and British maritime security company Ambrey |
| 20231121 | Analysis: Iran-backed Yemen rebels’ helicopter-borne attack on ship raises risks in crucial Red Sea | Yemen | The helicopter-borne Houthi attack on an Israel-linked ship in the Red Sea highlights the danger now lurking in one of the world’s key shipping routes as the Israel-Hamas war rages, as well as the rebels’ tactics mirroring those of its chief sponsor, Iran.
Comment: What’s the impact of the Houthis hijacking a ship in the Red Sea? |
| 20231121 | ‘Pallywood propaganda’: Pro-Israeli accounts online accuse Palestinians of staging their suffering | Zionism / social media | Since Hamas carried out its deadly attack on October 7 and Israel began retaliatory military operations in Gaza, a parallel war is being fought online. A barrage of disinformation, fake news and misinformation has swarmed social media feeds. Pro-Israeli accounts on social media are using the term "Pallywood" to accuse Palestinians of faking their suffering. |
| 20231121 | U.S. lawmakers accuse X chief Musk of profiting from anti-Israel propaganda | Zionism / social media | A group of 27 U.S. lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday to express concern the platform seemed to be profiting from premium accounts that glorified violence against Israelis. |
| 20231121 | Chip Barnes announces his PR slogan for Israel | Zionism / US | In his Instagram video, he said the perfect slogan would be: ‘Israel, defending the indefensible, since 1948.’ |
| 20231121 | In California's 'Little Arabia', residents feel betrayed by Biden's support for Israel | Zionism / US | In California's "Little Arabia", the first officially designated Arab-American enclave in the US, many residents with familes and roots in the West Bank and Gaza feel betrayed by Washington's unconditional support for Israel. Opinion polls show President Joe Biden's approval ratings have plummeted in Arab-American communities since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack. |
| 20231121 | The genocide lawsuit against Joe Biden | Zionism / US | Palestinian-Americans have filed a lawsuit against US leaders. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
Gaza truce |
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| 20231122 | Three Americans expected to be included in Gaza hostage release-US official | ceasefire | Three Americans held by Hamas in Gaza since its attack on Israel last month are expected to be among at least 50 hostages to be released by the Islamist Palestinian group under a deal arranged with Israel, the U.S. and Qatar, a senior U.S. official said. |
| 20231122 | The secret negotiations that led to the Gaza hostages deal | ceasefire | Shortly after Hamas militants took hostages during their deadly assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, the government of Qatar contacted the White House with a request: Form a small team of advisers to help work to get the captives freed. |
| 20231122 | Hopes Israel-Hamas hostage deal will end Gaza conflict | ceasefire | The warring parties agreed to a four-day truce and partial hostage release on Wednesday. |
| 20231122 | Israel, Hamas agree to truce, paving way for some captives’ release | ceasefire | Fifty women and children held captive in Gaza will be released in exchange for Palestinian women and children in Israeli prisons. |
| 20231122 | Israel and Hamas agree on a truce to free hostages in swap, raising hopes of halting war in Gaza | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day cease-fire in the war in Gaza — a breakthrough that will facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, and bring a large influx of aid to the besieged territory, officials said Wednesday. |
| 20231122 | Break in fighting expected Thursday | ceasefire | A pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas militants is expected to begin Thursday morning. At least 50 hostages will be released by Hamas amid a four-day pause in fighting with Israel. |
| 20231122 | Four-day truce agreed, 50 hostages to go free | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days, to let in aid and free at least 50 hostages held by militants in the Palestinian enclave in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel. |
| 20231122 | Israeli government approves hostage-release deal with Hamas | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting of at least four days to allow for the release of 50 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas, and of 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The deal has been welcomed by hostages' families. |
| 20231122 | Gaza ceasefire due to come into effect on Thursday morning | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas confirm four-day truce, but logistics of hostage exchange could mean delays |
| 20231122 | Israel’s Ben-Gvir: Truce deal in Gaza a ‘dangerous precedent’ | ceasefire | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, today slammed the terms of the Gaza Strip truce agreement reached with the Israeli occupation authorities as a “dangerous precedent” that repeats past mistakes. |
| 20231122 | Netanyahu avoids political rebellion over Hamas hostage deal but ally calls it ‘immoral’ | ceasefire | Israel’s PM facing pressure from all sides as some say ceasefire agreement does not go far enough |
| 20231122 | Behind the scenes: How the Israel-Hamas truce deal came together | ceasefire | how the negotiations involving Israel, Hamas, Qatar, the US and Egypt unfolded. |
| 20231122 | Israel and Hamas have reached a deal on a cease-fire and hostages. What does it look like? | ceasefire | A temporary cease-fire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families of the captives. |
| 20231122 | What happened in Gaza before the truce deal | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have announced a truce deal after 47 days of fighting. Here is a rundown of what happened in Gaza since October 7. |
| 20231122 | US reveals ‘excruciating’ five-week negotiations behind Israel-Hamas deal | ceasefire | A secret cell headed by CIA and Mossad chiefs, and multiple contacts between US President Joe Biden and leaders of Israel, Qatar, and Egypt underpinned an "excruciating" five weeks resulting in the truce agreement, a US official said. |
| 20231122 | Which captives, Palestinian prisoners could be freed? | ceasefire | Hamas and Israel have both said that they will release women and children. |
| 20231122 | Analysis: A pause in fighting – what’s in it for Hamas? | ceasefire | Hamas can benefit militarily from the ambiguous truce deal, but as an opportunity rather than a necessity. |
| 20231122 | Analysis: Gaza ceasefire deal brings relief but little hope of durable peace | ceasefire | Israeli military and intelligence services reported to have backed deal but are clearly committed to continuing efforts to ‘crush’ Hamas |
| 20231122 | Israel-Hamas truce deal: All that you need to know | ceasefire | The two sides have agreed to a four-day pause in fighting, but Israel has made it clear that it is not ending the war. |
| 20231122 | Palestinian women and youths to be swapped for Israeli hostages | ceasefire | Dozens of Palestinian women and teenagers held prisoner by Israel for periods of a few months to several years will gain their freedom under Wednesday's deal for the release of 50 Israeli hostages held in Gaza by the Islamist group Hamas. |
| 20231122 | 300 Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails listed before hostage swap | ceasefire | An initial 10 Gaza hostages expected to be released, followed by 50 Palestinians, according to source |
| 20231122 | What do we know about Israeli hostages in Gaza? | ceasefire | The Israeli government voted on Wednesday to back a deal to release some of roughly 240 Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza in exchange for a multi-day truce and the freeing of a greater number of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. |
| 20231122 | What we know about Israel-Hamas Gaza deal on hostages | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to exchange 50 of the hostages held in Gaza for a four-day pause in fighting. |
| 20231122 | The hostage deal and ceasefire explained | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting in Gaza to allow for the release of 50 hostages held by the militant group in exchange for 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and also to allow for more aid to enter the enclave. |
| 20231122 | World reactions to Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Agreement will see some captives released from Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. |
| 20231122 | Arab nations say Israel-Palestine truce should be extended, aid ramped up | ceasefire | Arab foreign ministers welcomed an agreement for a temporary truce between Israel and Gaza group, Hamas, on Wednesday but said it should be extended and become a first step toward a full cessation of hostilities |
| 20231122 | Israel-Hamas truce deal: The devil is in the details | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas announced a deal on Wednesday allowing at least 50 hostages and scores of Palestinian prisoners to be freed, while offering besieged Gaza residents a four-day truce after weeks of all-out war. |
| 20231122 | South Africa hopes Gaza truce bolsters efforts to end conflict | ceasefire | South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Wednesday, welcomed an agreement for a four-day truce in Gaza and said he hoped the deal between Israel and Palestinian group, Hamas, would bolster efforts to achieve an outright end to their conflict |
| 20231122 | Israeli right-wing association files petition against hostage swap deal with Hamas | ceasefire | An Israeli right-wing association submitted a petition, Wednesday, to the Supreme Court against the implementation of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas |
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| 20231122 | Gaza world's 'most dangerous place' for children: UNICEF | children | The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives. |
| 20231122 | Gazan cancer patients can't return home | forced displacement | Since the escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Palestinian cancer patients from Gaza have been stranded in a hospital in East Jerusalem. Their way back home to Gaza is blocked. |
| 20231122 | India PM Modi tells G20 Israel-Hamas conflict must not spread | global response | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged leaders of the world's 20 big economies on Wednesday to do whatever necessary to ensure the Israel-Hamas conflict does not expand into a wider conflict as insecurity and instability in West Asia is worrying. |
| 20231122 | 'Enough evidence' of war crimes in Gaza, says Israeli-American Holocaust Professor | global response | As Israel continues to pursue its long and bloody war in the Gaza Strip since a surprise attack by Palestinian group, Hamas, on 7 October, an Israeli-American Holocaust Professor said there was “enough evidence” to suggest that war crimes have been committed during the campaign. |
| 20231122 | Israel-Hamas conflict has gone ‘beyond war’ says Pope Francis | global response | Speaking in unscripted remarks at his Wednesday general audience in St Peter’s Square, the head of the Catholic Church said he had heard directly how “both sides are suffering” during meetings with the Israeli relatives of Hamas-held captives and with Palestinians who have family in Gaza. |
| 20231122 | South African lawmakers vote to shut Israel's embassy | global response | South Africa's parliament has voted to close the Israeli embassy in Pretoria amid criticism by President Cyril Ramaphosa of Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231122 | Pope Francis says Israel-Palestine conflict has gone beyond war to 'terrorism' | global response | Pope Francis met separately on Wednesday with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians with family in Gaza and said the conflict had gone beyond war to become “terrorism” |
| 20231122 | Dispute erupts over whether pope called Gaza situation a 'genocide' | global response | A messy dispute broke out on Wednesday over whether Pope Francis used the word "genocide" to describe events in Gaza, with Palestinians who met with him insisting that he did and the Vatican saying he did not. |
| 20231122 | Did the Pope call the war in Gaza a ‘genocide’? | global response | Shireen Awwad Hilal said the religious leader used the term genocide during a meeting with a delegation of Palestinians with relatives in Gaza, Reuters reported. |
| 20231122 | Major rights groups call for international conference on Geneva Conventions | global response | The International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called for an international gathering to ensure compliance with the Geneva Conventions. |
| 20231122 | Spain Premier aims to lay groundwork for peace talks in visit to Israel, Palestine | global response | Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, hopes to lay the groundwork for a peace conference and two-state solution in his upcoming visit to Israel, Palestine and Egypt, local daily, El Pais, reported on Wednesday |
| 20231122 | Pro-Palestine solidarity in Europe and US making a difference despite repression 'in all areas of life' | global response | Throughout Europe and the US, solidarity with Palestine has surged despite worrying repression and accusations of antisemitism mixed with anti-migrant discourse. |
| 20231122 | EU to boost Gaza aid amid Israel-Hamas truce | humanitarian aid | The EU chief orders the European Commission ‘to do its utmost’ to use the four-day truce to boost its aid deliveries. |
| 20231122 | No ease in human suffering in Gaza amid Israel war | humanitarian crisis | Israeli bombs on Tuesday continued pummeling sites across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians. |
| 20231122 | U.S. forces carry out series of strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq | Iraq | The United States carried out two series of strikes in Iraq against Iranian-backed militants, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, in the first publicly reported U.S. responses in Iraq to dozens of recent attacks against troops in the region. |
| 20231122 | Major Iranian-backed militant group vows to expand conflict if U.S. airstrikes continue | Iraq | A major Iranian-backed militant group in Iraq warned it may strike additional U.S. targets after U.S. warplanes killed multiple militants in response to the first use of short-range ballistic missiles against U.S. forces at Al-Asad Air Base Monday. |
| 20231122 | Lebanon mourns two journalists killed in Israeli air strike | journalists | Hundreds of mourners paid their respects in Beirut on Wednesday to two reporters working for pan-Arab station Al Mayadeen who were killed the previous day in an Israeli air strike on south Lebanon. |
| 20231122 | Bahrain government websites briefly inaccessible after cyberattack over Israel-Hamas war | regional effects | The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231122 | The Story of Palestine: Prominent Egyptian YouTuber Da7ee7 demolishes Israel founding myths | regional response | A compelling YouTube video debunking Israeli myths on Palestine by renowned Egyptian influencer Ahmed El-Ghandour, also known as El-Da7ee7 (“the nerd”), has captivated Arab audiences, amassing millions of views and prompting calls for it to be translated in order to spread its powerful message worldwide. |
| 20231122 | West risks being complicit in Israeli war crimes, warn Arab and Muslim foreign ministers | regional response | The western powers on the UN security council face a choice of either demanding Israel lift its stranglehold on humanitarian aid into Gaza or being complicit in Israeli war crimes and collective punishment, foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries said on a visit to London on Wednesday. |
| 20231122 | Shadowy Hamas leader in Gaza is at top of Israel’s hit list after last month’s deadly attack | resistance | The mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed in generations is a secretive figure, feared on both sides of the battle lines. |
| 20231122 | More than 100 people buried in mass grave in Khan Younis | targeting civilians | More than 100 bodies of men, women and children have been buried in a mass grave in Gaza’s Khan Younis. The bodies are reportedly of those who were detained inside the al-Shifa Hospital and Beit Hanoon Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip over the past days. |
| 20231122 | More than 100 people buried in mass grave in Khan Younis | targeting civilians | The bodies of Palestinians previously held at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by Israeli forces were finally buried in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. |
| 20231122 | Ten killed, over 20 injured in Khan Younis | targeting civilians | X post |
| 20231122 | Over 100 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza as attack continues despite ceasefire deal | targeting civilians | Houses in centre of strip said to have been targeted, killing 81, with 60 more believed dead in north |
| 20231122 | Burying the bodies of unidentified victims of Israel’s war on Gaza | targeting civilians | Team at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital do what they can to provide last rites to those killed in Israeli attacks. |
| 20231122 | ‘We all have 13,000 deaths on our conscience’ | targeting civilians | Amnesty International’s secretary general discusses human rights violations and war crimes in the Israel-Gaza war. As Israel’s bombardment and siege of Gaza rages on, it continues to inflict a heavy toll on civilians. Many experts and politicians across the globe have raised concerns about allegations of war crimes by both Hamas and Israel, including the targeting of civilians, bombing of hospitals and taking of hostages. |
| 20231122 | More than 50 from same family killed in north Gaza - Palestinian minister | targeting families in whole or in part | More than 50 members of the same family have been killed in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza during Israel’s bombing campaign, the Palestinian Foreign Minister said today |
| 20231122 | Turkish FM: Why hasn’t Turkey completely cut ties with Israel? | Turkey | Hakan Fidan on the intricacies of not severing ties with Israel amid war on Gaza. Following his return from strategic talks in Germany and as the war on Gaza nears its 50th day, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan delves into Turkey’s role in humanitarian efforts. |
| 20231122 | Turkiye intelligence agency protects Palestinian hacker from Israel’s Mossad | Turkey | Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) is revealed to have saved a Palestinian hacker from being abducted or assassinated by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, in the latest revelation of MIT’s counter-operations against its Israeli counterpart. |
| 20231122 | Gaza world's 'most dangerous place' for children: UNICEF | United Nations | The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives. |
| 20231122 | Former US official filmed abusing Muslim street vendor | United States | A former US State Department official who worked on Middle East affairs has been filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor who he abused with Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian remarks. |
| 20231122 | Ex-Obama adviser says more Palestinian kids should die in Islamophobic rant | United States | ‘If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,’ says former diplomat Stuart Seldowitz to a halal cart vendor in one video. |
| 20231122 | Former US official faces backlash for racist and Islamophobic comments in New York | United States | The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), on Wednesday, urged the White House and the State Department to stop future collaboration with a former Obama administration advisor who was captured repeatedly harassing a New York City halal food vendor |
| 20231122 | New generation in US challenges views on Palestine and Zionism | United States | A young American woman discusses the younger generation’s shift in perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. |
| 20231122 | The US is complicit in Israel’s genocide, but Biden and Blinken ‘sympathise’ with the children it kills | United States | Throughout the Israeli bombardment of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the US has taken a staunchly pro-Israel stance and provided extensive military and diplomatic support. |
| 20231122 | US General Petraeus: Israel’s war on Gaza to last for ‘months, not weeks’ | United States | Former CIA Director David Petraeus says Israel will resume the war on Gaza if it doesn’t want Hamas to rebuild itself. Israel has not explained what it seeks to accomplish in its war on Gaza beyond the destruction of Hamas, according to US General David Petraeus, the former director of the CIA and former commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| 20231122 | Israel settlers set fire to Palestinian primary school, attack female employee | West Bank | Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian primary school located south of Hebron, resulting in the destruction of three classrooms, reported Wafa news agency. |
| 20231122 | Israel’s military says it intercepted cruise missile | Yemen | The Israeli military has claimed that it intercepted a cruise missile near the southern port city of Eilat. It didn't give any details about the origin of the missile, but groups in Gaza and Yemen have targeted the city. |
| 20231122 | Switzerland moves to ban Hamas, backs Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ | Zionism / CH | Government to introduce legislation by February against Palestinian group, supports Israel’s right to ‘its own security’. |
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| 20231122 | France calls for EU sanctions against Hamas officials | Zionism / France | |
| 20231122 | Hollywood actress fired over pro-Palestinian posts | Zionism / US | Mexican actress Melissa Barrera has been fired from the forthcoming Scream film sequel due to her recent pro-Palestinian social media posts, which the production company said were “antisemitic”. |
| 20231122 | Former US official filmed abusing Muslim street vendor | Zionism / US | A former US State Department official who worked on Middle East affairs has been filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor who he abused with Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian remarks. |
| 20231122 | Ex-Obama adviser says more Palestinian kids should die in Islamophobic rant | Zionism / US | ‘If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,’ says former diplomat Stuart Seldowitz to a halal cart vendor in one video. |
| 20231122 | Former US official faces backlash for racist and Islamophobic comments in New York | Zionism / US | The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), on Wednesday, urged the White House and the State Department to stop future collaboration with a former Obama administration advisor who was captured repeatedly harassing a New York City halal food vendor |
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| 20231123 | ‘Important but not enough’: What does Israel-Hamas deal mean for US policy? | ceasefire | Advocates pledge to continue to push for ceasefire as Biden welcomes captives deal that will see temporary pause to war. |
| 20231123 | ‘Can regain our soul’: Relief and fear in Gaza ahead of Israel truce | ceasefire | Some hope to find missing loved ones, return home and grieve for killed relatives. Others just want to get some sleep. |
| 20231123 | Israel says truce, captives release will not start ‘before Friday’ | ceasefire | Senior official says negotiations on how to handle the exchange of captives are continuing. |
| 20231123 | Mediator Qatar announces key points of Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas’ four-day truce is set to begin on Friday at 7am local time in Gaza. Majed al-Ansari, the spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry lays out the main points of the deal. |
| 20231123 | Mediator Qatar says truce in Gaza to start on Friday | ceasefire | A truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will start on Friday at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT), with a the first batch of hostages to be released at 4 p.m., a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry said on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | Israel and Hamas to start four-day truce on Friday -Qatar mediators | ceasefire | Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday morning with a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages released later that day, mediators in Qatar said. |
| 20231123 | Qatar says Gaza cease-fire will begin Friday morning, with aid to follow ‘as soon as possible’ | ceasefire | A four-day cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas was set to begin Friday morning, Qatar said, a day later than originally announced, as negotiators worked out final details of the deal, which is to bring the release of dozens of hostages held by militants and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. |
| 20231123 | Qatar says Gaza ceasefire, hostage release to start Friday | ceasefire | A Gaza truce and hostage release will start on Friday morning, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman said |
| 20231123 | Gaza ceasefire to begin on Friday morning with hostage releases to follow | ceasefire | Negotiators work out final details of four-day truce between Israel and Hamas after seven weeks of conflict |
| 20231123 | Gaza truce to start Friday, says Qatar | ceasefire | Mediator Qatar said a pause in fighting will come into effect on Friday morning and will be followed by the release of 13 hostages in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Israel said it detained the director of al-Shifa hospital. |
| 20231123 | Qatar says 13 hostages to be released, after Israel-Hamas truce starts at 7am on Friday | ceasefire | Qatar's foreign ministry says that 13 women and children held hostage by Hamas in Gaza will be handed over to the Red Cross. |
| 20231123 | Retired US general: Temporary truce will negatively affect Israel | ceasefire | Retired US Brigadier General James A. Marks said the Israeli occupation forces’ will be negatively impacted by the temporary truce in the besieged Gaza Strip |
| 20231123 | Turkiye says it plans evacuation of some wounded, sick Gazan children on Friday | ceasefire | Turkiye plans to evacuate some wounded or sick Gazan children and young people on Friday as part of its third round of evacuation, Health Minister, Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday |
| 20231123 | Israel confirms it has received initial list of hostages to be released | ceasefire | Israel has received an initial list of hostages to be released from Gaza, planned to take place after a ceasefire with Hamas takes hold on Friday, the Israeli prime minister's office said on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | Netanyahu says hostage deal 'not without challenges | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu cited, on Thursday, challenges in reaching a deal to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231123 | Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh leads group's diplomacy as Gaza war rages | ceasefire | Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader based in Qatar, has been the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy as war has raged back in Gaza where his family home was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in November. |
| 20231123 | Uncertainty, hope for Palestinian, Israeli families before Gaza truce | ceasefire | Amid high tensions over captives-for-prisoners swap, far-right Israeli minister demands clampdown on celebrations. |
| 20231123 | The Take: Inside the Hamas-Israel truce deal | ceasefire | The deal between Israel and Hamas took weeks of negotiations involving several countries and competing interests. |
| 20231123 | What makes a truce lead to lasting peace? | ceasefire | With Israel and Hamas agreeing to a four-day pause in fighting, here’s a look at how truces from other wars played out. |
| 20231123 | Middle East Roundup: Nervous anticipation for truce, exchange of captives | ceasefire | As Palestinians wait with bated breath for a pause in the Israeli bombardment, here’s the Middle East this week |
| 20231123 | Israel steps up attacks on Gaza before truce | ceasefire | Mass bombardment ‘keeps creating tragedies and misery for Palestinians’. |
| 20231123 | World leaders hail Israel-Hamas truce deal, release of hostages | ceasefire | World leaders on Wednesday welcomed a truce deal between Israel and Hamas that agreed a four-day halt to the devastating war in Gaza, accompanied by the release of dozens of hostages held by the militant group in return for Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel. |
| 20231123 | Hostage deal is 'right decision', Netanyahu tells Cabinet | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet Tuesday night that a hostage deal is the "right decision". |
| 20231123 | Gaza truce offers Palestinians the chance to sleep, eat and recover | ceasefire | Residents of Gaza City say they look forward to walking their streets again, while others will look for the bodies of loved ones under the rubble |
| 20231123 | Anxious families await children's release from prison | ceasefire | A truce deal between Israel and Hamas would see 150 Palestinian women and children freed in exchange for 50 hostages held in Gaza |
| 20231123 | What Israelis won’t be asking about the Palestinians released for hostages | ceasefire | The list of Palestinians slated to be exchanged for Israelis should provoke reflection over the role of mass imprisonment in the occupation. |
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| 20231123 | Arab countries unwilling to assume future control | day after politics | Many Arab states are at least reluctant to have a hand in the political future of the Gaza Strip after a possible end to the rule of Hamas. Yet joint efforts could have advantages for the entire region. |
| 20231123 | Gaza has become a moonscape in war. When the battles stop, many fear it will remain uninhabitable | destruction | Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells. |
| 20231123 | Gaza war estimated to cost Israel $48bn | dystopian war | The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza could cost the Israeli economy $48 billion over the current and next year, a financial consulting company estimated on Thursday |
| 20231123 | Palestinians with disabilities face immense hardship in Gaza | eliminating health care system | “I feel alone.” About 50,000 Palestinians with disabilities are among the most vulnerable people in Gaza, as Israel’s total siege has left them without necessary assistance and the continuous bombardment has made getting to shelter impossible for many. |
| 20231123 | Israeli army arrests al-Shifa Hospital director, other doctors in Gaza | eliminating health care system | Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya and several other medical personnel detained as Israel continues its Gaza offensive. |
| 20231123 | Israel arrests Gaza hospital director and bombs 300 targets amid truce delay | eliminating health care system | IDF claims al-Shifa hospital was Hamas command and control centre as footage of tunnels and underground rooms appears |
| 20231123 | Israel unveils what it claims is a major Hamas militant hideout beneath Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military on Wednesday unveiled what it claimed was a Hamas military facility under Gaza’s largest hospital, showing what appeared to be a subterranean dormitory to a group of foreign journalists who were given a rare glimpse inside the besieged enclave. |
| 20231123 | Israeli army displays tunnel beneath Al Shifa it says served as Hamas hideout | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army showed a reinforced tunnel beside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, complete with a bathroom, kitchen and an air conditioned meeting room that it said had served as a command post for Hamas fighters. |
| 20231123 | Hamas says 30 killed in Israeli attack on UN school ahead of Gaza truce | eliminating UNWRA | Ahead of planned four-day pause in hostilities Israel says war to continue for two months after ‘brief respite’. |
| 20231123 | Gaza death toll from Israel attacks tops 14,800 | genocide | The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 14,854, the government media office in the blocked enclave said Thursday |
| 20231123 | Celtic fined for fans displaying Palestinian flag amid Israel-Gaza war | global effects | UEFA has fined the Scottish club after its fans waved thousands of Palestinian flags during the match against Atletico Madrid last month. |
| 20231123 | Switzerland moves to ban Hamas and supports Israel's self-defence rights | global effects | The Swiss government says it will pass a new law by the end of February to ban any “Hamas activities" or "support" for the Palestinian group. |
| 20231123 | Europe's divisions over Israel support deepen as Gaza deaths mount | global effects | In Europe, political divisions over the continent’s support for Israel are expanding, particularly due to the mounting death toll of Israeli attacks that have now killed more than 14,500 Palestinians, including over 10,000 women and children |
| 20231123 | Israel strike kills 5 Hezbollah fighters including son of senior leader | global effects | An Israeli strike on the village of Beit Yahoun in south Lebanon last night killed five Hezbollah fighters, including the son of a senior Hezbollah member, according to the group and three sources with knowledge of the situation |
| 20231123 | Assessing validity of anti-Semitism accusations: Genuine critique or strategic suppression of pro-Gaza voices? | global effects | Amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, there has been a growing trend in certain Western media and political circles to brand any individual or expression critical of Israel as anti-Semitic. |
| 20231123 | Spanish PM floats peace conference idea in meeting with Israel's Netanyahu | global response | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proposed an international peace conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to forge a viable Palestinian state in a meeting on Thursday with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. |
| 20231123 | Spain gives voice to Palestinian cause in EU | global response | Spain has said it will push the European Union to adopt policies to support the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited Israel on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | Europe's diplomatic drive continues as PM's push for earliest possible truce in Gaza | global response | The Spanish and Belgian prime ministers and the UK foreign minister will hold separate meetings with leaders on both sides during their visits. |
| 20231123 | European MPs describe Israel actions in Gaza as 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing' | global response | Members of the European Parliament have described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “violation of international law,” “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing.” |
| 20231123 | 1,600 Israeli soldiers left disabled by war on Gaza | IOF | Israeli Army Radio quoted the Israeli Disabled Veterans Association as saying that since 7 October, 1,600 army soldiers have been left physically disabled. |
| 20231123 | Iran’s top diplomat discusses Israel’s war in Gaza with Hezbollah leader | Iran | Amirabdollahian warns ‘the scope of the war will expand’ if the Israel-Hamas truce does not hold. |
| 20231123 | Militants target US base in Iraq | Iraq | The US military base of Al-Harir in Kurdistan, Iraq, has been targeted for the third time, media sources reported |
| 20231123 | Israel steps up attacks on Gaza before truce | Israeli escalation | Mass bombardment ‘keeps creating tragedies and misery for Palestinians’. |
| 20231123 | Journalists killed in southern Lebanon: What the images show us about Israeli involvement | journalists | On the morning of November 21, two journalists from the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen – correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me'mari – were killed by an anti-tank missile. |
| 20231123 | Son of senior Hezbollah lawmaker killed in strike on Lebanon border | Lebanon | |
| 20231123 | Israeli strike targeting Hamas leader kills two Turkish citizens in Lebanon | Lebanon | Turkish volunteers had traveled to the Lebanese-Israeli border to join the fight against Israel |
| 20231123 | Clashes on border with Israel uproot thousands in Lebanon - again | Lebanon | Rose Rostom, Nahida Mashouz and Ammar Hajeh have had their lives uprooted many times - by Palestinian militants, Syrian warplanes, Islamic State, Western-backed forces or the Israeli army. |
| 20231123 | Journalists killed in southern Lebanon: What the images show us about Israeli involvement | Lebanon | On the morning of November 21, two journalists from the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen – correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me'mari – were killed by an anti-tank missile. |
| 20231123 | BBC journalists accuse broadcaster of bias | media / UK | In the latest newsroom fallout over the war, BBC journalists say the corporation is failing to humanise Palestinians. |
| 20231123 | BBC accused of censoring acts of Gaza solidarity in BAFTA awards coverage | media / UK | Ceasefire calls by artists during a ceremony in Scotland did not make the final cut on the BBC’s streaming service. |
| 20231123 | Hamas armed-wing spokesman calls for escalation of confrontation with Israel | resistance | The spokesman of Hamas' armed-wing called on Thursday for the escalation of the confrontation with Israel on all resistance fronts. |
| 20231123 | Israeli attack kills girl’s parents as they waited for Gaza’s truce | targeting families in whole or in part | A photographer tries to comfort a Palestinian girl by talking about her favourite dessert. Her parents had been killed moments earlier when Israel bombed her house in Gaza, a day before a truce is meant to come into effect. |
| 20231123 | Turkey says it plans evacuation of some wounded, sick Gazan children on Friday | Turkey | Turkey plans to evacuate some wounded or sick Gazan children and young people on Friday as part of its third round of evacuation, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | New laws to police Palestine protests would damage free speech, watchdog warns | United Kingdom | Terrorism legislation watchdog says 'members of the public should not be daunted from exercising their freedom of expression and right of lawful assembly' |
| 20231123 | David Cameron expresses hopes over temporary truce during visit to Israel | United Kingdom | David Cameron has met Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, during a visit to Israel, expressing hope that the planned temporary truce with Hamas would be an “opportunity to crucially get hostages out and get aid into Gaza”. |
| 20231123 | Retired US general: Temporary truce will negatively affect Israel | United States | Retired US Brigadier General James A. Marks said the Israeli occupation forces’ will be negatively impacted by the temporary truce in the besieged Gaza Strip |
| 20231123 | Facing suspension, MIT students continue pro-Palestine advocacy | United States | In a matter of days, a solidarity rally for Palestinians in Gaza was met with a concerted campaign to paint protesters as antisemitic |
| 20231123 | Jewish men in US apply to trademark ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, in attempt to ban slogan | United States | Two Jewish men in the United States have filed trademark applications for the popular pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, in an apparent attempt to prevent its further use by pro-Palestinian protestors. |
| 20231123 | Harvard Law Review bans article on Israeli genocide in Gaza | United States | The prestigious Harvard Law Review (HLR) has made the extraordinary decision to ban publication of an article examining the legal framework surrounding Israel’s ongoing Nakba against Palestinians, particularly in Gaza |
| 20231123 | US guns may already be arming West Bank settlers, former official warns | West Bank | Concerns over a recent Israeli order of US rifles have made headlines. But even if American guns aren't in settler hands, they have freed Israeli ones to be handed out, say experts |
| 20231123 | Miles from Gaza, fresh graves are dug for Palestinians killed in Jenin | West Bank | Funeral processions have become a regular occurrence in a West Bank city tormented by deadly Israeli raids |
| 20231123 | Israel intensifies demolition activities, issues stop-work orders in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli occupation authorities this morning issued stop-work orders against the construction of six Palestinian-owned houses in the town of Al-Khader, located south of Bethlehem. |
| 20231123 | Israel forces carry out 12-hour raid on Balata camp, shoot Palestinian dead | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces last night raided the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, killing a Palestinian and injuring three others. |
| 20231123 | Official: 333 attacks on Palestinian olive pickers in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces and settlers have carried out a total of 333 attacks against Palestinian olive pickers since the start of the season in the first week of October, the head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said. |
| 20231123 | US warship cruising Red Sea shoots down attack drones fired from Yemen | Yemen | US assets in the Middle East have come under increasing threat since the war in Gaza broke out. |
| 20231123 | U.S. shoots down multiple drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen | Yemen | The United States shot down multiple one-way attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen on Thursday morning local time, U.S. Central Command said on X. |
| 20231123 | Jewish groups criticize Pope on 'terrorism' remark, seek clarification | Zionism / | Jewish groups have criticised Pope Francis and demanded clarifications over his comments that they saw as accusing both Hamas and Israel of "terrorism". |
| 20231123 | Ex-Obama adviser Stuart Seldowitz arrested after Islamophobic rant | Zionism / US | The former State Department official was filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor in New York, saying more Palestinian children should be killed in Gaza. |
| 20231123 | Jewish students say they won't be silenced by Brown University | Zionism / US | In their first interview since they were arrested for holding a sit-in, some of the students vow to continue their activism until the US university divests from Israel |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
FIRST DAY OF CEASEFIRE |
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| 20231124 | Analysis: How to enforce the Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | The truce has come into effect. Its execution will fall on two fighting forces that have been trying to kill the other. |
| 20231124 | Veteran Israeli negotiator: 'There is a chance we can get out most of the hostages' | ceasefire | As Hamas prepares to release a first group of hostages held for more than six weeks in Gaza, it's worth remembering that Israelis have been held hostage many times over the nation's 75-year history. |
| 20231124 | Israel pounds Gaza ahead of truce, killing and injuring dozens | ceasefire | The air raids hit UN school, Indonesian hospital and residential buildings across Gaza |
| 20231124 | Palestinians in southern Gaza return home as truce begins | ceasefire | Video from southern Gaza shows displaced Palestinians making their way through the streets of Khan Younis to return to their homes, as a four-day truce came into effect. |
| 20231124 | ‘Relief’ in war-torn Gaza as truce takes effect in Israel-Hamas war | ceasefire | Aid begins to trickle in to Gaza as the first pause begins after seven weeks of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231124 | Israel-Hamas truce comes into effect: How it could now unfold | ceasefire | With the truce the first break in fighting after seven weeks, several scenarios in the war are now possible. |
| 20231124 | Fatah official warns of Israeli deceit during temporary truce in Gaza | ceasefire | Secretary of the Central Committee of the Fatah Movement, Jibril Rajoub, has warned of “deceit” on the part of Israel during the temporary truce in the Gaza Strip, claiming the agreement has no guarantees or field follow-up that could prevent the Israeli deception. |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces randomly target journalists in Gaza City | ceasefire | Footage captures the Israeli army's firing at journalists who were documenting the return of civilians to Gaza city according to local reports. |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinians attempting to return home in northern Gaza | ceasefire | Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinians and wounded 11 others as they headed toward the northern Gaza attempting to reach their homes. |
| 20231124 | Israel blocks Palestinians’ return to northern Gaza | ceasefire | Israeli military warns people against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. |
| 20231124 | Israel shoots at displaced Palestinians trying to return home to north Gaza | ceasefire | Israel shoots at displaced Palestinians trying to return home to north Gaza |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces open fire to stop people returning to north Gaza | ceasefire | Video shows people fleeing as Israeli forces opened fire to stop displaced Palestinians returning to northern Gaza during the temporary truce. Before the truce began the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning people not to attempt to return to the area. |
| 20231124 | Cease-fire brings respite for Gaza's civilian population | ceasefire | After weeks of bombardment and an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, fuel and aid trucks are now entering the Gaza Strip and civilians can move about again. But Israel warns its troops are going nowhere. |
| 20231124 | Humanitarian pause in Gaza reveals humanitarian catastrophe, destruction | ceasefire | The temporary humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip, which began on Friday, revealed the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe and the massive destruction caused by the Israeli army in various areas, especially Gaza City and the northern parts of the enclave |
| 20231124 | Gaza pause 'totally insufficient' say France, Belgium humanitarian groups | ceasefire | The humanitarian pause agreed between Israel and Hamas is not at all enough to address the critical needs in the Gaza Strip, according to two NGOs in France and Belgium |
| 20231124 | Hamas leader Haniyeh confirms their commitment to humanitarian pause | ceasefire | The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Friday that the Movement is committed to implementing the humanitarian pause agreement as long as Israel adheres to it. |
| 20231124 | In photos: Israel leaves trail of destruction in Gaza after 48 days of bombing | ceasefire | As the truce between Hamas and Israel takes effect on Friday, Palestinians inspecting their neighbourhoods find their city in ruins and wounded civilians sheltering at al-Shifa hospital are still waiting for a way out |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid into northern Gaza | ceasefire | While welcoming pause in hostilities and entry of supplies, UN health agency chief says ‘much more is needed’. |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid to flow to northern Gaza | ceasefire | U.N. agencies voiced hope that a shaky truce that began between Israel and Hamas on Friday would allow for a ramping-up of aid and the first flows to northern Gaza in weeks as fresh hospital rescue efforts got under way. |
| 20231124 | Head of US aid agency calls for speed-up of humanitarian aid to Gaza | ceasefire | The lead US development agency is urging a rapid ramping-up of humanitarian assistance to battered Gaza for the long term, calling it “urgent and imperative.” |
| 20231124 | Israel to continue war with full military force after humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, announced on Friday that his country will continue the war with full military force after the humanitarian pause in Gaza |
| 20231124 | Dolls, doctors and helicopters await Israeli hostages at Gaza's gate | ceasefire | The first Israeli women and children to go free from Gaza on Friday under a truce with their Hamas captors will be flown home under military guard, with measures meant to reduce the duress and attend to any immediate medical complications. |
| 20231124 | Palestinians return to destroyed homes in Gaza as Israel-Hamas truce begins | ceasefire | Men, women and children travelled from the places where they have sought refuge to inspect their damaged homes. |
| 20231124 | Happy but wary, displaced Palestinians try to head home to north Gaza | ceasefire | Many joyful but wary Palestinians emerged from makeshift shelters at the start of the four-day Gaza ceasefire on Friday to begin the long journey back to their homes. |
| 20231124 | Hamas releases 24 captives from Gaza after truce comes into effect | ceasefire | Release of captives taken by Hamas in October 7 assault on southern Israel comes amid four-day truce |
| 20231124 | Hamas releases 24 hostages on first day of Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday during the first day of the war's first truce, including Israeli women and children and Thai farm workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip for the first time in seven weeks. |
| 20231124 | Hamas releases 24 hostages on first day of Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | On day of high tension, Israel also releases Palestinian prisoners and humanitarian convoy enters Gaza |
| 20231124 | Israel confirms Hamas handed over 13 hostages to Red Cross | ceasefire | The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has received 13 Israeli civilians along with 10 other foreign nationals from Palestinian fighters in Gaza, as per the first footage released. This group is set to be exchanged for 39 Palestinian women and children currently held in Israeli jails, with the exchange scheduled to take place later tonight. |
| 20231124 | Red Cross coach leaves Ofer prison for expected Palestinian detainees exchange with Israel | ceasefire | A Red Cross coach has departed Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank, believed to be carrying Palestinian prisoners, amid the ongoing truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and the anticipated exchange of detainees from both sides. |
| 20231124 | ‘I won’t believe it until I see it’: Palestinians gather to greet freed prisoners | ceasefire | Families await possible reunion with detained women and children as Israel reportedly releases 39 in ceasefire deal |
| 20231124 | Israel releases 39 Palestinians from prison as part of cease-fire swap | ceasefire | Israel confirmed Friday that it released 39 Palestinian prisoners in line with a truce deal that saw 13 Israeli hostages freed by militants in Gaza hours earlier. |
| 20231124 | Mixed emotions as first group of Israeli hostages return from Gaza | ceasefire | The first group of Israelis freed from captivity in Gaza returned to Israel on Friday, on the first day of a planned four-day truce during which further exchanges of hostages for Palestinian detainees are due to take place. |
| 20231124 | Israel army says freed captives 'inside Israeli territory' | ceasefire | The Israeli occupatiob army said Friday the first captives released from the Gaza Strip were back on Israeli territory where they would undergo medical checks before being reunited with their families. |
| 20231124 | Hamas sources say Israel captives handed over to Egypt | ceasefire | Two Hamas sources told AFP that some of the captives seized in the October 7 raids on Israel were on Friday handed over to the Red Cross for return to Israel, via Egypt. |
| 20231124 | Hamas hands over first group of Israeli hostages to Red Cross in Gaza Strip | ceasefire | The handover took place in a hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The hostages are now said to be on their way to the Rafah border crossing to Egypt. |
| 20231124 | Palestinians say 24 women, 15 teenaged males to be freed from Israeli jails | ceasefire | article by Reuters banned |
| 20231124 | Marah Bakir freed from Ofer prison | ceasefire | Marah Bakir is among the first group of Palestinian women and children released from the Ofer prison as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas on Friday. |
| 20231124 | Israel threatens Palestinian families with ‘house raids' and 'arrest’ if they celebrate release of relatives | ceasefire | he father of Marah Bakir, who was released on Friday, said Israel threatened to raid their family home if they openly celebrated her release. |
| 20231124 | Palestinian NGO: 39 released from prison by Israel under truce agreement | ceasefire | A Palestinian NGO said Friday that 39 prisoners had been released by Israeli authorities under a truce agreement to pause the fighting in Gaza, after 13 hostages from Israel had been handed over. |
| 20231124 | Egypt receives 24 captives from Gaza on Friday | ceasefire | Egypt received on Friday 24 captives, including 13 Israelis, 10 Thais, and 1 Filipino, from the Gaza Strip via the Palestinian Red Crescent. |
| 20231124 | Israel releases 39 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons | ceasefire | The group of 24 women and 15 teenage boys was released across the Beituniya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231124 | Hostages, detainees freed as truce holds | ceasefire | Hamas militants have released an initial group of hostages to the Red Cross as part of an exchange with Israel. Israel's military has vowed to resume operations in Gaza after the four-day pause in fighting. |
| 20231124 | What can we expect from the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza? | ceasefire | A temporary cease-fire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families of the captives. |
| 20231124 | Germany confirms release of dual-nationals from Gaza | ceasefire | Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said on Friday that four Germans were among the 24 hostages released from captivity in Gaza earlier in the day. |
| 20231124 | Palestinian said release from prison was ‘unexpected’ after Israel placed her in solitary confinement | ceasefire | Israel sent Marah Bakr to prison at the age of 17. She described her eight-year stint in prison to Middle East Eye contributor Faiz Abu Amleh and said her release on Friday was “unexpected”. |
| 20231124 | Video: Palestinian woman freed from Israeli prison returns home | ceasefire | Israel released Malak Sulaiman after holding her in prison for seven years |
| 20231124 | US President Biden says chances of extending truce are ‘real’ | ceasefire | US President Joe Biden said he doesn’t trust Hamas but added that the current swap of prisoners is still only the start. |
| 20231124 | Knesset member Cohen reveals true reason behind negotiation delays | ceasefire | Knesset member Mouj Cohen rejected the possibility that the ongoing delays in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas are due to technical reasons. Cohen asserts that the real issue lies in Hamas' demand for an Egyptian guarantee. He refrained from elaborating further. Cohen, however, warned of possible deceptive tactics by Hamas in the negotiation process. |
| 20231124 | Analysis: Israel and Hamas have strong reasons not to extend Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Hamas risks losing leverage if all hostages are freed, and Benjamin Netanyahu promised a full victory |
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| 20231124 | Why Hamas and Samidoun were banned in Germany | collusion & complicity | In the wake of a ban on all activities related to Hamas and the group Samidoun, German authorities have searched numerous properties connected to suspected supporters. |
| Comment: German explanation doesn't reflect the country's history with the Israelis, and with its position as a strong supporter for the Israeli Zionist cause. | |||
| 20231124 | Gaza shrinks for Palestinians seeking refuge. 4 stories offer a glimpse into a diminished world | forced displacement | Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find: a jammed shelter, a car, the walls of a shared apartment, or floors and benches in hospital corridors. |
| 20231124 | Gaza war increases risk of Islamist attacks in Europe, security officials say | global effects | European security officials are seeing a growing risk of attacks by Islamists radicalised by the Israel-Hamas war, with the biggest threat likely to come from "lone wolf" assailants who are hard to track. |
| 20231124 | Israel summons Spanish, Belgian ambassadors following criticism during visit to Rafah | global effects | The Israeli government said Friday it would summon the Belgian and Spanish ambassadors following remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo on the war between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231124 | Israel summons ambassadors of Spain and Belgium over anti-Israel remarks | global effects | Israel summoned the ambassadors of Spain and Belgium following comments made by their respective leaders during a visit to Egypt on Friday. |
| 20231124 | Israel calls on Spain and Belgium to "stop supporting terrorism" | global effects | The warning came after Pedro Sánchez opened the door to the possibility that Spain could unilaterally recognise the Palestinian state even if the international community fails to do so. |
| 20231124 | German government's pro-Israeli policy not supported by public: Poll | global effects | The German government’s pro-Israel stance on the Gaza war is not supported by the public, a new poll revealed on Friday |
| 20231124 | Facebook permitted ads calling for ‘Holocaust’ against Palestinians | global effects | A series of inflammatory advertisements submitted to Facebook calling for violence and genocide against Palestinians were approved by the platform, the Intercept has revealed. |
| 20231124 | Activists in Argentina aim to expel Israeli water company | global response | Protesters have denounced the state-owned Israeli company Mekorot for its human rights record as it expands in Argentina. |
| 20231124 | Pro-Palestine or a trend? China’s stance on Israel-Hamas war splits opinion | global response | Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an end to the ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians. |
| 20231124 | African Peace March in Djibouti voices support for Palestinians | global response | Hundreds of people, including foreign nationals in Djibouti, participated in the African Peace March in solidarity with Palestinians in the Djiboutian city of Arta on Friday |
| 20231124 | Spain open to recognising Palestinian State, even if EU disagrees | global response | Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said on Friday that Madrid is open to unilaterally recognising a Palestinian State, even if it goes against the opinion of the European Union |
| 20231124 | Barcelona suspends relations with Israel | global response | The Barcelona City Council, on Friday, approved a declaration suspending relations with Israel until there is a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the country “respects the basic rights of the Palestinian people” |
| 20231124 | Spain slams Israel's 'false', 'out of place' and 'unacceptable' accusations against Prime Minister | global response | Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albares, condemned Israel’s accusations against the Spanish and Belgian prime ministers on Friday as “false”, “out of place” and “unacceptable” |
| 20231124 | Maronite Christian Patriarch: Aggression on Gaza aims to erase Palestinian issue | global response | The recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has been carried out with the ultimate goal of eliminating the Palestinian issue and suppressing their demand for an independent state, the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Maronites has said. |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid into northern Gaza | humanitarian aid | While welcoming pause in hostilities and entry of supplies, UN health agency chief says ‘much more is needed’. |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid to flow to northern Gaza | humanitarian aid | U.N. agencies voiced hope that a shaky truce that began between Israel and Hamas on Friday would allow for a ramping-up of aid and the first flows to northern Gaza in weeks as fresh hospital rescue efforts got under way. |
| 20231124 | What is the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza? | humanitarian crisis | Israel and Hamas started a four-day ceasefire in Gaza on Friday with aid agencies hoping to use the pause in fighting to ramp up aid deliveries into the besieged enclave. |
| 20231124 | Armenians push back against armed settlers | Jerusalem | A controversial real estate project threatens the world’s oldest Armenian diaspora community. But they refuse to move. |
| 20231124 | Israel forces raid homes of female Palestinian inmates in Jerusalem: Palestinian Prisoner's Club | Jerusalem | The Israeli forces stormed the homes of two Palestinian prisoners set to be released as part of the hostage swap deal with Hamas, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said on Friday |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces randomly target journalists in Gaza City | journalists | Footage captures the Israeli army's firing at journalists who were documenting the return of civilians to Gaza city according to local reports. |
| 20231124 | A second Nakba? What history tells us about Palestine and Israel | opinion | In this episode of UpFront, we look back at the history and context leading up to the current Israel-Gaza war |
| 20231124 | This Israel has no future in the Middle East | opinion | The Gaza war may turn out to be the beginning of the end, but not for Palestine. |
| 20231124 | Bahrain seeks to balance anger over Gaza with ties to Israel, US | regional effects | Bahrain has been walking a political tightrope since war erupted in Gaza as it seeks to ease public fury at a conflict that has killed thousands of Palestinians while preserving a deal with Israel that brought the Gulf state closer to the United States. |
| 20231124 | Hundreds gather in Istanbul to mourn two Turks killed in Lebanon | regional effects | Several hundred mourners gathered outside a mosque in Istanbul on Friday to lament the death of two Turkish men who militant Islamist group Hamas said were killed earlier this week in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon. |
| 20231124 | Yemen's Houthis threaten to target 'any military equipment' protecting Israeli ships | regional effects | The Houthi group in Yemen has threatened to target any military equipment protecting Israeli ships in the Red Sea, while it considered the crew of the recently seized ship as “guests” in Yemen. |
| 20231124 | Egypt’s el-Sisi says future Palestinian state could be ‘demilitarised’ | regional response | El-Sisi spoke after a meeting with the Spanish and Belgian PMs as they try to shore up support for a peace conference. |
| 20231124 | Egypt president says future Palestinian state could be demilitarised | regional response | A future Palestinian state could be demilitarised and have a temporary international security presence to provide guarantees to both it and to Israel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday. |
| 20231124 | UK gags MPs from asking questions about alleged arms supply to Israel | United Kingdom | The British government is refusing to answer questions over whether it is supplying weapons to the Israeli military to conduct its operations in Gaza which bears disturbing hallmarks of genocide and ethnic cleansing. |
| 20231124 | Why Hamas and Samidoun were banned in Germany | Zionism / Germany | In the wake of a ban on all activities related to Hamas and the group Samidoun, German authorities have searched numerous properties connected to suspected supporters. |
| 20231124 | German government's pro-Israeli policy not supported by public: Poll | Zionism / Germany | The German government’s pro-Israel stance on the Gaza war is not supported by the public, a new poll revealed on Friday |
| Comment: German explanation doesn't reflect the country's history with the Israelis, and with its position as a strong supporter for the Israeli Zionist cause. | |||
| 20231124 | Facebook permitted ads calling for ‘Holocaust’ against Palestinians | Zionism / social media | A series of inflammatory advertisements submitted to Facebook calling for violence and genocide against Palestinians were approved by the platform, the Intercept has revealed. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
Second day of ceasefire |
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| 20231125 | Hamas to free new wave of captives in Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas fighters are set to release a new wave of captives Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said. |
| 20231125 | Thai mother danced with joy after daughter released from Gaza | ceasefire | When Natthawaree Mulkan's mother saw that her daughter was among the Thai hostages released by Hamas, she was so happy she danced with her 8-year-old granddaughter outside their home in northeastern Thailand. |
| 20231125 | First hostages, Palestinian prisoners freed | ceasefire | The first hostages released by Hamas militants under a temporary truce deal have arrived in Israel. In the occupied West Bank, crowds of people welcomed the first group of Palestinians released from Israeli jails in return. |
| 20231125 | First Palestinians released from Israeli prisons under deal | ceasefire | Israel has released 39 Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal with Hamas militants. Among those were freed was Marah Bakeer who spent eight years in jail for a knife attack on an Israeli border policeman when she was 16. |
| 20231125 | Hamas releases 10 Thai hostages, 4 of whom had not been listed as abducted | ceasefire | Hamas freed 10 Thai nationals and a Filipino alongside Israeli hostages who were part of the first swap under a new cease-fire deal — including four Thais who had not been officially listed as abducted, Thailand’s Foreign Ministry announced Saturday morning. |
| 20231125 | Iran says it facilitated Friday's release of 10 Thai hostages | ceasefire | Iran facilitated Friday's release of 10 Thai hostages from Gaza, providing a list of names to Palestinian group Hamas after a request to do so by Thailand's Foreign Ministry and parliamentary speaker, Iran's embassy in Thailand said on social media on Saturday. |
| 20231125 | Families of hostages not slated for release from Gaza during current truce face enduring nightmare | ceasefire | Ofri Bibas Levy has been haunted by nightmares since Oct. 7, when her brother, sister-in-law and their two young children were snatched by Hamas militants from their homes and dragged into the Gaza Strip |
| 20231125 | Family celebrates return of freed Palestinian prisoner Marah Bakeer | ceasefire | Bakeer is one of 39 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in exchange for 13 Hamas captives under a Qatar-mediated deal. |
| 20231125 | Egypt gets list from Hamas of 14 hostages to be released on Saturday - security sources | ceasefire | Egypt has received a list from Palestinian militant group Hamas of 14 hostages to be released on Saturday, security sources said. |
| 20231125 | Freed hostages bring news about one still believed to be held in Gaza | ceasefire | The Palestinian militant group Hamas released 13 Israeli hostages on Friday in exchange for the release of 39 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. |
| 20231125 | Egypt says it received 'positive signals' over possible extension of Gaza truce | ceasefire | Egypt said on Saturday it had received positive signals from all parties over a possible extension of the Gaza truce for one or two days. |
| 20231125 | Palestinian families rejoice over release of minors and women in wartime prisoner swap | ceasefire | Over three dozen Palestinian prisoners returned home to a hero’s welcome in the occupied West Bank on Friday following their release from Israeli prisons as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231125 | Gaza truce holds into second day, more captives to be released | ceasefire | Palestinians are temporarily safe from bombardment, but the UN said Gaza saw an ‘intensification’ of Israeli strikes ahead of truce. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians in Gaza use truce to pick through rubble of homes | ceasefire | After seven weeks of bombardment stopped in Gaza for a truce, Tahani al-Najjar used the calm on Saturday to return to the ruins of her home, smashed by an Israeli air strike that she said killed seven of her family and forced her into a shelter. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians search for loved ones and check damaged homes | ceasefire | People have been waiting in long queues for fuel and aid in the Gaza Strip, as the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas appears to hold for a second day. |
| 20231125 | US President Biden says ‘chances are real’ for extending Israel-Gaza truce | ceasefire | Captives are expected to be released each day until Monday during pause in fighting. |
| 20231125 | ‘To make lives easier’: Aid brings relief in Gaza amid Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Trucks deliver fuel, cooking gas, food and medicine, in the largest aid convoy to Gaza since the war began. |
| 20231125 | ‘Nothing standing’: Palestinians return to find Gaza homes destroyed | ceasefire | Amid the truce, some Gaza Palestinians returned to their houses in north and central Gaza – only to find rubble and debris. |
| 20231125 | Analysis: Lessons from Day One of truce in Gaza | ceasefire | Everyone stopped shooting, but can emotional reunions bring new understanding between warring sides?
COMMENT Israeli snipers have not stop shooting as found videos appear to show. |
| 20231125 | Released Palestinians recount harsh conditions in Israeli prisons | ceasefire | “We’ve been tortured.” As dozens of Palestinian women and children return home from Israeli prisons as part of a Gaza truce deal between Israel and Hamas, many say they endured incredibly harsh conditions while detained. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians stock up on essentials amid surge in Gaza food prices | ceasefire | October saw ‘unprecedented’ spike in cost of water, wheat flour as Palestinians flock to markets on second day of truce. |
| 20231125 | Second stage of captive-prisoner release awaited in Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas fighters were set to release a second group of captives Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said, as a truce largely held in the devastated Gaza Strip after seven weeks of war that killed thousands of people. |
| 20231125 | 42 Palestinians, 14 Israelis to be released on Saturday as part of Israel-Hamas hostage swap deal | ceasefire | The Israeli Prison Service announced on Saturday that it had received an additional list of the names of 42 Palestinian male and female prisoners who will be released as part of the second batch of the hostage swap deal between Israel and Hamas |
| 20231125 | Israeli officials: 14 captives, 42 Palestinian prisoners to be released Saturday under truce deal | ceasefire | Hamas was expected to swap more of its captives Saturday for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel on the second day of a cease-fire that has allowed critical humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and given civilians their first respite after seven weeks of war. |
| 20231125 | Hamas delays release of captives over Gaza aid | ceasefire |
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| 20231125 | Hamas says will delay release of second round of captives | ceasefire | In a statement on the messaging app Telegram, the Qassam Brigades said Israel should allow aid trucks to enter the northern Gaza Strip and to adhere to the “criteria” that was agreed upon – namely seniority to release the Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231125 | Hamas delays hostage release, demands aid to northern Gaza | ceasefire | The armed wing of Hamas said it had decided to delay Saturday's scheduled second round of hostage releases until Israel met conditions including committing to let aid trucks into northern Gaza, as mediators scrambled to keep a four-day truce on track. |
| 20231125 | Hamas says the second exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners is delayed | ceasefire | The expected release of a second group of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel was delayed for hours Saturday as the militant group accused Israel of not complying with the deal’s terms. The last-minute snag created a tense standoff on the second day of what was meant to be a four-day cease-fire. |
| 20231125 | Hamas pause hostage exchanges until until Israel ‘respects the agreement’ | ceasefire | The armed wing of Hamas has announced it will delay the release of a second group of hostages held in the Gaza Strip until Israel "respects the agreement" which entered into force the day before. |
| 20231125 | Hamas' armed wing delays release of 2nd group of Israeli hostages | ceasefire | Hamas’ armed wing announced on Saturday delay in release of the second group of Israeli hostages, citing Tel Aviv’s “non-compliance” with the humanitarian pause deal |
| 20231125 | Hamas delays, then returns to hostage deal | ceasefire | The armed wing of Hamas has announced it will delay the release of a second group of hostages held in the Gaza Strip until Israel "respects the agreement" which entered into force the day before. |
| 20231125 | 2nd batch in Israel-Hamas prisoner swap to be released soon after Egypt & Qatar resolve contentious issues | ceasefire | Egypt and Qatar said that Cairo and Doha have resolved all contentious issues that prompted Hamas to delay the release of the second batch of Israeli captives as per the truce deal mediated by the two countries in addition to the US on Wednesday. |
| 20231125 | Macron says determined to secure release of French captives in Gaza | ceasefire | French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday welcomed Hamas freeing a first group of captives, assuring the families of French captives held in war-torn Gaza of his "determination" to secure their release. |
| 20231125 | Aid rushed into Gaza, residents pick through rubble of homes | ceasefire | A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas militants has allowed aid agencies to step up the delivery of much needed supplies such as fuel, water and medicine to the Gaza Strip. Many residents are using the respite to return to what's left of their homes. |
| 20231125 | Israeli army says it will resume attacks on Gaza right after pause ends | ceasefire | Israel’s military chief said on Saturday that Israeli forces will resume attacks on the Gaza Strip immediately after the temporary humanitarian pause with Hamas ends |
| 20231125 | Hamas releases 13 Israeli, four Thai captives after hours-long delay | ceasefire | Israel is now expected to release 39 Palestinian prisoners from its jails under the Qatar-mediated truce |
| end Second day of ceasefire |
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| 20231125 | UNICEF says situation for children in Gaza 'hellish' | children | Aid agencies are using the truce in Gaza to deliver much-needed supplies of fuel, water and medicine. James Elder from UNICEF spoke to DW from southern Gaza. He described the situation facing children there. |
| 20231125 | Can Israel’s economy withstand a prolonged war on Gaza? | economy / Israeli | Israel’s war on Gaza has depleted the Israeli workforce and forced businesses to close. Israel started its war on Gaza with deep pockets: $200bn dollars in reserves and billions in military aid from the United States. But spending is skyrocketing, revenues are falling and borrowing costs are increasing. |
| 20231125 | Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital in ruins after Israeli raid, days-long siege | eliminating health care system | Nurses recall horror of Israeli raid, interrogations, saying troops beat and humiliated them as they refused to leave patients behind. |
| 20231125 | WHO concerned about al-Shifa chief detained by Israel, remaining patients | eliminating health care system | Israel says the hospital director is being questioned as the WHO voices fears over the safety of dozens who are still in the facility. |
| 20231125 | WHO voices concern over fate of Gaza hospital chief | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organization voiced concern on late Friday about the fate of the head of Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, whom Israeli occupation forces detained over the facility's alleged use by Hamas. |
| 20231125 | Gaza's Indonesian Hospital completely evacuated: Health Ministry | eliminating health care system | Another in the dwindling list of Gaza Strip hospitals has emptied its wards and halls, with the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza announcing Saturday that it has been completely evacuated |
| 20231125 | Hamas hails Barcelona's decision to suspend ties with Israel | global response | The Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Saturday praised Barcelona city council’s decision to suspend relations with Tel Aviv, calling it a “courageous stance” against Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip |
| 20231125 | World pro-Palestine protests call for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza | global response | Thousands of people across major world capitals and cities came out in massive demonstrations for a lasting ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza, as a four-day truce entered its second day. |
| 20231125 | Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian march in central London | global response | Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through central London on Saturday to call for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of similar weekend demonstrations in the capital since the seven-week war began. |
| 20231125 | ‘To make lives easier’: Aid brings relief in Gaza amid Israel-Hamas truce | humanitarian aid | Trucks deliver fuel, cooking gas, food and medicine, in the largest aid convoy to Gaza since the war began. |
| 20231125 | Gaza humanitarian situation much worse: UN Palestinian Refugee Agency | humanitarian crisis | The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has become much worse, the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said Friday |
| 20231125 | South Africa asks ICJ to classify Israel as apartheid state | ICJ | South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pando announced that her country is in the process of submitting a petition to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding that Israel be classified as an apartheid state. |
| 20231125 | Israel occupation army to punish soldiers who refuse to serve | IOF | The Israeli occupation army is planning to impose prison sentences on soldiers who refuse to comply with regular and reserve service following the end of the attack launched on the Gaza Strip on 7 October. |
| 20231125 | 66 Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7: Media group | journalists | At least 66 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, according to a media group |
| 20231125 | Israel reports cross-border fire at Lebanese frontier | Lebanon | Israel's military said on Saturday that its forces and Hezbollah militants exchanged fire around the Israeli-Lebanese border overnight. |
| 20231125 | Israel vs Hamas: Battle for narrative supremacy | media | A propaganda battle between Israel and Hamas – different messages, different audiences. Plus, Francesca Albanese on media missteps in this war. |
| 20231125 | EU lacking leverage in the Middle East despite being top donor | opinion | In this edition of Brussels, my love? we discuss EU diplomacy in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and talk about Spanish politics after the passage of a controversial amnesty law. |
| 20231125 | The West will pay a heavy price for expending its credibility on Israel | opinion | American and European leaders must disentangle themselves from Israel's outsized influence - or risk an even bigger catastrophe in the days ahead |
| 20231125 | Is a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine still possible? | opinion | International calls grow louder to pursue a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The current Israel-Palestinian conflict has seen 47 days of air attacks on the Gaza Strip, nearly 15,000 Palestinians killed, 1,200 Israelis dead, and continuing raids and arrests by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank. There has also been an increase in Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities throughout the occupied territories. |
| 20231125 | Israeli-owned ship targeted in suspected drone attack: Reports | regional effects | The vessel reportedly had its tracker turned off, a sign that crew members likely expected a threat in the region. |
| 20231125 | An Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean | regional effects | A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an American defense official said Saturday. |
| 20231125 | An Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean, US official tells AP | regional effects | A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Gaza Strip, an American defense official said Saturday. |
| 20231125 | Israeli-managed vessel hit by suspected Iranian drone, US official says | regional effects | A container ship managed by an Israeli-controlled company was hit by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean, causing minor damage to the vessel but no injuries, a U.S. defence official said on Saturday. |
| 20231125 | UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say patrol hit by Israeli fire | regional effects | United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon condemns attack as ‘deeply troubling’, no troops were injured. |
| 20231125 | UNIFIL says Israeli gunfire hit one of its patrols in southern Lebanon | regional effects | The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Saturday that one of its patrols was hit by Israeli gunfire in the vicinity of Aytaroun of southern Lebanon, although there were no casualties. |
| 20231125 | UN Security Council ‘paralyzed’ in face of Palestine crisis: Algerian president | regional response | The UN Security Council is suffering from “almost complete paralysis” over the siege of Palestine and Palestinians’ ongoing suffering at the hands of Israel, Algeria’s president said Friday |
| 20231125 | Ismael Haniyeh: ‘We managed to ruin occupation’s plans’ | resistance | Head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh affirmed that the resistance proudly managed to: “Confront the occupation and ruin its plans despite the great pain and the growing numbers of martyrs, wounded individuals and Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homes, which has pained us and has affected all of our families. This is the price of freedom and liberation.” |
| 20231125 | Demands for permanent Gaza ceasefire at UK vigil for killed medical workers | United Kingdom | Healthcare workers in London are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza as more than 200 Palestinian medical personnel have been killed by Israel since the war began. This type of vigil has been held for three consecutive weeks in more than a dozen cities worldwide. |
| 20231125 | US President Biden says ‘chances are real’ for extending Israel-Gaza truce | United States | Captives are expected to be released each day until Monday during pause in fighting. |
| 20231125 | Palestinian militants kill 2 alleged informers for Israel and mob drags bodies through camp alleys | West Bank | Palestinian militants in a West Bank refugee camp shot and killed two alleged collaborators with Israel early Saturday, Palestinian officials said. Mobs then kicked the bloodied corpses and dragged them through alleys before trying to tie them to an electrical tower. |
| 20231125 | Palestinian militants in West Bank say two 'collaborators' executed | West Bank | Palestinian militants in the West Bank said they had killed two men accused of collaborating with Israeli authorities and hung their bodies up as a warning, underlining growing fears of increased radicalisation as the war in Gaza continues. |
| 20231125 | ‘A place to fly’ – Jenin Freedom Theatre stands defiant amid Israeli raids | West Bank | One of the more disturbing things that Ranin Odeh has observed during the activity sessions she runs for children at the Freedom Theatre in the West Bank’s Jenin camp is that their play often turns violent. Children frequently become overly rough and even hit each other. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians killed in West Bank amid Gaza truce | West Bank | At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank since last night. |
| 20231125 | EU's Von der Leyen urges end to extremist violence in West Bank for Middle East peace | West Bank | EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that violence committed by extremists in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank must end for a two-state solution that will bring peace to the Middle East |
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| THIRD DAY OF CEASEFIRE |
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| 20231126 | More captives released after Hamas said Israel not upholding truce deal | ceasefire | There were concerns that the Gaza truce was at risk of derailing as Hamas accused Israel of not upholding its end of the deal to allow aid deliveries. Eventually, hostages were released, including a nine-year-old girl whose father thought she would’ve been better off dead than in Hamas captivity. |
| 20231126 | Tears and joy as second batch of 39 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons | ceasefire | Palestinian prisoners were freed late on Saturday after 13 Israelis were released from Gaza as part of a truce agreement. |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases 13 Israeli, four Thai captives after hours-long delay | ceasefire | Sunday marks the halfway point of a four-day ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. In the first two days -- people in Gaza have had time to take stock of the utter devastation of their homes and neighbourhoods. And two exchanges of captives and prisoners have taken place. The most recent came late on Saturday night, after a tense delay. |
| 20231126 | 13 Israeli hostages to be released on Sunday: Israeli media | ceasefire | Israel on Sunday announced that it had received a list of names of the third batch of Israeli hostages scheduled to be released from the Gaza Strip later on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | 2 Qatari officials arrive in Gaza via Rafah crossing amid humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Two Qatari officials arrived in Gaza on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, as the temporary humanitarian pause in the besieged strip continues |
| 20231126 | Hope Gaza truce can be extended: Qatari minister | ceasefire | Lolwah Rashid al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation, says she hopes there is an increase in the quantity of humanitarian aid being delivered into the enclave. “We hope our efforts aiming at extending the humanitarian truce will be successful. This will enable more parties to deliver more relief aid,” she said during a visit to southern Gaza. “There are several paths being followed, including the diplomatic one. To this end - efforts are being made, and talks are being held in an attempt to have the truce extended. |
| 20231126 | More captives released after Hamas said Israel not upholding truce deal | ceasefire | There were concerns that the Gaza truce was at risk of derailing as Hamas accused Israel of not upholding its end of the deal to allow aid deliveries. Eventually, hostages were released, including a nine-year-old girl whose father thought she would've been better off dead than in Hamas captivity. |
| 20231126 | 'That's my son!' Thai family overjoyed as second group of hostages freed | ceasefire | The mother of a Thai hostage freed from Gaza late on Saturday said she was indescribably happy her son was among the four most recent Thai nationals confirmed as freed from Hamas captivity. |
| 20231126 | Israel tells Palestinians not to move north in Gaza amid truce | ceasefire | Israel’s military has asked Palestinians not to move to the north of the Gaza Strip during the ongoing four-day truce. |
| 20231126 | Ready to release captives if all Palestinians released: Hamas official | ceasefire | Ghazi Hammad, member of Hamas’s political bureau, says the armed group is committed to the four-day truce agreement and is willing to release all captives in exchange for release of all Palestinians prisoners in Israeli jails.He says the group is currently working on a possible extension of the truce together with other partners. “Our priority is to stop the aggression against our people. We want to stop this genocide in Gaza,” he said. |
| 20231126 | Israel reiterates demand for Palestinians in Gaza to ‘only move south’ | ceasefire | The Israeli army on Sunday reiterated its demand that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip should only move to the south, especially during the current four-day humanitarian pause. |
| 20231126 | Qatar, US leaders discuss humanitarian pause developments in Gaza | ceasefire | Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and US President Joe Biden discussed developments Saturday regarding the ongoing humanitarian pause in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas group, according to the Qatari state news agency |
| 20231126 | Palestinian farmer killed by Israeli forces in Gaza refugee camp: Palestinian Red Crescent | ceasefire | A Palestinian farmer was killed and another injured on Sunday after they were targeted by Israeli forces in the Maghazi refugee camp in the centre of Gaza, the Palestinan Red Crescent said. |
| 20231126 | PRCS: Palestinian killed in refugee camp Gaza despite truce | ceasefire | The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) says a Palestinian farmer has been killed and another injured in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza strip. |
| 20231126 | Despite humanitarian pause agreement, Israeli army attacks in central Gaza, kills 1 | ceasefire | Even though Israel and Hamas had agreed to a humanitarian pause, and Sunday marked the third day of the agreement, which also included a hostage swap, the Israeli army attacked the Al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza, killing at least one Palestinian and injuring another. |
| 20231126 | Uncle of released Israeli hostage alleges Hamas is still holding her mother captive | ceasefire | An uncle of one of the freed hostages has alleged that Hamas is still holding her mother captive. |
| 20231126 | Seven fuel trucks, 80 aid trucks enter Gaza on third day of truce: Egyptian Red Crescent | ceasefire | Seven fuel trucks and 80 aid trucks crossed Egypt's Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip on the third day of the truce between Hamas and Israel, the Egyptian Red Crescent announced on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | Palestinian Red Crescent dispatches 50 aid trucks to Gaza | ceasefire | The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Sunday dispatched a convoy of 50 trucks laden with aid to the Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip |
| 20231126 | Shoukry calls for turning Gaza truce into full ceasefire in phone call with Blinken | ceasefire | The Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry stressed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken the need to extend the current truce in Gaza into a full ceasefire and deliver sustainable aid to all areas of the war-ravaged strip. |
| 20231126 | Netanyahu says next hostage list sent | ceasefire | The Israeli government said it has received a new list of hostages expected to be released in a third round of exchanges, as a short truce in fighting with Hamas holds |
| 20231126 | Hope Gaza truce can be extended: Qatari minister | ceasefire | Lolwah Rashid al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation, says she hopes there is an increase in the quantity of humanitarian aid being delivered into the enclave. “We hope our efforts aiming at extending the humanitarian truce will be successful. This will enable more parties to deliver more relief aid,” she said during a visit to southern Gaza. “There are several paths being followed, including the diplomatic one. To this end - efforts are being made, and talks are being held in an attempt to have the truce extended. |
| 20231126 | ‘Nothing standing’: Palestinians return to find Gaza homes destroyed | ceasefire | It is day three of a four-day truce between Hamas and Israel. The brief lull in Israeli attacks has given Palestinians time to take stock of the utter devastation of their homes and neighbourhoods. However, for many, only rubble waited where their homes once stood. After a delay of several hours, the exchange of a second group of Israeli captives held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has taken place. |
| 20231126 | Palestinians, Israelis exchange lists of awaited third batch of detainees | ceasefire | Hamas and Israel exchanged on Sunday lists of the third batch of their reciprocal detainees expected to be released today as part of the four-day truce brokered by Egypt, Qatar, and the US, according to media reports. |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases third group of hostages as part of truce deal, while Netanyahu visits Gaza | ceasefire | The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third set of releases under a four-day truce that the U.S. said it hoped would be extended. |
| 20231126 | Hamas frees third group of hostages | ceasefire | Hamas militants have released more Israeli hostages on Sunday, the third day of the truce. Egypt said Israel would free 39 Palestinians in return |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases 14 Israeli hostages as truce continues and ceasefire holds | ceasefire | A total of 39 Palestinians detained by Israel will be released from prison on Sunday, Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson has announced. |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases another 14 Israeli hostages and three foreign nationals | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas exchange lists of hostages and prisoners for third time as ceasefire appears to be holding |
| 20231126 | American girl, 4, freed as Hamas hands over more Israeli, Thai hostages | ceasefire | A four-year-old American girl held by Hamas in Gaza was released on Sunday, President Joe Biden said, as the militant group said it had handed over 13 Israeli hostages, three Thais and one with Russian citizenship on the third day of a truce with Israel. |
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| 20231126 | White House requests removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to its weapons stockpiles | collusion & complicity | The United States’ government has requested the removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to all categories of arms and ammunition from American weapons’ stockpiles within the occupation state, in a move which could effectively grant Tel Aviv a blank cheque for arms sales. |
| 20231126 | Israel’s bombing campaign in northern Gaza has destroyed entire districts and neighbourhoods | destruction | It was another relatively peaceful and quiet night for Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, without the threat of being killed in Israeli air raids. But for those who are surrounded by destruction, blood and bodies of loved ones, the ceasefire did not change much about how they feel. We’re talking about massive destruction of all forms of life in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the north and Gaza City. There is a sense of frustration as 1.5 million Palestinians are still unable to go back to their homes in the north. The delay in the release last night has also underscored the fragility of the four-day truce. It has confirmed people’s cautious optimism that this truce, and the possibility of extending the truce, were under threat as a result of technical issues. |
| 20231126 | Israel dropped 40,000 tons of explosives on Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, says media office | destruction | The Gaza government’s media office said on Sunday that the Israeli army has dropped 40,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, with the apparent goal of rendering the enclave uninhabitable. |
| 20231126 | Dire conditions at al-Shifa Hospital revealed during Gaza pause | eliminating health care system | New video from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital has emerged, made possible by the pause in Israel’s attack. It shows badly injured and elderly patients stranded in hospital beds outside among debris in the carpark. |
| 20231126 | Gaza: Findings on October 17 al-Ahli Hospital Explosion | eliminating health care system | The explosion that killed and injured many civilians at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on October 17, 2023, resulted from an apparent rocket-propelled munition, such as those commonly used by Palestinian armed groups, that hit the hospital grounds, Human Rights Watch said today |
| 20231126 | Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | eliminating health care system | Many of the injured who were not mobile remained in the hospital after its evacuation on November 18. |
| 20231126 | Food and clean water a luxury displaced Palestinians can't afford | food, water, fuel & electricity | Those sheltering at a UN school packed with thousands of people describe 'humiliating' conditions amid the scarcity of food, water, and cleaning products |
| 20231126 | Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | forced displacement | Many of the injured who were not mobile remained in the hospital after its evacuation on November 18. |
| 20231126 | Spain PM stands by Gaza comments that angered Israel | global response | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Sunday defended comments he made about the Israeli offensive in Gaza which angered Israel, saying "it was a question of being humane". |
| 20231126 | Seven fuel trucks, 80 aid trucks enter Gaza on third day of truce: Egyptian Red Crescent | humanitarian aid | Seven fuel trucks and 80 aid trucks crossed Egypt's Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip on the third day of the truce between Hamas and Israel, the Egyptian Red Crescent announced on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | 2 Qatari officials arrive in Gaza via Rafah crossing amid humanitarian pause | humanitarian aid | Two Qatari officials arrived in Gaza on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, as the temporary humanitarian pause in the besieged strip continues |
| 20231126 | Hope Gaza truce can be extended: Qatari minister | humanitarian aid | Lolwah Rashid al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation, says she hopes there is an increase in the quantity of humanitarian aid being delivered into the enclave. “We hope our efforts aiming at extending the humanitarian truce will be successful. This will enable more parties to deliver more relief aid,” she said during a visit to southern Gaza. “There are several paths being followed, including the diplomatic one. To this end - efforts are being made, and talks are being held in an attempt to have the truce extended. |
| 20231126 | ‘We cannot return to the bombardment of children’ in Gaza, UNICEF spokesperson | humanitarian aid | The four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas has "allowed us to get the biggest distribution of aid to the north [of Gaza] in a month", UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said |
| 20231126 | Palestinian Red Crescent dispatches 50 aid trucks to Gaza | humanitarian aid | The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Sunday dispatched a convoy of 50 trucks laden with aid to the Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip |
| 20231126 | ‘The people don’t want the Americans’: Gaza war fuels tensions in Iraq | Iraq | Attacks on US troops in Iraq have led to US airstrikes, highlighting the risk of spillover from the situation in Gaza |
| 20231126 | Photos: Lebanese residents of border towns return home amid truce in Gaza | Lebanon | About 55,500 Lebanese have been displaced by clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces since October 7. |
| 20231126 | Israeli and Hezbollah strikes near Lebanon border have stopped amid Israel-Hamas truce | Lebanon | Since the truce in the Israel-Hamas war began on November 24, the "situation has been ... super calm on the Lebanese side" of the Israel-Lebanon border,. |
| 20231126 | Francesca Albanese: Western media is living in an alternate reality | media / Western | In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. One exception has been Francesca Albanese - the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. |
| 20231126 | Al Qassam Brigades says four military commanders killed in fighting | resistance | The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas announced on Sunday the killing of four of its military commanders in the Gaza Strip, including the commander of the North Gaza brigade Ahmad Al Ghandour. |
| 20231126 | Hamas confirms northern brigade commander, 3 other leaders dead | resistance | The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, announced on Sunday the death of the commander of its northern brigade, Ahmed Al-Ghandour, and three other senior leaders during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. |
| 20231126 | Hamas’ military wing says 4 of its leaders killed during Israeli war on Gaza since Oct. 7 | resistance | Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, said on Sunday that four of its leaders had been killed since Oct 7, including Ahmed Al-Ghandour, a member of the Military Council and commander of the Northern Brigade. |
| 20231126 | ‘Soldiers started shooting at my feet’: Palestinians describe fleeing northern Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | Dogs biting at a human corpse. An exhausted, heavily pregnant woman carrying a toddler on her back. A seemingly lifeless body pushed on a cart. The sights of the Salah al-Din road, the main highway that runs like a spine through Gaza, remain with those who’ve walked it. |
| 20231126 | White House requests removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to its weapons stockpiles | United States | The United States’ government has requested the removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to all categories of arms and ammunition from American weapons’ stockpiles within the occupation state, in a move which could effectively grant Tel Aviv a blank cheque for arms sales. |
| 20231126 | Biden claims Hamas launched operation due to US diplomacy, to prevent Saudi-Israel normalization deal | United States | The United States’ president Joe Biden has claimed that the 7 October operation into Israel carried out by Palestinian resistance group Hamas was a direct result of his administration’s diplomacy in the region and with Saudi Arabia, in the latest of such speculations on the cause of the attacks. |
| 20231126 | Two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank - Palestinian ministry | West Bank | Two Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in Nablus and Jenin early on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said, bringing to six the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank overnight. |
| 20231126 | Israeli army kills 5 Palestinians in West Bank | West Bank | Five Palestinians were killed late Saturday by Israeli forces in areas across the occupied West Bank |
| 20231126 | Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Emboldened by curfews and raids on Palestinians, illegal settlers have stepped up violence and property theft. |
| 20231126 | Israeli forces kill seven Palestinians in West Bank, Palestinian officials say | West Bank | Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including two minors and at least one gunman, in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday and early Sunday, medics and local sources said. |
| 20231126 | Israeli forces kill at least 8 Palestinians in surging West Bank violence, health officials say | West Bank | Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, in a 24-hour period, Palestinian health officials said Sunday, as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day. |
| 20231126 | Eight Palestinians killed during Israeli raid | West Bank | Eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. |
| 20231126 | Number of Palestinians arrested since Oct. 7 climbs to 3,200: Palestinian group | West Bank | The Israeli army on Sunday arrested 20 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, bringing the total number of detainees since Oct. 7 to 3,200, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. |
| 20231126 | Palestinian succumbs to injuries following clashes with Israeli army in Nablus | West Bank | A young Palestinian died on Sunday due to his injuries following clashes with the Israeli army in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. |
| 20231126 | Occupied West Bank raids: Funerals held for five people killed in Jenin | West Bank | Funerals for five Palestinians killed during Israeli raids have been taking place in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank. Hundreds of people joined the funeral procession. At least eight Palestinians were killed in overnight raids across the Occupied West Bank. |
| 20231126 | Israel-linked tanker boarded off Yemen: security firm | Yemen | A tanker linked to an Israel-affiliated company has been boarded off the coast of Yemen, the maritime security firm Ambrey said on Sunday following a series of incidents on the same shipping route. |
| 20231126 | Attackers seize an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen in a third such assault during the Israel-Hamas war | Yemen | Attackers seized a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, authorities said. While no group immediately claimed responsibility, it comes as at least two other maritime attacks in recent days have been linked to the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231126 | Israeli army says it intercepted drone heading toward Eliat in southern Israel | Yemen | The Israeli army said late Saturday it intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle that was headed to the southern city of Eilat. |
| 20231126 | Israeli-linked chemical tanker seized in Gulf of Aden, US official, vessel company say | Yemen | Unidentified armed individuals have seized a tanker carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, the vessel's managing company and a U.S. defence official said. |
| 20231126 | Tanker in Middle East safe from attackers after U.S. Navy responds, officials say | Yemen | A U.S. Navy warship responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden that had been seized by armed individuals and the vessel is now safe, U.S. officials said on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | Student wearing 'Allah' necklace attacked in school in Germany | Zionism / Germany | A 15-year-old student was attacked in a school in Germany for wearing a necklace which said “Allah,” authorities said Saturday. |
| 20231126 | March against antisemitism draws thousands in London | Zionism / UK | Thousands of demonstrators against antisemitism marched in London on Sunday to protest against a rise in hate crimes against Jews since the attack by Hamas militants on Israel in October and Israel's subsequent bombardment of Gaza. |
| 20231126 | Three Palestinian students shot in US in critical condition | Zionism / US | Arab civil rights group says the students were wearing keffiyehs when they were abused and shot by unidentified gunmen in Burlington, Vermont |
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| 20231127 | Palestinians gather in Ramallah streets to welcome freed prisoners | ceasefire | The exchange of captives for prisoners between Hamas and Israel continues for a third consecutive day on Sunday. |
| 20231127 | Hamas, Israel release prisoners; American girl, 4, is freed | ceasefire | Hamas freed 17 hostages held in Gaza, including a 4-year-old American girl, while Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the third day of their truce. |
| 20231127 | More Palestinian prisoners freed as Israel-Hamas truce holds into third day | ceasefire | The exchange of captives between Hamas and Israel continues for a third consecutive day under a four-day truce deal. |
| 20231127 | Thai Muslim group says direct Hamas talks helped secure release of Thai hostages | ceasefire | A Thai Muslim group that spoke directly with Hamas said its efforts were key to ensuring that Thai hostages were among the first to be released in Gaza during a temporary truce with Israeli forces. |
| 20231127 | Irregular meals, benches as beds. As freed hostages return to Israel, details of captivity emerge | ceasefire | Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As former hostages return to Israel after seven weeks of Hamas captivity, information about the conditions of their confinement has emerged. |
| 20231127 | Barbeques, suspicion and song as Israeli soldiers break from Gaza war | ceasefire | Reservists come back to southern Israel, welcomed by families, feasts and distant explosions. |
| 20231127 | Palestinians welcome third set of prisoners in Gaza truce deal | ceasefire | “I find myself oscillating between joy and sadness simultaneously.” Palestinian families gathered to celebrate the third batch of 39 Palestinian prisoners freed as part of a four-day truce deal between Israel and Hamas. Many of the prisoners were unaware of the severity of Israel’s attack on Gaza. |
| 20231127 | Tears and laughter on Gaza beach as children get break from war | ceasefire | Children played on a Gaza beach as displaced families left their cramped shelters for a short break during the truce between Israel and Hamas, but amid the laughter their parents could not forget the hardships of war and homelessness. |
| 20231127 | Analysis: Less than a day left on the Gaza pause, what are the prospects? | ceasefire | After a tense delay on Saturday, the pause seems to be holding. Will Israel and Hamas agree to extend it? |
| 20231127 | Despite humanitarian pause, no fuel has reached hospitals in northern Gaza - health authorities | ceasefire | The health authorities in the Gaza Strip, on Monday, said no fuel had reached the hospitals in the northern parts of the enclave despite the humanitarian pause |
| 20231127 | Gazans call for truce to be extended, Israelis divided on the issue | ceasefire | Gazans desperate for an end to their suffering said on Monday they wanted the truce to be extended, while Israelis were divided between those who wanted an extension so all hostages could come home and others worried about giving in to Hamas demands. |
| 20231127 | Calls mount for Gaza truce extension | ceasefire | It is the fourth and final day of the truce between Israel and Hamas, but there are growing calls for its extension. Meanwhile, UN rights experts called for an investigation into possible war crimes. |
| 20231127 | Gaza humanitarian pause should evolve into permanent ceasefire - EU top diplomat | ceasefire | The four-day truce struck between Israel and Hamas should be extended and "evolve into a permanent ceasefire," the European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday. |
| 20231127 | Truce between Israel and Hamas set to expire | ceasefire | As the four-day Israel-Hamas truce draws to a close, people in Gaza are fearful of the fighting and death that may lie ahead. On a Gazan beach, families with their children wait in anticipation of an uncertain future. |
| 20231127 | Hamas says working on new hostage list to 'extend truce' with Israel | ceasefire | Hamas said Monday it was drawing up a new list of hostages held in the Gaza Strip 'in order to extend the truce' with Israel. |
| 20231127 | Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce by two days, Qata | ceasefire | Hamas official says the group hopes to extend the truce even further and put an end to the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231127 | Israel and Hamas look open to extending truce on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas appeared open to extending a cease-fire in Gaza that has halted their deadliest and most destructive war but is set to expire after Monday, with a fourth exchange of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel planned for later in the day. |
| 20231127 | Qatar announces Gaza truce extension by two days | ceasefire | This is an X-post from the Qatari Foreign Minister |
| 20231127 | Deal reached to extend Gaza truce by two days, Qatar and Hamas say | ceasefire | Mediator Qatar said on Monday a deal had been reached to extend a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231127 | Qatar is the go-to mediator in the Mideast war. Its unprecedented Tel Aviv trip saved a shaky truce | ceasefire | The deal seemed on the verge of unraveling. Hamas had accused Israel of failing to keep its side of the bargain and Israel was threatening to resume its lethal onslaught on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231127 | Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza extended for two days, Qatar says | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the four-day truce in Gaza for another two days, mediator Qatar says. |
| 20231127 | Qatar says Israel and Hamas agree to two-day truce extension | ceasefire | Hamas confirms an agreement with the Qatari and Egyptian brothers to extend the temporary humanitarian truce for a further two days under the same conditions as the previous truce. |
| 20231127 | Israel and Hamas agree to extend Gaza truce by two days, Qatar says | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the truce in Gaza by two days, a Qatari foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. The four-day humanitarian pause was set to expire early Tuesday morning |
| 20231127 | Diplomatic dash as end of Israel-Gaza truce looms | ceasefire | US president says his goal is to prolong the truce as Israel and Hamas express their conditions for an extension. |
| 20231127 | Hamas receives a list of prisoners to be released today | ceasefire | The group says the list includes three women and 30 children, with names to be made public later, said Hamas in a statement. |
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| 20231127 | ‘Devastating’: Volunteer recalls last hours at besieged Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Medical worker Fikri Rofiul Haq says lsraeli tanks repeatedly fired on hospital in northern Gaza. |
| 20231127 | Human Rights Watch says rocket misfire likely cause of deadly Gaza hospital blast | eliminating health care system | Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday that evidence suggested a misfired rocket was the likely cause of an explosion that resulted in heavy casualties at a hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17. |
| 20231127 | Doctor returning from Gaza describes 'medieval-like' situation at hospitals | eliminating health care system | Palestinian-British surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta accused Israel of using white phosphorus and deliberately targeting children during its ongoing assault in Gaza. |
| 20231127 | British-Palestinian surgeon testified to the use of phosphorus bombs in Gaza | eliminating health care system | British-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta gave his testimony, today, at a press conference for the International Centre of Justice for Palestine. |
| 20231127 | Gaza is ‘dystopian nightmare’ after Israeli bombardment, says doctor | eliminating health care system | Gaza is a “dystopian nightmare”, renowned UK doctor Ghassan Abu-Sitta told a press conference in London today organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) |
| 20231127 | London surgeon says he saw ‘massacre unfold’ while working in Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | A London surgeon has described witnessing a “massacre unfold” during 43 days spent under bombardment in Gaza, saying the destruction of the Palestinian health system was a military objective of the war. |
| 20231127 | Gaza families live in tents with no winter clothing | forced displacement | Families in Gaza have had to resort to sleeping in tents and, with winter approaching, many are struggling to find warm clothing. |
| 20231127 | North Gaza residents flee south, setting up camp in schools and hospitals | forced displacement | A UN camp with no water for days, makeshift shelters in schools, and hospitals that are already overwhelmed... These are the conditions that residents from the northern part of the Gaza Strip find when they arrive in the south after fleeing the Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231127 | Three students of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont, suspect arrested | global effects | A suspect was arrested in the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont, local police reported early on Monday, an attack under investigation as a suspected hate-motivated crime. |
| 20231127 | Vermont police arrest suspect in ‘hate-motivated’ shooting of Palestinians | global effects | A suspect has been arrested in what police have called the “hate-motivated” shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in the US state of Vermont. |
| 20231127 | Three Palestinian students aged 20 shot in Vermont, US: What to know | global effects | According to police the victims were speaking Arabic and two were wearing keffiyehs when attacked in Burlington. |
| 20231127 | Suspect arraigned in shooting of three Palestinian American students in Vermont | global effects | The suspect in the shooting in Vermont of three college students of Palestinian descent over the weekend pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted second-degree murder on Monday and was ordered by a judge to be held without bond. |
| 20231127 | Suspect pleads not guilty after three men of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont | global effects | A 48-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder over the shooting of three men of Palestinian descent in Vermont. |
| 20231127 | Belgian schools that closed due to bomb alert to reopen Tuesday | global effects | The almost 30 Belgian schools in Brussels and the Brabant region that closed to pupils on Monday after a late Sunday evening bomb alert, will reopen on Tuesday, the Wallonie-Bruxelles Enseignement administration body said on its web page |
| 20231127 | Antisemitism in Germany: A 'lack of empathy?' | global effects | Since the Hamas terror attack in Israel, antisemitism has been on the rise in Germany. How is Germany's Jewish cultural scene dealing with all the hate? |
| 20231127 | Sweden's prime minister condemns far-right call to demolish mosque | global effects | Swedish far-right politician Jimmie Åkesson said mosques that spread anti-democratic, anti-Swedish, homophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda should be confiscated and demolished. |
| 20231127 | Elon Musk visits Israel to meet top leaders as accusations of antisemitism on X grow | global effects | Elon Musk, who’s been under fire over accusations of antisemitism flourishing on his social media platform X, paid a visit Monday to Israel, where he toured a kibbutz that was attacked last month by Hamas militants and was set to meet with top leaders. |
| 20231127 | Elon Musk to Israel: 'propaganda' that begets murder must be stopped | global effects | Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk voiced support on Monday for Israel after it came under attack by Palestinian Hamas militants, saying one challenge was "ultimately stopping the propaganda that is convincing people to engage in, you know, murder".
COMMENT We couldn't find such propaganda posted by pro-Palestinians but did from Israelis themselves and those who supports them. |
| 20231127 | Backing Israel, Elon Musk sees need to stop murderous propaganda | global effects | Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk lent support on Monday to Israel's campaign against Hamas, saying one challenge was stopping propaganda of a sort that led to the Palestinian faction's killing spree that triggered the Gaza war. |
| 20231127 | Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer' | global effects | Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation. |
| 20231127 | Slick videos or more 'authentic' content? The Israel-Gaza battles raging on TikTok and X | global effects | Young or old. TikTok or X. Pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian. Your social media feeds are unique to you. Could they be shaping how you view the Israel-Gaza war? |
| 20231127 | El-Sisi, Hungarian counterpart stress need for de-escalation in Gaza | global response | Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Hungarian President Katalin Novák stressed during a meeting in Cairo on Monday the need to work toward de-escalation in Gaza, underscoring the dire necessity to prevent the expansion of the conflict to the region. |
| 20231127 | Thousands march in Morocco in rejection of normalisation with Israel | global response | On the third day of the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets in several Moroccan cities yesterday to demand the end of normalisation with Israel and to support Palestine, especially the residents of the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231127 | Greece calls for extension of Gaza humanitarian pause | global response | Greece expressed support for the ongoing humanitarian pause in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and called for its extension on Monday |
| 20231127 | Ireland calls for extension of Gaza truce, says 'this conflict must end | global response | Ireland, on Monday, called for an extension of the Gaza truce, underlining that civilians in the besieged strip “cannot be allowed to suffer any further” |
| 20231127 | Hamas cannot continue to rule Gaza, says EU foreign affairs chief | global response | Josep Borrell says Hamas is a terrorist organisation and calls for return of Palestinian Authority to Gaza
COMMENT No organization is a terrorist organization when members are occupied people who decided to form an resistance against their occupiers. |
| 20231127 | US rights advocates launch hunger strike for Israel-Hamas ceasefire | global response | Actor Cynthia Nixon joins activists and state legislators outside the White House in a protest against the US’s backing of the Gaza war. |
| 20231127 | Egypt Red Crescent has delivered 30000 tons of aid to Gaza: Official | humanitarian aid | The Egyptian Red Crescent that through local and international donations, they have been able to deliver 30,000 tons of aid to its counterpart the war began, the Palestinian Red Crescent, and the UNRWA in Gaza. |
| 20231127 | People in Gaza are still in ‘desperate’ need, despite truce | humanitarian crisis | A UN official has described seeing thin and thirsty Palestinians “desperate” for aid as his team delivered supplies to Gaza during the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231127 | Is Israel stealing organs from dead Palestinians? | IOF | Questions are being asked about possible organ theft with the Israeli army holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed during its genocide in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. |
| 20231127 | Iraq sees risk of regional conflict if Gaza war resumes | Iraq | Iraq sees a risk of regional conflict if the current truce in Gaza is not turned into a permanent ceasefire, the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs adviser said, as mediators sought an extension of the temporary four-day Israel-Hamas truce |
| 20231127 | Netanyahu's two-front war against Hamas and for his own political survival | Israelis | Inside Israeli defence headquarters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu monitored the first release of Hamas-held hostages while outside, their families in a Tel Aviv square gathered around Benny Gantz, his leading challenger for the top job. |
| 20231127 | Israel 'stealing organs' from bodies in Gaza, alleges human rights group | Israelis | Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Sunday it had "concerns" about possible organ theft from Palestinian corpses, following reports by medical professionals in Gaza who examined some bodies after they were released by the Israelis. |
| 20231127 | Is Israel stealing organs from dead Palestinians? | Israelis | Questions are being asked about possible organ theft with the Israeli army holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed during its genocide in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for an independent international investigation into the issue. |
| 20231127 | Israeli captives share testimonies of treatment in Gaza | Israelis | Testimonies from captives who were held by Palestinian groups in Gaza have been discussed in Israeli media, following the release of dozens of hostages. |
| 20231127 | Top EU official 'appalled' by Israel plan to commit funds for building more illegal settlements | Israelis | The EU Foreign Policy chief, on Monday, said that he is “appalled” by reports that the Israeli government will allocate funds for the construction of new illegal settlements in the midst of an ongoing conflict |
| 20231127 | Israel Finance Minister defends settlement funds in budget row | Israelis | Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, hit back at critics of the government’s proposed war time budget on Monday, ahead of a vote that has already created a rift between centrist and far right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet |
| 20231127 | Did Israeli children really sing about 'annihilating everyone in Gaza'? | Israelis | It’s the latest video to have caused outrage online, showing children singing about the "annihilation" of Gaza and its people. The video was even posted and then removed by Kan, an Israeli state-owned news channel. |
| 20231127 | Israel-Lebanon border: The Irish troops watching Israel’s hidden conflict | Lebanon | "If you hear an alarm sounding it means you need to run to the nearest bunker," says Captain Aódhan McGuinness as we arrive at Camp Shamrock. |
| 20231127 | BBC under fire for mistranslating ex-Palestinian prisoner as praising Hamas | media / Zionists / UK | This is an X-post |
| 20231127 | A ceasefire in a time of genocide | opinion | The people of Gaza will not settle for anything short of the end of the siege, the occupation and apartheid. |
| 20231127 | Fact or Fiction: The propaganda war won’t stop, even during a truce | opinion | That includes a war on diplomacy itself, amid the competing propaganda interests of Hamas and Netanyahu. |
| 20231127 | How a slogan became bigger news than the murder of babies in Gaza | opinion | The protest chant 'From the river to the sea' rejects not Israelis or Jews but the apartheid nature of Israel. This is why pro-Israel western politicians and media want to criminalise it |
| 20231127 | Israel-Palestine conflict: A brief history in maps and charts | opinion | explainer -- As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts. |
| 20231127 | Jordan wants Israel held accountable for 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza | regional response | Jordan, on Monday, said that what is happening in Gaza is a “humanitarian tragedy” and Israel should be held accountable for it |
| 20231127 | How an encounter with Israeli soldiers in Gaza tore one family apart | targeting families in whole or in part | Like many Palestinians in Gaza, Roba Ziara and her family have been without a lasting sense of security since Israel’s bombardment of the besieged territory began after 7 October. |
| 20231127 | UN: Forced displacement in Gaza threatens lives of pregnant women | United Nations | The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Arab States Regional Office yesterday warned that forced displacement in the Gaza Strip threatens the lives of pregnant women, leaving them “stranded, unable to access life-saving maternal services.” |
| 20231127 | Diplomatic dash as end of Israel-Gaza truce looms | United States | US president says his goal is to prolong the truce as Israel and Hamas express their conditions for an extension. |
| 20231127 | Biden reportedly ignored staff caution on ‘beheaded Israeli babies’ | United States | The report published by The Washington Post gives accounts of divisions inside the White House. |
| 20231127 | US rights advocates launch hunger strike for Israel-Hamas ceasefire | United States | Actor Cynthia Nixon joins activists and state legislators outside the White House in a protest against the US’s backing of the Gaza war. |
| 20231127 | Top EU official 'appalled' by Israel plan to commit funds for building more illegal settlements | West Bank | The EU Foreign Policy chief, on Monday, said that he is “appalled” by reports that the Israeli government will allocate funds for the construction of new illegal settlements in the midst of an ongoing conflict |
| 20231127 | Israel Finance Minister defends settlement funds in budget row | West Bank | Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, hit back at critics of the government’s proposed war time budget on Monday, ahead of a vote that has already created a rift between centrist and far right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet |
| 20231127 | Israel settlers destroy olive and almond trees, and vineyards in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Dozens of olive and almond trees, along with vineyards, have been uprooted by illegal settlers in Al-Khader, located south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231127 | US Navy thwarts seizure of Israel-linked cargo ship | Yemen | US destroyer USS Mason responds to a distress call from an Israel-linked commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden. |
| 20231127 | US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker. Missiles from rebel-controlled Yemen follow | Yemen | Armed assailants seized and later let go of a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said. |
| 20231127 | US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker | Yemen | A US Navy warship has captured armed men who seized an Israeli-linked tanker off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, US defence officials say. |
| 20231127 | Global shipping on edge after Houthis seize Israeli vessels | Yemen | Since Houthis seized a ship owned by an Israeli businessman last week in the Red Sea, global shipping has been taking stock of potentially rising risks. |
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| 20231128 | Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza extended two days; 11 more hostages freed | ceasefire | A truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that was on the verge of expiring was extended by two days, mediator Qatar said on Monday, raising the prospect the Palestinian group will free hostages beyond the 69 released since Friday. |
| 20231128 | Gaza truce appears set to extend as Israel receives new list of captives | ceasefire | A truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to be extending into a fifth day as the two sides completed their fourth release of captives from Gaza in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails under an original four-day truce deal while mediators said the process would continue. |
| 20231128 | What do we know about the Israel-Hamas truce extension? | ceasefire | Hamas and Qatar announce extension of the truce in much-needed respite for people in Gaza braving weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231128 | After Israel and Hamas extend their truce, what comes next? | ceasefire | The humanitarian pause in Gaza will continue for two more days, but uncertainty looms. |
| 20231128 | Freed Palestinian prisoners report physical abuse in Israeli jails | ceasefire | Palestinian prisoners released under the Israel-Hamas temporary truce deal have told Al Jazeera they were physically abused by Israeli prison guards |
| 20231128 | Palestine child prisoner details brutal beatings by Israel forces | ceasefire | Muhammad Nezzal, a Palestinian child released as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas, said some prisoners lost consciousness due to beatings by Israeli forces in prison |
| 20231128 | Freed Israeli hostage describes deteriorating conditions while being held by Hamas | ceasefire | An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and people became hungry. She was kept in a “suffocating” room and slept on plastic chairs with a sheet for nearly 50 days. |
| 20231128 | Fragile truce in Gaza is extended as Israel faces pressure to spare civilians if fighting resumes | ceasefire | A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas entered its fifth day on Tuesday, with the militant group promising to release more hostages to delay the expected resumption of the war and Israel under growing pressure to spare Palestinian civilians when it renews its offensive. |
| 20231128 | Israel, Hamas abide by truce, discuss further extensions | ceasefire | Israeli forces and Hamas fighters held their fire beyond the original deadline of a truce on Tuesday, extended at the last minute by at least two days to let more hostages go free. |
| 20231128 | Baby remains hostage in Gaza as others go free in Israel-Hamas deal | ceasefire | Ten-month-old Kfir Bibas has spent more than 50 days of his young life in captivity in Gaza and, according to Israel, has been handed over by Hamas to another Palestinian militant group in a possible complication of efforts to free him. |
| 20231128 | In Gaza, little solace in truce as people endure grief and deprivation | ceasefire | Carting heavy cans of water through muddy streets, searching mounds of rubble for clothes, mourning lost relatives and homes - Gazans reprieved from Israeli bombardment during the truce with Hamas were still facing the daily hardships of war |
| 20231128 | Israel: analysts say army needs to extend truce to ‘revitalise’ troops | ceasefire | Israeli analysts said yesterday that the Israeli army is interested in extending the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip to “revitalise” its troops, as much as Hamas is interested in extending it. |
| 20231128 | Qatar says more hostages to be released | ceasefire | Doha says 10 hostages held in Gaza will be released on Tuesday and 10 the day after, following the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas |
| 20231128 | More hostage releases expected as Hamas Israel truce extended | ceasefire | The extension will also mean more aid can flow into Gaza where the humanitarian situation remains "catastrophic". |
| 20231128 | More Israelis and Palestinians released from captivity as truce extended | ceasefire | On Tuesday 11 Israelis and 33 Palestinians were freed after Qatar's announcement that Hamas and Israel had agreed to a two-day extension |
| 20231128 | More Israeli hostages and Palestinians freed as ceasefire extension agreed | ceasefire | Celebrations as Hamas releases 11 hostages from Gaza in exchange for 33 Palestinians in Israeli jails as truce extended by two days |
| 20231128 | Israel, US spy chiefs meet Qatar PM to discuss 'building on' Gaza truce | ceasefire | The leaders of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad met Qatar’s prime minister in Doha today to build on the two-day extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas, a source briefed on the visit said. |
| 20231128 | Israeli, U.S. spy chiefs meet Qatari PM to discuss 'building on' Gaza truce - source | ceasefire | The leaders of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad met Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Tuesday to build on the two-day extension of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, a source briefed on the visit said. |
| 20231128 | Israeli soldiers reportedly injured in Gaza amid ceasefire | ceasefire | Local media has reported that a number of Israeli soldiers were lightly injured in explosions and after being fired upon while in the Gaza strip, despite an ongoing truce between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231128 | UN: Aid entering Gaza is 5% of what entered before 7 October | ceasefire | The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, today confirmed that dozens of trucks of aid had entered Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip during the truce. |
| 20231128 | Hamas and Israel accuse each other of breaking truce | ceasefire | In a post on X, the Israeli army alleged that three explosive devices went off near its troops in two separate locations in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231128 | Palestine groups in Gaza 'monitoring' Israel breaches to humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Palestinian groups in Gaza said Tuesday they are “monitoring” Israeli breaches on a humanitarian pause in the enclave and urged Tel Aviv to abide by the ceasefire terms |
| 20231128 | Hezbollah politician hopes truce will continue | ceasefire | A senior Hezbollah politician said today he hoped a truce would continue, adding that the group had started paying compensation to people who had suffered losses during weeks of Israeli strikes in south Lebanon |
| 20231128 | Separated Palestinians use truce to reunite with loved ones | ceasefire | Families cut off from each other by the Israeli siege and blackouts finally meet again following weeks of separation |
| 20231128 | Palestine activist Ahed Tamimi likely to be released in upcoming prisoner swap | ceasefire | Palestinian icon of resistance, Ahed Tamimi, is likely to be released in the upcoming prisoner swap between Israel and the Hamas group, Israeli media reported late on Monday |
| 20231128 | Activist Ahed Tamimi among 50 jailed Palestinians listed for release by Israel | ceasefire | Another 50 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails have been put forward as candidates for release after the hostage swap and ceasefire deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip was extended for another two days – including the high-profile activist Ahed Tamimi. |
| 20231128 | Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce | ceasefire | Over the first four days of Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange, Israel arrests 133 Palestinians while releasing 150. |
| 20231128 | 30 Palestinian prisoners released under extended truce agreement - Day 5 of Israel-Hamas ceasefire as it happened | ceasefire | live blog |
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| 20231128 | Gaza’s main public library destroyed in Israeli bombing | culture & heritage | The bombing of the library has been decried as a deliberate attempt to destroy thousands of books and historical documents |
| 20231128 | Drones show how Israeli bombs turned Gaza into moonscape | destruction | Drone footage shot by Reuters over Gaza before and after the start of Israel's assault on the Palestinian enclave show a busy urban area, with children playing and people going about their chores - then an eerie moonscape of crumpled buildings and mounds of rubble stretching for block after block. |
| 20231128 | Disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says amid Israeli siege | eliminating health care system | Shattered healthcare and sanitation systems must be restored in Gaza, says World Health Organization. |
| 20231128 | Disease could be bigger killer than bombs in Gaza - WHO | eliminating health care system | More people could die from disease than from bombings in the Gaza Strip if its health system is not repaired, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday, warning of a surge in infectious diseases and diarrhoea in children. |
| 20231128 | Untreated diseases could kill more than bombings in Gaza, WHO warns | eliminating health care system | Untreated diseases could eventually kill more people in Gaza than bombings if the health system is not restored, the World Health Organization says |
| 20231128 | Al-Shifa Hospital reopens dialysis department | eliminating health care system | The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has announced the reopening of the dialysis department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, despite the destruction caused by the Israeli army in the hospital. |
| 20231128 | Israel extends detention of Shifa director for 45 days | eliminating health care system | The Government Media Office in Gaza said yesterday evening that Israel had extended the detention of the director of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital for an additional 45 days. |
| 20231128 | Hamas condemns HRW report on Israel’s bombing of Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has criticised the initial report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip, especially Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. Hamas said on Monday that the report was closer to the Israeli narrative which held the resistance factions responsible for the aerial bombardment. |
| 20231128 | More people could die from disease than bombs in Gaza, says WHO | eliminating health care system | More Palestinians could die from disease than from Israeli bombardment in the besieged Gaza Strip if the health system remains in its current state, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Tuesday |
| 20231128 | UN says 'high risk of famine' for Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricty | The population of Gaza, especially women and children, risk famine if humanitarian food supplies do not continue, the UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday. |
| 20231128 | Vermont man charged with attempted murder in shooting of students of Palestinian descent | global effects | The man accused of shooting and wounding three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont, over the weekend pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges on Monday and was ordered by a judge to remain held without bond. |
| 20231128 | Elon Musk’s Israel trip: What was the purpose, what did he tell Netanyahu? | global effects | X CEO Elon Musk, who has been accused of platforming anti-Semitic posts, visits kibbutzim attacked by Hamas. |
| 20231128 | Hamas invites Elon Musk to Gaza to witness ‘massacres and destruction’ | global effects | As Palestinians take stock of the devastation wreaked by Israel’s military, Hamas says the world should do the same. |
| 20231128 | Scaremongering on anti-Semitism | global effects | The accusation of anti-Semitism made to silence any criticism of Israel constitutes a dangerous reintroduction of religion into politics. |
| 20231128 | Moroccan arrested in connection with Belgian school bomb alert | global effects | Belgian and Moroccan police have arrested in Morocco a suspect in an extortion case that led to the closing of schools in Belgium due to a bomb alert, the country's prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. |
| 20231128 | Singer Gil Ofarim admits he lied about antisemitic incident | global effects | Jewish-German singer Gil Ofarim told a Leipzig court he had fabricated a story claiming he was the victim of antisemitism. A falsely accused hotel manager accepted Ofarim's apology. |
| 20231128 | Germany records over 300% increase in antisemitic incidents | global effects | Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, nearly 1,000 antisemitic incidents have been reported in Germany. Some of these acts include extreme violence and property destruction, a German association said. |
| 20231128 | Israel lobby offers another candidate $20m to run against Rashida Tlaib in Michigan | global effects | Nasser Beydoun revealed on social media that he had been contacted by the Israeli lobby group AIPAC and offered $20 million to run against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in Michigan. |
| 20231128 | Meta deletes Egyptian TV show during live Facebook broadcast over Gaza content: TV Host | global effects | Prominent Egyptian journalist and TV host Kaswaa El-Khelaly revealed on her TV show “In the Evening with Kuswah” on CBC TV that Meta, the owner of Facebook, deleted the live broadcast of her show episode on Sunday over coverage of the Gaza war. |
| 20231128 | 'Digital Storm' launched for International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People | global response | The Palestinian Independent Civil Society Network launched a ‘Digital Storm’ on social media ahead of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which falls on 29 November every year. |
| 20231128 | Israeli intelligence leak details extent of warnings over Hamas attack | Hamas resistance attack | Officer who reviewed intelligence considered risk of big attack ‘an imaginary scenario’, leak suggests |
| 20231128 | Israeli arrogance thwarted a Palestinian political path. October 7 revealed the cost | Hamas resistance attack | A Fatah-Hamas agreement in 2021 offered a different political horizon. But success blinded Israel — just as it did before the 1973 war. |
| 20231128 | French warship docks in Egypt, could treat Gaza children this week - minister | humanitarian aid | The French helicopter carrier Dixmude has docked in Egypt and could start treating wounded children from Gaza later this week, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, as Western powers look to ramp up efforts to aid the enclave. |
| 20231128 | UN aid chief heads to Jordan for talks to open second crossing into Gaza | humanitarian aid | UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, will travel to the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Wednesday for talks on the possibility of opening the Kerem Shalom crossing to allow for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Israel |
| 20231128 | Egypt sends the 29th batch of medical, food aid to Palestine | humanitarian aid | Egypt dispatched the 29th batch of medical and food aid to the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday |
| 20231128 | Israel: analysts say army needs to extend truce to ‘revitalise’ troops | IOF | Israeli analysts said yesterday that the Israeli army is interested in extending the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip to “revitalise” its troops, as much as Hamas is interested in extending it. |
| 20231128 | Iran's Raisi in Turkey to forge joint response to Israel war on Gaza | Iran | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi makes his first official visit to Turkey on Tuesday, hoping to paper over past differences and forge a forceful joint response to Israel's war on Gaza. |
| 20231128 | Israel seeks recognition of Hamas sexual violence at UN meeting | Israelis | Israel held a meeting at the U.N. in Geneva late on Monday to raise awareness of sexual violence against women perpetrated during Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks amid criticism that the global body has kept quiet about the issue. |
| 20231128 | Netanyahu: ‘Only I can block a Palestinian state’ | Israelis | Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told members of his Likud Party that only he can thwart the emergence of a fully independent Palestinian state, directly opposing President Joe Biden’s plan to resurrect the two-state solution in the wake of the catastrophic Israeli bombing of Gaza. |
| 20231128 | Lebanese media reports Israeli shell hit south Lebanon | Lebanon | Lebanese media reported that an Israeli shell struck the outskirts of a town in south Lebanon on Tuesday, hours after a temporary truce between the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel was extended for two days. |
| 20231128 | Israel-Hezbollah border clashes displace thousands | Lebanon | Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, and the Israeli Army have been exchanging fire since the Israel-Hamas war began, putting civilian lives at risk. Fear of death at the border grows as a larger conflict lingers. DW reports from the frontline in southern Lebanon. |
| 20231128 | Pro-Israel demonstrator chants Nazi-era slur at protest | media / US | A pro-Israel demonstrator has been filmed chanting a Nazi-era slur at Jewish people taking part in a pro-Palestine protest in London. |
| 20231128 | Watching the watchdogs: American TV, Gaza and two sides of a ceasefire | media / US | American television coverage of the Gaza ceasefire and the detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas has failed to provide American audiences with the full story. |
| 20231128 | Watching the watchdogs: American TV, Gaza and two sides of a ceasefire | opinion | American television coverage of the Gaza ceasefire and the detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas has failed to provide American audiences with the full story. |
| 20231128 | The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics | opinion | Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it? |
| 20231128 | After Israel and Hamas extend their truce, what comes next? | opinion | The humanitarian pause in Gaza will continue for two more days, but uncertainty looms. |
| 20231128 | Scaremongering on anti-Semitism | opinion | The accusation of anti-Semitism made to silence any criticism of Israel constitutes a dangerous reintroduction of religion into politics. |
| 20231128 | Israel withdraws support for Saudi bid to host Expo 2030 over Gaza war ‘criticism’ | regional response | Israel has withdrawn its support for Saudi Arabia’s bid to host Expo 2030 after the Kingdom’s “criticism” of the occupation state’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231128 | Erdogan tells UN chief that Israel must be tried for Gaza crimes | Turkey | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel must be held accountable in international courts for the war crimes it committed in Gaza. |
| 20231128 | Pro-Israel demonstrator chants Nazi-era slur at protest | United Kingdom | A pro-Israel demonstrator has been filmed chanting a Nazi-era slur at Jewish people taking part in a pro-Palestine protest in London. |
| 20231128 | Disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says amid Israeli siege | United Nations | Shattered healthcare and sanitation systems must be restored in Gaza, says World Health Organization. |
| 20231128 | UN says 'high risk of famine' for Gaza | United Nations | The population of Gaza, especially women and children, risk famine if humanitarian food supplies do not continue, the UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday. |
| 20231128 | Disease could be bigger killer than bombs in Gaza - WHO | United Nations | More people could die from disease than from bombings in the Gaza Strip if its health system is not repaired, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday, warning of a surge in infectious diseases and diarrhoea in children. |
| 20231128 | Untreated diseases could kill more than bombings in Gaza, WHO warns | United Nations | Untreated diseases could eventually kill more people in Gaza than bombings if the health system is not restored, the World Health Organization says |
| 20231128 | More people could die from disease than bombs in Gaza, says WHO | United Nations | More Palestinians could die from disease than from Israeli bombardment in the besieged Gaza Strip if the health system remains in its current state, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Tuesday |
| 20231128 | UN: Aid entering Gaza is 5% of what entered before 7 October | United Nations | The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, today confirmed that dozens of trucks of aid had entered Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip during the truce. |
| 20231128 | US asking Israel to avoid civilian displacements in any south Gaza offensive | United States | The U.S. is asking Israel to take greater care to protect civilians and limit damage to infrastructure if it launches an offensive in southern Gaza to avoid further displacements that would overwhelm humanitarian efforts, senior U.S. officials said. |
| 20231128 | US warns Israel over southern Gaza displacements | United States | US President Joe Biden has warned Israel that its expected offensive in southern Gaza must avoid the kind of mass displacement of civilians seen during the military's pummeling of the Palestinian territory's north, US officials said. |
| 20231128 | US’ Blinken to visit Israel, occupied West Bank to discuss post-conflict Gaza | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to make his third visit to Israel and the West Bank this week, coinciding with the announcement of a truce extension in Gaza by mediators. |
| 20231128 | Israel lobby offers another candidate $20m to run against Rashida Tlaib in Michigan | United States | Nasser Beydoun revealed on social media that he had been contacted by the Israeli lobby group AIPAC and offered $20 million to run against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in Michigan. |
| 20231128 | Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian child in West Bank | West Bank | A Palestinian child was killed after being shot by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning in the occupied West Bank governorate of Tubas, according to Wafa news agency. |
| 20231128 | Israel army, settlers have killed more Palestinians in West Bank since 7 October than in 2022 | West Bank | The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the Occupied West Bank since 7 October has exceeded the number of Palestinians killed in the last year, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry |
| 20231128 | Pro-Israel demonstrator chants Nazi-era slur at protest | Zionism / UK | A pro-Israel demonstrator has been filmed chanting a Nazi-era slur at Jewish people taking part in a pro-Palestine protest in London. |
| 20231128 | Watching the watchdogs: American TV, Gaza and two sides of a ceasefire | Zionism / US | American television coverage of the Gaza ceasefire and the detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas has failed to provide American audiences with the full story. |
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| 20231129 | Youngest Palestine prisoner reunited with family | ceasefire | Israel released 14-year-old Ahmad Al-Salayme from prison and he was reunited with his family, where he ate his favorite meal cooked by his mother in the company of relatives |
| 20231129 | Hamas and Israel exchange more captives for prisoners | ceasefire | Israel frees 30 Palestinians after 10 Israelis and two foreigners were released by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231129 | Hamas releases fifth group of hostages | ceasefire | In exchange for the hostages, another 30 Palestinian detainees were freed from Israeli prisons. The pause in fighting is due to run out, but families are hopeful a deal can be reached to see more Israelis and Palestinians return home. |
| 20231129 | Efforts to extend Israel Hamas truce as more hostages freed | ceasefire | Three Palestinian prisoners have been freed for every one hostage taken from Israel by Hamas. |
| 20231129 | Palestinian boy released from Israeli prison returns home | ceasefire | There were emotional scenes in occupied East Jerusalem when a 14-year-old Palestinian boy returned to his family after being released from jail under the Israel-Hamas truce deal. |
| 20231129 | Israel-Hamas truce: How much aid has entered Gaza? | ceasefire | Aid has come in, some of it reaching north Gaza too. But it’s too little, warn humanitarian agencies. |
| 20231129 | Mediators look to extend truce in Gaza on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned | ceasefire | International mediators appeared to make progress Wednesday on extending the truce in Gaza, encouraging the territory’s Hamas rulers to keep freeing hostages in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further respite from Israel’s air and ground offensive. |
| 20231129 | Secret discussions in Qatar to reach a long-term truce in Gaza | ceasefire | The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) said yesterday that discussions are taking place in Qatar to reach a new agreement for a long-term truce that includes the release of all prisoners of war held in Gaza, including soldiers, and Tel Aviv’s release of Palestinian detainees held in military prisons. |
| 20231129 | Hamas, Israel consider new Gaza truce parameters including release of men - source | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas were on Wednesday considering the parameters of a potential new phase of the Gaza truce deal that includes Hamas releasing hostages who are men or military personnel, not only women and children, a source briefed on the negotiations said. |
| 20231129 | Can Hamas locate remaining hostages in mayhem of Gaza war? | ceasefire | Ever since it seized more than 200 people in the deadly rampage through southern Israel that triggered the Gaza war, Hamas has hoped to use hostages as bargaining cards with Israel in order to win freedom for Palestinians in Israeli jails. |
| 20231129 | Blinken seeks a new extension of the Gaza cease-fire as he heads again to the Middle East | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration would like to see a new extension of the cease-fire agreement in Israel’s war with Hamas after the current one expires to secure the release of additional hostages held by the militant group and to ramp up humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. |
| 20231129 | Israel, Hamas seek new deal to extend Gaza truce on final day | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas were negotiating through mediators on Wednesday over another potential extension of the Gaza truce, with hours left to reach a deal before fighting was due to restart after a six-day pause. |
| 20231129 | Israel, Hamas seek new deal to extend Gaza truce on final day | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas were negotiating through mediators on Wednesday over another potential extension of the Gaza truce, with hours left to reach a deal before fighting was due to restart after a six-day pause. |
| 20231129 | Mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza ahead of last planned hostage swap | ceasefire | International mediators appeared to make progress Wednesday on extending the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise end within a day. |
| 20231129 | Hamas 'willing to extend truce by four days' | ceasefire | Hamas is willing to extend a truce for four days and release more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the militant group said |
| 20231129 | Report of Israeli hostage family's deaths overshadows Gaza truce talks | ceasefire | Negotiations between Israel and Hamas to extend the Gaza truce were overshadowed at the last minute on Wednesday by an unconfirmed claim by Hamas that a family of Israeli hostages including a 10-month old baby had been killed. |
| 20231129 | Freed Israeli hostages tell families of beatings and death threats | ceasefire | Israeli women and children on their return from Hamas captivity in Gaza speak of being beaten and threatened with death, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say. |
| 20231129 | Israeli hostages released: More details of their captivity emerge | ceasefire | This week, we are starting to learn more about the conditions of the mainly Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Those who have been released tell different stories: some received medical attention, while others were denied it. |
| 20231129 | Anger and despair as Palestinians queue for supplies during truce | ceasefire | "Where are all Arabs and Muslims? Where are all the defenders of human rights? You've left the Palestinian people to suffer, go hungry and be destroyed." |
| 20231129 | Mediators seek further truce extensions | ceasefire | An extended truce between Israel and Hamas is due to expire, with the militant Islamist group still thought to be holding around 150 hostages taken during the October 7 terror attacks on Israel |
| 20231129 | Hamas transfers two hostages with Russian citizenship to Red Cross | ceasefire | The Israeli army confirmed on Wednesday that Hamas has released two hostages held in Gaza, who have Russian citizenship. |
| 20231129 | Far-right Israeli ministers demand Netanyahu end Gaza truce | ceasefire | National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warns his party will quit the government if the war ends, while the finance minister rejects the prospect of a ceasefire |
| 20231129 | Israel releases 150 Palestinians, detains 133 during 4-day truce | ceasefire | During the initial four days of the current Israel-Hamas truce that began last Friday, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners, including 117 children and 33 women. |
| 20231129 | Latest group of hostages to be freed amid intense efforts to extend Gaza truce | ceasefire | The latest group of hostages held in Gaza was expected to be released in return for Palestinian prisoners being freed from Israeli jails on Wednesday, while intense efforts are under way to extend the current truce. |
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| 20231129 | Devastating consequences for Palestinian children | children | Israel’s attacks on residential buildings in Gaza have had devastating consequences for Palestinian children. Many have lost their entire families and others have been severely wounded. |
| 20231129 | Egypt launches initiative to treat 1,000 injured children from Gaza | children | Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population has launched an initiative to treat 1,000 children wounded in Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip in cooperation with Terous Misr Foundation for Development, an NGO, and Nestlé Egypt, a private bottled water brand. |
| 20231129 | WHO chief says Palestinian children, civilians 'deserve to live in peace' | children | Palestinian children and civilians “deserve to live in peace”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 20231129 | 'Israel destroyed Central Archives of Gaza City': Head of Gaza Municipality | culture & heritage | The head of Gaza Municipality said, Wednesday, that Israel destroyed the “Central Archives” which contained thousands of historical documents dating more than 150 years |
| 20231129 | Israel military approves plans to continue ground operation in Gaza | dystopian war | Israel’s military chief approved, on Wednesday evening, operational plans to continue the ground operation in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231129 | Israel trying to "destroy Palestinian nation" | dystopian war | Israel has been accused of trying to destroy the Palestinian nation during its military campaign in Gaza at the United Nations General Assembly. More than 40 ambassadors and representatives have been debating the war. |
| 20231129 | ‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing | eliminating health care system | The burden on the few remaining hospitals operating in central and southern Gaza Strip has increased. |
| 20231129 | Five dead premature babies discovered in Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Journalists entering bombed-out hospital reportedly discover decomposing premature babies not evacuated following siege |
| 20231129 | Israel left premature Palestinian babies to 'die alone' after evacuating Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | A video revealed a new crime committed by the Israeli occupation army, after it forced medical staff of Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in Gaza without the five premature Palestinian babies who were being cared for. |
| 20231129 | Gaza health sector has completely collapsed, confirms official | eliminating health care system | The health sector in the besieged Gaza Strip has completely collapsed, a local government official has confirmed. The enclave where over 2.2 million Palestinians live needs 1,000 aid trucks per day to recover from the devastation caused by the Israeli war, added Ismail Al-Thawabta, director general of the government media office. |
| 20231129 | ‘Military camp’: Palestinian town of Huwara under 55-day Israeli closure | forced displacement | Once-vibrant Huwara has become a ghost town since October 5, the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza made it worse. |
| 20231129 | Muslims in Europe feel vulnerable to rising hostility over Israel-Gaza | global effects | Jian Omar, a Berlin lawmaker of Kurdish-Syrian background, feels unprotected by police after suffering hate-filled flyers mixed with glass and faeces, a broken window and a hammer-wielding assailant since the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. |
| 20231129 | Hamas senior official invites Elon Musk to visit Gaza | global effects | A Hamas senior official invited U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday to visit the Palestinian Gaza strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231129 | Musk responds to Hamas invitation to visit Gaza Strip | global effects | Elon Musk has refused to visit the Gaza Strip because of the dangerous situation there following an invitation by Hamas for him to go to the enclave. |
| 20231129 | Pro-Palestine Facebook post sparks CIA warning | global effects | The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. |
| 20231129 | Germany's domestic spy agency warns war in Gaza stoking new anti-Semitic alliances | global effects | Germany's domestic intelligence agency warned on Wednesday that the war between Israel and Hamas is creating new alliances among the country's anti-Semitic groups and raising the risk of attacks. |
| 20231129 | German intelligence warns of heightened terror risk | global effects | Germany's domestic intelligence agency says the danger of a terror attack in the country is "higher than it has been for a long time." It cited the October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war as factors. |
| 20231129 | Germany: Two teens arrested over alleged terror plans | global effects | The two boys allegedly discussed a plot for a possible terror attack on targets including a Christmas market and synagogue. |
| 20231129 | France charges two over Nazi swastika graffiti in Paris | global effects | France charged two people with justifying a crime against humanity over Nazi swastikas that were spray-painted in northwestern Paris, a judicial source said on Wednesday. |
| 20231129 | Fact-check: Have rare anti-Hamas protests really broken out in Gaza? | global effects | Numerous social media users and Israeli government accounts have claimed that anti-Hamas demonstrations had been organised in the south of Gaza - a rare and unprecedented event. |
| 20231129 | Humanitarian aid workers falsely accused of taking sides in Israel-Hamas conflict | global effects | Humanitarian aid workers from Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and the IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) are the latest victims of the Israel-Hamas disinformation war; their organisations have been accused of supporting either Hamas or Israel in viral videos shared online. |
| 20231129 | Indian trade unions oppose labor deal with Israel | global response | Union leaders in India are criticizing the Israel-Hamas war and arguing that replacing displaced Palestinian workers with Indian labor is unethical. |
| 20231129 | Hackers claim to have targeted Israeli government websites | global response | New group 'Cyber Toufan' claims to have hacked Israel's defence ministry, as State Archive confirms recent breach |
| 20231129 | Hackers breach Israel intelligence group's website | global response | An unknown entity has breached the website of the Shin Bet veterans’ association, Shoval, and may have stolen the details of the intelligence agency’s former employees, the French website Intelligence Online has reported. |
| 20231129 | Lawyers urge UK FM to impose sanctions on Netanyahu and his war cabinet | global response | Lawyers have today written to David Cameron asking the UK Foreign Office (FCDO) to apply Magnitsky sanctions against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, and other members of the war cabinet. |
| 20231129 | Calls for more anti-war protests this Int’l Day of Solidarity with Palestinians | global response | The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, yesterday called on Arabs, Muslims and all supporters of the Palestinian cause across the world to organise protests denouncing the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231129 | Publishers launch initiative to highlight Palestinian authors and history | global response | The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’ |
| 20231129 | France opens door to EU talks on Israel settler sanctions | global response | France said, on Wednesday, that the European Union should consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank as an option and that talks at the EU to impose sanctions on Hamas commanders were progressing |
| 20231129 | 239 aid planes for Gaza received at Egypt's Arish Airport since 21 October: SIS head | humanitarian aid | Chairman of Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) Diaa Rashwan said Wednesday that 239 planes laden with aid for Gaza have arrived at Egypt’s El-Arish Airport since 21 October, stressing that Egypt is continuing to deliver humanitarian aid through the Rafah border crossing. |
| 20231129 | Jordan sends another aid plane to Gaza, donated by UN | humanitarian aid | Jordan, on Wednesday, dispatched an additional plane carrying humanitarian relief supplies to the Gaza Strip, which has been sorely lacking in critical supplies due to an Israeli blockade |
| 20231129 | Anger and despair as Palestinians queue for supplies during truce | humanitarian crisis | "Where are all Arabs and Muslims? Where are all the defenders of human rights? You've left the Palestinian people to suffer, go hungry and be destroyed." |
| 20231129 | UN chief says Gaza in midst of 'epic humanitarian catastrophe' | humanitarian crisis | United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday, said the Gaza Strip was in the midst of an “epic humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the world not to look away |
| 20231129 | Israel compares Hamas to the Islamic State group. But the comparison misses the mark in key ways | Israelis | It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS. |
| 20231129 | Israel military approves plans to continue ground operation in Gaza | IOF | Israel’s military chief approved, on Wednesday evening, operational plans to continue the ground operation in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231129 | Far-right Israeli ministers demand Netanyahu end Gaza truce | Israelis | National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warns his party will quit the government if the war ends, while the finance minister rejects the prospect of a ceasefire |
| 20231129 | Ben-Gvir threatens to dissolve Israel gov’t if bombing of Gaza stops | Israelis | Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has threatened to dissolve the coalition government if the bombing of Gaza stops. |
| 20231129 | Occupied West Bank home to 'two million Nazis' says Smotrich | Israelis | Far-right finance minister is latest senior Israeli to make broad-brush inflammatory statements about Palestinians |
| 20231129 | Israeli journalist slams army for feeding him false line about Hamas atrocity | Israelis | Ishay Coen says he did not know why an officer he interviewed 'made up such a horrific' story about babies and children being hung out on washing lines |
| 20231129 | Israel angry over footage depicting Hamas's treatment of released Israeli hostages | Israelis | Israeli analysts have not hidden their anger, Wednesday, about footage of Hamas fighters and Israeli prisoners gesturing at each other while being handed to Red Cross teams in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231129 | Israeli soldiers ‘free’ birds from Palestinian homes in Nablus | Israelis | In yet another failed propaganda stunt, Israeli soldiers have appeared in photos claiming to have free goldfinches owned by Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, after they stormed the homes of Palestinians. |
| 20231129 | Ex-Israel PM: Hamas far from ‘falling apart’ in Gaza | Israelis | Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said 50 days after Israel launched its ruthless aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip with the declared goal of eliminating the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, the movement is far from falling apart in Gaza and maintains its capabilities. |
| 20231129 | Lebanon asks for more medical supplies to prepare for possible war with Israel | Lebanon | Lebanon’s Ministry of Health is appealing to the international community for more supplies to prepare for the potential for further escalation on its border as clashes between Israel and Hezbollah extend into their seventh week, local media reports |
| 20231129 | Israel, Palestine 'co-existing' side-by-side? Can US push for 'resumption of stalled Oslo process'? | opinion | Israel and Hamas were negotiating through mediators on Wednesday over another potential extension of the Gaza truce, with hours left to reach a deal before fighting was due to restart after a six-day pause. |
| 20231129 | Egypt’s Sinai Bedouins fear Israel’s mass displacement of Gaza Palestinians | regional effects | Bedouin tribes in Sinai have long taken a hit from geopolitical conflicts. Now, concerns are rising again. |
| 20231129 | Palestine is the central issue for Arabs and humanity: Egypt Ambassador Orfi at Arab League | regional response | Ambassador Mohamed Mostafa Orfi, Egypt's permanent delegate to the Arab League, affirmed that Egypt vehemently rejects any attempt to displace the Palestinian people and liquidate their cause. |
| 20231129 | Global community must deter Israeli aggression in Gaza: Arab League chief | regional response | Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul-Gheit delivered a resounding call for a resolute international response to thwart Israeli plans to torpedo the two-state solution and bring an end to the aggressive actions targeting Gaza. |
| 20231129 | 'Civilians paying heaviest price': 'Most devastating moment for Israelis & Palestinians since 1948' | targeting civilians | Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war. |
| 20231129 | Lawyers urge UK FM to impose sanctions on Netanyahu and his war cabinet | United Kingdom | Lawyers have today written to David Cameron asking the UK Foreign Office (FCDO) to apply Magnitsky sanctions against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, and other members of the war cabinet. |
| 20231129 | UN calls for 'irreversible' move toward two-state solution to Israel crisis | United Nations | The United Nations on Wednesday called for the international community to move towards a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying Jerusalem should serve as the capital of both states. |
| 20231129 | UN chief says Gaza in midst of 'epic humanitarian catastrophe' | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday, said the Gaza Strip was in the midst of an “epic humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the world not to look away |
| 20231129 | WHO chief says Palestinian children, civilians 'deserve to live in peace' | United Nations | Palestinian children and civilians “deserve to live in peace”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 20231129 | UN chief Guterres says Gaza truce does not solve ‘key problems’ | United Nations | The head of the United Nations has pushed for a full ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying that the current humanitarian pause does not solve key problems |
| 20231129 | UN commission to investigate Hamas sexual violence, appeal for evidence | United Nations | A U.N. commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and is about to launch an appeal for evidence, its chair told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| 20231129 | The US tells Israel any ground campaign in southern Gaza must limit further civilian displacement | United States | The Biden administration has told Israel that it must work to avoid “significant further displacement” of Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza if it renews its ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. |
| 20231129 | Biden post ‘carefully worded’ but hints at shift | United States | The US president has published a post on his personal X account appearing to encourage Israel to consider a permanent truce fire. Biden posted “To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.” |
| 20231129 | Pro-Palestine Facebook post sparks CIA warning | United States | The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. |
| 20231129 | US president on personal X account: 'Continuing down the war path is to give Hamas what it seeks’ | United States | He wrote ‘Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.' |
| 20231129 | US says Israel settlements undermine possibility of 'contiguous Palestinian State' | United States | The US said, Wednesday, that Israel’s advancement of illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank threatens the formation of a viable Palestinian State |
| 20231129 | Israeli practice of collective punishment for home demolitions in the West Bank | West Bank | Israeli soldiers have carried out a home demolition in a refugee camp northwest of Ramallah, in the Occupied West Bank. The house belonged to a 41-year-old Palestinian man accused of killing an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint earlier this year. He was shot and killed in the incident. Israel has demolished 932 civilian structures so far this year. 180 of them, as punitive measures—a violation of international law. |
| 20231129 | Jailed without charge: How Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners | West Bank | Israel has called Palestinians released under a truce with Hamas violent ‘terrorists.’ But most haven’t been charged. |
| 20231129 | Video: Israeli army sniper kills 8-year-old and teen Palestinian boys playing on street in Jenin in cold blood | West Bank | The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that Adam Al-Ghul, eight years old, and Bassem Abu Al-Wafa, 15 years old, were killed by bullets from the Israeli snipers in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231129 | Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | West Bank | Residents of Jenin camp, which has seen nightly raids since October 7, say they were ‘shocked’ at scale of attack. |
| 20231129 | Two Palestinian boys killed during Israeli raid in West Bank | West Bank | Four Palestinians, including two children, have been killed by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. |
| 20231129 | Israel releases 150 Palestinians, detains 133 during 4-day truce | West Bank | During the initial four days of the current Israel-Hamas truce that began last Friday, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners, including 117 children and 33 women. |
| 20231129 | Israeli soldiers ‘free’ birds from Palestinian homes in Nablus | West Bank | In yet another failed propaganda stunt, Israeli soldiers have appeared in photos claiming to have free goldfinches owned by Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, after they stormed the homes of Palestinians. |
| 20231129 | France opens door to EU talks on Israel settler sanctions | West Bank | France said, on Wednesday, that the European Union should consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank as an option and that talks at the EU to impose sanctions on Hamas commanders were progressing |
| 20231129 | US says Israel settlements undermine possibility of 'contiguous Palestinian State' | West Bank | The US said, Wednesday, that Israel’s advancement of illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank threatens the formation of a viable Palestinian State |
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| 20231130 | Sixteen more hostages freed from Gaza as part of Israeli-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Sixteen people who were being held hostage in Gaza were handed over to Israeli officials on Wednesday, the second and last day of an extended truce in the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Red Cross and other authorities said. |
| 20231130 | Hamas and Israel free more detainees in sixth captive exchange | ceasefire | Israel frees 30 Palestinians after 10 captives from Israel, four Thai nationals and two Russian-Israelis were released by Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Freed Palestinian prisoners reunite with families | ceasefire | Photo gallery |
| 20231130 | Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi freed under Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi is one of 30 prisoners released in the sixth prisoner-captive exchange between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Activist Ahed Tamimi among Palestinians freed by Israel in Gaza truce swap | ceasefire | Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was among 30 prisoners freed by Israel early on Thursday under a temporary Gaza truce between Israel and Hamas militants, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. |
| 20231130 | Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi freed by Israel | ceasefire | Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was one of 30 Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel on Wednesday, as part of the truce deal with Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Israel releases Palestinian prisoners under deal | ceasefire | In return for Hamas freeing Israeli hostages held in Gaza, Israel has been releasing Palestinians detained in Israeli jails |
| 20231130 | Hamas militants release 16 more hostages held in Gaza | ceasefire | The Israeli military says Hamas militants have released 16 of the hostages it has been holding in Gaza. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by multiple countries and international bodies. The group freed four Thai nationals and ten Israelis. |
| 20231130 | Hamas tells its fighters to prepare for battle if truce not renewed | ceasefire |
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| 20231130 | Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for seventh day | ceasefire | The temporary pause in fighting will continue for another 24 hours. |
| 20231130 | Truce in Gaza extended at last minute as talks over remaining Hamas captives get tougher | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. The truce in Gaza appeared increasingly tenuous as most women and children held by the militants have already been released in swaps for Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231130 | Israel, Hamas extend Gaza truce by a day | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement on Thursday to extend their six-day ceasefire by one more day to allow negotiators to keep working on deals to swap hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231130 | Israel-Hamas war: ceasefire extended for a day amid last-minute mediation efforts | ceasefire | IDF and Hamas agree at last minute to extend truce into seventh day as Antony Blinken arrives in Israel as part of diplomatic efforts to avoid a return to fighting in devastated Gaza Strip |
| 20231130 | Israel-Hamas truce deal extended one more day after marathon mediation efforts | ceasefire | After intensive and marathon talks with mediators in Doha all day and deep into the night on Wednesday, Israel and Hamas announced the extension of the six-day-old truce in the war in Gaza for one more day. |
| 20231130 | Blinken says truce between Israel-Hamas is producing results | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that a temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas had produced results and that the United States hoped that it continued. |
| 20231130 | Truce extended, new hostage list sent | ceasefire | Israel says it agreed to a truce with Islamist militant group Hamas after receiving a new list of hostages to be released. The extension was agreed "under the previous conditions," said mediator Qatar |
| 20231130 | Israel receives new list from Hamas of women and children it hopes to be released as part of future truce deal | ceasefire | The Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed on Thursday that Hamas had sent a new list of women and children it wished to be released as part of a future truce deal. |
| 20231130 | Extension of Israel Hamas truce confirmed | ceasefire | Qatar has confirmed the truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended by one day until Friday. |
| 20231130 | Inclusive political process: All parties in Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be 'part of solution' | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. |
| 20231130 | Two more Israeli hostages are freed, Israel’s military says, after the cease-fire was extended | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute Thursday to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day to allow more hostages and prisoners to be released. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day, could prove more daunting since Hamas is expected to set a higher price for many of the remaining hostages. |
| 20231130 | Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended | ceasefire | Two women have returned to Israel after being handed to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Israeli authorities said on Thursday, and further hostages are expected to be released later in the evening, following a last-minute deal struck earlier with Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Negotiators pushing for new two-day extension of Gaza truce - Egyptian statement | ceasefire | Egyptian and Qatari negotiators are pushing for a new two-day extension to the truce in Gaza along with more prisoner releases and an increase in the delivery of humanitarian aid, a statement from Egypt's state media body said on Thursday. |
| 20231130 | Hamas shooting threatens extended Gaza truce | ceasefire | The Palestinian group Hamas said its militants carried out a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing three people despite agreeing to extend for a day a truce in Gaza and to release at least 10 more Israeli captives. |
| 20231130 | Hamas hostages: Joy and relief as 17 Thai workers return home | ceasefire | Joyous scenes unfolded outside Bangkok international airport as 17 Thai hostages freed by Hamas returned home. |
| 20231130 | Blinken urges Israel to protect civilians amid tough Gaza truce talks | ceasefire | Mediators Qatar and Egypt push for further extension to pause in hostilities as deal holds for a week. |
| 20231130 | Hamas frees eight hostages to Israel as talks seek to extend Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas on Thursday released eight Israeli hostages in Gaza under a last-minute extension of a truce deal and Israel freed 30 Palestinian prisoners as negotiators sought to renew the pause in fighting again. |
| 20231130 | Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi is one of 30 prisoners released in the sixth prisoner-captive exchange between Israel and Hamas. | ceasefire | In early October, when Israel began bombing Gaza, Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam was busy co-curating a planned photography exhibition in Germany. |
| 20231130 | Israeli military confirms release of eight more Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza Strip | ceasefire | Hamas freed eight Israeli hostages Thursday in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners under a last-minute deal to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day, could prove more daunting since Hamas is expected to set a higher price for many of the remaining hostages. |
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| 20231130 | ‘We will rebuild’: Gaza families return to homes in ruins | domicide | Since Friday, a truce has paused the fighting between Israel and Hamas, allowing them to return to homes in ruins. |
| 20231130 | ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | dystopian war | The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals. |
| 20231130 | ‘We’re not here to beg’: Gaza residents’ anger over steep rise in prices | economy / Gaza | People hoping to buy essentials like food, warm clothes during the pause in Israel’s bombing frustrated by price hikes. |
| 20231130 | Gaza hospitals-cum-graves | eliminating health care system | Israel has declared war on Gaza’s hospitals in a bid to ensure that Palestinians injured in its attacks on the Strip will not escape. |
| 20231130 | ‘Palestine will win’: Sri Lanka businesses raise funds for war-ravaged Gaza | global response | A fundraiser in Colombo aimed for 10 percent of the proceeds to go for Gaza. Most vendors donated their whole income. |
| 20231130 | People around the world rally in solidarity with Palestinians | global response | Protests held to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. |
| 20231130 | China seeks 'concrete' roadmap for two-state solution to solve Gaza conflict | global response | China called on the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to formulate a "concrete" timetable and roadmap for a two-state solution to achieve a "comprehensive, just and lasting" settlement of the Palestinian issue. |
| 20231130 | West ‘encourages’ killing of civilians in Gaza, says father of activist shot dead by IDF | global response | Anthony Hurndall, whose son was shot by the IDF in 2003, has called on governments to challenge Israeli claims about deaths of women and children |
| 20231130 | ‘Serious doubt’ Israel complying with international law: Spain PM Sanchez | global response | In response, Israel recalls its envoy to Madrid, summons Spanish ambassador over ‘shameful statement’. |
| 20231130 | Israel-Palestine war of words | global response | Analysis of hundreds of world leaders' speeches to see how language is shaping the Israel-Gaza war and its resolution. |
| 20231130 | Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. |
| 20231130 | ‘Epic humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza Strip | humanitarian crisis | An “epic humanitarian catastrophe” is unfolding in Gaza says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He welcomed the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas but said a true humanitarian ceasefire is needed. |
| 20231130 | ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | IOF | The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir vows to hand out more weapons | Israelis | Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, vowed to hand out more weapons and claims they saved lives after a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir says only way to defeat Hamas is ‘through combat’ during visit to Jerusalem shooting site | Israelis | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir doubled down on earlier comments to hand out weapons to Israelis during a visit to the site of a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Three killed, several injured in shooting at Jerusalem bus stop | Jerusalem | Two gunmen were also killed by police shortly after opening fire on the crowd |
| 20231130 | Two Palestinians open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three -police | Jerusalem | Two Palestinian attackers opened fire at a bus stop during the morning rush hour on Thursday at the entrance to Jerusalem, killing at least three people and wounding eight others, Israeli police said. |
| 20231130 | Three dead, six wounded in Jerusalem shooting | Jerusalem | Three people were killed and 6 wounded by two Palestinian attackers in a shooting in Jerusalem early Thursday, Israeli media reported. |
| 20231130 | Three people killed and 13 injured in Jerusalem shooting | Jerusalem | Two attackers, reportedly brothers from East Jerusalem, killed at scene, after they opened fire on people at a bus stop |
| 20231130 | Two Hamas gunmen open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three | Jerusalem | Two Hamas gunmen killed three people at a Jerusalem bus stop during morning rush hour on Thursday, and Israel reiterated its commitment to wiping out the Palestinian Islamist faction, whose Oct. 7 killing spree triggered the Gaza war. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir vows to hand out more weapons | Jerusalem | Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, vowed to hand out more weapons and claims they saved lives after a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir says only way to defeat Hamas is ‘through combat’ during visit to Jerusalem shooting site | Jerusalem | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir doubled down on earlier comments to hand out weapons to Israelis during a visit to the site of a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Video captures West Jerusalem shooting attack | Jerusalem | Video appears to capture the moment of a shooting in West Jerusalem where two gunmen are reported to have opened fire on people waiting for buses and rides. At least three people have died and others are critically injured. |
| 20231130 | Hamas shooting threatens extended Gaza truce | Jerusalem | The Palestinian group Hamas said its militants carried out a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing three people despite agreeing to extend for a day a truce in Gaza and to release at least 10 more Israeli captives. |
| 20231130 | Israeli army intercepts target from Lebanon, Israel says | Lebanon | The Israeli military said it intercepted an "aerial target" that crossed from Lebanon on Thursday, in an incident that jolted the calm prevailing at the frontier since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel agreed a temporary truce. |
| 20231130 | UN peacekeepers try to stay safe amid Lebanon-Israel border flare-ups | Lebanon | While trying to fulfil their mandate to keep the peace, U.N. soldiers deployed along Lebanon's border with Israel during the worst hostilities there in nearly 20 years have another urgent concern: keeping their own forces safe. |
| 20231130 | Musk says he regrets controversial post but lashes out over fleeing advertisers' 'blackmail' | media / social media | Elon Musk apologized Wednesday for endorsing a social media post widely seen as anti-Semitic, but accused advertisers who are turning away from his social media platform X of "blackmail" and said anyone who does so can "go fuck yourself." |
| 20231130 | Palestine advocates decry MSNBC’s cancellation of Mehdi Hasan news show | media / US | Channel president says change aims to put network in ‘better position’ for the 2024 US elections, The Hill reports. |
| 20231130 | ‘A peace exit’ for Israel? | opinion | Next year might see Israel face overdue commitments regarding a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. |
| 20231130 | Inclusive political process: All parties in Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be 'part of solution' | opinion | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. |
| 20231130 | By destroying Gaza, Tel Aviv is opening a huge front in Jordan | opinion | The kingdom has been shaken from top to bottom by Israel's attempts to empty the Gaza Strip of its people |
| 20231130 | COP28: Israel should not be allowed to greenwash its war on Gaza | opinion | Israel’s participation at COP28 amid its war on Gaza casts a shadow over the world’s top climate summit. |
| 20231130 | Why have so many Palestinian children been killed by Israel? | opinion | Thousands of children have been killed, maimed, injured or arrested by Israeli forces. Two Palestinian boys have been shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. More than 6,000 children have been killed in Gaza – not counting those still missing or buried under the rubble. |
| 20231130 | West ‘encourages’ killing of civilians in Gaza, says father of activist shot dead by IDF | United Kingdom | Anthony Hurndall, whose son was shot by the IDF in 2003, has called on governments to challenge Israeli claims about deaths of women and children |
| 20231130 | ‘Epic humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza Strip | United Nations | An “epic humanitarian catastrophe” is unfolding in Gaza says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He welcomed the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas but said a true humanitarian ceasefire is needed. |
| 20231130 | Progressive US lawmakers renew calls for ceasefire in Gaza | United States | With pause in Gaza war set to expire, Congress members gathered outside White House in call to stop the bloodshed. |
| 20231130 | US asks Israel to narrow zone of combat in any southern Gaza attack | United States | The United States is urging Israel to narrow the zone of combat and clarify where Palestinian civilians can seek safety during any Israeli operation in southern Gaza, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, to prevent a repeat of the massive death toll from Israel's northern Gaza attacks. |
| 20231130 | Blinken urges Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians in war against Hamas | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday stepped up calls for Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians as it wages its war against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231130 | Blinken wants Gazans' safety assured before Israel resumes military operations | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel on Thursday it must ensure that Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza are safe and their humanitarian needs are met before resuming military operations there, his spokesperson said. |
| 20231130 | Blinken urges Israel to protect civilians amid tough Gaza truce talks | United States | Mediators Qatar and Egypt push for further extension to pause in hostilities as deal holds for a week. |
| 20231130 | U.S. presses sceptical Turkey to curb Hamas fundraising | United States | The U.S. Treasury's top terrorism financing official said on Thursday he had discussed with Turkish government officials his deep concerns about Palestinian militant group Hamas raising funds in Turkey and potentially breaking local laws. |
| 20231130 | Palestine advocates decry MSNBC’s cancellation of Mehdi Hasan news show | United States | Channel president says change aims to put network in ‘better position’ for the 2024 US elections, The Hill reports. |
| 20231130 | Video: In cold blood - Israeli sniper kills Palestinian 8-year-old & teen playing on street in Jenin | West Bank | (November 29) - The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that Adam Al-Ghul, eight years old, and Bassem Abu Al-Wafa, 15 years old, were killed by bullets from the Israeli snipers in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231130 | ‘No work and no olives’: harvest rots as West Bank farmers cut off from trees | West Bank | With olives the largest single agricultural product on the West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli restrictions and settler violence are losing them $70m |
| 20231130 | Wartime Israel shows little tolerance for Palestinian dissent | West Bank | Bayan Khateeb knows she’s a terrible cook. So when she managed to pull off a dish of cooked tomatoes and eggs, she took a photo to show friends on social media. |
| 20231130 | US warship shoots down drone launched from Yemen | Yemen | A US Navy warship shot down a drone on Wednesday launched from a part of Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Huthi rebels, the American military's Central Command said. |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231101 | ‘Children were carrying other injured children’: Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | children | An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave. |
| 20231101 | Biden’s Israel funding request gets scrutiny, hits early hurdle | collusion & complicity | US rights group says president’s request to Congress for Israel aid suggests US may ‘bankroll’ displacement of Palestinians. |
| 20231101 | Biden facing tough questions over Israel’s strikes on civilians | collusion & complicity | President Joe Biden and his top national security officials are increasingly confronting questions about Israel’s commitment to minimizing civilian deaths and how scenes from Gaza could affect his domestic political standing. |
| 20231101 | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken set to travel to Israel and Jordan | collusion & complicity | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel and Jordan at the end of the week, the Department of State has announced, as tensions remain high amid Israel’s escalating war against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231101 | Gaza’s phone and internet connections are cut off again, as Israeli troops battle Hamas militants | communication | Palestinians reported another widespread outage of internet and phone service in Gaza early Wednesday, hours after Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings near Gaza City and as ground troops battled Hamas militants inside the besieged territory. |
| 20231101 | Gaza suffers another communications blackout amid Israeli bombardment | communication | Israel has cut Gaza’s telecommunication and internet services for a second time despite humanitarian aid agencies warning that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231101 | Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital ‘full, overpacked’, director says | eliminating health care system | The latest massacre on a bakery near Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital has left several killed and has overwhelmed the facility, the hospital’s director says. |
| 20231101 | Israeli siege forces Gaza’s only cancer hospital to shut amid fuel shortage | eliminating health care system | Palestinian health authorities have said that the only hospital offering cancer treatment in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel amid Israel’s continuing blockade of the territory. |
| 20231101 | Bolivia cuts ties with Israel; other Latin American countries recall envoys | global response | Countries blame Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ attack on Gaza and reiterate calls for a humanitarian ceasefire. |
| 20231101 | Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel as Chile and Colombia recall their ambassadors | global response | Bolivia’s government severed diplomatic relations with Israel on Tuesday, accusing it of carrying out “crimes against humanity” in Gaza, and Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to Israel as they criticized the Israeli military offensive against Hamas militants. |
| 20231101 | Jordan recalls ambassador to Israel to protest Gaza ‘catastrophe’ | global response | Jordan has announced it is “immediately” recalling its ambassador to Israel in response to the war in Gaza, accusing Israel of creating an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”. |
| 20231101 | Jordan says it is recalling its ambassador to Israel over the war in Gaza. | global response | |
| 20231101 | Open hatred of Jews surges globally, inflamed by Gaza war | global response | In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are "stinking Jews" and should stay off the slide. In China, posts likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes proliferate on social media, attracting thousands of "likes". |
| 20231101 | FBI director warns of increased risk of terror attacks in wake of Gaza war | global response | FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in the past few weeks and suggested Hamas’ offensive on Israel could inspire threats like those motivated by the Islamic State group years ago. |
| 20231101 | Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability for failing to prevent Hamas attack, instead blaming others | Hamas resistance attacks | A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities during the Oct. 7 incursion that triggered the current Israel-Hamas war. Conspicuously absent from that roll call is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 20231101 | Limited Gaza evacuations via Rafah to be allowed after Qatar brokers deal -source | humanitarian crisis | Qatar has mediated an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the U.S., which will allow limited evacuations from besieged Gaza, a source briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| 20231101 | Foreign passport holders enter Rafah crossing | humanitarian crisis | Dozens of people entered the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday. It appeared to be the first time foreign passport holders have been allowed to leave the besieged territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war more than three weeks ago. |
| 20231101 | Foreigners, wounded set to leave Gaza as Israeli offensive intensifies | humanitarian crisis | A number of foreigners and critically wounded people were set to leave the Gaza Strip under a Qatari-mediated deal on Wednesday as Israeli forces pressed their offensive against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231101 | As more Palestinians with foreign citizenship leave Gaza, some families are left in the lurch | humanitarian crisis | Dozens of Palestinians with foreign passports crossed through the war-torn Gaza Strip’s only exit for the second straight day Thursday, escaping Israel’s suffocating siege into the empty Egyptian desert. But the evacuation rush left families divided by citizenship status in painful limbo. |
| 20231101 | Seven captives killed by Israeli air strike on refugee camp: Hamas | IOF / Hannibal directive | Seven captives, including three foreign passport holders, were killed in Israel’s bombing of Jabalia refugee camp yesterday, Hamas has announced. |
| 20231101 | Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability for failing to prevent Hamas attack, instead blaming others | Israelis | A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities during the Oct. 7 incursion that triggered the current Israel-Hamas war. Conspicuously absent from that roll call is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 20231101 | Inside Benjamin Netanyahu’s mind: How is Israel’s PM plotting the war? | Israelis | Gal Hirsch has no known experience in hostage negotiations, and in 2006, he left the Israeli forces, disgraced over his role in military failures during the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 20231101 | Egypt Deploys Dozens Of Tanks, Armored Vehicles Near Gaza; IDF’s Ground Ops Yield First Result | regional response | According to the Times of Israel, there are “dozens of vehicles” near the border. The deployment of heavy military vehicles and tanks is due to Egypt’s suspicion of a possible inpouring of refugees from Gaza. Rafah is the only border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231101 | Nine Israeli soldiers killed by Hamas anti-tank missile hitting vehicle in northern Gaza | resistance | Nine Israeli soldiers were killed in the northern Gaza Strip, when the armored personnel carrier they were in was hit by an anti-tank missile fired by Hamas fighters, bringing the total number of troops killed since 7 October to 326, the Israeli army said on Wednesday. |
| 20231101 | The other mass displacement: while eyes are on Gaza, settlers advance on West Bank herders | West Bank | Shortly after armed Israeli settlers threatened to kill them if they did not leave, 24 Palestinian households totaling 141 people, half of whom are children, were displaced from Khirbat Zanuta in the southern West Bank. |
| 20231101 | Yemen's Houthis enter Mideast fray, hardening spillover fears | Yemen | Yemen's Houthis have waded into the Israel-Hamas war raging more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in Sanaa, declaring on Tuesday they had fired drones and missiles at Israel in attacks that highlight the regional risks of the conflict. |
| 20231101 | Israel says it thwarted aerial attacks by Yemen’s Houthis near Red Sea | Yemen | The Israeli military said Tuesday it had thwarted an aerial attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, as fears rise across the region that the Israel-Hamas war could widen. |
| 20231101 | Israel deploys missile boats in Red Sea as Houthis attack from Yemen | Yemen | The Israeli military said it had deployed missile boats in the Red Sea on Wednesday as reinforcements, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more. |
| 20231101 | 'Pallywood': Gazans falsely accused of staging injury and death online | Zionism / social media | Pro-Israeli accounts are accusing Palestinians of using crisis actors to fake their suffering in order to elicit online sympathy. One particular viral video turned out to be of a real amputee who survived a West Bank refugee camp raid in July 2023. |
| 20231101 | UN official who denounced Gaza ‘genocide’ had been under review after Israel lobby complaint | Zionism / UN | A senior UN official who sent a letter denouncing the organization's failure to protect civilians in Gaza had been subject to a review into allegedly biased social media posts after a pro-Israel lobby group complained. |
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| 20231102 | Biden ‘covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide’ in Gaza: AJ analyst | collusion & complicity | Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says US President Biden is “covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “Biden and Blinken are still giving cover to Israel, diplomatic and otherwise – and the promises of peace – in order for Israel to continue with this genocide,” Bishara said. |
| 20231102 | Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000 | genocide | Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. After nearly four weeks of war sparked by Hamas’ deadly rampage in Israel, U.S. and Arab leaders raised pressure on Israel to ease its siege of Gaza and at least briefly halt its attacks in order to aid civilians. |
| Comment: tally heads to genocide | |||
| 20231102 | Anti-Semitic riot in Russia's Dagestan leaves some local Jews shaken | global response | There were few visitors to Derbent's sprawling Jewish cemetery in Russian's Muslim-majority Dagestan region on Thursday, but some of those laying flowers on relatives' graves said an anti-Semitic riot four days earlier had left them feeling unsettled. |
| 20231102 | France's Jewish community faces a surge in anti-Semitism | global response | Witnessing the explosion of acts of anti-Semitism in France since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, many members of France's Jewish community are struggling to adapt to their new reality. |
| 20231102 | Hezbollah leader set to weigh in on Middle East war | Lebanon | Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech that will be scrutinised for clues on how the group's role in the conflict might evolve. |
| 20231102 | Hezbollah, Israel exchange fire as violence spikes at Lebanese border | Lebanon | Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday it mounted multiple strikes on Israeli army positions including its first using explosive drones, and Israel launched air strikes on southern Lebanon in a sharp escalation of violence. |
| 20231102 | Biden ‘covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide’ in Gaza: AJ analyst | opinion | Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says US President Biden is “covering up for Israel as it is finishing its genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “Biden and Blinken are still giving cover to Israel, diplomatic and otherwise – and the promises of peace – in order for Israel to continue with this genocide,” Bishara said. |
| 20231102 | Bahrain says envoy to Israel returned home, Israel says ties stable | regional response | Bahrain said on Thursday that the Gulf state's ambassador to Israel had returned home and the Israeli ambassador in Manama had left the kingdom "a while ago", confirming an earlier statement by parliament linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| 20231102 | Tunisia debates bill to criminalise normalisation of ties with Israel | regional response | The Tunisian parliament has started debating a bill that would criminalise any normalisation of ties with Israel as the bombardment of Gaza intensifies and the death toll surpassed 9,000. |
| 20231102 | What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll? | targeting civilians | The ministry is the only official source for Gaza casualties. Israel has sealed Gaza’s borders, barring foreign journalists and humanitarian workers. The AP is among a small number of international news organizations with teams in Gaza. While those journalists cannot do a comprehensive count, they’ve viewed large numbers of bodies at the sites of air strikes, morgues and funerals. |
| 20231102 | Biden calls for ‘pause’ in Israel’s war in Gaza for the first time | United States | President Joe Biden has voiced support for a humanitarian “pause” to Israel’s war in Gaza as the United States presses to evacuate all Americans trapped in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231102 | UN experts say Palestinians face ‘risk of genocide’ | United Nations | United Nations experts say they “remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide” amid Israel’s unrelenting attacks on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231102 | UN team talks of 'grave risk of genocide' | United Nations | Israeli forces thrust deeper into Gaza City - the Gaza Strip's main city - in their assault on Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, but the militant group resisted their drive with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels. |
| 20231102 | UN experts say ceasefire needed as Palestinians at 'grave risk of genocide' | United Nations | United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at "grave risk of genocide". |
| 20231102 | Israeli settler attacks fuel the fire as Gaza war rages | West Bank | Mourning his father and brother, Mohammed Wadi says armed Israeli settlers from outposts overlooking his olive-growing West Bank village no longer aim low when they shoot at Palestinian neighbours. "Now, they shoot to kill," he said. |
| 20231102 | Germany banning pro Palestinian rallies citing "historic guilt" | Zionism / Germany | Germany has banned any activities in support of Palestine and a Palestinian organization called Sami-doun. The nation has been one of the strongest backers of Israel's government and policies - citing "historical wrongs". |
| 20231102 | German minister announces complete ban on Hamas activities | Zionism / Germany | Germany will from Thursday ban the activities of Hamas, already a designated terrorist organisation in the country, as well as pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, the interior minister announced on Thursday. |
| 20231102 | US House passes Republicans' Israel-only aid bill, faces dead end in Senate | Zionism / US | The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats' insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House's promise of a veto. |
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| 20231103 | Blinken discusses ‘humanitarian pauses’ as Israel encircles Gaza City | ceasefire | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he discussed “humanitarian pauses” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose forces continue to hammer the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231103 | Israel resists US pressure to pause the war to allow more aid to Gaza, wants hostages back first | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are released. |
| 20231103 | Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’ | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231103 | 1,200 children still buried under debris: Ministry | children | Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra is now holding a press briefing in Gaza. These are among the latest statistics he has provided: 1,200 children still buried under the debris 136 paramedics killed 25 ambulance vehicles completely destroyed 126 hospitals and another 50 medical centers targeted. Referring to Thursday’s limited number of wounded that left through Rafah border crossing, Ministry of Health spokesperson al-Qudra says: “We need to have at least 800 victims with critical medical conditions to leave Gaza. We cannot medically attend those cases here within Gaza Strip hospitals, already collapsing. In the past few days, we lost many victims who were critically wounded.” |
| 20231103 | Hezbollah tells U.S. to halt Israel's Gaza attack to prevent regional war | collusion & complicity | The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned the United States on Friday that preventing a regional conflict depended on stopping the Israeli attack on Gaza, and said there was a possibility of fighting on the Lebanese front turning into a full-fledged war. |
| Comment: collusion & complicity refers to the US | |||
| 20231103 | Israel pushes thousands of detained cross-border workers into war-torn Gaza | dystopian war | Thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, previously working in Israel and the occupied West Bank and then detained by Israel, are being pushed into the war-torn enclave, according to media reports. |
| 20231103 | Israel deports thousands of Palestinian workers back to Gaza’s war zone | dystopian war | Israel on Friday deported thousands of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory, Palestinian authorities said, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted. |
| 20231103 | New strike near Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | We’re getting reports of a new attack in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. |
| 20231103 | 1,200 children still buried under debris: Ministry | eliminating health care system | Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra is now holding a press briefing in Gaza. These are among the latest statistics he has provided: 1,200 children still buried under the debris 136 paramedics killed 25 ambulance vehicles completely destroyed 126 hospitals and another 50 medical centers targeted. Referring to Thursday’s limited number of wounded that left through Rafah border crossing, Ministry of Health spokesperson al-Qudra says: “We need to have at least 800 victims with critical medical conditions to leave Gaza. We cannot medically attend those cases here within Gaza Strip hospitals, already collapsing. In the past few days, we lost many victims who were critically wounded.” |
| 20231103 | Israeli drone missile hits front gate of al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | The health ministry in Gaza says an Israeli attack killed at least 14 Palestinians who were fleeing from the bombarded territory’s north to its south. Witnesses said the strike hit al-Rashid road, Gaza’s coastal road which the Israeli military has previously told civilians to take to travel south. “The occupation committed a new massacre against displaced civilians and killed 14 citizens, children and women,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement. |
| 20231103 | Dozens feared dead in attacks on Gaza road, al-Shifa Hospital gate: Ministry | eliminating health care system | Al-Qudra, the Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman, says dozens of people are feared dead in today’s attacks on al-Shifa Hospital and a coastal road in Gaza. Hundreds are believed to be injured, he added. “If no safe passage is provided for the delivery of fuel and medical supplies and the departure of victims, we will continue to lose more lives. We are helpless here,” al-Qudra said. |
| 20231103 | Several killed in Israeli attack on ambulance convoy: Gaza Health Ministry | eliminating health care system | Several people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli attack on an ambulance convoy near the al-Shifa Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry. |
| 20231103 | Israeli military says hit an ambulance being used by Hamas | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military said on Friday that one of its aircraft hit an ambulance which soldiers assessed was being used by a Hamas unit close to their position in the battle zone. |
| 20231103 | Two back-to-back massacres: Israeli airstrikes on hospital & school in Gaza leave 35 dead & 100 injured | eliminating health care system | An Israeli airstrike against a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced civilians kills 20 and injures 30 just five hours after three airstrikes against Al-Shifaa Medical Complex, Al-Quds, and the Indonesian hospitals in Gaza killed at least 15 and injured tens others. |
| 20231103 | Hamas officials say 13 killed in blast outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | At least 13 people have been killed in a blast outside Gaza City's biggest hospital, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says. |
| 20231103 | Israel strikes Gaza ambulance; Netanyahu rejects halt without hostage release | eliminating health care system | Israel struck an ambulance near a Gaza hospital on Friday in an attack the military said targeted militants, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls by Washington's top diplomat for a halt to fighting unless hostages held by Hamas are freed. |
| 20231103 | US surveillance drones flying over Gaza to help with hostage search | Hamas resistance attack | The US military is flying surveillance drones over Gaza as part of American efforts to help Israel locate the more than 240 hostages still held by the terror group Hamas, according to multiple US officials familiar with the matter. |
| 20231103 | Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’ | humanitarian crisis | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231103 | Israeli families bring genocide complaint against Hamas to ICC | ICC | The families of nine Israeli victims of last month’s Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, according to their lawyer. The families also want Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, prosecuted for suspected war crimes, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders, lawyer Francois Zimeray said in a statement on Friday. |
| 20231103 | ‘Arrested, tortured and insulted’, say workers returned to Gaza by Israel | imprisonment / torture | Israel has released 3,200 workers from Gaza back to the coastal enclave after they were arrested and stranded following the October 7 attacks. |
| 20231103 | Israeli families bring genocide complaint against Hamas to ICC | Israelis | The families of nine Israeli victims of last month’s Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, according to their lawyer. The families also want Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, prosecuted for suspected war crimes, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders, lawyer Francois Zimeray said in a statement on Friday. |
| 20231103 | Israel resists US pressure to pause the war to allow more aid to Gaza, wants hostages back first | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are released. |
| 20231103 | Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah leader threatens escalation with Israel as its war with Hamas rages on | Lebanon | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his powerful militia is already engaged in unprecedented fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border and threatened a further escalation as Israel’s war with Hamas nears the one-month mark. |
| 20231103 | Relief in Lebanon as Hezbollah’s Nasrallah holds off on wider Israel war | Lebanon | Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah on Friday called for a ceasefire in Gaza while holding off on announcing any broader conflict with Israel, bringing relief to Lebanon where many were fearing the prospects of war. |
| 20231103 | Hezbollah steps back from all-out war on Israel over Gaza - for now | Lebanon | The Hezbollah leader took his time to respond to the past month of bloodletting which has turned the Middle East into a tinder box. |
| 20231103 | Pirates, emperors and the Middle East axes of evil | opinion | Unmasking the US/Israel rhetoric of war, human rights, and geopolitical strategy in Palestine. |
| 20231103 | Israeli settler violence in West Bank: Increase attacks against Palestinians | West Bank | More than 130 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank either by Israeli forces, or in attacks by Israeli settlers. Hundreds of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231104 | US and Arab partners disagree on the need for a cease-fire as Israeli airstrikes kill more civilians | ceasefire | he United States and Arab partners disagreed Saturday on the need for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as Israeli military strikes killed civilians at a U.N. shelter and a hospital, and Israel said the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers were “encountering the full force” of its troops. |
| 20231104 | Arab leaders press Blinken for Gaza ceasefire after school blasts | ceasefire | Arab leaders publicly pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Palestinians said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in a U.N.-run school being used as a shelter. |
| 20231104 | Blinken rebuffs Arab states' push for immediate Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Arab leaders on Saturday urged an immediate ceasefire in Israel's military offensive in Gaza, pressing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to convince Israel, but the top U.S. diplomat said such a halt right now would only allow Palestinian militant group Hamas to regroup and attack Israel again. |
| 20231104 | Divides remain between US and Arab partners after Blinken meets counterparts in Jordan | ceasefire | Sharp divides persisted between the United States and its Arab partners on their response to Israel’s war against Hamas after Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Middle Eastern counterparts in Amman, Jordan on Saturday. |
| 20231104 | Erdogan cuts ties with Netanyahu as Israeli PM rejects call for humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Turkey has announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel for consultations, due to Israel's refusal to accept a ceasefire in Gaza. Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was recalled in view of "the ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by Israel's continued attacks on civilians and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. |
| 20231104 | Turkey recalls ambassador to Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy in Gaza’ | ceasefire | Turkey says it has recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israel’s sustained bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231104 | US Representative Tlaib accuses Biden of supporting genocide against Palestinians | collusion & complicity | U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, has accused President Joe Biden of supporting a "genocide" against Palestinians and warned of repercussions in next year's election. |
| 20231104 | Repeated Israeli attacks on hospitals | eliminating health care system | More than 9,200 Palestinians have been killed since the war began on October the 7th. Overcrowded hospitals are struggling to treat the wounded. Healthcare workers say they need far more medicine and supplies than the trickle of aid that trucks are bringing into Gaza |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | eliminating health care system | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Gaza's healthcare system on verge of collapse | eliminating health care system | The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Tel Aviv on Friday He said Israel should do more to protect Palestinian civilians Israel answered in Gaza with yet more Palestinian blood. In a single day areas around three hospitals were hit This one at the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital -al Shifa These people had hope - the convoy of ambulances was heading to the Rafah crossing To enter Egypt and its occupants to get treatment But Israeli strikes killed any glimmer of hope they had of escaping this war. |
| 20231104 | Israel admits airstrike on ambulance near hospital that witnesses say killed and wounded dozens | eliminating health care system | Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people. |
| 20231104 | Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | eliminating UNWRA | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | eliminating UNWRA | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Protesters rally around the world demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza | global response | Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across the world for a weekend of demonstrations demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 20231104 | Protest marches by thousands in Europe demand halt to Israeli bombing of Gaza, under police watch | global response | Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators demanding a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza marched in Paris, Berlin and other European cities on Saturday. |
| 20231104 | Protesters march in major cities to demand Gaza ceasefire | global response | Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protests in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Washington DC on Saturday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and castigate Israel after its military intensified its assault against Hamas. |
| 20231104 | Israel-Hamas war divides opinion in South Africa | global response | There's strong public backing for the Palestinian people in South Africa — not least from the government, which has long been a supporter of their cause. But it's a divisive issue. Many in South Africa's Jewish community want to see the government take a more balanced stance. |
| 20231104 | Hamas armed wing: More than 60 hostages are missing due to Israeli airstrikes | Hamas resistance attack | The armed wing of Palestinian militant faction Hamas said on Saturday that more than 60 hostages were missing because of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. |
| 20231104 | Aid not sufficient in Gaza : UN says cannot keep up with humanitarian need | humanitarian aid | The UN's humanitarian chief says its refugee agency for Palestinians can't keep up with the needs in Gaza. Martin Griffiths was briefing member states at the United Nations in New York. |
| 20231104 | Between 350,000 to 400,000 people still in northern Gaza, says US special envoy | humanitarian crisis | Between 350,000 to 400,000 people remain in northern Gaza, US special envoy David Satterfield said Saturday, as Israeli forces encircle Gaza City. Israel has told Gazans to evacuate the north of the Strip and move south as the war against Hamas intensifies. |
| 20231104 | The UN says more than half of Gaza's population have been uprooted from their homes | humanitarian crisis | After four weeks of war, one and a half million Gazans, out of an estimated 2.7 million have now been displaced. |
| 20231104 | A new mother struggles to care for her baby under bombardment in Gaza | humanitarian crisis | Little food, no water, no medicines, anguished parents struggle to meet their children's needs while their own bodies weaken |
| 20231104 | Israel admits airstrike on ambulance near hospital that witnesses say killed and wounded dozens | IOF | Israel has claimed responsibility for an attack on an ambulance outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the enclave, which witnesses say killed and wounded dozens of people. |
| 20231104 | ‘Extremely challenging’: Israel’s Gaza ground assault faces stumbles | IOF | A week after it sent ground forces into Gaza, Israel said its military had surrounded Gaza City in the north of the territory, killed 10 Hamas commanders who helped plan the October 7 attacks on Israel, and scored “impressive successes” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 20231104 | Israel ramps up attacks in Gaza, striking schools, hospitals and mosques | Israeli escalation | A day after Israel struck a convoy of ambulances transporting critically wounded patients from the al-Shifa Hospital to the Rafah border crossing, the Israeli army has intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, hitting schools, mosques and more hospitals. |
| 20231104 | Israeli media’s reaction to the horrors in Gaza | Israelis | After three weeks of a punishing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel is still refusing to allow international journalists in. News outlets and audiences are entirely reliant on local Palestinian reporters, who risk their lives to provide a window into the war. |
| 20231104 | Protesters mass outside Israeli PM Netanyahu's house as anger grows | Israelis | Police held back protesters outside the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, amid widespread anger at the failures that led to last month's deadly attack by Hamas gunmen on communities around the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231104 | Israeli jets hit Lebanon as Hezbollah fires more powerful missile | Lebanon | Lebanon's Hezbollah said it carried out simultaneous attacks on Israeli positions at the Lebanese border on Saturday, as residents of south Lebanon reported some of the fiercest Israeli strikes yet during weeks of cross-border clashes. |
| 20231104 | Can Marwan Barghouti, the ‘Palestinian Mandela’, bring peace to Gaza? | opinion | Hamas has said that the group would only release all 240 Israeli hostages held in Gaza if Israel agrees to free all Palestinian prisoners. Among those locked up is Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 for deadly attacks against Israelis. For many Palestinians, their “Nelson Mandela” is a leader-in-waiting. |
| 20231104 | Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | schools | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | schools | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Gaza workers: Palestinians return from Israeli captivity | targeting civilians | Many of the thousands of Palestinian workers Israel has sent back to Gaza say they were beaten and starved in Israeli captivity. The workers had been detained since Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7th. |
| Comment: Deporting occupied people into a territory under siege, while the occupying war belligerent is obliged to guarantee the safety of the people, is a war crime. | |||
| 20231104 | Palestinian American mourns 42 family members killed in a single day in Gaza | targeting families in whole or in part | A Palestinian American family is mourning the loss of 42 relatives killed by an airstrike in a single day in Gaza |
| 20231104 | Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | targeting forced displaced people | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. |
| 20231104 | School and two hospitals attacked | targeting forced displaced people | Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza intensifies, targeting schools, shelters, hospital areas and ambulances. At least 15 killed in strike on school in Jabalia refugee camp, health ministry says. |
| 20231104 | Erdogan cuts ties with Netanyahu as Israeli PM rejects call for humanitarian pause | Turkey | Turkey has announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel for consultations, due to Israel's refusal to accept a ceasefire in Gaza. Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was recalled in view of "the ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by Israel's continued attacks on civilians and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. |
| 20231104 | Turkey recalls ambassador to Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy in Gaza’ | Turkey | Turkey says it has recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations over Israel’s sustained bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231104 | Blinken reaffirms US support for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed Washington’s position calling for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to protect civilians and allow foreign nationals to leave, as the Israeli military bombarded a UN shelter and hospital in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231104 | Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’ | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231104 | Occupied West Bank Violence | West Bank | How has the Israel-Gaza war affected people in the occupied West Bank? Correspondent Nida Ibrahim takes us through what’s been happening. |
| 20231104 | ‘An existential threat’: Antisemitic attacks soar across Europe amid Israel-Hamas war | Zionism / EU | “This takes us back to the darkest times,” Chief Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer told CNN, as he surveyed piles of destroyed holy books in a blackened and burnt out ceremonial hall. |
| 20231104 | French police hunt suspect in stabbing of Jewish woman | Zionism / France | Police were hunting for a man who stabbed and wounded a Jewish woman in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, while a swastika was found graffitied at her home, police and the city's mayor said. |
| 20231104 | French Jewish woman stabbed in her home in France’s Lyon, police hunts suspect | Zionism / France | Police were hunting for a man who stabbed and wounded a Jewish woman in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, while a swastika was found graffitied at her home, police and the city's mayor said. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231105 | Netanyahu again rules out ceasefire until Hamas returns hostages from Gaza | ceasefire | Netanyahu on Sunday again rejected calls for a ceasefire in Gaza until all of the more than 240 hostages captured by Hamas during its 7 October attack were returned. |
| 20231105 | Israel rebuffs mounting calls for ceasefire; Lebanon strike angers Hezbollah | ceasefire | Israel rebuffed growing international pressure for a ceasefire and continued intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the top U.S. diplomat scrambled to contain a crisis that threatened to cause further escalation in neighbouring Lebanon. |
| 20231105 | Israeli hostages’ relatives call for concessions to secure their release | ceasefire | Relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to make significant concessions to secure the freedom of their loved ones. |
| 20231105 | Ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup, says Blinken | ceasefire | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to regroup and carry out further attacks. |
| 20231105 | Blinken rejects push by Arab states for immediate Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has rejected the demand by Arab nations to support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza because he says Hamas could still attack Israel. |
| 20231105 | Abbas joins Arab leaders in calling for Gaza truce in meeting with Blinken | ceasefire | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Antony Blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire to the war in Gaza during a meeting with the top US diplomat in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to Abbas’s spokesperson, adding to a growing chorus of Arab leaders stressing the need for a truce as the death toll in Gaza approaches 10,000. |
| 20231105 | Gaza loses telecom contact again. Israel strikes refugee camps as it rejects a pause in fighting | communication | Gaza came under the third total communications outage since the start of the war, with Palestinian telecom company Paltel confirming all services were down late Sunday and saying Israel had again disconnected them. Internet access advocacy group NetBlocks.org reported a “new collapse in connectivity” across the besieged enclave. |
| 20231105 | These numbers show the staggering toll of the Israel-Hamas war | genocide | The latest Israel-Hamas war has quickly become the deadliest and most destructive of the five wars fought between the sides since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority. |
| 20231105 | Netanyahu suspends Israeli minister over Gaza nuclear comment | genocide II | Netanyahu on Sunday disciplined a junior member of his cabinet who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza, where the war with Hamas is inflicting a spiralling Palestinian civilian toll. |
| 20231105 | Netanyahu reprimands Israeli minister over Gaza ‘nuclear option’ comment | genocide II | The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has disciplined a junior member of his cabinet who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza. |
| 20231105 | Austria sees rise in anti-Semitic attacks against backdrop of Israel-Hamas war | global response | A sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Austria over the past few weeks have sparked concerns of a spillover of the Israel-Hamas war in the central European nation. |
| 20231105 | Protest marches from US to Berlin call for immediate halt to Israeli bombing of Gaza | global response | From Washington to Milan to Paris, tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched Saturday, calling for a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. |
| 20231105 | Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire | global response | Tens of thousands of people have marched in Washington DC in support of Palestine, demanding an end to Israel’s bombing of Gaza. The United States has resisted calls to support a ceasefire despite the soaring death toll. |
| 20231105 | Pro-Palestinian crowds try to storm air base housing U.S. troops in Turkey | global response | Turkish police used tear gas and water cannon as hundreds of people at a pro-Palestinian rally on Sunday tried to storm an air base that houses U.S. troops, hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due in Ankara for talks on Gaza. |
| 20231105 | ‘Biden, you can’t hide’: Tens of thousands march in US for Gaza ceasefire | global response | Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the United States capital to demand a ceasefire in Gaza as Washington continues to resist calls for an end to the war despite the mounting death toll. |
| 20231105 | Iranian state media confirm meeting between Khamenei, Hamas' Haniyeh in Tehran | Iran | Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met with the leader of Tehran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, a day after a Hamas official said they held a meeting in recent days. |
| 20231105 | Blinken tries to assure Abbas in a West Bank stop aimed at containing fallout from the war | Israeli escalation | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an intensifying Biden administration drive to reduce the suffering of Gaza’s civilians under Israeli bombardment and to start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory. |
| 20231105 | Blinken tries to assure Abbas in a West Bank stop aimed at containing fallout from the war | Israeli escalation | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an intensifying Biden administration drive to reduce the suffering of Gaza’s civilians under Israeli bombardment and to start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory. |
| 20231105 | Blinken visits Iraq in bid to prevent Gaza spillover | Israeli escalation | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday, as he tours the Middle East attempting to tamp down tensions after war erupted between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas last month. |
| 20231105 | Blinken makes unannounced visit to Iraq | Israeli escalation | Blinken met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad for more than an hour. He also visited the US Embassy, where he received a security briefing on the threat to US facilities. |
| 20231105 | ‘The reaction is extreme’: Palestinians fear arrest if they voice sympathy for Gaza civilians | Jerusalem | Dua Abu Sneineh was shocked when a group of police officers – between 10 and 15, she said – barged into her home in East Jerusalem early on October 23. “I was not even considering for a moment that they would be coming for me,” she told CNN. |
| 20231105 | Israel launches major strikes on Gaza as violence flares up on Lebanon boundary | Lebanon | Gaza was rocked by a series of huge explosions on Sunday evening and communications with the coastal strip were cut, as violence also escalated on Israel’s northern boundary with Lebanon. |
| 20231105 | Hezbollah and Hamas’ military wings in Lebanon exchange fire with Israel. Tension rises along border | Lebanon | The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Monday it fired rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese side of the border. |
| 20231105 | Why Israel wants to erase context and history in the war on Gaza | opinion | On October 24, a statement by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres caused a sharp reaction by Israel. While addressing the UN Security Council, the UN chief said that while he condemned in the strongest terms the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, he wished to remind the world that it did not take place in a vacuum. He explained that one cannot dissociate 56 years of occupation from our engagement with the tragedy that unfolded on that day. |
| 20231105 | Gaza could see return of PA in case of a ‘political solution’, says Abbas | Palestinian Authority | The Palestinian Authority (PA) could return to power in the Gaza Strip only if a “comprehensive political solution” is found to the Israel-Palestine conflict, according to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. |
| 20231105 | Blinken visits West Bank to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas | Palestinian Authority | U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken said the Palestinian Authority (PA) should play a central role in the future of the Gaza strip, a U.S. official said after a visit to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as Blinken tours the region amid spiraling tensions over Israel's war with Hamas. |
| 20231105 | Israel bombs al-Maghazi refugee camp, killing dozens, Gaza officials say | targeting forced displaced people | Israel’s military has bombed at least three refugee camps in Gaza, including al-Maghazi camp, in the last 24 hours and killed dozens of people, Palestinian officials have said. |
| 20231105 | At least 45 killed at Al-Maghazi refugee camp | targeting forced displaced people | The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people have been killed in what it said was an Israeli air strike at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. |
| 20231105 | Blast at Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza kills dozens | targeting forced displaced people | Dozens were killed and many more injured in a blast at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip late Saturday night, according to an official at a nearby hospital and eyewitnesses who spoke with CNN. |
| 20231105 | 'We are failing again': UN, US resignations highlight splits over Israel's Gaza assault | United Nations | While many Western leaders and officials were quick to express their support for Israel in its war against Hamas, there have been signs of dissent in senior US and UN circles over the West’s unwavering backing of Israel's massive retaliatory bombardments on Gaza. Some have even quit their posts. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231106 | UN chief Guterres urges ceasefire as Gaza becomes ‘graveyard for children’ | ceasefire | United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has strengthened his calls for a ceasefire as Palestinian authorities reported that more than 10,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza. |
| 20231106 | Biden, Netanyahu discussed potential 'tactical pauses' in Gaza fighting | ceasefire | U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the potential for "tactical pauses" in fighting in Gaza for humanitarian reasons and possible hostage releases in talks on Monday, according to a spokesperson. |
| 20231106 | Blinken wraps up frantic Mideast tour with tepid, if any, support for pauses in Gaza fighting | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a grueling Middle East diplomatic tour on Monday in Turkey after only limited success in efforts to forge a regional consensus on how best to ease civilian suffering in Gaza as Israel intensifies its war against Hamas. |
| 20231106 | Protesters calling for Gaza cease-fire block road at Tacoma port while military cargo ship docks | ceasefire | Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza blocked traffic Monday at the Port of Tacoma, where a military supply ship had recently arrived. |
| 20231106 | The devastating effects of war on Gaza's children | children | Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 10,022 people, including 4,104 children, have been killed in the territory since Israel's campaign began. |
| 20231106 | 1M followers for 13-year-old gamer killed in Israeli attack | children | This aspiring 13-year-old gamer was trying to build a following on his YouTube channel before he was killed in an Israeli air attack in Gaza. Since his death, people have helped to achieve one of Awni Eldous’ main ambitions. |
| 20231106 | US plans precision bombs transfer to Israel -source | collusion & complicity | President Joe Biden's administration has informed the U.S. Congress that it is planning a $320 million transfer of precision bombs for Israel, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday. |
| Comment: On November 5, 2023 the Israeli air force mistakingly posted on X a photo showing one of theirs Apache helicopter gunship which we clearly could see an Hellfire AGM 114N missile, which is an thermobaric precision missile. | |||
| 20231106 | BBC reports from southern Gaza after 'intense' air strikes | communication | After a night of intense air strikes and an internet blackout, the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf says "we are struggling to get credible information". |
| 20231106 | EU seeks alternative delivery routes as it ramps up Gaza aid | eliminating UNWRA | by-pass politics -- The EU will spend a total of $108m in humanitarian aid for the civilians in Gaza, Ursula von der Leyen says. |
| Comment: this comes after the Israelis and Cyprus had discussed a similar move. | |||
| 20231106 | 'Not sure I'm lucky to be alive': Gazans fear worse is to come as public health 'catastrophe' looms | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organization is warning of an "imminent public health catastrophe" in the Gaza Strip. The displacement of 1 million people, overcrowding in shelters and a lack of fuel needed to run sewage, waste and water desalination plants have created a perfect storm for the spread of disease. |
| 20231106 | Israeli forces target solar panels at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces have targeted the solar panel system at a building in the al-Shifa Hospital complex, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, which is already on the brink of collapse with fuel, water and medicines running out. |
| 20231106 | Gaza health ministry says Israel strike on hospital building kills one, Israel denies | eliminating health care system | The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip said on Monday an Israeli air strike hit a building in the Al Shifa hospital complex, killing one Palestinian, but Israel denied it attacked the hospital. |
| 20231106 | Israeli Army Says It Did Not Strike Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, Rejects Hamas Claim | eliminating health care system | Comment: there are plenty of evidence on X |
| 20231106 | Malnourished, sick and scared: Pregnant women in Gaza face ‘unthinkable challenges’ | food, water, fuel & electricity | Before the latest escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas, pregnant women in the Gaza Strip could have health check-ups, get advice on nutrition and prepare their homes for the arrival of their babies. Today, thousands are living in shelters where there is not enough food or clean water, and they dread the prospect of giving birth on the floor with no doctor or midwife to help. |
| 20231106 | Israeli forces target solar panels at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israeli forces have targeted the solar panel system at a building in the al-Shifa Hospital complex, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, which is already on the brink of collapse with fuel, water and medicines running out. |
| 20231106 | Teenager trapped in Gaza slams Canada’s lack of help | forced displacement | Palestinian-Canadian teenage girl has been hoping in vain to leave Gaza and cross into Egypt. She tells Al Jazeera that Canada’s government has failed its citizens trapped under Israeli bombardment by just providing ‘useless’ tips instead of a way to get out. |
| 20231106 | Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as Palestinian deaths surpass 10,000 | genocide | The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza’s largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war |
| 20231106 | More than 10,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza | genocide | More than 10,000 people have been killed in 31 days of relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials, with no signs of a ceasefire in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231106 | More than 10,000 Palestinians killed since 7 October, say health officials | genocide | The grim toll includes more than 4,100 children and 2,640 women. |
| 20231106 | Gaza death toll tops 10,000; UN calls it a children's graveyard | genocide | Gaza is becoming a "graveyard for children", U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, amplifying demands for a ceasefire in the enclave, where Palestinian health authorities said the death toll from Israeli strikes had exceeded 10,000. |
| 20231106 | South Africa joins diplomatic boycott of Israel over Gaza war | global response | Top diplomat says Israel’s retaliation against the Hamas attacks has become a ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians. |
| 20231106 | South Africa recalls ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel and accuses it of genocide in Gaza | global response | South Africa’s government has recalled Monday its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it a “genocide.” |
| 20231106 | Woman arrested after driving car into Indianapolis building she thought was `Israel school’ | global response | A woman who allegedly drove her car into a building in Indianapolis after watching coverage of the Israel-Hamas war told officers she believed the building was an “Israel school,” according to police and court records. |
| 20231106 | Malnourished, sick and scared: Pregnant women in Gaza face ‘unthinkable challenges’ | humanitarian crisis | Before the latest escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas, pregnant women in the Gaza Strip could have health check-ups, get advice on nutrition and prepare their homes for the arrival of their babies. Today, thousands are living in shelters where there is not enough food or clean water, and they dread the prospect of giving birth on the floor with no doctor or midwife to help. |
| 20231106 | Israeli officers torture, humiliate Palestinian workers | imprisonment / torture | A Palestinian labourer recounts to Middle East Eye his eyewitness account of alleged torture by Israeli soldiers during interrogation and detention before returning to Gaza |
| 20231106 | Iranian President Raisi to attend Gaza summit in Saudi Arabia | Iran | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to attend a summit in the Saudi capital on Sunday addressing the Israel-Hamas war, a source familiar with the preparations told AFP on Monday. |
| 20231106 | Blinken makes unannounced Iraq trip amid Israel-Gaza war spillover fears | Israeli escalation | Top US diplomat’s visit comes after Lebanon accuses Israel of killing four civilians in air raid. |
| 20231106 | Israelis overwhelmingly are confident in the justice of the Gaza war, even as world sentiment sours | Israelis | At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis, across the political spectrum, are convinced of the justice of the war. |
| 20231106 | Israel arrests Gaza patients in Jerusalem hospital | Jerusalem | Unable to go home, some Gaza patients and relatives referred to Makassed Hospital were arrested after medical permits expired. |
| 20231106 | A woman and 3 children are killed by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon, local officials say | Lebanon | An Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on Sunday evening killed four civilians, including a woman and three children, raising the likelihood of a dangerous new escalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. |
| 20231106 | Hezbollah says Israel to 'pay price' after strike kills 3 children in Lebanon | Lebanon | |
| 20231106 | Slain Lebanese schoolgirl sisters are latest victims of Mideast war | Lebanon | Sisters Rimas, Daline and Lianne Ayyoub were preparing to travel to Beirut for temporary schooling there because of escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah militants in their native southern Lebanon. |
| 20231106 | Hezbollah and Hamas’ military wings in Lebanon exchange fire with Israel. Tension rises along border | Lebanon | The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Monday it fired rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese side of the border. |
| 20231106 | Hamas armed wing says it fired 16 rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon | Lebanon | The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has said that it fired a barrage of rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon in response to Israeli strikes on Gaza. |
| 20231106 | In Tunisia, pro-Palestinian fervour used to push for anti-NGO law | regional response | The war on Gaza has granted Tunisia a rare moment of political unity, fuelling public appetite for new legislation that risks fracturing civil society groups and potentially isolating the country on the international stage. |
| 20231106 | Jordan open to 'all options' as Gaza conflict intensifies | regional response | Jordan said on Monday it was leaving "all options" open in its response to what it called Israel's failure to discriminate between military and civilian targets in its intensifying bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231106 | Iranian President Raisi to attend Gaza summit in Saudi Arabia | regional response | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is expected to attend a summit in the Saudi capital on Sunday addressing the Israel-Hamas war, a source familiar with the preparations told AFP on Monday. |
| 20231106 | Riled by Israel's Gaza plans, Egypt pushes back | regional response | Egypt is telling the US that Israel’s stated goal to remove Hamas from governing the Gaza Strip is an unrealistic war aim, according to sources familiar with the matter. |
| 20231106 | Four Palestinian militants killed by Israeli forces in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli security forces killed four Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Monday in the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have spiralled in the wake of the war in Gaza. |
| 20231106 | ‘Our hearts burn’: Gaza’s olive farmers say Israel war destroys harvest | West Bank | Since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7, farmers have been unable to access their farmland and crops. |
| 20231106 | Israeli minister calls for security zones around West Bank settlements to keep Palestinians away | West Bank | Israel's hardline nationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Monday for security zones to be set up around Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, keeping Palestinian farmers away during the olive harvest season. |
| 20231106 | Israeli troops arrest Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli troops on Monday arrested a Palestinian activist, regarded in the occupied West Bank as a hero since she was a teenager, on suspicion of inciting violence, but her mother denied the claim and said it was based on a fake Instagram post. |
| 20231106 | Yemen's Houthis launch a new batch of drones against Israel -statement | Yemen | Yemen's Houthis launched a new batch of drones against sensitive targets inside Israel on Monday, according to a statement from their armed forces broadcast by TV channel Al Masirah. |
| 20231106 | 'Anne Frank' nursery name change causes anger in Germany | Zionism / Germany | Organizers of protests because of the incident say that changing the name would be sending a "bad signal" at a time where "antisemitism and right-wing extremism are on the rise". |
| 20231106 | Ailing Pope Francis meets with European rabbis and condemns antisemitism, terrorism, war | Zionism / Vatican | Pope Francis met with European rabbis on Monday and decried antisemitism, war and terrorism in a written speech he declined to read, saying he wasn’t feeling well. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231107 | UN Security Council fails to agree on Israel-Hamas war as Gaza death toll passes 10,000 | ceasefire | Despite more than two hours of closed-door discussions Monday, differences remained. The U.S. is calling for “humanitarian pauses” while many other council members are demanding a “humanitarian cease-fire” to deliver desperately needed aid and prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza. |
| 20231107 | After Biden and Blinken push, Netanyahu says Israel open to ‘little pauses’ in Gaza, no cease-fire | ceasefire | After more than a week of public pressure from the U.S. for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday allowed that his government might be open to only “little pauses” in its assault on Hamas. The Israeli leader sought to play down differences with his country’s most vocal backer on the world stage at a time of rising scrutiny of the sharply rising civilian toll of fighting. |
| 20231107 | 70 Children in Danger as Israel Threatens to Bomb Rantisi Hospital in Gaza | children | The spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israel has ordered the evacuation of the Rantisi Children’s Hospital in preparation for bombing it. |
| 20231107 | Protesters block US military ship allegedly carrying weapons for Israel | collusion & complicity | The demonstrations in Tacoma, Washington, are the second to greet the supply ship, after similar protests in California. |
| 20231107 | Barcelona dockers refuse to handle military material amid Gaza war | collusion & complicity | The Barcelona port stevedores' union has refused to load and unload any military material amid the war in Gaza and urged the protection of civilian populations in areas of conflict, following a similar move by Belgian transport unions last week. |
| 20231107 | Israel says its forces operating in 'heart of Gaza City' | day after politics | Israel said on Tuesday its forces were operating deep in Gaza City in their battle to wipe out Hamas in the Palestinian enclave, and that the Islamist militant group's leader was trapped inside a bunker. |
| 20231107 | Israel fights Hamas in ‘depths’ of Gaza City and foresees control of enclave’s security after war | day after politics | The Israeli army said Tuesday that its forces are battling Hamas fighters inside Gaza’s largest city, signaling a major new stage a month into a war that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled swaths of the territory. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah |
| 20231107 | Israel to take 'security responsibility' for Gaza | day after politics | Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely when its war with Hamas ends, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. |
| 20231107 | White House warns Israel against reoccupying Gaza as Netanyahu signals what a post-war Strip could look like | day after politics | The White House maintained Tuesday that it doesn’t believe Israeli forces should reoccupy Gaza following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments that the country will have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends. |
| 20231107 | Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as an advance on the urban center looms | dystopian war | The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes Monday, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza’s largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war. |
| 20231107 | Rights groups warn of Gaza mass displacement | dystopian war | Palestinian rights groups say about 1.5 million people are displaced in Gaza amid unrelenting Israeli bombardments, threat of being pushed out of enclave “imminent”. |
| 20231107 | Gaza suffers most air strikes in a month in Middle East since 2020 | dystopian war | The Gaza Strip has experienced the highest number of air strikes recorded within a single month for any country or territory in the Middle East going back to 2020, according to a data analytics firm tracking Israel’s assault. |
| 20231107 | ‘We saw death’: families flee past tanks as Israel begins to storm Gaza City | dystopian war | Waving white flags and holding their hands above their heads, Palestinian families fled past tanks waiting to storm Gaza City in the next stage of the war that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said will give Israel “indefinite” control over the besieged territory. |
| 20231107 | 70 Children in Danger as Israel Threatens to Bomb Rantisi Hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that Israel has ordered the evacuation of the Rantisi Children’s Hospital in preparation for bombing it. |
| 20231107 | UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said one additional staff member has been killed in the Gaza Strip in the past day. | eliminating UNWRA | In the last 24 hours, one additional UNRWA colleague was killed, and another seriously injured. 89 UNRWA colleagues have been killed and at least 26 injured since the start of hostilities. This is the highest number of United Nations aid workers killed in a conflict in the history of the United Nations. |
| 20231107 | Rights groups warn of Gaza mass displacement | forced displacement | Palestinian rights groups say about 1.5 million people are displaced in Gaza amid unrelenting Israeli bombardments, threat of being pushed out of enclave “imminent”. |
| 20231107 | ‘We saw death’: families flee past tanks as Israel begins to storm Gaza City | forced displacement | Waving white flags and holding their hands above their heads, Palestinian families fled past tanks waiting to storm Gaza City in the next stage of the war that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said will give Israel “indefinite” control over the besieged territory. |
| 20231107 | 'We will not be exiled' - the final messages of Gaza's victims | forced displacement | Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza since 7 October has flattened entire neighbourhoods and left the besieged enclave resembling an apocalyptic nightmare. |
| 20231107 | 'Anti-Semitic' graffiti possibly ordered from abroad, Paris prosecutor says | global effects | The daubing of dozens of Stars of David on buildings in Paris and its suburbs, widely condemned as anti-Semitic, may have been carried out at the "express demand" of an individual residing abroad, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday. |
| 20231107 | Countries sever ties with Israel over its war on Gaza | global response | Will diplomatic pressure force the US and Israel’s other Western allies to reconsider their support for the war? |
| 20231107 | Hamas leader refuses to acknowledge killing of civilians in Israel | Hamas resistance attack | A senior Hamas leader has refused to acknowledge that his group killed civilians in Israel, claiming only conscripts were targeted. |
| 20231107 | Red Cross says humanitarian convoy came under fire in Gaza City | humanitarian aid | The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy came under fire in Gaza City on Tuesday but was able to deliver medical supplies to Al Shifa hospital. |
| 20231107 | Aid to Gaza must 'scale up enormously' through more entry points, EU says | humanitarian aid | The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid warned on Tuesday that support for civilians in Gaza must be stepped up "enormously," urging all parties to open other entry points into the Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231107 | Pentagon: US bases in Iraq, Syria attacked 38 times in under a month | Iraq | US forces stationed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 38 times in less than a month by Iranian-supported resistance factions, according to the Pentagon, including six incidents in the past two days. Yesterday, it was reported that drones were shot down, attempting to target the Ain Al-Assad bases in Iraq’s Anbar governorate and Al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border. |
| 20231107 | The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why | Israelis | This is an editorial |
| 20231107 | Palestinian journalist Mohammad Abu Hasira killed in Israeli strike on Gaza | journalists | An Israeli air raid has killed Palestinian journalist Mohammad Abu Hasira along with 42 family members near Gaza City, according to local media reports. |
| 20231107 | 'This might be my last video': A Gazan journalist reports on the humanitarian crisis | journalists | Since October 7, Gazan journalist Madhat Hajjaj has sent us dozens of eyewitness reports as the Israeli bombing continues. In a video sent to the Observateurs editorial team on November 6 from the Al-Shifa Hospital, he said that "people are fighting for a sip of water" after a night of unprecedented bombardment. The Palestinian Authority has accused the Israeli army of targeting hospitals, bakeries, generators and water tanks. |
| 20231107 | How Lebanon’s Hezbollah group became a critical player in the Israel-Hamas war | Lebanon | When the Lebanese militia Hezbollah announced last week that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, would deliver his first public speech since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, much of the region held its breath. |
| 20231107 | Hezbollah MP: group will respond 'double' over Lebanese civilians hurt | Lebanon | A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond "double" to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon. |
| 20231107 | US envoy flies to Beirut in a surprise visit, says Washington doesn’t want Gaza war to expand | Lebanon | A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut Tuesday that Washington doesn’t want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago. |
| 20231107 | Israel commits 'new massacre' in Gaza as Netanyahu vows 'indefinite' security control | targeting civilians | The Israeli military killed "dozens" of civilians in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah on Tuesday in what the Palestinian health ministry described as a "new massacre", as Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will maintain "indefinite" security control over the coastal enclave. |
| 20231107 | Pentagon: US bases in Iraq, Syria attacked 38 times in under a month | Syria | US forces stationed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 38 times in less than a month by Iranian-supported resistance factions, according to the Pentagon, including six incidents in the past two days. Yesterday, it was reported that drones were shot down, attempting to target the Ain Al-Assad bases in Iraq’s Anbar governorate and Al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border. |
| 20231107 | Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support | Turkey | Turkey's parliament removed Coca-Cola (KO.N) and Nestle (NESN.S) products from its restaurants on Tuesday over their alleged support for Israel amid the conflict in Gaza, according to an official statement and a source who named the two companies. |
| 20231107 | UN Security Council fails to agree on Israel-Hamas war as Gaza death toll passes 10,000 | United Nations | Despite more than two hours of closed-door discussions Monday, differences remained. The U.S. is calling for “humanitarian pauses” while many other council members are demanding a “humanitarian cease-fire” to deliver desperately needed aid and prevent more civilian deaths in Gaza. |
| 20231107 | US envoy flies to Beirut in a surprise visit, says Washington doesn’t want Gaza war to expand | United States | A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut Tuesday that Washington doesn’t want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago. |
| 20231107 | Blinken seeks G7 unity on Israel-Hamas war among items on crisis-heavy global agenda | United States | Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia on Tuesday with an appeal for the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies to forge consensus on how to deal with the crisis. |
| 20231107 | Biden’s outreach to US Arabs and Muslims ‘falling flat’ amid Gaza war | United States | Anger is growing, even as US administration holds meetings with advocates and announces anti-Islamophobia strategy. |
| 20231107 | US says does not support Israeli ‘reoccupation’ of Gaza after war | United States | National Security Council spokesperson says US President Joe Biden believes a ‘reoccupation by Israeli forces of Gaza is not the the right thing to do’. |
| 20231107 | In the midst of Israel’s assault, people of Gaza still don’t want the PA | West Bank | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel would govern the security of the Gaza Strip for an “indefinite period” after the ongoing war, in comments that came amid a growing debate over what the besieged strip might look like after the war. |
| 20231107 | Call for Meta to end dehumanisation of Palestinians on its platforms | Zionism / social media | The Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition is urging Meta to end the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the suppression of their narratives online. |
| 20231107 | Islamophobia, anti-Semitism rises in EU amid Israel-Hamas war: Official | Zionism / EU | Hate speech targeting Muslims and Jews in Europe is rising as the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages, a European Union official tasked with combating Islamophobia has warned. |
| 20231107 | Fake Mossad account creates online confusion | Zionism / social media | Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, fake accounts have been popping up impersonating government entities. The latest one causing confusion and spreading disinformation is one pretending to be the Israeli national intelligence agency, Mossad. |
| 20231107 | Jon Voight 'disappointed' by daughter Angelina Jolie’s 'lies' about Israel Hamas war | Zionism / US | Angelina Jolie’s father Jon Voight has slammed his estranged daughter’s views on the Israel Hamas war and accused her of spreading “lies” on social media. |
| 20231107 | London Palestine protests: Groups resist calls to cancel Armistice Day march | Zionism / UK | Pro-Palestine groups have vowed to continue marching for Gaza in central London on Saturday as the police join government calls to cancel a planned demonstration. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231108 | G7 calls for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza | ceasefire | Top diplomats from the Group of Seven (G7) have called for “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s bombardment in order to deliver aid to desperate Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231108 | G7 nations urge ‘urgent action’ to help civilians trapped in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting | ceasefire | Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies called Wednesday for “urgent action” to help civilians trapped in an increasingly dire situation in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting to allow aid in and people out, in announcing a unified stance on the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231108 | More than 1,000 USAID employees sign letter backing Israel-Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Hundreds of staffers at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed a letter calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, as a growing number of government employees voice dissent against US support for Israel’s military offensive there. |
| 20231108 | 59 mosques destroyed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since Oct. 7: Interior Ministry | churches & mosques | 136 mosques, 3 churches have been partially damaged in airstrikes |
| 20231108 | Germany reports massive surge in arms exports to Israel | collusion & complicity | The government allowed exports of almost €303 million ($323 million) to Israel up to 2 November – almost 10 times as much for the entire 2022 (€32 million), according to the German Economic Ministry. |
| 20231108 | Palestinian Authority would be appropriate governance for Gaza, US officials say | day after politics | The United States believes that the Palestinian Authority “is the appropriate place to look for governance eventually” of the Gaza Strip, a State Department official said. |
| 20231108 | Israel cannot reoccupy Gaza at end of conflict, says Antony Blinken | day after politics | US secretary of state echoes White House line, while UK favours rule by ‘peace-loving Palestinian leadership’ |
| 20231108 | Former UN expert stresses Israel’s occupation of Gaza never ended | day after politics | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has become the latest United States government official to warn Israel that it cannot “reoccupy Gaza” after the war with Hamas, in response to recent comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| Comment: the occupation of Gaza began in 1956 during the Suez Crisis following the nationalizing of the French-British controlled Suez Canal by Egypt. The Israelis were asked to attack Egyptian troops in Gaza. The enclave is part of the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT) thus indeed still under occupation | |||
| 20231108 | 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' | dystopian war | The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. |
| 20231108 | Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza runs out of fuel, shuts down key services | eliminating health care system | Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City has shut down “most operations” after running out of fuel and withstanding daily Israeli bombardments around the medical complex since Sunday. |
| 20231108 | ‘Handed a death sentence’: UK doctor forced to return to Gaza from Egypt | eliminating health care system | A British consultant cardiologist based in Swansea has said he is being “handed a death sentence” after being forced to return to Gaza over the border from Egypt at the Rafah crossing on Wednesday. |
| 20231108 | Israel-Hamas fight heats up in Gaza City, accelerating exodus of Palestinians to the south | food, water, fuel & electricity | Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban fighting between Israel and Hamas heats up. |
| 20231108 | 'Living on biscuits': The fear of starvation and thirst sets in for Gaza's residents | food, water, fuel & electricity | A full siege imposed on 9 October, followed by the bombing of bakeries, supermarkets and water tanks, has forced people to take extreme measures to find any food or water |
| 20231108 | ‘No running water’: War-displaced Gaza families bathe, wash in polluted sea | food, water, fuel & electricity | Escaping dirty conditions in overcrowded schools, Gaza families displaced by Israeli bombing are being forced to bathe and wash in polluted seawater. |
| 20231108 | Starved by Israel's blockade, Gaza's displaced children go hungry | food, water, fuel & electricity | Euronews correspondent in Gaza, Nebal Hajjoo, spoke to families living hand to mouth, not knowing if they'll be able to buy bread. |
| 20231108 | Israel-Hamas fight heats up in Gaza City, accelerating exodus of Palestinians to the south | forced displacement | Palestinians living in the heart of Gaza’s largest city said Wednesday they could see and hear Israeli ground forces closing in from multiple directions, accelerating the exodus of thousands of civilians as food and water become scarce and urban fighting between Israel and Hamas heats up. |
| 20231108 | 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' | forced displacement | The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. |
| 20231108 | Thousands of Palestinians flee northern Gaza in ‘desperate journey | forced displacement | Thousands of Palestinians have left northern Gaza on foot, waving white flags and moving southwards in search of refuge that has become increasingly elusive as Israel pounds the entire enclave with air strikes. |
| 20231108 | People forcibly displaced from north Gaza are fleeing on foot | forced displacement | Palestinians have been fleeing north Gaza on foot to escape Israel’s air attacks and ground offensive as its forces push further into the area, after issuing orders for people to leave. |
| 20231108 | India bars protests that support the Palestinians. Analysts say a pro-Israel shift helps at home | global effects | From Western capitals to Muslim states, protest rallies over the Israel-Hamas war have made headlines. But one place known for its vocal pro-Palestinian stance has been conspicuously quiet: Indian-controlled Kashmir. |
| 20231108 | Star of David graffiti in Paris - the Russian connection | global effects | French police believe a graffiti campaign featuring Star of David stencils may have been the work of Russian intelligence. |
| 20231108 | Ukrainian letter of solidarity with the Palestinian people | global response | More than 300 Ukrainian scholars, activists and artists express their solidarity with Palestinians in an open letter. |
| 20231108 | South Africa says it will issue 'demarche' to Israeli Ambassador | global response | South Africa is in the process of issuing a “demarche” to Israeli Ambassador, Eliav Belotsercovsky, the Director-General of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Zane Dangor, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. |
| 20231108 | Spain’s Ione Belarra: Israel must end ‘genocide’ of Palestinians in Gaza | global response | Ione Belarra, the Spanish minister for social rights and leader of the far-left Podemos party, also condemned world leaders for an apparent double standard – saying while human rights abuses in Ukraine have been decried, there is a “deafening silence” on the victims of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231108 | Cut diplomatic ties with Israel over “genocide,” Spanish minister says | global response | Spanish Minister of Social Rights Ione Belarra told Al Jazeera that her country should cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its “genocide” against Palestinians. She also criticised the EU’s “hypocrisy” in its muted response to Israel compared to its swift actions against Russia. |
| 20231108 | Belgium wants sanctions against Israel for Gaza bombings - deputy PM | global response | Belgium's deputy prime minister called on the Belgian government on Wednesday to adopt sanctions against Israel and investigate the bombings of hospitals and refugee camps in Gaza. |
| 20231108 | Italy to send hospital ship close to Gaza coast | humanitarian aid | Italy will send a hospital ship close to the coast of Gaza to help treat victims of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Italian Defence Minister, Guido Crosetto, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. |
| 20231108 | Iraq donates 10m litres of fuel to support hospitals in Gaza | humanitarian aid | Iraq said it is donating ten million litres of fuel to operate generators and keep hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip operational. |
| 20231108 | Israel's military spokesperson says Hamas has lost control in northern Gaza | IOF | UNVERIFIABLE CLAIM: Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza as thousands of residents have moved south, Israel's military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing on Wednesday. |
| 20231108 | Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital | IOF | Sanad, Al Jazeera’s digital investigation agency, has disproved the latest claim by Israeli authorities that there is a tunnel for Hamas fighters under the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Hospital, commonly known as the Qatari Hospital. |
| 20231108 | From outrage to hate: In the wake of October 7, Israel's far right seeks to extend its influence | Israelis | Ministers from Israel’s extreme right have been making increasingly controversial statements since the Hamas attacks on October 7 in a game of one-upmanship that has seen the right wing seek to extend its influence over Israel’s government and beyond. |
| 20231108 | Israeli Supreme Court refuses to allow protests against Gaza war | Israelis | The Israeli Supreme Court today rejected petitions submitted to it against the police’s decision to prevent demonstrations in the Arab community in protest against the war in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231108 | Hezbollah's anti-ship missiles bolster its threat to US navy | Lebanon | Powerful Russian anti-ship missiles acquired by Hezbollah give it the means to deliver on its leader's veiled threat against U.S. warships and underline the grave risks of any regional war, sources familiar with the group's arsenal say. |
| 20231108 | Hezbollah warns of regional war if Gaza bombing goes on | Lebanon | The second in command of Hezbollah - the powerful Iranian backed militia in Lebanon - has said Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza risks wider war in the Middle East. |
| 20231108 | Gaza interior ministry: Israeli air strike kills at least 19 near hospital | targeting civilians | At least 19 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house near a hospital in north Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, the enclave's interior ministry said, as thousands of civilians fled southward to avoid fierce Israeli-Hamas ground fighting. |
| 20231108 | Turkiye halts energy projects with Israel in the absence of a ceasefire: Minister | Turkey | Turkiye will not discuss any energy-related projects with Israel without a ceasefire in Gaza, as it would be disrespectful to Palestinians who are experiencing great brutality, a senior official said late Tuesday, local Turkish media outlets reports. |
| 20231108 | Labour’s refusal to call for Gaza ceasefire derails UK opposition party | United Kingdom | On Tuesday night, a Labour frontbencher quit the party over Starmer’s position – the latest in a string of resignations. |
| 20231108 | Labour MP resigns from front bench to call for a ceasefire | United Kingdom | A Labour source told Middle East Eye that Imran Hussain resigned from the front bench before the party could fire him for supporting a ceasefire in Gaza |
| 20231108 | No grounds to ban pro-Palestinian march, says Met chief | United Kingdom | A pro-Palestinian march due to take place on Armistice Day would only be banned as a "last resort", the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said. |
| 20231108 | Activists accuse England police force of pressuring travel company to cancel trips to London to prevent pro-Palestine protest | United Kingdom | The police force in England is accused of having contacted transport companies and asking them to cancel trips to London this weekend in order to prevent people from attending the massive pro-Palestine rally planned for Saturday. |
| 20231108 | UN chief says Gaza deaths show something 'wrong' with Israel tactics | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that the number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip shows that there is something "clearly wrong" with Israel's military operations against Hamas Palestinian militants. |
| 20231108 | Collective punishment of Palestinian civilians 'amounts to war crime': UN Human Rights chief | United Nations | Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians “amounts to a war crime,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday |
| 20231108 | Blinken reiterates US opposition to Israel or Hamas running post-war Gaza | United States | Gaza cannot be run by either Israel or Hamas once the continuing conflict is over, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, reiterating the stance of the White House. |
| 20231108 | Blinken urges united future Palestinian government for Gaza and West Bank, widening gulf with Israel | United States | Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for the Palestinian territories once Israel’s military campaign against Hamas winds down. |
| 20231108 | Americans divided over Israel response to Hamas attacks, AP-NORC poll shows | United States | Americans have become more likely to describe Israel as an ally that shares U.S. interests and values since the war with Hamas began, but they’re divided over whether Israel has gone too far in its response to last month’s attack, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. |
| 20231108 | The family of a Palestinian activist jailed for incitement says young woman’s account was hacked | West Bank | The family of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi insists she didn’t write the words for which she now sits in an Israeli jail. |
| 20231108 | Birzeit University raided by Israeli occupation forces | West Bank | The campus of Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah has been raided by Israeli occupation forces, Wafa news agency has reported. |
| 20231108 | Israeli parliament bill criminalises ‘consumption of terrorist materials’ | West Bank | Israel’s parliament has passed an amendment to the country’s counterterrorism law that introduces the “consumption of terrorist materials” as a new criminal offence. |
| 20231108 | France’s political parties bitterly divided over Paris march against "anti-Semitism" | Zionism / France | A call for a weekend march in Paris against anti-Semitism sparked bitter squabbling between political parties Wednesday despite a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in the country. |
| 20231108 | Volunteer removed from New York City Marathon for pro-Palestine sign | Zionism / US | Organisers say no 'political' messaging was allowed despite the presence of a 'Run for Israel' tent at the race |
| 20231108 | Steinmeier says Arabs in Germany should distance themselves from Hamas | Zionism / Germany | German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Germans of Arab and Palestinian descent should take steps to distance themselves from anti-Semitism and the Palestinian group Hamas as pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the country have triggered controversy. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231109 | Mossad, CIA chiefs meet Qatar PM in Doha on Gaza hostage deal -source | ceasefire | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israeli Mossad chiefs met with the Qatari prime minister in Doha on Thursday to discuss the parameters of a deal for hostage releases and a pause in Hamas-Israel fighting in the Gaza Strip, a source briefed on the meeting told Reuters. |
| 20231109 | France promises €100 million aid for Palestinians as Macron calls for humanitarian pause in fighting | ceasefire | France will allocate an additional €80 million to humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people this year, bringing the total to €100 million, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday. |
| 20231109 | Pro-Palestine activists in Melbourne disrupt Israeli shipping company | collusison & complicity | Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters in Australia disrupted the supply of an Israeli cargo shipping company by blocking trucks from entering a container terminal in the port city of Melbourne. |
| 20231109 | Blinken urges united future Palestinian government for Gaza and West Bank, widening gulf with Israel | day after politics | Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for the Palestinian territories once Israel’s military campaign against Hamas winds down. |
| 20231109 | Israel's attacks on Gaza: The weapons and scale of destruction | destruction | For over a month, Gaza’s night sky has been lit by the red glow of missile flashes, delivering death and destruction to its 2.3 million residents. It is the same during the day, except the colours are different, as Gaza’s blue skies are blackened with plumes of smoke rising from newly leveled homes. |
| 20231109 | Satellite photos analyzed by AP show an axis of Israeli push earlier this week into the Gaza Strip | dystopian war | Israeli troops have pushed into Gaza City along a key coastal road on the Mediterranean Sea as part of their war on Hamas, according to satellite images from earlier this week analyzed on Thursday by The Associated Press. |
| 20231109 | Israeli tanks make slow Gaza advancements as urban clashes grow | dystopian war | Palestinian sources warn that the Israeli army's current ground offensive is the precursor to another occupation of the besieged enclave |
| 20231109 | Displaced, hungry and abandoned - One Palestinian woman's Gaza odyssey | forced displacement | Palestinians who fled their homes in the north of Gaza continue to be attacked by the Israeli air force |
| 20231109 | Israel to begin daily four-hour ‘pauses’ in fighting in north Gaza, US says | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to begin daily four-hour pauses in fighting in northern Gaza to allow people to flee hostilities, the White House has announced, in what it called a step in the right direction. |
| 20231109 | Israel agrees to pauses in Gaza attacks, US says, but fighting rages | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to pause military operations in northern Gaza for four hours a day from Thursday, the White House said, in the first sign of a respite in more than a month of fighting that has killed thousands and stoked fears of a regional conflict. |
| 20231109 | Israel agrees to 4-hour daily pauses in Gaza fighting to allow civilians to flee, White House says | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza starting on Thursday, the White House said, as President Joe Biden pressed Israelis for a multi-day stoppage in the fighting in a bid to release hostages held by the militant group. |
| 20231109 | Israel to begin daily four-hour ‘pauses’ in fighting in north Gaza, US says | forced displacement | Israel has agreed to begin daily four-hour pauses in fighting in northern Gaza to allow people to flee hostilities, the White House has announced, in what it called a step in the right direction.
Comment: They didn't confirm officially . |
| 20231109 | Brazil-Israel ties strained as Mossad trumpets Hezbollah bust | global effects | An unusual statement by Israeli spy agency Mossad saying it had helped foil a Hezbollah attack in Brazil is the latest incident to strain relations between Israel and Latin America's largest nation against the backdrop of the Gaza war. |
| 20231109 | German Chancellor pledges to protect Germany's Jews in the rise of "anti-Semitism" | global effects | The German Chancellor has pledged to protect Germany's Jews, in the face of rising "anti-Semitism" since the start, of the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231109 | France slams Russian networks for 'exploiting' crises with posts of Star of David graffiti in Paris | global effects | The French foreign ministry accused Russian online networks of attempting to "exploit international crises to sow confusion" in France and in Europe by sharing photos of the Stars of David appearing around Paris, graffiti that has been widely suspected of being an "anti-Semitic" statement. |
| 20231109 | Fighting "antisemitism" and Islamophobia in France | global effects | Amid the latest Israel-Hamas conflict, antisemitic incidents have surged in France, which is home to Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities. But one initiative in the south of Paris is trying to calm tensions by bringing together Muslims and Jews. |
| 20231109 | 'Crimes are being committed': Belgium deputy PM Petra De Sutter calls for sanctions against Israel | global response | “Israel’s bombing increases the Palestinians’ total hopelessness," said Petra De Sutter. "Without a real solution, the violence will continue to repeat itself." |
| 20231109 | French President Macron hosts Gaza aid conference and appeals to Israel to protect civilians | global response | Western and Arab nations, international agencies and nongovernmental groups stressed the urgent need for aid for Gaza civilians at a Paris conference Thursday, held as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory worsens amid Israel’s massive air and ground campaign against Hamas. |
| 20231109 | Macron says protecting civilians ‘non-negotiable’ at Gaza aid conference | global response | French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a humanitarian pause in fighting between Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza, saying that Israel must take steps to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 20231109 | 'All lives have equal worth': Macron urges Israel to protect civilians at Gaza aid conference | global response | French President Emmanuel Macron opened a Gaza aid conference on Thursday with an appeal for Israel to protect civilians as it fights Hamas, saying “all lives have equal worth” and that fighting terrorism “can never be carried out without rules.” |
| 20231109 | NGOs express disappointment at international conference organised by Macron for Gaza | global response | Thirteen NGOs held a news conference, Thursday, in Paris to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, after attending an international conference on humanitarian aid for the Gazan population. |
| 20231109 | Pro-Palestine activists in Melbourne disrupt Israeli shipping company | global response | Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters in Australia disrupted the supply of an Israeli cargo shipping company by blocking trucks from entering a container terminal in the port city of Melbourne. |
| 20231109 | Why Latin America’s ‘pink tide’ is taking a stand against Israel | global response | As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza enters its second month, world leaders have increasingly voiced concern over the rising death toll and suspected human rights violations in the Palestinian territory. |
| 20231109 | Islamic Jihad group in Gaza shows new hostage video | Hamas resistance attack | The armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza released a video on Thursday showing an elderly woman and a young boy who were among around 240 hostages seized by militant gunmen who attacked Israel on Oct. 7. |
| 20231109 | Israel sees 'sign of life' in Gaza hostage video | Hamas resistance attack | The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has posted videos of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza. |
| 20231109 | Israel berates New York Times, CNN, Reuters, AP over Hamas attack photographers | Hamas resistance attack | Israel accuses foreign media of having forewarning of Hamas’ attacks through freelance photographers in Gaza. |
| 20231109 | Reuters denies any suggestion it had prior knowledge of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel | Hamas resistance attack | Reuters denied on Thursday suggestions by media advocacy group HonestReporting that it and other international news organisations had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers. |
| 20231109 | Negotiations said to be underway for 3-day humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza to let aid in, hostages out | humanitarian aid | International mediators were closing in on a possible deal Thursday for a three-day humanitarian cease-fire in exchange for the release of around a dozen hostages held by Hamas, according to two Egyptian officials, a United Nations official and a Western diplomat. The deal would also allow a small amount of fuel to enter the territory for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began. |
| 20231109 | France promises €100 million aid for Palestinians as Macron calls for humanitarian pause in fighting | humanitarian aid | France will allocate an additional €80 million to humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people this year, bringing the total to €100 million, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday. |
| 20231109 | ‘We are facing a disaster’, Mayor of Gaza’s Maghazi camp warns | humanitarian crisis | In an area less than 3 square km (1.1sq miles), 100,000 people are struggling to survive. This small patch of Gaza is rapidly becoming uninhabitable. |
| 20231109 | Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza’s close-knit society | humanitarian crisis | Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. |
| 20231109 | ‘We saw death’: Egyptian nationals trying to leave Gaza stuck at Rafah | humanitarian crisis | It was a long-awaited family reunion. In October, Reem Rasmi travelled from her home in Egypt to the Gaza Strip to visit her sister’s family after five years. Her nephew was getting married, and it was time to celebrate. |
| 20231109 | Red Cross reports on Gaza’s critical situation | humanitarian crisis | On treating patients in Gaza’s war zone, Dr. Tom Potkor, chief surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports on the drastic situation. |
| 20231109 | Three rights groups file ICC lawsuit against Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’ | ICC | Three Palestinian rights groups have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging the body to investigate Israel for “apartheid” as well as “genocide” and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. |
| 20231109 | US forces under fire in Middle East as America slides towards brink | Iraq | A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. |
| 20231109 | The war on Gaza: A masterclass in disinformation | Israelis | Israeli government tries to deflect responsibility, sow doubt as it seeks to define the narrative in the war on Gaza. |
| 20231109 | News outlets reject allegations of complicity in Hamas attack inside Israel | journalists | Four international media outlets have denied accusations they had prior knowledge of the October 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel after an article by a pro-Israel media watchdog group HonestReporting questioned their work with Gaza-based freelance photojournalists. |
| 20231109 | Protest delays US Ambassador's visit to Lebanon's top Sunni religious authority | Lebanon | Dozens in Lebanon, on Thursday, protested against an upcoming visit to the country’s highest Sunni religious authority by the US Ambassador in Beirut. |
| 20231109 | Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are by design, not default | opinion | The gruesome scenes of death and destruction in Gaza are a reminder that for Israel, violence is not incidental, accidental or coincidental. It is part and parcel of its colonial DNA. |
| 20231109 | 'Eliminating Hamas is not going to happen,' Palestinian PM says | Palestinian Authority | Speaking to FRANCE 24 one month after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Mohammad Shtayyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, called for "an immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, but said that "the Israelis don't want any ceasefire because today the Israelis are in the mood of revenge". |
| 20231109 | US hits alleged Iran-linked ‘weapons storage’ facility in Syria | Syria | Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the move was in response to continued attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq. |
| 20231109 | Palestinians arrested for ‘terrorism’ over WhatsApp status | West Bank | Video shows the moment a Palestinian woman and her husband were arrested in Israel on terrorism charges over her WhatsApp status. She’s one of many Palestinian citizens of Israel who’ve been arrested, suspended or expelled from jobs and universities, since October 7. |
| 20231109 | Deadly assault on Jenin refugee camp as West Bank raids intensify | West Bank | At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and 20 others injured during a raid by Israeli forces in Jenin city and refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said. |
| 20231109 | 11 Palestinians killed in large Israeli raid on Jenin | West Bank | At least 11 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in a sweeping military raid and drone strikes on Jenin city and refugee camp on Thursday. |
| 20231109 | Braverman slammed after calling UK pro-Palestine protesters ‘hate marchers’ | Zionism / UK | Suella Braverman, the British home secretary, has faced criticism after describing pro-Palestine protesters as “hate marchers” and accusing police of double standards.
COMMENT Hindus in India also hate Muslims. Braverman has family members in the Israeli occupation forces, and have businesses in the territory of the Israeli entity. |
| 20231109 | The UK’s interior minister sparks furor by accusing police of favoring pro-Palestinian protesters | Zionism / UK | Britain’s interior minister on Thursday accused the country’s largest police force of being more lenient toward pro-Palestinian demonstrators than other groups, deepening a political feud sparked by the Israel-Hamas war |
| 20231109 | Calls to sack Braverman grow amid furore over pro-Palestine rallies remarks | Zionism / UK | The political future of British Home Secretary Suella Braverman hangs in the balance as she faces anger within her own Conservative Party after making unauthorised comments about the country’s pro-Palestine demonstrations, which she called “hate marches” and for criticising the police. |
| 20231109 | Washington Post cartoon on Gaza condemned as racist | Zionism / US | The Washington Post has taken down a cartoon that’s been condemned as a racist depiction of Palestinians and Arabs. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231110 | Will Israel’s ‘humanitarian pauses’ mean much for Gaza? No, say experts | ceasefire | Analysts say the temporary cease in fighting is not only glaringly inadequate but a PR move led by US interests. |
| 20231110 | Gaza’s Christians fear ‘threat of extinction’ amid Israel war | churches & mosques | When Israeli bombs began pummelling the once-bustling streets of Gaza City, Diana Tarazi and her family fled to the Holy Family Church, the only Roman Catholic place of worship in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231110 | Jewish fears as German support for Israel is challenged on streets | collusion & complicity | Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's "ashamed and outraged" at recent antisemitic attacks in Germany. |
| 20231110 | Pro-Palestinian protesters block entrances to UK's BAE defence plant | collusion & complicity | Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the entrances to a BAE Systems (BAES.L) factory in southeast England on Friday, targeting Britain's biggest military supplier to call for an end to arms sales to Israel. |
| 20231110 | Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | collusion & complicity | The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. |
| 20231110 | UN rights chief urges probe of Israel's 'high-impact' weapons | collusion & complicity | The U.N. human rights chief on Friday called for an investigation into what he called Israel's use of "high-impact explosive weapons" in Gaza, which he said was causing indiscriminate destruction in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| Comment: 'high-impact' weapons refers to bunker buster bombs, and general purpose bomb of 2.000 and 5.000 pounds delivered by the US. | |||
| 20231110 | Israeli bombardments damage more than half of Gaza’s housing units | domicide | Israeli bombardments have caused damage to more than 50 percent of housing units across Gaza, according to local officials. |
| 20231110 | Israel-Gaza war ‘devastating’ Palestine economy, UN warns | economy | Gaza is experiencing ‘unimaginable’ levels of destruction as the Palestinian economy suffers after a month of war. |
| 20231110 | In Gaza, hospital procedures without anaesthetics prompted screams, prayers | eliminating health care system | The little girl was weeping in pain and screaming "Mummy, Mummy" while the nurse stitched up her head wound without using any anaesthetic, because none was available at the time at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. |
| 20231110 | Health centres in north Gaza under siege in ‘day of war against hospitals’ | eliminating health care system | Battles have intensified around several hospitals in northern Gaza, with some receiving direct hits and reports of casualties among patients and tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians sheltering at the facilities, as Israeli troops continue their advance. |
| 20231110 | Gaza’s hospitals on the brink of collapse | eliminating health care system | Gaza’s Ministry of Health says 21 hospitals are out of service, others are running out of fuel, medicine. |
| 20231110 | Which of Gaza’s hospitals is Israel threatening? | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks surround four hospitals in Gaza as bombardments, shelling, and shortages of fuel and supplies hit other medical centers. |
| 20231110 | Gaza hospital ‘surrounded by tanks’ as other healthcare facilities say they’ve been damaged by Israeli strikes | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks have surrounded a Gaza hospital, its director told CNN, as the territory’s largest healthcare facility came under a reported “bombardment,” heightening fears Friday that Israel’s military campaign is further endangering Gazan patients and medical staff. |
| 20231110 | Strikes at hospitals in Gaza trigger exodus of thousands sheltering there | eliminating health care system | Thousands of Palestinians sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war at Gaza City’s main hospital fled south Friday after several reported strikes in and around the compound overnight. They joined a growing exodus of people escaping intense urban fighting in the north -- including near other hospitals -- as Gaza officials said the territory’s death toll surpassed 11,000. |
| 20231110 | Palestinians flee Al Shifa hospital after deadly strike | eliminating health care system | Ayman Al-Masri joined thousands of people seeking safety in southern Gaza on Friday after fleeing the enclave's main hospital in what Palestinian officials said was an Israeli air strike. |
| 20231110 | Israel strikes Gaza’s biggest hospital complex, health officials say | eliminating health care system | Israel has attacked four hospitals in Gaza, including the enclave’s biggest medical complex, resulting in what appear to be multiple casualties, the health ministry in the Hamas-governed enclave has said. |
| 20231110 | UN mourns record death toll in war with over 100 employees killed in Gaza | eliminating UNWRA | More than 100 United Nations employees have been killed since the Israel-Hamas war began in Gaza, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Friday, making it the deadliest conflict ever for the U.N. in such a short period of time. |
| 20231110 | 'Far too many' Palestinians have died, says Blinken, as death toll passes 11,000 | genocide | Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza as Israel's military pushed deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants. Officials from the Hamas-run health department in the besieged enclave said the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 11,000 people. |
| 20231110 | Canada PM Trudeau condemns violence after shots fired at Jewish schools | global effects | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday condemned recent violence as unacceptable after shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal overnight and clashes between students at a university in the same city late on Wednesday. |
| 20231110 | Counterprotest groups plan to confront pro-Palestine marchers, say Met police | global effects | Large groups are preparing to travel to London to “confront” a pro-Palestine march on Armistice Day that organisers predict will be one of the biggest demonstrations ever seen in Britain, the Metropolitan police has said. |
| 20231110 | ‘Inhumane’: Top Belgium officials criticise Israeli bombing of Gaza | global response | PM De Croo describes Israel’s relentless and bloody campaign as ‘disproportionate’, as a left-wing politician calls for sanctions. |
| 20231110 | From sport to music, Chile’s Palestinian diaspora rallies to support Gaza | global response | Chile is home to the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, making the community a political force. |
| 20231110 | Saudi crown prince, African leaders call for end to war in Gaza | global response | Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Friday called for an end to the war in Gaza, a stance later echoed in a declaration with African leaders attending a summit in Riyadh. |
| 20231110 | Pro-Palestinian protesters block entrances to UK's BAE defence plant | global response | Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the entrances to a BAE Systems (BAES.L) factory in southeast England on Friday, targeting Britain's biggest military supplier to call for an end to arms sales to Israel. |
| 20231110 | Indian unions call for end to labour deal with Israel | global response | Israel requests Indian workers to replace thousands of Palestinian workers whose work permits were revoked after 7 October attacks |
| 20231110 | Israel revises down toll from October 7 attack to ‘around 1,200’ | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli officials say the original death toll of 1,400 included unidentified corpses now believed to be Hamas fighters. |
| 20231110 | Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to 'around 1,200' | Hamas resistance attack | A spokesperson for Israel's foreign ministry said on Friday that the death toll from the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel had been revised to around 1,200 from a previous government estimate of 1,400. |
| 20231110 | ‘A death sentence’: British doctor flees Gaza but is sent back to war zone | humanitarian aid | A British doctor who escaped Gaza with his family has been sent back to the war zone after Egyptian officials told him his name wasn’t on the list of evacuees, according to a British Member of Parliament. |
| 20231110 | UN rights chief urges probe of Israel's 'high-impact' weapons | IOF | The U.N. human rights chief on Friday called for an investigation into what he called Israel's use of "high-impact explosive weapons" in Gaza, which he said was causing indiscriminate destruction in the besieged Palestinian enclave. |
| Comment: 'high-impact' weapons refers to bunker buster bombs, and general purpose bomb of 2.000 and 5.000 pounds delivered by the US. | |||
| 20231110 | Iran warns of ‘inevitable expansion’ of Israel-Gaza war | Iran | Israel’s intensifying ‘aggression’ against Gaza civilians makes spillover inevitable, Iran’s top diplomat says. |
| 20231110 | US troops face further attacks in Iraq | Iraq | United States troops in Iraq have been targeted in new attacks using drones and explosives, military and security sources reported. |
| 20231110 | Netanyahu says not seeking to ‘occupy’ Gaza but ‘demilitarise’ it | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country does not intend to “occupy” or govern Gaza after the end of its war with Hamas, but the enclave must be “demilitarised, deradicalised and rebuilt”. |
| 20231110 | ‘Now isn’t the time’: Israel’s left conflicted on future after Hamas attack | Israelis | From politicians to regular citizens, Israel’s left faces an identity crisis amid hyper charged nationalism since October 7. |
| 20231110 | Israel says it will divert some far-right coalition party funds to war effort | Israelis | Israel's finance ministry said on Friday it would divert to the war effort some 1.6 billion shekels ($440 million) this year out of billions earmarked for parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition government. |
| 20231110 | Israel must revive 'two-state solution', former PM Ehud Olmert | Israelis | Olmert slammed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying he had failed his citizens and boosted Hamas while weakening the Palestinian Authority: "He is in a nervous breakdown." |
| 20231110 | An encounter with two bereaved Israeli peace activists in Jerusalem | Israelis | Ya’akov Godo lost his son and Maoz Yinon lost his parents in the Hamas-led attack on 7 October but both argue that war is futile |
| 20231110 | News outlets deny claims they had prior knowledge of Hamas attack on Israel | media | Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times and CNN say suggestions are untrue, outrageous and reckless |
| 20231110 | Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | regional effect | The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. |
| 20231110 | US launches 'self-defence' strike on weapons unit in Syria | Syria | The US used two F-15 aircrafts to launch a 'self-defence strike' in Maysulun in eastern Syria on 8 November. The strike was targeted at what the Pentagon calls a weapons storage unit used by Iran's revolutionary guard and its affiliates. Officials say this was in response to attacks on US personnel in Iraq and Syria. |
| 20231110 | US military buildup off Israeli coast requires balancing act between deterrence and escalation | Syria | US warplanes conducted air strikes on a weapons storage facility in Syria used by Iran-backed militants on November 8 in retaliation for the growing number of attacks on US military interests in the region, the second such strikes in less than two weeks. |
| 20231110 | Gaza officials say Israeli strikes kill 27 amid US unease at death toll | targeting civilians | Israeli air strikes hit three Gaza hospitals and a school on Friday, killing at least 27 people, and a ground battle was under way at another hospital, Palestinian officials said, as the U.S. voiced fresh disquiet at the war's mounting death toll. |
| 20231110 | Civilian death rate in Israeli airstrikes higher than in past conflicts, study finds | targeting civilians | Monitoring group says increased fatality average in latest Gaza air campaign may indicate shift in strategy |
| 20231110 | Blinken says 'far too many' Palestinians killed as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday denounced the soaring number of Palestinians killed as Israel pushed ahead with its war against Hamas in Gaza, saying more needs to be done to protect the civilians. |
| 20231110 | Blinken says ‘far too many’ Palestinians have died as Israel wages relentless war on Hamas | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “far too many” Palestinians have died and suffered as Israel wages a relentless war against the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip. He urged Israel to minimize harm to civilians and maximize humanitarian assistance that reaches them. |
| 20231110 | Blinken brings a notable shift in US language toward Israel as pressure mounts at home and abroad | United States | When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented the civilian death toll in Gaza on Friday, it marked a subtle but notable shift in US language toward the Israeli government. |
| 20231110 | Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | United States | The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN. |
| 20231110 | German police crack down on pro-Palestine rallies, raising alarm | Zionism / Germany | Officers seized several banners at a recent Berlin protest, fuelling fears that free expression does not extend to the Palestinian cause. |
| 20231110 | UK PM Sunak under pressure to sack interior minister over police criticism | Zionism / UK | British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was under growing pressure on Friday to sack one of his most senior ministers, Suella Braverman, after she published an inflammatory article attacking the police's handling of a planned pro-Palestinian march. |
| 20231110 | Opposition to Armistice Day march for Gaza is a sign of UK’s moral crisis | Zionism / UK | UK government’s efforts to ban Saturday’s pro-Palestine march exposes its abandonment of some core British values and is indicative of a similar trend across the Western world. |
| 20231110 | Rishi Sunak faces Tory civil war as he holds off sacking Suella Braverman | Zionism / UK | Home secretary’s allies claim over 50 MPs are backing her but moderate Tories say PM must take action |
| 20231110 | TikTok faces calls for ban amid claims of anti-Israel ‘indoctrination’ | Zionism / US | US lawmakers renew calls to restrict app amid anxiety about growing pro-Palestinian views among young people. |
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| 20231111 | EU Socialists MEP: Israeli pauses in Gaza not enough | ceasefire | Pedro Marques, deputy leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, has told DW the move is a "step in the right direction" and shows the results of international pressure. Pedro Marques said citizens on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East need to be protected. |
| 20231111 | Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls, rules out role for PA in post-war Gaza | ceasefire | Netanyahu on Saturday rejected mounting international calls for a ceasefire and ruled out a role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in post-war Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Hundreds of thousands rally in London demanding Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Many far-right counterprotesters clash with police, arrested to ‘prevent breach of peace’. |
| 20231111 | Australian arms exports to Israel in focus amid court case, port protests | collusion & complicity | Legal action and protests at Australian ports put spotlight on Australian weapons exports to Israel. |
| 20231111 | Amnesty chief calls out West’s ‘double standards’ over Gaza war | collusion & complicity | “The double standards of those governments… are the bigger threat to human rights right now.” Amnesty International chief Agnes Callamard has called out the West’s approach to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Calling for a ceasefire is never hateful, it’s Suella Braverman who is stoking division | collusion & complicity | Demanding an end to British complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza should not be a controversial position |
| 20231111 | Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls, rules out role for PA in post-war Gaza | day after politics | Netanyahu on Saturday rejected mounting international calls for a ceasefire and ruled out a role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in post-war Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Israeli troops besiege Gaza hospitals as Arab leaders denounce ‘war crimes’ | eliminating health care system | On the 36th day of the Israel-Palestine armed conflict, Israeli tanks and infantry advance on civilian neighbourhoods in Gaza, as health sector nears collapse |
| 20231111 | Israeli forces close in on al-Shifa Hospital, trapping thousands | eliminating health care system | Thousands of people are holed up in Gaza’s largest hospital, which Israel claims is a Hamas command centre. |
| 20231111 | Israeli forces surround north Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | Shelling, gunshots and explosions took place outside Gaza City hospitals on Friday as Israeli forces continued their ground operation against Hamas. |
| 20231111 | ‘We are minutes away from death’: Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital under attack | eliminating health care system | Palestinian health officials say babies in incubators are fighting for their lives as Israel lays siege to the hospital compound. |
| 20231111 | Pleas from inside Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital under siege | eliminating health care system | Israeli attacks on Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified in the past few hours, with staff reporting “a catastrophic situation”, MSF says. Palestinians sheltering inside are appealing to the international community for help. |
| 20231111 | 39 babies at risk of death at Al-Shifa Hospital due to lack of oxygen: Palestinian Health Ministry | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday that 39 children in the care ward of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza are at risk of death at any time due to a lack of oxygen, which coincided with heavy air and artillery bombardment of the hospital and its surroundings by Israeli forces |
| 20231111 | Gaza health system reaches ‘point of no return’, says Red Cross | eliminating health care system | Attacks on medical facilities and personnel have pushed Gaza’s overstretched health system to a “point of no return”, the Red Cross said on Friday. The warning came hours after Al-Shifa, the biggest hospital in the Strip, came under bombardment, according to the World Health Organization. Footage from the besieged Palestinian enclave showed Israeli tanks around several hospitals in Gaza City. |
| 20231111 | Baby dies in incubator and more at risk as power runs out at al Shifa hospital, Palestinian officials say | eliminating health care system | A newborn baby has died and dozens more are at risk at Gaza's largest hospital after it ran out of power, Palestinian officials have said. |
| 20231111 | Gaza’s main hospital goes dark in intense fighting as Israel’s attacks put it at odds with allies | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops and Hamas gunmen battled Saturday outside Gaza ‘s largest hospital where frantic doctors said the last generator had run out of fuel, causing the death of a premature baby and four other patients. Thousands of war-wounded, medical staff and displaced civilians were caught in the fighting. |
| 20231111 | Gaza's main hospital goes dark as leaders urge Netanyahu to end 'aggression' | eliminating health care system | The leaders of Arab and Muslim countries have rejected the Israeli argument of "self-defence" in the Gaza Strip and demanded an immediate end to Israeli military operations in this territory. |
| 20231111 | Israel's war on "Hamas homes" in Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | Palestinian officials said a baby died and dozens more patients were at risk from Israeli fire around Gaza's largest hospital on Saturday, while Israel said it had killed a Hamas militant who had stopped another hospital from being evacuated. |
| 20231111 | Israel is bombing hospitals in Gaza with Israeli doctors’ approval | eliminating health care system | We, Palestinian doctors in Israel, are forced to watch in silence massacres unfolding, which some of our Israeli colleagues are encouraging. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | eliminating UNWRA | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Nakba survivor displaced in Gaza as tens of thousands flee south | forced displacement | A 90-year-old Nakba survivor was displaced from her home in Gaza City to the south, covering 5 kilometres on foot as tens of thousands of Palestinians flee Israel’s air and ground attacks in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231111 | French far-right leader Marine Le Pen raises a storm over her plan to march against antisemitism | global effects | French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend a weekend march to protest rising antisemitism in France, with critics saying that her once-pariah party has failed to shake off its antisemitic heritage despite growing political legitimacy. |
| 20231111 | France’s Macron urges Israel to stop bombing and killing civilians in Gaza | global response | The French president says he hopes other leaders, including those in Washington, will join him in his call for a ceasefire. |
| 20231111 | Macron calls on Israel to stop killing Gaza's women and babies | global response | In an interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there was "no justification" for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel. |
| 20231111 | EU Socialists MEP: Israeli pauses in Gaza not enough | global response | Pedro Marques, deputy leader of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, has told DW the move is a "step in the right direction" and shows the results of international pressure. Pedro Marques said citizens on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East need to be protected. |
| 20231111 | Colombia president: ‘It’s called Genocide, they do it to remove Palestinians from Gaza’ | global response | Colombian President Gustavo Petro tweeted on X on Friday: “It’s called Genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over.” |
| 20231111 | Irish lawmakers to debate expulsion of Israeli ambassador, referral of Israel to International Criminal Court | global response | Lawmakers in the Irish parliament, Dail, will vote on the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador next week |
| 20231111 | Japan urges two-state solution in Middle East | global response | Japan said Friday the implementation of a two-state solution in the Middle East and support for the economic independence of Palestine are of utmost importance |
| 20231111 | Belgian MP joins solidarity protest for Palestinians: ‘We need to sanction to end this occupation’ | global response | Al Jazeera spoke to Simon Moutquin, A Belgian MP who attended that rally in Brussels, and called for sanctions against Israel. |
| 20231113 | What is a ‘human shield’ and why is Israel using the term in Gaza? | imprisonment / human shield | Rights organisations have accused Israel of war crimes as an overwhelming majority of the 11,100 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks are civilians, two-thirds of them women and children. |
| 20231111 | Iranian President Raisi in Saudi Arabia for Gaza summit | Iran | Ebrahim Raisi is attending an extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh on Gaza, which comes amid reported Arab divisions. The visit is his first to Saudi Arabia since the two countries restored ties in March. |
| 20231111 | Israelis in fear and denial as society slides towards fascism | Israelis | Palestinian students, academics, doctors, and dissenting Jewish Israelis are among those caught up in an escalating wave of repression |
| 20231111 | Israel kills seven more Hezbollah fighters on border with Lebanon | Lebanon | Iranian foreign minister says wider regional conflict inevitable as death toll among militant group rises to 78 |
| 20231111 | Hezbollah says front with Israel will remain active | Lebanon | The head of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah said on Saturday that his armed group had used new types of weapons and struck new targets in Israel in recent days, and pledged that the front in the south against its sworn enemy would remain active. |
| 20231111 | Hezbollah says it is introducing new weapons in ongoing battles with Israeli troops | Lebanon | The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Saturday his fighters have introduced new weapons, including a missile with a heavy warhead in the ongoing fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border, adding that they will keep using the tense frontier to pressure Israel. |
| 20231111 | HonestReporting accepts news groups had no prior warning of Oct. 7 Hamas attack | media / Israeli | The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on Friday he accepted as "adequate" statements by four media organisations that they had no previous knowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, adding he was "so relieved". |
| 20231111 | Iran President Raisi says action, not words, needed on Gaza | regional response | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the time had come for action over the conflict in Gaza rather than talk as he headed to Saudi Arabia to attend a summit on the war between Israel and Hamas militants. |
| 20231111 | Arab-Islamic summit rejects justifying Gaza war as Israeli self-defence | regional response | Leaders meeting in Saudi Arabia demanded aid be allowed to enter Gaza, called for cessation of arms exports to Israel. |
| 20231111 | Arab and Muslim leaders demand immediate end to Gaza war | regional response | Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, rejecting Israel's justification of its actions against Palestinians as self-defence. |
| 20231111 | UAE plans to maintain ties with Israel despite Gaza outcry, sources say | regional response | The United Arab Emirates plans to maintain diplomatic ties with Israel despite international outcry over the mounting toll of the war in Gaza and hopes to have some moderating influence over the Israeli campaign while safeguarding its own interests, according to four sources familiar with UAE government policy. |
| 20231111 | Gaza's main hospital goes dark as leaders urge Netanyahu to end 'aggression' | regional response | The leaders of Arab and Muslim countries have rejected the Israeli argument of "self-defence" in the Gaza Strip and demanded an immediate end to Israeli military operations in this territory. |
| 20231111 | Sisi discusses de-escalation in Gaza with Saudi Crown Prince, Turkish President | regional response | Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed de-escalation efforts in Gaza in meetings on Saturday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | schools | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Drone attack launched on US military base | Syria | The US Al-Tanf military base in southern Syria, located in the Syrian desert near the Jordanian border, was attacked on Friday by unidentified drones, according to local sources. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | targeting forced displace people | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Turkey's Erdogan, strident on Gaza, to visit Germany | Turkey | President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Berlin next week, amid strained Turkish ties with other NATO partners. Erdogan's stark position on the conflict in Gaza is only the latest example of discord. |
| 20231111 | Hundreds of thousands rally in London demanding Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | Many far-right counterprotesters clash with police, arrested to ‘prevent breach of peace’. |
| 20231111 | Hundreds of thousands join largest march in London so far against Gaza war | United Kingdom | Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London chanting “Stop bombing Gaza” and “Ceasefire now” in the largest Palestine solidarity demonstration held in the country so far. |
| 20231111 | London pro-Palestinian march passes off peacefully but police clash with far-right protesters | United Kingdom | Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched peacefully through central London on Saturday, even as right-wing counter-protesters clashed with police, after a week of angry debate over whether to permit the event on a day when Britain honored its war dead. |
| 20231111 | Gaza casualties: 'Most of the children in my family photo are dead' | targeting families in whole or in part | Whole families have been wiped out in Israel's air strikes on the densely populated streets of Gaza, where many Palestinians live in multi-generational homes. Three Palestinians in the UK told the BBC that more than 20 of their relatives had been killed in one blow - and many were still stuck under the rubble. |
| 20231111 | 50 martyred inside Al-Buraq School following missile, artillery bombardment | targeting forced displaced people | The director of Al-Shifa Hospital announced the recovery of about 50 martyrs from inside Al-Buraq School in Gaza after an Israeli missile and artillery bombardment targeted it on the 35th day of the attack on Gaza. |
| 20231111 | Woman taking shelter in UN school killed by Israeli air strike | targeting forced displaced people | After ten days of waiting to take a shower, the displaced Palestinian mother of four was killed inside a bathroom by an Israeli missile |
| 20231111 | Palestinians flee as Israel raids Jenin camp in occupied West Bank | West Bank | People were allowed a two hour window to flee the clashes which killed 14 Palestinians |
| 20231111 | Germany urges end to violence in West Bank | West Bank | German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Israel is responsible for the safety of Palestinians in the West Bank. In Gaza, medical staff say the territory's main hospital is no longer operational. DW has the latest. |
| 20231111 | How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank | West Bank | Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International |
| 20231111 | Macron condemns rising antisemitism | Zionism / France | Far from a distant observer, one of a chorus of countries offering opinions on the Israel-Gaza war, France feels very much caught up in the conflict. |
| 20231111 | US media on Israel-Gaza: What’s lacking? | Zionism / media | Freedom of expression is under the gun in the Land of the Free. We look at what media in the United States is missing in Israel’s war on Gaza – and why it matters. |
| 20231111 | Why are Western media accused of bias on Israel-Palestine? | Zionism / media | A letter signed by hundreds of international journalists says Western media coverage of the Gaza war has been biased in favour of Israel and against Palestine. Newsrooms are accused of dehumanising Palestinians. Are the allegations fair? |
| 20231111 | UK revokes Egyptian TV host’s visa for ‘backing Hamas’ at rally: Report | Zionism / UK | Moataz Matar has been put on a watch list, which means he will be unable to return to the UK. |
| 20231111 | London police arrest dozens as pro-Palestinian rally draws counter-protests | Zionism / UK | More than 100,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched through central London on Saturday, with police making more than 80 arrests as they sought to avert clashes between the marchers and groups opposed to the rally. |
| 20231111 | More than 80 counter-protesters arrested during pro-Palestinian march in London | Zionism / UK | Police arrested more than 80 counter-protesters who attempted to confront those taking part in a huge pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday. |
| 20231111 | Did the home secretary provoke far-right protests in London? | Zionism / UK | The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has blamed the Home Secretary for the unrest, saying Suella Braverman’s comments had made the police’s job much harder. Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for her to resign – saying she had emboldened the far-right. She hasn’t commented. |
| 20231111 | Calling for a ceasefire is never hateful, it’s Suella Braverman who is stoking division | Zionism / UK | Demanding an end to British complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza should not be a controversial position |
| 20231111 | Labour seen as more divided by voters after tension over conflict in Gaza | Zionism / UK | The latest Opinium poll shows Keir Starmer’s personal rating has slumped but the Tories are also suffering from internal divisions |
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| 20231112 | Hostage release talks fail as Netanyahu again dismisses calls for ceasefire | ceasefire | |
| 20231112 | German chancellor opposed to 'immediate' ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he opposed an "immediate" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as calls multiply globally to halt the conflict triggered by Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation. |
| 20231112 | Dubai air chiefs summit, sponsored by Israeli firm, avoids discussing strikes as Hamas war rages | collusion & complicity | As Israel unleashes one of the most-intense aerial bombing campaigns the Middle East has ever seen, leaders from the world’s top air forces met Sunday in the United Arab Emirates to talk about almost anything that wasn’t an airstrike. |
| 20231112 | US does not want to see firefights in Gaza hospitals, Sullivan says | collusion & complicity | The United States wants to avoid armed fighting inside hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which endangers the lives of civilians, and has conveyed its view to Israeli forces, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS News on Sunday. |
| Comment: Israelis don't firefight in hospitals but simply destroy them with US delivered munitions. | |||
| 20231112 | Israel says Palestinian Authority in current form should not run Gaza | day after politics | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thrown up more doubts about the future of the Gaza Strip, saying that the Palestinian Authority in its current form should not take charge of the coastal enclave. |
| 20231112 | Hundreds of al-Shifa patients face expulsion | eliminating health care system | AJE live blog
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| 20231112 | Heavy fighting rages near main Gaza hospital and people trapped inside say they cannot flee | eliminating health care system | Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital rejected Israel’s claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out. |
| 20231112 | Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? | eliminating health care system | The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital. |
| 20231112 | Major Gaza hospitals suspend operations as Israel "hunts Hamas" | eliminating health care system | Two major hospitals in northern Gaza closed to new patients on Sunday, with staff saying that Israeli bombardment and a lack of fuel and medicine meant those already being treated could die. |
| 20231112 | Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 13, destroy al-Shifa’s cardiac ward | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops are closing in on al-Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of medics, patients and displaced people are trapped |
| 20231112 | Netanyahu says Hamas refused Israeli fuel offer for Gaza's Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, which suspended operations after running out of fuel, but that the militants had refused to receive it. |
| Comment: We have watched a phone call interview by Al Jazeera in which the presenter ask the doctor for his reaction on the Israeli offer. He said that there is no contact with the Israelis | |||
| 20231112 | Israeli president denies it is striking Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking Gaza's largest hospital. |
| Comment: Al Jazeera was live broadcasting the situation at the Al Shifa Hospital. There were air strikes outside in the perisphere of the hospital to keep civilians trapped at the compound of the hospital. | |||
| 20231112 | Indonesian staff at Gaza hospital ‘resigned to fate’ as Israelis close in | eliminating health care system | Indonesian medical volunteer in Gaza, Fikri Rofiul Haq, says he will remain at the hospital and will not evacuate. |
| 20231112 | Hundreds leave Gaza via reopened crossing | forced displacement | Several hundred foreign nationals and some injured Palestinians have been allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing. Meanwhile, Al-Shifa Hospital staff have reported continued fighting nearby. |
| 20231112 | Shots fired at Jewish school in Canada again, amid tensions over overseas conflict | global effects | A Jewish school in Montreal was hit by gunfire early on Sunday, making it the third time in less than a week that a Jewish school in the Canadian city was hit amid heightened tensions over the conflict between Israel and Gaza, police said, according to local media. |
| 20231112 | French politicians, citizens march in Paris against soaring antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war | global effects | More than 100,000 people marched in Paris on Sunday to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231112 | More than 100,000 people march in Paris against "anti-Semitism" | global effects | Thousands of marchers joined French lawmakers in Paris on Sunday to condemn a surge in anti-Semitism in France during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, but arguments over political participation clouded an intended show of unity. |
| 20231112 | French march against "antisemitism" shakes up far right and far left | global effects | Something unprecedented is happening this weekend in Paris, brought about by the war between Israelis and Hamas and its spill-over in Europe. |
| 20231112 | Israeli losses in Gaza war: 361 servicemen and 162 military vehicles | IOF | The total death toll of Israeli servicemen since the beginning of its war on the Gaza Strip reached 361. |
| 20231112 | Isaac Herzog challenged on air strikes and says Mein Kampf found on Hamas fighter | Israelis | Israel's president Isaac Herzog says a copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf was found on the body of a Hamas operative at a base they were using in northern Gaza. |
| 20231112 | Palestinians in Lebanon disappointed that Hezbollah won’t escalate | Lebanon | A week after a much-anticipated speech about Israel’s assault on Gaza that did not declare war on Israel, Hezbollah reiterated that message on Saturday. |
| 20231112 | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group wound 7 Israeli troops, 10 others along border with Israel | Lebanon | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel’s military and rescue services said. |
| 20231112 | London protests: Met condemns 'extreme violence' of far-right | United Kingdom | The Met Police has condemned "extreme violence from right-wing protesters" who it says set out to confront Saturday's pro-Palestinian march. |
| 20231112 | US does not want to see firefights in Gaza hospitals, Sullivan says | United States | The United States wants to avoid armed fighting inside hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which endangers the lives of civilians, and has conveyed its view to Israeli forces, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS News on Sunday. |
| 20231112 | Israeli raids kill 3 more Palestinians in West Bank, health officials say | West Bank | Israeli raids in the northern West Bank have killed three Palestinians, according to authorities, as violence in the occupied territory escalates amid the war in Gaza. |
| 20231112 | Internet collapses in Yemen over 'maintenance' | Yemen | Internet access across the war-torn Yemen collapsed Friday and stayed down for hours, with officials later blaming unannounced “maintenance work” for an outage that followed attacks by the country’s Houthi rebels on both Israel and the US. |
| 20231112 | German chancellor opposed to 'immediate' ceasefire in Gaza | Zionism / Germany | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he opposed an "immediate" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as calls multiply globally to halt the conflict triggered by Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation. |
| 20231112 | Most Germans fear Gaza violence will spark terror attacks | Zionism / Germany | More than half of survey respondents said they thought a serious attack was likely. At the same time, less than half thought the German government's response to the war in Gaza was balanced. |
| 20231112 | Billionaires are teaming up for pro-Israel, anti-Hamas media drive: Report | Zionism / global | A billionaire real estate tycoon in the United States is rallying support for a high-dollar media crusade to boost Israel’s image and demonise the Hamas armed group amid global pro-Palestinian solidarity protests. |
| 20231112 | How America’s bloodthirsty journalism cheers on Israel’s war on Gaza | Zionism / US | American journalists like Jake Tapper mince no words in justifying the Israeli annihilation of the Palestinian people. |
| 20231112 | US media 'otherises' Palestinians | Zionism / US | Rummana Hussain, an editorial board member and columnist at The Chicago Sun-Times, describes how the US media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza has "otherised" Palestinians. |
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| 20231113 | Hamas armed wing says it discussed freeing 70 hostages in return for 5-day truce | ceasefire | The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel. |
| 20231113 | Too close and too cold, premature babies in grave peril at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital | children | The tiny babies lie side by side, some wrapped in green fabric roughly taped around them for warmth, others wearing only nappies, a picture of vulnerability, their lives in grave danger with every minute that passes. |
| 20231113 | EU nations condemn Hamas for what they describe as use of hospitals, civilians as ‘human shields’ | collusion & complicity | The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in the war against Israel. |
| 20231113 | EU condemns Hamas for using people as human shields | collusion & complicity | UNVERIFIABLE CLAIM: The European Union has condemned Hamas for using hospitals and civilians in them as shields. |
| 20231113 | Jordan arrests 25 planning pro-Gaza sit-in | collusion & complicity | Activists say the arrests of would-be protesters appears to be an escalation by authorities against the kingdom's pro-Palestine demonstrations |
| 20231113 | Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza | collusion & complicity | Suggestion put forward by Netanyahu as international disquiet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza grows |
| Comment: In February 2008, Blair was recorded as telling the quartet that he has a good relationship with Ehud Barak who was the Israeli defense minister at that time. Much further back in time, Blair forged close ties with Michael Levy, a leader of the Jewish Leadership Council. That was in 1994. | |||
| 20231113 | Gaza’s two biggest hospitals cease operations as WHO warns of rising deaths | eliminating health care system | UN agency says three nurses killed at Al-Shifa, as WHO calls for immediate Israel-Gaza ceasefire to halt loss of life. |
| 20231113 | Too close and too cold, premature babies in grave peril at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | |
| 20231113 | Al-Ahli now the ‘only hospital in all of Gaza City’: Doctor | eliminating health care system | Surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta spoke to Al Jazeera from al-Ahli Hospital, which he said was now the only operating hospital in all of Gaza City after al-Shifa and al-Quds were forced to almost completely close. “Ever since the collapse of al-Shifa Hospital, we have become the only functioning Hospital in Gaza City,” he said. “If you recall, this is the hospital that was targeted initially by the Israelis at the beginning of the war and so parts of the hospital were damaged,” he said, referring to the October 17 blast at the hospital. Israel has denied it was behind that explosion, which Palestinian health officials said killed over 470 people. “After the collapse of al-Shifa, we turned the forecourt and the grounds of the hospital into a field hospital,” he said. “We have over 500 wounded here. There are only three surgeons here and two operating rooms”. “We’ve been having to perform excruciating painful procedures on the wounds of the patients to stop them becoming infected with no analgesia or anaesthetic,” he said. “Because we have such limited supplies, we’re keeping them for the most life-saving surgery.” |
| 20231113 | Battles "force" Palestinians out of hospitals in Gaza, leaving patients, babies and medics stranded
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eliminating health care system | Battles around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last shelters in northern Gaza, stranding critically wounded patients, including newborns, and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, health officials said Monday.
COMMENT We have notified the source for its inaccurate headline. They changed into "Medics and patients, including babies, stranded as battles rage around Gaza hospitals", which is still inaccurate. Read other reports on this issue. |
| 20231113 | Gaza’s Aqsa hospital warns patients, babies may end up in mass graves soon | eliminating health care system | Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital warns that patients’ next transfer will be to mass graves if Israeli aggression continues. |
| 20231113 | Al Shifa hospital has tanks at its gates | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks took up positions at the gates of Gaza City's main hospital on Monday, the chief target in Israel's battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip and where medics said patients including newborns were dying for lack of fuel. |
| 20231113 | Israeli forces at gates of Gaza’s main hospital with hundreds trapped | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces have reached the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital as hundreds of patients, including dozens of babies, remained trapped inside. |
| 20231113 | ‘In the circle of death’: Gaza doctors say patients are under siege in al-Shifa | eliminating health care system | Dozens of corpses lay on the courtyard outside Gaza’s largest hospital, covering the ground next to a blue refrigerated truck that had long ceased to be able to keep the bodies cool. |
| 20231113 | Gaza hospitals caught on front line of Israel-Hamas war | eliminating health care system | Hospitals and medical facilities have become caught up in intense fighting as Israel presses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City. |
| 20231113 | Stray dogs eat corpses at al-Shifa hospital amid total siege | eliminating health care system | A Palestinian doctor at the besieged al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City warned on Monday that premature babies are at risk of imminent death after fuel ran out in the facility, with several infants already dying due to lack of powe |
| 20231113 | ‘Patients are dying’: What we know about Gaza hospitals under Israeli siege | eliminating health care system | All the hospitals in northern Gaza forced to shut down as Israeli forces continue to attack medical facilities. |
| 20231113 | Death and disease as Israeli troops approach Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Medics say al-Shifa’s patients, including newborns, are dying due to the lack of fuel as Israeli forces encircle it. |
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| 20231113 | UNRWA says fuel shortage will shut down aid work in Gaza within 48 hours | food, water, fuel & electricity | The refugee agency for Palestinians has said that aid work is at a breaking point as the Israeli siege cuts off access to fuel. |
| 20231113 | Palestinians face food, water shortages in southern Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned its operations in war-torn Gaza would shut down within two days due to fuel shortages as fighting rages between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231113 | Palestinians rely on traditional clay ovens to cook food | food, water, fuel & electricity | The lack of basic resources in the lives of Palestinians today has left them with no choice but to return to traditional methods of cooking, and one of these methods is the making of clay ovens. The United Nations has said access to bread in the south is "challenging" because "the only operative mill in Gaza remains unable to grind wheat due to a lack of electricity and fuel". Before the war, a little over 80 per cent of Gazans lived in poverty and almost two-thirds were dependent on international aid, especially for food, according to the UN |
| 20231113 | Israel hinders the entry of aid to Gaza, not Egypt : Egyptian Foreign Ministry | food, water, fuel & electricity | The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, accused Israel on Monday of hindering the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, denying that Egypt closed the crossing at any stage of the crisis. |
| 20231113 | More death and destruction in Gaza as Israeli attacks continue | genocide & gender genocide | More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the war began. |
| 20231113 | In China: Online antisemitism spikes amid Israel-Hamas war | global effects | Anti-Jewish hate is sweeping across Chinese online platforms. People are praising both Hamas and Adolf Hitler, for example, and posting anti-Israel abuse. In a country that normally heavily censors its internet, those comments largely are being allowed to stay up. |
| 20231113 | Anti-Semitism remains a major 'problem inside Europe still today | global effects | More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against anti-Semitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. |
| 20231113 | More than 180,000 join marches against anti-Semitism in France | global effects | Prominent politicians join rally in Paris following surge in anti-Semitic incidents since start of war in Gaza on October 7. |
| 20231113 | Indonesian President Joko Widodo heads to US amid Gaza tensions | global response | Widodo is under pressure over the war, which has killed more than 11,000 in a month, but is likely to take a low-key approach. |
| 20231113 | Muslim shops in India are boycotting Israeli products | global response | These Muslim shopkeepers in India are no longer stocking Israeli and US products in support of the people of Palestine, and it’s started a movement amongst the local community. |
| 20231113 | The different ways people are mobilising to support Palestine | global response | From boycotting to protesting, here’s how people are mobilising to support Palestinians and put pressure on governments and companies to stop backing Israel as it continues its bombardment on Gaza. |
| 20231113 | UN observes minute’s silence, lowers flags for 101 staff killed in Gaza | humanitarian aid | The United Nations has paid tribute to 101 staff who have been killed in Israel's bombardment of Gaza. No other conflict has killed as many UN employees. |
| 20231113 | Israel hinders the entry of aid to Gaza, not Egypt : Egyptian Foreign Ministry | humanitarian aid | The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, accused Israel on Monday of hindering the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, denying that Egypt closed the crossing at any stage of the crisis. |
| 20231113 | Egypt condemns Israeli shelling of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza headquarters | humanitarian aid | Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in a statement on Monday the Israeli occupation forces' shelling of the headquarters of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza. |
| 20231113 | Israeli army deletes post claiming ambulances, hospitals ‘legitimate targets’ | IOF | Israel’s military deleted a post on X suggesting ambulances and hospitals are “terrorist infrastructure” and “legitimate military targets”. It claimed ambulances and hospitals were used by Hamas for its fighters and its military operations. “This is against international law and turns them into legitimate military targets,” the army wrote. Diana Buttu, lawyer and former legal adviser for the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said Israel has in the past made similar allegations but never proved them. “But even if it tries to do that, we have to bear in mind what Israel is trying to do is commit genocide against Palestinians and it has to be stopped now,” she said. |
| 20231113 | ‘No rules at all’: Ex-UN official denounces Israeli lawlessness | IOF | Mukesh Kapila, a former UN humanitarian agency coordinator, says he has spent 30 years working in numerous conflicts around the world but describes Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza as “unique”. He says that is because the most modern weapons are being used in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Kapila also denounced Israel’s repeated attacks on emergency services workers and overwhelmed medical facilities. “What we’re seeing now is that all rules have broken down and there are no norms because this is a war on a whole society. There are really no rules at all. What we need to happen, therefore, is a rescue from outside,” he told Al Jazeera. |
| 20231113 | ‘Very risky’: Israel faces months-long campaign against Hamas Gaza tunnels | IOF | As the Israeli army expands its reach in northern Gaza, Hamas tunnels pose major challenges for its troops. |
| 20231113 | Israel weapons makers leave stands empty at Dubai Airshow | Israelis | The exhibition stands of Israeli weapons makers Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems were empty at the start of the opening day of the weeklong Dubai Airshow on Monday, amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. |
| 20231113 | Journalists in south Lebanon say targeted in Israeli strikes | journalists | Journalists in southern Lebanon said they were targeted Monday in Israeli strikes, which Al Jazeera network said lightly wounded its photographer. |
| 20231113 | At least two killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon as tensions soar | journalists | Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon as Israel also targeted journalists covering the war. |
| 20231113 | Journalists in south Lebanon say targeted in Israeli strikes | Lebanon | Journalists in southern Lebanon said they were targeted Monday in Israeli strikes, which Al Jazeera network said lightly wounded its photographer. |
| 20231113 | At least two killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon as tensions soar | Lebanon | Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon as Israel also targeted journalists covering the war. |
| 20231113 | At least two killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon as tensions soar | Lebanon | Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon as Israel also targeted journalists covering the war. |
| 20231113 | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group wound 7 Israeli troops, 10 others along border with Israel | Lebanon | Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel’s military and rescue services said. |
| 20231113 | Lebanon front with Israel heats up, stoking fears of wider war | Lebanon | Weeks of hostilities across the Lebanese-Israeli border have escalated, with growing casualties on both sides and a war of words fuelling concerns of a widening conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. |
| 20231113 | For news organizations, the flood of Gaza war video is proving both illuminating and troubling | opinion | A camera livestreaming the skyline of Gaza City captures streaks of light. Dash-cam video from a car in Israel spots a killer coming into view. A satellite identifies tank tracks in the dirt, and a mall security camera catches the moment a bomb in Gaza detonates. |
| 20231113 | To understand Israel-Palestine, first understand the history of racism and antisemitism | opinion | Anti-Jewish hate is rarely seen as part of a European racism that encompassed colonialism and slavery, with each distinct prejudice influencing the other |
| 20231113 | US conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria, retaliating for attacks on US troops | Syria | The Pentagon and U.S. officials say U.S. fighter aircraft conducted airstrikes on locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, likely causing casualties and destroying weapons stored at the two targets that were struck — a training facility and a safe house. |
| 20231113 | US forces in Syria attacked four times in less than 24 hours | Syria | U.S. and international forces in northeastern Syria were attacked with drones and rockets at least four times in the past 24 hours, though there were no casualties and only minor damage, a U.S. military official said on Monday. |
| 20231113 | US airstrikes target more Iran-backed bases in Syria | Syria | The US has conducted "precision" air strikes in Syria on facilities used by the Iranian revolutionary guard, the Pentagon has said. |
| 20231113 | In a flash, Melissa Joudah lost 60 family members and use of her legs | targeting families in whole or in part | An Israel air raid that killed the toddler’s family also fractured her spine and paralysed her from the chest down. |
| 20231113 | UK’s Braverman sacked following pro-Palestinian protests comments | United Kingdom | The government said that Suella Braverman has left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle ahead of next year’s vote. |
| 20231113 | As Israel-Hamas war flares, chaos grips Britain with Braverman sacked | United Kingdom | A cabinet reshuffle kicks off a new week in British politics, amid concerns for civil liberties. |
| 20231113 | Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza | United Kingdom | Suggestion put forward by Netanyahu as international disquiet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza grows |
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Comment: In February 2008, Blair was recorded as telling the quartet that he has a good relationship with Ehud Barak who was the Israeli defense minister at that time. Much further back in time, Blair forged close ties with Michael Levy, a leader of the Jewish Leadership Council. That was in 1994. |
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| 20231113 | US officials sign memo criticizing White House for ‘unwillingness to de-escalate’ Israel-Hamas war | United States | Memo gives glimpse of intense internal opposition to Biden’s strategy in the war, in which he has maintained support for Israel |
| 20231113 | Biden’s initial confidence on Israel gives way to the complexities and casualties of a brutal war | United States | In the early days and hours after the horrific Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden spoke with stark declarations and unqualified support for the longtime U.S. ally. |
| 20231113 | US started to soften its rhetoric after civilian onslaught | United States | The United States, long known as Israel's biggest moral and financial backer, staunchly defended the Jewish state's right to defend itself in the weeks following the outbreak of the war. As the death toll mounts, American officials have started to soften their rhetoric, perhaps signalling that they are finally ready to put their foot down on Israel's indiscriminate assault on Gaza |
| 20231113 | Biden's Israel policy risks alienating Arab American voters | United States | US President Joe Biden's unwavering support for Israel is eroding approval in Michigan's large Arab American community. The state could be crucial to Biden's bid for reelection. |
| 20231113 | US rights group sues Biden for alleged ‘failure to prevent genocide’ in Gaza | United States | A New York civil liberties group is suing Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza. |
| 20231113 | ‘Not just a number’: A protest and a funeral in the West Bank | West Bank | Even as Palestinians in the West Bank protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re facing increasing attacks themselves. |
| 20231113 | Israeli violence increases against Palestinians | West Bank | Amid Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza, human rights groups have documented an alarming increase in settler violence and forced displacement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. |
| 20231113 | Israeli forces kill elderly Palestinian taxi driver | West Bank | Eyewitnesses say Issa Ali al-Qadi, 66, was shot in his taxi by soldiers conducting a raid on an orphan charity |
| 20231113 | For news organizations, the flood of Gaza war video is proving both illuminating and troubling | Zionism / media | A camera livestreaming the skyline of Gaza City captures streaks of light. Dash-cam video from a car in Israel spots a killer coming into view. A satellite identifies tank tracks in the dirt, and a mall security camera catches the moment a bomb in Gaza detonates. |
| 20231113 | UK’s Braverman sacked following pro-Palestinian protests comments | Zionism / UK | The government said that Suella Braverman has left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle ahead of next year’s vote. |
| 20231113 | As Israel-Hamas war flares, chaos grips Britain with Braverman sacked | Zionism / UK | A cabinet reshuffle kicks off a new week in British politics, amid concerns for civil liberties. |
| 20231113 | Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza | Zionism / UK | Suggestion put forward by Netanyahu as international disquiet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza grows |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231114 | Biden optimistic over hostage deal | ceasefire | Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza are on the march to demand more be done to secure their release. US President Joe Biden has said he believes a deal can be reached and "it's going to happen." |
| 20231114 | Lives of 36 babies in Gaza hospital at risk despite Israeli incubator offer | children | The lives of 36 babies at Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital were hanging in the balance on Tuesday, according to medical staff there who said there was no clear mechanism to move them despite an Israeli effort to supply incubators for an evacuation. |
| Comment: First, the hosptial has no shortage of incubators but has no fuel to have to generator start producing electricity to let the incubators provide oxygen. Second, the director in the Al Shifa Hospital did not receive the reported offer. | |||
| 20231114 | Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery | collusion & complicity | Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 20231114 | Amid the ruins, Palestinians struggle to survive in Gaza | dystopian war | As Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, families labour to find food and water to keep their children alive. |
| 20231114 | Heavy rain in Gaza brings new problems and fears for Palestinians | dystopian war | Heavy rain in Gaza on Tuesday brought new concerns and challenges for Palestinians, many of whom are homeless and living in makeshift tents after weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Rains increase suffering of those living in makeshift tents in south Gaza | dystopian war | A heavy downpour in Gaza that followed six weeks of war has brought with it new concerns and challenges for thousands of Palestinians who have lost their homes, those forced to live in flimsy tents and others fleeing south to escape the Israeli military bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Israeli Ambassador: ‘I have zero empathy’ | dystopian war | In an extended interview, Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, whether she has empathy for the Palestinian people. She stated that she has “zero empathy” for people who lost their land and refuse to recognise the Jewish right to their homeland. |
| 20231114 | Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery | dystopian war | Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 20231114 | Giving birth with no painkillers under the bombs in Gaza | eliminating health care system | "My child doesn't have a name yet because of the war. She's four days old," says Keifaia Abu Asser. Sitting on a straw mat in a corner of a school shelter run by the UN in Rafah, in southern Gaza, Keifaia cradles her baby daughter, who is wrapped in a red blanket. |
| 20231114 | Calls grow to evacuate Gaza’s largest hospital as Israel and Hamas battle just outside | eliminating health care system | Palestinian authorities on Tuesday called for a cease-fire to evacuate three dozen newborns and other patients trapped inside Gaza’s biggest hospital as Israeli forces battled Hamas in the streets just outside and seized more ground across northern Gaza. |
| 20231114 | Mass grave at Gaza main hospital, call for evacuation, fuel shortage hampers aid flow | eliminating health care system | Palestinian authorities proposed a Red Cross-supervised evacuation of patients and newborns from Gaza's largest hospital beset by fighting on Tuesday. |
| 20231114 | Doctors move premature babies at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Dozens of premature babies at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital have been moved into an area that still has electricity as doctors try everything they can to keep the babies alive with basic medical care. |
| 20231114 | Lives of 36 babies in Gaza hospital at risk despite Israeli incubator offer | eliminating health care system | The lives of 36 babies at Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital were hanging in the balance on Tuesday, according to medical staff there who said there was no clear mechanism to move them despite an Israeli effort to supply incubators for an evacuation. |
| Comment: First, the hosptial has no shortage of incubators but has no fuel to have to generator start producing electricity to let the incubators provide oxygen. Second, the director in the Al Shifa Hospital did not receive the reported offer. | |||
| 20231114 | Bodies pile up as Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital becomes a no-go zone | eliminating health care system | Witnesses report animals mauling the remains of victims, as an Israeli siege of the hospital makes it impossible to leave or enter without risking death |
| 20231114 | Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital forced to bury dead patients in ‘mass grave’ | eliminating health care system | Hospital director says 179 bodies interred together in courtyard as Israeli forces encircle the facility. |
| 20231114 | Palestinians dig mass grave inside Israeli-encircled Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Palestinians trapped inside Gaza's biggest hospital were digging a mass grave on Tuesday to bury patients who died under Israeli encirclement, and said no plan was in place to evacuate babies despite Israel announcing an offer to send portable incubators. |
| 20231114 | Palestinians digging mass graves inside al-Shifa hospital, health official says | eliminating health care system | Palestinians trapped inside Gaza’s biggest hospital are digging mass graves, with no means of keeping corpses from decomposing due to Israel’s siege, an official there says. |
| 20231114 | Out of medicines, care: Gaza’s cancer patients face death amid Israel war | eliminating health care system | With no proper treatment and care, the 2,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip live in catastrophic health conditions. |
| 20231114 | Israel’s attacks on hospitals ‘should be investigated as war crimes’: HRW | eliminating health care system | Health facilities and ambulances have protected status under international humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch affirms. |
| 20231114 | Is Hamas hiding in Gaza’s main hospital? Israel’s claim is now a focal point in a dayslong stalemate | eliminating health care system | Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. |
| 20231114 | Israel shows alleged Hamas ‘armory’ under children’s hospital in Gaza. Local health officials dismiss the claims | eliminating health care system | The IDF invited news media to visit a medical center for children on Monday, where a spokesperson alleged parts of the basement had been a Hamas “command and control center” and may have been used to hold hostages. |
| 20231114 | "See what CNN reporter saw inside hospital basement in Gaza" | eliminating health care system | CNN goes into Gaza on an embed with the Israeli army. Nic Robertson describes the destruction he witnessed, as well as the basement of a children's hospital. Israel says Hamas uses hospitals as a base, something Gaza doctors say is not true. |
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First: this is an compiled footage. Second: he says that he entered the building five days ago. So, CNN came five days later. Third: at 5:45, you suddenly have to watch a scene showing weapons on the floor. But, you don't see the moment that they all arrived at the building, which building and where that building is. Fourth: no one is seen going into the building and being in the basement. |
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| 20231114 | US and UK raise pressure on Israel to protect hospitals | eliminating health care system | Israel is facing mounting international pressure to protect civilians trapped in Gaza's hospitals, as it released what it said was evidence of a Hamas base in one medical facility. |
| 20231114 | Al Shifa Hospital becomes focus of conflicting narratives | eliminating health care system | Fighting has reached the gates of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: Israeli ground troops have almost fully encircled the medical buildings which it says sit above Hamas’s underground headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas and hospital staff deny the claims and say Israeli forces have trapped patients and civilians inside in dire conditions. |
| 20231114 | Unverified rumours of Russia arming Hamas persist, as war rages in Gaza | global effects | An expert renews claims that the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel were ‘coordinated’ with Moscow, despite a lack of evidence. |
| 20231114 | Gaza uncovers EU divisions | global effects | Europe’s response to the war on Gaza marks a sharp shift from traditional perspectives. |
| 20231114 | Yanis Varoufakis on Israel-Gaza: ‘We Europeans have created this’ | global response | Economist and former Greek minister of finance, Yanis Varoufakis, joins Marc Lamont Hill to discuss Europe’s historic responsibility and current role in the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20231114 | Indonesian President Joko Widodo urges Biden to help end Gaza ‘atrocities’ | global response | Widodo calls for a ceasefire ‘for the sake of humanity’ as he sits down with US president at the White House. |
| 20231114 | Indonesians boycott McDonald’s, Starbucks over support for Israel | global response | Boycott follows McDonald’s Israel’s announcement that it donated free meals to the Israeli military. |
| 20231114 | Scholz says Erdogan accusing Israel of fascism is 'absurd' | global response | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is due to meet with the Turkish president in Berlin on Friday. Scholz said he will continue to emphasize why he considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization. |
| 20231114 | Amid the ruins, Palestinians struggle to survive in Gaza | humanitarian crisis | As Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, families labour to find food and water to keep their children alive. |
| 20231114 | Heavy rain in Gaza brings new problems and fears for Palestinians | humanitarian crisis | Heavy rain in Gaza on Tuesday brought new concerns and challenges for Palestinians, many of whom are homeless and living in makeshift tents after weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Rains increase suffering of those living in makeshift tents in south Gaza | humanitarian crisis | A heavy downpour in Gaza that followed six weeks of war has brought with it new concerns and challenges for thousands of Palestinians who have lost their homes, those forced to live in flimsy tents and others fleeing south to escape the Israeli military bombardment. |
| 20231114 | Cairo: Efforts to de-escalate crisis | humanitarian crisis | Top-level meetings are continuing in a bid to contain the conflict in Gaza and respond to dire humanitarian needs |
| 20231114 | UK rows back on ex-PM’s claim Israel is outside remit of international criminal court | ICC | Government appears to withdraw from past assertion by Boris Johnson amid shift to more pointed criticism of Israeli campaign in Gaza |
| 20231114 | Israel confirms death of captive soldier shown in Hamas video | IOF / Hannibal directive | Israel's military on Tuesday confirmed the death of a soldier held captive in Gaza after Hamas issued video of her alive followed by images of what the Palestinian faction said was her body after she was killed in an Israeli strike. |
| 20231114 | Israeli military says it found signs hostages were held in Gaza hospital | IOF | The Israeli military shared video and photographs on Monday showing what it said were weapons stored by Hamas in the basement of a children's hospital in Gaza where it also said hostages appear to have been held. |
| Comment: We found three videos on this issue but they could not be concluded as hard conclusive evidence as the videos contains individual scenes, not one continuously running scene from the moment of reaching the hospital, entering the hospital, going to the room they claim that hostages were held. You only see that they are already in a basement of unknown building. | |||
| 20231114 | Israeli Ambassador: ‘I have zero empathy’ | Israelis | In an extended interview, Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, whether she has empathy for the Palestinian people. She stated that she has “zero empathy” for people who lost their land and refuse to recognise the Jewish right to their homeland. |
| 20231114 | Israeli minister supports ‘voluntary migration’ of Palestinians in Gaza | Israelis | Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls the move the ‘right humanitarian solution’. Critics call it ‘ethnic cleansing’. |
| 20231114 | Israeli minister calls for voluntary emigration of Gazans | Israelis | A senior far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government said on Tuesday Gaza could not survive as an independent entity and it would be better for Palestinians there to leave for other countries. |
| 20231114 | Israel's foreign minister says UN chief not fit to lead | Israelis | Israel's foreign minister said on Tuesday that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was not fit to head the global body, saying he had not done enough to condemn militant group Hamas and was too close to Iran. |
| 20231114 | In Israel, some residents are scared to speak out about the war | Israelis | In Israel, amid the trauma of the 7 October massacre by Hamas and the subsequent Israeli military offensive in Gaza, a silencing of dissenting voices has ensued. |
| 20231114 | Journalists allegedly targeted by Israeli strike in south Lebanon | journalists | Watch the moment a live broadcast was interrupted by a suspected Israeli attack on journalists near the Lebanese border town of Yaroun, injuring an Al Jazeera cameraman. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
| Comment: The attack was on November 13, 2023 | |||
| 20231114 | Hezbollah’s strategic calculation: Israel, Gaza and the domestic equation | Lebanon | Between Hamas, Israel and Iran, Hezbollah treads carefully in the trenches, not to jump callously into war. |
| 20231114 | Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery | regional response | Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. |
| 20231114 | US and Iran-backed groups trade fire in Syria. Will it get worse? | Syria | Dozens of strikes by Iran-backed groups have targeted US interests in the region as Washington keeps backing Israel. |
| 20231114 | Mass grave at Gaza main hospital, call for evacuation, fuel shortage hampers aid flow | targeting civilians | Palestinian authorities proposed a Red Cross-supervised evacuation of patients and newborns from Gaza's largest hospital beset by fighting on Tuesday. |
| 20231114 | Airstrike kills renowned doctor in Gaza and relatives who sought shelter together | targeting families in whole or in part | It was the call Shaymma Alloh had been dreading, the news from Gaza she hoped would never come: The house where 26 members of her family were sheltering was hit by a missile strike. |
| 20231114 | Airstrike kills renowned doctor in Gaza and relatives who sought shelter together | targeting forced displaced people | It was the call Shaymma Alloh had been dreading, the news from Gaza she hoped would never come: The house where 26 members of her family were sheltering was hit by a missile strike. |
| 20231114 | Gaza war pushes tumultuous Israel-Turkey ties into ‘deep freezer’ | Turkey | Turkey’s forthright support for Palestine could affecting efforts to revive ties with Israel. Here’s a timeline of their rocky relations |
| 20231114 | UK rows back on ex-PM’s claim Israel is outside remit of international criminal court | United Kingdom | Government appears to withdraw from past assertion by Boris Johnson amid shift to more pointed criticism of Israeli campaign in Gaza |
| 20231114 | Palestinian rights groups file genocide lawsuit against Biden and two of his cabinet members | United States | President Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members are being sued for complicity in genocide, in Gaza. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several groups including American citizens with relatives in Gaza. It aims to stop the US military from sending funding to Israel. |
| 20231114 | US President Biden sued for ‘complicity’ in Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza | United States | Federal complaint calls for an end to the US’s $3.8bn in annual military support to Israel. |
| Comment: The complaint is here. | |||
| 20231114 | US announces third round of sanctions targeting Hamas | United States | US Treasury Department has said that the sanctions were jointly coordinated with the UK and target Hamas financing. |
| 20231114 | Anti-Palestinian sentiment rises amid bipartisan US support for Israel | United States | Both Republican and Democratic politicians have shown staunch support for Israel despite the mounting death toll in Gaza. |
| 20231114 | Demonstrators in Washington back Israel, denounce antisemitism | United States | Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington on Tuesday for a "March for Israel" to show solidarity with Israel in its war with Hamas and condemn rising antisemitism. |
| 20231114 | Biden says Gaza hospital must be protected as tanks close in | United States | US president says he hopes to see ‘less intrusive action’ at Al-Shifa Hospital as patients and staff remain trapped inside. |
| 20231114 | Biden's message to hostages in Gaza: 'Hang in there, we're coming' | United States | "Hang in there, we're coming," Biden said at the White House, when asked by reporters what his message to family members of hostages was. |
| 20231114 | White House seeks to restrain Israel in Gaza amid growing internal dissent | United States | More than 500 appointees and staff members criticized Biden’s unwavering support for Israel in letter demanding ceasefire |
| 20231114 | Surge in Israeli forces killing West Bank Palestinians | West Bank | With scores of Palestinians killed across the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, rights groups have accused Israel of giving soldiers free rein to shoot on site while war rages in Gaza. |
| 20231114 | Israeli army conducts fresh deadly raid in West Bank | West Bank | A 15-hour-long attack in Tulkarm leaves seven Palestinians dead and takes West Bank death toll to nearly 200 in five weeks |
| 20231114 | Yemen’s Houthis say they fired ballistic missiles towards Israel | Yemen | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched ballistic missiles on various Israel targets, including in the Red Sea city of Eilat, the group’s military spokesperson has said. |
| 20231114 | Israeli Ambassador: ‘I have zero empathy’ | Zionism / Israeli | In an extended interview, Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, whether she has empathy for the Palestinian people. She stated that she has “zero empathy” for people who lost their land and refuse to recognise the Jewish right to their homeland. |
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| 20231115 | U.N. Security Council schedules a vote on a resolution urging humanitarian pauses, corridors in Gaza | ceasefire | After four failed attempts, the U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution which would call for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip” in the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231115 | Security Council calls for pause amid Israel assaults on Gaza hospitals | ceasefire | The United Nations security council has voted to adopt a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in fighting in Gaza, and greater efforts to allow humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged territory. |
| 20231115 | UN calls for pauses in Gaza fighting | ceasefire | The UN Security Council adopted a resolution for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip." |
| 20231115 | US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows | ceasefire | U.S. public support for Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. |
| 20231115 | US public support for Israel's war on Gaza reaches new low, polling shows | ceasefire | Only 31 percent of respondents support US sending weapons to Israel, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll |
| 20231115 | Qatar seeking Israel-Hamas deal to free 50 hostages and 3-day truce | ceasefire | Qatari mediators on Wednesday sought to negotiate a deal between Hamas and Israel that included the release of around 50 civilian hostages from Gaza in exchange for a three-day ceasefire, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters. |
| 20231115 | 50 killed and and dozens injured by Israel in Sabra mosque massacre | churches & mosques | At least 50 civilians were killed on Wednesday, dozens more injured, in an Israeli strike on a mosque housing hundreds of displaced in Sabra neighbourhood in western Gaza, Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing reported. |
| 20231115 | Israel’s raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Thousands of people, including patients, are trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital amid deadly Israeli siege. |
| 20231115 | Israeli forces raid Gaza’s biggest hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces have been carrying out a raid on Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, after surrounding it for several days. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud is in Gaza with an update. |
| 20231115 | Israeli forces storm al-Shifa hospital where thousands seek refuge | eliminating health care system | Fate of premature newborns, critically-ill patients, displaced families and medical staff unknown after Israeli forces break through hospital walls |
| 20231115 | After several days of siege, Israeli forces storm Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza has become a symbol of the widespread suffering of Palestinian civilians during the war. |
| 20231115 | 'Barbaric': Israeli raid on Gaza's main hospital condemned | eliminating health care system | The IDF has said it entered al-Shifa hospital in a "targeted operation" against Hamas militants. |
| 20231115 | ‘Terror’ amid Israel’s raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israel’s army raids Gaza’s largest hospital, visiting violence and humiliation on patients, staff and displaced people trapped inside, witnesses say. |
| 20231115 | Thousands trapped as Israeli forces raid Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Raid follows days of heavy attacks on the area, where thousands of displaced people and patients are sheltering. |
| 20231115 | Hamas blames US for giving Israel ‘green light’ to raid al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Group ruling Gaza says the White House gave Israel a green light ‘to commit more massacres against civilians’. |
| 20231115 | US ‘did not give OK’ for Israeli raid of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The United States has denied giving Israel a green light for a raid on al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip after backing Israeli claims that the medical facility was being used for military purposes. |
| 20231115 | Israel faces wave of international condemnation over hospital raid | eliminating health care system | Turkey’s president calls Israel ‘terror state’ while US says it will not veto UN resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pause |
| 20231115 | ‘Hospitals are not battlegrounds’: World reacts to Israel’s al-Shifa raid | eliminating health care system | World leaders and international aid organisations have strongly criticised Israel’s assault on al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231115 | WHO says Israel raid on Gaza hospital is totally unacceptable | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organisation head said, on Wednesday, that the Israeli military incursion into Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza was “totally unacceptable”, Reuters reports. |
| 20231115 | Al Shifa Hospital should be 'safe haven for civilian population', says ex UNRWA chief | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces raided Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday morning, targeting what they say is a Hamas command centre in tunnels beneath thousands of patients and civilians seeking refuge from intense combat. |
| 20231115 | ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops entered Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital in a ‘targeted operation’ at 3am and remained there well into the afternoon |
| 20231115 | Analysis: Israel’s ‘eliminating health care system’ vs Hamas military exaggerations | eliminating health care system | Since Friday, the only Israeli column that has moved is the one that attacked al-Shifa Hospital on Wednesday. |
| 20231115 | What al-Shifa doctor told Israeli forces ahead of raid | eliminating health care system | Israel’s military has been calling doctors working inside Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, where its forces has been carrying out a raid. One doctor recorded his conversation. Here’s what he told the Israeli army. |
| 20231115 | Israel searches for traces of Hamas in raid of key Gaza hospital packed with patients | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops on Wednesday stormed into Gaza’s largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility, where newborns and hundreds of other patients have suffered for days without electricity and other basic necessities as fighting raged outside. |
| 20231115 | Israeli military "says" it uncovers Hamas command centre, weapons at Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops "found an operational command centre" and assets belonging to Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza's biggest hospital, Israel's military said on Wednesday, during a campaign that has stoked global alarm over the fate of civilians inside. |
| 20231115 | Israeli military shows video of arms it says were found at Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops found Hamas weapons and combat gear in Al Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip during a search on Wednesday, chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. |
| 20231115 | Israel-Hamas war live: Israel raids Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Hamas rejects Israeli claims it uncovered weapons during hours-long raid at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian foreign ministry also warns against Israel’s ‘misleading fabrications’ about al-Shifa, where thousands are taking shelter. Hamas denies it is using hospitals in Gaza, such as al-Shifa, as command centres, accusing Israel and the United States of trying to justify “brutal massacres“. |
| Comment -- The doctors at the hospital have repeatedly called for an neutral investigation and have also said to the Israelis that if they continue to claim that Hamas is using the hospital, they should now come and takeover the whole complex and the responsibility of all the patients and the displaced people at the compound. The Israelis refused by not responding. | |||
| 20231115 | Why is Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital so important for the Israeli army? | eliminating health care system | The largest hospital in the besieged enclave already faced shortages before Israeli forces blew up its medicine warehouse. |
| 20231115 | Supplies alone won’t save Gaza hospital patients and evacuation remains perilous, experts say | eliminating health care system | As concerns grow for patients stranded inside Gaza’s biggest hospital, experts warned that transporting vulnerable people, including babies, is a perilous proposition under even the best circumstances. |
| 20231115 | Israeli raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital: A military operation ‘beyond revenge’ | eliminating health care system | Israeli soldiers stormed Gaza's largest hospital on Wednesday, targeting what they believe is a major Hamas command centre located beneath the hospital complex. |
| 20231115 | How and why did Gaza hospitals become primary targets? | eliminating health care system | Israel has repeatedly targeted medical facilities and ambulances in the besieged strip, claiming they are used by Hamas, but experts are questioning the legality of the attacks |
| 20231115 | Canada’s Justin Trudeau tells Israel to end ‘killing of babies’ | collusion & complicity | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged Israel to ‘exercise maximum restraint’ in its war on Gaza. |
| Comment: Canada has a pro-Israeli policy and is a arms supplier to the Israelis | |||
| 20231115 | Gaza telecom companies warn of coming blackout | communication | The two main telecommunications companies in Gaza have warned of a “complete telecom blackout in the coming hours” due to a lack of fuel amid an Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory. |
| 20231115 | Gaza telecom companies warn of coming blackout | food, water, fuel & electricity | The two main telecommunications companies in Gaza have warned of a “complete telecom blackout in the coming hours” due to a lack of fuel amid an Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory. |
| 20231115 | First fuel truck since start of Israel-Hamas war enters Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The first truck delivering fuel to the Gaza Strip since the war began has arrived in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231115 | First fuel delivery to UN in Gaza, Israel says hospitals cannot benefit | food, water, fuel & electricity | The first truck carrying fuel into Gaza since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip today crossed from Egypt to deliver diesel to the United Nations, though it will do little to alleviate shortages that have hampered relief efforts |
| 20231115 | Israeli troops watch warily as Gaza residents join slow march south | forced displacement | Thousands of Palestinians, carrying just a few possessions, move slowly through rubble of city they once called home |
| 20231115 | ‘Informed solidarity’: Why India’s Kerala saw mass rallies for Palestinians | global response | The southern Indian state’s political parties, activists and Muslim groups have held rallies and events, demanding immediate ceasefire by Israel. |
| 20231115 | Belize joins diplomatic backlash against Israel over Gaza bombardment | global response | Belize’s decision follows similar moves by fellow Latin American states Bolivia, Colombia, Chile and Honduras. |
| 20231115 | S Africa: World must urge Israel to stop ‘crime against humanity’ in Gaza | global response | Top diplomat Nalendi Pandor says she sees ‘very clear similarities’ between Israel’s occupation and system of apartheid. |
| 20231115 | Cancer patients evacuated from Gaza heading to Turkiye for treatment | humanitarian aid | Several cancer patients evacuated from Gaza, and their escorts, have departed for a military airport in north-eastern Egypt on Wednesday to be transported to Turkiye for treatment. |
| 20231115 | As Israel’s war on Gaza rages, humanitarian crisis worsens | humanitarian crisis | Health, sanitation, water and food services near breaking point as fighting intensifies. |
| 20231115 | Lawyers for Gaza victims file case at International Criminal Court | ICC | A group of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that Israel’s actions amount to the crime of genocide. |
| 20231115 | Israeli army kills elderly Palestinian after taking PR photo on 'safe corridor' | IOF | Bashir Hajji's granddaughter says he was shot in the head and back after a photo showing soldiers helping him was taken.
Comment: We found the original information on a Instagram account of a relative who called viewers to share her post. |
| 20231115 | Iran's 'Axis of Resistance' against Israel faces trial by fire | Iran | Iran's supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three senior officials: You gave us no warning of your Oct. 7 attack on Israel and we will not enter the war on your behalf. |
| 20231115 | Hostages' fates haunt Israel as war intensifies | Israelis | Their smiling faces look down from the sides of skyscrapers, walls between Tel Aviv's restaurants and bars and a giant video screen at a shopping mall entrance. |
| 20231115 | X is failing to moderate antisemitic and islamophobic hate speech, according to a new report | media / social media | The non-profit organization analyzed 200 examples of reported hate speech on the platform and found that 96 per cent of the posts remained online a week later. |
| 20231115 | Sisi discusses latest developments in Gaza with France’s defence minister | regional response | President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Wednesday the latest regional developments, particularly the war on Gaza, with French Minister of Defense Sébastien Lecornu, who is currently on a visit to Cairo. |
| 20231115 | Building bridges: Palestinians and Israelis fight for peace amid war | regional response | As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, violence is also on the rise in the occupied West Bank, fuelling tensions and creating divides amongst the Jews and Arabs living side by side in the region. |
| 20231115 | Egyptian activists call for 'convoy of conscience' to break Gaza siege | regional response | Union organisers say Sisi's government 'has not done its best' to challenge the Israeli blockade on Gaza and assert its sovereignty over the Rafah border crossing |
| 20231115 | Libya PM's wife: Palestine excluded from Human Rights Declaration | regional response | Palestine and its people “are not included” in the international Human Rights Declaration, said the wife of the Prime Minister of Libya, Amina Ali Mohammed Al-Shawush Al-Dilaw, on Wednesday. |
| 20231115 | It's 'very sad' that women, children 'suffer the most' in Middle East conflict: Azerbaijani First Lady | regional response | Azerbaijan’s First Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva, on Wednesday, said that it is “very sad” that civilians, particularly women and children, are the ones who suffer the most from the ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. |
| 20231115 | What role does Syria play in the Hamas-Israel conflict? | Syria | Israel is bombing Syrian airports while militias inside Syria are firing rockets at Israel. But how important is Syria really in this conflict? |
| 20231115 | 50 killed and and dozens injured by Israel in Sabra mosque massacre | targeting civilians | At least 50 civilians were killed on Wednesday, dozens more injured, in an Israeli strike on a mosque housing hundreds of displaced in Sabra neighbourhood in western Gaza, Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing reported. |
| 20231115 | Cancer patients evacuated from Gaza heading to Turkiye for treatment | Turkey | Several cancer patients evacuated from Gaza, and their escorts, have departed for a military airport in north-eastern Egypt on Wednesday to be transported to Turkiye for treatment. |
| 20231115 | Turkey’s Erdogan calls Israel a ‘terror state’, criticises the West | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Israel a “terror state”, stepping up his condemnation of the Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip ahead of a sensitive visit to Germany. |
| 20231115 | Turkey's Erdogan labels Israel a 'terror state', slams its backers in West | Turkey | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Israel was a "terror state" committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza, sharpening his repeated criticism of Israeli leaders and their backers in the West. |
| 20231115 | UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’ | United Nations | Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defence’ under international law because Gaza is a territory which it occupies. Her comments came in a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia. |
| 20231115 | Yasser Arafat memorial destroyed by Israeli forces | West Bank | An Israeli bulldozer destroyed a memorial to former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. Scholars say the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage during conflict can constitute a war crime. |
| 20231115 | Yemen’s Houthis have launched strikes at Israel during the war in Gaza. What threat do they pose? | Yemen | For years, the Houthi rebels controlling northern Yemen have chanted slogans at their mass rallies calling for the destruction of Israel. But they never acted on it until the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7 |
| 20231115 | US Navy ship shoots down drone from Yemen -officials | Yemen | A U.S. Navy warship shot down a drone in the Red Sea that emanated from Yemen, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in what appeared to be only the second time the United States has brought down projectiles near its warships since the Israel-Hamas conflict began. |
| 20231115 | Ai Weiwei's London exhibition called off over Israel social media post | Zionism / UK | Artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel-Gaza conflict. |
| 20231115 | Israel supporters gather in Washington DC amid Gaza war | Zionism / US | Chants of ‘no ceasefire’ were heard as tens of thousands of people joined a rally in Washington DC in support of Israel as it continues its war in Gaza. |
| 20231115 | US evangelicals drive Republican support for Israel | Zionism / US | Republican support for Israel has been near monolithic since the 7 October attack by Hamas. |
| 20231115 | March for Israel Speaker Hagee Once Said God "Sent Hitler to Help Jews Reach the Promised Land" | Zionism / US | Speakers at Tuesday's "March for Israel" on the National Mall included Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Christian fundamentalist House Speaker Mike Johnson and radical Christian Zionist pastor John Hagee, who once said God "sent Hitler to help Jews reach the Promised Land." Sarah Posner, a reporter focused on the American Christian right, discusses Hagee and Johnson's backgrounds and explains how Hagee and other extremist evangelical Christians and Jewish Zionists use each other to advance their own movements. Rabbis for Ceasefire's Alissa Wise notes the "influence of Christian Zionism on U.S. foreign policy is way understated" and should be vigorously countered by white American Christians, just as white American Jews have mobilized a high-profile opposition to Israel's genocide of Palestinians. |
| 20231115 | X is failing to moderate antisemitic and islamophobic hate speech, according to a new report | Zionism / social media | The non-profit organization analyzed 200 examples of reported hate speech on the platform and found that 96 per cent of the posts remained online a week later. |
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| 20231116 | Biden issues strident defence of refusal to call for ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire | Biden has presented an unapologetic defense of his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that Hamas represents a continuing threat to Israel and that Israeli forces were seeking to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 20231116 | EU top diplomat calls for civilians to be protected during visit to Israel | collusion & complicity | The European Union's top diplomat on Thursday reiterated from Israel his call for civilian lives in Gaza to be protected as he started a five-day tour of the region. |
| 20231116 | EU foreign affairs chief tells Israel not to be ‘consumed by rage’ in response to Hamas attacks | collusion & complicity | The EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, has urged Israel not to be “consumed by rage” in its response to the Hamas attacks of 7 October as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, acknowledged splits in Europe on the conflict. |
| Comment: In 1995, The EC and the Israelis signed a association agreement that have put the EU into the position of collusion. On December 17, 2014, the General Court of the European Union had annulled on grounds of on factual imputations derived from the press and the internet, the listing of Hamas as a terrorist organization. On January 24, 2024, the EU listed Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar on its terrorist list over the event on October 7th. | |||
| 20231116 | Revealed: The Munitions U.S. Supplied Israel for Gaza War | collusion & complicity | Tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells, thousands of bunker-buster munitions and 200 kamikaze drones |
| 20231116 | Biden to Netanyahu: ‘Occupying’ Gaza would be a ‘big mistake’ | collusion & complicity | US president reiterates commitment to political solution as Israeli troops continue raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital.
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| Comment: What did US president Harry Truman, who was a Zionist, on May 14, 1948 eleven minutes after European Zionist migrants seized historic Palestine? | |||
| 20231116 | Biden issues strident defence of refusal to call for ceasefire in Gaza | collusion & complicity | Biden has presented an unapologetic defense of his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, arguing that Hamas represents a continuing threat to Israel and that Israeli forces were seeking to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 20231116 | US will not share intelligence connecting Hamas to Al Shifa hospital -White House | collusion & complicity | The United States will not share any Israeli intelligence or elaborate on its own intelligence assessment that Hamas used Gaza's Al Shifa hospital as a command center and possibly as a storage facility, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | US doubles down on claims Hamas used al-Shifa as a command centre | collusion & complicity | The United States has doubled down on claims that Hamas had operated from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces raided the medical facility. |
| 20231116 | US 'deeply concerned' that attack wounded Jordanian medics in Gaza -Sullivan | collusion & complicity | The United States expressed deep concern on Thursday that Jordanian medics were wounded in shelling near their field hospital in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | British Parliament approval of continuing genocidal war by Israel is disgraceful; confirms its participation in this crime | collusion & complicity | The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) emphasised that the British Parliament’s vote to continue the Israeli extermination war on the people of the Gaza Strip is dangerous, disgraceful to the British nation and does not reflect the position of its people, who came out in millions in all UK cities to reject this war. |
| 20231116 | Telecommunications cut off in Gaza after fuel runs out | communication | Telecom companies Jawwal and Paltel say the network went out of service after ‘all energy sources’ were depleted. |
| 20231116 | Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis | communication | Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout even as Israel signaled its offensive could next target the south of the territory, where most of the population has taken refuge. |
| 20231116 | Biden to Netanyahu: ‘Occupying’ Gaza would be a ‘big mistake’ | day after politics | US president reiterates commitment to political solution as Israeli troops continue raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital.
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| Comment: What did US president Harry Truman, who was a Zionist, on May 14, 1948 eleven minutes after European Zionist migrants seized historic Palestine? | |||
| 20231116 | UN chiefs reject Israel unilateral proposals for so-called Gaza 'safe zones' | dystopian war | The heads of numerous United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organisations said Thursday they would not take part in Gaza "safe zones" declared by Israel. |
| 20231116 | Starving children 'crying for milk' inside al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | The director of al-Shifa Hospital has given the latest update from inside the besieged medical facility in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Israel raids Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital for second day | eliminating health care system | Israeli troops enter the medical complex from the south, reportedly destroying a wall and interrogating medical workers. |
| 20231116 | Israeli commandos combing through Gaza's Al Shifa hospital -military official | eliminating health care system | Israeli commandos are searching through every building and every floor of Gaza's Al Shifa hospital and new information is emerging all the time, an Israeli military official said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | Dialysis patient dies during Israeli raid of al-Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | A spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health said a dialysis patient died during Israel's raid of the al-Shifa hospital. |
| 20231116 | What has Israel ‘found’ in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital? | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military claims it has found rifles, grenades and military vests — but so far, no Hamas command centre. |
| 20231116 | Al-Shifa: What we (BBC) know about Israel's raid on Gaza's main hospital | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a "targeted operation against Hamas". |
| 20231116 | US will not share intelligence connecting Hamas to Al Shifa hospital -White House | eliminating health care system | The United States will not share any Israeli intelligence or elaborate on its own intelligence assessment that Hamas used Gaza's Al Shifa hospital as a command center and possibly as a storage facility, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | US doubles down on claims Hamas used al-Shifa as a command centre | eliminating health care system | The United States has doubled down on claims that Hamas had operated from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces raided the medical facility. |
| 20231116 | HRW: Israeli evidence so far insufficient to revoke Shifa's protections | eliminating health care system | Images released by Israel of weapons it says it soldiers found inside Gaza's biggest hospital are not sufficient to justify revoking the hospital's status as protected by the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | Information provided by Israeli military as evidence proven false | eliminating health care system | Since October 7, Israel's military has routinely made claims about the conflict - and later retracted them. Information provided as evidence has been proved false or wrong multiple times. |
| 20231116 | Hamas denies Israeli claims about Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Hamas denied that it operated out of medical facilities in Gaza, as Israeli forces continued their operation at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Hamdan dismissed Israeli information about Hamas operations at Al Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza as "lies", and condemned US support for them as "silly and stupid". |
| 20231116 | IDF says Hamas hiding evidence of use of Shifa hospital as command centre | eliminating health care system | Medical administrators in Gaza reject claim by Israeli military as ‘outlandish excuse’
COMMENT IDF is trying to save its already ugly face after we and many others have debunked their "evidence". |
| 20231116 | Critics reject Israeli claim al-Shifa Hospital used as Hamas command centre | eliminating health care system | Israel has long accused Hamas of using the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza as a cover for its military operations. Israeli forces have raided the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for the second consecutive day, following days of encircling the largest medical facility in Gaza. They claim to have found what they call “grab bags” containing weapons and uniforms belonging to Hamas fighters. |
| 20231116 | Is Shifa Hospital really a Hamas ops hub? | eliminating health care system | Raiding Gaza’s largest hospital | Pushing people out of southern Gaza ‘safe zones’ | Strip being cut off from communications with the outside world | What are Israel’s goals in Gaza? | |
| 20231116 | Video of 'nurse' denouncing Hamas occupation of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is staged | eliminating health care system | A video claiming to show a nurse at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital has gone viral. Denouncing Hamas’s occupation of the facility, the nurse said that Hamas is stealing all of the hospital's food, fuel and medicine in the video. A closer examination of the clip, however, revealed that it is most likely staged. |
| 20231116 | Israeli tanks surround Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City | eliminating health care system | The Palestine Red Crescent Society announced, on Thursday, that Israeli tanks are besieging Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza City, and its ambulance teams are unable to reach the injured people due to the intense clashes |
| 20231116 | Red Crescent says Israeli tanks lay siege to Gaza's al-Ahli hospital | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli tanks were laying siege to Gaza's al-Ahli hospital in a “violent attack” on Thursday, after a surgeon confirmed the hospital was no longer able to provide surgery. |
| 20231116 | Indonesian hospital 'completely shuts down', says hospital director | eliminating health care system | The Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza has completely shut down after enduring weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231116 | ‘Terrifying’: Death and despair continue in Gaza as Israeli attacks rage on | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces raided al-Shifa Hospital in the north, while continuing bombardments in the south and central regions. |
| 20231116 | Medics fear for patients inside main Gaza hospital, cut off after Israelis arrive | eliminating health care system | Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza's biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered. |
| 20231116 | IDF continues Gaza hospital raid, Biden 'hopeful' about hostage release, Netanyahu urged to quit | eliminating health care system | Summary article |
| 20231116 | US 'deeply concerned' that attack wounded Jordanian medics in Gaza -Sullivan | eliminating health care system | The United States expressed 'deep concern' on Thursday that Jordanian medics were wounded in shelling near their field hospital in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | UN agency warns of 'deliberate attempt' to 'paralyse' its Gaza operations | eliminating UNWRA | Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, warned Thursday of a deliberate attempt to paralyse its operations. |
| 20231116 | Gaza faces communications blackout due to lack of fuel | food, water, fuel & electricity | Mobile phone and internet services have gone down across the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel for back-up generators, Palestinian telecoms companies say. |
| 20231116 | UN says Gaza aid being 'strangled' | food, water, fuel & electricity | The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said it could suspend operations in Gaza due to lack of fuel. Meanwhile, Israel has said it located "intelligence materials" at the al-Shifa hospital complex. |
| 20231116 | UN Palestinian Agency says Gaza operations being deliberately strangled | food, water, fuel & electricity | The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said, on Thursday, he believed there was a deliberate attempt to “strangle” its humanitarian work in Gaza, warning that the Agency may have to entirely suspend its operations due to a lack of fuel |
| 20231116 | UN says food systems are collapsing in Gaza, with aid for just 10 per cent | food, water, fuel & electricity | The World Food Programme (WFP) in Palestine has warned that food systems in the Gaza Strip are collapsing, and that current aid only meets 10 per cent of food needs. |
| 20231116 | Egypt: Rafah crossing is open and pressure must be put on Israel, says foreign minister | food, water, fuel & electricity | Egypt’s Foreign Minister has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to allow aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing. |
| 20231116 | Telecommunications cut off in Gaza after fuel runs out | food, water, fuel & electricity | Telecom companies Jawwal and Paltel say the network went out of service after ‘all energy sources’ were depleted. |
| 20231116 | Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis | food, water, fuel & electricity | Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout even as Israel signaled its offensive could next target the south of the territory, where most of the population has taken refuge. |
| 20231116 | Palestinian telecom firm announces complete blackout of services in Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | |
| 20231116 | Options for evacuating Gaza's Al Shifa hospital limited - WHO official | forced displacement | The United Nations is looking for ways to evacuate Al Shifa hospital in Gaza but options are limited by security and logistical constraints, a senior World Health Organization official said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | Israel orders evacuation in parts of southern Gaza amid fears of escalation | forced displacement | Residents in eastern Khan Younis have received leaflets telling them to flee as UN rights chief warns there is no safe place in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza receive notices to evacuate | forced displacement | Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza said they received evacuation notices Thursday, a signal that Israel’s ground invasion is about to expand in the south. |
| 20231116 | Israel drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza towns | forced displacement | Israel has dropped leaflets into southern Gaza telling Palestinian civilians to leave four towns on the eastern edge of Khan Younis, raising fears that its war against Hamas could spread to areas it previously said were safe. |
| 20231116 | Israel's 'grave violations' against Palestinians 'point to a genocide in making': UN experts | genocide | “Grave violations” committed by Israel against Palestinians since Oct. 7 “point to a genocide in the making,” a group of independent UN experts said on Thursday. |
| 20231116 | S Africa’s ruling ANC to back opposition motion to close Israeli embassy | global response | President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for war crimes in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | South Africa's ANC backs motion to close Israeli embassy | global response | South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said on Thursday that it would support a parliamentary motion calling for the Israeli embassy in South Africa to be closed. |
| 20231116 | Norway parliament says be ready for Palestinian state 'recognition' | global response | Norway's parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on the government to be ready to recognise an "independent" Palestinian state, in a new sign of Europe's anxiety over Israel's war on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231116 | Amnesty International places mock body bags outside White House | global response | Protesters with Amnesty International placed red roses on top of white-shrouded body bags, laid outside the White House in Washington on Wednesday as they called on US President Joe Biden to press for a ceasefire in Gaza, where the death toll continues to grow. |
| 20231116 | Italy opposition leader Conte asks government to stop arms supplies to Israel | global response | Leader of populist opposition party, 5-Star Movement (M5S) and former Premier, Giuseppe Conte, called on Italy’s far-right government to stop arms supplies to Israel, criticising its “lack of courage” in dealing with the conflict in Gaza |
| 20231116 | Israeli police launch Oct 7th probe into Hamas sexual violence following 'pressure of civil society' | Hamas resistance attack | Israel police's investigation into suspected sexual violence against women by Hamas militants on October 7th involves allegations ranging from gang rape to post-mortem mutilation which could amount to war crimes, but are extremely difficult to document. |
| 20231116 | Egypt: Rafah crossing is open and pressure must be put on Israel, says foreign minister | humanitarian aid | Egypt’s Foreign Minister has called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to allow aid into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing. |
| 20231116 | UN agency warns of 'deliberate attempt' to 'paralyse' its Gaza operations | humanitarian aid | Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, warned Thursday of a deliberate attempt to paralyse its operations. |
| 20231116 | Israel’s opposition leader calls on Netanyahu to resign over Hamas attack | Israelis | Yair Lapid says the country has lost confidence in Netanyahu’s leadership after the security failure on October 7. |
| 20231116 | Israeli opposition leader says time has come to replace Netanyahu | Israelis | Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Thursday it was time to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that there would be broad support to form a unity government led by Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party. |
| 20231116 | Israeli police launch Oct 7th probe into Hamas sexual violence following 'pressure of civil society' | Israelis | Israel police's investigation into suspected sexual violence against women by Hamas militants on October 7th involves allegations ranging from gang rape to post-mortem mutilation which could amount to war crimes, but are extremely difficult to document. |
| 20231116 | Shelling intensifies at Lebanon-Israel border | Lebanon | Shelling intensified across Lebanon's frontier with Israel on Thursday, with Lebanese armed group Hezbollah saying it had fired missiles at eight positions across the border and Israel saying it had retaliated with artillery. |
| 20231116 | What war crimes laws apply to the Israel-Palestinian conflict? | opinion | article is a explainer -- War between Israel and Palestinian militants since the cross-border attack by Gaza's ruling Islamist group Hamas on Oct. 7 has caused a large civilian death toll. |
| 20231116 | Anti-Israel rhetoric in Jordan intensifies as kingdom braces for chaos | regional effects | Officials and analysts say strong words out of Amman reflect fears that protests in Jordan or fighting in West Bank could spill over borders with existential consequences |
| 20231116 | Saudi Arabia detains worshippers praying for Gaza in holy sites | regional effects | Islah Abdur-Rahman was taken away by soldiers, and says his experience was an insight into what it's like to be silenced |
| Comment: Saudi crackdown is strongly related to the interest to join the Abraham pact that was was mastermind by Netanyahu and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner in 2020, and meant to isolate the Palestinians from the Arab world. It has nothing to do with the United Nations Resolution 181 as claimed by many Western online sources. | |||
| 20231116 | Jordan says it won’t sign energy and water exchange deal with Israel | regional response | Top diplomat says Amman’s priority is to end ‘Israel’s barbarism in Gaza’, which can no longer be seen as self-defence. |
| 20231116 | How the dead are counted in Gaza | targeting civilians | As battles there intensify, the chaotic situation - with bombardment by Israeli forces, on-the-ground fighting, communications blackouts, fuel shortages and crumbling infrastructure - makes getting accurate information on the numbers of people who have died extremely demanding. |
| 20231116 | Their families wiped out, grieving Palestinians in Gaza ask why | targeting families in whole or in part | The night a blast struck his family’s home in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic. |
| 20231116 | Lack of supplies, ongoing strikes intensify tragedy in Gaza | targeting families in whole or in part | Four-year-old Ahmad Shabat lost 17 family members and ended up losing his legs after being hit for the second time by Israeli offensive strikes. The UN warns that the lack of supplies would worsen the situation for survival in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231116 | In Gaza, Ahmad lost his family then his legs to Israel’s bombing | targeting families in whole or in part | Ahmad Shabat lost his legs in an Israeli air attack outside a United Nations school in Nuseirat refugee camp that killed his uncle. |
| 20231116 | Turkey's Erdogan visits Germany amid divisions over Israel | Turkey | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming to Berlin for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. With their positions on the war in the Middle East far apart, it's unlikely to be a friendly visit. |
| 20231116 | More than 50 UK Labour MPs break ranks to vote for Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | A group of 56 Labour lawmakers go against the party line to officially urge a truce in Israel’s war in Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Keir Starmer suffers major Labour rebellion over Gaza ceasefire vote | United Kingdom | Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 of his MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire. |
| 20231116 | Third of London Labour MPs rebel over Gaza ceasefire vote | United Kingdom | Nearly a third of Labour's London MPs voted against the party line to support a motion calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20231116 | Starmer calls for Labour unity after rebellion in Gaza vote | United Kingdom | Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants Labour to be "as united as we can" after a series of frontbench resignations over the Israel-Gaza war. |
| 20231116 | Activists in the UK blockade factories in protest against Israeli weapons production | United Kingdom | A group of activists in Liverpool occupied the offices, early Thursday, of Fisher German, property managers of an Israeli weapons factory in Shenstone in the UK |
| 20231116 | British Parliament approval of continuing genocidal war by Israel is disgraceful; confirms its participation in this crime | United Kingdom | The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) emphasised that the British Parliament’s vote to continue the Israeli extermination war on the people of the Gaza Strip is dangerous, disgraceful to the British nation and does not reflect the position of its people, who came out in millions in all UK cities to reject this war. |
| 20231116 | UN chiefs reject Israel unilateral proposals for so-called Gaza 'safe zones' | United Nations | The heads of numerous United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organisations said Thursday they would not take part in Gaza "safe zones" declared by Israel. |
| 20231116 | Cousin of Palestinian activist beaten by Israeli soldiers | West Bank | Soldiers were filmed violently assaulting cousin of killed activist, Nizar Banat, in front of his screaming children. |
| 20231116 | Israeli forces kill three Palestinians after alleged West Bank attack | West Bank | Israeli police say six members of the security forces were wounded in a shooting attack at a checkpoint near Bethlehem. |
| 20231116 | Israeli forces kill three Palestinian gunmen who opened fire in West Bank - police | West Bank | Three Palestinian men opened fire at a checkpoint on a road between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday, wounding six Israeli security force members before the attackers were shot dead, Israeli police said. |
| 20231116 | Hamas claims responsibility for shooting near Jerusalem that killed Israeli soldier | West Bank | Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility Thursday for a gun attack near Jerusalem that killed a soldier, saying it was in response to the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. The news came after Gaza’s main telecommunications companies Paltel and Jawwal said services in the enclave were down due to a lack of fuel. |
| 20231116 | France calls West Bank Israeli settler violence 'policy of terror' | West Bank | France on Thursday condemned violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, calling it a "policy of terror" aimed at displacing Palestinians and urging Israeli authorities to protect Palestinians from the violence. |
| 20231116 | Key members of Netanyahu’s cabinet ‘throwing fire on the flames’ | West Bank | Jake Tapper breaks down the comments made by several members of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet that he says are increasing tensions amid Israel’s war with Hamas. |
| 20231116 | Montreal Jewish community in shock over synagogue firebombing, school shootings | Zionism / Canada | Canada's Jewish community expected a backlash but was surprised by its scale. In the mostly Jewish town of Hampstead on the island of Montreal residents are dismayed and worried over an outbreak of anti-Semitic acts tied to the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231116 | Germany’s police target a suspected group with links to Hezbollah | Zionism / Germany | Hundreds of German police have raided the properties of suspected members of a group with links to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. Germany’s interior ministry says it conducted searches in 54 buildings in 16 states, including in Berlin, Hamburg, and Lower Saxony. |
| 20231116 | German police raid Islamic centre over alleged ties to Iran, Hezbollah | Zionism / Germany | Police target 54 sites in seven states. Minister says, ‘We are acting against Islamists, not against a religion or another state.’ |
| 20231116 | German police raid suspected pro-Hezbollah Islamist group | Zionism / Germany | The Interior Ministry has said it is searching objects related to the Islamic Center of Hamburg, which is suspected of supporting the militant group Hezbollah. |
| 20231116 | Cancelled or sacked over support for Palestine | Zionism / global | Support for Palestine has been on display around the world, but with that hundreds of people have found themselves sacked for speaking out against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. |
| 20231116 | Synagogue in Slovenia defaced with nazi graffiti amid rise in antisemitism across Europe | Zionism / global | The Jewish Community Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which hosts one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe, was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. |
| 20231116 | Western donors cut off funding to Arab groups amid Israel’s war | Zionism / global | The West’s silence on Israel’s assault on Gaza and violence in West Bank also risks a deeper rift with Arab groups, activists say. |
| 20231116 | Ai Weiwei London exhibition 'effectively cancelled’ over Israel social media post | Zionism / UK | Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel Hamas war. |
| 20231116 | US Capitol police clash with protesters calling for Gaza war ceasefire | Zionism / US | Police use pepper spray and fire projectiles containing chemical irritants on ‘non-violent’ protesters in Washington, DC. |
| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION |
| 20231117 | Protesters demanding Gaza ceasefire shut down US bridge | ceasefire | Protesters shut down San Francisco’s Bay Bridge during rush hour as they called for a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 20231117 | Stanford students refuse to end Gaza sit-in until demands met | ceasefire | Students vow to continue weeks-long protest until the prestigious US university divests from Israel and condemns Israeli war crimes in Gaza and occupied territories |
| 20231117 | More than 20,000 children injured in attacks | children | Israel has killed more than 4,600 children in Gaza in just over five weeks. About 20,000 more have been injured. |
| 20231117 | Canada officials face threat of prosecution for complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza | collusion & complicity | The Canadian government is the latest to be issued with a notice of intention to seek prosecution of politicians for complicity in Israeli war crimes in Gaza. |
| 20231117 | Biden facing growing internal dissent over Israel's Gaza campaign | collusion & complicity | US President Joe Biden is under growing pressure to rein in Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231117 | The Elders: Biden, the world needs you to act now for peace between Israel, Palestine | collusion & complicity | In an open letter issued to Biden yesterday, the Elders said: “As polarisation increases, the world needs you to set out a vision for peace. That vision must give hope to those who reject extremism and want the violence to end.” |
| 20231117 | The historic Great Omari Mosque in Gaza 'hit' by an Israeli air strike | culture & heritage | Gaza's oldest mosque, the Great Omari Mosque located in the Old City, has reportedly been hit by an Israeli air strike on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic. |
| 20231117 | 'Bombings everywhere': No escape for Gaza's displaced | dystopian war | Airstrikes, destroyed houses and loved ones annihilated by bombs: Palestinians who fled the north of the Gaza Strip on Israeli orders have found no trace of the safety promised to them. |
| 20231117 | Israeli air strikes bomb Nuseirat despite labeling it as a ‘safe zone | dystopian war | Israeli air strikes bomb the Nuseriat area, which is labeled as supposedly safe. MEMO’s correspondent Mohammed Asad reports that there were many martyrs, and injured in the latest bombing in the area, and that it should no longer be considered a safe zone. |
| 20231117 | Over 800,000 Palestinians still in Gaza City, northern areas despite Israeli ground attacks | dystopian war | The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported on Friday that over 800,000 Palestinians remain in the besieged Gaza City and northern areas, despite ongoing Israeli destructive ground operations |
| 20231117 | Gaza hospitals face difficult task of evacuating patients | eleminating health care system | Gaza's war-torn hospitals are overflowing with patients in need of emergency care. Those with chronic health conditions are no longer receiving meaningful treatment, but evacuating them to other countries is complicated and dangerous. |
| 20231117 | The US does not show proof of Hamas use of hospitals. | eliminating health care system | The US is sticking by its assessment that Hamas uses hospitals as command-and-control centers. This, despite the lack of evidence shown so far, so how do they explain the scant proof Israel has provided? |
| 20231117 | Critics reject Israeli claim Al Shifa hospital used as Hamas command centre | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army says it found a cache of weapons and ammunition during a ground operation in the Al Shifa hospital compound. Israel has long accused Hamas of using the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza as a cover for its military operations. They claim to have found what they call “grab bags” containing weapons and uniforms belonging to Hamas fighters. |
| 20231117 | Doctor says Israeli forces 'found nothing', supplies low at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | A doctor at the Gaza Strip's Al Shifa hospital said on Friday Israeli forces had "found nothing" during searches of the hospital complex, and that food and water were running out. |
| 20231117 | IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ | eliminating health care system | Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military has claimed |
| 20231117 | Analysis: What’s Israel’s next target after Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital? | eliminating health care system | Israel has yet to offer evidence that Hamas is using a network of tunnels below the hospital as a command centre |
| 20231117 | Israel’s claims of providing incubators ‘false’, says al-Shifa director | eliminating health care system | The director of al-Shifa Hospital tells Al Jazeera that newborn babies require immediate attention, but they are running out of medical supplies. “On some occasions, we are forced to leave patients to die because we are helpless, we cannot perform any surgical operations on them, the least we can do is give them some painkillers to let those victims die in peace,” Muhammed Abu Salmiya said. He added that many newborn premature babies died as the incubators ran out of oxygen. The Israeli army said earlier this week that it would be providing incubators to al-Shifa Hospital, but Salmiya says this is a lie. “The Israeli occupation forces claim to have provided incubators to the hospital, but this is not true; this is false. In addition, we are not in need of incubators; we have already incubators in the hospital, yet we are out of fuel to generate electricity [for the incubators],” he cried. |
| Comment: We have evidence that a few incubators were brought into the hospital but found it propaganda as incubators need electricity to operate. But, the Israelis have cut the electricity. They also cut the fuel supply needed to run the power generators. | |||
| 20231117 | Israel army destroys medical departments at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The Ministry of Health in Gaza has stated that the Israeli army destroyed medical departments in its attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. |
| 20231117 | Gaza hospitals face difficult task of evacuating patients | eliminating health care system | Gaza's war-torn hospitals are overflowing with patients in need of emergency care. Those with chronic health conditions are no longer receiving meaningful treatment, but evacuating them to other countries is complicated and dangerous. |
| 20231117 | Report: Hamas leader stopped prisoner swap talks after Israel stormed Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Leader of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, stopped contacts with mediators handling the file of Israeli prisoners of war being held in Gaza, after the Israeli occupation army stormed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex |
| 20231117 | Al-Shifa Hospital director in Gaza says no water or oxygen left | eliminating health care system | The director of the Gaza Strip's main hospital raided by Israeli soldiers says the facility has now run out of oxygen and water, and patients "are screaming from thirst". |
| 20231117 | More than 20 patients die at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital amid Israeli raid | eliminating health care system | Health ministry spokesman says at least 24 people have died at Gaza’s largest hospital due to power cuts. |
| 20231117 | 24 patients died in Israeli-occupied Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza in last 48 hours: Palestinian health ministry | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian health ministry said that 24 patients at Israeli-occupied Al-Shifa hospital in the under-bombardment Gaza Strip had died within 48 hours due to power outages. |
| 20231117 | Ambulances detained, searched by Israeli forces | eliminating health care system | There have been near daily Israeli strikes in, or near Gaza's hospitals compounds. The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties governing conduct during armed conflict. And their message is clear: hospitals and medical personnel are off limits during war. |
| 20231117 | UN stops delivery of food and supplies to Gaza as communications blackout hinders aid coordination | food, water, fuel & electricity | The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. |
| 20231117 | Aid agencies say they can’t send food and other supplies to Gaza because of communications blackout | food, water, fuel & electricity | Communications systems in the Gaza Strip were down for a second day Friday with no fuel to power the internet and phone networks, causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies even as they warned people may soon face starvation. |
| 20231117 | UN warns of widespread hunger in Gaza amid collapse of food systems and fuel shortage | food, water, fuel & electricity | The Gaza Strip is suffering a substantial food deficit, leading to widespread hunger, with almost the entire population of the Palestinian enclave in urgent need of food assistance, warned the UN World Food Programme (WFP). |
| 20231117 | UN says starvation imminent in Gaza, no let-up in Israeli assault | food, water, fuel & electricity | U.N. aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended again on Friday due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, deepening the misery of thousands of hungry and homeless Palestinians as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the enclave. |
| 20231117 | ‘Starvation and disease’ stalk Gaza as fuel shortages block aid: Agencies | food, water, fuel & electricity | UN aid deliveries to Gaza are suspended again due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown. |
| 20231117 | Israeli ministers outraged over 'limited' fuel set to enter Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The opposition comes despite the UN saying the lack of fuel is jeopardizing 'the entire architecture of the humanitarian response' in Gaza as raw sewage is flowing in the streets |
| 20231117 | Israel says it will let more aid into Gaza as UN warns of hunger and disease | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israel agreed on Friday to let fuel trucks into Gaza and promised "no limitation" on aid requested by the United Nations, appearing to bow to international pressure after warnings that its siege of the Palestinian enclave would cause starvation and disease. |
| 20231117 | WFP warns Gaza residents face 'imminent threat of death by starvation' | food, water, fuel & electricity | The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) warned late Thursday that Gaza residents currently face an "imminent threat of death by starvation" as Israel continues to bombard the strip, causing severe energy and food shortages |
| 20231117 | UN warns of Gaza starvation as concerns rise about safety in the south | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israeli military expansion seen as likely alongside acute shortages of of food and water |
| 20231117 | UN Refugee Agency needs 160,000 litres of fuel every day to run operations in Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, said on Friday it requires 160,000 litres (42,268 gallons) of fuel daily to conduct its essential operations in the Gaza Strip, |
| 20231117 | Egypt delivers 150,000 litres of diesel to Gaza in 10-truck convoy | food, water, fuel & electricity | 10 fuel trucks carrying 150,000 litres of diesel entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, Sky News Arabia reported on Friday. |
| 20231117 | Israel says it will allow two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israel says it will allow two trucks carrying diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip each day. |
| 20231117 | Israel says it will let more aid into Gaza as UN warns of hunger and disease | food, water, fuel & electricity | Israel agreed on Friday to let fuel trucks into Gaza and promised "no limitation" on aid requested by the United Nations, appearing to bow to international pressure after warnings that its siege of the Palestinian enclave would cause starvation and disease. |
| 20231117 | Gaza hospitals face difficult task of evacuating patients | forced displacement | Gaza's war-torn hospitals are overflowing with patients in need of emergency care. Those with chronic health conditions are no longer receiving meaningful treatment, but evacuating them to other countries is complicated and dangerous. |
| 20231117 | People across the world protest against Israel’s war on Gaza | global response | Demonstrators the world over have rallied in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, condemning the high rate of civilian casualties in Israeli attacks and calling for an immediate ceasefire. |
| 20231117 | As Israel bombs Gaza, Ireland’s enduring support of Palestine gets stronger | global response | Writers, politicians, and activists in Ireland, which is often an outlier in the West on the Middle East conflict, call for peace. |
| 20231117 | Aid agencies say they can’t send food and other supplies to Gaza because of communications blackout | humanitarian aid | Communications systems in the Gaza Strip were down for a second day Friday with no fuel to power the internet and phone networks, causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies even as they warned people may soon face starvation. |
| 20231117 | UN stops delivery of food and supplies to Gaza as communications blackout hinders aid coordination | humanitarian aid | The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. |
| 20231117 | Footage shows Israeli soldiers celebrating amid Gaza bombardment | IOF | Recent footage has exposed a disturbing scene of Israeli soldiers singing and celebrating, mocking the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The soldiers are seen making derogatory slurs towards Gazans, including calling them 'animals', while proudly joking about violence, death, and destruction. |
| 20231117 | Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians | IOF | Weapons tested in each war Israel wages see a spike in global demand. The current Gaza war is the latest laboratory for its arms industry. |
| 20231117 | Body of Hamas captive Yehudit Weiss found near Gaza hospital, Israel says | IOF | Weiss, a 65-year-old mother of five, found in ‘structure’ adjacent to al-Shifa Hospital, officials say. |
| 20231117 | Israel says body of hostage recovered near al-Shifa hospital | IOF | Yehudit Weiss, abducted from Be’eri kibbutz by Hamas, found dead in building next to hospital after raid |
| 20231117 | Israel says it found a Hamas tunnel at al-Shifa hospital | IOF | Israel's military has said its soldiers have discovered a tunnel shaft used by Hamas militants at al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. The Israeli military released a video of the tunnel entrance, which could not be verified, after they took control of the complex |
| 20231117 | Israel’s claims of providing incubators ‘false’, says al-Shifa director | IOF | The director of al-Shifa Hospital tells Al Jazeera that newborn babies require immediate attention, but they are running out of medical supplies. “On some occasions, we are forced to leave patients to die because we are helpless, we cannot perform any surgical operations on them, the least we can do is give them some painkillers to let those victims die in peace,” Muhammed Abu Salmiya said. He added that many newborn premature babies died as the incubators ran out of oxygen. The Israeli army said earlier this week that it would be providing incubators to al-Shifa Hospital, but Salmiya says this is a lie. “The Israeli occupation forces claim to have provided incubators to the hospital, but this is not true; this is false. In addition, we are not in need of incubators; we have already incubators in the hospital, yet we are out of fuel to generate electricity [for the incubators],” he cried. |
| Comment: We have evidence that a few incubators were brought into the hospital but found it propaganda as incubators need electricity to operate. But, the Israelis have cut the electricity. They also cut the fuel supply needed to run the power generators. | |||
| 20231117 | Iran told US it doesn't want regional escalation, says report | Iran | Iran used back channels to tell US that regional escalation was not its priority, while also telling Hamas it would not join the fight, Tehran's top diplomat tells the Financial Times |
| 20231117 | Israel will hit Hamas all over Gaza – including ‘in the south’, IDF says | Israeli escalation | Israeli troops will hit Hamas targets wherever they can find them, including in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Israel's chief military spokesman said on Friday, as forces continued their ground operation in the northern part of the besieged enclave. |
| 20231117 | Israel ‘not successful’ in minimising Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu | Israeli escalation | Israeli leader says the army is trying to get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate. |
| 20231117 | Netanyahu says Israel 'not successful' at minimising Gaza casualties but blames Hamas | Israeli escalation | Israel's prime minister has said it is trying to minimise civilian casualties in the war in Gaza but has been "not successful", blaming this on Hamas. |
| 20231117 | Israel ‘not successful’ in minimising Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu | Israeli escalation | Israeli leader says the army is trying to get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate. |
| 20231117 | Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | Israeli escalation | Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. |
| 20231117 | The fate of Hamas’ captives could tear Israeli society apart | Israelis | As the influence of the religious right has grown, Israel's social contract with its conscripts has frayed. The death of 240 Israelis in Gaza could break it forever |
| 20231117 | Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | Israelis | Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. |
| 20231117 | Insight: Forever war? Israel risks a long, bloody insurgency in Gaza | Israelis | Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a credible post-war plan to withdraw its troops and move toward the creation of a Palestinian state, U.S. and Arab officials, diplomats and analysts said. |
| 20231117 | Under the cover of war, Israeli forces impose restrictions on Al-Aqsa prayers | Jerusalem | Since the start of the conflict, Israeli police forces have barred most Palestinians from attending Friday prayers at the site |
| 20231117 | Does Israel have the right to self-defence in Gaza? | opinion | article is a explainer -- Many experts believe Israel’s case is weak because Gaza has in effect been under Israeli control. |
| 20231117 | US sanctions Iran-backed militia members in Iraq conducting strikes against American forces | regional effects | The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on six people affiliated with the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah, which is accused of being behind a spate of recent attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria following the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel. |
| 20231117 | Egypt FM: No US pressure to accept Palestinian displacement in exchange for debt relief | regional effects | Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has categorically rejected reports claiming Israel and the United States are pressuring Egypt to accept the displacement of Palestinians in exchange for canceling Cairo’s debts. |
| 20231117 | Scores of Palestinians dead, wounded from Israeli bombing of Gaza school sheltering displaced people | schools | There were scores of deaths and injuries from an Israeli bombing on Friday that targeted a Gaza City school sheltering displaced people, Palestine TV reported. |
| 20231117 | ‘We’re alive’, then dead silence: A Gaza family trapped in Israel’s war | targeting civilians | No one knows the fate of the Khayal family who tried to flee south during four-hour pause last Friday but were shot at. |
| 20231117 | Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand | targeting civilians | The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. |
| 20231117 | Israel bombs Jabalia Camp throughout the night | targeting civilians | At least 11 Palestinians were killed after an Israeli air attack targeted a residential building in a residential area of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231117 | Rescue workers race to find survivors in Jabalia | targeting civilians | Gaza's largest refugee camp has been targeted again in the latest Israeli air strikes. Residential buildings in Jabalia were hit, killing at least 11 people. |
| 20231117 | Israel ‘not successful’ in minimising Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu | targeting civilians | Israeli leader says the army is trying to get Gaza civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate. |
| 20231117 | Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | targeting civilians | Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. |
| 20231117 | Israeli air strikes bomb Nuseirat despite labeling it as a ‘safe zone | targeting forced displaced people | Israeli air strikes bomb the Nuseriat area, which is labeled as supposedly safe. MEMO’s correspondent Mohammed Asad reports that there were many martyrs, and injured in the latest bombing in the area, and that it should no longer be considered a safe zone. |
| 20231117 | Scores of Palestinians dead, wounded from Israeli bombing of Gaza school sheltering displaced people | targeting forced displaced people | There were scores of deaths and injuries from an Israeli bombing on Friday that targeted a Gaza City school sheltering displaced people, Palestine TV reported. |
| 20231117 | Turkiye rejects Netanyahu's 'unfounded slander' against President Erdogan | Turkey | Turkiye, on Wednesday, rejected “unfounded slander” from Israel’s Prime Minister against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying Israeli officials have “no right to talk about the law” |
| 20231117 | Can the UN Security Council stop Israel’s war on Gaza? | United Nations | The UN Security Council has agreed to call for ‘humanitarian pauses’ after a crucial vote |
| 20231117 | Israel must 'stop' its attacks, and especially halt any push into south Gaza: UN Human Rights office | United Nations | The UN Human Rights office said on Friday that Israel should “stop” its attacks in Gaza, and pushed for a ceasefire, especially if it is pushing its operations into southern Gaza |
| 20231117 | White House condemns Musk for spreading 'hideous' antisemitic lie | United States | The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous" antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans." |
| Comment: The X-post concerns this article | |||
| 20231117 | Medical staff ordered out of Jenin hospital during Israeli raid | West Bank | Palestinian medical workers were forced out of a hospital with their hands in the air during an Israeli raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Thursday night |
| 20231117 | Israeli forces raid Jenin, surround Ibn Sina hospital in occupied West Bank | West Bank | A number of hospitals were surrounded and at least three people killed as Israeli forces launched a major raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231117 | Casualties reported in Hebron, occupied West Bank | West Bank | Local Palestinian sources report that an intense exchange of fire has taken place in the Ras al-Joura area in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231117 | US’ Blinken urges Israel to stop settler violence in West Bank | West Bank | Top US diplomat makes plea amid surge in reports of settler violence since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231117 | Israel kills Hamas militants in Jenin raid as violence surges in West Bank | West Bank | Hamas says three fighters died, while Israeli military says it killed at least five, as tensions rise |
| 20231117 | The dangers of weaponising anti-Semitism | Zionism / global | Scholars and experts unpack the meaning and use of anti-Semitism during the Israel-Gaza war |
| 20231117 | The dangers of weaponising anti-Semitism (video version) | Zionism / global | As the death toll continues to rise in Gaza, some experts warn of a potential genocide. Israeli leaders have at times justified their attacks on the besieged strip by invoking the history of persecution of Jewish people, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling Hamas’s attack on October 7 “the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Holocaust”. How is Jewish history influencing Israel’s response in the war on Gaza? |
| 20231117 | White House condemns Musk for spreading 'hideous' antisemitic lie | Zionism / social media | The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous" antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans." |
| Comment: The X-post concerns this article | |||
| 20231117 | White House criticises Elon Musk over 'hideous' antisemitic lie | Zionism / US | The White House has accused Elon Musk of repeating a "hideous lie" about Jewish people, after the X owner appeared to respond approvingly to an antisemitic post on the platform.
Comment: The X-post concerns this article |
| 20231117 | TikTok under pressure to suppress pro-Palestine voices in alarming crackdown on free speech | Zionism / US | Social media giant, TikTok, has come under pressure from pro-Israel celebrities and “Jewish influencers” crackdown on pro-Palestine voices and content, according to a shocking new report by the New York Times. |
| 20231117 | The Elders: Biden, the world needs you to act now for peace between Israel, Palestine | Zionism / US | In an open letter issued to Biden yesterday, the Elders said: “As polarisation increases, the world needs you to set out a vision for peace. That vision must give hope to those who reject extremism and want the violence to end.” |
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| 20231118 | First group of wounded Palestinian children from Israel-Hamas war arrives in United Arab Emirates | children | The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip reached the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, part of a pledged relief effort by the country to aid 1,000 children. |
| 20231118 | Israel does not distinguish between north and south Gaza: Hamas | dystopian war | Beirut-based Hamas representative Osama Hamdan says today’s attack on al-Fakhoora school in Khan Younis proves that no part of Gaza is safe. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 32 in south Gaza amid calls for civilians to flee | dystopian war | Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians on Saturday, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it turns to attacking Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 32 in south Gaza amid calls for civilians to flee | dystopian war | Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians on Saturday, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it turns to attacking Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. |
| 20231118 | Israel orders hospital evacuation: Al Shifa patients and medical staff forced to leave | eliminating health care system | At least 7-thousand people working and sheltering at the Al Shifa hospital complex in northern Gaza have been ordered to leave by Israeli forces. Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing the Al Shifa hospital compound, after being ordered to leave by Israel's military. More than 300 patients are heading to southern Gaza WITHOUT the help of ambulances. |
| 20231118 | Israeli forces order Shifa hospital evacuation in 'next hour'. | eliminating health care system | Israeli army ordered the evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital "in the next hour" over loudspeakers on Saturday morning, an AFP journalist at the scene reported. |
| 20231118 | Panic as Gaza’s al-Shifa evacuates, Israel army denies ordering it to do so | eliminating health care system | More than 7,000 people, including critical patients, were housed in the hospital that Israeli troops have besieged for days. |
| 20231118 | Shifa Hospital patients, staff and displaced leave the compound | eliminating health care system | Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, health officials said, leaving behind only a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move and Israeli forces in control of the facility. |
| 20231118 | Israeli army forces evacuation of Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army ordered patients, refugees, and medical staff to evacuate the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by the occupation army, forcing them to make the more than 20-kilometre-long trek south on foot. |
| 20231118 | Al-Shifa now almost ‘deserted’: Hospital director | eliminating health care system | Speaking to Al Jazeera from Gaza’ largest hospital, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, says only him and few others, including staff and patients, were left at the hospital. Here are his translated comments: The hospital is completely deserted. Some of the remaining patients and victims are lying in the corridor. The center of the hospital is surrounded by Israeli soldiers. They are in total control. Even we, the very few medical staff that remains, cannot move freely. Many of those in critical conditions including newborns and kidney patients will die imminently if they are not evacuated. Food at the hospitals is also running out. |
| 20231118 | Israelis deny ordering evacuation of al Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli military spokesperson Peter Lerner has denied ordering people in al Shifa Hospital or Khan Younis to evacuate and said the south of Gaza is "safer" for people. He said "Hamas are hiding behind civilians" and that there's no time limit on ground operations within Gaza - adding it will likely be "a long battle". |
| 20231118 | US weapons expert debunks Israel’s denial of Gaza hospital strike | eliminating health care system | Speaking to MEMO, weapons expert and US Army veteran Dylan Griffith challenged Israel's claim that it was a Palestinian 'misfired rocket' and not the Israeli military that struck the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on 17 October 2023, killing over 500 Palestinian civilians. Griffith examines the available visual evidence to refute Israel's version of events, which has now been endorsed by US President Joe Biden. |
| 20231118 | Gaza hospitals director rejects Israeli statement on al-Shifa evacuation | eliminating health care system | Mohammed Zaqout insists that Israeli forces gave staff and patients at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza the order to evacuate this morning. “I categorically deny these false allegations [that evacuation was requested] … despite the difficult situation, the medical staff were working and operating … we were forced to leave at gunpoint,” he told Al Jazeera. |
| 20231118 | What AJE knows about evacuation of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital | eliminating health care system | Doctors say at about 450 patients have been evacuated and about 120 had to be left behind after Israeli forces gave Gaza’s largest hospital one hour to evacuate. With communications heavily restricted, |
| 20231118 | How hospitals became ‘fair game’ in Israel’s war on Gaza | eliminating health care system | Has the media helped turn hospitals into targets in Gaza? Plus, what has October 7 meant for anti-war and anti-apartheid narratives in Israel? |
| 20231118 | ‘Scream to the world, stop genocide’: Indonesian medics rally for Gaza | eliminating health care system | Medical workers in Indonesia call for an end to attacks on hospitals and healthcare staff by Israeli forces in Gaza. |
| 20231118 | WHO: 170 Israeli attacks on West Bank healthcare facilities | eliminating health care system in the West Bank | The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Friday that more than 170 Israeli attacks were launched on healthcare facilities in the occupied West Bank alone since 7 October. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli forces strike al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza | eliminating UNWRA | Israeli air raids have hit the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | At least 50’ dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school | eliminating UNWRA | According to AFP, the Gaza Ministry of Health says that ‘at least 50’ are dead after the Israeli army bombed al-Fakhoora school early this morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement that the al-Fakhoora School attack proves that Israel’s declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip area of all Palestinian presence. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks | eliminating UNWRA | Palestinians in northern and southern Gaza targeted with relentless bombardment, as patients are also forced out of al-Shifa Hospital in wheelchairs and beds |
| 20231118 | At least 80 dead in Israel strike on Gaza refugee camp as ceasefire calls rebuffed | eliminating UNWRA | The Hamas health ministry has reported the deaths of more than 80 people in two separate Israeli strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Israel bombs another UN-affiliated school in Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of people | eliminating UNWRA | At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed following an Israeli air strike on Al-Fakhoura school, run by UNRWA, in the northern Gaza Strip according to local reports. |
| 20231118 | ‘Nothing discriminate’ about bombing Fakhoora School from air: Analyst | eliminating UNWRA | Fakhoora School is like the al-Shifa of schools in Gaza; it’s been targeted like al-Shifa has. This school was bombed in 2009, 2014, and this is the second time this month that it’s been bombed. There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and deaths. |
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| 20231118 | UN rapporteur: ‘Israel must stop using water as a weapon of war against Palestinians’ | food, water, fuel & electricity | United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo-Agudo on Friday called on the occupying state to stop using water as a weapon of war against the Palestinians and called on it to provide clean water and fuel to the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Gaza’s food is running out amid Israel’s ‘war of starvation’ | food, water, fuel & electricity | The closure of crossings to the Gaza Strip, displacement of thousands and bombing of bakeries have worsened the food crisis. |
| 20231118 | Israel agrees to allow ‘minimal’ two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricity | Decision was made in part to prevent spread of diseases that would ‘harm’ civilians and its own troops on the ground, Israeli official says. |
| 20231118 | Genocidal incitement': Anti-Palestinian rhetoric and hate speech | genocide II | UN human rights experts have called on the international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 36 Special Rapporteurs released a joint statement, saying there is increasing evidence of QUOTE 'genocidal incitement to destroy the Palestinian people.' |
| 20231118 | Emotions run high at pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations around the world | global response | In the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, people across the globe have taken to the streets en masse — some in support of Israel and some in support of Palestinians. |
| 20231118 | Five countries ask International Criminal Court to investigate the situation in Palestinian territories | global response | The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan says his office has received a referral from five countries to investigate whether crimes have been committed in the Palestinian territories as part of Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. |
| 20231118 | South Africa's referral of Israel to ICC divides opinion | global response | South Africa's decision to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza has triggered intense discussions locally and abroad. |
| 20231118 | More than 100 pro-Palestine rallies to take place across UK, say organisers | global response | Groups behind ceasefire protests attended by hundreds of thousands say local action will replace London march this week |
| 20231118 | Title is in Hebrew | Hamas resistance attack | The headline reads in English: "Assessment in the security establishment: Hamas did not know in advanced about the Nova festival; and recognized it from the air." Subtitle reads in English: |
| 20231118 | Al-Qassam Brigades reveals truth about occupation finding bodies of 2 female captives | Hamas resistance attack | Al-Qassam Brigades announced that the occupation’s claims that the bodies of Israeli captives were found in hospitals in the Gaza Strip were false and that they were undergoing treatment there. |
| 20231118 | Israel media: ‘Hamas has not been broken. Destroying it, rescuing hostages is impossible’ | Hamas resistance attack | Experts and former Israeli security officials confirmed that it is impossible for Tel Aviv to combine its declared goal of destroying the Hamas Movement and rescuing the hostages. |
| 20231118 | Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says | Hamas resistance attack | First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths. |
| 20231118 | Israel agrees to allow ‘minimal’ two trucks of fuel a day into Gaza | IOF | Decision was made in part to prevent spread of diseases that would ‘harm’ civilians and its own troops on the ground, Israeli official says. |
| 20231118 | Israel says it will increase military offensive in southern Gaza | Israeli escalation | Israel bombed an apartment block in southern Gaza early on Saturday, killing 26 people, soon after announcing plans to intensify operations in areas where the Israeli military had told civilians to flee for their safety. |
| 20231118 | Israel does not distinguish between north and south Gaza: Hamas | Israeli escalation | Beirut-based Hamas representative Osama Hamdan says today’s attack on al-Fakhoora school in Khan Younis proves that no part of Gaza is safe. Israel has claimed that southern areas of the Gaza Strip are safe from bombardment, he said, but it is clear that its army does not distinguish between any parts of the besieged coastal enclave. “Today, another massacre, this time in al-Fakhoora UNRWA school, which was bombed by Israeli warplanes. Once again, the school is also located within the Khan Younis area, an area alleged by [Israeli] occupation forces to be safe. They continue to propagate false reports with the hope to evacuate the entire north part of Gaza,” he said at a press conference. |
| 20231118 | ‘Killing babies won’t bring our babies back’: Kin of Israeli Hamas victims | Israelis | Despite their grief, relatives of the victims of Hamas’s attack are among those arguing against revenge on Gaza. |
| 20231118 | ‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM | Israelis | From families of Hamas captives to politicians in his own government, Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low. |
| 20231118 | Title is in Hebrew | Israelis | The headline reads in English: "Assessment in the security establishment: Hamas did not know in advanced about the Nova festival; and recignized it from the air." Subtitle reads in English: |
| 20231118 | Israel media: ‘Hamas has not been broken. Destroying it, rescuing hostages is impossible’ | Israelis | Experts and former Israeli security officials confirmed that it is impossible for Tel Aviv to combine its declared goal of destroying the Hamas Movement and rescuing the hostages. |
| 20231118 | Hezbollah, Israel trade strikes at Lebanese border in latest escalation | Lebanon | Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile fire in areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday, officials on both sides said, in the latest flare-up of violence which the United States worries will cause conflict to spiral in the Middle East. |
| 20231118 | Israeli drone fires missiles at aluminum plant in south Lebanon | Lebanon | An Israeli drone fired two missiles at an aluminum plant outside the southern Lebanese market town of Nabatiyeh early Saturday, causing a fire and widespread damage, National News Agency said. There was no word on casualties. |
| 20231118 | Genocidal incitement': Anti-Palestinian rhetoric and hate speech | media / social | UN human rights experts have called on the international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. 36 Special Rapporteurs released a joint statement, saying there is increasing evidence of QUOTE 'genocidal incitement to destroy the Palestinian people.' |
| 20231118 | X ad boycott gathers pace amid antisemitism storm | media / social | Firms including Apple, Disney and IBM have paused advertising on X amid an antisemitism storm on the site. |
| 20231118 | IMF could augment Egypt’s loan programme over effects of Gaza war | regional effects | Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says the Israel-Gaza war has had an economic impact on neighbouring countries. |
| 20231118 | IMF considers increasing Egypt's $3 billion loan programme amid Gaza war: Managing director | regional effects | Amid the devastating Israeli war on Gaza, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering expanding Egypt's $3 billion loan programme by an unspecified amount, Kristalina Georgieva, the fund’s managing director, said on Friday. |
| 20231118 | How is the war affecting Israel's partner Jordan? | regional effects | Public opinion in Jordan is hardening against Israel's war strategy in Gaza, but taking in Palestinians remains as unlikely as ending the peace treaty after almost 30 years. |
| 20231118 | Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah says attacks aim to 'drain' US, sanctions 'ridiculous' | regional effects | Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah (KH) militia, a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran, brushed off U.S. sanctions on the group over attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria and said on Saturday such strikes aimed to "drain the enemy". |
| 20231118 | Jordan’s foreign minister offers blistering criticism of Israel as its war on Hamas rages on | regional response | Jordan’s foreign minister offered blistering criticism Saturday of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, describing it as “blatant aggression” against Palestinian civilians that threatens to engulf the wider Middle East. |
| 20231118 | Jordan doubts Israel can destroy Hamas as Gaza war rages | regional response | Jordan's foreign minister voiced doubt on Saturday that Israel could reach its goal of obliterating Hamas with its heavy bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip long dominated by the Palestinian Islamist movement |
| 20231118 | Jordanian FM calls for holding Israel accountable | regional response | |
| 20231118 | Sisi reaffirms Egypt’s stance to EU chief on need for immediate ceasefire in Gaza | regional response | Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s stance on the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and the delivery of relief aid to Palestinians, during a meeting Saturday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Cairo. |
| 20231118 | Erdogan denounces Israeli attacks on hospitals and places of worship | regional response | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech on Friday alongside the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressing the media in a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. |
| 20231118 | Arab forces will not go to Gaza, says Jordanian minister in rebuke of Israel | regional response | Ayman Safadi clashed with Joe Biden’s senior Middle East adviser on Saturday, saying a humanitarian pause should not be conditional on the release of hostages held by Hamas. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli forces strike al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza | schools | Israeli air raids have hit the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | At least 50’ dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school | schools | According to AFP, the Gaza Ministry of Health says that ‘at least 50’ are dead after the Israeli army bombed al-Fakhoora school early this morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement that the al-Fakhoora School attack proves that Israel’s declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip area of all Palestinian presence. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks | schools | Palestinians in northern and southern Gaza targeted with relentless bombardment, as patients are also forced out of al-Shifa Hospital in wheelchairs and beds |
| 20231118 | At least 80 dead in Israel strike on Gaza refugee camp as ceasefire calls rebuffed | schools | The Hamas health ministry has reported the deaths of more than 80 people in two separate Israeli strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Israel bombs another UN-affiliated school in Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of people | schools | At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed following an Israeli air strike on Al-Fakhoura school, run by UNRWA, in the northern Gaza Strip according to local reports. |
| 20231118 | ‘Nothing discriminate’ about bombing Fakhoora School from air: Analyst | schools | Fakhoora School is like the al-Shifa of schools in Gaza; it’s been targeted like al-Shifa has. This school was bombed in 2009, 2014, and this is the second time this month that it’s been bombed. There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and deaths. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 28 Palestinians in southern Gaza | targeting civilians | At least 28 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on two residential areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strikes kill 32 in south Gaza amid calls for civilians to flee | targeting civilians | Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians on Saturday, medics said, after Israel again warned civilians to relocate as it turns to attacking Hamas in the enclave's south after subduing the north. |
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| 20231118 | Israeli forces strike al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | Israeli air raids have hit the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. |
| 20231118 | At least 50’ dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school | targeting forced displaced people | According to AFP, the Gaza Ministry of Health says that ‘at least 50’ are dead after the Israeli army bombed al-Fakhoora school early this morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement that the al-Fakhoora School attack proves that Israel’s declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip area of all Palestinian presence. |
| 20231118 | Israeli air strike on UN-school kills 'at least 50' on devastating day of attacks | targeting forced displaced people | Palestinians in northern and southern Gaza targeted with relentless bombardment, as patients are also forced out of al-Shifa Hospital in wheelchairs and beds |
| 20231118 | At least 80 dead in Israel strike on Gaza refugee camp as ceasefire calls rebuffed | targeting forced displaced people | The Hamas health ministry has reported the deaths of more than 80 people in two separate Israeli strikes on a UN-run refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231118 | Israel bombs another UN-affiliated school in Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of people | targeting forced displaced people | At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed following an Israeli air strike on Al-Fakhoura school, run by UNRWA, in the northern Gaza Strip according to local reports. |
| 20231118 | ‘Nothing discriminate’ about bombing Fakhoora School from air: Analyst | targeting forced displaced people | Fakhoora School is like the al-Shifa of schools in Gaza; it’s been targeted like al-Shifa has. This school was bombed in 2009, 2014, and this is the second time this month that it’s been bombed. There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and deaths. |
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| 20231118 | Germany's Scholz criticises Israel's settlements in occupied West Bank | West Bank | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticised Israel's settlement policy in the occupied West Bank on Saturday and repeated calls for a two state solution for Israel and Palestinians. |
| 20231118 | Israel kills 6 Palestinians in West Bank airstrikes | West Bank | Six Palestinians were killed early Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent and Fatah sources said. |
| 20231118 | Elon Musk to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X | Zionism / social media | Social media firm boss says he will sue media watchdog that said ads were being placed alongside antisemitic content |
| 20231118 | Germany’s historical guilt haunts opponents of Israeli war in Gaza | Zionism / Germany | Germany’s responsibility for the Holocaust underlines Berlin’s staunch defence of Israel and its bans on expressions of Palestinian solidarity, which authorities blame for a rise in anti-Semitism. But critics say the state is failing German Jews opposed to Israel’s policies and stifling the freedom of expression of immigrants. |
| 20231118 | Pastor calls for destruction of Dome of the Rock, inciting violence in Gaza | Zionism / US | Pastor Greg Locke, a prominent Christian Zionist, has made alarming comments advocating for violence in Gaza and the demolition of the Dome of the Rock. In a statement filled with incendiary language, Locke called Islam a ‘satanic death cult’ and proposed using a missile to destroy the Dome of the Rock to facilitate the construction of the Third Temple, a move he believes would usher in the coming of Jesus. |
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| 20231119 | Russia and Iran call for ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire | Russia and Iran's foreign ministers on Sunday called for a ceasefire in Gaza and said that urgent assistance must be given to the civilian population there. |
| 20231119 | Gaza hostage deal closer than ever, US official says | ceasefire | A deal to secure the release of some of the hostages held in Gaza by Hamas militants is closer than ever in the Islamist group's war with Israel, a White House official said on Sunday. |
| 20231119 | London protests demand a ceasefire and an end to the war | ceasefire | Protestors in London rally demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Memo engaged some of these protestors and many expressed their demand for an end to the war |
| 20231119 | Israel-Hamas hostage deal edges closer despite fierce fighting in Gaza | ceasefire | Hamas gunmen battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza's largest refugee camp on Sunday, but despite the fighting U.S. and Israeli officials said a deal to free some of the hostages being held in the besieged enclave was edging closer. |
| 20231119 | Israel hopeful of Hamas deal to release hostages in 'coming days' | ceasefire | The Israeli ambassador to the US says he is hopeful a deal for the release of a significant number of hostages will be reached "in the coming days". |
| 20231119 | Israeli government said to be close to signing a deal to free hostages | ceasefire | Israeli government sources have told Euronews a deal to release people kidnapped by Hamas militants in Israel on 7 October is almost completed. Our correspondent Shona Murray said it is also understood the White House is pressuring Israel to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231119 | U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages | ceasefire | Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the deal. |
| 20231119 | White House says no deal between Israel and Hamas yet -spokesperson | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have not yet reached a deal on a temporary ceasefire, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday night. |
| 20231119 | Babies evacuated from al-Shifa and transferred to southern Gaza | children | Thirty-one premature babies, trapped in hospital without life-sustaining equipment, have been evacuated by ambulance. |
| 20231119 | Premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital | children | Thirty-one premature Palestinian babies have been evacuated from Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as a "death zone". |
| 20231119 | 31 ‘very sick’ babies have been evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital, where trauma patients remain | children | Health officials said Sunday that 31 “very sick” premature babies were safely transferred from Gaza’s main hospital to another in the south and will later go to Egypt, as scores of critically wounded patients remained stranded there days after Israeli forces entered the compound. |
| 20231119 | 15 children, accompanying family members arrive in UAE from Gaza for treatment | children | Fifteen people from the Gaza Strip landed in Abu Dhabi late Saturday on the first flight under an initiative to carry 1,000 Palestinian children and their families to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
| 20231119 | 'The number of premature babies born in Gaza has increased since the conflict began' | children | 'The number of premature babies born in Gaza has increased since the conflict began' |
| 20231119 | Europe is following the US into another disastrous war | collusion & complicity | opinion -- UK and EU leaders blindly following US foreign policy on Israel and Gaza obviously learned nothing from the catastrophic western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| 20231119 | London protests demand a ceasefire and an end to the war | collusion & complicity | Protestors in London rally demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Memo engaged some of these protestors and many expressed their demand for an end to the war |
| 20231119 | Dissent over US policy in the Israel-Hamas war stirs unusual public protests from federal employees | collusion & complicity | Federal government workers from the State Department to NASA are circulating open letters demanding that President Joe Biden pursue a cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas. Congressional staffers are picking up microphones in front of the Capitol, speaking out to condemn what they say is the silence of lawmakers about the toll on Palestinian civilians. |
| 20231119 | Aid charities urge Rishi Sunak to condemn Israel’s siege in Gaza | collusion & complicity | Leaders of some of Britain’s biggest aid charities are urging Rishi Sunak to use his opening speech at a global food summit in London on Monday to condemn Israel’s siege in Gaza, which they say is causing 2 million people to go hungry and taking 1 million children to the brink of starvation. |
| 20231119 | Israeli army removes 500 patients from Al-Shifa Hospital to meet their fate on Gaza streets | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army forcibly evacuated about 500 patients from Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of Gaza city, including those who had been injured by its extensive onslaughts, and left them to meet their fate on the streets as they were in serious conditions and needed extensive medical care, the government’s media office in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday |
| 20231119 | WHO visits al-Shifa hospital, calls for immediate evacuation | eliminating health care system | Amid hundreds of people leaving al-Shifa hospital in Gaza and confusion over whether Israeli military or hospital staff ordered the exodus, the World Health Organization has now called for an immediate evacuation after an hour-long visit of the site |
| 20231119 | ‘Giving up is not an option’: Volunteer doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital | eliminating health care system | Volunteers experience gruelling hours, face lack of medical supplies and a collapse of healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231119 | Humanitarian team describes Al Shifa Hospital as 'death zone' | eliminating health care system | A humanitarian assessment team visited Al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza and saw signs of shelling and gunfire in what was described as a "death zone," the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. |
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| 20231119 | WHO calls al-Shifa a 'death zone' | eliminating health care system | The WHO called for an evacuation in Gaza’s largest hospital, deeming it a "death zone." A report says that Israel and Hamas have reached a tentative deal to halt fighting and free dozens of hostages. DW has the latest. |
| 20231119 | How and why did Gaza hospitals become primary targets? | eliminating health care system | Israel has repeatedly targeted medical facilities and ambulances in the besieged strip, claiming they are used by Hamas, but experts are questioning the legality of the attacks |
| 20231119 | Israel bombs Kamal Adwan Hospital's newborn ICU, at least 1 baby killed | eliminating health care system | Israel hit early Sunday, November 19, the newborn Intensive Care Unit of Kamal Adwan Hospital located in the besieged Gaza Strip |
| 20231119 | Nakba generation relive trauma of displacement in Gaza | forced displacement | Umm Ghadeer’s earliest memories are of the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948 in which about 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland after the creation of Israel. |
| 20231119 | Israeli army orders civilians in northern Gaza Strip to flee south amid escalating attacks | forced displacement | The Israeli army on Sunday ordered Palestinian civilians in Gaza to move to further south with severe attacks in four more areas in the northern Gaza Strip |
| 20231119 | France to send new medical supplies, hospital ship to Gaza | humanitarian aid | France will send more medical supplies and a second hospital ship to Gaza, President Emmanuel Macron's office said in a statement on Sunday. |
| 20231119 | France sending warship to provide medical aid to Gaza | humanitarian aid | France is preparing to send its Dixmude helicopter carrier to the eastern Mediterranean to offer medical assistance in Gaza, the office of the French president said Sunday. |
| 20231119 | Saudi Arabia dispatches humanitarian aid, ambulances for Palestinians in Gaza | humanitarian aid | Two Saudi relief planes arrived on Sunday at El-Arish International Airport in Egypt to be transported to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). |
| 20231119 | Disorder, disciplinary issues rampant amongst Israel forces in Gaza | IOF | Israeli soldiers partaking in the invasion of the Gaza Strip have been accused of acting in undisciplined and disorderly fashion, with Israeli generals warning that such behaviour could endanger occupation forces in the besieged land strip |
| 20231119 | IDF publishes footage of what it says is Hamas tunnel at al-Shifa hospital | IOF | Israel says opening was discovered beneath floor of a garage within Gaza medical complex’s walls |
| 20231119 | Iran unveils upgraded hypersonic missile as Khamenei touts Israel ‘failure’ | Iran | The Iranian show of force comes amid heightened US military presence in the region after Israel began bombing Gaza. |
| 20231119 | Two journalists killed by Israeli bombing on Bureij refugee camp | journalists | In the past 24 hours, six media professionals have been killed by Israeli bombing, including journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Salim. They were hit by an Israeli air strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. At least 55 Palestinian media workers have been killed since October 7 |
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| 20231119 | Europe is following the US into another disastrous war | opinion | UK and EU leaders blindly following US foreign policy on Israel and Gaza obviously learned nothing from the catastrophic western interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| 20231119 | Palestinian President Abbas urges Biden to help Gaza | Palestinian Authority | After overnight Israeli strikes killed more civilians across Gaza, Mahmoud Abbas directly addressed US President Joe Biden urging him to end to the war and the humanitarian crisis by putting pressure on close ally Israel. |
| 20231119 | ‘Boycott Israel’ breathes new life into 100-year-old Egyptian soda brand | regional response | Campaign to boycott Western producers linked to Israel has reignited demand for soda brand founded by Greek beekeeper. |
| 20231119 | Ministers from Arab, Muslim countries embark on China visit to end Gaza war | regional response | Ministers from Arab and Muslim-majority countries are to head to China tomorrow as part of the first leg of a tour aimed at ending Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said. |
| 20231119 | Only 'very minor' issues remain on deal to release hostages, Qatar's PM says with Borrell | regional response | A deal to free the hostages seized by Hamas during the October 7 attack in southern Israel now hinges on "very minor" practical issues, Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, said after talks in Doha with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday. |
| 20231119 | Al-Qassam Brigades says it eliminated 6 Israeli soldiers in Gaza city | resistance | The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, announced on Sunday that it had killed six Israeli soldiers at zero range in the Juhor ad-Dik neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza city |
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| 20231119 | 15 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Khan Younis, Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | At least 15 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday, according to Palestinian media |
| 20231119 | ‘Horrifying’: Dozens reported killed in Israeli attacks on camps, schools | targeting forced displaced people | At least 31 people killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps, officials say. |
| 20231119 | 'Horrendous events' in Gaza in past days 'beggar belief': UN rights chief | United Nations | The level of violence ravaging Gaza in recent days is unfathomable, the UN rights chief said Sunday, with attacks on schools harbouring displaced people and a hospital turned into a "death zone". |
| 20231119 | Disabled man among two Palestinians killed in West Bank by Israeli raids | West Bank | More than 200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces since war broke out |
| 20231119 | Israeli army detains dozens, including women, journalists, in West Bank raids | West Bank | The Israeli army detained three women and two journalists among 70 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, a local nongovernmental organization said Sunday |
| 20231119 | Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea, Israel blames Iran | Yemen | Houthi spokesman says the group’s fighters have hijacked the ship, reportedly owned by an Israeli businessman. |
| 20231119 | Yemen's Houthis hijacked an Israeli-owned vessel in the Red Sea | Yemen | Yemen's Houthis on Sunday hijacked an Israeli cargo vessel in the Red Sea, sailing from Turkey to India. |
| 20231119 | Yemen's Houthi rebels hijack cargo ship in Red Sea | Yemen | Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say they have seized an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea. |
| 20231119 | 'From the river to the sea': A controversial slogan | Zionism / Germany | The slogan "From the river to the sea" is often chanted at pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Some maintain it's antisemitic, while others describe it as a call for equal rights. It has now been banned in Germany. |
| 20231119 | Anti-Muslim racism in France surges with 'full impunity' | Zionism / France | French Muslims condemn weaponisation of Hamas attack in Israel to incite fresh round of antisemitism allegations |
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| 20231120 | Israel and Hamas appear close to hostage release deal, say officials | ceasefire | Agreement could involve limited ceasefire in Gaza Strip and release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails |
| 20231120 | Al Jazeera reporter visits premature babies in Gaza ward | children | Dozens of premature babies have been moved out of the main hospital in Gaza City after it was taken over by Israeli forces. The infants are now in a hospital in Rafah, where Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed has seen how they are being cared for. |
| 20231120 | 31 premature babies are evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital, but scores of trauma patients remain | children | Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza’s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations. |
| 20231120 | Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt | children | A group of 28 prematurely born babies evacuated from Gaza's biggest hospital were taken into Egypt for urgent treatment on Monday |
| 20231120 | Babies evacuated from Gaza to Egypt | children | The Palestinian Red Crescent has said 28 premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital have been taken to Egypt for treatment. Meanwhile, a strike was reported at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza |
| 20231120 | WHO Chief confirms evacuation of 12 premature babies to Egypt | children | The World Health Organisation confirmed that a dozen premature babies had been evacuated from Gaza and flown to Cairo with their families. |
| 20231120 | Nowhere is safe for children living in Gaza | children | Monday marks World Children’s Day, but for many in Gaza their hopes and dreams have been shattered. Gaza’s health ministry says more than 40 percent, of the around 13,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks, are children. |
| 20231120 | WHO: Three premature babies remain in south Gaza to receive treatment | children | The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that three premature babies will be remaining behind at the Emirati hospital in south Gaza to receive treatment. |
| 20231120 | ‘No end in sight’: Gaza’s traumatised children need psychological aid | children | Doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital say children are showing signs of trauma and distress after seeing parents, relatives killed. |
| 20231120 | Children in Israel and Gaza feel impact of Hamas conflict | children | Children have borne the consequences of the latest Israel-Gaza conflict. Hamas is holding dozens of child hostages in Gaza, and Israel's siege of the Palestinian enclave is creating a desperate situation for many others |
| 20231120 | UNICEF: Children in Gaza are exposed to shocks of destruction, attacks, displacement | children | The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the Middle East and North Africa region said yesterday that “children in the Gaza Strip are exposed to the shocks of continuous destruction, attacks, displacement, and severe shortages of food, water, and medicine.” |
| 20231120 | 880 Palestinian children detained by Israel this year: NGO | children | The Israeli army has detained 880 Palestinian children since the start of this year, a local non-governmental organisation said Monday |
| 20231120 | World Children’s Day tragedy: Gaza’s 5,500 lives lost to Israel’s attacks | children | One out of every 200 children in Gaza has been killed by Israeli attacks in the past six weeks. |
| 20231120 | US National Security Council condemns seizure of Galaxy Leader cargo ship near Yemen | collusion & complicity | “The Houthi’s seizure of the vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew. We will consult with our UN partners for the appropriate next steps.” |
| 20231120 | Macron tells Netanyahu ‘too many civilian losses’ in Israel’s war on Gaza | collusion & complicity | French president spoke to Israeli prime minister as Paris prepared more humanitarian aid for Gaza. |
| 20231120 | Spread of epidemics in Gaza brings Israel closer to victory: Retired general | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | "The way to win the war faster and at a lower cost for us requires a system collapse on the other side and not the mere killing of more Hamas fighters," Major General Giora Eiland wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. |
| 20231120 | Influential Israeli national security leader makes the case for genocide in Gaza | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | In an Op-Ed titled "Let’s Not be Intimidated by the World," Israeli ret. Major General Giora Eiland argues that all Palestinians in Gaza are legitimate targets and that even a “severe epidemic" in Gaza will "bring victory closer.” |
| 20231120 | At least 8 killed in Israeli strikes on Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Staff at one of northern Gaza’s largest hospitals are appealing for urgent help from the UN and the Red Cross after Israeli forces surrounded the medical facility and bombarded the area, killing at least eight people in the hospital complex. |
| 20231120 | 12 reported killed at Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Palestinian authorities and the WHO said 12 people were killed at another Gaza hospital encircled by Israeli tanks. |
| 20231120 | IDF closes in on Indonesian hospital in Gaza as 12 people reportedly killed | eliminating health care system | Medical worker says ‘women and children are terrified’ amid fears of repeat of events at al-Shifa hospital complex |
| 20231120 | Hamas accuses Israel of deadly hospital strike, intense fighting in Gaza, hostage deal 'close' | eliminating health care system | Hamas said on Monday that the Israeli army launched a deadly strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, accusing it of "waging war" against hospitals. |
| 20231120 | Medical staff appeal for urgent UN intervention as Israeli strikes hit Indonesian hospital | eliminating health care system | Israel is carrying out further bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip. Overnight, shelling in the north hit one of Gaza's biggest hospitals, killing at least 12 people. Staff at the Indonesian hospital are appealing for urgent intervention from the UN and Red Cross. |
| 20231120 | Israeli tanks besiege Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks have surrounded northern Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital after artillery fire killed at least 12 Palestinians in the complex, according to the war-torn enclave’s Ministry of Health. Ashraf al-Qudra, Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesperson, told Al Jazeera on Monday that “the situation is catastrophic” in the Indonesian Hospital, where hundreds of people remain trapped. |
| 20231120 | Israeli tanks besiege Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | reading version |
| 20231120 | Israeli forces battle militants around another Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli forces pressed their offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza on Monday, battling militants around a hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, raising Palestinian fears of another painful standoff and evacuation of a medical facility.
COMMENT Collected videos are showing an Israeli siege on the Indonesian Hospital. No evidence of any engagement between resistance and the invaders |
| 20231120 | Israeli strikes hit hospital, residential buildings in northern Gaza | eliminating health care system | A shell hit the second floor of a hospital in northern Gaza, killing at least 12 people, according to the Hamas-led Health Ministry and a medical worker, as Israeli troops focus on clearing medical facilities where they say Hamas militants take cover. |
| 20231120 | Israel army hits surgery floor of Indonesian Hospital in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Health Ministry reported, on Monday, that the Israeli army had targeted the surgery floor of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, causing significant damage to its medical equipment |
| 20231120 | Israeli tanks surround north Gaza's Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Israeli tanks have reportedly encircled northern Gaza's Indonesian Hospital, where the Hamas-run health ministry said 12 people were killed overnight. |
| 20231120 | WHO chief 'appalled' by attack on Gaza's Indonesian hospital | eliminating health care system | The head of the World Health Organisation said he was "appalled" by an attack on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza that he said had killed 12 people, including patients, citing unspecified reports |
| 20231120 | Doctors Without Borders says MSF staff trapped after clinic 'came under fire' in Gaza | eliminating health care system | The MSF clinic in Gaza City came under fire this morning. Our colleagues saw that a wall was torn down and part of the building was engulfed by fire as heavy fighting took place all around it. An Israeli tank was seen in the street. |
| 20231120 | ‘A genocidal war’: Surgeon says Israel strategically destroying Gaza health | eliminating health care system | Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah is a surgeon who worked at both the al-Shifa and al-Alhi Baptist hospitals in Gaza. He tells Al Jazeera he believes the destruction of the health sector is part of an Israeli military strategy to wipe out the Palestinian population in Gaza – by ensuring no one survives. |
| 20231120 | Why does Israel target Palestinian hospitals? Psyops, say analysts | eliminating health care system | Targeting hospitals is psychological warfare Israel can get away with with the US’s tacit approval, say analysts. |
| 20231120 | Pregnant women in Gaza lack access to healthcare, clean water | eliminating health care system | An estimated 50.000 pregnant women are living in dire conditions in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on. |
| 20231120 | Israel trying to break Gazans' spirit by deliberately bombing hospitals in besieged enclave: Turkiye President | eliminating health care system | Israel is trying to break the resilience of Gazans by deliberately bombing hospitals in the besieged enclave, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Monday, referring to repeated, deliberate attacks on Gaza hospitals in recent weeks |
| 20231120 | ‘There is no evidence’ of Hamas command centre under al-Shifa | eliminating health care system | Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says videos released by the Israeli army don't seem to prove Al Shifa was Hamas' command centre. |
| 20231120 | 12 killed in Israeli air strike on Unrwa school in Bureij refugee camp | eliminating UNWRA | Israeli air strikes have killed at least 12 Palestinians sheltering in a Unrwa school in the Bureij refugee camp. |
| 20231120 | More than 10 killed as Israeli jets strike UN-run school in Gaza: Hamas | eliminating UNWRA | More than 10 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian group Hamas said |
| 20231120 | Israel cutting Gaza's water causing public health crisis | food, water, fuel & electricity | The lack of clean water is resulting in “grave concerns” by public health experts of an imminent infectious disease outbreak in Gaza, including waterborne illnesses like cholera and typhoid, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned |
| 20231120 | Pregnant women in Gaza lack access to healthcare, clean water | food, water, fuel & electricity | An estimated 50.000 pregnant women are living in dire conditions in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on. |
| 20231120 | Food running out across besieged strip | food, water, fuel & electricity | Thousands of Palestinians who fled Israeli bombing in Northern Gaza, are now facing severe hunger in the south. The Israeli siege is preventing food and water supplies from reaching those in need. With no fuel, many are resorting to burning firewood to cook. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Displacement project of Palestinians from Gaza doomed to fail | forced displacement | The Israeli project aimed at displacing Palestinians from Gaza is “impossible to achieve”, senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, has said. |
| 20231120 | Better than a tent: The Gaza family living in ruins of their bombed home | forced displacement | The Naji family decided to stay in their home, which was destroyed in an Israeli air attack, rather than being displaced |
| 20231120 | Gaza death toll rises to 13,300 | genocide | The Palestinian health ministry said at least 13,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its assault on the besieged enclave. |
| 20231120 | Knesset deputy speaker calls for burning Gaza | genocide II | The deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has called for the burning of Gaza, which has been under relentless Israeli bombardment since 7 October. |
| 20231120 | Russian diplomacy leverages Israel-Hamas war for moral high ground | global effects | The latest Middle East conflict could help Russia escape punishment for aggression and war crimes in Ukraine, say experts. |
| 20231120 | Israel recalls ambassador to South Africa after ANC backs calls to close Israeli embassy | global effects | Israel's foreign ministry confirmed it had recalled its ambassador to South Africa for consultations after a series of "statements from South Africa". |
| 20231120 | Israel recalls its ambassador to South Africa for consultations | global effects | Israel has recalled for consultations its ambassador to South Africa following the "latest statements from South Africa", Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. |
| 20231120 | China tells visiting Muslim diplomats it’s willing to help ‘restore peace in the Middle East’ | global response | China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told a visiting delegation of Muslim officials that Beijing is willing to help “restore peace in the Middle East”. |
| 20231120 | In Beijing, Arab and Muslim ministers urge end to Gaza war | global response | Arab and Muslim ministers called on Monday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as their delegation visited Beijing on the first leg of a tour to push for an end to hostilities and to allow humanitarian aid into the devastated Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231120 | China-Middle East summit told ‘Israel seeks to end Palestinians’ presence’ | global response | Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki’s comments come at a Beijing meeting seeking solutions to end the war. |
| 20231120 | Israelis claim foreign hostages held at Gaza's Shifa hospital | Hamas resistance attack | Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. |
| 20231120 | Israel says CCTV footage shows hostages were taken to Gaza hospital | Hamas resistance attack | The Israeli military has released footage which it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza's largest hospital after the deadly Hamas attacks of 7 October. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Israel 'fabricating lies' to justify its genocide | Hamas resistance attack | Israel “deliberately fabricated lies and false narratives” about what took place on 7 October in order to justify the genocide it is committing in Gaza “with the aim of displacing Palestinians from their land”, Hamas said in response to Israeli media reports which reveal many revellers were killed by Israeli helicopter fire. |
| 20231120 | Gaza winter: More misery for displaced Palestinians | humanitarian crisis | Displaced Palestinians living in tents in Southern Gaza are bracing for winter. They fear cold weather will make their living conditions under Israeli bombing even worse. |
| 20231120 | Relatives of Gaza hostages say stop talk of execution for Hamas detainees | Israelis | Relatives of some of the 240 people held by Hamas in Gaza urged far-right Israeli lawmakers on Monday not to pursue proposed capital punishment for captured Palestinian militants, saying that even talk of doing so might endanger the hostages. |
| 20231120 | Family of Gaza hostage urges Israel not to legalise 'death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners' | Israelis | A relative of an Israeli hostage in the Gaza Strip has urged Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, not to push forward with the controversial draft law on “executing Palestinian prisoners.” |
| 20231120 | Hostages’ families clash with Israeli politicians over talk of death penalty | Israelis | Far-right politicians want to execute militants convicted of 7 October attacks, but relatives say this risks lives of Gaza hostages |
| 20231120 | Israel floats programme for ethnic cleansing disguised as humanitarianism | Israelis | Israel’s intelligence ministry has proposed a “worldwide refugee resettlement scheme” as a “solution” to what the occupation state refers to as its “Gaza problem.” |
| 20231120 | Anger at Netanyahu gov’t as Israel soldier death toll rises | Israelis | Israeli writers expressed their dissatisfaction and anger at the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, in the wake of the increasing number of officers and soldiers killed in the ongoing battles with the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231120 | Jewish school students throw Molotov cocktails at Palestinian homes | Jerusalem | Two Yeshiva students, from a traditional Jewish educational institution that focuses on Rabbinic literature, have been indicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem. |
| 20231120 | Gaza journalists appeal for support amid ongoing Israeli attacks | journalists | Journalists in Gaza made an appeal on Monday for assistance and solidarity to enable them to persist in their work amid ongoing Israeli attacks |
| 20231120 | Gaza strikes kill family members of journalist targeted by death threats | journalists | Deadly strikes hit the Gaza home of a news photographer days after an Israeli media advocacy group questioned his coverage of Hamas' Oct. 7, prompting death threats against him on social media. |
| 20231120 | Hezbollah says attacks Israeli troops with drones, artillery, missiles | Lebanon | Lebanon's Hezbollah movement said it targeted troops in northern Israel with drones, artillery and missiles on Monday, claiming a string of new attacks. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Displacement project of Palestinians from Gaza doomed to fail | resistance | The Israeli project aimed at displacing Palestinians from Gaza is “impossible to achieve”, senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, has said. |
| 20231120 | Hamas: Israel 'fabricating lies' to justify its genocide | resistance | Israel “deliberately fabricated lies and false narratives” about what took place on 7 October in order to justify the genocide it is committing in Gaza “with the aim of displacing Palestinians from their land”, Hamas said in response to Israeli media reports which reveal many revellers were killed by Israeli helicopter fire. |
| 20231120 | Israel trying to break Gazans' spirit by deliberately bombing hospitals in besieged enclave: Turkiye President | Turkey | Israel is trying to break the resilience of Gazans by deliberately bombing hospitals in the besieged enclave, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Monday, referring to repeated, deliberate attacks on Gaza hospitals in recent weeks |
| 20231120 | UN protectorate in Gaza is not a solution, says Guterres | United Nations | A UN protectorate in Gaza would not solve the conflict there, the body's Secretary-General said Monday, calling instead for a "transition period" involving Arab nations and the United States and leading to a two-state solution. |
| 20231120 | Guterres says establishing a UN protectorate in Gaza 'not a solution' to unrest | United Nations | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said establishing a UN protectorate in Gaza would not solve the unrest in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231120 | Killings of civilians in Gaza 'unparalleled, unprecedented' during UN chief's term, says Guterres | United Nations | The UN chief, on Monday, decried events in Gaza since 7 October, calling them a “killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented” since he took office |
| 20231120 | UN human rights chief says Israeli air strikes in Gaza are ‘horrendous’ | United Nations | The UN human rights chief is describing Israeli air strikes in Gaza as horrendous and beyond belief. At least 13,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, including thousands of women and children. As Israel continues bombing residential areas in Gaza, people are using their bare hands to reach those still under the rubble. |
| 20231120 | With the world’s eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war | West Bank | When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231120 | Palestinian in West Bank shot by Israeli forces succumbs to wounds | West Bank | Mohammed Ali Saeed Owais, a 25-year-old from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, was pronounced dead by the Palestinian Ministry of Health on Monday. Owais succumbed to his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces around two weeks ago, the ministry added. |
| 20231120 | US National Security Council condemns seizure of Galaxy Leader cargo ship near Yemen | Yemen | “The Houthi’s seizure of the vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew. We will consult with our UN partners for the appropriate next steps.” |
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| 20231120 | Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea, Israel blames Iran | Yemen | A Houthi military spokesman has confirmed to Al Jazeera that their fighters in Yemen have hijacked a ship owned by an Israeli businessman, in the Southern Red Sea. At least 22 people were onboard the Galaxy Leader which was enroute from Turkey to India. Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he described as an 'Iranian attack'. |
| 20231120 | Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea and take 25 crew members hostage | Yemen | Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route Sunday and took its 25 crew members hostage, officials said, raising fears that regional tensions heightened over the Israel-Hamas war were playing out on a new maritime front. |
| 20231120 | US National Security Council condemns seizure of Galaxy Leader cargo ship near Yemen | Yemen | “The Houthi’s seizure of the vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law. We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew. We will consult with our UN partners for the appropriate next steps.” |
| 20231120 | Japan seeking talks with Houthi hijackers of Red Sea Israeli-linked ship | Yemen | Japan has approached Yemeni rebels in a bid to secure the release of the Galaxy Leader, hijacked in Red Sea. |
| 20231120 | Yemen's Houthis try turning Red Sea into 'crucial frontline' | Yemen | The hijacking of the 'Galaxy Leader' cargo ship in the Red Sea is a further escalation by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in their support of Hamas. Yet it's unlikely the militia will be a serious threat to Israel. |
| 20231120 | What’s the impact of the Houthis hijacking a ship in the Red Sea? | Yemen | The Iran-backed Houthis say the move was a response to Israel’s assault on Gaza. A partly Israeli-owned cargo vessel has been hijacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Houthis say the move was a response to Israel’s assault on Gaza. Israel described the incident as an “Iranian act of terrorism”. Tehran has rejected the allegation. So, what impact could this have? And what are the possible military and economic implications? |
| 20231120 | Canada: censoring pro-Palestine voices triggers backlash at university | Zionism / Canada | The University of Ottawa is under fire for suspending a medical student over pro-Palestine social media posts. A petition signed by nearly 50,000 people has accused the faculty of misusing its authority, and intimidating residents and students through censorship. |
| 20231120 | Jewish school students throw Molotov cocktails at Palestinian homes | Zionism / Israelis | Two Yeshiva students, from a traditional Jewish educational institution that focuses on Rabbinic literature, have been indicted for throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Palestinians in Jerusalem. |
| 20231120 | Censorship and safety: How the Israel Hamas war is affecting students at schools in Britain | Zionism / UK | pro-Palestinian views were being suppressed inside schools, with some Jewish pupils in a "dark zone of depression". |
| 20231120 | TikTok: ‘The biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis’ says actor Sacha Baron Cohen | Zionism / US | "The biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis": Jewish celebrities urge TikTok to address antisemitism as hateful content on the rise since 7 October. |
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| 20231121 | Intense Israeli air strikes hit Gaza amid growing signs of truce | ceasefire | Jabalia in northern Gaza and Khan Younis and Rafah in the south are among the areas hit. |
| 20231121 | Muslim country group to push for Gaza truce -Turkish source | ceasefire | A newly formed group of senior officials from several Muslim countries will visit the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and others to press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a Turkish foreign ministry source said on Tuesday. |
| 20231121 | Scottish Labour backs calls for full ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | ceasefire | Scottish Labour has formally backed demands for a full ceasefire in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, widening the party’s divisions on the conflict. |
| 20231121 | Qatar-mediated deal between Israel, Hamas 'closer than it has ever been' - source | ceasefire | A Qatar-mediated agreement between Israel and Hamas for the release of hostages and a multi-day pause in hostilities is in its "final stages" and is "closer than it has ever been," a source briefed on the talks told Reuters on Tuesday. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu hints at 'progress' on hostages | ceasefire | Israel's PM suggested there may be "good news soon" on a hostage release deal, which the US said could be close. The Hamas militant group is negotiating via Qatari mediators on a temporary truce. DW has more. |
| 20231121 | Biden: "Very close" to securing release of some hostages held by Hamas | ceasefire | U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said a deal is "very close" to free some of the more than 200 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu summons Israeli war cabinet as signs grow of a hostage deal | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his war cabinet on Tuesday amid growing signs of an imminent deal on the release of hostages who were taken by Hamas militants to the Gaza Strip more than six weeks ago. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu meeting with ministers amid signs hostage deal to be approved | ceasefire | Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting his most senior ministers on Tuesday evening amid strong indications his government was due to approve a deal for the release of some of the more than 240 mostly Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231121 | Hamas leader says militant group ‘close’ to truce agreement with Israel | ceasefire | Ismail Haniyeh, the most senior political leader of Hamas, has said a truce agreement with Israel may be close, raising hopes of both a pause in the Israeli offensive in Gaza and the release of at least some of the Israeli hostages the militant organisation is holding there. |
| 20231121 | Hamas ‘approaching Gaza truce agreement’ with Israel, says leader Haniyeh | ceasefire | The deal is expected to see the group exchange captives for Palestinian prisoners with Israel for a temporary ceasefire. |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu, Hamas leader indicate deal on Gaza truce and hostages is close | ceasefire | The leader of Hamas said on Tuesday a truce with Israel was close and Israel's prime minister said he hoped for good news soon about hostages, the most optimistic signs so far of a deal to pause the devastating war in Gaza and free captives. |
| 20231121 | Israel-Hamas hostage deal talks in 'final phase' - Qatar | ceasefire | However, insiders say some key obstacles to an agreement remain. |
| 20231121 | Analysis: How Israel could gain from a pause in the Gaza war | ceasefire | A break in hostilities could benefit Israel militarily, even though it could hurt Prime Minister Netanyahu politically. |
| 20231121 | Israeli Cabinet to consider possible deal for release of some hostages held by Hamas | ceasefire | Israel and the Hamas militant group on Tuesday appeared close to a temporary cease-fire deal that could bring the first pause in fighting in a devastating six-week war and result in the release of dozens of hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231121 | Israel, Hamas closer to agreeing to hostage release deal | ceasefire | Sources close to the negotiations say Israel could secure the release of some of the 240 hostages taken by the militant Hamas group in return for a few days of cease-fire and the release of Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231121 | Israel’s Ben-Gvir warns of ‘disaster’ amid imminent hostage deal with Hamas | ceasefire | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, warned Tuesday that an imminent hostage deal with Hamas would end in “disaster” |
| 20231121 | Netanyahu: Israel will continue war after ceasefire ends | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to his ministers on Tuesday ahead of a prisoner swap deal, said that talk of the war ending was “nonsense”. |
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| 20231121 | US has sent Israel data on aid groups locations to try to prevent strikes | collusion & complicity | The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities |
| Comment: this entry under this context because the claim contradicts with Washington's knowledge about Israeli use of delivered bombs in previous Gaza wars | |||
| 20231121 | The genocide lawsuit against Joe Biden | collusion & complicity | Palestinian-Americans have filed a lawsuit against US leaders. |
| 20231121 | Keeping Gaza online: Telecom heroes risk life and limb under Israel’s bombs | communication | Making a maintenance trip in Gaza now literally means taking your life into your own hands. Why do they do it? |
| 20231121 | Have the US and Israel agreed on Gaza’s future? | day after politics | article is a explainer -- Disagreements persist, but analysts say the US has shown no readiness to draw any red lines for Israel. |
| 20231121 | Retired Israeli general says spread of disease in Gaza 'will bring victory closer' | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | Retired Israeli General Giora Eiland said that the spread of deadly diseases in Gaza will help Israel achieve its war aims, while suggesting that the entire population of the territory was a valid target |
| 20231121 | Former Israel general says 'severe epidemics' in Gaza would help Israel win the war | ecocide & disease outbreaks by intentional infliction | A retired senior Israeli general has said that Israel should not ‘shy away’ from permitting the outbreak of severe epidemics amongst Palestinians in southern Gaza as it will bring Israel ‘closer to victory.’ |
| 20231121 | MSF says three doctors killed in strike on north Gazan hospital | eliminating health care system | French medical charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday that three doctors, including two of its own, were killed in a strike on the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, saying it was "horrified" by the incident. |
| 20231121 | MSF says three doctors killed in strike on north Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | French medical charity, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), said on Tuesday that three doctors, including two of its own, were killed in a strike on the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, saying it was “horrified” by the incident, Reuters reports. |
| 20231121 | Hospitals in northern Gaza completely out of service: Health official | eliminating health care system | Gaza’s health ministry spokesperson says occupancy rate in hospitals in the enclave’s north has reached 190 percent as they overflow with the wounded. |
| 20231121 | Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies | eliminating health care system | Palestinian health officials in Gaza said Tuesday that they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of parts of the enclave’s health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops. |
| 20231121 | WHO: planning under way to evacuate three Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organization said on Tuesday three hospitals in Israeli-besieged northern Gaza had requested help with evacuating patients and that planning for that was under way, expressing regret that doing so would rob people of a lifeline. |
| 20231121 | UN head mourns loss of one its employees | eliminating UNWRA | The head of the World Health Organisation mourned the “devastating” loss of one of its employees in Gaza alongside her six-month-old baby, husband, and two brothers. |
| 20231121 | US has sent Israel data on aid groups locations to try to prevent strikes | eliminating UNWRA | The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities |
| Comment: this entry under this context because the claim contradicts with Washington's knowledge about Israeli use of delivered bombs in previous Gaza wars | |||
| 20231121 | As people run out of fuel in Gaza, clay ovens are back in demand | food, water, fuel & electricity | In the midst of the Israeli war, the people of Gaza, seeking ways to bake bread or cook what little food they have, return to traditional methods. |
| 20231121 | EU faces growing Muslim animosity over Gaza war stance - Borrell | global effects | The European Union faces growing animosity across the Muslim world and beyond due to accusations of pro-Israel bias and double standards over the war in Gaza, the bloc's foreign policy chief has warned. |
| 20231121 | BRICS countries discuss Gaza conflict but don't agree joint declaration | global response | Leaders of the BRICS bloc of developing nations and other countries they have invited to join from next year discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday, but failed to agree a joint declaration. |
| 20231121 | BRICS condemns Israel war on Gaza in signal to the West | global response | The grouping, which has previously focused on economic issues, called for an end to ‘war crimes’ in the Gaza conflict. |
| 20231121 | BRICS calls for 'sustained' truce in Israel-Hamas war | global response | The leaders of South Africa, Russia, China, Brazil, India in the BRICS bloc called for Israel and Hamas to "exercise maximum restraint," and urged allied countries to prevent the conflict from expanding |
| 20231121 | US has wrecked chances of peace in Middle East, Putin tells Brics summit | global response | US unilateralism has wrecked the chances of peace in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, told a crisis Brics meeting on Gaza as he attempted to woo leaders of the global south. |
| 20231121 | South African leader accuses Israel of war crimes. Putin and Xi strike more cautious note at meeting | global response | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes and acts “tantamout to genocide” in Gaza during a virtual meeting Tuesday of leaders of developing countries, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. |
| 20231121 | S.African lawmakers vote to suspend diplomatic ties with Israel, shut embassy | global response | South African lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of closing down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and suspending all diplomatic relations until a ceasefire is agreed in its war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231121 | Israel recalls ambassador to South African ahead of parliamentary vote to shut down Israeli embassy | global response | Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa, Eliav Belotserkovsky, back to Jerusalem “for consultations” ahead of a parliamentary vote in the African country to decide the fate of the Israeli embassy on Tuesday |
| 20231121 | German Jewish writer slams Germany's unconditional support for Israel | global response | A well-known German-American writer of Jewish origin, on Tuesday, criticised Germany’s unconditional support for Israel, urging Berlin to rethink its policy towards the Jewish state |
| 20231121 | Scottish Labour backs calls for full ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war | global response | Scottish Labour has formally backed demands for a full ceasefire in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, widening the party’s divisions on the conflict. |
| 20231121 | Urgent review of EU development aid to Palestine finds no inadvertent financing of terrorism | humanitarian aid | The European Commission said on Tuesday it will proceed with payments of development aid to the Palestinian territories this month after its internal screening identified no diversion of funds to terrorist groups. |
| 20231121 | EU says no Palestinian aid going to Hamas, programmes to continue | humanitarian aid | The European Union said on Tuesday a review of its development aid to Palestinians, ordered after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, found no evidence of funds going to the militant group and that its assistance would continue. |
| 20231121 | Residents and displaced Gazans receiving bags of flour at the UN Relief | humanitarian aid | In Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, bags of flour are distributed to residents and displaced Gazans at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) distribution center. The Palestinian territory, facing a prolonged Israeli-led blockade and besieged since the outbreak of war on October 7, is grappling with significant shortages of food, water, fuel, and limited access to essential medical supplies. |
| 20231121 | Red Cross president meets Hamas chief in Qatar to 'advance humanitarian issues' | humanitarian crisis | The Red Cross said Monday that its president had travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh "to advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza". |
| 20231122 | Iraq condemns US strikes that killed Iran-aligned fighters | Iraq | Iraq's government condemned overnight U.S. airstrikes south of Baghdad that killed eight members of Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah, saying they were a "dangerous escalation" not coordinated with authorities. |
| 20231121 | Intense Israeli air strikes hit Gaza amid growing signs of truce | Israeli escalation | Jabalia in northern Gaza and Khan Younis and Rafah in the south are among the areas hit. |
| 20231121 | Hezbollah vows to retaliate against Israel's killing of journalists in South Lebanon | Israeli escalation | Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa. |
| Comment: see also 'journalists' and 'Lebanon' | |||
| 20231121 | Israeli state TV video shows children singing about Gaza | Israelis | “Within a year we will eliminate them all.” A video by Israel’s public broadcaster of children singing about Gaza has caused a backlash online, including among many Israelis. |
| 20231121 | Israeli government, Hamas hostage relatives clash over bill | Israelis | The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has proposed a new bill that would impose the death penalty for Hamas militants involved in the October 7 attacks. Family members of the hostages Hamas kidnapped that day condemned the proposal, saying it put their loved ones at risk. |
| 20231121 | Israel recalls ambassador to South African ahead of parliamentary vote to shut down Israeli embassy | Israelis | Israel has recalled its ambassador to South Africa, Eliav Belotserkovsky, back to Jerusalem “for consultations” ahead of a parliamentary vote in the African country to decide the fate of the Israeli embassy on Tuesday |
| 20231121 | Attacks on the rise in West Bank and East Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Following the Hamas militant group's 7 October attacks and Israel's subsequent ground offensive in Gaza, there have been apparent reprisals against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills three journalists near Lebanon border | journalists | Al Mayadeen TV said an Israeli attack ‘deliberately’ targeted its correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me’mari. |
| 20231121 | Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill 2 journalists for a pan-Arab TV channel | journalists | An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed two journalists who were reporting for a Beirut-based TV station on military activity along the border with Israel, according to Lebanese officials and the broadcaster. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills two reporters, third person in Lebanon - media, PM | journalists | An Israeli strike killed two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a third person near the border with Israel on Tuesday, Lebanese state media and the channel, Al Mayadeen, said. |
| 20231121 | Lebanon PM says Israeli strikes killed journalists | journalists | Four people, including two journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, local media say, as exchanges of fire intensify along the border. |
| 20231121 | Hezbollah vows to retaliate against Israel's killing of journalists in South Lebanon | journalists | Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa. |
| 20231121 | Israel shares video of Hamas gunman executing woman on Oct. 7 | journalists | Israel on Monday released security camera footage from Oct. 7, which shows Hamas gunmen who crossed into Israel chase people from an outdoor music festival, with one seen executing a woman at point-blank range. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills three journalists near Lebanon border | Lebanon | Al Mayadeen TV said an Israeli attack ‘deliberately’ targeted its correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me’mari. |
| 20231121 | Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill 2 journalists for a pan-Arab TV channel | Lebanon | An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed two journalists who were reporting for a Beirut-based TV station on military activity along the border with Israel, according to Lebanese officials and the broadcaster. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strike kills two reporters, third person in Lebanon - media, PM | Lebanon | An Israeli strike killed two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a third person near the border with Israel on Tuesday, Lebanese state media and the channel, Al Mayadeen, said. |
| 20231121 | Lebanon PM says Israeli strikes killed journalists | Lebanon | Four people, including two journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, local media say, as exchanges of fire intensify along the border. |
| 20231121 | Hezbollah vows to retaliate against Israel's killing of journalists in South Lebanon | Lebanon | Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa. |
| 20231121 | Have the US and Israel agreed on Gaza’s future? | opinion | article is a explainer -- Disagreements persist, but analysts say the US has shown no readiness to draw any red lines for Israel. |
| 20231121 | Bahrain government websites briefly inaccessible after purported hack claim over Israel-Hamas war | regional effects | The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a statement claimed hackers took them down over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231121 | Algeria President Tebboune, Turkiye President Erdogan discuss need for accountability over Gaza 'genocide' | regional response | Algerian President, Abdelmajid Tebboune, said Tuesday that he and Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, emphasised the importance of prosecuting those responsible for “genocide” in the Gaza Strip before the International Criminal Court |
| 20231121 | Saudi Crown Prince demands stopping weapon exports to Israel | regional response | Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, demanded a cessation of weapons exports to Israel during an online extraordinary BRICS summit Tuesday, according to the Saudi official channel, Al-Ekhbariya |
| 20231121 | Jordan, Qatar discuss ways to stop ‘brutal Israeli aggression' against Gaza Strip | regional response | Jordanian Prime Minister, Bisher Al-Khasawneh, and Qatari Minister of State for International Cooperation, Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater, discussed in Amman the “brutal Israeli aggression” against the Gaza Strip and cooperation to avert a humanitarian catastrophe |
| 20231121 | Fifteen killed, 22 injured in Israeli strike on a residential building in southern Gaza | targeting civilians | Fifteen people were killed and 22 others injured in an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Tuesday night, according to Al Jazeera TV and a Telgram channel affiliated to Hamas. |
| 20231121 | Israeli strikes kill 10 Palestinians, 22 wounded | targeting civilians | Palestinian media outlets have reported a major strike in the Hamad Town area of Khan Younis. |
| 20231121 | Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies | targeting civilians | Palestinian health officials in Gaza said Tuesday that they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of parts of the enclave’s health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops. |
| 20231121 | Attacks on the rise in West Bank and East Jerusalem | West Bank | Following the Hamas militant group's 7 October attacks and Israel's subsequent ground offensive in Gaza, there have been apparent reprisals against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. |
| 20231121 | Video of Yemen’s Houthi rebels seizing Red Sea cargo ship | Yemen | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released video of the moment the group seized an Israel-linked cargo ship, by landing a helicopter on it in the Red Sea. |
| 20231121 | Seized Galaxy Leader ship in Yemen's Hodeidah port area -owner | Yemen | The Galaxy Leader commercial ship was "illegally boarded by military personnel via a helicopter" on Nov. 19 and is now in the Hodeidah port area in Yemen, the vessel’s owner said on Monday. |
| 20231121 | Two ships divert course away from Red Sea area after vessel seized by Houthis | Yemen | Two commercial ships that diverted their course in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden were connected to the same maritime group whose vessel was seized by Yemen's Houthis, according to shipping data and British maritime security company Ambrey |
| 20231121 | Analysis: Iran-backed Yemen rebels’ helicopter-borne attack on ship raises risks in crucial Red Sea | Yemen | The helicopter-borne Houthi attack on an Israel-linked ship in the Red Sea highlights the danger now lurking in one of the world’s key shipping routes as the Israel-Hamas war rages, as well as the rebels’ tactics mirroring those of its chief sponsor, Iran.
Comment: What’s the impact of the Houthis hijacking a ship in the Red Sea? |
| 20231121 | ‘Pallywood propaganda’: Pro-Israeli accounts online accuse Palestinians of staging their suffering | Zionism / social media | Since Hamas carried out its deadly attack on October 7 and Israel began retaliatory military operations in Gaza, a parallel war is being fought online. A barrage of disinformation, fake news and misinformation has swarmed social media feeds. Pro-Israeli accounts on social media are using the term "Pallywood" to accuse Palestinians of faking their suffering. |
| 20231121 | U.S. lawmakers accuse X chief Musk of profiting from anti-Israel propaganda | Zionism / social media | A group of 27 U.S. lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday to express concern the platform seemed to be profiting from premium accounts that glorified violence against Israelis. |
| 20231121 | Chip Barnes announces his PR slogan for Israel | Zionism / US | In his Instagram video, he said the perfect slogan would be: ‘Israel, defending the indefensible, since 1948.’ |
| 20231121 | In California's 'Little Arabia', residents feel betrayed by Biden's support for Israel | Zionism / US | In California's "Little Arabia", the first officially designated Arab-American enclave in the US, many residents with familes and roots in the West Bank and Gaza feel betrayed by Washington's unconditional support for Israel. Opinion polls show President Joe Biden's approval ratings have plummeted in Arab-American communities since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack. |
| 20231121 | The genocide lawsuit against Joe Biden | Zionism / US | Palestinian-Americans have filed a lawsuit against US leaders. |
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| 20231122 | Three Americans expected to be included in Gaza hostage release-US official | ceasefire | Three Americans held by Hamas in Gaza since its attack on Israel last month are expected to be among at least 50 hostages to be released by the Islamist Palestinian group under a deal arranged with Israel, the U.S. and Qatar, a senior U.S. official said. |
| 20231122 | The secret negotiations that led to the Gaza hostages deal | ceasefire | Shortly after Hamas militants took hostages during their deadly assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, the government of Qatar contacted the White House with a request: Form a small team of advisers to help work to get the captives freed. |
| 20231122 | Hopes Israel-Hamas hostage deal will end Gaza conflict | ceasefire | The warring parties agreed to a four-day truce and partial hostage release on Wednesday. |
| 20231122 | Israel, Hamas agree to truce, paving way for some captives’ release | ceasefire | Fifty women and children held captive in Gaza will be released in exchange for Palestinian women and children in Israeli prisons. |
| 20231122 | Israel and Hamas agree on a truce to free hostages in swap, raising hopes of halting war in Gaza | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day cease-fire in the war in Gaza — a breakthrough that will facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, and bring a large influx of aid to the besieged territory, officials said Wednesday. |
| 20231122 | Break in fighting expected Thursday | ceasefire | A pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas militants is expected to begin Thursday morning. At least 50 hostages will be released by Hamas amid a four-day pause in fighting with Israel. |
| 20231122 | Four-day truce agreed, 50 hostages to go free | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire in Gaza for at least four days, to let in aid and free at least 50 hostages held by militants in the Palestinian enclave in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel. |
| 20231122 | Israeli government approves hostage-release deal with Hamas | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting of at least four days to allow for the release of 50 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas, and of 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The deal has been welcomed by hostages' families. |
| 20231122 | Gaza ceasefire due to come into effect on Thursday morning | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas confirm four-day truce, but logistics of hostage exchange could mean delays |
| 20231122 | Israel’s Ben-Gvir: Truce deal in Gaza a ‘dangerous precedent’ | ceasefire | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, today slammed the terms of the Gaza Strip truce agreement reached with the Israeli occupation authorities as a “dangerous precedent” that repeats past mistakes. |
| 20231122 | Netanyahu avoids political rebellion over Hamas hostage deal but ally calls it ‘immoral’ | ceasefire | Israel’s PM facing pressure from all sides as some say ceasefire agreement does not go far enough |
| 20231122 | Behind the scenes: How the Israel-Hamas truce deal came together | ceasefire | how the negotiations involving Israel, Hamas, Qatar, the US and Egypt unfolded. |
| 20231122 | Israel and Hamas have reached a deal on a cease-fire and hostages. What does it look like? | ceasefire | A temporary cease-fire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families of the captives. |
| 20231122 | What happened in Gaza before the truce deal | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have announced a truce deal after 47 days of fighting. Here is a rundown of what happened in Gaza since October 7. |
| 20231122 | US reveals ‘excruciating’ five-week negotiations behind Israel-Hamas deal | ceasefire | A secret cell headed by CIA and Mossad chiefs, and multiple contacts between US President Joe Biden and leaders of Israel, Qatar, and Egypt underpinned an "excruciating" five weeks resulting in the truce agreement, a US official said. |
| 20231122 | Which captives, Palestinian prisoners could be freed? | ceasefire | Hamas and Israel have both said that they will release women and children. |
| 20231122 | Analysis: A pause in fighting – what’s in it for Hamas? | ceasefire | Hamas can benefit militarily from the ambiguous truce deal, but as an opportunity rather than a necessity. |
| 20231122 | Analysis: Gaza ceasefire deal brings relief but little hope of durable peace | ceasefire | Israeli military and intelligence services reported to have backed deal but are clearly committed to continuing efforts to ‘crush’ Hamas |
| 20231122 | Israel-Hamas truce deal: All that you need to know | ceasefire | The two sides have agreed to a four-day pause in fighting, but Israel has made it clear that it is not ending the war. |
| 20231122 | Palestinian women and youths to be swapped for Israeli hostages | ceasefire | Dozens of Palestinian women and teenagers held prisoner by Israel for periods of a few months to several years will gain their freedom under Wednesday's deal for the release of 50 Israeli hostages held in Gaza by the Islamist group Hamas. |
| 20231122 | 300 Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails listed before hostage swap | ceasefire | An initial 10 Gaza hostages expected to be released, followed by 50 Palestinians, according to source |
| 20231122 | What do we know about Israeli hostages in Gaza? | ceasefire | The Israeli government voted on Wednesday to back a deal to release some of roughly 240 Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza in exchange for a multi-day truce and the freeing of a greater number of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. |
| 20231122 | What we know about Israel-Hamas Gaza deal on hostages | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to exchange 50 of the hostages held in Gaza for a four-day pause in fighting. |
| 20231122 | The hostage deal and ceasefire explained | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in fighting in Gaza to allow for the release of 50 hostages held by the militant group in exchange for 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and also to allow for more aid to enter the enclave. |
| 20231122 | World reactions to Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Agreement will see some captives released from Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. |
| 20231122 | Arab nations say Israel-Palestine truce should be extended, aid ramped up | ceasefire | Arab foreign ministers welcomed an agreement for a temporary truce between Israel and Gaza group, Hamas, on Wednesday but said it should be extended and become a first step toward a full cessation of hostilities |
| 20231122 | Israel-Hamas truce deal: The devil is in the details | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas announced a deal on Wednesday allowing at least 50 hostages and scores of Palestinian prisoners to be freed, while offering besieged Gaza residents a four-day truce after weeks of all-out war. |
| 20231122 | South Africa hopes Gaza truce bolsters efforts to end conflict | ceasefire | South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Wednesday, welcomed an agreement for a four-day truce in Gaza and said he hoped the deal between Israel and Palestinian group, Hamas, would bolster efforts to achieve an outright end to their conflict |
| 20231122 | Israeli right-wing association files petition against hostage swap deal with Hamas | ceasefire | An Israeli right-wing association submitted a petition, Wednesday, to the Supreme Court against the implementation of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas |
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| 20231122 | Gaza world's 'most dangerous place' for children: UNICEF | children | The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives. |
| 20231122 | Gazan cancer patients can't return home | forced displacement | Since the escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Palestinian cancer patients from Gaza have been stranded in a hospital in East Jerusalem. Their way back home to Gaza is blocked. |
| 20231122 | India PM Modi tells G20 Israel-Hamas conflict must not spread | global response | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged leaders of the world's 20 big economies on Wednesday to do whatever necessary to ensure the Israel-Hamas conflict does not expand into a wider conflict as insecurity and instability in West Asia is worrying. |
| 20231122 | 'Enough evidence' of war crimes in Gaza, says Israeli-American Holocaust Professor | global response | As Israel continues to pursue its long and bloody war in the Gaza Strip since a surprise attack by Palestinian group, Hamas, on 7 October, an Israeli-American Holocaust Professor said there was “enough evidence” to suggest that war crimes have been committed during the campaign. |
| 20231122 | Israel-Hamas conflict has gone ‘beyond war’ says Pope Francis | global response | Speaking in unscripted remarks at his Wednesday general audience in St Peter’s Square, the head of the Catholic Church said he had heard directly how “both sides are suffering” during meetings with the Israeli relatives of Hamas-held captives and with Palestinians who have family in Gaza. |
| 20231122 | South African lawmakers vote to shut Israel's embassy | global response | South Africa's parliament has voted to close the Israeli embassy in Pretoria amid criticism by President Cyril Ramaphosa of Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231122 | Pope Francis says Israel-Palestine conflict has gone beyond war to 'terrorism' | global response | Pope Francis met separately on Wednesday with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians with family in Gaza and said the conflict had gone beyond war to become “terrorism” |
| 20231122 | Dispute erupts over whether pope called Gaza situation a 'genocide' | global response | A messy dispute broke out on Wednesday over whether Pope Francis used the word "genocide" to describe events in Gaza, with Palestinians who met with him insisting that he did and the Vatican saying he did not. |
| 20231122 | Did the Pope call the war in Gaza a ‘genocide’? | global response | Shireen Awwad Hilal said the religious leader used the term genocide during a meeting with a delegation of Palestinians with relatives in Gaza, Reuters reported. |
| 20231122 | Major rights groups call for international conference on Geneva Conventions | global response | The International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called for an international gathering to ensure compliance with the Geneva Conventions. |
| 20231122 | Spain Premier aims to lay groundwork for peace talks in visit to Israel, Palestine | global response | Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, hopes to lay the groundwork for a peace conference and two-state solution in his upcoming visit to Israel, Palestine and Egypt, local daily, El Pais, reported on Wednesday |
| 20231122 | Pro-Palestine solidarity in Europe and US making a difference despite repression 'in all areas of life' | global response | Throughout Europe and the US, solidarity with Palestine has surged despite worrying repression and accusations of antisemitism mixed with anti-migrant discourse. |
| 20231122 | EU to boost Gaza aid amid Israel-Hamas truce | humanitarian aid | The EU chief orders the European Commission ‘to do its utmost’ to use the four-day truce to boost its aid deliveries. |
| 20231122 | No ease in human suffering in Gaza amid Israel war | humanitarian crisis | Israeli bombs on Tuesday continued pummeling sites across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians. |
| 20231122 | U.S. forces carry out series of strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq | Iraq | The United States carried out two series of strikes in Iraq against Iranian-backed militants, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, in the first publicly reported U.S. responses in Iraq to dozens of recent attacks against troops in the region. |
| 20231122 | Major Iranian-backed militant group vows to expand conflict if U.S. airstrikes continue | Iraq | A major Iranian-backed militant group in Iraq warned it may strike additional U.S. targets after U.S. warplanes killed multiple militants in response to the first use of short-range ballistic missiles against U.S. forces at Al-Asad Air Base Monday. |
| 20231122 | Lebanon mourns two journalists killed in Israeli air strike | journalists | Hundreds of mourners paid their respects in Beirut on Wednesday to two reporters working for pan-Arab station Al Mayadeen who were killed the previous day in an Israeli air strike on south Lebanon. |
| 20231122 | Bahrain government websites briefly inaccessible after cyberattack over Israel-Hamas war | regional effects | The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231122 | The Story of Palestine: Prominent Egyptian YouTuber Da7ee7 demolishes Israel founding myths | regional response | A compelling YouTube video debunking Israeli myths on Palestine by renowned Egyptian influencer Ahmed El-Ghandour, also known as El-Da7ee7 (“the nerd”), has captivated Arab audiences, amassing millions of views and prompting calls for it to be translated in order to spread its powerful message worldwide. |
| 20231122 | West risks being complicit in Israeli war crimes, warn Arab and Muslim foreign ministers | regional response | The western powers on the UN security council face a choice of either demanding Israel lift its stranglehold on humanitarian aid into Gaza or being complicit in Israeli war crimes and collective punishment, foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries said on a visit to London on Wednesday. |
| 20231122 | Shadowy Hamas leader in Gaza is at top of Israel’s hit list after last month’s deadly attack | resistance | The mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed in generations is a secretive figure, feared on both sides of the battle lines. |
| 20231122 | More than 100 people buried in mass grave in Khan Younis | targeting civilians | More than 100 bodies of men, women and children have been buried in a mass grave in Gaza’s Khan Younis. The bodies are reportedly of those who were detained inside the al-Shifa Hospital and Beit Hanoon Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip over the past days. |
| 20231122 | More than 100 people buried in mass grave in Khan Younis | targeting civilians | The bodies of Palestinians previously held at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by Israeli forces were finally buried in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. |
| 20231122 | Ten killed, over 20 injured in Khan Younis | targeting civilians | X post |
| 20231122 | Over 100 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza as attack continues despite ceasefire deal | targeting civilians | Houses in centre of strip said to have been targeted, killing 81, with 60 more believed dead in north |
| 20231122 | Burying the bodies of unidentified victims of Israel’s war on Gaza | targeting civilians | Team at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital do what they can to provide last rites to those killed in Israeli attacks. |
| 20231122 | ‘We all have 13,000 deaths on our conscience’ | targeting civilians | Amnesty International’s secretary general discusses human rights violations and war crimes in the Israel-Gaza war. As Israel’s bombardment and siege of Gaza rages on, it continues to inflict a heavy toll on civilians. Many experts and politicians across the globe have raised concerns about allegations of war crimes by both Hamas and Israel, including the targeting of civilians, bombing of hospitals and taking of hostages. |
| 20231122 | More than 50 from same family killed in north Gaza - Palestinian minister | targeting families in whole or in part | More than 50 members of the same family have been killed in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza during Israel’s bombing campaign, the Palestinian Foreign Minister said today |
| 20231122 | Turkish FM: Why hasn’t Turkey completely cut ties with Israel? | Turkey | Hakan Fidan on the intricacies of not severing ties with Israel amid war on Gaza. Following his return from strategic talks in Germany and as the war on Gaza nears its 50th day, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan delves into Turkey’s role in humanitarian efforts. |
| 20231122 | Turkiye intelligence agency protects Palestinian hacker from Israel’s Mossad | Turkey | Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) is revealed to have saved a Palestinian hacker from being abducted or assassinated by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, in the latest revelation of MIT’s counter-operations against its Israeli counterpart. |
| 20231122 | Gaza world's 'most dangerous place' for children: UNICEF | United Nations | The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives. |
| 20231122 | Former US official filmed abusing Muslim street vendor | United States | A former US State Department official who worked on Middle East affairs has been filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor who he abused with Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian remarks. |
| 20231122 | Ex-Obama adviser says more Palestinian kids should die in Islamophobic rant | United States | ‘If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,’ says former diplomat Stuart Seldowitz to a halal cart vendor in one video. |
| 20231122 | Former US official faces backlash for racist and Islamophobic comments in New York | United States | The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), on Wednesday, urged the White House and the State Department to stop future collaboration with a former Obama administration advisor who was captured repeatedly harassing a New York City halal food vendor |
| 20231122 | New generation in US challenges views on Palestine and Zionism | United States | A young American woman discusses the younger generation’s shift in perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. |
| 20231122 | The US is complicit in Israel’s genocide, but Biden and Blinken ‘sympathise’ with the children it kills | United States | Throughout the Israeli bombardment of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the US has taken a staunchly pro-Israel stance and provided extensive military and diplomatic support. |
| 20231122 | US General Petraeus: Israel’s war on Gaza to last for ‘months, not weeks’ | United States | Former CIA Director David Petraeus says Israel will resume the war on Gaza if it doesn’t want Hamas to rebuild itself. Israel has not explained what it seeks to accomplish in its war on Gaza beyond the destruction of Hamas, according to US General David Petraeus, the former director of the CIA and former commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| 20231122 | Israel settlers set fire to Palestinian primary school, attack female employee | West Bank | Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian primary school located south of Hebron, resulting in the destruction of three classrooms, reported Wafa news agency. |
| 20231122 | Israel’s military says it intercepted cruise missile | Yemen | The Israeli military has claimed that it intercepted a cruise missile near the southern port city of Eilat. It didn't give any details about the origin of the missile, but groups in Gaza and Yemen have targeted the city. |
| 20231122 | Switzerland moves to ban Hamas, backs Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ | Zionism / CH | Government to introduce legislation by February against Palestinian group, supports Israel’s right to ‘its own security’. |
| Comment: Switzerland is the country from where Zionism have spread across the Western world in 1898 when the inventor, Theodor Herzl introduced this ideology during the first Jewish congress that was held in Basel. | |||
| 20231122 | France calls for EU sanctions against Hamas officials | Zionism / France | |
| 20231122 | Hollywood actress fired over pro-Palestinian posts | Zionism / US | Mexican actress Melissa Barrera has been fired from the forthcoming Scream film sequel due to her recent pro-Palestinian social media posts, which the production company said were “antisemitic”. |
| 20231122 | Former US official filmed abusing Muslim street vendor | Zionism / US | A former US State Department official who worked on Middle East affairs has been filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor who he abused with Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian remarks. |
| 20231122 | Ex-Obama adviser says more Palestinian kids should die in Islamophobic rant | Zionism / US | ‘If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,’ says former diplomat Stuart Seldowitz to a halal cart vendor in one video. |
| 20231122 | Former US official faces backlash for racist and Islamophobic comments in New York | Zionism / US | The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), on Wednesday, urged the White House and the State Department to stop future collaboration with a former Obama administration advisor who was captured repeatedly harassing a New York City halal food vendor |
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Gaza truce |
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| 20231123 | ‘Important but not enough’: What does Israel-Hamas deal mean for US policy? | ceasefire | Advocates pledge to continue to push for ceasefire as Biden welcomes captives deal that will see temporary pause to war. |
| 20231123 | ‘Can regain our soul’: Relief and fear in Gaza ahead of Israel truce | ceasefire | Some hope to find missing loved ones, return home and grieve for killed relatives. Others just want to get some sleep. |
| 20231123 | Israel says truce, captives release will not start ‘before Friday’ | ceasefire | Senior official says negotiations on how to handle the exchange of captives are continuing. |
| 20231123 | Mediator Qatar announces key points of Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas’ four-day truce is set to begin on Friday at 7am local time in Gaza. Majed al-Ansari, the spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry lays out the main points of the deal. |
| 20231123 | Mediator Qatar says truce in Gaza to start on Friday | ceasefire | A truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will start on Friday at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT), with a the first batch of hostages to be released at 4 p.m., a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry said on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | Israel and Hamas to start four-day truce on Friday -Qatar mediators | ceasefire | Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday morning with a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages released later that day, mediators in Qatar said. |
| 20231123 | Qatar says Gaza cease-fire will begin Friday morning, with aid to follow ‘as soon as possible’ | ceasefire | A four-day cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas was set to begin Friday morning, Qatar said, a day later than originally announced, as negotiators worked out final details of the deal, which is to bring the release of dozens of hostages held by militants and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. |
| 20231123 | Qatar says Gaza ceasefire, hostage release to start Friday | ceasefire | A Gaza truce and hostage release will start on Friday morning, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman said |
| 20231123 | Gaza ceasefire to begin on Friday morning with hostage releases to follow | ceasefire | Negotiators work out final details of four-day truce between Israel and Hamas after seven weeks of conflict |
| 20231123 | Gaza truce to start Friday, says Qatar | ceasefire | Mediator Qatar said a pause in fighting will come into effect on Friday morning and will be followed by the release of 13 hostages in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Israel said it detained the director of al-Shifa hospital. |
| 20231123 | Qatar says 13 hostages to be released, after Israel-Hamas truce starts at 7am on Friday | ceasefire | Qatar's foreign ministry says that 13 women and children held hostage by Hamas in Gaza will be handed over to the Red Cross. |
| 20231123 | Retired US general: Temporary truce will negatively affect Israel | ceasefire | Retired US Brigadier General James A. Marks said the Israeli occupation forces’ will be negatively impacted by the temporary truce in the besieged Gaza Strip |
| 20231123 | Turkiye says it plans evacuation of some wounded, sick Gazan children on Friday | ceasefire | Turkiye plans to evacuate some wounded or sick Gazan children and young people on Friday as part of its third round of evacuation, Health Minister, Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday |
| 20231123 | Israel confirms it has received initial list of hostages to be released | ceasefire | Israel has received an initial list of hostages to be released from Gaza, planned to take place after a ceasefire with Hamas takes hold on Friday, the Israeli prime minister's office said on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | Netanyahu says hostage deal 'not without challenges | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu cited, on Thursday, challenges in reaching a deal to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231123 | Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh leads group's diplomacy as Gaza war rages | ceasefire | Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader based in Qatar, has been the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy as war has raged back in Gaza where his family home was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in November. |
| 20231123 | Uncertainty, hope for Palestinian, Israeli families before Gaza truce | ceasefire | Amid high tensions over captives-for-prisoners swap, far-right Israeli minister demands clampdown on celebrations. |
| 20231123 | The Take: Inside the Hamas-Israel truce deal | ceasefire | The deal between Israel and Hamas took weeks of negotiations involving several countries and competing interests. |
| 20231123 | What makes a truce lead to lasting peace? | ceasefire | With Israel and Hamas agreeing to a four-day pause in fighting, here’s a look at how truces from other wars played out. |
| 20231123 | Middle East Roundup: Nervous anticipation for truce, exchange of captives | ceasefire | As Palestinians wait with bated breath for a pause in the Israeli bombardment, here’s the Middle East this week |
| 20231123 | Israel steps up attacks on Gaza before truce | ceasefire | Mass bombardment ‘keeps creating tragedies and misery for Palestinians’. |
| 20231123 | World leaders hail Israel-Hamas truce deal, release of hostages | ceasefire | World leaders on Wednesday welcomed a truce deal between Israel and Hamas that agreed a four-day halt to the devastating war in Gaza, accompanied by the release of dozens of hostages held by the militant group in return for Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel. |
| 20231123 | Hostage deal is 'right decision', Netanyahu tells Cabinet | ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet Tuesday night that a hostage deal is the "right decision". |
| 20231123 | Gaza truce offers Palestinians the chance to sleep, eat and recover | ceasefire | Residents of Gaza City say they look forward to walking their streets again, while others will look for the bodies of loved ones under the rubble |
| 20231123 | Anxious families await children's release from prison | ceasefire | A truce deal between Israel and Hamas would see 150 Palestinian women and children freed in exchange for 50 hostages held in Gaza |
| 20231123 | What Israelis won’t be asking about the Palestinians released for hostages | ceasefire | The list of Palestinians slated to be exchanged for Israelis should provoke reflection over the role of mass imprisonment in the occupation. |
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| 20231123 | Arab countries unwilling to assume future control | day after politics | Many Arab states are at least reluctant to have a hand in the political future of the Gaza Strip after a possible end to the rule of Hamas. Yet joint efforts could have advantages for the entire region. |
| 20231123 | Gaza has become a moonscape in war. When the battles stop, many fear it will remain uninhabitable | destruction | Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells. |
| 20231123 | Gaza war estimated to cost Israel $48bn | dystopian war | The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza could cost the Israeli economy $48 billion over the current and next year, a financial consulting company estimated on Thursday |
| 20231123 | Palestinians with disabilities face immense hardship in Gaza | eliminating health care system | “I feel alone.” About 50,000 Palestinians with disabilities are among the most vulnerable people in Gaza, as Israel’s total siege has left them without necessary assistance and the continuous bombardment has made getting to shelter impossible for many. |
| 20231123 | Israeli army arrests al-Shifa Hospital director, other doctors in Gaza | eliminating health care system | Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya and several other medical personnel detained as Israel continues its Gaza offensive. |
| 20231123 | Israel arrests Gaza hospital director and bombs 300 targets amid truce delay | eliminating health care system | IDF claims al-Shifa hospital was Hamas command and control centre as footage of tunnels and underground rooms appears |
| 20231123 | Israel unveils what it claims is a major Hamas militant hideout beneath Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital | eliminating health care system | The Israeli military on Wednesday unveiled what it claimed was a Hamas military facility under Gaza’s largest hospital, showing what appeared to be a subterranean dormitory to a group of foreign journalists who were given a rare glimpse inside the besieged enclave. |
| 20231123 | Israeli army displays tunnel beneath Al Shifa it says served as Hamas hideout | eliminating health care system | The Israeli army showed a reinforced tunnel beside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, complete with a bathroom, kitchen and an air conditioned meeting room that it said had served as a command post for Hamas fighters. |
| 20231123 | Hamas says 30 killed in Israeli attack on UN school ahead of Gaza truce | eliminating UNWRA | Ahead of planned four-day pause in hostilities Israel says war to continue for two months after ‘brief respite’. |
| 20231123 | Gaza death toll from Israel attacks tops 14,800 | genocide | The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 14,854, the government media office in the blocked enclave said Thursday |
| 20231123 | Celtic fined for fans displaying Palestinian flag amid Israel-Gaza war | global effects | UEFA has fined the Scottish club after its fans waved thousands of Palestinian flags during the match against Atletico Madrid last month. |
| 20231123 | Switzerland moves to ban Hamas and supports Israel's self-defence rights | global effects | The Swiss government says it will pass a new law by the end of February to ban any “Hamas activities" or "support" for the Palestinian group. |
| 20231123 | Europe's divisions over Israel support deepen as Gaza deaths mount | global effects | In Europe, political divisions over the continent’s support for Israel are expanding, particularly due to the mounting death toll of Israeli attacks that have now killed more than 14,500 Palestinians, including over 10,000 women and children |
| 20231123 | Israel strike kills 5 Hezbollah fighters including son of senior leader | global effects | An Israeli strike on the village of Beit Yahoun in south Lebanon last night killed five Hezbollah fighters, including the son of a senior Hezbollah member, according to the group and three sources with knowledge of the situation |
| 20231123 | Assessing validity of anti-Semitism accusations: Genuine critique or strategic suppression of pro-Gaza voices? | global effects | Amid the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, there has been a growing trend in certain Western media and political circles to brand any individual or expression critical of Israel as anti-Semitic. |
| 20231123 | Spanish PM floats peace conference idea in meeting with Israel's Netanyahu | global response | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proposed an international peace conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to forge a viable Palestinian state in a meeting on Thursday with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. |
| 20231123 | Spain gives voice to Palestinian cause in EU | global response | Spain has said it will push the European Union to adopt policies to support the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited Israel on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | Europe's diplomatic drive continues as PM's push for earliest possible truce in Gaza | global response | The Spanish and Belgian prime ministers and the UK foreign minister will hold separate meetings with leaders on both sides during their visits. |
| 20231123 | European MPs describe Israel actions in Gaza as 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing' | global response | Members of the European Parliament have described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “violation of international law,” “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing.” |
| 20231123 | 1,600 Israeli soldiers left disabled by war on Gaza | IOF | Israeli Army Radio quoted the Israeli Disabled Veterans Association as saying that since 7 October, 1,600 army soldiers have been left physically disabled. |
| 20231123 | Iran’s top diplomat discusses Israel’s war in Gaza with Hezbollah leader | Iran | Amirabdollahian warns ‘the scope of the war will expand’ if the Israel-Hamas truce does not hold. |
| 20231123 | Militants target US base in Iraq | Iraq | The US military base of Al-Harir in Kurdistan, Iraq, has been targeted for the third time, media sources reported |
| 20231123 | Israel steps up attacks on Gaza before truce | Israeli escalation | Mass bombardment ‘keeps creating tragedies and misery for Palestinians’. |
| 20231123 | Journalists killed in southern Lebanon: What the images show us about Israeli involvement | journalists | On the morning of November 21, two journalists from the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen – correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me'mari – were killed by an anti-tank missile. |
| 20231123 | Son of senior Hezbollah lawmaker killed in strike on Lebanon border | Lebanon | |
| 20231123 | Israeli strike targeting Hamas leader kills two Turkish citizens in Lebanon | Lebanon | Turkish volunteers had traveled to the Lebanese-Israeli border to join the fight against Israel |
| 20231123 | Clashes on border with Israel uproot thousands in Lebanon - again | Lebanon | Rose Rostom, Nahida Mashouz and Ammar Hajeh have had their lives uprooted many times - by Palestinian militants, Syrian warplanes, Islamic State, Western-backed forces or the Israeli army. |
| 20231123 | Journalists killed in southern Lebanon: What the images show us about Israeli involvement | Lebanon | On the morning of November 21, two journalists from the Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen – correspondent Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Me'mari – were killed by an anti-tank missile. |
| 20231123 | BBC journalists accuse broadcaster of bias | media / UK | In the latest newsroom fallout over the war, BBC journalists say the corporation is failing to humanise Palestinians. |
| 20231123 | BBC accused of censoring acts of Gaza solidarity in BAFTA awards coverage | media / UK | Ceasefire calls by artists during a ceremony in Scotland did not make the final cut on the BBC’s streaming service. |
| 20231123 | Hamas armed-wing spokesman calls for escalation of confrontation with Israel | resistance | The spokesman of Hamas' armed-wing called on Thursday for the escalation of the confrontation with Israel on all resistance fronts. |
| 20231123 | Israeli attack kills girl’s parents as they waited for Gaza’s truce | targeting families in whole or in part | A photographer tries to comfort a Palestinian girl by talking about her favourite dessert. Her parents had been killed moments earlier when Israel bombed her house in Gaza, a day before a truce is meant to come into effect. |
| 20231123 | Turkey says it plans evacuation of some wounded, sick Gazan children on Friday | Turkey | Turkey plans to evacuate some wounded or sick Gazan children and young people on Friday as part of its third round of evacuation, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday. |
| 20231123 | New laws to police Palestine protests would damage free speech, watchdog warns | United Kingdom | Terrorism legislation watchdog says 'members of the public should not be daunted from exercising their freedom of expression and right of lawful assembly' |
| 20231123 | David Cameron expresses hopes over temporary truce during visit to Israel | United Kingdom | David Cameron has met Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, during a visit to Israel, expressing hope that the planned temporary truce with Hamas would be an “opportunity to crucially get hostages out and get aid into Gaza”. |
| 20231123 | Retired US general: Temporary truce will negatively affect Israel | United States | Retired US Brigadier General James A. Marks said the Israeli occupation forces’ will be negatively impacted by the temporary truce in the besieged Gaza Strip |
| 20231123 | Facing suspension, MIT students continue pro-Palestine advocacy | United States | In a matter of days, a solidarity rally for Palestinians in Gaza was met with a concerted campaign to paint protesters as antisemitic |
| 20231123 | Jewish men in US apply to trademark ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, in attempt to ban slogan | United States | Two Jewish men in the United States have filed trademark applications for the popular pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, in an apparent attempt to prevent its further use by pro-Palestinian protestors. |
| 20231123 | Harvard Law Review bans article on Israeli genocide in Gaza | United States | The prestigious Harvard Law Review (HLR) has made the extraordinary decision to ban publication of an article examining the legal framework surrounding Israel’s ongoing Nakba against Palestinians, particularly in Gaza |
| 20231123 | US guns may already be arming West Bank settlers, former official warns | West Bank | Concerns over a recent Israeli order of US rifles have made headlines. But even if American guns aren't in settler hands, they have freed Israeli ones to be handed out, say experts |
| 20231123 | Miles from Gaza, fresh graves are dug for Palestinians killed in Jenin | West Bank | Funeral processions have become a regular occurrence in a West Bank city tormented by deadly Israeli raids |
| 20231123 | Israel intensifies demolition activities, issues stop-work orders in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli occupation authorities this morning issued stop-work orders against the construction of six Palestinian-owned houses in the town of Al-Khader, located south of Bethlehem. |
| 20231123 | Israel forces carry out 12-hour raid on Balata camp, shoot Palestinian dead | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces last night raided the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, killing a Palestinian and injuring three others. |
| 20231123 | Official: 333 attacks on Palestinian olive pickers in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces and settlers have carried out a total of 333 attacks against Palestinian olive pickers since the start of the season in the first week of October, the head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said. |
| 20231123 | US warship cruising Red Sea shoots down attack drones fired from Yemen | Yemen | US assets in the Middle East have come under increasing threat since the war in Gaza broke out. |
| 20231123 | U.S. shoots down multiple drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen | Yemen | The United States shot down multiple one-way attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen on Thursday morning local time, U.S. Central Command said on X. |
| 20231123 | Jewish groups criticize Pope on 'terrorism' remark, seek clarification | Zionism / | Jewish groups have criticised Pope Francis and demanded clarifications over his comments that they saw as accusing both Hamas and Israel of "terrorism". |
| 20231123 | Ex-Obama adviser Stuart Seldowitz arrested after Islamophobic rant | Zionism / US | The former State Department official was filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor in New York, saying more Palestinian children should be killed in Gaza. |
| 20231123 | Jewish students say they won't be silenced by Brown University | Zionism / US | In their first interview since they were arrested for holding a sit-in, some of the students vow to continue their activism until the US university divests from Israel |
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FIRST DAY OF CEASEFIRE |
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| 20231124 | Analysis: How to enforce the Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | The truce has come into effect. Its execution will fall on two fighting forces that have been trying to kill the other. |
| 20231124 | Veteran Israeli negotiator: 'There is a chance we can get out most of the hostages' | ceasefire | As Hamas prepares to release a first group of hostages held for more than six weeks in Gaza, it's worth remembering that Israelis have been held hostage many times over the nation's 75-year history. |
| 20231124 | Israel pounds Gaza ahead of truce, killing and injuring dozens | ceasefire | The air raids hit UN school, Indonesian hospital and residential buildings across Gaza |
| 20231124 | Palestinians in southern Gaza return home as truce begins | ceasefire | Video from southern Gaza shows displaced Palestinians making their way through the streets of Khan Younis to return to their homes, as a four-day truce came into effect. |
| 20231124 | ‘Relief’ in war-torn Gaza as truce takes effect in Israel-Hamas war | ceasefire | Aid begins to trickle in to Gaza as the first pause begins after seven weeks of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231124 | Israel-Hamas truce comes into effect: How it could now unfold | ceasefire | With the truce the first break in fighting after seven weeks, several scenarios in the war are now possible. |
| 20231124 | Fatah official warns of Israeli deceit during temporary truce in Gaza | ceasefire | Secretary of the Central Committee of the Fatah Movement, Jibril Rajoub, has warned of “deceit” on the part of Israel during the temporary truce in the Gaza Strip, claiming the agreement has no guarantees or field follow-up that could prevent the Israeli deception. |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces randomly target journalists in Gaza City | ceasefire | Footage captures the Israeli army's firing at journalists who were documenting the return of civilians to Gaza city according to local reports. |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinians attempting to return home in northern Gaza | ceasefire | Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinians and wounded 11 others as they headed toward the northern Gaza attempting to reach their homes. |
| 20231124 | Israel blocks Palestinians’ return to northern Gaza | ceasefire | Israeli military warns people against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. |
| 20231124 | Israel shoots at displaced Palestinians trying to return home to north Gaza | ceasefire | Israel shoots at displaced Palestinians trying to return home to north Gaza |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces open fire to stop people returning to north Gaza | ceasefire | Video shows people fleeing as Israeli forces opened fire to stop displaced Palestinians returning to northern Gaza during the temporary truce. Before the truce began the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning people not to attempt to return to the area. |
| 20231124 | Cease-fire brings respite for Gaza's civilian population | ceasefire | After weeks of bombardment and an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, fuel and aid trucks are now entering the Gaza Strip and civilians can move about again. But Israel warns its troops are going nowhere. |
| 20231124 | Humanitarian pause in Gaza reveals humanitarian catastrophe, destruction | ceasefire | The temporary humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip, which began on Friday, revealed the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe and the massive destruction caused by the Israeli army in various areas, especially Gaza City and the northern parts of the enclave |
| 20231124 | Gaza pause 'totally insufficient' say France, Belgium humanitarian groups | ceasefire | The humanitarian pause agreed between Israel and Hamas is not at all enough to address the critical needs in the Gaza Strip, according to two NGOs in France and Belgium |
| 20231124 | Hamas leader Haniyeh confirms their commitment to humanitarian pause | ceasefire | The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Friday that the Movement is committed to implementing the humanitarian pause agreement as long as Israel adheres to it. |
| 20231124 | In photos: Israel leaves trail of destruction in Gaza after 48 days of bombing | ceasefire | As the truce between Hamas and Israel takes effect on Friday, Palestinians inspecting their neighbourhoods find their city in ruins and wounded civilians sheltering at al-Shifa hospital are still waiting for a way out |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid into northern Gaza | ceasefire | While welcoming pause in hostilities and entry of supplies, UN health agency chief says ‘much more is needed’. |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid to flow to northern Gaza | ceasefire | U.N. agencies voiced hope that a shaky truce that began between Israel and Hamas on Friday would allow for a ramping-up of aid and the first flows to northern Gaza in weeks as fresh hospital rescue efforts got under way. |
| 20231124 | Head of US aid agency calls for speed-up of humanitarian aid to Gaza | ceasefire | The lead US development agency is urging a rapid ramping-up of humanitarian assistance to battered Gaza for the long term, calling it “urgent and imperative.” |
| 20231124 | Israel to continue war with full military force after humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, announced on Friday that his country will continue the war with full military force after the humanitarian pause in Gaza |
| 20231124 | Dolls, doctors and helicopters await Israeli hostages at Gaza's gate | ceasefire | The first Israeli women and children to go free from Gaza on Friday under a truce with their Hamas captors will be flown home under military guard, with measures meant to reduce the duress and attend to any immediate medical complications. |
| 20231124 | Palestinians return to destroyed homes in Gaza as Israel-Hamas truce begins | ceasefire | Men, women and children travelled from the places where they have sought refuge to inspect their damaged homes. |
| 20231124 | Happy but wary, displaced Palestinians try to head home to north Gaza | ceasefire | Many joyful but wary Palestinians emerged from makeshift shelters at the start of the four-day Gaza ceasefire on Friday to begin the long journey back to their homes. |
| 20231124 | Hamas releases 24 captives from Gaza after truce comes into effect | ceasefire | Release of captives taken by Hamas in October 7 assault on southern Israel comes amid four-day truce |
| 20231124 | Hamas releases 24 hostages on first day of Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday during the first day of the war's first truce, including Israeli women and children and Thai farm workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip for the first time in seven weeks. |
| 20231124 | Hamas releases 24 hostages on first day of Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | On day of high tension, Israel also releases Palestinian prisoners and humanitarian convoy enters Gaza |
| 20231124 | Israel confirms Hamas handed over 13 hostages to Red Cross | ceasefire | The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has received 13 Israeli civilians along with 10 other foreign nationals from Palestinian fighters in Gaza, as per the first footage released. This group is set to be exchanged for 39 Palestinian women and children currently held in Israeli jails, with the exchange scheduled to take place later tonight. |
| 20231124 | Red Cross coach leaves Ofer prison for expected Palestinian detainees exchange with Israel | ceasefire | A Red Cross coach has departed Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank, believed to be carrying Palestinian prisoners, amid the ongoing truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and the anticipated exchange of detainees from both sides. |
| 20231124 | ‘I won’t believe it until I see it’: Palestinians gather to greet freed prisoners | ceasefire | Families await possible reunion with detained women and children as Israel reportedly releases 39 in ceasefire deal |
| 20231124 | Israel releases 39 Palestinians from prison as part of cease-fire swap | ceasefire | Israel confirmed Friday that it released 39 Palestinian prisoners in line with a truce deal that saw 13 Israeli hostages freed by militants in Gaza hours earlier. |
| 20231124 | Mixed emotions as first group of Israeli hostages return from Gaza | ceasefire | The first group of Israelis freed from captivity in Gaza returned to Israel on Friday, on the first day of a planned four-day truce during which further exchanges of hostages for Palestinian detainees are due to take place. |
| 20231124 | Israel army says freed captives 'inside Israeli territory' | ceasefire | The Israeli occupatiob army said Friday the first captives released from the Gaza Strip were back on Israeli territory where they would undergo medical checks before being reunited with their families. |
| 20231124 | Hamas sources say Israel captives handed over to Egypt | ceasefire | Two Hamas sources told AFP that some of the captives seized in the October 7 raids on Israel were on Friday handed over to the Red Cross for return to Israel, via Egypt. |
| 20231124 | Hamas hands over first group of Israeli hostages to Red Cross in Gaza Strip | ceasefire | The handover took place in a hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The hostages are now said to be on their way to the Rafah border crossing to Egypt. |
| 20231124 | Palestinians say 24 women, 15 teenaged males to be freed from Israeli jails | ceasefire | article by Reuters banned |
| 20231124 | Marah Bakir freed from Ofer prison | ceasefire | Marah Bakir is among the first group of Palestinian women and children released from the Ofer prison as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas on Friday. |
| 20231124 | Israel threatens Palestinian families with ‘house raids' and 'arrest’ if they celebrate release of relatives | ceasefire | he father of Marah Bakir, who was released on Friday, said Israel threatened to raid their family home if they openly celebrated her release. |
| 20231124 | Palestinian NGO: 39 released from prison by Israel under truce agreement | ceasefire | A Palestinian NGO said Friday that 39 prisoners had been released by Israeli authorities under a truce agreement to pause the fighting in Gaza, after 13 hostages from Israel had been handed over. |
| 20231124 | Egypt receives 24 captives from Gaza on Friday | ceasefire | Egypt received on Friday 24 captives, including 13 Israelis, 10 Thais, and 1 Filipino, from the Gaza Strip via the Palestinian Red Crescent. |
| 20231124 | Israel releases 39 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons | ceasefire | The group of 24 women and 15 teenage boys was released across the Beituniya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231124 | Hostages, detainees freed as truce holds | ceasefire | Hamas militants have released an initial group of hostages to the Red Cross as part of an exchange with Israel. Israel's military has vowed to resume operations in Gaza after the four-day pause in fighting. |
| 20231124 | What can we expect from the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza? | ceasefire | A temporary cease-fire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families of the captives. |
| 20231124 | Germany confirms release of dual-nationals from Gaza | ceasefire | Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said on Friday that four Germans were among the 24 hostages released from captivity in Gaza earlier in the day. |
| 20231124 | Palestinian said release from prison was ‘unexpected’ after Israel placed her in solitary confinement | ceasefire | Israel sent Marah Bakr to prison at the age of 17. She described her eight-year stint in prison to Middle East Eye contributor Faiz Abu Amleh and said her release on Friday was “unexpected”. |
| 20231124 | Video: Palestinian woman freed from Israeli prison returns home | ceasefire | Israel released Malak Sulaiman after holding her in prison for seven years |
| 20231124 | US President Biden says chances of extending truce are ‘real’ | ceasefire | US President Joe Biden said he doesn’t trust Hamas but added that the current swap of prisoners is still only the start. |
| 20231124 | Knesset member Cohen reveals true reason behind negotiation delays | ceasefire | Knesset member Mouj Cohen rejected the possibility that the ongoing delays in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas are due to technical reasons. Cohen asserts that the real issue lies in Hamas' demand for an Egyptian guarantee. He refrained from elaborating further. Cohen, however, warned of possible deceptive tactics by Hamas in the negotiation process. |
| 20231124 | Analysis: Israel and Hamas have strong reasons not to extend Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire | Hamas risks losing leverage if all hostages are freed, and Benjamin Netanyahu promised a full victory |
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| 20231124 | Why Hamas and Samidoun were banned in Germany | collusion & complicity | In the wake of a ban on all activities related to Hamas and the group Samidoun, German authorities have searched numerous properties connected to suspected supporters. |
| Comment: German explanation doesn't reflect the country's history with the Israelis, and with its position as a strong supporter for the Israeli Zionist cause. | |||
| 20231124 | Gaza shrinks for Palestinians seeking refuge. 4 stories offer a glimpse into a diminished world | forced displacement | Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find: a jammed shelter, a car, the walls of a shared apartment, or floors and benches in hospital corridors. |
| 20231124 | Gaza war increases risk of Islamist attacks in Europe, security officials say | global effects | European security officials are seeing a growing risk of attacks by Islamists radicalised by the Israel-Hamas war, with the biggest threat likely to come from "lone wolf" assailants who are hard to track. |
| 20231124 | Israel summons Spanish, Belgian ambassadors following criticism during visit to Rafah | global effects | The Israeli government said Friday it would summon the Belgian and Spanish ambassadors following remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo on the war between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231124 | Israel summons ambassadors of Spain and Belgium over anti-Israel remarks | global effects | Israel summoned the ambassadors of Spain and Belgium following comments made by their respective leaders during a visit to Egypt on Friday. |
| 20231124 | Israel calls on Spain and Belgium to "stop supporting terrorism" | global effects | The warning came after Pedro Sánchez opened the door to the possibility that Spain could unilaterally recognise the Palestinian state even if the international community fails to do so. |
| 20231124 | German government's pro-Israeli policy not supported by public: Poll | global effects | The German government’s pro-Israel stance on the Gaza war is not supported by the public, a new poll revealed on Friday |
| 20231124 | Facebook permitted ads calling for ‘Holocaust’ against Palestinians | global effects | A series of inflammatory advertisements submitted to Facebook calling for violence and genocide against Palestinians were approved by the platform, the Intercept has revealed. |
| 20231124 | Activists in Argentina aim to expel Israeli water company | global response | Protesters have denounced the state-owned Israeli company Mekorot for its human rights record as it expands in Argentina. |
| 20231124 | Pro-Palestine or a trend? China’s stance on Israel-Hamas war splits opinion | global response | Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an end to the ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians. |
| 20231124 | African Peace March in Djibouti voices support for Palestinians | global response | Hundreds of people, including foreign nationals in Djibouti, participated in the African Peace March in solidarity with Palestinians in the Djiboutian city of Arta on Friday |
| 20231124 | Spain open to recognising Palestinian State, even if EU disagrees | global response | Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said on Friday that Madrid is open to unilaterally recognising a Palestinian State, even if it goes against the opinion of the European Union |
| 20231124 | Barcelona suspends relations with Israel | global response | The Barcelona City Council, on Friday, approved a declaration suspending relations with Israel until there is a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the country “respects the basic rights of the Palestinian people” |
| 20231124 | Spain slams Israel's 'false', 'out of place' and 'unacceptable' accusations against Prime Minister | global response | Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albares, condemned Israel’s accusations against the Spanish and Belgian prime ministers on Friday as “false”, “out of place” and “unacceptable” |
| 20231124 | Maronite Christian Patriarch: Aggression on Gaza aims to erase Palestinian issue | global response | The recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has been carried out with the ultimate goal of eliminating the Palestinian issue and suppressing their demand for an independent state, the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Maronites has said. |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid into northern Gaza | humanitarian aid | While welcoming pause in hostilities and entry of supplies, UN health agency chief says ‘much more is needed’. |
| 20231124 | UN agencies hope truce will allow aid to flow to northern Gaza | humanitarian aid | U.N. agencies voiced hope that a shaky truce that began between Israel and Hamas on Friday would allow for a ramping-up of aid and the first flows to northern Gaza in weeks as fresh hospital rescue efforts got under way. |
| 20231124 | What is the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza? | humanitarian crisis | Israel and Hamas started a four-day ceasefire in Gaza on Friday with aid agencies hoping to use the pause in fighting to ramp up aid deliveries into the besieged enclave. |
| 20231124 | Armenians push back against armed settlers | Jerusalem | A controversial real estate project threatens the world’s oldest Armenian diaspora community. But they refuse to move. |
| 20231124 | Israel forces raid homes of female Palestinian inmates in Jerusalem: Palestinian Prisoner's Club | Jerusalem | The Israeli forces stormed the homes of two Palestinian prisoners set to be released as part of the hostage swap deal with Hamas, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said on Friday |
| 20231124 | Israeli forces randomly target journalists in Gaza City | journalists | Footage captures the Israeli army's firing at journalists who were documenting the return of civilians to Gaza city according to local reports. |
| 20231124 | A second Nakba? What history tells us about Palestine and Israel | opinion | In this episode of UpFront, we look back at the history and context leading up to the current Israel-Gaza war |
| 20231124 | This Israel has no future in the Middle East | opinion | The Gaza war may turn out to be the beginning of the end, but not for Palestine. |
| 20231124 | Bahrain seeks to balance anger over Gaza with ties to Israel, US | regional effects | Bahrain has been walking a political tightrope since war erupted in Gaza as it seeks to ease public fury at a conflict that has killed thousands of Palestinians while preserving a deal with Israel that brought the Gulf state closer to the United States. |
| 20231124 | Hundreds gather in Istanbul to mourn two Turks killed in Lebanon | regional effects | Several hundred mourners gathered outside a mosque in Istanbul on Friday to lament the death of two Turkish men who militant Islamist group Hamas said were killed earlier this week in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon. |
| 20231124 | Yemen's Houthis threaten to target 'any military equipment' protecting Israeli ships | regional effects | The Houthi group in Yemen has threatened to target any military equipment protecting Israeli ships in the Red Sea, while it considered the crew of the recently seized ship as “guests” in Yemen. |
| 20231124 | Egypt’s el-Sisi says future Palestinian state could be ‘demilitarised’ | regional response | El-Sisi spoke after a meeting with the Spanish and Belgian PMs as they try to shore up support for a peace conference. |
| 20231124 | Egypt president says future Palestinian state could be demilitarised | regional response | A future Palestinian state could be demilitarised and have a temporary international security presence to provide guarantees to both it and to Israel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday. |
| 20231124 | UK gags MPs from asking questions about alleged arms supply to Israel | United Kingdom | The British government is refusing to answer questions over whether it is supplying weapons to the Israeli military to conduct its operations in Gaza which bears disturbing hallmarks of genocide and ethnic cleansing. |
| 20231124 | Why Hamas and Samidoun were banned in Germany | Zionism / Germany | In the wake of a ban on all activities related to Hamas and the group Samidoun, German authorities have searched numerous properties connected to suspected supporters. |
| 20231124 | German government's pro-Israeli policy not supported by public: Poll | Zionism / Germany | The German government’s pro-Israel stance on the Gaza war is not supported by the public, a new poll revealed on Friday |
| Comment: German explanation doesn't reflect the country's history with the Israelis, and with its position as a strong supporter for the Israeli Zionist cause. | |||
| 20231124 | Facebook permitted ads calling for ‘Holocaust’ against Palestinians | Zionism / social media | A series of inflammatory advertisements submitted to Facebook calling for violence and genocide against Palestinians were approved by the platform, the Intercept has revealed. |
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| 20231125 | Hamas to free new wave of captives in Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas fighters are set to release a new wave of captives Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said. |
| 20231125 | Thai mother danced with joy after daughter released from Gaza | ceasefire | When Natthawaree Mulkan's mother saw that her daughter was among the Thai hostages released by Hamas, she was so happy she danced with her 8-year-old granddaughter outside their home in northeastern Thailand. |
| 20231125 | First hostages, Palestinian prisoners freed | ceasefire | The first hostages released by Hamas militants under a temporary truce deal have arrived in Israel. In the occupied West Bank, crowds of people welcomed the first group of Palestinians released from Israeli jails in return. |
| 20231125 | First Palestinians released from Israeli prisons under deal | ceasefire | Israel has released 39 Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal with Hamas militants. Among those were freed was Marah Bakeer who spent eight years in jail for a knife attack on an Israeli border policeman when she was 16. |
| 20231125 | Hamas releases 10 Thai hostages, 4 of whom had not been listed as abducted | ceasefire | Hamas freed 10 Thai nationals and a Filipino alongside Israeli hostages who were part of the first swap under a new cease-fire deal — including four Thais who had not been officially listed as abducted, Thailand’s Foreign Ministry announced Saturday morning. |
| 20231125 | Iran says it facilitated Friday's release of 10 Thai hostages | ceasefire | Iran facilitated Friday's release of 10 Thai hostages from Gaza, providing a list of names to Palestinian group Hamas after a request to do so by Thailand's Foreign Ministry and parliamentary speaker, Iran's embassy in Thailand said on social media on Saturday. |
| 20231125 | Families of hostages not slated for release from Gaza during current truce face enduring nightmare | ceasefire | Ofri Bibas Levy has been haunted by nightmares since Oct. 7, when her brother, sister-in-law and their two young children were snatched by Hamas militants from their homes and dragged into the Gaza Strip |
| 20231125 | Family celebrates return of freed Palestinian prisoner Marah Bakeer | ceasefire | Bakeer is one of 39 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in exchange for 13 Hamas captives under a Qatar-mediated deal. |
| 20231125 | Egypt gets list from Hamas of 14 hostages to be released on Saturday - security sources | ceasefire | Egypt has received a list from Palestinian militant group Hamas of 14 hostages to be released on Saturday, security sources said. |
| 20231125 | Freed hostages bring news about one still believed to be held in Gaza | ceasefire | The Palestinian militant group Hamas released 13 Israeli hostages on Friday in exchange for the release of 39 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. |
| 20231125 | Egypt says it received 'positive signals' over possible extension of Gaza truce | ceasefire | Egypt said on Saturday it had received positive signals from all parties over a possible extension of the Gaza truce for one or two days. |
| 20231125 | Palestinian families rejoice over release of minors and women in wartime prisoner swap | ceasefire | Over three dozen Palestinian prisoners returned home to a hero’s welcome in the occupied West Bank on Friday following their release from Israeli prisons as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231125 | Gaza truce holds into second day, more captives to be released | ceasefire | Palestinians are temporarily safe from bombardment, but the UN said Gaza saw an ‘intensification’ of Israeli strikes ahead of truce. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians in Gaza use truce to pick through rubble of homes | ceasefire | After seven weeks of bombardment stopped in Gaza for a truce, Tahani al-Najjar used the calm on Saturday to return to the ruins of her home, smashed by an Israeli air strike that she said killed seven of her family and forced her into a shelter. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians search for loved ones and check damaged homes | ceasefire | People have been waiting in long queues for fuel and aid in the Gaza Strip, as the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas appears to hold for a second day. |
| 20231125 | US President Biden says ‘chances are real’ for extending Israel-Gaza truce | ceasefire | Captives are expected to be released each day until Monday during pause in fighting. |
| 20231125 | ‘To make lives easier’: Aid brings relief in Gaza amid Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Trucks deliver fuel, cooking gas, food and medicine, in the largest aid convoy to Gaza since the war began. |
| 20231125 | ‘Nothing standing’: Palestinians return to find Gaza homes destroyed | ceasefire | Amid the truce, some Gaza Palestinians returned to their houses in north and central Gaza – only to find rubble and debris. |
| 20231125 | Analysis: Lessons from Day One of truce in Gaza | ceasefire | Everyone stopped shooting, but can emotional reunions bring new understanding between warring sides?
COMMENT Israeli snipers have not stop shooting as found videos appear to show. |
| 20231125 | Released Palestinians recount harsh conditions in Israeli prisons | ceasefire | “We’ve been tortured.” As dozens of Palestinian women and children return home from Israeli prisons as part of a Gaza truce deal between Israel and Hamas, many say they endured incredibly harsh conditions while detained. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians stock up on essentials amid surge in Gaza food prices | ceasefire | October saw ‘unprecedented’ spike in cost of water, wheat flour as Palestinians flock to markets on second day of truce. |
| 20231125 | Second stage of captive-prisoner release awaited in Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas fighters were set to release a second group of captives Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said, as a truce largely held in the devastated Gaza Strip after seven weeks of war that killed thousands of people. |
| 20231125 | 42 Palestinians, 14 Israelis to be released on Saturday as part of Israel-Hamas hostage swap deal | ceasefire | The Israeli Prison Service announced on Saturday that it had received an additional list of the names of 42 Palestinian male and female prisoners who will be released as part of the second batch of the hostage swap deal between Israel and Hamas |
| 20231125 | Israeli officials: 14 captives, 42 Palestinian prisoners to be released Saturday under truce deal | ceasefire | Hamas was expected to swap more of its captives Saturday for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel on the second day of a cease-fire that has allowed critical humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and given civilians their first respite after seven weeks of war. |
| 20231125 | Hamas delays release of captives over Gaza aid | ceasefire |
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| 20231125 | Hamas says will delay release of second round of captives | ceasefire | In a statement on the messaging app Telegram, the Qassam Brigades said Israel should allow aid trucks to enter the northern Gaza Strip and to adhere to the “criteria” that was agreed upon – namely seniority to release the Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231125 | Hamas delays hostage release, demands aid to northern Gaza | ceasefire | The armed wing of Hamas said it had decided to delay Saturday's scheduled second round of hostage releases until Israel met conditions including committing to let aid trucks into northern Gaza, as mediators scrambled to keep a four-day truce on track. |
| 20231125 | Hamas says the second exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners is delayed | ceasefire | The expected release of a second group of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel was delayed for hours Saturday as the militant group accused Israel of not complying with the deal’s terms. The last-minute snag created a tense standoff on the second day of what was meant to be a four-day cease-fire. |
| 20231125 | Hamas pause hostage exchanges until until Israel ‘respects the agreement’ | ceasefire | The armed wing of Hamas has announced it will delay the release of a second group of hostages held in the Gaza Strip until Israel "respects the agreement" which entered into force the day before. |
| 20231125 | Hamas' armed wing delays release of 2nd group of Israeli hostages | ceasefire | Hamas’ armed wing announced on Saturday delay in release of the second group of Israeli hostages, citing Tel Aviv’s “non-compliance” with the humanitarian pause deal |
| 20231125 | Hamas delays, then returns to hostage deal | ceasefire | The armed wing of Hamas has announced it will delay the release of a second group of hostages held in the Gaza Strip until Israel "respects the agreement" which entered into force the day before. |
| 20231125 | 2nd batch in Israel-Hamas prisoner swap to be released soon after Egypt & Qatar resolve contentious issues | ceasefire | Egypt and Qatar said that Cairo and Doha have resolved all contentious issues that prompted Hamas to delay the release of the second batch of Israeli captives as per the truce deal mediated by the two countries in addition to the US on Wednesday. |
| 20231125 | Macron says determined to secure release of French captives in Gaza | ceasefire | French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday welcomed Hamas freeing a first group of captives, assuring the families of French captives held in war-torn Gaza of his "determination" to secure their release. |
| 20231125 | Aid rushed into Gaza, residents pick through rubble of homes | ceasefire | A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas militants has allowed aid agencies to step up the delivery of much needed supplies such as fuel, water and medicine to the Gaza Strip. Many residents are using the respite to return to what's left of their homes. |
| 20231125 | Israeli army says it will resume attacks on Gaza right after pause ends | ceasefire | Israel’s military chief said on Saturday that Israeli forces will resume attacks on the Gaza Strip immediately after the temporary humanitarian pause with Hamas ends |
| 20231125 | Hamas releases 13 Israeli, four Thai captives after hours-long delay | ceasefire | Israel is now expected to release 39 Palestinian prisoners from its jails under the Qatar-mediated truce |
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| 20231125 | UNICEF says situation for children in Gaza 'hellish' | children | Aid agencies are using the truce in Gaza to deliver much-needed supplies of fuel, water and medicine. James Elder from UNICEF spoke to DW from southern Gaza. He described the situation facing children there. |
| 20231125 | Can Israel’s economy withstand a prolonged war on Gaza? | economy / Israeli | Israel’s war on Gaza has depleted the Israeli workforce and forced businesses to close. Israel started its war on Gaza with deep pockets: $200bn dollars in reserves and billions in military aid from the United States. But spending is skyrocketing, revenues are falling and borrowing costs are increasing. |
| 20231125 | Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital in ruins after Israeli raid, days-long siege | eliminating health care system | Nurses recall horror of Israeli raid, interrogations, saying troops beat and humiliated them as they refused to leave patients behind. |
| 20231125 | WHO concerned about al-Shifa chief detained by Israel, remaining patients | eliminating health care system | Israel says the hospital director is being questioned as the WHO voices fears over the safety of dozens who are still in the facility. |
| 20231125 | WHO voices concern over fate of Gaza hospital chief | eliminating health care system | The World Health Organization voiced concern on late Friday about the fate of the head of Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, whom Israeli occupation forces detained over the facility's alleged use by Hamas. |
| 20231125 | Gaza's Indonesian Hospital completely evacuated: Health Ministry | eliminating health care system | Another in the dwindling list of Gaza Strip hospitals has emptied its wards and halls, with the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza announcing Saturday that it has been completely evacuated |
| 20231125 | Hamas hails Barcelona's decision to suspend ties with Israel | global response | The Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Saturday praised Barcelona city council’s decision to suspend relations with Tel Aviv, calling it a “courageous stance” against Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip |
| 20231125 | World pro-Palestine protests call for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza | global response | Thousands of people across major world capitals and cities came out in massive demonstrations for a lasting ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza, as a four-day truce entered its second day. |
| 20231125 | Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian march in central London | global response | Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through central London on Saturday to call for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of similar weekend demonstrations in the capital since the seven-week war began. |
| 20231125 | ‘To make lives easier’: Aid brings relief in Gaza amid Israel-Hamas truce | humanitarian aid | Trucks deliver fuel, cooking gas, food and medicine, in the largest aid convoy to Gaza since the war began. |
| 20231125 | Gaza humanitarian situation much worse: UN Palestinian Refugee Agency | humanitarian crisis | The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has become much worse, the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said Friday |
| 20231125 | South Africa asks ICJ to classify Israel as apartheid state | ICJ | South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pando announced that her country is in the process of submitting a petition to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding that Israel be classified as an apartheid state. |
| 20231125 | Israel occupation army to punish soldiers who refuse to serve | IOF | The Israeli occupation army is planning to impose prison sentences on soldiers who refuse to comply with regular and reserve service following the end of the attack launched on the Gaza Strip on 7 October. |
| 20231125 | 66 Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7: Media group | journalists | At least 66 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, according to a media group |
| 20231125 | Israel reports cross-border fire at Lebanese frontier | Lebanon | Israel's military said on Saturday that its forces and Hezbollah militants exchanged fire around the Israeli-Lebanese border overnight. |
| 20231125 | Israel vs Hamas: Battle for narrative supremacy | media | A propaganda battle between Israel and Hamas – different messages, different audiences. Plus, Francesca Albanese on media missteps in this war. |
| 20231125 | EU lacking leverage in the Middle East despite being top donor | opinion | In this edition of Brussels, my love? we discuss EU diplomacy in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and talk about Spanish politics after the passage of a controversial amnesty law. |
| 20231125 | The West will pay a heavy price for expending its credibility on Israel | opinion | American and European leaders must disentangle themselves from Israel's outsized influence - or risk an even bigger catastrophe in the days ahead |
| 20231125 | Is a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine still possible? | opinion | International calls grow louder to pursue a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The current Israel-Palestinian conflict has seen 47 days of air attacks on the Gaza Strip, nearly 15,000 Palestinians killed, 1,200 Israelis dead, and continuing raids and arrests by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank. There has also been an increase in Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities throughout the occupied territories. |
| 20231125 | Israeli-owned ship targeted in suspected drone attack: Reports | regional effects | The vessel reportedly had its tracker turned off, a sign that crew members likely expected a threat in the region. |
| 20231125 | An Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean | regional effects | A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an American defense official said Saturday. |
| 20231125 | An Israeli-owned ship was targeted in suspected Iranian attack in Indian Ocean, US official tells AP | regional effects | A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Gaza Strip, an American defense official said Saturday. |
| 20231125 | Israeli-managed vessel hit by suspected Iranian drone, US official says | regional effects | A container ship managed by an Israeli-controlled company was hit by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean, causing minor damage to the vessel but no injuries, a U.S. defence official said on Saturday. |
| 20231125 | UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say patrol hit by Israeli fire | regional effects | United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon condemns attack as ‘deeply troubling’, no troops were injured. |
| 20231125 | UNIFIL says Israeli gunfire hit one of its patrols in southern Lebanon | regional effects | The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Saturday that one of its patrols was hit by Israeli gunfire in the vicinity of Aytaroun of southern Lebanon, although there were no casualties. |
| 20231125 | UN Security Council ‘paralyzed’ in face of Palestine crisis: Algerian president | regional response | The UN Security Council is suffering from “almost complete paralysis” over the siege of Palestine and Palestinians’ ongoing suffering at the hands of Israel, Algeria’s president said Friday |
| 20231125 | Ismael Haniyeh: ‘We managed to ruin occupation’s plans’ | resistance | Head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh affirmed that the resistance proudly managed to: “Confront the occupation and ruin its plans despite the great pain and the growing numbers of martyrs, wounded individuals and Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homes, which has pained us and has affected all of our families. This is the price of freedom and liberation.” |
| 20231125 | Demands for permanent Gaza ceasefire at UK vigil for killed medical workers | United Kingdom | Healthcare workers in London are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza as more than 200 Palestinian medical personnel have been killed by Israel since the war began. This type of vigil has been held for three consecutive weeks in more than a dozen cities worldwide. |
| 20231125 | US President Biden says ‘chances are real’ for extending Israel-Gaza truce | United States | Captives are expected to be released each day until Monday during pause in fighting. |
| 20231125 | Palestinian militants kill 2 alleged informers for Israel and mob drags bodies through camp alleys | West Bank | Palestinian militants in a West Bank refugee camp shot and killed two alleged collaborators with Israel early Saturday, Palestinian officials said. Mobs then kicked the bloodied corpses and dragged them through alleys before trying to tie them to an electrical tower. |
| 20231125 | Palestinian militants in West Bank say two 'collaborators' executed | West Bank | Palestinian militants in the West Bank said they had killed two men accused of collaborating with Israeli authorities and hung their bodies up as a warning, underlining growing fears of increased radicalisation as the war in Gaza continues. |
| 20231125 | ‘A place to fly’ – Jenin Freedom Theatre stands defiant amid Israeli raids | West Bank | One of the more disturbing things that Ranin Odeh has observed during the activity sessions she runs for children at the Freedom Theatre in the West Bank’s Jenin camp is that their play often turns violent. Children frequently become overly rough and even hit each other. |
| 20231125 | Palestinians killed in West Bank amid Gaza truce | West Bank | At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank since last night. |
| 20231125 | EU's Von der Leyen urges end to extremist violence in West Bank for Middle East peace | West Bank | EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that violence committed by extremists in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank must end for a two-state solution that will bring peace to the Middle East |
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| 20231126 | More captives released after Hamas said Israel not upholding truce deal | ceasefire | There were concerns that the Gaza truce was at risk of derailing as Hamas accused Israel of not upholding its end of the deal to allow aid deliveries. Eventually, hostages were released, including a nine-year-old girl whose father thought she would’ve been better off dead than in Hamas captivity. |
| 20231126 | Tears and joy as second batch of 39 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons | ceasefire | Palestinian prisoners were freed late on Saturday after 13 Israelis were released from Gaza as part of a truce agreement. |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases 13 Israeli, four Thai captives after hours-long delay | ceasefire | Sunday marks the halfway point of a four-day ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. In the first two days -- people in Gaza have had time to take stock of the utter devastation of their homes and neighbourhoods. And two exchanges of captives and prisoners have taken place. The most recent came late on Saturday night, after a tense delay. |
| 20231126 | 13 Israeli hostages to be released on Sunday: Israeli media | ceasefire | Israel on Sunday announced that it had received a list of names of the third batch of Israeli hostages scheduled to be released from the Gaza Strip later on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | 2 Qatari officials arrive in Gaza via Rafah crossing amid humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Two Qatari officials arrived in Gaza on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, as the temporary humanitarian pause in the besieged strip continues |
| 20231126 | Hope Gaza truce can be extended: Qatari minister | ceasefire | Lolwah Rashid al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation, says she hopes there is an increase in the quantity of humanitarian aid being delivered into the enclave. “We hope our efforts aiming at extending the humanitarian truce will be successful. This will enable more parties to deliver more relief aid,” she said during a visit to southern Gaza. “There are several paths being followed, including the diplomatic one. To this end - efforts are being made, and talks are being held in an attempt to have the truce extended. |
| 20231126 | More captives released after Hamas said Israel not upholding truce deal | ceasefire | There were concerns that the Gaza truce was at risk of derailing as Hamas accused Israel of not upholding its end of the deal to allow aid deliveries. Eventually, hostages were released, including a nine-year-old girl whose father thought she would've been better off dead than in Hamas captivity. |
| 20231126 | 'That's my son!' Thai family overjoyed as second group of hostages freed | ceasefire | The mother of a Thai hostage freed from Gaza late on Saturday said she was indescribably happy her son was among the four most recent Thai nationals confirmed as freed from Hamas captivity. |
| 20231126 | Israel tells Palestinians not to move north in Gaza amid truce | ceasefire | Israel’s military has asked Palestinians not to move to the north of the Gaza Strip during the ongoing four-day truce. |
| 20231126 | Ready to release captives if all Palestinians released: Hamas official | ceasefire | Ghazi Hammad, member of Hamas’s political bureau, says the armed group is committed to the four-day truce agreement and is willing to release all captives in exchange for release of all Palestinians prisoners in Israeli jails.He says the group is currently working on a possible extension of the truce together with other partners. “Our priority is to stop the aggression against our people. We want to stop this genocide in Gaza,” he said. |
| 20231126 | Israel reiterates demand for Palestinians in Gaza to ‘only move south’ | ceasefire | The Israeli army on Sunday reiterated its demand that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip should only move to the south, especially during the current four-day humanitarian pause. |
| 20231126 | Qatar, US leaders discuss humanitarian pause developments in Gaza | ceasefire | Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and US President Joe Biden discussed developments Saturday regarding the ongoing humanitarian pause in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas group, according to the Qatari state news agency |
| 20231126 | Palestinian farmer killed by Israeli forces in Gaza refugee camp: Palestinian Red Crescent | ceasefire | A Palestinian farmer was killed and another injured on Sunday after they were targeted by Israeli forces in the Maghazi refugee camp in the centre of Gaza, the Palestinan Red Crescent said. |
| 20231126 | PRCS: Palestinian killed in refugee camp Gaza despite truce | ceasefire | The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) says a Palestinian farmer has been killed and another injured in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza strip. |
| 20231126 | Despite humanitarian pause agreement, Israeli army attacks in central Gaza, kills 1 | ceasefire | Even though Israel and Hamas had agreed to a humanitarian pause, and Sunday marked the third day of the agreement, which also included a hostage swap, the Israeli army attacked the Al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza, killing at least one Palestinian and injuring another. |
| 20231126 | Uncle of released Israeli hostage alleges Hamas is still holding her mother captive | ceasefire | An uncle of one of the freed hostages has alleged that Hamas is still holding her mother captive. |
| 20231126 | Seven fuel trucks, 80 aid trucks enter Gaza on third day of truce: Egyptian Red Crescent | ceasefire | Seven fuel trucks and 80 aid trucks crossed Egypt's Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip on the third day of the truce between Hamas and Israel, the Egyptian Red Crescent announced on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | Palestinian Red Crescent dispatches 50 aid trucks to Gaza | ceasefire | The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Sunday dispatched a convoy of 50 trucks laden with aid to the Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip |
| 20231126 | Shoukry calls for turning Gaza truce into full ceasefire in phone call with Blinken | ceasefire | The Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry stressed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken the need to extend the current truce in Gaza into a full ceasefire and deliver sustainable aid to all areas of the war-ravaged strip. |
| 20231126 | Netanyahu says next hostage list sent | ceasefire | The Israeli government said it has received a new list of hostages expected to be released in a third round of exchanges, as a short truce in fighting with Hamas holds |
| 20231126 | Hope Gaza truce can be extended: Qatari minister | ceasefire | Lolwah Rashid al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation, says she hopes there is an increase in the quantity of humanitarian aid being delivered into the enclave. “We hope our efforts aiming at extending the humanitarian truce will be successful. This will enable more parties to deliver more relief aid,” she said during a visit to southern Gaza. “There are several paths being followed, including the diplomatic one. To this end - efforts are being made, and talks are being held in an attempt to have the truce extended. |
| 20231126 | ‘Nothing standing’: Palestinians return to find Gaza homes destroyed | ceasefire | It is day three of a four-day truce between Hamas and Israel. The brief lull in Israeli attacks has given Palestinians time to take stock of the utter devastation of their homes and neighbourhoods. However, for many, only rubble waited where their homes once stood. After a delay of several hours, the exchange of a second group of Israeli captives held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has taken place. |
| 20231126 | Palestinians, Israelis exchange lists of awaited third batch of detainees | ceasefire | Hamas and Israel exchanged on Sunday lists of the third batch of their reciprocal detainees expected to be released today as part of the four-day truce brokered by Egypt, Qatar, and the US, according to media reports. |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases third group of hostages as part of truce deal, while Netanyahu visits Gaza | ceasefire | The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third set of releases under a four-day truce that the U.S. said it hoped would be extended. |
| 20231126 | Hamas frees third group of hostages | ceasefire | Hamas militants have released more Israeli hostages on Sunday, the third day of the truce. Egypt said Israel would free 39 Palestinians in return |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases 14 Israeli hostages as truce continues and ceasefire holds | ceasefire | A total of 39 Palestinians detained by Israel will be released from prison on Sunday, Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson has announced. |
| 20231126 | Hamas releases another 14 Israeli hostages and three foreign nationals | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas exchange lists of hostages and prisoners for third time as ceasefire appears to be holding |
| 20231126 | American girl, 4, freed as Hamas hands over more Israeli, Thai hostages | ceasefire | A four-year-old American girl held by Hamas in Gaza was released on Sunday, President Joe Biden said, as the militant group said it had handed over 13 Israeli hostages, three Thais and one with Russian citizenship on the third day of a truce with Israel. |
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| 20231126 | White House requests removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to its weapons stockpiles | collusion & complicity | The United States’ government has requested the removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to all categories of arms and ammunition from American weapons’ stockpiles within the occupation state, in a move which could effectively grant Tel Aviv a blank cheque for arms sales. |
| 20231126 | Israel’s bombing campaign in northern Gaza has destroyed entire districts and neighbourhoods | destruction | It was another relatively peaceful and quiet night for Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, without the threat of being killed in Israeli air raids. But for those who are surrounded by destruction, blood and bodies of loved ones, the ceasefire did not change much about how they feel. We’re talking about massive destruction of all forms of life in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the north and Gaza City. There is a sense of frustration as 1.5 million Palestinians are still unable to go back to their homes in the north. The delay in the release last night has also underscored the fragility of the four-day truce. It has confirmed people’s cautious optimism that this truce, and the possibility of extending the truce, were under threat as a result of technical issues. |
| 20231126 | Israel dropped 40,000 tons of explosives on Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, says media office | destruction | The Gaza government’s media office said on Sunday that the Israeli army has dropped 40,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, with the apparent goal of rendering the enclave uninhabitable. |
| 20231126 | Dire conditions at al-Shifa Hospital revealed during Gaza pause | eliminating health care system | New video from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital has emerged, made possible by the pause in Israel’s attack. It shows badly injured and elderly patients stranded in hospital beds outside among debris in the carpark. |
| 20231126 | Gaza: Findings on October 17 al-Ahli Hospital Explosion | eliminating health care system | The explosion that killed and injured many civilians at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on October 17, 2023, resulted from an apparent rocket-propelled munition, such as those commonly used by Palestinian armed groups, that hit the hospital grounds, Human Rights Watch said today |
| 20231126 | Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | eliminating health care system | Many of the injured who were not mobile remained in the hospital after its evacuation on November 18. |
| 20231126 | Food and clean water a luxury displaced Palestinians can't afford | food, water, fuel & electricity | Those sheltering at a UN school packed with thousands of people describe 'humiliating' conditions amid the scarcity of food, water, and cleaning products |
| 20231126 | Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | forced displacement | Many of the injured who were not mobile remained in the hospital after its evacuation on November 18. |
| 20231126 | Spain PM stands by Gaza comments that angered Israel | global response | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Sunday defended comments he made about the Israeli offensive in Gaza which angered Israel, saying "it was a question of being humane". |
| 20231126 | Seven fuel trucks, 80 aid trucks enter Gaza on third day of truce: Egyptian Red Crescent | humanitarian aid | Seven fuel trucks and 80 aid trucks crossed Egypt's Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip on the third day of the truce between Hamas and Israel, the Egyptian Red Crescent announced on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | 2 Qatari officials arrive in Gaza via Rafah crossing amid humanitarian pause | humanitarian aid | Two Qatari officials arrived in Gaza on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, as the temporary humanitarian pause in the besieged strip continues |
| 20231126 | Hope Gaza truce can be extended: Qatari minister | humanitarian aid | Lolwah Rashid al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation, says she hopes there is an increase in the quantity of humanitarian aid being delivered into the enclave. “We hope our efforts aiming at extending the humanitarian truce will be successful. This will enable more parties to deliver more relief aid,” she said during a visit to southern Gaza. “There are several paths being followed, including the diplomatic one. To this end - efforts are being made, and talks are being held in an attempt to have the truce extended. |
| 20231126 | ‘We cannot return to the bombardment of children’ in Gaza, UNICEF spokesperson | humanitarian aid | The four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas has "allowed us to get the biggest distribution of aid to the north [of Gaza] in a month", UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said |
| 20231126 | Palestinian Red Crescent dispatches 50 aid trucks to Gaza | humanitarian aid | The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Sunday dispatched a convoy of 50 trucks laden with aid to the Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip |
| 20231126 | ‘The people don’t want the Americans’: Gaza war fuels tensions in Iraq | Iraq | Attacks on US troops in Iraq have led to US airstrikes, highlighting the risk of spillover from the situation in Gaza |
| 20231126 | Photos: Lebanese residents of border towns return home amid truce in Gaza | Lebanon | About 55,500 Lebanese have been displaced by clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces since October 7. |
| 20231126 | Israeli and Hezbollah strikes near Lebanon border have stopped amid Israel-Hamas truce | Lebanon | Since the truce in the Israel-Hamas war began on November 24, the "situation has been ... super calm on the Lebanese side" of the Israel-Lebanon border,. |
| 20231126 | Francesca Albanese: Western media is living in an alternate reality | media / Western | In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. One exception has been Francesca Albanese - the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. |
| 20231126 | Al Qassam Brigades says four military commanders killed in fighting | resistance | The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas announced on Sunday the killing of four of its military commanders in the Gaza Strip, including the commander of the North Gaza brigade Ahmad Al Ghandour. |
| 20231126 | Hamas confirms northern brigade commander, 3 other leaders dead | resistance | The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, announced on Sunday the death of the commander of its northern brigade, Ahmed Al-Ghandour, and three other senior leaders during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. |
| 20231126 | Hamas’ military wing says 4 of its leaders killed during Israeli war on Gaza since Oct. 7 | resistance | Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, said on Sunday that four of its leaders had been killed since Oct 7, including Ahmed Al-Ghandour, a member of the Military Council and commander of the Northern Brigade. |
| 20231126 | ‘Soldiers started shooting at my feet’: Palestinians describe fleeing northern Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | Dogs biting at a human corpse. An exhausted, heavily pregnant woman carrying a toddler on her back. A seemingly lifeless body pushed on a cart. The sights of the Salah al-Din road, the main highway that runs like a spine through Gaza, remain with those who’ve walked it. |
| 20231126 | White House requests removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to its weapons stockpiles | United States | The United States’ government has requested the removal of restrictions on Israel’s access to all categories of arms and ammunition from American weapons’ stockpiles within the occupation state, in a move which could effectively grant Tel Aviv a blank cheque for arms sales. |
| 20231126 | Biden claims Hamas launched operation due to US diplomacy, to prevent Saudi-Israel normalization deal | United States | The United States’ president Joe Biden has claimed that the 7 October operation into Israel carried out by Palestinian resistance group Hamas was a direct result of his administration’s diplomacy in the region and with Saudi Arabia, in the latest of such speculations on the cause of the attacks. |
| 20231126 | Two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank - Palestinian ministry | West Bank | Two Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in Nablus and Jenin early on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said, bringing to six the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank overnight. |
| 20231126 | Israeli army kills 5 Palestinians in West Bank | West Bank | Five Palestinians were killed late Saturday by Israeli forces in areas across the occupied West Bank |
| 20231126 | Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Emboldened by curfews and raids on Palestinians, illegal settlers have stepped up violence and property theft. |
| 20231126 | Israeli forces kill seven Palestinians in West Bank, Palestinian officials say | West Bank | Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including two minors and at least one gunman, in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday and early Sunday, medics and local sources said. |
| 20231126 | Israeli forces kill at least 8 Palestinians in surging West Bank violence, health officials say | West Bank | Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, in a 24-hour period, Palestinian health officials said Sunday, as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day. |
| 20231126 | Eight Palestinians killed during Israeli raid | West Bank | Eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry. |
| 20231126 | Number of Palestinians arrested since Oct. 7 climbs to 3,200: Palestinian group | West Bank | The Israeli army on Sunday arrested 20 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, bringing the total number of detainees since Oct. 7 to 3,200, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. |
| 20231126 | Palestinian succumbs to injuries following clashes with Israeli army in Nablus | West Bank | A young Palestinian died on Sunday due to his injuries following clashes with the Israeli army in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. |
| 20231126 | Occupied West Bank raids: Funerals held for five people killed in Jenin | West Bank | Funerals for five Palestinians killed during Israeli raids have been taking place in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank. Hundreds of people joined the funeral procession. At least eight Palestinians were killed in overnight raids across the Occupied West Bank. |
| 20231126 | Israel-linked tanker boarded off Yemen: security firm | Yemen | A tanker linked to an Israel-affiliated company has been boarded off the coast of Yemen, the maritime security firm Ambrey said on Sunday following a series of incidents on the same shipping route. |
| 20231126 | Attackers seize an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen in a third such assault during the Israel-Hamas war | Yemen | Attackers seized a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, authorities said. While no group immediately claimed responsibility, it comes as at least two other maritime attacks in recent days have been linked to the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231126 | Israeli army says it intercepted drone heading toward Eliat in southern Israel | Yemen | The Israeli army said late Saturday it intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle that was headed to the southern city of Eilat. |
| 20231126 | Israeli-linked chemical tanker seized in Gulf of Aden, US official, vessel company say | Yemen | Unidentified armed individuals have seized a tanker carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, the vessel's managing company and a U.S. defence official said. |
| 20231126 | Tanker in Middle East safe from attackers after U.S. Navy responds, officials say | Yemen | A U.S. Navy warship responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden that had been seized by armed individuals and the vessel is now safe, U.S. officials said on Sunday. |
| 20231126 | Student wearing 'Allah' necklace attacked in school in Germany | Zionism / Germany | A 15-year-old student was attacked in a school in Germany for wearing a necklace which said “Allah,” authorities said Saturday. |
| 20231126 | March against antisemitism draws thousands in London | Zionism / UK | Thousands of demonstrators against antisemitism marched in London on Sunday to protest against a rise in hate crimes against Jews since the attack by Hamas militants on Israel in October and Israel's subsequent bombardment of Gaza. |
| 20231126 | Three Palestinian students shot in US in critical condition | Zionism / US | Arab civil rights group says the students were wearing keffiyehs when they were abused and shot by unidentified gunmen in Burlington, Vermont |
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| 20231127 | Palestinians gather in Ramallah streets to welcome freed prisoners | ceasefire | The exchange of captives for prisoners between Hamas and Israel continues for a third consecutive day on Sunday. |
| 20231127 | Hamas, Israel release prisoners; American girl, 4, is freed | ceasefire | Hamas freed 17 hostages held in Gaza, including a 4-year-old American girl, while Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the third day of their truce. |
| 20231127 | More Palestinian prisoners freed as Israel-Hamas truce holds into third day | ceasefire | The exchange of captives between Hamas and Israel continues for a third consecutive day under a four-day truce deal. |
| 20231127 | Thai Muslim group says direct Hamas talks helped secure release of Thai hostages | ceasefire | A Thai Muslim group that spoke directly with Hamas said its efforts were key to ensuring that Thai hostages were among the first to be released in Gaza during a temporary truce with Israeli forces. |
| 20231127 | Irregular meals, benches as beds. As freed hostages return to Israel, details of captivity emerge | ceasefire | Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As former hostages return to Israel after seven weeks of Hamas captivity, information about the conditions of their confinement has emerged. |
| 20231127 | Barbeques, suspicion and song as Israeli soldiers break from Gaza war | ceasefire | Reservists come back to southern Israel, welcomed by families, feasts and distant explosions. |
| 20231127 | Palestinians welcome third set of prisoners in Gaza truce deal | ceasefire | “I find myself oscillating between joy and sadness simultaneously.” Palestinian families gathered to celebrate the third batch of 39 Palestinian prisoners freed as part of a four-day truce deal between Israel and Hamas. Many of the prisoners were unaware of the severity of Israel’s attack on Gaza. |
| 20231127 | Tears and laughter on Gaza beach as children get break from war | ceasefire | Children played on a Gaza beach as displaced families left their cramped shelters for a short break during the truce between Israel and Hamas, but amid the laughter their parents could not forget the hardships of war and homelessness. |
| 20231127 | Analysis: Less than a day left on the Gaza pause, what are the prospects? | ceasefire | After a tense delay on Saturday, the pause seems to be holding. Will Israel and Hamas agree to extend it? |
| 20231127 | Despite humanitarian pause, no fuel has reached hospitals in northern Gaza - health authorities | ceasefire | The health authorities in the Gaza Strip, on Monday, said no fuel had reached the hospitals in the northern parts of the enclave despite the humanitarian pause |
| 20231127 | Gazans call for truce to be extended, Israelis divided on the issue | ceasefire | Gazans desperate for an end to their suffering said on Monday they wanted the truce to be extended, while Israelis were divided between those who wanted an extension so all hostages could come home and others worried about giving in to Hamas demands. |
| 20231127 | Calls mount for Gaza truce extension | ceasefire | It is the fourth and final day of the truce between Israel and Hamas, but there are growing calls for its extension. Meanwhile, UN rights experts called for an investigation into possible war crimes. |
| 20231127 | Gaza humanitarian pause should evolve into permanent ceasefire - EU top diplomat | ceasefire | The four-day truce struck between Israel and Hamas should be extended and "evolve into a permanent ceasefire," the European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday. |
| 20231127 | Truce between Israel and Hamas set to expire | ceasefire | As the four-day Israel-Hamas truce draws to a close, people in Gaza are fearful of the fighting and death that may lie ahead. On a Gazan beach, families with their children wait in anticipation of an uncertain future. |
| 20231127 | Hamas says working on new hostage list to 'extend truce' with Israel | ceasefire | Hamas said Monday it was drawing up a new list of hostages held in the Gaza Strip 'in order to extend the truce' with Israel. |
| 20231127 | Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce by two days, Qata | ceasefire | Hamas official says the group hopes to extend the truce even further and put an end to the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 20231127 | Israel and Hamas look open to extending truce on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas appeared open to extending a cease-fire in Gaza that has halted their deadliest and most destructive war but is set to expire after Monday, with a fourth exchange of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel planned for later in the day. |
| 20231127 | Qatar announces Gaza truce extension by two days | ceasefire | This is an X-post from the Qatari Foreign Minister |
| 20231127 | Deal reached to extend Gaza truce by two days, Qatar and Hamas say | ceasefire | Mediator Qatar said on Monday a deal had been reached to extend a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave. |
| 20231127 | Qatar is the go-to mediator in the Mideast war. Its unprecedented Tel Aviv trip saved a shaky truce | ceasefire | The deal seemed on the verge of unraveling. Hamas had accused Israel of failing to keep its side of the bargain and Israel was threatening to resume its lethal onslaught on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231127 | Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza extended for two days, Qatar says | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the four-day truce in Gaza for another two days, mediator Qatar says. |
| 20231127 | Qatar says Israel and Hamas agree to two-day truce extension | ceasefire | Hamas confirms an agreement with the Qatari and Egyptian brothers to extend the temporary humanitarian truce for a further two days under the same conditions as the previous truce. |
| 20231127 | Israel and Hamas agree to extend Gaza truce by two days, Qatar says | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the truce in Gaza by two days, a Qatari foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. The four-day humanitarian pause was set to expire early Tuesday morning |
| 20231127 | Diplomatic dash as end of Israel-Gaza truce looms | ceasefire | US president says his goal is to prolong the truce as Israel and Hamas express their conditions for an extension. |
| 20231127 | Hamas receives a list of prisoners to be released today | ceasefire | The group says the list includes three women and 30 children, with names to be made public later, said Hamas in a statement. |
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| 20231127 | ‘Devastating’: Volunteer recalls last hours at besieged Indonesian Hospital | eliminating health care system | Medical worker Fikri Rofiul Haq says lsraeli tanks repeatedly fired on hospital in northern Gaza. |
| 20231127 | Human Rights Watch says rocket misfire likely cause of deadly Gaza hospital blast | eliminating health care system | Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday that evidence suggested a misfired rocket was the likely cause of an explosion that resulted in heavy casualties at a hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17. |
| 20231127 | Doctor returning from Gaza describes 'medieval-like' situation at hospitals | eliminating health care system | Palestinian-British surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta accused Israel of using white phosphorus and deliberately targeting children during its ongoing assault in Gaza. |
| 20231127 | British-Palestinian surgeon testified to the use of phosphorus bombs in Gaza | eliminating health care system | British-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta gave his testimony, today, at a press conference for the International Centre of Justice for Palestine. |
| 20231127 | Gaza is ‘dystopian nightmare’ after Israeli bombardment, says doctor | eliminating health care system | Gaza is a “dystopian nightmare”, renowned UK doctor Ghassan Abu-Sitta told a press conference in London today organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) |
| 20231127 | London surgeon says he saw ‘massacre unfold’ while working in Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | A London surgeon has described witnessing a “massacre unfold” during 43 days spent under bombardment in Gaza, saying the destruction of the Palestinian health system was a military objective of the war. |
| 20231127 | Gaza families live in tents with no winter clothing | forced displacement | Families in Gaza have had to resort to sleeping in tents and, with winter approaching, many are struggling to find warm clothing. |
| 20231127 | North Gaza residents flee south, setting up camp in schools and hospitals | forced displacement | A UN camp with no water for days, makeshift shelters in schools, and hospitals that are already overwhelmed... These are the conditions that residents from the northern part of the Gaza Strip find when they arrive in the south after fleeing the Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231127 | Three students of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont, suspect arrested | global effects | A suspect was arrested in the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont, local police reported early on Monday, an attack under investigation as a suspected hate-motivated crime. |
| 20231127 | Vermont police arrest suspect in ‘hate-motivated’ shooting of Palestinians | global effects | A suspect has been arrested in what police have called the “hate-motivated” shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in the US state of Vermont. |
| 20231127 | Three Palestinian students aged 20 shot in Vermont, US: What to know | global effects | According to police the victims were speaking Arabic and two were wearing keffiyehs when attacked in Burlington. |
| 20231127 | Suspect arraigned in shooting of three Palestinian American students in Vermont | global effects | The suspect in the shooting in Vermont of three college students of Palestinian descent over the weekend pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted second-degree murder on Monday and was ordered by a judge to be held without bond. |
| 20231127 | Suspect pleads not guilty after three men of Palestinian descent shot in Vermont | global effects | A 48-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder over the shooting of three men of Palestinian descent in Vermont. |
| 20231127 | Belgian schools that closed due to bomb alert to reopen Tuesday | global effects | The almost 30 Belgian schools in Brussels and the Brabant region that closed to pupils on Monday after a late Sunday evening bomb alert, will reopen on Tuesday, the Wallonie-Bruxelles Enseignement administration body said on its web page |
| 20231127 | Antisemitism in Germany: A 'lack of empathy?' | global effects | Since the Hamas terror attack in Israel, antisemitism has been on the rise in Germany. How is Germany's Jewish cultural scene dealing with all the hate? |
| 20231127 | Sweden's prime minister condemns far-right call to demolish mosque | global effects | Swedish far-right politician Jimmie Åkesson said mosques that spread anti-democratic, anti-Swedish, homophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda should be confiscated and demolished. |
| 20231127 | Elon Musk visits Israel to meet top leaders as accusations of antisemitism on X grow | global effects | Elon Musk, who’s been under fire over accusations of antisemitism flourishing on his social media platform X, paid a visit Monday to Israel, where he toured a kibbutz that was attacked last month by Hamas militants and was set to meet with top leaders. |
| 20231127 | Elon Musk to Israel: 'propaganda' that begets murder must be stopped | global effects | Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk voiced support on Monday for Israel after it came under attack by Palestinian Hamas militants, saying one challenge was "ultimately stopping the propaganda that is convincing people to engage in, you know, murder".
COMMENT We couldn't find such propaganda posted by pro-Palestinians but did from Israelis themselves and those who supports them. |
| 20231127 | Backing Israel, Elon Musk sees need to stop murderous propaganda | global effects | Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk lent support on Monday to Israel's campaign against Hamas, saying one challenge was stopping propaganda of a sort that led to the Palestinian faction's killing spree that triggered the Gaza war. |
| 20231127 | Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer' | global effects | Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation. |
| 20231127 | Slick videos or more 'authentic' content? The Israel-Gaza battles raging on TikTok and X | global effects | Young or old. TikTok or X. Pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian. Your social media feeds are unique to you. Could they be shaping how you view the Israel-Gaza war? |
| 20231127 | El-Sisi, Hungarian counterpart stress need for de-escalation in Gaza | global response | Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Hungarian President Katalin Novák stressed during a meeting in Cairo on Monday the need to work toward de-escalation in Gaza, underscoring the dire necessity to prevent the expansion of the conflict to the region. |
| 20231127 | Thousands march in Morocco in rejection of normalisation with Israel | global response | On the third day of the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets in several Moroccan cities yesterday to demand the end of normalisation with Israel and to support Palestine, especially the residents of the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231127 | Greece calls for extension of Gaza humanitarian pause | global response | Greece expressed support for the ongoing humanitarian pause in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and called for its extension on Monday |
| 20231127 | Ireland calls for extension of Gaza truce, says 'this conflict must end | global response | Ireland, on Monday, called for an extension of the Gaza truce, underlining that civilians in the besieged strip “cannot be allowed to suffer any further” |
| 20231127 | Hamas cannot continue to rule Gaza, says EU foreign affairs chief | global response | Josep Borrell says Hamas is a terrorist organisation and calls for return of Palestinian Authority to Gaza
COMMENT No organization is a terrorist organization when members are occupied people who decided to form an resistance against their occupiers. |
| 20231127 | US rights advocates launch hunger strike for Israel-Hamas ceasefire | global response | Actor Cynthia Nixon joins activists and state legislators outside the White House in a protest against the US’s backing of the Gaza war. |
| 20231127 | Egypt Red Crescent has delivered 30000 tons of aid to Gaza: Official | humanitarian aid | The Egyptian Red Crescent that through local and international donations, they have been able to deliver 30,000 tons of aid to its counterpart the war began, the Palestinian Red Crescent, and the UNRWA in Gaza. |
| 20231127 | People in Gaza are still in ‘desperate’ need, despite truce | humanitarian crisis | A UN official has described seeing thin and thirsty Palestinians “desperate” for aid as his team delivered supplies to Gaza during the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231127 | Is Israel stealing organs from dead Palestinians? | IOF | Questions are being asked about possible organ theft with the Israeli army holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed during its genocide in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. |
| 20231127 | Iraq sees risk of regional conflict if Gaza war resumes | Iraq | Iraq sees a risk of regional conflict if the current truce in Gaza is not turned into a permanent ceasefire, the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs adviser said, as mediators sought an extension of the temporary four-day Israel-Hamas truce |
| 20231127 | Netanyahu's two-front war against Hamas and for his own political survival | Israelis | Inside Israeli defence headquarters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu monitored the first release of Hamas-held hostages while outside, their families in a Tel Aviv square gathered around Benny Gantz, his leading challenger for the top job. |
| 20231127 | Israel 'stealing organs' from bodies in Gaza, alleges human rights group | Israelis | Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Sunday it had "concerns" about possible organ theft from Palestinian corpses, following reports by medical professionals in Gaza who examined some bodies after they were released by the Israelis. |
| 20231127 | Is Israel stealing organs from dead Palestinians? | Israelis | Questions are being asked about possible organ theft with the Israeli army holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed during its genocide in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for an independent international investigation into the issue. |
| 20231127 | Israeli captives share testimonies of treatment in Gaza | Israelis | Testimonies from captives who were held by Palestinian groups in Gaza have been discussed in Israeli media, following the release of dozens of hostages. |
| 20231127 | Top EU official 'appalled' by Israel plan to commit funds for building more illegal settlements | Israelis | The EU Foreign Policy chief, on Monday, said that he is “appalled” by reports that the Israeli government will allocate funds for the construction of new illegal settlements in the midst of an ongoing conflict |
| 20231127 | Israel Finance Minister defends settlement funds in budget row | Israelis | Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, hit back at critics of the government’s proposed war time budget on Monday, ahead of a vote that has already created a rift between centrist and far right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet |
| 20231127 | Did Israeli children really sing about 'annihilating everyone in Gaza'? | Israelis | It’s the latest video to have caused outrage online, showing children singing about the "annihilation" of Gaza and its people. The video was even posted and then removed by Kan, an Israeli state-owned news channel. |
| 20231127 | Israel-Lebanon border: The Irish troops watching Israel’s hidden conflict | Lebanon | "If you hear an alarm sounding it means you need to run to the nearest bunker," says Captain Aódhan McGuinness as we arrive at Camp Shamrock. |
| 20231127 | BBC under fire for mistranslating ex-Palestinian prisoner as praising Hamas | media / Zionists / UK | This is an X-post |
| 20231127 | A ceasefire in a time of genocide | opinion | The people of Gaza will not settle for anything short of the end of the siege, the occupation and apartheid. |
| 20231127 | Fact or Fiction: The propaganda war won’t stop, even during a truce | opinion | That includes a war on diplomacy itself, amid the competing propaganda interests of Hamas and Netanyahu. |
| 20231127 | How a slogan became bigger news than the murder of babies in Gaza | opinion | The protest chant 'From the river to the sea' rejects not Israelis or Jews but the apartheid nature of Israel. This is why pro-Israel western politicians and media want to criminalise it |
| 20231127 | Israel-Palestine conflict: A brief history in maps and charts | opinion | explainer -- As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts. |
| 20231127 | Jordan wants Israel held accountable for 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza | regional response | Jordan, on Monday, said that what is happening in Gaza is a “humanitarian tragedy” and Israel should be held accountable for it |
| 20231127 | How an encounter with Israeli soldiers in Gaza tore one family apart | targeting families in whole or in part | Like many Palestinians in Gaza, Roba Ziara and her family have been without a lasting sense of security since Israel’s bombardment of the besieged territory began after 7 October. |
| 20231127 | UN: Forced displacement in Gaza threatens lives of pregnant women | United Nations | The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Arab States Regional Office yesterday warned that forced displacement in the Gaza Strip threatens the lives of pregnant women, leaving them “stranded, unable to access life-saving maternal services.” |
| 20231127 | Diplomatic dash as end of Israel-Gaza truce looms | United States | US president says his goal is to prolong the truce as Israel and Hamas express their conditions for an extension. |
| 20231127 | Biden reportedly ignored staff caution on ‘beheaded Israeli babies’ | United States | The report published by The Washington Post gives accounts of divisions inside the White House. |
| 20231127 | US rights advocates launch hunger strike for Israel-Hamas ceasefire | United States | Actor Cynthia Nixon joins activists and state legislators outside the White House in a protest against the US’s backing of the Gaza war. |
| 20231127 | Top EU official 'appalled' by Israel plan to commit funds for building more illegal settlements | West Bank | The EU Foreign Policy chief, on Monday, said that he is “appalled” by reports that the Israeli government will allocate funds for the construction of new illegal settlements in the midst of an ongoing conflict |
| 20231127 | Israel Finance Minister defends settlement funds in budget row | West Bank | Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, hit back at critics of the government’s proposed war time budget on Monday, ahead of a vote that has already created a rift between centrist and far right members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet |
| 20231127 | Israel settlers destroy olive and almond trees, and vineyards in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Dozens of olive and almond trees, along with vineyards, have been uprooted by illegal settlers in Al-Khader, located south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231127 | US Navy thwarts seizure of Israel-linked cargo ship | Yemen | US destroyer USS Mason responds to a distress call from an Israel-linked commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden. |
| 20231127 | US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker. Missiles from rebel-controlled Yemen follow | Yemen | Armed assailants seized and later let go of a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said. |
| 20231127 | US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker | Yemen | A US Navy warship has captured armed men who seized an Israeli-linked tanker off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, US defence officials say. |
| 20231127 | Global shipping on edge after Houthis seize Israeli vessels | Yemen | Since Houthis seized a ship owned by an Israeli businessman last week in the Red Sea, global shipping has been taking stock of potentially rising risks. |
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| 20231128 | Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza extended two days; 11 more hostages freed | ceasefire | A truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that was on the verge of expiring was extended by two days, mediator Qatar said on Monday, raising the prospect the Palestinian group will free hostages beyond the 69 released since Friday. |
| 20231128 | Gaza truce appears set to extend as Israel receives new list of captives | ceasefire | A truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to be extending into a fifth day as the two sides completed their fourth release of captives from Gaza in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails under an original four-day truce deal while mediators said the process would continue. |
| 20231128 | What do we know about the Israel-Hamas truce extension? | ceasefire | Hamas and Qatar announce extension of the truce in much-needed respite for people in Gaza braving weeks of Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231128 | After Israel and Hamas extend their truce, what comes next? | ceasefire | The humanitarian pause in Gaza will continue for two more days, but uncertainty looms. |
| 20231128 | Freed Palestinian prisoners report physical abuse in Israeli jails | ceasefire | Palestinian prisoners released under the Israel-Hamas temporary truce deal have told Al Jazeera they were physically abused by Israeli prison guards |
| 20231128 | Palestine child prisoner details brutal beatings by Israel forces | ceasefire | Muhammad Nezzal, a Palestinian child released as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas, said some prisoners lost consciousness due to beatings by Israeli forces in prison |
| 20231128 | Freed Israeli hostage describes deteriorating conditions while being held by Hamas | ceasefire | An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and people became hungry. She was kept in a “suffocating” room and slept on plastic chairs with a sheet for nearly 50 days. |
| 20231128 | Fragile truce in Gaza is extended as Israel faces pressure to spare civilians if fighting resumes | ceasefire | A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas entered its fifth day on Tuesday, with the militant group promising to release more hostages to delay the expected resumption of the war and Israel under growing pressure to spare Palestinian civilians when it renews its offensive. |
| 20231128 | Israel, Hamas abide by truce, discuss further extensions | ceasefire | Israeli forces and Hamas fighters held their fire beyond the original deadline of a truce on Tuesday, extended at the last minute by at least two days to let more hostages go free. |
| 20231128 | Baby remains hostage in Gaza as others go free in Israel-Hamas deal | ceasefire | Ten-month-old Kfir Bibas has spent more than 50 days of his young life in captivity in Gaza and, according to Israel, has been handed over by Hamas to another Palestinian militant group in a possible complication of efforts to free him. |
| 20231128 | In Gaza, little solace in truce as people endure grief and deprivation | ceasefire | Carting heavy cans of water through muddy streets, searching mounds of rubble for clothes, mourning lost relatives and homes - Gazans reprieved from Israeli bombardment during the truce with Hamas were still facing the daily hardships of war |
| 20231128 | Israel: analysts say army needs to extend truce to ‘revitalise’ troops | ceasefire | Israeli analysts said yesterday that the Israeli army is interested in extending the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip to “revitalise” its troops, as much as Hamas is interested in extending it. |
| 20231128 | Qatar says more hostages to be released | ceasefire | Doha says 10 hostages held in Gaza will be released on Tuesday and 10 the day after, following the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas |
| 20231128 | More hostage releases expected as Hamas Israel truce extended | ceasefire | The extension will also mean more aid can flow into Gaza where the humanitarian situation remains "catastrophic". |
| 20231128 | More Israelis and Palestinians released from captivity as truce extended | ceasefire | On Tuesday 11 Israelis and 33 Palestinians were freed after Qatar's announcement that Hamas and Israel had agreed to a two-day extension |
| 20231128 | More Israeli hostages and Palestinians freed as ceasefire extension agreed | ceasefire | Celebrations as Hamas releases 11 hostages from Gaza in exchange for 33 Palestinians in Israeli jails as truce extended by two days |
| 20231128 | Israel, US spy chiefs meet Qatar PM to discuss 'building on' Gaza truce | ceasefire | The leaders of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad met Qatar’s prime minister in Doha today to build on the two-day extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas, a source briefed on the visit said. |
| 20231128 | Israeli, U.S. spy chiefs meet Qatari PM to discuss 'building on' Gaza truce - source | ceasefire | The leaders of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad met Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Tuesday to build on the two-day extension of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, a source briefed on the visit said. |
| 20231128 | Israeli soldiers reportedly injured in Gaza amid ceasefire | ceasefire | Local media has reported that a number of Israeli soldiers were lightly injured in explosions and after being fired upon while in the Gaza strip, despite an ongoing truce between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231128 | UN: Aid entering Gaza is 5% of what entered before 7 October | ceasefire | The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, today confirmed that dozens of trucks of aid had entered Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip during the truce. |
| 20231128 | Hamas and Israel accuse each other of breaking truce | ceasefire | In a post on X, the Israeli army alleged that three explosive devices went off near its troops in two separate locations in the northern Gaza Strip. |
| 20231128 | Palestine groups in Gaza 'monitoring' Israel breaches to humanitarian pause | ceasefire | Palestinian groups in Gaza said Tuesday they are “monitoring” Israeli breaches on a humanitarian pause in the enclave and urged Tel Aviv to abide by the ceasefire terms |
| 20231128 | Hezbollah politician hopes truce will continue | ceasefire | A senior Hezbollah politician said today he hoped a truce would continue, adding that the group had started paying compensation to people who had suffered losses during weeks of Israeli strikes in south Lebanon |
| 20231128 | Separated Palestinians use truce to reunite with loved ones | ceasefire | Families cut off from each other by the Israeli siege and blackouts finally meet again following weeks of separation |
| 20231128 | Palestine activist Ahed Tamimi likely to be released in upcoming prisoner swap | ceasefire | Palestinian icon of resistance, Ahed Tamimi, is likely to be released in the upcoming prisoner swap between Israel and the Hamas group, Israeli media reported late on Monday |
| 20231128 | Activist Ahed Tamimi among 50 jailed Palestinians listed for release by Israel | ceasefire | Another 50 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails have been put forward as candidates for release after the hostage swap and ceasefire deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip was extended for another two days – including the high-profile activist Ahed Tamimi. |
| 20231128 | Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce | ceasefire | Over the first four days of Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange, Israel arrests 133 Palestinians while releasing 150. |
| 20231128 | 30 Palestinian prisoners released under extended truce agreement - Day 5 of Israel-Hamas ceasefire as it happened | ceasefire | live blog |
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| 20231128 | Gaza’s main public library destroyed in Israeli bombing | culture & heritage | The bombing of the library has been decried as a deliberate attempt to destroy thousands of books and historical documents |
| 20231128 | Drones show how Israeli bombs turned Gaza into moonscape | destruction | Drone footage shot by Reuters over Gaza before and after the start of Israel's assault on the Palestinian enclave show a busy urban area, with children playing and people going about their chores - then an eerie moonscape of crumpled buildings and mounds of rubble stretching for block after block. |
| 20231128 | Disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says amid Israeli siege | eliminating health care system | Shattered healthcare and sanitation systems must be restored in Gaza, says World Health Organization. |
| 20231128 | Disease could be bigger killer than bombs in Gaza - WHO | eliminating health care system | More people could die from disease than from bombings in the Gaza Strip if its health system is not repaired, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday, warning of a surge in infectious diseases and diarrhoea in children. |
| 20231128 | Untreated diseases could kill more than bombings in Gaza, WHO warns | eliminating health care system | Untreated diseases could eventually kill more people in Gaza than bombings if the health system is not restored, the World Health Organization says |
| 20231128 | Al-Shifa Hospital reopens dialysis department | eliminating health care system | The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has announced the reopening of the dialysis department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, despite the destruction caused by the Israeli army in the hospital. |
| 20231128 | Israel extends detention of Shifa director for 45 days | eliminating health care system | The Government Media Office in Gaza said yesterday evening that Israel had extended the detention of the director of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital for an additional 45 days. |
| 20231128 | Hamas condemns HRW report on Israel’s bombing of Gaza hospitals | eliminating health care system | The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has criticised the initial report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip, especially Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. Hamas said on Monday that the report was closer to the Israeli narrative which held the resistance factions responsible for the aerial bombardment. |
| 20231128 | More people could die from disease than bombs in Gaza, says WHO | eliminating health care system | More Palestinians could die from disease than from Israeli bombardment in the besieged Gaza Strip if the health system remains in its current state, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Tuesday |
| 20231128 | UN says 'high risk of famine' for Gaza | food, water, fuel & electricty | The population of Gaza, especially women and children, risk famine if humanitarian food supplies do not continue, the UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday. |
| 20231128 | Vermont man charged with attempted murder in shooting of students of Palestinian descent | global effects | The man accused of shooting and wounding three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont, over the weekend pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges on Monday and was ordered by a judge to remain held without bond. |
| 20231128 | Elon Musk’s Israel trip: What was the purpose, what did he tell Netanyahu? | global effects | X CEO Elon Musk, who has been accused of platforming anti-Semitic posts, visits kibbutzim attacked by Hamas. |
| 20231128 | Hamas invites Elon Musk to Gaza to witness ‘massacres and destruction’ | global effects | As Palestinians take stock of the devastation wreaked by Israel’s military, Hamas says the world should do the same. |
| 20231128 | Scaremongering on anti-Semitism | global effects | The accusation of anti-Semitism made to silence any criticism of Israel constitutes a dangerous reintroduction of religion into politics. |
| 20231128 | Moroccan arrested in connection with Belgian school bomb alert | global effects | Belgian and Moroccan police have arrested in Morocco a suspect in an extortion case that led to the closing of schools in Belgium due to a bomb alert, the country's prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. |
| 20231128 | Singer Gil Ofarim admits he lied about antisemitic incident | global effects | Jewish-German singer Gil Ofarim told a Leipzig court he had fabricated a story claiming he was the victim of antisemitism. A falsely accused hotel manager accepted Ofarim's apology. |
| 20231128 | Germany records over 300% increase in antisemitic incidents | global effects | Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, nearly 1,000 antisemitic incidents have been reported in Germany. Some of these acts include extreme violence and property destruction, a German association said. |
| 20231128 | Israel lobby offers another candidate $20m to run against Rashida Tlaib in Michigan | global effects | Nasser Beydoun revealed on social media that he had been contacted by the Israeli lobby group AIPAC and offered $20 million to run against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in Michigan. |
| 20231128 | Meta deletes Egyptian TV show during live Facebook broadcast over Gaza content: TV Host | global effects | Prominent Egyptian journalist and TV host Kaswaa El-Khelaly revealed on her TV show “In the Evening with Kuswah” on CBC TV that Meta, the owner of Facebook, deleted the live broadcast of her show episode on Sunday over coverage of the Gaza war. |
| 20231128 | 'Digital Storm' launched for International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People | global response | The Palestinian Independent Civil Society Network launched a ‘Digital Storm’ on social media ahead of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which falls on 29 November every year. |
| 20231128 | Israeli intelligence leak details extent of warnings over Hamas attack | Hamas resistance attack | Officer who reviewed intelligence considered risk of big attack ‘an imaginary scenario’, leak suggests |
| 20231128 | Israeli arrogance thwarted a Palestinian political path. October 7 revealed the cost | Hamas resistance attack | A Fatah-Hamas agreement in 2021 offered a different political horizon. But success blinded Israel — just as it did before the 1973 war. |
| 20231128 | French warship docks in Egypt, could treat Gaza children this week - minister | humanitarian aid | The French helicopter carrier Dixmude has docked in Egypt and could start treating wounded children from Gaza later this week, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, as Western powers look to ramp up efforts to aid the enclave. |
| 20231128 | UN aid chief heads to Jordan for talks to open second crossing into Gaza | humanitarian aid | UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, will travel to the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Wednesday for talks on the possibility of opening the Kerem Shalom crossing to allow for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Israel |
| 20231128 | Egypt sends the 29th batch of medical, food aid to Palestine | humanitarian aid | Egypt dispatched the 29th batch of medical and food aid to the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday |
| 20231128 | Israel: analysts say army needs to extend truce to ‘revitalise’ troops | IOF | Israeli analysts said yesterday that the Israeli army is interested in extending the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip to “revitalise” its troops, as much as Hamas is interested in extending it. |
| 20231128 | Iran's Raisi in Turkey to forge joint response to Israel war on Gaza | Iran | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi makes his first official visit to Turkey on Tuesday, hoping to paper over past differences and forge a forceful joint response to Israel's war on Gaza. |
| 20231128 | Israel seeks recognition of Hamas sexual violence at UN meeting | Israelis | Israel held a meeting at the U.N. in Geneva late on Monday to raise awareness of sexual violence against women perpetrated during Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks amid criticism that the global body has kept quiet about the issue. |
| 20231128 | Netanyahu: ‘Only I can block a Palestinian state’ | Israelis | Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told members of his Likud Party that only he can thwart the emergence of a fully independent Palestinian state, directly opposing President Joe Biden’s plan to resurrect the two-state solution in the wake of the catastrophic Israeli bombing of Gaza. |
| 20231128 | Lebanese media reports Israeli shell hit south Lebanon | Lebanon | Lebanese media reported that an Israeli shell struck the outskirts of a town in south Lebanon on Tuesday, hours after a temporary truce between the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel was extended for two days. |
| 20231128 | Israel-Hezbollah border clashes displace thousands | Lebanon | Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, and the Israeli Army have been exchanging fire since the Israel-Hamas war began, putting civilian lives at risk. Fear of death at the border grows as a larger conflict lingers. DW reports from the frontline in southern Lebanon. |
| 20231128 | Pro-Israel demonstrator chants Nazi-era slur at protest | media / US | A pro-Israel demonstrator has been filmed chanting a Nazi-era slur at Jewish people taking part in a pro-Palestine protest in London. |
| 20231128 | Watching the watchdogs: American TV, Gaza and two sides of a ceasefire | media / US | American television coverage of the Gaza ceasefire and the detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas has failed to provide American audiences with the full story. |
| 20231128 | Watching the watchdogs: American TV, Gaza and two sides of a ceasefire | opinion | American television coverage of the Gaza ceasefire and the detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas has failed to provide American audiences with the full story. |
| 20231128 | The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics | opinion | Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it? |
| 20231128 | After Israel and Hamas extend their truce, what comes next? | opinion | The humanitarian pause in Gaza will continue for two more days, but uncertainty looms. |
| 20231128 | Scaremongering on anti-Semitism | opinion | The accusation of anti-Semitism made to silence any criticism of Israel constitutes a dangerous reintroduction of religion into politics. |
| 20231128 | Israel withdraws support for Saudi bid to host Expo 2030 over Gaza war ‘criticism’ | regional response | Israel has withdrawn its support for Saudi Arabia’s bid to host Expo 2030 after the Kingdom’s “criticism” of the occupation state’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231128 | Erdogan tells UN chief that Israel must be tried for Gaza crimes | Turkey | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel must be held accountable in international courts for the war crimes it committed in Gaza. |
| 20231128 | Pro-Israel demonstrator chants Nazi-era slur at protest | United Kingdom | A pro-Israel demonstrator has been filmed chanting a Nazi-era slur at Jewish people taking part in a pro-Palestine protest in London. |
| 20231128 | Disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says amid Israeli siege | United Nations | Shattered healthcare and sanitation systems must be restored in Gaza, says World Health Organization. |
| 20231128 | UN says 'high risk of famine' for Gaza | United Nations | The population of Gaza, especially women and children, risk famine if humanitarian food supplies do not continue, the UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday. |
| 20231128 | Disease could be bigger killer than bombs in Gaza - WHO | United Nations | More people could die from disease than from bombings in the Gaza Strip if its health system is not repaired, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday, warning of a surge in infectious diseases and diarrhoea in children. |
| 20231128 | Untreated diseases could kill more than bombings in Gaza, WHO warns | United Nations | Untreated diseases could eventually kill more people in Gaza than bombings if the health system is not restored, the World Health Organization says |
| 20231128 | More people could die from disease than bombs in Gaza, says WHO | United Nations | More Palestinians could die from disease than from Israeli bombardment in the besieged Gaza Strip if the health system remains in its current state, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Tuesday |
| 20231128 | UN: Aid entering Gaza is 5% of what entered before 7 October | United Nations | The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, today confirmed that dozens of trucks of aid had entered Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip during the truce. |
| 20231128 | US asking Israel to avoid civilian displacements in any south Gaza offensive | United States | The U.S. is asking Israel to take greater care to protect civilians and limit damage to infrastructure if it launches an offensive in southern Gaza to avoid further displacements that would overwhelm humanitarian efforts, senior U.S. officials said. |
| 20231128 | US warns Israel over southern Gaza displacements | United States | US President Joe Biden has warned Israel that its expected offensive in southern Gaza must avoid the kind of mass displacement of civilians seen during the military's pummeling of the Palestinian territory's north, US officials said. |
| 20231128 | US’ Blinken to visit Israel, occupied West Bank to discuss post-conflict Gaza | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to make his third visit to Israel and the West Bank this week, coinciding with the announcement of a truce extension in Gaza by mediators. |
| 20231128 | Israel lobby offers another candidate $20m to run against Rashida Tlaib in Michigan | United States | Nasser Beydoun revealed on social media that he had been contacted by the Israeli lobby group AIPAC and offered $20 million to run against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in Michigan. |
| 20231128 | Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian child in West Bank | West Bank | A Palestinian child was killed after being shot by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning in the occupied West Bank governorate of Tubas, according to Wafa news agency. |
| 20231128 | Israel army, settlers have killed more Palestinians in West Bank since 7 October than in 2022 | West Bank | The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the Occupied West Bank since 7 October has exceeded the number of Palestinians killed in the last year, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry |
| 20231128 | Pro-Israel demonstrator chants Nazi-era slur at protest | Zionism / UK | A pro-Israel demonstrator has been filmed chanting a Nazi-era slur at Jewish people taking part in a pro-Palestine protest in London. |
| 20231128 | Watching the watchdogs: American TV, Gaza and two sides of a ceasefire | Zionism / US | American television coverage of the Gaza ceasefire and the detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas has failed to provide American audiences with the full story. |
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| 20231129 | Youngest Palestine prisoner reunited with family | ceasefire | Israel released 14-year-old Ahmad Al-Salayme from prison and he was reunited with his family, where he ate his favorite meal cooked by his mother in the company of relatives |
| 20231129 | Hamas and Israel exchange more captives for prisoners | ceasefire | Israel frees 30 Palestinians after 10 Israelis and two foreigners were released by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231129 | Hamas releases fifth group of hostages | ceasefire | In exchange for the hostages, another 30 Palestinian detainees were freed from Israeli prisons. The pause in fighting is due to run out, but families are hopeful a deal can be reached to see more Israelis and Palestinians return home. |
| 20231129 | Efforts to extend Israel Hamas truce as more hostages freed | ceasefire | Three Palestinian prisoners have been freed for every one hostage taken from Israel by Hamas. |
| 20231129 | Palestinian boy released from Israeli prison returns home | ceasefire | There were emotional scenes in occupied East Jerusalem when a 14-year-old Palestinian boy returned to his family after being released from jail under the Israel-Hamas truce deal. |
| 20231129 | Israel-Hamas truce: How much aid has entered Gaza? | ceasefire | Aid has come in, some of it reaching north Gaza too. But it’s too little, warn humanitarian agencies. |
| 20231129 | Mediators look to extend truce in Gaza on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned | ceasefire | International mediators appeared to make progress Wednesday on extending the truce in Gaza, encouraging the territory’s Hamas rulers to keep freeing hostages in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further respite from Israel’s air and ground offensive. |
| 20231129 | Secret discussions in Qatar to reach a long-term truce in Gaza | ceasefire | The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) said yesterday that discussions are taking place in Qatar to reach a new agreement for a long-term truce that includes the release of all prisoners of war held in Gaza, including soldiers, and Tel Aviv’s release of Palestinian detainees held in military prisons. |
| 20231129 | Hamas, Israel consider new Gaza truce parameters including release of men - source | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas were on Wednesday considering the parameters of a potential new phase of the Gaza truce deal that includes Hamas releasing hostages who are men or military personnel, not only women and children, a source briefed on the negotiations said. |
| 20231129 | Can Hamas locate remaining hostages in mayhem of Gaza war? | ceasefire | Ever since it seized more than 200 people in the deadly rampage through southern Israel that triggered the Gaza war, Hamas has hoped to use hostages as bargaining cards with Israel in order to win freedom for Palestinians in Israeli jails. |
| 20231129 | Blinken seeks a new extension of the Gaza cease-fire as he heads again to the Middle East | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration would like to see a new extension of the cease-fire agreement in Israel’s war with Hamas after the current one expires to secure the release of additional hostages held by the militant group and to ramp up humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. |
| 20231129 | Israel, Hamas seek new deal to extend Gaza truce on final day | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas were negotiating through mediators on Wednesday over another potential extension of the Gaza truce, with hours left to reach a deal before fighting was due to restart after a six-day pause. |
| 20231129 | Israel, Hamas seek new deal to extend Gaza truce on final day | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas were negotiating through mediators on Wednesday over another potential extension of the Gaza truce, with hours left to reach a deal before fighting was due to restart after a six-day pause. |
| 20231129 | Mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza ahead of last planned hostage swap | ceasefire | International mediators appeared to make progress Wednesday on extending the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise end within a day. |
| 20231129 | Hamas 'willing to extend truce by four days' | ceasefire | Hamas is willing to extend a truce for four days and release more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the militant group said |
| 20231129 | Report of Israeli hostage family's deaths overshadows Gaza truce talks | ceasefire | Negotiations between Israel and Hamas to extend the Gaza truce were overshadowed at the last minute on Wednesday by an unconfirmed claim by Hamas that a family of Israeli hostages including a 10-month old baby had been killed. |
| 20231129 | Freed Israeli hostages tell families of beatings and death threats | ceasefire | Israeli women and children on their return from Hamas captivity in Gaza speak of being beaten and threatened with death, moved from place to place and forced to whisper during weeks spent with little to do, their families say. |
| 20231129 | Israeli hostages released: More details of their captivity emerge | ceasefire | This week, we are starting to learn more about the conditions of the mainly Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Those who have been released tell different stories: some received medical attention, while others were denied it. |
| 20231129 | Anger and despair as Palestinians queue for supplies during truce | ceasefire | "Where are all Arabs and Muslims? Where are all the defenders of human rights? You've left the Palestinian people to suffer, go hungry and be destroyed." |
| 20231129 | Mediators seek further truce extensions | ceasefire | An extended truce between Israel and Hamas is due to expire, with the militant Islamist group still thought to be holding around 150 hostages taken during the October 7 terror attacks on Israel |
| 20231129 | Hamas transfers two hostages with Russian citizenship to Red Cross | ceasefire | The Israeli army confirmed on Wednesday that Hamas has released two hostages held in Gaza, who have Russian citizenship. |
| 20231129 | Far-right Israeli ministers demand Netanyahu end Gaza truce | ceasefire | National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warns his party will quit the government if the war ends, while the finance minister rejects the prospect of a ceasefire |
| 20231129 | Israel releases 150 Palestinians, detains 133 during 4-day truce | ceasefire | During the initial four days of the current Israel-Hamas truce that began last Friday, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners, including 117 children and 33 women. |
| 20231129 | Latest group of hostages to be freed amid intense efforts to extend Gaza truce | ceasefire | The latest group of hostages held in Gaza was expected to be released in return for Palestinian prisoners being freed from Israeli jails on Wednesday, while intense efforts are under way to extend the current truce. |
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| 20231129 | Devastating consequences for Palestinian children | children | Israel’s attacks on residential buildings in Gaza have had devastating consequences for Palestinian children. Many have lost their entire families and others have been severely wounded. |
| 20231129 | Egypt launches initiative to treat 1,000 injured children from Gaza | children | Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population has launched an initiative to treat 1,000 children wounded in Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip in cooperation with Terous Misr Foundation for Development, an NGO, and Nestlé Egypt, a private bottled water brand. |
| 20231129 | WHO chief says Palestinian children, civilians 'deserve to live in peace' | children | Palestinian children and civilians “deserve to live in peace”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 20231129 | 'Israel destroyed Central Archives of Gaza City': Head of Gaza Municipality | culture & heritage | The head of Gaza Municipality said, Wednesday, that Israel destroyed the “Central Archives” which contained thousands of historical documents dating more than 150 years |
| 20231129 | Israel military approves plans to continue ground operation in Gaza | dystopian war | Israel’s military chief approved, on Wednesday evening, operational plans to continue the ground operation in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231129 | Israel trying to "destroy Palestinian nation" | dystopian war | Israel has been accused of trying to destroy the Palestinian nation during its military campaign in Gaza at the United Nations General Assembly. More than 40 ambassadors and representatives have been debating the war. |
| 20231129 | ‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing | eliminating health care system | The burden on the few remaining hospitals operating in central and southern Gaza Strip has increased. |
| 20231129 | Five dead premature babies discovered in Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | Journalists entering bombed-out hospital reportedly discover decomposing premature babies not evacuated following siege |
| 20231129 | Israel left premature Palestinian babies to 'die alone' after evacuating Gaza hospital | eliminating health care system | A video revealed a new crime committed by the Israeli occupation army, after it forced medical staff of Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in Gaza without the five premature Palestinian babies who were being cared for. |
| 20231129 | Gaza health sector has completely collapsed, confirms official | eliminating health care system | The health sector in the besieged Gaza Strip has completely collapsed, a local government official has confirmed. The enclave where over 2.2 million Palestinians live needs 1,000 aid trucks per day to recover from the devastation caused by the Israeli war, added Ismail Al-Thawabta, director general of the government media office. |
| 20231129 | ‘Military camp’: Palestinian town of Huwara under 55-day Israeli closure | forced displacement | Once-vibrant Huwara has become a ghost town since October 5, the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza made it worse. |
| 20231129 | Muslims in Europe feel vulnerable to rising hostility over Israel-Gaza | global effects | Jian Omar, a Berlin lawmaker of Kurdish-Syrian background, feels unprotected by police after suffering hate-filled flyers mixed with glass and faeces, a broken window and a hammer-wielding assailant since the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. |
| 20231129 | Hamas senior official invites Elon Musk to visit Gaza | global effects | A Hamas senior official invited U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday to visit the Palestinian Gaza strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment. |
| 20231129 | Musk responds to Hamas invitation to visit Gaza Strip | global effects | Elon Musk has refused to visit the Gaza Strip because of the dangerous situation there following an invitation by Hamas for him to go to the enclave. |
| 20231129 | Pro-Palestine Facebook post sparks CIA warning | global effects | The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. |
| 20231129 | Germany's domestic spy agency warns war in Gaza stoking new anti-Semitic alliances | global effects | Germany's domestic intelligence agency warned on Wednesday that the war between Israel and Hamas is creating new alliances among the country's anti-Semitic groups and raising the risk of attacks. |
| 20231129 | German intelligence warns of heightened terror risk | global effects | Germany's domestic intelligence agency says the danger of a terror attack in the country is "higher than it has been for a long time." It cited the October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war as factors. |
| 20231129 | Germany: Two teens arrested over alleged terror plans | global effects | The two boys allegedly discussed a plot for a possible terror attack on targets including a Christmas market and synagogue. |
| 20231129 | France charges two over Nazi swastika graffiti in Paris | global effects | France charged two people with justifying a crime against humanity over Nazi swastikas that were spray-painted in northwestern Paris, a judicial source said on Wednesday. |
| 20231129 | Fact-check: Have rare anti-Hamas protests really broken out in Gaza? | global effects | Numerous social media users and Israeli government accounts have claimed that anti-Hamas demonstrations had been organised in the south of Gaza - a rare and unprecedented event. |
| 20231129 | Humanitarian aid workers falsely accused of taking sides in Israel-Hamas conflict | global effects | Humanitarian aid workers from Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and the IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) are the latest victims of the Israel-Hamas disinformation war; their organisations have been accused of supporting either Hamas or Israel in viral videos shared online. |
| 20231129 | Indian trade unions oppose labor deal with Israel | global response | Union leaders in India are criticizing the Israel-Hamas war and arguing that replacing displaced Palestinian workers with Indian labor is unethical. |
| 20231129 | Hackers claim to have targeted Israeli government websites | global response | New group 'Cyber Toufan' claims to have hacked Israel's defence ministry, as State Archive confirms recent breach |
| 20231129 | Hackers breach Israel intelligence group's website | global response | An unknown entity has breached the website of the Shin Bet veterans’ association, Shoval, and may have stolen the details of the intelligence agency’s former employees, the French website Intelligence Online has reported. |
| 20231129 | Lawyers urge UK FM to impose sanctions on Netanyahu and his war cabinet | global response | Lawyers have today written to David Cameron asking the UK Foreign Office (FCDO) to apply Magnitsky sanctions against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, and other members of the war cabinet. |
| 20231129 | Calls for more anti-war protests this Int’l Day of Solidarity with Palestinians | global response | The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, yesterday called on Arabs, Muslims and all supporters of the Palestinian cause across the world to organise protests denouncing the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231129 | Publishers launch initiative to highlight Palestinian authors and history | global response | The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’ |
| 20231129 | France opens door to EU talks on Israel settler sanctions | global response | France said, on Wednesday, that the European Union should consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank as an option and that talks at the EU to impose sanctions on Hamas commanders were progressing |
| 20231129 | 239 aid planes for Gaza received at Egypt's Arish Airport since 21 October: SIS head | humanitarian aid | Chairman of Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) Diaa Rashwan said Wednesday that 239 planes laden with aid for Gaza have arrived at Egypt’s El-Arish Airport since 21 October, stressing that Egypt is continuing to deliver humanitarian aid through the Rafah border crossing. |
| 20231129 | Jordan sends another aid plane to Gaza, donated by UN | humanitarian aid | Jordan, on Wednesday, dispatched an additional plane carrying humanitarian relief supplies to the Gaza Strip, which has been sorely lacking in critical supplies due to an Israeli blockade |
| 20231129 | Anger and despair as Palestinians queue for supplies during truce | humanitarian crisis | "Where are all Arabs and Muslims? Where are all the defenders of human rights? You've left the Palestinian people to suffer, go hungry and be destroyed." |
| 20231129 | UN chief says Gaza in midst of 'epic humanitarian catastrophe' | humanitarian crisis | United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday, said the Gaza Strip was in the midst of an “epic humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the world not to look away |
| 20231129 | Israel compares Hamas to the Islamic State group. But the comparison misses the mark in key ways | Israelis | It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS. |
| 20231129 | Israel military approves plans to continue ground operation in Gaza | IOF | Israel’s military chief approved, on Wednesday evening, operational plans to continue the ground operation in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231129 | Far-right Israeli ministers demand Netanyahu end Gaza truce | Israelis | National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warns his party will quit the government if the war ends, while the finance minister rejects the prospect of a ceasefire |
| 20231129 | Ben-Gvir threatens to dissolve Israel gov’t if bombing of Gaza stops | Israelis | Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has threatened to dissolve the coalition government if the bombing of Gaza stops. |
| 20231129 | Occupied West Bank home to 'two million Nazis' says Smotrich | Israelis | Far-right finance minister is latest senior Israeli to make broad-brush inflammatory statements about Palestinians |
| 20231129 | Israeli journalist slams army for feeding him false line about Hamas atrocity | Israelis | Ishay Coen says he did not know why an officer he interviewed 'made up such a horrific' story about babies and children being hung out on washing lines |
| 20231129 | Israel angry over footage depicting Hamas's treatment of released Israeli hostages | Israelis | Israeli analysts have not hidden their anger, Wednesday, about footage of Hamas fighters and Israeli prisoners gesturing at each other while being handed to Red Cross teams in the Gaza Strip |
| 20231129 | Israeli soldiers ‘free’ birds from Palestinian homes in Nablus | Israelis | In yet another failed propaganda stunt, Israeli soldiers have appeared in photos claiming to have free goldfinches owned by Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, after they stormed the homes of Palestinians. |
| 20231129 | Ex-Israel PM: Hamas far from ‘falling apart’ in Gaza | Israelis | Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said 50 days after Israel launched its ruthless aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip with the declared goal of eliminating the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, the movement is far from falling apart in Gaza and maintains its capabilities. |
| 20231129 | Lebanon asks for more medical supplies to prepare for possible war with Israel | Lebanon | Lebanon’s Ministry of Health is appealing to the international community for more supplies to prepare for the potential for further escalation on its border as clashes between Israel and Hezbollah extend into their seventh week, local media reports |
| 20231129 | Israel, Palestine 'co-existing' side-by-side? Can US push for 'resumption of stalled Oslo process'? | opinion | Israel and Hamas were negotiating through mediators on Wednesday over another potential extension of the Gaza truce, with hours left to reach a deal before fighting was due to restart after a six-day pause. |
| 20231129 | Egypt’s Sinai Bedouins fear Israel’s mass displacement of Gaza Palestinians | regional effects | Bedouin tribes in Sinai have long taken a hit from geopolitical conflicts. Now, concerns are rising again. |
| 20231129 | Palestine is the central issue for Arabs and humanity: Egypt Ambassador Orfi at Arab League | regional response | Ambassador Mohamed Mostafa Orfi, Egypt's permanent delegate to the Arab League, affirmed that Egypt vehemently rejects any attempt to displace the Palestinian people and liquidate their cause. |
| 20231129 | Global community must deter Israeli aggression in Gaza: Arab League chief | regional response | Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul-Gheit delivered a resounding call for a resolute international response to thwart Israeli plans to torpedo the two-state solution and bring an end to the aggressive actions targeting Gaza. |
| 20231129 | 'Civilians paying heaviest price': 'Most devastating moment for Israelis & Palestinians since 1948' | targeting civilians | Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war. |
| 20231129 | Lawyers urge UK FM to impose sanctions on Netanyahu and his war cabinet | United Kingdom | Lawyers have today written to David Cameron asking the UK Foreign Office (FCDO) to apply Magnitsky sanctions against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, and other members of the war cabinet. |
| 20231129 | UN calls for 'irreversible' move toward two-state solution to Israel crisis | United Nations | The United Nations on Wednesday called for the international community to move towards a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying Jerusalem should serve as the capital of both states. |
| 20231129 | UN chief says Gaza in midst of 'epic humanitarian catastrophe' | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday, said the Gaza Strip was in the midst of an “epic humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the world not to look away |
| 20231129 | WHO chief says Palestinian children, civilians 'deserve to live in peace' | United Nations | Palestinian children and civilians “deserve to live in peace”, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 20231129 | UN chief Guterres says Gaza truce does not solve ‘key problems’ | United Nations | The head of the United Nations has pushed for a full ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying that the current humanitarian pause does not solve key problems |
| 20231129 | UN commission to investigate Hamas sexual violence, appeal for evidence | United Nations | A U.N. commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and is about to launch an appeal for evidence, its chair told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| 20231129 | The US tells Israel any ground campaign in southern Gaza must limit further civilian displacement | United States | The Biden administration has told Israel that it must work to avoid “significant further displacement” of Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza if it renews its ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday. |
| 20231129 | Biden post ‘carefully worded’ but hints at shift | United States | The US president has published a post on his personal X account appearing to encourage Israel to consider a permanent truce fire. Biden posted “To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.” |
| 20231129 | Pro-Palestine Facebook post sparks CIA warning | United States | The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. |
| 20231129 | US president on personal X account: 'Continuing down the war path is to give Hamas what it seeks’ | United States | He wrote ‘Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.' |
| 20231129 | US says Israel settlements undermine possibility of 'contiguous Palestinian State' | United States | The US said, Wednesday, that Israel’s advancement of illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank threatens the formation of a viable Palestinian State |
| 20231129 | Israeli practice of collective punishment for home demolitions in the West Bank | West Bank | Israeli soldiers have carried out a home demolition in a refugee camp northwest of Ramallah, in the Occupied West Bank. The house belonged to a 41-year-old Palestinian man accused of killing an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint earlier this year. He was shot and killed in the incident. Israel has demolished 932 civilian structures so far this year. 180 of them, as punitive measures—a violation of international law. |
| 20231129 | Jailed without charge: How Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners | West Bank | Israel has called Palestinians released under a truce with Hamas violent ‘terrorists.’ But most haven’t been charged. |
| 20231129 | Video: Israeli army sniper kills 8-year-old and teen Palestinian boys playing on street in Jenin in cold blood | West Bank | The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that Adam Al-Ghul, eight years old, and Bassem Abu Al-Wafa, 15 years old, were killed by bullets from the Israeli snipers in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231129 | Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | West Bank | Residents of Jenin camp, which has seen nightly raids since October 7, say they were ‘shocked’ at scale of attack. |
| 20231129 | Two Palestinian boys killed during Israeli raid in West Bank | West Bank | Four Palestinians, including two children, have been killed by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. |
| 20231129 | Israel releases 150 Palestinians, detains 133 during 4-day truce | West Bank | During the initial four days of the current Israel-Hamas truce that began last Friday, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners, including 117 children and 33 women. |
| 20231129 | Israeli soldiers ‘free’ birds from Palestinian homes in Nablus | West Bank | In yet another failed propaganda stunt, Israeli soldiers have appeared in photos claiming to have free goldfinches owned by Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, after they stormed the homes of Palestinians. |
| 20231129 | France opens door to EU talks on Israel settler sanctions | West Bank | France said, on Wednesday, that the European Union should consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank as an option and that talks at the EU to impose sanctions on Hamas commanders were progressing |
| 20231129 | US says Israel settlements undermine possibility of 'contiguous Palestinian State' | West Bank | The US said, Wednesday, that Israel’s advancement of illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank threatens the formation of a viable Palestinian State |
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| 20231130 | Sixteen more hostages freed from Gaza as part of Israeli-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Sixteen people who were being held hostage in Gaza were handed over to Israeli officials on Wednesday, the second and last day of an extended truce in the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Red Cross and other authorities said. |
| 20231130 | Hamas and Israel free more detainees in sixth captive exchange | ceasefire | Israel frees 30 Palestinians after 10 captives from Israel, four Thai nationals and two Russian-Israelis were released by Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Freed Palestinian prisoners reunite with families | ceasefire | Photo gallery |
| 20231130 | Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi freed under Israel-Hamas truce | ceasefire | Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi is one of 30 prisoners released in the sixth prisoner-captive exchange between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Activist Ahed Tamimi among Palestinians freed by Israel in Gaza truce swap | ceasefire | Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was among 30 prisoners freed by Israel early on Thursday under a temporary Gaza truce between Israel and Hamas militants, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. |
| 20231130 | Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi freed by Israel | ceasefire | Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was one of 30 Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel on Wednesday, as part of the truce deal with Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Israel releases Palestinian prisoners under deal | ceasefire | In return for Hamas freeing Israeli hostages held in Gaza, Israel has been releasing Palestinians detained in Israeli jails |
| 20231130 | Hamas militants release 16 more hostages held in Gaza | ceasefire | The Israeli military says Hamas militants have released 16 of the hostages it has been holding in Gaza. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by multiple countries and international bodies. The group freed four Thai nationals and ten Israelis. |
| 20231130 | Hamas tells its fighters to prepare for battle if truce not renewed | ceasefire |
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| 20231130 | Sixth captive, prisoner swap ahead of truce deadline | ceasefire |
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| 20231130 | Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for seventh day | ceasefire | The temporary pause in fighting will continue for another 24 hours. |
| 20231130 | Truce in Gaza extended at last minute as talks over remaining Hamas captives get tougher | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. The truce in Gaza appeared increasingly tenuous as most women and children held by the militants have already been released in swaps for Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231130 | Israel, Hamas extend Gaza truce by a day | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement on Thursday to extend their six-day ceasefire by one more day to allow negotiators to keep working on deals to swap hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. |
| 20231130 | Israel-Hamas war: ceasefire extended for a day amid last-minute mediation efforts | ceasefire | IDF and Hamas agree at last minute to extend truce into seventh day as Antony Blinken arrives in Israel as part of diplomatic efforts to avoid a return to fighting in devastated Gaza Strip |
| 20231130 | Israel-Hamas truce deal extended one more day after marathon mediation efforts | ceasefire | After intensive and marathon talks with mediators in Doha all day and deep into the night on Wednesday, Israel and Hamas announced the extension of the six-day-old truce in the war in Gaza for one more day. |
| 20231130 | Blinken says truce between Israel-Hamas is producing results | ceasefire | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that a temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas had produced results and that the United States hoped that it continued. |
| 20231130 | Truce extended, new hostage list sent | ceasefire | Israel says it agreed to a truce with Islamist militant group Hamas after receiving a new list of hostages to be released. The extension was agreed "under the previous conditions," said mediator Qatar |
| 20231130 | Israel receives new list from Hamas of women and children it hopes to be released as part of future truce deal | ceasefire | The Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed on Thursday that Hamas had sent a new list of women and children it wished to be released as part of a future truce deal. |
| 20231130 | Extension of Israel Hamas truce confirmed | ceasefire | Qatar has confirmed the truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended by one day until Friday. |
| 20231130 | Inclusive political process: All parties in Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be 'part of solution' | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. |
| 20231130 | Two more Israeli hostages are freed, Israel’s military says, after the cease-fire was extended | ceasefire | Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute Thursday to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day to allow more hostages and prisoners to be released. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day, could prove more daunting since Hamas is expected to set a higher price for many of the remaining hostages. |
| 20231130 | Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended | ceasefire | Two women have returned to Israel after being handed to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Israeli authorities said on Thursday, and further hostages are expected to be released later in the evening, following a last-minute deal struck earlier with Hamas. |
| 20231130 | Negotiators pushing for new two-day extension of Gaza truce - Egyptian statement | ceasefire | Egyptian and Qatari negotiators are pushing for a new two-day extension to the truce in Gaza along with more prisoner releases and an increase in the delivery of humanitarian aid, a statement from Egypt's state media body said on Thursday. |
| 20231130 | Hamas shooting threatens extended Gaza truce | ceasefire | The Palestinian group Hamas said its militants carried out a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing three people despite agreeing to extend for a day a truce in Gaza and to release at least 10 more Israeli captives. |
| 20231130 | Hamas hostages: Joy and relief as 17 Thai workers return home | ceasefire | Joyous scenes unfolded outside Bangkok international airport as 17 Thai hostages freed by Hamas returned home. |
| 20231130 | Blinken urges Israel to protect civilians amid tough Gaza truce talks | ceasefire | Mediators Qatar and Egypt push for further extension to pause in hostilities as deal holds for a week. |
| 20231130 | Hamas frees eight hostages to Israel as talks seek to extend Gaza truce | ceasefire | Hamas on Thursday released eight Israeli hostages in Gaza under a last-minute extension of a truce deal and Israel freed 30 Palestinian prisoners as negotiators sought to renew the pause in fighting again. |
| 20231130 | Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi is one of 30 prisoners released in the sixth prisoner-captive exchange between Israel and Hamas. | ceasefire | In early October, when Israel began bombing Gaza, Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam was busy co-curating a planned photography exhibition in Germany. |
| 20231130 | Israeli military confirms release of eight more Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza Strip | ceasefire | Hamas freed eight Israeli hostages Thursday in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners under a last-minute deal to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day, could prove more daunting since Hamas is expected to set a higher price for many of the remaining hostages. |
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| 20231130 | ‘We will rebuild’: Gaza families return to homes in ruins | domicide | Since Friday, a truce has paused the fighting between Israel and Hamas, allowing them to return to homes in ruins. |
| 20231130 | ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | dystopian war | The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals. |
| 20231130 | ‘We’re not here to beg’: Gaza residents’ anger over steep rise in prices | economy / Gaza | People hoping to buy essentials like food, warm clothes during the pause in Israel’s bombing frustrated by price hikes. |
| 20231130 | Gaza hospitals-cum-graves | eliminating health care system | Israel has declared war on Gaza’s hospitals in a bid to ensure that Palestinians injured in its attacks on the Strip will not escape. |
| 20231130 | ‘Palestine will win’: Sri Lanka businesses raise funds for war-ravaged Gaza | global response | A fundraiser in Colombo aimed for 10 percent of the proceeds to go for Gaza. Most vendors donated their whole income. |
| 20231130 | People around the world rally in solidarity with Palestinians | global response | Protests held to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. |
| 20231130 | China seeks 'concrete' roadmap for two-state solution to solve Gaza conflict | global response | China called on the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to formulate a "concrete" timetable and roadmap for a two-state solution to achieve a "comprehensive, just and lasting" settlement of the Palestinian issue. |
| 20231130 | West ‘encourages’ killing of civilians in Gaza, says father of activist shot dead by IDF | global response | Anthony Hurndall, whose son was shot by the IDF in 2003, has called on governments to challenge Israeli claims about deaths of women and children |
| 20231130 | ‘Serious doubt’ Israel complying with international law: Spain PM Sanchez | global response | In response, Israel recalls its envoy to Madrid, summons Spanish ambassador over ‘shameful statement’. |
| 20231130 | Israel-Palestine war of words | global response | Analysis of hundreds of world leaders' speeches to see how language is shaping the Israel-Gaza war and its resolution. |
| 20231130 | Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. |
| 20231130 | ‘Epic humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza Strip | humanitarian crisis | An “epic humanitarian catastrophe” is unfolding in Gaza says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He welcomed the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas but said a true humanitarian ceasefire is needed. |
| 20231130 | ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | IOF | The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir vows to hand out more weapons | Israelis | Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, vowed to hand out more weapons and claims they saved lives after a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir says only way to defeat Hamas is ‘through combat’ during visit to Jerusalem shooting site | Israelis | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir doubled down on earlier comments to hand out weapons to Israelis during a visit to the site of a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Three killed, several injured in shooting at Jerusalem bus stop | Jerusalem | Two gunmen were also killed by police shortly after opening fire on the crowd |
| 20231130 | Two Palestinians open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three -police | Jerusalem | Two Palestinian attackers opened fire at a bus stop during the morning rush hour on Thursday at the entrance to Jerusalem, killing at least three people and wounding eight others, Israeli police said. |
| 20231130 | Three dead, six wounded in Jerusalem shooting | Jerusalem | Three people were killed and 6 wounded by two Palestinian attackers in a shooting in Jerusalem early Thursday, Israeli media reported. |
| 20231130 | Three people killed and 13 injured in Jerusalem shooting | Jerusalem | Two attackers, reportedly brothers from East Jerusalem, killed at scene, after they opened fire on people at a bus stop |
| 20231130 | Two Hamas gunmen open fire at Jerusalem bus stop, killing three | Jerusalem | Two Hamas gunmen killed three people at a Jerusalem bus stop during morning rush hour on Thursday, and Israel reiterated its commitment to wiping out the Palestinian Islamist faction, whose Oct. 7 killing spree triggered the Gaza war. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir vows to hand out more weapons | Jerusalem | Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, vowed to hand out more weapons and claims they saved lives after a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Ben Gvir says only way to defeat Hamas is ‘through combat’ during visit to Jerusalem shooting site | Jerusalem | Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir doubled down on earlier comments to hand out weapons to Israelis during a visit to the site of a shooting in Jerusalem. |
| 20231130 | Video captures West Jerusalem shooting attack | Jerusalem | Video appears to capture the moment of a shooting in West Jerusalem where two gunmen are reported to have opened fire on people waiting for buses and rides. At least three people have died and others are critically injured. |
| 20231130 | Hamas shooting threatens extended Gaza truce | Jerusalem | The Palestinian group Hamas said its militants carried out a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing three people despite agreeing to extend for a day a truce in Gaza and to release at least 10 more Israeli captives. |
| 20231130 | Israeli army intercepts target from Lebanon, Israel says | Lebanon | The Israeli military said it intercepted an "aerial target" that crossed from Lebanon on Thursday, in an incident that jolted the calm prevailing at the frontier since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel agreed a temporary truce. |
| 20231130 | UN peacekeepers try to stay safe amid Lebanon-Israel border flare-ups | Lebanon | While trying to fulfil their mandate to keep the peace, U.N. soldiers deployed along Lebanon's border with Israel during the worst hostilities there in nearly 20 years have another urgent concern: keeping their own forces safe. |
| 20231130 | Musk says he regrets controversial post but lashes out over fleeing advertisers' 'blackmail' | media / social media | Elon Musk apologized Wednesday for endorsing a social media post widely seen as anti-Semitic, but accused advertisers who are turning away from his social media platform X of "blackmail" and said anyone who does so can "go fuck yourself." |
| 20231130 | Palestine advocates decry MSNBC’s cancellation of Mehdi Hasan news show | media / US | Channel president says change aims to put network in ‘better position’ for the 2024 US elections, The Hill reports. |
| 20231130 | ‘A peace exit’ for Israel? | opinion | Next year might see Israel face overdue commitments regarding a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. |
| 20231130 | Inclusive political process: All parties in Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be 'part of solution' | opinion | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another day, just minutes before it was set to expire. |
| 20231130 | By destroying Gaza, Tel Aviv is opening a huge front in Jordan | opinion | The kingdom has been shaken from top to bottom by Israel's attempts to empty the Gaza Strip of its people |
| 20231130 | COP28: Israel should not be allowed to greenwash its war on Gaza | opinion | Israel’s participation at COP28 amid its war on Gaza casts a shadow over the world’s top climate summit. |
| 20231130 | Why have so many Palestinian children been killed by Israel? | opinion | Thousands of children have been killed, maimed, injured or arrested by Israeli forces. Two Palestinian boys have been shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. More than 6,000 children have been killed in Gaza – not counting those still missing or buried under the rubble. |
| 20231130 | West ‘encourages’ killing of civilians in Gaza, says father of activist shot dead by IDF | United Kingdom | Anthony Hurndall, whose son was shot by the IDF in 2003, has called on governments to challenge Israeli claims about deaths of women and children |
| 20231130 | ‘Epic humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza Strip | United Nations | An “epic humanitarian catastrophe” is unfolding in Gaza says UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He welcomed the extension of a truce between Israel and Hamas but said a true humanitarian ceasefire is needed. |
| 20231130 | Progressive US lawmakers renew calls for ceasefire in Gaza | United States | With pause in Gaza war set to expire, Congress members gathered outside White House in call to stop the bloodshed. |
| 20231130 | US asks Israel to narrow zone of combat in any southern Gaza attack | United States | The United States is urging Israel to narrow the zone of combat and clarify where Palestinian civilians can seek safety during any Israeli operation in southern Gaza, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, to prevent a repeat of the massive death toll from Israel's northern Gaza attacks. |
| 20231130 | Blinken urges Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians in war against Hamas | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday stepped up calls for Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians as it wages its war against Hamas in Gaza. |
| 20231130 | Blinken wants Gazans' safety assured before Israel resumes military operations | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel on Thursday it must ensure that Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza are safe and their humanitarian needs are met before resuming military operations there, his spokesperson said. |
| 20231130 | Blinken urges Israel to protect civilians amid tough Gaza truce talks | United States | Mediators Qatar and Egypt push for further extension to pause in hostilities as deal holds for a week. |
| 20231130 | U.S. presses sceptical Turkey to curb Hamas fundraising | United States | The U.S. Treasury's top terrorism financing official said on Thursday he had discussed with Turkish government officials his deep concerns about Palestinian militant group Hamas raising funds in Turkey and potentially breaking local laws. |
| 20231130 | Palestine advocates decry MSNBC’s cancellation of Mehdi Hasan news show | United States | Channel president says change aims to put network in ‘better position’ for the 2024 US elections, The Hill reports. |
| 20231130 | Video: In cold blood - Israeli sniper kills Palestinian 8-year-old & teen playing on street in Jenin | West Bank | (November 29) - The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that Adam Al-Ghul, eight years old, and Bassem Abu Al-Wafa, 15 years old, were killed by bullets from the Israeli snipers in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. |
| 20231130 | ‘No work and no olives’: harvest rots as West Bank farmers cut off from trees | West Bank | With olives the largest single agricultural product on the West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli restrictions and settler violence are losing them $70m |
| 20231130 | Wartime Israel shows little tolerance for Palestinian dissent | West Bank | Bayan Khateeb knows she’s a terrible cook. So when she managed to pull off a dish of cooked tomatoes and eggs, she took a photo to show friends on social media. |
| 20231130 | US warship shoots down drone launched from Yemen | Yemen | A US Navy warship shot down a drone on Wednesday launched from a part of Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Huthi rebels, the American military's Central Command said. |