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| 20231007 | Why the Palestinian group Hamas launched an attack on Israel? | Hamas resistance attack | Israel and Hamas are locked in a new cycle of escalating violence, after a surprise attack on Saturday involving aerial, sea and ground operations, initiated by the Palestinian group from the Gaza Strip. Israel has responded with a deadly bombardment of the blockaded coastal enclave. |
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| 20231007 | Israel retaliation kills 230 Palestinians after Hamas operation | Israeli incursion | At least 232 people have been killed and 1,600 wounded in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza during Israel’s retaliation after a deadly multi-pronged attack by Hamas forces into Israel, the health ministry says. |
| 20231007 | Israel flattens Palestine Tower amid deadly Gaza bombardment | Israeli incursion | Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip have flattened a tower in the heart of Gaza City as large-scale fighting between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli military claimed the lives of hundreds of people. |
| 20231007 | Hamas says it has enough Israeli captives to free all Palestinian prisoners | Israeli incursion | A senior Hamas leader has said that the group had captured enough Israeli soldiers during an unprecedented attack against Israel to make Israeli authorities free all Palestinian prisoners in its jails. |
| 20231007 | Fears of a ground invasion of Gaza grow as Israel vows ‘mighty vengeance’ | Israeli incursion | Fears of a huge ground invasion of Gaza are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to turn the besieged Palestinian enclave into a “deserted island” in response to the worst attack his country has suffered in decades. |
| 20231007 | Civilians on both sides paying the price of unprecedented escalation in hostilities between Israel and Gaza as death toll mounts | Israeli incursion | Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups must make every effort to protect the lives of civilians in today’s outbreak of fighting in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said Amnesty International amid a mounting civilian death toll. |
| 20231007 | Israel says it is 'at war' after Hamas surprise attack | Israeli incursion | Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” on Saturday, after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into Israeli territory in a major escalation of the long running conflict between the two sides. |
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Comment: The Israelis are a war belligerent as they never have lifted their stage of war since 1967. Netanyahu cannot declare war on a territory that is part of an occupied country. |
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| 20231007 | Netanyahu declares Israel at War amid Gaza attack and Zionist aggression | Israeli incursion | On Saturday morning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “Israel is at war” after Gaza Strip resistance fighters launched a surprise attack on southern and Central Israel, media sources reported. |
| 20231007 | Israel halts electricity supply to Gaza Strip: Energy minister | Israeli incursion | Israel ordered its state-run electricity company to halt supply to the Gaza Strip on Saturday after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, the energy minister said. |
| 20231007 | Gaza is a De Facto State that Has Gone to War Against Israel | Israeli incursion | Israel’s Energy Minister Yisrael Katz has signed an order instructing the Israel Electric Corporation to halt the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231007 | Israel closes checkpoints surrounding Jerusalem | Jerusalem | On Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces closed all military checkpoints surrounding the city of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian News and Information Agency “Wafa”. The official agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying, “The occupation forces closed the Qalandiya checkpoints, the Shuafat camp, Beit Iksa, and Al-Za’im, and completely prevented movement to and from Jerusalem.” |
| 20231007 | Israel retaliation kills 230 Palestinians after Hamas operation | targeting civilians | At least 232 people have been killed and 1,600 wounded in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza during Israel’s retaliation after a deadly multi-pronged attack by Hamas forces into Israel, the health ministry says. |
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| 20231008 | Israel faces 'long, difficult war' after Hamas attack from Gaza | Israeli incursion | Israel's military has warned that Hamas militants from Gaza are still fighting inside Israel after they infiltrated southern communities and left a reported 300 people dead. |
| 20231008 | Israel declares war, bombards Gaza and battles to dislodge Hamas fighters after surprise attack | Israeli incursion | The Israeli government formally declared war and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack, as the military labored into Monday to crush fighters still in southern towns and intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The toll passed 1,100 dead and thousands wounded on both sides. |
| 20231008 | opinion | The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, .... | |
| 20231008 | In striking Israel, Hamas also took aim at Middle East security realignment | regional effect | When Islamist group Hamas launched a spectacular attack against Israel, it also took aim at efforts to forge new regional security alignments that could threaten Palestinian aspirations for statehood and the ambitions of the group's main backer Iran. |
| 20231008 | Israel and Hamas Battle Around Gaza as Netanyahu Warns of ‘Long and Difficult War’ | Israeli incursion | A senior Israeli defense official said that an early estimate showed about 700 Israelis were believed to be dead, and Gaza officials said more than 400 Palestinians have been killed. |
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| 20231009 | US sends carrier strike group to Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel | collusion & complicity | US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday he has ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead on both sides. Americans were reported to be among those killed and missing. |
| 20231009 | Oil prices spike, Israel begins sell-off to support shekel | global effect | Oil prices spiked on Monday amid concerns that the Israel-Gaza conflict could disrupt output from the Middle East. Israel's central bank also sold off $30 billion of foreign reserves to support the ailing shekel, which has reached its lowest level against the dollar since 2016. |
| 20231009 | Russia Attacks Washington’s Stance on Gaza War, Monopoly on Mediation | global response | Moscow is deeply concerned at last weekend’s surge in violence between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, but finds the US approach to the crisis problematic, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. |
| 20231009 | Israel Orders ‘Complete Siege’ of Gaza and Hamas Threatens to Kill Hostages | Israeli incursion | Israel mobilized 300,000 reservists amid signs that it could be preparing for a major ground invasion of Gaza, and it bombed hundreds of sites, including mosques and a marketplace. |
| 20231009 | Israel retaliates after Hamas attacks, deaths pass 1,100 | Israeli incursion | Israel pounded the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Sunday, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for one of the bloodiest attacks in its history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more. |
| 20231009 | Israel intensifies Gaza strikes and battles to repel Hamas, over 1,100 dead in fighting so far | Israeli incursion | Israel intensified its bombardments of the Gaza Strip on Monday after declaring war and vowing to destroy the “military and governing capabilities” of the enclave’s Hamas rulers, as Israeli soldiers fought to dislodge Gaza gunmen from areas of southern Israel. |
| 20231009 | US sends carrier strike group to Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel | Israeli incursion | US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday he has ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead on both sides. Americans were reported to be among those killed and missing. |
| 20231009 | After the first few bites of dinner, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza began | Israeli incursion | An Al Jazeera journalist reflects on the moment Israeli air strikes began, signalling the start of a long, terrible night. |
| 20231009 | Reports of mass casualties as Israeli air attack hits refugee camp in Gaza | Israeli incursion | Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip says dozens of people killed and wounded in attack on the crowded Jabalia camp. |
| 20231009 | In pictures: Israel vows 'mighty vengeance' after worst attack in decades | Israeli incursion | Israel pounded the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for one of the bloodiest attacks in its history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more. |
| 20231009 | ‘Israel doesn’t care about collateral damage’: Bunker busters used in Gaza | Israeli incursion | Plumes of smoke are springing up frequently as the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered a third day after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. |
| 20231009 | Thousands of Gaza residents take refuge in UN schools from Israel air raids | Israeli incursion | Since the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip began on Saturday, more than 73,000 Palestinian residents living along the eastern regions near the Israeli frontier have left their homes to take shelter in United Nations refugee agency schools. |
| 20231009 | A day of bombing in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | Israeli incursion | Amid intense bombardment at noon (9:00 GMT) on Monday, Israeli missiles landed on the Jabalia refugee camp just north of Gaza City, unleashing unimaginable trauma on those who live there. |
| 20231009 | Netanyahu vows to 'change the Middle East' with attack on Gaza | Israeli incursion | Netanyahu today pledged that the Israeli response to the unprecedented military operation by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza Strip “will change the Middle East.” |
| 20231009 | Iran sends deadly message to Biden with Hamas attack on Israel | media / Zionists / US | Regardless of whether Iran plotted and ordered the massive Hamas attack against Israel over the weekend, Tehran’s backing and support for the Palestinian militant group sends a clear and defiant message to Washington. |
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| 20231010 | 'Where do we go?' - Nowhere safe in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify | humanitarian crisis | "Where do we go? Is there a safe place left in this neighbourhood, which was so quiet and beautiful?" residents of an apartment block in Rimal asked me, with heavy sarcasm. |
| 20231010 | Hamas claims release of woman and children | Israeli incursion | Hamas has released a video appearing to show the release of a woman and two children at a barrier area near the Gaza Strip. |
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Israeli incursion | 1,200 Israelis, 700 Palestinians Killed | Israel Strikes Hezbollah Post After Missile Fired on IDF Vehicle, Gaza Rocket Barrages Reach Deep Into Israel |
| 20231010 | Commission of Inquiry collecting evidence of war crimes committed by all sides in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023 | United Nations | There is already clear evidence that war crimes may have been committed in the latest explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza, and all those who have violated international law and targeted civilians must be held accountable for their crimes, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, said today. |
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| 20231011 | More than 260,000 displaced in Gaza, says UN | forced displacement | Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said. |
| 20231011 | Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas | forced displacement | Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. |
| 20231011 | Gaza faces ‘humanitarian crisis catastrophe’ as power plant running out of fuel | humanitarian crisis | Gaza’s power authority has said the blockaded enclave’s sole power plant will run out of fuel within hours, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies in retaliation to the recent attacks by Hamas, the armed group that runs Gaza. |
| 20231011 | Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas | Israeli incursion | Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. |
| 20231011 | Biden urges Israeli leader to minimize civilian casualties in war with Hamas | Israeli incursion | In a private phone call Tuesday, President Joe Biden urged Israel’s prime minister to minimize civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israel sets out to destroy Hamas in reprisal for the deadliest attack the country has suffered in the last 50 years, two Biden administration officials and a former official told NBC News. |
| 20231011 | 'Saudi stands by Palestinians,' says Crown Prince | regional response | 'Saudi stands by Palestinians,' says Crown Prince amid escalating Israel-Gaza war · Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas |
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| 20231012 | 45 killed in Israel strike on Gaza apartment block | Israeli incursion | The Israeli military bombarded a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing at least 45 people and injuring dozens more, Gaza’s interior ministry says. |
| 20231012 | What are the rules of war – and how do they apply to the Israel-Gaza conflict? | Treaty Laws | Amid the horror of the attacks by Hamas on Israel and the response by the Israeli military in Gaza, there have been calls for both sides to abide by international law and accusations of breaches. |
| 20231012 | ‘A message’: Why has Biden dispatched a US strike group during Gaza war? | United States | As the war rages on in Gaza, the United States has moved one of the largest aircraft carriers in the world and an accompanying strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing its military might to the tense region. |
| 20231012 | Palestinian man, son attending funeral procession in West Bank shot dead | West Bank | Israeli settlers have killed a Palestinian man and his son in the occupied West Bank during a funeral procession, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says. |
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| 20231013 | Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Israeli military recently used white phosphorus munitions in Lebanon and Gaza. | IOF | The rights group said late on Thursday that it had verified Israel’s use of white phosphorus munitions through interviews and videos showing the chemical substance was fired on two locations along the Israel-Lebanon border and over the Gaza City port. |
| 20231013 | ‘We reject the forced displacement’ in Gaza: Abbas tells Blinken in Jordan | Palestinian Authority | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he “rejects the forced displacement” of Palestinians from Gaza, following Israel’s order for all of the enclave’s civilians to move to the south. |
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| 20231016 | Obituary: Reuters' Issam Abdallah covered the world's biggest events with bravery and insight | journalists | Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, who was killed on Friday while filming Israeli missile attacks at the Israeli-Lebanon border, brought courage, compassion and insight to his work covering some of the biggest news stories of the past decade. |
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| 20231017 | Deepening concern for civilians, as UN school is hit | Israeli incursion | The head of the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini, has reported that at least six people were killed on Monday afternoon local time, when an UNRWA school being used as a shelter, was hit in the al-Maghazi camp in the middle region of the embattled Gaza Strip. |
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| 20231018 | US vetoes UN resolution calling for humanitarian crisis pause in Israel-Hamas war | collusion & complicity | The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel while calling for a pause in the fighting to allow humanitarian crisis assistance into Gaza. |
| 20231018 | ‘Anti-Semitism has no place in Germany’: Scholz condemns synagogue attack | global response | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has denounced a fire-bomb attack on a Berlin synagogue, stating that the country “stands united for the protection of Jews”, despite signs of increasing anti-Semitism. |
| 20231018 | Why has Jordan cancelled Biden visit after bombing of Gaza hospital? | opinion | It was to be a centrepiece of United States President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East on Wednesday: a trip to Jordan to meet a range of Arab leaders amid Israel’s incessant bombing of the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231018 | Second day of protests across the Middle East after Gaza hospital strike | regional response | Thousands of people have rallied in countries across the Middle East and North Africa to protest against a strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed nearly 500 people, according to Palestinian officials in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231018 | Israelis say they won’t block humanitarian crisis aid entering Gaza from Egypt | The Israelis have said that it will not prevent humanitarian crisis aid from entering the blockaded Gaza Strip from Egypt, following pressure from its international allies to ease its 10-day siege on the Palestinian territory. | |
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| 20231019 | Egypt Wary of Opening Gaza Border to Palestinian Refugees | regional effect | The World Health Organization said Thursday that five trucks full of medical supplies are ready at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, with hopes that the aid could be delivered to Palestinian hospitals as early as Friday. |
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| 20231020 | Aid 'a lifeline' for war-torn Gaza: UN chief at Rafah border | humanitarian crisis | "These trucks are not just trucks, they are a lifeline. They are the difference between life and death for so many people in Gaza," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with Gaza to oversee preparations for the delivery of aid. |
| 20231020 | Investigations reveal discrepancies in Israel’s Gaza hospital attack claims | health care & medical infrastructure | As Israel bombards Gaza, media organisations and researchers are investigating what happened at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital where officials say hundreds were killed. |
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| 20231021 | Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Flood Streets All Over World | global response | Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched Saturday through a rainy London to demand Israel stop its bombardment of Gaza, and similar calls were heard in cities around the world as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third week. |
| 20231021 | Thousands in Muslim countries and beyond demonstrate over Israeli airstrikes | global response | Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond held demonstrations Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They called for an end to Israel’s blockade and airstrikes following a brutal incursion into southern Israel by fighters from the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza. |
| 20231021 | Israel tells citizens to leave Egypt, Jordan ‘as soon as possible’ | Israelis | Israel has called on its citizens to immediately leave Egypt and Jordan, and to try and avoid travelling to other regional countries, as tensions flare over its war in Gaza. |
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| 20231022 | Palestinian death toll in West Bank surges as Israel pursues militants following Hamas "rampage" | West Bank | Deadly violence has been surging in the West Bank as the Israeli military pursues Palestinian militants in the aftermath of the Hamas attack from Gaza, with more than 90 Palestinians killed in the Israeli-occupied territory in the past two weeks, mainly in clashes with Israeli troops. |
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| 20231023 | Washington warns Iran as doubts grow about Israel's abilities in Gaza war | collusion & complicity | The White House publicly called out Iran as rocket and drone barrages launched by Iran-backed militias continued targeting US troops in Iraq and Syria on Monday amid Israel’s war in Gaza. |
| Comment: the enemization of Iran by the US has its roots in the introduction of nuclear militarization by David Ben-Gurion in 1956, that the US didn't stop from further development into the Israeli production of nuclear weapons. | |||
| 20231023 | 400 people killed in a single day by Israeli attacks in Gaza | Israeli incursion | Some 400 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air attacks on Gaza on Sunday, according to Palestinian health officials. |
| 20231023 | Netanyahu denies splits over Gaza war strategy | Israeli incursion | Israel’s prime minister, defence minister and army chief insisted on Monday that they were working “in close and full co-operation” as signs grew of discord over the course of the war with Hamas. |
| 20231023 | It’s not just Gaza – Israel is also killing scores in the West Bank | opinion | The occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has not been making headlines lately. When it does get noticed, it is often portrayed as an equal partner with Israel in violence. |
| 20231023 | Washington warns Iran as doubts grow about Israel's abilities in Gaza war | United States | The White House publicly called out Iran as rocket and drone barrages launched by Iran-backed militias continued targeting US troops in Iraq and Syria on Monday amid Israel’s war in Gaza. |
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| 20231024 | Hundreds rally in Israel’s Tel Aviv to demand release of hostages | Israeli incursion | Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv, Israel, to demand that the Israeli government secure the release of hostages seized by Hamas in its October 7 attack on southern Israel. |
| 20231024 | More than 700 killed in overnight Israeli attacks, Gaza officials say | Israeli incursion | More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air raids on Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel began bombarding the the besieged territory earlier this month. |
| 20231024 | Hundreds likely dead in Gaza hospital blast, as Israeli blockade cripples medical response | Israeli incursion | Palestinian officials say hundreds were killed by a massive blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, as humanitarian crisis concerns mount over Israel’s deprivation of food, fuel and electricity to the enclave’s population. |
| 20231024 | UN chief says ‘clear violations of international humanitarian crisis law’ in Gaza | United Nations | United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has renewed his demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and said that international law was being violated in the war between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas. |
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| 20231025 | US resists ceasefire call in UN Security Council debate on Israel-Gaza war | collusion & complicity | The United Nations Security Council has held its first open debate on the Israel-Gaza war, with most members calling for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian crisis aid to reach Palestinians under relentless Israeli bombardment in Gaza. |
| 20231025 | Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war | Israelis | Israel will refuse visas to United Nations officials, its ambassador to the UN has said, as the country’s spat with the international organisation deepens. (see October 24, 2023) |
| 20231025 | Israel bombards Gaza, prepares invasion as Biden urges 'path to peace' | Israeli incursion | Israel is preparing a ground invasion of Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday while Israeli shelling killed more Palestinian civilians and international pressure grew to deliver aid and to safeguard hostages held by Hamas. |
| 20231025 | Israel vows again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire in Gaza at a major UN meeting | Israeli incursion | Israel vowed again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire from the U.N. chief, the Palestinians and many countries at a high-level U.N. meeting on Tuesday and declaring that the war in Gaza is not only its war but “the war of the free world.” |
| 20231025 | Israeli airstrikes surge in Gaza, destroying homes and killing dozens at a time | Israeli incursion | Israel escalated airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, crushing families in the rubble of residential buildings, as health officials said hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the past day and medical facilities were shut down because of bomb damage and lack of power. |
| 20231025 | ‘Our voices will go on’: Dahdouh’s Al Jazeera team stands behind him | journalists | |
| 20231025 | Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid | journalists | The wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau chief in Gaza, have been killed in an Israeli air raid. |
| 20231025 | Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid | targeting families in whole or in part | The wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau chief in Gaza, have been killed in an Israeli air raid. |
| 20231025 | Biden condemns Israeli settler attacks in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Settler violence against Palestinians has intensified since the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 and Israel’s continuing bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. |
| 20231025 | Israelis and Palestinians fear worst to come after Gaza violence | West Bank | In the last few days I have been in southern Israel close to the border with Gaza, deep in the West Bank with hard-line Jewish settlers, and seen the funeral of two young Palestinian men killed by the Israeli army in a raid on a refugee camp. |
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| 20231026 | ‘Complete censorship’: Germany’s Palestinian diaspora fights crackdown | global effects | In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s attacks on Israel on October 7, a Palestinian flag was painted on a monument near Sonnenallee, commonly known as Berlin’s Arab street, in the southwestern district of Neukoelln. Authorities painted over the flag on the same night. |
| 20231026 | The ICC should urgently investigate what happened at al-Ahli Arab Hospital | health care & medical infrastructure | The the devastating explosion at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in central Gaza, in which the Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 500 people were killed, shows exactly why the International Criminal Court (ICC) must investigate atrocities committed in Israel and Palestine. With allegations levied from all directions, the ICC may just be the best option to provide an impartial and independent assessment of the bombing and, critically, who bears responsibility for it. |
| 20231026 | Starvation as weapon of war being used against Gaza civilians — Oxfam | humanitarian crisis | According to data compiled by the UN and analyzed by Oxfam, it was found that only 2 percent of the food that should have been delivered has entered Gaza since the total siege. The report indicates that 2.2 million people are now in urgent need of food. Prior to October 7, 2023, 104 trucks a day used to deliver food to the besieged Gaza Strip, which is equivalent to one truck every 14 minutes. |
| 20231026 | Many Israelis are furious at their government’s chaotic recovery efforts after Hamas attack | Israelis | More than two weeks after Hamas militants rampaged through a string of sleepy farming towns, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward. |
| 20231026 | Iraqi pro-Gaza protesters block oil tanker trucks from entering Jordan | regional response | Hundreds of Iraqis protesting against Israel's attacks on Gaza are blocking oil tanker trucks from crossing into Jordan, saying they will not allow Iraqi oil to be exported to countries that have peace agreements with Israel. |
| 20231026 | Arab world speaks out on killing of Al Jazeera journalist’s family | journalists | Grief has poured out across the region following the shocking slaughter of wife and children in southern Gaza. |
| 20231026 | Satellite images show destruction from Israel's assault on Gaza | Israeli incursion | The Israeli military has destroyed nearly 200,000 housing units, either completely or partially, since the start of its latest assault on the Gaza Strip following Hamas's surprise attack on October 7. |
| 20231026 | Palestinian envoy urges UN to ‘stop this madness’ | Israeli incursion | From live blog:
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour delivers an emotional address at the UN General Assembly, urging member states to “stop the killing” in Gaza. |
| 20231026 | UN Security Council fails again to address Israel-Hamas war, rejecting US and Russian resolutions | Israeli incursion | The U.N. Security Council failed again Wednesday to address the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, rejecting rival United States and Russian resolutions. |
| 20231026 | Fearing airstrikes and crowded shelters, Palestinians in north Gaza defy Israeli evacuation orders | Israeli incursion | Mahmoud Shalabi did not evacuate his home in northern Gaza despite the frightful Israeli warnings of a looming, far more brutal assault to come as it presses ahead with its war against the Hamas militant group. |
| 20231026 | Hamas official calls for stronger intervention by regional allies in its war with Israel | Israeli incursion | A senior Hamas official told The Associated Press on Thursday that the Palestinian militant group had expected stronger intervention from Hezbollah in its war with Israel, in a rare public appeal to its allies in the region. |
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| 20231027 | European bans on pro-Palestinian protests prompt claims of bias | global effects | Post correspondents went to demonstrations in Berlin, Paris and London to see how authorities handled pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests differently. |
| 20231027 | Protesters shut New York's Grand Central, seeking Gaza ceasefire | global response | Hundreds of protesters demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas forced the closure on Friday of Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City's major transit hubs, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. |
| 20231027 | Palestinians plead ‘stop the bombs’ at UN meeting but Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’ | Israeli incursion | “Stop the bombs and save lives!” the Palestinian ambassador pleaded at an emotional U.N. meeting Thursday on the war in Gaza. But Israel’s envoy was adamant, declaring again, “We will not rest until Hamas is obliterated.” |
| 20231027 | Israeli troops briefly raid northern Gaza to ‘prepare’ for an expected full-scale incursion | Israeli incursion | Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti-tank weapons in order to “prepare the battlefield” before an expected ground invasion. |
| 20231027 | Israel strikes Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza on Palestinian side again: Al Qahera News | Israeli incursion | The Rafah border crossing has served as the sole point of delivering humanitarian crisis aid provided by world countries and local and international organizations from Egypt to Gaza. |
| 20231027 | 'Soon many more will die' from Gaza siege, says UN head | Israeli incursion | “Many more will die” as a result of Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) chief, Philippe Lazzarini, warned at a news conference on Friday that basic services in Gaza are “crumbling”, with medicine, food and water running out. He said: As we speak, people in Gaza are dying. They are dying only from bombs and strikes. Soon, many more will die from the consequences of siege imposed on the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231027 | Israel expands ground operations in Gaza war amid U.S. calls for restraint |
Israeli incursion | The announcement of expanded ground operations came alongside a near-total collapse of the internet across Gaza. |
| 20231027 | Israel says it is expanding ground operations in Gaza amid internet outage, heavy bombardment | Israeli incursion | Israel’s announcement came amid a “total or near total” internet blackout, according to internet monitoring groups. |
| 20231027 | Israel intensifies Gaza assault and severs communications across territory | Israeli incursion | Israeli air and ground forces are stepping up their operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s chief military spokesperson said late on Friday, amid exceptionally heavy bombing and a communications blackout across the embattled territory. |
| 20231027 | Former Hamas chief claims Israel planning to flood Gaza tunnels with nerve gas | Israeli incursion | Khaled Meshaal claims Washington is urging Israel to avoid the same mistakes following 2003 invasion of Iraq when US forces faced fierce resistance to ground invasion |
| 20231027 | Israel rebuffs allies’ calls to ‘pause’ Gaza assault | Israeli incursion | Israel is rejecting calls for respite in Gaza as its closest allies in the West have coalesced around the idea of "humanitarian crisis pauses", or temporary stops to the bombardment. |
| 20231027 | Gaza ground invasion would make hostage negotiations ‘very difficult’, says Qatari former director of defence | Israeli incursion | discussion on video |
| 20231027 | US says ‘no evidence’ Israel forces targeted Al Jazeera | journalists | US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said he saw “zero evidence” that the family of an Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza were targeted and killed by Israel in response to the network’s coverage in the region.
Comment: There is no evidence of an independent investigation at the scene has been carried out. |
| 20231027 | US air strikes in Syria hit weapons, ammo storage facilities | Syria | The United States’ overnight strikes on Syria hit a weapons storage facility and an ammunition storage facility used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Cops and Iran-back groups, senior US officials have told the Reuters news agency. It was unclear if Iranian nationals were killed in the strikes, Reuters cited the officials as saying. Two F-16 fighter jets using precision munitions carried out the strikes at roughly 4:30 am local time near Abu Kamal, close to the border with Iraq, according to the officials. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement earlier that the “narrowly-tailored strikes” were “separate and distinct” from the Israel-Hamas war. The strikes follow warnings by the White House that Washington would respond to attacks on its forces in Iraq and Syria that it has blamed on Iran-backed groups. |
| 20231027 | UN General Assembly set to vote on nonbinding resolution calling for a `humanitarian crisis truce' in Gaza | UNGA | The U.N. General Assembly scheduled a vote Friday on a nonbinding resolution calling for a “humanitarian crisis truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. |
| 20231027 | UN overwhelmingly calls for aid truce between Israel and Hamas | UNGA | The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian crisis truce between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and demanded aid access to the besieged Gaza Strip and protection of civilians. |
| 20231027 | U.S., in policy switch, urges humanitarian crisis pauses in Gaza | United States | After weeks of declining to back international calls for “humanitarian crisis pauses” in Israeli airstrikes, the Biden administration is now pressing Israel to agree. |
| 20231027 | At least 19 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank | West Bank | At least 19 Palestinians, including a woman, have been arrested by Israeli forces following another raid across the occupied West Bank before dawn on Friday. In Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, the Israeli forces arrested four citizens during their storming of the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa. In Hebron, among those who who were arrested was Dr. Farouk Ashour, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic post on X, formerly Twitter. Four others were arrested in the village of Kafr Ni’am also in Ramally, and another four in the occupied East Jerusalem. The rest of those who were arrested were from Nablus, Jericho and al-Aghwar Governorate. |
| 20231027 | Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in occupied West Bank: WAFA | West Bank | Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. As its war against the Hamas group in the Gaza Strip continues for three weeks, Israel has stepped up operations against Palestinian groups in the West Bank, killing many Palestinians and arresting hundreds. |
| 20231027 | Settlers threaten West Bank children with bloody dolls | West Bank | Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have distributed threatening leaflets on cars and left bloodied dolls at schools, warning Palestinians to leave or be killed. |
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| 20231028 | Hamas says trying to find eight Russian-Israeli captives to free them: Russian news agencies | global response | Hamas is trying to locate eight Russian-Israeli dual citizens who were taken hostage during the Palestinian group's attack on Israel in order to free them on Moscow's request, Russian news agencies reported Saturday. |
| 20231028 | Thousands of Gaza workers go ‘missing’ in Israel amid wartime mass arrests | Israelis | Palestinians whose permits to work in Israel were revoked are believed to be held in detention camps, but Israel has so far refused to release information about them, human rights groups say. |
| 20231028 | Israel ‘expanding’ troops in Gaza, Hamas to counter with ‘full force’ | Israeli incursion | Israeli forces have announced that they are “expanding” ground activities in northern Gaza as the besieged enclave faces the largest bombardment of Israeli attacks since the start of the war. |
| 20231028 | Israel expands ground operation in Gaza and bombs Hamas tunnels after knocking out communications | Israeli incursion | Israel on Saturday expanded its ground operation in Gaza with infantry and armored vehicles backed by “massive” strikes from the air and sea, including the bombing of Hamas tunnels — a key target in its campaign to crush the territory’s ruling group after its bloody incursion in Israel three weeks ago. |
| 20231028 | Israeli military says entered north Gaza overnight, still 'in the field' | Israeli incursion | The Israeli military said on Saturday it had entered northern Gaza overnight and expanded military operations with infantry and armoured corps in the besieged Palestinian enclave as it steps up its assault on the Hamas militant group. |
| 20231028 | Gaza’s communications blackout raises concerns of Israeli war crimes | Israeli incursion | Gaza continues to be unreachable to the outside world after the cutting of phone and internet services, as humanitarian crisis and media organisations warn the communications blackout could provide cover for atrocities in the besieged enclave. |
| 20231028 | Gaza phone and internet cut off as Israel intensifies attacks | Israeli incursion | A recap on the situation in Gaza right now: Israel knocked out the internet and communications in the blockaded territory in a stepped-up bombardment during Friday night, largely cutting off its 2.3 million people from contact with each other and the outside world and creating a near-blackout of information, Associated Press reports. |
| 20231028 | Ground battles in Gaza as Israeli jets bomb tunnels | Israeli incursion | Israel says its ground troops are fighting inside Gaza as it subjects the besieged territory to the heaviest bombardment since the war began. Hamas says its fighters have confronted Israeli troops in various locations. |
| 20231028 | Hundreds of Gaza buildings destroyed in Israel strikes: Rescue service | Israeli incursion | "Hundreds of buildings and houses were completely destroyed and thousands of other homes were damaged," said Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defence. The intense bombardments had "changed the landscape" of northern Gaza, he told AFP. |
| 20231028 | Medics discover with horror relatives among Gaza dead | targeting families in whole or in part | Mahmud al-Astal is one of many medics providing lifesaving care as casualties flood hospitals in Gaza, only to one day discover his sister and her entire family among the dead. |
| 20231028 | New York police arrest hundreds at Jewish protest urging Gaza ceasefire | United States | Hundreds of people were arrested late Friday when police broke up a large demonstration of mostly Jewish New Yorkers who had taken over the main hall of Grand Central station in protest of Israel's Israeli incursion, police and organizers said. |
| 20231028 | Biden administration refused to meet Muslim Americans publicly critical of Gaza policy | United States | Sources familiar with the Biden administration's meetings with Muslim and Arab Americans say Washington focused on projecting concern rather than taking action |
| 20231028 | Protests, clashes in Jerusalem and West Bank as Israel-Gaza war rages | West Bank | Israeli security forces restricted young Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday and deployed in strength across the Old City and beyond to quell any unrest spilling over from the conflict in Gaza. |
| 20231028 | Israeli army, settlers kill and arrest Palestinians, demolishes home in West Bank | West Bank | While Gaza experienced one of the harshest nights in the 22-day-long war, in the West Bank, the Israeli army and settlers continued to terrorize the West Bank, killing one Palestinian, arresting seven, and demolishing a home. |
| 20231028 | Protests, confrontations in Jerusalem and West Bank amid Israel-Gaza war | West Bank | Israeli security forces restricted young Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday and deployed in strength across the Old City and beyond to quell any unrest spilling over from the conflict in Gaza. |
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| 20231029 | Impeding aid to Gaza could be crime under ICC jurisdiction, says prosecutor | humanitarian crisis | The International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim Khan told a news conference in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday that Israel must make “discernible efforts” to ensure civilians get basic food and medicine. |
| 20231029 | Internet, phone services return to Gaza after Israeli communications cutoff | Israeli incursion | Internet and phone services are returning to Gaza following a communications blackout that humanitarian crisis groups had warned could be used as a cover for war crimes. |
| 20231029 | Israeli troops clear Gaza areas 'slice by slice', but is this an invasion? | Israeli incursion | Israeli forces appear to be concentrating on the northern area of the Gaza Strip, in Beit Hanoun, and pushing down a bit further south from there. |
| 20231029 | Western coverage of Israel’s Israeli incursion – bias or unprofessionalism? | opinion | Publishing unsubstantiated claims, telling only one side of the story, and painting Palestinians as nothing more than objects in Hamas’s hands are all unprofessional mistakes Western media makes while covering the conflict between Israel and Hamas, media experts and Arab journalists say. |
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| 20231030 | Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry | Israelis | An Intelligence Ministry document revealed by Local Call and +972 shows how the idea of population transfer to the Sinai is reaching official discussions. |
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| 20231031 | Antisemitism rampant online since Hamas’ attack, with YouTube recording a 51-fold surge | global effects | New research by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that in the days after Hamas' attack antisemitic comments on conflict-related YouTube videos increased by 4963%. |
| 20231031 | Israel's Gaza attack 'beyond proportionality', Norway says | global response | Israel is breaking the rules of modern warfare in Gaza, Norway's prime minister has said. "I believe this is beyond proportionality," Norway's prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre told EUobserver in Oslo on Tuesday (31 October). |
| 20231031 | ‘Despair’: UN deplores Gaza conditions, child casualties amid Israeli war | humanitarian crisis | An urgent ceasefire is a matter of life and death for millions in the Gaza Strip, an official warned at a United Nations Security Council emergency briefing, noting climbing child casualties as Israel continues to bombard the enclave. |
| 20231031 | UN chief Guterres says aid trickling into Gaza is ‘completely inadequate’ | humanitarian crisis | In a statement on Tuesday, Guterres reiterated that humanitarian crisis need in Gaza is far outpacing existing levels of assistance. Aid trucks have been trickling into Gaza from Egypt over the past week via Rafah, the main crossing that does not border Israel. |
| 20231031 | Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #25 | humanitarian crisis | The 25th day of hostilities witnessed the largest Israeli ground operation to date, primarily in northern Gaza and the outskirts of Gaza city, alongside intense bombardments. |
| 20231031 | UN chief 'deeply alarmed' by escalation | humanitarian crisis | UN chief Antonio Guterres said he was "dismayed" by reports that two-thirds of people killed in Gaza were women and children. Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthi rebels have pledged to continue attacking Israel. |
| 20231031 | No privacy, no water: Gaza women use period-delaying pills amid war | Israeli incursion | Many Palestinian women have resorted to taking menstruation-delaying pills due to the desperate, unsanitary circumstances they have been forced into as a result of the continuing Israeli offensive in Gaza. |
| 20231031 | Have war crimes been committed in Israel and Gaza and what international laws apply? | Israeli incursion | The United Nations has said “there is already clear evidence that war crimes may have been committed” by Hamas and the Israeli military since 7 October and that it is gathering evidence for potential prosecutions. |
| 20231031 | Risking arrest and assault, Israelis begin protesting Gaza war | Israeli incursion | Gathering outside the army’s headquarters in central Tel Aviv, dozens of Israelis called for a ceasefire and the release of all hostages. |
| 20231031 | Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza conflict | journalists | The Israel-Gaza conflict has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel "declared war" on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip. |
| 20231031 | Dozens killed in Israeli air attack on Jabalia refugee camp: Gaza official | targeting forced displaced people | Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to a medical official and Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory. |
| 20231031 | Jabalia: Israel air strike reportedly kills dozens at Gaza refugee camp | targeting forced displaced people | An Israeli air strike is reported to have killed dozens of people at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 50 people were killed and 150 wounded. But a nearby hospital said it received 400 casualties, including 120 dead. |
| 20231031 | Dozens killed in Israeli air attack on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza | targeting forced displaced people | Health ministry in Gaza says more than 50 people were killed in the attack on Tuesday and 150 others were wounded. |
| 20231031 | Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians | United Nations | The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has left his post, protesting that the UN is “failing” in its duty to prevent what he categorizes as genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and much of Europe as “wholly complicit in the horrific assault”. |
| 20231031 | Ex-UN official: Palestine-Israel two-state solution 'a joke’ at UN | United Nations | Senior human rights official Craig Mokhiber resigned, protesting against the UN’s silence on the "wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people" by the Israeli army. In his resignation, Mokhiber criticised the UN’s inaction in the face of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. |
| 20231031 | Biden support plummets to 17 percent among Arab Americans | United States | Arab American support for United States President Joe Biden has plummeted to an all-time low of 17 percent as he continues to back the Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to a new survey. |
| 20231031 | Anti-war protesters interrupt Antony Blinken at US Senate hearing | United States | Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza interrupted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Numerous people stood in the crowd and repeatedly yelled "Ceasefire now!" |
| 20231031 | France steps up crackdown on Palestine solidarity amid Gaza war | Zionism / France | French authorities have banned demonstrations in support of Gaza, arrested protesters, and moved to dissolve several Palestine advocacy groups. |