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More than 570,000 people in Gaza now ‘starving’ due to fallout from war: UN report

A report released Thursday by the UN finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are “starving” because of not enough food entering the territory since the outbreak of war more than 10 weeks ago.

“It is a situation where pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry,” said World Food Program chief economist Arif Husain.
He warned that if the war between Israel and Hamas continues at the same levels and food deliveries are not restored that the population could face “a full-fledged famine within the next six months.”

The report released Thursday by 23 UN and nongovernmental agencies found that the entire population in Gaza is in a food crisis, with 576,600 at catastrophic — or starvation — levels.

UN relief workers on Thursday reported “unbearable” scenes in two hospitals in northern Gaza, where bedridden patients with untreated wounds cry out for water, the few remaining doctors and nurses have no supplies, and bodies are lined up in the courtyard — signs of the worsening humanitarian crisis after 10 weeks of war between Israel and Hamas.



 
Israel-Gaza war: US backs UN Security Council vote on Gaza aid boost

The UN Security Council is moving closer to a vote on humanitarian aid for Gaza after the US expressed support for the latest draft resolution.

The vote, now delayed until Friday, had been in limbo after the US voiced "widespread concerns" with a draft.

Washington had said it was concerned the resolution, put forward by the United Arab Emirates, could "actually slow down" aid into Gaza.

The latest announcement from the US comes after some two weeks of talks.

All week, the Security Council has repeatedly postponed the draft resolution aimed at bringing in some form of ceasefire, as wrangling continued over the language.

The original draft called for a sustainable cessation of hostilities, but the final version calls for creating the conditions for one.

It no longer calls for the use of all land, sea and air routes for deliveries - just all available routes. It still creates a mechanism to accelerate aid - but makes clear that's in consultation with relevant parties such as Israel.

Emerging from a closed-door session on Thursday night, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield rejected claims the latest draft had been watered down, arguing it is "a very strong resolution".

She called it "a resolution that we can support", but declined to say if the US would vote 'yes' or abstain.

The key sticking point on Thursday appeared to be over the text's proposal to have a UN mechanism to monitor aid into Gaza - something the Arab group of nations insisted must be part of any meaningful resolution.

But the US said that could take away Israel's control of the screening process - and it asked for another delay to allow time for discussions with Egypt on how such a monitoring mechanism could work for all parties.

Currently, Israel monitors all aid and fuel deliveries to Gaza.

Earlier this month, the majority of the Security Council - 13 of 15 members - supported a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but the US vetoed it and the UK abstained. The US, like Israel, has objected that a ceasefire would benefit Hamas - and instead the US supports proposed pauses in fighting.

But since then, pressure has been growing for fighting to be paused. Earlier this week, Hamas said the number of people killed in Gaza in 10 weeks of fighting had passed 20,000.

On Thursday, the UN's World Food Programme warned that Gaza was at risk of famine if the war continued.
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza says 390 Palestinians have been killed and 734 injured in the past two days while communications were suspended.


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Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content

- Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals.

After the Hamas-led attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials, Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed around 20,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Unlawful Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid have contributed to an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe for Gaza’s 2.2 million population, nearly half of whom are children.

Human Rights Watch identified six key patterns of censorship, each recurring in at least 100 instances: content removals, suspension or deletion of accounts, inability to engage with content, inability to follow or tag accounts, restrictions on the use of features such as Instagram/Facebook Live, and “shadow banning,” a term denoting a significant decrease in the visibility of an individual’s posts, stories, or account without notification. In over 300 cases, users were unable to appeal content or account removal because the appeal mechanism malfunctioned, leaving them with no effective access to a remedy.

In hundreds of the cases documented, Meta invoked its “Dangerous Organizations and Individuals” (DOI) policy, which fully incorporates the United States designated lists of “terrorist organizations.” Meta has cited these lists and applied them sweepingly to restrict legitimate speech around hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups.

Meta also misapplied its policies on violent and graphic content, violence and incitement, hate speech, and nudity and sexual activity. It has inconsistently applied its “newsworthy allowance” policy, removing dozens of pieces of content documenting Palestinian injury and death that has news value, Human Rights Watch said.

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UN Security Council acts to boost aid to Gaza after US abstains

The United Nations Security Council on Friday approved a toned-down bid to boost humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and called for urgent steps "to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities" after a week of vote delays and intense negotiations to avoid a veto by the United States.

Amid global outrage over a rising Gaza death toll in 11 weeks of war between Israel and Hamas and a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the US abstained to allow the 15-member council to adopt a resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates.

The remaining council members voted for the resolution except for Russia which also abstained.

Following high-level negotiations to win over Washington, the resolution no longer dilutes Israel's control over all aid deliveries to 2.3 million people in Gaza. Israel monitors the limited aid deliveries to Gaza via the Rafah crossing from Egypt and the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing.

But a weakening of language on a cessation of hostilities frustrated several council members - including veto power Russia - and Arab and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation states, some of which, diplomats said, view it as approval for Israel to further act against Hamas for a deadly Oct. 7 attack.

The adopted resolution "calls for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities." The initial draft had called for "an urgent and sustainable cessation of hostilities" to allow aid access.

"By signing off on this, the council would essentially be giving the Israeli armed forces complete freedom of movement for further clearing of the Gaza Strip," Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the council before the vote.

Washington traditionally shields its ally Israel from UN action and has already twice vetoed Security Council action since an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas fighters in which Israel says 1,200 people were killed and 240 people taken hostage.

Israel has retaliated against Hamas by bombarding Gaza from the air, imposing a siege and launching a ground offensive. Some 20,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to health officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza.

Most people in Gaza have been driven from their homes and UN officials have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. The World Food Programme says half of Gaza's population is starving and only 10% of the food required has entered Gaza since Oct. 7.

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Gaza is starving.

50% of the population, over a million people, are facing emergency levels of food insecurity. The risk of famine grows by the day.

Netanyahu must answer for these atrocities in The Hague.
 

Israel-Gaza: Israel says it has arrested hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members​

Israel says it has arrested 200 members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in the past week and taken them into its territory for questioning.

A statement said some of the suspects had been hiding among the civilian population and surrendered voluntarily.

Israel says 700 Palestinian militants have been arrested since it launched its military operation and invasion of Gaza with the aim of eliminating Hamas.

Hamas says mostly women and children are being killed by the Israelis.

The BBC is unable to verify the claims. Israel has previously stressed that it takes steps to avoid civilian casualties, and blames Hamas for embedding itself in densely-populated areas.

Israel launched its retaliatory operation after Hamas fighters crossed from Gaza into southern Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages.

More than 20,000 people have been killed and 53,000 injured in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

On Saturday, it said another 201 people had been killed and 368 others injured in the previous day alone.

The UN earlier announced that its aid worker Issam al-Mughrabi, 56, had been killed in a strike - along with his wife, children and more than 70 members of his extended family.

Israel has kept up its bombing campaign in Gaza - ordering civilians to flee. Its military says it has almost full operational control of the north of the territory, and is stepping up operations in the south.

The UN said the latest evacuation order affected 150,000 people in the middle of the Strip.

"People in Gaza are people," commented Thomas White from UNWRA, the agency for Palestinian refugees. "They are not pieces on a checkerboard - many have already been displaced several times."

The latest evacuation order impacted people in the Bureij refugee camp, who were told to head towards Deir al-Balah city further south.

A medic named Ziad told Reuters news agency he was left asking where to go, as there was "no safe place".

Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday that Bureij had been shelled - as had the Jabalia and Nuseirat camps, among other locations.

An adviser to the Israeli prime minister has acknowledged "terrible suffering" in Gaza - but told the BBC this was because the territory's Hamas leadership "don't give a hoot" for the people there.

The suffering "shouldn't have happened" but came about after a "declaration of war" by Hamas on 7 October, said Mark Regev.

The questioning of 200 new suspects was announced in a joint statement on Saturday by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and internal security service Shin Bet.

The statement said this followed the arrests in Gaza of "hundreds of suspects involved in terrorist activities".

The BBC is not able to independently verify all battlefield claims. However, it did verify video earlier this month showing the detention of dozens of Palestinian men in the north Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the president of the UN Security Council has said a resolution adopted on Friday represents a crucial step towards averting a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The resolution aimed to introduce "extended humanitarian pauses and corridors" throughout Gaza, as well as conditions "for a sustainable cessation of hostilities".

The vote followed days of negotiations to avoid a veto by Israel's key ally, the US. But it stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war.

The US and Russia abstained on the vote. Thirteen other members of the council - including the UK, which had previously abstained on a similar resolution - backed the text.

The resolution also demanded that parties "allow, facilitate and enable the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale" to people throughout the Strip.

Hamas described the move as an "insufficient step" given the needs of people in Gaza, and accused the US of working hard to "empty this resolution of its essence".

The resolution also called for "the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages" - something the Israeli military called on the international community to enforce.

UN Secretary General António Guterres said Israel's offensive was creating "massive obstacles" to the distribution of aid in Gaza.

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Israel is looking in no mood to end his war anytime soon. They want to make as much damage as they can to the Hamas and to the people of Gaza.
 
Iran threatens Mediterranean closure over Gaza, without saying how

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit "crimes" in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen.

Iran backs Hamas against Israel and it accuses the United States of backing what it calls Israeli crimes in Gaza, where weeks of bombardment have killed thousands of people and driven most of the population from their homes.

"They shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, (the Strait of) Gibraltar and other waterways," Tasnim quoted Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, coordinating commander of the Guards, as saying.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group has over the past month attacked merchant vessels sailing through the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel's assault on Gaza, leading some shipping companies to switch routes.

The White House on Friday said Iran was "deeply involved" in planning operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.

Iran has no direct access to the Mediterranean itself and it was not clear how the Guards could attempt to close it off, although Naqdi talked of "the birth of new powers of resistance and the closure of other waterways".

"Yesterday, the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz became a nightmare for them, and today they are trapped ... in the Red Sea," Naqdi was quoted as saying.

The only groups backed by Iran on the Mediterranean are Lebanon's Hezbollah and allied militia in Syria, at the far end of the sea from Gibraltar.

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The daily struggle to count the dead in Gaza

In the morgue of Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza, workers wrap the corpses of people killed in Israeli air strikes in white cloth amid the stench of death. They record whatever basic facts they can about the dead: name, identity card number, age, gender.

Some of the bodies are badly mutilated. Only those that have been identified or claimed by relatives can go for burial and be included in the Gaza health ministry’s death toll. The rest are stored in the morgue’s refrigerator, often for weeks.

The toll reached 20,057 people on Friday, amid renewed international calls for a fresh ceasefire in Gaza. According to the ministry, thousands more dead remain buried beneath the rubble. About 70 per cent of those killed are women and children, it said.

The ministry’s figures have drawn international attention to the high number of civilians being killed in the Israeli military’s offensive.

But with most hospitals across Gaza now closed, hundreds of doctors and other health workers killed, and communications hampered by lack of fuel and electricity, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to compile the casualty figures.

The morgue workers at the Nasser Hospital are part of an international effort that includes doctors and health officials in Gaza as well as academics, activists and volunteers around the world to ensure the toll doesn’t become a casualty of the increasingly dire conditions at hospitals.

The workers do not have enough food or water for their families, but they keep going because recording the number of Palestinians dying matters to them, said Hamad Hassan Al Najjar.

He said the psychological strain of the work was immense. Holding a piece of white paper with handwritten information about one of the dead, the 42-year-old said he was often shocked to find the badly damaged corpse of a friend or relative brought in.

The body of the morgue’s director, Saeed Al Shorbaji, and those of several of his family members, arrived in early December, after they were killed in an Israeli air strike, Al Najjar said.

“He was one of the pillars of this morgue,” said Al Najjar, his face worn with sadness and fatigue.

Preparing the bodies of dead children, some of them missing heads or limbs, was the most painful task: “It takes you hours to recover your psychological balance, to recover from the effects of this shock.”

UN vouches for data

The data recorded by Al Najjar and his colleagues is collated by workers at a central information centre set up by the health ministry at Nasser Hospital, which pools information from the functioning emergency departments and hospitals across Gaza. Ministry staff fled their offices at Al Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, after Israeli forces entered it in mid-November.

Ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al Qidra, a 50-year-old doctor, said the team uses a computerised data system established in consultation with the World Health Organisation (WHO), which obliges hospital workers to fill in mandatory information before a death can be registered.

“The numbers used by the ministry of health reflect verified data,” said Al Qidra, noting that many bodies were not being recorded due to lack of information or because they did not pass through hospitals before burial. In Al Shifa hospital, for example, since there are no staffers at present, no deaths were being registered, he said. “The real numbers (of casualties) are much greater than this.”

According to the WHO, only six of Gaza’s 36 hospitals were receiving casualties as of Wednesday, all of them in the south. The UN health agency cited this as one reason it believes the ministry’s tally may be an undercount; the toll also excludes dead who were never taken to hospitals or whose bodies were never recovered

The WHO and other experts said it was not possible for now to determine the extent of any undercounting.

US President Joe Biden said on Oct 25 he had “no confidence” in the Palestinian data.

Following Biden’s remark, the ministry released a 212-page report listing 7,028 people killed in the conflict until Oct 26, including identity cards, names, age and gender. Since then, the ministry has not released such detailed data, making it hard for researchers to corroborate the latest figures.

However, the United Nations which has long-standing cooperation with Palestinian health authorities, continues to vouch for the quality of the data. The WHO noted that compared to previous conflicts in Gaza, the figures show more civilians have been killed, including a greater proportion of women and children.

Open wounds

Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in two hospitals in northern Gaza for the first six weeks after Oct 7, said some people were dying because of lack of treatment of open wounds.

“The death toll is a poor proxy of human suffering,” said Dr Annie Sparrow, a pediatrician who has worked with medics treating the wounded in the Syrian civil war for more than a decade.

But the use of records to fight the fear of erasure runs deep in Palestinian culture, said Abdel Razzaq Takriti, associate professor of Modern Arab History at Rice University in Texas. He quoted from a poem by prominent Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: “You will be forgotten as if you never were.”

According to Takriti, Palestinians see the Israeli offensive as part of a history of conflict and displacement by the Jewish state dating back to the Nakba, when more than 700,000 Palestinians left their homes or were expelled from what is now Israel after formation of the country in 1948.

“For the sake of the present, future, and the past, we need to have an accurate rendition of numbers,” Takriti said.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the Gaza war was exacting a "very heavy price" as the toll of soldiers killed in fighting with Hamas mounted.

"This is a difficult morning, after a very difficult day of fighting in Gaza," he said after the army announced 14 soldiers had been killed in the Palestinian territory since Friday.

"The war is exacting a very heavy price... but we have no choice but to keep fighting," he added in a statement.

"We are continuing with full force until the end, until victory, until we achieve all of our goals: the destruction of Hamas, the return of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza will never again constitute a threat to the State of Israel."

He added: "Let it be clear: This will be a long war... (until) Hamas is eliminated and we restore security in both the north and the south."

Since Israel's ground assault began on October 27, the military has lost 153 soldiers in the Palestinian territory, including 10 on Saturday, making it one of the deadliest days for the army, which is also facing Hezbollah militants across its northern border with Lebanon.

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Netanyahu Says Gaza War Exacting 'Heavy Price' On Israel Army

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the Gaza war was exacting a "very heavy price" as the toll of soldiers killed in fighting with Hamas mounted.
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Al-Sharq Channel Publishes details of the Egyptian initiative to stop the war in Gaza, which consists of three stages.

The first stage:-

The first phase includes the start of a humanitarian truce for two weeks, which can be extended for two or three weeks, during which Hamas releases 40 Israeli detainees, women and children (under 18 years old), and elderly males, especially the sick.

In return, Israel releases 120 Palestinian prisoners of the same two categories, during which hostilities cease, tanks withdraw, and food and medical aid, fuel and cooking gas flow to the Gaza Strip.

The second phase:-

Establishing a Palestinian national dialogue under Egyptian sponsorship with the aim of “ending the division,” and forming a government of technocrats (independents) that will supervise humanitarian relief issues, the Gaza Strip reconstruction file, and paving the way for Palestinian general and presidential elections.

The third level:-

A complete and comprehensive ceasefire, and a comprehensive prisoner exchange deal that includes all Israeli soldiers with Hamas, the Islamic Jihad movement, and other factions, during which an agreement will be reached on the number of Palestinian prisoners that Israel will release, including those with high convictions, and those who were arrested by Israel after October 7th.

The final stage includes an Israeli withdrawal from the cities of the Gaza Strip, and enabling the displaced to return to their areas in Gaza and the northern Strip.

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The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out “wide-scale” strikes against Hezbollah targets Sunday after barrages of rockets from Lebanon targeted multiple communities in northern Israel.

The IDF said fighter jets hit military buildings, rocket launchers, and other infrastructure belonging to the Iran-backed terror group in response to the rocket attacks. It also said it opened fire to “remove threats” at several areas along the border.

Cross-border attacks from Lebanon have persisted since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, when the Palestinian terror group carried out a devastating assault.

In one incident Sunday, an anti-tank missile from Lebanon hit a home in the border community of Avivim, causing significant damage but no injuries.

Communities close to the frontier with Lebanon have been largely evacuated of civilians since October.

Throughout the day, air raid sirens went off in Avivim, Margaliot, Yir’on, Shlomi, and the northern border Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe.

There were also alerts in Sasa, Matat, and Dovev of a suspected enemy drone infiltration and rocket attack.

Several rockets were also fired from Lebanon at the Keren Naftali peak in the Galilee Panhandle.

The IDF said it shelled the source of the fire with artillery.

Israel has said it will no longer tolerate the presence of Hezbollah along the northern frontier after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, in which thousands of terrorists burst into Israel from Gaza, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping over 240, mostly civilians.

As Israel launched a military campaign, including a ground incursion, to destroy Hamas, remove it from power in Gaza, and release the hostages, it also rushed forces to the north as a precaution against Hezbollah mimicking the Hamas attack.

Since October 7, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the northern border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.

Israel has retaliated, hitting Hezbollah sites and security threats near the border.

The Walla outlet cited defense sources as saying that Hezbollah has begun moving thousands of its forces away from the border in some areas to more northern regions of Lebanon, including members of its elite Radwan unit. Sources said it was unclear if the maneuver was temporary or a more permanent redeployment.

According to the report, Hezbollah has said that since fighting started 131 of its fighters have been killed, most of them from the Radwan force, a unit that has specifically trained to carry out a large invasion of northern Israel. The death toll also includes Palestinian terrorists who trained with Hezbollah and took up positions along the border.

An unnamed senior defense source told Walla that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah “was surprised not only by the desire and determination of the IDF to fight against him and even make sacrifices but also by the extent of the forces that have been positioned on the border from the beginning of the fighting to deprive him of his capabilities.

“The important thing is that the surprise he was thinking of was denied him,” the source said. “He cannot surprise the IDF at the line of contact. At the same time, the IDF is planning a strong and multi-layered line of fortifications to deny its [Hezbollah] capabilities in the future. It will not be the same border after what we saw happen at the border of the Gaza Strip. It will be a different border.”

Israel has increasingly warned that if the international community does not push Hezbollah, which like Hamas is sworn to Israel’s destruction, away from its border through diplomatic means, it will take action.

Since hostilities began in October, four civilians and eight soldiers have been killed on the Israeli side, including a soldier who was killed in a rocket barrage Friday. Another IDF soldier was seriously injured in the attack.

The community manager of Kibbutz Manara, close to the border with Lebanon, said Sunday that 86 houses in the community had been damaged by rocket and missile fire from Hezbollah.

Some of the homes were “completely destroyed and some [are] only with shattered windows,” Yochai Wolfin told the Kan public broadcaster, noting that the kibbutz has been largely evacuated of civilians.

“The kibbutz has been hit a number of times and the damage is serious,” he said. “We want to return home and we are waiting for deterrence to be restored to the northern border.”

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to push back against comments from Economy Minister Nir Barkat, as well as media reports that US President Joe Biden had talked him out of a preemptive strike on the Hezbollah terror organization two months ago.

The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that Israel had warplanes in the air ready to carry out a major preemptive strike against Hezbollah in Lebanon four days after Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, but Biden convinced Netanyahu to stand down at the last minute.

Reading from prepared remarks at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said he had spoken to Biden the day before and expressed appreciation for the US stance at the United Nations Security Council after its work to soften a resolution on the Gaza fighting.

“There have been reports that US has prevented, and is preventing, us from carrying out operations in the region. This is not true. Israel is a sovereign country. Our decisions on the war are based on our operational considerations, and not external pressures,” he said.

The comments appeared to be a response to reports over the weekend, and comments by Barkat, seen as a future rival to Netanyahu for the role of Likud leader.

Earlier, Barkat said, “Surrendering to any external pressure, even if it is from our best friends, is a grave mistake for which we are paying a heavy price,” according to Channel 12 news.

Source: TOI

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IDF carries out ‘wide-scale’ airstrikes on Hezbollah as rockets from Lebanon hit north

Anti-tank missile hits house in Avivim, causing no casualties; alert sirens go off in multiple communities along border and in Galilee Panhandle
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Israel bombs northern Gaza; Palestinians say 166 killed in 24 hours

Israel bombed areas of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, with fighting throughout Sunday morning, residents and Palestinian media said, as Gaza health authorities and the Israeli military both announced mounting death tolls.

Israel says it has achieved almost complete operational control over northern Gaza and is preparing to expand a ground offensive against Hamas fighters to other areas. But Jabalia residents reported persistent aerial bombardment and shelling from Israeli tanks, which they said had moved further into the town on Saturday.

A Gaza health ministry spokesman said on Sunday 166 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24 hours, taking the total Palestinian death toll to 20,424. Tens of thousands have been wounded, with many bodies believed trapped under rubble. Almost all of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced.

The Israeli military said nine soldiers had been killed in the past day, bringing to 155 its published combat losses since it began its ground incursion in response to Hamas' Oct. 7 rampage into Israel, in which fighters killed 1,200 and took 240 hostages.

The daily toll was one of the highest for Israeli forces of the ground assault so far.



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Palestinian death toll climbs to 20,424; Israeli military says nine soldiers were killed in the past day
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza war has come at a "very heavy price" for his side.

The military says more than a dozen soldiers have been killed in the territory since Friday, bringing the total of the ground assault to 154.

Saturday was one of its deadliest days - but the Israeli PM there was "no choice" but to keep fighting.

Meanwhile, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 70 people were killed in a strike on a refugee camp on Sunday.

More than 20,000 people have been killed - mostly women and children, and 54,000 injured in Gaza since 7 October, the ministry says.



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What is Hamas doing while poor Palestinians are starving? Shouldn't they be supporting and helping their people?
 
Palestinians feel ‘no joy’ as Israeli bombs claim more lives in Gaza on Christmas

In the besieged Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run ministry of health said early Monday Israeli strikes had killed at least 18 people in the southern city of Khan Yunis, the center of recent fighting.

At a hospital in the city, Fadi Sayegh -- whose family has previously received permits to travel to Bethlehem for celebrations -- said he would not be celebrating Christmas this year.

“There is no joy. No Christmas tree, no decorations, no family din-ner, no celebrations,” he said while undergoing dialysis. “I pray for this war to be over soon.”

Sister Nabila Salah from the Catholic Holy Church in Gaza -- where two Christian women were killed by an Israeli sniper earlier this month according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem -- struck a somber tone.

“All Christmas celebrations have been cancelled,” she told AFP. “How do we celebrate when we are... hearing the sound of tanks and bombardment instead of the ringing of bells?”

The war broke out when Hamas fighters attacked southern Israel on October 7 and killed about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, and seized 250 hostages, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.

Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas in response and its military campaign, which has included massive aerial bombardment. The campaign has killed 20,424 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Pope Francis kicked off global Christmas celebrations on Sunday with a call for peace.

“Our heart goes to Gaza, to all people in Gaza but a special attention to our Christian community in Gaza who is suffering,” the Catholic leader said.

Christmas eve strike
Just ahead of Christmas, the Hamas-run health ministry said at least 70 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on Sunday at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the “toll is likely to rise” as many families were thought to be in the area at the time of the strike.

In a separate incident, the ministry said 10 members of one family were killed in an Israeli strike on their house in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.

AFP was unable to independently verify either toll.

Vast areas of Gaza lie in ruins and its 2.4 million people have endured dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine due to an Israeli siege, alleviated only by the limited arrival of aid trucks.

Eighty percent of Gazans have been displaced, according to the UN, many fleeing south and now shielding against the winter cold in makeshift tents.

The head of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi, called for an end to the suffering.

“A humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is the only way forward,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “War defies logic and humanity, and prepares a future of more hatred and less peace.”

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also renewed calls for a ceasefire, saying: “The decimation of the Gaza health system is a tragedy.”

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Christmas day in the occupied West Bank began with an attack on the Jenin refugee camp and several arrests.

The raid on Monday morning followed several others across the territory, which saw dozens of arrests and the shooting in the neck of a 17-year-old boy. Among towns hit was Bethlehem.

Jenin, commonly viewed as a symbol of Palestinian resistance to occupation, has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces since its war with Hamas in Gaza began on October 7.

On Monday, the Jenin-based Freedom Theatre, a popular symbol of peace and hope that was recently raided and vandalised by Israeli soldiers, described how Israeli forces lit up the sky “with flare bombs” whilst raiding the camp.

Reporting from the Jenin refugee camp, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan said that the Israeli army raided at least 10 houses saying they were looking for Palestinians to arrest. However, no detentions were made.

“Israeli forces did call for Palestinian fighters to come out and give themselves up but that didn’t happen either. Residents are telling us that this is simply a campaign of harassment,” Khan said.

“Jenin refugee camp is now the most raided camp in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli forces are destroying any symbol of resistance or nationalism in the camp.”

While the raids in the camp and Jenin region have now reportedly ended, at least nine young men were arrested in the al-Jalama village, northeast of Jenin.

Regions in and near Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah and Bethlehem – which Christians believe is the birthplace of Jesus Christ – were also raided overnight by Israeli forces, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported.

In the village of Burqa, northwest of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces arrested at least 20 people, including senior citizens.

Moreover, Palestinian news agency Wafa said that a 17-year-old boy was injured after he was hit in the neck when Israeli forces fired live ammunition during a raid in the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas.

Wafa reported that Israeli forces also arrested another resident of Tubas before withdrawing from the town.

Increased violence in the occupied West Bank
The West Bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip which has killed more than 20,000 Palestinians.

Israel says it is targeting Hamas in Gaza, but the violence in the West Bank is taking place despite Hamas having limited presence in the territory.

Israeli incursions into the West Bank have killed at least 303 Palestinians since October 7.

In addition to the activities of Israel’s military, attacks by Israeli settlers are also on the rise.

At least 700,000 Israeli settlers live in illegal, fortified, Jewish-only settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the majority of which were built either entirely or partially on private Palestinian land.

Attacks, which have increased exponentially over the past three months, include shootings, stabbings, rock throwing and beatings, as well as arson and serious damage to homes, vehicles and agricultural land.

The United Nations noted that “in nearly half of all incidents, Israeli forces were either accompanying or actively supporting the attackers”.

Rights groups, Palestinians, and some in the international community have slammed Israel for not doing enough to stop settler violence.

Earlier this month, countries like Belgium and the United States announced they would impose visa restrictions on “extremist” Israeli settlers involved in undermining peace, security or stability in the occupied West Bank.

At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government ratified a decision to assign $21m to support new settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Source: Al Jazeera

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Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank

Dozens have been arrested as Israeli forces stormed Jenin and areas around Nablus.
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Families of hostages taken by Gaza militants heckled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday as he addressed parliament, vowing to bring the captives home but saying "more time" was needed.

"Now! Now!" the families chanted when Netanyahu said Israeli forces needed "more time" to increase military pressure on Gaza's Hamas rulers. Israel says 129 hostages are still held in the Palestinian territory.

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Israel's Netanyahu Heckled By Hostage Families During Parliament Address

Families of hostages taken by Gaza militants booed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday as he addressed parliament, vowing to bring the captives home but saying "more time" was needed.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will intensify its fight against Hamas in the coming days.

He told members of his party that he had visited Gaza on Monday morning and that Israel's military campaign there was "not close to being over".

His comments come days after the US secretary of state said Israel should lower the intensity of its strikes.


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Egypt sets out ambitious Israel-Gaza ceasefire plan​

Egypt has presented what is described as an ambitious plan to end the war in Gaza with a ceasefire.

The proposal, which was presented to Israel, Hamas, the United States and European governments on Monday would see Israel fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip, all captives held by Hamas, and many Palestinian prisoners, freed, and a united technocratic Palestinian government installed in the enclave.

The proposal, developed with the Gulf state of Qatar, includes several rounds of captive and prisoner exchanges, reports Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith from Tel Aviv.

In the first phase, Hamas would free all civilian captives in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners over a truce of 7-10 days.

During the second stage, Hamas would release all female Israeli soldiers in return for more Palestinian prisoners, taking place during another weeklong truce.

In the final phase, the warring parties would engage in “a month of negotiations to discuss the release of all military personnel held by Hamas in exchange for a lot more [Palestinian] prisoners and Israel pulling back to Gaza’s borders”, said Smith.

Close to 8,000 Palestinians are held by Israel on security-related charges or convictions, according to Palestinian figures.

Throughout the ceasefire, Egypt would also lead talks to reunite Palestinian factions Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, who would then jointly appoint a government of experts to run the West Bank and Gaza, ahead of future elections, reports The Times of Israel.

Traction
The plan appears to be preliminary, and there are already suggestions that it could struggle to gain traction with either side.

Israel’s war cabinet was due to discuss the proposal on Monday, even as its military continued pounding Gaza over the Christmas holiday, killing at least 100 Palestinians within 12 hours.

Experts noted that the cabinet, which has been under intense pressure to bring home the remaining captives, is divided and may struggle to accept some of the deal’s terms.

“One challenge is a ceasefire versus a truce,” Mohammed Cherkaoui, a professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University, told Al Jazeera. “Palestinians are talking about a full-fledged ceasefire. The Israelis are hearing a ‘truce,’ a pause.”

Cherkaoui added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would also have to pull back from its stated mission of eradicating Hamas.

“On the one hand [Netanyahu] is still negotiating with Hamas indirectly, but at the same time his main dream is to eradicate Hamas.”

“He lives in two separate worlds and he needs to unify them,” said Cherkaoui.

A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that Netanyahu and his hawkish government were unlikely to accept the full proposal.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected the proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip, quoting Egyptian security sources.

But later a Hamas official denied rejecting the Egyptian deal. Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a statement that the group had “no knowledge” of the information published in the Reuters report.

Israel is entering its 12th week of a devastating air and ground campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 20,400 Palestinians, including 8,200 children.

Air strikes have wrecked much of the besieged enclave, taking out entire blocks and neighbourhoods, and displaced 1.9 million Palestinians who now live in “catastrophic” conditions with little food, water and medicine, the United Nations warns.

There are still 129 captives thought to remain captive in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israeli territory, which also killed nearly 1,200.

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Countries like Egypt are certainly putting in an effort for the ceasefire in Gaza but Netanyahu is looking in no mood to end this war anytime soon. I wonder what is his ultimate ambition?
 
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Netanyahu's goal is probably annexing Gaza and West Bank.

Hamas seems like an excuse.
 
Israel says two more soldiers killed, four injured in fighting in Gaza

The Israeli military said the soldiers, aged 24 and 25, were reservists and both were killed in fighting in southern Gaza on Monday.

The military also said that two soldiers from Israel’s 82nd Battalion and an officer from the 75th Battalion were also injured in fighting in southern Gaza, while another was injured in the north of the Gaza Strip.

The wounded were evacuated to receive medical treatment in a hospital in Israel, the military said.

About 160 Israeli soldiers have now been killed since the ground invasion of Gaza began two months ago.
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BouncerGuy said:
Israel says two more soldiers killed, four injured in fighting in Gaza

The Israeli military said the soldiers, aged 24 and 25, were reservists and both were killed in fighting in southern Gaza on Monday.

The military also said that two soldiers from Israel’s 82nd Battalion and an officer from the 75th Battalion were also injured in fighting in southern Gaza, while another was injured in the north of the Gaza Strip.

The wounded were evacuated to receive medical treatment in a hospital in Israel, the military said.

About 160 Israeli soldiers have now been killed since the ground invasion of Gaza began two months ago.
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They lost around 160 soldiers in Gaza officially. Real number is probably much higher.

Many of their troops are injured also (at least 5000).

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Israel-Hamas war live: Death toll nears 21,000 in Gaza

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 241 people were killed in the past 24 hours and 382 injured.
The Israeli military says the air force hit 100 targets in the south of the Gaza Strip in 24 hours.
Israeli bombing kills Palestinians overnight in Khan Younis, Bureij, Juhor ad-Dik and Nuseirat, according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says war will not stop and he is ready to encourage Palestinians in Gaza to leave the enclave, according to Israeli media reports. Hamas has condemned the statement.

At least 20,915 people have been killed and 54,918 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7. The revised death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.

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Israel-Hamas war live: Death toll nears 21,000 in Gaza

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 241 people were killed in the past 24 hours and 382 injured.
The Israeli military says the air force hit 100 targets in the south of the Gaza Strip in 24 hours.
Israeli bombing kills Palestinians overnight in Khan Younis, Bureij, Juhor ad-Dik and Nuseirat, according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says war will not stop and he is ready to encourage Palestinians in Gaza to leave the enclave, according to Israeli media reports. Hamas has condemned the statement.

At least 20,915 people have been killed and 54,918 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7. The revised death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.

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Israel's insanity has gone Rampant. They cant subdue the Palestinian rightful resistance. No matter how long they drag this war. Like every occupier they would also face defeat and would be humiliated one day God Willing.
 
Netanyahu looking for countries 'to absorb' ethnically cleansed Palestinians

Local media reported the Israeli prime minister discussed the idea at a meeting of his Likud party, plus other stories

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his supporters that he is working on finding countries ready to "absorb" Palestinians from Gaza.

The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom said Netanyahu made the comments at a meeting of his Likud party on Monday, in which he sought to clarify Israel's plans for after the war had ended.

"Our problem is countries that are ready to absorb them and we are working on it," Netanyahu said.

"The world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,” he said, adding that a team must be established to “ensure that those who want to leave Gaza to a third country can do so. It needs to be settled. It has strategic importance for the day after the war."

His words align with statements made by other senior Likud figures. Former Likud minister Danny Danon, for example, has publicly called on western states to accept refugees from Gaza.

Palestinians have long said Israel's current campaign in Gaza is aimed at ensuring their permanent expulsion from the area.

Israel's military strategy is seemingly aimed at making Gaza uninhabitable by destroying anything that sustains life, hoping that Palestinians will then “voluntarily” leave.

The US, EU and Middle East countries in particular have rejected a forced ethnic cleansing of Gaza, but Israel has broken red lines set by these countries before with little lasting consequence, if any at all.

Possible destinations for such an exodus include Egypt, Jordan and western states.

Egypt and Jordan have categorically ruled out accepting Palestinians into their borders, a possibility that recalls the Nakba of 1948, in which Zionist militias ethnically cleansed more than 700,000 Palestinians from their historic homeland to make way for the state of Israel.



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IDF soldier dies after being infected by dangerous fungus during Gaza ground operation​


An IDF soldier has died after being infected by a dangerous strain of fungus while fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

The soldier was brought to Assuta Ashdod Medical Center two weeks ago with severe injuries to his limbs, the report says. Despite round-the-clock care, the fungus proved to be treatment-resistant and the soldier succumbed to his wounds.

Around ten soldiers are believed to have been infected with the same fungus and are undergoing treatment in Israel, the former director of Sheba Medical Center’s Infectious Diseases Unit told Kan radio on Tuesday morning.

The source of the fungus is believed to be ground soil that had been contaminated with sewage waste. The infection is then contracted through wounds sustained by soldiers fighting in Gaza which cannot be kept sterile due to the conditions on the ground.
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Reference: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...angerous-fungus-during-gaza-ground-operation/.

Will Israel accuse the fungus to be Hamas too? LOL.
 
Why Israeli soldier’s death from fungus infection in Gaza has experts worried

Why Israeli soldier’s death from fungus infection in Gaza has experts worried
One IDF soldier is dead and several others are battling drug-resistant infections amid Israel’s war in Gaza. Experts have warned that the strip, whose healthcare system has collapsed, could be a breeding ground for an epidemic

Why Israeli soldier’s death from fungus infection in Gaza has experts worried
Constant bombardment by Israeli forces has left the ground in Gaza covered by sewage and other pollutants. Reuters

The death of an IDF soldier from fungal infection in Gaza has alarmed many experts and thrown the spotlight on the increased risk of diseases spreading in war zones.

The soldier, whose identity remains unknown, succumbed to the infection after being hospitalised.

Meanwhile, several other Israeli soldiers are battling drug-resistant infections and the World Health Organisation has warned that the healthcare system in Gaza is on the verge of collapse.

These include highly resistant bacterial strains of Klebsiella and Escherichia coli, and Aspergillus fungi.

AID chairman professor Galia Rahav told the newspaper, “In all hospitals it is reported that soldiers have returned from the battlefield with resistant infections.”

“It should be noted that a large part of the infections diagnosed among the wounded soldiers are also discovered from time to time in Israel, but they are found in people who were exposed to these bacteria, and not before.”

“The contact with the soil and mud there causes exposure to such resistant bacteria, and also to mould.”

This isn’t a new phenomenon either.

As per the newspaper, the war in Iraq saw wounded US soldiers take the superbug Acinetobacter Baumannii back to US hospitals.

“Just to be clear — the injured IDF soldiers are not being treated in Gaza hospitals. They are picking up these infections because these bacteria, fungi, or parasites are in the dirt or mud in Gaza where they are lying until they are evacuated. They have deep, open wounds that the microbes infect,” professor Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiologist who heads Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s School of Public Health, told Times of Israel.

What happens next?

Experts say Gaza is a perfect breeding ground for a possible epidemic.

A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatised people and, with a health system on its knees, it’s inevitable epidemics will rip through the enclave, 10 doctors and aid workers told Reuters.

“The perfect storm for disease has begun. Now it’s about, ‘How bad will it get?'” James Elder, chief spokesperson for the UN children’s fund (UNICEF), said in an interview.

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The Bald Eagle said:
Why Israeli soldier’s death from fungus infection in Gaza has experts worried

Why Israeli soldier’s death from fungus infection in Gaza has experts worried
One IDF soldier is dead and several others are battling drug-resistant infections amid Israel’s war in Gaza. Experts have warned that the strip, whose healthcare system has collapsed, could be a breeding ground for an epidemic

Why Israeli soldier’s death from fungus infection in Gaza has experts worried
Constant bombardment by Israeli forces has left the ground in Gaza covered by sewage and other pollutants. Reuters

The death of an IDF soldier from fungal infection in Gaza has alarmed many experts and thrown the spotlight on the increased risk of diseases spreading in war zones.

The soldier, whose identity remains unknown, succumbed to the infection after being hospitalised.

Meanwhile, several other Israeli soldiers are battling drug-resistant infections and the World Health Organisation has warned that the healthcare system in Gaza is on the verge of collapse.

These include highly resistant bacterial strains of Klebsiella and Escherichia coli, and Aspergillus fungi.

AID chairman professor Galia Rahav told the newspaper, “In all hospitals it is reported that soldiers have returned from the battlefield with resistant infections.”

“It should be noted that a large part of the infections diagnosed among the wounded soldiers are also discovered from time to time in Israel, but they are found in people who were exposed to these bacteria, and not before.”

“The contact with the soil and mud there causes exposure to such resistant bacteria, and also to mould.”

This isn’t a new phenomenon either.

As per the newspaper, the war in Iraq saw wounded US soldiers take the superbug Acinetobacter Baumannii back to US hospitals.

“Just to be clear — the injured IDF soldiers are not being treated in Gaza hospitals. They are picking up these infections because these bacteria, fungi, or parasites are in the dirt or mud in Gaza where they are lying until they are evacuated. They have deep, open wounds that the microbes infect,” professor Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiologist who heads Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s School of Public Health, told Times of Israel.

What happens next?

Experts say Gaza is a perfect breeding ground for a possible epidemic.

A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatised people and, with a health system on its knees, it’s inevitable epidemics will rip through the enclave, 10 doctors and aid workers told Reuters.

“The perfect storm for disease has begun. Now it’s about, ‘How bad will it get?'” James Elder, chief spokesperson for the UN children’s fund (UNICEF), said in an interview.

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This is what the cruels and oppressors get when they keep on killing innocent people. A divine wrath on such people.
 
Why Palestinian resistance cannot be subdued

The systematic theft of Palestinian land over the years has been the prime reason for conflict between Zionists and Palestinians. Still, the recent outbreak of hostility can be attributed to Israel’s continuous desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, its arbitrary killing of Palestinians, coupled with its aggressive drive to legitimise its illegal possessions through the establishment of ties with the Arab world. These latest developments have infused a sense of despair among the Palestinians and forced them to initiate an assault in the face of Israeli aggression.

Interestingly, the rest of the world has shown enormous support for Palestinians and is eager to see an end to Israeli atrocities. The massive pro-Palestinian rallies in the US, the UK and other countries around the world have shown that people around the globe can no longer be kept oblivious through the biased propaganda of Western media, which only shows one side of the story.

Israel has no conscience, no honour, no pride. They curse Hitler day and night, but they have surpassed Hitler in barbarism.

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The criminal silence of the UN and Western regimes and their acquiescence to this inclement pogrom have further encouraged Zionist supporters who have transgressed every humanitarian limit and are treating Palestinians as “animals”. Unfortunately, this bloodbath will not end until Zionists have entirely robbed northern Gaza after evacuating the Palestinians. Thus, the Hamas manhunt was just a smokescreen.

The obvious outcome of such madness would be the escalation of further tensions in the Middle East and beyond. Israel can never be the reason for stability in this region until it forsakes its sadistic agenda. In addition, the Israeli cultural minister has churned out the possibility of using nuclear weapons against innocent Palestinians in the event of their non-compliance with evacuation demands. Imagine if North Korea and Iran had made the same proposal. The Financial Action Task Force and other world institutions would have stifled their economies, labelling them an “existential threat” to global peace.

Since its establishment, the Israeli regime has received a whopping $317.8 billion in aid to prolong and expand its expansionism. It fought five wars and conducted multiple operations against the Palestinians to break their spirit of independence, but all in vain, thanks to the resilient nature of the Palestinians and their iron will of resistance. Whether it’s the Intifada of 1987, the second Intifada, the conflicts of 2004, 2010 or 2016 or the most recent one, none has been able to dent their iron resolute.

Another reason why the Palestinian freedom struggle won’t falter is the growing support for the Palestinian cause among two other great geopolitical powers – Russia and China. These two nations have recently voiced their concerns about Israel’s brutalities and have also called for a two-state solution to the conflict. Another impetus has been the severance of diplomatic ties to Israel by countries like Bolivia, Jordan and Turkiye and the recalling of ambassadors by dozens of other nations in the wake of Israeli madness. So now, besides the support of the Muslim World, Palestinians have also found some allies in the non-Muslim world, especially in Latin America. All this helps to bolster the spirit of the Palestinians in the face of Israeli aggression.

Palestinian resistance has also strengthened over the years due to Israel’s brutal oppression that has united once fierce rivals like Hamas and Fatah, who have now joined forces to form a united front against Zionist forces. The 2017 reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah is a prime example.
Palestinian resistance also thrives on its overwhelming support among the Muslim populace in Arab and non-Arab countries, which keeps the politicians in these countries from recognising Israel as a legitimate state. This has been a source of agony for the Zionist regime, which has been fighting tooth and nail for worldwide recognition.
The penultimate cause of the success of Palestinian resistance is its improvised combat strategy and guerrilla warfare tactics. A befitting example of it is the heavy loss inflicted on Israel’s military hardware and its personnel during its ongoing land invasion of northern Gaza. For instance, one Hamas missile costs Israel roughly $100,000 to intercept, while in contrast, it costs only $500 to Hamas. Thus, even pouring billions of dollars into Israel in aid from Western regimes does not provide them with a definitive edge over the Palestinians.

Albert Einstein once said: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” The same applies to the Western world, especially the US, which has recently pumped $14.3 billion into Israel’s economy to fund its bloody war in Gaza and is also actively guarding Israel at international forums like the UN. Thus, the US must revisit its erroneous policy and should force Israel to accede to a two-state solution, as has also been mentioned by Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who believes the endgame in Gaza should be a Palestinian state for the sake of Israel’s own security and safety. Also, bear in mind that the fate of an occupying force has never been any different than the US in Vietnam or the Soviets in Afghanistan.

It would be better for Israel to come to terms with the Palestinians, or else this endless cycle of conflict will keep on brewing and could engender another big disaster in the region with the potential to engulf the entire world, which would be inimical for Israel.

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Israel Stole Organs from Bodies of Palestinians – Gaza Authorities

In a statement, the government media office in Gaza said that the examination of bodies revealed that their shapes changed significantly due to the theft of vital organs from the corpses.

Early on Tuesday, the Israeli authorities released the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army who were detained during its ground operation.

In a statement published on its website, the group said that “Euro-Med Monitor has documented the Israeli army’s confiscation of dozens of dead bodies from Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and others from the vicinity of the so-called ‘safe corridor’ (Salah al-Din Road) designated for displaced people heading to the central and southern parts of the Strip.”

Euro-Med Monitor added that the “Israeli army also dug up and confiscated the bodies from a mass grave that was established more than 10 days ago in one of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex’s courtyards.”

The statement also noted that “Israel is thought to be the biggest hub for the illegal global trade in human organs, according to a 2008 investigation by the American CNN network, which also revealed that Israel participated in the theft of organs from dead Palestinians for illegal use.”

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Palestinian Red Crescent denounces Israel’s targeting of Al-Amal Hospital, calls for urgent protection​


The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) condemned today’s Israeli occupation bombing near the Society’s Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 10 people and the injury of at least 21 others, which comes after the occupation army yesterday bombed in front of the hospital, which led to the death of 31 people and the injury of 25 others, the majority of them are displaced people taking shelter in the PRCS headquarters and the hospital, which houses about 14,000 displaced persons who took refuge in it as a safe haven after they were forced to leave their homes as a result of the continued Israeli bombing.

PRCS expressed in a statement today its deep concern for the safety of its staff working in the hospital and the Society’s headquarters, especially since today’s targeting is considered the fifth on the hospital and its surroundings in less than a week. The day before yesterday, the occupation forces targeted the upper floors of the Society’s headquarters with artillery shelling, which led to several injuries among the displaced persons and the destruction of its VHF antenna considered the only means of communication in light of the communications outage, which poses a major challenge for ambulance and emergency crews in reaching the wounded and sick. A few days ago, a drone shot a 13-year-old displaced child while he was inside the building, leading to his death.

“The occupation’s intensification of targeting the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital during the past days may be considered a prelude to targeting it directly, and we fear it will face what happened to Al-Quds Hospital affiliated with the PRCS in Gaza City, which became out of service as a result of the targeting, the siege, and the prevention of humanitarian and medical supplies,” PRCS said in its statement.

It appealed to the international community and partners in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to intervene immediately and urgently to protect Al-Amal Hospital and to protect its medical staff, the wounded, the sick, and about 14,000 displaced persons, in accordance with international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Source : Wafa News
 
The downfall of Israel has already started but it will become evident soon. They are facing plague like diseases, iron will Palestinians and the alive conscience muslim population around the world.
 
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Israel has lost the PR war. They are also losing many troops and equipment. As per Israel's Ynet News, there have been over 5000 injured Israeli soldiers. They also lost 160+ ground troops in Gaza officially (real number is probably higher than that).

This is turning out to be very costly for Israel.
 
Israeli soldier shoots, injures colleagues after suffering Gaza nightmare

An Israeli soldier recently returned from Gaza injured members of his unit when he woke up from a nightmare and began firing a weapon, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Wednesday.

The soldier was staying at a resort in Ashkelon in southern Israel that is being used by the military for rehabilitation purposes when the incident happened.

The soldier opened fire on a wall, injuring an undisclosed number of soldiers who suffered shrapnel wounds, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The incident was referred for investigation to Israel’s Ministry of Defence, however it was decided that no further action would be taken due to the soldier’s psychological state.

Earlier this month, Israeli daily Haaretz reported that 18% of soldiers participating in the invasion of Gaza are suffering from mental health problems and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The report cited figures given at a Health Warfare Commission hearing by Limor Luria, the head of the Israeli Defence Ministry rehabilitation department.

Footage posted online have shown the intensity of street-to-street fighting in Gaza, where at least 164 Israeli soldiers have been killed.

A report from Israel's Ynet News earlier this month said over 5,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war on Gaza, with 2,000 officially recognised by Israel’s Ministry of Defence as disabled.

The Israeli government has been tight-lipped about the extent of army casualties during the invasion of Gaza, with accusations of a wartime crackdown on the free press by the far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Numerous reports of soldiers suffering from mental trauma after participating in Israel's brutal assaults on the Palestinian territories have emerged over the years, with soldiers claiming they are not adequately supported by the government.

In August, Israeli soldier Bar Khalaf set himself on fire amid a dispute with the Israeli Defence Ministry over his disability status. Khalaf served in Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, later claiming that he had suffered PTSD from his experience.


Reference: https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-soldier-shoots-colleagues-after-having-gaza-nightmare#:~:text=A report from Israel's Ynet,Ministry of Defence as disabled..
 
Israeli strike hits residential area near Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah

“It was a very terrifying scene.“ Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum was reporting near the scene of an explosion where at least 20 people have been killed, many more injured in Rafah. These are the moments following that Israeli strike that hit a crowded residential area, home to many displaced Palestinians and a nearby hospital.

Source : Al Jazeera
 
30 people reported killed in Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps

The Israeli army seems to be stepping up its aerial bombardment across the Gaza Strip. There is a sense of frustration as this is happening days after the resolution was passed by the UN Security Council. People are now seeing more bombs, less food, and less humanitarian aid.

In the central part of Gaza, Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps are again the sites of major massive air strikes and artillery shelling. More residential homes have been targeted and destroyed.

The damage caused by those large bombs not only destroyed the targeted home, but also the surrounding homes. We’re talking about at least five to seven homes becoming unlivable.

So far, 30 people have been reported killed in those combined attacks.
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Deadliest Year for Children in West Bank – UNICEF​


This year has been the deadliest year on record for children in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with conflict-related violence reaching unprecedented levels,” said UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Adele Khodr.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that 2023 has been the deadliest year on record for children in the West Bank, with 83 children killed in the past twelve weeks.

This number is “more than double the number of children killed in all of 2022, amid increased military and law enforcement operations,” said Adel Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, in a statement on Thursday.

More than 576 have been injured and others have reportedly been detained, Khodr said.

“As the world watches on in horror at the situation in the Gaza Strip, children in the West Bank are experiencing a nightmare of their own,” she said.

Khodr explained that “living with a near-constant feeling of fear and grief is, sadly, all too common for children affected.”

Many children report that fear has become a part of their daily lives, with many scared even walking to school or playing outside due to the threat of shootings and other conflict-related violence.

She said children living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have been experiencing grinding violence for many years, yet the intensity of that violence has dramatically increased since October 7.

According to UNICEF, “conflict-related violence has killed 124 Palestinian children and 6 Israeli children since the start of 2023.”

“Grave violations against children, in particular killing and maiming, are unacceptable’, Khodr added.

UNICEF, she stressed, is extremely concerned about the right of children in the West Bank including East Jerusalem to safety and protection, and their inherent right to life.

Source : The Palestine Chronicle
 
South Africa files case at ICJ accusing Israel of ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza

South Africa has filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza after nearly three months of relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 21,500 people and caused widespread destruction in the besieged enclave.

In an application to the court on Friday, South Africa described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”.

“The acts in question include killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction,” the application said.

The ICJ, also called the World Court, is a UN civil court that adjudicates disputes between countries. It is distinct from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes individuals for war crimes.

As members of the UN, both South Africa and Israel are bound by the court.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has compared Israel’s policies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank with his country’s past apartheid regime of racial segregation imposed by the white-minority rule that ended in 1994.

Several human rights organisations have said that Israeli policies towards Palestinians amount to apartheid.



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BouncerGuy said:
30 people reported killed in Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps

The Israeli army seems to be stepping up its aerial bombardment across the Gaza Strip. There is a sense of frustration as this is happening days after the resolution was passed by the UN Security Council. People are now seeing more bombs, less food, and less humanitarian aid.

In the central part of Gaza, Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps are again the sites of major massive air strikes and artillery shelling. More residential homes have been targeted and destroyed.

The damage caused by those large bombs not only destroyed the targeted home, but also the surrounding homes. We’re talking about at least five to seven homes becoming unlivable.

So far, 30 people have been reported killed in those combined attacks.
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Source : Al Jazeera
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Very good from South Africa.

They know a thing or two about evil of apartheid.
 
Russia bombs Ukraine and kills 30 people, while Israel bombs Palestine and kills 100s daily. Yet why this hypocrisy in the news coverage? Perhaps it's because Israeli bombs don't hurt as much as Russian ones?

Before people point fingers at the west, remember when hundreds of thousands of Yemenis were ruthlessly bombed and killed by the Saudis, there was no hue and cry in the Muslim world, no sorrow or pain that's being felt in the way when Israelis have indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

The commodity that's seen the biggest growth in 2023 is hypocrisy!
 
US sponsoring Israel’s ‘genocidal’ war in Gaza: Hamas

The head of Hamas International Relations, Basem Naim, has condemned the international community for failing to stop the “genocidal war” in Gaza that has killed more than 21,000 people.

“While these crimes have been committed with Israeli hands, they were sponsored and backed up by the US administration,” he said in a televised statement. “We, therefore, hold the Biden administration, especially the president (Joe Biden) himself, and his foreign and defence secretaries accountable for their direct role in sponsoring and orchestrating this ongoing genocide against our people.

“We also hold the international community accountable for their failure to stop the genocide,” Naim added.

SOURCE: ALJAZEERA​
 
shortbread said:
Russia bombs Ukraine and kills 30 people, while Israel bombs Palestine and kills 100s daily. Yet why this hypocrisy in the news coverage? Perhaps it's because Israeli bombs don't hurt as much as Russian ones?

Before people point fingers at the west, remember when hundreds of thousands of Yemenis were ruthlessly bombed and killed by the Saudis, there was no hue and cry in the Muslim world, no sorrow or pain that's being felt in the way when Israelis have indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

The commodity that's seen the biggest growth in 2023 is hypocrisy!
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Israel have occupied and massacred for decades with the help of the west who continue to reject any form of ceazefire.

Since the balfor declaration 1917, the green light was given for the most inhumane act in LIVING MEMORY.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Israel have occupied and massacred for decades with the help of the west who continue to reject any form of ceazefire.

Since the balfor declaration 1917, the green light was given for the most inhumane act in LIVING MEMORY.
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Nothing justifies how israel are bombing and killing Palestinian civilians currently. Yet, despite being a much more recent conflict the Saudi/Emarati combo have bombed and killed more Yemenis than all the Palestinians ever murdered by Israel.

By the end of 2021 itself more than 377,000 Yemenis lost their lives due to the conflict. UN declared Yemen as the biggest current humanitarian disaster. Yet no one came out on the streets, all the Muslim nations lay quiet, no tweets from celebrities...... hundreds of thousands bombed and killed, that was fine?! The irony was staggering when MBS called out the Israelis for the Palestinian bombings.

It was the same americans and british who supplied arms to the saudis and emaratis to kill Yemenis. Yet we point fingers at western hypocrisy of calling Russia's actions illegal but what Israel does can be ignored, forgetting how we've been culpable of doing the same.
 
shortbread said:
Nothing justifies how israel are bombing and killing Palestinian civilians currently. Yet, despite being a much more recent conflict the Saudi/Emarati combo have bombed and killed more Yemenis than all the Palestinians ever murdered by Israel.

By the end of 2021 itself more than 377,000 Yemenis lost their lives due to the conflict. UN declared Yemen as the biggest current humanitarian disaster. Yet no one came out on the streets, all the Muslim nations lay quiet, no tweets from celebrities...... hundreds of thousands bombed and killed, that was fine?! The irony was staggering when MBS called out the Israelis for the Palestinian bombings.

It was the same americans and british who supplied arms to the saudis and emaratis to kill Yemenis. Yet we point fingers at western hypocrisy of calling Russia's actions illegal but what Israel does can be ignored, forgetting how we've been culpable of doing the same.
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It's surprising that no one talks or raises a voice for the Yemeni people and the atrocities Saudi Arabia has committed against them.
 
shortbread said:
Nothing justifies how israel are bombing and killing Palestinian civilians currently. Yet, despite being a much more recent conflict the Saudi/Emarati combo have bombed and killed more Yemenis than all the Palestinians ever murdered by Israel.

By the end of 2021 itself more than 377,000 Yemenis lost their lives due to the conflict. UN declared Yemen as the biggest current humanitarian disaster. Yet no one came out on the streets, all the Muslim nations lay quiet, no tweets from celebrities...... hundreds of thousands bombed and killed, that was fine?! The irony was staggering when MBS called out the Israelis for the Palestinian bombings.

It was the same americans and british who supplied arms to the saudis and emaratis to kill Yemenis. Yet we point fingers at western hypocrisy of calling Russia's actions illegal but what Israel does can be ignored, forgetting how we've been culpable of doing the same.
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We need to defrenciate the COMMON people from the people who have platforms to speak out or put in to action who don't. There was plenty of condemnation at the time when the puppet Saudi Regime was bombing innocent children and women of Yemen .
Infact our local councillors felt the full brunt of it. Same applies to what the Barbaric RSS regime are doing in the Kashmir region. There was plenty of condemnation and action at what the COMMON folk has in its power.

But to occupy illegally someone else's land and to dish out the same treatment as what the Nazis horrifically did, and nothing to be done is in my opinion the most barbaric and evil act in LIVING MEMORY.

As for the so called democracies, it preaches when it fits in with ones narrative, hence I find it hypocritical to vote. So will never vote.
 

Biden administration bypasses Congress on weapons sales to Israel​

The administration of United States President Joe Biden has once again bypassed Congress to greenlight an emergency weapons sale to Israel, which has only intensified and broadened its attacks on the Gaza Strip despite growing international outrage.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination in less than a month, covering a $147.5m sale of equipment to Israel, the State Department said on Friday.

“Given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer,” it said.

“The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to ensure Israel is able to defend itself against the threats it faces.”

The package includes ancillary items, including fuses, charges and primers that Israel would require to make the 155mm shells that it had previously purchased, function.

Friday’s emergency determination, which is rare but has been used by at least four previous US administrations, means that a requirement for a potentially lengthy congressional review for foreign military sales will be bypassed.

Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane said it was important to point out the broader context of the messaging.

“We’ve been hearing from all the top Biden administration officials for weeks that it is time for Israel to move to a lower-intensity conflict. In essence, stop the mass bombing. Stop the mass deaths of civilians,” she said.

“So, in that context – knowing that is what they say they want – they are now selling to Israel the exaction munitions they need to continue a high-intensity campaign.”

‘Morally scandalous’
Israel will also be purchasing 155mm M107 projectiles, which are artillery shells that will cause widespread destruction in a densely populated area such as Gaza, Culhane reported.

“They didn’t say exactly how many [shells] were going to be in this $147.5m package. But, in previous packages, it really does mean that thousands and thousands of bombs will be going to Israel.”

Ensuring Israel gets weapons to continue its intense phase of the war, while also urging it to lower the intensity of fighting, is “strategically self-defeating” for Washington, according to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, who called Friday’s decision “astounding”.

“One really has to look deep to see if there is any meaningful explanation for why the Biden administration wants to bypass Congress in order to expedite weapons to a country that is involved in war crimes,” he said on Saturday.

The move was “morally scandalous” given that the war has caused record damage and killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, Bishara said, but it is also “politically suspect in the sense that why would you want to bypass Congress twice in the same month? What is the urgency to bypass your own guidelines?”

On December 9, the Biden administration made another emergency determination to approve the sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106m.

Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, criticised the US’s role in the war, saying: “While these crimes have been committed with Israeli hands, they were sponsored and backed up by the US administration.”

In a televised statement on Saturday, he added that the group holds the Biden administration “accountable for their direct role in sponsoring and orchestrating this ongoing genocide against our people”.

‘Record’ devastation
The move to expedite more weapons comes as Biden’s request for an enormous $106bn package that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and other perceived national security needs has yet to pass Congress, as it is entangled in a debate over US immigration and border security policies.

The Biden administration has tried to counter criticism over the mounting death toll in Gaza and continued US arms sales to Israel by saying it constantly maintains contact with Israel to stress the importance of minimising civilian casualties.

However, Luciana Zaccara, an associate professor in Gulf politics at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera it was pursuing a “dual-track” approach when it comes to the war.

“On the one hand they are trying to convince the public opinion that the US is really concerned about civilian casualties but also they keep sustaining Israel (militarily),” he said. “It is totally contradicting … it is hard to understand how this is in the national interest.”

The policy was especially perplexing in light of “mounting pressure” in the US, including among Democrats, against the war as civilian casualties in Gaza continue to rise, Zaccara said.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that the war “is generating destruction comparable in scale to the most devastating warfare in the modern record”.

By mid-December, Israel had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions and shells on Gaza, destroying or damaging nearly 70 percent of homes, the report said.

Some Democratic lawmakers have suggested further significant aid to Israel should be contingent on concrete promises by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to curb civilian casualties in Gaza.

More than 21,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the besieged enclave since October 7, most of them children and women, in what has been widely described as collective punishment. Thousands more are missing.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said on Saturday that Israeli authorities continue to impose “severe restrictions” on humanitarian access despite deliveries of aid from Egypt and through the Rafah crossing.

He also said they are “creating a stream of baseless misinformation” to accuse aid agencies over gaps in deliveries.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned again that the conflict could spread to the wider region if not halted immediately.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
 

Palestinian economy in 2023 hard hit by Israeli aggression, affects to continue in 2024 – PMA, PCBS​


Palestinian economy in 2023 hard hit by Israeli aggression, affects to continue.

A joint press release issued today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) on the performance of the Palestinian economy for 2023 along with the economic forecasts for 2024 said that the economy was hard hit by the Israeli aggression started on October 7 which led to a decline in gross domestic product (GDP) in Palestine during the fourth quarter 2023 by 33%, and is expected to leave a negative forecast for 2024.

The continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip during the fourth quarter of 2023 and the following repercussions on the economy in the West Bank, will lead to a decline in Palestine's GDP in 2023 at about of 6%, with an estimated value of $1 billion compared to 2022, where the Palestinian economy was supposed to achieve growth by 3% in the same year, said PCBS and PMA.

Palestinian GDP dropped by 33% in the fourth quarter of 2023 due to Israeli ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip and repeated raids of the West Bank. This decline is also due to a series of factors, most notably the sharp decline in external support, the continued deduction of parts of tax revenues (clearance) by the Israeli occupation over the year which exceeded 2 billion Israeli shekels; where the latest of which was the deduction of salaries of Gaza Strip employees.

Gaza Strip domestic product declined in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared with the same quarter in 2022 by more than 80% as a result of the Israeli aggression, which led to the near-total disruption of economic life and the destruction of most of the components of production. Also, GDP recorded a sharp decline by 22% in the West Bank, due to the continued raids of the Israeli occupation on the cities, towns and camps of the West Bank, as well as the closure policy between West Bank governorates and the layoffs of more than 90% of Palestinian workers in Israel and the Israeli settlements, which all, in return, created economic contraction and distorted its economic structure; and thus, it led to the Palestinian government inability to fulfill its financial obligations toward the public and private sectors.

Unemployment rates rose to reach their highest levels, recording 74% in the Gaza Strip during the fourth quarter of 2023. Also, economic indicators during the fourth quarter of 2023 showed a decline in the contribution of the Gaza Strip to the gross domestic product in the State of Palestine from about 34% over the years before 2006 to less than 5%, which led to a structural distortion in the Gaza Strip’s economy affected its ability to recover. Estimates also indicate that about half of the establishments were completely or partially destroyed as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The value added of all economic activities in Palestine dropped in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the same quarter of the previous year, where construction activity recorded the highest decline reaching 39% (27% in the West Bank and 96% in Gaza Strip), followed by agriculture activity with a decline of 38% (12% in the West Bank and 93% in Gaza Strip), then the services activity by 33% (21% in the West Bank and 77% in Gaza Strip), industry activity by 28% (24% in the West Bank and 92% in Gaza Strip), as a result of which all economic activities in Palestine declined in 2023 compared to 2022, where the constructions activity recorded the highest decline of 12%, followed by agriculture, industry activities by 8%, and services activity by 6%.

At the expenditure level, gross consumption decreased by 33.1% (21% in the West Bank and 80% in Gaza Strip) in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in the previous year. The private consumption by households and non-profit institutions and serving households declined by 33%, where public consumption (Government) decreased by 33.4% during the same period, while gross investment (gross capital formation) decreased by 30%. During 2023, GDP per capita declined by 8% and private and government consumption by 3% and 8%, respectively, as well as a decline in the gross investment by 5%.

At the level of the Palestinian trade with the outside world, the fourth quarter of 2023 witnessed a sharp decline in the value of exports of goods and services by 33% along with a decline of 33% in imports during the same period, as a result of the fact that the value of imports is about three times the value of exports, which led to a decline of 33% in the trade balance deficit. It is worth mentioning that before 2006, the volume of trade for the Gaza Strip reached 23% of Palestine's total trade. Yet, this percentage declined below 4% in the fourth quarter of 2023. During the recent aggression on Gaza Strip, supply chains from and into the Gaza Strip were cut off, which warns of a health catastrophe in all of Gaza Strip due to the sharp decline in medicines and healthcare needs and necessities. While, in 2023, exports, imports and the trade balance recorded relative stability compared with 2022.

At the labor and workers level, Palestine is experiencing a regional gap in unemployment rates, during the fourth quarter of 2023, the unemployment rate in Palestine is expected to reach 46% (29% in the West Bank and 74% in the Gaza Strip). Unemployment rates in Palestine are estimated to rise from 25.5% in 2022 to 30.7% in 2023 as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and its repercussions on Palestine. The unemployment rate will reach 18% in the West Bank and about 53% in the Gaza Strip. Moreover, estimates indicate that there will be more than 651,000 unemployed persons in Palestine (393,000 unemployed persons in the Gaza Strip and 258,000 unemployed persons in the West Bank) in 2023.

Source : Wafa News
 
Bloody Day for Israeli Military in Gaza – Resistance Roundup – DAY 85

A new video footage released by Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, showed more daring military operations, focusing mostly on the Khan Yunis region.
For weeks Israel has tried, but repeatedly failed, to enter Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Al-Qassam’s latest video illustrates part of the difficulties faced by the invading Israeli army.

Below are some of the statements issued by several Palestinian Resistance groups regarding the progress of the battles in Gaza.

They include brief statements by the Lebanese Resistance group, Hezbollah.

The statements below are unedited, and were communicated by the groups using their Telegram channels.

Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas)

“The fighters of Al-Qassam Brigades managed to completely destroy a Zionist troop carrier north of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip with an Al-Yassin 105 shell.

“Al-Qassam Brigades blew up a Zionist Merkava tank with a Shuath explosive device north of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

“Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell north of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

“After their return from the clash areas south of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, Al-Qassam fighters report targeting two Zionist tanks and two troop carriers with Al-Yassin 105 shells and detonating a Shuath explosive device in a third tank.

“Al-Qassam fighters clash with the Zionist Special Forces penetrating the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, killing and wounding more than 20 soldiers.

“Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkava tank with a Shuath device in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City.

“Al-Qassam Brigades bombard gatherings of occupation vehicles and soldiers in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

“Al-Qassam fighters were able to blow up a house in which a number of occupation soldiers were fortified with explosive devices, leaving them dead and wounded in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip.

“Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Khuza’a area, east of the city of Khan Yunis.

Source : The Palestine Chronicle
 
The Bald Eagle said:
Bloody Day for Israeli Military in Gaza – Resistance Roundup – DAY 85

A new video footage released by Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, showed more daring military operations, focusing mostly on the Khan Yunis region.
For weeks Israel has tried, but repeatedly failed, to enter Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Al-Qassam’s latest video illustrates part of the difficulties faced by the invading Israeli army.

Below are some of the statements issued by several Palestinian Resistance groups regarding the progress of the battles in Gaza.

They include brief statements by the Lebanese Resistance group, Hezbollah.

The statements below are unedited, and were communicated by the groups using their Telegram channels.

Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas)

“The fighters of Al-Qassam Brigades managed to completely destroy a Zionist troop carrier north of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip with an Al-Yassin 105 shell.

“Al-Qassam Brigades blew up a Zionist Merkava tank with a Shuath explosive device north of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

“Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell north of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

“After their return from the clash areas south of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, Al-Qassam fighters report targeting two Zionist tanks and two troop carriers with Al-Yassin 105 shells and detonating a Shuath explosive device in a third tank.

“Al-Qassam fighters clash with the Zionist Special Forces penetrating the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, killing and wounding more than 20 soldiers.

“Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkava tank with a Shuath device in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City.

“Al-Qassam Brigades bombard gatherings of occupation vehicles and soldiers in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

“Al-Qassam fighters were able to blow up a house in which a number of occupation soldiers were fortified with explosive devices, leaving them dead and wounded in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip.

“Al-Qassam Brigades target a Zionist Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Khuza’a area, east of the city of Khan Yunis.

Source : The Palestine Chronicle
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Despite fewer and limited resources the Palestinians people are fighting with great heart against Israeli oppressors. Kudos to these heroes👏
 
adil_909 said:
What would you like them to do????
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Come out and fight. They put Palestinians in harms way by attacking Israel like brainless bulls. Now that Israel responded back, they went into hiding.
Any brave soldier would come out and fight. Not run and hide.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Come out and fight. They put Palestinians in harms way by attacking Israel like brainless bulls. Now that Israel responded back, they went into hiding.
Any brave soldier would come out and fight. Not run and hide.
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If Hamas is hiding, how is Israel losing troops?

Check how many troops and equipment Israel lost. 160+ dead soldiers in Gaza (source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-number-of-israeli-soldiers-wounded-in-gaza-is-mounting-representing-a-hidden-cost-of-war#:~:text=More than 160 soldiers have,Open University, of the wounded.).

Hamas is fighting guerrilla warfare.
 
sweep_shot said:
If Hamas is hiding, how is Israel losing troops?

Check how many troops and equipment Israel lost. 160+ dead soldiers in Gaza (source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-number-of-israeli-soldiers-wounded-in-gaza-is-mounting-representing-a-hidden-cost-of-war#:~:text=More than 160 soldiers have,Open University, of the wounded.).

Hamas is fighting guerrilla warfare.
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Hiding in tunnels and attacking Israeli soldiers.

Why don't they come out and walk openly like IDF does? Hiding and killing a few IDF soldiers is not what any army does.
 
Hamas does not have the same kind of army setup as Israel has. They cannot fight face to face because they have limited resource so they are fighting a guerilla war here and the damage they have inflicted to IDF is more than what actually is told by many news sources.
 
Champ_Pal said:
So very brave of these Hamas guys.
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You do not understand warfare. It is evident from your posts.

It seems like you expect military entities to fight like they are in a Bollywood movie. Real-life warfare doesn't work that way. This is not Hrithik Roshan's "Kuch Kuch Hota Hay".

Even Ukraine did guerilla warfare against Russia.
 
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Hiding in tunnels and attacking Israeli soldiers.

Why don't they come out and walk openly like IDF does? Hiding and killing a few IDF soldiers is not what any army does.
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It's called Guerilla warfare. They know
their locations inside out. The IDF are getting massacred left, right, and center.
 
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More weapons mean more killings, this must be stopped quickly.
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It won't be, conflict is necessary for the massive defence industry complex in these countries. For example most of the UK councils are bankrupt, piling up massive amounts of debt and are cutting down on basic services. Despite this UK tax payer money, hundreds of millions are being pumped into companies like BAE systems to supply arms to Israel, Ukraine etc. This is taxpayers money being pumped into wars that no one wants to be a part of.

In the meantime distract the ignorant populace with things like Harry Megan, migrant boats, honours list..... who even cares about charles honouring another trope as useless as himself with a meaningless title?!
 
Champ_Pal said:
Hiding in tunnels and attacking Israeli soldiers.

Why don't they come out and walk openly like IDF does? Hiding and killing a few IDF soldiers is not what any army does.
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For context, Gaza doesn't have an official army or military. The occupation restricts the development of any such infrastructure or imports/manufacturing of weapons. Obviously, they don't even have the right to control their coast or air space (or even routes out of the strip). They are just a small-time group of militants with probably a small-ish number of trained "soldiers". It's not really a solidified organisation and seems to morph depending on what is happening and where.

IDF's ground troops are obviously backed by an airforce and tanks along with far, far greater numbers, coastal and drone support as well overseas reservists numbering in the 100,000's.

Despite this, the morale of their army appears to be dwindling and most of the casualties they have inflicted on Gaza have come from aerial strikes. Considering that 70% of the victims are children, the official numbers from the IDF seem to believe that every single non-child, non-female death is a member of Hamas. It's extremely depressing tbh, and the actions of the ground troops are quite sickening - a recent report showed that they separated the men from a group of families and shot them point blank and then fired two tank shells at the remaining women and children before leaving. I have no words to describe this.
 
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Hiding in tunnels and attacking Israeli soldiers.

Why don't they come out and walk openly like IDF does? Hiding and killing a few IDF soldiers is not what any army does.
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They are not an army! Gaza has no army. They are fighting using tactics that can inflict the most damage to their enemy.

Let's be clear, the Palestinians are not suffering because of Hamas. That's just an Israeli excuse. Wake up and listen to how their government and their people describe Muslims and Palestinians.
 
Humanity has died. Double standards of this World World has been exposed badly.

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FearlessRoar said:
Humanity has died. Double standards of this World World has been exposed badly.

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For me Democracy has been exposed as nothing other than hot air.

Humanity was always awake. But when we have rulers who preach Democracy yet nothing gets put in to action is the difference.

Tough times ahead. Alot of people through out the world have had enough of lies and double standards. We are going to enter the unknown.
 
Israel warned its war against Hamas will continue throughout 2024 as unrelenting strikes killed two dozen people in Gaza and the Palestinian militant group fired a rocket barrage at the stroke of midnight.

Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a New Year's message that some of the 300,000 army reservists would get a break from the war, in order to prepare for the "prolonged fighting" ahead.

The army "must plan ahead, understanding that we will be required for additional tasks and warfare throughout this year," Mr Hagari said as the conflict sparked by the 7 October Hamas attacks raged on.

Heavy artillery fire again pounded targets in Hamas-run Gaza today, with attacks reported across the length of the territory.

A total of 21,978 Palestinians have been killed and 56,697 have been wounded in Israeli strikes in Gaza since 7 October, the health ministry in Gaza said.

The figures include 156 Palestinians killed and 246 injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.

Hamas marked the start of the year by firing a rocket barrage at Israel in what it called a "response to the massacres of civilians".

AFP journalists in Tel Aviv witnessed missile defence systems intercept rockets overhead as some revellers ran for cover and others kept up the party with a shrug.

The bloodiest ever Gaza war was triggered by Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of around 1,140 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

The militants also took around 250 people hostage that day, more than half of whom remain in Gaza, according to Israeli officials.

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a punishing offensive that has reduced vast areas of Gaza to a ruined wasteland.

The Israeli army said 172 of its soldiers have been killed inside Gaza in the battle against the Islamist militant group which Israel, the United States and European Union have designated a "terrorist" organisation.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday that the fighting would last "many months until Hamas is eliminated and the hostages are returned".

Mr Hagari said "we are also currently adapting the planning of the force deployment in Gaza and the reserve system. Some of the reservists will return to their families and employment this week.

"This will significantly ease the burden on the economy and allow them to gather strength for the upcoming activities in the next year, as the fighting will continue and they will still be required."

Since Israel imposed a siege at the outset of the war, Gazans have been facing dire shortages of food, water, fuel and medicine.

UN chief Antonio Guterres has condemned the "epic human suffering" and "collective punishment" of Palestinian civilians, while the WHO has warned of the risk of hunger and infectious disease.

Scores of Palestinians were killed in strikes on Gaza City over the weekend, the territory's health ministry said, with many still buried under the rubble.

"After the explosion we arrived at the scene of the strike and saw martyrs everywhere," said one resident after a building was hit. "Children are still missing, we can't find them."

International mediators have continued efforts toward a new pause in fighting.

A Hamas delegation from Qatar visited Cairo on Friday to discuss an Egyptian three-phase plan proposing renewable ceasefires, a staggered release of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, and ultimately an end to the war, sources close to Hamas said.

Their allies Islamic Jihad said on Saturday that Palestinian factions were evaluating the proposal and would give a response "within days".

The war in Gaza has raised fears of a broader regional conflict, with hostilities flaring with mostly Iran-backed militant groups in nearby countries who say they are acting in support of Hamas.

The Israeli army said last night it had intercepted two "hostile aircraft" launched from Syria towards northern Israel.

Earlier it had reported launches toward Israeli territory from Lebanon, where it has fought the Hezbollah militant group.

"Throughout the day, IDF (military) tanks and helicopters targeted three terrorist squads operating in Lebanon," the army said in a statement.

Source: RTE

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Israel warned its war against Hamas will continue throughout 2024 as unrelenting strikes killed two dozen people in Gaza and the Palestinian militant group fired a rocket barrage at the stroke of midnight.
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Israeli Arrested For Impersonating Soldier In Gaza War​


He fought for weeks alongside elite Israeli troops in Gaza and appeared in a frontline photograph next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Roi Yifrah now stands accused of impersonating a soldier.

Yifrah, 35, apparently never served in the Israeli army but managed to make his way to the Gaza Strip, where Israel is waging a fierce military campaign against the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers.

Israeli police said Yifrah, a Tel Aviv resident, was arrested on December 17 on charges of impersonating a member of the security forces and stealing weapons.
In the weeks after Hamas's deadly October 7 attacks on southern Israel, Yifrah pretended to be a member of Yamam, the border police's elite counter-terrorism force, according to his indictment in a local court.

On one occasion he even claimed to be a member of the internal security agency Shin Bet.

Yifrah somehow managed to elude security screening when Netanyahu visited troops on the frontlines last week and posed for a photograph next to him dressed in full battle gear.
Yifrah had "never done military service and never had any role in Yamam or the Shin Bet", the indictment said.

Police said officers seized weapons from his apartment, car and his mother's home, including an assault rifle, stun grenades, explosive charges, bullets, military computers and a drone.

According to the indictment, Yifrah stole army property and misled army officials in order to receive additional equipment "fraudulently and under grave circumstances".

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the case.
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Reference: https://www.barrons.com/news/israeli-arrested-for-impersonating-soldier-in-gaza-war-c48dd829.
 

Israel signals tactics shift, troop pullback as US carrier heads home​

JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza City districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave along with intense bombardment.

Israel says the war in Gaza, which has reduced much of the territory to rubble, killing thousands and plunging its 2.3 million people into a humanitarian disaster, has many months to go.

But it also signaled a new phase in its offensive, with an official saying on Monday the military would draw down forces inside Gaza this month and shift to a months-long phase of more localised "mopping up" operations.

A U.S. official said the decision appeared to indicate the start of a shift to lower-intensity operations in the north of the Palestinian enclave. The hints at a lowered tempo in Gaza came as the U.S. Navy announced that the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier was returning to its home port in Virginia after being to deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean following the outbreak of hostilities.

The Israeli official said the troop reduction would allow some reservists to return to civilian life, shoring up Israel's war-battered economy, and free up units in case of a wider conflict in the north with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Artillery fire between Hezbollah and Israel has rattled the border since the start of the Gaza conflict, with Israel's military saying it carried out an air strike on Monday.

Residents and security sources said Israeli raids targeted houses in the Lebanese village of Kafr Kila near the border, killing three people. They identified them as rescuers, but Lebanon's Hezbollah movement later said on its Telegram account on Monday that the three were fighters with the movement.

The Israeli official said the situation on the Lebanese border "will not be allowed to continue. This coming six-month period is a critical moment."

Any new escalation carries risks for a wider regional war. Tehran-backed fighters in Yemen have attacked Red Sea shipping, drawing a U.S. military response, and an Iranian warship has sailed into the waterway, Iranian media reported on Monday.

The Gaza war was triggered by a surprise Hamas attack on Israeli towns on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people. Palestinian health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say Israel's offensive there has killed more than 21,978 people.

SHELTER IN ZOO
The scale of suffering in Gaza, where the bombardment has driven almost all inhabitants from their homes, has led Israel's Western allies, including the U.S., to urge it to scale down its offensive.

"My wish for 2024 is not to die ... Our childhood is gone. There is no bathroom, no food and no water. Only tents," 11-year-old Layan Harara said in Gaza's Rafah. In the city's zoo, people camped out between cages holding starving animals.

Source: Reuters
 
Finally, it looks like some respite is coming for the people of Gaza after months of great suffering.
 
Casualties reported as Israel jets strike Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in southern Gaza

Israeli fighter jets struck the eighth floor of the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Tuesday amid reports of casualties, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Several people were killed and injured in the attack that targeted our premises in Khan Yunis,” the Society said in a statement, without giving an exact figure.

Hundreds of displaced Palestinians have taken shelter at the premises of the humanitarian aid organisation in Khan Yunis, amid relentless Israeli attacks on the city.

Israeli jets struck the same floor last week, injuring several displaced Palestinians.

Israel has launched air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Palestinian Resistance group, Hamas, on 7 October.

At least 22,185 Palestinians have since been killed and 57,035 others injured, according to Gaza’s health authorities, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

However, since then, it has been revealed by Haaretz that helicopters and tanks of the Israeli army had, in fact, killed many of the 1,139 soldiers and civilians claimed by Israel to have been killed by the Palestinian Resistance.

The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60 per cent of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicines.

Source :Middle East Monitor
 
Israel assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon's Beirut

Israel killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday, in a targeted attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials from the Palestinian movement have said.

Footage shared on social media showed the burnt-out wreckage of several vehicles in southern Beirut as crowds gathered nearby after the attack.

Dahiyeh, where the explosion took place, is a largely residential neighbourhood but also serves as a stronghold for the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah and also houses Hamas offices.

There was no confirmation of who else may have been killed in the attack, but Hamas said two other Qassam Brigade commanders were also killed.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the explosion, calling it a "new Israeli crime".



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Israel assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon

Hamas condemns Israel for 'cowardly assassination' of deputy leader in southern Beirut, while Hezbollah vows revenge
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Cricket Warrior said:
Israel assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon's Beirut

Israel killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday, in a targeted attack in the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials from the Palestinian movement have said.

Footage shared on social media showed the burnt-out wreckage of several vehicles in southern Beirut as crowds gathered nearby after the attack.

Dahiyeh, where the explosion took place, is a largely residential neighbourhood but also serves as a stronghold for the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah and also houses Hamas offices.

There was no confirmation of who else may have been killed in the attack, but Hamas said two other Qassam Brigade commanders were also killed.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the explosion, calling it a "new Israeli crime".



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Israel assassinates Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon

Hamas condemns Israel for 'cowardly assassination' of deputy leader in southern Beirut, while Hezbollah vows revenge
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So, Israel can attack inside other countries (Syria and Lebanon). Can another country do the same in Israel?

Comical hypocrisy.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Hiding in tunnels and attacking Israeli soldiers.

Why don't they come out and walk openly like IDF does? Hiding and killing a few IDF soldiers is not what any army does.
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lol.

The Palestinian resistance are the bravest humans alive today. You wouldn't understand coming from India.

They are using these tactics because they dont have F35's, Choppers, huge bunker bombs and the most advanced military tech the world has ever seen.

Why dont the IDF fight man to man? This is what urban warfare is.

Israel and their supporters are the biggest cowards, dropping bombs from the air and killing anyone they can, and those cheerleading this are just as evil as them.


israel forces are withdrawing from Gaza in humiliating fashion, as they are being eliminated in numbers daily.

They will revert to their old method of dropping bombs from the air and launches missiles while hiding like the cowards they are in away from the battle.
 
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KingKhanWC said:
lol.

The Palestinian resistance are the bravest humans alive today. You wouldn't understand coming from India.

They are using these tactics because they dont have F35's, Choppers, huge bunker bombs and the most advanced military tech the world has ever seen.

Why dont the IDF fight man to man? This is what urban warfare is.

Zionists and their supporters are the biggest cowards, dropping bombs from the air and killing anyone they can, and those cheerleading this are just as evil as them.


Zionists forces are withdrawing from Gaza in humiliating fashion, as they are being eliminated in numbers daily.

They will revert to their old method of dropping bombs from the air and launches missiles while hiding like the cowards they are in away from the battle.
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Scared of bombs then. Hiding while their people are facing the wrath of the Fighter jets.
 
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