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Crisis in the Middle East
Welcome! Here's the news headlines rundown 2024-NOV-14 - 17:30 CEST
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#Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Yemen π with updates
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π‘ SECURITY LEB (local time): 17:00 β οΈ Fourth violent ISR airstrike on Dahieh's Chiyah locality: REPORT NNA -- 16:00 ππ―Nine killed in initial toll of new ISR raid on Baalbek -- 15:00 β οΈ Israeli enemy airstrikes cause widespread damage in Nabatieh: REPORT NNA --12:30 β οΈ Violent ISR raid targets Mraijeh in Dahieh: REPORT NNA -- 10:00 ISR airstrikes on southern towns claim more lives: REPORT NNA -- OCT-13Β π£ Β ISR army prepares to establish buffer zone in southern Lebanon: Israel Today -- livemap -- ποΈ ISR military operations wreak havoc on Southern Lebanon, destroying over 37 towns and 40,000 housing units: REPORT NNA -- Reminder: βπΒ Lebanonβs two eastern border crossings with Syria are closed --Β π Red Cross launches 'emergency appeal' for $92m to address humanitarian situation in Lebanon: REPORT MEMO -- Death toll in total: ππ― 3365* people killed, more than 14,400* wounded since the beginning of the Israeli aggression: MoH -- ππ― Israel kills 180* medics, emergency workers: WHO -- βπ₯ *Thirteen hospitals, 37 healthcare centers in Lebanon now out of service following Israeli strikes: WHO Β *updated
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AIR SPACE: βπ¬ Air France extends its suspension of flights to Israel until DEC-26 ++ βπ¬Β Italian airline ITA Airways: all flights to and from Israel will be halted until
JAN-12 ++ βπ¬Β British Airways suspends flights to Israel until end of March '25 ++ βπ¬ EgyptAir cancels flights to Iraq, Jordan due to regional
developments: REPORT Ahram
++ βπ¬Β Greek Aegean Airlines cancels all flights to Israel until beginning of 2025 ++ βπ¬Β Lufthansa extends suspension of flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut, Tehran until early 2025:
REPORT Anadolu ++
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HEADLINES: ++ Protests erupt in Paris against controversial gala to raise funds for Israel army: REPORT MEMO ++ Athens city
council adopts resolution calling for immediate ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon: REPORT Anadolu ++
π Israeli airstrike targets Damascus, 15 killed (developing story) ++ Al-Houthi comments on Arab Summitβs outcomes: REPORT YNA ++ π
Israeli authorities demolished the last mosque in the village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev region as they prepare to building illegal settlements
++ European Parliament: Right-wing groups block session on Israel's ban on UNRWA: REPORT MEMO ++ π US Senator Lieberman
proposes plan to decisively end battle in Lebanon, demands that Israel remains in security buffer zone for a period of 50 years ++ TΓΌrkiye, Qatar sign cooperation deals on trade, defense: REPORT Anadolu ++ US decides there will be no consequences for Israel on failure to deliver aid: REPORT MEE ++ π΅ UN Peace Operations Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix visits south Lebanon, meets injured UNIFIL peacekeepers: REPORT NNA ++βοΈπ§π² Β Al-Quds Brigades releases captive video: Israeli ops. risk our lives -- REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ UN's Grundberg discusses in Muscat economic crisis, peace efforts in Yemen: REPORT YNA ++ π’ Yemen military targets USS Abraham in
Arabian Sea: REPORT YNA ++ If not killed, scarred for life: 'Israel' targets Lebanon's children -- REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ Israel begins construction work along the demilitarised zone in Syria: REPORT MEMO ++Β π Arab and Muslim leaders reaffirm support for Palestinian cause at end of Riyadh summit: REPORT Arab News ++ Spainβs foreign minister:
humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza must be addressed urgently: REPORT Anadolu ++ Egypt stresses
urgency of increasing Gaza aid ahead of winter: Abdelatty to π΅ UN coordinator: REPORT Ahram Online ++ π΅ UN says Israel denied 85% of its
attempts to coordinate aid convoys to Gaza: REPORT WAFA
++ 76 Rights groups set to file lawsuit to arrest Smotrich in Paris: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ Research: π Israeli
universities face unprecedented global boycott over Gaza genocide -- REPORT MEMO ++ Euro-Med rights
group calls for famine declaration in northern Gaza: REPORT Anadolu ++ Israel top
diplomat says Palestinian state creation not βrealistic': REPORT NNA ++ US freezes
delivery of bulldozers to Israel over Gaza home demolitions: REPORT Anadolu ++Β π£
π¨πΎβπ» Egypt to host conference on Gaza humanitarian aid mobilization in December: REPORT Ahram ++ French court rejects plea to cancel pro-Israel Paris
gala: REPORT Anadolu ++ 60 Jordanians launch hunger strike to lift north Gaza siege: REPORT MEE ++
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GAZA: ++ ππ― ISR forces committed 3 massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, killing 24* Palestinians and injuring 112 others: MoH ++ Israeli forces are gearing up to remain in Gaza until end of 2025 - Haaretz: REPORT WAFA ++ ππ₯Β Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza urges assistance as lack of supplies claims lives: REPORT WAFA ++ ππ― Israeli drone kills three Palestinians trying to build water well: AJ reports ++ β ISR forces release 20 Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip: REPORT WAFA ++ ππ― More than 1,600* Palestinians have been killed in Israel's ongoing offensive in the northern Gaza Strip since last month: Health Ministry -- 200,000 citizens without food in Jabalia ++ ποΈ Wounded people have died due to lack of surgical specialists: REPORT WAFA ++ More than 100 patients to be evacuated from Gaza: WHO ++ β Β Minister of Health announces conclusion of emergency polio vaccination campaign in Gaza with 556,477* children being vaccinated the second time: WHO -- REPORT WAFA ++ βπ₯ποΈ No functioning hospital left in northern Gaza: Ministry of Health ++ ποΈ Four days after ban, Israeli forces demolish π΅ UNRWA office in Nour Shams refugee camp: REPORT WAFA ++Β *updated by MoH
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β WEST BANK INVASION: ++ ISR forces set up colonial outpost north of Jericho: REPORT WAFA ++ π¨πΎβπ»π§πΎ π΅ OCHA Assessment: Casualties, property damage and displacement - October 2024: REPORT ++ π ISR forces detain WAFA reporter and Palestine TV crew in Tubas: REPORT WAFA ++ Israeli forces demolish ποΈ house south ofΒ π Al-Aqsa Mosque: REPORT WAFA ++ π 12* Palestinians detained by ISR troops on Wednesday: WAFA / PPS ++ ISR forces tighten military restrictions around Nablus: REPORT WAFA ++ βοΈ ISR forces on Tuesday close several roads leading to Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ π’ Foreign ministry vehemently condemns calls made by Israeli officials to impose sovereignty over occupied West Bank: REPORT WAFA ++ πβ£οΈ ISR forces fire toxic gas bombs at Civil Defense headquarters near Bethlehem: REPORT WAFA ++ β Silwan residents announce their refusal to comply with Israeli policy of self-demolition - Jerusalem Governorate: REPORT WAFA ++ ππ― 46 Palestinians killed in October across the West Bank ++ Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti brutally assaulted in Israeli jail for 3rd time this year: PPA -- REPORT Ahram ++ π π’Β According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, ISR troops and settlers have killed π―812* people in raids or attacks in the West Bank since October 7 ++Β Β *updated
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MEDIA WORKERS: ++ CPJ: βCatastrophicβ: Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void
in northern Gaza ++ ππ―
Khaled Abu Zir, a journalist working for local radio, killed on Friday by ISR army ++ Journalists Syndicate
Ramallah: The occupation commits a new massacre against journalists REPORT WAFA ++ π’ Lebanon
launches a go-to team for debunking fake news propagated by Israel: Minister Makary: REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ ππ― Israeli strike on media compound kills three journalists in Lebanon: REPORT MEE ++ π Fears for six Palestinian journalists after Israel names
them as targets: REPORT MEE ++ π Al Jazeera cameraman in a
coma after being shot by Israeli forces: REPORT AJ ++ ππ― Number of journalists killed by the ISR army has risen to 137* ++
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ποΈ Last week's breaking news:
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++ Qatar says reports about Hamas office in Doha are 'inaccurate': REPORT Al Mayadeen ++ π©π½ββοΈπ¨πΎβπ 12 paramedics,
civil defense volunteers killed in Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon: REPORT MEMO ++ Dutch police arrest dozens of pro-Palestine protesters in Amsterdam: REPORT MEE ++ π Shaheibar family massacre: Euro-Med
Monitor investigation reveals Israeli army killed 70 Palestinians in Gaza street: REPORT PRIME SOURCE Euro-Med
Monitor ++ Israel signs $5.2B deal to acquire advanced F-15 fighter jets: REPORT Aviationweek ++ Berlin lawyers seeking halt of 150 tons of explosives to Israel: REPORT AL Mayadeen ++ More than 100 BBC
staffers accuse broadcaster of bias in coverage of Israelβs war in Gaza: REPORT Anadolu ++ π South Africa to file detailed dossier with top UN court, providing forensic evidence to prove Israeli genocide in
Gaza: REPORT Anadolu
++ π Netanyahu arrest warrant delayed in ICC for 5 months: REPORT Anadolu ++ Joint Civil Society Statement on
Incendiary Weapons at the UN First Committee Report HRW ++ Israelβs
targeting of relief teams, Red Cross crews in Lebanon is a serious violation of intβl humanitarian law: Euro-Med Monitor REPORT
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π #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GenevaConvention
Latest report
βCatastrophicβ: Journalists say ethnic cleansing taking place in a news void in northern Gaza
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
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On Wednesday, November 6, an Israeli strike killed at least 15 people in a house in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. But communications difficulties meant that the Gaza health ministry struggled to determine the death toll. This is just one example of countless others where local reporters were able to help verify information about potential atrocities during Israelβs escalating offensive in the area, journalists tell CPJ.
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Read the full report:Β DIRECT LINK
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Photo: Journalists film destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza on October 9, 2024.
The international system has shamefully failed to halt Israelβs genocide in Gaza
Β Report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
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Palestinian Territory - The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israelβs mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide. Institutions like the European Union (EU), International Criminal Court (ICC), and International Court of Justice (ICJ), alongside various United Nations (UN) bodies, have deviated from their founding principles of protecting civilians and upholding justice. In over 13 months, these bodies have neglected their fundamental duty to safeguard civilian life and stop Israelβs genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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Read the full report:Β DIRECT LINK
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Photo: An Israeli soldier poses as homes burn in the background in northern Gaza - Social Feed
Journalists face Israeli strikes, displacement, attacks as war escalates in Lebanon
Report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ Staff)
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The recent escalation of Israelβs war in Lebanon has imperiled the press as they face Israeli strikes that have destroyed news outlet offices and killed at least three journalists, in addition to being assaulted, obstructed, threatened, and detained while reporting. At about 03:00 am - on October 25, an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists from multiple media outlets in Hasbaya, a town in southern Lebanon. The strike killed Al-Mayadeen TVβs camera operator Ghassan Najjar, broadcast engineer Mohammed Reda, and Al-Manar TVβs camera operator Wissam Kassem.
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Read the full report:Β DIRECT LINK
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Photo: Mourners and media personnel carry signs with pictures of the three Lebanese journalists killed in an Israeli strike on October 25, 2024.
Lebanon: Israeli Strikes on Financial Group are War Crimes
Hezbollah-Affiliated Civilian Institutions Not Lawful Military Targets -- a report by Human Rights Watch
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"Beirut β The Israeli militaryβs repeated strikes on the Hezbollah-affiliated financial institution al-Qard al-Hassan in Lebanon indicate deliberate attacks on civilian structures that amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Overnight Israeli attacks on October 20, 2024, struck nearly 30 offices belonging toΒ al-Qard al-Hassan in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, and the Bekaa Valley, according to media reports. Israeli officials have allegedΒ that the financial group is providing funding for Hezbollah, which is engaged in an armed conflict with Israel, but have not claimed the group is directly involved in hostilities. An armed groupβs use of a financial institution, association, or bank does not amount to an effective contribution to military action, and therefore it is not a lawful military target under the laws of war. (...)"
SPECIAL REPORT - COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
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A year on, there is still no accountability following the October 13, 2023, targeted Israeli attack that killed Issam Abdallah and injured six journalists in southern Lebanon -
Read the full report:Β DIRECT LINK
Photo: AFP journalist Dylan Collins speaks on his mobile phone after being injured by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023. The Israeli strikes, later determined to be targeted
attacks, killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and Morocco cannot include goods or
resources originating from Western Sahara.
The ECJ emphasized that Western Sahara is considered a βnon-self-governing territoryβ under international law and, therefore, it is
distinct from the Kingdom of Morocco. As such, any trade agreements that include products from Western Sahara must explicitly recognise this status and cannot be automatically considered as part
of agreements involving Morocco. Read the report by Middle East Monitor:
DIRECT LINK
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Indie Journalism
In the largest public analysis of ISR military strike footage, Airwars reviewed hundreds of clips of strikes in Gaza posted on official military media accounts in the first month of the war. Despite the grainy videos published with few details on targets or locations, Airwars matched 17 strikes to specific geo-coordinates where researchers had tracked Palestinians killed or injured. In these strikes alone, more than 400 civilians were reported killed.Β Source: Airwars Org
For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the
international community in a vote of 187 to 2. Ben Norton explains why the US empire has waged such a vicious economic war on Cuba for six decades. Source: G/E YT
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author and commentator provides compelling story telling, archive interviews & show content covering US foreign policy, economic realities and civil liberties in American society.
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The Chris Hedges Report on substack
United Nations General Assembly 2024-SEP - 79th Session
Summary of footage presented by Janta Ka Reporter
UNGA 2024-SEP - 79th Session: Barbados PM Mia Mottley
Summary of footage presented by Janta Ka Reporter
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Debunking Human Shields Claim: A Video Chronicle of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity - presented by GDF US 2024 (YT)
On Friday, 9 August 2024, at around 8:30 P.M., Zuheir a-Rajabi (53), a resident of the Batan al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan, East Jerusalem, was on his way home
when a neighbor informed him that a Border Police officer was chasing neighborhood children. A-Rajabi approached the officer, who claimed that he was looking for a
child who had cursed and thrown stones at him, in order to arrest him. A-Rajabi told the officer that he would speak with the children and warn them not to throw stones, and then went home. Later
that evening, at around 10:00 P.M., while a-Rajabi was spending time with relatives at the entrance of his home, four other Border Police officers arrivedΒ (...)
Read/watch the full report by BβTselem β The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied TerritoriesΒ PRIME SOURCE
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West Bank: During the ISR military invasion of Qabatiya, they besieged a house and demolished it after throwing the bodies of killed
Palestinians out of the balcony. FPTV's O. Tahayne brings the details. Documented: 2024-SEP-19 Credit: FPTV
A Jordanian team specializing in prosthetic limbs restores hope to Palestinians who lost their limbs in the Israeli aggression on Gaza. Credit Footage: WAFA
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Jordanian Armed Forces dispatched two mobile clinics to Gaza on Monday as part of the "Restoring Hope" initiative to provide prosthetic limbs. The clinics are fully equipped with medical supplies to support those who have lost limbs in the ongoing aggression. This initiative was launched three weeks ago under royal directives to aid the war-affected population in Gaza. Full report by Roya News JordanΒ PRIME SOURCE
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Israelβs ICJ genocide case Ββ βToo much evidenceβ: South Africa has presented the International Court of Justice with evidence in its case alleging Israelβs violation of the Genocide Convention. By Amira Howeidy for Ahram Online (Published 2024-NOV-10)Β PRIME SOURCE
What is behind Germany's complicity in Israel's Gaza genocide - Its enthusiastic support for Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians has exposed
Germany's selective engagement with its bloody history that only recognises its white Jewish victims - By JΓΌrgen Mackert for Middle East Eye UK (Published 2024 NOV-01)Β PRIME SOURCE
History will judge the ICC's inaction. Judges must act now or step aside -Β
Every hour that passes sees more lives lost and defenceless children falling victim to atrocities that, according to the ICC prosecutor, meet the threshold for war crimes. By Tayab Ali for Middle East Eye UK (Published 2024-OCT-08)Β PRIME SOURCE
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Nubian Language Code: Invaluable intelligence tool in Egyptβs Strategic Deception Plan for October 6 War - The idea of using the Nubian language as a code for the Egyptian Army is credited to Nubian Sergeant Ahmed Idris. The code was employed by the Egyptian army until 1994. Feature
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Offshore Gaza: gas in deep-water sedimentary reservoir rocks as another element in the conflict -- The conflict between the Israeli state and the Palestinian people revolves not only around the control of land but also extends to the ocean, particularly the sedimentary rocks beneath the seafloor.Β Article by senior geo-scientist Ramon Lopez for EGU Blogs SSP (Published 2023-DEC-01)Β PRIME SOURCE
The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts deaths on the living: Quantifying family bereavement -- Researchers studied the extent and duration of bereavement among those who lost immediate family members in high-intensity conflicts. Research Group Dr Alburez-Gutierrez Max-Planck (Published 2024-JUL-26 on Science)Β PRIME SOURCE
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