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May 6 - 4, 2024 <<The adultification of children has consequences from Palestine to the US... and <<Peace in Gaza looks as distant as ever after Israel refuses to accept ceasefire terms... and <<Gaza latest: Families flee eastern Rafah after IDF orders 100,000 to evacuate; students at Oxford and Cambridge set up protest camps... and A poem "On the road of ... and <<'Despite risks & dangers', journalists in Gaza have a sense of 'duty to show world' what's happening... and <<Antisemitism rising dramatically across the world - report... and <<Israel to stop local broadcasting of Al Jazeera TV... and <<Israel's war on Gaza live: Hamas says Netanyahu 'hindering' truce efforts... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

May 4 - 1, 2024 <<'Hamas will not agree to a deal' unless ceasefire on table, expert says... and <<Biden's call to order on US campus protests 'ironic', students say... and <<Journalist deaths in Gaza: A 'reckoning' to come when war is over... and <<Police officer pleads guilty to two terror offences over pro-Hamas WhatsApp messages... and <<Israel reopens Gaza crossing but UN says not enough aid getting through... and <<Paris university to host Gaza debate after protests... and <<US college protests over Israel-Hamas war reach boiling point... and <<Biden administration 'ignoring US laws' on arms transfers to Israel: Ex-senior official... and <Question and answer by the Gazaian people and... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

May 3 - 1 - April 30 - 23,2024 Overview social-media posts edited by citizen-reporter 'Biba' Click here to go throughout April and earler, 2024

 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

 Not for the faint of heart and first this:
The Guardian - May 4, 2024 - by Arwa Mahdawi
<<The adultification of children has consequences from Palestine to the US
Hind Rajab was six years old when she was killed in Gaza. So why did a CNN host refer to her as 'a woman'?
Nighttime photo of four young people with faces covered, holding a large white cloth sign out a building window that says <Hind's Hall>
Students at Columbia University took over Hamilton Hall and named it after Hind Rajab, on 30 April 2024 in New York.
Who gets to be a child?
Trapped in a bullet-ridden car in Gaza City, surrounded by her dead relatives, six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded with the Red Crescent for help. That help, in the form of a medical team, eventually came - only to be slaughtered on arrival. Hind was killed, too, her decomposing body found weeks later. Back in January, little Hind died one of the most awful deaths imaginable. Unlike most of the more than 13,000 other dead children in Gaza, Hind has been written about extensively. Still, despite the fact that Hind said on a recorded phone call that Israeli tanks were firing at the car, Israel has refused to accept any blame. They've said that the IDF had absolutely nothing to do with Hind's death and they weren't anywhere near her. An Al Jazeera analysis and a Washington Post investigation, meanwhile, found that to be what some people might term <inaccurate> and what others might describe as a <brazen lie>. Satellite imagery found that Israeli armored vehicles were in the area and that the damage caused to the ambulance and the car was consistent with Israeli weapons. Again, Hind isn't just an anonymous statistic rotting in a mass grave, like lots of dead Palestinians. Her death has been documented and I encourage you to read about it if you haven't already. I am not here to rehash the nightmarish details; I am simply here to say this: Hind was six years old when she was murdered. Six. She was a child. A six-year-old is a child.
Why am I spelling out the obvious? Because the fact that Palestinian children are children doesn't seem obvious to many in the western media. It's clearly not obvious to CNN host Kasie Hunt. During a segment on Columbia University students taking over Hamilton Hall and renaming it <Hind's Hall>, Hunt explained to viewers: <Hind is a reference to a woman who was killed in Gaza.> A woman.
We all word things imperfectly sometimes. But Hunt - who has small children herself - casually referring to a six-year-old as a <woman> isn't just clumsy wording. Rather it appears to be yet another example of what some CNN staffers have described as a pro-Israel bias at the network, one so dramatic that it amounts to <journalistic malpractice>. In February, the Guardian reported that some CNN staff fear the network is <acting as a surrogate censor on behalf of the Israeli government>, systematically playing down Palestinian suffering and uncritically amplifying Israeli narratives. In March, the Intercept similarly reported that international news anchor Christiane Amanpour confronted network executives about the <double standards> at play in CNN's coverage. It's not just CNN, of course. There is a long history (one that stretches back way before October 7) of mainstream media outlets dehumanizing Palestinians. Part of this dehumanization is an inability to see Palestinian children as children. In January, for example, Sky News reported on the IDF shooting of a child in the West Bank with the following language: <Accidentally, a stray bullet found its way into the van ahead, and that killed a three- or four-year-old young lady.> The Washington Post, meanwhile, published an incredibly racist cartoon by Michael Ramirez last year that suggested all dead children in Gaza were being used as human shields by Hamas. After all, there is no such thing as an innocent child in Gaza! Republican representative Brian Mast certainly doesn't think so: when asked by an activist whether he'd seen pictures of dead babies in Gaza, Mast replied: <These are not innocent Palestinian civilians.> Childhood is synonymous with innocence. Israel, which arrested between 500 and 700 Palestinian children aged 12-17 a year before October 7, 2023, (that number has only increased now) has consistently pushed the notion that there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian. Organizations like Save the Children have repeatedly raised the alarm about the abuse of Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military: a July 2023 report, for example, notes that <four out of five (86%) of them [are] being beaten, and 69% strip-searched>. There have also been numerous reports of violence of a sexual nature. These reports tend to be countered by pro-Israel voices that insist none of these children should be considered innocent. It's not just Palestinian children who are consistently denied the status of children, I want to stress. The adultification of Black children in the western world is well-established. A 2017 study by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, for example, found that Americans view Black girls as less innocent and more mature for their age than white girls, resulting in harsher penalties in the juvenile justice system. A similar study has found that African American boys as young as 10 years old were significantly less likely to be viewed as children than their white peers. Black children are also 18 times more likely than white children to be criminally sentenced as adults rather than children. Adultification has serious consequences. Through no fault of their own, children in Gaza have never known a life without airstrikes and military incursions. The constant trauma means that - back in 2022 - four out of five children in Gaza lived with depression, grief and fear. Now, with Gaza in ruins, every single child in the strip has been robbed of a childhood. But that doesn't give journalists like Kasie Hunt the right to pretend they're not children.>>
Source: received by email by The Guardian

Sky News - May 6, 2024
<<Peace in Gaza looks as distant as ever after Israel refuses to accept ceasefire terms
Hamas wants any truce to lead to a permanent ceasefire. The Israeli government is committed to Hamas's total destruction. It is a contradiction that both sides, and all the intermediaries, and concerned world leaders, would be hard-pushed to solve. A week that started with cautious optimism for a breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas has ended, perhaps unsurprisingly, with the prospect of peace in Gaza looking as distant as ever. It has taken two days of talks in Cairo, with a delegation from Hamas - and intermediaries from Egypt, Qatar and the United States - to expose the limitations of this exercise. There were indications in the lead-up to these talks that the parties had things to discuss usefully - even areas where they could reach an agreement. Israel was apparently open to a six-week cessation in hostilities in exchange for the release of some 30 Israel hostages by Hamas. Several hundred Palestinian prisoners currently sitting in Israeli jails would also have been released as part of the deal.
That was something the US secretary of state Anthony Blinken described as <extremely generous.> The head of Hamas's political bureau Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh seemed engaged, stating that delegation members would be traveling to Cairo with <positive and flexible positions>. However, there was a fundamental flaw in all this. What follows a temporary ceasefire? What comes next? Hamas wants any truce to lead to a permanent ceasefire. The Israeli government is committed to the organisation's total destruction. It is a contradiction that both sides, and all the intermediaries, and concerned world leaders, would be hard-pushed to solve. It seems they cannot have an agreement in the short-term, without an agreement down the track. Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu rounded on the issue in his first recorded comments on the talks. <While Israel showed willingness, Hamas remained entrenched in its extreme positions, first among them the demand to withdraw all our forces from the strip, end the war, and leave Hamas intact - the state of Israel cannot accept this.> The threat of an Israeli incursion into Rafah, now packed with well over a million civilians, has hung over these discussions with many regarding it as a negotiation technique. Yet if Mr Netanyahu is committed to the destruction of Hamas, as he says he is, his forces are likely to invade Rafah anyway. The Israeli minister of defence Yoav Gallant suggested on Sunday that it could happen imminently. All in all, it proves the limits of a negotiation between two sides who are deeply committed to the undoing of each other.
The likely consequences seem desperately predictable.>>
Read more here:
https://news.sky.com/story/peace-in-gaza-looks-as-distant-as-ever-after-israel-refuses-to-accept-ceasefire-terms-13130269


Gazans familys try to flee from genocide
Sky News - May 6, 2024 - by John Sparks International correspondent
<<Gaza latest: Families flee eastern Rafah after IDF orders 100,000 to evacuate; students at Oxford and Cambridge set up protest camps
The IDF said it would use leaflets, text messages and phone calls to encourage civilians to move to a nearby <humanitarian area>. It comes after Israel's defence minister said the order to attack the southernmost city of Rafah will be given <very soon>.
.....
'I have been worried this day may come': Rafah residents react to evacuation notice
People sheltering in Rafah have started to react to the IDF evacuation notice that was issued this morning.
One resident, Aminah Adwan, said they had been awake since 2am local time firstly because of Israeli strikes in the city, and then the evacuation order. <We woke up in the morning to find rain pouring, we drowned in the rain, our clothes and items as well - we are out on the streets,> they said. <We also woke up to much worse news, to evacuate Rafah. The biggest genocide will take place, the biggest catastrophe will take place in Rafah. I call on the whole Arab world to interfere for a ceasefire - let them interfere and save us from what we are in. We are tired and over this.> Abu Raed, another refugee in Rafah, also said it has been raining heavily in the city and they do not know where to go.
<I have been worried that this day may come, I have now to see where I can take my family,> they said. A third resident, Abu Muhey, said they are sheltering just north of the city with their family. <I will take my family to Deir al Balah - a city to the south of central Gaza which has a refugee camp,> they said, adding: <Although I am not in the targeted area so maybe not yet.>
.....
Israel's idea of safety a 'fantasy' as Gaza 'obliterated'
The UK's former ambassador to Libya and Jordan has said Israel's idea of moving people in Rafah to safety is a <fantasy>. Peter Millett told Sky News that Gaza has been <obliterated> so moving people who are already living in tents to somewhere else is near impossible. <There are no safe spaces any more and I think we will see more destruction and deaths of innocent people,> he said. <It is not the way to release the hostages or save a very difficult situation.> Both leaderships resisting peace deal. When asked how a week that started with slight optimism of negotiations between Hamas and Israel has turned sour, Mr Millett said it was down to both sides not having the best interests of its people at heart.
<Benjamin Netanyahu, I believe, does not want a ceasefire. He does not want a deal. He knows that as soon as there is a ceasefire or a pause in fighting there will be pressure for an election and he will lose that election and corruption charges against him will be renewed,> he said. <He wants to hang onto his position as leader, he has been very good at it for 20 years and that is his main objective, not the best interests of his people. It is the same with the Hamas leadership. At the moment they can show that they are the group who can protect the best interests of Palestinian people. But that is wrong, both leaderships are resisting a deal because they think it is the best way they can protect their own personal interests. >
.....
Hamas: Evacuation order a 'dangerous escalation'
A senior Hamas official has said Israel's evacuation order in Rafah is a <dangerous escalation>.
Sami Abu Zuhri told the Reuters news agency that the move <will have consequences> but did not elaborate any further. It is the first reaction from Hamas since the IDF statement was released encouraging Palestinians in eastern parts of Rafah to move to the nearby Mawasi <humanitarian> zone. Around 100,000 people are being told to move, an IDF spokesman said earlier.
4h ago 08:33
Action in Rafah would have 'devastating' consequences
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) has said any offensive action in Rafah would have <devastating> consequences. UNRWA said today it would not be evacuating from Rafah and will continue to provide aid to the approximate 1.4m people in the area. Yesterday, Philippe Lazzarini, leader of UNRWA, said he had been denied entry to Gaza for the second time. He claimed there had been an increase in the denial of humanitarian access and attacks on humanitarian workers and convoys.
Read more here:
https://news.sky.com/story/middle-east-latest-un-nuclear-watchdog-concerned-israel-could-target-iranian-nuclear-facilities-in-revenge-attack-12978800

And if you would and could read also this humble and in deepest grief written poem:
"On the road of ...

Children are soo much more wise
than big people.
Thats a fact of life.
Like the Gazan and only years-old girl,
shot and killed by an israeli soldier, said
with her last breath
*I will tell Allah everything
about the evil
that offends life on and earth
by killing especially the innocent,
the women, the mothers, the children
of whom I was and am one*.

She also knew that Muhammads' road
is not a dead-end street
but always has a beginning
which, when walked on,
with every step taken and word spoken,
is a step and word towards the truth.

So yes I will tell
and only ask from people still walking too
with every step taken or word spoken,
to let it be a step or word of truth
because that is Muhammads' road
that unites all Ummahs
and also leads to the final
words of truth and convictions
of all who so greedily and without heart
take life and ground of the just.

And we, the Ummahs by heart and soul,
know what awaits us at the 'other side':
Allah who will ask "what did you do to help bring justice?"

Insh'Allah - hoda hafez"

Dedicated to Saly Khan and all other innocent children who gave their lifes for Freedom.
Free of copyright
Gino d'Artali


Gazans trying to flee Rafah
Jinha - Womens News Agency - May 6, 2024
<<Israeli army orders Palestinians to evacuate some neighborhoods of Rafah
Ahead of a military operation, the Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of some neighborhoods of Rafah, which hosts more than 1 million displaced Palestinians.
News Center- The Israeli military has issued an order for residents of eastern Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city ahead of a ground assault, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Monday. In the statement, the IDF said that it was not setting a timeframe for the Rafah evacuation, however, but would make operational assessments. The Israeli army estimated it would need to move 100,000 people from Rafah in the 'limited scope' evacuation. The Army Radio had said that Israeli armed forces had begun evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault, although the military did not confirm that report, Reuters reported. <Army Radio said evacuations were focused on a few peripheral districts of Rafah, from which evacuees would be directed to tent cities in nearby Khan Younis and Al Muwassi.>
Some Palestinian families
KAN 11, an Israeli state-owned television channel, reported that the Israeli army started to evacuate many neighborhoods of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans took shelter due to Israeli attacks. Some Palestinians families were leaving areas east of Rafah after the Israeli military called on them to evacuate, the Times of Israel reported.
Airstrikes before evacuation
According to local reports, the Israeli military launched airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah before the evacuation, killing at least six Palestinians, including a baby and a child. The dead bodies were reportedly taken to Abu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah. The evacuation order came after the ceasefire and hostage exchange talks in the Egyptian capital Cairo with the participation of a delegation of Hamas. On Sunday, Hamas announced that the cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after <in-depth and serious discussions>.
Israeli Defense Minister: The attack on Rafah will be launched soon
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday that the order to launch the Israeli onslaught on Rafah would be given <very soon.> He said that Israel assesses the likelihood of reaching an agreement with Hamas as low. <The implication of a large-scale operation in Rafah and other areas of the Gaza Strip very soon.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/israeli-army-order-palestinians-to-evacuate-some-neighborhoods-of-rafah-35005

France 24 - May 6, 2024 - Video by FRANCE 24
<<Live: Some 100,000 people evacuating from east Rafah, Israeli army says
The Israeli army has told some 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating from eastern Rafah in what it called a <temporary> operation signalling a ground invasion may be imminent. People were told to move to Muwasi, a declared humanitarian area near the coast. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war. People flee eastern Rafah on orders from the Israeli military on May 6, 2024, ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gaza city.
Summary:
The Israeli army on Monday called on Gazans living in eastern Rafah to head to an <expanded humanitarian area> in the Palestinian territory, ahead of an expected military operation in the southern Gaza city. Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Monday that Israel's Rafah evacuation order is a <dangerous escalation that will have consequences>.
CIA Director William Burns is expected on Monday in Qatar for <emergency> talks on mediation efforts with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, an official briefed on the talks said.
Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on Sunday.
The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) says only a third of Gaza's 36 hospitals and 30 percent of its primary healthcare centres are functioning.
At least 34,683 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 78,018 have been wounded in Israel's military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.>>
Source and video:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240506-%F0%9F%94%B4live-hamas-israel-entrench-gaza-truce-positions


France 24 - May 6, 2024 - Video by FRANCE 24
<<'Despite risks & dangers', journalists in Gaza have a sense of 'duty to show world' what's happening
The most challenging regions for journalists remain the Middle East and North Africa, where the situation was described by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) as <very serious> in nearly half of countries. The Israeli government has taken action against individual reporters over the decades since its founding in 1948, but broadly allows for a rambunctious media scene that includes foreign bureaus from around the world, even from Arab nations. That changed with a law passed last month, which Netanyahu's office says allows the government to take action against a foreign channel seen as <harming the country.> For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the Israel-Hamas war and the harrowing plight of journalists reporting from Gaza, FRANCE 24 is joined by Jonathan Dagher, Journalist and Head of the Middle East Desk at Reporters Without Borders.>>
Source and video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240506-despite-risks-dangers-journalists-in-gaza-have-a-sense-of-duty-to-show-world-what-s-happening

Deutsche Welle (DW) - May 5, 2024 - by Timothy Jones
<<Antisemitism rising dramatically across the world - report
A global trend of increasing antisemitism has skyrocketed since Hamas' deadly October 7 attack, a new report has said. The Tel Aviv University report says many Jews across the world may soon be unable to live in safety. A man in a yarmaluke designed like the Israeli flag standing in crowd at the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin. Antisemitic incidents are rising across the world at a rate unseen since World War II, with the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza spreading <a fire that was already out of control,> an annual report released on Sunday said. The report, issued by the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in the US, said that although antisemitism had increased since the atrocities carried out by the Islamist militant group Hamas in southern Israel on October 7 last year, the first nine months of 2023 also saw a rise in antisemitic incidents compared to 2022. The report stressed that the increased hatred of Jews could not simply be put down to emotions raised by Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas in Gaza, saying that many <outrageous> expressions of antisemitism occurred before that campaign began. The authors of the report said that if this situation persisted or deteriorated, Jewish people around the world would be unable to live normal lives in safety and freedom.
What else did the report say?
The report cited figures from various countries, including Germany, which reported 1,365 antisemitic incidents from January to September last year and 2,249 from October to December. It said that in the United States, there were around 3,500 antisemitic incidents reported between January and September 2023 but almost 4,000 in the last three months of the year. According to the report, last year, there were about three bomb threats per day on average against synagogues and Jewish institutions in the US. One of the report's authors, professor Uriya Shavit from Tel Aviv University, said, <if current trends continue, the curtain will descend on the ability to lead Jewish lives in the West - to wear a Star of David, attend synagogues and community centers, send kids to Jewish schools, frequent a Jewish club on campus, or speak Hebrew.> The authors said that antisemitism made its way to the very center of society, often by means of social media, after first raising its head on the extreme right or extreme left of the political spectrum.
'Surge in antisemitic expressions' in Arab world
The report also looked at the Arab world, where, it said, <there has been a significant surge in antisemitic expressions> in the discourse there since the October 7 attack by Hamas. The report said that discourse often demonized Jews for their religion and propagated anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, such as that global media was under Jewish control. Narratives that denied or distorted the crimes committed by Hamas during its October 7 raid were also rife, the report said. It cited figures from an NGO that monitors antisemitism on social media, CyberWell, that showed a doubling of highly antisemitic content on Arabic platforms between October 7 and October 31 in comparison with previous months.
tj/sms (DPA, AFP, EFE)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.dw.com/en/antisemitism-rising-dramatically-across-the-world-report-finds/a-69000456

France 24 - May 5, 2024 - Video by FRANCE 24
<<Palestinians face famine amid persistent food shortages in Gaza
Palestinians wait in long queues for food in Gaza as shortages persist despite slight improvements in deliveries of aid to the besieged Strip. Gazans say they are forced to skip meals and haven’t seen vegetables in weeks. "There is famine, full-blown famine in the north and it's moving its way south," World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain said in an interview Friday as she called for a ceasefire and unfettered, safe access to Gaza.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240505-palestinians-face-famine-amid-food-shortages-in-gaza

France 24 - May 5, 2024
<<Israeli forces reportedly use AI to identify targets in Gaza
In Gaza, Israeli forces have reportedly been using AI to identify tens of thousands of potential targets with a software called Lavender. It analyses data collected on most of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents and scores them based on how likely they are to be a militant.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240505-israeli-forces-reportedly-use-ai-to-identify-targets-in-gaza

France 24 - May 5, 2024
<<Live: Israel closes key Gaza Kerem Shalom crossing after attack claimed by Hamas
Israel's army said Sunday that it had closed Kerem Shalom, a key border crossing used to deliver humanitarian aid to southern Gaza, after an attack for which Hamas claimed responsibility. Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said his government had voted unanimously to shut down the local offices of Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera, escalating Israel's long-running feud with the channel. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war. An Israeli soldier patrols the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel as trucks from Egypt transit on their way to deliver humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip on December 22, 2023.
Summary:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday sharpened his rejection of Hamas's demands for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, saying that would keep the Palestinian Islamist group in power and pose a threat to Israel.
Hamas leaders held a second day of truce talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Sunday, with no apparent progress reported as the Islamist group maintained its demand that any agreement must end the war in Gaza, Palestinian officials said.
At least 34,683 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 78,018 have been wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240505-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-latest-round-of-gaza-truce-talks-expected-in-egypt


Al Jazeera's voice Shireen Abu Akleh murdered in May 2022
Deutsche Welle (DW) - May 5, 2024
<<Israel to stop local broadcasting of Al Jazeera TV
The Israeli government has unanimously voted to shut down the Qatari TV network's operations within Israel's borders. Israel's communications minister has said the decision will come into effect immediately. The Israeli government has had a strained relationship with the Qatari-owned broadcaster which has worsened since the beginning of the war in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet has decided to stop Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera TV from operating within Israel, Netanyahu said on Sunday. The decision follows a law - commonly referred to as the <Al Jazeera law> - passed by the Israeli Knesset that allows the closure of foreign broadcasters considered to pose a security threat amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. <My government decided unanimously: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will close in Israel,> Netanyahu posted on X, formerly Twitter. Alongside incitement, Israel has also accused the network of bias. Al Jazeera has rejected both accusations. Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said on X, that the order would take immediate effect. According to Israeli media, the order can suspend broadcasting in the country for 45 days.
Israel's relationship with the Qatari broadcaster
Israel has had a tense relationship with the Qatar-based news organization, which has intensely covered the ongoing war in Gaza with a particular focus on the Palestinian side. One of the few media organizations that has continued to function in Gaza since October 7, Al Jazeera has broadcast images and videos of deadly airstrikes and crowded hospitals under Israeli fire.
Israel has accused the network of working with Hamas. Qatar, which owns the network, has been involved in mediating a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas - a Palestinian militant group considered a terror organization by Israel, the US, Germany and other countries. Numerous journalists have been killed in Gaza during Israel's military offensive, including several who worked for Al Jazeera. The death of the Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in May 2022 sparked global outrage. She had been reporting for the network during an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank when she was shot dead. Al Jazeera blamed the Israeli military for the death and took the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Israel has rejected the accusation.
Source:
https://www.dw.com/en/israel-to-stop-local-broadcasting-of-al-jazeera-tv/a-69000739
Read the full story of Shireen Abu Akleh here


A brave Palestinian woman holds a brave child
Al Jazeera - May 5, 2024 - by Nils Adler and Umut Uras
<<Israel's war on Gaza live: Hamas says Netanyahu 'hindering' truce efforts
A Palestinian woman holds a child in a damaged house at the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 29, 2024.
A Hamas official has told Al Jazeera Arabic that the Israeli prime minister was <personally hindering> a ceasefire agreement, as the second day of diplomatic talks are set to resume in Cairo. Hamas says it wants guarantees from the United States that Israel will not launch a ground invasion in southern Rafah, as officials in Israel - which is yet to send a delegation to Cairo - insist the attack will happen regardless of whether a ceasefire deal is reached.>>
Read more and view video (This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities) here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/5/israels-war-on-gaza-live-neither-side-willing-to-budge-in-truce-talks

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