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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
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Gianna d'Artali.
Cryfreedoms' editors' note first:
In a nutshell the following and first quoted
report is what 'smashes the nail on the head':
BBC - Oct 1, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<Young Lebanese girl left fighting for life after Israeli strikes
'Nowhere here is safe': BBC's Orla Guerin reports from Lebanese hospital
In the hills of the Bekaa Valley - as in swathes of Lebanon - death can
come from the sky these days, at any moment.
Israel has been bombing the area through the day, with more than 30 air
strikes in just an hour.
Forty-six people are confirmed dead - and that toll is expected to rise.
Others are in critical condition in hospital, after Israeli attacks
earlier this week.
Noor Mossawi is among them. The six-year-old is lying unconscious in a
paediatric intensive care unit, in Rayak Hospital, with bandages wrapped
around her fractured skull. Her mother Rima is sitting by her bedside,
holding a copy of the Quran and praying. She tells us her daughter is
very bright and very sociable. "She creates such a fun atmosphere at
home. The house feels empty when she's not around. She loves meeting new
people."
All that changed last Monday, with an Israeli strike.
She shows us another video of her daughter - this time praying, shortly
before the attack.
"I was soothing her, telling her not to be afraid, that nothing would
happen. She was calling on God and the prophets for help," Rima says.
As the bombing was getting closer, Rima was hunkering by her front door
with Noor and her twin brother Mohammed. "We weren't brave enough to go
inside," she says, "because we thought the building would collapse on us
if it was hit. When it got more intense, I picked up Noor and her
brother and was about to take them in, but the missile was much faster
than I was."
That missile left Mohammed lightly wounded, and Noor fighting for her
life.
As his daughter Noor is now fighting for her life Abdallah accuses
Israel of terrorising civilians. As we speak, suddenly there is danger
overhead. We hear a plane, and then an explosion which rattles the
windows and knocks out the power for a few seconds. It's another air
strike. Rima barely reacts. Noor's father Abdallah comes to visit, and
is burning with rage.
"Please film my child," he says.
"She doesn't know what weapons are. She doesn't know how to fight. She
was playing at home when the bombing started. They [Israel] wanted to
terrorise the people and get them to flee."
Abdallah begs to differ.
"We have nothing to do with weapons. I am not involved with the
resistance [Hezbollah]. But now I wish I was so that I could protect my
children," he tells us. Minutes later, a few floors down, sirens wail as
an ambulance brings in wounded from the latest strike. Medical staff are
rushing back and forward. The emergency department fills with tension.
There are angry shouts, and shocked friends and relatives. We are asked
to stop filming.
Dr Basil Abdallah says "most of the nurses and the doctors are
depressed" at his hospital. The hospital has admitted 400 casualties of
Israeli strikes since Monday - all civilians - according to Dr Basil
Abdallah, the medical director. Of those, more than 100 have died, and
several families had lost more than one person. Dr Abdallah tells us
there is trauma among the staff, as well as the patients.
"Seeing children bombed, seeing elderly patients and women bombed, it's
difficult," he says. "Most of the nurses and the doctors are depressed.
We have emotions. We are human."
Most of the staff remain at the hospital around the clock as it is too
dangerous to risk the journey home.
Israel is striking far and wide in Lebanon. There's no-one to stop it.
For now, Hezbollah is putting up a limited fight, firing rockets across
the border.
Its backer, Iran, is remaining on the sidelines.
Dr Abdallah is already worried about running out of drugs and essential
supplies.
He fears this will be a long war.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c781m43rzymo
Food for thought isn't it?
Al Jazeera - October 2, 2024
<<Israel bars UN chief from the country over Iran attack response
Israel's foreign minister accused Antonio Guterres of <backing
terrorists, rapists, and murderers> and branded him <a stain on the
history of the UN>.
Israel's foreign minister has declared United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres <persona non grata> and barred him from entering the
country. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday accused
Guterres of failing to <unequivocally> condemn Iran's missile attack on
Israel. Israel has persistently complained over the UN's approach
throughout its yearlong war in Gaza. <Anyone who cannot unequivocally
condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the
world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil,> Katz
wrote on X. Warming to his theme, the official accused the UN chief of
giving his <backing to terrorists, rapists, and murderers> and branded
him <a stain on the history of the UN>.
The attack came in response to Guterres's statement regarding Iran's
missile barrage. Shortly after the attack, Guterres condemned the
escalation of violence in the region but made no mention of Iran. The UN
chief wrote on Tuesday evening: "I condemn the broadening of the Middle
East conflict with escalation after escalation. This must stop. We
absolutely need a ceasefire."
Sour relations
Israel has long been at loggerheads with the UN and many other
international organisations. However, relations between the state and
the international body have hit a new low since Israel launched its
relentless war in Gaza, which followed attacks on southern Israel by
Hamas on October 7. Katz claimed in his post that the UN chief had
failed to condemn <the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas
murderers on October 7> and of supporting <Hezbollah, the Houthis, and
Iran>, which he called <the mothership of global terror>. As the war
spilled over into Lebanon late last month and Israel switched its main
focus to Hezbollah, Guterres said he was "gravely alarmed" by the
escalating situation and "the large number of civilian casualties".
Following Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last
Friday, Guterres demanded all sides "step back from the brink", saying
the region could not afford "an all-out war". <Israel will continue to
defend its citizens and uphold its national dignity, with or without
Antonio Guterres,> said Katz.
The United Nations Security Council has called an emergency meeting for
Wednesday to address the spiralling conflict.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/2/israels-katz-bars-un-chief-from-country-over-iran-attack-response
Al Jazeera - October 2, 2024
<<Video: Israeli attack on Gaza school for orphans
An Israeli strike on a school for orphans in Gaza City has killed
several people, mostly children and women taking refuge there after
being displaced by Israeli attacks. Rescue teams were seen removing
bodies and checking for survivors.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/2/video-israeli-attack-on-gaza-school-for-orphans
Al Jazeera - October 2, 2024
<<Israeli air and ground attacks kill dozens across Gaza
Civilian deaths reported despite Israeli military claiming it is
targeting Hamas positions. Dozens of Palestinians are reported to have
been killed as Israel has stepped up its military operations across
Gaza. Gaza's Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that at least 51
people had been killed in the enclave over the previous 24 hours, as the
Israeli military has stepped up attacks alongside its ongoing air and
ground offensive in Lebanon.
Israeli fighter jets attacked Gaza City overnight, striking the Muscat
School in the Tuffah neighbourhood and the Al-Amal Orphanage in the west
of the capital. At least nine displaced people sheltering at the
locations were killed, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced an attack on the <Brig High
School> in central Gaza. The exact location of the target was not
immediately clear and it was not known at the time of reporting whether
there were any deaths. In separate statements, the army said the two
schools and the orphanage were being used as Hamas <command and control
complexes> to plan and carry out operations. Israel has hit dozens of
schools, many of them being used to shelter displaced people, in Gaza
throughout its yearlong war in the enclave, claiming they were being
used by the armed group.
At least 11 killed in Israeli strike that hit a school in northern Gaza
In southern Gaza, air attacks accompanied the arrival of tanks in three
neighbourhoods of Khan Younis. At least 32 people were killed and dozens
injured, the city's European Hospital said, according to The Associated
Press news agency. The hospital records show that seven women and 12
children, as young as 22 months old, were among those killed, AP said.
Dr Saleh al-Hams, head of the nursing department, said the dead and
wounded were brought to the European and Nasser Hospitals, both in Khan
Younis, starting at about 3am (0:00 GMT). He said he expected the death
toll to rise.
Resurgence
Israel has revived its military operations in Gaza, as well as its
aggressive raids and arrests in the occupied West Bank, in recent days.
The resurgence of violence in the Palestinian territory comes as the
world's attention has been drawn to the Israeli military's assault on
Lebanon. The ongoing attacks in Gaza have also been overshadowed by
raised fears of a wider regional conflict after Iran launched a barrage
of missiles at Israel on Tuesday. Tehran called the attack vengeance for
the latter's deadly attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, as well as the killing
of senior Hamas and Hezbollah figures. Those Iran-linked armed groups
have been engaged in low-level-hostilities with Israel since the
outbreak of the war in Gaza.
The world is now calling for calm as Israel and Iran issue fresh threats
against one another. Meanwhile, the violence in Gaza persists.
Nearly a year of relentless Israeli attacks on the enclave have killed
more than 41,500 people and wounded almost 100,000, with thousands still
missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/2/dozens-killed-as-israel-ramps-up-air-and-ground-attacks-across-gaza
Al Jazeera - October 2, 2024
<<Australia's PM warns against pro-Palestinian rally as police seek ban
Palestine Action Group condemns bid to ban vigil on October 7 as an
'attack on fundamental democratic rights'.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called for the
cancellation of a pro-Palestinian rally scheduled for the one-year
anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel and the start of Israel’s war
on Gaza, as police seek to have the event in Sydney banned. Albanese
said on Wednesday that the planned vigil on October 7 would be
<incredibly provocative> and <cause a great deal of distress. Look, in a
democracy, we allow for people, indeed, it’s important that people be
able to express themselves peacefully. But October 7 will be one year
since the largest number of deaths and murders – call it for what it is
– of Jewish people, since the Holocaust,> Albanese said in an interview
with Australia's national broadcaster, referring to the Hamas attacks on
southern Israel. <I'll be attending a vigil to commemorate that terrible
day. And anything that looks like it's a celebration of that, I think,
would cause disharmony. We need to promote social cohesion in our
multicultural nation.> Albanese made his comments after police in New
South Wales applied to the state's top court to prohibit the event,
billed as a candlelight vigil "mourning 12 months of genocide and
terrorism", as well as another pro-Palestinian rally scheduled for
October 6. NSW Police said in a statement on Tuesday that while it
supported the right to peaceful assembly, it was "not satisfied that the
protest can proceed safely". Organiser Palestine Action Group condemned
the bid to ban the rallies as an "attack on fundamental democratic
rights. We have a right to demonstrate and we refuse to concede to
political attacks aimed at detracting attention from the fact that the
masses in this country opposes the Australian government's complicity in
this genocide," the Sydney-based group said in a Facebook post. "With
Israel now escalating their war against Lebanon, the Palestine Action
Group unequivocally opposes this attempt to silence protests calling for
the Australian government to take action against Israel's genocidal
war." The bid to ban the rallies follows controversy over the display of
the flag of Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah during recent
pro-Palestinian protests in Melbourne and Sydney. Australia's
centre-left Labor Party government in January passed legislation banning
Nazi motifs and symbols belonging to listed "terrorist organisations>,
including Hezbollah and Hamas.
NSW Police on Wednesday said they had arrested a 19-year-old woman for
allegedly carrying a Hezbollah flag at a pro-Palestinian march in Sydney
on Sunday.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/2/australias-pm-warns-against-pro-palestinian-rally-as-police-seek-ban
Al Jazeera - October 2, 2024
<<Risk of long-feared regional war rises as Israel and Iran swap threats
Israel pledges to respond to Iran's barrage of missiles; Tehran
threatens repeated attack <with multiplied intensity>. Israel and Iran
have issued threats of retaliation against one another, pushing
longstanding concerns over escalation towards a regional war to new
heights. Israel, with backing from its United States ally, has promised
to respond to the huge missile attack that Iran launched late on
Tuesday. Iran has said any such retaliation will be met with an even
<tougher> backlash. Meanwhile, Israel on Wednesday resumed its attacks
on Lebanon and announced it is sending additional troops to carry out
the ground offensive that it launched on Tuesday. Iran said the close to
200 missiles it fired at Israel were a response to the recent killings
of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran late on Tuesday that it had
<made a big mistake>. Al Jazeera's Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman,
said the Israeli military and political echelon have insisted that the
attack <simply will not go unanswered>. US President Joe Biden's
administration has warned Iran of <serious consequences>.
US Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said <the world needs America
to return to a maximum pressure campaign against Iran>.
The threats were met with defiance.
Iran's armed forces joint chief of staff General Mohammad Bagheri
threatened to repeat its missile attack with <multiplied intensity> if
Israel retaliates against Iran's territory. Tehran's foreign minister,
Abbas Araghchi, called European counterparts overnight, telling them
that if Israel <takes retaliatory action, our response will be even
tougher>. On Wednesday, he said Tehran has warned the US against any
intervention. The rising tension only raises longstanding fears that
Israel's war on Gaza will eventually lead to an all-out war across the
region.
Amid global calls for restraint and a step back from escalation, the
United Nations Security Council has called an emergency meeting for
Wednesday to address the spiralling conflict.
However, the violence shows no sign of abating.
In Lebanon, the Iran-backed Hezbollah armed group said on Wednesday that
its fighters have directly clashed with Israeli forces for the first
time since 2006. Reporting that Israeli soldiers had tried to infiltrate
the country near the village of Odaisseh, Hezbollah claimed to have
"inflicted losses on them and forced them to retreat". Reporting from
Hasbaiyyah in Lebanon, Al Jazeera's Imran Khan said this was the first
report of face-to-face fighting since Israel announced its ongoing air
campaign against Hezbollah would now be accompanied by ground
operations. "When this ground invasion was announced by Israel, there
was a long and intense artillery shelling concentrated on three areas -
Odaisseh was one of them. It is one of the chokepoints where Israeli
soldiers are going to try to come into," Khan said.
Air raids persist
Israeli air raids, which have been battering southern Lebanon and
Beirut, continued to pummel the capital on Wednesday. Beirut's southern
suburbs were hit, with the Israeli military saying they had targeted
Hezbollah. Large plumes of smoke were seen rising. Israel issued new
evacuation orders for the area, which has largely emptied after days of
heavy attacks.
Lebanon's Disaster Risk Management Unit on Tuesday announced that 1,873
people have been killed and 9,134 wounded as a result of Israeli attacks
in the country since October 8 last year, when Hezbollah began launching
rockets at Israel due to its war in Gaza.
"The number of displaced persons from areas exposed to Israeli
aggression has exceeded one million, including 155,600 registered in
shelters," the report said.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/2/risk-of-long-feared-regional-war-rises-as-israel-and-iran-swap-threats
Al Jazeera - October 2, 2024- Opinion Belen Fernández - Al Jazeera
columnist
<<The United States is already at war
And it is very much a willing belligerent in a conflict of its own
making.
Yesterday, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for
Israel’s assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan
Nasrallah last week and its assassination in Tehran of Hamas's political
chief Ismail Haniyeh in July. United States President Joe Biden
instructed the US military to assist Israel in neutralising the missiles
– not that Israel is not already equipped with various layers of
ultra-sophisticated protection against incoming projectiles, which
permit it to go about slaughtering folks left and right while suffering
minimal damage in return. During a news briefing at the White House, US
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced that US naval
destroyers had "joined Israeli air defence units in firing interceptors
to shoot down in-bound missiles". Praising the "professionalism" of the
Israeli military, Sullivan also lauded the "skilled work of the US
military and meticulous joint planning in anticipation of the attack".
Of course, not once has it occurred to the Biden administration to
meticulously thwart Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip, where officially more than 41,000 people have been killed in
less than a year although the true death toll is without a doubt
exorbitantly higher. Nor has the oh-so-skilled US military deemed it
necessary to interfere in the wanton butchery currently going down in
Lebanon, where Israel just killed more than 700 people in less than a
week. And while many an international observer has sounded the alarm
that the US could now be "dragged" into a regional war - warnings that
will only increase after the Iranian missile attack - in reality the US
is not really being "dragged" anywhere. Rather, the US is in a position
entirely of its own making. And the fact of the matter is that the US is
already at war. To be sure, even prior to the launch of the genocide,
the US habit of flinging billions of dollars at the Israeli military on
an annual basis long ago made it transparently complicit in Israeli
efforts to disappear Palestine. Since October 7, the billions have only
multiplied, despite Biden’s intermittent squawking about cutting off the
supply of certain offensive weaponry to Israel. In August, the Biden
administration approved a $20bn weapons package to its Israeli partner
in crime. And on September 26, the Reuters news agency reported Israel's
announcement that "it had secured an $8.7 billion aid package from the
United States to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a
qualitative military edge in the region". The package was said to
include "$3.5 billion for essential wartime procurement... and $5.2
billion designated for air defense systems including the Iron Dome
anti-missile system, David's Sling and an advanced laser system". In
other words, Israel will be increasingly well-poised to "defend" itself
against legitimate responses to its own actions - actions that quite
literally qualify as terrorism. In the end, it's not rocket science: the
financial and military support consistently extended to Israel by the US
does not denote a country that is being "dragged" into a conflict. It
denotes a country that is, for all intents and purposes, an active
belligerent in the conflict. The US also lent a helping military hand to
Israel back in April when Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles
in response to a lethal Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in
Damascus. On this occasion, too, Iran was widely cast in the role of
terrorist aggressor - and never mind the retaliatory nature of its
action. It is meanwhile helpful to recall that the US has for decades
done a fine job of "dragging" itself into regional war - the 2003 US
pulverisation of Iraq comes to mind - so it should come as no surprise
to once again find the country front and centre against a backdrop of
mass slaughter. From American drone attacks on weddings in Yemen to rush
shipments of bombs to the Israeli military in 2006 to aid in the
ravaging of Lebanon, it seems the US has never met a Middle Eastern
conflict it was not excited about. And although the Biden administration
continues to claim ad nauseam that it desires a ceasefire in Gaza, the
road to a ceasefire in a case of genocide does not go through billions
upon billions of dollars in weaponry to the genocidal party. At the
briefing on Tuesday, Sullivan warned that: "There will be severe
consequences for this attack and we will work with Israel to make that
the case." Translation: The US will carry on doing its part to escalate
regional havoc in tandem with Israel and force more, um, "consequences".
Sullivan also stressed that this was a "fog of war" situation, and that
he reserved the right to "amend and adjust as necessary" his initial
assessment. But in the fog of the latest war one thing, at least, is
clear: the US is already a primary belligerent.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/2/the-united-states-is-already-at-war
France 24 - Oct 2, 2024
<<World leaders call for de-escalation after Iran's missile attack on
Israel
World leaders called for restraint on Tuesday after Iran launched its
biggest missile attack yet against arch-foe Israel, while the
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas hailed the attack, calling it "revenge
for the blood of our heroic martyrs". World leaders have urged Iran and
Israel to step back from the brink after Tehran fired a barrage of
rockets at its arch-rival. Tehran said the attack on Tuesday - which
took place as Israel said it was mounting a ground offensive against
Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon - was in response to the killings of
Iran-backed militant leaders. It was the second time Iran has directly
attacked Israel, after a missile and drone attack in April in
retaliation for a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in
Damascus.
'Need a ceasefire': UN
After the wave of missiles, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres condemned the "broadening conflict in the Middle East". With
Israel's conflict with Hezbollah broadening alongside its ongoing war
with Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza, Guterres slammed "escalation
after escalation" in the region.
"This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire." >>
Read here whether yes or no others agree with Mr. Guterrez:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241002-world-leaders-call-for-de-escalation-after-iran-s-missile-strikes-on-israel
Le Monde - Oct 1, 2024 - EDITORIAL
<<More chaos in Lebanon won't help Israel
Israel said it began its ground operation in southern Lebanon early on
Tuesday, October 1. The offensive hits a country that is virtually
bankrupt, politically paralyzed and economically drained.Published
yesterday at 12:45 pm (Paris)
The death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed on Friday,
September 27, in a massive Israeli bombardment of his stronghold in the
southern suburbs of Beirut, has not put an end to the Israeli offensive
against Lebanon. It is now accompanied by ground operations. Their aim
is clear: To push the threat posed to Israel by the Shiite militia
further north, perhaps as far as the border of the Litani River.
Resolution 1701 adopted by the United Nations at the end of Israel's
unsuccessful war in the summer of 2006 set out this objective.
Read more Subscribers only Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's charismatic
leader for more than three decades, has died
Once again, Lebanon has become a proxy battleground for the Middle
East's two bitter enemies: Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the
military and political sponsor of the militia decapitated by two weeks
of a particularly destructive bombing campaign.
The latest round of clashes began a year ago when Hezbollah struck
northern Israel in support of Hamas after the October 7 attack, which
resulted in the worst massacres of Israeli civilians. Until recent
weeks, however, the Shiite militia had refrained from any form of
escalation, clearly on the advice of its mentor. The Iranian regime did
not respond to the affront caused by Israel's assassination of Hamas
political leader Ismail Haniyeh on their own soil on July 31.
Read more Subscribers only Israel conducts ground operations in southern
Lebanon
This admission of weakness, coupled with efforts to achieve a ceasefire
in Gaza that would have enabled the release of the last remaining
Israeli hostages held in the enclave, could have paved the way for
de-escalation. Instead, the Israeli army took advantage of the situation
to take action on its northern border, following the end of large-scale
operations that left the Gaza Strip as bloodied as ever, transformed
into a field of ruins.
Discredited
After the victory of the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in
2000, achieved under Hezbollah's military pressure, the Party of God has
continued to impose its choices on the Lebanese, whatever the
consequences. Its alleged role in the assassination of political
opponents, starting with that of former prime minister Rafik Hariri in
2005, in clear coordination with the Syrian regime, has compromised its
image in Lebanon, as have its efforts to prevent the restoration of a
genuine state that would sooner or later hold it to account. Its
involvement in the Syrian civil war, after the popular uprising of 2011,
to save Bashar al-Assad, further discredited it. The offensive that
Israel presents as an act of self-defense crowns this disastrous decade.
Read more Subscribers only Beirut in shock and fear of all-out war
Israel wants to force its advantage, regardless of the consequences for
the Lebanese. This is a very short-sighted calculation. The protean
nature of Hezbollah, a militia that has not shied away from attacks in
the past, but also a political party, is a reminder that it is backed by
a Shiite community that makes up the Lebanese confessional mosaic. The
Israeli offensive has also hit a country that is virtually bankrupt,
politically paralyzed and economically drained. Adding more chaos to
Lebanon will not result in the stabilization that would be the
indispensable prelude to the beginning of Lebanon's recovery. Yet Israel
would have everything to gain.
Le Monde>>
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/10/01/more-chaos-in-lebanon-won-t-help-israel_6727870_23.html
Al Jazeera - October 1, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<EXPLAINER
Israel-Palestine conflict
UN General Assembly: What did world leaders say about Israel's war on
Gaza?
Here's what world leaders said during the annual UNGA session about
Israel's war on Gaza.
Prime ministers, presidents, and other world leaders from around the
world gathered in New York City this month for the 79th session of the
United Nations General Assembly.
War in Gaza was one of the issues that topped the agenda of speeches -
here are some snippets.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
The speed and scale of the killing and destruction in Gaza are unlike
anything in my years as secretary-general. More than 200 of our own
staff have been killed, many with their families. Gaza is a nonstop
nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it. The
international community must mobilise for an immediate ceasefire, the
immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, and the beginning
of an irreversible process towards a two-state solution.>>
Read here what other world-leaders say i.e. most likely disagree with
Mr. Guterrez:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/1/un-general-assembly-what-did-world-leaders-say-about-israels-war-on-gaza-2
Al Jazeera - October 1, 2024 - By Nils Adler
<<Jordan divided on Hezbollah, but united against Israeli attacks on
Lebanon
Jordanians remain divided on their support for Hezbollah but express
solidarity with the Lebanese people.
Amman, Jordan - Over the weekend, an unusual calm filled the square
outside al-Husseini Mosque in the bustling downtown area of Jordan's
capital.
The location, sandwiched between a commercial thoroughfare and a busy
intersection, has been the site of weekly raucous pro-Palestinian
protests since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza. Ahmed, a
50-year-old bookkeeper who runs a shop located on the route protesters
usually traverse, told Al Jazeera that the subdued atmosphere was due to
the "shock and despair" caused by Israel's attacks on Lebanon and the
death of Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah. However, this coming
weekend, he said, after Friday prayers, this sentiment will have given
way to anger and frustration, resulting in what he expects to be a huge
turnout. The televised speech by Hezbollah’s deputy chief Naim Qassem on
Monday, the first appearance by a Hezbollah official since Nasrallah's
death, has also given people in Jordan renewed optimism that the
Lebanese group remains a "fighting force" Ahmed said.
United against Israeli aggression
Ahmed recalls the 2006 July War between Israel and Hezbollah when he
said the vast majority of Jordanians supported the armed group. Now,
Hezbollah's support for the Damascus regime in the Syrian civil war has
diminished support for it in the country. Still, there are pockets of
vocal support for the group. On Saturday, protesters gathered outside
the al-Kalouti Mosque near the Israeli embassy in Amman, hoisting up
placards with pictures of Nasrallah and shouting pro-Hezbollah slogans.
Ahmed says that although some people may not actively support Hezbollah,
the country is united in its condemnation of Israeli aggression against
another Arab country.
Hezbollah
Hussein Amer, a 26-year-old who works in hospitality, told Al Jazeera
that the large protests expected this Friday will not be about Hezbollah
but rather "about what Israel continues to do in the Middle East". Amer,
who is half Jordanian and half Palestinian, says the war on Gaza has
deeply affected him. He used to attend protests regularly until his
workload prevented him from doing so. However, he said the developments
in Lebanon signal a "big change" and have re-invigorated the spirit of
protest in the capital. He said he would be sure to attend the upcoming
protests.
Mohammed Telwiy, an 18-year-old student of Palestinian heritage, said
that although he does not support Hezbollah as a group, like many people
in Jordan, he now stands in tacit solidarity with them as well as the
Lebanese people as they face Israeli aggression. He said there is a
palpable sense of anger in the country after Israel’s attacks in
Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, as it shows that Israel is pursuing a larger
regional war against several Arab countries. He always attends protests
against Israel's war on Gaza when he is not working or studying, but now
expects this weekend’s protests to swell in size and intensity.
"There are too many children dead, we need this war to end," he said.
Jordan
Omer Yaseen, a 20-year-old optician from al-Wehdat refugee camp, said
there is a range of opinions regarding Hezbollah and its leader in the
capital, with "everyone believing they are a political analyst". Despite
this, he said, "everyone without exception" sees that Israel "wants to
expand in Syria and Lebanon, and everyone sees the killing of innocent
people as a crime, just as it is in Gaza".
A political tightrope
On Friday, Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi made a flurry of
comments at the UN Security Council meeting on Gaza in which he
condemned Israel's attacks on Lebanon. He told reporters on the
sidelines of the event that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
must be stopped, otherwise, "war will encompass all of us." On Saturday,
he posted on X that Amman holds Israel "fully responsible for the
catastrophic consequences of its brutal aggression against Lebanon". He
added that Jordan condemns Israel for its "violation of its
sovereignty", its bombing of Beirut and its "killing of its citizens,
and its threat to its security and stability". However, the government
has since remained tight-lipped on Israel's ongoing attacks in Lebanon
despite the mood on the streets. This is in line with the political
tightrope Jordan has walked since Israel launched its war on Gaza. The
kingdom has pushed for a ceasefire and sent aid to the besieged
Palestinian enclave but also maintained diplomatic relations with
Israel.
In April, it shot down over its territory missiles fired from Iran
towards Israel in retaliation for an earlier Israeli air strike on the
Iranian consulate in Damascus, which killed eight officers of Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This stance has angered a
significant portion of Jordan's citizens, many of whom are descendants
of the Palestinians forced out of their lands in both the Nakba and the
1967 war. On Saturday, the Jordanian Armed Forces issued a statement
saying that a rocket launched from southern Lebanon had landed in an
uninhabited area in al-Muwaqqar, east of Amman, on Saturday, and no
casualties were reported. The statement said the army's air defence
systems were prepared to respond to any further missiles or drones
attempting to breach Jordanian airspace.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/1/jordan-divided-on-hezbollah-but-united-against-israeli-attacks-on-lebanon
BBC - Oct 1, 2024
<<Israeli strikes may have displaced million people - Lebanon PM
Many families from southern Lebanon are now living on the streets of
Beirut after fleeing Israeli air strikes
Israel's continuing air strikes may have already forced as many as one
million people from their homes across Lebanon, the country's prime
minister has said. "It is the largest displacement movement that may
have happened," Najib Mikati said. Lebanon's health ministry reported
more than 50 people killed in Sunday's strikes - two days after Israel
assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. Meanwhile,
Hezbollah fired more rockets into northern Israel. In a separate
development, Israel said it had carried out <large-scale> air strikes on
military targets of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen. Hezbollah
confirmed on Sunday that top military commander Ali Karaki and a senior
cleric, Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, had also been killed in the Israeli air
strikes. <We need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,> Israel's military
chief of staff Herzi Halevi said. Another Israeli strike in the central
Beirut neighbourhood of Kola early on Monday killed three members of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the group said in
a statement. The PFLP is a member of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, a coalition recognised at the UN as the official
representative of the Palestinians. The group is also considered a
terrorist organisation by both the US and EU. The statement named those
killed as military security chief Mohammad Abdel-Aal, military commander
Imad Odeh, and fighter Abdel Rahman Abdel-Aal. Lebanon's Prime Minister
Mikati said the wave of air strikes had forced people to flee from
Beirut and other parts of the country, including the southern border
areas.
The local authorities are struggling to assist everyone in need, with
shelters and hospitals under growing pressure, BBC correspondents in
Lebanon report. Aya Ayoub, aged 25, told the BBC she had to flee her
house in Beirut's southern Tahweetet al-Ghadir suburb with her family of
six as it was too dangerous to stay. Around her house, she said, "all
the buildings are completely destroyed", and she was currently staying
with another 16 people in a house in Beirut. "We left on Friday and had
no place to go. We stayed until 02:00 in the streets until a group of
people helped us get into a residential building that was under
construction. We are living on candles at night, and have to get water
and food from outside".
Sara Tohmaz, a 34-year-old journalist, told the BBC she had left her
house near Beirut with her mother and two siblings last Friday. It took
them almost 10 hours to reach Jordan through Syria by car, she said. "I
think we are lucky enough to have a place to stay in Jordan, where my
mother's relatives are based. We don't know what will happen next, and
don’t know when we will be back," Tohmaz added. The previously sporadic
cross-border fighting escalated on 8 October 2023 - the day after the
unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip -
when Hezbollah fired at Israeli positions, in solidarity with the
Palestinians. Since then hundreds of people, including many Hezbollah
fighters, have been killed, while tens of thousands have also been
displaced on both sides of the border.
Video verified by the BBC shows huge explosion in Yemen
Also on Sunday, Israel said it carried out air strikes on Houthi targets
in Yemen, striking power plants and a port in Ras Isa and Hudaydah.
Footage later emerged showing a huge explosion at the port. Israel says
it targeted the sites in response to recent missile attacks from the
Houthis, as well as to destroy facilities being used to transport
Iranian weapons. The Houthis, a Shia group controlling large areas of
Yemen, condemned the Israeli strikes as a "brutal aggression". They said
four people were killed and 33 injured, vowing revenge. There are
mounting international fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
Washington warned Israel against an all-out war with Hezbollah or Iran,
saying a major conflict would leave Israelis unable to return to their
homes in the north.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgveeyrl47o
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