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Food for thought:
As a more than reliable source
(a nazi-camp 'gypsy' survivor)
told me yesterday
israel is heading straight
to become a extreme fascist dictatorship
and more actual fact-finding news
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October 15 - 12, 2024
SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THE
NEWS AND IMAGES MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB
to say the least
and the million-dead question is:
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur: "It blows
my mind to think that WE KNOW what Israel
is doing and altogether we cannot stop it. Looking at
where we were 100 years ago,
no much progress has been achieved,"
So where will it end?
and more actual fact-finding news
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October 12 - 10, 2024
<<In the
Gaza Strip, four generations wiped out in seconds...
and more actual fact-finding
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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.
Al Jazeera - October 16, 2024 - By Ylenia Gostoli
and Edna Mohamed
<<LIVE: Israel orders forced Lebanon evacuations, bombards north Gaza
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger
seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Israeli forces have threatened residents to leave part of the Bekaa
region in eastern Lebanon, warning that they will target that area.
Staff at the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals in Gaza say
food is running out as Israel’s siege of Jabalia in the north of the
territory continues for a 13th day.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/17/live-food-running-out-dozens-buried-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-israeli-siege
Al Jazeera - October 16, 2024
<<Palestinians starving in northern Gaza as Israel presses assault
Northern Gaza hospitals say food and medicine running out amid siege, as
Israel continues bombardment across territory. Palestinian health
officials have called for a humanitarian corridor to three hospitals in
northern Gaza that have come close to collapse after Israeli troops have
cut off the area during almost two weeks of a renewed ground assault.
Doctors at the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals have
refused to leave their patients despite evacuation orders issued by the
Israeli military at the start of the offensive into the Jabalia area of
northern Gaza 12 days ago.
"We are calling on the international community, the Red Cross and the
World Health Organization, to play their humanitarian role by opening up
a corridor towards our healthcare system and allow the entry of fuel,
medical, delegations, supplies and food," said Hussam Abu Safiya,
director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, on Wednesday. "We are talking
about more than 300 medical staff working at Kamal Adwan Hospital, and
we can't provide even a single meal for them to be able to offer medical
services safely." In addition to Jabalia, Israel's ground assault in
ravaged northern Gaza has also targeted Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya. The
area has been repeatedly bombarded and invaded by Israeli ground troops
since Israel launched its assault on Gaza last October. Since the latest
incursion, it has been completely sealed off, according to Palestinian
Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal. The UN estimates that some
400,000 people are trapped in northern Gaza and have been unable to
leave due to intense bombardment, as well as the presence of Israeli
snipers and ground troops. For 12 days, no food has been delivered to
the area, Basal said. "They are not only trapped, but also lacking food,
drink, and medicine," he said, adding that scarce medical supplies are
also dwindling. The Gaza Ministry of Health said the continuing Israeli
offensive has killed around 350 Palestinians in Jabalia and nearby
areas. In Gaza City on Wednesday, an Israeli air strike on a house
killed 13 people, medics said. In its daily update, the Gaza Ministry of
Health said Israeli military strikes had killed at least 65 Palestinians
across the enclave in the past 24 hours. Munir al-Bursh, the
director-general of Gaza's Ministry of Health, said more than half of
the dead are women and children and many bodies remain in the streets
and under the rubble, with rescue teams unable to reach them because of
Israeli strikes.
"Entire families have disappeared," said al-Bursh.
'People are starving'
The dire humanitarian situation has prompted worldwide alarm, with the
United States issuing one of its strongest warnings to Israel that it
must improve the situation or face potential restrictions on military
aid. "A policy of starvation in northern Gaza would be horrific and
unacceptable and would have implications under international law and US
law," said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United
Nations, on Wednesday during a UN Security Council meeting. The US has
previously vetoed multiple resolutions that called for a ceasefire in
Israel's war on Gaza. France and China also called for an end to the war
and immediate humanitarian relief in Gaza's north. The Israeli military
meanwhile said it has killed more than 50 Palestinian fighters in air
strikes and close combat in recent days. It has told people to evacuate
to what it claimed were safer areas in the south, fuelling fears among
Palestinians that the drive is aimed at clearing them from northern Gaza
permanently. The Israeli military denies restricting aid supplies,
saying that since October 1, more than 9,000 tons of humanitarian aid
including food, water, gas, shelter equipment, and medical supplies have
entered Gaza through various crossings. It said some of that aid was
transferred directly into northern Gaza. Gaza's Government Media Office
refuted the claim, saying Israel's "lies" about allowing trucks in are
completely false. "Nothing entered northern Gaza. People in northern
Gaza are starving," said Hadeel Obeid, a supervisor nurse at the
Indonesian Hospital, where 28 patients were being treated.
"Our administrative manager provides just one meal for all persons
including doctors, nurses, patients, and their companions. It's a small
amount, not enough for an adult person," she told Reuters news agency
via a messaging app. Like Basal, she said medical supplies were running
out due to the daily demands of caring for the wounded. Al Jazeera's
Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said at least 50
humanitarian aid trucks from the Jordanian capital, Amman, had arrived
in Gaza City, but they "did not reach besieged areas, including Jabalia,
Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya".
He said Israeli strikes have also continued across Gaza, including the
central areas.
Polio vaccinations
Meanwhile, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees (UNRWA) said that on day two of a polio vaccination campaign in
Gaza, more than 64,000 children had received the drops and 51,000
vitamin A doses. The World Health Organization (WHO) urged Israel to
ensure the necessary conditions to finish the job of vaccinating Gaza's
children against polio, "We call for the humanitarian pauses to continue
to be respected. We call for a ceasefire and peace," WHO
director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X. Rachael Cummings,
a health specialist with Save the Children, said the situation for
children across the coastal enclave is "absolutely dire". "People are in
survival mode. ... People are looking for food, looking for water. There
is not adequate sanitation, and hygiene practices are decimated,"
Cummings told Al Jazeera.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 42,400 people, mosly women and
children, since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Health
Ministry.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/16/palestinians-starving-in-northern-gaza-as-israel-presses-assault
France 24 - Oct 16, 2024
<<US gives Israel 30 days to address Gaza humanitarian aid crisis
As Israel intensifies its offensive in northern Gaza, the US said it
could limit some of its military aid to Israel if the amount of
humanitarian aid coming into the enclave didn't dramatically increase in
the next 30 days.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241016-us-issues-israel-ultimatum-after-un-decries-woefully-inadequate-influx-of-humanitarian-aid-in-gaza
Al Jazeera - October 16, 2024 - By Virginia Pietromarchi
<<Netanyahu wants UNIFIL out of Lebanon. Why?
As Israel attacks the UN mission and calls for its removal, experts warn
a withdrawal will make it impossible to monitor violations of
international law. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for the
removal of UN peacekeepers as Israel escalates its attacks in southern
Lebanon. Experts believe this is aimed at removing international
observers who could keep a record of Israel's actions on Lebanon. About
10,000 members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
are present in a territory stretching for more than 1,000 square
kilometres (386 square miles) between Lebanon's de facto southern border
and the Litani River. Israel has fired on several front-line UNIFIL
positions since it launched a ground incursion into southern Lebanon in
early October, claiming it aims to dismantle the infrastructure of
Hezbollah, a Lebanese group that has been trading fire with the Israeli
army in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. On Sunday, Netanyahu said
that he demands that UN chief Antonio Guterres get UNIFIL troops out of
<combat zones>, alleging that their presence was providing a <human
shield> for Hezbollah. But the UN says the mission - with members from
50 countries - is not going anywhere. "The UN flag continues to fly," UN
secretary-general spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Sunday.
Excluding observers
A high-ranking diplomatic source, who requested anonymity, told Al
Jazeera that UNIFIL’s mandate is part of the international order and
removing it would give Israel "an easy win after its unacceptable
behaviour". UNIFIL was set up by the UN in 1978, after the first Israeli
occupation of southern Lebanon, to confirm the pullout of Israeli
forces, maintain peace and assist the Lebanese government in restoring
authority. Israel invaded Lebanon again in 2006, and the UN Security
Council adopted Resolution 1701, expanding UNIFIL’s mandate to monitor
the ceasefire and guarantee that no armed force other than the Lebanese
army was present in the area - meaning no Hezbollah or Israeli fighters
in the south. UNIFIL was only ever meant to provide a framework for the
Lebanese and Israelis to resolve their differences and facilitate the
establishment of Lebanese army control south of the Litani River but
that never happened, with both Hezbollah and Israel routinely violating
the resolution and the army remaining on the sidelines. The string of
recent Israeli attacks, which UNIFIL said were intentional, has been
widely condemned as a flagrant violation of international law. Shane
Darcy, professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, in the National
University of Galway, said getting UNIFIL out of the way would make it
more difficult to monitor international law violations as Israel ramps
up its attacks in southern Lebanon. "The exclusion of outside observers,
whether it is journalists or UN peacekeepers, seems a deliberate
strategy to limit the scrutiny of Israeli forces at a time when they are
most needed," Darcy added. This would be in line with a pattern of
exclusion already seen in Gaza, where Israel has killed at least 175
journalists, according to the Palestinian media office in Gaza, and
barred international reporters and UN human rights observers. In
Lebanon, there have also been deadly Israeli attacks against
journalists. The International Court of Justice in May ordered Israel
"to ensure the unimpeded access to the Gaza Strip of any commission of
inquiry, fact-finding mission or other investigative body mandated by
competent organs of the United Nations to investigate allegations of
genocide". Israel has not complied with this demand. "There have already
been appalling breaches of international humanitarian law and the risk
of further atrocities can only increase when the eyes of the world are
deliberately blocked," Darcy said.
An 'impediment'
Israel has denied allegations that it deliberately harmed peacekeepers
but the push for their removal comes as it keeps issuing forced
evacuation threats to people in southern Lebanon - again similar to the
warnings for people in Gaza to flee their homes or face bombardment.
According to a tally compiled by Al Jazeera, the Israeli army has over
the past two weeks issued such orders for at least 233 villages - an
area that the UN estimates covers a quarter of Lebanon's territory. "If
they manage to get civilians to leave, including peacekeepers, they can
stay for as long as they want till they get some deal they want," said
Rob Geist Pinfold, lecturer in international peace and security at
Durham University. That could be a political settlement that sees
Hezbollah withdraw north of the Litani River, Pinfold added, noting that
Israel views UNIFIL's presence as an "impediment" to its advance. Having
UNIFIL in a live war zone means the peacekeepers could be hit by
accident, which could result in significant pressure on Israel to
constrain or end its military campaign, Pinfold said. Richard Gowan, the
UN director at the International Crisis Group, said Israel has long been
"frustrated that UNIFIL has not stopped Hezbollah from establishing
strong positions" south of the Litani River. "I suspect that Israel will
argue that UNIFIL should either be given a more robust mandate to tackle
Hezbollah or, alternatively, a new non-UN-commanded force should deploy
to secure southern Lebanon," Gowan added. Addressing reporters in New
York on Monday, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix rejected
suggestions that UNIFIL was to blame for the non-implementation of
Resolution 1701. "[It] was never its mandate," he said, clarifying that
UNIFIL's mandate has been "to support" the parties in the implementation
of the resolution and not to enforce it. "It is important in relation to
our current decision to stay in the position because we all hope that
there will be a return to the negotiating table and that there will be
finally a real effort towards the full implementation of Resolution
1701," Lacroix added. In a statement on Monday, the UN Security Council
expressed support for UNIFIL following the Israeli attacks and urged
"all parties" to respect the safety and security of the mission. "UN
peacekeepers and UN premises must never be the target of an attack,"
said the 15-member body.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/16/netanyahu-wants-unifil-out-of-lebanon-why
376th day death toll
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 16 , 2024
<<376th day of Israeli attacks on Gaza: Death toll rises to 42,409
At least 42,409 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the
Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a
statement on Wednesday.
News Center- The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have entered their
376th day. At least 42,409 Palestinians have been killed and 99,153
others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7,
2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
At least 65 Palestinians were killed and 140 others injured in the last
24 hours, the ministry added.
According to the statement, there are dead bodies trapped under the
rubble or scattered on roads and the civil defense crews cannot retrieve
them due to ongoing Israeli attacks.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/376th-day-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-death-toll-rises-to-42-409-35834?page=1
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 16 , 2024 - by ZEYNEB XILEF
<<Women fleeing from Lebanon to NE Syria: Solidarity must continue
Women, who fled from Lebanon due to the intensifying Israeli attack and
settled in Deir ez-Zor Canton of North and East Syria, say the AANES
makes great efforts for them and hope for the continuation of
solidarity.
Deir ez-Zor- Since September 23, Israel has intensified its attacks on
Lebanon, displacing thousands. Thousands of Syrian refugees living in
southern Lebanon have fled to North and East Syria. About 19,000 people,
including 69 Lebanese citizens, have already entered the region
controlled by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
The AANES setting up a crisis center has declared mobilization to
provide aid to the people who fled from southern Lebanon to North and
East Syria. NuJINHA spoke to Sama Hamed Al-Ali and Maryam Al-Halid, two
women who fled from southern Lebanon to North and East Syria.
'We hope that solidarity will continue'
60-year-old Sama Hamed Al-Ali is one of the Syrian refugees, who fled
from Lebanon and settled in Hecin (Hajin), a small city in the Deir
ez-Zor Canton. "North and East Syria is safer than other places," she
said. "We left our house and walked to North and East Syria. "We were
welcomed by the authorities in North and East Syria. However, the people
in Lebanon face difficult living conditions and need help. They suffer
from the lack of basic needs such as food and fuel. Despite all the
difficulties, we were able to reach Hecin. We felt very happy when we
arrived in the town. The AANES has made great efforts for us. We would
like to thank everyone who supported and helped us. We hope that this
solidarity will continue."
'We fled without taking anything'
Maryam Al-Halid returned to Deir ez-Zor along with her family after four
years in Lebanon. "We had a normal life in Lebanon; we were working and
maintaining our life there," she told us. "We had to flee from Lebanon
due to the ongoing bombardment. We fled without taking anything. Our
journey to the border was very difficult. We had to pay 100 dollars per
person to cross the border. Our journey from Lebanon to Syria lasted
four days."
'We do not think of returning'
When Maryam Al-Halid and her family members arrived in Damascus, they
had to sleep outside due to high hotel prices. "Even public
transportation prices in Damascus were high. This situation doubled our
suffering. My children felt lost. We had to sleep outside for a week.
When we arrived in Hecîn, we decided to stay here because it is safe. We
returned to our hometown and we will rebuild our life here despite all
the challenges. We do not think of returning to Lebanon." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/women-fleeing-from-lebanon-to-ne-syria-solidarity-must-continue-35827?page=1
Al Jazeera - October 15, 2024 - By Alice Speri
<<US threatens Israel but deploys troops, revealing policy inconsistency
The US threatened to withhold military aid to Israel, but deployed
troops and an anti-missile system at the same time.
The United States's deployment of an anti-missile system to Israel -
plus 100 soldiers to operate it - comes at the same that it is saying it
will stop military aid to Israel in compliance with a US law that
prohibits militarily supporting countries that block humanitarian aid,
as Israel is doing in Gaza.
It also raises questions about the legality of US involvement at a time
when the administration of US President Joe Biden is facing growing
backlash over its support for Israel. Two recent developments - the
Sunday announcement that the US would deploy troops to Israel and a
letter sent by US officials the same day calling on Israel to improve
the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face unspecified consequences -
underscore the inconsistent approach of an administration that has
effectively done little of substance to rein in Israel's ever-widening
war. At a press briefing on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Matthew
Miller declined to say what the consequences of Israel failing to comply
with US requests would be, or how this differs from an earlier,
unfulfilled threat by the Biden administration to withhold military aid
to Israel. "I'm not gonna speak to that today," Miller told reporters
when pressed for details of how the US would respond to Israel's failure
to comply.
Empty threats
In the private letter, which was leaked on Tuesday, US Secretary of
State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called on
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister of Strategic Affairs
Ron Dermer to implement a series of "concrete measures", with a 30-day
deadline, to reverse the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The US briefly paused the delivery of thousands of bombs to Israel
earlier this year as Israeli officials planned to expand their
operations in southern Gaza, but it quickly resumed and continued
supplying Israel with weapons even as it escalated its assault in Gaza
and later in Lebanon. "A letter jointly signed by both the secretary of
state and secretary of defence indicates a heightened level of concern,
and the not-so-subtle threat here, whether the administration carries
through with it or not, is that they will actually impose consequences
under these various legal and policy standards," Brian Finucane, a
former legal adviser to the US State Department and senior adviser with
the US programme at the International Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera.
Whether the administration would carry through with it remained very
much in question. "It's important to note that there were legal
standards during the entire course of this conflict, and the Biden
administration has just not enforced them. It may be the situation is so
dire in northern Gaza that the political calculations have changed, and
that they may actually finally decide to implement US law. But it’s
really long past the point at which they should have done so," Finucane
said. Finucane also noted that the 30-day deadline would expire after
the US presidential election next month. "So they may feel that whatever
political constraints the administration may have felt it was operating
under, they may feel less constrained by," he said. Miller, the State
Department spokesman, told reporters on Tuesday that the election was
"not a factor at all" - but Annelle Sheline, a former State Department
official who resigned earlier this year in protest of the
administration’s Israel policy, disagrees. "I interpret it as being
intended to try to win over Uncommitted [National Movement] voters and
others in swing states who have made clear that they are opposed to this
administration's unconditional support for Israel," Sheline told Al
Jazeera. "I do not expect to see consequences."
Deeper entanglement
Whether the US would carry through with its threats, the deployment of
troops to Israel sent a much more concrete message of ongoing US support
no matter how dire the humanitarian situation. The US-made Terminal High
Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, an advanced missile defence
system that uses a combination of radar and interceptors to thwart
short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, adds to
Israel's already extraordinary anti-missile defences as it weighs its
response to an Iranian missile attack earlier this month. Biden said its
deployment is meant "to defend Israel". The announcement of the
deployment came just as Iranian officials warned that the US was putting
the lives of its troops "at risk by deploying them to operate US missile
systems in Israel". "While we have made tremendous efforts in recent
days to contain an all-out war in our region, I say it clearly that we
have no red lines in defending our people and interests," Iran's Foreign
Minister Abbas Aragchi wrote in a statement on Sunday. In practice, the
deployment further drives the US into war at a time when US officials
continue to pay lip service to diplomacy. "Rather than force
de-escalation or act to rein in Israeli officials, President Biden is
redoubling efforts to reassure Israeli leaders that he is in lockstep
with them as they deliberately barrel towards regional war and escalate
a genocidal campaign against Palestinians," Brad Parker, a lawyer and
associate director of policy at the Center for Constitutional Rights,
told Al Jazeera. Parker and other lawyers argue that the Biden
administration is relying on narrow and stretched legal arguments in an
attempt to justify a seemingly unilateral move under US law. The US is
also already implicated under international humanitarian law for the
support it has given Israel as it violated the laws of war. "So far, the
Biden administration has tried to characterise the fortification of
existing deployments and authorisation of new deployments as fragmented
or individual incidents. However, what emerges is a comprehensive and
robust introduction of US forces into situations where involvement in
hostilities is imminent without any congressional authorisation as
required by the law," Parker said. "All Americans should be seething
that a lame duck president is clinging to narrow legal interpretations
that cut against the clear intent of existing US law to justify the
massive deployment of US forces into a regional conflagration that was
in part created as a result of his own destructive, genocide-supporting
policies."
No congressional approval
Experts say that deploying US troops equipped for combat anywhere in the
world and without congressional approval, as Biden is doing now, could
trigger US laws that require reports to congressional committees. Should
the deployed troops engage in certain actions - in this case, using the
THAAD missiles - it would start a 60-day clock for their removal, or for
Congress to sign off on further engagement. "This does, in my view,
constitute the introduction of US armed forces 'into hostilities or into
situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly
indicated by the circumstances'," Oona Hathaway, director of the Center
for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School, told Al Jazeera, citing
the federal law regulating the president's authority to commit the US to
an armed conflict. "And therefore [it] ought to be authorised by
Congress".
But the US has been quiet about the legal implications.
"The Biden administration has gone out of its way to avoid acknowledging
the application of this law," said Finucane. "Because one, this law
imposes constraints, the 60-day limit on hostilities; and two, if the
Biden administration acknowledges that this law is in place and the
constraints apply, it doesn’t have attractive options. It can either
stop the activity or go to the US Congress for a war authorisation. And
it doesn't want to do either of those." This wouldn't be the first time
the administration has downplayed its legal obligations as it entangles
the US in conflicts abroad. The US has, for instance, been fighting
Yemen's Houthi rebels since October 7 without congressional approval.
The Biden administration has justified those military operations as
<self-defence> - something it may try to do again. The US Defense
Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "Thus
far, Congress has not required the administration to explain how exactly
Iran firing on Israel undermines US security," said Sheline, the former
State Department official. "It's possible that Biden anticipates that
Iran will attack and Congress will then be eager to declare war."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/15/us-threatens-israel-but-deploys-troops-revealing-policy-inconsistency
Al Jazeera - October 15, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<US and Canada impose sanctions, blacklist pro-Palestinian group
Samidoun
Curbs against Palestinian prisoner support network imposed amid mounting
pressure since Israel's Gaza war began.
The United States has imposed sanctions against the Palestinian prisoner
support network Samidoun, accusing the organisation of being a <sham
charity> that raises funds for a blacklisted, left-wing Palestinian
political faction. In a statement on Tuesday, the US Department of the
Treasury said Samidoun acts as an international fundraiser for the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which Washington
has designated as a <terrorist> group. "Organizations like Samidoun
masquerade as charitable actors that claim to provide humanitarian
support to those in need, yet in reality divert funds for much-needed
assistance to support terrorist groups," Treasury official Bradley Smith
said in the statement. The US sanctions were imposed in coordination
with the Canadian government, which on Tuesday designated Samidoun as a
<terrorist entity>. Canada said the group "has close links and advances
the interests of" the PFLP, which is also listed as a <terrorist>
organisation in the country. "Violent extremism, acts of terrorism or
terrorist financing have no place in Canadian society or abroad. The
listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code sends
a strong message that Canada will not tolerate this type of activity,"
Dominic Leblanc, Canada's minister of public safety, said in a
statement.
Samidoun did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment
on Tuesday's sanctions and <terrorist> designation. On its website,
Samidoun - also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network -
described itself as "an international network of organizers and
activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in
their struggle for freedom. We work to raise awareness and provide
resources about Palestinian political prisoners, their conditions, their
demands, and their work for freedom for themselves, their fellow
prisoners, and their homeland," it said. Pro-Israel groups across North
America and Europe have been pushing to list Samidoun as a <terrorist>
group for years. But the organisation came under renewed scrutiny in
recent months during mass protests in Canada, the US and elsewhere
against Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than
42,200 Palestinians in the besieged enclave since early October 2023.
Just weeks into the Israeli military's bombardment of Gaza late last
year, Germany - a staunch ally of Israel - banned Samidoun after it said
the group disseminated "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda" and
"glorified" the Palestinian group Hamas.
In a statement at that time, Samidoun rejected the German ban as an
attempt "to repress dissent with the full force of the state.This attack
should be of serious concern to all who carry out political work,
especially for Palestinian liberation," the group said. On Tuesday, the
US also designated a Canadian citizen it said serves as a member of the
PFLP's leadership abroad and helps raise money for the group. The US
sanctions freeze the targeted individual’s and organisation's assets in
the country and prevent any US citizens or entities from doing business
with them.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/15/us-and-canada-impose-sanctions-blacklist-pro-palestinian-group-samidoun
Al Jazeera - October 15, 2024
<<Protesters block New York stock exchange over US arms for Israel
Hundreds of protesters blockaded the New York Stock Exchange to demand
the US stops arming and funding Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and
to condemn weapons firms profiting from the violence.>>
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https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/15/protesters-block-new-york-stock-exchange-over-us-arms-for-israel
Al Jazeera - October 15, 2024
<<Palestinians in Gaza face asbestos danger from war rubble
Asbestos in the vast piles of rubble left by Israel's relentless
bombardment of Gaza is a threat to Palestinians living there. Inhaled,
it can cause cancers. Al Jazeera's Nils Adler explains the threat.>>
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https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/15/palestinians-in-gaza-face-asbestos-danger-from-war-rubble
Al Jazeera - October 15, 2024
<<Israeli forces ramp up north Gaza assault as 55 killed across enclave
Twelve bodies recovered in the Jabalia refugee camp, where the Israeli
army launched a ground offensive 11 days ago. Dozens of Palestinians
have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including in
Jabalia in the north where the Israeli military launched an offensive 11
days ago.
At least 55 people were killed in the past 24 hours in the enclave,
Gaza's Ministry of Health said on Tuesday, with at least 12 bodies
recovered after an Israeli attack near al-Faluja in the besieged Jabalia
refugee camp. Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman for the Palestinian Civil
Defence in Gaza, said seven of those killed belonged to the al-Sayed
family. He said their bodies were buried in their family home. The other
five bodies were recovered from the streets of the neighbourhood, said
Basal. In a separate incident, Israeli forces attacked the Birkat Abu
Rashid area of the camp, killing at least three people and wounding
several others, according to Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif, reporting from
the scene. In the aftermath of the air attack, rescuers were seen
frantically helping survivors exit from a heavily damaged building, with
one man carrying an injured child. Residents told Al Jazeera that troops
are planting explosives-filled barrels into the ground in al-Faluja to
destroy buildings and homes.
'Unimaginable loss'
Over the past year, Israeli troops have repeatedly returned to the
Jabalia refugee camp, which dates back to the 1948 war surrounding
Israel's creation. The attack on Jabalia follows Israeli orders to fully
evacuate northern Gaza, including Gaza City. An estimated 400,000
Palestinians remain in the north, according to United Nations estimates.
The UN's human rights office said on Tuesday the Israeli military
appeared to be "cutting off North Gaza completely from the rest of the
Gaza Strip". The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said,
"Amid intense ongoing hostilities and evacuation orders in northern
Gaza, families are facing unimaginable fear, loss of loved ones,
confusion, and exhaustion. People must be able to flee safely, without
facing further danger."
Fighting elsewhere
An Israeli air attack destroyed several homes on al-Sinaa street in the
west of Gaza City early on Tuesday, with two bodies recovered, according
to the civil defence. A search continues for 12 other people believed to
have been in the houses at the time, it said. Meanwhile, in central
Gaza, four Palestinians were killed when a house was struck in the
Nuseirat camp belonging to the al-Salhi family, the civil defence said.
In southern Gaza, at least 10 people from a family were killed and many
others wounded in Bani Suheila in eastern Khan Younis following an
Israeli air raid on a house.
"The killing machine hasn't stopped at all. All night long, heavy
artillery and air strikes were carried out in the southern part of the
Strip," said Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in
central Gaza. "They thought they were being protected and safe, but not
any more. This has deepened the shattered sense of safety for everyone
in eastern Khan Younis," Mahmoud said. In a separate attack, six people
of a family were killed in Khan Younis’s al-Fukhari district.
The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that at least 42,289 people have
been killed and 98,684 injured in Gaza in Israeli attacks since October
2023.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/15/israeli-forces-ramp-up-north-gaza-assault-as-55-killed-across-enclave
Over 11,406 students killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 15 , 2024
<<Over 11,406 students killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Over 11,406 students have been killed in the Gaza Strip and the West
Bank since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023,
the Palestinian Ministry of Education said in a statement on Tuesday.
News Center- The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education
has issued a statement on the number of students killed and injured in
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since the beginning of the Israeli
aggression on October 7, 2023. More than 11,406 students have been
killed and 17,965 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank since October 7,2023, according to the statement
published by the Palestinian news agency WAFA on Tuesday. 114 students
have been killed and 591 others injured in the West Bank, the statement
said, adding that 550 teachers and administrators have been killed and
3,717 others injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. According to
the statement, 362 government schools, universities, university
buildings, and 65 UNRWA schools were bombed and vandalized in the Gaza
Strip, causing 124 of them to be severely damaged and 62 to be
completely destroyed. 84 schools and seven universities in the West Bank
were also stormed and vandalized, and 133 government schools have been
used as shelters for displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
718,000 students deprived of education in Gaza
In the Gaza Strip, 718,000 students are still deprived of attending
their schools and universities since the beginning of the Israeli
aggression and most students suffer from psychological trauma and face
difficult health conditions, the statement said.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/over-11-406-students-killed-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-35825?page=1
Death toll
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 15 , 2024
<<Death toll in Gaza keeps rising
At least 42,344 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the
Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a
statement on Tuesday.
News Center- The death toll in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has
kept rising. At least 42, 344 Palestinians have been killed and 99,013
others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7,
2023, the Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
At least 55 Palestinians were killed and 329 others injured in the last
24 hours, the ministry added.
Emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead
bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the
war-torn enclave, as Israeli forces continue to obstruct the movement of
ambulance and civil defense crews, the Palestinian news agency WAFA
reported on Tuesday.
'This shameful violence against children must end now'
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) published a post on social
media platform X about the Israeli strike that targeted a tent camp for
displaced Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital premises early
Monday. "Today, our screens were once again filled with horrifying
reports of children killed, burnt and families emerging from bombed
tents in Gaza," UNICEF said in the post. "These should shock the world
to its core. Attacks on shelters in Deir al-Balah and at Al-Aqsa
hospital, which reportedly killed 15 children prove again that there is
no safe place for children in Gaza. This shameful violence against
children must end now." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/death-toll-in-gaza-keeps-rising-35823?page=1
Ruqayya Saqallah
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 15 , 2024 - by NAGHAM KARAJEH
<<Breast cancer patients in Gaza have no access to medicine and
treatment
October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month; however, breast cancer
patients in Gaza face many challenges in accessing medicine and
treatment.
Gaza- Women diagnosed with breast cancer in Gaza face a double
challenge: fighting the cancer and enduring the consequences of the
ongoing war that prevents them from receiving the necessary treatment,
making their battle more difficult and complex. Breast Cancer Awareness
Month is an international health campaign held every October, aiming to
promote screening and prevention of the disease, which affects 2.3
million women worldwide. The pink ribbon has become the universal symbol
of breast cancer, raising awareness and bringing together women in
solidarity.
"Health situation in the Gaza Strip has become catastrophic," said
Ruqayya Saqallah, a doctor in Gaza. "We do not have the capacity to
provide the necessary healthcare services to all patients due to the
severe shortage of medicines, and sometimes we are unable to even
perform the basic tests that patients need."
'Hundreds of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no access to
necessary healthcare'
Israel has attacked, besieged and bombed many hospital and health
facilities all over Gaza, forcing doctors, nurses, and other medical
staff working in nearly impossible conditions. Al-Shifa Hospital, the
Gaza Strip's biggest hospital, was targeted and its departments,
including the Oncology Department, were destroyed, Dr. Ruqayya Saqallah
told NuJINHA. "This situation causes hundreds of women diagnosed with
breast cancer not to access necessary healthcare services, increasing
their suffering."
'Stress and anxiety weaken the immune system'
In addition to these challenges, breast cancer patients suffer from
psychological pressure due to the ongoing Israeli attacks.
"Psychological pressure is one of the factors that can indeed contribute
to a decline in a patient's health. Constant stress and anxiety weaken
the immune system, making it less capable of fighting off disease," she
said.
No equipment to detect new cases
People in Gaza were already facing the lack of medicines and medical
supplies even before the current war started. However, Israeli attacks
targeting hospitals and health facilities make the situation more
critical, Dr. Ruqayya Saqallah said. "Medicines used to treat cancer,
including chemotherapy drugs and hormonal therapies are almost
exhausted, threatening the lives of hundreds of women diagnosed with
breast cancer. Even the equipment needed for early detection and for
cancer screening are almost exhausted. This situation makes it difficult
to detect new cases or follow up the existing ones."
Women try to overcome what has happened in solidarity with each other
Pointing out that women in Gaza continue to resist and have a strong
will despite all these challenges and difficulties, she said, "There are
small individual and community initiatives that aim to provide
psychological and social support to patients. Some women come together
in small groups at homes and share their feelings with each other,
trying to overcome what has happened in solidarity with each other." >>
Source incl. video:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/breast-cancer-patients-in-gaza-have-no-access-to-medicine-and-treatment-35820
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