GAZA WAR 2023
DECEMBER
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Important: Please, take note that the list is exemplary, and meant to be for a look back. The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian, Arabic, Israeli and Asian media. |
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| 20231201 | Palestinians celebrate release of prisoners from Israeli jails | end of ceasefire | Bus carrying 30 Palestinian prisoners is welcomed in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Palestinian man criticises Israeli prison as 30 more freed | end of ceasefire | A Palestinian man has described his time inside an Israeli prison as "not normal", after 30 more prisoners were released under the truce with Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Released Palestinians allege abuse in Israeli jails | end of ceasefire | Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails say that guards carried out abuse and collective punishment in the weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Netanyahu says Hamas broke truce by refusing to release more hostages | end of ceasefire | In the last hour, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Hamas did not agree to release further hostages, which violated the terms of the truce.
COMMENT In the last hour, Netanyahu said Hamas did not agree to release further hostages, which violated the terms of the truce. However, the resistance group appear to have send a list of names, Netanyahu discussed in his war cabinet around 06:00 am. The discussion included the handover by Hamas of the dead bodies of the Israeli woman and child killed by Israelis themselves. Netanyahu refused the dead bodies!. Then, Ben-Gvir threatens to dissolve Israel gov’t if bombing of Gaza stops |
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| 20231201 | Israel announces strikes on Gaza after truce expires, clear sign that war has resumed in full force | end of ceasefire | Israel accused Hamas of having violated the terms of the cease-fire, including by firing rockets toward Israel from Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel accuses Hamas of violating truce deal - military operations resume | end of ceasefire | A spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said: "Hamas violated the operational pause and in addition fired towards Israeli territory." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office added that Hamas did not agree to release all women hostages, infringing on the terms of the truce, and also launched rockets at Israel.
COMMENT The resistance group appear to have send a list of names, Netanyahu discussed in his war cabinet around 06:00 am. The discussion included the handover by Hamas of the dead bodies of the Israeli woman and child killed by Israelis themselves. Netanyahu refused the dead bodies!. Then, Ben-Gvir threatens to dissolve Israel gov’t if bombing of Gaza stops |
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| 20231201 | Netanyahu reaffirmed to Blinken Israel’s determination to eliminate Hamas | end of ceasefire | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel will not stop its war on the besieged Gaza Strip until Hamas is fully eliminated. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Analysis: Why Israel’s military wanted to end the Gaza truce, and what now? | end of ceasefire | Israel has warned that the war will spread to the ‘whole’ of Gaza. That could force other nations to step in. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Netanyahu’s intention to continue war ‘clear since the beginning’: Analyst | end of ceasefire | Luciano Zaccara, associate professor of Gulf politics at Qatar University, says it was always Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to restart military operations in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Why has the Gaza ceasefire come to an end? | end of ceasefire | Fighting resumed between Israel and Hamas on Friday morning, ending a seven-day ceasefire between the two sides that had seen hostages and prisoners released and much-needed humanitarian assistance reaching the Gaza Strip.
COMMENT The resistance group appear to have send a list of names, Netanyahu discussed in his war cabinet around 06:00 am. The discussion included the handover by Hamas of the dead bodies of the Israeli woman and child killed by Israelis themselves. Netanyahu refused the dead bodies!. Then, Ben-Gvir threatens to dissolve Israel gov’t if bombing of Gaza stops |
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| 20231201 | What happened in Gaza when the truce ended | end of ceasefire | Dozens of Palestinians were reportedly killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza after a seven-day truce ended on Friday morning. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Mediators push to renew truce as world recoils at reignited Israel-Gaza war | end of ceasefire | Those in power have decided that the killing of children would recommence’, UN official says as ceasefire ends. | ||||||
| 20231201 | The Israel-Hamas truce has ended: What we know so far | end of ceasefire | Israel resumed its deadly aerial bombardment on Gaza, minutes after the truce expired. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Apprehension in Malawi as government sends workers to Israel amid Gaza war | global effects | Opposition leader Kondwani Nankhumwa questions the secrecy of the deal and describes it as ‘an evil transaction’. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Southern France province bans pro-Palestine rally | global effects | A pro-Palestine rally that was scheduled to take place in France’s southern city of Nice has been banned by the local administration on Friday | ||||||
| 20231201 | Spanish PM says Israel “systematically” occupying Palestinian territories | global response | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday that Israel has been systematically occupying the Palestinian territories and called to recognise the Palestinian State | ||||||
| 20231201 | Brazil’s Lula: Biden has no ‘sensitivity’ to stop war on Gaza | global response | Brazil’s leader faults US President Biden’s apathy towards Gaza ‘genocide’ despite influence on Israel. | ||||||
| 20231201 | At climate summit, Turkiye, South Africa hit out at Israel over Gaza war | global response | As the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed, some world leaders at the UN climate summit criticised Israel on Friday and called for the Gaza war to end, while US and UK officials held meetings on the conflict on the gathering’s sidelines | ||||||
| 20231201 | Impossible to stay silent on Israel attacks in Gaza, says famed Italy actor | global response | Italian actor, Antonio De Matteo, renowned for his advocacy for Palestinians, took aim at Israel’s recent attacks on the Gaza Strip as despicable and shameful, emphasising the impossibility of remaining silent in the face of such actions | ||||||
| 20231201 | Recruitment company cuts ties with Israel arms manufacturer in UK | global response | The sole recruitment company for the UK branch of Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, has ended its association with the company, Palestine Action has said. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Activist on trial for damaging UK sites of Israeli arms maker says he was justified | global response | Palestine Action’s Richard Barnard and co-defendants say alleged actions against Elbit Systems were aimed at stopping bombings | ||||||
| 20231201 | New York Times report says Israel knew about Hamas attack over a year in advance | Hamas resistance attack | Israel’s military was aware of Hamas ' plan to launch an attack on Israeli soil over a year before the devastating Oct. 7 operation that killed hundreds of people, The New York Times reported Friday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Hamas was aware of Israeli surveillance prior to 7 October attack, says report | Hamas resistance attack | The Hamas leadership in Gaza was aware of Israeli attempts to surveil them and took steps to keep their communication covert, a new report in the Jerusalem Post has suggested. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Report: Israel had blueprint of Hamas attack more than a year ago | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for 7 October more than a year before it happened, the New York Times has revealed in an explosive report citing documents, emails and interviews. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. | ||||||
| 20231201 | New York Times: Israel knew Hamas's attack plan more than 1 year ago | Hamas resistance attack | An Israeli intelligence insider reveals that a year ago, they knew about Hamas' plans but failed to act. The report highlights a veteran analyst's warning about a daylong Hamas training exercise that matched a looming threat.
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| 20231201 | NYT reporter says Israel knew Hamas's attack plan over a year ago | Hamas resistance attack | New York Times Magazine staff writer Ronen Bergman discusses his stunning report that Israeli intelligence was aware of a blueprint for an attack from Hamas more than a year ago that was similar to the attack on October 7th. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Hamas leader Sinwar plotted Israel's most deadly day in plain sight | Hamas resistance attack | Last year, Yahya Sinwar told a rally in Gaza that Hamas would deploy fighters and rockets in a fierce strike on Israel, the nation that imprisoned him for 23 years before he was freed and rose to a leadership role in the militant group. | ||||||
| 20231201 | UN: 1.8m Palestinians now displaced in Gaza | humanitarian | The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the number of displaced Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to 1.8 million people or about 80 per cent of the enclave’s population. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Gaza aid trucks stranded as Israel-Hamas war resumes | humanitarian | Egyptian security sources say aid and fuel trucks from Egypt have stopped, as UN officials say continuation of aid delivery in doubt. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Health situation in northern Gaza 'totally catastrophic': Health Ministry | humanitarian | The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, on Friday, said the health situation in the northern part of the blockaded enclave is “totally catastrophic” as the main hospitals are out of service due to the Israeli wa | ||||||
| 20231201 | Official: Israel controls medical aid entering Gaza Strip | humanitarian | Israel is controlling the entry of vital medical aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Netanyahu says Hamas broke truce by refusing to release more hostages | Israelis | In the last hour, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Hamas did not agree to release further hostages, which violated the terms of the truce. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Netanyahu reaffirmed to Blinken Israel’s determination to eliminate Hamas | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel will not stop its war on the besieged Gaza Strip until Hamas is fully eliminated. | ||||||
| 20231201 | New York Times report says Israel knew about Hamas attack over a year in advance | Israelis | Israel’s military was aware of Hamas ' plan to launch an attack on Israeli soil over a year before the devastating Oct. 7 operation that killed hundreds of people, The New York Times reported Friday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Hamas was aware of Israeli surveillance prior to 7 October attack, says report | Israelis | The Hamas leadership in Gaza was aware of Israeli attempts to surveil them and took steps to keep their communication covert, a new report in the Jerusalem Post has suggested. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Report: Israel had blueprint of Hamas attack more than a year ago | Israelis | Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for 7 October more than a year before it happened, the New York Times has revealed in an explosive report citing documents, emails and interviews. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel’s Ben-Gvir calls for ‘immediate return with massive force’ to bombing of Gaza | Israelis | Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir yesterday called for an “immediate return with massive force” to the bombing of the besieged Gaza Strip in order to “completely destroy” Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel army publishes map it says advises Gazans of safe evacuation areas | Israelis | The Israeli army said on Friday that with the resumption of fighting it had published a map to advise Gazans of safe areas for their evacuation.
COMMENT The claim is hasbara for alleged uprooting from one section to another |
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| 20231201 | Israel’s AI system for target selection has generated ‘mass assassination factory’ in Gaza | Israelis | Israel has deployed an AI system to generate kill-targets which has turned Gaza into a “mass assassination factory,” according to a hard-hitting new investigative report published by Israeli media outlet +972 Magazine. The system differs significantly from previous military operations leading to indiscriminate killings and extremely high civilian fatalities during Israel’s current offensive in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israeli strike kills another Palestinian journalist in Gaza | journalists | An Israeli attack has killed another Palestinian journalist in Gaza, the third to die since the truce ended on Friday. Adham Hassouna, a journalist and university professor, was killed along with a number of family members after their home was struck by Israeli bombing. He is the third Palestinian journalist killed on Friday, following Montaser Mustafa al-Sawaf and Abdallah Darwish. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Palestinian journalist killed by Israeli air strike in Gaza | journalists | Montaser Mustafa al-Sawaf was a freelance photographer who worked for Turkey's state-backed Anadolu Agency, who confirmed the death on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Anadolu cameraman killed in Israel airstrikes on Gaza | journalists | Montaser Al-Sawaf, an Anadolu freelance cameraman reporting in Gaza on Friday, was killed in Israeli airstrikes, newly resumed after a one-week pause | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel raids destroy Khan Yunis mosque in southern Gaza | mosques, schools | Israeli warplanes, on Friday, bombed the Halima Mosque in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, levelling it to the ground | ||||||
| 20231201 | Former ICC chief prosecutor: Israel’s siege of Gaza is a ‘genocide’ | opinion | Luis Moreno Ocampo discusses accusations of war crimes and genocide against both Hamas and Israel. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Is Israel meeting its obligations under the laws of war? | opinion | Questions raised about responsibility and accountability as Israel resumes bombardment of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel-Gaza War: Can Hamas be defeated? | opinion | Discussion about Gaza’s future and whether Israel’s stated objective of eradicating Hamas is possible. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Hezbollah 'vigilant’ as Israeli bombing continues | regional effects | Lebanon's Hezbollah group said on Friday it was ‘vigilant and ready’ as a resumption of fighting between Hamas and Israel fuelled concern that clashes across the Lebanon Israel border could also restart. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Hezbollah and Israeli troops exchange fire along the border as 2 people are killed in Lebanon | regional effects | Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group attacked several Israeli army posts along the two countries’ border and Israel shelled a village in southern Lebanon on Friday, killing two Lebanese citizens, officials said. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Two Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli air strike, says Hezbollah-affiliated media | regional effects | Two Lebanese civilians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon, according to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar news outlet. | ||||||
| 20231201 | 2 Lebanese citizens killed in Israel airstrike on their home in southern Lebanon | regional effects | Two Lebanese citizens, on Friday, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home near the border in southern Lebanon as fire was exchanged between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah group | ||||||
| 20231201 | At least three killed in south Lebanon as Israel, Hezbollah resume fighting | regional effects | Israeli shelling kills a woman and her son in Houla as Hezbollah says one of its fighters is also killed. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Syrian air defences repel Israeli attack on vicinity of Damascus -state media | regional effects | Syrian air defences repelled an Israeli rocket attack against targets in the vicinity of Damascus early on Saturday, Syrian state media reported, adding defences shot down most of the missiles. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Thousands march for Palestine as Israel and Hamas resume fighting | regional response | Rallies held in Yemen, Jordan and the occupied West Bank as Israel-Hamas war resumes after weeklong truce. | ||||||
| 20231201 | UN: 1.8m Palestinians now displaced in Gaza | United Nations | The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the number of displaced Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to 1.8 million people or about 80 per cent of the enclave’s population. | ||||||
| 20231201 | UNRWA hits back at 'unsubstantiated' claims against the organisation | United Nations | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) has hit back at "unsubstantiated" accusations, after Israeli media claimed a captive had been held in the home of an employee of the organisation. | ||||||
| 20231201 | UN says Israel will not renew visa for top aid official | United Nations | Israel has told the United Nations it will not renew a visa for the top U.N. humanitarian aid official for the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | UN says Israel will not renew visa for top aid official | United Nations | Israel has told the United Nations it will not renew a visa for the top UN humanitarian aid official for the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank, a UN spokesperson said on Friday | ||||||
| 20231201 | U.S. Sends Israel 2,000-Pound Bunker Buster Bombs for Gaza War | United States | After sending massive bombs, artillery shells, U.S. also urges Israel to limit civilian casualties.
COMMENT Haaretz on November 16, 2023: Revealed: The Munitions U.S. Supplied Israel for Gaza War |
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| 20231201 | Blinken sees goals largely unfulfilled in Mideast trip, even as Israel pledges to protect civilians | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the Mideast this week pressing for agreements to extend the Gaza cease-fire, step up the release of hostages held by Hamas and limit Palestinian civilian casualties if fighting with Israel resumed. He left Friday with his goals largely unfulfilled. | ||||||
| 20231201 | U.S. to impose visa bans soon on Israeli extremist settlers for West Bank violence | United States | The Biden administration has informed Israel that Washington will impose visa bans in the next few weeks on Israeli extremist settlers engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, a senior State Department official said. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel informs Arab states it wants buffer zone in post-war Gaza - sources | war on Gaza | Israel has informed several Arab states that it wants to carve out a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of Gaza's border to prevent future attacks as part of proposals for the enclave after war ends, Egyptian and regional sources said. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel strikes Gaza as truce with Hamas ends | war on Gaza | no description | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israeli air strikes pound Gaza as truce with Hamas ends | war on Gaza | The Israeli military says its air defence intercepted a launch from Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel strikes Gaza after truce expires | war on Gaza | Israel’s military has resumed its bombardment of Gaza as the temporary ceasefire expired with no agreement to extend it. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel launches strikes on Gaza as fighting resumes after truce expires | war on Gaza | Israeli officials blame Hamas for breaking truce with barrage of rockets from Gaza aimed at southern Israel | ||||||
| 20231201 | IDF says 'combat' resumes in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel has said its fighter jets are "striking targets" in Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating a truce agreement. Earlier, the IDF said it had intercepted rocket fire from the territory | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israeli military resumes combat in Gaza after truce with Hamas expires | war on Gaza | Israel's military on Friday said it had resumed combat against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and also accused the Palestinian group of violating terms of the truce and firing toward Israeli territory. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Gaza hospitals already overwhelmed as Israel Hamas truce shatters | war on Gaza | The pause in fighting that began a week ago allowed hostages and prisoners to be freed, plus much-needed humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | UN spokesperson describes scene inside Gaza hospital after truce ends | war on Gaza | UNICEF spokesperson describes the scenes at a hospital in Gaza as the ceasefire came to an end on Friday. James Elder in his video said "Inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children". The Palestine Heath Ministry said there are already dozens of Palestinians killed as Israel renewed its bombing campaign after talks to extend a truce had failed | ||||||
| 20231201 | Fighting resumes in Israel-Gaza war | war on Gaza | Heavy gunfire and shelling have been reported in the north and east of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel resumes Gaza assault after rockets fired, heavy fighting reported | war on Gaza | Heavy fighting was reported in Gaza on Friday as Israel's military resumed combat operations against Hamas after accusing the Palestinian militant group of violating a temporary truce by firing towards Israeli territory. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel says they are committed to war goals | war on Gaza | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office released a statement in the morning, saying Hamas violated the outline of the truce – it did not commit to its duties to release all the kidnapped women and launched rockets at Israel today. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Khan Yunis hit by Israeli Strike as truce ends | war on Gaza | Smoke rises after an Israeli strike hits Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The temporary truce between Israel and Hamas expired early Friday, with the Israeli army saying combat operations had resumed. | ||||||
| 20231201 | ‘Tens of thousands’ seek refugee at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza | war on Gaza |
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| 20231201 | Palestinian armed group says it attacked Israeli cities | war on Gaza |
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| 20231201 | Israeli warplanes hit targets in Gaza as it resumes offensive, warning of attacks to come in south | war on Gaza | Israeli fighter jets hit targets in the Gaza Strip minutes after a weeklong truce expired on Friday, as the war with Hamas resumed in full force. Black smoke billowed from the besieged territory and Israel dropped leaflets over parts of southern Gaza urging people to leave their homes, suggesting it was preparing to widen its offensive. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel resumes strikes in Gaza after ceasefire ends | war on Gaza | no description | ||||||
| 20231201 | War resumes in Gaza after truce expires | war on Gaza | Israeli warplanes resumed the pounding of Gaza, Palestinian civilians fled for shelter and rocket sirens blared in southern Israel on Friday as war resumed after a week-long truce collapsed with no deal to extend it. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Gazans flee homes, dig through rubble as Israeli strikes resume | war on Gaza | Gazans were fleeing their homes and rushing their dead and wounded to hospitals after fresh Israeli strikes on Friday, as combat resumed between Israel and Hamas following the expiry of a week-long truce | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israeli military bombs buildings in Gaza minutes after truce ends | war on Gaza | Video shows smoke from Israeli air strikes on buildings in Gaza, minutes after the truce deal expired on Friday morning. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Minutes after the truce expired, Israeli fighter jets hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip | war on Gaza | Israeli fighter jets hit targets in the Gaza Strip minutes after a weeklong truce expired, as the war with Hamas resumed in full force. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Khan Younis neighbourhood hit by Israeli attack | war on Gaza | Al Jazeera journalist, Youmna ElSayed is at the site of a bombing in Khan Younis, targeted by Israeli shelling just hours after the truce beween Hamas and Israel expired. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel restarts genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza on Friday | war on Gaza | Israeli fighter jets pounded the Gaza Strip on Friday shortly after a week-long truce expired with no agreement to extend it. The number of Palestinians killed and injured is rising by the tens every hour. Israel and Hezbollah resume trading attacks | ||||||
| 20231201 | Fighting resumes in Gaza after cease-fire ends | war on Gaza | Hostilities have restarted in Gaza after negotiators failed to extend a seven-day cease-fire. Officials from the Hamas-run Health Ministry said dozens have been killed on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel tells civilians to leave parts of south Gaza as fighting resumes | war on Gaza | no decription | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel hammers more than 200 'targets' in Gaza as truce ends | war on Gaza | The pause in fighting that began a week ago had allowed hostages and prisoners to be freed, plus much-needed humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israeli strikes kill dozens across Gaza as cease-fire ends, health officials say | war on Gaza | Israeli strikes on houses and buildings across the Gaza Strip have killed dozens of people, according to health officials there, as fighting resumed on Friday just minutes after a temporary cease-fire deal ended. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel resumes killing women and children in Gaza | war on Gaza | photo gallery | ||||||
| 20231201 | More than 170 killed in Gaza since end of truce, says Hamas-run health ministry | war on Gaza | More than 170 Palestinians, many of them women and children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel's military on Friday resumed its deadly combat against Hamas, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. | ||||||
| 20231201 | At least 178 killed in Gaza as Israel resumes bombing | war on Gaza | live blog | ||||||
| 20231201 | More than 180 killed as Israel resumes Gaza assault after truce lapses | war on Gaza | More than 180 people have been killed and hundreds of others wounded as Israeli forces resumed their bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials, after a week-long truce expired. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel’s AI system for target selection has generated ‘mass assassination factory’ in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel has deployed an AI system to generate kill-targets which has turned Gaza into a “mass assassination factory,” according to a hard-hitting new investigative report published by Israeli media outlet +972 Magazine. The system differs significantly from previous military operations leading to indiscriminate killings and extremely high civilian fatalities during Israel’s current offensive in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel’s new Gaza offensive: 'The goal is to destroy Hamas, not to save the hostages’ | war on Gaza | Fighting between Israel and Hamas resumed in the Gaza Strip after a truce agreement expired early Friday, dashing hopes of a prolonged ceasefire in the region. To better understand the rapidly evolving conflict in the region, FRANCE 24 spoke to Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel signals intent to launch ground invasion of southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate southern city of Khan Younis, where it says Hamas leadership is based | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel army publishes map it says advises Gazans of safe evacuation areas | war on Gaza | The Israeli army said on Friday that with the resumption of fighting it had published a map to advise Gazans of safe areas for their evacuation. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Israel tells allied Arab states it wants 'buffer zone' in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel has told its Arab allies that it wants to create a buffer zone in the Gaza Strip after the current round of fighting ends, in order to prevent Hamas from reasserting control in the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231201 | Hospital damage in Gaza during Israeli offensive – a visual investigation | war on hospitals | Study covering period in late October and early November shows damage to 10 hospitals and health facilities | ||||||
| 20231201 | Official: Israel controls medical aid entering Gaza Strip | war on hospitals | Israel is controlling the entry of vital medical aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231201 | At least 101 children killed in the West Bank this year | West Bank | An eight-year-old boy shot dead in the street is one of the most recent casualties of Israel’s continued raids and attacks in the occupied West Bank which have killed 101 Palestinian children so far this year, Save the Children has said. | ||||||
| 20231201 | U.S. to impose visa bans soon on Israeli extremist settlers for West Bank violence | West Bank | The Biden administration has informed Israel that Washington will impose visa bans in the next few weeks on Israeli extremist settlers engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, a senior State Department official said. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231202 | Israel pulls Mossad negotiators from Qatar after ‘impasse’ over captives | ceasefire talks | Hamas says there will be no further prisoner exchange with Israel until the war on Gaza is over. | ||||||
| 20231202 | France's Macron says he is going to Qatar to work on new Gaza truce | ceasefire talks | French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that France was "very concerned" by the resumption of violence in Gaza and that he was heading to Qatar to help in efforts to kickstart a new truce ahead of a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Hamas says no prisoner exchange without Gaza ceasefire | ceasefire talks | Deputy Hamas chief Saleh Al-Arouri told the pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV on Saturday that no more prisoners would be exchanged with Israel until there was a ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231202 | ‘We will never forget’: Reliving the pain of the Nakba amid Israel’s war | editorial | Rain pours down in torrents on Jordan’s Baqa’a camp, turning the streets into rivers. The November storm’s harsh winds rattle the tin doors of thousands of homes in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country. But despite the heavy downpour and bone-chilling cold outside, it is warm inside the Nashwan family’s home. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israel, Palestine and Canada's 'schizophrenic foreign policy' | editorial | More than a month into its bombardment of Gaza, the Israeli military issued a warning: Ground troops had surrounded the largest hospital in the Palestinian enclave, al-Shifa. A raid would be launched “in minutes”. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Q&A: UN expert on Australia citizenship-stripping plan and ‘legal fiction’ | global effects | Al Jazeera spoke to UN expert Ben Saul about politicians’ powers to revoke citizenship in light of a recent Australian court ruling. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Europe’s reaction to Israel’s war on Gaza | global effects | The Listening Post examines the discourse around the conflict in three EU countries: Germany, where shows of support for the Palestinians have been heavily suppressed; France, where television news channels have distorted the debate to suit their own agendas; and the outlier that is Ireland, where there has been probing criticism of Israel’s actions - from politicians and in the media. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Belgian PM says he told Israeli president 'no more civilian killings' as fighting restarted in Gaza | global response | The Belgian prime minister on Saturday said that he had spoken with Israel's president following the resumption of fighting in Gaza and told him there could be no more killing of civilians. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Sisi and Japan PM reiterate full rejection of Palestinians’ displacement | global response | Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida emphasized their rejection of any forced displacement of Palestinians, stressing the need to work towards a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue based on the two-state solution. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Near Rafah border, baby dies and aid held up again | humanitarian | One of the 28 premature Gaza babies moved to Egypt from al-Shifa Hospital is dead. And trucks with aid for Gaza must wait again. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israel ‘using Hamas prisoners to track down terror chiefs’ | Hamas resistance attack | As pressure grows on Israel to avoid civilian deaths, IDF believes killing leaders will collapse organisation | ||||||
| 20231202 | Burnett confronts top Israeli official about October 7 intelligence failure | Hamas resistance attack | Erin Burnett presses Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about revelations that Israeli intelligence seemingly ignored warnings about the October 7 Hamas terror attack | ||||||
| 20231202 | Displaced Palestinians live in fear: Bombing forces families back onto the streets | humanitarian | While the brief lull in the fighting enabled many to return home to collect belongings and, they are now terrified by more Israeli strikes. Where many residents have been displaced by the war, and many are forced to live in tents. | ||||||
| 20231202 | First aid trucks enter Gaza since end of truce, renewed Israeli strikes | humanitarian | Aid organisations say they face difficulties operating as Israel resumes its bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Is Israel criminalizing Palestinian thoughts too, amid Gaza war? | Israelis | Following the October 7 Hamas attack, Israel has been clamping down on pro-Palestinian sentiment within its borders, including passing an amendment to its counterterrorism law that has been criticised for violating civil and human rights. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Palestine-Israel through three European lenses | opinion | Israel-Gaza as seen in Europe: examining how history has informed coverage in Germany, France and Ireland. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Who pays for the war damage in Gaza? | opinion | Israel’s war on Gaza has wiped out entire neighbourhoods and reduced businesses to rubble. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Q&A: UN expert on Australia citizenship-stripping plan and ‘legal fiction’ | opinion | Al Jazeera spoke to UN expert Ben Saul about politicians’ powers to revoke citizenship in light of a recent Australian court ruling. | ||||||
| 20231202 | On Palestine, the gap between the US right and left is huge | opinion | In this episode, host Steve Clemons gets two diametrically opposed takes on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first is from former US National Security Advisor John Bolton. The second is from the former executive director of Human Rights Watch in the Middle East and North Africa, Sarah Leah Whitson. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israel deserves every bit of the global public criticism it is receiving | opinion | Israel has only itself to blame for the the public outrage against its apartheid reality and the horrific war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Analysis: As the ceasefire ends, a question from history lingers: will Israel win the battle but lose the war against Hamas? | opinion | One lesson from the 1982 Lebanon war is that Israel’s enemy only needs to survive against superior firepower to gain an advantage | ||||||
| 20231202 | Gaza fighting brings fear of constant death, Red Cross says | ICRC | The resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip has been intense, the director general of the Red Cross said on Saturday, as Israel air strikes and artillery bombarded the enclave a day after a week-long pause in hostilities there with Hamas collapsed. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Iran says two revolutionary guards killed in Israeli attack in Syria | regional effects | Two Iranian Revolutionary Guards members who served as military advisers in Syria have been killed in an Israeli attack, Iranian state media reported on Saturday, in the first reported Iranian casualties during the ongoing war in Gaza.
COMMENT This entry is not really about an regional effect because Israelis are attacking Iran in Syria at least since 2014 |
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| 20231202 | Two Revolutionary Guards members killed by Israeli strike in Syria, says Iran | regional effects | Airstrikes near Damascus follow end to seven-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza Strip
COMMENT This entry is not really about an regional effect because Israelis are attacking Iran in Syria at least since 2014 |
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| 20231202 | Israel, Hezbollah trade fire for second day after Gaza truce ends | regional effects | Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants exchanged heavy fire across the Israel-Lebanon border throughout Saturday as hostilities intensified following the collapse of a truce in Gaza between Palestinian group Hamas and Israel. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Egypt condemns Gaza ceasefire collapse and renewed Israeli airstrikes | regional response | Egypt, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, strongly condemned the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire and the resumption of intense Israeli airstrikes and military operations. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Palestinian rights groups snub ICC prosecutor | regional response | Palestinian human rights groups refused to meet the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan on Saturday, accusing him of favouring Israeli accusations of rights abuses over longstanding Palestinian charges. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Turkey's Erdogan: chance for peace in Gaza conflict lost for now | regional response | Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said that the chance for peace in Gaza after the humanitarian pause was lost for now due to what he described as Israel's uncompromising approach, broadcaster NTV reported on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231202 | UNICEF: Gaza Strip most dangerous place in the world for children | United Nations | The UN's children's agency is calling for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire: "To accept the sacrifice of the children in Gaza is humanity giving up." | ||||||
| 20231202 | US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends | United States | In the end it was a diplomatic achievement that the ceasefire lasted as long as it did. Now, after a seven-day pause, Israel and Hamas are facing their greatest military and political challenges. | ||||||
| 20231202 | US sends ‘bunker buster’ bombs to Israel for war on Gaza, report says | United States | Apart from ground-penetrating munitions, US has also given Israel several other types of bombs and artillery shells.
COMMENT Haaretz on November 16, 2023: Revealed: The Munitions U.S. Supplied Israel for Gaza War |
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| 20231202 | On Palestine, the gap between the US right and left is huge | United States | In this episode, host Steve Clemons gets two diametrically opposed takes on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first is from former US National Security Advisor John Bolton. The second is from the former executive director of Human Rights Watch in the Middle East and North Africa, Sarah Leah Whitson. | ||||||
| 20231202 | How Democrats are alienating their base by blasting a Gaza war ceasefire | United States | Advocates say Biden’s political party is committing a ‘major political error’ by vilifying calls for ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231202 | US Vice President Harris urges Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians | United States | U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday reiterated Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas, but said international and humanitarian law must be respected, noting that too many Palestinians have been killed. | ||||||
| 20231202 | VP Harris urges Israel protect Gaza civilians, sketches post-conflict vision | United States | U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday too many Palestinians are being killed in Gaza and urged Israel to do more to protect them as she sketched out a U.S. vision for post-conflict Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231202 | US VP Harris calls for restraint as Israel strikes southern Gaza | United States | U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said too many innocent Palestinians had been killed in Gaza as Israeli war planes and artillery bombarded the enclave on Saturday following the collapse of a truce with Hamas militants. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israeli air strike in Gaza kills prominent scientist Sufyan Tayeh, Palestinian ministry says | war on Gaza | An Israeli air strike targeting the town of Al-Faluja, 30 km (18 miles) northeast of Gaza City, has killed prominent Palestinian scientist Sufyan Tayeh and his family, the Palestinian Higher Education ministry announced on Saturday.
COMMENT There are many attacks on whole families by Israelis documented, considered to be acts amount to genocide |
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| 20231202 | Israel intensifies its assault on southern Gaza, causing renewed concern about civilian deaths | war on Gaza | Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israeli bombing of Gaza intensifies as truce comes to an end | war on Gaza | Israel has been pounding targets in the southern Gaza Strip, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Renewed Gaza fighting stretches into second day after Israel-Hamas truce collapses | war on Gaza | Renewed fighting in Gaza stretched into a second day on Saturday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed and mediators said Israeli bombardments were complicating attempts to again pause hostilities. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israel intensifies its assault on southern Gaza, concern about civilian deaths mounts | war on Gaza | Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, intensifying a renewed attack that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties. |
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| 20231202 | Israel ramps up south Gaza strikes | war on Gaza | The Israeli military said it launched dozens of airstrikes on targets in Khan Younis following a collapsed truce with Hamas | ||||||
| 20231202 | Aftermath of Israeli bombardment in Rafah | war on Gaza | Photo gallery | ||||||
| 20231202 | Evacuated from the north, being bombed in the south | war on Gaza | Israel is currently bombing all across the Gaza Strip. Since the truce ended, the focus is on the southern areas where, at the start of this war, Israel told people to evacuate to. Most of those who evacuated from the north can’t go back. Source have met people who have been displaced two to three times since the war began. They left the north without anything and now they are in the south being bombed. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israel issues ‘evacuation map’ as it targets south Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli forces also published a map yesterday … asking people in Gaza to follow instructions and directions on evacuation and safe areas. However, people do not have electricity or internet to access the map. We are at a hospital where people have been asking us if we can connect to the internet for them so they can look up this map. The map is confusing for people and they don’t know how to deal with it. At the same time, people do not trust the Israeli forces. People feel like no place is safe [in Gaza].
COMMENT Israeli map of fragmented Gaza has nothing to do with safety but with this |
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| 20231202 | Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza ‘macabre game of Battleships’, say aid workers | war on Gaza | Online system designed to order precise evacuations inaccessible to those without power or network access
COMMENT Israeli map of fragmented Gaza has nothing to do with safety but with this |
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| 20231202 | Israel wants 'security envelope', no Hamas on border after war | war on Gaza | Israel will seek a "security envelope" with special zones and arrangements that will prevent Hamas from being positioned on its border after the war in Gaza is over, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israeli attacks on southern Gaza could force 1M refugees towards Egypt: UN | war on Gaza | The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) has warned that Israel’s attacks on the southern Gaza Strip could push 1 million Palestinian refugees towards the Egyptian border, the agency said Saturday on X | ||||||
| 20231202 | Gazans being bombarded in south say there's nowhere to go | war on Gaza | Under aerial bombardment from Israel, people sheltering in the south of the Gaza Strip after fleeing their homes earlier in the war said on Saturday they had nowhere safe to go now. | ||||||
| 20231202 | ‘Hell on Earth’ in Gaza: Israel strikes hit Deir el-Balah | war on Gaza | Nearly 200 people have been killed in less than two days since the resumption of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Hamas holds international community responsible for Israel resuming war crimes in Gaza | war on Gaza | Hamas’s government in Gaza has held the international community responsible for “the continuous Israeli war crimes” in the besieged territory, after occupation forces resumed their offensive this week. | ||||||
| 20231202 | Over 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli missile strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza | ||||||||
| 20231202 | Israel responsible for November convoy attack in Gaza, says Doctors Without Borders | war on hospitals | “All elements” indicate that the Israeli army is responsible for an attack targeting an evacuation convoy in the Gaza Strip last month, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) | ||||||
| 20231202 | Israeli settlers ramp up attacks against Palestinians | West Bank | Palestinian Human Rights groups say Israeli settlers are taking advantage of increased military raids across the occupied West Bank to seize more land. They're also carrying out assaults against Palestinians. Settlers detained, then stripped and beat a team of monitors with the Palestinian Authority. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231203 | No more talks while Israel bombards Gaza: Hamas | ceasefire talks | The deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, tells Al Jazeera there will be no prisoner-captive exchange as long as the onslaught on Gaza continues. “There are no negotiations now on the truce. There will be no prisoner exchange until the aggression ends and there is a comprehensive and definitive ceasefire,” he said. “The occupation insists there are still women and children being held, but we said we have handed all of them over. The remaining prisoners in Gaza are soldiers and civilian men who served in the occupation army. “Our Zionist prisoners will not be liberated until all our prisoners are freed and a ceasefire takes hold. The resistance is ready for all Israeli military scenarios whether ground war, air or other.” Earlier, Israel pulled negotiators from its intelligence agency Mossad out of Qatar, which has been mediating ceasefire efforts. | ||||||
| 20231203 | In US, some Muslim-Jewish interfaith initiatives are strained by Israel-Hamas war | global effects | Shireen Quaizar was wracked with doubt. For years, the school psychologist has been active in Muslim-Jewish interfaith dialogue, but the Israel-Hamas war left her reeling. | ||||||
| 20231203 | AI fakes in Israel's war against Hamas | global effects | Images generated by artificial intelligence have become a disinformation tool in the Middle East conflict. | ||||||
| 20231203 | German tourist killed in stabbing near Eiffel Tower in Paris | global effects | A 26-year-old French citizen arrested in connection with the stabbing that killed one person and wounded two others. | ||||||
| 20231203 | French prosecutors open probe into ‘terrorist plot’ after deadly Paris knife attack | global effects | A man known to French authorities for radical Islamism and mental health troubles stabbed a tourist to death and wounded two other people in central Paris late Saturday night before being arrested, with prosecutors opening an investigation into a "terrorist plot". | ||||||
| 20231203 | Paris attack suspect had expressed 'hard-core Islamic State ideology' | global effects | Terrorism expert Wassim Nasr discusses the suspect, who was known to French authorities, in the deadly knife attack in Paris on December 2, 2023. "This is the same kind of case of what happened in Vienna in 2020: a national, who never went to Syria, tried to go there, went to prison, went through a deradicalization program, changed his mind on the way and committed the attack." | ||||||
| 20231203 | 'No Thanks' app helps boycott of Israel-related products | global response | The app appears to work very simply: users can scan the barcode of a product or enter its name, and within seconds they are told to what extent the manufacturer "supports Israel." Then "No Thanks" is displayed — an appeal not to buy certain products. Videos on TikTok and X show that companies such as Coca-Cola and Nescafé are among those listed. | ||||||
| 20231203 | UNICEF spokesperson describes scenes inside Gaza hospital as 'death zone' | humanitarian | In detailing the scenes within Khan Younis's al-Nassar Hospital in Gaza, James Elder, UNICEF's global spokesperson, paints a grim picture. He describes children with severe injuries, mothers grieving over critically ill children, and an overall atmosphere resembling a death zone. Elder emphasizes the dual threat faced by children: the immediate danger of Israeli air strikes and the looming risk of disease due to inadequate water, protection, and sanitation. He expresses concern about the potential for a significant number of children succumbing to these conditions. Since the conflict's onset, over 6,000 children have lost their lives in Israeli attacks in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231203 | 142 Turkish citizens, their family members evacuated from Gaza to Egypt | humanitarian | Some 142 Turkish citizens and their family members crossed from Gaza to Egypt on late Saturday, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry | ||||||
| 20231203 | Egypt to receive 1,500 wounded Palestinians from Gaza at Qatar's expense | humanitarian | Egypt will receive 1,500 wounded Palestinians from Gaza to be treated at the expense of Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Qatari government announced on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Injuries and martyrs in an Israeli air strike near UNRWA in Khan Younis | mosques, schools | Footage filmed by Ahmed El-Madhoun, activist from Gaza, documented injuries and casualties as an Israeli air strike hit a house near an UNRWA school in Khan Younis. El-Madhoun’s footage shows the frightening atmosphere post bombing, with injuries all around and people looking for their children. He said he filmed the video while assisting at UNRWA with displaced communities, he however says: ‘Every moment here became scary.’ | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli medical experts declare some Gaza hostages dead in absentia | Israelis | Even as it tries to recover hostages through indirect talks with Hamas and army operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel has been declaring some of the missing as dead in captivity, a measure designed to grant anxious relatives a measure of closure. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel says it "uncovered 800 shafts to Hamas tunnels" below Gaza | Israelis | Israeli forces have found 800 shafts leading to Hamas' vast subterranean network of tunnels and bunkers since a Gaza ground operation began on Oct 27, and have destroyed more than half of them, the military said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli personnel gave false information about 7 October attack crimes - report | Israelis | Haaretz report claims stories of many alleged crimes committed by Palestinians, which were published around the world, were based on unverified and inaccurate accounts | ||||||
| 20231203 | Home of Al-Aqsa Mosque Imam Sheikh Sabri faces demolition as Israel attaches order to building's door | Jerusalem | Israeli forces on Sunday raided the Sawaneh neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, claiming that a residential building where the Imam or prayer leader of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, lives is an “unauthorized construction,” | ||||||
| 20231203 | Britain's maritime agency reports possible Red Sea blast | regional effects | Britain's Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) on Sunday said that it has received reports of drone activity and a possible explosion in the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandab strait. | ||||||
| 20231203 | British military reports an explosion off the coast of Yemen in the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait | regional effects | A “potential explosion” has struck a key shipping route off the coast of Yemen, the British military said Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Britain's maritime agency reports drone attack in Red Sea | regional effects | Britain's Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) on Sunday said that it has received reports of a drone attack in the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandab strait. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Two ships hit by drone attacks in Red Sea | regional effects | Maritime security sources on Sunday said that a bulk carrier ship had been hit by at least two drones while sailing in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231203 | US warship and multiple commercial ships come under attack in Red Sea | regional effects | The Pentagon made the announcement as a British ship was reportedly hit by rocket fire in Red Sea off Yemen coast. Drone activity has also been reported in the area which separates East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Ships face Houthi-claimed attack in Red Sea as officials say a US warship also fires in self-defense | regional effects | Commercial ships came under attack Sunday by drones and missiles in the Red Sea and a U.S. warship there opened fire in self-defense as part of an hourslong assault claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted two Israeli ships in Red Sea: Report | regional effects | Pentagon meanwhile says a US warship and multiple commercial ships also came under attack, potentially marking a major escalation. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Yemen's Houthis claim attacks on Red Sea ships over war in Gaza | regional effects | Houthi rebels claim two of ships targeted on Sunday were 'Israeli' while Washington says it's aware of 'reports regarding attacks' on a US Navy vessel | ||||||
| 20231203 | Pentagon aware of attacks claimed by Houthis on ships in Red Sea | regional effects | The Pentagon said it was aware of reports regarding attacks on an American warship and commercial vessels in the Red Sea on Sunday, as Yemen's Houthi group claimed drone and missile attacks on two Israeli vessels in the area. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Lebanon border tensions: Israeli military and Hezbollah exchange fire | regional effects | There has been an intense exchange of fire along the Israel-Lebanon border. The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has launched several attacks on Israeli military positions since hostilities resumed on Friday, following the end of the Gaza ceasefire. Israel has used white phosphorus shells and carried out raids targeting what it says are the sources of the attacks. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel says it targeted missile launch sites in Syria, Lebanon | regional effects | The Israeli military on Sunday said it targeted missile launch sites in Syria and Lebanon | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel, Hezbollah trade fire across Israel-Lebanon border for third day | regional effects | Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants traded fire across the Israel-Lebanon border on Sunday for the third consecutive day and Israel said several if its soldiers were hurt, following the collapse of a truce between it and Hamas militants in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Suspected U.S. strike in Iraq kills five militia members, sources say | regional effects | A suspected U.S. air strike killed five members of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group north of the city of Kirkuk as they were preparing to launch projectiles at U.S. forces in the country, three Iraqi security sources said. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Tears and tight restrictions in Gaza protest at COP28 | regional response | Teary-eyed, keffiyeh-wearing activists protested Israel's bombardment of Gaza at the UN climate talks in the UAE Sunday -- a tame but rare display in a country where demonstrations are banned. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Qatar calls for international probe into ‘Israeli crimes’ in Gaza | regional response | Qatar’s prime minister says the country will continue efforts towards facilitating another truce and reaching a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231203 | UK to start Gaza "surveillance flights" to locate captives held by Hamas | United Kingdom | British officials say "unarmed and unmanned drones" will conduct surveillance flights in efforts to recover captives from Hamas.
COMMENT 20231102 - U.S. flying drones over Gaza in search of hostages |
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| 20231203 | ICC prosecutor vows to 'further intensify' Gaza probe | United Nations | The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court vowed Sunday to step up efforts to investigate alleged war crimes, as he wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. | ||||||
| 20231203 | ICC prosecutor urges Israel and Hamas to respect international law | United Nations | The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Sunday called on both sides of the war between Israel and Hamas to adhere to international law, and to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to the besieged Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Reports of violent bombardment in Gaza ‘petrifying’: WHO chief | United Nations | The situation of the health sector in Gaza is “unimaginable,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231203 | Analysis: Israel resumed bombing Gaza, what has happened since? | United States | Do the latest US weapons shipments to Israel hold any clues to how the fighting will go? | ||||||
| 20231203 | White House says Gaza civilians are a priority | United States | Israel and Washington have hit back at claims that too little is being done to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231203 | US Muslims pledge to ditch Biden in 2024 over his stance on Israel-Gaza war | United States | Muslims in key states launch #AbandonBiden campaign over US president’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231203 | Analysis: Israel resumed bombing Gaza, what has happened since? | war on Gaza | Do the latest US weapons shipments to Israel hold any clues to how the fighting will go? | ||||||
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| 20231203 | Gaza residents seek shelter as Israeli bombing intensifies | war on Gaza | Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip sought shelter in an ever-shrinking area of the south on Sunday as Israel stepped up its bombing from air, sea and land across the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel widens evacuation orders as it shifts its offensive to southern Gaza amid heavy bombardments | war on Gaza | Israel’s military on Sunday ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it says many Hamas leaders are hiding. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel widens evacuation in southern Gaza, kills 700 within 24 hours | war on Gaza | Israel pounded crowded southern Gaza and ordered more neighbourhoods to evacuate, driving up the death toll as calls for protecting civilians went unheeded. Hopes for a ceasefire faded, with Israel withdrawing negotiators and Hamas deputy leader linked any detainee swap to ending the war. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel widens evacuation orders as offensive shifts to southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel's military has ordered more areas in and around Gaza's second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it says many Hamas leaders are hiding. | ||||||
| 20231203 | IDF expands evacuation call in south Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel's military has widened evacuation orders in Khan Younis as it shifts its focus to southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231203 | UNICEF spokesperson describes scenes inside Gaza hospital as 'death zone' | war on Gaza | In detailing the scenes within Khan Younis's al-Nassar Hospital in Gaza, James Elder, UNICEF's global spokesperson, paints a grim picture. He describes children with severe injuries, mothers grieving over critically ill children, and an overall atmosphere resembling a death zone. Elder emphasizes the dual threat faced by children: the immediate danger of Israeli air strikes and the looming risk of disease due to inadequate water, protection, and sanitation. He expresses concern about the potential for a significant number of children succumbing to these conditions. Since the conflict's onset, over 6,000 children have lost their lives in Israeli attacks in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Wounded and dead overwhelm southern Gaza hospital | war on Gaza | |||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli army calls on Khan Younis residents to flee certain zones | war on Gaza | The Israeli army has called on residents from certain neighbourhoods in southern Khan Younis to evacuate to other areas. The warning came through the new evacuation system that Israel says was elaborated for civilians to avoid being targeted. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel bombs south Gaza: Air strikes on civilian areas intensify | war on Gaza | Israel is expanding its bombing of Gaza, with dozens more Palestinians killed in strikes across the Strip. The new wave of attacks from land, sea and air began after a ceasefire with Hamas expired on Friday. Talks to reach a new ceasefire deal have collapsed, with Hamas saying there'll be no more negotiations on captives until the war ends. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel bombs Gaza as pressure mounts to protect civilians | war on Gaza | Israel struck Gaza targets Sunday in its war on Hamas sparked by the October 7 attacks as international concern mounted over the spiralling civilian death toll on the third day of fighting after a truce ended. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel pushes Gaza's terrified residents from one refuge to another | war on Gaza | With mattresses tied to the roof of their car, Aya Fehmi and her family returned to their first house of refuge in the central Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231203 | How the AI 'Habsora' system masks random killing with maths | war on Gaza | Newly revealed 'mass assassination factory' technology is likely being showcased for future international sales, experts say
COMMENT 20231130 - ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza |
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| 20231203 | ‘Death corridor’: The al-Samounis recall terror of ‘safe passage’ in Gaza | war on Gaza | Three brothers belonging to al-Samouni family were kidnapped by the Israeli army on ‘safe corridor’ leading south of Gaza City. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel orders more people in crowded southern Gaza to evacuate as heavy bombardment shifts there | war on Gaza | Israel on Sunday ordered more evacuations in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis, followed by heavy bombardment, as the military’s offensive shifted to the southern half of the territory where Israeli officials assert that leaders of the Hamas militant group are hiding. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Palestinian health ministry says 15,523 people killed in Gaza since start of Israel's war | war on Gaza | The Palestinian health ministry on Sunday said 15,523 people had died in the Gaza since the start of the Israeli war against the strip. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Hundreds killed in strikes as offensive shifts to southern Gaza | war on Gaza | The Palestinian Hamas Health Ministry announced on Sunday that Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip have left 15,523 dead since the war began on 7 October. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Over 700 killed in last 24 hours as Israel intensifies strikes | war on Gaza | The Israeli army has ordered more people to evacuate from southern Gaza, which was earlier declared ‘safe zone’. | ||||||
| 20231203 | US says Israel 'making an effort' to minimise civilian deaths as death toll soars | war on Gaza | The White House has said they believe Israel is "making efforts" to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza since the resumption of fighting after a seven-day truce, amid intensifying calls from the international community to protect Palestinian civilians | ||||||
| 20231203 | Thousands remain trapped under rubble in Gaza: Civil defense unit | war on Gaza | Thousands of bodies remain under the debris of buildings destroyed by ongoing Israeli attacks, civil defense teams in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday, with equipment shortages preventing their retrieval. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israel says military offensive in crowded southern Gaza will be ‘no less strength’ than in the north | war on Gaza | The Israeli military said Sunday it had expanded its ground operations to every part of Gaza and ordered more evacuations in the crowded south, followed by heavy bombardment, as it vowed that operations there against Hamas would be “no less strength” than its earlier offensive in the north. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli bombing of Gaza intensifies, clashes reported near southern city | war on Gaza | Israeli forces bombed wide areas of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, as civilians in the besieged territory sought shelter in an ever-shrinking area of the south. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Chaos in south Gaza hospitals after new Israeli strikes | war on Gaza | Patients lie on cold, bloodstained floors in hospitals filled to overflowing. Some scream in pain, but others lie silently, deathly white, too weak even to cry out. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli military starts ground operation in Khan Younis | war on Gaza | The Israeli occupation army radio said on Sunday that Israeli forces have launched a ground operation on northern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli forces reported to be pushing into southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Reports from Israeli army radio effectively confirmed Israel has launched a ground operation to the north of Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Jabalia refugee camp targeted again | war on refugee camps | Casualties are being reported in the Israeli air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip. Footage from the ground shared by Palestinian journalists and tv crews show residents using their hands to pull out survivors from under the rubble, while others discover dead bodies, including a baby whose body appears to be torn into pieces. Some critically injured are being carried away on stretchers or even mattresses. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Fresh strike on Jabaliya refugee camp reported as Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza | war on refugee camps | Palestinian officials report hundreds of people killed over 24 hours as concerns grow for plight of refugees | ||||||
| 20231203 | What happens to arrested Palestinian women? | West Bank | After speaking to several women who had been arrested in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Abdel-Hamid traced the phases of detention that female prisoners have to face: They are first brought to Ofer prison They are then taken to another location for interrogation for several days After that, they are moved to Demon, a prison for female Palestinian detainees in Israel | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli army has intensified its raids across the Occupied West Bank since October 7 | West Bank | There've been more Israeli raids in the Occupied West Bank. Soldiers killed a 21-year-old Palestinian baker in the early hours of Sunday morning in the city of Qalqilya. Witnesses say soldiers indiscriminately opened fire as they entered the town. Israeli forces also raided homes in Nablus. At least 60 Palestinians have been arrested in the past 24 hours, including 5 girls. Elsewhere in the West Bank, ten masked Israeli settlers raided a Palestinian-owned restaurant in the village of Sawiya. Security camera footage captured the moment of the attack... which caused significant damage to the building. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Almost 400,000 Palestinians have lost jobs due to war, report says | West Bank/Gaza | Many have little or no income after the closure of crossings into Israel and restrictions on workers, according ILO | ||||||
| 20231203 | How a Palestinian teen’s release exposed Israeli mistreatment of prisoners | West Bank | Israel claimed 18-year-old Mohammed Nazal was healthy when leaving prison, but the evidence suggests otherwise. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Palestinian man killed in West Bank in Israeli settler raid | West Bank | Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday, killing one man and torching a car, Palestinian authorities said. | ||||||
| 20231203 | Israeli army detains 60 more Palestinians, including 5 women university students, in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli forces arrested approximately 60 Palestinians in the West Bank, including five women university students, during a crackdown that lasted from Saturday night to Sunday morning, bringing the total to 3,480 detainees since Oct. 7th. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231204 | Passenger accuses American Airlines of forcing him to remove Palestine top, threatening to remove him if he did not comply | global effects | A passenger on an American Airlines flight has condemned the company for forcing him to hide his top for displaying the word “Palestine”, in the latest move by an American or Western company discriminating against expression in support of Palestine. | ||||||
| 20231204 | German human rights group calls pro-Palestine demonstration ban ‘highly problematic’ | global effects | A leading German human rights group, on Monday, termed the recent sporadic ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations “highly problematic”. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Netherlands accused of war crimes complicity for Israeli military supplies | global response | Human rights groups say the Dutch state’s export of plane parts to Israel makes it complicit in Gaza war crimes. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Dutch rights groups take government to court over arms to Israel | global response | Challenge over delivery of jet components follows reports that Dutch officials approved export despite legal concerns | ||||||
| 20231204 | Judges to hear case against Dutch state over Israeli jet parts shipments | global response | The Netherlands faces a legal challenge on Monday over accusations that its role in the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel makes it complicit in alleged war crimes in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Google reinstates app that helps boycott Israel-linked companies | global response | Google has reinstated a mobile app designed to help people boycott companies linked to Israel, days after it was removed from its Play store | ||||||
| 20231204 | Doctors Without Borders calls for pressuring Israel to stop attacks on Gaza | global response | Doctors Without Borders (MSF), on Monday, called for pressuring Israel to stop attacks on the people of Gaza | ||||||
| 20231204 | Militant Rocket Hit Base Linked to Israeli Nuclear Missile Program | Hamas resistance attack | A rocket most likely fired by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel struck an Israeli military base where, experts say, many of the country's nuclear-capable missiles are based, according to a visual analysis of the attack's aftermath by The New York Times. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Report: Hamas rocket hit Israeli nuclear weapons base on October 7 | Hamas resistance attack | The New York Times, quoting experts, reports that a rocket fired by Hamas hit the Sdot Micha military base in central Israel, where nuclear missiles are kept. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel investigates possible trading knowledge ahead of Hamas attack | Hamas resistance attack | The Israeli authorities are investigating claims by US researchers that some investors may have known in advance of the Hamas plan to attack Israel on 7 October and used that information to profit from trading in Israeli securities. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Hamas Took More Than 200 Hostages From Israel. | Hamas resistance attack | no introduction | ||||||
| 20231204 | Unknown traders appear to have anticipated October 7 Hamas attack, research finds | Hamas resistance attack | Bets against the value of Israeli companies spiked in the days before the October 7th Hamas attacks, suggesting some traders may have had advance knowledge of the looming terror attack and profited off it, according to new research released Monday. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Hamas: Rape claims aim to tarnish group's 'humane treatment of hostages' | Hamas resistance attack | Hamas, on Monday, dismissed Israeli rape accusations against its fighters as a “desperate attempt” to distort the group’s humane treatment of Israeli hostages | ||||||
| 20231204 | Khan Younis hospital stretched by influx of patients as Israel bombs Gaza | humanitarian | The number of displaced people arriving at Nasser Medical Complex continues to increase, with new shelters being set up in the facility’s car park and many people sleeping on the ground in the open. | ||||||
| 20231204 | South Gaza’s Horror Scenario: 18,000 People per Square Km Without Water or Power | humanitarian | no introduction | ||||||
| 20231204 | Corruption trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu resumes | Israelis | An emergency order from Israel’s justice minister following the events of October 7 had put the case on pause. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes | Israelis | Netanyahu is facing charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. He denies any wrongdoing. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Netanyahu corruption trial resumes in spite of Israel's ongoing war in Gaza | Israelis | The trial was suspended after the Palestinian militant group's "bloody" October 7 attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 more kidnapped according to Israeli officials. | ||||||
| 20231204 | What are the implications of Israel’s reported use of AI in Gaza war? | Israelis | Israel is reportedly using artificial intelligence technology to select and expand potential targets. Israel’s war has devastated much of Gaza. The few days of calm under a temporary ceasefire with Hamas have all but disappeared now, with Israel resuming its air strikes and shelling. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Hamas planned sexual violence as weapon of war - Israeli campaigner | Israelis | Hamas had a premeditated plan to use sexual violence as a weapon of war, an Israeli women's rights campaigner and lawyer has said.
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| 20231204 | Fact-check: Did Hamas create a website boasting about massacring Israeli civilians? | Israelis | According to multiple Israeli officials and social media users, the shocking website shows the true face of the military organisation governing Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel raises travel warning level to include 80 countries amid attacks on Gaza | Israelis | Israel, on Monday, raised the level of travel warning to include some 80 countries worldwide amid its ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231204 | Global journalist group says Israel-Hamas conflict is a war beyond compare for media deaths | journalists | With a journalist or media worker killed every day on average in the Israel-Hamas war, the head of the global organization representing the profession said Monday that it has become a conflict beyond compare. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Yara Eid describes losing home, best friend and 60 family members in Gaza | journalists | Palestinian journalist talks of 'losing everything' to Israeli bombardment, including hope in the application of international law | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israeli strike on two north Gaza schools kills 50, injures hundreds | mosques, schools | Israeli jet fighters barbarously bombarded two schools providing shelter to displaced people in the al-Darraj neighbourhood of Gaza, killing at least 50 people and leaving hundreds wounded, according to sources on the ground. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel-Palestine war: How the collapse of western moral values is fuelling genocide | opinion | Regrettably, most western European nations have aligned with an American-led imperialism that suppresses liberation movements and stifles global dissent | ||||||
| 20231204 | Will Israel heed US calls to protect civilians or risk ‘strategic failure’? | opinion | The administration of US President Joe Biden appears to be ramping up pressure on Israel to keep Palestinians safe. Israel’s military has resumed its assault on the besieged Gaza Strip after a seven-day truce collapsed. More than 15,000 people have been killed in Gaza since early October, according to Palestinian health authorities. |
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| 20231204 | Fact or fiction? Israeli maps and AI do not save Palestinian lives | opinion | Israel’s narrative of ‘evacuation warnings’ and ‘precision strikes’ serves as a cover for its AI-assisted genocide in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231204 | 3 commercial ships hit by missiles in Houthi attack in Red Sea, US warship downs 3 drones | regional effects | Ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships Sunday in the Red Sea, while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault, the U.S. military said. The Iranian-backed Houthis claimed two of the attacks. | ||||||
| 20231204 | U.S. Destroyer, Commercial Vessels Attacked by Drones, Missiles in Red Sea | regional effects | |||||||
| 20231204 | Yemen’s Houthis target Israel-linked ships in Red Sea. Here’s what to know | regional effects | The Houthis seem to have made a strategic shift towards maritime operations to ramp up pressure on the US and Israel. | ||||||
| 20231204 | UK condemns attacks on commercial shipping in Red Sea | regional effects | Britain condemned the attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea on Monday, blaming Iran for its role in supporting the Houthi militants behind them, and stating that it was committed to ensuring safe shipping in the region. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Houthis may not be targeting US warships, Pentagon says | regional effects | Waves of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen may not be targeting U.S. warships, even though the U.S. Navy has responded by shooting down drone aircraft and missiles in recent weeks, the Pentagon said on Monday | ||||||
| 20231204 | Turkey's Erdogan says Israel's Netanyahu 'will be tried as war criminal' | regional response | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would eventually be tried as a war criminal over Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, while slamming Western countries supporting Israel. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Turkiye informs Israel intelligence of serious consequences to any illegal operations on Turkish soil | regional response | Turkish authorities, Monday, said that they informed Israeli intelligence about any attempt by Israel to assassinate members of Palestinian group, Hamas, living in Turkiye – as claimed by media outlets – would result in serious consequences | ||||||
| 20231204 | Turkey warns Israel against targeting Hamas members within its borders | regional response | Warning comes after a senior Israeli intelligence official promised a 'Munich-like' response to 7 October attacks | ||||||
| 20231204 | Genocide is often preceded by warning signs and must be prevented: UN Rights chief | United Nations | The UN Human Rights chief said, Monday, the world must remember that genocide is often preceded or accompanied by statements from political leaders and other public figures that dehumanise and demonise people from targeted communities | ||||||
| 20231204 | WHO board to hold emergency session on Gaza health situation | United Nations | The World Health Organisation will hold an extraordinary session of its Executive Board on Sunday to discuss health conditions in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, a document from the UN global health agency showed and Palestinian ambassador said | ||||||
| 20231204 | WHO says it was forced to move medical supplies from southern Gaza warehouse | United Nations | The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it had been forced to move supplies from a WHO medical warehouse in southern Gaza within a 24-hour period after a warning from the Israeli military that ground operations there would make it inaccessible. | ||||||
| 20231204 | US senator tries to justify Israel targeting civilians in Gaza | United States | US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has sought to justify Israel’s targeting of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, saying, “Did the American public worry about how many people were dying to destroy Tokyo and Berlin?” | ||||||
| 20231204 | IDF expands ground offensive in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel says it has intensified its offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, as international concern grows over mounting civilian casualties. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel orders mass evacuations as it widens offensive; Palestinians are running out of places to go | war on Gaza | The Israeli military on Monday renewed its calls for mass evacuations from the southern town of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in recent weeks, as it widened its ground offensive and bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel orders Gazans out of swathes of Khan Younis | war on Gaza | Israel ordered people out of swathes of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south, sending desperate residents fleeing even as bombs fell on areas still described as safe. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel orders evacuations as it widens offensive but Palestinians are running out of places to go | war on Gaza | Israel renewed calls Monday for mass evacuations from the southern town of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in recent weeks, as the military widened its ground offensive and bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel army pushes into refugee-crowded south Gaza | war on Gaza | “Words fail me to describe the horrors that are hitting children here,” said Unicef spokesperson James Elder. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Dozens of Israeli tanks enter southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Dozens of Israeli tanks on Monday entered the southern part of Gaza near Khan Younis, where residents of northern Gaza were forced to flee. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Live blog: Gaza hospitals ‘flooded with dead bodies’ | war on Gaza |
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| 20231204 | In Pictures: No end to suffering of Gaza children as Israeli attacks rage on | war on Gaza | Thousands of children and minors killed and missing under the rubble amid relentless Israeli bombardment. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel orders evacuations as onslaught on Gaza widens | war on Gaza | The Israeli army’s assault is pushing further into the south of Gaza, leaving Palestinians little chance of safety. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel orders more Palestinians to flee, then bombs areas where it sends them | war on Gaza | Israel ordered Palestinians out of swathes of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south, sending desperate residents fleeing even as it dropped bombs on areas where it told them to go. | ||||||
| 20231204 | What are the implications of Israel’s reported use of AI in Gaza war? | war on Gaza | Israel is reportedly using artificial intelligence technology to select and expand potential targets. Israel’s war has devastated much of Gaza. The few days of calm under a temporary ceasefire with Hamas have all but disappeared now, with Israel resuming its air strikes and shelling. | ||||||
| 20231204 | After a strike in Gaza's Rafah, men struggle to pull out a toddler's body | war on Gaza | A dead toddler’s legs and bare feet poked out from under layers of concrete in the ruins of a block hit by an Israeli air strike, and three men tried to release the top half of the body by pulling out chunks of debris with their bare hands. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Telecommunications, internet down in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify | war on Gaza | Palestinian telecoms company Paltel says communications and internet services go down in the besieged Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel intensifies southern Gaza offensive; U.S., UN urge civilian protections | war on Gaza | Israeli forces pressed ahead with their air and ground bombardment of southern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, even as the United States and the United Nations repeatedly urged them to protect civilians. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Israel Weighs Plan to Flood Gaza Tunnels With Seawater | war on Gaza | The move could drive out Hamas fighters but threatens to foul Gaza’s freshwater supply and damage infrastructure. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Gaza siege leaves cancer patients without treatment | war on hospitals | Palestinians with rare conditions are experiencing excruciating pain and deteriorating health due to the lack of treatment and medicine | ||||||
| 20231204 | Gaza government calls for end to international tolerance of Israel targeting hospitals | war on hospitals | The government in Gaza, on Monday, called for an end to international tolerance of Israel targeting hospitals, a violation of both the rules of war and international law. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Official: 3 doctors, 2 paramedics killed in direct attack in Gaza | war on hospitals | The director general of Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza said the Israeli occupation army killed three doctors and two paramedics in a direct attack on them. | ||||||
| 20231204 | WHO says it was forced to move medical supplies from southern Gaza warehouse | war on hospitals | The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it had been forced to move supplies from a WHO medical warehouse in southern Gaza within a 24-hour period after a warning from the Israeli military that ground operations there would make it inaccessible. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Girl under Gaza rubble asks rescuers to help relatives first | war on whole families | Trapped under the rubble of a 5-storey building in Gaza, a 13-year-old called Alma pleaded for rescuers to help free her relatives first. What happened to her family members is not known. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Yara Eid describes losing home, best friend and 60 family members in Gaza | war on whole families | Palestinian journalist talks of 'losing everything' to Israeli bombardment, including hope in the application of international law | ||||||
| 20231204 | CNN Gaza reporter’s relatives killed and childhood home destroyed in two separate strikes | war on whole families | For weeks, CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman reported from Gaza as Israeli airstrikes brought devastation and despair to the besieged strip in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks of October 7. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Gaza reporter’s relatives killed and childhood home destroyed in two separate strikes | war on whole families | Dahman, 36, escaped to Egypt with his young family after nearly a month, but on Sunday he heard news that at least nine relatives trapped in northern Gaza had been killed in a strike on his aunt’s house. | ||||||
| 20231204 | In West Bank city of Hebron, violence soars between Israeli settlers and Palestinians | West Bank | Hebron is the richest and most populated city in the West Bank. Tensions between Israeli settlers and Palestinian locals have been on the rise there since the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel's retaliatory air strikes on Gaza. Israeli soldiers multiply patrols in the Old City of Hebron to protect some 800 Israeli settlers who occupy houses around the Cave of the Patriarchs, a sacred shrine to both Jews and Muslims. | ||||||
| 20231204 | Jailed Nobel winner Mohammadi to continue protests, she says in smuggled letter | West Bank | Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi will continue her fight for human rights even if it leads to her death, she said in a letter smuggled out from prison and published by Swedish public broadcaster SVT today. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231205 | Germany on guard against terrorism | global effects | Against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war and one-off attacks closer to home, German authorities are confronting a "complex threat situation." Some observers warn against exaggerating the danger. | ||||||
| 20231205 | 'Huge risk' of Christmas attacks, warns EU | global effects | There is a "huge risk of terrorist attacks in the European Union" over the coming holiday season, a senior EU official has said. | ||||||
| 20231205 | 'Huge risk' of terrorist attacks in the European Union, home affairs chief warns | global effects | The European Union is facing a “huge risk” of terrorist attacks over the holiday period, the bloc’s home affairs chief warned on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231205 | French filmmakers warn that far-right cyber-raids are torpedoing their movies | global effects | French filmmaker Mehdi Fikri has accused far-right cyberactivists and TV pundits of scuppering the launch of his police violence drama “After the Fire”, reviving talk of the influence of online rating platforms and politicised commentators in shaping movies’ fortunes. | ||||||
| 20231205 | MeToo, for Israeli victims too: Gaza war drives wedge between French feminists | global effects | French feminist groups have come under fire for purportedly turning a blind eye to the sexual violence unleashed on Israeli women during the October 7 attacks by Hamas, echoing the anger levelled at rights organisations elsewhere. | ||||||
| 20231205 | US House to pass another resolution conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism | global effects | A week after US lawmakers expressed frustration in having to vote for yet another pro-Israel resolution, the House is expected to vote again this week to declare anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, in a new bill which critics say will further undermine free speech protected by the US constitution. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Amid Israel’s onslaught of Gaza, Spain’s leader shows empathy for Palestine | global response | Spain, which has long supported Palestine in the ongoing conflict, has upset Israel with its consistent condemnation. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Arms sales to Israel land UK government in court | global response | Rights groups have taken the UK government to court over its arms exports to Israel amid the catastrophic war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Groups take UK government to court over arms exports to Israel | global response | Legal and human rights groups say continued arms exports to Israel are 'utterly untenable' given clear risk weapons could be used to violate international law | ||||||
| 20231205 | Former Spanish minister discusses three Israeli propaganda tactics | global response | no introduction | ||||||
| 20231205 | Trading on "terror": Investigation into Hamas-Israel attack profiteering | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli authorities are investigating unusual trading activity that took place just days before the 7 October Hamas attacks. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel investigates claims investors made millions short-selling before Hamas attacks | Hamas resistance attack | US professors detected unusual trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges before 7 October | ||||||
| 20231205 | Hamas spies aided by ‘insider knowledge’ for 7 October attack | Hamas resistance attack | Hamas engaged in years of planning ahead of the 7 October attack, drafting detailed maps with the help of spies inside Israel, the Guardian has reported | ||||||
| 20231205 | ‘This Massacre Should Have Been Prevented’ | Despite Intel Warnings About a Hamas Attack, the Army Didn’t Evacuate the Nova Festival | Hamas resistance attack | no introduction | ||||||
| 20231205 | US official arrives in Egypt with aid for Gaza | humanitarian | U.S. aid chief Samantha Power arrived in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, where she is expected to announce more than $21 million in additional assistance for the Palestinian people. | ||||||
| 20231205 | ‘It’s chaos:’ Starving Gazans dig for food, supplies under the rubble | humanitarian | One man carries six jars of cooking oil as he struggles to walk across the rubble. Two little girls run as they each carry stacks of white paper, used to build fire for heat and cooking. | ||||||
| 20231205 | UN warns of ‘blatant disregard for basic humanity’ | humanitarian | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were operating in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis Tuesday as top officials at the United Nations warned of an “apocalyptic” situation in war-torn Gaza with “no place safe to go” for civilians. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Gaza families flee again to shrinking, overcrowded pocket of land | humanitarian | Fearful of being killed in an Israeli bombardment, families in Gaza were packing up and fleeing on Tuesday, heading for a pocket of land further south already crammed with displaced people without enough food, water or toilets | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israeli minister calls for executing Palestinian prisoners | Israelis | Israeli Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu has called for the execution of Palestinian prisoners so that they are not released in any future negotiations with the Palestinian resistance. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears | Israelis | The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks.
COMMENT 20231203 - Israeli personnel gave false information about 7 October attack crimes - report |
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| 20231205 | First month of Gaza war deadliest on record for journalists | journalists | The 39 journalists and media workers killed during the first month of Israel’s war on Gaza made it the deadliest month on record for the profession since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records in 1992. | ||||||
| 20231205 | For Netanyahu and his political allies, peace is more dangerous than war | opinion | Israeli public opinion has turned against both Israel's prime minister and Bezalel Smotrich, his main coalition partner on the extreme right. But they won't give up on their dream of a new Nakba easily | ||||||
| 20231205 | How Israel uses AI genocide programme to obliterate Gaza | opinion | According to whistleblowers, Israel is using an AI system to generate targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs | ||||||
| 20231205 | Analysis: Israel faces difficult second phase of war with fighting in north and south Gaza | opinion | Israeli forces pushing towards southern city of Khan Younis and engaged in battles for key urban areas in the north | ||||||
| 20231205 | Qatar emir calls on U.N. to force Israel into talks to end Hamas war | regional response | Qatar's emir on Tuesday called on the U.N. Security Council to force Israel to return to the negotiating table over the war in Gaza, saying the inaction by the international community in halting the conflict was "shameful". | ||||||
| 20231205 | Qatar emir slams 'shameful' inaction over Israel 'genocide' in Gaza | regional response | Qatar's ruler hit out at what he labeled "shameful" international inaction over the Israeli war on Gaza as he opened a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Doha on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Qatar emir condemns ‘genocide’ in Gaza, urges ceasefire at GCC summit | regional response | Leaders of six Gulf countries and Turkey meet in Qatar, with Israel’s war on Gaza at the top of the agenda. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Iran says it is not involved in any actions against US military forces -Tasnim | regional response | Iran's U.N. envoy Amir Saeid Iravani said his country has not been involved in any actions or attacks against U.S. military forces, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday | ||||||
| 20231205 | UNICEF's message to 'fighting factions': 'Stop devastation across Gaza, get Israeli children home' | United Nations | The United Nations warned Tuesday that it was impossible to create so-called safe zones for civilians to flee to inside the Gaza Strip amid Israel's bombing campaign. | ||||||
| 20231205 | UN special rapporteur warns of 'serious risk of genocide' in Gaza | United Nations | The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has urged UN member states to intervene in the crisis in Gaza, accusing the international community of being "paralysed" in its reaction to the tragedy. | ||||||
| 20231205 | UN warns of ‘blatant disregard for basic humanity’ | United Nations | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were operating in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis Tuesday as top officials at the United Nations warned of an “apocalyptic” situation in war-torn Gaza with “no place safe to go” for civilians. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel and WHO in online row over removal of medical supplies in Gaza | United Nations | Israel denies ordering the UN health agency to remove medical supplies from its warehouse in southern Gaza. |
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| 20231205 | Israel denies ordering WHO to move medical supplies in Gaza | United Nations | The Israeli military refuted claims that it had instructed the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remove supplies from its warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours “as ground operations will put it beyond use”. | ||||||
| 20231205 | US House to pass another resolution conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism | United States | A week after US lawmakers expressed frustration in having to vote for yet another pro-Israel resolution, the House is expected to vote again this week to declare anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, in a new bill which critics say will further undermine free speech protected by the US constitution. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Biden says Hamas raped, mutilated women during Israel assault | United States | U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks.
COMMENT 20231203 - Israeli personnel gave false information about 7 October attack crimes - report |
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| 20231205 | Biden decries Hamas sexual assaults and says they must be forcefully condemned | United States | President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried sexual assaults committed by Hamas during its October 7 terror attack on Israel and called on “all of us” to condemn the acts. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel not doing enough to allow fuel, aid into Gaza | United States | Israel needs to do more to allow fuel and other aid into Gaza, the United States said on Tuesday as Israel's offensive against Hamas in southern areas of the Palestinian enclave intensified. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel, Hamas Engage in Some of Fiercest Fighting of War | war on Gaza | Israel is looking to decisively finish its operations in and around Gaza City while launching its offensive in the south. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Thousands flee Khan Younis on the cusp of Israeli invasion | war on Gaza | The last days have been the hardest we have experienced since the war began, here in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Until last Friday, ... | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel strikes in and around Gaza’s second largest city in an already bloody new phase of the war | war on Gaza | Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza’s second largest city early Tuesday, as ambulances and private cars came racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israeli forces launch storm of Gaza's Khan Younis, hospitals overrun | war on Gaza | Israeli forces launched their storm of the main city in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, where hospitals were overrun with scores of Palestinian wounded and dead. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel storms Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing scores | war on Gaza | Israeli forces stormed the main city in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday and hospitals struggled to cope with scores of Palestinian dead and wounded. | ||||||
| 20231205 | IDF strikes Khan Younis in southern Gaza | war on Gaza | The Israeli army said it was taking action against Hamas around the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. United Nations officials said Palestinians in the city have nowhere to flee to | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israeli army says engaged in 'intense' ground combat in southern Gaza's Khan Younis | war on Gaza | The Israeli army said Tuesday that its troops were engaged in ground combat "in the heart of Khan Younis", the Gaza Strip's second-largest city, as it expands operations in its war on Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel Commander says forces in most intense day of fighting | war on Gaza | Israeli forces, backed by warplanes that have dropped hundreds of bombs and other munitions, have been engaged in the heaviest day of fighting since the start of their invasion of Gaza, a senior commander said on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel launches devastating attack on Khan Younis in 'most intense' day of fighting | war on Gaza | Israeli forces launched a devastating assault on the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Tuesday, in one of the most violent days since the military launched a ground offensive on the besieged enclave in October. | ||||||
| 20231205 | UN warns of ‘blatant disregard for basic humanity’ | war on Gaza | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were operating in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis Tuesday as top officials at the United Nations warned of an “apocalyptic” situation in war-torn Gaza with “no place safe to go” for civilians. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel expects difficult new stage in Gaza, sticks to war aims - spokesperson | war on Gaza | Israel expects difficult fighting in the new phase of its war in Gaza but is open to "constructive feedback" on reducing harm to civilians as long as the advice is consistent with its aim of destroying Hamas, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel says fighting in Gaza is most intense since start of ground offensive | war on Gaza | IDF steps up attacks in north and south and says it has raided Hamas HQ, as increase in civilian deaths reported | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. Yet the group remains largely intact. | war on Gaza | At least 5,000 Hamas militants have been killed, according to three Israeli security officials, leaving the majority of its 30,000-strong military wing intact. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Communications services cut across Gaza Strip again due to Israeli aggression, says telecoms firm | war on Gaza | The main telecom company in the Gaza Strip said Monday that mobile telephone services and internet connections had been cut across the Palestinian territory. | ||||||
| 20231205 | ‘Gaza’s entrepreneurs are being killed by Israel’ | war on Gaza | Entrepreneurial leaders are being killed, leaving a gaping hole in the world of startups and businesses. |
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| 20231205 | Civilian deaths in Gaza stain on Israel, allies: Norwegian Refugee Council | war on Gaza | The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a major global rights group operating in Palestine, said Tuesday that civilian deaths in Gaza are a stain on Israel and its allies | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel clearly committing three of five acts defined as genocide: Palestinian-American lawyer | war on Gaza | Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip fall under the definition of genocide as it is “clearly committing three of the five genocidal acts under the international treaties,” according to Palestinian-American lawyer, Lara Elborno | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel and WHO in online row over removal of medical supplies in Gaza | war on hospitals | Israel denies ordering the UN health agency to remove medical supplies from its warehouse in southern Gaza. |
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| 20231205 | Israel denies ordering WHO to move medical supplies in Gaza | war on hospitals | The Israeli military refuted claims that it had instructed the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remove supplies from its warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours “as ground operations will put it beyond use”. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Northern Gaza hospital ‘overwhelmed by horror’ as Israeli army lays siege | war on hospitals | Health official describes gunfire and artillery shells outside Kamal Adwan Hospital as hundreds are trapped inside. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Decomposing infants highlight cost of Israel’s war on Gaza’s hospitals | war on hospitals | Two weeks after the forced evacuation of the Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in north Gaza, a journalist stumbled on a grisly scene: the decomposing bodies of several infants who had been left behind, highlighting how the strip’s medical infrastructure has found itself firmly in the crosshairs of Israel’s war. | ||||||
| 20231205 | ‘Massacres await’: Palestinians in Nablus warn of deadly settler attacks | West Bank | The Palestinian villages south of Nablus face severe settler violence and warn the assaults will only increase. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Released Palestinians allege mistreatment in Israeli prisons | West Bank | Released under a prisoner-hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas, former Palestinian detainees have described beatings, deprivation and a radical deterioration in conditions in Israeli jails following Hamas's bloody October 7 attacks. | ||||||
| 20231205 | Israel shut down NGO for reporting rape of teenager, ex-US official says | West Bank | NGO Defense for Children International's offices were raided after they reported the sexual assault of a 15-year-old by an interrogator while in Israeli custody | ||||||
| 20231205 | Jewish settlers step up violent attacks on Palestinians in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Allies of Israel have condemned a sharp rise in attacks by armed Jewish settlers on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231206 | EU should consider sanctions on Hamas, Israeli settler violence -document | global effects | The European Union should consider toughening sanctions on Hamas and its finances, and imposing sanctions on Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank, the bloc's diplomatic service says in a paper prepared for EU foreign ministers. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Penn president vows to review 'genocide' policy in campus Israel-Gaza clash | global effects | University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Wednesday promised to review the university's code of conduct after she faced calls to resign for declining to say whether advocating genocide was a violation of the policy. | ||||||
| 20231206 | West Bank settler violence draws international condemnation | global response | While the world watches Israel's war with Hamas and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza… | ||||||
| 20231206 | UK faces pressure to release guidance on Britons fighting in Gaza | global response | Rights groups have warned the Israeli army is perpetrating war crimes during its military campaign in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231206 | UK government faces legal challenge over arms exports to Israel | global response | Al-Haq and Global Legal Action Network argue sales of British weapons could breach international law | ||||||
| 20231206 | EU crisis management chief slams Israeli settler attack on West Bank school | global response | The European Union's commissioner in charge of the bloc's crisis management condemned on Wednesday an attack by Israeli settlers on a school in Zanuta, a Palestinian village situated in the Israeli military-occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel: 'No unusual trading' before the 7 October Hamas attack | Hamas resistance attack | A previously published report found an unusual spike in bets against Israeli securities just before the attack. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel hostages in Gaza: We have evidence their health worsening, say families | Hamas resistance attack | Families of people being held captive in Gaza say they have "solid intelligence" that the health of several hostages has deteriorated. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears | Hamas resistance attack | The BBC has "seen and heard evidence" of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israeli forces battle Hamas in southern Gaza, humanitarian alarm grows | humanitarian | Israeli troops fought fierce battles with Hamas in south Gaza on Wednesday in the heart of the city of Khan Younis, forcing Palestinian civilians, many already displaced from the north, to search for refuge elsewhere with their options dwindling. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israeli army surrounds southern city of Khan Younis | humanitarian | As attacks intensify in and around Gaza’s second-largest city, the UN warns of a catastrophic humanitarian situation. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Displaced Palestinians forced to fend for themselves in Gaza's south | humanitarian | A plastic sheet rigged up as a tent, branches gathered from here and there to make a fire -- at the southern tip of Gaza, displaced Palestinians are settling in as best they can. | ||||||
| 20231206 | 'Only political solution' can bring end to violence ravaging Israel & Gaza since the 7th of October | ICRC | As Israeli troops battle Hamas militants in southern Gaza, International aid organisations have warned that civilians in the densely populated area are running out of places to flee to. | ||||||
| 20231206 | New signs emerge of ‘widespread’ sexual crimes by Hamas, as Netanyahu alleges global indifference | Israelis | A man hiding in a pit during the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on an outdoor music festival in Israel said he heard someone nearby screaming she was being raped. Elsewhere in the area, a combat paramedic saw the body of a young woman with her legs open, her pants pulled down, and what looked like semen on her lower back. An army reservist who was tasked with identifying those killed by the militants said some of the women were found wearing only bloodied underwear.
COMMENT 20231203 - Israeli personnel gave false information about 7 October attack crimes - report |
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| 20231206 | UN condemnation of sexual violence by Hamas ‘too little, too late’, says Israel | Israelis | Israel says comments by Unicef chief were insufficient and came only as a result of international pressure | ||||||
| 20231206 | Leaked audio of heated meeting reveals hostages’ fury at Netanyahu | Israelis | Leaked audio recordings of a meeting between freed Israeli hostages and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have revealed considerable anger at the government’s conduct, as well as the enduring terror of captivity by Hamas in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel claims to have discovered 'considerable weapons depots' in civilian area in Gaza | Israelis | As the plight of civilians deepens, the UN human rights chief has called for the international community to immediately push “with one voice” for a cease-fire. | ||||||
| 20231206 | CNN presses IDF spokesperson on the ratio of civilian casualties. Hear his response | Israelis | Erin Burnett asks Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, about a report that for every Hamas militant that Israel has killed in Gaza, about two civilians have also been killed. | ||||||
| 20231206 | How does Israel compare to failed states? | opinion | Critics describe Israel as a political entity that can only survive with repression and state-sanctioned violence. Israel has been in a state of near-perpetual war for decades, receives billions of dollars a year in aid and weapons, and has consistently broken international law by expanding its occupation and settlements. Governments and international human rights organizations have called for war crimes investigations into Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Yemen's Houthis say they launched ballistic missiles at Israel | regional effects | Yemen's Houthi group launched several ballistic missiles at military posts in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, the group's military spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231206 | How missiles from Yemen could escalate Israel-Gaza war | regional effects | It is well over 1,000 miles from the coast of Yemen to the Gaza Strip, and yet what happened last Sunday at the southern end of the Red Sea has the potential to dramatically escalate the war between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Saudi Arabia urges US restraint as Houthis attack ships in Red Sea | regional effects | Saudi Arabia has asked the United States to show restraint in responding to attacks by Yemen's Houthis against ships in the Red Sea, two sources familiar with Saudi thinking said, as Riyadh seeks to contain spillover from the Hamas-Israel war. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Houthis pose 'serious threat': Rebel attacks can 'seriously damage free flow of commerce' in Red Sea | regional effects | On Sunday, ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships, while a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during an hours long assault, the U.S. military said. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Western officials privately warn Houthi attacks on shipping lanes will continue | regional effects | The Biden administration is reluctant to conduct direct strikes on the Houthis out of concern it will disrupt Saudi peace talks | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel reviewing strike that harmed Lebanese troops, army says | regional effects | The Israeli army said on Wednesday it was reviewing a strike that harmed Lebanese troops in south Lebanon, an apparent reference to Israeli shelling that killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded three others the previous day | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel vows to push Lebanon Hezbollah away from border | regional effects | Israel will push Lebanese group, Hezbollah, beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon, Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, vowed on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Turkey rejects 'buffer zone' plan for Gaza, Erdogan says | regional response | Turkey rejects plans to establish a post-war buffer zone in Gaza because it would be disrespectful to Palestinians, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
COMMENT 20231206 - US would object to 'buffer zone' inside Gaza Strip -State Department |
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| 20231206 | Arab Group preparing resolution for immediate ceasefire in Gaza | regional response | The permanent representative of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine to the United Nations said on Wednesday the Arab Group is preparing a draft resolution to be submitted to the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Why is Israel at war with the UN? | United Nations | Over the course of its war with Hamas in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly clashed with the United Nations. | ||||||
| 20231206 | UN rights chief warns of heightened risk of 'atrocity crimes' in Gaza | United Nations | United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk warned on Wednesday there was a heightened risk of "atrocity crimes" in Gaza, urging parties involved to refrain from committing such violations. | ||||||
| 20231206 | UN chief warns of ‘complete breakdown of public order’ as fighting rages across Gaza | United Nations | The head of the UN warned on Wednesday that he expects "public order to completely break down soon due to the desperate conditions" in Gaza, where Israeli forces have expanded their offensive to the southern city of Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Senior UN official denounces ‘blatant disregard’ in Israel-Hamas war after many UN sites are hit | United Nations | The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees told The Associated Press on Wednesday there is no safe haven in besieged Gaza for civilians — not even in U.N. shelters and so-called “safe zones” designated by Israel | ||||||
| 20231206 | Guterres invokes Article 99 of UN Charter | United Nations | The Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres wrote a letter to the president of the Security Council invoking Article 99 of the UN's charter, which states that "the Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." | ||||||
| 20231206 | 'Nowhere is safe in Gaza,' UN chief warns | United Nations | The head of the UN warned public order could "completely break down soon due to the desperate conditions" in Gaza. Fighting in the city of Khan Younis intensified for a second day. | ||||||
| 20231206 | US lawmakers lag voters in support for Gaza ceasefire | United States | A new poll says more than 60% US voters want ceasefire, while only 11% of lawmakers support an end to Israel’s war. | ||||||
| 20231206 | ‘Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,’ US House asserts in ‘dangerous’ resolution | United States | Palestinian rights advocates denounce a Republican-led measure as a push to smear Israel’s critics amid the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Despite Gaza death toll soaring, U.S. unlikely to rethink weapons supplies to Israel | United States | Facing a soaring death toll from Israel's renewed offensive in southern Gaza, the Biden administration is trying to pressure its ally to minimize civilian deaths while stopping well short of the kind of measures that might force it to listen, such as threatening to restrict military aid. | ||||||
| 20231206 | White House interns pen letter demanding ceasefire in Gaza | United States | In letter sent to President Joe Biden, interns call for ceasefire in Gaza, end to Israeli apartheid and a free Palestine | ||||||
| 20231206 | US would object to 'buffer zone' inside Gaza Strip -State Department | United States | The US would object to any proposed buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip as it would violate Washington’s position that the size of the Palestinian enclave must not be reduced after the current conflict, State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said on Wednesday.
COMMENT 20231206 - Turkey rejects 'buffer zone' plan for Gaza, Erdogan says |
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| 20231206 | Analysis: The White House is changing its tune on Israel – but does it matter in practice? | United States | Biden’s rhetoric toward the Netanyahu government is toughening. But critics say his words aren’t backed up by the threat of action | ||||||
| 20231206 | Penn president vows to review 'genocide' policy in campus Israel-Gaza clash | United States | University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Wednesday promised to review the university's code of conduct after she faced calls to resign for declining to say whether advocating genocide was a violation of the policy. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel army in most intense combat in Gaza war, no safe place to evacuate | war on Gaza | Heaviest fighting in two months of conflict with non-stop attacks in enclave’s south and central areas. | ||||||
| 20231206 | How Israel is squeezing 1.8 million Palestinians into an airport-sized area | war on Gaza | Israel has declared an area smaller than Heathrow Airport as a safe space for Gaza’s displaced people to move to. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Palestinians forcibly displaced into Gaza scrubland | war on Gaza | “We will die here because of hunger.” Palestinians say the Israeli army is forcibly displacing them to an area of barren scrubland in south Gaza with no water or electricity, where they face another fight for survival. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Nowhere to go: 'The whole population of Gaza is now squeezed into the south' | war on Gaza | Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in Gaza's main southern city on Wednesday in some of the most intense combat of the two-month-old war sparked by the October 7 attacks. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Two Gaza brothers stripped, jeered at by Israeli army, one taken captive | war on Gaza | Mohammed al-Saeedi, 18, who was detained with his older brother Khader, remains missing two months later. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety | war on Gaza | Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday in intense fighting that has prevented the distribution of vital aid in much of the territory and brought some of the devastation and mass displacement seen in the north to the south. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israeli forces battle Hamas in southern Gaza, humanitarian alarm grows | war on Gaza | Israeli troops fought fierce battles with Hamas in south Gaza on Wednesday in the heart of the city of Khan Younis, forcing Palestinian civilians, many already displaced from the north, to search for refuge elsewhere with their options dwindling. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israeli army surrounds southern city of Khan Younis | war on Gaza | As attacks intensify in and around Gaza’s second-largest city, the UN warns of a catastrophic humanitarian situation. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel-Hamas War: Gazans Flee Fighting in the South as Airstrike Hits Packed Border Town | war on Gaza | Tens of thousands of Gazans have been fleeing to areas west and south of the embattled city of Khan Younis, including to the nearby southern border town of Rafah, where an airstrike on Wednesday brought new bloodshed and chaos to an area overflowing with people displaced by the war | ||||||
| 20231206 | Israel Claims It Has Killed Five Hamas Commanders in Rare Photo | war on Gaza | Israeli forces have targeted the Hamas leadership since the group launched an attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, the deadliest day in Israeli history.
COMMENT We have seen the published photo on X yesterday but isn't evidence as it shows a group of men in a situation of a gathering. Some of these men are marked with a red circle only suggesting that they are targets. |
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| 20231206 | Israel and Hamas fight house-to-house battles across Gaza | war on Gaza | UN secretary general says situation ‘fast deteriorating into catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications’ | ||||||
| 20231206 | Hospital sheltering thousands of people in Gaza is attacked | war on hospitals | Israeli air strike hit the gates of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, where Palestinians say a new massacre has taken place after days of attacks in the area. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Attacks on Jabalia refugee camp intensify | war on refugee camps | In the last 12 hours, the Israeli military has escalated attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp, an area subjected to repeated targeting throughout the war. Massive air strikes and continuous artillery shelling characterize the intensified assault, involving coordinated attacks by air, land, and sea in the densely populated region. Thousands remain stranded in Jabalia, unable to evacuate. Residential structures and public facilities have been entirely flattened. The current challenge lies in impaired communication, hindering the gathering of precise casualty figures, as several hospitals are non-operational. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Renewed air strikes on Jabalia camp kill dozens of Palestinians | war on refugee camps | Israeli air strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded many others overnight and on Wednesday morning. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Family of Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent killed in Israeli attack | war on whole families | Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, Moamen Al Sharafi has found out his father, mother, and 20 other family members were killed in an Israeli bombing at the Jabalia camp. Just days before, his mother sent him a message, hoping they would see each other soon. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Video shows Israeli soldier shooting mentally disabled Palestinian in West Bank | West Bank | The Israel Defense Forces has launched an investigation after a video emerged of an Israeli soldier shooting and wounding a mentally disabled Palestinian near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
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| 20231206 | Israeli settler violence brings destruction and fear to West Bank as war rages | West Bank | A few nights ago, the school in Khirbet Zanuta, a small Palestinian village in the hills south of Hebron, was destroyed along with most of the houses, by a bulldozer. | ||||||
| 20231206 | Generation after generation, Israeli prison marks a rite of passage for Palestinian boys | West Bank | For all Palestinian parents, Marwan Tamimi said, there comes a moment they realize they’re powerless to protect their children. | ||||||
| 20231206 | EU crisis management chief slams Israeli settler attack on West Bank school | West Bank | The European Union's commissioner in charge of the bloc's crisis management condemned on Wednesday an attack by Israeli settlers on a school in Zanuta, a Palestinian village situated in the Israeli military-occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231206 | German ruling party official urges EU to sanction violent Israeli settlers | West Bank | The European Union should echo the U.S. stance in imposing sanctions on a number of Israeli settlers over attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats said on Wednesday.
COMMENT 'Echo' refers to US vis ban. But that won't work as many settlers also have the American citizenship |
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| 20231206 | West Bank settler violence draws international condemnation | West Bank | While the world watches Israel's war with Hamas and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza… | ||||||
| 20231206 | In Photos: West Bank family sees no hope of justice in Israeli settler killings | West Bank | Moussa is eight years old and really likes marbles. But for the past month, this Palestinian boy, living in the occupied West Bank, has a new game: "Pretend daddy isn't dead." | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231207 | How are Harvard, Penn presidents responding to campus anti-Semitism row? | glohal effects | Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Elizabeth Magill at Penn released statements a day after their heated Congress hearing. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs | global response | Rights groups say attack that killed Reuters journalist and injured six others ‘likely a direct attack on civilians’. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Amnesty: Israeli attack that killed Reuters journalist, wounded others must be investigated as a war crime | global response | Amnesty International said on Thursday that Israeli strikes that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six others in south Lebanon on Oct. 13 were likely a direct attack on civilians that must be investigated as a war crime. | ||||||
| 20231207 | French lawmaker calls for sanctions on Israel over Gaza war | global response | French MP Alma Dufour addressed the National Assembly, highlighting the distressing situation in Gaza as bombardments resume. | ||||||
| 20231207 | 50 days in Hamas captivity - Thai man recalls beatings and bleakness | Hamas resistance attack | When Thai farm labourer Anucha Angkaew scrambled out of the bunker where he had been sheltering from rockets on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip around 7.30 am on Oct. 7, he expected to see Israeli soldiers. | ||||||
| 20231207 | CNN: "What we know about rape and sexual violence inflicted by Hamas during its terror attack on Israel" | Hamas resistance attack | Simchat Greyman had to pause several times when describing the evidence of sexual violence he saw when recovering bodies of victims of the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Humanitarian conditions in Gaza near collapse as Israeli attacks intensify | humanitarian | Cholera and gastroenteritis are rapidly spreading due to the congested conditions in southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Egypt says it is pushing to accelerate aid delivery to Gaza | humanitarian | Egypt is striving to accelerate the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip, a senior official said on Thursday, after the amount of relief getting through to the Palestinian enclave dipped with the end of the Israel-Hamas truce on Dec. 1. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Many wars, but nothing like this: Gaza man describes hunger and rage | humanitarian | People so hungry they break into U.N. warehouses to take whatever they can find. Children terrified of the noise of air strikes. Families using sea water to wash. Men cutting down trees in cemeteries to use as fuel to bake bread. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Gaza near humanitarian 'collapse'; lasting cease-fire imperative: UN migration agency | humanitarian | The UN migration agency, on Thursday, called for a “lasting and immediate” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as the humanitarian situation is “near collapse” due to intense fighting and lack of access | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel: channel monitors govt failure since start of war on Gaza | Israelis | Israel’s Channel 13 has monitored manifestations of the failure by the Israeli occupation authorities to achieve any of their goals, 61 days after the start of the war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon | journalists | An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on Oct. 13 by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, a Reuters investigation has found. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Reuters' Issam Abdallah covered world's biggest events with bravery and insight | journalists | Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, who was killed in Lebanon on Oct. 13 by what a Reuters investigation found was Israeli tank fire, brought courage, compassion and insight to his work covering some of the biggest news stories of the past decade. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel killed Reuters reporter, wounded others in deliberate attack : investigations | journalists | An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on 13 October, by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, separate Reuters and AFP investigations have found. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel should face war crimes probe over journalist death in Lebanon: NGOs | journalists | Rights groups say attack that killed Reuters journalist and injured six others ‘likely a direct attack on civilians’. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israeli killing of Lebanese journalist 'appears to be war crime' | journalists | Investigations by Reuters, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International show Issam Abdallah was likely deliberately targeted with a group of reporters earlier this year | ||||||
| 20231207 | Amnesty: Israeli attack that killed Reuters journalist, wounded others must be investigated as a war crime | journalists | Amnesty International said on Thursday that Israeli strikes that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six others in south Lebanon on Oct. 13 were likely a direct attack on civilians that must be investigated as a war crime. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Journalists should be allowed in and out of Gaza: RSF | journalists | Media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Israeli and Egyptian authorities on Thursday to allow journalists to move freely across the Gaza Strip's southern border crossing into Egypt. | ||||||
| 20231207 | 75 journalists killed by Israel in Gaza | journalists | At least 75 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed as a result of Israel’s bombing of Gaza over the past two months, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Two months of Israel-Gaza war: How divided is the world? | opinion | The war has cleaved the world between those calling for a ceasefire, those backing Israel and some sitting on the fence. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Are Israel’s attempts to demoralise the Palestinians backfiring? | opinion | Middle East expert Steven Cook says US President Joe Biden made a mistake with his ‘bear hug’ embrace of Israel. Some US officials have talked about the need to protect innocent Palestinian lives, but US President Joe Biden has said almost nothing. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Steven Cook says it was a mistake for Biden to have offered the “bear hug” – full, unconditional support for Israel. Now Biden is stuck in a position of supplying Israel with the means to kill more Palestinians while asking Israel to allow basic food and water into Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel’s massacre of Palestine is an assault on the Jewish faith | opinion | Resolution passed by the House of Representatives sets the stage for criminalising pro-Palestinian activism as a hate crime against Jewish people | ||||||
| 20231207 | Who are the Houthis and why hasn’t the US retaliated for their attacks on ships in the Middle East? | regional effects | When Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and hit three commercial ships in the southern Red Sea last weekend, it triggered an immediate question: Will the U.S. military strike back? | ||||||
| 20231207 | New drone attack targets US Base in Iraq | regional effects | The Islamic Resistance in Iraq yesterday announced that it had targeted the Ain Al-Asad Airbase in the western Anbar province where US forces are stationed. | ||||||
| 20231207 | The fishermen of Jaffa: 'Brothers' now afraid of each other | regional effects | Johny Saba, an amiable 58-year-old fisherman, longs for life in the ancient Mediterranean port to return to how it was before the war. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Egypt says will never allow Israel to expel Palestinians from Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continue & humanitarian crisis deepens | regional response | Live blog 18:00 - Israel has turned the entire Gaza Strip into a battlefield, leaving no safe place for citizens, while escalating its operations in the West Bank to displace Palestinians and liquidate the Palestinian cause, stated Diaa Rashwan, head of Egypt's State Information Service (SIS). | ||||||
| 20231207 | Egypt's FM to participate in three live events in Washington on Gaza war and its aftermath | regional response | Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry will participate in three events on Thursday during his ongoing visit to Washington, revolving around Egypt's stance and perspectives on regional challenges, with a special focus on the Gaza war and its aftermath. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Gaza conflict 'far beyond mutual fighting governed by war laws': Turkiye Parliament Speaker | regional response | The Gaza conflict is “far beyond a mutual fighting governed by war laws”, said the Turkish Parliament Speaker, as he hosted his Montenegrin counterpart at the Parliament on Thursday | ||||||
| 20231207 | UN secretary-general invokes Article 99 on Gaza | United Nations | Antonio Guterres warned of a deepening ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza as he called on the Security Council to act. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Can Guterres’s use of UN’s Article 99 bring peace? | United Nations | The rarely used rule will allow the UN secretary-general to make an appeal for peace to the Security Council. | ||||||
| 20231207 | UNSC to discuss Palestinian-Arab-Islamic draft resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza on Friday | United Nations | A Palestinian-Arab-Islamic draft resolution calling for a complete ceasefire in Gaza – not a humanitarian pause of hostilities – will be submitted for discussion in a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) session on Friday
20231206 - Arab Group preparing resolution for immediate ceasefire in Gaza |
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| 20231207 | Gaza near humanitarian 'collapse'; lasting cease-fire imperative: UN migration agency | United Nations | The UN migration agency, on Thursday, called for a “lasting and immediate” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as the humanitarian situation is “near collapse” due to intense fighting and lack of access | ||||||
| 20231207 | How are Harvard, Penn presidents responding to campus anti-Semitism row? | United States | Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Elizabeth Magill at Penn released statements a day after their heated Congress hearing. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Palestinians seek slivers of safety as Israel battles Hamas in south Gaza city | war on Gaza | Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip's biggest cities on Thursday and said it had attacked dozens of targets, leaving Palestinians struggling to survive in a situation the United Nations described as "apocalyptic". | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel advances in south Gaza city as civilians search for safety | war on Gaza | Israeli troops battled Hamas in the heart of south Gaza's biggest city and said they had surrounded the militant leader's house as thousands of displaced civilians sought shelter near Egypt and in a desolate seaside area of the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Displacement, death, hunger as Israel’s war on Gaza enters third month | war on Gaza | Fighting rages as Israeli troops press further south with ‘carpet bombardment of entire neighbourhoods’. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel pushes with invasion in southern Gaza, blocking aid from population | war on Gaza | Israeli troops on Thursday ratcheted up their attacks in the heart of the Gaza Strip's second-largest city, as Israel's ground invasion has sent tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to the territory's southernmost edge and prevented aid groups from delivering food, water and other supplies. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Strikes on Gaza’s southern edge sow fear in one of the last areas to which people can flee | war on Gaza | Israeli forces struck the southern Gaza town of Rafah twice overnight, residents said Thursday, sowing fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge after Israel widened its offensive against Hamas to areas already packed with displaced people. | ||||||
| 20231207 | ‘No other land is home’: Amid Israel bombs, a Gaza City family won’t leave | war on Gaza | Israel says it has given families a chance to flee Gaza City. But the Abu Shahla family won’t quit their city. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel arrests dozens of Palestinian civilians from UNRWA schools innorthern Gaza and tortures them | war on Gaza | The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented the arrest of dozens of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army after severely abusing them and completely stripping them of their clothes as a result of their siege for days inside two shelter centers in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
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| 20231207 | Video: In scenes from Nazi Germany - Israeli army arrests, blindfolds and strips naked Palestinians on streets in Gaza | war on Gaza | Videos have circulated of the Israeli army blindfolding and stripping naked tens of Palestinians in Gaza before rounding them up in trucks and leading them to unknown destinations. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Civilian Palestinian men stripped and detained by Israeli army | war on Gaza | Israeli forces stripped dozens of civilian Palestinian men of their clothes before detaining them and taking them to an undisclosed location, footage published on Thursday showed. | ||||||
| 20231207 | 62 days into Israel's genocidal war on Gaza | war on Gaza | Photo gallery | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel strikes Gaza cities at 2-month mark | war on Gaza | Israeli troops continued their ground offensive in Gaza's northern and southern cities, while Israelis at home remembered Hamas' deadly attacks at their two-month mark | ||||||
| 20231207 | Civilians flee fighting in Khan Younis | war on Gaza | Fighting has intensified in and around Gaza's main southern city of Khan Younis. As the Israeli military expands its operations, thousands of civilians have been seeking refuge further south, where there's still no guarantee of safety. | ||||||
| 20231207 | 'Tortured': Fear grips Palestinians in Europe as they wait for news from loved ones in Gaza | war on Gaza | The last message Ahmad received from his loved ones was last Saturday, and since then he has heard nothing. Like him, thousands of Palestinians in Europe long to receive Whatsapp messages from Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel drops leaflets in Gaza with Quran verse warning of 'floods' | war on Gaza | The verse from the story of Noah was dropped on Khan Younis, leading to speculation that Israel is planning to flood Gaza's tunnel networks. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Gaza war to end with Hamas surrender: Israel | war on Gaza | Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip will end with the surrender of Hamas leaders and the return of hostages, an Israeli spokesman said on Thursday | ||||||
| 20231207 | Deadly air strike in Gaza area where Israel told people to go | war on whole families | 18 members of one family were killed in Israeli air attacks in the southern city of Rafah, in a neighbourhood where Israeli forces had told people to go to avoid their assault elsewhere in south Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israel intensifies daily raids on occupied West Bank | West Bank | At least four Palestinians, including three teenagers, were killed in 24 hours, while 60 people were arrested. | ||||||
| 20231207 | Israeli army shoots Palestinian street vendor | West Bank | The family of a Palestinian street vendor in Hebron say he was shot, point blank, by Israeli forces on his way home from work. Al Jazeera correspondent, Nida Ibrahim spoke to the family, and shared this video, capturing the moment he was shot.
COMMENT 202231206 - Video shows Israeli soldier shooting mentally disabled Palestinian in West Bank |
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Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20231208 | The first Intifada against Israel | editorial | A years-long uprising by Palestinians would end with a deal that some considered an outright surrender. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Germany cuts funding for anti-trafficking programme after chair calls for Gaza ceasefire | global effects | The award-winning head of an anti-human trafficking programme in Egypt has accused Germany of "double standards" after it withheld funding for the group after she condemned Israel's onslaught on Gaza in a joint letter. | ||||||
| 20231208 | MP chairing committee on policing of Palestine demos wanted protesters arrested | global effects | Diana Johnson previously called for police to arrest students who jeered and heckled Israeli ambassador at LSE protest in 2021 | ||||||
| 20231208 | EU adds 2 Hamas commanders to its terrorist list | global effects | EU countries today put two Hamas commanders on the European Union’s terrorist list. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Destruction in Gaza 'comparable, if not higher,' to WWII Germany, says EU Foreign Policy chief | global response | The head of EU Foreign Policy, on Friday, compared widespread destruction caused by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip to the devastation of German cities during World War II, saying it could be even “higher” | ||||||
| 20231208 | Canada Muslim group kills financial contributions to Liberal Party | global response | A Canadian Muslim group has stopped cash contributions to the governing Liberal Party because Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has failed to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war, according to reports, Friday | ||||||
| 20231208 | UN, Israel signal progress in talks to open Gaza crossing | humanitarian | Israel and the United Nations signalled on Thursday that the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel could soon be opened to help speed up delivery of humanitarian supplies into Gaza, where the Israel-Hamas war has left people desperately short of basic needs. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israeli politician calls for captured Palestinians to be 'buried alive' | Israelis | Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as 'subhuman' and invokes biblical reference | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel kills soldier held prisoner in Gaza | Israelis | The Al-Qassam Brigades said an Israeli soldier who had been held as a prisoner of war in Gaza was killed early today after an Israeli special forces unit struck the area he was being held | ||||||
| 20231208 | Hamas says it repelled Israeli rescue attempt in Gaza, hostage killed | Israelis | The armed wing of Hamas said on Friday it had repelled an attempted hostage rescue by Israeli special forces in the Gaza Strip, inflicting several military casualties, and that a captive also died in the incident. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Palestinians prevented from worshipping at Al Aqsa Mosque | Jerusalem | Every week, young worshippers heading to Al Aqsa Mosque are prevented from entering. They don’t even manage to get close enough because Israeli forces, every single Friday, push them back with tear gas and water spray. They only allow those who are older to get past. Usually, around 60,000 to 70,000 worshippers attend Friday prayer at Islam’s third holiest site. Last week, it was around 5,000. Israelis are (hasbarically) saying they’re doing this to prevent any tension because there’s a war and under an emergency law. But Palestinians see it as another excuse to prevent movement and to stop them from being able to go about their daily lives. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel forces arrest the Deputy Director of the Muslim Waqf in Occupied Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Israeli occupation forces this morning arrested Sheikh Najeh Bkerat, the Deputy Director of the Muslim Waqf in Occupied Jerusalem, after conducting a raid on his home in the village of Dar Salah, in the Occupied West Bank province of Bethlehem. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Blinken urges Israel to finish probe into killing of journalist in Lebanon | journalists | Blinken’s comments come after rights groups say Israel should be investigated over possible war crime. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel: Journalist killed in Lebanon was in ‘active combat zone’ | journalists | Rights groups say the Israeli strike that killed a Reuters reporter and injured six others must be investigated as a war crime. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel says Reuters journalist Abdallah was in a combat zone when he was killed | journalists | The Israeli military, responding on Friday to a Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, said the incident took place in an active combat zone and was under review. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Journalists’ rights group counts 94 media workers killed worldwide, most at an alarming rate in Gaza | journalists | A leading organization representing journalists worldwide expressed deep concern Friday at the number of media professionals killed around the globe doing their jobs in 2023, with Israel’s war with Hamas claiming more journalists than any conflict in over 30 years. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Hamas says Israel destroyed historic Gaza Mosque | mosques, schools | Hamas said, on Friday, that Israel had bombed Gaza’s medieval Omari Mosque, causing widespread destruction to the building and calling it a “heinous, barbaric crime” | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel targeting Gaza's history, destroying ancient mosques, churches | mosques, schools | Israel has deliberately destroyed dozens of archaeological sites and ancient sites in the besieged Gaza Strip since 7 October, in a blatant attempt to target Palestinian cultural heritage. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Images show major damage to Gaza's oldest mosque | mosques, schools | Footage has emerged showing extensive damage to Gaza's oldest mosque, with Hamas accusing the Israeli military for bombing the site. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Will Israel defy Washington and target Hezbollah? | opinion | Part of the logic of the war on Hamas is to ensure the permanent safety of kibbutzim in southern Israel — and now Israelis who’ve been evacuated from near the Lebanese border are demanding the same. | ||||||
| 20231208 | America's enemies are multiplying by the day | opinion | Even if regional war is avoided, US support for Israel has created huge anger and damage to its reputation. Only by calling for a permanent ceasefire can it claw back some credibility | ||||||
| 20231208 | Is it ‘anti-Semitic’ to acknowledge that Arabs are Semites too? | opinion | As with every, almost annual Israeli war against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, efforts to counter protests and dissent against the atrocities of the occupation state frequently resort to labelling such opposition as “anti-Semitism”. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Netanyahu warns Hezbollah after cross-border attack kills Israeli civilian | regional effects | Israeli PM says Hezbollah will turn Beirut, southern Lebanon into Gaza and Khan Younis if Iran-backed group’s attacks on Israel continue. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Rockets fired towards US embassy in Iraqi capital’s Green Zone | regional effects | US troops and installations have come under regular attack due to Washington’s support of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231208 | A rocket attack targets the US embassy in Baghdad, causing minor damage but no casualties | regional effects | A rocket attack at the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Friday morning caused minor material damage but no casualties, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UAE asks UN Security Council to vote Friday on demand for Gaza ceasefire | regional response | The United Arab Emirates has asked for the U.N. Security Council to vote Friday morning on a draft resolution that demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip, diplomats said. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Egypt says will never allow Israel to expel Palestinians from Gaza | regional response | Cairo will never allow Israel to empty the besieged Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population, the head of Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS), Diaa Rashwan, said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UNRWA on the verge of collapse, chief warns | United Nations | UNRWA “has become the primary platform for humanitarian assistance for over 2.2 million people in Gaza”, leaving it “on the verge of collapse”, Philippe Lazzarini has warned. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UAE asks UN Security Council to vote Friday on demand for Gaza ceasefire | United Nations | The United Arab Emirates has asked for the U.N. Security Council to vote Friday morning on a draft resolution that demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip, diplomats said. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UN Security Council to consider vote on immediate Gaza ceasefire | United Nations | The UN Security Council meets on Gaza Friday under acute pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will vote on urging an immediate ceasefire as Israel's war on the Gaza Strip enters its third month. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Situation in Gaza 'beyond imaginable', warns WHO | United Nations | More than 17,000 people - mostly women and children - have been killed in the besieged Palestinian enclave. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UN-Israel relations at historic low as Secretary-General invokes rare diplomatic measure | United Nations | Israel’s relations with the United Nations have sunk to a historic low after a spat between the two escalated this week. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Hamas brutality can't justify 'collective punishment' of Palestinians: UN chief | United Nations | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that Hamas brutality could never justify "collective punishment" of Palestinians as Israel presses its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza strip. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UN Security Council to vote on cease-fire | United Nations | The vote comes after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of an impending "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel is expected to open the Kerem Shalom border crossing for aid. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UN Security Council to consider 'immediate humanitarian ceasefire' in Gaza | United Nations | The United Nations Security Council will meet Friday at 5:30 pm (11:30 pm CET) to discuss the war in Gaza, after its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a special measure to urge the organisation’s most powerful body to call for a ceasefire. Throughout the day, Israel pressed its offensive in and around the Gaza Strip's main cities. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments. | ||||||
| 20231208 | UN Security Council to vote on immediate ceasefire | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday warned the Security Council at an emergency meeting that civil order is at risk of breakdown in Gaza where Israel pursues its offensive. The 15 Security Council members are set to vote on calling for an immediate ceasefire, Catherine Norris Trent said. The United Arab Emirates-tabled resolution would only be adopted if nine members voted in favour and no permanent members exercised their veto against it, Norris Trent said, adding that an US veto is expected | ||||||
| 20231208 | Gaza society ‘on brink of full-blown collapse’, says UN official | United Nations | Comment comes as UN delays security resolution vote after US and UK make clear they will block calls for a ceasefire | ||||||
| 20231208 | US vetoes truce resolution: Draft UN resolution to stop fighting shot down | United Nations | The United States has used its veto power to shoot down a draft resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an immediate end to Israel's war on Gaza. The vote was called after UN secretary general Antonio Guterres invoked the rarely-used Article 99 of the UN charter. |
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| 20231208 | US raises criticism of Israel ahead of UNSC ceasefire meeting | United States | US officials urge Israel to protect Gaza civilians but are unlikely to back calls for permanent truce. | ||||||
| 20231208 | US vetoes truce resolution: Draft UN resolution to stop fighting shot down | United States | The United States has used its veto power to shoot down a draft resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an immediate end to Israel's war on Gaza. The vote was called after UN secretary general Antonio Guterres invoked the rarely-used Article 99 of the UN charter. |
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| 20231208 | Elizabeth Magill: UPenn loses $100m donation after House antisemitism testimony | United States | A major University of Pennsylvania donor has withdrawn a $100m (£79.3m) grant after a controversial appearance in Congress by the school's president. | ||||||
| 20231208 | US criticizes Israel on Gaza as civilian death toll mounts | United States | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has voiced concern about the civilian casualties of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. On the humanitarian front, there is hope that opening a second checkpoint would allow more aid to reach the desperate population. But as Tania Krämer reports, even the distribution of what little aid arrives is quite limited. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Biden administration tells Israel it has until end of 2023 to finish war in Gaza, reports | United States | Citing three anonymous officials in Tel Aviv, Politico reports that US President Joe Biden’s administration has told Israel that it has until the end of 2023 to conclude the war in Gaza against Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Ex-US diplomat cites 'double standard' in Israel's treatment compared to Ukraine | United States | In an interview for Middle East Eye’s Big Picture series, Josh Paul explains how blanket support for Israel’s war in Gaza motivated him to resign
20231207 - Josh Paul quit the US State Department, now he’s speaking out |
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| 20231208 | US to oppose Arab-backed resolution calling for urgent Gaza ceasefire | United States | White House says it favours more humanitarian pauses and time for diplomacy to work to improve flow of aid | ||||||
| 20231208 | No end in sight as death toll rises in Gaza and Israel escalates attacks | war on Gaza | Humanitarian aid is trickling into southern Gaza but UN says it’s ‘erratic, undependable’ and not ‘sustainable’. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Palestinians crowd into ever-shrinking areas in Gaza as Israel’s war against Hamas enters 3rd month | war on Gaza | Desperate Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanding ground offensive crowded into an ever-shrinking area of the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third month Friday. The United Nations warned that its aid operation is “in tatters” because no place in the besieged enclave is safe. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Will Netanyahu risk a tunnel conflict to ‘eradicate Hamas’, stay in power? | war on Gaza | sraeli forces may risk a fight under Gaza as a politically embattled Netanyahu looks for a total defeat of Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel torturing forcibly disappeared Gaza detainees | war on Gaza | The Commission for Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club and the Addameer Foundation for Prisoners Care and Human Rights have denounced Israel’s policy of enforced disappearance of Gaza detainees, more than two months after the beginning of the genocidal bombing campaign against the besieged enclave. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel designates a safe zone in Gaza. Palestinians and aid groups say it offers little relief | war on Gaza | Israel has designated a small slice of mostly undeveloped land along Gaza’s Mediterranean coast as a safe zone — a place where waves of people fleeing the war can find protection from airstrikes and receive humanitarian supplies for their families. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel sharply ramps up Gaza strikes, U.S. alarmed | war on Gaza | Israel sharply intensified its strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that Washington said contradicted Israeli promises to do more to protect civilians. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Bloodshed, fear, hunger, desperation: Palestinians try to survive war’s new chapter in southern Gaza | war on Gaza | The roads are so ravaged that the dead and wounded arrive by donkey cart. Desperate relatives rush bloodied and dust-covered people, many of them children, to the hospital. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Civilians flee as combat rages in Gaza's biggest cities | war on Gaza | Palestinians fleeing heavy fighting have been heading to areas declared by Israel to be relatively safe. But with more than 80% of Gaza's population internally displaced, there are few places left where people can take shelter. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Israel killing civilians raising white flags, rights group says | war on Gaza | The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that Israeli forces burned homes in Beit Lahia and killed civilians who were raising white flags. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Video shows stripped Palestinian men detained in Gaza | war on Gaza | With fighting raging around Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza, a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel.
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| 20231208 | Israel intensifies war in and around Gaza's main cities | war on Gaza | On the 63rd day of the war on Gaza, Israel pressed on with war in and around Gaza's main cities. The death toll in Gaza has risen to 17,000, mostly women and children, the Gaza health ministry said, with vast areas reduced to a rubble-strewn wasteland of bombed-out and bullet-scarred buildings. | ||||||
| 20231208 | 350 Palestinians killed in Gaza in 24 hours | war on Gaza | The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a press conference yesterday that 350 Palestinians had been killed and 900 had been injured over a 24-hour period. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Gaza toll surges to 17,487 as Israeli onslaught continues: Health Ministry | war on Gaza | The number of Palestinians killed by Israel’s onslaught in the Gaza Strip has risen to 17,487, with over 46,480 injured, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave announced on Friday | ||||||
| 20231208 | Oxfam: Israel carrying out collective punishment in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel is carrying out a campaign of “collective punishment” against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and this is leading to chaos, Oxfam warned on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Dozens injured in Israel bombing of Deir Al-Balah hospital area | war on hospitals | Dozens of Palestinians were injured yesterday when the Israeli army bombed the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231208 | Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza | war on whole families | Tributes pour in for one of the leaders of a young generation of writers in Gaza who chose to tell their stories in English | ||||||
| 20231208 | Palestinians mourn controversial writer killed in air strike | war on whole families | Palestinians are mourning the death of well-known writer and literary scholar Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an air strike in Gaza City on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Occupied West Bank faces growing Israeli aggression amid Gaza war | West Bank | Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured and detained in occupied West Bank since October 7. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Playing with friends, shot dead by Israel: A Jenin boy’s final moments | West Bank | Basil Abu al-Waf’s father, a doctor, raced to the spot near Jenin refugee camp. It was too late. | ||||||
| 20231208 | Six Palestinians are killed in the Israeli military’s latest West Bank raid, health officials say | West Bank | Israeli forces stormed into a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday to arrest suspected Palestinian militants, unleashing fighting with local gunmen in which six Palestinians were killed, health officials said. | ||||||
| 20231208 | ‘It would’ve been better if they shot us’: Palestinians recount prison abuse | West Bank | Newly released inmates detail cases of humiliation, torture, rape threats, and a prisoner beaten to death by Israeli forces in the weeks since October 7. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231209 | Did this Palestinian prisoner ‘fake’ his injuries? No, it’s two different people | global effects | A viral post claiming Mohammed Nazzal, a Palestinian prisoner recently released by Israel was ‘staging’ his injuries that he claims he received at the hands of Israeli authorities in jail. | ||||||
| 20231209 | London calling! Another mass protest for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza war | global response | photo gallery | ||||||
| 20231209 | ‘Double standards’: World reacts to US veto on Gaza truce resolution at UN | global response | International rights groups say US ‘risks complicity in war crimes’, has ‘callous disregard for civilian suffering’. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Protestor throws red powder at Iceland’s Foreign Minister over Gaza | global response | A woman protesting the bombings in Gaza threw red powder at the Foreign Minister of Iceland. This act was a form of protest against Iceland’s diplomatic relations with Israel during its military operations in Gaza, which have resulted in a high number of civilian casualties, including women and children. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Did Israel’s overreliance on tech cause October 7 intelligence failure? | Hamas resistance attack | A dependence on ‘high-tech’ tools resulted in complacency that led to the failings of October 7, say analysts. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Hamas says Israel shows no concern for lives of its prisoners in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | The Palestinian movement Hamas said on Saturday that Israel shows no concern about the lives of its captives in Gaza, following a failed attempt by the army to free a captive soldier, which led to his death. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Gaza aid checks at Kerem Shalom being tested, crossing not open - UN official | humanitarian | A new process for inspecting aid for Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing is being tested, but efforts to get permission for trucks to enter through the crossing and ramp up relief are still ongoing, a senior U.N. official told Reuters on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Alarm raised as indiscriminate carnage, apocalyptic conditions grip Gaza | humanitarian | Aid charities have sounded the alarm about an "apocalyptic" situation in Gaza after more than two months of Israeli war on Gaza, warning of starvation and an outbreak of disease. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Half of Gaza's population is starving, warns UN | humanitarian | A senior UN aid official has warned that half of Gaza's population is starving, as fighting there continues. | ||||||
| 20231209 | 500,000 Palestinians face hunger, thirst in Gaza: Municipality | humanitarian | Half a million Palestinians are at risk of hunger and thirst in cities where Israeli attacks continue, the Gaza Municipality said on Saturday, describing the humanitarian situation as “disastrous” as the Israeli army deliberately targeted food and water infrastructure | ||||||
| 20231209 | Zionist rabbis' edicts fuel Gaza genocide: Al-Azhar Observatory | Israelis | The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism expressed outrage over the religious decrees of Zionist rabbis, attributing them as a key factor in reigniting the genocide against Palestinians after after the four-day humanitarian truce, according to a statement on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Outrage over Israeli soldier vandalising Gaza gift shop | Israelis | The emergence of a video showing Israeli soldier vandalising a gift shop in Gaza has sparked widespread outrage. This act of vandalism adds to the already grave situation in Gaza, marked by significant destruction and the reported killing or expulsion of local residents | ||||||
| 20231209 | Former Israel army deputy chief of staff: ‘We will not succeed in eliminating Hamas’ | Israelis | Former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Yair Golan, expressed his view that Israel will not be able to eliminate Hamas nor Hezbollah in the war against Gaza | ||||||
| 20231209 | Israeli drone strike in Syria killed three Hezbollah members | regional effects | Three members of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli drone strike in southwest Syria on Friday, according to two regional sources close to Damascus. | ||||||
| 20231209 | IDF strikes Lebanon after failed UN vote | regional effects | The Israel Defense Forces said they had hit Hezbollah targets in Lebanon overnight. The strikes come after the US vetoed a UN Security Council call for a cease-fire | ||||||
| 20231209 | Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah vows more attacks on US forces | regional effects | Attacks by Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah militia against U.S. interests on Friday are the start of "new rules of engagement," a security official from the group said in a social media post. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Palestinian Authority president says US veto makes it complicit in Israeli 'war crimes' | regional response | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the United States' veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza made it complicit in what he described as war crimes against Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Turkey's Erdogan: The UN Security Council needs to be reformed | regional response | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the United Nations Security Council to be reformed, decrying the fact that the United States could veto a ceasefire proposal for Gaza despite huge support from other countries. | ||||||
| 20231209 | U.S. is left alone on Gaza issue after veto at UN - Turkey's FM | regional response | The United States' veto of a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza was a "complete disappointment," Turkey's ministry of foreign affairs has said. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Labour steps up criticism of ‘intolerable’ killings in Gaza | United Kingdom | The Labour party today delivers its strongest criticism of Israel over its attacks on Palestinians, describing the death and destruction in Gaza over the past two months as “intolerable” and attacking two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers for “totally unacceptable” support of illegal settlements in the West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231209 | ‘Double standards’: World reacts to US veto on Gaza truce resolution at UN | United Nations | International rights groups say US ‘risks complicity in war crimes’, has ‘callous disregard for civilian suffering’. | ||||||
| 20231209 | ‘Alarming’: Palestinians accuse ICC prosecutor of bias after Israel visit | United Nations | While the ICC offers an alternative to Israeli courts, no arrest warrants have been issued against Israeli officials and commanders. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Cop28: Critics of Israel's Gaza mass killings face 'unprecedented' UN policing | United Nations | Civil society groups on Friday accused the UN climate secretariat (UNFCCC) of "unprecedented" policing of their actions and expressions of solidarity with Palestine at the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai. | ||||||
| 20231209 | US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza | United States | The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution Friday backed by almost all other Security Council members and dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. Supporters called it a terrible day and warned of more civilian deaths and destruction as the war goes into its third month. | ||||||
| 20231209 | ‘Double standards’: World reacts to US veto on Gaza truce resolution at UN | United States | International rights groups say US ‘risks complicity in war crimes’, has ‘callous disregard for civilian suffering’. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Analysis: US 'practising doublespeak' by opposing ceasefire and distancing itself from Gaza toll | United States | The United States is "seeing the extent of the massacre (in Gaza) ... and therefore, they want to dissociate themselves in some way from (it)," said Gilbert Achar, a professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS | ||||||
| 20231209 | US skips congressional review to approve emergency sale of tank shells to Israel | United States | The Biden administration has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review, the Pentagon said on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Biden administration uses emergency authority to sell tank shells to Israel | United States | The state department used an emergency declaration to sell $106.5m worth of ammo for Israel’s Merkava tanks | ||||||
| 20231209 | Israel strikes Gaza after failed UN ceasefire bid | war on Gaza | Israel pressed its offensive in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid to call for a ceasefire in the two-month of genocidal war against the Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231209 | ‘We are dying here’: Terror in Gaza amid Israeli communications blackouts | war on Gaza | A writer stuck inside Gaza tells Al Jazeera of the terror and frustration of life under internet shutdown. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Israel presses on with Gaza bombardments, including in areas where it told civilians to flee | war on Gaza | Israeli warplanes struck parts of the Gaza Strip overnight into Saturday in relentless bombardments, including some of the dwindling slivers of land Palestinians had been told to evacuate to in the territory’s south. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Intensified fighting across Gaza as U.S. vetoes ceasefire | war on Gaza | Israel pounded the Gaza Strip from north to south on Saturday in an expanded phase of its two-month-old war against Hamas, after the United States wielded its U.N. Security Council veto to shield its ally from a global demand for a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Israel orders more evacuations in Khan Younis after US blocks Gaza ceasefire call | war on Gaza | Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis on Saturday and pounded the length of the enclave, after the United States wielded its U.N. Security Council veto to shield its ally from a demand for a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231209 | 5,000 Israeli soldiers wounded since start of war in Gaza: Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot | war on Gaza | The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that 5,000 Israeli soldiers have been wounded since the start of the war in Gaza, describing the figure as unprecedented in Israeli wars. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Alarm raised as indiscriminate carnage, apocalyptic conditions grip Gaza | war on Gaza | Aid charities have sounded the alarm about an "apocalyptic" situation in Gaza after more than two months of Israeli war on Gaza, warning of starvation and an outbreak of disease. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Israel continues to strike northern and southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Large areas of Gaza have been reduced to rubble and the UN says about 80 percent of the population has been displaced, with dire shortages of food, fuel, water and medicine reported. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Fierce fighting rages across Gaza between Israel and Hamas | war on Gaza | Savage fighting continued in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel on Thursday, with Palestinian civilians caught in the crossfire. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Palestinian factions claim striking Israeli military targets in Gaza | war on Gaza | The Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that they targeted several Israeli military targets
COMMENT It's not said but showed as videos about the attacks has been collected and archived. |
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| 20231209 | Families of Palestinians stripped and detained recall ‘humiliating’ Israeli arrests | war on Gaza | Israeli forces rounded up residents from homes and schools in northern Gaza, before taking some to an undisclosed location | ||||||
| 20231209 | Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds | war on Gaza | Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than that in all world conflicts in 20th century, data suggests | ||||||
| 20231209 | A British Palestinian surgeon gave testimony to a UK war crimes unit after returning from Gaza | war on hospitals | A British Palestinian surgeon who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team said he has given testimony to a British war crimes investigation unit. | ||||||
| 20231209 | (Palestinian) German family of 6 killed in Israel's attack on Gaza | war on whole families | According to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Yousuf Abujadallah, who worked as a doctor in Germany, his wife Ayah, and their children Salahuddin (10), Mohammed (9), Abdulrahman (3) and Omar, who was an infant, were killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli bombing. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Over 10,000 infants and children killed in Israel’s Gaza genocide, hundreds of whom are trapped beneath debris | war on whole families | Israel has killed more than 10,000 infants and children since the start of its attack on the Gaza Strip on 7 October, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported in a statement issued Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Teenager killed, 15 detained in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank | West Bank | The Israeli military has carried out multiple raids in the occupied West Bank as heavy fighting continued across the Gaza Strip a day after the United States used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block overwhelming demands for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Israel kills 2 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank | West Bank | Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank on Saturday and another succumbed to his wounds from an Israeli raid the day before, health officials said. | ||||||
| 20231209 | Meet the Palestinian teens held and abused in Israeli prisons | West Bank | Held for months without charge, these Palestinian minors endured beatings, humiliation and maltreatment until being freed during last month's prisoner exchange | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231210 | Palestinians call for global strike on Monday to demand Gaza ceasefire | new cease fire talks | Trade union activists and international influencers join call for global strike on December 11 as Israel pummels Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231210 | UNRWA chief says dehumanization of Palestinians enable Israeli attacks | global effects | The head of UNRWA, the U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, on Sunday said that dehumanization of Palestinians has allowed the international community to bear continued Israeli attacks in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Calls to reform UN Security Council after US vetoes Gaza ceasefire | global response | Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Gaza 'catastrophic' health situation almost impossible to improve- WHO | humanitarian | The World Health Organization chief said on Sunday it will be all but impossible to improve the "catastrophic" health situation in Gaza even as the board passed an emergency WHO motion by consensus to secure more medical access. | ||||||
| 20231210 | 'Living hell' in the ruins of Gaza's largest hospital | humanitarian | Hundreds of makeshift tents stand in a desolate landscape at the foot of Gaza City's ruined Al-Shifa hospital. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Israeli army fires on 6 Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances escorted by UN vehicles | humanitarian | The Israeli army opened fire on six ambulances of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, escorted by UN vehicles, carrying 11 patients with critical injuries, including amputations and head wounds, in Gaza, the Red Crescent said on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231210 | Israeli army accused of staging video showing surrender of 'Hamas fighters' | Israelis | Israel is being accused of staging a video - purporting to show the surrender of Hamas soldiers. The footage on social media, shows several dozen men stripped to their underwear. Israeli media say these are Hamas fighters arrested at the Jabalia refugee camp.
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| 20231210 | Video shows Gaza detainees allegedly 'surrendering guns' | Israelis | Images of detained and stripped Palestinians apparently surrendering some weapons to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip have prompted speculation about the circumstances of the events and the filming.
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| 20231210 | Israeli soldiers set fire to Gazan supplies in Shujaiya Neighborhood | Israelis | Israeli soldiers set fire to crucial food and water supplies in Gaza's Shujaiya in what they called a celebration of ‘Hanukkah’. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Palestinians speak of being stripped and abused by Israeli forces in Gaza | Israelis | Palestinians who were rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City have described being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured while detained. This group of detainees has been released and is now receiving medical treatment. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Mariam Barghouti: The media is complicit in Israel’s war on Gaza | journalists | As the world is focused on the events unfolding in Gaza, Israel has also escalated its attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, where Hamas has no authority or military presence. | ||||||
| 20231210 | How international law is used to cover up Israeli settler-colonialism | opinion | Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ is wrongly evoked within the context of its occupation of Palestinian territories.
COMMENT Article may be inspired by the speech of UN Special Reporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese who spoke at the Australian National Press Club a few days ago. |
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| 20231210 | Jordan’s foreign minister says Israel aiming ‘to empty Gaza of its people’ | Jordan/Israelis | Addressing the Doha Forum, Ayman Safadi says Israel’s operation in Gaza meets the ‘legal definition of genocide’. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Jordan says Israel aims to expel Palestinians from Gaza | Jordan/Israelis | Jordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, on Sunday said that Israel was implementing a policy of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza through a war that he said meets the "legal definition of genocide", allegations that Israel rejected as "outrageous" | ||||||
| 20231210 | Israeli army attacks southern Lebanon after claiming to have shot down 2 'suspicious air targets' | Lebanon/Israelis | The Israeli army launched attacks on southern Lebanese border areas on Sunday after claiming to have shot down “two suspicious air targets” in the Western Galilee region | ||||||
| 20231210 | Violence escalates between Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah | Lebanon/Israelis | Violence escalated at Lebanon's border with Israel on Sunday as Hezbollah launched explosive drones and powerful missiles at Israeli positions and Israeli air strikes rocked several towns and villages in south Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Moroccans, angry at attacks on Gaza, demand halt to ties with Israel | Morocco/Israelis | Moroccans waving Palestinian flags took to the streets of the capital Rabat on Sunday calling on the government to cut ties with Israel in protest against continued Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip which have killed thousands of civilians.
reference ties with Israelis: the fake peace agreement, Abraham Accord from 2020, mastermind by Netanyahu with the orthodox Jews Jared Kushner, David Freedman, and Jason Greenblatt. |
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| 20231210 | Palestinian resistance praises Houthi decision to block Israel-bound ships | Red Sea | Palestinian resistance factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have lauded Yemen’s Houthi-led government over its decision to impose a ban on the passage of all ships bound for Israel, via the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231210 | France says one of its warships was targeted by drones from direction of Yemen. Both were shot down | Red Sea | France said Sunday that one of its warships in the Red Sea was targeted by drones coming from Yemen. Both were intercepted and shot down. | ||||||
| 20231210 | French warship shoots down two drones coming from Yemen | Red Sea | A French warship operating in the Red Sea has shot down two drones that were launched at it from the Yemen coast, the defence ministry said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231210 | US should also be held responsible for Israeli attacks on Gaza -Palestinian PM | PA/US | Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Sunday the United States should also be held responsible for Israeli attacks on Gaza and the loss of Palestinian lives. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Oppression in Palestine did not start on Oct. 7, but 106 years ago: Palestinian envoy to UK | PA/UK | Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said that Israel’s oppression in his country did not start on Oct. 7 but 106 years ago. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Gaza ceasefire ‘not the main priority’ amongst international community, Saudi FM says | Saudi Arabia | The Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan said that they are seeing a position viewing ‘Ceasefire’ as a dirty word, expressing his disappointment with the US decision to veto the Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231210 | UNRWA chief says dehumanization of Palestinians enable Israeli attacks | United Nations | The head of UNRWA, the U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, on Sunday said that dehumanization of Palestinians has allowed the international community to bear continued Israeli attacks in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231210 | UN warns aid in Gaza on verge of collapse | United Nations | The UNRWA head has described the current conditions in Gaza as the worst he's ever seen. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Gaza 'catastrophic' health situation almost impossible to improve- WHO | United Nations | The World Health Organization chief said on Sunday it will be all but impossible to improve the "catastrophic" health situation in Gaza even as the board passed an emergency WHO motion by consensus to secure more medical access. | ||||||
| 20231210 | UN chief says he will not give up appeals for ceasefire in Gaza | United Nations | United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday he will not give up appealing for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, adding that the war undermined the credibility and authority of the Security Council. | ||||||
| 20231210 | WHO confirms more than 449 attacks on health services in Gaza, West Bank since Oct. 7 | United Nations | World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday confirmed more than 449 attacks on health services in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct. 7, saying “now the work of the health workers is impossible.” | ||||||
| 20231210 | University of Pennsylvania president quits after anti-Semitism uproar | United States | Elizabeth Magill faced backlash after failing to say that calling for genocide against Jews would violate university policy. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Elizabeth Magill: UPenn president quits in antisemitism row | United States | A US university president has quit after her comments about antisemitism on campus during a Congressional hearing triggered a major backlash. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Blinken: Palestinian civilian safety imperative, envisions durable peace | United States | U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Sunday it is "imperative" that Israeli military operations in Gaza protect Palestinian civilians, adding that the fighting should be followed by a durable peace leading to a Palestinian state. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Biden seeks to dismiss lawsuit that says he is failing to prevent genocide of Palestinians | United States | Rights group says president's team evading legal culpability for Israel's actions in Gaza while boasting close US-Israel coordination | ||||||
| 20231210 | Biden under scrutiny after bypassing Congress to supply tank shells to Israel | United States | Administration reportedly not carrying out continual assessments on whether war crimes being committed in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231210 | US imposes media restrictions on Palestine FM as visa condition, Saudi FM confirms | United States | The United States imposed restrictions on Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki’s communication with the media as a precondition for his visa to the country, according to reports seemingly confirmed by his Saudi counterpart. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Heavy fighting across Gaza as Israel presses ahead with renewed US military and diplomatic support | war on Gaza | Heavy fighting raged Sunday across Gaza, including in the devastated north, as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive after the U.S. blocked the latest international push for a cease-fire and rushed more munitions to its close ally. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Israeli tanks reach centre of Khan Younis in new storm of southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli tanks battled their way to the heart of Khan Younis on Sunday in a major new push into the main city of the southern Gaza Strip, as health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said about 18,000 Palestinians had been killed in the war. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Gaza war puts entire generation at risk of 'radicalisation' -Qatar PM | war on Gaza | Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Sunday that an entire generation in the Middle East is at risk of becoming radicalised because of the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Palestinian Health ministry says 17,997 killed in the Israeli war on Gaza | war on Gaza | The Palestinian health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Sunday said the death toll from the Israeli war in the Palestinian territory had risen to at least 17,997. | ||||||
| 20231210 | About 18,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since october 7 - Gaza health ministry | war on Gaza | About 18,000 Palestinians have been killed and 49,500 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry spokesman said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Hamas armed wing: Israel cannot recover its hostages without negotiations | war on Gaza | Hamas' armed wing said on Sunday Israel will not be able to recover any of its hostages unless it engages in talks over conditional swap deals. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Hamas says no captive will leave alive unless demands met | war on Gaza | Palestinian resistant group Hamas warned Sunday that no captive would leave the territory alive unless the group's demands were met. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Ceasefire in Gaza chances shrinking, Qatar says | war on Gaza | Israel's bombardment of Gaza is "narrowing the window" for a new truce, the Qatari prime minister has said. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Israeli tanks reach centre of Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis | war on Gaza | Israeli tanks battled their way to the centre of Khan Younis on Sunday in a major new push into the heart of the main city in the southern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Khan Younis emerges as latest Israel-Hamas front line in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel is currently focusing its military operation on Khan Younis, an area formerly designated as 'safe' for Palestinians fleeing the north | ||||||
| 20231210 | 'Living hell' in the ruins of Gaza's largest hospital | war on hospitals | Hundreds of makeshift tents stand in a desolate landscape at the foot of Gaza City's ruined Al-Shifa hospital. | ||||||
| 20231210 | Palestinian families kept apart by Israeli ‘rules’ mourn loved ones in Gaza | West Bank/Gaza | Palestinians in the West Bank can barely visit family in Gaza, now they fear loved ones will die before they see them.
COMMENT In violation with the Protocols to the 4th Geneva Conventions |
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Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231211 | Gaza ceasefire negotiations unlikely to restart for weeks, diplomats say | ceasefire talks | Second pause may rely upon Israel proving it has captured or killed some of Hamas’s senior operatives | ||||||
| 20231211 | France, Italy and Germany call on EU to impose sanctions on Hamas | global effects | France, Italy and Germany on Monday called on the European Union to impose ad hoc sanctions against Hamas and its supporters, the foreign ministers of the three nations wrote in a joint letter to the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. | ||||||
| 20231211 | France, Germany, Italy back EU sanctions to target Hamas | global effects | France, Germany and Italy called for the European Union to set up a special sanctions scheme to target Hamas as EU foreign ministers met on Monday to consider possible next steps in response to the Middle East crisis. | ||||||
| 20231211 | The Hague court wants to probe war crimes in Israel and Gaza. Where does Europe stand? | global effects | Hopes that war crimes committed in Israel and Gaza can be prosecuted rest on the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) and its prosecutor, Karim Khan
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| 20231211 | Germany shifts to slightly more critical stance on ally Israel | global response | Germany expects Israel to adapt its military strategy to better prevent suffering among Palestinian civilians, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday, marking a slight shift in Berlin towards a more critical stance of its ally. | ||||||
| 20231211 | What is the global strike demanding an end to Israeli war on Gaza? | global response | Activists and grassroot organisations worldwide are striking on Monday to protest Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
20231210 Palestinians call for global strike on Monday to demand Gaza ceasefire |
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| 20231211 | World condemns Israel’s war on Gaza as it marches for Palestine | global response | Protests demanding an end to the war held around the globe on World Human Rights Day. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Zara pulls advert from website front page after Gaza boycott calls | global response | Zara pulled an advertising campaign featuring mannequins with missing limbs and statues wrapped in white from the front page of its website and app on Monday after it prompted calls by some pro-Palestine activists for a boycott of the fashion retailer. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Gazans say hunger is causing social breakdown, fuelling fears of exodus into Egypt | humanitarian | Hamas said it was striking back against Israeli forces across Gaza on Monday and Palestinians and international relief agencies said public order was disintegrating as hunger spread, fuelling fears of a mass exodus to Egypt. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel-Palestine war: What it's like giving birth at home in Gaza | humanitarian | Without electricity and equipment, a nurse delivers her sister's baby to the sound of intense Israeli bombardment | ||||||
| 20231211 | Menstrual periods an ordeal, health risk for Gaza women and girls | humanitarian | Women and girls getting their periods in Gaza face humiliating conditions and infections, forced to use diapers or scraps of cloth after more than two months of war. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Explainer: Why Palestinian displacement in Gaza war alarms the UN and Arabs | humanitarian | Israel's orders to Gaza's residents to move ever further south towards the Egyptian border during its offensive and the dire humanitarian situation have sparked Arab and U.N. concerns that Palestinians may eventually be driven over the border. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israeli soldier makes video vandalising Palestinian shop in Gaza | Israelis | An Israeli soldier has made a video that shows him vandalising a Palestinian-owned shop in Gaza and mocking its contents. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Hostages were drugged, abused in Gaza: Israeli doctor | Israelis | Hostages hauled into Gaza during Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel were drugged to keep them docile in captivity and subjected to psychological and sexual abuse, a specialist said Monday. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel ‘re-enacting same crimes' committed during 1948 Nakba: Rights monitor | Israelis | “Israeli army forces are re-enacting the same crimes committed by Zionist gangs during the 1948 Nakba, which resulted in the collective displacement of Palestinians,” the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel accused of staging footage of Palestinian man surrendering weapons | Israelis | Video showing aluminium workshop owner in Gaza handing over guns called into question by disinformation expert
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| 20231211 | Mocking their army, Israel commentators call out fake ‘Hamas surrender images’ | Israelis | Ori Goldberg, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre- Herzliya, said in a series of posts on X yesterday: “After reports of terrorists who turned themselves in, it turned out that these were groups of men who were arrested and taken from compounds where hundreds of Gazans were seeking refuge, together” to escape the bombing by the occupation army. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israeli journalist says Israel’s actions in Gaza are ‘appalling beyond words’ | Israelis | Israeli journalist Amira Hass, usually based in Ramallah, shares her experience at an anti-occupation protest in Washington, DC last month, organised by American Jewish peace groups. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Tibi: Netanyahu’s son calls for displacement of Palestinians to Jordan | Israelis | Palestinian-Israeli Member of the Knesset, Ahmad Tibi, warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family is calling for the displacement of Palestinians to Jordan. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel rejects claims it is trying to force Palestinians out of Gaza | Israelis | Israel has rejected suggestions it is trying to force Palestinians out of Gaza as Arab leaders and aid officials warn its intensifying ground offensive could leave civilians with few other options. | ||||||
| 20231211 | UN-run school shelters in Gaza are under attack by Israeli forces | mosques, schools | UN-run schools in north Gaza have been bombed and stormed by Israeli forces, leaving behind widespread destruction. Thousands of Palestinians who were sheltering there have been forced to flee again. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Report: Israel destroyed 192 mosques in Gaza Strip | mosques, schools | The Israeli occupation army has destroyed 192 mosques in the besieged Gaza Strip since 7 October, Israeli media outlets reported. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Could an Israeli designated safe zone in Gaza become another ‘death zone’? | opinion | Rights groups criticise Israeli move to displace Palestinians to a tiny and barren area. Another wave of Palestinians were forced from their homes in Gaza. This time, to a small slice of land in the south designated by Israel as a “safe zone”. But conditions in al-Mawasi are bleak, and for those living in its makeshift camps, bitterly cold. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel-Palestine war: This is not a war for survival, but to preserve Zionist apartheid | opinion | It's not the Jewish people facing an existential threat but the apartheid settler-colonial project. Its demise would benefit Jews, Palestinians and humanity as a whole. | ||||||
| 20231211 | American Muslims will not sign our ballots in blood | opinion | Former US President, George Bush, launched the War on Terror and invaded Iraq under false pretences. Barack Obama launched over 500 known drone strikes, killing over 300 civilians. Donald Trump escalated these strikes in his first two years in office and then revoked reporting mechanisms. And, now, President Joe Biden green-lights and funds a genocide in Palestine. | ||||||
| 20231211 | What’s UN Resolution 377A, can it help in efforts to stop Israel-Gaza war? | Egypt,Mauritania/Israelis | Egypt and Mauritania on Monday invoked Resolution 377A (V) to call for an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Iraq scrambles to contain fighting between US troops and Iran-backed groups, fearing Gaza spillover | Iraq/US | Dozens of attacks on U.S. military facilities by Iran-backed factions in Iraq over the past two months have forced the government in Baghdad to perform a balancing act that is becoming more difficult by the day. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel used white phosphorus supplied by US in attacks on south Lebanon: Washington Post | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack on southern Lebanon in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to The Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Palestine PM: Hamas an ‘essential part’ of Palestine political map | PA/Israelis | Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that Hamas is an essential part of the Palestinian political map, adding that Israel’s talk about eliminating it “is not possible and the Palestinian Authority will not accept it”. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Erdogan renews UN reform call after US veto to ceasefire in Gaza | Turkey/US | The Turkish leader reiterated a call for peace and ceasefire in Gaza as he addressed a World Human Rights Day event in Istanbul over the weekend | ||||||
| 20231211 | WHO calls for immediate passage of humanitarian relief into Gaza | United Nations | Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he hopes resolution will be starting point for further UN action on crisis. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel trying to clear Palestinians from Gaza, claims UN agency head | United Nations | Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said Israel appears to be trying to clear Gaza of its Palestinian population through its military offensive and evacuation orders. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel rejects claims it is trying to force Palestinians out of Gaza | United Nations | Israel has rejected suggestions it is trying to force Palestinians out of Gaza as Arab leaders and aid officials warn its intensifying ground offensive could leave civilians with few other options. | ||||||
| 20231211 | U.N. envoys say 'enough' on trip to Gaza border | United Nations | U.N. Security Council envoys spoke of unimaginable suffering and urged an end to the war in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they headed across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the Rafah crossing, the besieged Palestinian enclave's only entry point for aid. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Harvard staff defend embattled head Claudine Gay amid anti-Semitism row | United States | Petition warns that bowing to pressure to fire Gay would be ‘at odds with Harvard’s commitment to academic freedom’. | ||||||
| 20231211 | White House 'concerned' at reports Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon attack | United States | The United States is concerned about reports Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon, White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Monday. | ||||||
| 20231211 | US ‘concerned’ over reports Israel used white phosphorus munitions in Lebanon | United States | The United States is "concerned" about reports Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon, White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Monday. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Health ministry in Gaza says death toll at 18,205 | war on Gaza | The Palestinian health ministry said Monday the death toll of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 18,205. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel intensifies fight in southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel's military said it struck more than 250 targets in 24 hours across Gaza, with fierce fighting in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, the UN is preparing another vote on a humanitarian cease-fire resolution. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel continues to pound Gaza as it warns war could continue for ‘months’ | war on Gaza | Israeli air strikes and tanks continue to hammer all areas of Gaza, offering Palestinians no haven from the violence. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israel battles militants in Gaza’s main cities, with civilians trapped in the fighting | war on Gaza | Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in Gaza’s two largest cities on Monday, with civilians still trapped in the fighting even after hundreds of thousands have fled to other parts of the besieged territory. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Battles rage across Gaza as Israel indicates it’s willing to fight for months or more to beat Hamas | war on Gaza | Battles raged across Gaza on Sunday as Israel indicated it was prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat the territory’s Hamas rulers, and a key mediator said willingness to discuss a cease-fire was fading. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Analysis: Has the approach to tunnel warfare changed for Israel and Hamas? | war on Gaza | Both sides seem to be even more cautious about the tunnels than they were at the beginning of the conflict. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Relentless fighting in Gaza shatters hopes to find refuge | war on Gaza | Battles are raging across the Gaza Strip as Israel is pressing ahead with its campaign to eliminate Hamas. The humanitarian situation in the territory is described as apocalyptic. Hospitals are on the verge of collapse and residents say there are no safe places left.
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| 20231211 | Israel ‘re-enacting same crimes' committed during 1948 Nakba: Rights monitor | war on Gaza | “Israeli army forces are re-enacting the same crimes committed by Zionist gangs during the 1948 Nakba, which resulted in the collective displacement of Palestinians,” the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Qassam Brigades: We destroyed 180 Israel military vehicles in 10 days | war on Gaza | The spokesperson for Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, said that the resistance destroyed 180 military vehicles in ten days. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Explainer: Why Palestinian displacement in Gaza war alarms the UN and Arabs | war on Gaza | Israel's orders to Gaza's residents to move ever further south towards the Egyptian border during its offensive and the dire humanitarian situation have sparked Arab and U.N. concerns that Palestinians may eventually be driven over the border. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Israeli army 'arbitrarily' detains Palestinian women and girls from Gaza | war on whole families | The Israeli army has arbitrarily detained dozens of women and girls from Gaza without disclosing their whereabouts or the charges they face, Palestinian groups and families have said. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Video: Fourth Al Jazeera reporter loses family in an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia | war on whole families | The father of Anas Al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter who has been covering the Israeli war on Gaza since day 1, was killed after an Israeli airstrike targeted the family home in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Monday. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Report: Nearly 25,000 children in Gaza now orphans | war on whole families | Initial figures from Gaza indicate that 24,000-25,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have become orphans as a result of Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign on the besieged enclave, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Family's heartbreaking loss: eight children murdered while hungry | war on refugee camps | Eight children were killed in an Israeli air strike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231211 | Video shows Israel soldiers executing injured Palestinian in West Bank | war on refugee camps | The video clip shows a group of unarmed Palestinians coming under Israeli fire in Al-Far’a refugee camp near the city of Tubas in the north-eastern West Bank on Friday.
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| 20231211 | 'Painful testimony' of female Palestinians beaten in Israel jails | West Bank | Female Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel are being beaten and abused by guards, the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs reported yesterday. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231212 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand back efforts towards Gaza ceasefire -statement | ceasefire talks | Canada, Australia and New Zealand support urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza, the prime ministers of the three countries said in a joint statement on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israeli, Arab media report ongoing negotiations for ceasefire in Gaza | ceasefire talks | Irris Makler said negotiations for a ceasefire in exchange for the remaining hostages may be ongoing between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231212 | France to end contract with biggest Muslim high school amid fears of wider crackdown | global effects | France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and questionable teaching practices, a local official said on Monday, the latest in what some rights groups say is a wider crackdown on Muslims. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Dutch counter terror agency raises national threat alert to second-highest level | global effects | The ongoing conflict in Israel, Quran desecrations in Europe, and increased threats from jihadism, along with recent attacks in nearby countries, have made the Netherlands counterterrorism agency raise its security level. | ||||||
| 20231212 | German state: Citizenship applicants must support Israel | global effects | The state of Saxony-Anhalt has said people who do not recognize Israel's right to exist cannot become naturalized citizens. The eastern state's interior minister said Germany's other 15 states should take similar steps. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Germany: Thousands rally in Berlin against antisemitism | global effects | Germany has recorded a 300% increase in crimes against Jewish people since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted in October. A similar protest in the Belgian capital also drew thousands of people. | ||||||
| 20231212 | ‘Everyone is going hungry in Gaza’ UN envoys learn on visit to Rafah border | humanitarian | UN Security Council envoys have visited Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt to see just how dire the humanitarian situation is in the besieged territory as Israel continues its all-out assault. | ||||||
| 20231212 | New Israeli border inspection point for Gaza aid won’t solve Rafah backlog | humanitarian | With only the Rafah crossing open for transit, extra screenings are unlikely to affect the actual volume of aid entering Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israel announces additional checkpoint for aid deliveries to Gaza | humanitarian | According to Israeli authorities, the Kerem Shalom crossing will be used to carry out inspections before sending the trucks through Rafah.
COMMENT This move is found being an obstruction as it creates more delay |
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| 20231212 | Accuses of starving Gazans, Israel approves opening new crossing | humanitarian | The Palestinian foreign minister today accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against Gaza’s 2.3 million population, a charge an Israeli official rejected as “obscene” | ||||||
| 20231212 | Hamas hostages suffered severe abuse: psychiatrist | Israelis | Several former hostages and many wounded Israeli soldiers are being treated at a large hospital complex in Tel Aviv. Doctors and psychiatrists there are working to help them recover from the physical and mental trauma they have suffered. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israeli captives were drugged and abused, doctor says | Israelis | Hostages hauled into Gaza during Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel were drugged to keep them docile in captivity and subjected to psychological and sexual abuse, a specialist said Monday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Netanyahu: Planning for a buffer zone between Gaza and Israel | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government’s plan for the day after the war includes establishing a buffer zone between the Gaza envelope and the Gaza Strip and controlling the Philadelphi (Salah Al-Din) axis between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Racist social media account run by Israeli military exposed | Israelis | A recent investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz has brought to light a controversial Telegram account, allegedly linked to the Israeli military, that has been sharing graphic content depicting the killing of Hamas members and the destruction of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Biden says Israel is losing global support | Israelis | The US president ramped up pressure on PM Benjamin Netanyahu and advised him to change his hardline government. | ||||||
| 20231212 | US President Biden warns Israel losing support over 'indiscriminate bombing' of Gaza | Israelis | President Biden renewed his warnings that Israel should not make the same mistakes of overreaction that the US did following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Al Jazeera journalist’s father killed in Israeli strike on his Gaza home | journalists | Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif bids farewell to his father who was killed when an Israeli air strike hit their family home in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Palestinian journalist criticises Western media's coverage of the war in Gaza | journalists | In an interview with Al Jazeera, Barghouti pointed out what she perceives as a vicious and lethal framing of Palestinians by international journalists | ||||||
| 20231212 | US universities must resist this pro-Israel frenzy of censorship | opinion | From slandering pro-Palestine students as antisemitic to calling for employment blacklists, the pro-Israel lobby must not be allowed to shut down debate. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Censoring Israeli violence: Western media outlets capitulate | opinion | The cathedral of censorship is a vast, airy one. In its embrace, texts are abridged, images removed, ideas scrubbed. Historical inconveniences are filed and rendered inaccessible. The only sermons tolerated will be those satisfying and serving the dictates of power. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Netanyahu hints at expanding colonial violence to the Occupied West Bank | opinion | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made an erroneous but revealing statement during Monday’s Knesset meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Iranian foreign minister says Israel, US cannot wipe out Hamas | Iran/US/Israelis | Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Tuesday that Israel and the United States will never be able to wipe out Hamas and that Israel could only secure the release of hostages held in Gaza with a political solution to the conflict. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israel rejects peace and Hamas is not just militant group: Omani scholar | Oman/Israelis | An Omani scholar of Islamic area studies said the Israeli government is closed to any kind of peace proposal in Palestine, stressing that Israel does not want a single-state solution where Palestinians would be accepted as part of Israel | ||||||
| 20231212 | Oman FM: Future generations will look at the world's betrayal of Gaza with disgust | Oman/Israelis | Oman’s Foreign Minister, Badr Al-Busaidi, said yesterday that “generations will look back at the betrayal of the people of Gaza with astonishment and disgust,” according to his statement on X. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Palestinian minister accuses Israel of starving Gazans; Israel says charge 'obscene' | PA/Israelis | The Palestinian foreign minister on Tuesday accused Israel of starving Gaza, a charge swiftly rejected by an Israeli official, as the U.N. human rights chief said the battered enclave was on the verge of finding itself "well beyond breakdown". | ||||||
| 20231212 | A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels strikes a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea | Red Sea | A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels slammed into a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen near a key maritime chokepoint, the rebels and authorities said Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Yemen's Houthis claim missile attack on Norwegian tanker in tense Middle East | Red Sea | Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they hit a Norwegian commercial tanker with a missile in their latest protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza, underlining the risks of a conflict that has shaken the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20231212 | MK Strinda: Yemen's rebel Houthis hit Norwegian tanker with missile | Red Sea | Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have hit a Norwegian tanker with at least one missile, causing a fire. | ||||||
| 20231212 | French warship intercepts Huthis aerial attack on Norwegian tanker near Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen's Huthi rebels claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a missile strike on a Norwegian-flagged tanker, an attack the Iran-backed group said was part of its military campaign against Israel. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Red Sea shipping costs rising after Houthis target more commercial vessels | Red Sea | The cost of shipping goods through the Red Sea is rising as Yemen’s Houthis step up attacks on ships they deem connected to Israel with fears of a spill-over that could disrupt global supplies sailing through the region, industry sources said. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israel threatens to use force against Yemen's Houthi rebels | Red Sea/Israelis | Israel threatened, on Tuesday, to use force in dealing with Houthi rebels in Yemen amid threats against ships sailing to Israeli ports | ||||||
| 20231212 | Arms sales to Israel land UK government in court | United Kingdom | Nearly 16,000 people - mostly women and children - have been killed in Gaza so far, with the UN warning of an "even more hellish scenario" yet to come. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Palestinians hope a vote in the UN General Assembly will show wide support for a Gaza cease-fire | United Nations | The Palestinians are hoping that a vote Tuesday in the U.N. General Assembly on a nonbinding resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire will demonstrate widespread global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month. | ||||||
| 20231212 | UN General Assembly set to demand Gaza ceasefire | United Nations | The U.N. General Assembly appeared set to demand on Tuesday an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the two-month long conflict between Israel and Hamas after the United States vetoed such a move in the Security Council. | ||||||
| 20231212 | UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly in favour of Gaza ceasefire | United Nations | The US and Israel were among the few votes against the non-binding resolution calling for an end to the fighting. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Nearly a fifth of Gaza's buildings destroyed or damaged, UN says | United Nations | Nearly 40,000 buildings, or about 18% of all pre-conflict structures, have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, a UN assessment showed on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Claudine Gay: Harvard president won't lose job over Congress row | United States | Harvard University says its president, Claudine Gay, will keep her job despite mounting controversy over her appearance before Congress last week.
20231211 - Harvard staff defend embattled head Claudine Gay amid anti-Semitism row |
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| 20231212 | Harvard Board keeps president amid uproar over testimony | United States | Republican congresswoman vows to continue pressure on Harvard after genocide testimony sparked uproar | ||||||
| 20231212 | US President Joe Biden pledges to continue supplying arms to Israel | United States | US President, Joe Biden, pledged to continue supplying arms to Israel in its war against Gaza during a Hanukkah reception at the White House last night, the Israelis claim | ||||||
| 20231212 | The US refuses to condemn images of stripped Palestinian men before Israeli investigation | United States | Sky News correspondent Mark Stone challenges US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on America's response to Israeli forces detaining a number of Palestinian men who were stripped to their underwear and blindfolded. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Biden says Israel is losing global support | United States | The US president ramped up pressure on PM Benjamin Netanyahu and advised him to change his hardline government. | ||||||
| 20231212 | US President Biden warns Israel losing support over 'indiscriminate bombing' of Gaza | United States | President Biden renewed his warnings that Israel should not make the same mistakes of overreaction that the US did following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. | ||||||
| 20231212 | What is the situation in Gaza’s Khan Younis as Israel intensifies attacks? | war on Gaza | Israel has intensified attacks on Khan Younis, which it dubbed a ‘safe zone’ in the initial days of the war. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Born and killed in Gaza war: grandmother weeps for one-month-old Idres | war on Gaza | Baby Idres was wrapped in a white shroud and a light blue blanket with dots, his grandmother holding his tiny body close to her chest and weeping uncontrollably as she knelt next to a row of corpses lined up on the floor of a Gaza hospital. | ||||||
| 20231212 | ‘Like we were lesser humans’: Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture | war on Gaza | Rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Palestinians describe being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured while detained. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israel strikes across Gaza as the offensive leaves both it and the US increasingly isolated | war on Gaza | Israeli forces carried out strikes across Gaza overnight and into Tuesday as they pressed ahead with an offensive that officials say could go on for weeks or months, even as global calls for a cease-fire left both Israel and its main ally, the United States, increasingly isolated. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israel assaults southern Gaza as hunger tightens grip | war on Gaza | Israeli tanks and warplanes struck at southern Gaza on Tuesday, while the United Nations said aid supplies to desperate Palestinians had largely dried up because of the intensity of fighting in the Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Netanyahu says Israel, U.S. differ about post-war Gaza rule | war on Gaza | Israel enjoys U.S. support for its goals of destroying Hamas and recovering hostages held by the Palestinian militants, but the allies differ about what might follow the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Nearly a fifth of Gaza's buildings destroyed or damaged, UN says | war on Gaza | Nearly 40,000 buildings, or about 18% of all pre-conflict structures, have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, a UN assessment showed on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Hamas denies its battalions have been significantly degrade | war on Gaza | Sources say most of Qassam Brigades' fighting forces are still intact and engaging in guerrilla-style fighting reminiscent of battle of Fallujah. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Woman who lost fiance to Israeli air strike last year killed in Gaza | war on Gaza | Abeer Harb killed during Israeli bombing of homes in Rafah 14 months after her partner was killed during three-day assault on enclave | ||||||
| 20231212 | Over 18,200 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza | war on Gaza | The death toll in Gaza has risen to over 18,200 Palestinians, while the number of those injured now stands at 50,000, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Netanyahu: Planning for a buffer zone between Gaza and Israel | war on Gaza | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government’s plan for the day after the war includes establishing a buffer zone between the Gaza envelope and the Gaza Strip and controlling the Philadelphi (Salah Al-Din) axis between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israeli forces launch deadly West Bank raids, pound Gaza ahead of UN vote | war on hospitals | Four Palestinians killed in Jenin and 22 in southern Gaza, while Kamal Adwan Hospital raided in the north. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israel army detains Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip | war on hospitals | The Israeli army has detained Ahmed Al-Kahlout, the Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, along with all medical staff inside the facility, the Gaza-based Health Ministry said on Tuesday | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israeli forces raid Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital after days of strikes | war on hospitals | Dozens of patients and about 3,000 displaced people are inside, UN says, as Gaza Health Ministry calls for international help. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israeli forces launch deadly West Bank raids, pound Gaza ahead of UN vote | West Bank | Four Palestinians killed in Jenin and 22 in southern Gaza, while Kamal Adwan Hospital raided in the north. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Israeli army raids Jenin, kills several Palestinians | West Bank | Some 270 people have been killed by Israeli fire across the occupied West Bank since October 7. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Drone strike kills four men during raid on Jenin | West Bank | Israeli forces prevent medical teams in the West Bank city from reaching the dead and wounded | ||||||
| 20231212 | West Bank fighters say Israel war on Gaza inspires more resistance | West Bank | Al Jazeera speaks to Palestinian resistance fighters in the northern city of Tulkarem amid Israel’s war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Know their names | West Bank | Hundreds of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2023. | ||||||
| 20231212 | Netanyahu hints at expanding colonial violence to the Occupied West Bank | West Bank | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made an erroneous but revealing statement during Monday’s Knesset meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231213 | Artists decry Bristol venue's 'censorship of Palestinian culture' | global effects | Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, writers Alice Oswald, Nikesh Shukla, Shon Faye, Travis Alabanza and Rachel Holmes are among many of Bristol’s artists who have written an open letter accusing the iconic Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts of “censorship of Palestinian culture”. | ||||||
| 20231213 | US, Britain impose more sanctions on Hamas officials | global effects | The United States and Britain on Wednesday imposed an additional round of sanctions on people in Turkey and elsewhere who are linked to the Palestinian Hamas militant group, the U.S. Treasury Department said. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Allies raising pressure on Israel to halt Gaza bombardment | global response | Calls for a ceasefire are growing after the UN passed a resolution and the US warned of deteriorating support. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand express ‘alarm’ at Israel killing of Gaza civilians | global response | Australia, Canada and New Zealand have expressed alarm at Israel’s ongoing relentless bombardment of Gaza and its killing of civilians, emphasising that Tel Aviv must respect international law in a rare acknowledgement of the Occupation State’s crimes against humanity. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel actions against Palestinians 'remind us of apartheid': Ex-South African Minister | global response | The conditions that Israel has imposed in Palestinian Territories and on Palestinians are very similar to what South Africans experienced under apartheid, according to the leading figure of the country’s anti-apartheid movement | ||||||
| 20231213 | UN: Gaza ‘catastrophe’ threatens to raise record global displacement | humanitarian | Death, suffering and displacement threatens to spill out across the Middle East, said Filippo Grandi. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Harsh weather adds to hardships for Palestinians displaced by war | humanitarian | Strong winds, torrential rain, and flooding have further complicated the lives of displaced people | ||||||
| 20231213 | Packed hospitals, treacherous roads, harried parents: Newborns in Gaza face steeper odds of survival | humanitarian | The birth of their daughter should have marked the beginning of a joyful chapter for the young Palestinian couple. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Tents flooded as Gaza rain worsens misery of displaced families | humanitarian | Strong wind and heavy rain in Gaza overnight on Wednesday brought even worse misery to displaced families, tearing and flooding flimsy tents, drenching clothes and blankets and making everyone cold. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Gaza faces public health disaster, UN humanitarian office says | humanitarian | The U.N. humanitarian office said on Wednesday that Gaza faced a public health disaster due to the collapse of its health system and the spread of disease amid an offensive by Israel that has hit hospitals and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Palestinian health ministry in Gaza says run out of children's vaccines | humanitarian | The Palestinian health ministry in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday it had exhausted its supply of children's vaccines, warning of "catastrophic health repercussions". | ||||||
| 20231213 | Amid outcry over Gaza tactics, videos of soldiers acting maliciously create new headache for Israel | Israelis | Israeli soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store, or trying to burn food and water supplies in the back of an abandoned truck. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Videos show Israeli soldiers acting ‘maliciously’ in Gaza | Israelis | Footage of IDF troops' behaviour on the ground, which has been independently verified, has drawn outrage and calls for accountability in Palestine, Israel and beyond. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel MK calls for allocating Palestinian tax funds to treat Israelis affected by 'attacks' | Israelis | An Israeli member of the Likud Party in the Knesset, Osher Shekalim, has introduced a proposed legislation mandating that frozen Palestinian tax funds be used by the Israeli government for the treatment and compensation of Israelis impacted by “attacks” carried out by Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel considers creating 'safe passage' for Palestinians wanting to leave Gaza | Israelis | Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, revealed yesterday that Tel Aviv is considering the possibility of encouraging voluntary migration from the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Smotrich: Biden’s call for two-state solution is ‘suicide’ | Israelis | Smotrich criticised that the US has been “pushing Israel towards suicide for years” by promoting a “two-state solution”, according to Israel’s Channel 14. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Evidence mounts of sexual crimes perpetrated by Hamas during Oct. 7 attack in Israel | Israelis | Two months after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, evidence is mounting of the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas that day.
COMMENT Israelis have a reputation of making claims without allowing their claims to be investigated independently. |
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| 20231213 | Graphic Videos and Incitement: How the IDF Is Misleading Israelis on Telegram | Israelis | The IDF unit responsible for psychological warfare operations operates a Telegram channel called '72 Virgins – Uncensored,' which targets local audiences with 'exclusive content from the Gaza Strip' | ||||||
| 20231213 | Racist social media account run by Israeli military exposed | Israelis |
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| 20231213 | Most Israelis want Hamas crushed despite Gaza casualties, UN rebuke | Israelis | Israeli citizens said on Wednesday the army should not back off its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N. General Assembly's ceasefire call, the growing list of troop casualties and a spiralling Palestinian death toll in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel army operates channel to share gruesome killing of Palestinians | Israelis | The Israeli military is operating a Telegram channel named “72 Virgins – Uncensored”, where soldiers of the apartheid state share gruesome killing of Palestinians to over 5,300 followers with captions like “Burning their mother”, a Haaretz investigation has found. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Benjamin Netanyahu accused of ‘evil’ campaigning at time of war | Israelis | Members of his own party among those critical of Israeli PM’s efforts to improve his dire ratings | ||||||
| 20231213 | Palestinians killed as Israel strikes UNRWA school housing refugees | mosques, schools | An unknown number of Palestinians have been killed after Israel struck an UNRWA school which is being used as a shelter for civilians forced out of their homes as a result of Israel’s bombing of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Civilians sheltering inside a Gaza school killed execution-style | mosques, schools | “They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.” In exclusive testimonies obtained by Al Jazeera, witnesses describe the horrific sights they encountered inside a school in northern Gaza following an Israeli attack. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Displaced people ‘killed point-blank’ in Gaza school | mosques, schools | Al Jazeera has obtained footage of bodies piled up in a school in northern Gaza, witnesses tell us they were executed by the Israeli military. The dead include women and children. The Shadia Abu Ghazala School is a UN-run facility that has become a shelter during the war, but may now be the scene of a war crime. | ||||||
| 20231213 | It’s not shocking to see Israeli children celebrate the Gaza genocide | opinion | Israel has long been indoctrinating its children to believe Palestinians are less than human, and thus not worthy of empathy or compassion. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Gulf states press for two-state roadmap after UN vote on Israel-Gaza war | GCC/Israelis | UAE and Qatar say they will not again fund Gaza reconstruction without Israeli concession, as US isolation grows | ||||||
| 20231213 | Wartime Palestinian poll shows surge in Hamas support, close to 90% want US-backed Abbas to resign | Hamas/Fatah | A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians published Wednesday shows a rise in support for Hamas, even in the devastated Gaza Strip, and an overwhelming rejection of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, with nearly 90% saying he must resign. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Support for Hamas grows among Palestinians in West Bank | Hamas/Fatah | Since the war in Gaza began, Israel's military operations in the occupied West Bank have become more frequent, and more forceful. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Missiles from Houthi-controlled Yemen target commercial tanker, report says | Red Sea | Another tanker reports ‘exchange of fire’ with speedboat off Yemen’s coastal city of Hodeidah. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Missiles from rebel-held Yemen miss a ship loaded with jet fuel near the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait | Red Sea | Two missiles fired from territory held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels missed a commercial tanker loaded with Indian-manufactured jet fuel near the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Wednesday, two U.S. officials said. It is the first time they target an energy shipment heading to the Suez Canal | ||||||
| 20231213 | Tanker in Red Sea targeted by speedboat gunfire and missiles -sources | Red Sea | A tanker in the Red Sea off Yemen's coast was fired on by gunmen in a speedboat and targeted with missiles, maritime sources said on Wednesday, the latest incident to threaten the shipping lane after Yemeni Houthi forces warned ships not to travel to Israel. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Analysis: Is the Houthi threat to world order worse than the war on Gaza? | Red Sea | In economic and security calcualtions, the world is pragmatically less concerned with war on Gaza than it is with shipping. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Pentagon: The targeting of ships in Red Sea requires int’l solution | Red Sea | The Pentagon said that the Houthis’ targeting of ships off the coast of Yemen is a violation of international law and requires an international solution. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Yemen’s Houthis declare readiness to confront strikes from Israel | Red Sea | The Yemeni Houthi group yesterday announced that it had raised its level of preparedness to confront all possibilities against Israel, following the latter’s threat to use force against the group. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Yemen’s Houthis warn ships in Red Sea to avoid Israel or face attack | Red Sea | Attacks on vessels close to Yemen have led to a rise in the cost of shipping and fears that supply chains could be disrupted | ||||||
| 20231213 | Letting British Israelis fight in Gaza is a threat to the UK’s rule of law | United Kingdom | British nationals who are part of Israel’s military machine that commits war crimes should be open to prosecution on return to the UK. But will this ever happen? | ||||||
| 20231213 | Artists decry Bristol venue's 'censorship of Palestinian culture' | United Kingdom | Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, writers Alice Oswald, Nikesh Shukla, Shon Faye, Travis Alabanza and Rachel Holmes are among many of Bristol’s artists who have written an open letter accusing the iconic Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts of “censorship of Palestinian culture”. | ||||||
| 20231213 | MPs call on UK government to halt arms exports to Israel over war crimes | United Kingdom | Lawmakers ask whether government knows how Israel is using British weapons, as they fear UK complicity in atrocities | ||||||
| 20231213 | Gaza faces public health disaster, UN humanitarian office says | United Nations | The U.N. humanitarian office said on Wednesday that Gaza faced a public health disaster due to the collapse of its health system and the spread of disease amid an offensive by Israel that has hit hospitals and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Applause at UN as General Assembly votes to back Gaza ceasefire | United Nations | The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ceasefire in Gaza, but as a non-binding resolution the vote is mainly symbolic. | ||||||
| 20231213 | UNGA demands ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza: How your country voted | United Nations | The non-binding, symbolic resolution passed with 153 votes in favour, 10 against, and 23 abstentions. | ||||||
| 20231213 | UN: Gaza ‘catastrophe’ threatens to raise record global displacement | United Nations | Death, suffering and displacement threatens to spill out across the Middle East, said Filippo Grandi. | ||||||
| 20231213 | UN agency for Palestine refugees urges partners 'not to act on distorted facts' | United Nations | The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), on Wednesday, urged partners “not to act on distorted facts,” saying he is “horrified” at the smear campaigns that not only target Palestinians but also those who assist them. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel-Gaza war on US campuses: Why are top university leaders under fire? | United States | A congressional hearing on anti-Semitism has shone a spotlight on the tensions between free speech and campus safety. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Biden points to Gaza hostages when asked about Israeli tunnel flooding reports | United States | U.S. President Joe Biden declined to directly answer a question on reports that Israel was pumping seawater into Hamas' Gaza tunnel complex, referring only to assertions that there were no hostages in the areas targeted. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel is becoming isolated because of ‘indiscriminate bombing’ Biden warns Netanyahu | United States | Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza risked leaving the country isolated, US President Joe Biden has said to Benjamin Netanyahu, in one of the harshest criticisms of the far-right Israeli Prime Minister by his closest ally. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Biden comments show rising tensions between US and Israel over Gaza war | United States | Israel was facing mounting international pressure Wednesday over its war in Gaza, with even key backer the United States warning Israel of losing support.
20231213 - Israel says it will continue Gaza war 'with or without international support' |
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| 20231213 | Pentagon: The targeting of ships in Red Sea requires int’l solution | United States | The Pentagon said that the Houthis’ targeting of ships off the coast of Yemen is a violation of international law and requires an international solution. | ||||||
| 20231213 | US Homeland Security staff accuse leadership of turning ‘blind eye’ to Gaza | United States | An open letter from Homeland Security employees blasts agency heads for ‘minimising the ongoing atrocities’ in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231213 | US delays sale of assault rifles to Israel over settler violence - sources | United States | The Biden administration is delaying the sale of more than 20,000 U.S.-made rifles to Israel over concerns about attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel begins flooding ‘Resistance’s tunnels’ in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli occupation forces have begun flooding the tunnels constructed under the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian resistance with seawater from the Mediterranean.
COMMENT The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), considers certain environmental offenses, such as intentionally launching an attack that causes widespread, long-term, and severe damage to the natural environment, as war crimes. |
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| 20231213 | Ambush kills 9 Israeli soldiers in Gaza City, where battles rage weeks into devastating offensive | war on Gaza | Palestinian militants ambushed Israeli troops in a dense Gaza City neighborhood, killing at least nine of them, the military said Wednesday, as Hamas put up stiff resistance in areas that Israel has isolated and pounded with airstrikes for over two months. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israel suffers worst combat losses since October, diplomatic isolation | war on Gaza | Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Ten Israeli soldiers, including senior colonel, killed in Gaza ambush | war on Gaza | Ten Israeli soldiers, including a senior colonel who commanded a forward base of an elite infantry unit, were killed Tuesday in an ambush in northern Gaza, the army announced on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231213 | Hamas claims to ambush 15 Israeli soldiers in Gaza Strip | war on Gaza | Palestinian group, Hamas, claimed Wednesday to have ambushed 15 Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231213 | Israa Jaabis on her release from Israeli prison | West Bank | Israa Jaabis was accused of attempted murder when her car caught fire near an Israeli checkpoint in 2015. | ||||||
| 20231213 | 12-year-old Palestinian detained and interrogated by Israeli forces | West Bank | This 12-year-old Palestinian was taken to an Israeli interrogation centre without a lawyer or parent, after being accused of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231213 | US delays sale of assault rifles to Israel over settler violence - sources | West Bank | The Biden administration is delaying the sale of more than 20,000 U.S.-made rifles to Israel over concerns about attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israeli war cabinet 'blocks Mossad chief' restarting talks in Qatar | ceasefire talks | David Barnea offered to kick off negotiations over hostages but ministers don't want Israel to make first move, according to Channel 13 | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israeli ministers block Mossad head’s effort to restart Gaza hostage talks | ceasefire talks | Relatives of the abductees say they are shocked, as reports say David Barnea was stopped from visiting Qatar | ||||||
| 20231214 | What is the price of peace? | editorial | Just getting to the end of the day and surviving the night must feel like a miracle in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians "plead for safety", wrote Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the main UN relief agency in Gaza, in an "endless, deepening tragedy… hell on earth". | ||||||
| 20231214 | Palestinian prime minister says political horizon needed for peace | day after politics | International pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to overhaul its leadership and step up reforms are a distraction from the need for a political horizon to lay the basis for peace after the Gaza war, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Four arrested in Denmark, the Netherlands over suspected terrorism plot | global effects | Three people were arrested in Denmark and one in the Netherlands on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, Danish police said on Thursday, adding the moves followed a coordinated cross-border police effort. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Germany: 4 Hamas members arrested in Berlin, Netherlands | global effects | Public prosecutors say four members of the militant Islamist Hamas group were detained, three in Berlin and one in the Netherlands. They were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Four arrested in Europe over alleged cross-border Hamas terrorism plot | global effects | Three held in Germany and one in Netherlands over plans for possible attacks on Jewish institutions, prosecutor says | ||||||
| 20231214 | U.N. Palestinian refugee agency decries Swiss move to cut funding | global effects | The head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) denounced a move by Switzerland to cut aid as the Gaza Strip faces a humanitarian crisis described as apocalyptic by the United Nations. | ||||||
| 20231214 | UK sanctions Iranians linked to Quds Force, Palestinian militant groups | global effects | Britain said it had adopted a new sanctions regime against Iran on Thursday as it announced measures against seven individuals, including the head of Tehran's Quds Force, for threatening or planning the destabilisation of Israel. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Cage director banned from entering Switzerland to address meeting at UN | global effects | Muhammad Rabbani held overnight after being stopped at Geneva Airport in latest incident which he says is a consequence of France adding his name to a European no-entry database | ||||||
| 20231214 | US, Israel seen as ‘evil in eyes of the world’ over Gaza war: Analysis | global response | Rami Khouri, the director of global engagement at the American University of Beirut, said the US and Israel have backed themselves into a corner over the war on Gaza and are now seen “as evil people in the eyes of most of the world”. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Young Kenyans begin boycott of Israeli brands as Gaza war goes on | global response | In Nairobi, advocacy efforts are on the rise in solidarity with Palestine as the war in Gaza continues. | ||||||
| 20231214 | European Union has 'lost credibility' on Israel and Palestine, says Ireland's PM | global response | Varadkar urged other EU leaders to call for a complete halt in the fighting, rather than a limited pause to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Google staff at vigil for slain Palestinian intern hit out at firm's Israel ties | global response | Google staff protested the firm's involvement in providing technology to Israel during a vigil in London on Wednesday for a Palestinian colleague killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Dutch mayor refuses pictures with Israel envoy during Hanukkah event | global response | Dutch Mayor, Roelof Bleker, refused to be photographed in close proximity to the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands after receiving an invitation to a Hanukkah celebration in Enschede. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Gaza faces 'perfect storm' of deadly diseases | humanitarian | For the besieged residents of Gaza who have so far survived Israel's bombs and bullets, a silent, invisible killer is now stalking them: disease. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Gaza: 327,000 cases of infectious diseases detected in shelters | humanitarian | A spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, has warned that the health and humanitarian situation in shelters is “deadly due to the spread of epidemics, infectious diseases, malnutrition and the lack of clean drinking water and personal hygiene.” | ||||||
| 20231214 | Qatar pledges $50m in humanitarian aid for Gaza | humanitarian | The State of Qatar said that it pledges to provide $50 million as an initial humanitarian aid package to Gaza, which is witnessing an ongoing genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation army. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israeli official says no statehood for Palestinians | Israelis | Israel’s ambassador to the UK has said her country will no longer accept a ‘two-state solution’ after their war on Gaza ends. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel ambassador to UK says ‘absolutely no’ to two-state solution, Palestine statehood | Israelis | Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has rejected the idea of an independent Palestinian State and the two-state solution, as a whole, in comments which further shed light on the Occupation’s intentions to avert Palestinian statehood. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel using Gaza as a ‘testing ground’ for weapons | Israelis | Antony Loewenstein, author of the Palestine Laboratory, says that Israel is using Gaza as “a key testing ground for new weapons”. | ||||||
| 20231214 | How an Israeli Telegram channel is used to incite violence against Palestinians | Israelis | Human rights experts say publicising abuses against Palestinians and praising the destruction of Gaza only serve to perpetuate atrocities | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israeli soldiers sing Hanukkah song in Jenin mosque | Israelis | Footage appears to show Israeli soldiers using a mosque loudspeaker to mock the call to prayer | ||||||
| 20231214 | ‘If not for Hamas we could live with Palestinians’: Conversations in Israel | Israelis | Within hours, Israel had launched a relentless aerial bombardment of Gaza. Within days, hundreds of thousands of reservists had been called up for service. Within weeks, a ground operation of the enclave was under way. | ||||||
| 20231214 | OIC condemns Israel's decision to seize properties in Jerusalem | Jerusalem | The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation strongly condemned the decision of the Israeli occupation authorities to seize Palestinian homes and land in the town of Silwan in the occupied city of Jerusalem, under the pretext a cable car is being built in the area. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Journalists’ deaths surge in Gaza but global 2023 toll drops, watchdog says | journalists | Reporters Without Borders says journalists paying ‘heavy price’ in Gaza, where 13 have been killed on the job this year. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Deaths, injuries reported in Israeli strike on Jabalia mosque | mosques, schools | Rescuers assisting injured people and carrying a stretcher while walking through the rubble following an Israeli strike on al-Minbar Mosque in the Jabalia refugee camp. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israeli strike on Rafah kills 27 as Jenin raid continues | mosques, schools | A 17-year-old boy killed inside a hospital becomes the 12th fatality in the Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank | ||||||
| 20231214 | Biden, Kirby and dead, ungrateful Palestinians | opinion | The Biden administration and its smug surrogates remain determined to disfigure reality to obscure their complicity in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231214 | How racist discourse fuels Israel's settler colonial genocide | opinion | To provide cover for its mass slaughter in Gaza, Israel has waged a rhetorical war of racist dehumanisation of Palestinians, exposing its settler colonial foundation | ||||||
| 20231214 | Why is Qatar the go-to mediator for Israel and Hamas? | opinion | A tiny Persian Gulf state that has no official relations with Israel has become a major player in the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel considers deploying security personnel on Egypt’s Rafah crossing | Egypt/Israelis | Israeli authorities are looking into the possibility of deploying Israeli security personnel on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, under the pretext of ensuring that members of the Hamas movement do not “escape” or “smuggle” Israeli prisoners of war out of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Poll shows Palestinians back Oct. 7 attack on Israel, support for Hamas rises | Hamas/Fatah | Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in the West Bank, a survey from a respected Palestinian polling institute found. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Iraq links Baghdad US embassy attackers to security services | Iraq/US | Many alleged assailants arrested, search continues to ‘reach all those involved’ in December 7 incident. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Iraq links some US embassy attackers to security services | Iraq/US | Iraq has identified links between several of the perpetrators of a Dec. 7 multiple rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and some of the country's security services, a spokesperson for Iraq's prime minister said in a statement. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Australia considers US request to send warship to Red Sea as Houthis target shipping lanes | Red Sea | US navy request comes as Iran-aligned militia wade into the Israel-Hamas conflict, attacking vessels in commercial shipping lanes | ||||||
| 20231214 | Who are Yemen's Houthis? Iran-allied group threatens Red Sea shipping | Red Sea | The Iran-aligned Houthis of Yemen are playing an escalating role in the conflict in the Middle East, attacking shipping in the Red Sea and firing drones and missiles at Israel in a campaign they say aims to support Palestinians in the Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Missile fired from rebel-controlled Yemen misses a container ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait | Red Sea | A missile fired from territory controlled by Houthi rebels in Yemen missed a container ship traveling through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Thursday, a U.S. defense official said, the latest attack threatening shipping in the crucial maritime chokepoint. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Who are Yemen's Houthis? Iran-allied group threatens Red Sea shipping | Red Sea | The Iran-aligned Houthis of Yemen are playing an escalating role in the conflict in the Middle East, attacking shipping in the Red Sea and firing drones and missiles at Israel in a campaign they say aims to support Palestinians in the Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20231214 | U.S. seeks 'broadest possible' Red Sea maritime coalition against Houthi attacks | Red Sea | The United States wants to form the "broadest possible" maritime coalition to protect ships in the Red Sea and send an "important signal" to Yemen's Houthis that further attacks will not be tolerated, the U.S. envoy for Yemen told Reuters. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Iran warns against proposed U.S.-backed Red Sea force - ISNA | Red Sea | Iran's Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani warned that a proposed U.S.-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face "extraordinary problems", official Iranian media reported on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Palestine FM: Biden must act to restore peace | US/Israelis/PA | The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the statements of US President Joe Biden regarding the two-state solution, demanding that they be translated into binding actions that end the cycle of wars and violence and achieve peace. | ||||||
| 20231214 | UK sanctions Iranians linked to Quds Force, Palestinian militant groups | United Kingdom | Britain said it had adopted a new sanctions regime against Iran on Thursday as it announced measures against seven individuals, including the head of Tehran's Quds Force, for threatening or planning the destabilisation of Israel. | ||||||
| 20231214 | U.N. Palestinian refugee agency decries Swiss move to cut funding | United Nations | The head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) denounced a move by Switzerland to cut aid as the Gaza Strip faces a humanitarian crisis described as apocalyptic by the United Nations. | ||||||
| 20231214 | US security official discusses Gaza war with Saudi’s MBS before Israel trip | United States | White House national security adviser tours Middle East after Biden warned Israel about ‘indiscriminate’ bombing of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Harvard caught in the crossfire: Israel-Hamas war roils Ivy League campus | United States | America's prestigious Ivy League universities have found themselves embroiled in controversy since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s ensuing bombardment of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Biden administration staffers call for ceasefire in Gaza | United States | A number of US President Joe Biden’s administration staffers gathered in front of the White House to protest the indiscriminate Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and to call for an immediate ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’ US intelligence assessment finds | United States | Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment. | ||||||
| 20231214 | People trapped under rubble in deadly Israeli air attack in Rafah | war on Gaza | In the border city of Rafah, relatives are mourning the deaths of at least 27 Palestinians killed in Israeli military strikes on two houses. Rescuers have spent hours trying to find as many as four people trapped under the rubble. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel using Gaza as a ‘testing ground’ for weapons | war on Gaza | Antony Loewenstein, author of the Palestine Laboratory, says that Israel is using Gaza as “a key testing ground for new weapons”. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel demolishes Gaza cemeteries, confiscates dead bodies of Palestinians | war on Gaza | The Israeli army has repeatedly targeted several cemeteries in the Gaza Strip, leaving widespread destruction, vandalising some graves, and stealing dead bodies, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’ US intelligence assessment finds | war on Gaza | Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment. | ||||||
| 20231214 | FM: Israel will continue war on Gaza with or without int’l support | war on Gaza | Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said yesterday that agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza at this stage would be a “mistake”, adding that Israel will continue its war on the besieged enclave with or without the international community’s support. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel vows to fight on in Gaza despite deadly ambush and rising international pressure | war on Gaza | Israel vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until it crushes Hamas after one of the deadliest single battles of the war for its soldiers, even as it faces mounting international calls for a cease-fire and unease on the part of its closest ally, the United States. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel tells US it needs ‘months’ to defeat Hamas | war on Gaza | Defence minister addresses US national security adviser as Biden administration presses for end to war | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel strikes length of Gaza as US urges more accurate targeting | war on Gaza | Israel pounded the length of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing families in their homes even as Washington dispatched an envoy to encourage its ally to be more precise in its war against Hamas militants. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel announces pause in Rafah operations | war on Gaza | Israel says a pause in military operations in Rafah is meant to allow in aid. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel needs 'several months’ to win Gaza war, defence minister says | war on Gaza | Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told visiting White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday that it will take several months to defeat the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israel military company purchases robot dogs for use in Gaza war | war on Gaza | An Israeli military reserves organisation has purchased three robot dogs for occupation forces, reportedly to be used in the ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Casualties mount in occupied West Bank as Israeli forces extend raid | West Bank | At least eight Palestinians have been killed in the Jenin refugee camp alone in an operation that started on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Eleven killed in days-long Israeli raid in West Bank -Palestinian health ministry | West Bank | At least 11 Palestinians have been killed during a days-long raid by Israeli soldiers in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health authorities said on Thursday, amid reports of gunfire, hundreds of arrests and restricted hospital access. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Multi-day Israeli raid kills 11 in West Bank: ministry | West Bank | Israeli forces killed 11 people in a multi-day raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231214 | Israeli strike on Rafah kills 27 as Jenin raid continues | war on Gaza/West Bank | A 17-year-old boy killed inside a hospital becomes the 12th fatality in the Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank | ||||||
| 20231214 | Report: Israel arrested 4,000 Palestinians in West Bank since 7 October | West Bank | The Israeli occupation army has arrested 4,000 Palestinians since 7 October in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian prisoners’ rights organisations said in a joint statement yesterday | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20231215 | No EU call for Gaza ceasefire despite Belgium and Ireland's pleas | ceasefire talks | EU leaders failed to sharpen their stance on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza during talks on Friday, despite Belgium and Ireland's leaders advocating for a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Denmark widens terror investigation that coincides with arrests of alleged Hamas members in Germany | global effects | Denmark is holding two people in custody and four others are the target of a terrorism investigation, a prosecutor said Friday, in a case that coincided with an arrest in the Netherlands and several in Germany of alleged Hamas members. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Denmark stepping up terror probe amid suspicion of Hamas links | global effects | Two detentions coincide with arrests in Germany, where three people allegedly linked to Hamas have been detained. | ||||||
| 20231215 | UK terror threat level under close review after foiled alleged attack plot in Europe | global effects | Arrests in Germany and the Netherlands increase fears that Jewish institutions in the UK could be targeted by Hamas | ||||||
| 20231215 | French publisher stops printing Ilan Pappe’s 'Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' despite surge in sales | global effects | Fayard publishing house claims the Israeli author’s contract has expired, but pro-Palestine activists raise concerns about censorship of voices critical of Israel | ||||||
| 20231215 | China, Saudi Arabia, Iran call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza | global response | China, Saudi Arabia and Iran, on Friday, urged for the “immediate cessation of military operations in Gaza” and the flow of “sustainable relief” to Palestinians in the tiny enclave. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Colombia president calls on Biden to stop ‘genocide’ in Gaza | global response | Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro yesterday once again criticised Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip and called for the US to stop the “genocide”. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Australia denounces Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in occupied West Bank | global response | Government joins more than a dozen countries to say settlers are ‘terrorising’ Palestinians in ‘unacceptable’ violence | ||||||
| 20231215 | Protesters storm office of Australia defence minister over Israel support | global response | Peace activists yesterday stormed Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles’ office, chaining themselves to ladders and calling for to “end the genocide” in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Boycotts and protests – how are people around the world defying Israel? | global response | Al Jazeera takes a look at the movements against Israel and illegal settlements in Palestine. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Diseases spread in Gaza amid health system collapse, Israeli strikes | humanitarian | WHO says diarrhoea cases surged 66 percent among children. Meningitis, chickenpox, jaundice also reported. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israel approves aid through Gaza crossing | humanitarian | The "temporary" opening of the Kerem Shalom crossing would facilitate further aid into Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israel to open Karm Abu Salem crossing following US pressure | humanitarian | Israel approved the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israel says it will open new aid crossing into Gaza Strip | humanitarian | Announcement follows pressure from allies in US to alleviate humanitarian crisis in besieged territory | ||||||
| 20231215 | 135 UNRWA workers killed in Gaza | humanitarian | Some 135 UNRWA workers have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, announced yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231215 | What do Israelis think of the war on Gaza? | Israelis | For the Israelis who oppose the war on Gaza, the consequences are steep. | ||||||
| 20231215 | 'Psychological warfare': Israeli troops go on looting and vandalism spree across Gaza | Israelis | Footage shows soldiers in besieged enclave stealing makeup and necklaces, setting fire to food supplies and installing Jewish symbols in Palestinian neighbourhoods | ||||||
| 20231215 | The longstanding anti-Palestine views of Israel's envoy to the UK | Israelis | The Israeli ambassador has long campaigned against a Palestinian state, the 7 October Hamas assault isn't the turning point she claims it is | ||||||
| 20231215 | Far-right Minister: Israel 'should fully occupy the Gaza Strip' | Israelis | Israeli Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu, claimed today that Israel “should fully occupy the Gaza Strip.” “Anyone who is today selling the idea that the Palestinians can go back to running things doesn’t remember what happened on October 7,” the far-right Minister from the extremist Otzma Yehudit party told Kan public radio. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israeli army says it mistakenly killed three captives held in Gaza | Israelis | The captives were killed during combat with Palestinian fighters after they were erroneously identified as a threat. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Two Al Jazeera journalists wounded in Israeli attack in southern Gaza | journalists | Wael Dahdouh and Samer Abudaqa were injured while covering an Israeli attack that targeted a school in Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Two Al Jazeera journalists wounded in Gaza missile strike - reporter | journalists | Two Al Jazeera journalists were wounded on Friday by a missile fired from a drone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the broadcaster reported. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera cameraman, injures Gaza bureau chief | journalists | An Al Jazeera journalist was killed and another injured by Israeli missiles in southern Gaza. Cameraman Samer Abudaqa, who had been critically injured, died after paramedics were prevented from rescuing him. Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh was wounded in the same strike. The network deems this incident a deliberate attempt to target its correspondents and their families in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Al Jazeera condemns Israeli forces killing of cameraman Samer Abudaqa | journalists | Media network says it holds Israel accountable for systematically targeting and killing journalists and their families. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Global journalists’ body condemns Israel attack on Anadolu photojournalist Mustafa Alkharouf | journalists | The head of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Friday condemned the “violent and aggressive” attack on Anadolu photojournalist, Mustafa Alkharouf, by Israeli forces. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Strike on Gaza school kills 33 | mosques, schools | Bombing of Gaza school and near hospital kills dozens of civilians | ||||||
| 20231215 | 5 killed, dozens wounded as Israel army hits southern Gaza school | mosques, schools | At least five Palestinians were killed, and dozens of others injured on Friday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, Palestinian media reports. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Why is the media ignoring evidence of Israel’s own actions on 7 October? | opinion | The BBC and others keep revisiting Hamas crimes that day, but fail to report on growing evidence that Israel killed its own citizens | ||||||
| 20231215 | Is the US administration divorced from reality? | opinion | Hanan Ashrawi talks to Marc Lamont Hill about the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the US’s position. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Does Islamophobia play a part in US foreign policy? | opinion | Criticism has been raised of Washington’s approach to Palestinian victims. Is there a double standard when it comes to Palestine? And why do some in the US seem to conflate solidarity with Palestinians with anti-Semitism? | ||||||
| 20231215 | How are Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea affecting global trade? | opinion | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have escalated attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea during the Israel-Hamas war, raising concerns about the impact on the flow of oil, grain and consumer goods through a major global trade artery. | ||||||
| 20231215 | The legal team pursuing justice in Gaza | opinion | Can western leaders be held to account for their role in the Gaza war? | ||||||
| 20231215 | US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension | Lebanon/Israelis | U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday that he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border, adding that a “negotiated outcome” is the best way to reassure residents of northern Israel. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Maersk denies Houthi claim container ship hit by Yemeni militia | Red Sea | Danish shipping company Maersk on Friday denied a claim by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement that the militia carried out a drone strike on a Maersk vessel sailing towards Israel. | ||||||
| 20231215 | 2 attacks launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike container ships in vital Red Sea corridor | Red Sea | A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels slammed into a cargo ship Friday in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, following another attack only hours earlier that struck a separate vessel, authorities said. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Attacks from Houthi-controlled Yemen hit two ships -US official | Red Sea | Attacks from Houthi-controlled Yemen struck two Liberian-flagged ships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait on Friday, a U.S. defence official said, underlining the threat to vessels in shipping lanes being targeted by the Iran-aligned group. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Attack launched from Houthi-held Yemen hits cargo ship in Red Sea | Red Sea | Liberia-flagged vessel caught fire in Red Sea after being hit by a projectile from Yemen, US sources say. | ||||||
| 20231215 | How are Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea affecting global trade? | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi rebels have escalated attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea during the Israel-Hamas war, raising concerns about the impact on the flow of oil, grain and consumer goods through a major global trade artery. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Maersk to pause all container ship traffic through the Red Sea | Red Sea | Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk will pause all container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice, a spokesperson for the company told Reuters on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Maersk halts Red Sea shipping after another attack | Red Sea | Maersk has paused Red Sea container shipments after two incidents in as many days, the first involving one of its vessels. Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have intensified attacks on ships in the area in recent weeks. | ||||||
| 20231215 | World’s largest shipping firm Maersk 'pause' vessels Red Sea passage after Houthi attacks | Red Sea | A ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels slammed into a cargo ship Friday in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, following another attack only hours earlier that struck a separate vessel, authorities said. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Houthis seize cargo ship, force it to head to Yemen | Red Sea | The British Maritime Trade Authority has reported that a group identifying themselves as the Yemeni Navy informed them that they had diverted a ship towards the Yemeni coast. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Shipping firm pauses Red Sea journeys over attacks | Red Sea | Danish shipping company Maersk has said it is pausing all journeys through the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231215 | 135 UNRWA workers killed in Gaza | United Nations | Some 135 UNRWA workers have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, announced yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231215 | US and Israel discuss when to scale back Gaza combat but agree fight will take months, envoy says | United States | The U.S. and Israel have discussed a timetable for scaling back intense combat operations in the war against Hamas, even though they agree the overall fight will take months, an envoy said Friday, amid growing American unease about the mounting death toll in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231215 | White House in 'intensive' talks with Israel on timing of next phase of Gaza war | United States | Washington is pushing Israel to focus the war in Gaza on precise targeting of Hamas leaders rather than widespread bombing and ground operations, the White House national security adviser said on Friday, amid signs of differences over timing. | ||||||
| 20231215 | US presses Israel on civilian deaths, move to ‘lower intensity’ war in Gaza | United States | US President Joe Biden says Israel should be ‘more careful’ in order to protect civilians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Hamas turns Gaza streets into deadly maze for Israeli troops |
United States | The Israeli army's death toll in Gaza is already almost twice as high as during a ground offensive in 2014, a reflection of how far it has pushed into the enclave and of Hamas' effective use of guerrilla tactics and an expanded arsenal | ||||||
| 20231215 | 'Washington wants to see more targeted attacks on Hamas leaders' | United States | US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the besieged enclave's postwar future. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Does Islamophobia play a part in US foreign policy? | United States | Criticism has been raised of Washington’s approach to Palestinian victims. Is there a double standard when it comes to Palestine? And why do some in the US seem to conflate solidarity with Palestinians with anti-Semitism? | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israel continues Gaza onslaught despite US envoy’s ‘new phase of war’ | United States | US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to meet Palestine’s Mahmud Abbas after talks with Israeli officials. | ||||||
| 20231215 | US senator tries to force debate on 'humanitarian cataclysm' in Gaza | United States | U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution on Friday seeking a report from President Joe Biden's administration and debate on Israel's bombing of Gaza, citing the heavy toll on non-combatants. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Bernie Sanders demands answers on Israel’s ‘indiscriminate’ Gaza bombing | United States | Senator proposes resolution to investigate ‘humanitarian cataclysm … being done with American bombs and money’ | ||||||
| 20231215 | US Defense Secretary to visit Middle East to discuss peace: Pentagon Spox to Egypt’s Al-Qahera News | United States | US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit the Middle East next week to discuss ways to promote peace with regional counterparts, Pentagon spokesperson General Patrick S. Ryder told Al-Qahera News TV on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231215 | More than 100 Homeland Security staff denounce US leadership over Gaza genocide | United States | More than 100 staff members at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have put their names to an explosive letter denouncing agency leadership for “turning a blind eye” to Israel’s brutal bombardment of Gaza that has now killed over 18,000 Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Top US official says not 'right' for Israel to occupy Gaza long-term | United States | US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Friday it is not appropriate for Israel to occupy Gaza in the long-term, as speculation mounts over the post-war future of the territory. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Zionist lobby funded lawmakers slammed ‘traitors’ for inserting Israel purity test in hearing | United States | Americans were given a glimpse into the chilling Israel purity test this week during questioning of Muslim judicial nominee Adeel A Mangi. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Analysis: Biden in a bind as Netanhayu ready to flout any US attempt to rein in Israel | United States | Israel PM has defied US calls for restraint in Gaza and told domestic audience he will not compromise | ||||||
| 20231215 | This is what 24 hours of our lives in Gaza look like | war on Gaza | Close Up reached out to Palestinians in Gaza in November and asked them to record whatever they could over the course of a day, on any devices that still worked. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israel-Hamas fighting convulses Gaza as US seeks protection of civilians | war on Gaza | The United States hinted on Friday at disagreement with Israel over how quickly to scale down the war in Gaza, with President Joe Biden's national security adviser saying such timing was now the subject of "intensive discussion" between the allies. | ||||||
| 20231215 | US and Israel agree conflict will take months to reach conclusion | war on Gaza | The United States national security adviser and the Palestinian president have met to discuss post-war arrangements for Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israel continues Gaza onslaught despite US envoy’s ‘new phase of war’ | war on Gaza | US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to meet Palestine’s Mahmud Abbas after talks with Israeli officials. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Report: Israel sets end of January to end ‘intense phase’ of Gaza war | war on Gaza | Israel intends to end the “intense phase” of its war on Gaza by the end of January, a “timetable” which was presented to US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, during his visit to Tel Aviv yesterday, showed, according to Channel 12 (= N12) | ||||||
| 20231215 | Palestinian says soldiers sent him into Hamas tunnel strapped with bombs | war on Gaza | Gaza City resident says he was one of the Palestinians seen stripped and bound after being detained by Israel | ||||||
| 20231215 | Hungry, thirsty and humiliated: Israel’s mass arrest campaign sows fear in northern Gaza | war on Gaza | The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians across the northern Gaza Strip, separating families and forcing men to strip to their underwear before trucking some to a detention camp on the beach, where they spent hours, in some cases days, subjected to hunger and cold, according to human rights activists, distraught relatives and released detainees themselves. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Gazans say they fear a fate worse than bombs: permanent exile | war on Gaza | With Israeli bombs pounding the length of the Gaza Strip, Gazans have been squeezed up against the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula at the town of Rafah and say they have practically nowhere left to flee. | ||||||
| 20231215 | What will be the impact of flooding Gaza’s tunnels with seawater? | war on Gaza | Pumping seawater into tunnel networks will damage water supplies and agriculture - and could breach international law. | ||||||
| 20231215 | 'Psychological warfare': Israeli troops go on looting and vandalism spree across Gaza | war on Gaza | Footage shows soldiers in besieged enclave stealing makeup and necklaces, setting fire to food supplies and installing Jewish symbols in Palestinian neighbourhoods | ||||||
| 20231215 | Hamas turns Gaza streets into deadly maze for Israeli troops |
war on Gaza | The Israeli army's death toll in Gaza is already almost twice as high as during a ground offensive in 2014, a reflection of how far it has pushed into the enclave and of Hamas' effective use of guerrilla tactics and an expanded arsenal | ||||||
| 20231215 | 'Hellfire' and chaos in Rafah tests Biden's opposition to displacement | war on Gaza | Biden administration pushes for 'low intensity' conflict as displacement out of desperation becomes a greater reality for Palestinians | ||||||
| 20231215 | 6 Gaza cemeteries destroyed by Israel, report reveals | war on Gaza | The Israeli military occupation forces have damaged or completely destroyed at least six cemeteries in the northern Gaza Strip during their recent ground invasion advancements. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Video said to show Palestinian detainees being paraded | West Bank | Video shared on social media appears to show blindfolded Palestinian detainees being paraded by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, to a soundtrack of an Israeli children’s song. The Israeli military has been contacted for comment. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Britain, partners call on Israel to tackle settler violence | West Bank | Britain, the European Union and more than a dozen partner countries including Australia and Canada, called on Israel to take immediate and concrete steps to tackle settler violence in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231215 | How Israel jails hundreds of Palestinians without charge | West Bank | In a family home in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, Yazen Alhasnat was sitting next to his mother rubbing sleep from his eyes. | ||||||
| 20231215 | The polls are clear: While at war with Israel, Hamas defeated Abbas and Fatah | West Bank | The challenge to Gaza’s future governance is clear: Israelis are set on destroying Hamas militarily and politically while Palestinians are set on elevating it, Stephan Miller writes. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Battle for the West Bank: Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinians | West Bank | While the world's attention is focused on Israel's devastating war in Gaza, violence is also taking place every day in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231215 | Israeli forces detain and assault Palestinian artists after raid on Jenin theatre | West Bank | The Freedom Theatre staff say Israeli soldiers treated them 'like animals' and beat them during arrest, prompting an outpouring of solidarity by artists and theatres around the world | ||||||
| 20231215 | Australia denounces Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Government joins more than a dozen countries to say settlers are ‘terrorising’ Palestinians in ‘unacceptable’ violence | ||||||
| 20231215 | Released Palestinian prisoners: Israel prison guards accused of torture, abuse | West Bank | Three Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails on Thursday say Israeli guards tortured and abused them in prison. They say their treatment got worse after Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7. Thousands of Palestinians have since been imprisoned as Israel intensified its raids and detentions across the Palestinian territories. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231216 | Netanyahu hints new negotiations under way to recover Gaza hostages | ceasefire talks | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on Saturday to hint that new negotiations were under way to recover hostages held by Hamas, after his chief of Mossad intelligence met the prime minister of Qatar, a country mediating in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israel keeps the pressure on Gaza as Qatar confirms truce talks | ceasefire talks | Attacks on Saturday heavily targeted Khan Younis in the south, where thousands have been forced to flee. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli envoy meets Qatari PM amid hopes for fresh truce talks | ceasefire talks | A senior Israeli envoy has met the prime minister of Qatar, a key mediator in the conflict in Gaza, a source said on Saturday, while sources from Egypt suggested Israel appeared to be more open to a new deal with Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Mother, daughter killed by Israel army in Gaza church grounds: patriarchate | churches, mosques, schools | A Christian mother and daughter were shot dead by an Israeli soldier on the grounds of a Catholic church in Gaza City on Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said. | ||||||
| 20231216 | MP Layla Moran’s family trapped inside Catholic church in Gaza City | churches, mosques, schools | ‘Beyond desperate and terrified’ relatives among hundreds inside compound amid bombing by Israeli forces | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israel bombs a school housing displaced people in southern Gaza | churches, mosques, schools | Israel targeted a school housing displaced Palestinians in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. on Friday | ||||||
| 20231216 | Will oil prices rise after Red Sea shipping curbs amid Houthi attacks? | global effects | Energy markets are beginning to take notice of non-stop assaults on Israeli-linked shipping. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Germany deports Iraqi over 'terror' suspicion | global effects | The 20-year-old was suspected of planning a "terrorist attack" targeting a Christmas market in eastern Germany. He has been permanently banned from reentering the country. | ||||||
| 20231216 | No clear Gaza message from EU, despite cease-fire calls | global response | Some EU politicians see growing momentum for issuing a shared cease-fire call in Gaza. Nevertheless, it did not become an official policy position at this week's EU summit in Brussels. | ||||||
| 20231216 | USAID contractor killed in Gaza in November Israeli air strike, employer says | humanitarian | A contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Gaza was killed with his wife and two daughters aged four and two in an Israeli air strike in November, his employer said on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Save the Children loses contact with its Gaza team amid Israeli airstrikes | humanitarian | The UK-based charity Save the Children announced on Saturday that it has lost contact with its team in Gaza amid heavy Israeli army bombardment | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli captives mistakenly killed in Gaza held white flag, official says | Israelis | Rules of engagement breached in incident that resulted in death of three hostages, all in their 20s. | ||||||
| 20231216 | 3 hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli troops had been holding a white flag, military official says | Israelis | Three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip had been waving a white flag and were shirtless when they were killed, military officials said Saturday, in Israel’s first such acknowledgement of harming any hostages in its war against Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli military says it mistakenly killed 3 Israeli hostages in battle-torn part of Gaza | Israelis | Israeli troops mistakenly shot three hostages to death Friday in a battle-torn neighborhood of Gaza City, and an Israeli strike killed a Palestinian journalist in the south of the besieged territory, underscoring the ferocity of Israel’s ongoing onslaught. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli hostages killed in Gaza were holding white flag, official says | Israelis | Three Israeli hostages killed mistakenly in Gaza by Israeli forces had been holding up a white flag, a military official said on Saturday, citing an initial inquiry into the incident that has shaken the country. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Hostages were carrying white cloth when shot, IDF says | Israelis | Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza were shot dead while holding a white cloth, an Israeli military official says. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Killed hostages were 'holding white flag' | Israelis | The three hostages who were mistakenly shot dead by the IDF in the Gaza Strip were carrying a stick with a makeshift white flag, according to the Israeli military | ||||||
| 20231216 | Hostages killed 'by mistake' were waving white flag when IDF shot them | Israelis | Summary of the day | ||||||
| 20231216 | 'There was a lot of criticism of Netanyahu across Israeli politics' | Israelis | no description | ||||||
| 20231216 | Haaretz to Biden: ‘Netanyahu the main problem in Israel’ | Israelis | Israel’s Haaretz newspaper attacked the head of the occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, pointing the finger at him as the main problem in the current situation. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli settlers seek to take over Armenian Quarter by force | Jerusalem | Armed settlers, backed by Israeli security forces, attempt to occupy almost 25 percent of Armenian Quarter in 'existential threat' to centuries-old community | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli strike on school kills Al Jazeera cameraman in southern Gaza, network says | journalists | An Israeli strike killed a Palestinian cameraman for the TV network Al Jazeera and wounded its chief Gaza correspondent Friday as they reported at a school in the south of the besieged territory, the network said. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa laid to rest in southern Gaza | journalists | Family, friends, colleagues attend funeral of cameraman who was killed in Israeli drone attack in Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Samer Abudaqa: Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza drone strike | journalists | The funeral has been held of an Al Jazeera cameraman who was killed by an Israeli drone strike on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Al Jazeera to refer journalist Samer Abudaqa’s killing to ICC | journalists | The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by a drone attack while reporting on the bombing of a school in southern Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231216 | Moment Israeli police attack journalist | journalists | This is the moment Israeli police attacked an Anadolu Agency journalist in Occupied East Jerusalem, hospitalising him. Two officers have been suspended from duty as the force says it has launched an investigation into the incident. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Is Israel deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza? | journalists | The war on Gaza has been the deadliest for media workers ever recorded. Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest for media workers ever recorded, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. At least 90 journalists and staff have been killed since the conflict began on October 7. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Trauma and terror: What we are seeing from Gaza | journalists | Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation – proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking – urgently – is whether it will make any difference. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israel’s attack on the Freedom Theatre in Jenin camp is part of a cultural genocide | opinion | The destruction and arrests of theatre staff are part of a wider attempt to break Palestinians in the West Bank psychologically and emotionally | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israel-Palestine war: How Israel has tried and failed to divide Palestinians | opinion | Israel's decades-old classification policy to control and divide Palestinians is proving to fail as it wages a genocidal war in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231216 | Gantz vows to remove Hezbollah from border with Israel | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz warned on Friday: “If the world doesn’t get Hezbollah away from the border, Israel will do it.” | ||||||
| 20231216 | Hezbollah targets 3 Israeli military sites | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah announced on Saturday that its fighters had targeted three Israeli military sites along Lebanon’s southern border, resulting in “many casualties and injuries among Israeli soldiers” | ||||||
| 20231216 | Iran-aligned Houthis warn Israel, US against attacking Yemen | Red Sea | Threat comes as Israel, Western allies bolster presence in Red Sea as rebels target shipping. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Any hostile move against Yemen will have dire consequences -Houthi official on Al Mayadeen TV | Red Sea | Any hostile move against Yemen will have dire consequences and great costs, Ali al-Qahoum, a member of the Houthi group's Ansarullah politburo, told Al Mayadeen TV late on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Yemen's Houthis in Oman-mediated talks over Red Sea 'operations' | Red Sea | Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement has engaged in Oman-mediated talks with "international parties" about its operations in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, a Houthi spokesman said on Saturday, following a series of attacks on ships by the militia group. | ||||||
| 20231216 | More shipping giants suspend passage via Red Sea after attacks | Red Sea | Two more major shipping firms, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM, said on Saturday they were suspending passage through a Red Sea strait vital for global trade, after Yemeni rebel attacks in the area. | ||||||
| 20231216 | More big shipping firms stop Red Sea routes after attacks | Red Sea | The world's largest shipping group, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has announced it is diverting its ships away from the Red Sea because of an increased threat of attacks. | ||||||
| 20231216 | HMS Diamond: British warship shoots down suspected attack drone in Red Sea | Red Sea | A British warship has shot down a suspected attack drone in the Red Sea, the defence secretary has said. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Shipping companies abandon Red Sea routes over Houthi attacks | Red Sea | The decision comes as a British destroyer shoots down a 'suspected attack drone' in the ocean which lies between Asia and Africa. | ||||||
| 20231216 | More shipping giants suspend passage via Red Sea after attacks | Red Sea | Two more major shipping firms, Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM, said on Saturday they were suspending passage through a Red Sea strait vital for global trade, after Yemeni rebel attacks in the area. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Egypt forces intercept, down flying object off Dahab coast | Red Sea | Egyptian forces intercepted a flying object that crashed early Saturday into Egyptian territorial waters approximately one and a half kilometres off the coast of Dahab city, eyewitnesses reported to Al-Qahera News TV | ||||||
| 20231216 | US military leaders head to Israel and will offer advice on shifting to the war’s next phase in Gaza | United States | The top two U.S. military leaders are traveling to Tel Aviv to advise the Israeli government on how to transition from major combat operations against Hamas in Gaza to a more limited and precise campaign — the kind of strategic shift they both have considerable expertise in. | ||||||
| 20231216 | US wants shakeup of Palestinian Authority to run Gaza after Hamas | United States | A succession of top U.S. officials have travelled to the West Bank in recent weeks to meet with Mahmoud Abbas in the hope the 88-year-old – a spectator in the war between Israel and Hamas – can overhaul his unpopular Palestinian Authority enough to run Gaza after the conflict. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israel occupation of Gaza after war makes ‘no sense’, says US National Security Adviser | United States | Israel’s re-occupation of the Gaza Strip would neither “make sense” nor be “right”, the United States’ National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has told the Israeli government, as Washington and Tel Aviv continue to differ on the future of Gaza’s governance.
COMMENT Even "re-occupation" is incorrect as Gaza is designated by the United Nations as part of the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT) |
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| 20231216 | Palestinians appalled by Israeli razing of Gaza cemeteries | war on Gaza | Satellite imagery and video footage show the Israeli military turning gravesites into ruins | ||||||
| 20231216 | Israeli air attack on residential home in Rafah kills four Palestinians | war on Gaza | Dozens of Palestinians were wounded, and 15 others were missing after the strike in Rafah governorate. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Communications blackout and spiraling hunger compound misery in Gaza as war enters 11th week | war on Gaza | A prolonged communications blackout that severed telephone and internet connections compounded the misery Saturday in the besieged Gaza Strip, where a United Nations agency said hunger levels had spiraled in recent days. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Hamas turns Gaza streets into deadly maze for Israeli troops | war on Gaza | The Israeli army's death toll in Gaza is already almost twice as high as during a ground offensive in 2014, a reflection of how far it has pushed into the enclave and of Hamas' effective use of guerrilla tactics and an expanded arsenal. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Three brothers in the West Bank, kept apart by Israel’s war | West Bank | Three brothers swap stories of life under military occupation in three different parts of the West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231216 | Number of Palestinians killed in West Bank since Oct. 7 stands at 288 as Israeli army kills young man | West Bank | With the overnight killing of a young man by the Israeli army, the Palestinian death toll in the West Bank since the start of the ongoing conflict on Oct. 7 has risen to 288, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday | ||||||
| 20231216 | B’Tselem documents Israel army execution of 2 West Bank Palestinians | West Bank | The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, on Friday published videos documenting the Israeli army’s execution of two Palestinians at close range in the West Bank. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231217 | Pope Francis deplores Israeli killings of civilians in Gaza church | churches, mosques, schools | Pope Francis on Sunday again suggested Israel was using "terrorism" tactics in Gaza, deploring the reported killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in a church complex. | ||||||
| 20231217 | UK MP says family trapped in church area amid sniper fire | churches, mosques, schools | UK MP Layla Moran says she has several relatives who are trapped in a church in Gaza as Israeli forces operate nearby. | ||||||
| 20231217 | MP Layla Moran fears family trapped in Gaza church ‘will not survive until Christmas’ | churches, mosques, schools | Oxford and Abingdon MP’s extended family among those sheltering in besieged Holy Family church in Gaza City | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli forces kill two Christian women in ‘cold blood’ inside Gaza church | churches, mosques, schools | A Christian woman and her daughter were shot in Gaza’s Holy Family Church by an Israeli soldier. | ||||||
| 20231217 | UberEats Canada faces backlash for recategorising Palestinian restaurants as Israeli | global response | no description | ||||||
| 20231217 | France condemns killing of its worker in Israeli strike in Gaza’s Rafah | global response | The killing comes as French top diplomat Catherine Colonna in Israel to appeal for truce and lasting peace. | ||||||
| 20231217 | France calls for 'immediate and durable' Gaza truce | global response | France has called for an "immediate and durable truce" in the Israel-Hamas war, saying that it is deeply concerned about the situation in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Lord Cameron supports 'sustainable ceasefire' and warns over deaths | global response | The foreign secretary has said he would like to see a "sustainable ceasefire" in the Israel-Gaza conflict. | ||||||
| 20231217 | UK’s David Cameron, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock back ‘sustainable ceasefire’ in Gaza | global response | UK’s David Cameron, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock back ‘sustainable ceasefire’ in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israel faces new calls for truce after killing of hostages raises alarm about its conduct in Gaza | global response | Israel’s government faced calls for a cease-fire from some of its closest European allies and from protesters at home on Sunday after a series of shootings, including of three hostages who waved a white flag, added to mounting concerns about its conduct in the 10-week-old war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Top European diplomats step up calls for Gaza ceasefire | global response | The level of pressure on Israel is increasing as the death toll in Gaza has been reported as up to 19,000. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israel presses on amid calls for Gaza cease-fire | global response | Mounting civilian deaths and hardship in Gaza have prompted renewed calls for a cease-fire. The latest appeals come from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, but Israel says a cease-fire would be a gift to Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Netanyahu vows to fight to 'very end' as aid enters Gaza & truce demands increase | global response | from live blog | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli airstrikes kill dozens as calls for Gaza ceasefire and hostage talks grow | global response | Fatalities in last 24 hours come amid public anger over mistaken killing of three hostages by Israel’s army | ||||||
| 20231217 | Crowds strip aid trucks of food and supplies at Gaza's Rafah crossing | humanitarian | no description
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| 20231217 | Gaza’s hungry, thirsty and traumatised residents ‘in survival mode’ | humanitarian | Desperate crowds have been scrambling for aid at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Palestinians tried to stop aid trucks, searching for food and other supplies. The crossing is the main route for relief deliveries.
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| 20231217 | WHO says al-Shifa hospital a 'bloodbath' | humanitarian | A WHO team visited the northern Gaza hospital and found patients being treated on the floor. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Al-Shifa hospital 'completely overwhelmed': Sean Casey, WHO | humanitarian | no description | ||||||
| 20231217 | Aid enters Gaza through Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing for first time in war | humanitarian | The Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza opened on Sunday for aid trucks for the first time since the outbreak of war, officials said, a move intended to double the amount of food and medicine reaching the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231217 | ‘The hostages weren’t our top priority’: How Israel’s bombing frenzy endangered captives in Gaza | Israelis | The IDF Spokesperson’s announcement on Friday that Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip had “mistakenly shot dead” three Israeli hostages, who had been abducted by Hamas during its October 7 assault, has shocked Israeli society. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Outrage after Israeli forces kill Israeli captives in Gaza | Israelis | Thousands of people have protested in Tel Aviv after Israeli forces killed three Israeli captives in Gaza who were shirtless, waving a white flag and calling for help in Hebrew. Demonstrators are demanding the gov’t reach a deal for the safe return of remaining captives. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Killed Israeli hostage's brother says army 'murdered' him | Israelis | An Israeli hostage who was mistakenly killed by soldiers in the Gaza Strip this week was buried on Sunday, with his brother slamming the army for having "abandoned and murdered" him. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Growing concerns over 'culture of impunity' within Israel’s military | Israelis | "We are, first of all, supporting these soldiers in every way possible," Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said in an interview following revelations that Israeli troops were responsible for the killing of all three unarmed men, adding that they did act outside the rules of engagement. "I can tell you; we are going to hug them." | ||||||
| 20231217 | Two-state solution would mean relocating 200,000 settlers, says Israeli lawyer who has David Cameron’s ear | Israelis | Lawyer who has advised foreign secretary says Israel has the capacity, but not the will, to relocate even one settler | ||||||
| 20231217 | 92 journalists killed in Israeli attacks since Oct. 7: Gaza government | journalists | At least 92 journalists have been killed in the ongoing Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the government media office in the besieged Palestinian enclave said on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231217 | Union of Journalists in Israel condemns assault on Anadolu photojournalist in East Jerusalem | journalists | The Union of Journalists in Israel expressed support Saturday for Anadolu photojournalist Mustafa Alkharouf, who was assaulted by Israeli forces while on duty in occupied East Jerusalem | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli minister promises support for police officer who assaulted Anadolu photojournalist | journalists | Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir talked to a police officer Saturday who assaulted Anadolu photojournalist Mustafa Alkharouf and promised his return to duty “as soon as possible” | ||||||
| 20231217 | Al Jazeera to file complaint with ICC on cameraman's death in Gaza | journalists | Al Jazeera announced Saturday announced it will file a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the death of its cameraman Samer Abu Dhaka, who was killed in Israeli attacks against Gaza | ||||||
| 20231217 | How Israel's genocide in Gaza sparked a protest movement in the UK | opinion | The scale of Palestinian bloodshed has galvanised a new community of activists in the UK and widened the gap between the will of the public and that of their political representatives | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israel says it struck Hezbollah sites after attacks from Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel said on Sunday it had hit weapons launch sites and facilities belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon in response to cross-border fire, while the Iran-backed group said it had attacked Israeli army targets. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Fears grow of all-out Israel-Hezbollah war as fighting escalates | Lebanon/Israelis | Many in Israel see Hezbollah as a greater threat than Hamas and consider a new war in Lebanon to be inevitable. | ||||||
| 20231217 | 55 ships divert to Cape of Good Hope and 2,128 cross Suez Canal since 19 Nov: SCA | Red Sea | Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie stated on Sunday that 55 ships diverted from the Suez Canal route to the Cape of Good Hope route since 19 November, considering it a small percentage compared to the crossing of 2,128 ships during the same period. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Jordan denies existence of Gulf ‘land bridge’ to Israel to bypass Houthis | Red Sea | Jordan’s Ministries of Transport and Industry and Trade yesterday denied reports that a land route has been established from the UAE to the Hashemite Kingdom via Saudi Arabia, in an effort to bypass the growing threats from Yemen’s Houthi-aligned armed forces. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Houthis disrupt Israeli trade, inflict multi-billion dollar blow | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi forces are strategically targeting Israeli-owned ships, seizing them and disrupting key trade routes. | ||||||
| 20231217 | US to announce expanded protection force for Red Sea shipping | Red Sea | Response to Houthi attacks from Yemen seeks to reassure commercial shipping companies avoiding use of Red Sea | ||||||
| 20231217 | Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan calls on US to use influence over Israel to stop attacks on Gaza | Turkey/Israelis | Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday called on the US to use its influence over Israel to stop the attacks on the Gaza Strip during his talks with his American counterpart Antony Blinken | ||||||
| 20231217 | Analysis: Why Israel will continue its deadly push into Gaza city centres | war on Gaza | A long, grinding urban war appears likely now, if Israel is to negate the effects of Hamas tunnels. But keeping public support intact won’t be easy. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Hamas's rising popularity in the West Bank | war on Gaza | The Israeli government says its aim in Gaza is to degrade Hamas so completely that it can never again pose a threat to Israel. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli Supreme Court Justices to Visit Prisons Following Deaths of 6 Palestinian Inmates | war on Gaza | Testimonies of violence and neglect and a general worsening of Palestinian prisoners' living conditions in Israeli jails have accumulated in recent weeks, leading to the decision to resume judicial visits. Some of the changes, however, are as result of an official policy instituted following the start of the war, which the Supreme Court signed off on | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israel plans to build anti-tunnel wall on Egypt-Gaza border: Report | war on Gaza | Israel is planning to build an underground anti-tunnel wall near the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, according to local media on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli army bulldozed and killed 20 displaced Palestinians at Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza: Eyewitnesses | war on hospitals | Israeli forces bulldozed injured and displaced Palestinians who were sheltering on the grounds of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in north Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 20 and injuring more, according to eyewitnesses | ||||||
| 20231217 | Gazan hospital damaged in Israel raid, army says weapons seized | war on hospitals | Israeli soldiers raided a hospital in northern Gaza over several days this week, leaving a trail of rubble and upturned earth in the hospital grounds and outside the shattered entrance, video images show, amid conflicting accounts of the events. | ||||||
| 20231217 | PA health minister seeks probe into deadly Israeli raid on Gaza hospital | war on hospitals | Israeli forces accused of crushing Palestinians using bulldozers in the courtyard of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Nur Shams refugee camp in West Bank reels from deadly Israeli raids | war on refugee camps | Israel raids refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem, killing at least five Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli air raids on Jabalia have killed at least 20 people | war on whole families | At least 20 people have been killed and some 100 others injured following an Israeli air raid on a residential block in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The attack targeted the home of the Shehab family, causing extensive damage to neighbouring houses. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli air raids on Jabalia have killed at least 20 people | war on refugee camps | At least 20 people have been killed and some 100 others injured following an Israeli air raid on a residential block in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The attack targeted the home of the Shehab family, causing extensive damage to neighbouring houses. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israeli military uses drones to kill Palestinians in West Bank’s Tulkarem | West Bank | Israeli forces reportedly prevented ambulances from reaching the camp and arrested one paramedic as it intensifies raids. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Israel raids in the occupied West Bank: Dozens of military vehicles enter Tulkarem | West Bank | Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians in overnight raids in the occupied West Bank. The latest operation took place near a refugee camp in Tulkarem. Neighbours say dozens of Israeli vehicles stormed the refugee camp. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Nur Shams refugee camp in West Bank reels from deadly Israeli raids | West Bank | Israel raids refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem, killing at least five Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231217 | Hamas's rising popularity in the West Bank | West Bank | The Israeli government says its aim in Gaza is to degrade Hamas so completely that it can never again pose a threat to Israel. | ||||||
| 20231217 | 505 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in West Bank this year | West Bank | At least 505 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank this year, the Health Ministry said Sunday | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231218 | Israel snipers kill two Christian women in siege of Catholic Church in Gaza | churches, mosques, schools | Israel has killed two Christian women at a Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip, as Occupation forces continue to impose a siege on the building and shoot anyone who leaves, even to use the lavatory. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Gaza church killings at odds with war on Hamas, Italy tells Israel | churches, mosques, schools | Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani criticised Israeli forces on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing people in a Christian compound in the Gaza Strip, saying such actions would not help in its war to defeat Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Cardinal condemns ‘cold–blooded’ killing of two women in Gaza church | churches, mosques, schools | Vincent Nichols says shooting of mother and daughter did nothing to further Israel’s right to defend itself | ||||||
| 20231218 | Author Masha Gessen receives German prize despite comments comparing Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos | global effects | The Russian-American journalist, author and activist Masha Gessen received a German literary prize on Saturday (16 December) in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettos. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Jewish man expelled by Labour claims discrimination over antisemitism accusation | global effects | Stephen Marks, a Labour member for more than 40 years, says accusation of antisemitism is 'repellent' and ignored his Jewishness and anti-Zionist beliefs | ||||||
| 20231218 | EU launches 'illegal content' probe into Elon Musk's X over Israel-Hamas war disinformation | global effects | The EU announced "formal infringement proceedings" against Elon Musk's X platform on Monday, under a law cracking down on illegal online content, after identifying disinformation related to Hamas's October 7 attack in Israel. | ||||||
| 20231218 | EU's Borrell slams Israel's 'appalling lack of distinction' in Gaza | global response | Israel's military is showing "an appalling lack of distinction" in its targeting in Gaza, the EU's top diplomat said Monday, highlighting the deaths of Israeli hostages, worshippers and other Palestinian civilians. | ||||||
| 20231218 | France parliamentarians demand sanctions against Israel amid killing of Foreign Ministry staffer in Gaza | global response | Left-wing prosecutors in Paris, on Monday, blasted Tel Aviv over the killing of a French Foreign Ministry staffer in Gaza during an airstrike and demanded sanctions against Israel | ||||||
| 20231218 | Cuba: America's ‘complicity’ prolongs the genocide in Gaza | global response | America’s use of its “shameful veto” power at the UN is prolonging “the genocide in Gaza,” Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Unwashed and underfed, babies born into Gaza war face hardship in tents | humanitarian | The grandmother has a simple wish for her twin baby granddaughters, Alma and Salma: they should be in a clean, safe room where they can be bathed. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Israel accused of wielding starvation as a weapon of war against Gaza | humanitarian | Human Rights Watch urges world leaders to speak out against ‘abhorrent war crime’. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Report indicates starvation used as a weapon by Israel in Gaza occupation | humanitarian | Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes, alleging the use of starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza, obstructing essential resources, and urging international intervention to address the deepening humanitarian crisis. | ||||||
| 20231218 | UN warns 1000s of pregnant women and nursing mothers in Gaza face risk of death | humanitarian | The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) warned on Sunday that 45,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip and another 68,000 who are breastfeeding are at risk of anaemia, bleeding and death. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Captives mistakenly killed by Israeli troops left SOS signs in Hebrew | Israelis | The killing of the three men sparks an intense outcry in Israel and raises concerns about its military’s wartime conduct. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Hostages shot by IDF put out 'SOS' sign written with leftover food | Israelis | Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by soldiers in Gaza on Friday had used leftover food to write signs pleading for help, Israel says. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Israel should 'level Gaza and make it look like Auschwitz', says official | Israelis | David Azoulay, head of northern Israeli town, calls for besieged enclave to become a museum that 'should resemble' the extermination camp in Poland | ||||||
| 20231218 | As genocide unfolds, Israel settlers plan ‘dream’ beach house in Gaza | Israelis | In a shocking development, a coalition of Israeli settler groups, reportedly funded by the apartheid state, has convened to discuss a “practical” plan to build the first settlements in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231218 | In Israel’s killing of 3 hostages, some see the same excessive force directed at Palestinians | Israelis | Israelis were left stunned and speechless when three hostages held by Hamas were killed by Israeli forces in the middle of an active war zone after they waved a white flag and screamed out in Hebrew to show they did not pose a threat. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Palestine journalist killed in an Israel bombing in central Gaza | journalists | The government media office in Gaza announced the death of a journalist after an Israeli bombing of the Strip, bringing the total number of journalists killed to 95 since 7 October. | ||||||
| 20231218 | How Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians is a colonial tradition | opinion | Palestinian resistance must always be situated within the history of anti-colonial struggle just as Israel’s genocidal war should be recognised as a continuation of this colonial lineage | ||||||
| 20231218 | Egypt rejects deployment of joint forces with Israel on Gaza border | Egypt/Israelis | Egypt has rejected the deployment of a joint Egyptian-Israeli force on the Philadelphia axis near the border with the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media on Monday | ||||||
| 20231218 | Hamas is now recruiting in Lebanon. What will that mean for Hezbollah? | Lebanon/Hamas | Mainstream Lebanese politicians have criticised the Hamas move. But it will likely help Hezbollah as tensions with Israel escalate. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Pentagon chief in Tel Aviv calls on Hezbollah to avoid provoking wider conflict | Lebanon/US | US Defence Minister Lloyd Austin called on the Iran-backed movement Hezbollah to avoid provoking a wider conflict amid near-daily skirmishes along the Israel-Lebanon border since Israel's war with Hamas during a joint press conference with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Monday.
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| 20231218 | Fears of Houthi attacks are rerouting commercial ships away from the Red Sea | Red Sea | The attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have scared off some of the world’s top shipping companies and oil giants, effectively rerouting global trade away from a crucial artery for consumer goods and energy supplies that is expected to trigger delays and rising prices. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Red Sea attacks force rerouting of vessels, disrupting supply chains | Red Sea | Mounting attacks by the Iran-aligned Yemeni Houthi militant group on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting maritime trade as leading global freight firms reroute around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Suez Canal. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Yemen’s Houthis say they attack two more vessels in the Red Sea | Red Sea | Owner of Swan Atlantic says ship struck by unidentified object but none of the crew hurt. Panama-flagged vessel also targeted. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Vessel attacked in Red Sea off Yemen coast, US blames Houthis | Red Sea | Yemen's Houthi movement attacked two commercial ships in the Red Sea with naval drones on Monday, the Iran-backed group said, the latest in a surge of attacks over Israel's military campaign in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Houthis claim attacks on two more ships in Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthi movement has attacked two more merchant ships in the Red Sea with naval drones today, the group has confirmed. This is the latest in a surge of attacks because of Israel’s genocidal military offensive in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Houthis respond to plans by US to establish new maritime protection force in the Red Sea | Red Sea | Houthis in Yemen have released a new statement, after reports the US is planning to establish a new maritime protection force in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Yemen's Houthi rebels attack Red Sea tankers as shipping firms suspend traffic | Red Sea | Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Monday they had attacked two "Israeli-linked" vessels in the Red Sea in solidarity with Gaza, as more companies halt transit through the troubled but vital waterway. | ||||||
| 20231218 | London marine insurers widen high risk zone in Red Sea as attacks surge | Red Sea | London’s marine insurance market has widened the area in the Red Sea it deems as high risk after a surge in attacks on commercial ships, according to a statement issued on Monday | ||||||
| 20231218 | Shipping firms avoid Red Sea after Houthi attacks | Red Sea | Yemen’s Houthis Yemen’s warnings that ships transporting goods to Israel or which have ties to the occupation state will be targeted in the Red Sea have led shipping firms to re-route vessels to avoid the area. | ||||||
| 20231218 | BP pauses oil cargo on Red Sea as missile attacks affect global trade | Red Sea | Oil giant British Petrol (BP) announced on Monday that it had temporarily halted all transits via the Red Sea after recent attacks carried out by the Yemeni Houthi rebel movement, an ally of Iran. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Turkiye urges EU for more fair, prudent ties | Turkey/EU | Turkiye’s Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, held a phone call with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, to adopt a more fair and prudent attitude toward Turkiye | ||||||
| 20231218 | Too many civilians killed in Israel-Hamas conflict, UK PM says | United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday too many civilian lives had been lost in the Israel-Hamas conflict and he repeated his call for a "sustainable ceasefire" to allow the release of hostages. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Jewish man expelled by Labour claims discrimination over antisemitism accusation | United Kingdom | Stephen Marks, a Labour member for more than 40 years, says accusation of antisemitism is 'repellent' and ignored his Jewishness and anti-Zionist beliefs | ||||||
| 20231218 | Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says | United Kingdom | Israel has "gone beyond self-defence" in the Gaza war and lost its moral authority, senior Conservative MP Alicia Kearns has said. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Keir Starmer joins Rishi Sunak in calling for sustainable ceasefire in Gaza | United Kingdom | Labour leader also reiterates support for ‘two-stage solution’ as ‘the only way this is going to be resolved’ | ||||||
| 20231218 | UN warns 1000s of pregnant women and nursing mothers in Gaza face risk of death | United Nations | The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) warned on Sunday that 45,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip and another 68,000 who are breastfeeding are at risk of anaemia, bleeding and death. | ||||||
| 20231218 | In Israel, US defence chief to look to next phase of Gaza war | United States | U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel on Monday for talks expected to focus on Israel's eventual end to high intensity war in Gaza and its transition to a more limited, focused conflict, officials say. | ||||||
| 20231218 | In Israel, the US defense secretary is expected to press for a more targeted approach in Gaza | United States | U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was expected to press Israel to wind down major combat operations in Gaza on a visit Monday, aiming to leverage Washington’s strong support for the war against Hamas militants for action to blunt its devastating impact on civilians. | ||||||
| 20231218 | U.S. defence chief in Israel in push to ease intensity of Gaza offensive | United States | Israel faced pressure from the visiting U.S. defence chief and censure from a global rights group on Monday over the intensity of its war with Hamas in Gaza due to spiralling civilian deaths and hunger among Palestinians. | ||||||
| 20231218 | US defense chief visits amid truce calls | United States | Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin will meet Israeli leaders to discuss Gaza operations, amid fresh calls for a cease-fire. | ||||||
| 20231218 | US defence secretary reasserts support but urges Israel to change tactics in Gaza | United States | Lloyd Austin discusses shift towards more precise targeting of Hamas leaders in meeting with Israeli PM and defence minister | ||||||
| 20231218 | Austin says US support for Israel unshakeable as Gaza ceasefire calls grow | United States | Lloyd Austin says US support ‘unshakeable’, urges Israel to do more to protect civilians and increase aid supplies. | ||||||
| 20231218 | CIA chief to meet Israeli, Qatari officials for hostage deal talks - US source | United States | CIA chief Bill Burns will meet Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and the head of Israel's Mossad spy agency in Warsaw on Monday to discuss a potential new deal to secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231218 | US pledges unwavering support for Israel's military operation in Gaza | United States | Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday pledged the US's "unshakable support" for Israel's military operation in Gaza as he addressed a joint presser with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians in West Bank must stop: US | United States | Attacks by “extremist settlers” against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank “must stop,” US Secretary of Defines, Lloyd Austin, said on Monday | ||||||
| 20231218 | US, PA discuss redeployment of Palestinian security forces in Gaza | United States | US President Joe Biden’s administration is holding talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas regarding the possibility of deploying members of the PA’s security services to the Gaza Strip the “day after” the Israeli bombing campaign. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Israeli attacks continue as calls for a ceasefire in Gaza grow | war on Gaza | At least 90 people, including women and children, were killed in Israeli attacks on Jabalia refugee camp. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Palestinian detainees from Gaza die in Israeli custody, says report | war on Gaza | Hundreds held in Israeli prison compound without beds and lights switched on all night long, according to Haaretz | ||||||
| 20231218 | Palestinian health ministry says 19,453 killed in the Israeli war on Gaza | war on Gaza | The Palestinian health ministry said Monday the death toll of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 19,453. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Israel kills 26 at al-Shifa hospital as shipping giants swerve Red Sea | war on hospitals | More than 170 killed as Israeli forces attack medical facilities and refugee camp, as ships re-route to avoid attacks by Yemen's Houthis | ||||||
| 20231218 | People ‘buried alive’ outside Gaza hospital during Israeli raid | war on hospitals | Israeli forces are accused of using bulldozers to crush and bury Palestinians alive as they raided Kamal Adwan Hospital. | ||||||
| 20231218 | People ‘buried alive’ during Israeli raid on Gaza hospital | war on hospitals | Israeli bulldozers are accused of crushing Palestinians and burying them alive as the military carried out a raid on a hospital in northern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Calls for probe into claims Israel ‘burying people alive’ in Gaza | war on hospitals | Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) has called for an independent international investigation into mounting evidence and reports to Israeli occupation forces using bulldozers to bury sick and wounded Palestinian civilians alive in the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the town of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231218 | ‘Bloodbath’: Israel continues to target Gaza hospitals and civilians | war on hospitals | No let up in Israel’s onslaught despite mounting calls for a truce and aid deliveries. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians in West Bank must stop: US | West Bank | Attacks by “extremist settlers” against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank “must stop,” US Secretary of Defines, Lloyd Austin, said on Monday | ||||||
| 20231218 | 3 Palestine women among 35 arrested overnight, rights group reveal | West Bank | Three Palestinian women were among the 35 Palestinians detained overnight and this morning by the Israeli occupation forces in the Occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231218 | Israel demolishes Palestinian homes, electricity network in Occupied West Bank | West Bank | The Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian home under construction and dismantled an electricity network in the village of Majdal Bani Fadel, based south of Nablus. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231219 | Qatar, Israel hostage talks positive but deal not imminent - source | new ceasefire talks | A meeting between Qatar’s prime minister and the heads of Israel’s Mossad spy agency and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Warsaw on Monday about hostages held by Hamas was positive but there is no expectation of an imminent deal, according to a source briefed on the diplomatic efforts. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel ready for new humanitarian pause in Gaza for hostage release: President | new ceasefire talks | Israel is ready for a second humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas, President Isaac Herzog said Tuesday | ||||||
| 20231219 | Meta Oversight Board says Israel-Hamas videos should not have been removed | global effect | Meta Platform's Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages and injured people in the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying the videos were valuable to understanding human suffering in the war. | ||||||
| 20231219 | ‘We have a duty’: US doctor says ceasefire an ‘ethical imperative’ in Gaza | humanitarian | Doctors continue to weigh calls for ceasefire in Gaza, with some some saying doing so is a professional responsibility. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Is the US complicit in the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza? | humanitarian | Should the United States, a staunch ally of Israel, be doing more to help the Palestinians? And how complicit is Washington in the humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded? | ||||||
| 20231219 | Humanitarian crisis worsens despite more aid | humanitarian | Israel has opened a new border crossing and allowed more humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. But aid agencies continue to warn of insufficient aid amid what the UN has called a "humanitarian catastrophe." | ||||||
| 20231219 | Gaza war is world's 'moral failure', Red Cross chief says | ICRC | The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday deplored the conflict in Gaza as a "moral failure" of the international community and urged Israel and Hamas to reach a new deal to halt the fighting. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israeli real estate firm pushes settlement building in Gaza | Israelis | An Israeli real estate firm is pushing to build settlements for Israelis in Gaza, in areas where the army’s bombardment has left Palestinian homes in ruins. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Former French army officer says Israel’s shooting of its three hostages was not accidental, Netanyahu deceiving public | Israelis | A former French army officer, Guillaume Ancel, says the shooting of the three Israeli hostages by Israeli forces was not accidental.
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| 20231219 | Kill a detained Hamas members each day Israeli hostages are held, Ben-Gvir says | Israelis | Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the execution of imprisoned members of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, for each day Israeli prisoners of war are held by the movement in the besieged Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israeli professor says Zionist project more important than saving hostages | Israelis | Israeli political science professor Avraham Diskin says if he was in a decision-making role, he would prioritise the Zionist project over saving the hostages. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Hamas has ‘endless army’, Israel’s dream of destroying it an ‘illusion’, analyst says | Israelis | Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said yesterday that more than two months since Tel Aviv launched its brutal bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, it has become clear that Hamas has an “endless army” and Israel’s dream of destroying it is nothing but an “illusion”. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Poverty rate in Israel skyrockets following military offensive in Gaza | Israelis | Israel’s military offensive in Gaza is having a profoundly negative impact on the country’s economy according to findings by the Alternative Poverty Report. | ||||||
| 20231219 | A Palestinian student briefly deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit | Israelis | H., who cannot be named for legal reasons, is a 31-year-old Palestinian medical student from the occupied West Bank. Until a month ago, she had been doing her residency in one of Israel’s largest hospitals. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel-Hamas war emboldens East Jerusalem settlers eyeing Palestinian homes | Jerusalem | In East Jerusalem, tensions between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians they are trying to dislodge have been rising in the context of the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel is conducting its own ‘Final Solution’ in Gaza | opinion | The unfathomable scope of Israel’s actions in Gaza against Palestinian civilians amounts to war crimes devoid of any humanity. We bear a moral responsibility to demand an immediate end to these atrocities, and accountability and justice for these crimes. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Shoukry, Blinken stress rejection of any displacement of Palestinians | Egypt/Israelis | Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the latest developments in the war-torn Gaza Strip, agreeing to continue rejecting and preventing any displacement of Palestinians from their lands. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Iran: Revolutionary Guards establish Basij naval force | Iran | The navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has established a Basij naval force. Basij volunteers form the internal militia of the IRGC. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel shells 2 Lebanon towns with incendiary munitions | Lebanon/Israel | Israeli forces fired incendiary phosphorus shells at two border towns in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanese media | ||||||
| 20231219 | 'Mahmoud Abbas needs to leave,' says Nasser al Qudwa, Yasser Arafat’s nephew | PA | Nasser al Qudwa, a Palestinian former foreign minister, told FRANCE 24 that Mahmoud Abbas's 18 years at the head of the Palestinian Authority “has to end”, adding that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians agree. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Pentagon announces new international mission to counter attacks on commercial vessels in Red Sea | Red Sea | The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Tuesday in Bahrain. | ||||||
| 20231219 | U.S. launches Red Sea force as ships reroute to avoid attacks | Red Sea | The United States on Tuesday launched a multinational operation to safeguard commerce in the Red Sea as attacks by Iran-backed Yemeni militants forced major shipping companies to reroute, fuelling concern over sustained disruptions to global trade. | ||||||
| 20231219 | US launches Red Sea force against attacks by Yemen's Houthis | Red Sea | A multinational naval force will be deployed in the Red Sea to defend against attacks from Houthis that have disrupted international shipping routes, United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231219 | US announces 10-nation force to counter Houthi attacks in Red Sea | Red Sea | US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says coalition will include Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, UK and other countries. | ||||||
| 20231219 | US announces multinational force to secure Red Sea shipping against Houthi attacks | Red Sea | The US and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced early Tuesday in Bahrain. | ||||||
| 20231219 | US escalates Israel aggression on Gaza with naval plan against Houthi attacks on Red Sea | Red Sea | In a further sign of regional escalation, the US has rallied more than half a dozen allies to join a strengthened naval task force to protect Red Sea shipping from attacks by the Houthis. | ||||||
| 20231219 | US announces naval coalition to defend Red Sea shipping from Houthi attacks | Red Sea | Egypt and Saudi Arabia notably absent from Operation Prosperity Guardian as more shipping companies forgo route | ||||||
| 20231219 | ‘Any country’ acting against Houthis will be targeted: Official | Red Sea | Earlier on Tuesday, the rebels pledged to continue the attacks in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a vital shipping lane between Asia and Europe, after the US said it is building a maritime coalition to prevent Red Sea attacks on commercial vessels. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Yemen’s Houthis ‘will not stop’ Red Sea attacks until Israel ends Gaza war | Red Sea | US launches maritime coalition to counter attacks the rebel group says are a response to Israeli ‘crimes’ in Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231219 | UK warns of deteriorating security in Red Sea, Royal Navy ship joins taskforce | Red Sea | Britain warned that the security situation in the Red Sea was deteriorating and ballistic missile and drone attacks were an increased threat, as it agreed for a Royal Navy Destroyer to join a U.S.-led operation to safeguard commerce in the region. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Shippers mask positions, weigh options amid Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | A number of container ships are anchored in the Red Sea and others have turned off tracking systems as traders adjust routes and prices in response to maritime attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on the world's main East-West trade route. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel keeps pounding Gaza, Houthis vow more Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Israel kept pounding the shattered Gaza Strip on Tuesday while Yemen's pro-Palestinian Houthi movement vowed to defy a U.S.-led naval mission and keep hitting Israeli targets in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Can the US-led maritime force stop Yemen’s Houthi attacks during Gaza war? | Red Sea | The Houthis say they won’t stop attacking ships unless Israel stops its attacks on Gaza. So far, the shipping industry doesn’t appear convinced the task force can halt them. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Challenges facing a Red Sea anti-rebel naval task force | Red Sea | A multinational naval task force to protect a key global shipping lane from Yemen's Houthi rebels would face severe challenges in a difficult strategic and military context, experts say | ||||||
| 20231219 | Fears of higher oil prices after Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea risk pushing up the price of oil and other goods, analysts have warned. | ||||||
| 20231219 | What do Red Sea assaults mean for global trade? | Red Sea | Global supply chains could face severe disruption as a result of the world's biggest shipping companies diverting journeys away from the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231219 | How will global trade be impacted by Red Sea avoidance? | Red Sea | After a rise in attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis, the world's largest shipping firms are staying away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Could the world see a repeat of the post-COVID supply chain crisis? | ||||||
| 20231219 | Companies rush to avert disruption from Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Sweden’s Electrolux has set up a task force to find alternative routes or identify priority deliveries, as companies scramble to avoid any disruption from the attacks by the Yemeni Houthi group on ships in the Red Sea | ||||||
| 20231219 | Senior UK Conservative MPs call on government to push for Gaza ceasefire amid Israel atrocities | United Kingdom | Senior MPs from the United Kingdom’s ruling Conservative party have called on the country’s leadership to support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, acknowledging Israel’s role in carrying out the “brutalisation of the civilian Palestinian population” in the besieged territory. | ||||||
| 20231219 | MPs clash in Commons as government urged to back instant Gaza ceasefire | United Kingdom | Lib Dem MP Layla Moran describes desperate plight of relatives in Gaza after she was granted urgent question on situation | ||||||
| 20231219 | Labour Muslim Network pressures Starmer to cut ties with Israeli ambassador | United Kingdom | Starmer urged to take 'no further engagements' with Tzipi Hotovely, after she said her country would not accept a two-state solution when the war in Gaza ends | ||||||
| 20231219 | Britain's first MP of Palestinian descent presses government for immediate ceasefire in Gaza | United Kingdom | Layla Moran, the UK’s first MP of Palestinian descent, on Tuesday raised the alarm over the dire circumstances faced by her extended family trapped in a Gaza Church | ||||||
| 20231219 | A collection of UK Labour Party members refusing to call for a ceasefire in Gaza | United Kingdom | A video collates footage of several UK Labour Party refusing to endorse an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, citing ongoing threats from Hamas and the need to secure the release of hostages. Since 7 October, Israel has destroyed thousands of homes, killing over 18,000 people including over 8,000 children in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231219 | UN Security Council in intense negotiations on Gaza humanitarian resolution, trying to avoid US veto | United Nations | U.N. Security Council members were in intense negotiations Tuesday on an Arab-sponsored resolution to spur desperately needed humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza during some kind of a halt in the fighting, trying to avoid another veto by the United States. | ||||||
| 20231219 | UNSC due to vote on Israel-Hamas truce after repeated US vetoes | United Nations | Diplomats say draft text may be watered down from ‘lasting cessation’ to ‘suspension’ of hostilities to appease US and avoid another veto. | ||||||
| 20231219 | UN Security Council delays Gaza vote | United Nations | The vote on a new resolution calling for a halt to hostilities in Gaza was reportedly delayed due to ongoing negotiations to avoid a US veto | ||||||
| 20231219 | UN agencies voice anger at Gaza hospital attacks, deprivation | United Nations | U.N. officials voiced anger and disbelief on Tuesday about the situation in Gaza hospitals, where injured people do not have basic supplies and children recovering from amputations are being killed in the ongoing conflict. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Death, destruction in Gaza 'unprecedented and unbearable' to witness: UN Mideast envoy | United Nations | UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process voiced concern, Tuesday, about the scope of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231219 | Is the US complicit in the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza? | United States | Should the United States, a staunch ally of Israel, be doing more to help the Palestinians? And how complicit is Washington in the humanitarian catastrophe that has unfolded? | ||||||
| 20231219 | The US encourages targeted assassinations to bolster Israel’s impunity | United States | Israel has long made it a mission to use targeted assassinations to kill Hamas leaders in Gaza and abroad. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Half of young Americans think Israel intentionally kills civilians, survey says | United States | Three-quarters of Americans aged 18-29 say Israel not doing enough to prevent civilian casualties, according to New York Times poll | ||||||
| 20231219 | US poll: most Americans disapprove of Biden's management of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza | United States | A majority of Americans disapprove of US President Joe Biden’s management of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to a poll released today. The New York Times/Siena College poll reveals that 57 per cent of respondents disapprove, while 33 per cent approve, with the remainder undecided. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israeli attack on residential area in south Gaza kills at least 29 people | war on Gaza | Three buildings are destroyed in the attack in Rafah, and separate strike in Jabalia refugee camp kills at least 13 people. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel delivers deadly airstrikes in south Gaza and raids a hospital in the north | war on Gaza | Israeli forces raided one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza’s north and bombarded the south with airstrikes that killed at least 28 Palestinians, pressing ahead with their offensive Tuesday with renewed backing from the United States, despite rising international alarm. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Important archaeological site 'mostly destroyed' by Israeli invasion | war on Gaza | New report suggests excavations of discoveries dating back to the Iron Age have been seriously harmed by Israeli actions in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel keeps pounding Gaza, Houthis vow more Red Sea attacks | war on Gaza | Israel kept pounding the shattered Gaza Strip on Tuesday while Yemen's pro-Palestinian Houthi movement vowed to defy a U.S.-led naval mission and keep hitting Israeli targets in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Hamas video shows elderly Israeli captives pleading for release | war on Gaza | The Qassam Brigades releases the one-minute video, titled Don’t Let Us Grow Old Here, on its Telegram account. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Shocking testimonies of Israeli killings and field executions of Palestinians in Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli army forces have carried out field executions against civilians during raids on Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip, according to shocking testimonies received by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
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| 20231219 | Gaza detainees died in Israel detention facility | war on Gaza | Several Palestinians are reported to have died in a detention facility where they were held near Israel’s Be’er Sheva. They were detained in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Palestinian casualties in Gaza near 20,000 with nearly 2m people displaced | war on Gaza | UK and Germany demand ‘sustainable ceasefire’ as Israel’s military campaign enters 11th week | ||||||
| 20231219 | UN agencies voice anger at Gaza hospital attacks, deprivation | war on hospitals | U.N. officials voiced anger and disbelief on Tuesday about the situation in Gaza hospitals, where injured people do not have basic supplies and children recovering from amputations are being killed in the ongoing conflict. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Hamas calls on UN, int'l groups to protect health facilities in Gaza | war on hospitals | Hamas has called on the United Nations and international organisations to fulfill their responsibilities and protect health facilities in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231219 | Israel settlers attack Palestinian worshippers in Ibrahimi Mosque with pepper spray | West Bank | Palestinian worshippers at the flashpoint Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron were assaulted by Israeli settlers yesterday during the evening prayer, reported Wafa news agency. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231220 | Hamas head in Cairo as momentum builds towards new Israel-Hamas truce talks | new ceasefire talks | The visit comes as Israel’s government signals it is open to another truce, but key sticking points remain. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Hamas leader visits Cairo as talks over another Gaza cease-fire gather pace | new ceasefire talks | Hamas’ top leader traveled to Cairo on Wednesday for talks on the war in Gaza, part of a flurry of diplomacy aimed at securing another cease-fire and swap of hostages for Palestinian prisoners at a moment when Israel’s offensive shows no signs of slowing. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Hamas leader visits Egypt amid intensive talks on new ceasefire | new ceasefire talks | The leader of Hamas paid his first visit to Egypt for more than a month on Wednesday, a rare personal intervention in diplomacy amid what a source described as intensive talks on a new ceasefire to let aid reach Gaza and get more hostages freed. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Talks on new pause in Gaza war gain urgency as Hamas chief visits Cairo | new ceasefire talks | While a full ceasefire in the Gaza Strip still looks a long way off, there are fresh signs that a new pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas could be possible. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Ceasefire talks renewed as Gaza comes under heavy bombardment | new ceasefire talks | Talks over a week-long ceasefire and release of dozens of captives reportedly under way as Hamas leader lands in Cairo | ||||||
| 20231220 | German cultural institutions turn on pro-Palestinian voices | global effect | Since the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, which sparked the current Gaza offensive by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), pro-Palestine voices in Germany’s culture sector have been silenced. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Malaysia bans Israel-flagged ships from its ports in response to Gaza war | global response | PM says Israel’s actions ‘violate international law through the ongoing massacre and brutality against Palestinians’. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Malaysia prevents Israeli shipping company from using ports | global response | Malaysia is banning Israeli shipping company ZIM from using its ports, due to the Zionist state’s military offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced today. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israeli tank 'fired at building housing Israelis on 7 October' | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli media show footage of tank firing at house in Kibbutz Be'eri during the Hamas attack, claiming hostages and Palestinian fighters were inside | ||||||
| 20231220 | ‘Barely a drop’: UN warns water shortages a deadly risk for Gaza children | humanitarian | Water and sanitation services are at the point of collapse with large-scale disease outbreaks looming, UNICEF warns. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Gaza children dizzy from hunger as war impedes food deliveries | humanitarian | The children displaced to south Gaza were craving chicken, but all their mother had left to feed the family for the day was a tin of peas donated by a man who took pity on her when he saw her crying. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel bombs charity building in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | humanitarian | This is the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on the Al Salam Charitable Society building in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, which killed and injured dozens of Palestinians. Civilians are searching under the rubble for survivors. | ||||||
| 20231220 | 'I don't want to be a number': Gazans live in fear of dying | humanitarian | The children at al-Aqsa hospital do not think of the dead of Gaza in figures of thousands. Theirs is a more intimate reckoning. It is counted in beloved faces that have vanished into the fire and rubble of the war. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Gaza conflict: Humanitarian crisis worsens despite more aid | humanitarian | Israel has opened a new border crossing allowing more humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. But aid agencies warn of insufficient aid amid a dire humanitarian crisis. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Only 440 injured Palestinians have left Gaza for treatment, the rest need global intervention | humanitarian | While 440 injured people have been transferred abroad for treatment, over 5,000 patients in urgent need of treatment and critical surgeries have yet to be allowed to travel out of Gaza for vital medical care. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel wants to fast-track humanitarian aid to Gaza via Cyprus says foreign minister | humanitarian | “Cyprus and Israel, together with other partners in the region, are promoting the initiative for a secure maritime corridor to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian assistance to Gaza in an organized and well inspected manner,” Cohen said.
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| 20231220 | Reports: Five days prior to Israeli army killing Israeli captives, it killed their Hamas captors | Israelis | Israeli newspaper, Haaretz is reporting that five days prior to the army mistakenly killing three Israeli captives, it had killed their Hamas captors. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Netanyahu rules out Gaza ceasefire before 'elimination' of Hamas | Israelis | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday there will be no ceasefire in Gaza until the "elimination" of Hamas, as the civilian death toll mounts in the Palestinian territory. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Netanyahu rules out Gaza ceasefire until 'elimination' of Hamas | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that there would be no ceasefire in the Gaza Strip until the "elimination" of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel wants to fast-track humanitarian aid to Gaza via Cyprus says foreign minister | Israelis | “Cyprus and Israel, together with other partners in the region, are promoting the initiative for a secure maritime corridor to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian assistance to Gaza in an organized and well inspected manner,” Cohen said.
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| 20231220 | Israeli journalist says army should have killed 100,000 Palestinians | Israelis | Zvi Yehezkeli, Channel 13's Arab affairs correspondent, said Israel should have pushed a more 'fatal' assault after 7 October | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel: shocking video emerges of analyst calling for ‘100,000’ Palestinians to be killed | Israelis | A shocking video has emerged of an Israeli analyst saying that the Israel Defence Forces should have killed 100,000 Palestinians since the beginning of the war in Gaza. Zvi Yehezkeli made his comment on Israel’s Channel 13 TV. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israeli army officer vows to turn entire Gaza Strip into rubble like Beit Hanoun | Israelis | “Israel suffered a painful blow on Oct. 7. They attacked the dignity of our people,” Yair Ben David, a commander in the 2908th Battalion, told his soldiers in a video shared on social media platforms. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Injured Israel soldiers refuse to meet PM Netanyahu | Israelis | Israel’s Channel 13 reported that injured Israeli soldiers have refused a visit from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israeli captives tell Netanyahu, ‘You want us to return as corpses’ | Israelis | An Israeli captive held by the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip has told Benjamin Netanyahu, “You want us to return as corpses.” | ||||||
| 20231220 | Netanyahu seeks to postpone his trial due to war on Gaza, claims TV channel | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to postpone his trial on corruption charges due to him being busy with the war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to Israel’s Channel 13 on Tuesday. Netanyahu faces charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust, explained the Hebrew-language channel. | ||||||
| 20231220 | DAWN submits to ICC Prosecutor List of 40 Israeli Commanding Officers Executing and Planning Gaza Assault | Israelis | The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor should investigate as suspects for war crimes and crimes against humanity the senior Israeli commanders ("Prime Suspects: Who's Running Israel's War in Gaza") identified by Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). | ||||||
| 20231220 | Why the war on Gaza is not making Israel safer | opinion | Political scientist Ian Bremmer says the human carnage of Israel’s war on Gaza is strengthening Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Tensions rising between Egypt, Israel over bombing of border area | Egypt/Israelis | There has been a sharp increase in tension between Egypt and Israel after the latter bombed the Salah Al-Din Axis, known as the Philadelphia Axis, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, a national security expert has said. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel strikes southern Lebanon; Hezbollah announces fatalities | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel has launched air strikes on several positions in southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah. The Lebanese armed group says six fighters were killed in the past 24 hours. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Arab attitudes are hardening against Israel | Middle East/Israelis | The prospect of normalized relations between Israel and Arab nations is fading as public anger at Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza grows. | ||||||
| 20231220 | ‘Fed up with war’: Yemenis fear new conflict after Houthi Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Many Yemenis worry that the Houthi attacks on Red Sea vessels will spark a Western or Israeli response, dragging their war-battered nation into a new conflict. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Houthi leader threatens to attack US warships if Washington targets Yemen | Red Sea | The leader of Yemen's Houthis warned on Wednesday they would strike U.S. warships if the Iranian-backed militia was targeted by Washington, which this week set up a multinational force to counter Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231220 | U.S. Red Sea taskforce gets limited backing from some allies | Red Sea | Several U.S. allies have said they support efforts to protect shipping in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi group, but some have said they would not join a naval coalition that Washington said it was building for the task. | ||||||
| 20231220 | More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks | Red Sea | Cape of Good Hope diversion adds 6,000 nautical miles and three or four weeks to delivery times and has driven up oil prices | ||||||
| 20231220 | Why Arab states are steering clear of anti-Houthi naval task force | Red Sea | Bahrain is the only regional country to join US-led operations against vessel seizures, as Saudi Arabia and UAE hedge bets amid threat of Yemeni group's reprisal | ||||||
| 20231220 | Saudi, UAE divided over US efforts to counter Houthi Red Sea threat | Red Sea | Disagreements between Saudi Arabia and the UAE are hindering US efforts to counter the threat from Yemen’s Houthi-aligned armed forces as they continue to target Israeli-linked and Israel-bound cargo vessels in the Red Sea | ||||||
| 20231220 | EU, Egypt coordinate over Houthi attacks on Red Sea: EU’s delegation head | Red Sea | The European Union (EU) is coordinating with Egypt regarding protecting the shipments crossing the Red Sea against the Houthi attacks, the Head of the EU Delegation in Egypt, Ambassador Christian Berger, stated on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231220 | More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks | Red Sea | Cape of Good Hope diversion adds 6,000 nautical miles and three or four weeks to delivery times and has driven up oil prices | ||||||
| 20231220 | Greece advises vessels to avoid Yemeni waters after Red Sea attacks | Red Sea | Greece has advised commercial vessels sailing in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to avoid Yemeni waters, keep only the necessary crew on the bridge and follow alerts issued by maritime authorities to avoid attacks in the area. | ||||||
| 20231220 | New risk to inflation? Cost of the Red Sea attacks on global trade | Red Sea | Higher shipping costs and longer delivery times bring a new risk to global inflation. | ||||||
| 20231220 | ‘Barely a drop’: UN warns water shortages a deadly risk for Gaza children | United Nations | Water and sanitation services are at the point of collapse with large-scale disease outbreaks looming, UNICEF warns. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Nearly 66 percent of jobs lost in Gaza since Israel-Hamas war broke out | United Nations | UN labour agency, Palestinian bureau note major spillover effect in occupied West Bank with one-third jobs wiped out. | ||||||
| 20231220 | UN resolution on Gaza hampered by issues important to US: cessation of hostilities and aid monitors | United Nations | The Security Council’s adoption of a new U.N. resolution to spur desperately needed aid to Gaza has been bogged down by two issues important to the United States: a reference to a cessation of hostilities and putting the U.N. in charge of inspecting trucks to ensure they are actually carrying humanitarian goods. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Biden administration policy differences reportedly behind delay in Gaza ceasefire vote at UN | United Nations | Work continues on UN security council text of resolution that the US could at least abstain on, as Qatar says hostage talks have been ‘positive’ | ||||||
| 20231220 | Biden administration policy differences reportedly behind delay in Gaza ceasefire vote at UN | United States | Work continues on UN security council text of resolution that the US could at least abstain on, as Qatar says hostage talks have been ‘positive’ | ||||||
| 20231220 | Dozens killed in air strikes on Rafah, scores more trapped under the rubble | war on Gaza | Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza strip have killed at least 100 Palestinians in the last day - that's according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. In the south, air strikes have reduced residential areas to rubble. At least 30 people have been killed in Rafah in the latest attacks. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Nearly 66 percent of jobs lost in Gaza since Israel-Hamas war broke out | war on Gaza | UN labour agency, Palestinian bureau note major spillover effect in occupied West Bank with one-third jobs wiped out. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Ongoing Israeli aggression have wiped out at least 66% of employment in the Gaza Strip: ILO | war on Gaza | At least 66 % of employment has been lost in the Gaza Strip and around 32% in the occupied West Bank, since the war began, according to the estimation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). | ||||||
| 20231220 | Women and children among dead in Israeli attacks in south Gaza | war on Gaza | Dozens of people including women, children and a journalist have been reported killed in Israeli attacks on residential homes in Rafah in south Gaza, where Israel told people to flee to in recent weeks. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Netanyahu rules out Gaza ceasefire before 'elimination' of Hamas | war on Gaza | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday there will be no ceasefire in Gaza until the "elimination" of Hamas, as the civilian death toll mounts in the Palestinian territory. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israeli army officer vows to turn entire Gaza Strip into rubble like Beit Hanoun | war on Gaza | “Israel suffered a painful blow on Oct. 7. They attacked the dignity of our people,” Yair Ben David, a commander in the 2908th Battalion, told his soldiers in a video shared on social media platforms. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Tensions rising between Egypt, Israel over bombing of border area | war on Gaza | There has been a sharp increase in tension between Egypt and Israel after the latter bombed the Salah Al-Din Axis, known as the Philadelphia Axis, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, a national security expert has said. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Air attack on Rafah caught live on air | war on hospitals | The explosion sent a massive plume of smoke into the sky and panicked residents running for cover. “People are running from the site of the explosion … right near the vicinity of the Kuwaiti Hospital,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, who was just a few meters away from the scene of the attack. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel continues to target hospitals in northern and southern Gaza | war on hospitals | The Israeli army renewed its attacks on hospitals located in the northern part of the Gaza Strip yesterday, turning one in Jabalia into a military barracks, while another hospital in Gaza City was taken out of service, endangering the lives of patients and the seriously wounded. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Israel bombs charity building in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | war on refugee camps | This is the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on the Al Salam Charitable Society building in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, which killed and injured dozens of Palestinians. Civilians are searching under the rubble for survivors. | ||||||
| 20231220 | Palestinian statues torn down by Israeli forces | West Bank | Israeli forces are destroying statues and monuments of Palestinian resistance during raids in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231220 | ‘No safe place’: Jenin’s Freedom Theatre raided, daubed with Star of David | West Bank | Landmark that provided healing for traumatised children in the West Bank has been ransacked, directors arrested.
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| 20231220 | Israel confiscates Palestinian-owned land to build settler-only road near Bethlehem | West Bank | The Israeli occupation forces confiscated Palestinian-owned land today to construct a new road for illegal Israeli settlers in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency. | ||||||
| 20231220 | France to sanction extremist Israeli settlers for ‘unacceptable’ violence against Palestinians | West Bank | France will impose sanctions on specific extremist Israeli settlers, announced French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna yesterday after she condemned the “unacceptable” violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| DATE | DEVELOPMENT | CONTEXT | DESCRIPTION | ||||||
| 20231221 | UAE foreign minister meets with Palestinian official in Abu Dhabi | new ceasefire talks | The United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign minister has met a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official in Abu Dhabi where they discussed international efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, the Emirati state news agency reported on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Hamas: No talks on hostage swap deal before complete ceasefire in Gaza | new ceasefire talks | Hamas today announced that Palestinian resistance groups have taken a “national decision” ruling out talks with Israel on a prisoner exchange deal before a comprehensive ceasefire | ||||||
| 20231221 | Hamas rejects hostage talks | new ceasefire talks | Hamas says no talks without halt to Israeli onslaught, after Netanyahu appeared to dismiss prospect of another truce | ||||||
| 20231221 | Meta ‘stifling’ pro-Palestine voices on social media, rights group says | global effects | ‘Censorship’ of hundreds of posts on Facebook, Instagram during Gaza war furthers ‘erasure of Palestinians’ suffering’ | ||||||
| 20231221 | Meta accused of ‘systemic censorship’ of pro-Palestine content | global effects | Meta’s oversight board declared on Tuesday that the social media giant, formerly known as Facebook, made an error in removing two videos depicting hostages and casualties during Israel’s military onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza. The decision comes as Meta is accused by Human Rights Watch of “systemic censorship of Palestine content.” | ||||||
| 20231221 | Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims | global effects | Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine | ||||||
| 20231221 | ‘Seen as less human’: Why has Islamophobia surged amid Israel’s Gaza war? | global effects | Hate crimes against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim in the United Kingdom are up by 140 percent compared with this time last year, according to British police. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UK primary school threatened Prevent referrals over Palestine symbols | global effects | Parents of children at London school who dressed in Palestinian colours or wore badges or stickers for 'Children in Need' Day were told they could be 'deemed offensive' | ||||||
| 20231221 | BBC urged to drop UK Eurovision entrant Olly Alexander who called Israel an ‘apartheid state’ | global effects | The UK entrant for next year's Eurovision endorsed a statement by an LGBTQ+ “direct action” pressure group accusing Israel of genocide. Now, several groups are demanding the BBC drop Olly Alexander. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Australian protesters on kayaks confront Israel-linked ship | global response | Pro-Palestinian protesters on kayaks are trying to block an Israel-linked cargo ship in Melbourne, Australia. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Fontaines D.C., Massive Attack & Young Fathers announce Gaza benefit single | global response | 100 per cent of the profits from the single will be donated to the charity Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders to help their emergency operations in Gaza and the West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Spain calls on Europe to speak ‘clearly’ on Gaza to stop human suffering | global response | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday that “the time has come for Europeans to speak clearly and with one voice” on Israel’s brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli attack kills Palestinian border crossing chief: Gaza officials | humanitarian | Bassem Ghaben, director of Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing, was working to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UN report says more than 570,000 people in Gaza are now ‘starving’ due to fallout from war | humanitarian | More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving due to “woefully insufficient” quantities of food entering the territory ever since Israel’s military responded to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, according to a report released Thursday by the U.N. and other agencies. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Entire Gaza population facing hunger crisis, famine risk -U.N.-backed report | humanitarian | The entire 2.3 million population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day, a U.N.-backed body said in a report published on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Parched Gaza residents praise water tasting 'like sugar' from Egypt | humanitarian | For Gaza resident Zaki Abu Sleyma the water now flowing into the devastated enclave from a desalination project in Egypt tastes "like sugar" after weeks of Israel's bombardment and siege left him and many others drinking unclean, brackish water. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UN relief workers visiting Gaza hospitals describe 'unbearable' scenes | humanitarian | U.N. relief workers on Thursday reported “unbearable” scenes in two hospitals in northern Gaza, where bedridden patients with untreated wounds cry out for water, the few remaining doctors and nurses have no supplies, and bodies are lined up in the courtyard — signs of the worsening humanitarian crisis after 10 weeks of the Israeli war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Analysis: Why is Israel’s military killing so many of its own? | Israelis | The perils of urban warfare, coupled with operational issues within the army, appear to be hobbling Israel’s advance. | ||||||
| 20231221 | US rights group calls on ICC to probe Israeli commanders for war crimes | Israelis | Democracy for the Arab World Now accuses 40 senior Israeli commanders of violating international law in Gaza military campaign | ||||||
| 20231221 | Former Israeli Prime Minister says Netanyahu is causing 'direct harm' to Israel | Israelis | Ehud Olmert, former Israeli Prime Minister says current prime minister Netanyahu should resign and that he threatens the very existence of the state of Israel. Olmert describes Netanyahu's government as a 'reckless, corrupt dictatorship, led by thugs lacking internal balance! | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli military accused of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza | journalists | Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 68 journalists and media workers killed since 7 October | ||||||
| 20231221 | The anatomy of Zionist genocide | opinion | What are the motivations behind Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza, and what is the way forward? | ||||||
| 20231221 | Arab League: Israel's crimes shame it and those that support it | Arab League | The Arab League has affirmed that the crime in Gaza committed by the Israeli occupation is not only a shame to Israel, but also to those who supported, endorsed, or remained silent about these crimes. | ||||||
| 20231221 | World Bank projects that Israel-Hamas war could push Lebanon back into recession | Lebanon/Israelis | The ripple effects of the war in Gaza are likely to knock Lebanon’s fragile economy, which had begun making a tepid recovery after years of crisis, back into recession, the World Bank said in a report released Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli strike kills elderly woman in south Lebanon: State media | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli strikes killed a woman in her eighties in a south Lebanon village on Thursday, Lebanese media and rescuers said, with Hezbollah retaliatory attacks wounding two civilians, according to Israel's military. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli strike kills elderly woman in southern Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | An Israeli strike killed an elderly woman and wounded her husband in their home in southern Lebanon early today, Lebanon’s state news agency and a security source said | ||||||
| 20231221 | 5 rockets struck Israeli military site: Israeli media | Lebanon/Israelis | Five rockets were launched at an Israeli army site, triggering sirens in northern settlements near the Lebanon border, an Israeli broadcaster reported on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UPDATE 2: Egypt coordinating to secure navigation in Red Sea: FM Shoukry | Red Sea | Egypt is currently coordinating with the countries bordering the Red Sea to secure maritime navigation, the country’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Thursday, as Houthi attacks against ships passing the Red Sea continue, leading to the establishment of an international US-led coalition. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Red Sea: Why Arab nations won't join new naval coalition | Red Sea | The US announced a naval coalition to protect shipping from Houthi attacks. But only one Middle Eastern country has joined. Speculation abounds as to why others, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, did not. | ||||||
| 20231221 | What is U.S.-led Red Sea coalition and which countries are backing it? | Red Sea | Several U.S. allies have said they support efforts to protect shipping in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi group, but some have said they would not join a naval coalition that Washington said it was building for the task. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Greece to join US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping from Houthis | Red Sea | The maritime alliance wants to counter threats that the Yemeni rebel group says are a response to Israeli ‘crimes’ in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Greece to send a frigate to Red Sea to protect shipping | Red Sea | Greece said on Thursday it would send a naval frigate to the Red Sea to protect shipping after attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi group. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Greece joins US-led naval coalition to protect Red Sea shipping | Red Sea | Greece has announced that it is to join the United States-led naval coalition to protect global shipping in the Red Sea from attacks by the Houthis in Yemen. The coalition aims to expand its growth and support. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Australia to send military personnel to help protect Red Sea shipping but no warship | Red Sea | Australia will send 11 military personnel to support a U.S.-led mission to protect cargo shipping in the Red Sea, but it won’t send a warship or plane, the defense minister said Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Riyadh reluctant to derail Iran detente over U.S. Red Sea taskforce | Red Sea | Saudi Arabia's name was conspicuously - perhaps surprisingly - absent from a list of countries the United States announced as part of its new naval coalition protecting Red Sea shipping from Yemen's Houthi group. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Ikea warns Red Sea attacks could disrupt supplies and deliveries | Red Sea | Firm says it is weighing up options to secure product availability amid Yemeni rebel attacks on shipping | ||||||
| 20231221 | UK primary school threatened Prevent referrals over Palestine symbols | United Kingdom | Parents of children at London school who dressed in Palestinian colours or wore badges or stickers for 'Children in Need' Day were told they could be 'deemed offensive' | ||||||
| 20231221 | BBC urged to drop UK Eurovision entrant Olly Alexander who called Israel an ‘apartheid state’ | United Kingdom | The UK entrant for next year's Eurovision endorsed a statement by an LGBTQ+ “direct action” pressure group accusing Israel of genocide. Now, several groups are demanding the BBC drop Olly Alexander. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UK committed to alleviating suffering of people in Gaza, foreign secretary says | United Kingdom | Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Thursday said the UK is committed to alleviating the suffering of Palestinians, as he visited the town of Al Alrish, near the Egypt-Gaza border, to see the impact of UK aid being sent to the besieged enclave | ||||||
| 20231221 | UN calls for probe as Israeli army accused of killing unarmed Palestinians | United Nations | UN rights office calls for investigation into ‘possible war crime’ amid reports Israeli forces allegedly ‘executed’ 11 Palestinian men in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israel ‘summarily’ killed 11 men in front of their families, says UN | United Nations | Reports of Israel “summarily” killing Palestinian men in front of their families has been reported by the UN. As many as 11 unarmed Palestinian men are said to have been killed in front of their family members in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). | ||||||
| 20231221 | US is engaging in high-level diplomacy to avoid vetoing a UN resolution on critical aid for Gaza | United Nations | The United States, key allies and Arab nations engaged in high-level diplomacy in hopes of avoiding another U.S. veto of a new U.N. resolution on desperately needed aid to Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UNSC struggles with Gaza truce vote delays, Israel orders mass evacuations | United Nations | Palestinians await long-delayed UN Security Council vote on aid delivery as death toll in besieged Gaza exceeds 20,000. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Ahead of UN vote, US says bid to boost Gaza aid could slow deliveries | United Nations | Ahead of a likely vote on Thursday, the United States said there are "serious and widespread concerns" that the current draft of a U.N. Security Council proposal that aims to boost humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip could actually slow down deliveries. | ||||||
| 20231221 | No functional hospital left in northern Gaza, WHO says | United Nations | The UN agency describes the situation as ‘beyond catastrophic’ with patients begging for food and water. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Gaza no longer has a functional hospital in the north, says WHO | United Nations | The north of Gaza no longer has a functional hospital due to a lack of fuel, staff and supplies, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today. Only nine out of 36 health facilities are partially functional in the whole of Gaza, added the organisation, and all of these facilities are concentrated in the south of the enclave | ||||||
| 20231221 | US is engaging in high-level diplomacy to avoid vetoing a UN resolution on critical aid for Gaza | United States | The United States, key allies and Arab nations engaged in high-level diplomacy in hopes of avoiding another U.S. veto of a new U.N. resolution on desperately needed aid to Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Will the US again veto the UNSC resolution on Gaza? | United States | Intense negotiations have dragged on to ensure the US does not veto the UAE-led humanitarian resolution. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Ahead of UN vote, US says bid to boost Gaza aid could slow deliveries | United States | Ahead of a likely vote on Thursday, the United States said there are "serious and widespread concerns" that the current draft of a U.N. Security Council proposal that aims to boost humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip could actually slow down deliveries. | ||||||
| 20231221 | US rights group calls on ICC to probe Israeli commanders for war crimes | United States | Democracy for the Arab World Now accuses 40 senior Israeli commanders of violating international law in Gaza military campaign | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli attack kills Palestinian border crossing chief: Gaza officials | war on Gaza | Bassem Ghaben, director of Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing, was working to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israel continues deadly attacks on Gaza amid hopes for another truce | war on Gaza | More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UNSC struggles with Gaza truce vote delays, Israel orders mass evacuations | war on Gaza | Palestinians await long-delayed UN Security Council vote on aid delivery as death toll in besieged Gaza exceeds 20,000. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, Hamas fires rockets amid truce talks | war on Gaza | Fighting in the Gaza Strip escalated on Thursday with some of the most intense Israeli bombardment of the war and Hamas demonstrated its ability to rocket Tel Aviv, even as the foes engaged in the most serious talks for weeks on a new truce. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli commander vows to flatten 'entire' Gaza Strip | war on Gaza | Israeli commander says the rest of Gaza will be reduced to rubble like the northern city of Beit Hanoun | ||||||
| 20231221 | New crime against humanity: Israeli army summarily executed 11 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza City on 19 December - Survivors | war on Gaza | Palestinians described to Al Jazeera the grisly details of how the Israeli army summarily executed 11 unarmed Palestinian men in the Al-Remal neighbourhood in Gaza City in the early evening hours on 19 December. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israel ‘summarily’ killed 11 men in front of their families, says UN | war on Gaza | Reports of Israel “summarily” killing Palestinian men in front of their families has been reported by the UN. As many as 11 unarmed Palestinian men are said to have been killed in front of their family members in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). | ||||||
| 20231221 | Amnesty urges probe into Israel 'disappearing Palestinians' in Gaza | war on Gaza | As the war reaches its 75th day, Israeli attacks in Gaza killed about 100 Palestinians and injured many. Intense assaults struck Khan Younis, with airstrikes near Deir Al-Balah and shelling in northern the strip. Further injuries and arrests occurred in the West Bank, while the UN Security Council's vote to halt the war has been delayed to Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | France: investigate 4,000 French soldiers for ‘war crimes’ in Palestine, says MP | war on Gaza | A member of the French Parliament from the opposition La France Insoumise party has called on the government to investigate the extent of the involvement of 4,185 French-origin soldiers serving in the Israeli army in committing war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Gaza death toll reaches 20,000 as UN ceasefire vote postponed | war on Gaza | Around 300 Palestinians have died each day on average since the conflict began, excluding the seven-day ceasefire, according to Gaza's health ministry. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Netanyahu vows to continue war on Gaza until all Israeli goals achieved | war on Gaza | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday reiterated his government position that the Israeli war on Gaza will not stop until the Israeli goals are achieved | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israel has no plan for the day after the war on Gaza | war on Gaza | An end to the conflict means an end to Netanyahu. That means no one is talking about what to do next | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli army claims to establish 'operational control' over Hamas stronghold in Gaza City | war on Gaza | The Israeli army on Thursday claimed its forces established full “operational control” over Shejaiya neighborhood, a Hamas stronghold, in eastern Gaza City | ||||||
| 20231221 | Al-Qassam Brigades boobytraps tunnel entrance, killing Israeli soldiers | war on Gaza | Al-Qassam Brigades said yesterday that they had detonated a tunnel entrance where several Israeli occupation soldiers were positioned, killing and injuring a number of them in southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | No functional hospital left in northern Gaza, WHO says | war on hospitals | The UN agency describes the situation as ‘beyond catastrophic’ with patients begging for food and water. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Northern Gaza no longer has a functional hospital, WHO says | war on hospitals | The World Health Organization said on Thursday that northern Gaza has been left without a functional hospital due to a lack of fuel, staff and supplies. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli forces target Palestinian paramedics | war on hospitals | Israel’s army is preventing Palestinian medics from transporting the wounded in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank which has faced the biggest Israeli raids since the Gaza war began. Ambulance staff say their own lives are at risk as they try to save the lives of others. | ||||||
| 20231221 | UN relief workers visiting Gaza hospitals describe 'unbearable' scenes | war on hospitals | U.N. relief workers on Thursday reported “unbearable” scenes in two hospitals in northern Gaza, where bedridden patients with untreated wounds cry out for water, the few remaining doctors and nurses have no supplies, and bodies are lined up in the courtyard — signs of the worsening humanitarian crisis after 10 weeks of the Israeli war on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli military accused of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza | war on whole families | Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 68 journalists and media workers killed since 7 October | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli forces target Palestinian paramedics | West Bank | Israel’s army is preventing Palestinian medics from transporting the wounded in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank which has faced the biggest Israeli raids since the Gaza war began. Ambulance staff say their own lives are at risk as they try to save the lives of others. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli police are investigating 19 prison guards in the death of a 38-year-old Palestinian prisoner | West Bank | Nineteen Israeli prison guards are under investigation in the death of a 38-year-old Palestinian security prisoner in their custody, police said Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231221 | Israeli prison guards suspected of abuse in death of Palestinian prisoner | West Bank | 19 guards under investigation for physically abusing Thaer Abu Asab, who died in Ketziot Prison last month | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231222 | Christian community fears extinction as ‘genocidal campaign’ continues | churches, mosques, schools | Palestinian Christians say there are only 800 of them left in Gaza due to Israel’s intensive bombing campaign which has killed more than 19,000 since 7 October | ||||||
| 20231222 | Hamas says no more hostage releases until war ends | new ceasefire talks | Hamas, the group which controls the Gaza Strip, has ruled out any more hostage releases until Israel agrees to a "full cessation of aggression".
COMMENT 20231202 - Hamas says no prisoner exchange without Gaza ceasefire |
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| 20231222 | No more hostage freed until Israel stops attacking Gaza | new ceasefire talks | Hamas will not release more hostages until Israel stops its military operation in Gaza, said Ghazi Hamad, senior leader of the Palestinian militant group.
COMMENT 20231202 - Hamas says no prisoner exchange without Gaza ceasefire |
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| 20231222 | Qassam Brigades: No prisoner exchange deal before Israel stops war | new ceasefire talks | The official spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, said yesterday that the movement refuses to engage in any prisoner exchange talks before Israel stops its war on the besieged Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Reports: Hamas seeks release of Marwan Barghouti in any hostage deal | new ceasefire talks | Hamas has demanded the release of three top Palestinian leaders in any hostage swap deal with Israel, Israeli media reports revealed yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Pro-Palestine activists plan global 'day of action' as ceasefire calls grow | global response | UK-based organisations, who spearheaded anti-Iraq war protests in 2003, announce global day of action on 13 January | ||||||
| 20231222 | Int’l Trade Union Confederation urges prompt ceasefire in Gaza, recognition of Palestinian State | global response | Attendees at the Central Council session of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have called for an urgent and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, emphasising its critical importance for the global community. | ||||||
| 20231222 | U.S. dual citizen taken hostage dies in Gaza, Israeli forum says | Hamas resistance attack | A U.S. dual national who was among some 240 people seized during the Oct 7 cross-border rampage by Hamas in southern Israel has died in captivity in the Gaza Strip, a group representing hostages' families said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Entire Gaza at ‘risk of famine’ as fighting rages between Israel, Hamas | humanitarian | New report says at least 576,600 people have exhausted food supplies and face catastrophic hunger and starvation. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN warns of Gaza famine risk as Security Council resolution faces vote | humanitarian | The United Nations warned the Israeli war on Gaza was pushing the strip towards famine, ahead of an expected Security Council vote Friday on a resolution to boost aid to the Palestinian territory but not call for a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN says half a million people starving in Gaza | humanitarian | A new UN report finds one in four people are facing extreme starvation amid the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. The report warns of a risk of famine within the next six months, if the intense conflict and restricted humanitarian access persist. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Gaza facing famine if fighting continues, UN says | humanitarian | The United Nations says Gaza is at risk of famine if the war between Israel and Hamas continues. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Besieged strip on the verge of 'famine', UN says | humanitarian | The Gaza Strip is facing the 'highest ever' levels of food insecurity, outstripping Sudan and Afghanistan | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel pushing Gaza towards famine, rights group warns | humanitarian | Israel’s military actions are pushing children and families in Gaza towards famine, Save the Children warned yesterday, as newly released data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) showed one in four households in Gaza now face catastrophic food insecurity, including starvation. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Arish received 340 flights and 6 ships bearing aid to Gaza so far: North Sinai Governor | humanitarian | Arish Airport and Seaport have received, so far, 340 flights, four cargo ships, and two field hospital ships, all bearing relief aid to Gaza, North Sinai Governor Abdel-Fadil Shousha announced on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Ex-Israel PM: Netanyahu is ‘untrustworthy’ and must be overthrown | Israelis | Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has renewed his criticism of incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing him as “untrustworthy” and saying he “only cares about his own interests”. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Invoking the Holocaust to justify Israeli war crimes dishonours its victims | opinion | The memory of the Holocaust and the legitimate struggle against antisemitism should not be weaponised to shield Israel from accountability for its crimes against Palestinians | ||||||
| 20231222 | Watching the watchdogs: Why the West misinterprets Middle East power shifts | opinion | Western media, leaders are unable to assess accurately the growing power of the Middle East ‘Axis of Resistance’ due to their deeply held prejudices. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel’s AI-powered ‘mass assassination factory’ | opinion | The system, called Habsora, or the Gospel in English, uses advanced technology to get targeting recommendations faster than a team of human beings. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Netanyahu wanted to 'collapse' Hamas. This war could collapse Israel | opinion | The Gaza war has been a huge miscalculation for Israel. As well as being a moral and military disaster, it is fuelling resistance and reigniting the embers of anger across the Arab world | ||||||
| 20231222 | Lebanon ready to apply UN resolution on border if Israel complies: PM | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanon's prime minister said his country is ready to implement a UN resolution that would help end Hezbollah's cross-border attacks on Israel if Israel also complies and withdraws from disputed territory, | ||||||
| 20231222 | Yemen's Houthis urges OIC countries to ban Israel ships | Red Sea | A spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi group, Mohammed Abdul Salam, yesterday called on members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to follow Malaysia’s example by banning Israeli cargo ships from docking in their ports in rejection of Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231222 | More than 20 countries join US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping | Red Sea | More than 20 countries have joined the US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping from attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels, the Pentagon said on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231222 | More than 20 countries join US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping: Pentagon | Red Sea | More than 20 countries have joined the US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping from attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels, the Pentagon said late Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Stock prices of shipping companies are soaring because of Houthi attacks | Red Sea | The Houthis are driving a surge in shipping company stock prices and boosting profitability for vessel owners | ||||||
| 20231222 | Saudis overwhelmingly say Arab nations should cut ties with Israel | Saudi Arabia/Israelis | Survey finds that 96 percent of Saudis oppose ties with Israel and that Hamas has gained popularity since Israel launched assault on Gaza | ||||||
| 20231222 | US ready to back diluted resolution on more aid to Gaza as UN vote delayed | United Nations | UN Security Council vote is expected on Friday after four postponements, countries’ disagreements over language of text. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN Security Council vote again delayed | United Nations | A UN Security Council vote on a Gaza resolution has been postponed again, even after Council members made fundamental changes to the text. Meanwhile, the death toll has climbed above 20,000. DW has the latest. | ||||||
| 20231222 | What’s the latest UN Gaza resolution that the US has agreed to? | United Nations | The US has heavily amended the UAE-led UN draft resolution on Gaza as casualties and hunger rise in the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN again delays vote on watered-down Gaza aid resolution. The US backs it, others want stronger text | United Nations | The U.N. Security Council on Thursday again delayed a vote on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza — a revision backed by the United States, while other countries support a stronger text that would include the now eliminated call for the urgent suspension of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN Security Council resolution calls for more aid to Gaza, not end to hostilities | United Nations | A UN Security Council resolution on Friday called for increased humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip amid reports of widespread hunger but stopped short of calling for a cessation in hostilities. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN warns of Gaza famine risk as Security Council resolution faces vote | United Nations | The United Nations warned the Israeli war on Gaza was pushing the strip towards famine, ahead of an expected Security Council vote Friday on a resolution to boost aid to the Palestinian territory but not call for a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN says half a million people starving in Gaza | United Nations | A new UN report finds one in four people are facing extreme starvation amid the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. The report warns of a risk of famine within the next six months, if the intense conflict and restricted humanitarian access persist. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Gaza facing famine if fighting continues, UN says | United Nations | The United Nations says Gaza is at risk of famine if the war between Israel and Hamas continues. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Besieged strip on the verge of 'famine', UN says | United Nations | The Gaza Strip is facing the 'highest ever' levels of food insecurity, outstripping Sudan and Afghanistan | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN Security Council passes resolution on increased Gaza aid delivery | United Nations | The US abstains on resolution that it lobbied to weaken over the course of several days, allowing it to pass | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN Security Council passes resolution calling for immediate increase in humanitarian aid into Gaza | United Nations | The UN Security Council on Friday passed a resolution calling for “urgent steps” to immediately allow “safe, unhindered, and expanded” humanitarian access to Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli offensive on the strip | ||||||
| 20231222 | UN security council backs resolution on large-scale aid to Gaza but not ceasefire | United Nations | US opposes making demand for suspension of hostilities, lack of which International Rescue Committee calls ‘unjustifiable’ | ||||||
| 20231222 | Lebanon ready to apply UN resolution on border if Israel complies: PM | see regional effects | |||||||
| 20231222 | US ready to back diluted resolution on more aid to Gaza as UN vote delayed | United States | UN Security Council vote is expected on Friday after four postponements, countries’ disagreements over language of text. | ||||||
| 20231222 | What’s the latest UN Gaza resolution that the US has agreed to? | United States | The US has heavily amended the UAE-led UN draft resolution on Gaza as casualties and hunger rise in the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231222 | A Biden-Netanyahu rift? ‘Distraction’, Palestinian rights advocates say | United States | Palestinian rights supporters dismiss reports of US-Israel disagreements as Biden maintains staunch backing of Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20231222 | These numbers show the staggering losses in the Israel-Hamas war as Gaza deaths surpass 20,000 | war on Gaza | The latest conflict between Israel and Hamas is by far the deadliest and most destructive of their five wars since the militant group seized the Gaza Strip in 2007. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000 as Israel expands ground war against Hamas | war on Gaza | More than 20,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas, health officials said Friday, the latest indication of the staggering cost of the conflict as Israel expands its ground offensive and orders tens of thousands more people to leave their homes | ||||||
| 20231222 | U.S.-funded infrastructure in Gaza largely unscathed as death toll soars | war on Gaza | Less than a year before a Hamas attack out of Gaza sparked a war, one of the oldest and largest sports complexes in the Palestinian territories got a much-needed overhaul: brand-new basketball, volleyball and tennis courts, a soccer field, a running track and, for the first time, accessible bathrooms. It was a $519,000 upgrade, funded by United States taxpayers. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel’s military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say | war on Gaza | The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel broadens Gaza assault ahead of Security Council aid vote | war on Gaza | Israeli forces signalled they were widening their ground offensive with a new push into central Gaza on Friday, as the U.N. Security Council was expected to vote on a resolution to increase humanitarian aid to stave off the threat of famine | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel widens ground offensive in Gaza as UN aid resolution talks continue | war on Gaza | More evacuations ordered in west of strip, 11 weeks into war that has now killed nearly 1% of people in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel issues new displacement orders ahead of diluted aid resolution vote | war on Gaza | Areas previously designated as safe in Gaza are now being forcefully evacuated by Israel as it continues heavy bombardment | ||||||
| 20231222 | Gaza death toll: why counting the dead has become a daily struggle | war on Gaza | In the morgue of the Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza, workers wrap the corpses of people killed in Israeli airstrikes in white cloth amid the stench of death. They record whatever basic facts they can about the dead: name, identity card number, age, sex. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel using 'dumb bombs' in Gaza: US intel | war on Gaza | Israel's military has said it tries to minimize civilian casualties in its bombing of the Gaza Strip. However, new US intelligence estimates that more than 40% of the 29,000 munitions dropped on the densely populated area are unguided.
COMMENT First reported by CNN on December 14, 2023 |
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| 20231222 | Hamas' credibility growing in Palestine and globally | war on Gaza | US intelligence analysis states that since ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ was launched by the Palestinian resistance on 7 October, Hamas’ credibility and influence have dramatically grown. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israelis dig in for unprecedentedly long war, with some doubts | war on Gaza | As the war in Gaza enters an 11th week, Israelis appear resigned to a long road before the military achieves its stated aim of destroying Hamas and bringing more than 100 hostages back home. | ||||||
| 20231222 | ‘Without work and hope’: Bethlehem’s Christmas economy bleeds from Gaza war | West Bank | The West Bank city loses Christmas tourism amid daily Israeli raids and the continuing assault on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Grieving and often overlooked, Palestinian Christians prepare for a somber Christmas amid war | West Bank | It’s normally a moment of pure joy for the Rev. Khader Khalilia: the excitement, the giggles, the kisses, as his young daughters — in their Christmas pajamas — open their gifts. But this year, just the thought of it fills Khalilia with guilt. | ||||||
| 20231222 | EU adopts 118 million euros aid plan for Palestinian Authority | West Bank | The European Commission on Friday said it had adopted a 118 million euros ($130 million) aid package to support the Palestinian Authority. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israeli settlers vandalize Palestinian farms, olive trees in Nablus | West Bank | Dozens of Israeli settlers on Friday attacked Palestinian farms and olive trees in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel forces destroy Palestinians village’s water network in Bethlehem | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces closed and destroyed the water network in the Palestinian village of Al-Minya, based southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
| 20231222 | Israel military vehicles storm central Ramallah | West Bank | Israeli occupation forces yesterday raided the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231223 | London protest calls for Gaza ceasefire and boycott of Israel-linked brands | global response | Demonstrators in and around Oxford Street campaign against retailers including Puma, Hewlett-Packard and Axa | ||||||
| 20231223 | Hamas says lost contact with group responsible for five Israeli hostages | Hamas resistance attack | Hamas said on Saturday it has lost contact with a group responsible for five Israeli hostages being held captive in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardment. | ||||||
| 20231223 | First American Israeli hostage reportedly dies in captivity in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | The first American Israeli hostage has died while being held as a hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Missing Persons Families Forum said Friday | ||||||
| 20231223 | Gadi Haggai: White House says US-Israeli hostage dead in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | A dual US-Israeli citizen believed to have been abducted by Hamas was killed during the 7 October raid in Israel, the White House said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Famine by February: How bad is Gaza’s hunger crisis under Israeli attacks? | humanitarian | A UN-backed report has recorded mounting starvation in Gaza while aid remains restricted. | ||||||
| 20231223 | UN: Gaza is besieged by famine | humanitarian | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) expressed its deep concern about the deterioration of food security in the Gaza Strip, where approximately 2.2 million Palestinians face the risk of famine, according to a report issued by the United Nations (UN) on Friday about the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). | ||||||
| 20231223 | Rafah crossing receives 21 wounded Palestinians, evacuates 132 foreigners | humanitarian | The Rafah Border Crossing received Saturday 21 wounded Palestinians and their companions coming from hospitals in the Gaza Strip for treatment in Egyptian hospitals, a reliable medical source told Egyptian state news agency MENA. |
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| 20231223 | Conflict strands chronic disease patients without access to treatment | humanitarian | Palestinian families lose loved-ones as war interrupts treatments and robs terminal patients of dignified deaths | ||||||
| 20231223 | Food aid failing to reach Gaza residents despite ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis | humanitarian | People vent their frustration on social media as many given just beans and biscuits to eat, and donated food is found for sale in markets | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel says Gaza war is like WWII. Experts say it’s ‘justifying brutality’ | Israelis | Netanyahu has compared the Gaza war with World War II. But this narrative is ahistorical, ignores the roots of the conflict and dehumanises Palestinians, say experts. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Olmert: ‘Elimination of Hamas will not be achieved, Netanyahu is waging a personal war’ | Israelis | Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert commented that the goal of the war on Gaza to “destroy the Hamas movement will not be achieved,” stressing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledges in this regard are “boastful” and that he is fighting a war for his personal gains. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel says it has arrested hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members | Israelis | Israel says it has arrested 200 members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in the past week and taken them into its territory for questioning.
COMMENT Israeli army directive: "Treat everyone and everything in Gaza as Hamas" on which the pro-Israeli conflation "anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism" is based; source is pro-Israel. |
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| 20231223 | Israel says it holds hundreds of Palestinian militants | Israelis | The Israeli military on Saturday said it had arrested hundreds of alleged militants in Gaza over the past week and transferred more than 200 of them to Israel for further interrogation.
COMMENT Israeli army directive: "Treat everyone and everything in Gaza as Hamas" on which the pro-Israeli conflation "anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism" is based; source is pro-Israel. |
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| 20231223 | Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank | Israelis | An Israeli crowdfunding platform, IsraelGives, has allowed US residents to donate millions of dollars since 7 October to causes including illegal West Bank settlements, paramilitary groups, and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units currently operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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| 20231223 | Palestine accuses Israel of exploiting war on Gaza 'to seize control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque' | Jerusalem | The Palestinian Foreign Ministry accused the Israeli government on Friday of exploiting the world’s preoccupation with the Israeli war on Gaza ‘to seize control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque’ in occupied East Jerusalem | ||||||
| 20231223 | Jordan, Vatican discuss Israel’s restrictions on freedom of worship in Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Jordan and the Vatican discussed on Friday the Israeli restrictions imposed on freedom of worship in Jerusalem and the “disastrous” repercussions of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Gaza media office says 100 journalists killed since Israeli attacks began | journalists | Palestinian journalist Muhammed Abu Hweidy latest to be killed in Israeli attack on his home in the east of Gaza City. | ||||||
| 20231223 | RSF files second war crimes complaint with ICC over Gaza journalists killed | journalists | Latest complaint by Paris-based press freedom group asks the court in the Hague to probe the deaths of seven Palestinian journalists. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Gaza’s journalists: ‘Targets’ or ‘casualties’ of Israel’s war? | journalists | According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel’s military has now killed 97 journalists in the Strip. Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza, firsthand reporting on the onslaught there has been left to Palestinians already locked into the occupied territory – documenting their own genocide. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel-affiliated merchant vessel hit by aerial vehicle off India | Arabian Sea | An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel was struck by an uncrewed aerial vehicle off India's west coast, British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday, in the first such known attack so far away from the Red Sea since the Gaza war. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Drone strike hits ship linked to Israel off India's coast: Maritime agencies | Arabian Sea | An Israel-affiliated merchant vessel in the Arabian Sea off India’s west coast was struck by an unmanned aerial vehicle, causing a fire, two maritime agencies said. | ||||||
| 20231223 | India drone strike: Cargo ship attacked off Gujarat coast | Arabian Sea | The Liberia-flagged chemical products tanker was linked to Israel, according to maritime security firm Ambrey, and was heading from Saudi Arabia to India. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Iran threatens Mediterranean closure over Gaza, without saying how | Iran | An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit "crimes" in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Maersk announces increase in container transportation fees between Asia, Europe | Red Sea | Danish shipping company Maersk announced the imposition of additional fees on container shipments between Asia and Europe after changing the course of its ships from the Suez Canal via the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Poll: 96% of Saudis oppose normalisation with Israel | Saudi Arabia/Israelis | A recent opinion poll revealed that 96 per cent of Saudis believe that Arab countries should cut all ties with Israel in protest against the Israeli forces’ aggression against the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231223 | UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities | United Nations | The U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza but without the original plea for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231223 | The UN Security Council adopts a watered down version of resolution | United Nations | After many delays, the UN Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231223 | UN resolution on Gaza aid criticised as ‘insufficient’, ‘meaningless’ | United Nations | The US negotiated for days to weaken the language of the resolution to ensure there is no call for an immediate ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231223 | UN resolution on Gaza aid criticised as ‘insufficient’, ‘meaningless’ | United Nations | The US negotiated for days to weaken the language of the resolution to ensure there is no call for an immediate ceasefire.
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| 20231223 | UN: Gaza is besieged by famine | United Nations | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) expressed its deep concern about the deterioration of food security in the Gaza Strip, where approximately 2.2 million Palestinians face the risk of famine, according to a report issued by the United Nations (UN) on Friday about the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). | ||||||
| 20231223 | UNRWA says an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is a must | United Nations | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has urgently called for an immediate and humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing the need for aid flow without preconditions for political negotiations. | ||||||
| 20231223 | 136 UN staff killed in Gaza, says Guterres | United Nations | The secretary-general of the United Nations says no conflict has ever taken such a toll on UN workers. | ||||||
| 20231223 | US accuses Iran of being ‘deeply involved’ in Houthi attacks in Red Sea | United States | White House says Tehran is providing Yemeni rebel group with weapons and tactical intelligence. | ||||||
| 20231223 | UN resolution on Gaza aid criticised as ‘insufficient’, ‘meaningless’ | United States | The US negotiated for days to weaken the language of the resolution to ensure there is no call for an immediate ceasefire.
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| 20231223 | US accuses Iran of being ‘deeply involved’ in Houthi attacks in Red Sea | United States | White House says Tehran is providing Yemeni rebel group with weapons and tactical intelligence. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel says Gaza war is like WWII. Experts say it’s ‘justifying brutality’ | war on Gaza | Netanyahu has compared the Gaza war with World War II. But this narrative is ahistorical, ignores the roots of the conflict and dehumanises Palestinians, say experts. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Fighting rages in northern Gaza after U.N. stops short of ceasefire call | war on Gaza | Israel battled Hamas militants on Saturday in pursuit of its elusive goal of full control of northern Gaza, after the U.N. Security Council appealed for more aid for the Palestinian enclave but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Fighting in Gaza continues amid criticism of "watered down" UNSC resolution | war on Gaza | Israeli strikes and ground fighting continued on Saturday in the Gaza Strip following the UN Security Council resolution that approved aid without an appeal for a ceasefire | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel strikes 2 homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians while hundreds have been detained | war on Gaza | This is a summary report of this day | ||||||
| 20231223 | Nowhere safe in Gaza, UN says after Israeli evacuation order | war on Gaza | Israel's latest evacuation order for civilians in the central Gaza Strip would force them to relocate to areas "where there are ongoing air strikes", the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel's war on Gaza the deadliest in recent history, experts say | war on Gaza | The Israeli war in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history, outpacing Allied bombings of Germany during World War II, and turning "earth to liquid". | ||||||
| 20231223 | Toll climbs as Israeli strikes on Gaza continue | war on Gaza | Just hours after the UN resolution boosting aid deliveries into Gaza, the Israeli offensive keeps leveling the densely populated southern city of Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel planning to end ground operation in Gaza in '3rd phase of war': Media | war on Gaza | Tel Aviv is preparing to end its military ground operation in the Gaza Strip as part of the third stage of its war in the coming weeks, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported on Friday | ||||||
| 20231223 | Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks since Oct. 7 rises to 20,258: Health Ministry | war on Gaza | The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has risen to 20,258, with 53,688 injuries, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Friday | ||||||
| 20231223 | Al-Qassam Brigades hit Israeli forces, vehicles across Gaza Strip | war on Gaza | The armed wing of the Hamas group said Friday that its fighters targeted Israeli forces and vehicles across the Gaza Strip, and achieved direct hits | ||||||
| 20231223 | Thousands of Palestinians flee areas in central Gaza after warnings from Israeli army | war on Gaza | Thousands of Palestinians have forcibly left their homes in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip after the Israeli army warned them to immediately vacate the areas | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israel bombs Gaza with one-tonne bombs where civilians were sent to take refuge | war on Gaza | During the first six weeks of the war on Gaza, Israel routinely used one of the largest and most destructive bombs supplied by the US in areas it deemed safe zones for civilians | ||||||
| 20231223 | Doctors accuse Israeli troops of desecrating bodies and shooting civilians at hospital Israel says was Hamas ‘command center’ | war on hospitals | Israeli soldiers raiding a hospital in northern Gaza desecrated the bodies of dead patients with bulldozers, let a military dog maul a man in a wheelchair, and shot multiple doctors even after vetting them for terror links, according to allegations by staff and patients.
COMMENT The utmost dehumanizing war crime is reported at the Kamal Adwan Hospital and matches the collected videos in our archive on the Israeli genocide. |
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| 20231223 | Israeli airstrikes in Jabalia, Bureij claim dozens of innocent lives | war on refugee camps | Dozens of civilians were killed and several others sustained injuries today following a series of Israeli airstrike in the Al-Bureij refugee camp, located in the central Gaza Strip, and in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israeli strike kills 76 members in one Gaza family: rescue officials | war on whole families | An Israeli airstrike killed 76 members of an extended family, rescue officials said Saturday, a day after the U.N. chief warned again that nowhere is safe in Gaza and that Israel's ongoing war on Gaza is creating “massive obstacles” to the distribution of humanitarian aid. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israeli airstrike kills 76 members of one Gaza family, rescue officials say | war on whole families | An Israeli airstrike killed 76 members of an extended family, rescue officials said Saturday, a day after the UN chief warned again that nowhere is safe in Gaza and that Israel's ongoing offensive is creating "massive obstacles" to the distribution of humanitarian aid. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Hamas: Israel shoots entire families in Gaza | war on whole families | The Hamas movement announced on Friday that the Israeli army committed multiple executions by shooting entire families in several areas inside Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, with support from Washington. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Israeli airstrike kills Gaza aid worker and 70 of his extended family, UN says | war on whole families | Call to protect civilians and humanitarian staff after UNDP’s Issam al-Mughrabi, his wife, children and scores of relatives killed | ||||||
| 20231223 | Sombre Bethlehem marks Christmas with vigil as bombs rain on Gaza | West Bank | Palestinian Christians held a sombre Christmas vigil in Bethlehem on Saturday, with candle-lit hymns and prayers for peace in Gaza instead of the usual festive celebrations at the spot where they believe Jesus Christ was born. | ||||||
| 20231223 | Bethlehem: Gaza war mars Christmas festivities | West Bank | Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the supposed birthplace of Jesus, is usually busy during Christmastime. This year, most festivities have been canceled because of the Gaza conflict. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231224 | Biden avoids seeking ceasefire in Gaza in call with Netanyahu | new ceasefire talks | US President Joe Biden, in a conversation, late Saturday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, refrained from asking for a ceasefire or to stop the ongoing war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Anguish grows for families of Gaza's Christians | churches, mosques, schools | Khalil Sayegh lives in the United States and for days he anxiously awaited news of his family who had taken refuge in Gaza churches to escape Israel's war on the strip. | ||||||
| 20231224 | German police warn of possible attack at Cologne Cathedral | global effects | German authorities said they have received information about a possible attack at the Cologne Cathedral and have stepped up security. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Germany won't be 'intimidated' by terror threats — Faeser | global effects | With Austria arresting four suspected Islamists and German police deploying to secure the Cologne Cathedral, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said officials were "extremely vigilant" and took any threats seriously. | ||||||
| 20231224 | World condemns Israel’s war on Gaza as it marches for Palestine | global response | The war in Gaza has sparked global protests both for and against Israel and Palestine for more than two months. But as the world continues to witness a spiralling death toll, Israel's military operation against Hamas is losing public support. |
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| 20231224 | Thousands march in Rabat demanding end to Morocco-Israel ties | global response | Thousands of protesters staged one of the largest pro-Palestinian marches in Rabat on Sunday since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, demanding an end to Morocco's ties with Israel. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Hundreds gather in Paris to show support to Palestinians | global response | Hundreds gathered in Paris under the slogan: “No Christmas in Gaza” to denounce the ongoing war in the besieged enclave and demand an immediate ceasefire | ||||||
| 20231224 | ‘No Xmas as usual’: pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate in US cities | global response | Organizers focus on second-most popular shopping day in cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israel preventing UN Security Council's resolution on aid for Gaza from being implemented: Palestine | humanitarian | Palestine accused the Israeli government on Saturday of attempting to obstruct the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2720 concerning the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231224 | 50,000 women pregnant in Gaza amid ‘decimation’ of its health system | humanitarian | WHO chief says the enclave’s infrastructure is being destroyed as UN agency warns of soaring healthcare needs. | ||||||
| 20231224 | ‘Israel preferring the war over releasing the hostages’: Analyst | Israelis | Gideon Levy, a columnist for Israeli Haaretz newspaper, says the rise in Israeli soldiers’ death toll in Gaza has not made much of an impact on Israeli public opinion, the majority of which support continuing the war. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel paying 'heavy price' | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza war has come at a "very heavy price" for his side. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Netanyahu: Israel paying "heavy price" for war | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his side have paid a "heavy price" for the war in Gaza; following one of its deadliest weekends of fighting so far. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Gaza war exacting ‘very heavy price’ on Israeli army, Netanyahu says | Israelis | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to continue the Gaza war despite its “very heavy price” on the army | ||||||
| 20231224 | Netanyahu denies US convinced Israel not to expand military operations | Israelis | Israeli premier says his country's actions 'not dictated by external pressures' following Wall Street Journal report | ||||||
| 20231224 | Thousands rally in Tel Aviv in protest against Israeli government | Israelis | Thousands attended a rally at Habima Square in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest against the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Families of Israeli hostages in Gaza protest in Tel Aviv | Israelis | Hundreds of relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza protested Saturday in the centre of Tel Aviv to demand their return | ||||||
| 20231224 | Number of journalists killed in Gaza rises to 101: Government media office | Israelis | One more journalist was killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli attacks, the government media office said in a statement published Sunday, bringing the total number of journalists killed in the Palestinian enclave since 7 October to 101 | ||||||
| 20231224 | After Palestinians, Zionism's next victim is the Jewish faith | opinion | Israel's use of religious symbols in its genocide of Palestinians is an affront to Judaism and has robbed Jews of a faith practice divorced from nationalist barbarism | ||||||
| 20231224 | How can aid get to Palestinians as Israel bombs Gaza? | opinion | What practical impact will the resolution have? And how can aid get to 2.3 million people living under constant attack among destroyed infrastructure – in a live battle zone? | ||||||
| 20231224 | Syrians cancel Christmas festivities in solidarity with Gaza | Christmas | Christmas cheer has deserted the streets of Syria's cities, where the main churches have limited celebrations to prayers in solidarity with Palestinians suffering Israel's brutal war on the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Tanker hit off India coast by drone from Iran, says US | US/Iran | A chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean was hit by a drone launched from Iran on Saturday, the US military says. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Pentagon says Iranian drone 'attack' hit chemical tanker near India | US/Iran | A drone launched from Iran struck a chemical tanker in the Indian ocean early on Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense said. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Pentagon: Drone launched from Iran strikes tanker in Indian Ocean | US/Iran | A drone launched from Iran struck a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean early on Saturday, in what appears to be the first attack on a commercial vessel outside the Red Sea since a recent flurry in the area. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Top Fatah leader calls on Turkiye to mediate for unity between PLO, Hamas | PA/Turkey | A senior leader of the ruling Fatah party in the occupied West Bank has recommended that Turkiye mediate between itself and Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, in an effort to revive reconciliation efforts to unify rival Palestinian factions amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231224 | US says it shot down four drones in southern Red Sea launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen | Red Sea | Drone attack follows the Pentagon openly accusing Iran of directly targeting ships for the first time since the start of Gaza war | ||||||
| 20231224 | US says Houthi drones shot down, as UK brands Iran ‘malign influence’ | Red Sea | The United States has announced that it shot down four drones launched by Yemen’s Houthis, as the United Kingdom’s top diplomat branded the rebel group’s ally Iran a “malign influence” | ||||||
| 20231224 | US says Houthi drones shot down, as UK brands Iran ‘malign influence’ | Red Sea | UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron says escalating attacks by Iran-backed groups cannot be tolerated.
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| 20231224 | Iran dismisses US claims it is involved in Houthi ship attacks | Red Sea | Iran's deputy foreign minister on Saturday dismissed US accusations that Tehran was involved in attacks by Yemeni rebels on commercial ships, saying the group was acting on its own. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Foreign ministers of Turkiye, UAE discuss situation in Gaza | Turkey/UAE | Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) spoke over the phone and discussed the situation in Gaza, according to Turkish diplomatic sources on Saturday | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli strikes kill UN staff, more than 70 of his extended family in Gaza | United Nations | A United Nations official has been killed along with more than 70 members of his extended family in an Israeli air strike near Gaza City, as hundreds of people have been killed in intensified bombardment since Friday’s UN Security Council resolution that has been criticised as “woefully insufficient”. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli airstrike kills Gaza aid worker and 70 of his extended family, UN says | United Nations | Call to protect civilians and humanitarian staff after UNDP’s Issam al-Mughrabi, his wife, children and scores of relatives killed | ||||||
| 20231224 | 50,000 women pregnant in Gaza amid ‘decimation’ of its health system | United Nations | WHO chief says the enclave’s infrastructure is being destroyed as UN agency warns of soaring healthcare needs. | ||||||
| 20231224 | A weekend of combat in Gaza kills 14 Israeli soldiers in a sign of Hamas’ entrenchment | war on Gaza | Fourteen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said Sunday, in some of the bloodiest days of battle since the start of the ground offensive and a sign that Hamas is still putting up a fight despite weeks of brutal war. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Mounting Israeli army death toll highlights Hamas' resistance | war on Gaza | More than a dozen Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israeli military said Sunday, in some of the bloodiest days of battle since the start of Israel’s ground invasion in late October and a sign that Hamas is still putting up a fight despite weeks of brutal war. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli occupation army executes 137 civilians in Gaza | war on Gaza | The Government Media Office (GMO) revealed that the Israeli occupation army committed field execution crimes against 137 Palestinian civilians in the governorates of Gaza and the north. | ||||||
| 20231224 | At least 200 Palestinians killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes on Gaza camps: Health Ministry | war on Gaza | At least 201 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 370 wounded by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours in Gaza as the assault on the besieged enclave nears its 12th week. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli army ‘executed’ dozens of elderly people in Gaza: Rights monitor | war on Gaza | The Israeli army has “executed” dozens of elderly people in Gaza in “direct shooting operations” since 7 October, a human rights watchdog said | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli army ‘executed’ dozens of elderly people in Gaza: Rights monitor | war on Gaza | The Israeli army has “executed” dozens of elderly people in Gaza in “direct shooting operations” since 7 October, a human rights watchdog said | ||||||
| 20231224 | 'Carpet bombing' in Jabalia: Dozens buried under debris after Israeli attacks | war on Gaza | The Israeli military has repeatedly targeted Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. On Friday, dozens of Palestinians were killed during air strikes on a residential area. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israel bombs northern Gaza; Palestinians say 166 killed in 24 hours | war on Gaza | Israel bombed areas of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, with fighting throughout Sunday morning, residents and Palestinian media said, as Gaza health authorities and the Israeli military both announced mounting death tolls. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Gaza workers wrap bodies in shrouds in bombed-out northern Gaza | war on Gaza | On a patch of sandy ground between collapsed masonry, burnt out buildings and damaged cars, civil defence workers move from body to body, wrapping white shrouds around a group of people killed in Gaza's 11-week-old war. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Palestinians flee homes in central Gaza after Israeli evacuation order | war on Gaza | Most of those being forced to leave have already been displaced multiple times – with no safe destination in sight.
COMMENT Any violation in time of war is a crime committed during time of war, so a war crime which ethnic cleansing of targeted areas is. |
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| 20231224 | Israel expands ground operations in Gaza | war on Gaza | The Israeli military said it was involved in "complex battles in densely-populated areas" of southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israel presses ahead with offensive in Gaza | war on Gaza | Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a cease-fire amid fresh casualties among Israeli troops. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israel kills over 200 Palestinians; 8 Israeli soldiers die in heavy fighting with the resistance |
war on Gaza | As Israel's brutal war on Gaza enters its 79th day, more than 200 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance intensified its battle with the occupation forces in the northern strip, killing at least 8 Israeli soldiers across the strip. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Palestinians bury civilians killed by Israeli army in mass grave | war on Gaza | Palestinians buried dozens of civilians Saturday who were killed by the Israeli army in recent days in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli vehicles withdrew from areas | ||||||
| 20231224 | Deadly 24 hours of fighting across Gaza Strip kills scores of Palestinians | war on Gaza | Worries mount for desperate civilians as Israel expands its operations in the southern half of territory | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli strikes kill UN staff, more than 70 of his extended family in Gaza | war on whole families | A United Nations official has been killed along with more than 70 members of his extended family in an Israeli air strike near Gaza City, as hundreds of people have been killed in intensified bombardment since Friday’s UN Security Council resolution that has been criticised as “woefully insufficient”. | ||||||
| 20231224 | On Christmas Eve, Bethlehem resembles a ghost town. Celebrations are halted due to Israel-Hamas war | West Bank | The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israeli raids continue across the occupied West Bank | West Bank | Several Israeli raids unfolded across the occupied West Bank, including Bethlehem, Nablus, Hebron, and Tulkarem, the largest of the evening. | ||||||
| 20231224 | Israel arrests 10 more Palestinians in West Bank as tally nears 4,700 since 7 October | West Bank | |||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231225 | Jordanian army airdrops humanitarian aid for Palestinians trapped in Gaza church | churches, mosques, schools | The Jordanian army airdropped humanitarian aid on Sunday for hundreds of Palestinians besieged within a church in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231225 | Egypt sets out ambitious Israel-Gaza ceasefire plan | new ceasefire talks | Israel’s divided war cabinet to discuss proposal. Hamas reported to reject suggestion of sharing power in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Egypt floats ambitious plan to end Israel-Hamas war as death toll in an Israeli strike rises to 106 | new ceasefire talks | Egypt has put forward an ambitious, initial proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war with a cease-fire, a phased hostage release and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts who would administer the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, a senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat said Monday. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Gaza gov. overhaul for permanent ceasefire, Egyptian sources say | new ceasefire talks | Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire. | ||||||
| 20231225 | How language used by media outlets downplays Palestinian suffering | global effects | Linguists say that media's use of the passive voice and choice of terminology is being weaponised by Israel while downplaying crimes in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231225 | Irish member of European Parliament calls von der Leyen 'Frau Genocide' over Gaza | global response | Irish Member of the European Parliament Clare Daly has once again criticized the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her stance on relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza, calling her “Frau Genocide” | ||||||
| 20231225 | Interfaith commemoration takes places in London to mourn Gaza victims | global response | In a display of solidarity, people from three Abrahamic religions gathered at Gasholder Park in London to commemorate and offer prayers for the lives lost in the Israeli attacks on Gaza | ||||||
| 20231225 | Ex-Israeli opposition leader demands probe into killing of 12 hostages by Israeli army on 7 October | Hamas resistance attack | A former Israeli opposition leader has demanded an investigation into the Israeli army’s attack on a house near the Gaza Strip, which killed all 12 hostages, saying they were killed under the “Hannibal Protocol” that says a dead Israeli is preferable to enemy-held captives | ||||||
| 20231225 | Kidney patient, 10, separated from family in Gaza, fears he won't see them again | humanitarian | Nassem Mohra, a 10-year-old kidney patient, fears he may never see his family again after Israeli forces arrested his father while he was taking the boy to a hospital in southern Gaza for urgent dialysis treatment. | ||||||
| 20231225 | 'The bitter cold is approaching': Gazans face tougher times in winter amid ongoing war | humanitarian | Displaced Gazans in the besieged Palestinian enclave grapple with cold weather and a lack of basic necessities. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Jordanian army airdrops humanitarian aid for Palestinians trapped in Gaza church | humanitarian | The Jordanian army airdropped humanitarian aid on Sunday for hundreds of Palestinians besieged within a church in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231225 | UNRWA struggles to provide care for 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza amid Israeli attacks | humanitarian | The UN Palestinian refugee agency is struggling to provide care for at least 50,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip amid relentless Israeli attacks | ||||||
| 20231225 | Former Israeli negotiator believes Palestinians have a right to return to their land | Israelis | Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator, acknowledged the Palestinians' right to return to their homeland after their displacement during the Nakba in 1948. | ||||||
| 20231225 | The key issues that will define Middle East politics in 2024 | opinion | Wars, shifting geopolitics, climate change and economic headwinds have all had profound effects on the region in 2023 and will dominate the agenda of its leaders in 2024 | ||||||
| 20231225 | Iran dismisses US accusations of tanker attack off India | Iran/US | The US accusations are meant to ‘distract’ from Washington’s complicity in Israel’s ‘crimes in Gaza’, Iran’s FM says. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israeli airstrike in Syria kills a high-ranking Iranian general | Israelis/Syria/Iran | An Israeli airstrike Monday in a Damascus neighborhood killed a high-ranking Iranian general, Iranian state media said. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Jordanian army airdrops humanitarian aid for Palestinians trapped in Gaza church | Jordan | The Jordanian army airdropped humanitarian aid on Sunday for hundreds of Palestinians besieged within a church in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231225 | Analysis: Has the US-led Red Sea force calmed shippers amid Houthi attacks? | Red Sea | Maersk will resume shipping through the Red Sea but concerns remain. Meanwhile, France, Spain and Italy have dropped out of the force. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Shipping firm Maersk says it’s preparing for resumption of Red Sea voyages after attacks from Yemen | Red Sea | Shipping firm Maersk says that it’s preparing to allow vessels to resume sailing through the Red Sea, thanks to the start of a U.S.-led multinational naval operation to protect shipping from attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Maersk says it will resume shipping in the Red Sea | Red Sea | Global shipping giant Maersk will restart operations in the Red Sea after suspending activity there following attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on commercial vessels. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Why did Saudi Arabia ban Palestine scarf at the Red Sea International Film Festival? | Saudi Arabia | Film-makers based in the region and beyond were dismayed by policies at the event, including a crackdown on the keffiyeh | ||||||
| 20231225 | Bethlehem pastor's Christmas sermon condemns those 'complicit in Gaza genocide' | Christmas | Reverend Munther Isaac says Christian Palestinians are resilient and would not accept 'delayed remorse' from complicit people | ||||||
| 20231225 | ‘Sorrow and silence’ in Bethlehem as Christmas festivities are cancelled | Christmas | The streets are usually thronged with tourists and pilgrims but this year the town is mourning the dead of the Gaza war | ||||||
| 20231225 | Hamas commends Palestinian Christians' decision to limit Christmas celebrations amid Gaza war | Christmas | Hamas on Sunday commended the Palestinian Christians’ decision to limit their Christmas celebrations to religious rituals amid the Israeli war on Gaza | ||||||
| 20231225 | UNRWA struggles to provide care for 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza amid Israeli attacks | United Nations | The UN Palestinian refugee agency is struggling to provide care for at least 50,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip amid relentless Israeli attacks | ||||||
| 20231225 | UN refugee agency says 142 employees killed in Gaza since 7 October | United Nations | The UN Palestinian refugee agency said Sunday that 142 employees had been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since 7 October | ||||||
| 20231225 | Netanyahu vows to intensify campaign | war on Gaza | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will intensify its fight against Hamas in the coming days. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Hamas leader Sinwar says its fighters are 'smashing' Israeli army, will not surrender | war on Gaza | In a letter to the group's leadership abroad, Sinwar claims nearly 1,600 Israeli soldiers have been killed | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israel forcibly displaces Palestinians to 'camps inside refugee camps' | war on Gaza | Going from displacement into homelessness, Palestinians fear Israel's plan will eventually push them into Egypt | ||||||
| 20231225 | Netanyahu laments Israel's 'heavy price' as death toll mounts | war on Gaza | Israel's military says at least 14 of its soldiers were killed in Gaza over weekend, bringing confirmed toll to 154 since invasion of Gaza began | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israel ‘terrorising’ Gaza civilians over its military defeat: Hamas | war on Gaza | Palestinian group Hamas on Monday accused Israel of terrorizing civilians in the Gaza Strip over its military defeat in the enclave | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israeli airstrikes kill more than 100 as assault on Gaza widens | war on Gaza | ‘Safe’ evacuation zone of Deir al-Balah is hit amid some of the deadliest fighting in the war | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israeli bombardment devastates Maghazi refugee camp | war on refugee camps | Israeli air strikes have killed at least 70 people, including a two-week-old baby, as they hit housing in the Maghazi refugee camp, in one of the deadliest attacks in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Dozens killed in refugee camp strike | war on refugee camps | The Hamas-run Health Ministry said an Israeli strike on the Maghazi refugee camp killed 70 people. | ||||||
| 20231225 | At least 70 killed in Israeli airstrike on refugee camp in Gaza | war on refugee camps | At least 70 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike when it hit a residential area of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday, according to Palestinian health officials. | ||||||
| 20231225 | At least 70 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza refugee camp | war on refugee camps | The Maghazi camp in central Gaza, which Palestinian officials say was 'completely residential', was targeted overnight on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israeli airstrike kills 70 at refugee camp in Gaza: Health ministry | war on refugee camps | An Israeli airstrike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least 70 people, a spokesman for the health ministry in the enclave said Sunday | ||||||
| 20231225 | At least 70 killed in Israeli strike on refugee camp in central Gaza, health ministry says | war on refugee camps | Palestinian health officials say death toll after attack on Maghazi camp likely to rise | ||||||
| 20231225 | 'There has been no let up in the fighting over Christmas' | war on refugee camps | "Palestinian authorities said over a hundred peope have now been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in central Gaza." The night between Sunday and Monday was one of the dealiest in over 80 days of warfare. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in one of war's deadliest nights, Gaza officials say | war on refugee camps | At a funeral in Gaza on Monday a line of Palestinians touched white shrouds containing the bodies of at least 70 people who Palestinian health officials said were killed by an Israeli airstrike targeting Maghazi in the centre of the besieged strip. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, killing 250 Palestinians in 24 hours | war on refugee camps | More than 100 people have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Maghazi refugee camp with families still trapped in rubble. | ||||||
| 20231225 | Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank | West Bank | Dozens have been arrested as Israeli forces stormed Jenin and areas around Nablus. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231226 | Hamas rejects any temporary cease-fire | new ceasefire talks | The militant Islamist group Hamas has reiterated that it will not negotiate without a complete end to fighting with Israel. Both sides reacted coolly to an Egyptian plan to halt the conflict. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Egypt presents Gaza ceasefire plan, WHO worried about hospitals | new ceasefire talks | Israel and Hamas on Monday gave cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. But the longstanding enemies stopped short of rejecting the plan altogether, raising the possibility of a new round of diplomacy to halt a devastating Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Classroom massacre: Survivors say Israel executed innocents in Gaza school | churches, mosques, schools | At least seven bodies of displaced Palestinians, including women, children and babies ‘shot point-blank’ were recovered at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Japan announces sanctions against three senior Hamas figures | global effect | Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa says three individuals believed to have participated in October 7 attacks. | ||||||
| 20231226 | ‘We cry for Palestine’: Indonesian homemakers mobilise support for ‘family’ | global response | They’re raising funds for Gaza, rallying against the war and educating the next generation of Indonesians about the Israel-Palestine conflict. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Forced displacement of Palestinians would constitute 'serious breach of international law': Norwegian NGO | global response | The Norwegian Refugee Council warned on Tuesday that forced displacement of Palestinians would constitute a “serious breach of international law” | ||||||
| 20231226 | Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions | humanitarian | The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Gaza's rising number of war-wounded face grim choice: Lose a limb or risk death? | humanitarian | The World Health Organization (WHO) says amputations have become commonplace during the war between Israel and Hamas. More than 54,500 war wounded in Gaza have to face heart-wrenching choices. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters hit in Khan Younis | humanitarian | The Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters in the al-Amal district, western Khan Younis – an area that’s supposed to be safe for Palestinians – was targeted. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israeli strikes hit the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza | humanitarian | Israeli strikes have hit the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza. Thousands were sheltering there. Some of the injured have been transported to hospitals in carts pulled by donkeys because there aren't enough ambulances. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Palestine urges UN to declare famine in Gaza amid Israeli onslaught | humanitarian | Palestine on Tuesday called on the United Nations to officially declare famine in the Gaza Strip, which has been under relentless Israeli attacks since Oct. 7 | ||||||
| 20231226 | Former Israeli ambassador to US discusses Biden's stance on Gaza | Israelis | The former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, says US President Joe Biden is strategically ‘walking a very fine line’ on Israel’s war in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231226 | Why do evangelical Christians support Israel? | opinion | Palestinian human rights activist Jonathan Kuttab explains how Christian Zionism affects US policy in the Middle East. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israel's mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza began seven decades ago | opinion | Israel's ongoing genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza is part of a long and brutal history that goes back to 1951 | ||||||
| 20231226 | Iran's Raisi to visit Turkey on Jan. 4 for talks focused on Gaza -Turkish official | Iran/Turkey | Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Ankara on Jan. 4 to meet his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan for talks likely to focus on the situations in Gaza and Syria as well as bilateral ties, a Turkish official said on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Iran says Israel to face 'tough countdown' after killing of its military adviser in Syria | Iran/Israelis | Iran has threatened Israel with a “tough countdown” following the killing of an Iranian top military adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing Tel Aviv of being behind the Monday airstrike outside the Syrian capital Damascus | ||||||
| 20231226 | Could Israel’s Gaza war drag Iraq into another conflict? | Iraq/Israelis | Iraq has increasingly become a scene for strikes between Iran-backed forces and the United States amid Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, with concerns mounting about a serious escalation. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Fears of regional escalation as Israel warns of ‘multi-front’ war | Israelis/Middle East | Defence minister tells Knesset that country under attack from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, Iraq, Yemen and Iran
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| 20231226 | Intense fighting continues along Israel-Lebanon border | Lebanon/Israelis | There have been several Israeli air raids, and several Hezbollah attacks today. Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for at least eight attacks on Israeli targets. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Biden orders strikes on an Iranian-aligned group after 3 US troops wounded in drone attack in Iraq | US/Iraq | U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the United States military to carry out retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. service members were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq. | ||||||
| 20231226 | US hits Iran-backed militias in Iraq after attack | US/Iraq | The US military has attacked Iranian-backed militant groups in Iraq, hours after US personnel were injured in a drone strike on a US airbase there. | ||||||
| 20231226 | US strikes pro-Iran militants in Iraq after attack on base | US/Iraq | The US struck what it called an Iran-aligned base in Iraq after three soldiers were wounded at a US base in Erbil. The government in Baghdad condemned the strike, calling it a "clear hostile act." | ||||||
| 20231226 | US carries out air strikes on sites used by Iran-backed forces in Iraq | US/Iraq | The US military carried out strikes on three sites used by Iran-backed forces in Iraq on Monday after an attack wounded three American personnel earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Baghdad condemns U.S strike on Iraqi military positions | US/Iraq | Iraq's government on Tuesday condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Iraqi military positions that it said killed one serviceman and wounded 18 people, calling them a "clear hostile act". | ||||||
| 20231226 | 'Clear hostile act': Iraq condemns US attacks on its military sites | US/Iraq | The Iraqi government on Tuesday condemned the US targeting of its military sites, labelling it a “clear hostile act” | ||||||
| 20231226 | Explosions reported in Red Sea shipping lane off Yemen coast | Red Sea | Explosions in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen were reported on Tuesday after sightings of unmanned aircraft and missiles in two separate incidents, a British maritime authority said. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Shipping giant Maersk prepares to restart operations in Red Sea | Red Sea | Denmark's Maersk, like several other shipping companies, had paused Red Sea journeys due to Houthi attacks in the area. | ||||||
| 20231226 | India’s navy deploys warships to Arabian Sea after tanker attack | Red Sea | Guided missile destroyers to ‘maintain deterrent presence’ after Israel-linked vessel hit off Indian coast. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Indian navy to deploy guided missile destroyer ships after strike off its coast | Red Sea | The Indian navy will deploy guided missile destroyer ships in the Arabian Sea as a deterrent after an Israel-affiliated merchant vessel was struck off the Indian coast over the weekend. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Houthis say they carried out drone attack on Israeli port of Eilat | Red Sea | Houthis claim responsibility for drone attack on Israeli port city of Eilat, Red Sea commercial vessel. | ||||||
| 20231226 | UN alarmed by ongoing Israeli strikes in central Gaza that kill scores | United Nations | Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Tuesday against central Gaza, where the United Nations voiced alarm over an escalation of attacks that have killed more than 100 Palestinians over two days in one part of the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Gaza's rising number of war-wounded face grim choice: Lose a limb or risk death? | United Nations | The World Health Organization (WHO) says amputations have become commonplace during the war between Israel and Hamas. More than 54,500 war wounded in Gaza have to face heart-wrenching choices. | ||||||
| 20231226 | 'Moral cowardice': UN special rapporteur slams Israel's visa threat to staffers | United Nations | The UN special rapporteur on Palestine slammed Tuesday Israel’s decision to deny visa to UN staff, saying “baseless attacks” on the organization prove “moral cowardice” | ||||||
| 20231226 | US rejects Israeli request for Apache attack helicopters amid Gaza war | United States | The United States has rejected an Israeli request to acquire new Apache attack helicopters, according to Israeli media on Tuesday | ||||||
| 20231226 | US rejects Israeli request for Apache attack helicopters amid Gaza war | war on Gaza | The United States has rejected an Israeli request to acquire new Apache attack helicopters, according to Israeli media on Tuesday | ||||||
| 20231226 | UN alarmed by ongoing Israeli strikes in central Gaza that kill scores | war on Gaza | Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Tuesday against central Gaza, where the United Nations voiced alarm over an escalation of attacks that have killed more than 100 Palestinians over two days in one part of the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Gaza war will go on for months, Israel's military chief says | war on Gaza | Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza will likely go on for many months, the country's military chief said on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israel-Gaza war will continue for months, IDF chief warns | war on Gaza | Israel's war with Hamas militants in Gaza will continue for "many more months", Israel's army chief has said. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Gaza war 'will last many more months', says Israel army chief | war on Gaza | Israel's war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip will last "for many more months", Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231226 | New video shows detainees stripped in Gaza | war on Gaza | New video show Palestinians stripped and detained in Gaza by the Israeli army, as other freed detainees allege abuse and mistreatment. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Palestinian detainees describe horrific torture by Israeli forces | war on Gaza | A warning that some of the footage may be distressing to viewers. Israel has arrested more than 2,600 Palestinians from Gaza including doctors and journalists since it began its war. The fate of those detained and their whereabouts remain largely unknown. | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israeli forces round up stripped Palestinian men and children at stadium | war on Gaza | Video recorded by Israeli journalist shows men, children and elderly Palestinians with their hands tied behind their backs at a stadium in the war-ravaged territory | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israeli forces bombard central Gaza in apparent move to expand ground offensive. Telecoms out again | war on Gaza | Israeli forces bombarded Palestinian refugee camps Tuesday in central Gaza and issued orders telling residents to evacuate, signs that the military plans to expand its ground offensive into another part of the besieged territory. | ||||||
| 20231226 | The Palestinian family 'executed' in their home by Israeli forces | war on Gaza | Witnesses increasingly report deliberate and indiscriminate Israeli shooting of civilians, including pregnant women | ||||||
| 20231226 | Euro-Med submits findings on Israeli army executions in Gaza to ICC, UN, calling them 'genocide' | war on Gaza | An international rights organisation on Tuesday submitted a report with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and UN rapporteurs, documenting human rights violations by the Israeli army in its attacks on the Gaza Strip, describing the Palestinian killings as genocide and demanding investigations into the ongoing onslaught | ||||||
| 20231226 | Top Netanyahu adviser due in Washington after Israel rejects US post-war plan | war on Gaza | Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer expected to discuss new phase of Israeli offensive and arms shipments | ||||||
| 20231226 | Netanyahu pushes for 'voluntary migration' for Palestinians in Gaza: Israeli media | war on Gaza | Israeli media on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for plans to implement “voluntary migration” of the Palestinians in Gaza to other countries | ||||||
| 20231226 | Netanyahu looking for countries 'to absorb' ethnically cleansed Palestinians | war on Gaza | Local media reported the Israeli prime minister discussed the idea at a meeting of his Likud party, plus other stories | ||||||
| 20231226 | Palestine condemns Netanyahu's plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza | war on Gaza | Palestine on Monday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to encourage Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza, calling for an international stand against it | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israeli army says mistakenly killed 2 soldiers in Gaza last month | war on Gaza | The Israeli army on Tuesday said it mistakenly killed two of its soldiers during a military operation in the Gaza Strip last month | ||||||
| 20231226 | Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp in ruins after deadly Israeli attack | war on refugee camps | More than 100 Palestinians killed in one of the deadliest attacks in two and a half months of war. | ||||||
| 20231226 | What message do Palestinian Christians send by cancelling Christmas? | West Bank | What is the significance of cancelling this year’s festivities in Bethlehem? | ||||||
| 20231226 | Israel detains senior Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar | West Bank | Israel detained early Tuesday senior Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar from her home in occupied West Bank | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231227 | What is Egypt's proposal for Gaza? | new ceasefire talks | Egypt has held talks between Hamas and its allied Islamic Jihad to try and broker a permanent ceasefire in Israel's war in the Gaza Strip, which has killed tens of thousands, laid waste to the Hamas-governed territory, and displaced the majority of the 2.3 million Palestinian residents. | ||||||
| 20231227 | President Sisi and King Abdullah reject all attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause | new ceasefire talks | 17:00 Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II discussed on Wednesday the latest developments in the region, especially in the Gaza Strip, stressing the need to refrain from expanding the conflict, which threatens security and stability both regionally and globally. | ||||||
| 20231227 | End to Gaza war still distant amid tough negotiations on Egypt proposal | new ceasefire talks | Negotiations mediated by Egypt and Qatar to end the Israeli war in Gaza grapple with mounting complexities as recent media leaks purporting a three-phased proposal from Cairo appear to be somewhat detached from the actual core of the discussions, according to sources close to the negotiations. | ||||||
| 20231227 | African countries assert their role in global politics | global effect | African countries are assuming an increasingly individualistic approach to foreign policy, acting in ways that are sometimes at odds with international powers. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face hard decisions | humanitarian | The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Gaza: Palestinian woman gives birth to quadruplets prematurely | humanitarian | A young Palestinian woman has given birth prematurely to quadruplets in the besieged and heavily bombarded city of Deir Al-Balah in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Displaced Palestinians wary of epidemics | humanitarian | Displaced civilians sheltering at the European Hospital and and adjacent UN school are caught between ferocious Israeli bombardment and fatal health conditions | ||||||
| 20231227 | Doctors Without Borders: No longer have words to describe the 'horror' in Gaza | humanitarian | The “horror” being witnessed in the Gaza Strip has reached a point where there are no longer words to describe it, Doctors Without Borders’ Medical Coordinator in Palestine, Guillemette Thomas, said. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Who are the Israeli refuseniks picking jail over the Gaza war? | Israelis | Tel Aviv teen Tal Mitnick is the latest Israeli to refuse to fight against Palestinians, and he is willing to pay a price. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Netanyahu hits back at Erdogan over Hitler comparison | Israelis | Netanyahu has strongly rejected the comments of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the latter compared him to Adolf Hitler. Netanyahu also accused the Turkish leader of "committing genocide against the Kurds."
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| 20231227 | Gaza war threatens social cohesion in Israel's multicultural city of Haifa | Israelis | In Haifa, Israel’s multicultural city where Jews, Muslims and Christians have peacefully lived side by side for decades, the war has left an uncomfortable mark. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israeli settlers hang donkey’s head in Muslim cemetery in East Jerusalem | Israelis | “A settler stormed the Bab Al-Rahma cemetery and hung a donkey’s head on a grave there,” the Jerusalem governor’s office said in a statement. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Palestinian journalist: Israeli intelligence threatened to bomb my house – then did | journalists | Hossam Shabat, a Journalist in Northern Gaza, has reportedly received received threats from Israeli forces to either discontinue coverage of events taking place in Gaza and delete the content he has already published or face "prosecution" | ||||||
| 20231227 | President Sisi and King Abdullah reject all attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause | Egypt/Jordan | 17:00 Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II discussed on Wednesday the latest developments in the region, especially in the Gaza Strip, stressing the need to refrain from expanding the conflict, which threatens security and stability both regionally and globally. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israeli strikes kill Hezbollah fighter as violence on Lebanon border grows | Lebanon/Israelis | War planes attacked a house in Bint Jbeil, killing three people, Lebanon’s state media says. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Lebanese-Australian, his wife and Hezbollah brother killed in Israeli air strike -sources | Lebanon/Israelis | An Israeli air strike on a residence in south Lebanon has killed a Lebanese-Australian man, his wife, and his brother, who was a member of armed group Hezbollah, security and local sources told Reuters on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel reports drone attacks from southern Lebanon as tension soars | Lebanon/Israelis | The Israeli army said Wednesday that three explosives-laden drones had been fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, | ||||||
| 20231227 | Shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd will continue to avoid Red Sea amid Houthi attacks | Red Sea | US naval task force shot down twelve attack drones and five missiles fired by Houthis in 10 hours | ||||||
| 20231227 | Analysis: In the Red Sea, the US has no good options against the Houthis | Red Sea | The US-led maritime force is a half measure that the Houthis will test. But it can’t do more without escalating tensions. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Spanish PM open to creation of new EU mission to protect vessels in Red Sea | Red Sea | Spain opposes using the European Union's anti-piracy naval force to protect merchant ships in the Red Sea from the Yemeni Houthi militia, but it is willing to consider the creation of a different mission to tackle the problem, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Maersk schedules dozens of vessels to travel via Suez Canal | Red Sea | Denmark's Maersk has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the coming days and weeks, it said on Wednesday, in a further sign that global shipping firms are returning to the route. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Houthi rebels claim responsibility for Red Sea container ship attack | Red Sea | Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Tuesday on a container ship in the Red Sea, and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Houthis claim responsibility for container ship attack in Red Sea | Red Sea | Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a container ship in the Red Sea on Tuesday and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones, | ||||||
| 20231227 | Turkey's Erdogan says Israeli PM Netanyahu no different from Hitler | Turkey/Israelis | Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no different from Adolf Hitler and likened Israel's attacks on Gaza to the treatment of Jewish people by the Nazis. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Erdogan: There's no difference between actions of Hitler and Netanyahu | Turkey/Israelis | There is “no difference” between what Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is doing in the months-long attacks on Gaza and what Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did decades ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Turkiye’s communications director says Israeli premier should be 'last person' to talk about genocide | Turkey/Israelis | Turkiye’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun on Wednesday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be the “last person” to talk about genocide, terrorism and morality.
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| 20231227 | UAE's Sharjah bans New Year's Eve fireworks over Gaza war | UAE/Israelis | An emirate in the United Arab Emirates, one of few Arab states that has official ties with Israel, has banned New Year's Eve fireworks this year as an expression of solidarity with the people of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231227 | UK: radical Zionist group behind controversial alternative Xmas message on Channel 4 | United Kingdom | Britain’s Channel 4 TV station has been criticised strongly for airing its latest “alternative Christmas message” reportedly produced by members of a Zionist youth group, B’nei Akiva, an organisation that funnels young people into the Israeli military. | ||||||
| 20231227 | UN appoints a former Dutch deputy premier and Mideast expert as its Gaza humanitarian coordinator | United Nations | Sigrid Kaag, the Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and a Mideast expert, was appointed the U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid to war-torn Gaza, the United Nations chief announced Tuesday. | ||||||
| 20231227 | UN appoints aid coordinator to Gaza | United Nations | The United Nations has appointed a humanitarian coordinator to boost aid to the war-torn Gaza Strip following a resolution by the Security Council. Sigrid Kaag, a former Dutch deputy premier and Mideast expert, is expected to start on January 8. Since Israel began its siege of Gaza, its over 2 million residents have faced severe shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine. | ||||||
| 20231227 | 1,000 children have undergone amputations without anaesthesia in Gaza | United Nations | Some 1,000 children have had limbs amputated without anaesthesia in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its brutal bombing campaign on 7 October, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Dozens more relatives displaced, injured, killed since Palestinians filed suit against Biden | United States | Palestinian plaintiffs say they are losing hope for justice, and US is 'not even pretending' to care about Gaza's residents | ||||||
| 20231227 | Harvard professor's wife harassed another pro-Palestine student days before viral video | United States | Eve Gerber stands accused of harassing another student who was wearing the kefiyyeh just days before a video of her hounding a female student went viral | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel army chief says Gaza war to last 'many more months' | war on Gaza | Israel again pounded Gaza with air strikes and shelling on Wednesday after its armed forces chief warned the war raging with Hamas since the October 7 attacks will last "many more months". | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel launches heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza after widening its offensive | war on Gaza | Israel launched heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza overnight and into Wednesday after broadening its offensive against Hamas to more areas where the military had told Palestinians to seek shelter earlier in the war. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel pounds central Gaza, dozens more Palestinians killed | war on Gaza | Israeli forces pounded central Gaza by land, sea and air on Wednesday and Palestinian authorities reported dozens more deaths, including 20 in one attack. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel expanding ground offensive into central Gaza refugee camps | war on Gaza | Israel is expanding its ground offensive into Palestinian refugee camps in central Gaza, as it warns the war with Hamas will last for months. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel launches heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel launched heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza overnight and into Wednesday after broadening its offensive against Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel returns 80 bodies to Gaza after "confirming they're not hostages" | war on Gaza | Israel has returned the bodies of 80 Palestinians killed in the Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel harvesting organs from Palestinians it killed in Gaza, authorities say | war on Gaza | Authorities in Gaza have accused Israel of harvesting organs from the bodies of Palestinians it has killed in the besieged enclave and demanded an international probe | ||||||
| 20231227 | Health ministry in Gaza says death toll at 21,110 | war on Gaza | The Palestinian health ministry said Wednesday that the death toll of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 21,110. | ||||||
| 20231227 | More than 240 killed in Gaza in last 24 hours - Hamas | war on Gaza | Two hundred and forty-one Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours in Israeli shelling of Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Evidence of Israeli violations engraved on bodies of Palestinians, activist says | war on Gaza | Renowned Palestinian journalist and human rights activist, Mohammed El-Kurd, has said evidence of Israel’s long history of violating against Palestinian rights are engraved on their bodies. | ||||||
| 20231227 | US, Israel discuss 'different phase' of war in Gaza. | war on Gaza | US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met Tuesday to discuss shifting "to a different phase" of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip with Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, a White House official said. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Prospect of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza to Sinai ‘grows’ | war on Gaza | A recent opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post has sparked concerns and criticism over its proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israeli army says 164 soldiers killed in Gaza war | war on Gaza | The Israeli army said that the Israeli soldiers' death toll in the ongoing ground operation in the besieged Gaza Strip had risen to 164. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel could never ‘eliminate’ Hamas, Palestinian professor says | war on Gaza | A Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, Rashid Khalidi, said it is “impossible” for Israel to eliminate the Islamic resistance movement Hamas. | ||||||
| 20231227 | At least 20 killed near hospital in Khan Younis | war on hospitals | Gaza Health Ministry says at least 20 people killed and many more injured in a deadly Israeli army attack near El Amal City Hospital in Khan Younis. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israeli forces pummel Khan Younis, killing 20 outside al-Amal hospital | war on hospitals | Graphic video shows lifeless bodies in pools of blood, as Israel steps up relentless bombardment of southern Gaza city | ||||||
| 20231227 | 1,000 children have undergone amputations without anaesthesia in Gaza | war on hospitals | Some 1,000 children have had limbs amputated without anaesthesia in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its brutal bombing campaign on 7 October, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Gaza: Palestinian woman gives birth to quadruplets prematurely | war on hospitals | A young Palestinian woman has given birth prematurely to quadruplets in the besieged and heavily bombarded city of Deir Al-Balah in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Six killed in Israeli strike on refugee camp in occupied West Bank | West Bank | Ambulances say they were blocked by Israeli forces after attack on Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem. | ||||||
| 20231227 | Tensions simmer in West Bank following Israeli raid of refugee camp | West Bank | Tensions continue to simmer on Tuesday in the West Bank where Israeli forces raided a refugee camp, killing several Palestinians. Israeli forces seized rockets and other weapons during the raid and arrested Palestinians linked to militant group Hamas | ||||||
| 20231227 | Six Palestinians killed during Israeli operation in West Bank | West Bank | Minor among those killed after Israeli drone strike targets Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm | ||||||
| 20231227 | Israel kills 6 more Palestinians in occupied West Bank refugee camp | West Bank | Israel has killed six more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The six were targeted by an Israeli drone in Nour Shams Camp, located east of Tulkarm. They were confirmed dead at the Martyr Thabet Thabet Government Hospital in the city. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231228 | Israel offers new prisoner exchange deal: Report | new ceasefire talks | Israel, via the United States, has proposed a new prisoner exchange deal to mediator Qatar, according to Israel’s Channel 13. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Egypt puts forward framework proposal to end bloodshed in Gaza | new ceasefire talks | Egypt has put forward a framework proposal aimed at ending the bloodshed in Gaza, including a three-stage plan for a ceasefire, according to the head of the country’s media body. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Egypt says it is awaiting responses on plan to end Gaza war | new ceasefire talks | Egypt confirmed on Thursday that it had put forward a framework proposal to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip that includes three stages ending with a ceasefire, and said it was awaiting responses on the plan. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Netanyahu says ‘in contact’ to release hostages held by Hamas | new ceasefire talks | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he is holding “contacts” to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231228 | Hamas delegation to discuss Egypt's Gaza ceasefire plan | new ceasefire talks | A Hamas delegation is due in Cairo Friday to give its "observations" about an Egyptian plan for a ceasefire that would end the war in Gaza, a Hamas official said. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Hamas 'open to any ideas or proposals for a complete and final cessation of aggression in Gaza' | new ceasefire talks | As Gaza enters its 83rd day of Israel's brutal war, seven Palestinians were killed in an attack on Nuseirat camp, Israel expanded its ground operation into the center and continued artillery shelling in Khan Younis, while its forces raided the occupied West Bank cities, killing at least one Palestinian and injuring 15, while seizing $2.5 million from exchange shops. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Hamas to discuss Egypt's Gaza ceasefire plan as Israeli strikes continue | new ceasefire talks | A Hamas delegation is due in Cairo Friday to give its "observations" about an Egyptian plan for a ceasefire that would end the war in Gaza, a Hamas official said. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel expands offensive as Hamas warns only permanent ceasefire will free hostages | new ceasefire talks | "They are so thin. It's cold, it's windy," said one Palestinian woman who gave birth to quadruplets in a refugee camp bombed by Israel. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Dozens arrested in pro-Palestinian protests at two major US airports | global response | Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked morning traffic on Wednesday around Los Angeles International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport - two of the nation's busiest - in coast-to-coast demonstrations that ended with dozens of arrests. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Macron urges Netanyahu for lasting ceasefire in Gaza | global response | French President Emmanuel Macron demanded a "lasting ceasefire" in Gaza during a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, his office said, as an escalating humanitarian crisis grips the Palestinian territory. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Italy ‘concerned’ by Israel's choice of settler leader as ambassador | global response | The Italian government has expressed “concern” over Israel’s choice of its next ambassador to Rome because of his close ties to the settler movement in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. | ||||||
| 20231228 | India releases $2.5m contribution to UNRWA | humanitarian | India has released the second tranche of a $2.5m contribution to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, according to a statement released by the Representative Office of India in Palestine. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli troops killed hostages, mistaking their cries for help as ambush -military | Hamas resistance attack | Israeli troops killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Dec. 15 when it mistook their cries for help as a ruse by Hamas militants to draw them into an ambush, the military said on Thursday, concluding that the soldiers acted rightly to the best of their understanding. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Freed hostage recalls fight to save children, fears for women still held in Gaza | Hamas resistance attack | To survive the 51 days she and three of her children spent as hostages in Gaza, Chen Almog-Goldstein had to stifle the tears over the killing of her husband and daughter when Hamas gunmen burst into their home in Israel on Oct. 7. | ||||||
| 20231228 | On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza | humanitarian | Thousands of Palestinian families fled Wednesday from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges, as the military launched heavy strikes across the center and south of the territory, killing dozens, Palestinian health officials said. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli tanks advance deep into Gaza town after strikes cause new mass exodus | humanitarian | Israeli tanks advanced deep into a town in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday after days of relentless bombardment that forced tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to flee in a new exodus. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel "gives" Cyprus preliminary OK for aid to Gaza by sea | "humanitarian" | "Israel has given preliminary approval to Cyprus for a maritime humanitarian corridor to ship aid to the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said on Thursday."
COMMENT Description as quotation. Israelis are seeking to divert the flow of humanitarian aid away from Eygpt to have control over all aid by creating a bypass between Lanarca, Cyprus and the Israeli port Haifa. |
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| 20231228 | WHO urgently calls on global community to address critical threat to Gaza's population | humanitarian | The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged the global community to take immediate actions to address the serious threat facing the population of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231228 | UN agency says 40 percent of Gaza’s population ‘at risk of famine’ | humanitarian | UNRWA warned the besieged enclave is ‘grappling with catastrophic hunger’ as Israel continues to bomb from north to the south. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli youths hold rally in West Jerusalem to push for release of Hamas captives | Israelis | Israeli youths have gathered outside the Israeli Knesset … We know they have been amassing throughout Jerusalem. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel: government faces internal crisis with threat of dissolution | Israelis | Israeli media outlets have exposed a political crisis that may shake the Israeli government, as far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir plans to extend the term of service for some officials in the Israeli security apparatus and dismiss others. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Retired general praises Hamas ‘resilience’ in Gaza | Israelis | A retired major general and former head of Israel’s National Security Council, Giora Eiland, has praised the Islamic Resistance Movement, which has “demonstrated [its] ability” to replace commanders who are killed with others equally capable and equally devoted. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Rabbi incites against Palestinian doctors in hospitals | Israelis | An Israeli rabbi has sparked outrage after claiming that medical staff who are Palestinian citizens of Israel want to “kill every Jew”. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli embassy removes video of imaginary ‘Hamas’ attack on Seoul | Israelis | The Israeli embassy in South Korea has been pressured to delete a self-produced video showing an imaginary attack on Seoul by masked assailants it likened to Hamas. South Korea’s foreign ministry called the video “inappropriate”. | ||||||
| 20231228 | UNICEF: 2023 deadliest year on record for children in West Bank, East Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, has said 124 Palestinian and six Israeli children were killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of this year. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Global leaders must find the courage to hit Israel and the US where it hurts | opinion | Non-binding UN votes will never stop the Gaza genocide. Only boycotts, banning weapons sales and severing diplomatic ties will force Israel and the US to heed the clamour for peace | ||||||
| 20231228 | Iran releases animation of Netanyahu assassination after Israel kills senior army officer | Iran/Israelis | The Iranian military has released an animated video depicting the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after Tehran accused his government of killing one of the most senior Iranian military advisors in Syria.
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| 20231228 | Hezbollah, Israel trade fire across Lebanon border | Lebanon/Israelis | The Israeli artillery had struck Shebaa Farms as well as the areas surrounding the towns of Rashaya al-Fakhar and al-Khiam in southern Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel Gaza war: Israel warns Hezbollah and Lebanon over border fighting | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel will act to remove Hezbollah from the border with Lebanon if the militia group's attacks continue, an Israeli minister has warned. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Hezbollah launches most rockets ever towards Israel in single day since latest unrest started | Lebanon/Israelis | Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia has launched the most rockets in a single day since it started to exchange fire with the occupation state of Israel in support of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, international media have reported. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Fears Israel Hamas war could 'expand' amid strikes on central Gaza | Lebanon/Israelis | Israel's army has warned of a possible "expansion" of operations on its border with Lebanon. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel says time running out to reach diplomatic solution in Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Officials’ warning echoes those of two ministers, as fighting with Hezbollah intensifies on boundary | ||||||
| 20231228 | Lebanon’s leader Najib Mikati calls for end to Israel’s aggression | Lebanon/Israelis | Speaking in a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called for an end to the Israeli aggression against Gaza and southern Lebanon | ||||||
| 20231228 | Australia checks Hezbollah claim of citizen killed in Israeli strike | Lebanon/Israelis/Australia | Australia on Thursday confirmed two of its citizens were killed in an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon and said it was looking at Hezbollah's claims that one of the Australian citizens killed had links to the militant group. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Lebanon residents wound UN peacekeeper, block convoy twice | Lebanon//UN | A U.N. peacekeeper in southern Lebanon was hurt when a group of young men attacked a patrol and tried to stop it from moving through their village, the U.N. mission said on Thursday | ||||||
| 20231228 | US allies reluctant on Red Sea task force | Red Sea | U.S. President Joe Biden hoped to present a firm international response to Yemen's Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping by launching a new maritime force, but a week after its launch many allies don't want to be associated with it, publicly, or at all. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Germany in talks with EU partners on Red Sea maritime mission | Red Sea | Germany and its European Union partners are examining whether they could mount a new maritime mission to protect commercial vessels under threat of attack in the Red Sea, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Sanchez: Spain reluctant to join EU anti-piracy Red Sea task force | Red Sea | Spain is not in favour of using the European Union (EU)’s anti-piracy naval force, known as Operation Atalanta, to protect Israel-bound merchant ships from Yemen’s Houthi militia in the Red Sea, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez shared on Wednesday | ||||||
| 20231228 | Palestinian surgeon says UK political parties defying the will of the people | United Kingdom | Ghassan Abu Sittah, a surgeon who recently returned to the UK from Gaza, says the ruling Conservative and opposition Labour Party are silencing voices critical of the conflict | ||||||
| 20231228 | UNICEF: 2023 deadliest year on record for children in West Bank, East Jerusalem | United Nations | Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, has said 124 Palestinian and six Israeli children were killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of this year. | ||||||
| 20231228 | WHO urgently calls on global community to address critical threat to Gaza's population | United Nations | The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged the global community to take immediate actions to address the serious threat facing the population of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231228 | UN agency says 40 percent of Gaza’s population ‘at risk of famine’ | United Nations | UNRWA warned the besieged enclave is ‘grappling with catastrophic hunger’ as Israel continues to bomb from north to the south. | ||||||
| 20231228 | 50 killed in Gaza during morning attacks – Ministry | war on Gaza | Fifty Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, Khan Younis and Maghazi areas on Thursday, the Gaza Health Ministry said | ||||||
| 20231228 | No safe place for Palestinians in Gaza as Israel widens offensive | war on Gaza | Casualties rise as Israeli forces pound central, southern areas of the enclave, including overcrowded refugee camps. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Under the rubble: The missing in Gaza | war on Gaza | Every morning, 51-year-old Yasser Abu Shamala goes to the place where his family’s house once stood in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, even in largely emptied north | war on Gaza | Israeli forces bombarded cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza overnight and into Thursday, killing dozens of people in a widening air and ground offensive against Hamas that has forced thousands more to flee from homes and shelters in recent days. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel expands offensive as Hamas warns only permanent ceasefire will free hostages | war on Gaza | "They are so thin. It's cold, it's windy," said one Palestinian woman who gave birth to quadruplets in a refugee camp bombed by Israel. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli bombs hit north, south and central Gaza during brutal 24 hours | war on Gaza | At least 210 Palestinians killed in a day, as relentless bombardment leaves survivors with scarce supplies of food, water and resources | ||||||
| 20231228 | The number of wounded Israeli soldiers is mounting, representing a hidden cost of war | war on Gaza | Igor Tudoran spent just 12 hours inside the Gaza Strip before a missile slammed into his tank, leaving him with a life-altering injury. | ||||||
| 20231228 | On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza | war on Gaza | Thousands of Palestinian families fled Wednesday from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges, as the military launched heavy strikes across the center and south of the territory, killing dozens, Palestinian health officials said. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli tanks advance deep into Gaza town after strikes cause new mass exodus | war on Gaza | Israeli tanks advanced deep into a town in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday after days of relentless bombardment that forced tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to flee in a new exodus. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Gaza in 2024: Signs of more devastation, open-ended occupation | war on Gaza | The war aims of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gaza's Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar look unattainable in 2024, and their fight may consign the Palestinian territory to yet more devastation and an open-ended Israeli occupation. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Fears Israel Hamas war could 'expand' amid strikes on central Gaza | war on Gaza | Israeli forces bombarded cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza overnight and into Thursday, killing dozens of people in a widening air and ground offensive against Hamas that has forced thousands more to flee from homes and shelters in recent days. | ||||||
| 20231228 | The ordeal of two Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces | war on Gaza | A girl, 10, and her brother, six, were detained on Israel’s so-called ‘safe corridor’. They were interrogated about Hamas | ||||||
| 20231228 | Gaza death toll surpasses 21,300 amid Israeli attacks | war on Gaza | The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks surged to 21,320 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said Thursday | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli army has killed 8,800 Palestinian children in 82 days: Gaza media office | war on Gaza | Israel has killed 8,800 children alongside 6,300 women since the offensive on Gaza started on 7 October, the Gaza media office said Wednesday | ||||||
| 20231228 | Red Crescent condemns attacks near al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis | war on hospitals | The Palestinian Red Cresent Society (PRCS) has condemned the Israeli targeting of al-Amal Hospital in Gaza that killed 10 people and injured 21 others. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli strike hits residential area near Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah | war on hospitals | “It was a very terrifying scene.“ Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum was reporting near the scene of an explosion where at least 20 people have been killed, many more injured in Rafah | ||||||
| 20231228 | ‘Piles of body parts’: Gaza’s Maghazi residents find families ‘in pieces’ | war on refugees camps | After devastating Israeli attack on refugee camp, relatives return to dig up many victims who are under the rubble. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel admits it killed dozens in Christmas 'massacre' | war on refugees camps | Army spokesperson says they 'regret' casualties sustained alongside intended target in a refugee camp on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231228 | Palestinian drama teacher killed amid ‘deadliest’ assault on refugee camp | war on refugees camps | Artist Ahed Abu Hamda was among the estimated 90 victims of devastating air raids on the camp over Christmas | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israel says improper munitions cause of high death toll in Maghazi attack | war on refugees camps | The admission by an Israeli official to Kan public broadcaster comes as Israel has been accused of using ‘dirty’ bombs on Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231228 | ‘Unparalleled’: Israeli army raids Ramallah, more occupied West Bank cities | West Bank | Israeli forces also ‘seize $2.5m’ from money exchange shops in largest operations in area since October. | ||||||
| 20231228 | UNICEF: 2023 deadliest year on record for children in West Bank, East Jerusalem | West Bank | Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, has said 124 Palestinian and six Israeli children were killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of this year. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Analysis: Israeli raids aim to fully ‘reoccupy’ the West Bank | West Bank | Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, has said the growing raids in the West Bank is Israel’s attempt to reoccupy the territory “completely”.
COMMENT One cannot occupy twice when the West Bank is part of occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT) |
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| 20231228 | Israeli raids in West Bank target "Hamas funding" | West Bank | Israeli forces raided foreign exchange and money transfer agencies in Ramallah and other cities in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, seizing millions of dollars suspected of being intended to fund the Islamist group Hamas, the military said. | ||||||
| 20231228 | UN report deplores 'rapid deterioration' of rights in West Bank | West Bank | A United Nations report published on Thursday deplored what it called a "rapid deterioration" of human rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and urged Israeli authorities to end violence against the Palestinian population there. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Ramallah as UN urges Israel to end 'unlawful killings' in West Bank | West Bank | Israeli forces killed at least one Palestinian man during an overnight raid on Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Thursday, as the UN issued a human rights report urging Israel to end its"unlawful killings" in the occupied territory. | ||||||
| 20231228 | West Bank Palestinians more supportive of Hamas: poll | West Bank | As the death toll from Israel's military offensive in Gaza rises and settler violence increases, Palestinian opinion polls show increased support for the militant Hamas group in the occupied West Bank. At the same time, the Palestinian Authority, which rules the West Bank, is losing popularity. | ||||||
| 20231228 | West Bank theatre raided by Israel vows to resume 'resistance' | West Bank | The Palestinian Freedom Theatre in the occupied West Bank will welcome actors back this weekend, just over a fortnight after an Israeli raid on the centre sparked an international outcry. | ||||||
| 20231228 | Israeli settlers pour nitric acid on Palestinian tent in occupied West Bank | West Bank | A Palestinian family of nine escaped unharmed on Wednesday after Israeli settlers poured nitric acid on their tent in the wild area of Al-Rashayida, to the east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. | ||||||
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| 20231229 | Israel bombs Gaza as Egypt hosts Hamas to discuss truce proposal | new ceasefire talks | Israel pounded Gaza on Friday (December 29), nearly 12 weeks into the war started by the October 7 attacks, as Egypt was to host a Hamas delegation for talks aimed at ending the conflict. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel bombs Gaza as Egypt hosts Hamas to discuss truce proposal | new ceasefire talks | Israel pounded Gaza on Friday, nearly 12 weeks into the war started by the October 7 attacks, as Egypt hosted a Hamas delegation for talks aimed at ending the conflict that has devastated much of the besieged Palestinian territory | ||||||
| 20231229 | Hamas leaders attend Egypt talks as Israeli attacks push deeper into Gaza | new ceasefire talks | A delegation of high-level Hamas leaders is visiting Egypt for talks aimed at bringing the devastating war in Gaza to an end, even as the Israeli military pushes deeper into the centre and south of the strip, displacing tens of thousands of people. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Palestine factions reject external scenarios for Gaza future | new ceasefire talks | The Palestinian resistance factions have categorically rejected all “external” solutions and scenarios for the so-called “future of the besieged Gaza Strip”, stressing that only a Palestinian national solution will be presented based on the formation of a national unity government which emerges from a comprehensive national consensus. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel's ambassador to Germany warns of soaring antisemitism | global effect | Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, antisemitic crimes in Germany have increased dramatically. Israel's ambassador has warned of "fear" among Jews in Germany. | ||||||
| 20231229 | How a Swiss diplomat lost his career to pro-Israeli smears about his private life | global effect | It was on 15 September when Viola Amherd, head of the Swiss Defence Department, introduced ambassador Jean-Daniel Ruch to the public as the incoming state secretary for security policy, a brand-new position created in the face of the Ukraine conflict. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Police in UK record rise in hate crimes since start of war | global effect | Campaigners against anti-Muslim abuse have described the trend as 'deeply worrying', while antisemitic hate crimes have also gone up | ||||||
| 20231229 | France heightens security for New Year’s Eve, with 90,000 police officers to be mobilized | global effect | Security will be tight across France on New Year’s Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said Friday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | South Africa launches case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza | South Africa/Israelis | South Africa launched a case Friday at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks. | ||||||
| 20231229 | S. Africa launches case at UN's top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza | South Africa/Israelis | South Africa has begun proceedings at the International Court of Justice, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention in relation to Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the court said in a statement on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem speaks about captivity | Hamas resistance attack | A former hostage held in Gaza by Hamas, Mia Schem, has given her first interview to Israeli media, since she was released a month ago.
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| 20231229 | UN deplores aid barriers as Israel’s Gaza onslaught steps up | humanitarian | Dire humanitarian crisis worsens, as at least 30 people reported killed in air strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Palestinians stream into a southern Gaza town as Israel expands its offensive in the center | humanitarian | Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed into an already crowded town at the southernmost end of Gaza in recent days, according to the United Nations, fleeing Israel’s bombardment of the center of the strip, where hospital officials said dozens were killed Friday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Thousands of Palestinians flee central Gaza as Israeli troops advance | humanitarian | An estimated 150,000 Palestinians are being forced to flee areas of central Gaza, the UN has said, as Israeli forces advance on refugee camps there. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Al-Azhar sends 50 more trucks in fourth relief convoy to Gaza | humanitarian | Al-Azhar announced on Friday that the fourth aid convoy organized by its Zakat and Charity House set off to the Rafah border crossing to deliver much-needed relief to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem speaks about captivity | Israelis | A former hostage held in Gaza by Hamas, Mia Schem, has given her first interview to Israeli media, since she was released a month ago.
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| 20231229 | Pressure on Netanyahu amid row over Israel’s plan for ‘day after’ Gaza war | Israelis | As Israeli military pounds Gaza and conducts raids in occupied West Bank, Hamas says no deal on captives until ‘aggression’ stops. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel's ambassador to Germany warns of soaring antisemitism | Israelis | Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, antisemitic crimes in Germany have increased dramatically. Israel's ambassador has warned of "fear" among Jews in Germany. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calls on US to bring down Iran | Israelis | In the Wall Street Journal op-ed, the former leader also admits Israel was behind an assassination and sabotage operations in Iran | ||||||
| 20231229 | Ex-Mossad chief: Hamas is more prepared for war than we expected | Israelis | Former Mossad Chief, Yossi Cohen, said if Israel wants to continue its war in Gaza, it must listen to the United States and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Strip. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Report: number of wounded Israeli soldiers approaching 20,000 | Israelis | The number of wounded Israeli soldiers is likely to reach approximately 20,000 once those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder are included, AP reported citing an Israeli activist. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel’s ‘unprecedented’ censorship regime targets Western media | journalists | The Israeli army issued an unprecedented English-language censorship order banning media agencies from reporting without the prior approval of its propaganda unit in the military known as the Israeli Military Censor. | ||||||
| 20231229 | US citizen inspired by Hamas sought to wage jihad against ‘No. 1 enemy’ America, prosecutors say | Hamas/US | A U.S. citizen living in Egypt sought to join the al Shabaab terrorist organization and wage violent jihad against America and its allies in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, federal prosecutors said Friday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calls on US to bring down Iran | Israelis/US/Iran | In the Wall Street Journal op-ed, the former leader also admits Israel was behind an assassination and sabotage operations in Iran | ||||||
| 20231229 | As Gaza war grinds on, tensions soar along Israel’s volatile northern border with Lebanon | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli officials are stepping up threats against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, warning that Israel is running out of patience as the two sides continue to trade fire along Israel’s volatile northern border. | ||||||
| 20231229 | More than 75% of southern Lebanon's population displaced due to Israeli air strikes | Lebanon/Israelis | Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon have forced the majority of residents to flee to other areas over the past two days, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported. | ||||||
| 20231229 | US warship shoots down drone and missile in Red Sea | Red Sea | The Red Sea has come under sustained attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, prompting the US to create a new force to protect vessels in the major shipping route amid the Israel-Hamas war. | ||||||
| 20231229 | US sanctions money network tied to the Yemen Houthi rebels blamed for shipping vessel attacks | Red Sea | The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on a group of money exchange services from Yemen and Turkey alleged to help provide funding to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been launching attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the southern Red Sea — including a drone and a missile that were shot down Thursday by the U.S. military. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Denmark to send frigate to U.S.-led task force in Red Sea | Red Sea | Denmark will send a frigate to participate in the U.S.-led Red Sea operation next month, the Danish Defence Minister said on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | US allies abandoning Red Sea alliance | Red Sea | Two of America’s European allies who were listed as contributors to Operation Prosperity Guardian – Italy and Spain – issued statements appearing to distance themselves from the maritime force. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Saudi Arabia 'denied Turkish teams from flying Gaza anti-war banner' | Saudi/Turkey | Match between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce in Riyadh cancelled after request to display Mustafa Kemal Ataturk t-shirt and slogan rejected | ||||||
| 20231229 | Police in UK record rise in hate crimes since start of war | United Kingdom | Campaigners against anti-Muslim abuse have described the trend as 'deeply worrying', while antisemitic hate crimes have also gone up | ||||||
| 20231229 | UN deplores aid barriers as Israel’s Gaza onslaught steps up | United Nations | Dire humanitarian crisis worsens, as at least 30 people reported killed in air strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231229 | UN chief 'gravely concerned' about further spillover of Gaza conflict | United Nations | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “gravely concerned” about the spillover of the Gaza conflict, and urges all parties to exercise “maximum restraint” for regional peace, his spokesman said on Friday | ||||||
| 20231229 | UN calls on Israel to halt killing in West Bank | United Nations | A UN report has called on Israel to put an end to “unlawful killings and settler violence against the Palestinian population” in the occupied West Bank, according to a UN press release issued yesterday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | US Congresswoman Tlaib slams Netanyahu as ‘genocidal maniac’ | United States | US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “genocidal maniac” and condemned members of Congress who choose to engage in meetings with him in a post shared on her Instagram profile on Wednesday night. | ||||||
| 20231229 | UN deplores aid barriers as Israel’s Gaza onslaught steps up | war on Gaza | Dire humanitarian crisis worsens, as at least 30 people reported killed in air strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, even in largely emptied north | war on Gaza | Israeli forces bombarded cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza on Thursday, killing dozens of people in a widening air and ground offensive against Hamas that has forced thousands more to flee from homes and shelters in recent days. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel expands air and ground offensive in central Gaza | war on Gaza | At least 23 people were killed on Thursday when a missile struck a residential building in Rafah, southern Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel bombs Gaza as Egypt hosts Hamas to discuss truce proposal | war on Gaza | Israel pounded Gaza on Friday (December 29), nearly 12 weeks into the war started by the October 7 attacks, as Egypt was to host a Hamas delegation for talks aimed at ending the conflict. | ||||||
| 20231229 | In Gaza, rows of white shrouds symbolise mounting civilian deaths | war on Gaza | "My life, my eyes, my soul," a husband writes on the white shroud wrapped around his wife after the war devastating Gaza took her life. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Baby saved from Gaza rubble after mother killed in Israeli strike | war on Gaza | The rescuers in orange vests shouted as they reached a baby girl still alive in the rubble of an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip's Rafah city after yet another night of bombardment of the Palestinian enclave. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Three Gaza brothers say they were beaten, mistreated in Israeli detention | war on Gaza | Three Palestinian brothers rounded up by Israel in the Gaza Strip said they and fellow detainees were beaten, stripped to their underwear, burnt with cigarettes and subjected to other forms of mistreatment during their detention. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Nearly 200 more Palestinians killed as Israel forges on with Gaza assault | war on Gaza | Tens of thousands of fleeing Palestinians sought shelter on Friday as Israeli tanks pushed through the central Gaza Strip, with nearly 200 people reported killed in the past 24 hours of air strikes and artillery barrages on the shattered enclave. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Four percent of Palestinians in Gaza dead, wounded or missing since war began | war on Gaza | Israeli bombardment kills at least 187 in besieged enclave over past day, including scores killed by air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp | ||||||
| 20231229 | South Africa launches case at top UN court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza | war on Gaza | South Africa launched a case Friday at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks. | ||||||
| 20231229 | S. Africa launches case at UN's top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza | war on Gaza | South Africa has begun proceedings at the International Court of Justice, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention in relation to Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the court said in a statement on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231229 | South Africa initiates legal action against Israel at International Court of Justice | war on Gaza | South Africa on Friday filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), requesting the court to indicate provisional measures. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israel extends mandatory military service for reservists | war on Gaza | The Knesset on Wednesday approved an emergency bill which extends the mandatory service period for army reservists. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Ex-Mossad chief: Hamas is more prepared for war than we expected | war on Gaza | Former Mossad Chief, Yossi Cohen, said if Israel wants to continue its war in Gaza, it must listen to the United States and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Strip. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Report: number of wounded Israeli soldiers approaching 20,000 | war on Gaza | The number of wounded Israeli soldiers is likely to reach approximately 20,000 once those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder are included, AP reported citing an Israeli activist. | ||||||
| 20231229 | We made a ‘regrettable mistake’, says Israel after killing 86 Palestinians in refugee camp | war on refugee camps | Israel has characterised the killing of 86 Palestinians in Gaza’s Maghazi Refugee Camp as a “regrettable mistake.” The massacre, which took place on Christmas Eve, was a result of “incorrect munition”, Israeli officials claimed, while acknowledging that it “should not have happened.” | ||||||
| 20231229 | Beyond Maghazi: What controversial weapons has Israel used in Gaza war? | war on refugee camps | From dumb bombs and bunker busters to white phosphorus, the register of allegations against Israel is growing. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Bombed, then stabbed: West Bank doctors recall horrors of refugee camp raid | West Bank | The Israeli raids on the Nur Shams and Fawwar refugee camps followed a pattern of deadly assaults that have killed more than 300 people in the West Bank since October 7, say doctors and politicians. | ||||||
| 20231229 | Israeli army kills Palestinian after accusing him of running his car over Israeli settlers in Occupied West Bank | West Bank | The Israeli army shot and killed a young Palestinian man on Friday after accusing him of running his car over Israeli settlers near Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank | ||||||
| 20231229 | UN calls on Israel to halt killing in West Bank | West Bank | A UN report has called on Israel to put an end to “unlawful killings and settler violence against the Palestinian population” in the occupied West Bank, according to a UN press release issued yesterday. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231230 | Police in Berlin ban pro-Palestinian New Year rally | global effects | Authorities in Berlin have said the planned pro-Palestinian rally would carry a risk of "crimes," including displays of antisemitism and glorification of violence. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Pro-Palestine rally planned for New Year's Eve in Berlin banned | global effects | Police on Saturday banned a planned pro-Palestine march on New Year’s eve in the German capital | ||||||
| 20231230 | Jordanian king, Canadian premier agree to put pressure on Israel to implement cease-fire | global response | Jordanian King Abdullah II and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed on Friday to put international pressure on Israel to implement a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, which is currently besieged by its army and conducting ground offensives. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Israeli-French hostage recounts harrowing experience in captivity | Hamas resistance attack | An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in the Gaza Strip says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear throughout the weeks she was held hostage.
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| 20231230 | Israeli ex-hostage says she feared being raped by Gaza captor | Hamas resistance attack | An Israeli-French woman who was among scores of people taken hostage by Hamas militants has described how she feared being raped by the gunman who watched over her around the clock in the home where he lived with his wife and children in Gaza.
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| 20231230 | Four fuel trucks enter Gaza through Rafah crossing: Al-Qahera News | humanitarian | A total of 50 aid trucks, including four fuel trucks, entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday through the Rafah crossing, Egyptian news outlet Al-Qahera News reported. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Israeli assault kills 106 Gaza journalists in 84 days | journalists | The Israeli army has killed 106 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip in 84 days of continued intense attacks | ||||||
| 20231230 | Genocide in Gaza: The coverage of Israel’s war | media | In this special edition, we compile our reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza – documenting the information war as it has played out since October 7. In 17 years of The Listening Post, we have never seen a story anything like Israel’s war on Gaza. It has been a turning point for the world order as we know it and its media ecosystem – which is why, since October 7, we have covered nothing else. | ||||||
| 20231230 | 19 pro-Iran fighters killed in Israeli strikes on Syria: Monitor | Syria/Israelis | Air strikes in eastern Syria "likely" launched by Israel on Saturday killed at least 19 pro-Iran fighters, a war monitor said, updating an earlier toll. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Air raids over eastern Syria near Iraqi border kill 6 Iran-backed militants | Syria/Israelis | Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria Saturday near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Air strikes hit Iran-backed militia facilities, truck convoy in Syria | Syria/Israelis | Unidentified jets hit buildings and trucks being used by Iran-aligned militia groups in the Syrian town of Albukamal along a strategic border crossing with Iraq late on Friday. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Israeli air raids target Syrian city of Aleppo as regional tensions rise | Syria/Israelis | Syrian defence ministry says the ‘aerial aggression’ came from the Mediterranean and hit a number of places. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Hamas condemns US approval of weapons sales to Israel as Gaza death toll rises | US/Israelis | The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday condemned the US approval of a $147.5 million sale of artillery munitions and related equipment to Israel as Israeli tanks pushed deeper into districts in central and southern Gaza and heavy air and artillery fire bombarded the enclave. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Biden administration bypasses Congress on weapons sales to Israel | US/Israelis | For the second time in a month, the US approves munitions for Israel while calling for an end to mass civilian deaths. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Airstrikes hit camps in central Gaza as Biden administration approves new weapons sales to Israel | US/Israelis | Israeli warplanes struck two urban refugee camps in central Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration approved a new emergency weapons sale to Israel despite persistent international cease-fire calls over mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in the enclave
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| 20231230 | The Biden administration once again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel | US/Israelis | Israeli warplanes struck two urban refugee camps in central Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration approved a new emergency weapons sale to Israel despite persistent international cease-fire calls over mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in the enclave.
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| 20231230 | Palestinians in Gaza worried about Israel stealing organs from bodies | war on Gaza | A Palestinian woman, Rasmia Kodeih, has been demanding the release of her deceased son’s body from Israeli authorities for almost three months | ||||||
| 20231230 | Israeli tanks advance deeper into Gaza districts, 12 weeks into war | war on Gaza | Israeli tanks pushed deeper into central and southern Gaza on Saturday under heavy air and artillery fire, residents said, pressing a deadly offensive that has razed much of the enclave and that Israel has said may last months more. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Palestinian group says captive Israeli soldier killed in Gaza by Israeli air strike | war on Gaza | The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on Saturday that an Israeli soldier being held captive by the group in Gaza had been killed in an Israeli air strike that had also wounded some of his captors. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Exhausted Palestinians desperate for war to end as Israel presses attacks on Gaza | war on Gaza | After nearly three months of deadly strikes, incessant displacements and sputtering humanitarian aid, "exhausted" the Palestinians in Gaza say they are desperate for an end to the fighting as Israel's war looks set to grind on into the new year. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Israel's military forges on with Gaza offensive | war on Gaza | Gaza residents appeared to have fewer places left to go as Israel widened its air and ground offensive against Hamas, which is classified as a terror group by Germany, the EU, US and others. Dozens of people have been killed in a new wave of Israeli airstrikes. | ||||||
| 20231230 | Gaza death toll climbs amid fierce fighting in south | war on Gaza | At least 100 people were killed and 158 injured in central Gaza over the past 24 hours, a Palestinian health official said on Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231230 | As Gaza death toll mounts, Israelis look in vain for any sign of victory | war on Gaza | summary includes more issues | ||||||
| 20231230 | Analysis: Has Israel weakened Hamas enough to win the war on Gaza? | war on Gaza | As 2023 draws to a close, how strong is Hamas after nearly three months of bombardment and ground invasion? | ||||||
| 20231230 | Israeli airstrikes hit Nuseirat and Bureij camps in central Gaza | war on refugee camps | Residents in the urban refugee camps of Nuseirat and Bureij, two recent hot spots of combat, reported Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231230 | ‘We can’t tell her the truth’: Gaza’s hospitals filling with lone orphans | war on whole families | The number of children with no one to care for them is mounting fast amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231230 | For Palestinians arrested under occupation, a childhood disrupted | West Bank | Fourteen-year-old Abdelrahman al-Zaghal was one of the youngest Palestinians released by Israel in exchange for hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led raid on Israel. | ||||||
Important: The views as expressed in the content of the linked article are solely those of the source(s). They may not or they do not reflect the historical chronology of the more than 70 years old problem. Sources are Western, Palestinian and Arabic media. Content produced by the Israelis are either not available or not linked as they where found written in (exaggerated) disseminated language (= hasbara) often containing misinformation Please, take note that the list is exemplary |
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| 20231231 | Walkout over weapons: British school students battle Gaza protest curbs | global effects | Luton Sixth Form College suspended its student council after a walkout, amid scrutiny of links to an arms major that supplies critical weapons to Israel. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Europe celebrates New Year amid heightened security | global effects | Ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and tensions in parts of the world, have affected this year's New Year's Eve celebrations in a myriad of ways. | ||||||
| 20231231 | German police arrest three over Cologne cathedral plot | global effects | Police in Cologne said the perpetrators may have planned to use a car as a weapon for the alleged terror plot. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Arrests in Germany over 'Cologne cathedral attack plot' | global effects | German police arrested three people on Sunday over an alleged attack plot targeting the cathedral in Cologne on New Year's Eve. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Pro-Palestine campaigners call for Gaza ceasefire on New Year’s Eve | global response | Activists are asking people to turn the New Year’s countdown in their countries into a countdown for a ceasefire in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231231 | US Muslims expand campaign launched against Biden over Gaza conflict | global response | American Muslim leaders on Saturday expanded a campaign launched earlier this month against President Joe Biden over his handling of the Gaza conflict | ||||||
| 20231231 | Pro-Palestine rally held in Paris during holiday season | global response | Demonstrators in the French capital held another rally Saturday in solidarity with Palestinians while the Christmas and holiday season continues. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Hamas condemns New York Times allegations on sexual violence on 7 October | Hamas resistance attack | Hamas condemned on Sunday a misleading report by the New York Times that alleges Hamas fighters carried out rape and sexual violence during the 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood operation, according to member of Hamas political bureau.
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| 20231231 | Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza as Israeli war intensifies | humanitarian | On the 86th day of the Israeli war, the Palestinian health ministry reported numerous deaths in overnight strikes on central Gaza's Zawayda and the nearby Al-Mughazi refugee camp, while the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the growing threat of infectious diseases and the UN says Gaza is "just weeks away" from famine. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli minister repeats call for Palestinians to leave Gaza | Israelis | One of the senior figures in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition called on Sunday for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for Israelis who could "make the desert bloom". | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli far-right minister calls for return of settlers to Gaza | Israelis | Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for the return of Israeli settlers to the Gaza Strip after Israel's brutal war on the territory and said its Palestinian population should be encouraged to emigrate. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli minister calls for 'voluntary migration' of Gazans | Israelis | Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for encouraging the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli War Cabinet members refuse to attend news conference with Netanyahu | Israelis | Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz refused to attend a news conference by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Saturday. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Historian Raz Segal blasts Israel’s ‘genocidal incitement’ against Gazans | Israelis | Israeli historian Raz Segal blasted Israel’s aggression against the people of Gaza on Saturday and said that it amounts to “incitement to genocide” | ||||||
| 20231231 | Tony Blair reportedly tapped to relocate Palestinian refugees from Gaza | Israelis | According to Israel's Channel 12 news, the former British prime minister met with Netanyahu and Gantz to discuss Blair's role in finding countries to receive refugees from Gaza | ||||||
| 20231231 | OIC and Arab League must back South Africa's ICJ case on Israel | opinion | The OIC and the Arab League have an opportunity to join a historic process that could redefine how international law works and uphold justice | ||||||
| 20231231 | Armed drone shot down near US base in northern Iraq | Iraq/US | Defence systems shot down an armed drone on Sunday over Erbil airport in northern Iraq where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said in a statement. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Analysis: Middle East is sliding closer to the edge of a wider regional conflict | Israelis/Iran/US | An escalation could spark a conflagration that would bring Israel into open confrontation with Iran, and suck in the US too | ||||||
| 20231231 | 1 more Hezbollah fighter killed in clashes with Israeli army | Lebanon/Israelis | Hezbollah announced on Sunday that another of its fighters was killed in clashes with the Israeli army along the border between Lebanon and Israel | ||||||
| 20231231 | US shoots down 2 anti-ship ballistic missiles fired by Houthi group in Red Sea: CENTCOM | Red Sea | The US said Saturday it shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles in the Red Sea in response to a Houthi attack on a merchant vessel | ||||||
| 20231231 | US Navy downs missiles in Red Sea after ship attacked by Houthi rebels | Red Sea | Warships responded after container vessel came under fire from Houthi rebel-held part of Yemen, says US | ||||||
| 20231231 | Houthi militants attack container ship, Maersk halts Red Sea sailing | Red Sea | Iranian-backed Houthi militants attacked a Maersk container vessel with missiles and small boats, prompting the company to pause all sailing through the Red Sea for 48 hours, Maersk said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231231 | US forces sink ‘Houthi’ boats in Red Sea after attack on Maersk vessel | Red Sea | Global shipping giant Maersk is suspending operations in the Red Sea for 48 hours after the attack | ||||||
| 20231231 | US sinks Houthi boats used to attack merchant vessel in the Red Sea | Red Sea | US Navy helicopters sank three small boats used by Iran-backed Houthi militants to attack a Maersk merchant vessel in the Red Sea, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday. | ||||||
| 20231231 | US Navy helicopters fire at Yemen’s Houthi rebels and kill several in latest Red Sea shipping attack | Red Sea | The U.S. military said Sunday that its forces opened fire on Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, killing several of them in an escalation of the maritime conflict linked to the war in Gaza. | ||||||
| 20231231 | US forces shoot down Houthi missiles in Red Sea | Red Sea | A US spokesperson says their forces also killed several gunmen during the attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels. | ||||||
| 20231231 | US Navy helicopters destroy Houthi boats in Red Sea after attempted hijack | Red Sea | The US Navy has destroyed Houthi "small boats" whose crew attempted to board a container ship in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231231 | UK's Cameron: Iran shares responsibility for preventing Red Sea attacks | Red Sea/UK/Iraan | British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Sunday he had made clear in a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian that Iran shared responsibility for preventing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Houthis show no sign of ending ‘reckless’ Red Sea attacks as trade traffic picks up, commander says | Red Sea?US | emen’s Houthi rebels show no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East says, even as more nations join the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic begins to pick up. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Drone attack on Iraqi Kurdistan military base | US/Iraq | Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said Sunday two drones struck a military base used by the autonomous region's security forces, blaming the attack on "outlaws" funded by Baghdad. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Walkout over weapons: British school students battle Gaza protest curbs | United Kingdom | Luton Sixth Form College suspended its student council after a walkout, amid scrutiny of links to an arms major that supplies critical weapons to Israel. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Tony Blair reportedly tapped to relocate Palestinian refugees from Gaza | United Kingdom | According to Israel's Channel 12 news, the former British prime minister met with Netanyahu and Gantz to discuss Blair's role in finding countries to receive refugees from Gaza | ||||||
| 20231231 | US Muslims expand campaign launched against Biden over Gaza conflict | United States | American Muslim leaders on Saturday expanded a campaign launched earlier this month against President Joe Biden over his handling of the Gaza conflict | ||||||
| 20231231 | More than 20 Israeli soldiers killed, injured in Gaza: Al-Qassam Brigades | war on Gaza | Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, said Saturday that more than 20 Israeli soldiers were killed and injured during clashes in Gaza City | ||||||
| 20231231 | Netanyahu says Israel should control Gaza-Egypt border zone | war on Gaza | The border zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt should be under Israel's control, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday as he predicted the war in the Palestinian enclave and on other regional fronts would last many more months. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Netanyahu says Gaza-Egypt border zone should be under Israeli control | war on Gaza | The Israeli prime minister also predicts the war in Gaza and on other regional fronts would last many months. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Netanyahu says Israel must control Egypt-Gaza border zone | war on Gaza | Palestinian officials accuse Israeli premier of intending to reoccupy Gaza and 'destroy agreements with Egypt'
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| 20231231 | Israel says it's ready to let ships bring aid to Gaza | war on Gaza | Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip "immediately" as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, naming four European countries as potential participants. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Ending rocket fire from Gaza unlikely, say unnamed Israeli army officials | war on Gaza | Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza is unlikely to end rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave into the country, unnamed military officials said Sunday | ||||||
| 20231231 | 150 Palestinians killed, 286 injured as Israeli forces continue onslaught on Gaza: Health Ministry | war on Gaza | At least 150 Palestinians have been killed and another 286 injured as the Israeli forces continued their ongoing onslaught against them in the besieged Gaza Strip, with 12 families becoming the latest victims in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Sunday | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli jets pound central Gaza as Netanyahu indicates longer war | war on Gaza | Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza on Sunday, residents and medics said, as battles raged through the rubble of towns and refugee camps in a war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would take "many more months" to end. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli strikes in central Gaza kill at least 35 as Netanyahu says war will continue for months | war on Gaza | Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 35 people Sunday, hospital officials said, as fighting raged across the tiny enclave a day after Israel’s prime minister said the war will continue for “many more months,” resisting international calls for a cease-fire. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli bombardment destroyed over 70% of Gaza homes: Report | war on Gaza | Experts say the besieged strip is unrecognisable and its bombing is the most destructive in modern history. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Gazans pray new year can bring peace after 'wreckage' | war on Gaza | As they turn from a year that could barely have brought more bitter hardship after 12 weeks of a pulverising Israeli assault, people in Gaza have little hope that 2024 will bring much relief. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Young Gazans hope for peace in new year as war with Israel goes on | war on Gaza | Young Palestinians want a return to normal lives in 2024. They said they want the war with Israel, which began after the Hamas attack on 7 October, to end. | ||||||
| 20231231 | What’s the Philadelphi Corridor border zone that Israel wants to control? | war on Gaza | Israeli control over the corridor between Gaza and Egypt – as its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought — would mean the de facto full reoccupation of the Gaza Strip. | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza as war enters a new year | war on Gaza | Heavy bombing continues, while Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has shown unparalleled ‘morality’ in its conduct in Gaza | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israel detains Palestinians in renewed West Bank incursions | West Bank | At least four Palestinians detained and 17 others injured from Israeli drone strikes on Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem | ||||||
| 20231231 | Israeli army storms 5 Palestinian camps in occupied West Bank, destroys infrastructure with bulldozers | West Bank | Israeli forces stormed five Palestinian camps in the occupied West Bank in pre-dawn raids to arrest people that lasted until Sunday morning, destroying infrastructure with bulldozers and clashing with locals, injuring two people | ||||||