October in details

GAZA WAR 2023 / OCTOBER IN DETAILS

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Sources are Western, Palestinian, Arabic, Israeli and Asian media.

CHILDREN
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CHURCHES & MOSQUES
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20231031	Anadolu captures images of Orthodox Cultural Centre destroyed by Israel in Gaza	churches & mosques	Anadolu, on Tuesday, captured the images of the Orthodox Cultural Centre in Gaza, which was destroyed by the Israeli bombardment in the south of the blockaded enclave
20231009	Thousands of Gaza residents take refuge in UN schools from Israel air raids	churches & mosques	Since the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip began on Saturday, more than 73,000 Palestinian residents living along the eastern regions near the Israeli frontier have left their homes to take shelter in United Nations refugee agency schools.

COLLUSION & COMPLICITY
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20231018	US vetoes UN resolution calling for humanitarian pause in Israel-Hamas war	collusion & complicity	The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel while calling for a pause in the fighting to allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
20231011	Biden urges Israeli leader to minimize civilian casualties in war with Hamas	collusion & complicity	In a private phone call Tuesday, President Joe Biden urged Israel’s prime minister to minimize civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israel sets out to destroy Hamas in reprisal for the deadliest attack the country has suffered in the last 50 years, two Biden administration officials and a former official told NBC News.

COMMUNICATION
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20231028	Gaza’s communications blackout raises concerns of dystopian war crimes	communication	Gaza continues to be unreachable to the outside world after the cutting of phone and internet services, as humanitarian and media organisations warn the communications blackout could provide cover for atrocities in the besieged enclave.
20231028	Gaza phone and internet cut off as Israel intensifies attacks	communication	A recap on the situation in Gaza right now: Israel knocked out the internet and communications in the blockaded territory in a stepped-up bombardment during Friday night, largely cutting off its 2.3 million people from contact with each other and the outside world and creating a near-blackout of information, Associated Press reports.

DESTRUCTION
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20231009	‘Israel doesn’t care about collateral damage’: Bunker busters used in Gaza	destruction	Plumes of smoke are springing up frequently as the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered a third day after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel.

DYSTOPIAN WAR

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Dystopia is often characterized by fear or distress, tyranny, inflicting environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline of a population, which is the issue about the Palestinians. These characteristics were found in the way how the Israelis brought the declaration of war into practice after the Hamas resistance attack on October 7, 2023.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

Dehumanization is when Palestinians in Gaza are treated below the level of being a human.

It is a dystopian war when the Israeli belligerent fractions Gaza into pieces to repeatingly force occupied people back and forth from one piece to another piece, or with the intention to uproot the people into one single section by declaring more fractions as "combat zone" to create a shrinking "safe zone".

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20231031	‘Despair’: UN deplores Gaza conditions, child casualties amid dystopian war	dystopian war	An urgent ceasefire is a matter of life and death for millions in the Gaza Strip, an official warned at a United Nations Security Council emergency briefing, noting climbing child casualties as Israel continues to bombard the enclave.
20231029	Israeli troops clear Gaza areas 'slice by slice', but is this an invasion?	dystopian war	Israeli forces appear to be concentrating on the northern area of the Gaza Strip, in Beit Hanoun, and pushing down a bit further south from there.
20231027	Israel strikes Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza on Palestinian side again: Al Qahera News	dystopian war	The Rafah border crossing has served as the sole point of delivering humanitarian aid provided by world countries and local and international organizations from Egypt to Gaza.
20231011	Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas	dystopian war	dystopian warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants.
20231010	'Where do we go?' - Nowhere safe in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify	dystopian war	"Where do we go? Is there a safe place left in this neighbourhood, which was so quiet and beautiful?" residents of an apartment block in Rimal asked me, with heavy sarcasm.

FOOD & WATER

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

Dehumanization is when Palestinians in Gaza are treated below the level of being a human.

It is a dystopian war when the Israeli belligerent fractions Gaza into pieces to repeatingly force occupied people back and forth from one piece to another piece, or with the intention to uproot the people into one single section by declaring more fractions as "combat zone" to create a shrinking "safe zone".

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20231031	No privacy, no water: Gaza women use period-delaying pills amid war	food, water, fuel & electricity	Many Palestinian women have resorted to taking menstruation-delaying pills due to the desperate, unsanitary circumstances they have been forced into as a result of the continuing Israeli offensive in Gaza.

20231029	Impeding aid to Gaza could be crime under ICC jurisdiction, says prosecutor	food, water, fuel & electricty	The International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim Khan told a news conference in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday that Israel must make “discernible efforts” to ensure civilians get basic food and medicine.

20231026	Starvation as weapon of war being used against Gaza civilians — Oxfam	food, water, fuel & electricty	According to data compiled by the UN and analyzed by Oxfam, it was found that only 2 percent of the food that should have been delivered has entered Gaza since the total siege. The report indicates that 2.2 million people are now in urgent need of food. Prior to October 7, 2023, 104 trucks a day used to deliver food to the besieged Gaza Strip, which is equivalent to one truck every 14 minutes.

20231020	Aid 'a lifeline' for war-torn Gaza: UN chief at Rafah border	food, water, fuel & electricty	"These trucks are not just trucks, they are a lifeline. They are the difference between life and death for so many people in Gaza," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with Gaza to oversee preparations for the delivery of aid.
20231011	Gaza faces ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as power plant running out of fuel	food, water, fuel & electricty	Gaza’s power authority has said the blockaded enclave’s sole power plant will run out of fuel within hours, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies in retaliation to the recent attacks by Hamas, the armed group that runs Gaza.

FORCED DISPLACEMENT

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

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20231026	Fearing airstrikes and crowded shelters, Palestinians in north Gaza defy Israeli evacuation orders	forced displacement	Mahmoud Shalabi did not evacuate his home in northern Gaza despite the frightful dystopian warnings of a looming, far more brutal assault to come as it presses ahead with its war against the Hamas militant group.
20231019	Egypt Wary of Opening Gaza Border to Palestinian Refugees	forced displacement	The World Health Organization said Thursday that five trucks full of medical supplies are ready at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, with hopes that the aid could be delivered to Palestinian hospitals as early as Friday.
20231013	‘We reject the forced displacement’ in Gaza: Abbas tells Blinken in Jordan	forced displacement	Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he “rejects the forced displacement” of Palestinians from Gaza, following Israel’s order for all of the enclave’s civilians to move to the south.
20231011	More than 260,000 displaced in Gaza, says UN	forced displacement	Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said.
20231011	Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas	forced displacement	dystopian warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants.
20231009	Thousands of Gaza residents take refuge in UN schools from Israel air raids	forced displacement	Since the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip began on Saturday, more than 73,000 Palestinian residents living along the eastern regions near the Israeli frontier have left their homes to take shelter in United Nations refugee agency schools.

GENOCIDE

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

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GENOCIDE II any form of expression amounting to fueling, inciting, propagating, supporting and denial.
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20231030	Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry	ethnic cleansing	An Intelligence Ministry document revealed by Local Call and +972 shows how the idea of population transfer to the Sinai is reaching official discussions.

GLOBAL EFFECTS
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20231031	Antisemitism rampant online since Hamas’ attack, with YouTube recording a 51-fold surge	global effect	New research by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that in the days after Hamas' attack antisemitic comments on conflict-related YouTube videos increased by 4963%.
20231031	France steps up crackdown on Palestine solidarity amid Gaza war	global effect	French authorities have banned demonstrations in support of Gaza, arrested protesters, and moved to dissolve several Palestine advocacy groups.
20231027	European bans on pro-Palestinian protests prompt claims of bias	global effect	Post correspondents went to demonstrations in Berlin, Paris and London to see how authorities handled pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests differently.
20231026	‘Complete censorship’: Germany’s Palestinian diaspora fights crackdown	global effect	In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s attacks on Israel on October 7, a Palestinian flag was painted on a monument near Sonnenallee, commonly known as Berlin’s Arab street, in the southwestern district of Neukoelln. Authorities painted over the flag on the same night.
20231018	‘Anti-Semitism has no place in Germany’: Scholz condemns synagogue attack	global effect	German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has denounced a fire-bomb attack on a Berlin synagogue, stating that the country “stands united for the protection of Jews”, despite signs of increasing anti-Semitism.

GLOBAL RESPONSE
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20231031	Israel's Gaza attack 'beyond proportionality', Norway says	global response	Israel is breaking the rules of modern warfare in Gaza, Norway's prime minister has said. "I believe this is beyond proportionality," Norway's prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre told EUobserver in Oslo on Tuesday (31 October).
20231027	Protesters shut New York's Grand Central, seeking Gaza ceasefire	global response	Hundreds of protesters demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas forced the closure on Friday of Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City's major transit hubs, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.
20231021	Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Flood Streets All Over World	global response	Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched Saturday through a rainy London to demand Israel stop its bombardment of Gaza, and similar calls were heard in cities around the world as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third week.
20231021	Thousands in Muslim countries and beyond demonstrate over Israeli airstrikes	global response	Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond held demonstrations Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They called for an end to Israel’s blockade and airstrikes following a brutal incursion into southern Israel by fighters from the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza.
20231009	Russia Attacks Washington’s Stance on Gaza War, Monopoly on Mediation	global response	Moscow is deeply concerned at last weekend’s surge in violence between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, but finds the US approach to the crisis problematic, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

HAMAS RESISTANCE ATTACK
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20231030	Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media	Hamas resistance attack	In the days since Hamas militants stormed into Israel early Oct. 7, a flood of videos and photos purporting to show the conflict have filled social media, making it difficult for onlookers from around the world to sort fact from fiction.
20231014	A flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict	Hamas resistance attack	The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real
20231013	False Claims Around Israel Attacks Include Recycled Videos and a Game Clip	Hamas resistance attack	Graphic imagery and footage have flooded social media since Hamas terrorists attacked Israelis. Bogus claims are also circulating and risk obscuring real evidence of atrocities.
20231013	About Three Widespread Israel-Hamas War Claims	Hamas resistance attack	Social media platforms have hosted a flood of questionable information — some of it unverified and some of it intentionally misleading — since war broke out between Hamas and Israel on Oct. 7.
20231013	Who's behind Israel-Gaza disinformation and hate online?	Hamas resistance attack	Social media has been awash with false claims, conspiracy theories and hateful content surrounding what's happening in Israel and Gaza - and questions over whether inauthentic accounts are being used to manipulate the conversation.
20231011	How Could Israeli Intelligence Miss the Hamas Invasion Plans?	Hamas resistance attack	An intelligence failure is like a plane crash: it is never just one thing that goes wrong, it is instead a series of things that add up to a disaster.
20231008	Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War	Hamas resistance attack	The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, ....
20231007	Why the Palestinian group Hamas launched an attack on Israel?	Hamas resistance attack	Israel and Hamas are locked in a new cycle of escalating violence, after a surprise attack on Saturday involving aerial, sea and ground operations, initiated by the Palestinian group from the Gaza Strip. Israel has responded with a deadly bombardment of the blockaded coastal enclave.
			Hamas spokesperson Khaled Qadomi has told Al Jazeera that the group’s military operation is in response to all the atrocities the Palestinians have faced over the decades. “We want the international community to stop atrocities in Gaza, against Palestinian people, our holy sites like Al-Aqsa. All these things are the reason behind starting this battle,” he said. “This is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on Earth,” Mohammed Deif, the Hamas military commander said, adding that 5,000 rockets were launched. “Everyone who has a gun should take it out. The time has come,” Deif said, according to reports. Hamas called on “the resistance fighters in the West Bank” as well as “our Arab and Islamic nations” to join the battle, in a statement posted on Telegram. Osama Hamdan, senior spokesperson for Hamas, told Al Jazeera that the group was not attacking civilians even though the group’s own videos have shown its fighters taking elderly Israelis hostage during the fighting on Saturday. “You have to differentiate between settlers and civilians. Settlers attacked Palestinians,” Hamdan said.

HEALTH, MEDICAL TREATMENT & SANITATION
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20231028	Israel expands ground operation in Gaza and bombs Hamas tunnels after knocking out communications	health care infrastructure	Israel on Saturday expanded its ground operation in Gaza with infantry and armored vehicles backed by “massive” strikes from the air and sea, including the bombing of Hamas tunnels — a key target in its campaign to crush the territory’s ruling group after its bloody incursion in Israel three weeks ago.

20231026	The ICC should urgently investigate what happened at al-Ahli Arab Hospital	health care infrastructure	The the devastating explosion at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in central Gaza, in which the Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 500 people were killed, shows exactly why the International Criminal Court (ICC) must investigate atrocities committed in Israel and Palestine. With allegations levied from all directions, the ICC may just be the best option to provide an impartial and independent assessment of the bombing and, critically, who bears responsibility for it.

20231024	Hundreds likely dead in Gaza hospital blast, as Israeli blockade cripples medical response	health care infrastructure	Palestinian officials say hundreds were killed by a massive blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, as humanitarian concerns mount over Israel’s deprivation of food, fuel and electricity to the enclave’s population.

HUMANITARIAN AID
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20231031	UN chief Guterres says aid trickling into Gaza is ‘completely inadequate’	humanitarian aid	In a statement on Tuesday, Guterres reiterated that humanitarian need in Gaza is far outpacing existing levels of assistance. Aid trucks have been trickling into Gaza from Egypt over the past week via Rafah, the main crossing that does not border Israel.
20231020	Aid 'a lifeline' for war-torn Gaza: UN chief at Rafah border	humanitarian aid	"These trucks are not just trucks, they are a lifeline. They are the difference between life and death for so many people in Gaza," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with Gaza to oversee preparations for the delivery of aid.

20231018	Israelis say they won’t block humanitarian aid entering Gaza from Egypt	humanitarian aid	The Israelis have said that it will not prevent humanitarian aid from entering the blockaded Gaza Strip from Egypt, following pressure from its international allies to ease its 10-day siege on the Palestinian territory.

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
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20231031	‘Despair’: UN deplores Gaza conditions, child casualties amid dystopian war	humanitarian crisis	An urgent ceasefire is a matter of life and death for millions in the Gaza Strip, an official warned at a United Nations Security Council emergency briefing, noting climbing child casualties as Israel continues to bombard the enclave.
20231031	UN chief Guterres says aid trickling into Gaza is ‘completely inadequate’	humanitarian crisis	In a statement on Tuesday, Guterres reiterated that humanitarian need in Gaza is far outpacing existing levels of assistance. Aid trucks have been trickling into Gaza from Egypt over the past week via Rafah, the main crossing that does not border Israel.
20231031	Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel \| Flash Update #25	humanitarian crisis	The 25th day of hostilities witnessed the largest Israeli ground operation to date, primarily in northern Gaza and the outskirts of Gaza city, alongside intense bombardments.

20231018	Israelis say they won’t block humanitarian aid entering Gaza from Egypt	humanitarian crisis	The Israelis have said that it will not prevent humanitarian aid from entering the blockaded Gaza Strip from Egypt, following pressure from its international allies to ease its 10-day siege on the Palestinian territory.

20231011	Gaza faces ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as power plant running out of fuel	humanitarian crisis	Gaza’s power authority has said the blockaded enclave’s sole power plant will run out of fuel within hours, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies in retaliation to the recent attacks by Hamas, the armed group that runs Gaza.
20231011	More than 260,000 displaced in Gaza, says UN	forced displacement	Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said.
20231010	'Where do we go?' - Nowhere safe in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify	humanitarian crisis	"Where do we go? Is there a safe place left in this neighbourhood, which was so quiet and beautiful?" residents of an apartment block in Rimal asked me, with heavy sarcasm.

ICC
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ICJ
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IMPRISONMENT
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IOF
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IRAN
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ISRAELI ESCALATION
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20231031	UN chief 'deeply alarmed' by escalation	Israeli escalation	UN chief Antonio Guterres said he was "dismayed" by reports that two-thirds of people killed in Gaza were women and children. Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthi rebels have pledged to continue attacking Israel.

ISRAELIS
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20231030	Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry	Israelis	An Intelligence Ministry document revealed by Local Call and +972 shows how the idea of population transfer to the Sinai is reaching official discussions.

20231027	Israel rebuffs allies’ calls to ‘pause’ Gaza assault	Israelis	Israel is rejecting calls for respite in Gaza as its closest allies in the West have coalesced around the idea of "humanitarian pauses", or temporary stops to the bombardment.
20231026	Many Israelis are furious at their government’s chaotic recovery efforts after Hamas attack	Israelis	More than two weeks after Hamas militants rampaged through a string of sleepy farming towns, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward.
20231025	Israel vows again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire in Gaza at a major UN meeting	Israelis	Israel vowed again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire from the U.N. chief, the Palestinians and many countries at a high-level U.N. meeting on Tuesday and declaring that the war in Gaza is not only its war but “the war of the free world.”
20231025	Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war	Israelis	Israel will refuse visas to United Nations officials, its ambassador to the UN has said, as the country’s spat with the international organisation deepens. (see October 24, 2023)
20231024	Hundreds rally in Israel’s Tel Aviv to demand release of hostages	Israelis	Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv, Israel, to demand that the Israeli government secure the release of hostages seized by Hamas in its October 7 attack on southern Israel.
20231023	Netanyahu denies splits over Gaza war strategy	Israelis	Israel’s prime minister, defence minister and army chief insisted on Monday that they were working “in close and full co-operation” as signs grew of discord over the course of the war with Hamas.

JERUSALEM: AL-AQSA & EAST JERUSALEM
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20231007	Israel closes checkpoints surrounding Jerusalem	Jerusalem	On Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces closed all military checkpoints surrounding the city of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian News and Information Agency “Wafa”. The official agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying, “The occupation forces closed the Qalandiya checkpoints, the Shuafat camp, Beit Iksa, and Al-Za’im, and completely prevented movement to and from Jerusalem.”

JOURNALISTS
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20231031	Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza conflict	journalists	The Israel-Gaza conflict has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel "declared war" on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
20231027	US says ‘no evidence’ Israel forces targeted Al Jazeera	journalists	US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said he saw “zero evidence” that the family of an Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza were targeted and killed by Israel in response to the network’s coverage in the region. COMMENT There is no evidence that an investigation at the scene has been carried out.
20231026	Arab world speaks out on killing of Al Jazeera journalist’s family	journalists	Grief has poured out across the region following the shocking slaughter of wife and children in southern Gaza.
20231025	Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid	journalists	The wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau chief in Gaza, have been killed in an Israeli air raid.
20231025	‘Our voices will go on’: Dahdouh’s Al Jazeera team stands behind him	journalists
20231016	Obituary: Reuters' Issam Abdallah covered the world's biggest events with bravery and insight	journalists	Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, who was killed on Friday while filming Israeli missile attacks at the Israeli-Lebanon border, brought courage, compassion and insight to his work covering some of the biggest news stories of the past decade.

LEBANON
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MEDIA

The listing of reports concerning misinformation, deflection and distortion, and reporting of or about unverifiable claims.

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OPINIONS 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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20231029	Western coverage of Israel’s dystopian war – bias or unprofessionalism?	opinion	Publishing unsubstantiated claims, telling only one side of the story, and painting Palestinians as nothing more than objects in Hamas’s hands are all unprofessional mistakes Western media makes while covering the conflict between Israel and Hamas, media experts and Arab journalists say.
20231027	Gaza ground invasion would make hostage negotiations ‘very difficult’, says Qatari former director of defence	opinion	discussion on video
20231023	It’s not just Gaza – Israel is also killing scores in the West Bank	opinion	The occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has not been making headlines lately. When it does get noticed, it is often portrayed as an equal partner with Israel in violence.
20231018	Why has Jordan cancelled Biden visit after bombing of Gaza hospital?	opinion	It was to be a centrepiece of United States President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East on Wednesday: a trip to Jordan to meet a range of Arab leaders amid Israel’s incessant bombing of the Gaza Strip.
20231008	Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War	opinion	The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, ....

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
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REGIONAL EFFECTS
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REGIONAL RESPONSE
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RESISTANCE
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SCHOOLS
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20231017	Deepening concern for civilians, as UN school is hit	schools	The head of the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini, has reported that at least six people were killed on Monday afternoon local time, when an UNRWA school being used as a shelter, was hit in the al-Maghazi camp in the middle region of the embattled Gaza Strip.

TARGETING CIVILIANS

Refers to combined group of people (i.e women and children or elderly or wounded or deaths)

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

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20231025	Israeli airstrikes surge in Gaza, destroying homes and killing dozens at a time	targeting civilians	Israel escalated airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, crushing families in the rubble of residential buildings, as health officials said hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the past day and medical facilities were shut down because of bomb damage and lack of power.

20231024	More than 700 killed in overnight Israeli attacks, Gaza officials say	targeting civilians	More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air raids on Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel began bombarding the the besieged territory earlier this month.

20231023	400 people killed in a single day by Israeli attacks in Gaza	targeting civilians	Some 400 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air attacks on Gaza on Sunday, according to Palestinian health officials.

20231011	Biden urges Israeli leader to minimize civilian casualties in war with Hamas	targeting civilians	In a private phone call Tuesday, President Joe Biden urged Israel’s prime minister to minimize civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israel sets out to destroy Hamas in reprisal for the deadliest attack the country has suffered in the last 50 years, two Biden administration officials and a former official told NBC News.

TARGETING FAMILIES IN WHOLE OR IN PART

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

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20231028	Medics discover with horror relatives among Gaza dead	targeting families in whole or in part	Mahmud al-Astal is one of many medics providing lifesaving care as casualties flood hospitals in Gaza, only to one day discover his sister and her entire family among the dead.

20231025	Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in Israeli air raid	targeting families in whole or in part	The wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau chief in Gaza, have been killed in an Israeli air raid.

20231025	Israeli airstrikes surge in Gaza, destroying homes and killing dozens at a time	targeting families in whole or in part	Israel escalated airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, crushing families in the rubble of residential buildings, as health officials said hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the past day and medical facilities were shut down because of bomb damage and lack of power.

TARGETING FORCED DISPLACED PEOPLE

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
ADOPTED 09 December 1948	BY General Assembly resolution 260 A (III)
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In relation to Gaza, dystopian is adjective to or denoting an imagined society where there is great suffering or injustice.

In relation to the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have been an imagined society in which these people lead dehumanized, fearful, miserable lives. Exposing targeted people to condition of miserable life is when the war belligerent treats all that what is humanitarian as military objective such as aid supply of food, water, medicines, internet to hinder humanitarian communication, etc.

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20231031	Dozens killed in Israeli air attack on Jabalia refugee camp: Gaza official	targeting forced displaced people	Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to a medical official and Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory.

20231031	Jabalia: Israel air strike reportedly kills dozens at Gaza refugee camp	targeting forced displaced people	An Israeli air strike is reported to have killed dozens of people at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 50 people were killed and 150 wounded. But a nearby hospital said it received 400 casualties, including 120 dead.

20231031	Dozens killed in Israeli air attack on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza	targeting forced displaced people	Health ministry in Gaza says more than 50 people were killed in the attack on Tuesday and 150 others were wounded.

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UNITED KINGDOM
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UNITED NATIONS
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20231018	US vetoes UN resolution calling for humanitarian pause in Israel-Hamas war	United Nations	The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel while calling for a pause in the fighting to allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza.

UNITED STATES
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20231018	US vetoes UN resolution calling for humanitarian pause in Israel-Hamas war	United States	The United States has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel while calling for a pause in the fighting to allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza.

WEST BANK
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20231028	Protests, clashes in Jerusalem and West Bank as Israel-Gaza war rages	Al Aqsa, Jerusalem, West Bank	Israeli security forces restricted young Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday and deployed in strength across the Old City and beyond to quell any unrest spilling over from the conflict in Gaza.
20231028	Israeli army, settlers kill and arrest Palestinians, demolishes home in West Bank	West Bank	While Gaza experienced one of the harshest nights in the 22-day-long war, in the West Bank, the Israeli army and settlers continued to terrorize the West Bank, killing one Palestinian, arresting seven, and demolishing a home.
20231028	Protests, confrontations in Jerusalem and West Bank amid Israel-Gaza war	West Bank	Israeli security forces restricted young Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday and deployed in strength across the Old City and beyond to quell any unrest spilling over from the conflict in Gaza.

20231027	Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in occupied West Bank: WAFA	West Bank	Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. As its war against the Hamas group in the Gaza Strip continues for three weeks, Israel has stepped up operations against Palestinian groups in the West Bank, killing many Palestinians and arresting hundreds.

20231027	Settlers threaten West Bank children with bloody dolls	West Bank	Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have distributed threatening leaflets on cars and left bloodied dolls at schools, warning Palestinians to leave or be killed.
20231027	At least 19 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank	West Bank	At least 19 Palestinians, including a woman, have been arrested by Israeli forces following another raid across the occupied West Bank before dawn on Friday. In Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, the Israeli forces arrested four citizens during their storming of the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa. In Hebron, among those who who were arrested was Dr. Farouk Ashour, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic post on X, formerly Twitter. Four others were arrested in the village of Kafr Ni’am also in Ramally, and another four in the occupied East Jerusalem. The rest of those who were arrested were from Nablus, Jericho and al-Aghwar Governorate.
20231025	Biden condemns Israeli settler attacks in occupied West Bank	West Bank	Settler violence against Palestinians has intensified since the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 and Israel’s continuing bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.
20231025	Israelis and Palestinians fear worst to come after Gaza violence	West Bank	In the last few days I have been in southern Israel close to the border with Gaza, deep in the West Bank with hard-line Jewish settlers, and seen the funeral of two young Palestinian men killed by the Israeli army in a raid on a refugee camp.
20231023	It’s not just Gaza – Israel is also killing scores in the West Bank	West Bank	opinion -- The occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has not been making headlines lately. When it does get noticed, it is often portrayed as an equal partner with Israel in violence.
20231022	Palestinian death toll in West Bank surges as Israel pursues militants following Hamas "rampage"	West Bank	Deadly violence has been surging in the West Bank as the Israeli military pursues Palestinian militants in the aftermath of the Hamas attack from Gaza, with more than 90 Palestinians killed in the Israeli-occupied territory in the past two weeks, mainly in clashes with Israeli troops.
20231013	‘We reject the forced displacement’ in Gaza: Abbas tells Blinken in Jordan	West Bank	Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he “rejects the forced displacement” of Palestinians from Gaza, following Israel’s order for all of the enclave’s civilians to move to the south.

20231012	Palestinian man, son attending funeral procession in West Bank shot dead	West Bank	Israeli settlers have killed a Palestinian man and his son in the occupied West Bank during a funeral procession, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says.

20231010	Commission of Inquiry collecting evidence of war crimes committed by all sides in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023	West Bank	There is already clear evidence that war crimes may have been committed in the latest explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza, and all those who have violated international law and targeted civilians must be held accountable for their crimes, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, said today.

YEMEN
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