Gaza -War on it
Updated 2024-08-25
War on Gaza https://english.almayadeen.net/coverage/operation-al-aqsa-flood
Gaza Diaries – Documentary Intimate recordings of Israeli airstrikes. Using mobile phone footage filmed inside Gaza, five people share the reality of continual Israeli air strikes. Their experience reveals the unprecedented humanitarian crisis created during the first weeks of the war. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8571
2024-05-30 The latest Update on Palestine with Zeiad Abbas of MECA Today on the show: Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp totally destroyed as Israeli troops withdraw after 20 days of deadly operations. At least 53 people have been killed and 357 injured in the latest 24-hours. Zeiad Abbas is back for an update: Meanwhile here in the bay area Clergy and spiritual activists Plan to call for an end to the genocide in a protest in front of Senator Alex Padilla’s San Francisco Office https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-may-30-2024/
2024-05-26 Israel’s war on Gaza live news: ‘More than 30’ killed in Rafah strike An Israeli army bombed a displacement camp in northern Rafah, killing at least 35 Palestinians, the Gaza Health Ministry says.
The Hamas military wing launches a missile attack on Tel Aviv, triggering alarm sirens. Earlier, the Qassam Brigades said its fighters “killed and captured” an unidentified number of Israeli soldiers in Jabalia camp. The Israeli military has denied the claim. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/26/israels-war-on-gaza-live-news-hamas-claims-capture-of-israeli-troops
2024-05-25 Israel’s war on Gaza live news: Israeli army attacks school in Jabalia Ten Palestinians are killed, including children, while sheltering at the Nazla primary school in the Jabalia refugee camp after multiple attacks by Israeli forces. At least 46 people killed and 130 wounded in the last 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry says. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/25/israels-war-on-gaza-live-news-end-this-nightmare
2024-05-24 Israel’s war on Gaza updates: ICJ orders Israel to stop Rafah offensive The International Court of Justice orders Israel to “immediately” halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafa, calls humanitarian situation “disastrous”. Israel calls the World Court’s order “outrageous, morally repugnant, and disgusting” and says accusations it’s committing genocide in Gaza “are false”.
More than 900,000 Palestinians have been displaced by fighting in just two weeks and now lack shelter, food, water and medicine. Israeli tanks and troops have advanced in Rafah’s southeast, edging towards the city’s densely populated western district. At least 35,800 people have been killed and 80,011 have been wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/24/israels-war-on-gaza-live-news-at-least-60-palestinians-killed-in-attacks
2024-05-23 Israel’s war on Gaza updates: ‘No child should die from starvation’ With Israeli military incursions throughout Gaza and aid not getting in, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns children are increasingly facing death from hunger and dehydration. The Israeli army intensifies its assault on Rafah as the International Court of Justice says it will rule on Friday whether to order Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire, including in the besieged southern city.
Electricity to go off at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah at any moment as fuel supplies run out – along with healthcare for 1,300 patients. UN says displaced “families living among the rubble” after more than 800,000 Palestinians flee Rafah as Israeli forces attack.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/23/israels-war-on-gaza-live-news-full-scale-rafah-invasion-appears-imminent
2024-05-23 Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-may-23-2024/
2024-05-22 Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Deadly combat rages as Rafah assault looms At least 62 people were killed and 138 wounded in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, Gaza health authorities say. The World Health Organization says northern Gaza’s last two functioning hospitals, al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are besieged by Israeli forces, with more than 200 patients trapped inside. At least 35,709 people have been killed and 79,990 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack is 1,139 with dozens still held captive.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/22/israels-war-on-gaza-live-famine-fears-rise-as-aid-failure-escalates
2024-05-06 Palestine Post w/ Linda Sarsour, Sahar Francis & Liz Arias As we do most Mondays, we spend today’s show on the ongoing genocide that Israel is waging against Palestinians. Today we’re in conversation with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. We’re also joined by Sahar Francis, is the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian organization providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. She is also an attorney by training.
At the end of the hour we’re also joined by Liz Arias, a student in her senior year at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where the student encampment protest negotiated a successful divestment commitment from the school’s administration last week. https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/palestine-post-w-evergreen/
2024-03-01 February 29, 2024 – Israel-Hamas war https://www.cnn.com/webview/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-02-29-24/h_c09b6821c90a21b059bc5baf5622b28c?
2023-12-27 2023: The Year Humanity Died As a Palestinian who was born two generations apart from the Nakba, I have never imagined that one day I would witness the genocide of my people unfold before my eyes in broad daylight. In my happy Palestinian innocence, I believed that even if Israel was keen on repeating the Nakba, or attempting to “finish the job of 1948,” as many Israeli officials have threatened over the years, the Free World would not allow it to happen. In my wishful thinking, I believed that the world had learned its lesson since the Nakba.
Yes, the world failed the Palestinian people in 1948. Yes, it allowed Israel to carry out its ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion of Palestinians. Yes, it abandoned the Palestinian refugees, and rewarded Israel with a United Nations recognition and membership. But that was 75 years ago, the age of genocides and holocausts. A lot of progress had been made since, I told myself. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. The U.N. evolved. Human rights groups mushroomed. Mandela won the Nobel Peace. True, genocide would occur so often and so uncontested in the decades since, but after the horrific genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia, the leaders of the Free World seemed to have had enough! They seemed adamant not to allow another genocide to happen—Never Again! Not in Palestine, not again!
Even when Israel mushroomed in size, and the settlements tripled, and the apartheid system was closing in on the Palestinians in the West Bank, and the merciless siege suffocating those in Gaza, where one million children were born and raised in captivity, I still believed that that was the peak of our suffering. I was dead wrong. For three bloody months since the Gaza Genocide first unfolded, the Free World has sat there watching, and cheering, and mocking us to death.
Gaza may be annihilated, but it’s not going anywhere. When the dust of war settles, it will sit on our global conscience for generations to come. It will be a permanent stain on our humanity. The children of Gaza will not forget, if they survive. The living will remember, and the dead will haunt us forever. Gaza will be remembered not only as the crime of the century, but also as the site of our greatest shame, where humanity failed. 2023 will go down in history as the darkest in Palestine––the year humanity died. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/2023-humanity-died-gaza
2023-12-22 UN Expert Says ‘Only Logical Conclusion’ Is That Israel Aims to Expel Majority of People From Gaza Israel’s tactics in its assault on Gaza indicate that it is trying to force the Palestinians who live there to abandon it, a United Nations expert warned Friday.
Paula Gaviria Betancur, special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), pointed out that Israel had ordered civilians to flee to safety in the south of Gaza two months ago, only to demand that both the new refugees and the residents of southern Gaza evacuate again. She worried that Israel was engaged in forced population transfer and collective punishment, both war crimes. “Where will the people of Gaza have left to go tomorrow?” she asked. “As evacuation orders and military operations continue to expand and civilians are subjected to relentless attacks on a daily basis, the only logical conclusion is that Israel’s military operation in Gaza aims to deport the majority of the civilian population en masse.”https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-deportation-israel-gaza
2023-12-22 Israel’s Killing of Journalists in Gaza ‘Unparalleled,’ Says Watchdog Journalists are being slain during Israel’s current assault on Gaza at a rate unseen in modern history—with more killed in the last 10 weeks alone than have been killed in any country in any whole year since records began, the Committee to Protect Journalists revealed on Thursday. CPJ said that at least 68 media professionals—61 Palestinians, four Israelis, and three Lebanese—have been killed since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the Israeli military’s retaliatory obliteration of the Gaza Strip.
Of particular concern to CPJ is Israel’s “apparent pattern of targeting journalists and their families.” “In at least one case, a journalist was killed while clearly wearing press insignia in a location where no fighting was taking place,” the group said. “In at least two other cases, journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials and IDF officers before their family members were killed.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/journalists-killed-in-gaza-2666788920
2023-11-01 Gaza Teach-in at UC Berkeley Professor Angela Davis, Professor Ussama Makdisi, Professor Samera Esmier, Professor Harvey Dong, Professor Hatem Bazian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_lL0eFchEY&list=PLcKTcNwy7BrF2fsCRkNDSpVvfpG6_RKiW&index=4
“We are deeply concerned about the ability of our teams to continue providing their emergency medical services, especially since this disruption affects the central emergency number ‘101’ and hinders the arrival of ambulance vehicles to the wounded and injured,” the group said. “We are also worried about the safety of our teams working in Gaza Strip as the continuous and intense Israeli airstrikes around the clock indicate that the Israeli authorities will continue to commit war crimes while isolating Gaza from the outside world.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-blackout
2023-10-26 A Palestinian American view of the Gaza war; the life and work of Joan Didion – KPFA Behind the News Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on her life and work https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-october-26-2023/
2023-10-25 Israeli bombardment claims over 700 lives in 24 hours Conditions in the enclave are worsening by the hour. Hospitals are being forced to reduce services due to a lack of fuel, which Israeli authorities are preventing from entering Gaza via the Rafah border crossing from Egypt. Even the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA) reported that its operations in Gaza may have to be suspended within 24 hours if fuel supplies fail to arrive.
“We are hosting 600,000 people in over 160 underground facilities, including schools, medical facilities, and other buildings like warehouses … We’re so stretched that we have to open warehouses to receive the displaced,” said UNRWA director of communications Juliette Touma. “Supplies are also running out, so we will not be able to give any supplies to [Palestinians in Gaza]. We will not be able to do very simple things like start our fleet of cars or turn on the trucks and go pick up those supplies that are coming in from the borders.”
The World Health Organization called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” Tuesday to allow for fuel shipments to reach Gaza. Six hospitals across Gaza have shut entirely due to a lack of fuel, the WHO said, and the al-Shifa Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital and the Turkish Friendship Hospital are struggling to maintain critical services. “Unless vital fuel and additional health supplies are urgently delivered into Gaza, thousands of vulnerable patients risk death or medical complications as critical services shut down due to lack of power,” the WHO warned. https://countercurrents.org/2023/10/israeli-bombardment-claims-over-700-lives-in-24-hours/
2023-10-25 Before and after satellite images show destruction in Gaza Israel has been at war with Hamas since October 7, after the Palestinian militant group launched surprise cross-border raids from Gaza. In response, Israel has been launching airstrikes on Gaza, and there are fears the crisis could escalate further. New satellite images released by Maxar show significant damage to sites across Gaza. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/middleeast/satellite-images-gaza-destruction/index.html
2023-10-23 The War on Gaza II The discussion about Israel and Gaza continues with writer and activist Layla Al-Sheikh. https://prospect.org/podcasts/10-23-2023-gaza-hamas-israel-netanyahu-biden/
2023-10-16 Israel Is Making a Terrible Mistake Now, Israel might “solve” its immediate Hamas problem through the methods of the worst butchers of history—that is, expelling and/or massacring all the 1.8 million people in Gaza, half of them children, and imposing a peace of the grave. But at what cost? As writer John Ganz points out, Israel’s core international legitimacy relies on the memory of the Holocaust. Committing a crime of extermination in Gaza would seriously erode that justification at the least. Indeed, it may well be that Hamas was counting on this reaction, just as Osama bin Laden was correctly counting on America to egregiously overreact to the 9/11 attacks.
If Israel has no generally accepted special reason to exist, and we are back into a world of dog-eat-dog nationalist competition, then its proximate security situation is bad—and now getting worse thanks to this war. There is already simmering conflict with Hezbollah on the Israeli border with Lebanon. The incipient normalization deal with Saudi Arabia is reportedly on ice. If Israel were to shove hundreds of thousands of Gazans into Egypt (the only way to go outside of an airlift or ship transport), that country would be enraged.
And while Europe and the U.S. have so far largely taken Israel’s side, as my colleague Robert Kuttner writes, that support is already cracking in some quarters thanks to Israeli brutality. Weeks or months of murderous street-to-street fighting will only sap support further. And if I were a Zionist, I would be distinctly uneasy about the fact that Donald Trump, the leader of an American conservative movement that is increasingly infested with isolationists and gutter antisemites, has been harshly critical of Netanyahu over these attacks. It’s easy indeed to imagine a future right-wing American administration simply deciding that it’s time for “America first,” and for Israel’s vast military and diplomatic aid to be cut off.
Despite “its military prowess, [Israel] remains a small nation, dependent on the support of bigger powers for arms and ammunition,” Ganz writes. “If that goes, it is a trap, a prison, just another forsaken stretch of sand not unlike Gaza.” https://prospect.org/world/2023-10-16-israel-biden-administration-terrible-mistake/
2023-10-14 No place is safe in Gaza Israel’s extensive attacks on Gaza are appalling. An immediate halt to the indiscriminate attacks and the cessation of random bloodshed must be urgently pursued. Immediate efforts should be made to establish safe spaces to protect Gaza’s vulnerable population. Safe access to food, clean water, fuel and medical and humanitarian aid must be guaranteed by creating humanitarian corridors into the besieged Palestinian enclave. Regrettably, this has been impeded by Israel’s ongoing threats and actions, including the bombing of the Rafah Border Crossing.
Over 2 million Palestinians are currently trapped in Gaza, where Israel’s unpredictable attacks have turned the besieged strip into a humanitarian tragedy. The people of Gaza, including children, women, men and the elderly, are enduring immense suffering as Israel enforces its collective punishment policy, leading to a dire shortage of water, food, fuel and medical aid. This constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and a crime against humanity. https://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/editorial/no-place-safe-gaza
2023-10-12 The decade of disappointing protest, and an Israeli leftist’s view of the current horror – KPFA Behind the News Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, on the decade of protest movements that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-october-12-2023/
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