- UN special committee says Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza are consistent with “genocide”, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
- Humanitarian groups say Israeli forces have killed at least 20 aid workers in Gaza in the past month, including four Oxfam staff travelling in a clearly marked vehicle.
- Israeli forces continue to pound Beirut’s southern suburbs after attacking areas on the Syria-Lebanon border, as Hezbollah’s chief pledges to “achieve victory and defeat our enemy”.
- US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Marco Rubio for Secretary of State in the latest pro-Israel pick for his cabinet and administration.
- Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,736 Palestinians and wounded 103,370 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
- In Lebanon, at least 3,365 people have been killed and 14,344 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
- At least 15 people killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s DamascusAt least 15 people have been killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on suburbs of the Syrian capital, according to a Syrian military source cited by the SANA news agency.We have reported earlier that one building was hit in the suburb of Mazzeh and the other in Qudssaya, west of Damascus.Hezbollah claims string of drone and rocket attacks in northern IsraelThe Lebanese armed group says its fighters have launched rockets at the Yesud HaMaala, Manara and Dishon settlements, as well as the Dovev military barracks, in northern Israel.Hezbollah also claimed to have carried out two separate air attacks on the Yaroun and Ein Yaqoub settlements in northern Israel with attack drones, saying the targets were hit accurately.
- The view from Gaza: What the US decision not to punish Israel looks likeThe US State Department says it will not limit the weapons it supplies to Israel, elaborating only that it has not been able to “reach an assessment” that Israel is not working to allow sufficient aid into Gaza, which it has been bombing for more than 13 months.In mid-October, the US had said Israel had 30 days to ease the humanitarian crisis it has caused in Gaza. A month later, it acknowledged the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire but said it would not impose a ban on selling more weapons to Israel to continue its war.With winter approaching and no let-up in the current siege imposed by the Israeli military on all of Gaza, residents and aid agencies say they fear that worse is still to come.
- Palestinians living in the Nuseirat refugee camp wait with empty pots to receive food on November 8, 2024 [Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]
- Israel threatens residents of Beirut suburb Ghobeiry againAvichay Adraee, the Israeli army’s Arabic language spokesman, has published details of its latest orders for the people of Ghobeiry, a southern Beirut suburb, for the second time today.“To all residents in the southern suburb area, specifically in the buildings specified in the attached maps and the buildings adjacent to them in the Ghobeiry area. You are located near Hezbollah facilities and interests, against which the [Israeli army] will act forcefully in the near future,” he said on X.The attached maps marked two buildings in red.Aerial bombardment typically follows these evacuation orders. We will bring you more on this as events develop. Humanitarian group chief describes ‘complete nightmare’ in GazaIsrael’s attacks in the Gaza Strip are unrelenting, and northern Gaza has been under Israeli military siege for more than 40 days.Heavy shelling in Jabalia in the north has killed at least 10 Palestinians today, most of them women and children.Arwa Damon, founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA), which provides medical and mental healthcare to children affected by war, says the situation in Gaza is “a complete nightmare”.
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