September 7,
2024
Women and
children killed in Israeli attack in northern and central Gaza
3 minutes ago
The official
spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza reported that at least
three people were killed and 20 others injured in an attack at a center in the
Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
The attack
targeted the Amr Ibn al-Aas School in the Abu Iskandar area of Sheikh Radwan,
located in the northern part of Gaza City.
Separately, Al
Jazeera reported that at least five people were killed in the east of the
Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza due to Israeli shelling. Amongst the
victims were three women and two children.
Erdogan calls
for Islamic alliance against Israel
18 minutes ago
Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Islamic nations on Saturday to unite
against "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel.
His statement
followed reports by Palestinian and Turkish officials of Israeli troops killing
a Turkish-American woman who was protesting against settlement expansion in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.
"The only
step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state
terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries," Erdogan stated at an
Islamic schools' association event near Istanbul.
Erdogan also
emphasised that Turkey's recent efforts to strengthen ties with Egypt and Syria
were aimed at "building a line of solidarity against the growing threat of
expansionism", which he said also posed a threat to Lebanon and Syria.
Four people,
including women and children killed in Nuseirat attack
53 minutes ago
At least four
people, including two women and two children, have been killed in another
Israeli strike on Nuseirat refugee camp, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.
UK: Tens of
thousands march for Palestine towards Israeli embassy in London
1 hour ago
Tens of
thousands of protesters marched for Palestine in central London on Saturday as
Israel continues its attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West
Bank.
Organisers held
a series of speeches at the start of the march on Regent Street before walking
through the heart of west London towards the Israeli embassy in South
Kensington.
Flanked by an
army of volunteers in green vests, protesters held Palestine flags and placards
that called on Britain to impose a full arms embargo on Israel and for the
Israeli military to end its war in Gaza.
Iqbal Mohamed,
one of the independent MPs elected in July who stood on a pro-Palestine
platform, joined the march.
Mohamed told
Middle East Eye that Britain’s decision to cut 30 out of 350 arms contracts
with Israel and the decision to restore partial funding to Unrwa, the UN agency
for Palestinian refugees, was a “drop in the ocean”.
Israeli attack
on school kills at least four Palestinians
1 hour ago
An Israeli air
strike targeting a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City has killed
at least four Palestinians and injured 25 others, Wafa news agency is
reporting, citing local sources.
According to the
sources, Israeli fighter jets bombed the Amr Ibn al-As school, in the Sheikh
Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Israeli strikes
across Gaza have killed 24 Palestinians since this morning - including an
attack on Halimah al-Saadiyah school in Jabalia which killed eight people, and
strikes on the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.
According to Al
Jazeera, 61 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the last 48
hours.
MI6 chief: Iran
retaliation for Haniyeh killing still expected
1 hour ago
The head of
Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency, Richard Moore, said that he believes
Iran is still preparing to retaliate for the Israeli assassination of Hamas
leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
"I suspect
they will try and we won't be able to let our guard down for the type of
activity that the Iranians might try and prosecute in that direction,"
Moore said at a Financial Times event on Saturday.
Israeli army
claims attack on Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon
2 hours ago
The Israeli army
has said that its fighter jets have targeted Hezbollah military sites and a
rocket launch platform in the southern Lebanese town of Qabrikha.
The military
also claimed attacks on Aita al-Shaab and Kfarchouba.
Casualties
reported in fresh Nuseirat strike
2 hours ago
Another Israeli
strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has resulted in more
casualties, Al Jazeera is reporting. The attack targeted a home north of the
camp.
Earlier today we
reported that eight Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli strike in the
western part of the camp this morning.
CIA chief: More
detailed ceasefire proposal due in coming days
3 hours ago
CIA director
William Burns, the chief US negotiator in the truce talks between Hamas and
Israel, has said at an event in London that a "more detailed"
ceasefire proposal would be made in the coming days.
Burns said that
achieving an agreement soon was possible, but that it was "a matter of
political will".
His comments
followed the first joint statement by the US and UK intelligence agencies,
which emphasised that the two are "working tirelessly towards a
ceasefire".
In an opinion
piece for the Financial Times, Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore said that
their agencies had "exploited our intelligence channels to push hard for
restraint and de-escalation".
Two Palestinians
killed by Israeli fire in Rafah and Nuseirat
3 hours ago
Two Palestinians
have been shot dead by Israeli forces in separate incidents in Rafah and the
Nuseirat refugee camp, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.
According to
eyewitnesses, Israeli forces shot a young Palestinian man near the Kerem Shalom
crossing, southeast of Rafah, while another man was killed at the Wadi Gaza
Bridge, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Hezbollah claims
more attacks on Israeli military sites
3 hours ago
Lebanon's
Hezbollah has said in a statement on Telegram that its fighters had targeted
the Israeli Raheb military site with artillery shelling, hitting it directly.
In a separate
statement, the group claimed another attack on surveillance equipment at the
Misgav Am site, also achieving a direct hit.
The group
launched several attacks on Israeli targets on Saturday, including the launch
of a barrage of Katyusha rockets towards western Galilee.
70 percent of
Tulkarm refugee camp's roads open
3 hours ago
The Palestinian
Ministry of Public Works and Housing has said its teams have opened 70 percent
of the Tulkarm refugee camp's roads, after clearing the rubble following a
days-long Israeli incursion.
The ministry
added that in the coming days the teams would continue to repair the damage
inflicted by Israeli forces on the camp's roads, buildings and infrastructure.
Nuseirat attack
death toll rises
3 hours ago
At least eight
Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli strike on
central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, the Palestinian civil defence is
reporting.
This is up from
the five deaths we reported earlier today.
Prisoner group:
Israel 'deliberately' leaking images of detainee torture
3 hours ago
The Palestinian
Prisoner's Society has said that the Israeli authorities are
"deliberately" leaking images and footage of the torture of
Palestinian detainees.
The rights group
said in a statement that this was “part of the competition between the
ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians
more".
“The other goal…
is to influence the image of the Palestinian prisoner in the collective
consciousness… in addition to using them as an additional tool for intimidation
operations and spreading terror among Palestinian citizens,” it added.
In August, the
Israeli rights group B'tselem released a report accusing the government of
conducting a policy of institutionalised abuse and torture against all
Palestinians detained since 7 October.
Twenty-four
Palestinians killed since this morning: Report
4 hours ago
The death toll
of Palestinians killed since this morning has risen from 18 to 24, Al Jazeera
Arabic is reporting, citing medical sources.
The West truly doesn’t see Palestinians as human
Caitlin A. Johnstone
You never see the dehumanization of
Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad
happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.
Today western officials are publicly
weeping about six dead Israeli hostages, including one Israeli-American, who
the IDF says were recently killed by Hamas.
Whoever’s been writing Joe Biden’s
press releases for him published a statement about how “devastated and
outraged” the president is about the death of the American hostage, Hersh
Goldberg-Polin.
The statement says the president
knows Goldberg-Polin’s parents, saying “I admire them and grieve with them more
deeply than words can express” and that “Hamas leaders will pay for these
crimes.”
“I have worked tirelessly to bring
their beloved Hersh safely to them and am heartbroken by the news of his
death,” the statement reads, which for the record is a lie — the Biden administration has been collaborating with
Benjamin Netanyahu to sabotage a hostage deal at every turn.
Similar sentiments are being
expressed in statements by western officials like Vice President Kamala Harris,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Australian Prime Minister Anthony
Albanese, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
All of these statements frame the
deaths of these six Israeli hostages as an earth-shakingly horrific tragedy,
and all frame Hamas as a band of evil villains who must be brought to justice
for their crimes.
No similar statements have ever been
made by any of these officials about the far, far greater number of innocent
Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza by the state of Israel with their
assistance. No similar expressions of condolence have ever been uttered by
these leaders for the millions of Palestinians who’ve had their lives
completely ruined by Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank over the
last eleven months, or for the untold thousands of parents who’ve had to bury
children who were exterminated in Israel’s genocidal onslaught.
Western government officials are
making it clear that they do not see Palestinians as human in the same way they
see Israelis as human, as are the mass media propaganda institutions who’ve
been covering the deaths of these hostages with an intensity never seen
regarding the IDF’s daily massacres of civilians in Gaza. Israeli strikes
killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza in one 24-hour period between Saturday and
Sunday, receiving not the tiniest fraction of the attention as those six
Israeli hostages.
The message is clear: Israelis dying
is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way for
things to be. An Israeli dying should matter as much to you as your own family
or friends dying, while a Palestinian dying should be regarded as a routine and
natural event like a drop of rain falling from the sky.
And that’s an important message for
westerners to be indoctrinated with. Can you imagine if we all started caring
about western bombs being dropped in the middle east as much as we would care
if they were being dropped on our own country, or on a country we’ve been
conditioned to sympathize with? All their carefully manufactured consent would
crumble, and people would cease allowing the western empire to do what it needs
to do to dominate the planet.
These people are actively working to
subvert our basic sense of human empathy. To twist our psyches into being
unable to recognize the same level of humanity among empire-targeted
populations as empire-supported ones. To see authorized populations as worthy
of care and sympathy, and to see unauthorized populations as vermin in need of
extermination.
Yes, our rulers really are that
evil, and so are the propagandists who run the mass media.
So today I would like to extend my
deepest condolences to the millions of Palestinians who’ve lost loved ones and
had their lives thrown to the winds of chaos by Israel’s western-backed
campaign of extermination, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism.
And I would like to remind my
readers that Israel has exponentially more hostages than Hamas has, and murders
them routinely, and rapes and tortures them constantly.
And it is right that we should care
deeply about that. Even if the people who rule over us do not.
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