After a year of terror in Gaza, our souls feel suspended in time

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

October 5, 2024

It is a terrible thing to witness the obliteration of your homeland. When I think about what we’ve lived through this past year, I feel like I’m going to lose my mind completely. It is a shock that I’m still unable to absorb. I try not to think at all, in the hope of maintaining my sanity until it ends.

 

 The bodies of 88 unidentified Palestinians are buried in a mass grave in Khan Younis, after Israeli forces returned them to Gaza severely decomposed and without any identification, September 26, 2024. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Over 1 Million Flee 'Total Destruction' in Lebanon, With Cease-Fire Demanded

Edward Carver

October 4, 2024

About 1.2 million people have been displaced as Israeli forces have surged into southern Lebanon and undertaken a bombing campaign in multiple parts of the country, including in and around Beirut, leaving many people out in the street, with shelters mostly full as of Friday.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a neighborhood in a suburb of Beirut on October 3, 2024. (Photo: Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images)

They lie. They cheat. They steal. They bomb. And they spin

Pepe Escobar

October 4, 2024

A case could be made that Iran’s Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel’s serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the Axis of Resistance than the decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership.

The U.S. privately encouraged Israel to escalate in Lebanon

Dave DeCamp

October 3, 2024

POLITICO reported on Monday that despite the Biden administration’s public calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, White House officials privately told Israeli officials that they agreed with the plan to escalate in Lebanon and shift its focus to the north.

 

We Charge Genocide: The Shofar Calls Us to Account on Rosh Hashanah

Brant Rosen

October 3, 2024

Every year at Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, synagogues across the world sound the shofar, a ram’s horn that represents the signature moment of the holiday.

Members of the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace join others in protesting President Joe Biden's visit to Manhattan and calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, on February 7, 2024, in New York City.

چرا اسرائیل در غزه شکست خورد؟

محمود دلخواسته

اخبار روز 

یکشنبه, ۵ آذر ۱۴۰۲ 

Iran launches hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh and Nasrallah assassinations

Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau

October 2, 2024

Iran launched a barrage of hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening in an unprecedented attack that hit several cities and Israeli military sites across Israel and the occupied West Bank.

 

Hezbollah kills at least eight Israeli soldiers after south Lebanon infiltration attempt

Josephine Deebin Beirut and Lubna Masarwa in Tel Aviv

October 2, 2024

Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat with Hezbollah in south Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement on Wednesday. Three of those killed are commanders, and seven other soldiers are critically wounded. 

Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 2 2024 (AFP)