Gaza interior ministry creates 'Arrow Unit' to deal with gangs blackmailing aid groups

November 18,2024

The government in the Gaza Strip recently set up a new police force tasked with “maintaining security,” particularly to deal with gangs that have been given a “free hand” by Israel, Palestinian sources told the Arabi21 outlet on 18 November. 

LIVE BLOG: 53 Killed in Gaza | Dozens Wounded in Tel Aviv | Talks in Doha – Day 387

November 17,2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
43,736	103,370	10,000

At least 50 soldiers were injured, 15 of whom critically, in a car-ramming operation targeting the Giliot military base north of Tel Aviv.

At least 18 Palestinians were killed and scores injured in an Israeli bombardment targeting a residential area in Jabaliya camp.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry (Gaza), 42,924 Palestinians have been killed, and 100,833 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

Palestine against an eco-apartheid world

November 17,2024

Vijay Kolinjivadi & Asmaa Ashraf

Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth in a series of articles co-published by Mondoweiss and the Transnational Institute that places Palestine in the long trajectory of anti-colonial struggles, from Haiti to Vietnam to Algeria and South Africa.

Gaza as Israel’s AI-Driven High-Tech Genocide: UN

November 16,2024

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report on Israeli actions in Gaza concluding that they fit the profile of genocide.

Why all hurricanes should be named “Jim”

November 16,2024

Anthony Karefa Rogers

 

 Biltmore Village, 2 miles NE of Biltmore Estate Photo: Raleigh Downtown

Spies like them: The intelligence war between Iran, Israel

November 16,2024

The charging of CIA official Asif Rahman for allegedly leaking US intelligence of Israeli preparations for retaliatory strikes on Iran in October has brought into open view the shadow war of espionage and counterespionage that has raged between actors locked in a regional conflict for decades.

 

 For years, governments have used human-gathered intelligence and digital snooping to gain an advantage over opponents and allies alike [Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

UN Membership for Palestine Now

November 15, 2024
John Whitbeck
On May 10, 2024, the UN General Assembly passed overwhelmingly, with only nine negative votes (Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the United States) a resolution (https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/129/97/pdf/n2412997.pdf) which “Determinesthat the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations and should therefore be admitted to membership in the United Nations” and “Accordingly recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably.”

Mat Nashed
November14, 2024
Beirut, Lebanon – As Israel sends mixed messages about a ceasefire with the Lebanese group Hezbollah, analysts say the war is likely to intensify in the coming months.

How Trump’s return will impact the world: Dollar, China, tariffs, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, & more

Ben Norton
November11, 2024
As he prepares to return to the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed neoconservative Iran hawk Brian Hook to lead his State Department transition team. This has excited pro-Israel groups.

The Long History of Palestine – Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War

October 31, 2024

Ramzy Baroud

Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with the Palestinians.

Biden Admin Hasn't Acted on 500 Reports of Israel Attacking Gaza Civilians With US Arms

October 30, 2024

Jake Johnson

The Biden administration has reportedly received around 500 notices from international humanitarian groups, nonprofit organizations, and eyewitnesses alleging that the Israeli military has used American weaponry in attacks that harmed civilians in the Gaza Strip, likely in violation of both U.S. and international law.

 Palestinians mourn over the bodies of relatives killed by an Israeli attack in Beit Lahiya, Gaza on October 29, 2024. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

War on Gaza: Israeli strike kills nearly 100 Palestinians sleeping in homes

October 29, 2024

Huthifa Fayyad

Israeli forces have killed nearly 100 Palestinians, including 25 children, in an air raid on homes in north Gaza where displaced people were sheltering. 

 

 A displaced family on the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 29 October 2024 (AFP)

‘I’m not interested in changing hearts and minds’: The work of an anti-Zionist rabbi

October 29, 2024

Marc Steiner

The movement in solidarity with Palestine has a sizable presence of progressive Jewish Americans. As an anti-Zionist rabbi, Brant Rosen has made it his life’s work to build religious and cultural community for other likeminded Jews whose solidarity with Palestine runs deep. The Marc Steiner Show returns with another edition of ‘Not in Our Name.’

Demonstrators from Jewish Voice For Peace protest the war in Gaza at the Canon House Building on July 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images

لحظه "حرکت توام با چشمان بسته" رژیم اسرائیل با ایران

ام.ک بهادرا کومار دیپلمات برجسته هندی

هفتم آبان ۱۴۰۳

بیست و هشت اکتبر ۲۰۲۴

تارنمای ایندین پانچ لاین

برگردان، کوتاه سازی و تنظیم سپیده دم

Sepidehdamaliasghar@gmail.com 

‘They must carry this genocide with shame’ – UN urges World leaders to end the genocide

October 28, 2024

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, urgently appealed on Friday to world leaders to exert all efforts and use their power to stop the ongoing genocide on the besieged Gaza Strip.

 

 The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has evacuated its temporary administrative headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip due to Israeli attacks on the area. (Photo: PRCS TW Page)

America is falling apart. Our National Priorities are in dire need of restructuring

John & Nisha Whitehead

October 02, 2024

    “You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan

A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices.

آمریکا در حال فروپاشی است. اولویت های ملی ما نیاز مبرمی به تجدید ساختار دارند

 توسط جان و نیشا وایت‌هد

 دوم اکتبر ۲۰۲۴

 ا"شما به هواشناس نیاز ندارید تا بدانید باد از کدام طرف می وزد."ا- باب دیلن

LIVE BLOG: 50 Wounded in Tel Aviv | More Massacres in Northern Gaza – Day 387

October 27, 2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
42,924	100,833	10,000

 

 A horrific massacre took place in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

Israel warned Iran ahead of latest strike – Axios

World News

October 26, 2024

Israel relayed a warning to Iran through several third parties ahead of its missile strike against the Islamic Republic on Saturday, Axios has reported, citing three anonymous sources. According to the media outlet, West Jerusalem indicated what type of targets it would attack, while cautioning Tehran against retaliating.

A view of Ferdowsi Square in downtown Tehran on October 26, after the Israeli attacks across Iran [Maziar Motamedi/Al Jazeera]

BRICS Summit advances establishment of a multipolar world

Lucas Leiroz

October 26, 2024

In Kazan, delegations from leading emerging nations met to discuss global issues, sign agreements and establish strong international cooperation within the framework of the BRICS Summit. There were high expectations for this Summit and it is fair to say that almost all of them were met – if not surpassed.