LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah Intensifies Shelling | Four Massacres in Gaza – Day 415

November 24, 2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
44,176	104,473	10,000

 

By: Palestine Chronicle Staff

Palestinians, Both Civilian and Military, are Transcending the Horror We’ve Unleashed

November 19, 2024

Stan Cox

In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the Gaza Conflict Demolished Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs.” The idea of a hierarchy of needs—first published by the psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1943 and subsequently modified in various ways by Maslow and others—has long been pervasive in the world of pop psychology, while some in academia have poked holes in Maslow’s logic. Now, Alah suggests that the Palestinians of Gaza have rendered the hierarchy of needs wholly obsolete.

LIVE: Fierce ground battles in south Lebanon as Israel forces advance

November 23, 2024

Maziar Motamedi and Usaid Siddiqui

 

Gaza doctors battle 'untreateable super-bacteria' that defies medical science

November 22, 2024

As Israeli forces continue their attacks on hospitals in Gaza, doctors and medical teams in the strip have been working under intense pressure, and with great difficulty, to treat illnesses and injuries due to the lack of proper medication and the rapid spread of bacteria.

 

Stare Into Gaza: The Horror Was Not What I Expected

November 21, 2024

Matthew Hoh

That is Gaza behind me.

 

سوریه در چشم طوفان

نوشته عبدالباری عطوان

نوزده نوامبر ۲۰۲۴

بیست و نه آبان ۱۴۰۳

تارنمای رای الیوم

برگردان، کوتاه سازی و تنظیم سپیده دم 

Sepidehdamaliasghar@gmail.com

اسرائیل تهدید می کند، اما روسیه نقش سگ نگهبان را بازی نمی کند 

‘They killed them without them moving a muscle’: Field executions, starvation, and forced displacement by Israeli army in northern Gaza

November20, 2024

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.

 

 Smoke rises from a residential building folloiwng an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, 1 November 2024 (AFP)

Support for western-style democracy on decline in Africa

November 20, 2024

How my family has survived the famine in Gaza

November19, 2024

Soha Ahmed Hamdouna

For months, residents of northern Gaza have been living in extremely harsh and inhumane conditions. The situation has worsened recently. Initially, our goal was to find food, but now even finding clean drinking water is considered a stroke of luck.

Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by an aid organization in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on November 18, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Israel is forbidding Palestinians displaced from Northern Gaza to Return, in what they fear is a New Nakba (Catastraphe)

November19, 2024

Motasem A Dalloul

( Middle East Monitor ) – The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with masses of people flooding the pitch and seating. Everyone is carrying a bag on their back and some clothes. Some are helping sick people or carrying wounded relatives, while others are walking alone, struggling along on bare feet.

 

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.