As Israel Extends Its Genocide Into the West Bank, It Targets and Kills Children

Marjorie Cohn

October 8, 2024

The Israeli occupation forces have extended their genocidal campaign in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Using drone strikes, troops in armored vehicles and bulldozers, their regular raids since October 7, 2023, have escalated into extensive and deadly attacks. Between August 28 and September 6, Israel launched “Operation Summer Camps,” a major military invasion, in the northern West Bank. “We watched their bulldozers tear up streets, demolish businesses, pharmacies, schools. They even bulldozed the town soccer field, and a tree in the middle of a road,” Kamal Abu al-Rub, the governor of Jenin, told The New York Times.

A Palestinian child pushes his bike next to a street and past shops damaged by bulldozers during an Israeli raid in the center of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on September 2, 2024.

Protesters assaulted as illegal Palestinian land sales continue in New York and New Jersey

PAL-Awda

October 6, 2024

PAL-Awda NY/NJ called protests against the illegal sales of Palestinian land held on Sept. 15 and 16 in Cedarhurst, New York, and South Hackensack, New Jersey. The following is their statement on the Cedarhurst action. 

 

 In Cedarhurst, New York. Photos: PAL-Awda

In pictures: One year of war in Gaza

Mohammedal-Hajjar, Enas Rami

October 7, 2024

In the year since Israel declared its war on Gaza, at least 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, a little over half of them women and children.

According to Palestinian health officials, the death toll is likely to be far higher with thousands of people believed to buried under rubble or in areas inaccessible to medical teams.

The conflict erupted after the 7 October 2023 attacks on southern Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, which, according to Israeli officials, killed 1,139 people and took around 250 captive.

Here Israeli fighter jets can be seen bombing a high-rise residential building in Gaza City on 7 October 2023 (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar).

‘A time of painful birth and major transformation’: a senior Hamas leader reflects on October 7 and its aftermath

Mondoweiss Editors

October 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mousa Abu Marzouk is a Palestinian politician and senior member of Hamas who served as the first chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1992 until 1996, and deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from January 1997 until April 2013, where he was succeeded by the late Ismail Haniyeh. Abu Marzouk has been a key figure in Palestinian politics and within the Hamas movement for decades, and continues to play a central role in the group’s politburo.

 

 Palestinians breaking down the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Photo: Stringer/APA Images)

‘Look at our suffering!’: Gaza’s message to the world after a year of genocide

Belal Awad, LeoErhadt and Ruwaida Amer

October 7, 2024

It’s been one year since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, following the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and following 75 years of Israel’s Occupation of Palestine. More than half of the Gaza Strip’s buildings, businesses, roads, farms, hospitals, and schools have been completely destroyed. Over 41,000 people have been reported killed, with this number growing daily. To commemorate a year of what has been called “the most documented genocide in history,” TRNN asked some residents of Gaza to describe their year. This is what they told us.

The Electronic Intifada: Asa Winstanley – How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

Asa Winstanley

October 7, 2024

One year ago today Palestinian fighters led by Hamas launched an unprecedented military offensive out of the Gaza Strip.

 

Taking a selfie at the Tekuma “car cemetery.” Israel says that more than 1,000 vehicles were destroyed — often with Israeli captives inside — on and soon after 7 October 2023. But the evidence shows that many of these bombings were carried out by Israel itself, under its deadly “Hannibal Directive.” Jim Hollander UPI

New Israeli Assault on North Gaza Signals Start of Ethnic Cleansing Plan

Dave DeCamp

October 6, 2024

The Israeli military has launched a fresh assault on northern Gaza and ordered all Palestinian civilians living in the north to head south, signaling Israel may be enacting an ethnic cleansing plan that has been reviewed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee areas in the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli evacuation order in Jabalia, October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Hussam Al-Zaanin

Iran cancels flights as Israel pounds Lebanon, kills dozens in Gaza

Maziar Motamediand Virginia Pietromarchi

October 6, 2024

 

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)

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli attacks kill 40 in one day

Urooba Jamal

September 22, 2024

 

Hezbollah confirms top commander killed during Israeli massacre in Beirut

The Cradle

September 21, 2024

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah confirmed that senior commander Ibrahim Muhammad Aqil was among 31 killed during an Israeli airstrike that leveled two residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiye on 20 September.

 

Israeli air attack on Beirut kills eight as cross-border fire intensifies

Aljazeera

September 20, 2024

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least eight people have been killed and 59 wounded in an Israeli air attack on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Scientists Who First Identified Threat of Microplastics Say World Must Now Act

Jon Queally

September 20, 2024

Some of the key scientists who first informed the world of the potential damage being done to natural systems by microplastics are now calling for world leaders to take decisive action to curb the introduction of these polluting materials into the environment—and they hope the looming United Nations treaty process on plastics can be a key vehicle for progress.

 

Children collect trash on the beach of Can Pere Antoni while participating in the educational program of the NGO "Safe the Med". (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)