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Israel orders Gazans to leave the north, but most are staying put

Israel orders Gazans to leave the north, but most are staying put

The New York Times reports: For more than a year, as Israeli bombs pounded northern Gaza around Mariam Awwad’s home, she and her family of 11 have refused to leave. Their resolve did not change even after the Israeli military dropped leaflets over the town of Jabaliya on Sunday, ordering Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate to the south. The military was renewing an offensive on the north, saying it was going after Hamas fighters. “We refuse to flee only…

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Inside Turkey’s EU-funded deportation machine

Inside Turkey’s EU-funded deportation machine

New Lines Magazine reports: Dawood remembers the disgust in the eyes of the Turkish security guards in the deportation center where he was held last year. “I felt like humanity had died,” said the soft-spoken Syrian man in his 30s, who is identified by a pseudonym to protect his safety. “They just kept shouting: ‘You are like animals! We’re tired of you. If you are a man, go back to Syria and fight!’” The humiliation hit hard for Dawood, who…

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Esmail Qaani under guard and questioned as Iran probes Nasrallah killing

Esmail Qaani under guard and questioned as Iran probes Nasrallah killing

Middle East Eye reports: Esmail Qaani, the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, is alive and unhurt but under guard and being questioned as Iran investigates major security breaches, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye. Qaani has not been seen in public since Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive air strike on Beirut on 27 September, an event that rocked the anti-Israel Axis of Resistance alliance. Since then, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…

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‘The first live-streamed genocide’: Al Jazeera exposes war crimes Israeli troops filmed themselves

‘The first live-streamed genocide’: Al Jazeera exposes war crimes Israeli troops filmed themselves

A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at evidence of war crimes in Gaza in the form of social media posted by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed. “Israelis themselves were telling us precisely what they were doing and why they…

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Evidence that Israeli snipers have repeatedly shot children in the head in Gaza

Evidence that Israeli snipers have repeatedly shot children in the head in Gaza

Dr Feroze Sidhwa writes: I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest,…

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Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

Razia Iqbal writes: History has a striking capacity to intrude on the present day, as it does when I meet Rashid Khalidi. The Palestinian American professor’s retirement from his position as the Edward Said chair of modern Arab history at Columbia University was imminent, and that morning he has received alarming news: a gang of extremist Israeli settlers had stormed a house on Silsila Road in Jerusalem, a property that had been in his family’s possession since the time of…

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Will Biden sink Harris?

Will Biden sink Harris?

Stephen Zunes writes: President Joe Biden’s continued support for Israel’s far-right government, including his refusal to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to the U.S. cease-fire proposal for Gaza put forward in May and his failure to demand an end to Israel’s ever-widening warfare, has not only led to the loss of countless civilian lives — it could also lead to the election of Donald Trump. In her interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, Kamala Harris skirted a number…

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Why it would be counterproductive for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear program

Why it would be counterproductive for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear program

John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, interviews James Acton, a physicist and wide-ranging nuclear policy expert who co-directs the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: John Mecklin: I gather you think it would be a bad idea for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Can you explain why for our readers? James Acton: Sure. If Israel or the United States tries to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, my belief is that that will…

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A year after the Nova massacre, survivors are still paralyzed with grief

A year after the Nova massacre, survivors are still paralyzed with grief

Alice Austin writes: At Adama Tova, grief hangs thick in the air. The sun seems to linger as it sets over the horizon, shining warm golden light on a yurt where siblings of Nova festival survivors are finishing up an art therapy session. Others mill about the garden, sitting on bean bags and sofas, and snacking on cakes and fruit in the communal kitchen. People move slowly here. Even the crickets sound mournful. “Anyone you see here over the age…

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Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah

Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah

The Washington Post reports: Among the half dozen Iranian-backed militia groups with weapons aimed at Israel, Hezbollah is by far the strongest. Israeli officials had watched with increasing anxiety as the Lebanese group added new weapons to an arsenal already capable of striking Israeli cities with tens of thousands of precision-guided missiles. Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service responsible for combating foreign threats to the Jewish state, had worked for years to penetrate the group with electronic monitoring and human informants….

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Macron calls to halt weapons deliveries to Israel, but who is listening?

Macron calls to halt weapons deliveries to Israel, but who is listening?

Politico reports: French President Emmanuel Macron called for a halt to the delivery of weapons to be used in the Gaza Strip. Macron made the comments in an interview on the French radio show “Etcetera” on France Inter, which was recorded on Oct. 1 and aired on Saturday. “I think today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering arms for fighting in Gaza,” Macron said. He said France is not delivering any. The…

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Marwan Bishara: ‘Israel’s recent attacks shows it infiltrated Hezbollah’

Marwan Bishara: ‘Israel’s recent attacks shows it infiltrated Hezbollah’

  Al Jazeera’s political analyst Marwan Bishara says Hezbollah losing contact with its leader Hashem Safieddine shows that Israel is able to “deliver one blow after another” to the group. “It is also significant that it proves there is an intelligence breach when it comes to Hezbollah, allowing Israel to locate and attack one leader after another,” he said. “From the rigging and detonating of communication devices and the assassination of one Hezbollah leader to another, all the way to…

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Investigating war crimes in Gaza

Investigating war crimes in Gaza

  This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict. The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear. The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of…

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U.S. discusses strikes on Iran oil sites as Israel presses Lebanon offensive

U.S. discusses strikes on Iran oil sites as Israel presses Lebanon offensive

Be wary of the credulous takes about a new Middle East being forged through war. https://t.co/JDNmuAO9TG — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) October 3, 2024 Reuters reports: The U.S. is discussing strikes on Iran’s oil facilities as retaliation for Tehran’s missile attack on Israel, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, while Israel’s military pressed ahead with its campaign against Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah in Lebanon. As Israel weighs its options after its arch-foe Iran launched its largest ever assault on Tuesday, Biden…

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Why Netanyahu and Putin both want a Trump victory

Why Netanyahu and Putin both want a Trump victory

James Risen writes: The outcomes of the two biggest wars in the world hang in the balance of the American presidential election, even though U.S. troops are not involved in combat in either one. If Donald Trump wins the election, both wars will get much, much worse. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both want Trump to win the American presidential election so that they can prolong and intensify their brutal wars without the possibility of…

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Regional war feared as Biden backs Israel’s threat to retaliate after Iranian missile attack

Regional war feared as Biden backs Israel’s threat to retaliate after Iranian missile attack

  Israel has announced it is sending more troops into southern Lebanon as the Middle East moves closer to a full-scale regional war. On Tuesday, Iran fired at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israel that Iran says targeted Israeli military and security sites, a response that comes after a series of escalating Israeli attacks in recent months against Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian leaders. The United States aided Israel in intercepting many of the Iranian missiles on Tuesday, and President Joe…

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