For today, links to eleven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Middle East Eye, National Public Radio, the Anadolu Agency, and (via ScheerPost) Democracy Now!, and to commentary from Middle East Monitor and Consortium News; other published matter is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Israeli strike kills 28 people sheltering in a school in central Gaza, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 people, including women and children, on Thursday, while three hospitals in the north were told to evacuate putting patients’ lives at risk, medics say. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from AP and AFP.
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Lebanon: Israeli forces shoot at UN peacekeepers, wounding two, by Alex MacDonald | Middle East Eye Two UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have been wounded by Israeli fire, the mission said today, as Israel’s military ground operations in the country continued. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from AFP.
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How a year of war in Gaza has spilled into the West Bank. Reported by Kat Lonsdorf | NPR A look at the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the year since the Oct. 7 attacks and an increase in violence against Palestinians by both Israeli settlers as well as the military. Click HERE to listen and read.
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On the Lebanon border with Israel the sound of explosions persist. Reported by Eyder Peralta and Michel Martin | NPR Israel says its ground operations into Lebanon are limited, targeted raids. In Marjayoun, a town on Lebanon’s border with Israel, rocket fire and raids backed by airstrikes haven’t let up. Click HERE to listen and read.
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FROM OCT. 9 U.S. calls out Israel at UN for ‘catastrophic conditions’ in Gaza, by Michelle Nichols | Reuters — UNITED NATIONS — Israel needs to address urgently “catastrophic conditions” among Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip and stop “intensifying suffering” by limiting aid deliveries, its ally the United States told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Anadolu Agency.
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FROM OCT. 9 Al Jazeera exposes war crimes filmed by Israeli troops themselves. Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh of Democracy Now! talk with Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed of Al Jazeera and Richard Sanders, director of Al Jazeera’s new documentary film, “Gaza,” based in part on audio-video material recorded by Israeli soldiers. Click HERE for introduction, excerpts from the film, and transcript of interview.
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FROM OCT. 9 Conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah threaten Netanyahu’s grip on power. Reported by Greg Myre | NPR In 1996, Israel voted in prime minister Benjamin Netanyah as it battled Hamas and Hezbollahu. Nearly 30 years later, Netanyahu’s own grip on power is threatened over fights with the same two groups. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Netanyahu preaches to the world as if it is a basic human right to commit genocide, by Ramona Wadi | Middle East Monitor On the first anniversary of the cross-border incursion on 7 October 2023 and the start of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, all that the UN can boast of can be summed up in one word . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 8 The fall of Israel, by Scott Ritter | Special to Consortium News The Hamas-Israeli conflict has morphed into a conflict between Israel and the so-called axis of resistance involving Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarullah (the Houthi of Yemen), the Popular Mobilization Forces, i.e. militias of Iraq, Syria and Iran. It is a regional war in every . . . READ MORE . . .