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Nov 17 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 408 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon
- Israeli air strikes kill medics in southern Lebanon
- Hezbollah said it bombed several military bases in northern Israel on Saturday
- Number of known dead in Gaza nearing 44,000
- Gaza death toll reaches 43,600
- Israeli bombing raid kills 8 in northern Lebanon
- US military bombs what it calls Iran-aligned platforms in Syria, Yemen
- Israeli forces kill at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
- Global food security experts say famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza
- At least nine people killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon's Tyre
- Soldiers injured in Israeli strike on Aleppo
Kamala Harris pledged her commitment to a ceasefire in Gaza as she appealed to 200,000 Arab American voters in Michigan ahead of the 2024 US presidential election on Sunday.
🧵: Historically, Israel has tried to control Palestinians by isolating insurgents from their communities.
After the humiliation of 7 October, the aim is now to eliminate them both, argues Palestinian researcher Raja Abdulhaq in his column ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/opinion/jabali…
"Since the 7 October attack, Israel has adopted genocide as a population-centric counterinsurgency strategy," writes Abdulhaq.
"While this follows Israel’s historical perpetration of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba in 1948, the objectives of these two events are distinct"
Oct 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 388 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon
- Israeli strikes kill five Palestinian journalists
- Lebanon death toll approaches 2,700
- Egypt proposes two-day truce
Iraq has submitted a complaint to the United Nations over Israel's use of its airspace to strike Iran on Saturday, an Iraqi government spokesperson said.
- At least 50 people were injured when a truck or bus rammed into a bus stop in Ramat Hasharon, central Israel, in a suspected terrorist attack. A drone attack in Karmiel in the north is also reported to have wounded two people
- An Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in Gaza’s besieged north killed at least 45 people on Saturday, including several entire families. Emergency crews and hospitals in the area are almost entirely non-functional
- The son of the director of northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital was killed in the latest Israeli attack on the facility, health officials reported
- Israeli forces continue to set homes and schools on fire
- Israeli strikes killed three Lebanese soldiers
- Israeli bombing was reported in Syria's Damascus and Homs
- Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya kills at least 73 people
- US apologised to Israel after alleged documents on plans for attacking Iran were leaked
- UN says Gaza reconstruction could take 80 years
🧵: It is only a matter of time before war involves every country threatened by Israel’s punishment raids and its ever-expanding borders, argues MEE’s editor-in-chief @davidahearst in his latest column ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel…
“Today in Gaza and Lebanon, there are so many pictures of burning people, burning tents, bodies piled up on the strets of the Jabalia refugee camp, but no one even bothers to publish them”
✍️ David Hearst
Oct 19 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 379 #Israel #Palestine
- Drone hits Netanyahu's home as Israel kills over 30 in Gaza
- Palestinians die of hunger and thirst in Jabalia as Israeli maintains weekslong siege of northern Gaza
The Israeli army said there were no casusalties after a drone launched from Lebanon hit Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea in northern Israel middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Oct 18 • 32 tweets • 10 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 378 #Israel #Palestine
- Several Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on al-Shati refugee camp
- 15 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel
- WHO accused Israel of barring medical specialists from entering Gaza
The Israeli army says it killed Mohammad Hussein Ramal, a Hezbollah commander, in an air strike on Taybeh, southern Lebanon middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Oct 17 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵: The Israeli military is now looking to the "Generals' Plan" to defeat Hamas.
It involves ethnically cleansing northern Gaza of people and besieging the region to stop the entry of humanitarian supplies.
So what is it, and what does it mean for the war on Gaza? ⤵️
◾️Who wrote the Generals’ Plan?
The Forum of Commanders and Soldiers in the Reserves, an Israeli NGO that defines itself as a professional body with over 1,500 army officers, published the plan in September 2024 in response to the military's failure to achieve its aims in Gaza
Oct 13 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 372 #Israel #Palestine
- Israel pounds Jabalia, leaving 22 dead
- US unveils new sanctions on Iran's oil sector
- Lebanese death toll at 2,229
Turkey condemns Israel's attacks targeting the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon (Unifil), its foreign ministry said, adding Ankara would continue supporting similar peacekeeping initiatives and structures middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Oct 7 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 367 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon
- Beirut's southern suburbs suffer "heaviest night of strikes" by Israel
- Hamas fires rockets on southern Israel
- Families of Israeli captives mark one year since Hamas attacks
🧵: At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured on Tuesday when pagers commonly used for communication by Hezbollah members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon.
They began in the capital, Beirut, with scores of incidents reported in the suburb of Dahiyeh and other areas of the country around 3.45pm.
According to Reuters, the explosions continued for about an hour after the initial blasts
Sep 18 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 347 #Israel #Palestine
- Gaza death toll rises to 41,252
- Aid groups say Israel blocking 83 percent of Gaza food aid
- Lebanon’s Hezbollah blamed Israel for a spree of pager explosions across Lebanon
Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 347th day:
- Hezbollah has vowed to continue "its blessed efforts to support Gaza, its people, and its resistance," even after recent explosions in Lebanon that claimed at least nine lives and left thousands injured.
- Jordan has offered to provide medical aid for "the thousands of Lebanese citizens injured in the mass bombing," according to a statement on X by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that Israeli soldiers attacked one of its ambulance crews as they attempted to evacuate a sick child in Nablus, a city in the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa news agency.
- The Israeli military confirmed that four soldiers died in Rafah, located in southern Gaza, due to an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion.
- The US military reported that a Yemen-based group shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone on September 10, with a second one being destroyed on Monday.
- Gaza death toll tops 40,861
- Israel conducts strikes near Tyre in Lebanon
- Slim majority of Israelis back leaving Philadelphi Corridor for hostage deal
Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 334th day:
- Since 7 October 2023 Israel has killed at least 40,861 Palestinians with more than 94,398 wounded and an estimated 10,000 still missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.
- At least three individuals were killed, and another critically injured when an Israeli strike targeted a vehicle in Tubas, located in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
- Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the Israeli military's campaign to expand a "buffer zone" in the occupied Gaza Strip, labelling it as potential war crimes involving wanton destruction and collective punishment.
- The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun that he has received threats from supporters of both Israel and Russia after initiating charges against their leaders.
- Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced people near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza has killed at least four people.
- Israeli strikes on Khan Younis kill at least six
- Turkey submits bid to join South Africa ICJ case
- WHO aims to vaccinate 600,000 Gaza children for polio