November, 2023

• 11 November

  Illegal Settlers’ Reign of Terror in the West Bank

  

  Peter Oborne reports from Hebron in the southern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where illegal settlers, backed by Israel’s military, are forcing Palestinians off their land with impunity. Shepherds near at-Tuwani, Palestine, in Khoruba Valley, the South Hebron Hills, September 2007. (Jill Granberg via delayed gratification, Flickr,CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Peter OborneDeclassified UK It is the same story in every village …

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• 11 November

  Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza

  

  At night you lie in the dark on the cold cement floor. The phones are cut. The internet is off. You do not know what is happening. There are flashes of light. There are waves of blast concussions. There are screams. It does not stop.   ‘Children of Gaza’ — Mr. Fish By Chris HedgesOriginal to ScheerPost Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying …

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• 10 November

  The language of genocide: How Israel dehumanises Palestinians

  

  When the existence of an entire people is denied, when their humanity is denied again and again and again, when they are simultaneously cast as non-existent and terrorist — we see what is happening in Gaza.   Yumna Fatima Published November 7, 2023  Updated 3 days ago When the Soviets liberated the Majdanek concentration camp from the Nazis in the summer of 1944, it was …

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• 10 November

  Gaza carnage: R2P or RIP?

  

  Internally displaced Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, looking for safety are camped in the grounds of the al-Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. AFP. It has now been more than a month since Israel unleashed its military juggernaut against Gaza’s civilians in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas fighters on Israeli military and …

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• 10 November

  Israel-Palestine war: One family’s treacherous journey through Gaza’s ‘safe corridor’

  

  Thousands of fleeing Palestinians are making the impossible decision to trade the certainty of violence for a fear of the unknown. This is one family’s story   Palestinians flee their homes during Israel’s ground offensive, on the edges of al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City on 8 November 2023 (Reuters) By Ghada Alhaddad in Gaza Strip   The past few weeks have …

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• 10 November

  Israel-Palestine war: Sunak and his ministers are the true extremists by Peter Oborne

  

  The Sunak government intends to broaden the definition of extremism to include law-abiding organisation like the Muslim Council of Britain and Mend   Home Secretary Suella Braverman with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he hosts a policing roundtable at 10 Downing Street, London, on 12 October 2023 (Reuters) This weekend, we learnt that, in the wake of Israel‘s war on Gaza, British Prime Minister …

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• 9 November

  Netanyahu vows Israel “will not stop,” as humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens Jordan Shilton

  

  Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the northern Gaza Strip, which Israeli forces have virtually sealed off as part of their genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians. Events over recent days make it increasingly clear that the …

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