- Portret van een genocidaal bataljon
De journalistieke website Drop Site heeft een reconstructie gemaakt van de genocidale werkzaamheden van het 749ste geniebataljon van het Israëlische leger. Dat gebeurde op basis van vele berichten in diverse sociale media. Handig voor de officier van justitie bij het Internationaal Strafhof. Zie 2.
De aanval op Iran lijkt a.s. Gallant de minister van Defensie van Israël was in de luchtbasis Netzarim. Daar zou het luchtmacht squadron gevestigd zijn dat verantwoordelijk lijkt te worden voor het bombardement op Iran. Grote woorden van Gallant. Zie 7.
Maar waarom zijn deze plannen dan gelekt, vorige week? Wie speelt real time mee in dit politieke gevecht tussen de VS en Israël. En passant worden nog nieuwe typen raketten onthuld, waarmee de aanval zou moeten worden uitgevoerd. Zie 8.
De oorlog in Gaza gaat gewoon verder. Zie 3.
B’tselem een van de moedige Israëlische mensenrechtenorganisaties stelt dat een genocidepolitiek wordt uitgevoerd in noord-Gaza en dat er moet worden ingegrepen. Zie 4.
Voor een verslag uit noord-Gaza, Jabalya, zie 5.
De aanvallen op Al Jazeera gaan door. Zie 6.
Over de studentenstrijd in de VS zie 9.
- “Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us.” Inside one Israeli battalion’s yearlong mission of destruction
Drop Site, 22 oktober 2024, ‘Journalists Younis Tirawi and Sami Vanderlip have managed to find and archive all the Instagram stories and daily posts shared by the soldiers of one key unit, Israel’s 749 Combat Engineering Battalion. They’ve mapped out the structure of the unit and identified the individual soldiers and officers involved, along with their various roles in operations. They have tracked the activities of each company in the battalion, including what they were doing, when, and where, as the force shred their way through Gaza.’ Zie verder de link voor dit lange en overtuigende verhaal van een genocidaal onderdeel https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-749-battalion-demolition-gaza
- Israeli Forces Kill 74 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours
Antiwar.com, 23 oktober 2024, ‘The latest violence brings the Health Ministry’s death toll to 42,792. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday that Israeli forces killed at least 74 Palestinians and wounded 130 in the previous 24-hour period.’ Zie verder of https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/23/israeli-forces-kill-74-palestinians-in-gaza-over-24-hours/#gsc.tab=0.
- The world must stop the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza
B’selem, 22 oktober 2024, ‘The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world.’ Zie verder of https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20241022_the_world_must_stop_the_ethnic_cleansing_of_northern_gaza.
- Half of Jabalia ethnically cleansed by Israeli army as schools burned and men kidnapped
Middle East Eye, 23 oktober 2024, ‘Palestinians have given harrowing accounts of the situation in northern parts of the enclave, where Israel shut off food and water supplies more than two weeks ago. Israeli troops are going school to school in Jabalia and nearby areas to forcibly remove unarmed, starved and besieged Palestinian civilians from their homes as the military campaign to ethnically cleanse north Gaza nears its third week, eyewitnesses have told Middle East Eye.’ Zie verder of https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jabalia-ethnically-cleansed-israel-army-schools-burned-men-kidnapped.
- Al Jazeera decries ‘unfounded’ Israeli claims about its Gaza journalists
Al Jazeera, 23 oktober 2024, ‘Al Jazeera has strongly rejected a claim by the Israeli military that six of its journalists based in Gaza are members of the Palestinian groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The media network on Wednesday vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli army, which in a post on X described some of the named Al Jazeera Arabic correspondents as “operatives” working for Hamas’s armed wing to promote the group’s “propaganda” in the besieged and bombarded enclave. The six named journalists are Anas al-Sharif, Talal Aruki, Alaa Salama, Hossam Shabat, Ismail Farid and Ashraf Saraj.’ Zie verder of https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/23/al-jazeera-decries-unfounded-israeli-claims-about-its-gaza-journalists.
- Strike on Iran will make world understand Israel’s might, says defence minister
The Guardian, 23 oktober 2024 ‘Yoav Gallant says his country still intends to strike back in response to 1 October missile attack by Tehran. Planned airstrikes on Iran will make the world understand Israel’s military might, the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said.’ Zie verder of https://archive.ph/nrxvz
- As Israel Readies to Strike Iran, the Pentagon Spills Its Ally’s Secrets in Real Time
Haaretz, Aluf Benn, 23 oktober 2024, ‘The two U.S. intelligence documents that were made public last weekend provide a unique and unprecedentedly deep glimpse into the IDF’s clandestine activity – and the very close surveillance by the Americans of its friend and ally.’ ZIe verder of https://archive.ph/bJ1FS.
- Universities Raze Jewish Students’ Gaza Solidarity Sukkahs
Common Dreams, 22 oktober 2024, “I think it’s despicable, cowardly, and highly hypocritical—after all the U.W. administration’s efforts to supposedly address antisemitism on campus… just to tear down our sukkah?” said one student. Some U.S. universities have torn down solidarity sukkahs that Jewish students opposed to Israel’s war on Palestinians have built in recent days to honor the Sukkot holiday and to “protest as the Israeli military continues to invoke the Jewish tradition as fuel for the destruction of Gaza.” Zie verder of https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-students-protest.
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