Palestinians fight for their lives and their stolen lands

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IOF tanks surround hospitals

Tanks belonging to the Israeli Occupation Forces have surrounded Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr hospitals, located within one building block, and have renewed artillery shelling toward the maternity ward in Al-Shifa Hospital

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli Occupation Forces tanks have besieged the Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr Hospitals for Children, both of which are located within one residential bloc, facing the al-Shati Camp in the Gaza Strip.

On the 35th day of the war, our correspondent pointed out that Al-Rantisi Hospital was forced to stop operating due to it being besieged, despite it being the only hospital that treats children's cancer in Gaza.

Earlier this morning, the IOF reportedly targeted Al-Rantisi Hospital's basement parking lot, causing a massive fire in a number of the cars belonging to the hospital.

Simultaneously, Israeli artillery shelling was renewed towards the maternity ward of Al-Shifa Hospital, located in the central western region of Gaza City. According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, there are 13 martyrs and dozens wounded after the IOF bombed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Moreover, the IOF warned to evacuate hospitals across the Strip

During the past hours, Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital and Al-Nasr Children's Hospital were both put out of service, causing direct harm to hundreds of thousands of citizens, including tens of thousands of children, according to the government media office, which confirmed that more than 3,000 children will be deprived of oncology treatment and dialysis services

Gaza aggression makes battle expansion inevitable

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned that the expansion of "Israel's" war on the Gaza Strip to include the entire region has become inevitable due to the escalation of the occupation's aggression on Gaza.

During a phone call with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that due to the increased intensity of the aggression against civilians in Gaza, expanding the scope of the war has become unavoidable.

Earlier on Thursday, Amir-Abdollahian declared that time is running out for "Israel" to continue its brutal aggression on Gaza.

In a post on X, he declared that the only "good" thing Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accomplished was to further undermine the foundations of the “fake Israeli regime."

The Iranian Foreign Minister elaborated that Netanyahu revealed the “criminal, violent, and aggressive face of the Zionist regime” during its massacres in Gaza.

He also expressed that “undoubtedly, the future belongs to Palestine."

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Exclusive - mobilization of Resistance

Lebanese Resistance fighters are mobilized in two areas on the southern front, as well as in the Golan area and al-Jalil area, an Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah officer revealed to Al Mayadeen in an interview that aired Friday

The highest achievement realized by the Resistance was drawing such a large number of Israeli forces from the internal and southern fronts to the northern front, "which lessened the pressure on our brothers in Gaza: at the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and up until this very day."

He underlined that while the Resistance in Lebanon entered the battle on October 8, the very next day after al-Aqsa Flood started, the Israeli occupation forces were mobilized and on high alert on the northern front.

'Israel' blinded

Another pivotal achievement made by the Lebanese Resistance was blinding the Israeli occupation and preventing it from seeping into the Lebanese side of the front, the officer said, referencing the operations carried out against the Israeli occupation's reconnaissance and monitoring sites on the border.

"Israel" was "blinded" through two different phases: The first one was by targeting intelligence, reconnaissance, and monitoring posts aimed at the "front edge", while the other was by targeting the main sites in charge of operations on the Lebanese and regional levels.

The most important of these sites are the Jal al-Alam site in the western sector and the al-Abbad site in the eastern sector, both of which undertake very significant intelligence missions, "greater than their own geographic area."

"The Israelis bolstered the front with unit 146, intelligence agencies, air defenses, and increased firepower," the Islamic Resistance officer revealed.

He explained that operations kicked off in the Shebaa Farms area and expanded to include every site in a 100km radius.

"This achievement is keeping the enemy occupied on the front," he said. "Also destroying the enemy's material and manpower capabilities mobilized on the sites and points throughout the entire front."

Israeli capabilities in shambles

The most major attacks carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon were targeting the Merkava tanks, wherein damages were inflicted on many of them as they were taken out of service using guided missiles.

He also addressed how the Resistance destroyed large parts of the Israeli occupation's military sites near the border with Lebanon by targeting them directly and launching artillery strikes at them and high-payload rockets and missiles, which forced "Israel" to mobilize outside of their conventional military sites and abandon some of them in order to avoid being struck.

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, he noted, launched salvoes of rockets toward the occupied Palestinian territories and managed to disable the Iron Dome in several locations, especially during the latest attacks on "Kiryat Shmona" and the posts in the Golan, Zaoura, and al-Asal valley in Shebaa.

Another utmost and critical achievement was drawing up new equations, such as when the Resistance responded to the Israeli occupation's aggression on Iqlim al-Teffah, as it expanded its range of fire and targeted the artillery positions of the enemy.

"The equipment, capabilities, manpower, and preparedness stocked up by the Resistance since 2006 will explode in the face of the enemy, who has seen very little thus far," he said

Finally, the Hezbollah officer hailed the Palestinian Resistance, congratulating al-Qassam Brigades for the new achievements it accomplished in light of Operation al-Aqsa Flood in the face of the Gaza Division of the Israeli occupation forces.

Hezbollah putting 'Israel' through wringer

Just earlier today, an Al Mayadeen correspondent reported that an Israeli military target in the occupied Hounin Valley was shelled with guided missiles.

The Israeli al-Jardah point was also directly attacked, as well as the sites of Hadab al-Bustan and Birkat Risha.

The Al Mayadeen correspondent added that sirens sounded in the "Shtula" area and the "Zar'it" Israeli barracks in occupied Palestine.

The Israeli occupation forces fired phosphorus shells on the outskirts of the town of Markaba, near a point belonging to the Lebanese Army, in the aftermath of the attacks.

The Israeli occupation also bombed the outskirts of the villages of Al-Jabin, Yarin, Houla, Mais al-Jabal, Umm al-Tut, and Marouhin.

The Resistance on Thursday announced targeting an Israeli infantry force in the occupied Lebanese town of Tarbikha "in support of our Palestinian people and in support of their resistance," adding that its fighters targeted the Israeli infantry force with rocket weapons and achieved direct hits.

The Islamic Resistance also confirmed its fighters targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks in the "Metulla" Israeli base using guided missiles, confirming that the tanks' crews were either killed or wounded in the process.

In the same context, heavily armed confrontations, which lasted for over 30 minutes, erupted on Thursday evening between Islamic Resistance fighters from Lebanon and Israeli occupation forces stationed in the "Misgav Am" military base, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in southern Lebanon reported.

Commenting on the events, Israeli media said Hezbollah's operations today are more intense than the past few days, noting that as per the latest estimates, the Islamic Resistance launched a total of eight anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) today, in addition to heavy use of machineguns in the operations.

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US wants to control Palestine

Hamas states that ongoing efforts and discussions with Egypt and Qatar are in progress to achieve a humanitarian truce in Gaza. The movement also asserts its rejection of the US administration's attempts to impose guardianship over the Palestinian people

The Hamas Resistance movement announced that there are efforts and talks with Qatar and Egypt to reach a humanitarian ceasefire, stressing that the US administration's attempts to "impose guardianship on the Palestinian people are rejected.”

During a press conference in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, on Friday, the Hamas movement said about the developments concerning the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip that "there is a lot of talk in the media about a humanitarian ceasefire, and there are efforts and talks with Qatar and Egypt, in this regard," adding that once an agreement is reached, it will be announced.

The statement added, "Our people have the absolute right to self-determination, and they have begun the process to liberation.”

Earlier on Thursday, Taher el-Nounou, the media advisor to the head of the Hamas politburo, denied in an interview for Al Mayadeen that a ceasefire agreement had been reached with the Israeli occupation.

El-Nounou confirmed that discussions on the ceasefire have been ongoing for several days, and the Israeli occupation is hindering the process, adding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing any ceasefire because he does not want to resolve the issue of Israeli captives held by the Palestinian Resistance to prolong the war.

He pointed out that Haniyeh's meetings in Egypt have focused on how to halt the Israeli aggression and deliver aid through the Rafah crossing.

El-Nounou made it clear that the declaration of the 4-hour pause was one-sided and that Hamas has no trust in the Israeli occupation due to previous experiences, expressing his belief that the 4-hour ceasefire is nothing but a smokescreen.

He pointed out that there is quite a difference between "what we hear from the mediators during negotiations and what Israeli leaders are saying."

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MSF loses contact with staffers

in Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital

Israeli bombing of al-Shifa Medical Complex has intensified, as medical staff, patients, and refugees are blockaded within its walls

Attacks on al-Shifa Hospital have "dramatically intensified" over the last few hours, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) stated in a thread posted on X.

MSF warned that its staff at the hospital have reported a "catastrophic situation" inside the al-Shifa Hospital, located near Gaza City's coast.

The humanitarian medical organization said that contact with its staff in the hospital has been cut, expressing extreme concern "about the safety of patients" and "medical staff".

Patients are stuck inside the hospital, some in critical condition and "unable to move," MSF pointed out.

"There is a patient who needs surgery. There is a patient who's already asleep in our department. We cannot evacuate ourselves and [leave] these people inside. As a doctor. I swear to help the people who need help," MSF Surgeon in al-Shifa Dr. Mohammed Obeid said as quoted by MSF.

The organization "urgently" reiterated its calls "to stop the [Israeli] attacks against the hospitals and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff, and patients."

This morning, Gaza's Health Ministry spokesperson said operations were suspended at al-Shifa after it ran out of fuel completely.

IOF directly targets al-Shifa Hospital

Al-Shifa Hospital has come under the direct fire of Israeli air and artillery strikes, as official reports indicate that the 13 Palestinians were martyred, and dozens of others were wounded after occupation forces targeted the complex.

Israeli occupation forces have also heavily targeted the vicinity of the hospital, and restricted the movement of patients, medical staff, and Gazans who have taken refuge in al-Shifa.

Al Mayadeen's sources revealed that ambulances cannot exit the hospital, as occupation drones flying overhead are opening fire at anyone moving in the area. The Director of the medical complex said that medical staff will not abandon patients in the hospital, "no matter the cost."

Describing the crisis faced by hospitals due to the blockade, he said that the situation was "tragic in every sense of the word," emphasizing that medical teams are unable to perform surgical operations.

He stressed that the displaced individuals within the hospital premises remain without food or water, emphasizing that the international community "has not provided us with a single drop of water or even a liter of fuel, and we are in a real crisis."

The blatant genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has not only taken the lives of over 11,000 people, but it has also targeted cultural sites and symbols. This ongoing violence serves as a distressing continuation of the devastating effects of the 1948 Nakba.

HRW finds no evidence of Resistance infrastructure in al-Shifa

Previously the Israeli occupation published simulated footage, claiming that al-Shifa was being used by the Resistance as a base for military operations. "Israel" has used this as a pretext to illegally attack the hospital.

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NOBODY ATTACKS MSF

Now I am well and truly shocked, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is the most highly respected organization in the entire world, nobody ever intentionally attacks them

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Over the years Israel has attacked Palestine regularly, pushing Palestinians from their lands and sizing the lands for Israeli settlements

Under international law — specifically Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention — those settlements are considered illegal

Seems Israels considers itself above the law

Some of the historical facts listed below are correct, some may not be

1947: Thousands of European Jewish emigrants, many of them Holocaust survivors, board a ship – which came to be called Exodus 1947 – bound for then British-controlled Palestine. Heading for the “promised land”, they are intercepted by British naval ships and sent back to Europe. Widely covered by the media, the incident sparks international outrage and plays a critical role in convincing the UK that a UN-brokered solution is necessary to solve the Palestine crisis.

A UN special committee proposes a partition plan giving 56.47 percent of Palestine for a Jewish state and 44.53 percent for an Arab state. Palestinian representatives reject the plan, but their Jewish counterparts accept it.

On November 29, the UN General Assembly approves the plan, with 33 countries voting for partition, 13 voting against it and 10 abstentions.

1948-49: On May 14, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, publicly reads the Proclamation of Independence. The declaration, which would go into effect the next day, comes a day ahead of the expiration of the British Mandate on Palestine. The Jewish state takes control of 77 percent of the territory of Mandate Palestine, according to the UN.

For Palestinians, this date marks the “Nakba”, the catastrophe that heralds their subsequent displacement and dispossession.

As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, hearing word of massacres in villages such as Dir Yassin, flee towards Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordanian territory, the armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq attack Israel, launching the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The Arab armies are repelled, a ceasefire is declared and new borders – more favourable to Israel – are drawn. Jordan takes control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem while Egypt controls the Gaza Strip.

1956: The Second Arab-Israeli War, or the Suez Crisis, takes place after Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal. In response Israel, the United Kingdom and France form an alliance and Israel occupies the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. The Israeli army eventually withdraws its troops, under pressure from the US and the USSR.

1959: Yasser Arafat sets up the Palestinian organisation Fatah in Gaza and Kuwait. It later becomes the main component of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

1964: The PLO is created.

1967: The Third Arab-Israeli War, or the Six-Day War, between Israel and its Arab neighbours, results in a dramatic redrawing of the Middle East map. Israel seizes the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.

1973: On October 6, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Egyptian and Syrian armies launch offensives against Israel, marking the start of a new regional war. The Yom Kippur War, which ends 19 days later with Israel repelling the Arab armies, results in heavy casualties on all sides – at least several thousand deaths.

1979: An Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement is sealed in Washington following the Camp David Accords signed in 1978 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. According to the terms of this agreement, Egypt regains the Sinai Peninsula, which it had lost after the Six-Day War. Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to recognise the State of Israel.

1982: Under Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Israeli troops storm into neighbouring Lebanon in a controversial military mission called “Operation Peace of Galilee”. The aim of the operation is to wipe out Palestinian guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon. But Israeli troops push all the way to the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

The subsequent routing of the PLO under Arafat leaves the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon essentially defenceless. From September 16 to 18, Lebanese Christian Phalangist militiamen – with ties to Israel – enter the camps of Sabra and Shatilla in Beirut, unleashing a brutal massacre that shocks the international community. The massacres, the subject of an Israeli inquiry popularly called the Kahane Commission, would subsequently cost Sharon his job as defence minister.

1987: Uprisings in Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza spread to the West Bank marking the start of the First Palestinian Intifada ("uprising" in Arabic). Nicknamed the "war of stones", the First Intifada lasts until 1993, costing more than 1,000 Palestinian lives. The image of the stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators pitched against Israel’s military might comes to symbolise the Palestinian struggle.

It was also during this uprising that Hamas, influenced by the ideology of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, was born. From the outset, the Islamist movement favours armed struggle and rejects outright any legitimacy of an Israeli state.

1993: After months of frenetic secret negotiations, Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign the Oslo Accords. The accords see the creation of the Palestinian Authority, which gets administrative control of the West Bank and Gaza. On September 13 on the White House lawn, Arafat and Rabin exchange a historic handshake in the presence of US President Bill Clinton. The event is watched by over 400 million TV viewers across the world.

1995: On November 4, Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish right-wing extremist at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

1996: Benjamin Netanyahu is elected prime minister for the first time.

2000: On September 28, Sharon provokes Palestinians by making a tour of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount site as leader of the right-wing Likud party, sparking the Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada. It lasted until 2005, with 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis killed over five years.

2001: Sharon is elected prime minister of Israel and breaks off contact with Arafat, who is subsequently confined to his compound in Ramallah.

2002: The Israeli government begins Operation Defensive Shield – the construction of a wall to separate Israel from the West Bank. The UN Security Council speaks for the first time of a coexistence between the two states of Israel and Palestine. The Israeli army lifts the siege on Ramallah.
An Israeli army patrol pauses near an eight-metre high wall that separates Israel and the Palestinian West Bank town of Qalkilya on August 19, 2002.

2004: On March 22, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the paraplegic co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, is killed in an Israeli helicopter strike. Eight months later, on November 11, PLO chairman Arafat dies at a Paris hospital following a prolonged illness. Arafat's death has been the subject of controversy. Some experts believe he died of natural causes, while others are open to the possibility he was poisoned using polonium 210.

2005: Mahmoud Abbas is elected president of the Palestinian Authority. After a 38-year occupation, Israel pulls out of Gaza.

2006: On January 4, Prime Minister Sharon suffers a stroke and falls into a coma that he stays in until his death in 2014. Ehud Olmert takes over as prime minister and head of Sharon’s newly founded centrist party, Kadima.

Hamas sweeps the legislative elections in the Palestinian Territories, causing the US and EU to freeze direct aid to the Palestinian government.

Lebanese Islamic fundamentalist group Hezbollah launches rocket attacks on Israel and takes two Israeli soldiers captive. Israel retaliates with force and many civilians, mainly Lebanese, are killed. The war, widely viewed as a failure in Israel, led to mounting calls for Olmert to resign.

2007: Following months of internecine military fighting between Hamas and Fatah forces, Hamas seizes control of Gaza.

2008: On December 27, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launch a surprise offensive on Gaza, killing more than 200 people in one day. Shortly after, the IDF follows up with a two-week-long ground invasion of Gaza. A UN report concluded that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during the conflict.

2009: On January 18, Israel and Hamas declare unilateral ceasefires, ending the 22-day battle which killed more than 1,300 Palestinians as well as 13 Israelis.

2011: On March 27, Israel deploys an anti-rocket missile defence system called Iron Dome, which allows the country to intercept short-range rockets regularly fired from Gaza.

2012: Israeli forces kill top Hamas commander Ahmed al-Jaabari in an air strike on November 14 and follow with more strikes over an eight-day campaign during which Hamas retaliates by firing rockets at Jerusalem for the first time. More than 130 Palestinians as well as five Israelis are killed.

2014: In June, three Israeli teenagers are abducted and murdered near the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli authorities blame Hamas for the incident and on July 8, launch multiple air strikes on Gaza, prompting an exchange of rocket fire with Hamas over a seven-week period. The Israeli missile strikes result in the deaths of more than 2,200 Palestinians in Gaza.

2018: On March 30, tens of thousands of Palestinians rally near the Israeli border in the Gaza Strip to protest Israel’s blockade of the enclave. Demonstrations continue for several months. At least 189 Palestinians were killed and more than 6,000 injured during these protests between the end of March and the end of December 2018, according to the Independent International Commission of Inquiry mandated by the UN Human Rights Council.

2021: Palestinian worshippers clash with Israeli police in May at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following weeks of mounting tension. Hamas unleashes a barrage of rockets into Israel after demanding Israeli forces withdraw from the compound. Israel responds with air strikes on Gaza, setting off an 11-day conflict resulting in the deaths of more than 200 people.

2022: Israel pounds Gaza with air strikes on August 5, killing a senior militant of the Islamic Jihad group and triggering retaliatory rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave. At least 40 Palestinians are killed in the three days of fighting that follow.

2023: Israeli forces kill nine Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen and civilians on January 26 in a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian militants hit back by firing two rockets, triggering retaliation from Israel. No further casualties are reported.

On October 7, Hamas mounts an unprecedented, multipronged surprise attack on Israel with fighters infiltrating the heavily fortified Gaza border in several locations by air, land and sea. Israeli forces respond with air strikes on Gaza and military reinforcements to the border

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In recent years Israeli attacks on Palestinians have taken place on an almost daily bases, sometimes destroying Palestinian's homes, sometimes using snipers to shot civilians just walking around on their towns

Do not forget the many attacks on Palestinian farms and fishing boats, nor the illegal imprisonment of children

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More than 800,000 protested

Organisers of the pro-Palestinian protest in London say 'more than 800,000' marched to the US embassy today to demand that Israel stops bombing Gaza - as they asked crowds to disperse peacefully

A woman using a speaker system from the stage at the end of the 'march for Palestine' said: 'There are more than 800,000 of us here today and that number may be as high as one million. Making this the second largest march in British history.'

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: 'They said we shouldn't be marching on Remembrance weekend. Well I simply say this, we march in memory of all those who died in all wars, in all conflicts.'

Chants of 'free Palestine' and 'ceasefire now' could be heard during the march. The Met, who put their numbers at 300,000, said those gathered had so far been peaceful with no incidents reported.

This was in stark contrast to a march by thugs led by the far-right figure Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, which has seen repeated clashes with officers and missiles thrown at police.

Tens of thousands could be seen marching through the streets carrying banners which read 'free Palestine', as some protesters let off flares.

At Trafalgar Square, Extinction Rebellion placed hundreds of pairs of children's shoes as they joined calls for an immediate ceasefire to protect citizens' lives. Meanwhile in Scotland, dozens of protesters participated in a 'die-in' in Glasgow.

The march, which coincides with Armistice Day, will head towards the US embassy in Vauxhall, south of the Thames

In London many protesters were carrying Palestinian flags while others clutched placards emblazoned with slogans such as 'hands of al Aqsa', 'end Israeli apartheid' and 'end the siege' and 'baby killer Biden stop arming Israel'.

Videos on social media showed protesters holding hands as they walked through the city in a show of peace.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he granted consent for transport police to make orders banning protests at three London railway stations so that people can travel 'free from intimidation'.

He said in a statement: 'Armistice Day is a moment of solemn national reflection in remembrance of those who have given their lives in service of our country. It's important that people can use our rail network to safely travel, free from intimidation.

'That's why I have granted consent for the British Transport Police to make orders under Section 14A of the Public Order Act 1986 prohibiting planned protests at various London stations today, meaning anyone taking part will be subject to arrest.

'I will always back the British Transport Police to use their powers to keep people safe and I am grateful to their officers, especially those who are on duty today.

'While the right to peaceful protest is a key part of our democratic society, it cannot be at the expense of other people's right not to be seriously disrupted or intimidated.'

Previous marches in support of Palestine have been largely peaceful as activists call for an immediate ceasefire to protect the lives of innocent Palestinian civilians - a call echoed by French President Emmanuel Macron last night.

But there are fears Tommy Robinson's supporters intend on confronting pro-Palestine protesters and stir up trouble after multiple clashes with police officers.

An Armistice Day service took place at the Cenotaph on Whitehall at 11am, which passed off peacefully with a two-minute silence being observed.

The Met Police posted on X, formerly Twitter: 'While the two minutes' silence was marked respectfully and without incident on Whitehall, officers have faced aggression from counter-protesters who are in the area in significant numbers.'

The force added that it 'will use all the powers and tactics available to us to prevent' the counter-protesters from confronting the main march.

On Saturday afternoon, police began arresting some right-wing protesters as they pursued groups heading towards the main march.

Leaders of the Palestine demonstration claimed entire fleets of coaches were driving to the capital.

Many of those participating in Glasgow's 'die-in' held banners or Palestinian flags

On Saturday morning it was reported that Gaza's largest hospital, Al Shifa, had completely shutdown operations after running out of fuel. It is feared dozens of people may die as a result
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Israel’s barbarism

Representatives of the Islamic world gathered in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Saturday for an emergency Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit on the situation in Gaza. In a display of unity, they condemned Israel’s actions and criticized the international community’s response to the war

Speaking at the event, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid reiterated his country’s firm stance in support of the Palestinian people and condemned Israel’s “collective punishment” and “flagrant violations of international humanitarian laws.”

Rashid criticized the international community’s “strange and unjustified silence” in the face of reports of horrendous atrocities being committed in Gaza and called on the world to take action against the targeting of civil institutions

The Iraqi president urged expedited delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza, and stressed that incidents of loss of communication in the strip is an attempt to “isolate more than two million people, and hide the war crimes committed by the occupation from the world.”

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who made a landmark trip to Saudi Arabia as the regional rivals mend ties, said that Arab and Muslim states should designate Israel a “terrorist organization,” and “arm the Palestinian people” if Israel continues its aggression against the people of Gaza.

“Now that the international assemblies under the influence of America are suffering from indecisiveness, characterlessness, and the lack of identity, we must take the field,” said Raisi.

“The events in the Gaza Strip are a confrontation between the axis of honor and the axis of evil, and everyone must clarify which path they have fallen into,” he added.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also slammed Western countries for remaining silent about Israel’s “barbarism” in Gaza, while also stressing the need to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in the strip and fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals.

“It is a shame that Western countries, which always voice for human rights, and freedoms, remain silent on the massacre in Palestine,” said Erdogan, adding “we are faced with unprecedented barbarism in history, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps are bombed and civilians are massacred.”

Relentless Israeli airstrikes have pounded the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a surprise attack by Palestinian Hamas on October 7. The strikes have left over 11,000 dead, including scores of women and children, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The war in Gaza has sparked sympathy across the Arab world where the Palestinian cause has widespread support. Arab and Muslim leaders have been widely criticized by the public for their weak response towards the Israeli assault on the strip.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/111120231

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Israel is Genociding Gaza

It’s far worse than anything I saw during two brutal Israeli wars on Gaza
By Eva Bartlett

Over one month into Israel’s ongoing genocide of Gaza, the massacres of Palestinians are so frequent, widespread and endless, it is a scale of horror that even I—having experienced two horrific Israeli wars on Gaza—cannot comprehend

Reports state that Israel has dropped an astounding 24,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip, noting that is the size of two of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima.

To give just one example of Israel’s massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, in it’s fourth week of murdering Palestinians, Israelis warplanes dropped what were said to be six one ton bombs on the densely-inhabited Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, killing and injuring over 400 Palestinians (as of first estimates).

The following day, Israeli warplanes bombed the same area anew, reportedly firing eight more missiles on the ravaged neighbourhood.

As of November 10, Israel has murdered over 11, 000 Palestinians in Gaza, and injured over 27,000, after over 35 days of relentless Israeli airstrikes on a literally imprisoned population who cannot flee by air, land or water. Keep in mind doctors are reporting they are treating severe burns and skin melting injuries that they have not seen before, making it difficult to deal with.

Still thousands more are likely dead under the rubble.

Of those killed, roughly 4,500 are children, on average Israel is killing one child every 10 minutes. According to Save The Children, October 29, more children have been killed by Israeli bombings of Gaza in three weeks than, “the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.”

This is a staggering statement which—if the endless images of lifeless Palestinian children being pulled out of rubble or wrapped in white shrouds doesn’t already shock you—should shock the general public.

Due to the over sixteen year long Israeli siege on Gaza, there has consistently been a dearth of the most basic necessities of life, and in particular essential medicines. When I drafted this article, that dearth was so severe that even anaesthesia is lacking, meaning children and adults alike who are fortunate enough to get medical care now at all are often being operated on without anaesthesia.

Now, the scant numbers of hospitals that were still somewhat functioning have shut down or are being bombarded.

Reflections from two prior Israeli massacres of Gaza

I watch from afar in horror at Israel’s ongoing massacre, one which surpasses the 2009 and the 2012 Israeli wars on Gaza combined, the bloody results of both of which I documented from on the ground.

It is difficult to understand the layers of terror experienced during an Israeli bombardment campaign. In addition to the bombing itself, there is the sense of isolation, not being able to call for help if needed, not knowing if friends and family are still alive, not being able to bury or properly grieve for those who have been killed, not knowing what is going on outside of your district, not knowing when the horror will end nor when the next nearby bombing will occur.

In its December 2009-January 2009 war on Gaza, which killed over 1400 Palestinians, most of whom civilians, Israel first attacked by dropping 100 bombs simultaneously in the first minutes. In Gaza City, I went to one of the sites bombed in that first wave of attack, a mosque and police station, seeing the chaos of people scrambling to remove rubble and pull out bodies, also seeing a new missile hit roughly 150 metres away

Massive plumes of black smoke rose everywhere around me. The main hospital, Shifa, was nonstop receiving the dead and the injured. The ICU beds were filled and doctors told me as soon as one patient died another took the place.

During Israel's horrific December 2008/January 2009 bombardment of Gaza, I rode in ambulances of Palestinian medics, primarily the Palestinian Red Crescent but also sometimes government ambulances.

I rode in Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulances with heroic Palestinian medics who were doing their utmost to save wounded Palestinians, injured by Israeli bombing or sniping. Israel killed 23 medics, including firing a flechette (dart) bomb at the ambulance of one medic I knew and had accompanied. He was shredded by the darts, went into shock and died of his injuries. He was a volunteer medic, high school teacher by profession.

Other medics I knew came under Israeli sniper fire when—during “ceasefire hours” an Israeli sniper fired at them and then at our ambulance, a bullet puncuring one of the medic’s legs, the last of at least 14 bullets hitting the back of the ambulance as we raced away.

The night the Israeli land invasion began, shells flew dangerously close to the Red Crescent station in the district east of Jabaliya I was then based in when not in one of the ambulances. By morning it was impossible to access, and by the end of the war, we return to find it studded with machine-gun fire and blasted by shelling.

After invading the Tel al-Hawa district in the third week of its war on Gaza, Israel repeatedly bombed the Quds hospital, Israeli snipers targeting Palestinian civilians fleeing residential areas. I was with an ambulance that went to evacuate civilians from the hospital and take them to the Shifa hospital (which had no space), going back repeatedly to save Palestinian civilians, each time at risk of being shot by Israeli soldiers.

In January 2009, after invading the Tel al-Hawa district, Israel repeatedly bombed the Quds hospital, Israeli snipers targeting Palestinian civilians fleeing residential areas.
I was with an ambulance that went to evacuate civilians from the hospital… https://t.co/OHYT5dd43p
— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) October 16, 2023

During and after the war, I took countless testimonies of Palestinian parents whose children were deliberately murdered by Israeli soldiers including young children and infants: shot point blank, drone struck during ceasefire hours, shot by a sniper…

An infant was was burned alive by the White Phosphorous (WP) Israeli soldiers fired onto a civilian home in northern Gaza. Five other family members were killed by the WP and shelling. I met the mutilated survivors in Shifa hospital during the war, and followed up on their horror story afterwards, learning the entire sordid story and seeing the hate graffiti left in their home by Israeli soldiers. One included, “it will hurt more next time,” a sadistic and cruel threat.

I also saw terrified civilians who had been kept hostage by the Israeli army, denied food, water, medicines, and in many cases terrorized. People streaming from areas all over northern Gaza, on foot, under the bombs, seeking safety where none was to be had. I will never forget the shrill wailing of a man whose wife was caught in a fatal “second tap” bombing just minutes after the first, shrieking as he picked up the pieces of his wife and accompanied her to the morgue

During the November 2012 war, eight days of Israeli bombing which killed 171 Palestinians, I saw the mangled bodies of civilians, especially children, pour into the Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah. Two of the children were killed just hours before a ceasefire—already agreed upon—was to be implemented.

The four year old girl’s family had returned to their home, from which they’d fled, thinking it would be safe since the ceasefire was coming. She died of shrapnel to her temple, standing next to the door of her home. Nader, the fourteen year old, likewise thought the pending ceasefire meant he was safe to move, walking to a small shop to buy food for his siblings who’d only had bread the past five days. He was targeted by a precision drone strike which tore his body into the shreds I saw in the hospital.

Not only did the Israeli army massacre more Palestinians, but it also wreaked havoc on the Strip’s infrastructure, again destroying key bridges, water and sewage lines, schools, health clinics and hospitals. The near full ban on the entry of construction materials into Gaza meant rebuilding the destroyed homes, buildings and infrastructure was largely impossible.

Further, few outside of Gaza ever hear of the Israeli bombings of civilian areas when not officially warring on Gaza. I experienced them, they are a part of the psychological warfare Israel wages incessantly on Palestinians, never letting them know peace, calm, stability.

But it’s not just the bombings, it’s every aspect of life, which Israel controls, rendered impossible.

In September 2023, Save the Children reported that, “Nearly 400 children in Gaza were denied permits to go to the West Bank for critical healthcare in the first six months of 2023, leaving them without access to life-saving surgery or urgent medication.”

This is a sadism that Palestinians have been subjected to throughout the duration of the over 16 year Israeli siege on Gaza, which I’ve written about at length, but which in summary has meant a vast increase in poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, anaemia, stunting in growth, diabetes, treatable illnesses going untreated, water that was 95% undrinkable when (back in 2014) I wrote a lengthy overview on life in Gaza.

In that article, I highlighted how extremely sadistic the Israeli policies against imprisoned Palestinians in Gaza have been, noting that Israel, “went as far as to calculate the minimum amount of calories needed to keep Palestinians not quite fully starving.” Alive, just barely.

I also highlighted some lesser known facts: that compounding the siege is Israel’s relentless, deliberate, deadly firing on Palestinian farmers and fishers, under the pretext of “security”. Given that in my three years in Gaza I routinely accompanied farmers while they were on land and came under Israeli gunfire, I can state definitively that in those many, many, many experiences of coming under Israeli gunfire, none of us were armed: not myself, not the elderly grandmothers, not the children, not the paid labourers. They posed zero threat to Israel other than simply existing.

It’s GENOCIDE

When Israel’s 2009 war on Gaza finally ended after 23 days, I thought it was the worst bombardment Palestinians had endured. I was wrong. The scenes coming out of Gaza since October 7 are of hideous, horrific, an endless onslaught of Israel murdering civilians in the most sadistic ways, entire families, hundreds of people sheltering where they thought they would be safe, on and on…

Al Jazeera has released footage from the Saftawi School massacre, and the visuals are profoundly heart-wrenching.
Pieces of dead bodies scattered, blood staining the school's walls. Medical sources estimate that 20 to 30 Palestinians including children were slaughtered https://t.co/MVo5QGGEml pic.twitter.com/Mnro12m2Q4
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) November 3, 2023

Further, Israel has killed at least 46 journalists in the Gaza Strip since October 7, while another three remain missing.

According to updates from Gaza’s Ministry of Health,111 medical staff have been killed, 16 (of 35) hospitals out of service due to bombing and fuel shortages, 39 ambulances destroyed or out of service.

With most hospitals running out of service in Gaza due to Israeli bombardment forcing many people, including doctors, to evacuate to a safer place, wounded are arriving at hospitals with no doctors to treat them.
The situation in #Gaza is really CATASTROPHIC, and the world is… pic.twitter.com/8d2lX97O8t
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) November 11, 2023

Only 7 out of 18 PRCS ambulance vehicles are functioning in Gaza and the northern regions.

On November 1, the Ministry of Health announced that Gaza’s sole cancer treatment hospital has ceased operating due to Israeli bombings and the complete lack of fuel, putting 70 patients immediately at risk.

Israel demanded the (impossible) evacuation of Shifa and twelve other hospitals, threatening to bomb them. Shifa hospital—which Israel already bombed in July 2014—is under threats of Israeli bombings and is otherwise precariously close to shutting down.

Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert has countless times over the years made trips to Gaza to work alongside Palestinian doctors in Shifa hospital, particularly during Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip. I met him briefly in January 2009, at Shifa Hospital when arriving there with Palestinian medics and the injured Palestinians they had retrieved.

In a recent interview, he addressed the Israeli claims of Shifa being a “command centre” for Palestinian resistance.

“I’ve been working in Shifa for 16 years, in very active periods. I was able to walk freely around, I take lots of pictures, I video film, I’ve been all over it. I’ve never been restricted, nobody has ever controlled my picture & documentation material,” Gilbert said. “In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, you can’t bomb hospitals unless they have very clear military functions.”

In their October 29 update, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) noted that Israeli bombing had targeted the vicinity of the Shifa and Quds hospitals in Gaza city and the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, noting the bombings, “followed renewed calls by the Israeli military to evacuate these facilities immediately.”

Keep in mind that Shifa and Quds are the two main hospitals in Gaza City, combined they now house over 60,000 displaced Palestinian civilians who’ve fled Israeli bombing in their home regions. Calling for their evacuation and proceeding to bomb around them are absolutely criminal acts that meet the definition of war crimes.

With the whole world watching, Israel continues to unabashedly bombard the Gaza Strip’s main hospitals. Most are out of commission for want of electricity or fuel to run generators.

“No one can get out from the Shifa hospital. No one can come in. The people who tried to evacuate this morning were being shot in the streets.”
Dr Marwan Abu Sada, Head of Surgery at Al Shifa Hospital, describes horrifying scenes as Israel attacks the Gaza hospital this morning. pic.twitter.com/gm7X2NqSFD
— Medical Aid for Palestinians (@MedicalAidPal) November 11, 2023

On November 10, journalist Marwa Osman reported: “Israel targeted Al-Shifa Hospital with U.S-made R9X non-explosive missiles, as the missile turns into blades that fly over a distance of 100 meters to cut off human limbs in a criminal scene that is chilling to the bone. The U.S. regime is a primary accomplice to Zionist Israel in this Genocide.”

“We just got the report from Shifa Hospital that the Israeli attack forces have placed snipers around the hospital, and these snipers are shooting through the windows of the hospital, killing, targeting, damaging health care workers trying to save lives inside.

One report says a nurse approaching the incubator in the neo-natal unit was killed while trying to care for the babies. The oxygen supply to the incubators are now running out, they’re destroyed and shut down.

The doctors report, ‘We are minutes away from death as the world is watching.‘”

This message just in from Shifa:
Shifa hospital completely besieged.
Surrounded by Israeli attack army.
Snipers are shooting through the windows.
Killing.
We are minutes away from death as the world is watching. pic.twitter.com/EkOTRUUqXn
— Dr. Mads Gilbert (@DrMadsGilbert) November 11, 2023

The ICU of Al Shifa hospital has been bombed. Staff have been shot at and wounded. Power has gone, staff are having to hand ventilate patients, and babies in neonatal ICU are starting to die from lack of oxygen.

Israel's war on hospitals must end.https://t.co/dIJN4RUpmK pic.twitter.com/KodzpgTFFF
— Medical Aid for Palestinians (@MedicalAidPal) November 11, 2023

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent:

“Israeli tanks are 20 meters away from Al-Quds Hospital. Direct shooting at the hospital, creating a state of extreme panic and fear among 14000 displaced people.”

Israel has made abudantly clear–by words & by bombings–its intent to genocide Gaza & push the 2.4 million (-10,000+ recently murdered) out of Gaza for good

At this point, anyone arguing that Israel is not committing genocide and ethnic cleansing is either ignorant or wilfully complicit.

A week ago, statements from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights specified concern, “that war crimes are being committed. Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Compelling people to evacuate in these circumstances… and while under a complete siege raises serious concerns over forcible transfer, which is a war crime.”

Craig Mokhiber, the Director of the UN’s New York office, resigned from his position in protest and disgust, stating, “Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.

As someone who has investigated human rights in Palestine since the 1980s, lived in Gaza as a UN human rights advisor in the 1990s, and carried out several human rights missions to the country before and since, this is deeply personal to me.”

The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away. pic.twitter.com/3y9NwgIofP
— ayan. (@artan_ayan) October 31, 2023

Regarding the question of whether Israel is committing genocide, Mokhiber, wrote, “The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people…coupled with explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military, leaves no room for doubt or debate….This is a textbook case of genocide.”

I echo Mokhiber’s sentiments, including that having lived three years in Gaza and seen the endless, needless, preventable suffering of Palestinians, this is deeply personal to me. I no longer know whether friends and people I knew a decade ago when I still lived there are alive after such relentless Israeli bombardment all over of Gaza.

But even if it is not personal for you, the slaughter now is so atrocious and endless that I hope it does become so. If this were being done by any country except Israel, the whole world would be outraged.

It's becoming clear that Israeli forces massacred their own people on October 7. In this video, Apache pilots are shown firing on everyone.

So no beheaded babies, no raped, and no Palestinians massacring Israelis, but still the Gaza Holocaust and ethnic cleansing must continue. pic.twitter.com/sucVL5F7r9
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) November 9, 2023

The @PalestineRCS appeals to the international community and humanitarian institutions to intervene immediately and urgently to protect their crews working in AlQuds Hospital and about 500 patients and more than 14000 displaced, mostly women and children.

America is complicit in this genocide.
If there isn’t an immediate ceasefire and infusion of humanitarian aid, Saudi Arabia…
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) November 11, 2023

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Hospital in Gaza is out of service

Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, states that "the world cannot stand silent while hospitals, which should be safe havens, are transformed into scenes of death, devastation, and despair."

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Sunday that Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza "is not functioning as a hospital anymore."

Ghebreyesus said, "The world cannot stand silent while hospitals, which should be safe havens, are transformed into scenes of death, devastation, and despair."

WHO has managed to get in touch with health professionals at the Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza. The situation is dire and perilous.

It's been 3 days without electricity, without water and with very poor internet which has severely impacted our ability to provide essential…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 12, 2023

Ghebreyesus pointed out that the organization has managed to contact health professionals at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, stressing that "the situation is dire and perilous".

He pointed out that for three days, the hospital was without electricity, water, and very poor internet, "which has severely impacted our ability to provide essential care".

"The constant gunfire and bombings in the area have exacerbated the already critical circumstances," he added.

Two days ago, "Israel" bombed the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza with internationally prohibited White Phosphorus, Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila confirmed on Saturday.

The Minister also revealed that 39 children and infants who were administered to the intensive care unit are threatened with death in Al-Shifa Hospital as their oxygen supply is close to running out.

Al-Kaila stressed that "patients in al-Shifa Complex are threatened with imminent death."

Al-Quds Hospital, located in the northern part of Gaza City, is almost completely out of service, as its intensive care unit is the only functional section in the hospital and it is also "threatened to stop [operating] within the [next few] hours," the Palestinian Health Minister explained.

She also revealed that "20 out of 30 hospitals in [in the Gaza Strip] are completely inoperational."

The official highlighted the illegal bombing of hospitals in the Gaza Strip in "plain sight", saying that the circumstances that Gaza's health sector is facing have "never occurred in history."

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Al Mayadeen's CEO underlines struggle

to continue despite Israeli ban

The chairman of Al Mayadeen's board of directors underlines that the network will always be in support of the Palestinian cause, and that the Israeli attempts to silence it will be met with failure

The chairman of the Board of Directors of Al Mayadeen media network, Ghassan Ben Jeddou, commented on the Israeli cabinet's decision to ban the channel and all of its outlets, from its websites to its social media accounts, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Ben Jeddou underlined that the decision to ban Al Mayadeen in occupied Palestine was taken by the Israeli cabinet led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Security Minister Yoav Gallant, former Security Minister Benny Gantz, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and others, from senior officials in the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the apparatuses of murder and genocide.

He underlined that the decision was an umbrella ban that included Al Mayadeen's English and Spanish websites, as well as its flagship Arabic website and all of its social media outlets and accounts, not to mention the satellite channel itself. "Perhaps this is the national security victory the Israeli occupation has been looking for amidst its greatest humiliation against its steadfast and glorious Gaza."

The bill banning an Al Mayadeen in occupied Palestine "was signed with the trembling hands of the Israeli Communication Minister publicizing the idea of triumph against Al Mayadeen with a deluded and grim pride."

"The Israeli occupation thinks of itself as sending a renewed, direct threat to Al Mayadeen and maybe a message to terrorize the media of the free people wherever they are," Ben Jeddou said. "These sadist child-killers cannot fathom the meaning of freedom and free people."

Al Mayadeen embraces the Palestinian cause

"Here at Al Mayadeen, we never concealed our choice to embrace the Palestinian cause, defend the dignified people of Palestine, and revere Muslim and Christian Palestinian sanctities," he underlined. "We have always been with the people, everywhere."

Al Mayadeen's Chairman of the Board of Directors underlined that the network has long been in support of Resistance movements against occupying forces all over the world, "With the Palestinian people at the forefront, as they are oppressed and violated in every second throughout their history."

Furthermore, he talked about how the network works with "utmost deftness and journalistic professionalism [...] with patriotic belonging."

He said Al Mayadeen advocates absolute tolerance between cultures, instead of a superficial one, that it fights for a committed journalistic struggle rather than frail journalistic falsehood.

"Al Mayadeen’s reliability throughout history has rendered the occupation’s nights sleepless, and we promise the occupation that we will not stop" despite the ban, Ben Jeddou stressed.

Resolute and steadfast

He went on to explain how Al Mayadeen has worked in occupied Palestine courageously and never knelt before anyone or begged for a permit to operate there. "The occupation authorities' ban is only part of their systematic censorship policy" to undermine the freedom of the press and freedom of speech even if they falsely claim otherwise.

Calling the Israeli occupation a "feeble performative democracy", he noted that Al Mayadeen brazenly faced the Israeli occupation with utmost professionalism and determination as "they countered us with oppression and incitement."

"Al Mayadeen will never back down from its choice to support the people of Palestine and their resistance in the entirety of Palestine. Our physical absence from Occupied Palestine will not succeed in keeping us from supporting the righteous causes of the Palestinian and international masses yearning for freedom," Ben Jeddou added

"We will not back down from revealing the reality of the genocidal war waged by the occupation on the mighty Gaza and its fearless people."

Furthermore, he underlined that the Israeli occupation's mouthpieces inside and outside Palestine and their subjects "did not realize yet that Al Mayadeen is not only buildings, walls, officers, and cameras," instead, he insisted, "[it is] at its core an idea, a vision, a culture, a choice, and an integrated Arab, international, and humanitarian media project."

Media outlets for the free

Al Mayadeen is one of hundreds, thousands even, of media projects in the free world. "In our Islamic Arab world, Latin America, Africa, Asia, even in the West."

"They may carry a different name, but their message is one: Facing oppression, hegemony, and occupation and achieving dignity, justice, and independence," he added. "Here at Al Mayadeen, we are part of this radiant, international media entity."

"We are grateful for everyone who supported us with a word, a stance, or a call. From the people all around the free world, not only from our beloved Palestine and our dear, great Arab homeland," Ben Jeddou underlined.

"Even if they silence us or take us off the field and off the air [...] we are steadfast and deeply-rooted, and we will remain steadfast," he said.

"Isn’t our slogan Tomorrow Starts Today? It is, and we add to it now Tomorrow is Renewed Today," Ben Jeddou declared.

At the conclusion, the Al Mayadeen chief stressed that his address was not a response to the dying Israeli entity's decision, but rather "an informative statement from the free media."

Ban on Al Mayadeen in full effect

The Israeli war cabinet approved regulations that would allow the occupation government to ban and shut down Al Mayadeen Media Network, which comprises a foreign channel as per the emergency regulations descriptions and broadcasts in "Israel" in three languages: Arabic, English, and Spanish.

The occupation's war cabinet has issued an order to block Al Mayadeen's online operations in occupied Palestine as well, and an order to seize its broadcasting equipment will be issued later today.

According to the decision,
Al Mayadeen is said to "harm national security."

The decision, which also included banning all websites that could serve as a medium for Al Mayadeen, addressed all Internet service providers to prevent all users of the services from accessing the following websites "that were found, after examination by the Ministry of Information, to be Internet sites through which Al Mayadeen channel broadcasts":

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A hospital becomes a graveyard

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the health crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached 'catastrophic proportions', stressing that medical teams are facing depletion and exhaustion with the Israeli aggression and total blockade tightening for 39 consecutive days

The ministry's spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, announced that the health system is unable to provide adequate services to the wounded and patients, revealing the tragic killing of 40 Patients at al-Shifa Hospital.

Concerns are particularly heightened for premature babies who have been relocated to intensive care following coordination between the ministry and the Red Cross, he added.

Al-Qidra underscored that al-Shifa Hospital, housing around 10,000 people, including displaced families without adequate protection, faces severe challenges. Israeli snipers continue to target anyone attempting to evacuate the area.

Only in Gaza: A hospital becomes a graveyard

The yard of al-Shifa Hospital has now become a makeshift graveyard for 100 bodies, which were buried in a mass grave as the bodies had begun to rot, expressing serious concern about the medical staff's dwindling ability to preserve the dignity of the dead.

Furthermore, al-Maamadani Hospital and al-Awda Hospital are the only partially operational medical facilities, both at risk of shutting down due to fuel shortages, as per Al-Qidra.

He also emphasized the extremely challenging health conditions in the southern part of the Strip, with hospitals there also facing potential closure within the next 48 hours due to fuel depletion.

The Ministry of Health has reiterated its urgent call for the opening of a humanitarian corridor to facilitate the evacuation of the wounded, especially from northern areas, either to other hospitals or to Egypt under international protection. Additionally, there is a pressing need for the delivery of medical assistance to enable hospitals to resume their crucial functions.

Despite aid deliveries via trucks entering from the Rafah crossing in recent weeks, the ministry emphasized that the received assistance does not significantly alleviate the catastrophic health situation.

In an update, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported a grim escalation in the number of martyrs to over 11,500, with more than 29,000 reported injuries.

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Sisi, Putin efforts towards ceasefire

El-Sisi reviewed the steps taken by Egypt to de-escalate, provide humanitarian aid, evacuate foreign nationals, and assist injured Palestinians, according to a statement by the Egyptian presidency

Putin and El-Sisi agreed to intensify efforts towards an immediate ceasefire, facilitate urgent access to humanitarian assistance, and take necessary steps to protect civilians

The Israeli onslaught and blockade of Gaza entered its 39th day on Tuesday, with no access to food, water, or medical supplies except a trickle of aid trucks from the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

No fuel has entered the strip since 7 October, causing several bakeries and hospitals to halt work completely.

On Tuesday, the World Health Organization reported that more than half of Gaza's hospitals, 22 out of 36, are currently deemed "non-functional."

Israel has killed over 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 4,630 children and 3,130 women, in five weeks, according to Palestinian data.

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Israel converted Al-Shifa Hospital

into detention center

The human rights group said that narratives released by IOF about any findings in Al Shifa can't be considered credible, but are rather examples of misinformation

Israeli occupation soldiers storming the Al Shifa hospital complex after days of besieging it and preventing any personnel or basic supplies from entering or leaving on Wednesday,

Israeli occupation forces have converted al-Shifa Hospital into a military barracks, handcuffing a large number of its attending doctors and indiscriminately opening fire throughout the health facility as they storm patient wards without constraints, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported on Wednesday

Furthermore, the IOF have cut off all communications in the hospital, isolating the facility from the outside world.

The Israeli army has been attacking the al-Shifa Medical Complex since last week as part of their attempt to destroy Gaza's health sector and damage the morale of civilians and Resistance fighters, who have been relentlessly confronting invading forces.

Our correspondent further noted that the Israeli forces stormed the dialysis department, the intensive care unit, and other specialized sections, as well as other critical parts of the hospital.

al-Shifa hospital is now the site of an ongoing war crime, the correspondent said, noting that the medical complex is under complete siege of Israeli tanks.

Al-Shifa Hospital: A Center for Detention and Abuse

In a report, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has issued a stern warning against "Israel's" actions at the medical complex. The organization said the occupation has converted the complex's facilities into a detention center for patients, displaced individuals, and medical personnel.

The Human Rights Monitor vehemently denounced the military-backed incursion by Israeli forces into al-Shifa, sounding alarms about potential potential deaths and executions that might be perpetrated by Israeli forces at the site.

Furthermore, the report highlighted the occupation forces' efforts to muzzle Ministry of Health officials, barring them from speaking to the media, also noting "Israel's" refusal to allow inspections by any third-party international bodies, including UN organizations, effectively monopolizing the control over information dissemination. This move casts doubt on the validity of any future narratives released by Israel regarding the situation.

The report also addresses the spread of false claims by the Israeli forces during their raid on the hospital.

Israelis alleged that Israeli captives were held in the hospital by the Resistance, a claim that was proven false by Doron Kadosh, a military affairs correspondent for Israeli Army radio, who confirmed the absence of captives in the hospital.

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70% of Gazans Without Drinking Water

On Wednesday, the commissioner of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned that the majority of Gazans will be left without drinking water today

"Our entire operation is now on the brink of collapse. By the end of today, around 70 percent of Gaza's population will not have access to clean water. Having fuel alone to operate the trucks will no longer save lives. Waiting any longer will cost lives," he said.

Previously, the director of UNRWA in Gaza, Thomas White, indicated that the fuel received today in the enclave for the first time since the start of the war over a month ago has been restricted by Israel and will not be directed towards water or hospitals.

"It is terrible that fuel continues to be used as a weapon of war. For the past five weeks, UNRWA has been pleading for fuel to support the humanitarian operation in Gaza. This severely paralyzes our work and provision of assistance to Palestinian communities in Gaza," Lazzarini noted.

"Key services such as water desalination plants, wastewater treatments and hospitals have stopped functioning. Having fuel only for trucks will no longer save lives. Waiting longer will cost lives," he added, highlighting that at least 160,000 liters of fuel are needed daily for basic humanitarian operations

Lazzarini also called on the Israeli authorities to immediately authorize the delivery of the necessary amount of fuel, as required by international humanitarian law.

Since the offensive against Gaza began on October 7, Israeli bombing and military actions have killed over 11,180 people, including 4,609 children and 3,100 women.

The Sionist occupation forces have not allowed the regular entry of sufficient quantities of fuel for the operation of hospitals, bakeries and water purification plants.

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Th siege of Gaza is a butchery. 2 millions people trapped in a locked place, and under huge carpet bombs. And no Western country will condemn ISrael as we did for Russia.