[🇧🇩] Israel and Hamas war in Gaza-----Can Bangladesh be a peace broker?

[Saif]

Israeli strike kills 93 in north Gaza town

At least 93 Palestinians were killed and missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya yesterday, the Gaza health ministry said.

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Israeli strike kills 93 in north Gaza town
20 children among dead; dozens injured; fears grow over Israel’s ban on UN aid agency
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• Doctors forced to evacuate Kamal Adwan Hospital​
• Healthcare system in north Gaza collapsed​
• Death toll in enclave rises to 43,061​

At least 93 Palestinians were killed and missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya yesterday, the Gaza health ministry said.

Medics said at least 20 children were among the dead.

"A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them," the territory's health ministry said.

Later yesterday, Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the government media office, put the number of fatalities at 93.

There was no immediate Israeli comment. The Israeli military has frequently questioned figures on death toll published by the Hamas media office, saying they were often exaggerated.

Video footage obtained by Reuters showed several bodies wrapped in blankets on the ground outside a bombed four-storey building. More bodies and survivors were being retrieved from under the wreckage as neighbours rushed to help with rescue.

"There are tens of martyrs (dead) - tens of displaced people were living in this house. The house was bombed without prior warning. As you can see, martyrs are here and there, with body parts hanging on the walls," Ismail Ouaida, a witness who was helping to recover bodies, said in the video.

The health ministry said yesterday those wounded in the strike could not receive care as doctors had been forced to evacuate the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The death toll from Israel's retaliatory air and ground onslaught in Gaza has risen to 43,061, the Gaza health ministry said.

Yesterday's strike came a day after Israel's parliament passed a law to ban the UN relief agency UNRWA from operating inside the country, alarming some of Israel's Western allies who fear it will worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.​

 

[Saif]

Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza

Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe...

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Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza
Agence France-Presse . Palestinian Territories 31 October, 2024, 00:21

Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe.

News of the potential breakthrough in truce talks came a day after an Israeli strike on a single Gaza residential block killed nearly 100 people and triggered international revulsion.

US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators have for months been trying to negotiate a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to allow a prisoner swap, humanitarian access and talks on a longer-term peace.

Israel’s Mossad spy chief David Barnea, CIA director Bill Burns and Qatari prime minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani held their latest round of secretive talks on Sunday and Monday in Doha.

On Wednesday, a source close to the talks said that the senior officials discussed proposing to the parties a ‘short-term’ truce of ‘less than a month’.

The proposal included the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, and an increase in aid to Gaza, the source added.

‘US officials believe that if a short-term deal can be reached, it could lead to a more permanent agreement,’ the source said.

A strike Tuesday in the northern Gaza district of Beit Lahia collapsed a building and left at least 93 dead, including a large number of children, according to the territory’s civil defence agency.

The US State Department described the bombing was ‘a horrifying incident with a horrifying result’ and a spokesman said Washington had asked Israel for an explanation.

The United Nations aid coordination agency UNOCHA said the strike was only one of at least seven mass casualty incidents over the past week in the Palestinian territory.

‘Only two out of 20 health service points and two hospitals, Kamal Adwan and Al Awda, remain functional, although partially, hampering the delivery of life-saving health services,’ UNOCHA said.

‘Across the Gaza Strip, October has seen very limited food distribution due to severe supply shortages,’ it warned, adding that 1.7 million people, 80 per cent of the population, did not receive rations.

Israel launched a renewed offensive to root out Palestinian fighters in northern Gaza in recent weeks, one year after the October 7, 2023 cross-border Hamas attack that left 1,206 Israelis dead.

Israel’s response has led to the deaths of 43,061 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable.

The violence continued on Wednesday.

The Israeli military said it had conducted a precision strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters ‘conducting terrorist activity’ in Khan Yunis, the south of Gaza.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said three people, including a girl and a woman, were killed in a strike on a house in Khan Yunis and two more died when a tent was hit in Deir el-Balah.

Fighting also continued in Lebanon, where Israel has launched an air and ground campaign to destroy the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, which has launched cross-border strikes and expressed solidarity with Hamas.

The Israeli military, which in recent days has hit targets in several southern Lebanese cities, issued a new evacuation call on Wednesday, warning Lebanese residents to flee the Baalbek region.

Military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a social media post that included a map of the eastern Bekaa valley that the army would ‘act forcefully against Hezbollah interests within your city and villages.’

Meanwhile, a Lebanese security official said that an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah van carrying munitions near Beirut killed the driver.

An AFP correspondent saw a vehicle on fire and said the Kahhale road, which links Beirut to Damascus, had been blocked in both directions.

Israel targets key routes between Syria and Lebanon to disrupt Hezbollah’s supply lines for weapons and munitions from Iran.

Hezbollah said it launched a ‘squadron of attack drones’ against an Israeli naval base new Haifa, and the Lebanese state news agency NNA said Israeli ground forces were assaulting the southern village of Khiam.

The NNA also said Israeli airstrikes had hit several villages in the south of the country.

The war has killed at least 1,754 people in Lebanon since September 23, according to an AFP tally of health ministry figures, though the real number is likely to be higher due to gaps in the data.​

 

[Saif]

Before I answer, what exactly is the 'Palestine question'?

In this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, money is Supreme Court-sanctioned free speech, but criticism of Israel isn’t.

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Before I answer, what exactly is the 'Palestine question'?

There is no room for nuance when framed by images of children with headshot wounds from snipers, amputees in wheelchairs shot at peaceful rallies, young men with IVs in their wrists burning to death. PHOTO: REUTERS

As personally invested as I am in the Palestinian people's struggle for autonomy and freedom, there most definitely exists wide gaps within the disconnected pools of my knowledge (read: not understanding) regarding the history of the conflict. But, as far as I am aware, when generally referring to "The Palestine Question," it is done so with inherently problematic assumptions, none of which I believe apply to most people reading this.

As far as most have likely come to understand, the question may roughly be paraphrased as such: "What do we do with these Palestinians we've forcefully displaced and continue to subjugate without completely losing our moral standing on the global stage?"

As such, "our" answer to the so-called "Question of Palestine" is, in fact, neither required nor desired; it is a question exclusive to the coloniser class, whose impressive resumés spanning centuries have provided them with significant experience on the matter, having answered the same question for ethnicities and nationalities as diverse as the very non-Western world itself (a coincidence, I'm sure). In some way or form, they have "successfully" answered the Question, forced to confront the dilemma of how to "settle" (pun very much intended) the issue of some group of people that they are struggling to oppress.

As an individual who has not tasted the intoxicating aftertaste of such extreme levels of power imbalance with other human beings)—something most of us practice an amateur version of in our homes (not to minimise those struggles, of course)— I remain fortunate to not have had to answer a question as difficult.

I can with some conviction assert there, in fact, is no "Question of Palestine" in any form that the West and most of its inherently undemocratic and flaccid globalist appendages would have us believe, in the same way there is no "Question of Israel." There may exist a "Problem of Palestine," which should really be "The Problem for Palestinians," but the question itself is audacious in its insensitivity. A good analogy would be the way an older person might blame the current state of affairs on current or newer generations.

The response, in both cases, can simply look something like this: "You created this mess. We didn't."

Israel's existence as a settler-colonial-genocidal-apartheid-ethno-state (Western ideals funding the only democracy in the Middle East, ladies and gentlemen is an inherent injustice that must be assigned labels that are worthy of its continued supremacist behaviour: There is no "understanding" it, or "question" that must be answered in order to figure out what is one of the simplest moral conundrums most of us will ever have the privilege to face.

And if there are any questions at all to be answered, it would be the Palestinians asking and answering them. A few examples: "Should we generously allow the Israelis to remain? How should those who stole our land and treated us like 'human animals' be punished? And to what extent?"

In a just world, the Palestinians would be debating the moral grey areas that exist within these questions. But asking the West's version of the Palestinian question, or worse, attempting to answer it, is starting from a position of defeat. It is a question that must be outright dismissed as illegitimate.

What I hope to achieve, both for myself and individuals who may not have been exposed to this particular approach to the subject, is to put forth a stance that refuses to cower in the face of colonisrs old and new, from the Bengal famine Brits to the American imperialists modernised by hypocrisy, toppling democratically elected leaders—this year, an in-house coup—and providing weapons and cover to a genocidal foreign regime while ignoring its own citizens in the midst of a natural disaster.

In this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, money is Supreme Court-sanctioned free speech, but criticism of Israel isn't. Even in our worst forms, as our ugliest selves, when the most toxic and harmful of our traits are revealed, most of us can rest certain in the knowledge of our moral adequacy compared to those who have carried out, supported, defended, armed, and excused the widespread displacement and annihilation of the Palestinians (with methods and logic that proactively serve a blatant narrative of dehumanisation).

Due to structures and systems which enforce dependence on powerful economies on whose "generosity" we relyfor purposes of whatever our respective nationalistic visions of self-actualisation may be, these are mere instruments of control that work towards contributing to further the narrative that erases our confidence, and allows me to circle back and explain, first of all, what personally pushes me towards answering my own version of the Palestine Question, and one that I think all of us would benefit from answering as well.

It is the unfathomably cruel narrative erasure and villainisation that the Palestinians have had to suffer through in addition to everything else, and this experience, no matter how small our individual traumas may be in comparison, makes the Palestinian struggle a universal one, and one that I believe all of us should achieve clarity on before embarking upon any other moral viewpoint or stance. Physician Gabor Maté elaborates on how traumatic experiences don't necessarily lead to trauma, but is manifested "when we are not seen and known."

The Palestinians have neither been seen nor known for decades. To truly see them would be to arrive effortlessly and without apology to a position where Palestinian resistance is beyond the manipulative avenues of discussion we see perpetrated on mainstream Western media outlets.Like Norman Finklestein, we refuse to condemn the actions of the oppressed, for there is nothing to condemn. There is no room for nuance when framed by images of children with headshot wounds from snipers, amputees in wheelchairs shot at peaceful rallies, young men with IVs in their wrists burning to death.

And, thus, the only question, which I believe I have already answered, is this: Do you see the Palestinian people? And, I hope, so do you.

SN Rasul is a writer.​

 

[Dogun18]

 

[Sharma Ji]

A small section of mostly online yahoos and extremists maybe

I could throw about a dozen such rhetorical questions at her too.

 

[Sharma Ji]

This whole Gaza thing, terrible tragedy.. I've yet to meet a single person "celebrating deaths of children"

It is Indian Muslims who have been taking out rallies and fundraising and all sorts for their pro Palestinian cause, the rest don't care much.. there's no strong pro Israel sentiment here, just a reaction by the ultra-nats in response to it.

its all pretty silly if you ask me.

my position is that IDGAF, just watching the shitshow.. even if they get a cease fire going and end hostilities, they'll be back at it in a few years from now.. 100%

what does amaze and shock me about the whole thing is just how MUTE the proper rich Gulfies and Arabs have been about it all.

If they must, then go protest Gen Sisi and MBS' inaction, Musalmans of the world.

in the end only Iran dared confront the Jew, a brave, but an ill-thought-out strategy.

vuld's onlee lonlee aatmi muslamic mulk, Pakistan.. kuch nahi kiya, say for some platitudes and milquetoast "condemnations" ..

"kadi ninda" .. bhai wah !

achar daal lo apni "kadi ninda" ka, in the strongest possible terms..

 

[Dogun18]

This whole Gaza thing, terrible tragedy.. I've yet to meet a single person "celebrating deaths of children"

It is Indian Muslims who have been taking out rallies and fundraising and all sorts for their pro Palestinian cause, the rest don't care much.. there's no strong pro Israel sentiment here, just a reaction by the ultra-nats in response to it.

its all pretty silly if you ask me.

my position is that IDGAF, just watching the shitshow.. even if they get a cease fire going and end hostilities, they'll be back at it in a few years from now.. 100%

what does amaze and shock me about the whole thing is just how MUTE the proper rich Gulfies and Arabs have been about it all.

If they must, then go protest Gen Sisi and MBS' inaction, Musalmans of the world.

in the end only Iran dared confront the Jew, a brave, but an ill-thought-out strategy.

vuld's onlee lonlee aatmi muslamic mulk, Pakistan.. kuch nahi kiya, say for some platitudes and milquetoast "condemnations" ..

"kadi ninda" .. bhai wah !

achar daal lo apni "kadi ninda" ka, in the strongest possible terms..

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[Sharma Ji]

war, jung

both are belligerent

everything is fair

 

[Saif]

Israel issues new evacuation orders

Israel’s military issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday after carrying out strikes across the enclave which Palestinian media and medics said had killed at least 35 people.

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Israel issues new evacuation orders
Kills 35 more Palestinians in fresh strikes in Beit Lahiya
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• Over 100 patients to be evacuated: WHO official​
• 4 Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in West Bank​
• Death toll in Gaza rises to 43,391​

Israel's military issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday after carrying out strikes across the enclave which Palestinian media and medics said had killed at least 35 people.

An air strike damaged two houses in the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, where the army has carried out new operations since October 5, and killed at least 20 people late on Monday, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA and Hamas media said.

Four other people were killed in the central Gazan town of Al-Zawayda around midnight on Monday, medics said.

Palestinian health officials said six people had also been killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Deir Al-Balah in the central area of the narrow enclave.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said without giving details, that its forces had "eliminated terrorists" in the central Gaza Strip and Jabalia area. Israeli troops had also located weapons and explosives over the past day in the southern Rafah area, where "terrorist infrastructure sites" had been eliminated, it said.

Later yesterday, Israeli planes dropped leaflets over Beit Lahiya ordering residents who have not yet left their homes and shelters housing displaced families to quit the town completely.

At least 43,391 Palestinians have been killed in more than a year of offensive in Gaza, the authorities in Gaza said yesterday, and much of the territory has been reduced to ruins.

Announcing a rare transfer of patients out of Gaza, a World Health Organization official said more than 100 people would be evacuated from Gaza today, including children suffering from trauma injuries and chronic diseases.

They will travel via the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel before flying to the United Arab Emirates, said Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Some will then go on to Romania, he said, adding that 12,000 people were awaiting transfer.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said at least four people were killed yesterday during an Israeli military raid and airstrikes.

The Israeli military said its aircraft had targeted a group of gunmen and that its forces had "arrested 60 militants".

Violence has surged in the West Bank since the start of the offensive in Gaza, with almost daily sweeps by Israeli forces that have involved thousands of arrests and regular gun battles between security forces and Palestinian fighters.​

 

[Saif]

Displaced Palestinians among 13 killed in Israel strikes

Gaza civil defence agency said on Tuesday that at least 13 people, including some living in tents for displaced Palestinians, were killed in Israeli air strikes overnight.

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Displaced Palestinians among 13 killed in Israel strikes
Agence France-Presse . Palestinian Territories 06 November, 2024, 01:20

Displaced Palestinians flee Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, through the main Salah al-Din road on the outskirts of Gaza City, on Tuesday amid the on-going war between Israel and Hamas. | AFP photo

Gaza civil defence agency said on Tuesday that at least 13 people, including some living in tents for displaced Palestinians, were killed in Israeli air strikes overnight.

Four people were killed when an Israeli missile hit the home of the Shurafa family in eastern Gaza City, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said.

Three people were killed and several wounded when a tent housing Palestinians displaced by the war was hit by an Israeli missile in the east of Khan Yunis city, Bassal said.

Another tent housing displaced people in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza was also hit by an Israeli air strike overnight, killing at least four people, he added.

Two other people were killed in separate incidents, Bassal said.

The Israeli military, meanwhile, said its forces were continuing their land and air assault in northern Gaza, where the civil defence says hundreds have been killed since October 6, when the military launched the offensive.

‘Over the past day, IDF military troops in the area of Jabalia eliminated dozens of terrorists during close-quarters encounters and aerial strikes,’ the military said in a statement.

Several militants were also killed in central Gaza and in the area of Rafa in the south of the territory, the military added.

Israel has been waging a month-long military offensive in northern Gaza, which it says is aimed at preventing Hamas militants from regrouping.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation said a large-scale medical evacuation was planned from Gaza this week, with more than 100 seriously ill and injured patients due to leave the war-ravaged territory.

The WHO said that alongside its partners it would evacuate as many as 113 patients on Wednesday, with most going to the United Arab Emirates and some heading to Romania for specialised care.

If it goes ahead, it would be the largest evacuation from Gaza since October 2023, according to data from the UN health agency.

Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative in the Palestinian territories, said he was hopeful the evacuation would go ahead.

He said efforts were currently under way to bring patients from various hospitals across the Gaza Strip to the Gaza European Hospital near Khan Yunis in the south.

They will be transported to the Kerem Shalom crossing early Wednesday and then flown on to the UAE and Romania, Peeperkorn told reporters in Geneva, via video link from Gaza.

Those on the list figure among up to 14,000 people currently waiting in Gaza to be evacuated out of the territory for medical reasons.

Around half of them have sustained trauma injuries in the war and the others are suffering from serious illnesses such as cancer, he said.​