As Gaza’s death toll topped 30,000—about 70 percent women and children—survivors are having a difficult time burying the dead because of the amount of bodies and the unsafe conditions amid the ongoing war.
Tag: The Israel War
IRANIAN PRESIDENT SAYS OCTOBER HAMAS ATTACK WILL BRING AN END TO ISRAEL
Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, told a crowd at a funeral honoring the 89 people killed in an ISIS-claimed suicide attack that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation “will bring about the end of the Zionist regime” and promised to retaliate.
ISRAEL KILLING HAMAS’S AL-AROURI RAMPS UP WAR WITH LEBANON
Last week Saleh al-Arouri, a top envoy between the group and Iran, was killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut, which also raises the question as to why Israel continues its massive bombing campaign in Gaza.
IRAN BLAMES U.K. FOR ROLE IN ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES AGAINST PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Iran’s top diplomat held a phone call with Britain’s David Cameron, the foreign secretary, on Sunday and blamed the U.K. for its role in the war crimes and genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza—noting that the conflict’s history did not begin on 7 October.
ISRAEL TO U.S.: FU
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s pro-settler (land stealer) national security minister, warned the U.S. that his country is “not another star on the American flag” after the Biden administration denounced earlier comments from top Israelis that Palestinians in Gaza will need to vacate the area for good.
ISRAEL CLAMPING DOWN IN WEST BANK
Since Hamas attacked Israel on 8 October and Israel launched its war on Gaza, the Netanyahu government and his ultra-right-wing political supporters have enforced severe restrictions in the West Bank, locking people up, killing hundreds, and stealing their money.
REPORTS ON ALLEGATIONS OF HAMAS RAPES SCRUTINIZED
Max Blumenthal is editor at The Grayzone. Having spent time in Israel and Palestinian-occupied territory, Blumenthal who is Jewish—so he cannot be labeled an anti-Semite by those who support Israel’s wars and stealing Palestinian land in the name of “settlements”—has long been critical of Israeli actions.
UN SAYS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST USE ‘ALL ITS INFLUENCE’ TO END GAZA WAR
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said Friday that the international community must come together to bring an end to Israel’s war in Gaza, which made the coastal enclave uninhabitable and has shown the “worst of humanity.”
HEZBOLLAH HEAD SAYS ISRAEL’S DRONE STRIKE THAT KILLED SENIOR HAMAS LEADER IN BEIRUT WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED
Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, gave an extensive speech last week after an Israel drone strike killed a top Hamas official in Beirut, Lebanon, and said the attack will not “go unanswered or unpunished.”
SOUTH AFRICA FILES GENOCIDE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL: WASHINGTON OPPOSES IT
Just as the United States vetoed a United Nations resolution on 8 December demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza that was backed by most other Security Council members, they are planning to veto South Africa’s genocide case filed in the International Court of Justice.