#CAIRO — After a long journey from #Gaza, more than 100 American citizens and their families have entered #Egypt through the #RafahCrossing. Jonathan Webster, the #USEmbassy in Cairo's consul general, said some of those families are telling him they ran out of food and water during their journeys. #Israel
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna123954#rcrd24711
The #RafahCrossing is wide open again - thank God. #Egypt
Hopefully, some #Pinoys made it through in this batch. Many Americans, French citizens and some Canadians reportedly reached #Egypt
Waving white flags and holding their hands above their heads, #Palestinian families fled past tanks waiting to storm #GazaCity in the next stage of the war that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, has said will give Israel “indefinite” control over the besieged territory.
#Israel’s military gave civilians inside the encircled city a four-hour window to leave on Tuesday.
‘We saw death’: families flee past tanks as Israel begins to storm Gaza City |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/07/we-saw-death-families-flee-past-tanks-as-israel-prepares-to-storm-gaza-city
#Philippines — Department of Foreign (DFA) on Tuesday announced Palestinian spouses of #Filipinos in #Gaza will be allowed to cross the border into #Egypt.
DFA is just waiting for a written approval from Ministry of Foreign Affairs in #Israel.
Palestinian spouses of Filipinos in Gaza will be allowed to go to Egypt – DFA
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/222215/palestinian-spouses-of-filipinos-in-gaza-will-be-allowed-to-go-to-egypt-dfa
The group is accompanied by Philippine Embassy officials led by Ambassador Ezzedin H. Tago on the way to #Cairo, according to a report by #RaffyTima on #UnangBalita on Wednesday, citing a source.
They made a stopover in el-Arish in #Egypt to eat, around 30 kilometers away from the #Gaza border. #Philippines #Israel
40 #Filipinos exit Gaza via #RafahCrossing, now safe in Egypt | GMA News Online
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/dispatch/887626/41-filipinos-exit-gaza-via-rafah-crossing-are-now-in-egypt/story/
Negotiations are continuing between #Israel and Palestinian group #Hamas, mediated by #Qatar in coordination with the #UnitedStates, that could see 10-15 Hamas-held captives released in exchange for a multiday pause in fighting, Hamas and Egyptian sources have told the Reuters and AFP news agencies. #RafahCrossing
Negotiations ongoing for release of 10-15 Hamas captives, reports say | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/8/news-reports-say-qatar-mediated-talks-aim-to-free-over-10-hamas-captives
#Belgium’s deputy prime minister has called on the Belgian government to adopt sanctions against Israel and investigate the bombings of #hospitals and refugee camps in #Gaza. #Israel
#Indonesia has joined many countries in calling for an immediate #ceasefire and has sent humanitarian aid to #Gaza.
Indonesia president will convey to #Biden that "#Hamas-#Israel war should be stopped"
https://www.reuters.com/world/indonesia-president-will-convey-biden-that-hamas-israel-war-should-be-stopped-2023-11-09/
Speaking at the start of the humanitarian conference on #Gaza in Paris, #UN aid chief, #MartinGriffiths, said the world body must not help push #Palestinians out of their homes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/09/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-who-disease-gaza-us-strikes-iran-site-syria?page=with:block-654cae428f08098a87070138#block-654cae428f08098a87070138
The #Israel-#Gaza war has sharply divided #Canada, with a growing number of residents calling for a ceasefire in the conflict that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.
“I know emotions are high, and people are scared. But attacking each other is not who we are as Canadians,” the prime minister said on Thursday.
Justin Trudeau condemns shots fired at two Jewish schools in #Montreal | Canada | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/justin-trudeau-montreal-canada-jewish-schools
Professor Zachary Abuza, an expert on South-east Asian security, warned of a “revitalisation of #TerrorNetworks, renewed terror attacks, #Radicalisation and fund-raising for militant groups” serving as “a catalyst for... disparate #jihadist groups in #SouthEastAsia that are seeking both a cause and charismatic leader to rally around”. #Israel #ASEAN
#Washington ‘risks losing the street’ in Muslim S-E Asia as #Gaza war stirs anti-US sentiments | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/washington-risks-losing-the-street-in-muslim-s-e-asia-as-gaza-war-stirs-anti-us-sentiments
“Happy to hear the update that 56 more #Filipinos have left #Gaza amid the #Israel-#Hamas conflict, joining the 42 who had previously crossed. This brings the total to 98 out of the 137 originally in Gaza, now en route to #Cairo,” Marcos said on X. #RafahCrossing #Egypt
56 more Filipinos fled Gaza; en route to Cairo — Bongbong Marcos | #MiddleEast
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/222376/bongbong-marcos-says-56-more-filipinos-left-gaza-en-route-to-cairo?utm_source=(direct)&utm_medium=gallery
Incidents among the approximately 2,000 #antisemitic attacks reported in #Germany since 7 October have included the painting of #StarsOfDavid on Jewish homes and institutes and the spreading of antisemitic slogans.The resulting pessimism has prompted many organisers of events around this anniversary to adopt the slogan “‘Never Again’ is Now” #Kristallnacht #Israel
‘Never again is now’: 1938 #Nazi #pogrom anniversary marked in Germany | Germany | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/never-again-is-now-1938-nazi-pogrom-anniversary-marked-at-berlins-beth-zion-synagogue
The lack of a synchronised collection system could mean that a full accounting of the violence would never be reached, and could hinder attempts at justice in international legal forums, the paper said, referencing by way of comparison the painstaking work undertaken by the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office in documenting Russian #WarCrimes. #Russia #Ukraine
#Israel women’s groups warn of failure to keep evidence of #SexualViolence in #Hamas attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/10/israel-womens-groups-warn-of-failure-to-keep-evidence-of-sexual-violence-in-hamas-attacks
Israel is losing the #infowars
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The organisers of the pro-Palestine march due to take place on #ArmisticeDay believe “hundreds of thousands” of people will turn out for what they say will be one of #Britain’s biggest days of mass protests after the row over whether the event would be banned.
Pro-#Palestine march will be one of #UK’s biggest ever protests, organisers predict | #Israel-#Hamas War| The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/10/pro-palestine-march-will-be-one-of-uks-biggest-ever-protests-organisers-predict
The religious edict by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) said #Muslims in the country must support the #Palestinians’ struggle against “Israeli aggression”, while also declaring that support for #Israel or its supporters is “#haram”, or against #IslamicLaw. #Fatwas have no legal force and are aimed at encouraging the devout against taking a certain course of action. #Indonesia
Indonesian clerics issue #fatwa boycotting Israel-linked firms
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-clerics-issue-fatwa-boycotting-israel-linked-firms
#NitzanMintz and #DedeBandaid shared flyers online that have been plastered and torn down globally amidst the war in #Gaza
‘It’s like a fire in the world’: how the Israeli ‘kidnapped’ posters set off a phenomenon and a backlash | #Israel-#Hamas war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/10/israel-red-white-kidnapped-posters-flyers-palestine-conflict
Attached: 2 images Gaza map update. After increasingly intense clashes over the past 24 hours, the IDF has continued to push into Gaza City from the North and South. Fighting is currently ongoing less than 500 metres West of the Al Shifa Hospital after Israel advanced beyond the port.
Claims on #X and #Telegram include downplaying 7 October #Hamas attack and allegations #Palestinians are faking scenes of suffering. #Disinformation
#Israel-Hamas fake news thrives on poorly regulated online platforms | #IsraelHamasWar | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/israel-hamas-fake-news-thrives-on-poorly-regulated-online-platforms?utm_source=press.coop
The 34 #Filipinos, who crossed into #Egypt from #Gaza through the #Rafah border bridge before flying to the #Philippines, were mostly spouses and dependents of Palestinian nationals, according to the DFA. #RafahCrossing
DFA says 34 Filipinos from Gaza arrived in PH | Inquirer News
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1858366/dfa-says-34-filipinos-from-gaza-arrived-in-ph
The Guardian's excellent live blog coverage here 👇The Metropolitan Police is doing a bangup job neutralizing hooligans - mostly hard right, white and looking for trouble. #Israel #Gaza
London’s pro-#Palestine march live: far right jostle with police near Cenotaph as thousands take to the streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/11/pro-palestine-march-london-israel-hamas-war-gaza-armistice-day
source & full image: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/11/pro-palestine-march-london-israel-hamas-war-gaza-armistice-day?page=with:block-654fbef68f08a95ef07eccc3#block-654fbef68f08a95ef07eccc3
The #watermelon has long been a symbol of protest for #Palestinians, and as #SocialMedia users suspect platforms of censoring content about #Gaza, the corresponding emoji is being used in place of the Palestinian flag. Like the flag, the emoji is also red, green and black. #SocialMedia
The watermelon #emoji isn’t just #TikTok speak for Palestine
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/watermelon-emoji-palestine-tiktok-filter-political-statement/
The #WHO expressed “grave concern” for the safety of everyone trapped in al-Shifa by the fighting and said it had lost communications with its contacts there.
“As horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks continue to emerge, we assume our contacts joined tens of thousands of displaced people and are fleeing the area,” the organisation said on X
Main #Gaza hospital ‘totally surrounded’, director says as Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/main-gaza-hospital-totally-surrounded-director-says-as-netanyahu-rejects-ceasefire-calls
The prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, whose #Jewish father survived #Auschwitz but took his life when she was 11, said at the head of the procession that when it came to antisemitism, the nation “must let nothing pass”.
Nearly 1,250 #antisemitic acts have been recorded in France since the start of the conflict – nearly three times as many as in all of 2022. #Israel #Gaza
French politicians join 100,000 at Paris march against antisemitism | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/bitter-rows-among-french-politicians-over-paris-march-to-condemn-antisemitism
It is not only #Israelis who in recent weeks have arrived on #Cyprus.
Amid mounting fears of the conflagration spreading, western embassies in #Nicosia, the nation’s war-split capital, have also been on an emergency footing in anticipation of the strategic #Mediterranean island once again becoming an #EvacuationHub and nerve centre for the distribution of #HumanitarianAid. #Israel
‘We feel safe here’: #Cyprus becomes ‘haven’ after #Hamas attack | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/13/cyprus-becomes-safe-haven-after-hamas-attack-israel-middle-east
#MANILA, #Philippines — Over 80 percent of #Filipinos in the #GazaStrip have already left the besieged area, said the Department of Foreign Affairs (#DFA).
In a text message to INQUIRER.net, DFA Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said 26 Filipinos are left in the area, including one nun.
“[B]ut they seem determined to remain,” said de Vega. #RafahCrossing #Israel
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/222564/dfa-says-80-of-filipinos-in-gaza-strip-already-evacuated
Thousands of people have fled al-Shifa hospital in #GazaCity, but health officials said the remaining patients were dying due to energy shortages amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
At least 32 patients, including three premature babies, had died over the past three days. Life-saving equipment such as incubators cannot run without fuel to run generators. #Israel #Hamas
Israeli forces at gates of Gaza’s main hospital with hundreds trapped
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/13/israeli-forces-at-gates-of-gaza-main-hospital-hundreds-trapped-israel-hamas
The #Israel-#Hamas war overshadowed the talks, which had been meant to showcase an upgrade in ties between Indonesia and the #UnitedStates ahead of Mr #Biden’s meeting with Chinese President #XiJinping this week.
#Indonesia’s #Widodo asks Biden to help end #Gaza ‘atrocities’ | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/indonesia-s-widodo-urges-biden-to-help-end-gaza-atrocities
#Israel’s military has said that it again will open a corridor for people to move south within the #GazaStrip from 9am (7am GMT) to 4pm (2pm), and will also pause hostilities for a limited period of time between 10am (8am GMT) and 2pm (noon GMT) “in the neighbourhoods of Al-Daraj and Al-Tuffah”. #HumanitarianCorridor
Israel-Hamas war live: fighting traps patients and medics in #Gaza’s largest hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/14/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-gaza-alshifa-hospital-staff-patients-trapped-israeli-drone-strike-west-bank-deaths-palestine?page=with:block-655324208f080565011b5063#block-655324208f080565011b5063
#DavidCameron, the new foreign secretary, has announced #sanctions against four senior #Hamas leaders and two of the militant group’s financiers.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/14/conservative-tory-cabinet-reshuffle-rishi-sunak-esther-mcvey-anti-woke-minister-david-cameron-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-65538c968f08fcf720c2c96e#block-65538c968f08fcf720c2c96e
“They don’t have time any more, We will go to #Jerusalem where the people who have the power to decide sit, where the prime minister and the war cabinet sit, where all of the #Knesset is, and we will demand to meet with them. We will demand to hear why our families aren’t home yet. “ - Yuval Haran
Relatives of #hostages taken by #Hamas on its 7 October attack on southern #Israel have begun a march from #TelAviv to Benjamin #Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/14/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-gaza-alshifa-hospital-staff-patients-trapped-israeli-drone-strike-west-bank-deaths-palestine?page=with:block-6553af378f0894c532238b35#block-6553af378f0894c532238b35
The rally, organised by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is expected to see 100,000 people at the event on the National Mall, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service.#US
Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in #Washington on Tuesday for a “March for Israel” to support #Israel, condemn #antisemitism and demand the release of the #hostages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/14/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-gaza-alshifa-hospital-staff-patients-trapped-israeli-drone-strike-west-bank-deaths-palestine?page=with:block-6553b9dd8f08fcf720c2cc5c#block-6553b9dd8f08fcf720c2cc5c
In a statement to MPs on Tuesday, the Foreign Office minister, Andrew Mitchell, said: “It is not for ministers to seek to state where the #ICC has jurisdiction; that is for the chief prosecutor. The chief prosecutor has not been silent on this matter, and I am sure he will continue to express his views.” #Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza
#UK rows back on ex-PM’s claim Israel is outside remit of international criminal court | Politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/14/uk-rows-back-claim-israel-outside-jurisdiction-international-criminal-court
#Hospitals are protected buildings under international #HumanitarianLaw. But allegations that Shifa is also being used for military purposes complicated the situation because that would also breach international law, UN officials have said.
Medical units used for acts harmful to the enemy, and which have ignored a warning to stop doing so, lose their special protection under international law.
#Israel raids #Gaza's #AlShifa Hospital, urges #Hamas to surrender
https://www.rappler.com/world/middle-east/israel-war-hamas-updates-november-15-2023/
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