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/
#Washington has long been #Israel’s strongest military and diplomatic backer – but the relationship has evolved over time
#US wasn’t always Israel’s strongest ally – what changed and why? | US foreign policy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/why-israel-allies-explainer
Campaign to boycott Western producers linked to #Israel has reignited demand for soda brand founded by Greek beekeeper. #Egypt #Gaza
'Boycott Israel’ breathes new life into 100-year-old Egyptian soda brand
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/19/boycott-israel-breathes-new-life-into-100-year-old-egyptian-soda-brand
Speaking at the IISS Manama Summit in #Bahrain, Ayman Safadi said that Arab governments were in agreement that their troops would not enter the besieged coastal enclave to “come and clean the mess after #Israel,” adding “We’re not going to be seen as the enemy.”
No Arab troops will go to #Gaza, #Jordan's foreign minister says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna125877#rcrd26129
#Qatar has been at the centre of mediation efforts to reach an agreement that would lead to the release of large numbers of hostages, starting with children and women. A humanitarian pause lasting as long as five days would be agreed to allow the transport of the hostages.
Only minor obstacles to #Israel-#Hamas hostage deal remain, Qatari PM says | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/19/israel-hamas-hostage-deal-mediation-qatar-prime-minister
According to the officials, at around 1 p.m. Sunday local time, a helicopter hovered over the #GalaxyLeader, a Japanese-owned and Bahamian-flagged ship, and several armed individuals rappelled down to the deck. #Yemen #Houthis #Israel
Militants believed to be Houthi rebels use helicopter to seize Japanese tanker in #RedSea
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/militants-believed-houthi-rebels-use-helicopter-seize-japanese-tanker-rcna125883
#Japan’s top government spokesperson #says the country is appealing to #Yemen’s #Houthis who have captured a cargo ship in the southern #RedSea and is seeking the help of Saudi, Omani and Iranian authorities to work towards the swift release of the vessel and its crew.
#GalaxyLeader is owned by a company registered under Isle of Man-headquartered Ray Car Carriers, which is a unit of #TelAviv-incorporated Ray Shipping. #Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/19/israel-hamas-war-live-15-dead-in-central-and-southern-gaza-attacks-say-palestinians?page=with:block-655ac1828f0860fe3d217974#block-655ac1828f0860fe3d217974
#Indonesia & #Malaysia will be watching this development very closely. #Gaza #Israel
AP reports “heavy fighting” around the Indonesian hospital in the north of the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/20/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-hostages-al-shifa-hospital-gaza-hamas-attack?page=with:block-655b16888f08086ee9de482e#block-655b16888f08086ee9de482e
The #UN secretary general, #AntónioGuterres, has said it is clear that the war in #Gaza has seen “a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict” since he began his role in 2017.
Guterres, in a press conference on Monday, said: “What is clear is that we have had in a few weeks thousands of children killed.” #Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/20/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-hostages-al-shifa-hospital-gaza-hamas-attack?page=with:block-655b93a18f08db736db80d13#block-655b93a18f08db736db80d13
°I believe it to be important after the war to have a strengthened #PalestinianAuthority to assume responsibilities in Gaza.° #Israel
#AntónioGuterres, at a press conference on Monday, said he did not believe a UN protectorate in #Gaza would be a solution to the conflict.
In our First Edition newsletter today, #ArchieBland has spoken to #DanielLevy, president of the US / Middle East Project and an Israeli peace negotiator under prime ministers #YitzhakRabin and #EhudBarak, about what it will take to get the hostages out – and why both sides are considering it when each has so much to lose:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/21/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-hamas-leader-haniyeh-truce-ceasefire-talks-gaza-qatar-latest-news?page=with:block-655c580e8f08b5b565f301d0#block-655c580e8f08b5b565f301d0
#Netanyahu will now be under domestic pressure to get the rest of the #hostages freed but faces growing political risks. Several far-right parties that are part of the ruling coalition on Tuesday evening opposed the proposed deal and called for the Israeli offensive in #Gaza to be intensified to secure better terms. Their statements prompted protests in Tel Aviv by hostages families.
#Israel and #Hamas agree deal for release of some hostages and four-day ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/22/israel-hamas-war-hostages-freed-deal-ceasefire
Around 40 minutes into the truce it’s difficult to say whether it’s holding. The Israeli military (#IDF) said sirens warning of potential incoming rockets had sounded in two Israeli communities near #Gaza but there was no immediate confirmation that attacks had occurred or of any damage or casualties.
Truce officially in place but sirens sound in southern #Israel #GazaTruce
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/24/israel-hamas-war-live-ceasefire-set-to-begin-on-friday-morning-with-hostage-release-due-shortly-after?page=with:block-6560352d8f08d11dcd252086#block-6560352d8f08d11dcd252086
Hopes have risen that 23 #Thai nationals being held #hostage in #Gaza could return home after it was reported they are set to be released by #Hamas without conditions.The purported release is not related to the recent deal reached by #Israel and Hamas to hand over dozens of Israeli hostages as well as #Palestinians imprisoned by Israel,
‘Praying to hear good news’: hopes rise that Thai hostages in Gaza could be freed | #IsraelHamasWar | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/24/thailand-gaza-hostages-hopes-released
Pictures taken during the first hours of the truce have begun emerging from #Gaza and the border area: #Israel #GazaTruce
At least seven tankers carrying #fuel and #CookingGas and around 200 trucks of humanitarian aid have entered the #GazaStrip from #Egypt as part of the deal agreed by #Israel and #Hamas, the Israeli military and the #RedCrescent said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna126500#rcrd26474
Some regard the #Houthi missiles and drones as symbolic displays of solidarity designed for a domestic Yemeni audience. However, international alarm grew on Sunday when in a sophisticated helicopter raid Houthi fighters hijacked the #GalaxyLeader. The 25-strong crew of the Japanese-managed ship, which includes 17 #Filipinos, had been on a journey from #Egypt to #India. #SaudiArabia
Houthi attacks on #Israel jeopardise Saudi peace efforts in #Yemen
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/24/houthi-attacks-on-israel-jeopardise-saudi-peace-efforts-in-yemen
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Thailand #Israel
source : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna126500#rcrd26492
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Thailand #Israel
source : https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-24-23
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Thailand #Israel
A dozen of the 26 #Thai nationals taken hostage by #Hamas in the 7 October attacks in #Israel have been released, #Thailand’s prime minister has said.
#SretthaThavisin said on X he had received confirmation of their release, and that Thai embassy officials were going to pick them up. “[We] will know more information in an hour,” he said on Friday evening.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/24/thailand-gaza-hostages-hopes-released
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Thailand #Israel
Fifty hostages are expected to be released by Hamas during the four-day truce, however the 12 Thai hostages released earlier on Friday are part of a separate deal negotiated by Hamas with #Qatar and #Egypt, according to Reuters.
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Thailand #Israel
Scepticism and anticipation among Palestinians gathered near Ofer Prison | Charles Stratford (Reporting near Ofer prison, occupied West Bank)
[There are] hundreds if not thousands of people who have gathered on a hill overlooking the Ofer Prison in expectation of these 39 women and minors that are going to be – in theory – brought here by the Israelis on buses.
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Thailand #Israel
Twenty-five hostages freed by Hamas as hostilities pause with Palestinian prisoners due to be released | Jason Burke
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Israel #Thailand #RedCross
Count should be 25 - 13 Israelis & 12 Thais, not sure what's going on.
Red Cross confirms 24 hostages released from Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/24/israel-hamas-war-live-ceasefire-set-to-begin-on-friday-morning-with-hostage-release-due-shortly-after?page=with:block-6560cb4e8f082789f6746271#block-6560cb4e8f082789f6746271
#GazaTruce #RafahCrossing #Israel #Thailand #Philippines
#Qatar FM spokesman says #RedCross received ’24 civilian captives’ in #Gaza
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