In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 08 November until 08:00, 09 November 2024
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Gaza Strip
Attacks: There are no safe places for the militarily-dominated population in Gaza, who find themselves subjected to airstrikes and other missile attacks on buildings, homes and many essentialfacilities, as well as constant gunfire and invasions by Israeli forces. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the entire Gaza shoreline.
Victims: 44 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October to at least 43,552. Another 81 have been wounded, bringing that total to 102,765. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 109 and, that of those injured, is now more than 258.
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Ali Kazak akazak@bigpond.net.au
Israeli hooligans provoke clashes in Amsterdam
after chanting anti-Palestinian slogans
Israeli hooligans provoked clashes with Dutch youth in Amsterdam on Thursday after they chanted racist anti-Arab slogans, tore down Palestinian flags and ignored a minute of silence for the Spanish flood victims. Hooligans were seen removing at least two Palestinian flags from what appeared to be the front of local residents’ homes a night before the match, according to the AD daily newspaper. An Arab taxi driver was also attacked by mobs who appeared to be with the Israeli fans, although police said they couldn’t identify the nationality of the attackers as no arrests were made. A group of Israeli fans gathered in the Dam Square on Wednesday were filmed sparking confrontations with locals, shouting “F. . . you” at some of them and “F. . . you Palestine”. Ahead of match on Thursday, fans heading to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium were seen shouting: “Let the IDF [Israeli army] f. . . the Arabs”.
They also refused to participate in a minute of silence before kick-off for at least 200 people who died in the Valencia floods. Israeli far-right ultras are notorious for anti-Palestinian verbal and physical violence. In March, travelling Maccabi Tel Aviv fans brutally beat a man who was carrying a Palestinian flag in Athens ahead of their team’s match against Greek team Olympiacos. Earlier this year, rights group FairSquare had written to Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin and criticised the European footballing body of “double standards” for excluding Russian teams from its competitions since February 2022 but refusing to rule out making a similar move against Israel. Nicholas McGeehan, who is a founder of FairSquare, highlighted the track record of racist chanting by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and criticised how Dutch authorities painted them as “innocent victims of antisemitism.”
‘Pogrom’ Against Hooligans Accusations
Follow A Zionist Propaganda Scheme
There are two recurring schemes in pro-Zionist propaganda:
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In any conflict the Zionists (or Jews) are always the victims.
· Conflicts with Zionists always occur out of nowhere, i.e. without any provocations and outside of any context. They are thus pure anti-semitism. On 7 October 2023, following provocations of radical Zionists at the Al Aqsa mosque, Hamas soldiers and random Gazans broke from their open air prison and attempted to take Israeli hostages. These were to be exchanged for Arab prisoners in Israeli hands. During the operation the Israeli military ordered its forces to follow the Hannibal directive which says that any potential Israeli hostage shall be killed before it is taken to Gaza. But the Zionist friendly media reported the Hamas excursion as unprovoked. It seemed to have happened without any context. But there is a context of more then 70 years of expulsion and killing of Arabs up to today.
A recent incident in Amsterdam follows a similar scheme. Some context, not mentioned in recent reports, can be found in three days old Jerusalem Post report: Just in case: Mossad agents to join Maccabi Tel Aviv FC trip to Amsterdam – JPost, Nov 5 2024. Minor riots with Maccabi fans actually took place on two nights. On the night of the 6th to 7th November, a day before a game against Ajax Amsterdam, hooligan soccer fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv, presumably under Mossad ‘protection’, teared down Palestinian flags from private Dutch dwellings (video) and attacked Dutch taxi drivers of Arab descent. Today the justified action against the outrageous, Mossad protected, behavior of Maccabi hooligans is called a progrom.
Trump has a choice: Obliterate Palestine or end the war
Conventional wisdom has it that Trump 2.0 will be a disaster for Palestinians, because Trump 1.0 all but buried the Palestinian national cause. And it is indeed true that under Donald Trump’s first term as president, the US was wholly guided by the Zionist religious right – the real voice in his ear, either as donors or policymakers. Under Trump and his son-in-law adviser, Jared Kushner, Washington became a policy playground for the settler movement, with which the former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was unashamedly aligned. This time around, and with the Republican party projected to have control over both houses of Congress, there will be no adults in the room to correct the president’s wildest impulses. After all, did Friedman not just publish a book entitled One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, in which he argues that the US has a biblical duty to support Israel’s annexation of the West Bank?
After the Hamas attack, it was impossible to ignore the Palestinian cause. It moved from the periphery of global human rights causes to the very centre.
But Biden didn’t get it. An instinctive Zionist, he allowed Netanyahu to humiliate him. His first reaction to the Hamas attack was to give Israel everything it wanted, thwarting all international moves at the United Nations for a ceasefire. His second reaction was to draw red lines, which Netanyahu proceeded to ignore. Biden told Netanyahu not to reoccupy Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor. Netanyahu did it anyway. Biden told Netanyahu to allow aid trucks into Gaza, and Netanyahu mostly ignored him. Biden told Netanyahu not to invade Lebanon; Netanyahu did it. Biden told Netanyahu not to attack Iranian nuclear and oil facilities, and Netanyahu listened to him – for now at least. It’s not a scorecard of total humiliation for Biden, but when the history of this period is written, Biden will emerge as a weak leader. Trump thus has two clear paths when he assumes power next January, assuming that Biden continues to fail to secure a ceasefire in Gaza. He can either carry on where he left off, and continue to allow the US to be led by the nose by the Christian evangelical right, or he can do what he strongly hinted he would do to the Muslim leaders he met in Michigan – which is to stop Netanyahu’s war.
Erdogan urges Trump to honour pledge to
halt Israeli wars on Gaza and Lebanon
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged US President-elect Donald Trump to honour his election promise and end Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon. “We want that promise to be fulfilled, and for Israel to be told to stop,” Erdogan said during a press briefing with journalists accompanying him on a trip to Hungary, according to a transcript from the Turkish presidency.
“I believe that Mr Trump cutting off arms support to Israel could be an important step toward halting Israeli aggression in Palestinian and Lebanese territories.” Erdogan expressed his desire to see an end to the continuation of President Joe Biden’s policies, which he believes have deepened the deadlock in the region and exacerbate the conflicts. Following Trump’s landslide election victory on Tuesday, Erdogan held a phone call with the president-elect to congratulate him on his successful campaign.
Jordan’s former foreign minister says two-state solution is over
Jordan’s former foreign minister has told Middle East Eye that Arab countries need to abandon the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. “
The ex-diplomat, who is now vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said it should be replaced with a “rights-based approach in which the departure point should be equal rights between Israelis and Palestinians”. “Then one can start talking about what shape of a solution we can arrive at. But any solution that does not involve equal rights is not going to be sustainable in my view.” In a wide-ranging interview, Muasher said Jordan is very concerned that Israel intends the forceful transfer of large numbers of Palestinians to the kingdom.
“Whereas that position was that of fringe groups in Israel 30 or 40 years ago, today they are part and parcel of the Israeli government.” “The Israeli government is saying every single day that what they want is an Israeli state from the river to the sea, so that really is Jordan’s worry,” Muasher added. “What we have seen in Gaza is an example not just of killing Palestinians but of making Gaza uninhabitable and trying to affect a mass transfer of Palestinians into Egypt.” Jordan sees this kind of situation being replicated in the West Bank, the former foreign minister said. “Jordan is equally concerned that what is happening today – not in the future – in the West Bank, might be a prelude to a mass transfer of Palestinians into Jordan.” He said that Israeli settlers, “with the support of the Israeli army, are engaged in ethnic cleansing activities in Area C of the West Bank – this is 60 percent of the West Bank – trying to drive them out of where they live… This is of real concern for Jordan.”
We warned you that Gaza would define the US elections
The results are in, Trump will be the next American president, and the surprise is not so much his victory, as much as it is the margin by which he defeated Kamala Harris. We had been told it was a very tight race. So those of us who voted Third Party were on the defensive, earnestly trying to explain why, even though we were terrified of a Trump presidency, we still could not get ourselves to vote for Harris. We had formulated some solid arguments. Kamala did not lose because of Jill Stein, Kamala lost because of Kamala.
It is because Kamala shifted to the right as a campaign strategy that she lost to Trump. In addition to her repeated assertions of unconditional support for Israel, Harris aligned herself with Dick Cheney, one of the most hawkish rightwing politicians this country has produced. As Bush’s vice-president, he oversaw Operation Desert Storm, which devastated Iraq, and while out of office, he was chairman and CEO of Halliburton, a multinational corporation responsible for most of the world’s fracking. Progressives took note of that.
Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam
Amsterdam city council member says ‘Maccabi hooligans’ instigated violence and attacked Palestinian supporters. Israeli football fans have clashed with apparent pro-Palestinian protesters before and after a Europa League football match between their team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam. The clashes took place outside the Johan Cruyff Arena on Thursday night, the city’s main arena and Ajax Amsterdam’s home stadium, as well as in other areas. Ajax won the match 5-0 after leading 3-0 at halftime. “Hundreds of supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam, held a very vocal rally in the main square before the incident, waving Israeli flags, and also took down a Palestinian flag,” she said. Social media videos captured the reported incident, showing Israeli fans shouting slogans while an individual was taking the flag down. Before the game, videos showed crowds of Maccabi supporters chanting anti-Arab slogans.
In one video, Israeli supporters were heard singing: “Let the IDF win, and f*** the Arabs!,” referring to the Israeli army’s offensive on Gaza. Another video captured a fan screaming: “F*** you terrorists, Sinwar die, everybody die,” in reference to the Hamas leader who was killed last month. The Israeli fans instigated the violence after arriving in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the match, an Amsterdam city council member said. “They began attacking houses of people in Amsterdam with Palestinian flags, so that’s actually where the violence started,” Councilman Jazie Veldhuyzen told Al Jazeera on Friday. “As a reaction, Amsterdammers mobilised themselves and countered the attacks that started on Wednesday by the Maccabi hooligans.”
Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN
Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children; the youngest was a day-old boy and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman. United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s “apparent indifference” to the killing of civilians in Gaza, after a new report from his agency showed that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths were of women and children. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report on Friday, having verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 people reportedly killed during the first six months of Israel’s war in Gaza, finding that a high proportion were women and children – the youngest just one day old. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 43,469 Palestinians and injured 102,561 since October 7, 2023, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health.
More than 70 Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli massacre last November, the majority of whom were women, children, and elderly individuals who belonged to a single family, a new Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor investigation has revealed. Published on Thursday, the Euro-Med Monitor report outlines that the massacre occurred during a large-scale military assault by the Israeli army on the Shaheibar family’s residential block in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City. The attack, which took place over two days—17th and 18th November 2023—saw the use of aircraft and drones to target residential buildings, civilians inside their homes, and those attempting to bury relatives killed in earlier attacks. Euro-Med Monitor was able to verify the identities of 61 victims, all from the Shaheibar family. The victims included 27 children, 16 women (three of whom were elderly), and 18 men, including two elderly men. Some victims’ identities remain unknown due to the severe fragmentation of their bodies.
According to eyewitnesses, approximately half an hour after the initial attack, an Israeli drone targeted a second nearby residential building consisting of four floors, owned by Muhyi Shaheibar. This building, located at the end of the street behind Maher Shaheibar’s house, was struck on the upper floor by at least one missile, killing a child and critically injuring his mother. Subsequently, the Israeli army targeted a third residential building owned by the head of the Shaheibar family, Nahid Shaheibar, near the start of the street. The top floor of this building was destroyed around the same time as the second attack, resulting in the death of a woman and the injury of 10 others. All these strikes were carried out without any prior warning.
UN peacekeepers accuse Israel of
‘deliberate and direct’ attack in Lebanon
The Israeli military, which has hit UNIFIL positions several times, denies responsibility despite footage. United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have reported another Israeli assault on their positions as ground and air attacks on Lebanon continue to claim lives. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Friday that two Israeli military excavators and one bulldozer had destroyed part of a fence and a concrete structure at a UN base in Ras Naqoura a day earlier. The Israeli military’s “deliberate and direct destruction of clearly identifiable UNIFIL property is a flagrant violation of international law and resolution 1701”, UNIFIL said, referring to the UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
France slams Israel after gendarmes detained
France has accused Israel of harming bilateral ties after Israeli forces entered a holy site under French administration in occupied East Jerusalem and briefly detained two gendarmes with diplomatic status. The incident took place on Thursday as French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot was due to visit the compound of the Church of the Pater Noster on the Mount of Olives. The site, one of four administered by France in Jerusalem, is under Paris’s responsibility and deemed part of France. French diplomatic sources told the Reuters news agency that Israeli security had been told not to enter before Barrot’s visit. Barrot refused to enter the compound, called Eleona in French, while they were present. The dispute casts a shadow over diplomatic relations that are already strained over Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Israeli Army attack – 1 killed – 2 wounded – home invasion and raid on school: Tubas – evening, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Aqaba and besieged a house, killing a resident, Adham Zayed Ezzat Al-Masry, as well as wounding his mother. One other person, Raed Hamad Al-Masry, was also wounded. The Israeli troops also invaded a girls’ school,after removing its doors, and took prisoner from there two people.
Israeli Army attack: Nablus – 21:05, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Beita.
Israeli Army attack – olive harvest sabotage: Salfit – 12:05, armed Occupation settlers invaded Deir Istiya agricultural land, opening fire towards olive harvesters and forcing them off the land.
Home invasions and occupation: Hebron – 16:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Tabqa and searched a house.
Israeli Army olive harvest sabotage and plunder: Qalqiliya – 18:30, Israeli forces prevented, and subsequently plundered, the olive harvest on Iskaka village land, near the Occupation settlement of Neve Nehemiah. Three of the villagers were detained until the Israeli forces withdrew.
Israeli Army olive harvest sabotage: Nablus – 08:45, Israeli Occupation forces prevented the olive harvest, in the town of Jama’in, from proceeding and forced harvesters off the land.
Israeli Army stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – 12:00, the Israeli Army fired stun grenades towards people, near the entrance to Husan village.
Israeli Army stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – 15:25, Israeli troops fired stun grenades towards people, near the entrance to the town of Tuqu.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 15:20, the Israeli military blocked the road, near the al-Fawar refugee camp road junction.
Occupation settler olive harvest sabotage: Ramallah – 11:30, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded Deir Jarir village agricultural land and assaulted working olive harvesters.
Occupation settler intrusion and contempt: Tubas – 11:45, an Israeli settler, riding a tractor, drove around homes in the Samra area of the North Jordan Valley, placing flags in support of the Israeli military Occupation of the West Bank.
Occupation settler land-grab: Nablus – 12:40, Occupation settlers seized an area of Jalloud village land and installed mobile homes on it, in order to set up a new settlement outpost.
Occupation settler olive harvest plunder: Nablus – 15:35, Israelis, from the Eli Occupation settlement, invaded agricultural land and stole the olive harvest.
Occupation settler intrusion and threat: Nablus – 18:10, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded the Ras al-Deir area, north of Yatma village, and deposited a bag containing unknown material around the walls of the village‘s water supply tank.
Occupation settler olive harvest plunder: Salfit – 07:55, Israeli settlers invaded and plundered the olive harvest, east of the village of Yasuf.
Occupation settler olive harvest sabotage: Bethlehem – 13:35, Occupation settlers raided Nahalin agricultural land and severed the branches from olive trees.
Occupation settler violence and olive harvest sabotage: Hebron – 10:55-14:40, Israeli settlers invaded agricultural land, in the Masafer area of Bani Naim, and assaulted working olive harvesters.
Occupation settler olive harvest sabotage: Hebron – 14:25–15:50, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded agricultural land belonging to Masafer Yatta town, uprooting olive trees and vandalising a fence as well as water delivery pipes.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage – Israeli Army complicity: Hebron – 20:10, Occupation settlers raided al-Samou agricultural land, grazing cattle on crops of vegetables and assaulting farmers. In support of the settlers, the Israeli Army intervened and took prisoner eight people trying to resist the settlers.
Raids: Jerusalem – 08:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the towns of Bir Nabala and Anata.
Raid: Jerusalem – 13:15-20:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled al-Ram.
Raid: Jerusalem – 15:35-20:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Hizma.
Raids: Jerusalem – 18:00–19:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled al-Eizariya and Abu Dis.
Raid: Ramallah – 07:35, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Ein Yabrud.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 08:15-16:45, the Israeli military raided the village Deir Birzeit, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Ramallah – 08:15-16:45, the Israeli military raided the village of Kafr Ni’ma.
Raid: Ramallah – 11:30-16:45, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of al-Nabi Saleh.
Raid: Ramallah – 14:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the city of al-Bireh.
Raids: Ramallah – 14:40, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Beitunya as well as the village of Ein Qiniya.
Raid: Ramallah – 17:15, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Deir Qadis.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 18:10-19:40, Israeli troops raided the village al-Jalazoun’s refugee camp, taking prisoner one person.
Raids: Ramallah – 18:10–19:40, the Israeli military raided al-Bireh as well as the village of Dura al-Qar.
Raid: Ramallah – 21:20–22:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Beit Ur al-Tahta.
Raid: Ramallah – 23:00–03:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Budrus.
Raid: Ramallah – 23:10–05:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Silwad.
Raids: Ramallah – 01:35–07:35, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Birzeit and Kobar.
Raid: Jenin – 16:00-19:50, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Nazlat Zaid.
Raids: Jenin – 21:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the towns of Araba and Ya’bad.
Raids: Jenin – 21:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Jaba’ and Silat al-Dahr, as well as the villages of al-Fanduqumiya and al-Atarah.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jenin – 00:35–05:55, the Israeli Army raided Rumana village, taking prisoner two people.
Raids – 2 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 02:10–07:00, a man and a woman were taken prisoner by Israeli troops raiding the Shweika suburb as well as the village of Far’un and also the Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 08:00-10:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Laqif.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Qalqiliya – 13:35-16:00, Israeli troops, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the village of Kafr Qaddum.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 16:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Azzun.
Raids: Nablus – 12:55, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the villages of Urif and Einabus.
Raids: Nablus – 14:35–16:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Beita as well as Osirin village.
Raid: Nablus – 15:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Qallil.
Raid: Nablus – 15:30-19:45, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Burqa.
Raid: Nablus – 21:55–02:15, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Bizzariya.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Nablus – 23:40–02:15, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the city.
Raid: Salfit – 18:55–23:15, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Sarta.
Raids: Salfit – 20:10–23:15, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Qarawat Bani Hassan, Bidya and al-Zawiya as well as the villages of Masha and Rafat.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Salfit – 07:55, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided and patrolled the village of Marda.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 13:25-15:40, Israeli forces raided the town of al-Dhahiriya, taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Hebron – 15:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the Safa area of Beit Ummar.
Raid: Hebron – 15:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Surif.
Raid: Hebron – 16:25, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Yatta.
Raid: Hebron – 16:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of al-Samou.
Raid – 7 taken prisoner: Hebron – 17:10-21:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Dura, taking prisoner seven people.