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Moussa Abu Marzouk
Hamas leader refuses to acknowledge killing of civilians in Israel
LONDON — A senior Hamas leader has refused to acknowledge that his group killed civilians in Israel, claiming only conscripts were targeted.Moussa Abu Marzouk told the BBC that "women, children and civilians were exempt" from Hamas's attacks.His claims are in stark contrast to the wealth of video evidence of Hamas men shooting unarmed adults and children.Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed by Hamas in the 7 October attacks, most of them civilians.Marzouk, the group's deputy political leader, who is subject to an asset freeze in the UK under counter-terrorism regulations, was interviewed on Saturday in the Gulf. He is the most senior member to speak to the BBC since the 7 October atrocities.The BBC pressed Marzouk on the war on Gaza, specifically on the scores...
November 07, 2023

Hamas leader refuses to acknowledge killing of civilians in Israel

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023.
Gaza becoming a ‘graveyard for children,’ UN chief warns
NEW YORK — Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children,” the United Nations chief warned on Monday as the death toll rises and calls grow around the world for a ceasefire, one month into Israel’s assault on the Palestinian enclave.“The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters in New York, adding that the need for a ceasefire is becoming “more urgent with every passing hour.”“The parties to the conflict – and, indeed, the international community – face an immediate and fundamental responsibility: to stop this inhuman collective suffering and dramatically expand humanitarian aid to Gaza,” he said.His comments come four weeks after Israel declared war on Hamas, following the...
November 07, 2023

Gaza becoming a ‘graveyard for children,’ UN chief warns

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023
Over 10,000 Palestinians killed since 7 October, say health officials
GAZA — More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive nearly a month ago, the Hamas-controlled health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said on Monday.Israel declared war on Hamas after the group launched a surprise attack on October 7, killing 1,400 in Israel and taking more than 240 hostage. Israel retaliated by launching an air and ground offensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate the militant group.Ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al Qudra said 10,022 Palestinians in the enclave were killed by Israeli strikes, including 4,104 children, 2,641 women and 611 elderly people. Those numbers suggest about three-quarters of the dead are from vulnerable populations. The ministry also reported 25,408 injured.It’s unclear how many combatants are...
November 07, 2023

Over 10,000 Palestinians killed since 7 October, say health officials

Palestinian workers deported by Israel make their return to the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Gaza, on November 3, 2023
Palestinian workers expelled from Israel accuse Israeli authorities of torture
GAZA — Palestinian workers who were expelled back to Gaza from Israel last week have accused Israeli authorities of “torture,” alleging they were stripped naked, held in cages, viciously beaten and, according to one worker’s account, subjected to electric shocks.“They broke us and beat us with batons and metal sticks... they humiliated us... they have made us starve without food or water,” Muqbel Abdullah Al Radia, another of the workers, told CNN.CNN spoke to Abdullah Al Radia and eight other men who returned to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel on Friday. Al Radia, who is from Beit Lahiya, a village in northern Gaza, told CNN he was working in Israel – one of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza with permits to do so – when the war started.Most...
November 07, 2023

Palestinian workers expelled from Israel accuse Israeli authorities of torture

Antony Blinken (R) is welcomed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan prior to their meeting in Ankara, on November 6, 2023
Top US diplomat in Turkey to allay Ankara's anger over Gaza
ANKARA — Turkey's president has blasted the West's hypocrisy for shedding "crocodile tears" over civilian deaths in Ukraine, while idly standing by as Israel devastates Gaza.Antony Blinken visited Turkey on Monday with the mission of appeasing the anger of one of Washington's most strategic but also most difficult allies, amid the war in Gaza.The US secretary of state met his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan for the first time since fighting broke out between Israel and Hamas on 7 October.Turkey's foreign minister asked Blinken for an "immediate" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, stressing that it was "necessary to prevent Israel from targeting civilians and displacing people," according to an anonymous Turkish diplomatic source.Their meeting comes...
November 07, 2023

Top US diplomat in Turkey to allay Ankara's anger over Gaza

Ebrahim Raisi
US encourages Israel to 'perpetrate cruelty' against Palestinians: Iran's Raisi
TEHRAN — Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi on Monday accused the United States of “encouraging” Israel to “kill and perpetrate cruel acts” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.Meeting Iraq's prime minister in Tehran, Raisi once again called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza."We believe the bombings must stop as soon as possible, that a ceasefire must be declared immediately and that aid be provided to the oppressed and proud people of Gaza," he said at a press conference with Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani.“These horrible crimes against humanity are a genocide, which is carried out by the Zionist regime with the support of the United States and certain European countries,” claimed Raisi."American aid to the Zionist regime encourages it to kill and...
November 06, 2023

US encourages Israel to 'perpetrate cruelty' against Palestinians: Iran's Raisi

Ahed Tamimi in Madrid on 29th September, 2018. Ahed Tamimi to take part in the FiestaPCE18 in a great act of solidarity with Palestine people. (Photo by Juan Carlos Lucas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Palestinian icon Ahed Tamimi arrested by Israel in West Bank raid
TEL AVIV — The Israeli army announced on Monday it had arrested Ahed Tamimi, an icon of the Palestinian cause around the world, during a raid in the occupied West Bank.A spokesperson for the army said the 22-year-old activist was "suspected of inciting violence and terrorist activities."Tamimi was apprehended in the town of Nabi Saleh and "transferred to Israeli security forces for further questioning," they told AFP.Ahed Tamimi became famous at 14, filmed biting an Israeli soldier to prevent him from arresting her little brother, who was pinned to the ground and had his arm in a cast.She has since become a global icon of the Palestinian cause and is seen by Palestinians as an example of courage in the face of Israeli repression in the Occupied Palestinian...
November 06, 2023

Palestinian icon Ahed Tamimi arrested by Israel in West Bank raid

Amichai Eliyahu
Far-right Israeli minister says nuking Gaza an option
TEL AVIV — Israel's heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu said on Sunday that one of Israel’s options could be to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disavowed his cabinet minister's comment and suspended him from meetings.Eliyahu, a member of the far-right Jewish Power party, made the comment in response to a question during a radio interview.“Your expectation is that tomorrow morning we’d drop what amounts to some kind of nuclear bomb on all of Gaza, flattening them, eliminating everybody there,” the Radio Kol Berama interviewer said.“That’s one way,” Eliyahu responded. “The second way is to work out what’s important to them, what scares them, what deters them... They’re not scared of death.”When the minister was told there...
November 06, 2023

Far-right Israeli minister says nuking Gaza an option

Fire and smoke rises from buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023
UN agencies, humanitarian groups call for immediate ceasefire to stop 'horrific' killings
GENEVA — The heads of 11 UN agencies and six humanitarian organizations issued a joint plea for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.They called for the protection of civilians and swift entry of food, water, medicine and fuel into the Strip.In a statement issued Sunday night, the group called Hamas’ surprise 7 October attacks in Israel “horrific.”“However, the horrific killings of even more civilians in Gaza is an outrage, as is cutting off 2.2 million Palestinians from food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” the heads of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory said.The UN and humanitarian organizations said more than 23,000 injured people need immediate treatment and hospitals are overstretched.“An...
November 06, 2023

UN agencies, humanitarian groups call for immediate ceasefire to stop 'horrific' killings

Israeli security forces on the streets of Jerusalem
Palestinians in Israel fear arrest if they voice sympathy for Gaza civilians
JERUSALEM — Dua Abu Sneineh was shocked when a group of police officers – between 10 and 15, she said – barged into her home in East Jerusalem early on October 23. “I was not even considering for a moment that they would be coming for me,” she told CNN.But the police did come for her.Abu Sneineh, 22, said she was told she was being arrested and asked to hand in her phone. “When I asked why, (the police officer) started pushing me and snatched my phone out of my hand,” she said.The officer checked Abu Sneineh’s phone for TikTok or Facebook – she doesn’t have either — then checked her Snapchat account, the only social media she uses.“[The officer] noticed that I hadn’t posted anything. Then she went to my WhatsApp... I had posted a verse from the Quran, and that...
November 06, 2023

Palestinians in Israel fear arrest if they voice sympathy for Gaza civilians

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