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Israel bombs northern Gaza house killing 13 children amid ongoing siege

Israel bombs northern Gaza house killing 13 children amid ongoing siege
By Lyndal Rowlands, Mersiha Gadzo, Zaheena Rasheed, Alma Milisic, Urooba Jamal and Usaid Siddiqui
Published On 10 Nov 2024

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10 Nov 2024 - 23:59
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You can read more on the Israeli attack on the town of Almat in Lebanon which killed at least 23 people, here.

Check out our explainer on clashes between pro-Palestine supporters and Israeli football fans in Amsterdam, here.

For more on that topic, watch our video story on Dutch police arresting pro-Palestine supporters in Amsterdam, here.

 

10 Nov 2024 - 23:55
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Here’s what happened today

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  • At least 49 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip since dawn, with 38 people killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon.
  • Twenty-two women and children are among the dead after Israel bombed a family home in the besieged Jabalia refugee camp.
  • The UN has warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is rapidly deteriorating and “famine is imminent” in areas of northern Gaza, with action needed in days to prevent “catastrophe”.
  • Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that an Israeli air assault on the village of Almat, north of the capital Beirut, killed 23 people including seven children.
  • An Israeli air strike on a residential building in Syria’s capital Damascus killed seven civilians – the second such attack in less than a week.
  • Dutch police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam after they defied a demonstration ban following clashes between Israeli football fans and locals.
  • Arab and Muslim leaders began arriving in Saudi Arabia for a summit on Monday, which will focus on Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.
10 Nov 2024 - 23:45
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Israeli army chief approves Lebanon ground invasion expansion: Report

Israeli army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has approved the expansion of the ground invasion of southern Lebanon, state broadcaster Kan reports.

Israel’s military began “limited, localized, and targeted” ground raids into southern Lebanon against Hezbollah on October 1, days after launching heavy air strikes throughout the country.

Israel’s military and security officials considered announcing the end of the ground offensive last week, Kan reported, but Halevi green-lighted new orders to expand the assault, which could include thousands more soldiers.

Earlier, Israel’s new defence minister, Israel Katz, said Hezbollah had been “defeated”.

Israel’s army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, left, listens to a subordinate [File: Gil Cohen-Magan via Reuters]
10 Nov 2024 - 23:30
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WATCH: Dutch police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam

Police in Amsterdam beat pro-Palestinian protesters with batons and arrested more than 100, as activists defied a ban on demonstrations following football-related violence involving Israeli fans in the city.

10 Nov 2024 - 23:15
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Israeli forces shell Gaza City neighbourhood

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli artillery fire is ongoing in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City.

On Saturday, Israeli forces attacked a school in Gaza City, killing several people, including two journalists.

A Palestinian girl reacts at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after seeing victims killed by Israeli forces [File: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]
10 Nov 2024 - 23:00
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Analysis

Amsterdam violence: ‘A very typical mainstream Israeli reaction’

An Israeli academic says that the Israeli football fans who became embroiled in street brawls in Amsterdam were most likely ignorant about how their country is viewed in the world over the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

“They think what they watch on TV is the same reality globally,” said Menachem Klein, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University. “Others, perhaps, want to teach, as they call it, the ‘anti-Semite Europeans’ a lesson, to show them who is the boss in their own home.”

He called the behaviour of the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans “self-centric” and reflective of “victimhood”.

“It’s a very typical mainstream Israeli reaction, what happened in Amsterdam, to world concerns about what’s happening in Gaza,” Klein told Al Jazeera.

10 Nov 2024 - 22:45
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10 Nov 2024 - 22:30
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Israeli troops conduct raids across occupied West Bank

Israeli forces raided the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, the Wafa news agency reports.

Soldiers stormed the house of the mayor of Hebron, Tayseer Abu Sneineh.

Israeli incursions in the occupied West Bank have intensified since the war on Gaza began in October 2023. More than 11,500 people have been detained.

10 Nov 2024 - 22:15
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Explainer

Israeli football fans, pro-Palestinians attacked in Amsterdam: What we know

The Dutch capital of Amsterdam is under strict security measures after clashes erupted last week between pro-Palestine supporters and fans of an Israeli football club before a UEFA Europa League match.

Tensions first escalated when Israeli football fans reportedly took down a Palestinian flag and chanted anti-Arab slogans – like “F*** you Palestine” and “No children left in Gaza”.

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, criticised Western media outlets for minimising the actions of the Israeli fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv ahead of the clashes.

Read the full story here.

Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters gather at De Dam in Amsterdam [Jeroen Jumelet/EPA-EFE]
10 Nov 2024 - 22:00
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Iran calls to expel Israel from UN after Syria strike

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, said that Tehran “strongly condemned the aggressive attack carried out today by the Zionist regime against a residential building” in the Damascus area.

Baghaei called for measures against Israel, including “an arms embargo” and its “expulsion from the United Nations”.

Earlier, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported an “Israeli aggression targeting a residential building in the Sayyida Zeinab” area, home to a major Shia shrine, killing at least seven people.

An F-16 jet takes off from an airbase in southern Israel [File: Jim Hallander/EPA]
10 Nov 2024 - 21:45
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Qassam Brigades claims it killed Israeli soldiers in north Gaza

Hamas’s armed wing says it attacked 15 Israeli soldiers with an antitank rocket before it “finished them off” with grenades and light weapons from close range in Beit Lahiya.

There was no comment from the Israeli army.

At least 370 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the ground invasion of Gaza since October 2023. Israel’s military claims to have killed about 18,000 Palestinian fighters.

Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip in September [File: Leo Correa/AP]
10 Nov 2024 - 21:30
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Several killed, wounded after Israeli assault in central Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have reported that an unspecified number of people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on tents housing displaced people in the Nuseirat camp.

Earlier, medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 49 people were killed in Israeli attacks since this morning.

Palestinians search for victims at the site of an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, central Gaza [File: Abd Elhkeem Khaled/Reuters]
10 Nov 2024 - 21:15
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WATCH: How Israel won the West

The documentary examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world.

It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the creation of Israel and its ensuing occupation of the Palestinian territory.

10 Nov 2024 - 21:00
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Israel army intercepts drones approaching from east

The Israeli military said its air force intercepted two drones approaching from the east, without specifying where.

The air force “intercepted two UAVs that approached Israeli territory from the east” but did not cross into the country, a military statement said.

“Sirens were sounded in the area of the Dead Sea” near Jerusalem, it added.

10 Nov 2024 - 20:45
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Several killed in Israeli assault in Lebanon’s Hermel region

At least three people were killed in the town of Qasr, in the Hermel district, following an Israeli attack.

Two people were also wounded in the Israeli assault in northeast Lebanon, the Health Ministry added.

 

10 Nov 2024 - 20:30
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Israel launches air raids on towns in southern Lebanon

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report the Israeli army launched attacks on the towns of al-Duwayr, Harouf, Jebchit and Shebaa.

Earlier, we reported that the Health Ministry says at least 38 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon, including 23 in a raid north of the capital Beirut.

A resident checks the site of an Israeli air strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon [File: Mohammad Zaatari/AP]
10 Nov 2024 - 20:15
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Photos: Pro-Palestinian protesters defy Amsterdam ban

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators face-off with Dutch police during a protest in Amsterdam on Sunday [Esther Verkaik/Reuters]
Pro-Palestinian protester carries a sign that reads, ‘Police state’ [Esther Verkaik/Reuters]
Dutch police officers detain a pro-Palestinian protester [Anthony Deutsch/Reuters]

10 Nov 2024 - 20:00
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‘Implicit admission’ of Israel’s ethnic cleansing: US Muslim group

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sees the reported US freeze of the delivery of 130 bulldozers to Israel as an “implicit admission” that Israel is using the equipment to force Palestinians out of Gaza.

“By freezing the delivery of bulldozers to Israel, the Biden administration is clearly admitting that the far-right Israeli government is engaged in the war crime of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Despite this implicit recognition that Israel is committing war crimes, President Biden steadfastly refuses to stop sending taxpayer-funded weapons,” said Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director.

Awad noted that Israel’s army continues to use US arms to “kill civilians and destroy homes, hospitals, mosques, churches, UN facilities, schools, and civilian infrastructure in Gaza”.

“The complicity of the Biden administration with Israel’s genocide must end. All weapons deliveries to Israel must be stopped immediately.”

A D9 bulldozer manoeuvres near Gaza [File: Amir Cohen/Reuters]
10 Nov 2024 - 19:45
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Muslim and Arab leaders fly to Saudi for talks on Middle East crisis

Arab and Muslim leaders have arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Monday summit focusing on Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.

Attendees will “discuss the continued Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories and the Lebanese Republic, and the current developments in the region”, the official Saudi Press Agency said.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry announced the summit in late October, during the first meeting of an “international alliance” pushing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This comes one year after a similar gathering in Riyadh of the Cairo-based Arab League and the Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, during which leaders condemned Israeli forces’ actions in Gaza as “barbaric”.

The Saudi state-affiliated al-Ekhbariya news channel broadcast footage on Sunday of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati landing in Riyadh.

10 Nov 2024 - 19:30
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Israeli citizens told to avoid visits abroad after Amsterdam violence

Israel told its citizens to avoid going to cultural and sports events abroad involving Israel in the coming week in the wake of clashes between Israeli football fans and people in the Netherlands.

A statement issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel allegedly had intelligence that pro-Palestinian groups abroad intended to harm Israelis in cities in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and others.

Authorities in Amsterdam imposed a three-day ban on protests on Friday after street fights involving Israeli football supporters before and after a match on Thursday between visiting team Maccabi Tel Aviv and host team Ajax Amsterdam.

The Health Ministry says a young man was killed and two people were injured in an assault in the town of Aqqaba.

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The Israeli military killed more civilians and journalists in attacks across Gaza, especially its besieged north.

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