Alireza Akbari | Exactly 400 days into the genocidal war against brave and unyielding Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military has suffered enormously with conscripts refusing to turn up for military duty. | As per admissions of the Israeli political and military leadership - both past and present - the military objectives have not been achieved in Gaza more than 13 months since the war was launched and despite the world's largest open-air concentration camp turning into the world's biggest cemetery. ■ Tens of thousands of settlers have reportedly fled the occupied territories to avoid mandatory military duties while many have refused to don the military uniform in a show of defiance. ■ To hire personnel, the regime issued recruitment orders to Haredi youth—traditionally exempted from compulsory service—but only managed to enlist fewer than 4 percent of the 3,000 individuals. ■ To fill the vacuum created by the Israeli settlers, the regime has hired tens of thousands of foreign mercenaries to fight against the Palestinian resistance fighters in the coastal territory. [...] A Twitter account named "Israel Genocide Tracker" has been publishing the names of foreign nationals involved in Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Press TV website analyzed and examined all these cases of foreign mercenaries enrolled by the Israeli regime, who have been documenting their horrendous war crimes on social media platforms.

The United States' latest veto on a draft UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza is shocking, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said on Wednesday. | Earlier in the day, a Sputnik correspondent reported that the US had vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that would have demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.

💬 "It is shocking that the US has vetoed an effort to save the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. Though perhaps we should not be surprised about it," Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting.

The draft resolution was put forward by the council’s 10 elected members (E10). The document demanded an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire and called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.

■ US Senate Denies Resolutions to Block Military Sales to Israel (Sputnik)
■ US veto of UN's Gaza resolution a 'license' for more Israeli atrocities: Tehran (PressTV)
■ 'Israel' renews strikes on Beirut Suburb, targets Tyre's El-Buss camp (Al Mayadeen)

The move will be aimed at preventing a two-state solution, according to the US investigative journalist | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government intends to announce the formal annexation of the West Bank in the coming weeks, a source has told the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. ● According to Hersh, Israel has been “fortified by bombs and funding” from Washington and is ramping up the expulsion of Palestinians from northern Gaza to the south of the enclave. Meanwhile, the religious parties that “dominate” Netanyahu’s cabinet are demanding full control over both occupied Palestinian territories.

💬 “I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future – perhaps in two weeks – in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza,” Hersh wrote in an article on his Substack on Wednesday.

If true, the move would coincide with the last few weeks of US President Joe Biden’s administration and create a new “reality on the ground” by the time President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. During his first term in the White House, Trump recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

UNICEF says an average of three children have been killed per day since Israel escalated in Lebanon in September | The UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, said Tuesday that more than 200 children had been killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon since Israel escalated its bombing campaign in the country in September.

💬 “Despite more than 200 children killed in Lebanon in less than two months, a disconcerting pattern has emerged: their deaths are met with inertia from those able to stop this violence,” said UNICEF spokesman James Elder.

💬 Elder detailed some recent strikes that killed children, including an attack that slaughtered an entire displaced family. “On Sunday, 10 November: Seven children were killed from the same extended family. The family of 27 – all killed – was seeking shelter in Mount Lebanon after fleeing violence in the south,” he said.

He also noted that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese children have become homeless as Israel’s airstrikes and invasion of southern Lebanon have displaced an estimated 1.2 million people.

■ Israeli Forces Kill 50 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 Hours (Antiwar.com)

Civil defence teams bid farewell to their friend and colleague who was killed by an lsraeli airstrike while on duty in Northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/TTlxBubAI4

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 20, 2024

A major European rights body recounts in harrowing detail the atrocities that have been carried out for the past 43 days by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip. | Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor provided the information in a report on Monday. ● The report showed how the Israeli military has been subjecting the Gazans to direct killings, extrajudicial executions, mass starvation, and ethnic cleansing “with no justification whatsoever” as part of its now-13-month-old genocidal war on the coastal sliver. ● Israeli forces, the report noted, have been committing the crimes by bombing homes with residents inside, committing mass killings against displaced civilians in shelters, and targeting gatherings and vehicles.

■ Live blog: Death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza rises to 43,972 (TRT World)

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have raised concerns over a significant increase in the number of people abducted from Gaza amid the Israeli genocide. | The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have reported an alarming rise in the number of detainees from Gaza amid intensified military operations in the region. ● According to the two organizations, over 1,000 people have been abducted from northern Gaza, reflecting a surge in "Israel’s" campaign of detentions and war crimes. ● In a recent statement, the groups highlighted that the Israeli occupation continues to enforce forced disappearances against hundreds of detainees, leaving no clear data on the total number of those abducted from Gaza. ● Early November figures from the Israeli prison administration indicated that 1,627 detainees from Gaza are classified as "unlawful combatants", a number that excludes many detainees in detention camps, it added.

⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7 (02/09/24)

Israel’s targets💔 pic.twitter.com/mXtZJuCLKI

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) May 30, 2024

Gaza’s famine grows amidst increased international silence. pic.twitter.com/BiqSmrhR3D

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 16, 2024

Orit Strock said, 'national rights over this land belong only to the Jewish people' | Israeli Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Strock has said she’s working to ensure Israel can annex as much land in the West Bank as possible during the incoming Trump administration but said the Palestinians that live there don’t have rights to the land and shouldn’t have the right to vote. [...] Trump’s appointment of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel signals the administration will back annexation. ● Huckabee is an Evangelical Christian who believes God gave historic Palestine to the modern state of Israel. He denies Israel is occupying the West Bank, which he called “Judea and Samaria,” and has previously claimed that there’s “no such thing as a Palestinian” and argued the Palestinians should be expelled to other Arab states. ● In Huckabee’s first interview with Israeli media after Trump announced he would be the envoy to Israel, the former governor was asked if the administration would support annexation of the West Bank. He said, “Of course … There has never been an American president that has been more helpful in securing an understanding of the sovereignty of Israel… and I fully expect that will continue.”

■ Trump's pick for Sec. of State Marco Rubio's love affair with Israel, MKO, Pahlavis (PressTV)
■ Trump's Picks Are All Neocon Warhawks Ferociously Devoted to Israel (Mike Whitney)

Clashes erupted during the match near where the Israeli fans were sitting, with some throwing punches. Some spectators held up Palestinian flags that had been banned inside the stadium. | The 80,000-capacity stadium was barely a fifth full as the French had boycotted the game over Israel's two-front aggression, which has killed 43,736 people in Gaza and 3,386 others in Lebanon since early October 2023. [...] On Thursday, about 4,000 police officers were on the streets around the Stade de France along with 1,600 security personnel. The 80,000-capacity stadium was barely a fifth full as the French had boycotted the game over Israel's two-front aggression, which has killed 43,736 people in Gaza and 3,386 others in Lebanon since early October 2023. However, French President Emmanuel Macron attended the game alongside predecessors Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, and Prime Minister Michel Barnier, in an show of solidarity with the Israeli regime.

■ Fighting mars France-Israel football match (VIDEOS) (RT.com)

Northern Ireland’s police have spirited out former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton from Queen’s University Belfast where hundreds of students gathered to denounce her stance on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. | Clashes erupted at the campus on Thursday as police moved in to confront the students who had gathered to protest against Clinton’s address. [...] The group also published videos showing police forces attacking people who were protesting peacefully. The police forces “dragged, pushed, and choked protesters, wielding their batons with no advance warning,” it said. Police confirmed four people were arrested on suspicion of a range of “public order offences.” [...] The QUB Palestine Assembly hit out at the university for inviting the two which it has described as “war criminals.” “Clinton has been a consistent apologist for the genocide being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, and Kennedy represents an administration that has overseen the supply of the bombs and munitions that have taken upwards of 160,00 Palestinians lives,” it said in a statement on Thursday.

'Given evidence strongly indicates that multiple acts of forced displacement were carried out with intent, it amounts to war crimes,' says Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcibly displacing nearly 1.9 million Palestinians during its war in Gaza. ■ In a report titled "Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” HRW detailed how Israeli attacks, evacuation orders, and destruction of infrastructure have created a humanitarian catastrophe.

■ US Muslim group declares Biden a ‘war criminal’ for continuing to send weapons to Israel (Anadolu)

Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians at a tent cafe in the “humanitarian zone” in Gaza’s al-Mawasi, as the ongoing campaign of violence and destruction by the occupying entity continues unabated. | A double missile strike from an Israeli drone late Monday killed at least 10 civilians at a small tent cafe in the al-Mawasi area, located to the west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, bringing the death toll from Israeli strikes across Gaza over the past 24 hours to 40. [An] Al Jazeera correspondent reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza said: 💬 “People go to this coffee shop to connect to the internet and the outside world or to watch a football game on the big screen. A drone fired at least two missiles at the café while people were inside. A witness said it was packed.” He emphasized that the Israeli assertions regarding 'evacuation zones' and 'safe areas' are merely deceptive narratives. Medics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis reported that the victims of the recent incident suffered severe disfigurements, with seven individuals currently undergoing surgery for their injuries.

■ Live blog: Israel continues to hit Lebanon; kills dozen in Gaza dawn strike (TRT World)

lsraeli airstrike kills 5 Palestinian children while they were sleeping “peacefully” at a local school in Northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/Wy8xKM04IN

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 9, 2024

■ Army Shoots Three Palestinians In Jerusalem, Abduct One In Tubas (IMEMC)
■ Day 402: Israeli Army Targets Tents, Kills Dozens, In Gaza (IMEMC)

Despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel continues to escalate airstrikes across that nation. Today, one of those strikes hit the northern village of Almat, killing at least 23 people, seven of them identified as children by Lebanon’s Health Ministry. | Rescue workers are still in the area looking for more survivors, and the toll has not been finalized. At least six survivors were reported as wounded. Almat is in a region that is strongly majority Maronite Christian, but the village’s own population is majority Shi’ite Muslim. ■ Israel has yet to comment on the strike on the village, but security officials reported to the AFP that an unnamed Hezbollah member was visiting one of the attacked homes. He apparently died of his wounds, along with a lot of other people.

■ Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip exceeds 43,600 — health ministry (TASS)

Yemen’s Armed Forces announce striking a military base near the city of Jaffa in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in a “high-profile operation.” | According to the spokesman, the operation came “in support of the oppressed peoples of Palestine and Lebanon, and in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistances, and as part of the fifth stage of [Yemen’s] escalation [against the Israeli regime].” ■ This is not the first time that the forces have fired the projectile towards the occupied territories. The strike came amid the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present genocidal war and concomitant siege on the Gaza Strip and deadly escalation against Lebanon, which have respectively claimed the lives of more than 43,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and at least 3,136 Lebanese.

■ Over 90 Hezbollah rockets hit Israel, many injured, vehicles damaged (India Today)
■ Largest American command post in Syria comes under rocket attack (PressTV)

The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Friday that nearly 70% of fatalities it had verified in Gaza were women and children. Israel's diplomatic mission in Geneva, where the office is based, said it categorically rejected the report, which it said did not accurately reflect realities on the ground. | A Gaza family sat weeping on Saturday over children killed by an Israeli strike as they were getting ready to play soccer, amid an intensified bombardment that Palestinian health authorities said has killed 44 people over the past 24 hours. The strike was in Mawasi, a southern coastal area where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter after Israel's military told them to leave other areas it was bombing in its war against Hamas. "The rocket struck them. There were no wanted or targeted people there and there was nobody else in the street. Just the children who were killed yesterday," said Mohammed Zanoun, a relative of the dead children. Palestinian health authorities say Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 43,500 people, with another 10,000 believed to be dead and uncounted under the rubble. Israel launched its offensive in response to the attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed border defences and rampaged through Israeli communities killing 1,200 people and seizing around 250 as hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

■ Gaza women, children are nearly 70% of verified war dead, UN rights office says (Reuters)

In the previous 48 hours, Israeli soldiers perpetrated six mass executions in Gaza, killing 78 and injuring 214, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Many victims are stuck beneath debris, unreachable to rescue personnel under persistent bombardment. | So far, the Ministry has documented 43,469 Palestinian dead and 102,561 wounded from the October 7, 2023 fighting. ■ Medical reports said an attack on a school for displaced Palestinians in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City killed 10 and wounded others. Israeli soldiers targeted Shuhiber School, sheltering hundreds of displaced people, killing women and children, according to witnesses. ■ Gaza saw further strikes. Israel struck people west of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing three and injuring three. Five people were killed and four wounded when Israeli soldiers attacked a gathering east of Rafah. A drone strike near a market and another on a home in northern Gaza's Jabalia killed eight and injured others.

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff | Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says Israeli military | Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area. ■ In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the IDF Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that since troops had been forced to enter some areas twice, such as Jabaliya camp, “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes”. ■ He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but not the north, since there are “no more civilians left”.

■ Israel kills 3,117 in Lebanon as its brutal attacks intensify (TRT World)

The U.N. Human Rights Office says nearly 70 percent of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza war were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law. | The 8119 victims verified by the U.N. Rights Office in that seven-month period is considerably lower than the toll of over 43,000 provided by Palestinian health authorities for the full 13 months of conflict. But the U.N. breakdown of the victims' age and gender backs the Palestinian assertion that women and children represent a large portion of those killed in the war. This finding indicates "a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, including distinction and proportionality", the U.N. rights office said in a statement accompanying the 32-page report.

■ Close to 70% of those killed in Gaza are women and children: UN rights office (Anadolu)

lsraeli occupation forces abduct tens of Palestinians from Jabalia Camp, Northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/182yCaV5Sl

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 6, 2024

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq conduct several operations against the Israeli occupation before the break of dawn on Tuesday reaffirming their commitment to supporting Palestine and Lebanon as the genocide and aggression continue. | The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has announced, in three distinct operations, that it has launched a drone strike against vital targets at Haifa port. ■ According to the video footage of the drone strike launches, one target was the Haifa Oil Refinery, another was the Tamar gas field, while the third target was not named and was only referenced as a vital target. ■ These operations continue to be conducted in support of Palestine and Lebanon as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq vows continuous operations against vital Israeli occupation targets across all of occupied Palestine.

The Israeli regime has banned the operations of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, terminating the body’s decades-long crucial relief practices across the Palestinian territories and putting millions of lives at risk. | In a statement on Monday, the regime’s foreign ministry said, "On the instruction of Foreign Minister Israel Katz,” it had notified the UN of the “cancellation of the agreement” between the regime and the agency. ● Katz, meanwhile, repeated the allegations, which the regime had first leveled against the body in January that its employees had been involved in an October 2023 retaliatory operation staged by the Gaza Strip’s resistance movements against the occupied Palestinian territories, during which hundreds of Zionists were taken captive. ● He alleged that the organization’s staff had “participated” in the operation and that many of the body’s employees are "Hamas operatives,” referring to one of the Gaza-based resistance groups that staged the retaliation.

■ UN chief says UNRWA 'indispensable', irreplaceable after Israeli ban (10/29/24)
■ Israeli Forces Take Over UNRWA Headquarters in Jerusalem (10/13/24)

Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. | In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli aerial attacks that began Thursday, hospital officials said. The latest violence aggression comes against the backdrop of a renewed diplomatic push by United States President Joe Biden’s administration, days before the presidential election, to reach temporary cease-fire deals.

■ Month-old infant among the dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Nuseirat (Al Jazeera)
■ LIVE: Israel killed over 50 children in 48 hours in Gaza’s Jabalia – UN (Al Jazeera)

Two Israeli attacks on residential buildings in northern Gaza have killed 84 Palestinians, including more than 50 children, Gaza’s Government Media Office has said. 💬 “The Israeli occupation army commits two brutal massacres by bombing residential buildings belonging to the Shalayel and Ghandour families in northern Gaza Strip, resulting in more than 170 civilians being affected, with 84 martyrs including over 50 children, and dozens missing and injured,” (the Government Media Office said on Friday.) ● (It said 84 people were “massacred” as no civil defense crews, medical services or other relief services were available in the area amid an Israeli siege and continuing bombardment.) ● “These crimes come as the occupation army targets civilian families in residential buildings populated by civilians and displaced individuals, consisting of several stories." ● "This coincides with the absence of civil defense teams, medical services, or relief teams, as they have been targeted and rendered non-operational by the ‘Israeli’ occupation for almost a month. These crimes also coincide with the collapse of the health system in northern Gaza, with hospitals destroyed and out of service.”

■ Israel’s Genocide Day 391: Israel kills 200 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day (Mondoweiss)

Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder added that these forces will begin to arrive in the Middle East in coming months | US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered to deploy additional forces to the Middle East, including destroyers, fighter jets and long-range strike bombers, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said. Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness.

■ US Ordered Deployment of Missile Defense Destroyers, Strike Bombers to Mideast (Sputnik)

In a letter addressed to BBC Director-General Tim Davie, more than 100 BBC employees called on the corporation to "recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality" in its coverage of Israeli actions in Gaza. | More than 100 BBC employees have accused the British broadcaster of exhibiting a clear bias toward "Israel" while covering the entity's ongoing year-long war against Palestinians in Gaza. ● In a letter addressed to BBC Director-General Tim Davie and signed by over 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the signatories urged the broadcaster to "recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality" in its reporting on Israeli actions in Gaza. ● The letter criticized the BBC for not meeting its editorial standards, citing a lack of "consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism" in its coverage of the situation, as reported by The Independent, which obtained the letter.