Dozens of people were killed early on Monday in an Israeli airstrike on a school in the central Gaza Strip where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, causing a fire and burning people alive. | Gory scenes from the school-turned-shelter in Deir al-Balah were shared online, showing individuals caught in the inferno as rescuers struggled to pull them out amid the blaze. The Palestinian Red Crescent said 28 people were killed, while 54 where injured. Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian medics said that at least 10 people were killed and at least 30 injured in Israeli airstrikes on a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, with casualties including women and children. Israeli forces have for 10 days now carried out a renewed ground offensive in Jabalia, devastating the camp and killing at least 300 people, while not allowing anyone to enter or leave.

■ 'Israel' burns Palestinians alive in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (Al Mayadeen)

New lsraeli massacre;
Several Palestinians killed, mostly children, in a violent lsraeli attack on Shati (Beach) Camp, west of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/odbvAk2J2j

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 13, 2024

There are also NUMEROUS, but UNCONFIRMED reports that Herzi Halevi, IDF Chief of Staff was the target of the attack! | At least seventeen (17) Israeli soldiers are DEAD and at least fifty-one (51) INJURED, who have been transported to several different hospitals, after Hezballah launched two drone attacks against two IDF sites inside Israel. As of 5:00 PM eastern U.S. time on Sunday, 13 October 2024, when this story is published, the attack took place about five hours ago. We have CONFIRMED the following numbers of injured IDF Troops, have arrived at the following hospitals: Thirty-six (36) have arrived at Hillel Yaffe Hospital - 5 in critical condition - 10 in average condition - The rest with minor injuries. ■ - Al-Aimk Hospital: 4 injured - Laniado Hospital: 6 injured - Sheba Hospital: 3 injured - Rambam Hospital: 3 injured. ALL of the above were reported to be eating in a base mess hall (Cafeteria/Dining area). Hezbollah ALSO struck an IDF gathering point in Binyamnina, South of Haifa, with a drone, causing more than 25 casualties. (Israeli media is reporting 67 casualties as opposed to the 25.)

John Miles | While US military personnel have covertly assisted Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip over the last year, the Biden administration signaled an open commitment of troops to the country today in a statement released by the Pentagon. | The US and its European client states are doubling down on their support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the waning days of the Biden administration, setting the stage for Western militaries to directly participate in Israeli atrocities or even a broader regional conflagration. A series of events in recent days has demonstrated NATO countries’ deepening commitment to Israel as new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leads the way.

■ US to send anti-missile system and troops to Israel, Pentagon says (The New Arab)

Alireza Akbari | Israeli regime minister Bezalel Smotrich in a TV show earlier this week brazenly expounded the plan to expand the occupying entity "as far as Damascus," sparking massive backlash. | Known for his racist and fascist demagoguery, Smotrich made the remarks in a recently released documentary titled 'In Israel: Ministers of Chaos', in which he claimed that the expansionist agenda, rooted in the Zionist vision of a "Greater Israel" beyond the Jordan River, would unfold "little by little."

💬 "Absolutely, but slowly," Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu's close aide and confidante said when asked about extending the regime's "borders" from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. "Our great sages used to say that the future of Jerusalem was to extend as far as Damascus."

His comments came amid Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and Lebanon. While the aggression against Lebanon has killed over 2,000 and displaced at least a million others, the onslaught on Gaza has so far claimed more than 42,000 lives and displaced over 1.5 million Palestinians in the enclave. [...] Greater Israel is an expansionist and irredentist concept and a plan to expand the Zionist entity into the territories of West Asia and North Africa.

⚡ ‘Idea of greater Israel fuelling Netanyahu’s ideology’: top UN official (10/13/24)

Two more horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp

It's time people stop referring to these places as prisons. These are not prisons. These are concentration camps/torture camps. https://t.co/0U3PIMRTrW pic.twitter.com/bTCAo3f6Jk

— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) September 6, 2024

The UN Secretary-General has condemned recent Israeli attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, saying that it “may constitute a war crime.” | "UNIFIL personnel and its premises must never be targeted," Stephane Dujarric said, adding, "Attacks against peacekeepers are in breach of international law." "In a deeply worrying incident that occurred on Sunday, the entrance door of a UN position was deliberately breached by [the Israeli military] armored vehicles," he added in a statement. ■ UNIFIL said the regime’s forces had "deliberately" fired shots at its headquarters in the town of Naqoura in recent days. He urged all parties, including the Israeli military to refrain from any action that put UN peacekeepers at risk. At least five peacekeepers have been wounded in recent days in southern Lebanon. Israeli prime minister war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Guterres to relocate peacekeepers from southern Lebanon.

Hungary's agenda does not include Ukraine's accession to NATO, since this would mean a direct confrontation between the alliance and Russia and would lead to World War III, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with Sputnik. | According to Szijjarto, since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Budapest has drawn red lines — one of them is that it is necessary to "do our best and utmost in order to avoid any form of direct confrontation between NATO and Russia." According to the minister, most of his colleagues from NATO countries, in conversations with Ukrainian representatives, talk about Kiev's possible accession to the alliance, but in a closed circle they admit that this is impossible.