Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War

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Over 150 medics killed, 27 ambulances destroyed by Israeli airstrikes

According to Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila, Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip have led to the loss of over 150 healthcare workers' lives and the destruction of 27 ambulances.

"Israeli crimes against the health care system of the Gaza Strip resulted in the death of 150 medical workers and the destruction and failure of 27 ambulances," al-Kaila said in a statement published by the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The Health Minister also reported that 16 hospitals and 32 primary healthcare centers had to cease their operations due to Israeli strikes.

The Israeli occupation continues to bombard residential areas, hospitals, ambulances, UN schools, as well as vital infrastructure in the Gaza Strip amid a stifling blockade that has banned the entry of vital resources, such as fuel, food, and medicine, with the health sector being seriously jeopardized by the stifling siege.

By the 29th day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the number of martyrs has reached 9,488, including 3,900 children and 2,509 women, as per the Gaza Ministry of Health. Additionally, there are 24,158 wounded individuals, with approximately 2,000 people still trapped under the debris, including 1,250 children.

Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qudra confirmed that "Israel" has committed a total of 1,006 massacres against Palestinian families, including 10 major massacres, leading to the tragic loss of 231 lives in the past few hours.

Elsewhere in his remarks, he confirmed that Israeli warplanes hit Al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia refugee camp, killing 15 and wounding at least 70 of the forcibly displaced families who had taken shelter there.

Al-Qudra emphasized that children, women, and the elderly make up 70% of the victims of the Israeli aggression.

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Israel-Palestine war: Workers from Gaza describe torture and abuse in Israeli detention

Some of the 4,500 Palestinians with work Israeli work permits rounded up after 7 October attack tell MEE of horrific conditions

Palestinian workers from Gaza detained by Israel have described being abused, humiliated and tortured for four weeks after being swept up in response to the 7 October Hamas-led attack.

Around 4,500 labourers from Gaza were estimated to be in Israel when hundreds of Palestinian fighters stormed Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, killing around 1400 people.

Despite being in Israel on work permits, they were all rounded up in detention facilities, and repeatedly humiliated and abused according to first-hand accounts.

Workers recently released by Israel told Middle East Eye their work permits had been revoked and they were sent back to Gaza on foot, despite the coastal enclave being under constant bombardment and now subject to an Israeli ground invasion.

The workers were forced to walk for 6km until they arrived in Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing near the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
In videos circulating online, hundreds of workers are seen returning to Gaza on foot. It is not clear how many of the 4,500 labourers have been released.

The Palestinians told MEE of various abuses in detention, many of which appear to amount to torture.

'One man asked me if I wanted anything to drink, then he threw boiling water at me'
- Palestinian worker from Gaza
“They took our phones. One man asked me if I wanted anything to drink, then he threw boiling water at me,” an elderly man said.

“When we were released and had to walk back to Gaza, one man died. He just dropped dead as he was walking,” another worker, originally from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, said.

“They treated us like dogs, they interrogated us while in Tel Aviv. We had our hands tied behind our backs and were barely given any food or drink,” he added.

“Young boys the same age as my children stripped us and urinated on us... no one has mentioned us workers held in Israel, not the Red Cross; the Palestinian Authority betrayed us, the whole world betrayed us,” one worker told Al Jazeera upon his arrival in Gaza.

Miriam Marmur, public advocacy director of Israeli rights group Gisha, told MEE that the information they received about the workers’ detentions was “extremely concerning and alarming”.

“We have no way of knowing how many people were held unlawfully in Israeli detention centres because Israel refused to disclose the names and whereabouts of the people they were holding,” she said.

Marmur added that the workers were held in facilities in Israeli military bases in the occupied West Bank, and she had with no knowledge of how many workers remained detained.

“There are various reports of Israeli forces carrying out raids, picking up Palestinian workers and taking them to detention centres," she said, adding that "from what they describe, the conditions are extremely, extremely dire”.

Middle East Eye has asked the Israeli military for comment.

Psychological and physical abuse
Released Palestinian workers said they were not allowed access to legal representation. Humanitarian workers were also forbidden to enter the detention facilities to carry out assessments of the conditions.

“We were abused for 25 days, we were around 5,000-6,000 people held,” one person told Al Jazeera.

Many of the workers said they were consistently threatened as they were asked questions about Hamas.

'Some people were interrogated. They had it the worst, they were hung and beaten'
- Worker detained by Israel
“Some people were interrogated. They had it the worst, they were hung and beaten. They asked if we knew anyone from Hamas,” an elderly man told local media.

“Obviously we don’t know anything, we’re just workers,” another man said in footage circulating online.

Workers have said the Israeli authorities did not allow them to access their phones or make calls to their families, leaving many of them concerned about the welfare of their loved ones under bombardment.

“God willing we get back and find our children and families safe and alive,” one man told local media.

“We were tortured, no one had mercy on us. They took our money and clothes, they left us naked for three days while they tortured us. We were hungry, they kicked and punched us, stepped on our heads, until now I am in pain.”

According to the workers, they were handed over to Israeli forces by their employers.

In online footage, workers can be seen showing blue tags placed on their ankles. They said none of their belongings, including phones and money, were returned to them before they were released.

Israelis cheer footage of abuse
Since the 7 October attack, anti-Palestinian rhetoric and sentiment has reached an all-time high in Israel. Israeli officials have called for Gaza to be wiped out and urged Palestinians linked with the attack to be tortured.

Meanwhile, attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have escalated.

Earlier this week, far-right Israeli groups on messaging apps shared and celebrated graphic videos of what appeared to be Palestinian workers in the West Bank being abused by Israeli soldiers.

Several of these videos were published on "Without Limits", an Israeli right-wing Telegram channel, which has over 117,000 subscribers, among other right-wing groups.

In one harrowing video, blindfolded Palestinian men with cable ties around their hands are seen being assaulted by heavily armed troops. The men, some of whom have been stripped entirely naked, can be heard screaming while lying on the floor.

Soldiers drag them across the ground, while one Israeli soldier steps on a detainee's head. His colleagues are heard laughing in the background.

The clip has almost 2,000 laughing emoji reactions to it, and hundreds of celebration emojis, as well as love-eye reactions. The Israeli army previously told MEE the actions of the soldiers seen in the footage were "deplorable" and said it was being looked into.

Around 18,500 Palestinians from Gaza hold permits issued by Israeli authorities, though it is not known how many were in Israel when the permits were revoked following the outbreak of war.

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Israel-Palestine war: Ahmed Abu Artema, one day you will be free

The Palestinian journalist and peace activist recently lost five members of his family in an Israeli air raid on Gaza, where he has long fought for relief from years of siege

“Keep marching, build up the pressure, we need your support.” These were always the words of Ahmed Abu Artema when we asked on our WhatsApp group of friends how we could support Palestine.

Ahmed has been our eyes in Gaza. Amid the ongoing war, we have waited for his daily messages to tell us that he is okay - as if this could reassure us that Gaza is fine.

But the last message we received from Ahmed was on 21 October. We began worrying about what might have happened to him, looking in the news for his name; was he among those killed by Israeli shelling? Was he out of power? I began hoping that he and his family had found their way to the relative safety of a tunnel.

Several days later, on 24 October, we learned that Israeli shelling had hit Ahmed’s family. They were among many who had moved to southern Gaza at Israel’s request, thinking it would be safe there.

As a result of the attack, Ahmed lost five members of his family, including his youngest son - his youngest son, who dealt with the fear of air raids by shouting “hey hey” after each bomb.


Ahmed himself was also seriously injured, suffering second-degree burns. Like Wael Dahdouh, the Al Jazeera correspondent who recently lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli air raid, Ahmed had fled to a place Israel had said would be safe.

Already, more than 30 journalists have been killed in the war, the overwhelming majority of them Palestinian. There are reports that Israel has deliberately targeted some media workers, as it continues to commit atrocities throughout Gaza.

'We couldn't stay silent'
Ahmed has always believed in peaceful marches as a method of struggle. “What would happen if thousands of Gazans … attempted to peacefully cross the fence that separated them from their ancestral lands?” he asked on social media in 2018.

This became the inspiration for the Great March of Return, which began in March of that year to demand an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza and recognition of the right of return for Palestinian refugees.

“I grew up with a great affinity to freedom,” Ahmed, who in addition to being a journalist is also a poet and leading activist, said in a public address last year. “The idea of freedom is always with me, and since my childhood, I have longed for it. I keep dreaming about living without borders.”

The Great March of Return took place because Palestinians in Gaza had no other choice, he said.

Why is Israel believed when it gives its version of what happened in a massacre, while Palestinians are accused of lying about the numbers of their own dead?
“We had to do something, because we were experiencing a slow death, and we couldn’t stay silent … We made that choice because we live under colonisation,” Ahmed said. “Think of what it must be like when you put a person in a prison condition, without food and water … He wants to break free from the pressure of a slow death. Palestinians don’t have the choice of staying silent. If we do so, it will lead to even more deaths.”

The marches were spaces of hope, where political conversations flourished, Ahmed said: “They were spaces in which we reclaimed our existence - and sometimes an outcry to the world that we are here, imprisoned, and we want a way out.”

Ahmed wanted to give hope to young people in Gaza by telling them about different forms of struggle. But although the Great March of Return was non-violent, the Israeli army responded by shooting live ammunition into the crowds. During a year of marches, more than 200 Palestinians, including dozens of children, were killed, and thousands more were injured by Israeli forces.

Reclaiming language
Shooting at peaceful demonstrations is nothing new for Israel, but still, the state claims it does not have a partner in peace. For those seeking context to the current situation in Gaza, peaceful demonstrations have long been tried. The Great March of Return was a public outcry, an attempt to escape the Gaza prison.

Marches are spaces for holding political discussions and reviving dreams. In the Great March, it was the dream of return. Even as he was under Israeli shelling last month, Ahmed kept asking us to continue marching, to create pressure so the world could hear.

But what will the world hear now? There is a western-supported war on poor people in a besieged territory, and there is a global media war on language - a massacre of words in which Israeli violence is called “self-defence”, and Palestinian resistance “terrorism”.


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Are we to believe that ethnic cleansing and genocide are legitimate methods of self-defence; that Israelis are humans who love to live, and Palestinians are animals who love to die? Why is Israel believed when it gives its version of what happened in a massacre, while Palestinians are accused of lying about the numbers of their own dead?

Ahmed, since you have always believed in marches, perhaps when you are healed, we can call for a march to reclaim language - a march to liberate ourselves and the occupiers, to liberate the moral bankruptcy of humanity.

You once wrote: “I resent the occupation because it ruins my evening walks, because it goes against the law of nature. I resent the occupation because it clips my wings and does not let me fly. I resent occupation because it shatters my dreams.”

You were born in 1984, but because of the Israeli blockade, you never set foot outside Gaza until 2015. You tried to escape the open-air prison by reading books, aiming to feel connected to other human cultures. We hope you will one day grow wings to fly and catch your dreams; to visit your village of Ramle, from which your parents were forcibly displaced decades ago, and to live in the single democratic state you’ve always advocated.

Until the moment of return, we wish you a speedy recovery.

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Abby Martin and some other beautiful human beings at the Oregon Senator's place of work, yesterday :flower:

This is gripping viewing - I'm still running this - now 16 minutes in :muscle: :flower:

It's very powerful and moving :sun:

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The Karens are triggered again. These are the same ones who kissed the feet of blacks for George Floyd's death.

Why aren't they crying out for the 100,000 young dead in their own country from fentanyl poisoning?
What about the murders, killers, and criminals coming across the wide open southern border?
Why not cry over the mutilation of our young by trans gender nonsense?

No, that's not current, not in the public eye. Not 'popular'.
But 4,000 dead children half way around the world is their concern.

They are disingenuous.

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At the behest of our leader, Overseas Pakistanis are mobilizing for worldwide protests in November. On November 2nd, we will hold a protest and hunger strike in Washington DC outside the State Dept Building and in Mississauga Canada. On November 3rd, we are confirmed to gather outside the UK Parliament and 10 Downing Street. We have also applied for permits in 23 other cities throughout November, including Brussels, Paris, and Australia.
I would like to request Pakistanis across the globe to fast for a day during November, followed by a collective Iftar and Dua for the people of Palestine, for the political prisoners and their families in Pakistan, and for the long, healthy life of Chairman Imran Khan, along with his release from prison. Above all, let's join in prayer for our beloved motherland, Pakistan.
Let's unite and demonstrate to the world that Overseas Pakistanis stand resolutely with their cherished leader and will persist in this fight till the very end.
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