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☆ Opinion | Understanding the True Nature of the Hamas-Israel War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The reason the Hamas-Israel war can be hard for outsiders to understand is that three wars are going on at the same time: a war between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians exacerbated by a terrorist group, a war within Israeli and Palestinian societies over the future, and a war between Iran and its proxies and America and its allies. But before we dig into those wars, here’s the most important thing to keep in mind about them: There’s a single formula that can maximize the chances that the forces of decency can prevail in all three. Pay particular attention to that last point: a revamped Palestinian Authority is the keystone for the forces of moderation, coexistence and decency triumphing in all three wars. It is the keystone for reviving a two-state solution. It is the keystone for creating a stable foundation for the normalization of relations between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab-Muslim world.

Persons: Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Amos Harel, Netanyahu “, Netanyahu Organizations: Palestinian Authority, West Bank, NATO, Palestinian Locations: Israel, Iran, America, Palestinian, Saudi Arabia, United States, Gaza

☆ U.S. Has Warned Israel to Fight More Surgically in Gaza, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The United States has warned Israel that it must fight more surgically and avoid further mass displacement of Palestinians in its war against Hamas to avoid a humanitarian crisis that overwhelms the world’s ability to respond, according to senior Biden administration officials. The United Nations has said the fighting has already displaced most of Gaza’s population of 2.2 million. The statements are the Biden administration’s strongest warning to Israeli officials to date about the next phase of their military operation. Gazan health officials say at least 13,000 people were killed during the nearly 50-day Israeli bombardment and ground invasion that followed. The Biden administration officials said the United States was planning to take advantage of the extra time.

Persons: Israel, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, John F, Kirby, “, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Biden, United Nations, White, National Security Council Locations: States, Israel, Gaza, United States, Egypt

An agreement has been reached to extend the Israel-Hamas truce for another two days, the spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. In turn, Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners. Political Cartoons View All 1265 ImagesIsrael has said it would extend the cease-fire by one day for every 10 additional hostages released. Here’s what's happening in the war:QATAR SAYS ISRAEL AND HAMAS AGREE TO EXTEND TRUCE FOR TWO MORE DAYSQatar’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that an agreement has been reached to extend the Israel-Hamas truce for another two days. Hamas has released some hostages during a truce that began Friday in return for Israeli releases of Palestinian prisoners.

Persons: —, Benjamin Netanyahu, — Elon, Majid Al Ansary, Elma Avraham, wasn’t, Tzachi Slotsky, Beer Sheba, Avraham’s, Tali Amano, Avraham, Amano, “, ”, Cross, Jason Straziuso, ELON, Elon Musk, who’s, Isaac Herzog, Musk, ” Musk, Eylon Levy, Shlomo Karhi, ” Karhi, Riad, Malki, JERUSALEM, ” Yelena Magid, Roni Krivoi, ” Magid, UNRWA's, Morris Tidball, Alice Jill Edwards, Wang Yi, Wang Wenbin, ” Wang Wenbin, Frank, Walter Steinmeier, ” Steinmeier, “ Beeri, Hassan Fadlallah, Fadlallah, Islam, France’s, Samuel Paty, Charlie Hebdo, Jason J, Eaton Organizations: Qatar’s Foreign, Hamas, Sunday, Israel, Health Ministry, —, Navy, Qatari Foreign, Soroka Medical, International Committee, ICRC Media, The Associated Press, Twitter, Israeli Ministry of Communications, Palestinian Foreign Affairs, European Union, Union for, Associated Press, United Nations, ISRAEL, BEIJING, Security, Chinese Foreign Ministry, ISRAEL BERLIN —, Beeri, Hezbollah, GO, PARIS —, MEN, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Police, University of Vermont, Burlington Police Department, Burlington Locations: Israel, Qatar, Egypt, Gaza, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, — U.S, israel, QATAR, ISRAEL, Beer, BARCELONA, Spain, Africa, HANOUN, Beit Hanoun, Geneva, New York, China, GERMANY, ISRAEL BERLIN — Germany, Beeri, BEIRUT, Iran, Lebanon, Aita, Paris, UNIVERSITY, Burlington

☆ Opinion | We Know War Is Awful, So Why Is It Making a Comeback?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A third war, which has dominated the news lately, might also have been set in motion by a costly mistake, as I’ll explain. To economists, this raises a question: If wars are so awful, why do we keep blundering into them? Battle-related deaths exceeded 100,000 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and 81,000 in Ukraine, according to the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The war that’s in the news now is the Hamas terror attack on Israelis on Oct. 7 and the Israel Defense Forces counterattack, which it says is necessary to root Hamas out of Gaza. There were spasms of heavy fighting from November 2020 to November 2022, charges of war crimes by both sides and famine.

Persons: There’s, “, Eli Berman Organizations: Peace Research Institute, Israel Defense Forces, West Bank, Ethiopian Army, University of California Locations: Ethiopia, Ukraine, Tigray, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Gaza, San Diego

☆ Israel-Hamas War Israel Faces Decision on What to Do After End of Truce
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Hamas released a second group of 13 Israeli hostages on Saturday as part of a cease-fire deal, a day after it released another 13. (Read about the Israeli hostages who have already been released here.) “I want to start walking to where the decisions are made.”Sharon Avigdori, 52; Noam Avigdori, 12Image Sharon and Noam Avigdori Credit... Maya Regev, 21Image Maya Regev Credit... Regev Family, via Associated PressMaya Regev was at the Tribe of Nova music festival on Oct. 7 when Hamas attackers infiltrated Israel and massacred hundreds of young festivalgoers. Their mother, Yonat, was one of dozens killed in Kibbutz Be’eri.

Persons: —, Shoshan Haran, Rachel Gur, Associated Press Shoshan Haran, Avshalom Haran, Lilach, Evyatar Kipnis, Paul Castelvi, Haran’s, Adi Shoham, Shoshan, Naveh, Yahel, Tal Shoham, Shoham, Yuval Haran, Adi Shoham’s, “ I’m, ”, “, ” Sharon Avigdori, Noam Avigdori, Sharon, Sharon Avigdori, Avshalom, Hen Avigdori, Omer, Avigdori, Emily Hand, Yael Shahrur Noah, Associated Press Emily Hand, Natalie Hand, Emily, Thomas Hand, ” Ireland’s, Maya Regev, Regev, festivalgoers, Ilan Regev Derby, Omer Shem Tov, Mirit, Alma, Noam, Dror, Hila Rotem Shoshani, Hila Rotem, Rotem Shoshani, Raaya, texted, Noga, Shiri Weiss, Reuters Shiri Weiss, Noga Weiss, Kibbutz Be’eri, Oren Rubinstein, Rubinstein, Ilan Weiss, Shiri’s, Gil —, Jeffrey Gettleman Organizations: Associated Press, Associated, Noam, Israel’s, Embassy, The, Shiri, Reuters, YouTube, IDF, U.S . Special Forces, Be’eri Locations: Tel Aviv, Gaza, Be’eri, Israel, Jerusalem, Hod Hasharon, Irish, Kibbutz Be’eri, London, ”, Hila Rotem Shoshani, San Francisco, WhatsApp

Joseph Ataman/CNNAfter many foreign workers fled Israel following the October 7 attacks, farmers were forced to abandon crops or rely on volunteers for the harvest. Inbar’s remaining foreign workers quietly motor up and down the rows of zucchini. Hamas fighters torched the barns holding hay for the dairy cows on Kibbutz Alumim, riding unopposed into the settlement before massacring foreign workers and attendees of the nearby Nova music festival. “The foreign workers run the farm, they do all the milking,” farm manager Stevie Marcus said of the working of the farm before October 7. Joseph Ataman/CNNStanding among Inbar’s zucchini, tech worker Avi Leibovich - volunteering on a day off from his day job - said he came to help Israeli farms survive.

Persons: Thais, Nattaphong Duangchan, Matan, Yosi, Joseph Ataman, Avi Dichter, ”, Lior Simcha, Stevie Marcus, Yosi Inbar, it’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, Inbar, “ We’re, Lisa Perlman, Inbar’s, Avi Leibovich, Danny Parizada, hadn’t, Mei –, Mei, “ Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Palestinian, West Bank, Milk Producers Association, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, of Housing, Brothers, Sisters, Volunteers Locations: Thai, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Thailand, Thailand’s, Sri Lanka, Israel’s, Egypt, United States, Nova, Kibbutz Alumim, Gaza City, Tel Aviv

☆ Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Lauren Leatherby | More About Lauren Leatherby | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

In the nine-month battle of Mosul, which Israeli officials have cited as a comparison, an estimated total of 9,000 to 11,000 civilians were killed by all sides in the conflict, including many thousands killed by the Islamic State, The Associated Press found. A similar number of women and children have already been reported killed in Gaza in less than two months. More broadly, Israeli officials say this is a campaign on its own borders to wipe out Hamas, a group dedicated to Israel’s destruction. “The war here is for our existence,” one Israeli war cabinet minister, Benny Gantz, told reporters on Nov. 8. But even before those changes, the number of women and children reported dead already outpaced other conflicts.

Persons: Crawford, Brown, ”, Brian Castner, Mr, Castner, “, Conricus, Mark Regev, Israel, Regev, ” Israel, Benny Gantz, ” Yoav Gallant, Biden, Barbara Leaf, Rick Brennan, Brennan Organizations: Islamic, Associated Press, ISIS, Amnesty International, U.S . Air Force, PBS, ”, Gaza Health Ministry, World Health Locations: Gaza, U.S, Iraq, United States, Afghanistan, Syria, Islamic State, Mosul, Raqqa, Ukraine, Israel, Egypt

☆ In a Cairo hospital: Guilt, pain and a desperate wait
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Eleni Giokos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Today Wadea’s 9-year-old son, Abdelrahman, shares a hospital room at Nasser Medical Institute with his 14-year-old sister. Injured children board an ambulance to be transferred from Al-Aqsa Hospital to Egypt for medical treatment through Rafah on November 17, 2023. On Monday, 28 babies arrived in Egypt from Gaza at the Rafah crossing, according to an Egyptian government official. One baby was discharged in Gaza and went home with his parents to their temporary shelter, while two others stayed in the ICU unit of the Emirati hospital in Rafah, Gaza. Conditions in Gaza have grown desperate as fuel supplies dwindle, forcing the closure of 26 of the enclave’s 35 hospitals.

Persons: Rami Mahmoud, Elham Maged, Mahmoud, Cairo's, Cairo’s, “, ‘, ” Elham, ”, ’, Adel Hana, God, Rami, Elham, Muhammed Wadea, CNN Muhammed Wadea, Khan Younis, Abdelrahman, Wadea, Riham, Dr, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Mustafa Hassona, CNN's Eleni Giokos, CNN Ghaffar Organizations: CNN, Cairo's Nasser Medical Institute, Cairo’s Nasser Medical Institute, Nasser Medical Institute, Aqsa, Getty, United Nations Locations: Gaza City, Egypt, Gaza, Salah, Israel, Khan, Rafah, Qatar, United States, Al, Anadolu, Gazan

"They are innocent children, premature babies," an exhausted al-Saik said in a video interview provided by the Egyptian government. The babies, from a total of 31 moved on Sunday from the besieged Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to a maternity hospital in Rafah, wore only nappies and tiny green hats. When doctors at Al Shifa raised the alarm about them, there were 39 babies. Like hundreds of thousands of others, al-Saik moved to the south of the Gaza Strip with her three other children, while the baby girl stayed at Al Shifa. FAMILY TORN APARTWith shortages of electricity, water, medicines and other basics, conditions at Al Shifa deteriorated and the baby lost weight and got sick.

Persons: Gaza's, Lobna, Saik, Rick Brennan, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Al Shifa, Jeremy Hopkins, Mohammad Salama, Helal, Salama, Nayera Abdallah, Clauda Tanios, Mai Shams El, Yusri Mohamed, Aidan Lewis, Estelle Shirbon, Janet Lawrence Organizations: Al Shifa, WHO, World Health Organization, Reuters, Al Shifa Hospital, Hamas, UNICEF, Emairati Maternity, Thomson Locations: Egypt, Al, CAIRO, GAZA, Gaza, Rafah, Gaza City, Cairo, Israel, Palestinian, Ismailia, London

CNN —Thirty-one babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday, in a high-stakes operation that involved multiple international agencies rushing the newborns in ambulances through active fighting, as fears remain for their survival. Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, has become a flashpoint in Israel’s war in the besieged enclave. Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health, and pleaded for evacuation,” the statement said. The 31 evacuated babies are all fighting serious infections, said the WHO, citing doctors at the Rafah hospital where they are being treated. Eleven of the babies are in “critical condition,” said the WHO, adding that the babies had fallen ill due to the lack of medical supplies at Al-Shifa Hospital.

Persons: Helal, Ali Sbeiti, Anas, ” Sbeiti, ”, Mohammad Salamah, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Organizations: CNN, Shifa, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Maternity, Hamas, United, World Health Organization, WHO, Al, Emarati Maternity, “, Sunday, UNICEF – Locations: Al, Gaza, Palestine, Egypt, United Nations, Gazan, Rafah, Israel, ”

☆ Mosab Abu Toha: PEN International ‘deeply concerned’ by poet’s reported arrest by Israeli forces
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Abeer Salman | David Shortell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Mosab Abu Toha was taken into custody by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “when he reached the checkpoint while leaving from the north to the south” of Gaza, his brother Hamza Abu Toha said in a Facebook post Monday. “His wife and children entered the south, and the army arrested my brother Mosab,” Hamza Abu Toha wrote on Facebook. It is worth mentioning that the American embassy sent him and his family to travel through the Rafah crossing.”The circumstances of Abu Toha’s arrest are unclear. In a Facebook post five days ago – his most recent post on the website – Abu Toha wrote that he was “alive” and begged for an end to the bloodshed. Please stop it now.”PEN International, the global association of writers, said Monday that it is “deeply concerned” about Abu Toha.

Persons: Mosab Abu Toha, Hamza Abu Toha, “, Mosab, ” Hamza Abu Toha, Abu Toha’s, ”, Abu Toha Organizations: CNN, New, Israel Defense Forces, Facebook, American, US State Department, Shifa, ” PEN International, PEN, Twitter, The New York Locations: Gaza, Rafah, Israel, Beit Lahia, Al

When a group of international journalists arrived at the southern fringe of Gaza City early Friday morning, riding in the back of an Israeli army jeep, we struggled to orientate ourselves amid the ruins, the wreckage and the darkness. House after house was missing a wall or a roof, or both. Many had simply been flattened, their concrete floors lying atop each other like a pack of playing cards. Trying to situate myself after reaching Gaza City, I asked a senior Israeli commander where we were in relation to a fishing port where I usually stayed during visits to Gaza before the war. I could not find the fish market.

Locations: Gaza City, Israel, Israeli, Gaza

☆ Israel-Hamas War Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Philip P. Pan | Patrick Kingsley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Israeli soldiers from the 7th Brigade escorted journalists to see a stone and concrete shaft, on the grounds of the Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City on Thursday. But Col. Elad Tsury, commander of Israel’s Seventh Brigade, said Israeli forces, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft at the hospital, Al-Shifa. The controlled visit will not settle the question of whether Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that rules Gaza, has been using Al-Shifa Hospital to hide weapons and command centers, as Israel has said. Image A stone and concrete shaft on the grounds of the Al-Shifa hospital, on Thursday. The Times journalists were allowed to see only a portion of the sprawling Al-Shifa complex.

Persons: Elad Tsury, Israel’s, Daniel Berehulak, Israel, Tsury Organizations: 7th Brigade, New York Times, Israel’s Seventh Brigade, Shifa, ., New York, Hamas, The New York Times, Times, World Health Organization Locations: Gaza City, Al, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Israeli soldiers from the 7th Brigade escorted journalists to see a stone-and concrete-shaft on the grounds of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday. But Col. Elad Tsury, commander of Israel’s Seventh Brigade, said Israeli forces, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft at the hospital, Al-Shifa. The controlled visit will not settle the question of whether Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that rules Gaza, has been using Al-Shifa Hospital to hide weapons and command centers, as Israel has said. Image A stone and concrete shaft on the grounds of the Al-Shifa Hospital, on Thursday. The Times did not allow the Israeli military to screen its coverage before publication.

Persons: Elad Tsury, Israel’s, Daniel Berehulak, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, “, Tsury Organizations: 7th Brigade, Shifa, The New York Times, Israel’s Seventh Brigade, ., New York, Hamas, Al, National Public, Outpatient, The Times, Times, World Health Organization Locations: Al, Gaza City, Gaza, Israel

☆ Family Buries Israeli Conscript Hostage, Vows Never to Forgive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Janis LaizansMODIIN, Israel (Reuters) - The body of an Israeli hostage recovered from Gaza City was buried on Friday by weeping family and friends, with her mother telling mourners she would never forgive what had befallen her daughter, a teenaged conscript soldier. Noa Marciano, 19, was at a military base near Gaza on Oct. 7 when it was overrun by Hamas fighters. Hamas released a video earlier this week saying she had died in an Israeli airstrike. The Israeli military said on Friday they had found her body the day before in a building adjacent to Gaza's Shifa Hospital and returned the corpse to Israel for burial. Around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, were killed by Hamas during their attack, while up to 240 were taken hostage.

Persons: Janis Laizans MODIIN, Noa Marciano, Marciano's, Marciano, Yehudit Weiss, Be’eri, We've, Omer Weiss, Benjamin Netanyahu, Janis Laizans, Crispian Balmer, Toby Chopra Organizations: Hamas, Gaza's Shifa, Tel Aviv . Locations: Israel, Gaza City, Gaza, Gaza's, Al Shifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv . Israel

☆ Family buries Israeli conscript hostage, vows never to forgive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Janis Laizans | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Noa Marciano, 19, was at a military base near Gaza on Oct. 7 when it was overrun by Hamas fighters. Hamas released a video earlier this week saying she had died in an Israeli airstrike. The Israeli military said on Friday they had found her body the day before in a building adjacent to Gaza's Shifa Hospital and returned the corpse to Israel for burial. Around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, were killed by Hamas during their attack, while up to 240 were taken hostage. Israel declared war on Hamas after its surprise assault, bombarding the Palestinian enclave and launching a land invasion.

Persons: Corporal Noa Marciano's, Ronen, Noa Marciano, Marciano's, Marciano, Yehudit Weiss, Be’eri, We've, Omer Weiss, Benjamin Netanyahu, Janis Laizans, Crispian Balmer, Toby Chopra Organizations: Al, Hospital, REUTERS, Hamas, Gaza's Shifa, Tel Aviv ., Thomson Locations: Gaza, Modiin, Israel, Gaza City, Gaza's, Al Shifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv . Israel

☆ Gaza war inflicts catastrophic damage on infrastructure and economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

In all, it said at least 45% of Gaza's housing units had reportedly been damaged or destroyed. It was impossible to independently verify the numbers, but Reuters reporters in Gaza say the destruction is on a huge scale. OCHA said 55 ambulances in Gaza had been damaged, with critical shortages reported of drugs and blood products. The socio-economic situation of Gaza was already dire before the war, with the poverty rate estimated to have reached 61% in 2020. They also forecast that the war would cost Gaza between 4% and 12% of gross domestic product in 2023.

Persons: OCHA, Khan Younis, Crispian Balmer, Giles Elgood, Gareth Jones Organizations: United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Gaza's Ministry of Health, Palestinian, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, REUTERS Acquire, UNRWA, United Nations Economic, Social Commission, Western, United Nations Development Programme, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Beit Hanoun, Palestinian, ISRAEL, Khan, Israel, Western Asia

☆ ‘Where will I leave these children, on the street?’ The struggle for survival faced by disabled Palestinians in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | Sana Noor Haq | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“There was chaos in the place, children crying, and smoke and fire spread,” Al-Naizi told CNN, sharing videos of the aftermath. It took about two hours to evacuate the group, according to Al-Naizi, as many of the children had to be carried. “Where will I leave these children, on the street?” Al-Naizi said. Streams of Palestinians – including women, children and the elderly – have been making their way south in a growing exodus along daily evacuation corridors announced by the IDF. Hazem Saeed Al-NaiziAs Israeli troops close in on Gaza City, Al-Naizi fears the orphanage will be displaced again.

Persons: Hazem Saeed Al, Naizi, ” Al, ”, “, Hamza, Muhammad, Naizi Israel, Volker Türk, Abu Jazar Sama, Sama, Walid Mahmoud Nazzal, ” Sama, ” Heba Abu Jazar Sama, Heba Abu Jazar Sama, Sama’s, Jamal Al Rozzi, Ayas, Saeed Al, Reham Shaheen, bedsores, Shaheen, Gazans, Al Rozzi, Fidaa Fouad Khamis Omar, Khan Younis, ’ Al Rozzi’s, Adham, Israel, Omar, , ” CNN’s Kareem El Damanhoury, Abeer Salman, Akanksha Sharma, Mostafa Salem, Zeena, Eyad Kourdi Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Ministry of Health, West Bank, Humanitarian Affairs, IDF, United Nations, Palestinian Central Bureau, Statistics, Palestinian, Palestinian Union of, UN, Human Rights Watch, National Society for Rehabilitation, Humanity, HRW, Aid, National Society for, Rehabilitation, Amnesty International Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Al, Ramallah, Palestinian Union, “, Wadi Gaza, Khan

☆ Detained, Beaten, Underfed: Gazan Workers in Israel Describe Ordeal After Oct. 7 Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinian workers, who were stranded in Israel following the Oct. 7 attack, return home to the Gaza Strip. Photo: Str/Zuma PressWhen Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attacks that killed some 1,200 people across southern Israel, Maher Skaik, a 62-year-old from the Gaza Strip, was working in the Tel Aviv neighborhood where he had been a pastry maker for more than two years. A week later, Skaik said police officers came to the apartment he shared with several other Palestinian workers and took them into custody. Skaik was detained for a few days in a small cell where a group of detainees, several of whom he said were beaten by guards, slept on the floor squeezed together.

Persons: Maher Skaik, Skaik Organizations: Press, Hamas Locations: Israel, Gaza, Tel Aviv

☆ Gaza conflict takes toll on Palestinian players, says PFA official
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Smoke rises in Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, November 16, 2023. The match is being played in neutral venue of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, because of the conflict. "Everything changed after Oct. 7 with the start of the conflict in Gaza," Palestine Football Association (PFA) media manager Ahmed Rajoub told the National media outlet. "All sporting activities stopped completely in Palestine, and the football team was forced to move to Jordan. "We just can't get the players focused on the game when people are killed and injured every day since the conflict started," he said.

Persons: Alexander Ermochenko, Ram's Faisal Al, Ahmed Rajoub, Khalid, Mohammed, Rajoub, Mohammed Rashid, Rashid, Pearl Josephine Nazare, Robert Birsel Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, REUTERS, Lebanon, United Arab, Al, West Bank, Palestine Football Association, National, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Beirut, Australia, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Kuwait, Bengaluru

Israel's military, which has concentrated its assault on northern Gaza, said its troops and war planes were keeping up pressure on Friday. Overnight they took control of an Islamic Jihad commander's stronghold, it said, and also killed Hamas fighters inside a school where they found a large number of weapons. The army released a video it said showed a tunnel entrance in an outdoor area of Al Shifa hospital. Reuters journalists have been unable to reach anyone inside Shifa hospital for more than 24 hours. On Friday, the Israeli military said soldiers retrieved the body of a female soldier who had been held captive, in a building near Shifa.

Persons: WAFA, Al Jazeera, Israel, Alexander Ermochenko, Cindy McCain, Pedro Arrojo, Agudo, Al, Nidal al, Ari Rabinovitch, Angus MacSwan, Gareth Jones Organizations: Gaza, United Nations, Food Programme, Al, Hamas, Palestinian Health Ministry, Indonesian Hospital, Humanitarian Affairs, Palestinian, REUTERS, World Health Organization, Reuters, West Bank, Brigades, Thomson Locations: Gaza, GAZA, JERUSALEM, Rafah, Egypt, Al, Israel, Jihad, Al Shifa, North Gaza, Shifa, Jenin

And they shot me.”From a dark room in Gaza’s Al Quds hospital, Farah Abuolba speaks matter of factly into the camera. Israel’s siege of Gaza has been the unexpected coda to her first trip to see extended family in the enclave. I feel like I’m dead.”His daughter celebrated her 17th birthday from her hospital bed in Al Quds, in Gaza City. Farah Abuolba was among the patients evacuated, her father said, and was on her way to southern Gaza. CNN has been unable to reach her. Abuolba, who has lived in the US since 2007, said he thought the United States should do more to protect American citizens in Gaza like his daughter.

Persons: I’m, Farah Abuolba, “, ” Abuolba, Antony Blinken, Abuolba, “ I’m, ”, Karam Abuolba, Shifa, PRCS, it’s, Blinken, Israel –, –, Joe Biden, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, State Department, IDF, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Biden Administration, US, United Nations Locations: American, Gaza’s Al Quds, Rafah, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Pennsylvania, Al Quds, Gaza City, Gaza’s, Al, Palestinian, Palestine, United States, America

REUTERS/Doaa... Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreGAZA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The boy keeps asking for his parents, and he wants to get up and walk, but his parents are dead and his legs have been amputated. He had severed lower limbs," the doctor said at the hospital, speaking on Saturday as preparations were underway for him to operate on Ahmed. "We are going to carry out lower limb amputation due to severe lower limb lacerations, to the right leg. The United Nations and international aid groups speak of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. "The child not only lost his parents, he lost his legs too," said Abu Amsha.

Persons: Ahmad Shabat, Ahmed Shabat, Ibrahim Abu Amsha, Abu Amsha, Nahum Barnea, Ahmed Zayyan, Ahmed, Dr Zayyan, Israel, Estelle Shirbon, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: REUTERS, United Nations, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: Shuhada, Aqsa, Gaza, GAZA, Beit Hanoun, Gaza City, Deir al, Israel

☆ Israeli military shows video of arms it says were found at Al Shifa hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsJERUSALEM, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Israeli troops found Hamas weapons and combat gear in Al Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip during a search on Wednesday, chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. Israeli troops forced their way into Al Shifa overnight and have spent the day scouring specific locations within Gaza's largest hospital. "These assets in Shifa hospital, just like in Rantissi, prove that hospitals have been used for military purposes for terror, in direct opposition to international law," Hagari said. The military made no mention on Wednesday of finding any tunnel entrances in Al Shifa. However, Hecht said the raid at Al Shifa was not focused on hostages.

Persons: Daniel Hagari, Hagari, Richard Hecht, Hecht, Al Shifa, Israel, Crispian Balmer, Emily Rose, Doina Chiacu, James Mackenzie, Nick Macfie, Timothy Heritage, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Hamas, CNN, Thomson Locations: Al Shifa, Gaza, Israel, Gaza's, Rantissi, Al, Washington

☆ Israeli military says weapons found in Al Shifa hospital, Hamas denies it
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

He said fire was exchanged before the Israeli soldiers moved into the hospital but there was "no engagement whatsoever" once they had entered. In the last hour, we saw concrete evidence that Hamas terrorists used the Shifa hospital as a terror headquarters," the official said. Israel has said for years that Hamas militants have used Al Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, as a cover for their operations. However, Hecht said the raid at Al Shifa was not focused on hostages. The anonymous military official said four militants had died in a gunfight outside Al Shifa, as Israeli soldiers sought to enter the complex.

Persons: Richard Hecht, Hecht, Israel, Shifa, Al Shifa, Crispian Balmer, Doina Chiacu, James Mackenzie, Nick Macfie, Timothy Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, CNN, Israel Defence Forces, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Al Shifa, Israel, Al, Washington

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