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WHAT HAPPENED Al-Qassam Brigades fighter. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) Al-Qassam’s statement comes shortly after the Israeli military announced that it had made a “new incursion” into the besieged Gaza Strip last night. Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced on Friday that it had foiled an attempt by Nazi army to land its forces on the Rafah beach in the southern Gaza Strip. The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: #Hamas' main base of operations is under #Shifa Hospital in #Gaza City. FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG: https://palestinechronicle.com/gaza-live-blog-new-massacres-in-gaza-taba-under-fire-west-bank-raided-hezbollah-strikes-back-day-21/ So what happened?  I...

Israeli airstrikes on besieged Gaza continue. (Photo: via Social media) By Robert Inlakesh There appears to be a real push from within the Israeli regime to ethnically cleanse the people of Gaza into the Sinai desert of Egypt. On the first day of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, offered a provocative warning to some 2.3 million civilians in the besieged coastal enclave: “Leave now”, he said, knowing that the people were trapped and could not.  However, as time goes on and documents are leaked, there appears to be a real push from within the Israeli regime to ethnically cleanse the people of Gaza into the Sinai desert of Egypt. The Israeli think tank, the ‘Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy...

BY SARAH GERTLER Photograph Source: Al Jazeera English – CC BY-SA 2.0 Like many of us, I’ve been glued to media coverage of the terrible violence in Gaza and Israel. I was deeply shaken by the brutal killings of over a thousand Israelis on October 7. The families of Israelis killed and taken hostage deserve justice for these crimes. But instead of justice, all I’ve seen from the far-right Israeli government is more death. Palestinians have already endured 75 years of displacement and oppression. The 2.2 million Palestinians living in the cramped Gaza strip have lived for 16 years under an Israeli siege that chokes their access to food, water, electricity, and movement. Now Gazans’ access to these necessities has been cut off completely. Nearly half o...

Israeli State Terrorism Over the Years BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Amit Agronov / IDF Spokesperson’s Unit – CC BY-SA 3.0 The mainstream media have fully documented terrorism by Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and other groups against Israeli civilians that reached its most horrific and sadistic level in the massacre of October 7th.  The media typically define terrorism as any act of violence against civilians in support of an ideology, which certainly describes Hamas’ terrorism.  But there is another definition of terrorism that refers to acts of violence against civilians in order to intimidate and/or defeat their political leaders.  On the basis of that definition, Israel has been terrorizing Palestinian communities over the past 75 years.  ...

October 27: Today’s news on Palestine & Israel.  CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   The aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza City on Oct. 26 (photo) Day 21 updates: Israeli shelling continues; food, housing crises in Gaza; more US troops head to Middle East; settler attacks in WB; Richmond CA passes resolution supporting Gazans This is a developing story, check back for updates Find daily casualty figures and previous daily news updates here. For more news, go here and here. Gaza health ministry publishes names of all those killed The Gaza health ministry has issued a report that lists the names and ages of all those killed in Israeli air strikes during the ongoing war. The 212-page document lists 6,747 people it says were kille...