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Hundreds gather in Ramallah’s Manarah Square to support Gaza

Imran Khan reporting from Ramallah, occupied West Bank

Emotions are running incredibly high and there is a pattern developing. Every time we see something like the Jabalia refugee camp bombing, or indeed the bombing of a hospital, people come out on the streets in the Manarah Square in Ramallah.

Just two hours ago, there were about 300 to 400 people out on the streets, chanting in support of the people of Gaza. What they do is they normally kind of walk into the square, they gather – this was during the prayer time – so they actually pray in Manarah Square and then they walk around the square and then they come back.

In the distance I can still hear people chanting … As more and more details of this Jabalia refugee camp bombing come out, we were expecting people to come out on the street despite the late hour.

People want to show their solidarity with the people of Gaza, with the Palestinians there.

Oftentimes, there are familial connections there, as well. People from the occupied West Bank have families, uncles, aunts, et cetera, within Gaza, that they can’t get a hold of, so emotions [are] running incredibly high.

-Al Jazeera

Please russia purge the right it would be funny

they're not going to because they're at a tipping point between far right nationalism and a left nationalism/small possibility of actual communist revival

Build Back Better, but for ethnic cleansing.

Israel's defence minister says 'this will not be an easy war' Ahead of a news conference by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is speaking.

"This will not be an easy an war," he says. "For the sake of our hostages we are determined to win. We are fighting for our hostages."

- BBC

Real

Jerusalem Post - Netanyahu backed down from firing minister who called to nuke Gaza

I don't know much about Israeli internal politics but I know Netanyahu has no support so maybe too beta to get anything done? Or lame duck and can do whatever he wants and what he wants is for ministers to go nuclear? IDK.

Also lol "Benjamin Netanyahu was convinced against firing Eliyahu by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is Eliyahu's faction leader, who claimed in private conversations that firing the heritage minister is "unnecessary and disproportionate."" They think they have a right to say what is necessary and proportionate anymore!

The Israeli military has encircled Gaza City, IDF spokesman says

The Israeli military has completed its encirclement of Gaza City, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Thursday.

The Israeli engineering corps is now working to locate and neutralize underground infrastructure, explosives and other threats to allow the IDF to move freely in the area, Hagari said.

Earlier Thursday, Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the Israeli military is surrounding Gaza City and "deepening" its operations there.

“Our forces are in very significant areas of Gaza City,” Halevi said.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-02-23/h_8b638e928ef6886c41b8954f3a197a15

Hamas military wing publish scenes of its fighters launching RPG and TBG shells on Israeli infantry units hiding in several buildings in Beit Hanoun. 03/11/2023

https://nitter.cz/ytirawi/status/1720820128160370975

Translation: "The enemy has attacked the women, the children and the elderly"

The video ends with Takbeer Eid

I've been away for 2 days. Did anything noteworthy happen? Are certain factions still writing angry letters or making threats about doing something?

Followup to towelgate

Two men have been fined after a display honouring Israeli hostages taken by Hamas was allegedly damaged in Sydney's east.

The pair allegedly tore down towels, pairs of thongs and photos representing the 240 hostages along the promenade at Bondi Beach yesterday.

Police say the two men, aged 25 and 40, have each been fined $500 for offensive behaviour.

This fucking dumbass has just said he won't invade in full force and expects Israel to keep its forces deployed to fight Hezbollah?

The ambiguity is the whole reason they were forced to deploy there.

he is telling you to vote

New footage of Hezbollah working on Israeli border observation infrastructure positions and teams

https://streamable.com/lyq5va

Forwarded from Samidoun Network

::: spoiler The ban on Samidoun by German officials is active participation in the ongoing genocide on Gaza. The purpose of such a ban is to repress dissent with the full force of the state. It comes hand in hand with bans on demonstrations, police assaulting people on the streets for wearing a kuffiyeh or carrying a Palestinian flag, the ban on saying "Freom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," the imposition of political bans, the efforts to deport activists or strip them of residency.

All of this is full-on complicity and particiption in genocide. As we speak to you today, Israeli occupation forces just carried out a new massacre in al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, bombing 30 homes in a heavily populated camp. The German state and the Ministry of the Interior are choosing to support these attacks by waging a campaign of terror and repression against those who dare to speak out against these ongoing crimes, who want to mobilize people to put an end to destruction, war, occupation and colonialism.

The German state and all imperialist powers, following the lead of U.S. President Biden, are partners not only in the defamation and dehumanization of the Palestinian people but the murderous war crimes and crimes against humanity of the occupation regime. Complicity in genocide is illegal under international law, as is the persecution of organizations because they oppose apartheid, and we are committed to hold Germany accountable for its crimes against not only Samidoun, but the Palestinian people as a whole.

This attack should be of serious concern to all who carry out political work, especially for Palestinian liberation. It is meant to introduce a norm in which organizations may be banned for organizing demonstrations, lectures, publishing posters and engaging in entirely public and political work that challenges the German state and its complicity in Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ongoing genocide in Gaza. It comes at a time when more people than ever are speaking out for justice and liberation in Palestine and is meant as an attack on the movement as a whole.

If it is possible to ban Samidoun, then it is possible to ban every political organization and group in Germany that challenges the politics of the German state and its imperialist role. This action comes hand in hand with the United States' ongoing resupply of bombs to target the Palestinian people in Gaza. It is meant to bolster the Israeli war effort by depriving the Palestinian people of popular support on the streets.

This is also a racist assault on the Palestinian and Arab community. Samidoun in Germany is led by Palestinian refugee youth, and the German media has engaged in a blatantly racist smear campaign intended to incite the most racist and fascist forces in the country against the Palestinian community, which is the largest in Europe. The police in Berlin have engaged in an ongoing, targeted and offensive assault against Arab neighbourhoods and communities. Samidoun activists have faced severe repression, such as Zaid Abdulnasser being threatened with stripping his residency and Musaab Abu Atta being subjected to a political ban. Other activists have been threatened with deportation for merely attending protests and events. This ban is meant to keep the communities silenced by terror and fear, to repress the voice of youth, and to empower the most racist and fascist forces against the Palestinian people both in Germany and in Palestine.

The attack on Samidoun is part and parcel of the attack on the Palestinian people as a whole. It reflects the German state's imperialist interests. Far from expressing a sense of guilt or responsibility for Nazi crimes and genocide, this action evidences the German state's aggressive dedication to and promotion of racism, repression and war crimes. We must be clear: Germany has no legitimacy or authority to speak on human rights, freedoms or democracy. It is dedicated to stripping all of those things from anyone who speaks out against genocide and colonialism in Palestine.

Samidoun has also been particularly targeted because we advocate for the Palestinian prisoners, on the front lines of struggle, confronting repression, and express our solidarity with and the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance. While Germany suppresses the Palestinian community and bans Samidoun, its official outposts abroad have frequently sought to influence and direct Palestinian politics through conditional funding and similar colonial enterprises. Through this ban, the German state wishes not only to support genocide but to criminalize even verbal resistance to that genocide. The Palestinian people, like all colonized and oppressed peoples, have the right to resist to liberate themselves and their land from colonialism and occupation, from the river to the sea. Those who resist occupation and oppression -- the Palestinian resistance -- are not only heroes of the Palestinian people, they are defenders of all of humanity.

At this moment, we urge all activists and supporters of Palestine, and all who care for freedom and justice, to speak out against the genocide in Gaza, to speak out against the ban on Samidoun and to affirm loudly and clearly that Palestine will be free from the river to the sea, and that Palestinians have the right to resist occupation and oppression. Through this action, through repeated demands of police on protest organizers, the German state wants to suppress these truths and this reality. They want to secure our silence and even our complicity, and we will not allow them to do so.

We reiterate our words upon German Chancellor Olaf Scholz' announcement of the demand to ban Samidoun: In Arabic, the word “Samidoun,” means those who are steadfast. We use this name to refer to the Palestinian prisoners, who remain behind bars, struggling for freedom. Today we affirm that we shall remain steadfast and committed to the Palestinian people, until victory, return and liberation.

cursed lathe: libs will start using genocide joe but as a name for stalin

This is chilling: "What is unclear now is what could happen to civilians." And "Now it would seem that those in Gaza City could be stuck there."

Israeli tanks move steadily towards Gaza City

There have been only brief comments from the Israeli military, saying it's expanding ground operations.

But what we're hearing from inside Gaza is that tanks and armoured vehicles are moving steadily towards Gaza City - where the IDF says Hamas has a network of tunnels used as a command and control centre.

We understand from colleagues that Israeli forces have penetrated the northern neighbourhoods of Gaza City - and that there are armoured vehicles on both of the main north-to-south roads.

One goes along the coast from the north of Gaza City, and the other runs through the middle of the Strip to the south of the city.

What is unclear now is what could happen to civilians. We know that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have not heeded the Israeli military's call to move from the northern half of the Gaza Strip south.

Now it would seem that those in Gaza City could be stuck there.

-BBC

Jordan airdrops medical aid to Gaza

King Abdullah II has said that his country’s air force has air dropped medical aid to a field hospital run by Jordan in Gaza.

King Abdullah said it was a “duty” to help, and said “we will always be there for our Palestinian brethren”.

It’s unclear whether Israel or other parties had knowledge of the air drop.

I don't really understand this. how could they air drop something in Gaza without Israel knowing about it? seems like a stunt to try to pacify their citizens - "hey look, we're doing something!"

Urgent || Settlers report seeing objects suspected to be drones launched from #Lebanon.