Israel has besieged hospitals in the northern half of the Gaza Strip since Thursday.
Medical facilities have been “under relentless bombardment” for the past 24 hours, Doctors Without Borders said on Saturday.
Babies die, patients shot as Israel besieges hospitals in Gaza’s north
Previously:
Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and assume that the people arguing that it’s necessary to keep dropping military explosives on a giant concentration camp full of children are on the side that will be judged negatively by history.
The Moral Complexities Of Bombing A Concentration Camp Full Of Children
Tech billionaire Elon Musk offered the use of his Starlink satellite internet service on Saturday for humanitarian aid organizations in Gaza, as the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas continues.
Musk offers aid organizations in Gaza access to Starlink
Related:
Urgent Request for Assistance: Providing Connectivity in Gaza
Israel is perhaps more acutely aware than any other government on earth of how disadvantageous it is to have your crimes recorded in the light of day and shared with the world.
Israel Cut Off Gaza’s Communications Because Murderers Don’t Like Witnesses
The Israeli government dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza telling everyone who lives in the northern part of the strip that they have 24 hours to evacuate to the southern part, and then bombed the people who were trying to evacuate.
The US Is Just As Culpable As Israel For The Atrocities Committed In Gaza
As Israel escalates its offensive, U.S. diplomats are being discouraged from publicly using three phrases that would urge calm.
Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk (archived)
Related:
Blinken Deletes Tweet Encouraging Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reversed his decision to stop funding the Starlink terminals sent to Ukraine, saying on Twitter that the company will continue to provide “free” satellite internet service to the government even if it means the company loses money.
Elon Musk says Starlink will keep funding Ukraine’s government ‘for free’ despite losing money
SATURDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2022 — MOON OF ALABAMA
Yesterday saw two significant developments or incidents with regard to the conflict in Ukraine.
Ukraine SitRep – Recent Incidents Of Concern For All Sides (18+)
Related:
Ukrainian forces report Starlink outages during push against Russia (archived, as original is behind paywall)
18+: Daily pictures : the final moments of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine:
Several distinct characters appear in the pictures. Some were displaying foreign badges, US, British, German or Polish ones. Bezsonov reports that foreign mercenaries [or also special operations forces (SOF) from the West, possibly decommissioned in the context ?] were involved in this Ukrainian recce formation. During fighting, they were bearing the blue armband of the Ukrainian national guard, not the yellow one of the regular army
US Says Sending Envoy To Ethiopia, Condemns Eritrea Return To War
Abiy [Ahmed] won the Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation with Eritrea but has fallen out of favor with the United States, a longtime Ethiopian ally which voiced revulsion over the violence in Tigray, where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken of “ethnic cleansing.”
President Joe Biden’s administration as of January 1 booted Ethiopia out of a key trade agreement that allowed duty-free access, outraging segments of the growing Ethiopian-American community which said the United States was ceding influence to rival powers such as China.
Related:
US-backed TPLF resumes war in northern Ethiopia
Then, on August 2, the US special envoy to the Horn of Africa Mike Hammer, US Chargé d’Affaires in Ethiopia Tracey Jacobson and the European Union (EU) envoy Annette Weber, along with other Western diplomats, paid a visit to Mekelle and met TPLF leaders. Soon after this visit, which was criticized by the Ethiopian government, the TPLF began mobilization for war.
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