Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defence’ under international law because Gaza is a territory which it occupies. Her comments came in a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia.
UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can’t claim ‘right of self-defence’
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About 2,500 wounded and displaced Palestinians are at the mercy of the invading troops as concerns grow that the Israeli army is preparing an ‘artificial scene’ inside the hospital.
Al-Shifa Hospital under Israeli control, turned into center for ‘detention and torture’
H/T: Unorthodox Truth
The letter adds to a wave of letters and memos calling for a ceasefire coming from current and former federal staffers.
Over 400 of Biden’s Own Administration Officials Demand Ceasefire in Gaza
Update on Israeli military operations in Gaza for November 15, 2023…
– Israeli forces have stormed Gaza’s largest hospital, claiming Hamas fighters are hiding in/beneath the facility;
– Israeli tactics appear to deliberately maximize regional and international outrage;
– The violence is aimed at pressuring regional governments to take action and trigger a series of conflicts that allow the US to reassert a previous conflict-based “security architecture” on the region;
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The Israeli Defense Minister threatened to launch a war in Lebanon that would resemble the military operations in Gaza. Israeli forces have waged a brutal assault and blockade of the enclave. Tel Aviv’s bombing has killed over 11,000 Palestinian civilians, including 4,000 children. The White House is concerned that if Israel goes to war in Lebanon, it will provoke a wider conflict involving the US.
Israel: What We Are Doing in Gaza, We Can Do in Beirut
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Australia is not only providing diplomatic support for the Israeli government’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, but logistics support too. Peter Cronau of Declassified Australia reports.
The Pine Gap US surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia is collecting an enormous range of communications and electronic intelligence from the brutal Gaza-Israel battlefield – and this data is being provided to the Israel Defence Forces.
Six Eyes: Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap
The US and Europe will be the targets of terror attacks if Israel loses its current war with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on 13 November.
Netanyahu warns of terror attack in west if Israel loses to Hamas
Defense Department identifies U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash
Killed were:
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane M. Barnes, 34, of Sacramento, California.
Staff Sgt. Tanner W. Grone, 26, of Gorham, New Hampshire.
Sgt. Andrew P. Southard, 27, of Apache Junction, Arizona.
Sgt. Cade M. Wolfe, 24, of Mankato, Minnesota.
Previously:
Israel’s war cabinet on 13 November approved the decision to ban and shut down media companies that “give the nation a poor image,” with Hebrew media reports saying Israeli Minister of Communications, Shlomo Qurei, signed an order to end the operation of Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel war cabinet resolves to shut down Al-Mayadeen in Palestine
The campaign is seeking million-dollar donations from dozens of the world’s biggest names in media, finance and tech, Semafor reported.
Billionaires are teaming up for pro-Israel, anti-Hamas media drive: Report
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