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      Aid to Gaza falls to lowest level in 11 months despite US ultimatum to Israel

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    US government wrote to Israel a month ago threatening sanctions if there was no increase in humanitarian supplies

    The amount of aid reaching Gaza has dropped to the lowest level since December, official Israeli figures show, despite the US having issued a 30-day ultimatum last month threatening sanctions if there was no increase in humanitarian supplies reaching the territory.

    The ultimatum was delivered on 13 October, so will expire on Tuesday or Wednesday. It is unclear what measures Israel’s apparent failure to fulfil US demands will trigger, but they may include a temporary halt to the supply of some munitions or other military assistance.

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      Israel claims to have intercepted projectile from Yemen as firefighters battle blazes – Middle East crisis live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    IDF says fires in Bet Shemesh area, west of Jerusalem, were sparked by debris from intercepting missile fired from Yemen

    Palestinian news agency Wafa reports more arrests overnight made by Israeli security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

    It reports a young man was arrested in Shuafat refugee camp, in East Jerusalem, after forces raided his home.

    They had set the tents up seeking protection from the unpredictable Israeli bombs after their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp was destroyed a few months ago. This particular area of the northern Nuseirat refugee camp is very close to the edge of the Netzarim Junction. The Israeli army has a very strong and visible presence there. That area has been relentlessly attacked, and people there are exposed to daily terror, from the heavy machineguns, the quadcopters and the drones that are hovering at a very low level.

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      One thing I’m sure of: Harris offered voters nothing on Gaza, and it mattered in the result | Nesrine Malik

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024 • 1 minute

    Imagine how isolated in their trauma Arab-American voters must have felt to turn to Trump. But that’s what happened

    I would be sceptical of post-election analyses in the wake of what is seen as a shock result. For both sides, voting patterns at this point are a sort of Rorschach test – people will see what they want to see. What I offer here is a mix of instinct and conjecture (what’s new, I hear you ask). But it is based on one specific factor that doesn’t come as a shock, and which was predicted to harm the Kamala Harris campaign. We can be certain that the Democrats lost voters because of Gaza. The numbers are stark. Another certainty is that those voters will still not be heard.

    In Dearborn, Michigan, the largest majority Arab American city, Joe Biden won in 2020 with around 70% of the vote. Early stats indicate that Harris received something like 40% of the vote. As concerns over the war were raised loudly and specifically, Harris not only continued to ignore and isolate these voices, but also the campaign sent Bill Clinton out to shush them. Harris never even visited the city. But guess who did? That’s right, Donald Trump. And now he’s won in Dearborn and taken all of Michigan .

    Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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      ‘The movement is not over’: leaders of Uncommitted look ahead at organizing during Trump term

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    While disappointed, leaders say Democratic party stuck with ‘status quo’ instead of listening to voter concerns

    Following Donald Trump’s decisive victory in this week’s presidential election, leaders of the anti-war group Uncommitted National Movement expressed their disappointment over the results, highlighting the Democratic party’s failure to listen to its base and prioritize progressive policies. Since the movement formed last winter, its leaders have urged the Democratic party to heed their demands of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to adopt an arms embargo on Israel, or risk losing their votes.

    While a full picture of how Arab and Muslim Americans voted in the presidential election is still being captured, this election showed a shift among communities that had long formed the Democratic base. A majority of Muslim Americans voted for the Green party candidate Jill Stein at 53%, according to a nationwide exit poll of more than 1,500 Muslim Americans by the civil rights group Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), followed by 21% for Trump and 20% for vice-president Kamala Harris.

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      Middle East conflict live: US bombs Yemen, Pentagon says; dozens killed in Israeli strike on Gaza home, officials say

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    US warplanes staged multiple strikes on Houthi weapons facilities, US says; at least 13 children reportedly among dead after Israeli attack on home in Jabalia refugee camp

    At least 43,603 Palestinian people have been killed and 102,929 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

    Of those, 51 Palestinians were killed and 164 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry said.

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      Deaf and mute siblings among scores killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza – report

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    A resident of the Lebanese city of Tyre told Associated Press three disabled sisters and their two brothers were killed in Israeli strike

    Five Lebanese siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute, and two Palestinian journalists who were brother and sister were among the scores of people killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza in the previous 24 hours, local authorities and media reported on Saturday.

    At least 40 people were killed in strikes on Lebanon including seven in the port city of Tyre late on Friday, the health ministry said.

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      Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee | Simon Tisdall

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

    After Donald Trump’s victory, brute force will prevail over geopolitics as authoritarians are appeased from Russia to Israel to China

    Feelings are not the usual focus of a world dominated by macho strongmen, complex geopolitical challenges, wars and disasters. Yet every rule has exceptions. Following Donald Trump’s unexpectedly decisive US election victory , dark storm clouds seeded with powerful emotions overshadow the international landscape.

    Feelings of shock and anger that this lying conman again seduced enough voters to win the presidency roil America’s friends and allies. There is incredulity that so very many people collaborated in their own seduction. And there is puzzlement at exit polls that show 45% of female voters backed a serial sexual predator while Latino and black men helped a shameless racist to prevail.

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      Trump’s world order: election win brings fears of a combustible US foreign policy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

    President-elect wants to end the wars in Ukraine and Middle East to focus on China. How he will try to get there is unclear

    In the first Trump term Richard Moore, then the political director of the UK Foreign Office and now the head of MI6, admitted half of Britain’s diplomats woke up each morning dreading what they might read on the president’s Twitter feed.

    The sheer unpredictability of Trump’s caprice, and his faith in his quixotic charisma, made it hard for diplomats to operate. It would often taken feverish consultations with Trump’s senior aides, including some in the Pentagon, before a plan – such as a premature withdrawal of 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan – could be finessed.

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      Middle East live: at least nine Palestinians killed after reported Israeli attack in ‘humanitarian zone’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

    Al Jazeera reports that women and children are among the dead after the Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis

    An update on the earlier attack on a school in Gaza City, as six people are now reported to have died in the Israeli attack on Saturday morning.

    Al Jazeera reports two families – a total of six people – have been killed in the attack on the Fahd al-Sabah school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.

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