After, well over, 12 hours or more , a message from #NorthGaza “These areas of northern Gaza have been subjected for 9 days to an Israeli campaign of extermination that spares no stone, no human, and no tree.” -Anas Al Sharif - AJA

10 October UNHCR update on displacement from Lebanon to Iraq: reporting.unhcr.org/iraq-flash-u... • ~8,000 arrivals, including 5,619 through al-Qaim; almost half (49%) hosted in Najaf and Karbala. • Measures by Iraqi government to facilitate entry, accommodate Lebanese "guests."

The last functioning hospital of northern #Gaza#Israel. In addition to receiving no food for the past weeks, a million people have no access to medical care. Half of Gaza is underage. Biden is overseeing a year-long genocide of children.

It can be and needs to be said, that it is as simple as this: ain’t no one free, until Syrians are free. Not a one of us in the Levant. If folks haven’t all along been able to connect that dot, I truly believe they’re hopeless, intellectually, morally and most vitally politically. I have 0 tolerance

The news report and the commentary on X/Twitter imply that the Emirati citizen may have been attempting to go on holiday. Truthfully, if it were as simple as that, it wouldn't require the intervention of the Public Prosecutor. I have mentioned this scenario to L'Orient Today earlier this year.

‘Hamas popularity explodes in the Gulf’ amid Monarchy passivity towards Israel

The Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, have been aloof since the start of the Gaza war until recently. They are now busy putting forward a post-war plan — one that holds the prospect of granting...

UAE's Public Prosecutor is investigating an Emirati citizen for violating a travel ban to a 'dangerous country'. The news report does not identify the country, but it is likely to be Lebanon. Emiratis are barred from traveling to Lebanon at the moment, but this ban has been recurrent.

"The large-scale destruction of villages, such as the border town of Yaroun, as well as of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, raises fears that those displaced may not have viable paths to return home when the fighting stops" Written with the incomparable Lama Mourad. Gift link. menasky

Israel Is Weaponizing Forced Displacement—Again

In Lebanon as in Gaza, Israel cannot bomb its way into security.

Friends I would like to share with you a compilation of fundraisers for people I have connected with in Gaza who need our help. No other help is forthcoming and the situation in the north is especially disastrous. 🧵

This was posted on X/Twitter.

‘Tomorrow’s front page of [Scotland’s The National]. We publish a timeline of a year of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. It’s all here in black and white—the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don’t look away.’ - Laura Webster, Editor.