The Israeli army enters Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis with heavy tank and machine gun fire, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and flee for their lives.
Rafah exodus begins as Israel’s military steps up air raids and artillery fire before a feared ground operation on the southern city once designated a “safe zone”.
Israel “must listen to its friends and the international community” saying civilians cannot be made to “pay the price of defeating Hamas”, leaders of Australia, New Zealand and Canada say.
Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 28,663 Palestinians and wounded 68,395 since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139.
....kinda just seems like they want people to stop talking about the genocide that Israel is definitely, without a doubt committing.
The good folks at W.W. Norton & Company sent me a copy of Alex Rowell's new book, We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) and I'm really looking forward to reading it. There aren't enough great books about Nasser and his monumental impact on the Arab world and Non-Aligned Movement during his relatively brief but enormously influential time as Egyptian leader.
We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World is available everywhere right now from W.W. Norton.
8-year-old Waseem from Gaza asking Duaa Tuaima for her microphone and if he can make a video about their circumstances. The journalists are clearly so loved because their voicing their people's struggles around the world that even the children want to be just like them.
At this time, people might be interested in learning that it was Tito who pushed the Eastern Bloc into severing diplomatic relations with Israel after 1967 (except Romania, which maintained relations). This was due to Tito's closeness with Nasser and Fatah, which convinced him the Arab countries were essential for a viable policy of non-alignment. This meeting was the first between the leadership of the SFRJ and the Soviets since the Tito-Stalin split.
"Postavlja se pitanje da li mi, kao nesvrstana zemlja, možemo biti po strani u sukobu na Bliskom istoku. S padom arapskih zemalja, ne bi bilo više ni nesvrstanosti. U Africi je ionako već sve slabo, a Indija se nalazi pod jakim pritiskom. Šta će onda ostati od nesvrstanosti ako se mi ne suprotstavimo kad se radi o tome da se likvidiraju nezavisne zemlje i da se u njima promene režimi?"
"The question arises whether we, as a non-aligned country, can stand aside in the conflict in the Middle East. With the fall of the Arab countries, there would be no more non-alignment either. Everything is already weak in Africa anyway, and India is under a lot of pressure. What will be left of non-alignment if we do not stand up when it comes to liquidating independent countries and changing their regimes?"