“The targeted assaults on places of learning in Gaza are an attack on the right to education,” writes Eman Alhaj Ali from the besieged coastal enclave. “Israel is erasing the places where minds were nurtured and futures were shaped.”

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The London School of Economics censored an article by one of its professors about how Israel has influenced Britain’s policies on “extremism.” The Electronic Intifada has published the article in full.

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The Israeli military continued pressuring residents in northern Gaza to leave southwards through a “corridor” along the main traffic artery, with 25,000 more displaced traveling throughout the day. “Their situation has significantly worsened in the past 24 hours, as they became exposed to the heavy rains,” the UN stated. The monitoring team for the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted an increased number of wounded people crossing through the “corridor.”

Israel struck a clinic operated by Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City, “resulting in damage to the building.” Five of the international medical organization’s cars were “burned and crushed by tank shelling,” the UN said. More than 20 people “are in the clinic, and might be in extreme danger and their status is unknown,” the organization warned.

The UN special rapporteur on the rights of people with disabilities called for “unconditional and unrestricted humanitarian aid access” to all civilians in Gaza, “especially those with disabilities who may need assistive tools in addition to food, medicine, and other essential services such as water and sanitation, electricity and healthcare.” Heba Hagrass, who began her term as special rapporteur on 1 November, said that “people with disabilities must not be ‘left behind’ because their families and relief teams are unable to give them the necessary support.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists paid tribute to Palestinian journalist and press freedom defender, Bilal Jadallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his car in Gaza on 19 November. The press freedom watchdog said that Jadallah “provided indispensable research for CPJ’s May 2023 report Deadly Pattern which found a complete lack of accountability in Israeli military killings of journalists over 22 years.” The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said that Jadallah was “assassinated.” The Committee to Protect Journalists called for an independent investigation and accountability for his killing. At least 43 Palestinian media workers and journalists have been killed in Gaza since 7 October.

“We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been secretary-general”, António Guterres, the head of the UN, said during a press conference on climate change. The UN secretary-general rejected a UN protectorate in Gaza and stressed moving towards a “two-state solution” after the war and “to have a strengthened Palestinian Authority to resume responsibilities” in the territory.

“Women and children have disproportionately borne the brunt of the conflict in Israel and Gaza,” according to Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. Alsalem added that “since 7 October, the assault on Palestinian women’s dignity and rights has taken on new and terrifying dimensions, as thousands have become victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and an unfolding genocide.” She expressed alarm over Israeli officials and public figures calling Palestinian people “children of darkness.” Alsalem said that “such statements make the Israeli government’s intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, absolutely and consistently clear.”

The World Health Organization said it was “appalled” by an attack on the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza that reportedly killed at least 12 people, “including patients and their companions residing at the hospital.” The health facility “continues to be besieged,” WHO added, with no one allowed to enter or leave. Lacking electricity, power, water, essential medicines and supplies, “the hospital is only able to provide basic services, putting the lives of those with severe injuries and other medical emergencies at immediate risk,” the UN agency said.

Amnesty International said that it documented two Israeli attacks in Gaza that killed 46 civilians, including 20 children, that “must be investigated as war crimes.” The two attacks examined by Amnesty are the 19 October Israeli airstrike on the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza’s Old City and a 20 October Israeli airstrike on homes in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Amnesty said that “Israeli forces have demonstrated – yet again – a chilling indifference to the catastrophic toll on civilians of their ongoing relentless bombardment of the occupied Gaza Strip.” Amnesty urged the International Criminal Court prosecutor “to take immediate concrete action to expedite the investigation into war crimes and other crimes under international law opened in 2021.”