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After being forcibly displaced by Israeli attacks, nearly 900,000 people are sheltering in facilities run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, in Gaza. Privacy for displaced people staying at schools is nonexistent, and the overcrowded facilities are prone to outbreaks of viruses, writes Alaa Abu Shammala in Gaza.
Israeli lawmakers screamed at the family members of people being held captive in Gaza during a Knesset hearing on Monday. The family members of captives say that advancing the so-called “Death Penalty for Terrorists” bill, and the inflammatory rhetoric used by its proponents, endangers their family members being held in Gaza.
Most Americans on both sides of the political aisle, as well as a vast majority of independents, support a ceasefire in Gaza. Despite this, only 43 Democrats in the US House of Representatives have called for a ceasefire and only two have done so in the US Senate.
Ireland’s enterprise and trade ministry has admitted that it recently issued 100 work permits for Israeli software engineers. As well as refusing to impose economic sanctions on Israel, Ireland’s ruling coalition has rejected calls for other types of action.
A child carries the body of his brother, killed in Israeli bombardment, at al-Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 21 November.
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Israeli airstrikes killed four Lebanese civilians in the southern part of the country, including two journalists, as cross-border fire between Lebanese resistance group Hizballah and the Israeli military intensified in recent days. The Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen network mourned its correspondent, Farah Omar, and the photographer who accompanied her, Rabie al-Maamari, who were killed by an Israeli attack in the town of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon. A third Lebanese civilian, Hussein Akil, was also killed in the attack.
Hizballah targeted the site of Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in the northern town of Shlomi. The resistance group reported said this was in response to the Israeli army targeting a factory in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said that attack was targetings “surface-to-air missile system that had downed an Israeli drone,” The New York Times reported.