Updates

30 November 2023

Gaza news roundup: Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary truce by another day just minutes before the agreement was set to expire. Despite international pressure for an indefinite ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated beforehand that his war cabinet intends to “fight until the end” in Gaza.

Earlier this month, the international council of the Auschwitz museum issued a statement supporting Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip under the banner of “self-defense.” Instead of promoting respect for tolerance, democracy and human rights, Holocaust education appears to be now aimed at providing justification for new atrocities.

The current silence of medical organizations that spoke out on Ukraine amounts to complicity in genocide, writes Sewar Elejla, who worked as a physician at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital. Some medical professionals have even openly supported and celebrated the bloodshed in Gaza, where scores of health workers have been killed.

Conditions at the facilities where displaced Palestinians are taking shelter are shocking, writes Abubaker Abed from Gaza. Classrooms where young people were educated are now “stagnant pools of filth,” a displaced teacher tells him.

Israeli troops shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian child from inside a military vehicle in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on 29 November. The boy, whose execution was recorded on security camera video, was among four Palestinians killed during the nearly day-long raid.