Oct 22, 2023 12:30:49 p.m
The Pope: War is always a defeat, stop it
“War is always a defeat”, “Brothers stop it!”. This is what the Pope said during the Angelus when he spoke about the war in Israel and Palestine and all other wars. Francis recalled the day of fasting, prayer and penance on Friday October 27: “an hour of prayer to invoke peace in the world”.
“War, every war in the world, I am also thinking of the tormented Ukraine, is a defeat, war is always a defeat, it is a destruction of human brotherhood.” Brothers stand still. Stop!”: This is the Pope’s appeal during the Angelus prayer
Oct 22, 2023 10:51:47 am
Hamas-Jihad terrorist cell under the Jenin Mosque
Israel today eliminated a “Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist cell” that was preparing an immediate attack on Israeli territory and was operating “from an underground environment created under the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.” This was stated by Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari. “This,” he added, “is precisely a feature of Hamas, which hides in civilian areas, near mosques, schools and hospitals, shielding itself from the civilian population and not even shying away from desecrating Islamic places of worship.”
Oct 22, 2023 10:22:05 am
Israeli army: 212 hostages still in Gaza
The number of confirmed Israeli hostages, civilian and military, held by Hamas in Gaza has risen to 212. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said this, adding that Hamas was carrying out “psychological terrorism” against families.
10/22/2023 9:33:13 AM
More dead in West Bank after attack on mosque in Jenin
After the night attack on the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin – where Israel struck an armed cell that military radio said was preparing an attack – the number of Palestinians killed in clashes with the army in the West Bank has risen. According to a report by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, two people were killed in the mosque. A third was shot dead by the army during unrest in the nearby town of Kabatya. Two other Palestinians were shot dead in incidents in Tubas and Nablus, according to medical sources cited by the agency.
10/22/2023 8:31:32 AM
Alarm sirens in central Israel and the greater Tel Aviv area
Warning sirens sounded in central Israel and the greater Tel Aviv area for the resumption of rocket fire from Gaza. The Israeli army made this known.
10/22/2023 7:58:18 AM
UN: 42% of houses in Gaza destroyed or damaged
At least 42% (164,756) of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged since the outbreak of hostilities.
This was announced by the Ministry of Housing in Gaza, citing the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, which said there were an estimated 1,400,000 displaced people in the Palestinian enclave, with 566,000 of these refugees being accommodated in 148 emergency shelters designated by the UNRWA agency
Oct 22, 2023 7:28:29 am
Hamas: Night attacks on Gaza, death toll over 50
The death toll from Israel’s overnight attacks in the Gaza Strip is “over fifty dead.” Hamas is making this known. The Israeli army announced yesterday that it would intensify attacks on the Gaza Strip.
10/22/2023 7:06:08 AM
Israeli attacks on Damascus and Aleppo airports
The Israeli army reportedly carried out an airstrike on Damascus and Aleppo airports. Israeli media reported on this.
10/22/2023 7:05:24 AM
The US is activating defense systems across the Middle East
The Pentagon announced this Deploying defense systems “across” the Middle East. The United States has announced an increase in its military presence in the Middle East due to the “recent escalation by Iran and its allied forces” in the region. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that “a high-altitude missile defense system (THAAD) and multiple Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries” will be deployed across the region and that other military assets will be brought to a state of “preparation.”
First aid trucks have entered the besieged Gaza Strip, the CNN team observed on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing. Follow live updates. https://t.co/R7U5JaHbxp
– Breaking News from CNN (@cnnbrk) October 21, 2023
10/22/2023 7:03:25 AM
Israel: Underground structure in mosque in Jenin attacked
Israeli forces announced that they had launched an airstrike on an underground Hamas compound at Al-Ansar Mosque JeninIn West Bank. According to the IDF, a terrorist cell was hiding in the mosque and was organizing an imminent attack.
Oct 22, 2023 1:16:47 am
Bide: “Delay the invasion? I’m talking to Israel.”
“I’m talking to Israel.” That’s how he responded Joe Biden Accompanying journalists were asked whether he was “encouraging the Israelis” to postpone the invasion of Gaza, as suggested in a statement Friday that was later corrected by the White House.
by Raffaella Troili
Passport in hand and hope of escape. Nothing to do, salvation disappeared when humanitarian aid arrived, the gates of Rafah crossing remained closed to the thousands of Palestinians with dual nationality who arrived via the only possible exit Gaza Strip. Among them, dozens of Italians, including six hundred Americans, were confident that negotiations between the United States, Egypt, Israel and Hamas would be successful. They remained crowded together yet invisible at the border all day, sitting on suitcases and trolleys, the children disoriented and tired, exhausted from the useless waiting. First there was euphoria, hope, then silence among the groups of families, older people and disabled people. They stared at the bars of the passenger exit terminal all day, showed their passports to journalists in vain and continued to call their respective American, Canadian and European embassies to ask: “Why won’t they let us through?” Like Nadia Baraka, a Palestinian and German citizen interviewed by Euronews who reported: “My daughters have agreed with the German Foreign Ministry that I can go, but I can’t.” We arrived and found everything closed. At least help us go. I just want to go. And Ibrahim Al-Qarinawi, with a Swiss passport: “I came to Gaza for two months to visit my family, at exactly the wrong time. The war began and we were under siege. This war is very cruel. There is no water, no electricity, no telephone or internet, nothing but death and destruction.” Raghda Abu Shaaban, with a Palestinian and American passport, hoped for this: “After seeing the situation in Gaza, the destroyed houses and the people living under Dying in the rubble, I say that Allah has given me a new life because I managed to get here.” I want to leave and return to America, but I will leave my heart here. Nothing is more valuable than a human being.” It was almost done, the Egyptian territory was only a few meters away, but no one cared about them. “Maybe someone will come and let us out.” Then they gave up. The Rafah border crossing remains closed: no one can leave Gaza for Egypt. The humanitarian corridor does not concern them yet, the nightmare is not over for anyone.
INSIGHTS
THE PASSAGE
Just 20 trucks, not a single one left, crossed the gates of the Rafah crossing at 9 a.m. yesterday to bring medicine and medical supplies, as well as a “limited” amount of canned food, water and mattresses to exhausted civilians stuck in tent cities in the Gaza Strip and the remnants of Gaza.
The gate was immediately closed. And no fuel was allowed to enter. Humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip was transferred from 20 Egyptian double-container trucks to 30 trucks already on the Palestinian side of the border crossing. The operation took place in a large clearing. But outside there remained endless columns of trucks along the border of desperation, inside there were 3,000 tons of humanitarian aid and 930 tons of food. “The fuel will not reach Gaza,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari told the Times of Israel. From Rafah, Hagari said, food, water and medical supplies would flow to the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Lack of supplies: According to the World Food Program, the first aid convoy contains 60 tons of food, including cans of tuna, flour, pasta and beans. However, “immediate, safe and permanent access for aid to Gaza” must be guaranteed. A first step, but the Gaza Strip needs much larger quantities of medical supplies and food, considering that around 500 trucks were already arriving daily before the Hamas attack.
After two weeks of war and death, as well as diplomatic meetings and mediations, including visits by United States President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Israel allowed the 20 trucks to enter. According to all humanitarian organizations on the ground, this is an insufficient concession. The Red Crescent commented: “We regret that the tankers were not allowed. The aid coming into Gaza from the Rafah crossing is a drop in the ocean of humanitarian needs.” Hamas communications office chief Salama Maruf said: said the same: “This limited convoy will not be able to change the humanitarian catastrophe that the Gaza Strip is experiencing,” and stressed the need to “establish a safe corridor that operates 24 hours a day.” to meet humanitarian needs and essential services that are no longer available and to allow the wounded to leave the country for treatment.”
The Palestinian Red Crescent, in coordination with UNRWA (the UN refugee agency), has set up two large warehouses in the south of the Gaza Strip – in Rafah and Deir el Ballah – to ensure the distribution of aid. United Nations Secretary Antonio Guterres appealed “for a humanitarian ceasefire” and insisted on “immediate, full humanitarian assistance” to the civilian population in Gaza and on the “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.” The more than two million residents, half of whom have fled their homes, are rationing food and drinking undrinkable water, with children most at risk. There is a dramatic lack of medical supplies and fuel for emergency generators in hospitals. Time is running out.