Israel bombed an Orthodox Christian church in Gaza. Announcements of allowing humanitarian aid to enter do not materialize. 25% of Gaza’s homes have been completely destroyed or damaged. The ongoing rebellion expressed in the mobilizations throughout the Arab countries unmasks the role of the traitorous Arab authorities.
Thursday October 19
Tons of humanitarian aid are still waiting for the opening of the Rafah crossing to Gaza. Israel will allow only 20 trucks through when 100 are needed per day. Young Egyptians managed to reach the vicinity of the Rafah land crossing and announce a sit-in until aid enters the Gaza Strip.
Miserable Israeli parliamentarian Merav Ben Ari said: “There is no equality between the children of Gaza and the children of Israel. The children of Gaza have brought this on themselves!” An institutional murderer.”
The deliberate bombing of at least 5 bakeries in different areas of the Gaza Strip has been documented, including the largest bakery in Gaza, which provided bread for more than 100,000 people, while dozens of people queued at its doors, causing dozens of deaths.
There was a huge explosive detonation on Israeli vehicles attacking the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm. Major General Jihad Muheisen, a Palestinian commander, and his family were killed in an attack on his home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. Israel attacked the outskirts of the city of Houla in Lebanon and continues preparations for an “unprecedented brutal” operation in Gaza.
Israel bombed a Greek Orthodox Church building in central Gaza City, where 400 Christian and Muslim Palestinians were sheltering, killing 8 and wounding dozens more.
Three Palestinians, two of them teenagers, died from gunshots in the occupied West Bank, in 13 days 67 have already been killed. The death toll from Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip rises to 3,785. Palestinians detained by Israeli security number 850. More than 98,000 homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged. Palestinian media reported the death of a woman from the Hamas political bureau and Israel claims to have killed Rafat Abu Hilal, military chief of the Popular Resistance Committees. Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon. The shelling targeted the Al-Jadidah area near the Mays Al-Jabal Public Hospital. The Palestinian Ministry of Health registers at least 3,500 dead and 12,000 wounded. It is feared that the number of martyrs and wounded under the rubble far exceeds what has been estimated so far. There are still no agreements for the exchange of prisoners.
Two months ago, a family in Gaza gave birth to quadruplets after waiting 15 years, but the Israeli occupation ended this family’s joy by bombing their house, killing the quadruplets Khaled, Abdul Khaleq, Mahmoud and Maha Al-Baba, and their mother, Wafa Al-Suwayrki.
Reuters, citing informed sources: Israel is planning an “unprecedentedly brutal” operation in Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister to his soldiers on the Gaza border: “be prepared, orders will be given soon.”
The Israeli Defense Minister says they aim to erase Hamas from existence, even if they suffer losses and the war lasts a long time. To tell the truth, he should recognize that they want to exterminate the Palestinian people.
The exchange of fire between Israel, Gaza and Lebanon is permanent, there are armed clashes near the Sderot settlement.
Missiles are being launched from Lebanon towards settlements in the Western Galilee, particularly Nahariya and Shlomi, which are located in the north of the occupied zone. Hezbollah allows national and Palestinian resistance factions to operate in the southern region after 33 years of monopolizing the Lebanese-Palestinian border.
A US Navy warship operating in the Middle East intercepted several projectiles near the coast of Yemen, two US officials told CNN. One of the officials said the missiles were fired by Houthi fighters.
According to Hebrew channel Kan, Israel evacuated its embassies in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco and Egypt, and also Turkey. The German Foreign Ministry asked its citizens to leave Lebanon.
Biden gave a televised message in the United States, supporting Israel without criticism for its massacres of civilians and war crimes and calling for increasing the military budget to help Israel and Ukraine.
Xi Jinping told Egypt he is willing to seek a fair solution to the Palestinian issue. Beyond the condemnations of Israel imposed by the Outrage of the Arab mobilizations and its demands in favor of Palestine, the traitorous governments of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen continue their attempt at “normalization” with Israel sponsored by North American imperialism. The Jordanian King, Abdullah II, traveled to Cairo today and will meet with Egyptian President Abdefaltah al Sisi. The FBI notes an increase in threats to Jews and Muslims in the US.
Massive marches were held in Cairo, Egypt and several cities in Algeria. The mobilization of the Arab people in support of Gaza and denouncing the occupation massacres continues to rise.
Thousands of Iraqis mobilize to the Jordanian border under the slogan “Let’s go to Jerusalem, millions of martyrs.” Muqtada Al-Sadr called on the Arab and Islamic peoples to unite on the border with Palestine. Israel transferred Israeli military reinforcements to the Jordanian border.
Mobilizations continue in Paris, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Madrid. Young Jews in New York demonstrate under the slogan “Not in our name”, stop the genocide of the Nazi Zionist State of Israel against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
International solidarity and the mobilization of the Arab people are the only way to defeat the Zionist genocide. The LIS and its sections around the world are fully committed to this task.