News and Analysis 11/10/23

Israel gave the reporter “20 minutes to evacuate his house with about 30 members of his family … [warning him] “that we are bombing the house”:

Palestinian Journalist Told to Evacuate from Gaza City (Aljazeera)

“The course was designed and taught by Nathan Thrall, a Jewish American writer and researcher who lives in Jerusalem”:

Israeli Diplomat Pressured US College to Drop Course on ‘Apartheid’ Debate (Top Globe News)

“The Israeli police detained former Arab MKs for organising an anti-war protest in Nazareth”:

Israeli Police Crackdown on Right to Assembly Detains Several Palestinian Leaders in Nazareth (New Arab)

“The Democrats said CASA — which opened its statement by condemning the Hamas attack — overlooked the militants’ efforts to kill Jews” but they themselves “made no mention of the over 10,000 Palestinian casualties of Israel’s retaliatory war on Gaza”:

Maryland Democrats Threaten Funding of Immigrant Rights Group That Called for Gaza Ceasefire (The Intercept)

“Senior Metropolitan Police officers are regular attendees at a think tank closely tied to Israel’s military and intelligence services and have accepted hospitality from its embassy in London” …

Met Police Linked to Israel as It Gears Up for Pro-Palestine Protests (Declassified UK)

… and the “discovery of a large number of transport flights could make defence secretary Grant Shapps, who is in charge of the UK military, vulnerable to questioning by the International Criminal Court (ICC)”:

RAF Admits to Making 17 Military Flights to Israel Since Gaza Bombing Began (Declassified UK)

Israel trues to defend it war crimes against hospitals with the unproven and in any case insufficient claim that Hamas has its headquarters in the basement:

Palestinians Flee Al Shifa Hospital After Deadly Strike (Reuters)
Israel-Palestine War: Israeli Troops Encircle Gaza Hospitals, Bomb Al-Shifa Again (Middle East Eye)
Overcrowded Hospitals in Gaza at Imminent Risk of Full-scale Israeli Military Attacks (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Israel-Hamas War Live: Destruction Affecting Gaza Hospitals ‘Becoming Unbearable’, Says Red Cross; Evacuations to Egypt Suspended (The Guardian)
Debunking Israel’s Bogus Human Shields Lie (The Majority Report / YouTube)

Revulsion at the genocide continues to mount:

Palestinians Ask War Crimes Court to Probe Israel over Genocide Allegations (Reuters)
‘It is Time for Sanctions to Israel’: Belgian Deputy PM Condemns ‘Inhumane’ Bombing of Gaza (Palestine Chronicle)
Protesters Block US Military Ship Allegedly Carrying Weapons for Israel (Aljazeera)
US Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is Destroying Its Image in the Muslim World (Middle East Eye)
Gaza’s Christians Fear ‘Threat of Extinction’ amid Israel War (Aljazerera)
A Jew, Muslim and Christian Condemn the Violence in Gaza (CT Mirror)
UN Official Describes the Situation in Northern Gaza as “Hell on Earth” (Wafa)
‘Far Too Many’ Palestinians Have Been Killed in Israel-Hamas War, Blinken Says (PBS)

“[S]ources said the Israeli prime minister rejected the deal outright in negotiations soon after Hamas militants staged an unprecedented incursion into Israeli territory” …