News and Analysis 1/19/24

Both Iran and Pakistan are targeting militant separatists in the border regions rather than one another:

• Iran-Pakistan Flare-up Rooted in Restive Borderlands, Not Mideast Strife (Reuters)
• Pakistan Says It Doesn’t Want to Escalate Iran Dispute (Reuters)

Palestinians can’t find medical care or shelter:

• UN: Palestinians Are Dying in Hospitals as Estimated 60,000 Wounded Overwhelm Doctors (AP)
• War in Gaza Drove Them from their Homes. Now, Many Palestinians Can’t Even Find Tents (NPR)

Israel admits to attacking Iran directly and Iran says its attack on Syria is meant to send Israel — and the US — a message:

• Netanyahu: We’re Attacking Iran Directly (Times of Israel)
• Iran Attacked Syria with Long-range Missile in Message to Israel – Analysis (Jerusalem Post)

Israel’s “inflammatory rhetoric is a key component of South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the U.N. world court”:

• Harsh Israeli Rhetoric Against Palestinians Becomes Central to South Africa’s Genocide Case (AP News)

“Kurdish and Iraqi officials have rejected Iran’s claims” that they were attacking “an Israeli espionage center in Irbil”:

• Kurds Question Iraq’s Will and US Loyalty After Iran Attacks Their Capital (VoA)

Humiliation and mockery are part of Israel’s aggression …

• Israel’s War on Gaza Live: UN says Israel Humiliated Men Detained in Gaza (Aljazeera)
• Israeli Soldiers Are Filming Themselves Mocking Palestinians (Aljazeera)

… real time social media documentation are part of the Palestinian defense:

• Palestinians Are Documenting the War for Millions on Social Media. Their Followers Have Come to See Them as Family (CNN)

CAIR-NY’s executive directors says ““light punishments are a slap in the face to the victims” after the ex-official who said “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It wasn’t enough” gets a “sweetheart deal”:

• Ex-State Dept. Official Ordered to Bias Training After Anti-Muslim Rant (NY Times)

“Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing?”:

• ‘Scars on Every Street’: the Refugee Camp Where Generations of Palestinians Have Lost Their Futures (The Guardian)

“Here’s how the watermelon went from being a symbol of protest in the West Bank and Gaza to a global sign of solidarity with Palestinians online”:

• How Watermelon Imagery, a Symbol of Solidarity with Palestinians, Spread Around the World (AP / PBS News Hour)

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