#Leila Farsakh

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Hello friends. Another online poetry reading hosted by Mosab Abu Toha: "A Reading for the Edward Said Libraries with Mosab Abu Toha & Friends". It will be held on January 6, 2024 at 12PM ET.

The line-up looks amazing: Mosab Abu Toha, Kaveh Akbar, Rabih Alameddine, Ammiel Alcalay, Hala Alyan, Peter Balakian, Fatima Bhutto, Leila Farsakh, Nick Flynn, Ru Freeman, Carolyn Forché, Damian Gorman, Jorie Graham, Fanny Howe, Ha Jin, Ilya Kaminsky, Askold Melnyczuk, Eileen Myles, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Shuchi Saraswat, and Lloyd Schwartz.

You can register here

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The Israeli army is systematically destroying Gaza as its genocidal war on the beleaguered strip enters its 108th day. The Israeli army, after having almost completely decimated northern Gaza, continues to move further south, setting its sights on Khan Younis, the second-largest district in the besieged enclave. The area was initially designated a safe zone by Israel, leading hundreds of thousands of residents from the north to seek refugee in the city. Yet Khan Younis has now already become a shadow of itself after extensive damage and destruction wrought by the relentless Israeli airstrikes. The ground invasion continues the campaign of obliteration, as Israeli soldiers filmed themselves blowing up 40 residential buildings at once with the use of explosives. Earlier, soldier Itamar Bello shared a selfie of himself posing with the mines used for the demolition.

Meanwhile, Israeli tanks and military vehicles are approaching al-Amal Hospital in the center of Khan Younis, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported on Monday morning. As a result, PRCS has lost all contact with its crews in the area.

PRCS later added that the Israeli military was preventing first responders from reaching the wounded in Khan Younis as it intensified the ground assault and attacked the PRCS ambulance center.

Meanwhile, about 1 kilometer away, the Nasser Medical Complex was surrounded on three sides by the military in conjunction with the ongoing Israeli artillery bombardment in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, Wafa reported.

“This is not the first time. There were several attacks and bombings in the area of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis [in the last few weeks]. We got direct attacks at the Palestine Red Crescent headquarters with artillery shelling, which literally destroyed three floors and killed at least seven people inside the building,” Nebal Farsakh, a PRCS spokesperson, told Al Jazeera. Farsakh said both facilities are under siege and enduring a communication blackout. Ambulances are unable to respond to calls from the wounded in the area. “The situation there is extremely dangerous, they are hearing strong bombing in the area. Anyone who tries to move out or just walk in the street is being targeted,” Farsakh continued.

The medical infrastructure in Gaza has collapsed, with most of the enclave’s 36 hospitals no longer functioning and those still open running far over capacity, according to the World Health Organization. A French field hospital aboard a ship that has been docked off the coast of Egypt, 50 km west of the Gaza Strip, has treated about 1,000 people from Gaza since November.

Reuters reported that the vessel has 70 medical staff and is equipped with wards as well as operating theaters where nearly 120 injured people have been hospitalized, and hundreds more have been seen for outpatient consultations, including follow-ups on injuries and psychiatric issues. However, with over 60,000 people wounded by Israel’s attacks and extremely limited access to healthcare, the field hospital is not enough to compensate for the ongoing attacks and barely functioning healthcare facilities. French Captain Alexandre Blonce told Reuters it is an “unprecedented mission.”

-- "‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 108" by Leila Warah for Mondoweiss, 22 Jan 2024

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Cosmopolitan Shipwrecks video show on DiEMtv Goes Local

Cosmopolitan Shipwrecks video show on DiEMtv Goes Local

Our series of conversations with contemporary thinkers on the future (or lack thereof) of either the Nation-State or “cosmopolitanism”. Interviewees thus far: Ussama Makdisi, Timothy Mitchell, Bruce Alexander, Rituraparna Roy, Leila Farsakh, Dimitris Tsafenda, and Nina Power. My cohosts are: Mohammad Khair Nahhas (Beirut) and Jon Baird (London) Mohammad had the initial idea focussing on the…

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How Israeli Settlements Stifle Palestine’s Economy – Al-Shabaka

Israel is marshaling pro-Israel forces in Europe as well as in the US against the European Union’s recently issued guidelines on labeling some of its settlement products, for fear that this will lead to stronger measures. Al-Shabaka’s Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh and Leila Farsakh debunk Israel’s arguments both as regards the impact on the Palestinian economy as well as on Palestinian workers.

Source: How Israeli Settlements Stifle Palestine’s Economy – Al-Shabaka

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History of Palestine Resistance to Zionism - Leila Farsakh. The Black Community can learn a lot about what has happened to us and what needs to happen by analyzing what has happened to Palestinians..