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🚨 climate: icelandic volcano erupts after weeks of warnings

iceland's met office reports the current eruption is near grindavik, and the eruptive fissure stretches about 4 km.

the eruption was near an evacuated town and a power plant.

experts don't believe the reykjanes eruption will lead to the same flight disruptions as the 2010 eyjafjallajökull eruption.

however, the air traffic controllers strike may pose a bigger threat to holiday flights.

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🚨breaking: israeli forces bulldozed kamal adwan hospital; buried patients alive while they slept

kamal adwan hospital, in beit lahiya, northern gaza, was raided by the IOF last week; the wounded were relocated outside.

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🚨 breaking: israeli forces bomb gaza's last operational maternity ward

at least one woman was confirmed killed, as well as a child who had both legs amputated due to a previous israeli attack. at least four others were injured. the ministry of health in gaza reports that 12 babies are still stuck in incubators in the hospital without water, food, or medical care.

bisan owda reports from nasser medical complex in khan younis.

NBC covered life at nasser during the war on november 14th:

an earlier story of ours covered the unique challenges facing women in gaza:

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🚨breaking: sole survivor of october 7th kibb'utz be'eri attack breaks her silence

hadas dagan recounts the horrific details of israel's shelling and air strikes on its own people. 

the october 7th attacks have been used to justify the current genocide in gaza, despite mounting evidence that israel knew about the attack.

a lot of money was made by individuals who seemed to have knowledge of the attack ahead of time as well.

many questions have been and are continuing to be raised around the validity of israel's various claims related to october 7th and israeli actions in gaza being attributed to hamas.

the israeli army has been caught generating fake propaganda to generate sympathy and gaslight the global community about their actions in gaza multiple times since october 7th. 

including a staged hostage video in a hospital: 

claiming a calendar written in arabic was a list of hamas guards:

accusing citizens of being hamas and staging surrender videos:

and outright lies about 40 infants who were allegedly beheaded on october 7th

US president joe biden initially claimed he had seen photos of the beheaded infants. 

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🚨israel: IOF soldiers shoot three israeli hostages waving white flags

alon shamriz,l (26) yotam haim (28) and samer talalka (22), who were all abducted on october 7th, were shirtless, carrying white flags, and speaking in hebrew when they were killed by israeli fire in shijaiyah.

the soldiers stated that they felt "threatened" and opened fire. israel has said that this is against protocol, but defended the soldiers' actions.

it's as yet unclear whether the three men escaped or were abandoned.

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🚨breaking: bodies of women, children, & infants killed execution style discovered in gaza school

the bodies were left at shadia abu ghazala school in northern gaza, west of jabalia refugee camp.

the families were sheltering from the ongoing bombardment by israeli forces.

al jazeera reports on the latest atrocity in gaza in exclusive coverage.

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In the weeks since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed more than 15,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, and destroyed thousands of homes in the territory.

And there have also been tremendous losses to the region's ancient and globally significant cultural heritage. The region was a hub for commerce and culture under Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule. It remained influential for centuries thereafter.

A recent survey by the group Heritage for Peace details the damage done so far to more than 100 of these landmarks in Gaza since the start of the present conflict.

The casualties include the Great Omari Mosque, one of the most important and ancient mosques in historical Palestine; the Church of Saint Porphyrius, thought to be the third oldest church in the entire world; a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery in northern Gaza excavated only last year; and the Rafah Museum, a space in southern Gaza which was dedicated to teaching about the territory's long and multi-layered heritage — until it was hammered by airstrikes early on in the conflict. (...)

"If this heritage be no more in Gaza, it will be a big loss of the identity of the people in Gaza," said Isber Sabrine, president of Heritage for Peace, in an interview with NPR. (...)

"The people in Gaza, they have the right to keep and to save this heritage, to tell the history, the importance of this land," he said.

The 1954 Hague Convention, agreed to by Palestinians and Israelis, is supposed to safeguard landmarks from the ravages of war. But landmarks in Gaza have been destroyed by Israeli strikes in earlier rounds of fighting. Dozens of sites, including the now-obliterated Great Omari Mosque, suffered damage in 2014. A report by UNESCO, the United Nations body that designates and protects World Heritage sites, cites further destruction to cultural and historic sites in Gaza in 2021. (...)

Destruction of historical sites and other cultural sites is part of genocide, it's the destruction of the proof of a people's relationship to the land and a horrible emotional blow at the community. UNESCO must act immediately against Israel's destruction of Palestinian heritage, and every country and international organism must expel Israel and impose sanctions to make the genocide and apartheid end.

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🚨 gaza: despite climate & criminal warnings, israel pumps seawater into gaza

the tunnels which hamas uses would probably more accurately be referred to as an underground city.

the israeli hostages are currently known to be being kept in the tunnels.

the tunnels will prove a forbidable foe; the network below gaza is referred to as metro due to its size.

experts have warned that the environmental damage from this action would be enormous and render the region uninhabitable for an extended time by eliminating freshwater availability and poisoning the soil.

russia previously warned israel at the UN that doing this would be a war crime.

israel's continued attacks on gaza risk the hostages. according to a hamas spokesperson, as of october 16th, 22 of the hostages had died as a result of israeli bombardments.

the families have been protesting in tel aviv, demanding answers and action. this article is from november 18, 2023:

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🚨lebanon: israel looks to US, france for help with lebanon on northern front

israel and the iranian-backed hezbollah continue to trade fire on the lebanon border.

hezbollah has stated repeatedly that it will not stop its attacks until israel stops attacking gaza.

netanyahu previously warned hezbollah to cease their attacks on the north, stating, "if hezbollah decides to open an all-out war, then with its own hands it will turn beirut and southern lebanon into gaza and khan younis."

israeli residents are finding it hard to cope with the long term violence and fear in the region, and many wish for a lasting security.

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🚨gaza: rain causes flooding across gaza

rain is especially crippling to the region during war. this article is from 2017:

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🚨gaza: united nations votes in favor of ceasefire

ten countries voted against the ceasefire, including the united states and israel.

in favor of ceasefire: 153

against ceasefire: 10

abstained: 23

this vote comes after mauritania and egypt activated article 377a, a rarely used resolution allowing for the override of permanent members of the united nations. the move was made in light of the united states vetoing the previous call for a ceasefire on its own. we cover the background of 377a here:

our coverage of the original vote and veto can be found here:

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🚨 iran: iranian defense unveils AI-powered drones

the shahed136 has also been used in the ukraine.

this video release comes just days after the united states vetoed a ceasefire at an emergency session of the UN security council. we cover the details of the vote here:

we cover the evolving role of iran and russia in gaza here:

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🧐 politics in perspective: how the israeli army fails its soldiers

more than 5,000 israeli soldiers have been physically injured since october 7th, but only 2000 of them have been recognized by the ministry of defense as disabled, and more than 58% of them have had amputations. this article is from november 2023, during the agreed upon four day ceasefire.

but treatment is hard to get, even in a medically advanced society like israel.

this article is from 2021, when they recognized more disabled soldiers. israel has long been criticized by its own people for its lack of identification or treatment of disability and mental health conditions like PTSD in its soldiers.

military service in israel is compulsory.

the recently released documentary israelism explores the ways in which israeli children are exploited by the state:

2007 interview with former IOF soldier, a clip from the documentary "to see if im smiling", a look at former female israeli soldiers by tamar yarom, a former IOF soldier herself:

the full version of "to see if i'm smiling" is currently on youtube:

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🚨 united nations: egypt & mauritania invoke UN emergency article 377a on gaza

377a is a rarely used, united-states implemented resolution that allows the united nations to override one of the five permanent nations. a special session must be convened within 24 hours.

resolution 377a was adopted in 1950 at the request of the united states. if implemented, the UN will have the ability to intervene in gaza using armed force if necessary.

377a was last invoked regarding the ukraine-russian war.

antonio guterres, the secretary-general of the united nations, announced yesterday via social media that he would not stop fighting for a humanitarian ceasefire in gaza.

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🚨 syria: regime bombs idlib

syria has been in the midst of a civil war since 2011 during the arab spring uprising. the strike in idlib by the state of syria left at least 4 dead and many more injured.

this article is from 2019:

this article is also from 2019:

as is this one:

the world food program recently announced that due to funding shortages, it will stop its general food assistance program across syria at the beginning of 2024. this is the 7th time they have announced a reduction to aid in syria.

an estimated 4.5 million people live in northwest syria, and approximately 1.9 million of them live in displacement camps. the poverty rate in northwest syria is 91.10 percent, with an 88.74 percent unemployment rate.

this article is from december 8th 2023:

in 2019, vice did a documentary on life inside idlib.

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