Israel devastates Lebanon and faces fierce resistance
Feature image: Demonstration against war profiteers in Bergen. Source: Kampkomiteen
It has been 21 schools hit by Israel since August. Last one was reported on September 21, a bombardment of Kafr Qasim school, in Gaza City, that killed 22 displaced people. As the official statement says, among the killed there were 13 children, 6 women and a fetus. Once more, Butcher Israel states that the schools – which are turned into shelters – are being used by Hamas. Meanwhile, human right organizations state that “no evidence was given to prove the validity of the Israeli claims”.
According to the Ministry of Health there have been 41,431 killed and 95,769 injured since October 7. Additionally 11,000 people are presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
In the West Bank, Israel has raided and ordered closure of Al Jazeera’s Ramallah offices on early Sunday 22. During the raid, the Israeli troops ordered the bureau to shut down. The military ordered the closure of the channel for 45 days following an order issued in May. Equipment was seized to prevent the emission. On May, they closed Al Jazeera’s office in Jerusalem and also seized its communication equipment.
Five Palestinian, including two children of 13 and 15, were injured on Sunday 22 in an attack by the Israeli forces shooting during a military raid in the city of Nablus, occupied West Bank. In West Bank, 716 have been killed and at least 5,750 injured since October 7. The amount of detained people has risen to over 10,700 only in West Bank, including those who were detained in raids and at military checkpoints.
A video came to light that shows Israeli soldiers pushing bodies off a rooftop in West Bank. The video shows three Israeli soldiers pushing the bodies one by one after a raid in the occupied West Bank. Israel stated that they are studying the video because it is not align with their “values”. The video is geolocated in the town of Qabatiya, west of Jenin. In a different statement, IDF troops said they killed four “armed terrorists” during an “exchange of fire” in the same city, Qabatiya, on Thursday. The same day, Hamas denounced in a statement that the IDF were throwing the “bodies of martyrs from the roofs of houses” in Qabatiya. Israel does not only murder people in an arbitrary, genocidal and brutal way, but when it is more than evident that they have not only brutally murdered civilians, but also throw their body to try to hide their crimes.
Israel fulfills the threat that it made last week on increasing the attacks on southern Lebanon, as we previously reported. On Thursday 19, Israel launched dozens of air raids. They targeted the cities of Mahmoudieh, Ksar al-Aroush and Briket Jabbour, in the Jezzine area. Three different people related to Lebanese security reported to the press media that it was the most intense bombing since the start of the genocidal war against Gaza. Israel reported to struck approximately 100 rocket-launchers as well as other infrastructure. So far, the death toll rises to 100.
On Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announced that the pager and walkie-talkie attack, that killed 45 people so far, would be retaliated and stated that this was a declaration of war. Yesterday this retaliation began. Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets at Israel’s Ramat David Airbase, east of Haifa. In the early hours of Sunday 22, sirens were activated across northern Israel. This attack significantly expands the range of attacks against Israel, being the farthest ever.
Iraqi resistance has also attacked Israel. In this case, the Iraqi resistance has attacked the Jordan Valley on Sunday using Al-Arfad drone according to a statement by the group. In the occupied Golan Heights, sirens started to sound as well as in the city of Bisan for the first time since the beginning of the genocidal military land invasion in Gaza. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq stated that they targeted “a vital target in our occupied lands”. No casualties were reported.
It was also reported that the wife of Ahmad Sa’adat, imprisoned leader of the PFLP, Abla Sa’adat, was detained. PFLP has issued a statement on the detention, stating that the detention “comes as part of a systematic policy targeting leaders of the national and women’s movement, as well as their families, in a desperate attempt to deter them from continuing their struggle against the occupation”. She was detained after a raid in her home in Al-Bireh, in occupied West Bank and they also detained three other women as well as several men amid a large-scale invasion during the early hours of Tuesday. In total they detained 30 people in less than 24 hours.
Mobilizations and other actions to support Palestine continues all over the world. We hereby report on some of them:
In Casablanca, Morocco, a demonstration was done against the genocide:
In Medellin, Colombia, there was a blockage of the Coca-cola factory’s gate during the early hours on September 11. The protest, among other things, was to denounce the participation of the company in the genocide of Palestine. A flag that reads “Palestine resists! And will triumph” was hung at the factories gate.
Source: Nueva Democracia
In São Paulo, the 11th Congress of the Palestinian Arab Federation of Brazil took place. In Brazil there are more than 200,000 Palestinians and between 6 and 13 million Arabs. This Congress, that housed more than 500 people, has as one of its aims to denounce the genocide and defeat Zionism, as the President, Ualid Rabah, told the Newspaper A Nova Democracia.
Source: Palestine Chronicle
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement will do a seminar against the Palestinian Genocide and the Modi Goverment’s “Operation Kagar”. It will take place on October 11.
On October 7 there will be, once again, a decision on the liberation of Georges Abdallah. So, in France a lot of actions are being carried out:
La Fosse Aux Lyons displayed a Palestinian banner in a mall:
The Ligue de la Jeunesse Révolutionnaire published a video on actions for Timothée Espirit, union leader fired for supporting Palestine:
On October 2, LJR will screen the film Fedayin, on Georges Abdallah:
Collectif Palestine Vaincra have also put up posters to boycott Carrefour for its implications in the genocide and in support of Georges Abdallah:
On Saturday, September 21, in Montpellier there was a demonstration against the genocide and for the liberation of Palestine:
The Student’s Federal Union hung up a big poster to support Georges Abdallah:
Due to the Fete de l’Hûma, several actions were published:
In Norway several actions took place:
In Bergen, several organizations demonstrated against the so called “Sea Power Seminar 2024” which gathered several war profiteers such as Seatrans Chemica Tanker and Kongsberg Gruppen, which are supporting Israel with arms and other important resources. Slogans such as “Yemen, Yemen, make us proud! Turn another ship around!” and “No peace without freedom, no freedom without fight! Free Palestine!” were chanted.
Source: Kampkomiteen
Also in Trondheim a similar demonstration took place. Once again, they denounced the collaboration with the arm group Kongsberg Gruppen. The action took place during a meeting of the group.
Source: Kampkomiteen
On Saturday, 7th of September, the Sami-Palestinian Solidarity Day took place in Trondheim, a
collaboration between Students for Palestine Trondheim, the Palestine Committee, the
National Federation of Norwegian Samis and Nature and Youth. Different cultural activities and debates were done. During the seminar there was a panel discussion about the similarities in the struggles of the Sami and the Palestinians, within it the repression directed against activist was discussed. Also the collaboration between NTNU and Kongsberg Gruppen was denounced.
In Finland the lyrics of the song in support of Palestine, Leve Palestina (Long Live Palestine) from Kofia, originally in Swedish, were published in Finnish.
In Berlin, Germany, the aggression against and arrest of an 10-year-old children among other protesters for waving a Palestinian flags was denounced.
In Ireland, Anti-imperialist Action Ireland did an emergency solidarity demonstration in solidarity with Hezbollah and Lebanese people on Friday, September 20, in Dublin.
In Brussels there was a demonstration on Sunday 22:
On Saturday 21, there was a rally in for Palestine in Greece. They gathered in Eptalofou Square, in Ampelokipi, with banners, dudukas (traditional Greek flute), posters and chanting slogans in solidarity with Palestine. They also called for an open debate on September 30 at the Labor Center of Thessaloniki.
Source: Antigeitonies
In addition to that, a call was made for a demonstration in solidarity with the people of Palestine on Monday, October 7, for the first anniversary of the ongoing massacre.
In Toronto, Canada, a march took place. They sang “From Palestine to Lebanon, Israel will soon be gone”:
In Queens, New York, USA, there was a demonstration:
Also in Liverpool, UK, there was a march on Sunday 22:
In South Korea, hundreds marched in Seoul to denounce the genocide in Gaza:
