Israel Aims to Eradicate Learning

UNICEF documented 64 Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza during October, many serving as shelters for displaced families. Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, warned that if the agency collapses, an entire generation of Gaza’s children could be deprived of their right to education.

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Israel Devastates, Murders…

Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal has made the following statement, Friday, about the devastating situation in Gaza and the north of the enclave that is being committed by the Israeli army. He said:

“Gaza has been enduring an ongoing war of extermination for over 400 days.

Signs of dehydration are now visible in children due to lack of proper nutrition and food.

Gaza City faces a policy of starvation, with the occupation blocking access to vegetables, fruits, and cooking gas.

The Israeli occupation continues to expand the Netzarim corridor, seizing more land from Gaza City.

The situation in Gaza is increasingly dire, with no home remaining livable.

Thousands of lives could have been saved if proper rescue and relief equipment had been available.”

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15 Killed in Israeli Bombing of Damascus

At least 15 people were killed and 16 others injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, local media reported.

News soon went viral on the social media with the attacks on Damascus in broad daylight that continues on daily basis.

Women and children were among the victims in the attack that targeted residential buildings in Al Mazzeh and Qudssaya neighborhoods in Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported.

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SANA said Israeli warplanes carried out the attack from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The news agency said Syrian air defenses also intercepted a “hostile projectile” in Homs in central Syria.

It did not specify if Israel was behind the incident.

There was no immediate Israeli comment on the report.

On Nov. 5, the Israeli army said that its fighter jets had targeted Hezbollah weapons warehouses in Al-Qusayr city in western Syria.

Israel, which rarely comments on military operations, has conducted airstrikes in Syria since 2011, focusing on Iranian and Syrian forces and Hezbollah targets according to Anadolu.

The latest airstrikes highlight continuing regional tensions amid Israel’s military offensives in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

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Knesset Introduces Bill to Ban Palestinian Flag

The Israeli government is seeking to pass a bill that would ban the raising of the Palestinian flag in Israeli universities and institutions supported by the occupation state.

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation in the Knesset is expected to discuss this law in its next session next Sunday.

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The Anadolu Agency quoted KAN, Israeli official broadcaster, Thursday, as stating that the new law will apply to institutions funded by the budget of the government, including universities, and will stipulate a fine of about 10,000 new shekels ($2,700) and imprisonment for up to one year on violators.

It added that according to the proposal submitted by Knesset member Nissim Vitori, from the Likud party of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it will be possible to disperse gatherings and even punish demonstrators waving flags with imprisonment for up to one year and a fine of no less than 10,000 shekels.

It pointed out that among the state-funded bodies are universities, which from time to time witness protests during which male and female students raise Palestinian flags.

Palestinian students in the occupied territories often organize protests in Israeli universities against Israeli policies, during which the Palestinian flag is raised.

This is not the first time that a Likud MP has proposed banning the raising of the Palestinian flag in state institutions or universities, and imposing fines or imprisonment on anyone who raises the Palestinian flag.

With American support, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, leaving more than 147,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world according to the Palestine Information Center.

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