Asma Toubi (1905-1983), a broadcaster, writer, and poet, was born in Nazareth and received her early education there and later in Jerusalem. She then pursued academic studies at the American University of Beirut in 1932. She became the first female broadcaster on Radio Jerusalem in 1936, hosting a weekly program called “A Conversation with Arab Women,” where she addressed women on raising their children, their behavior, and offered guidance in education and work. Several other female broadcasters worked alongside her at the radio station, including Henriette Siksik, Fatima Alami, Rabiha Dajani, and Mary Akawi. She married and moved to Acre, remaining there until the Nakba, after which she was displaced to Beirut.
She authored numerous books and publications. She passed away in 1983 and was buried in Beirut.
CROSSFIREARABIA – The number of Hezbollah missiles launched from southern Lebanon, Sunday, has increased to 340.
This is the largest single volley of missiles Hezbollah struck north and center Israel in a single day since 7 October, 2023.
These trajectories, including missiles and drones have reached all parts, cities, towns, settlements and military and naval bases across Israel, reaching to the Ashdod Port just before the northern Gaza Strip.
The major city of Tel Aviv took a battering on Sunday, 24 November, 2024, being volley-struck four times in a single day – the biggest ever scare since 7 October.
Today, sirens, according to Israeli sources went off 500 times across Israel with four million Israelis spending their day in underground shelters.
Military expert Brigadier-General Elias Hanna said that Hezbollah is trying – through its intensive rocket barrages towards central Israel, Sunday – “to draw a new equation whose title is the heart of Beirut versus Tel Aviv.” He explained that Hezbollah has proven its ability to launch rockets from the front lines into the Israeli interior, pointing to the large number of rockets it launched today compared to a previous daily average of between 70 and 100 rockets.
For Israel, it’s a first nation-wide alert with 24th November, 2024 likely to be remembered as one of the most difficult days between the Israeli army and Hezbollah fighters.
Over 250 missiles have landed on different parts of Israel including Naharya, Acca, Haifa, Beith Takfah, West Galilee, Krayot, HaSharon, Herzilya, Tel Aviv and the port of Ashdod, bordering Gaza, which is 150 kilometers away from Tel Aviv.
It speaks much about the encroachment of the so-called “Israeli depth” that today lies bare with Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north.
Direct missile hit reported in Tel Aviv
Preliminarily, 170 rockets were fired at Israeli territory in the last few hours. 54 of them were intercepted. pic.twitter.com/6Y7HExG5Jt
This is being described as “unprecedented” in a wide set of attacks covering at least half of Israel and is trending on the social media with its continual updates.
It began on early Sunday morning, after Israeli warplanes bombed the southern district of Beirut leading to many deaths and injuries.
The rockets on northern Israel that included military bases near Tel Aviv had been climbing from 150 missiles, some of who are ballistic to 170 with the latest figure standing at 200 and 250 and set to increase.
Damages and fires is being reported in the Israeli media with at least 10 people being injured but this is being described as the “war of missiles.”
With these projectiles landing on Israel daily – they increased in intensity when Israeli decided to stage its air and land war on Lebanon last September with the killing of Hezbollah’s Chief Hassan Nasrallah, the escalation on the Jewish state have continued daily.
The only people that seems to be affected by this are civilians. Whilst Israel’s war on Lebanon have displaced 1.4 million people in the south of the country, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have also been displaced from their homes and living in sheltered accommodation.
But apart from that up to two million Israelis in central Israel and the Tel Aviv conurbation have been “running up-and-down” between underground shelters.
Red alerts as of 18:00 today, November 24, 2024:
🔸 Red alerts: 401 (314 rocket alerts, 87 UAV alerts) in 11 regions. 🔸 Unique areas with sirens: 237
⭕️ Confrontation Line — Shlomi (×5), Shomera (×6), Shtula (×4), Tel Hai, Kiryat Shmona (×7), Margaliot (×2), Kibutz Dan, Beit… pic.twitter.com/biaHE3YPDB
Today sirens dominate the Israeli scene, going on and off on all hours of the day, at night, early mornings, when people are asleep and during the day.
The rockets, missiles, sirens have made life so unbearable that life has changed dramatically with hundreds thousands already left the country and many more thousands are thinking of actively getting out.
Today, the atmosphere in Israel – never been experienced before and judged from the siren blasts at 401 sound alerts in 11 regions – is tense and downright frightful, a bit like Gaza or the southern district of Beirut. Its no longer the place its original founders intended it to be.
The new message is “you can’t enjoy yoursleves while living on the lands of another people; all must suffer the consequences. Israelis are realizing that. Their way out is through the congested Ben Gurion Airport which is topsy-turvy shutdown due to the daily missiles and drones.
The Jewish army in the northern part of Israel are on high alert because of what appaers to be Hezbollah fighters’ infiltration from southern Lebanon.
According to Israeli media reports the authorities there, have closed main streets in northern Israel, Friday morning, fearing an Hezboallah fighters were infiltrating a number of Israeli towns and settlements next to the border with Lebanon.
These reports have also confirmed that one person was killed and a number of others wounded as a result of an anti-tank missile being fired at the area as reported in Al Jazeera.
The station reported that according to the Israeli Channel 13 there was a suspicion of an infiltration operation in several towns in the Upper Galilee, where residents were asked to stay in their homes and take shelter in shelters.
It stated as well that the Israeli Channel 14 reported that checkpoints were set up in Safed and its surroundings amid fears of an infiltration operation into northern Israel.
The infiltration into norther Israel by Hezbollah fighters is trending on the social media where sirens for people to stay in their home and underground shelters have been ringing all day due as well to incoming rockets and missiles coming from across the border.
On Thursday for example sirens through out north Israel sounded 123 times in the Upper Galilee including in towns like Haifa, Haifa Bay, Acca, Kiryat Shmona, Maragaliot, Nahariya, Afula, Nazareth and Marj Bin Amer.
On Friday morning Israeli media reported that initial estimates indicated that more than 20 rockets were fired towards Haifa Bay, and confirmed that a building in the Kiryat Bialik industrial zone in Haifa Bay was directly hit as a result of the rockets.
As well, Israeli Channel 12 confirmed 30 rockets were fired in another batch targeting the Upper Galilee, and indicated that fires broke out due to those rockets.
Hezbollah announced that it had targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the Zevulun area north of Haifa, and in the Yiftah barracks and its surroundings.
This is while Israeli Channel 14 reported that more than 10,000 rockets and shells have been fired towards Israel since the beginning of the war in the north.
Since 23 September, Israel targeted most areas of Lebanon through intensive airstrikes, and has also begun a ground incursion into the south where they are meeting stiff resistance from Hezbollah fighters.
However the Israeli raids have resulted in 1,351 Lebanese dead and 3,811 wounded, including a large number of women and children with more than 1.2 million displaced as highlighted by Al Jazeera.
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