Sunday, October 13, 2024

 looks like there are no favorable words i can find to 'stand with israel';


Palestinians walk during the evacuation of Jabaliya refugee camp and the Sheikh Radwan and Abu Iskandar neighborhoods of northern Gaza City on 12 October.

 Mahmoud IssaZUMA Press

Israel is tightening its vise on civilians in both Gaza and in Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders in both places on Saturday.

“The conflict in Lebanon, coupled with intensified strikes in Syria and the raging violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, points to a region dangerously teetering on the brink of an all-out war,” a senior UN official warned the Security Council on Thursday.

Rosemary DiCarlo, the under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, made those remarks after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in a suburb of Damascus on Tuesday, killing seven civilians, including women and children.

More than 300 people were killed in Lebanon in the past week alone, DiCarlo told the UN body, warning that time for a diplomatic resolution was quickly running out.

Hizballah continued to fire rockets and drones into Israel from Lebanon on Friday and Saturday, with a drone striking a residential building in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, on Friday evening and causing no injuries.

Washington was reportedly viewing the crisis in Lebanon and the perceived weakened position of Hizballah following the assassination of key leaders as an opportunity to break the political impasse in that country, which has been without a president for nearly two years.........more......

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