Schools were shut and non-essential construction was banned around #Delhi as the #AirQuality index in the city almost hit 500 – the highest the measurement will go and 100 times the limit deemed to be healthy by the #WorldHealthOrganization.
#Israel started bringing in migrant workers in earnest after the first #Intifada, the 1987-93 #PalestinianRevolt, after employers began to lose trust in Palestinian workers.
Most came from #Thailand, and they remain the largest group of foreign agricultural laborers in Israel today.
#MetroManila (#CNN Philippines, November 3) — The #Philippines offered assistance to transport #ASEAN nationals trapped in war-torn #Gaza through the Rafah border crossing once it is opened, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Friday. #RafahCrossing#Israel
#MANILA, #Philippines – The remains of Filipino caregiver #AngelynAguirre, who stayed by the side of her Israeli employer until her death, arrived in the Philippines on Friday, November 3.
Aguirre is one of at least four #Filipinos confirmed to have died since Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group #Hamas broke out on October 7 – the very day she died. #Israel
In a widely anticipated speech, #HassanNasrallah stopped short of announcing that #Hezbollah has fully joined the #Israel-#Hamas war, but added the fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border would “not be limited” to the scale seen until now.
Australian foreign minister #PennyWong has called for a renewed international effort to find a two-state solution to end the cycle of violence in the #MiddleEast, arguing that #Israel can only find peace and security if it can do the same for #Palestinians.
A Guardian analysis of satellite imagery of the northern #GazaStrip in the aftermath of heavy bombardments has identified more than 1,000 craters visible from space within approximately 10 square kilometres.
In one area – just half a kilometre wide – a group of residential blocks has been bombed so severely that about 100 craters, some as large as 45ft (13.9m), are visible. #Gaza#Israel
Among the 134 #Filipinos left, De Vega said 115 initially signified that they want to go home, however, knowing that their #Palestinian spouses and other relatives will not be able to accompany them in crossing the border, only 43 decided to leave #Gaza.
De Vega also noted that children of Filipinos in Gaza were also given permission to leave as they have Filipino passports. #Israel#Philippines
The official addressed the possibility of a “pause” in the fighting.
"When you heard the president say the other night, talking about a pause in the context of a prisoner release — releases to get the hostages out and the numbers that we’re talking about, it would take a very significant pause in the conflict, in the fighting to be able to do this,” the official said. “It is something that is under very serious and active discussion.” #RafahCrossing#Israel
“By meeting #Hamas last week and not condemning the massacres, the #Kremlin might have given the green light to some elements in the #Caucasus that the hunting season against [#Jews] is on,” said Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, a former chief rabbi of #Moscow, who left in 2022 after #Russia launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine.
Hungry and desperate, some British Palestinians are having to leave family members behind in #Gaza. Others can’t escape because of the incessant bombing – even of ambulances. #UK#RafahCrossing#Israel
In one house, said Simcha Dizengoff, a first responder with the Zaka emergency response service, a birthday cake still sat on the table from the weekend. Following the unmistakable smell of burned flesh, his team found the bodies of two adults, two children and their grandmother in the safe room, hugging each other on the floor in the corner.
Before early October, Motaz Azaiza’s Instagram account documented life in #Gaza to about 25,000 followers with a mix of daily life and the ongoing hostilities between #Israel and #Hamas.
That began to change in the days after Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel and the retaliation on Gaza. Since then, more than 12.5 million people have begun following Azaiza’s feed.
In peacetime, more than 110,000 #Palestinians held permits to work in Israel or Israeli settlements, the majority of them in the #ConstructionIndustry.
Left without those workers — and with Israeli reservists having been called to war and many foreign workers fleeing the conflict — the construction industry in #Israel is operating at 15% of its prewar capacity.
The Turkish foreign ministry said ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was being recalled for consultations "in view of the unfolding humanitarian tragedy in #Gaza caused by the continuing attacks by #Israel against civilians, and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire".
The flow of humanitarian aid and evacuation of foreign nationals at #RafahCrossing has been paused since the Israeli attack on an ambulance convoy last weekend.
The airdrop was necessary due to a delay in transporting aid over land through the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and Gaza, according to the Jordanian military. #Jordan
In terms of the global economy, #LarryFink, chief executive of the world’s largest asset manager, #BlackRock, said a combination of the #Hamas atrocities of 7 October, #Israel’s resultant attack on #Gaza and #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine last year had pushed the world “almost to a whole new future”.
The announcement is a clear message of deterrence directed at #Iran and its proxies in the region. The sub, which is not named, joins a number of other #USNavy assets already in area, including two carrier strike groups and an amphibious ready group. #Israel#Gaza
The #UN and #NGO chiefs, including the leaders of #UNICEF, UN Women, the World Food Program, the #WHO and Save the Children, described the killings of both Israelis and Palestinians over the past month as “horrific”.
Police in #Turkey used teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who marched on an air base housing US forces in Turkey’s south-east hours before #Blinken’s arrival on Sunday ahead of Monday’s talks in Ankara with foreign minister Hakan Fidan.
#Erdoğan plans to travel across Turkey’s remote north-east on Monday in an apparent snub of Blinken.
Shakir said a grey area was differentiating combatants from civilians among the dead, but the large proportion of women and children killed was indicative of high civilian casualties. He also said there was a need to draw a distinction between the immediate casualty numbers that came out quickly on any given day and those compiled over time, when there was more clarity. #Israel
The plan had been formulated by a handful of hardened, veteran #Hamas leaders and was still unknown to the men whose violence was about to shatter any passing sense of calm or progress towards a new stability in the #MiddleEast. It was unknown, too, to #Israel’s much vaunted military and intelligence services.
Major airlines extended temporary halts on flights into #Israel through the end of the year while cruise operators are shifting itineraries to avoid neighboring countries as well. Travel operators say the war is affecting demand for travel to nearby nations including #Egypt, #Jordan, and #Turkey. #Tourism
As global leaders continue to pile pressure on #Israel over the mounting civilian death toll from its bombardment of #Gaza and huge crowds gather for pro-Palestinian protests in cities like #London, #WashingtonDC, #Berlin, #Paris, #Amman and #Cairo – many Israelis are getting frustrated with what they see as unequal treatment.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Thank you for the video link, I agree that if things aren't fixed then another Middle East war and the very probable breakdown in the world economic and political order will happen. Bibi's toast, the Israeli public will never forgive him for the horrific Oct 7 attack by Hamas.
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