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MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday, Semafor reports:https://t.co/N334HRUfLc pic.twitter.com/nDpxk7MT8T

— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) October 13, 2023

British-Palestinian Girl Speaks From #Gaza

May God protect Jenna and her family

NO child should experience this…#StopGazaNakaba #Gaza_under_attack #غزة_الآن #Gazagenocide #FreeGaza #TheRealImage #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsrealPalestineconflict #hamas #israel pic.twitter.com/73zZBl9kiZ

— عساف (@Sa91af) October 14, 2023

#WATCH | Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus says, "Extremely sad and worrying to see that Hamas actively undermines and tries to stop Palestinian civilians from evacuating the area...according to the reports by international media" pic.twitter.com/0mY5iUmzyM

— ANI (@ANI) October 14, 2023

UPDATE: As of this time, the IDF has confirmed that over 120 civilians are being held captive in Gaza by the Hamas terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/AT75iC8TmY

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 14, 2023

One page labeled “Top Secret” outlines a plan of attack for Kfar Sa’ad, saying “Combat unit 1” is directed to “contain the new Da’at school,” while “Combat unit 2” is to “collect hostages,” “search the Bnei Akiva youth center” and “search the old Da’at school.” pic.twitter.com/Al3lKx8V87

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 13, 2023

The detailed plan is part of a trove of documents that Israeli officials are analyzing, according to one source in the Israeli army and one in government. Surveillance video of Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 show tactics similar to those in the documents. https://t.co/nkzsFJCF15

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 13, 2023

Settlers and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday. At least two Palestinian villages have been entirely depopulated. @yuval_abraham reports for @972mag in partnership with @theintercept https://t.co/8lxFEgq88h

— Ali Gharib (@Ali_Gharib) October 13, 2023

The US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel warning the Biden administration of an increased risk for Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the weeks ahead of Saturday’s seismic attack on southern Israel, according to sources familiar with the intelligence.
One update from September 28 warned, based on multiple streams of intelligence, that the terror group Hamas was poised to escalate rocket-attacks across the border. An October 5 wire from the CIA warned generally of the increasing possibility of violence by Hamas. Then, on October 6, the day before the attack, US officials circulated reporting from Israel indicating unusual activity by Hamas — indications that are now clear: an attack was imminent.
None of the American assessments offered any tactical details or indications of the overwhelming scope, scale and sheer brutality of the operation that Hamas carried out on October 7, sources say. It is unclear if any of these US assessments were shared with Israel, which provides much of the intelligence that the US bases its reports on.

“If Israel is forced to the wall, the possibility of nuclear exchange is extremely high.”

Today Ben Shapiro told his audience that unless the United States provides material aid to Israel, it could find itself in a scenario where it’s nuking its neighbors. pic.twitter.com/5MBYRj7Bb4

— Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) October 13, 2023

“As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, the State Department is discouraging diplomats working on Middle East issues from making public statements suggesting the U.S. wants to see less violence, according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.” https://t.co/5o8vwMWLpl

— Khaled Elgindy (@elgindy_) October 13, 2023

Israel told civilians to flee north Gaza, then bombed one of the only roads south: "The video, recorded along Salah Al-Deen road, shows bodies, including several young children, strewn along the road as black smoke rises from vehicles engulfed in flames." https://t.co/e2t9f6Tb2Q

— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) October 14, 2023

The Israeli Defense Force has announced the creation of 2 Evacuation Routes from Northern to Southern Gaza which will not be Targeted today by IDF Strikes between the Hours of 10am to 4pm with the IDF further stating, “If you Care for yourselves and your Loved Ones, take… pic.twitter.com/KHTIllQpCj

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 14, 2023

Scary.

Ex-Israeli Deputy Foreign minister & senior diplomat [@DannyAyalon]:

«We don’t tell Gazans to go to the beaches or drown themselves… No God forbid.. Go to the Sinai Dessert.. the Int’l community will build them cities & give them food.. Egypt ought to play ball with it” pic.twitter.com/MBv9h2yCly

— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) October 13, 2023

"Gazans should move to Sinai"
Israeli Reserve Brigadier-General Amir Avivi suggests Gazans should find refuge in Sinai amid escalating tensions. Presenter recalls Mustafa Barghouti's warning: is this a choice between "genocide or ethnic cleansing"? pic.twitter.com/pKHYRPjwWZ

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 14, 2023

Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas https://t.co/pshItr0uUS

— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 13, 2023

There is deep concern among EU institutions and capitals that by appearing to sanction Israel's expected invasion of Gaza, von der Leyen has squandered the EU's credibility - including on Ukraine.
She had no mandate to visit Israel from the member states.https://t.co/EQAy1YPC1e

— Naomi O'Leary (@NaomiOhReally) October 14, 2023

rumbeando wrote:

The detailed plan is part of a trove of documents that Israeli officials are analyzing, according to one source in the Israeli army and one in government. Surveillance video of Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 show tactics similar to those in the documents. https://t.co/nkzsFJCF15

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 13, 2023

Across the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people are at risk as water runs out.
“It has become a matter of life and death. It is a must; fuel needs to be delivered now into Gaza to make water available for 2 million people,” said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General.
No humanitarian supplies have been allowed into Gaza for a week now.
Clean water is running out in the Gaza Strip, after its water plant and public water networks stopped working. People are now forced to use dirty water from wells, increasing risks of waterborne diseases. Gaza has also been under an electricity blackout since 11 October, impacting the water supply.
At the UN base in the southern Gaza Strip - where UNRWA has moved its operations- drinking water is also running out. Thousands of people have sought refuge there after Israel issued a warning to residents demanding them to leave their homes in the northern parts of the Strip.
Only in the past 12 hours, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. The exodus continues as people move to the southern parts of the Gaza Strip. Nearly 1 million people have been displaced in one week alone.
“We need to truck fuel into Gaza now. Fuel is the only way for people to have safe drinking water. If not, people will start dying of severe dehydration, among them young children, the elderly and women. Water is now the last remaining lifeline. I appeal for the siege on humanitarian assistance to be lifted now,” added Lazzarini.
Three water desalination plants, previously producing 21 million liters of drinking water per day, have halted operations.
Drinking water supply from Israel was cut on 9 October, causing a severe shortage of drinking water for over 650,000 people.

The FT quotes EU officials saying “we may be about to see massive ethnic cleansing” and "we’ll pay a heavy price in the global south [for supporting it]".https://t.co/l7jf76Cppo

This is insane. They're predicting a "massive ethnic cleansing": why on earth is it so hard to, at…

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) October 13, 2023

This is insane. They're predicting a "massive ethnic cleansing": why on earth is it so hard to, at the very least, to say this shouldn't happen? They're normally so eager to lecture the whole planet for even the slightest hint of a perceived human rights violation... But when one of them is about to commit what might rank as one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the century, expressing concern is suddenly "an impossible tightrope" ‍�

Damn right they'll pay an extremely heavy price for it in the global South! Whatever credibility they had left (which wasn't much) will be completely gone for a very, very long time. And it will be very much deserved.

In the spirit of fairness I have noticed 2 Western leaders - just 2 - who had enough backbone to express concern about Israel's actions. They are Norwegian foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt who said the blockade on Gaza was "unacceptable" and Ireland's PM Varadkar who said that what is happening in Gaza "amounts to collective punishment". He added: "Cutting off power, cutting off fuel supplies and water supplies, that's not the way a respectable democratic state should conduct itself."

See, how hard is it to say this? That's how you preserve at least a modicum of integrity as a state.

Is Gaza-Sinai state a possibility for Palestinians? (...)
One possibility – known to be much-favoured by Israel – would be to engineer the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and then pressure Egypt to allow it to expand into the neighbouring territory of northern Sinai.
According to this plan, not only would most of Gaza’s population end up in Sinai, but so too would potentially millions of Palestinian refugees. (...)
Suspicions of a Gaza-Sinai state are not new. In fact, there is strong evidence that Israel has been pushing aggressively, along with the United States, to create a Palestinian state in Sinai since it withdrew its soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip more than a decade ago. Now rumours are circulating that the Sinai plan is being revived.

Brian Mast did not “serve” in the IDF. He volunteered doing non-essential, non-combat work in Tel Aviv for less than a month. Minimum service for Israelis is 32 months.

— Show_me (@PinotandPizza) October 14, 2023

An Egyptian security source also tells Reuters that Cairo “has no intention of accepting the influx of large numbers of Palestinian refugees” through Rafah https://t.co/rdNkHMg1A3

— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 14, 2023

Društvo,
prvo hteo bih da se zahvalim svima onima koji su mi pisali,zvali,pitali...Zaista nisam mogao da odgovaram, i da pišem bilo šta.Sav fokus je bukvalno bio na preživljavanju a kasnije i na vremenu sa najmilijima.A zaista sam bio sam pretrpan porukama. pic.twitter.com/noTHMZk5tC

— Kibucnik... (@kibucnik) October 14, 2023