Nour Khalil Khattab

Nov 25, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Jessica Corbett |Richard Falk |Nour Khalil Khattab

(Beirut, November 25, 2024) – An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch determined that Israeli forces carried out the attack using an air-dropped bomb equipped with a United States-produced Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kit.

Nov 25, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Jessica Corbett |Richard Falk |Nour Khalil Khattab

Israel has responded to last week’s arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant by intensifying its rampage throughout the Middle East. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 people and wounded more than 68 in the Basta al-Fawqa neighborhood of Lebanon. That day, 84 people in Lebanon were slaughtered in Israeli bombardments, with dozens more killed on Sunday.

Nov 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Jessica Corbett |Richard Falk |Nour Khalil Khattab |Raed Jarrar

More than 1,000 doctors and nurses are among at least 44,211 people killed in Israel’s 13-month assault on the Gaza Strip, officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave said Sunday. “Over 310 other medical personnel were arrested, tortured, and executed in prisons,” Gaza’s Government Media Office also said in a statement, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.

Nov 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Richard Falk |Nour Khalil Khattab |Raed Jarrar |Amit Sengupta

The ICC delayed the formal issuance of ‘arrest warrants’ for top Israeli political leaders directing the genocidal assault on Gaza for six months although it responded affirmatively to a comparable request involving Putin’s alleged criminality in Ukraine in less than a month after the Russian attack.

Nov 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Mohd Khan |Vikas Meshram |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Nour Khalil Khattab

“This was not a wave but a tsunami,” proclaimed one of the BJP leaders, summarizing the resounding outcome of the Maharashtra Assembly Elections. However, the big question remains: how did we get here? How did the verdict turn out like this? These were the reactions echoing in the opposition camp. “I cannot make sense of this,” lamented a visibly dejected Uddhav Thackeray, leader of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Bal Thackeray) faction.