Palestine

Israeli strikes kill three civilians in Syria’s Damascus, state TV says
(Al Jazeera, 2024-10-01)

https://aje.io/cwoxdo
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Damascus??

"Three civilians have been killed and nine others wounded in Israeli strikes on Syria’s capital Damascus, state-run media has reported.

"The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) earlier reported that its television anchor Safaa Ahmad was killed on Tuesday in “treacherous Israeli aggression” targeting the Syrian capital."

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By Umar A Farooq in Washington
Published date: 30 September 2024 11:01 BST

Juan Cole 09/29/2024
[contains a lot of information on recent history of Lebanon]

Trita Parsi
Sep 29, 2024

Trita Parsi is the Executive VP of the Quincy Institute and an award-winning author. Washingtonian Magazine has named him one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy. Noam Chomsky calls him "one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran"

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By MEE staff
Published date: 28 September 2024 13:15 BST

By Imran Mullah in Liverpool, United Kingdom
Published date: 27 September 2024 16:35 BST

By Nader Durgham in Beirut and Umar A Farooq in Washington
Published date: 28 September 2024 09:35 BST

September 27, 2024

Guests
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Prem Thakker - political correspondent and columnist for Zeteo News.

By MEE staff
Published date: 27 September 2024 17:45 BST

Jessica Corbett
Sep 27, 2024

Sharif Abdel Kouddous Sep 24, 2024

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Michael Sainato Fri 27 Sep 2024 03.00 EDT

Like previous speeches, Netanyahu will undoubtedly cast Iran as the international community's primary antagonist. This will be given even greater emphasis considering Iran's backing of proxy organizations behind the deadliest year in Israel's history

Netanyahu arrives in New York, perhaps his second most cherished speaking engagement, next to addressing the U.S. Congress, as Israel finds itself isolated on the world stage amid the Gaza war.

World leaders over the past week have excoriated Netanyahu and his government for its conduct over the past year, driven home by the fact that he may soon be served with an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

To understand how it has managed to document tens of thousands of dead in Gaza to a high degree of accuracy, the processes it has used, and the philosophy behind it, Drop Site conducted an interview with Dr. Zaher al-Wahaidi, director of the information center at the Ministry of Health in Gaza who is based at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

The first source is e-Hospital, a computerized program, which monitors all emergency departments in government hospitals. Any casualty brought to a government hospital is registered in the emergency department through the electronic system, and the information is automatically transferred to the repository.

The second source is an Excel file provided by field hospitals that offer emergency services and handle mass casualties, like the Red Cross hospital, the Kuwaiti field hospital and so forth. These hospitals document the casualties in the Excel sheet, which they supply to us; we then process this file and upload it to our system.

A third source was introduced in January – a link provided by the Ministry of Health for reporting martyrs who had not reached ministry hospitals, remained trapped under rubble, or who could not be identified.

DSN: So the number announced by the Ministry of Health, for example, around 41,000 martyrs, could potentially be higher, but this is the figure you were able to confirm?

Dr. Zaher al-Wahaidi Correct. 41,266 martyrs [official ministry of health tally on September 16, 2024], as per the latest report. Bear in mind that the ministry releases multiple figures. The first figure of 41,266 martyrs represents the total number of martyrs who have reached the ministry's hospitals.