Daily Briefing On Palestine: No 8. — Sentient Musings
INTEL DESK • DAILY BRIEFING • PALESTINE VIII • NOV 1–2 2026 • Open Source • For Ordinary Reader
Daily Briefing On Palestine VIII – Nov 2, 2026 – Full Catch-Up Since Briefing VII
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How to read the boxes. Within each section the events run in chronological order, oldest first. Any event involving people from outside Palestine, such as diplomats, journalists, activists, legislators or United Nations personnel, whether detained, attacked, barred or killed, is set apart in a red box. Any death or wounding of a child is set apart in an amber box. In each pair of source boxes, the red box on the left carries other media and the blue box on the right carries Israeli media, each marked with an arrow and with hyperlinked sources. Collected boxes for children, for non-Palestinians and for people appear near the top. The sources are listed at the end.
00 — Background
The war began on October 7, 2023. A ceasefire was announced to take effect on October 10, 2025. That ceasefire has nevertheless not stopped the strikes, the killings, the demolitions, or the blockade. To avoid trivializing it, we do not repeat the full context every day. The full context, including the Hannibal Directive on October 7, the “NAZA” collateral framing, and the total toll, was provided in the First Edition of October 14.
The ticker, offered occasionally and only to convey scale, oldest first:
Children — killed or wounded
UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, October 28: Israel continued to commit genocide in Gaza after the US-brokered ceasefire, having examined violations against civilians. The Commission counts 1,431 killed through September 30, including 300 children and 130 women.
October 31: Since October 7, 2023, 74,570 people have been killed and 175,808 wounded. Of these, 1,574 were killed and 5,687 wounded since the ceasefire of October 10, 2025, and 845 bodies have been recovered from the rubble, according to r24.mv and abna24.
Children — killed or wounded
UNICEF, October 31: 351 children have been killed since the ceasefire of October 2025, among them 8 children killed and 20 injured within a single six-day period despite the active truce.
Children — killed or wounded
November 1, Reuters: Israeli strikes killed 8 Palestinians on Sunday, including five police officers and a child. In that count, at least 1,500 have been killed since the ceasefire.
November 2, 07:18, Reuters, Cairo: Israeli strikes killed 3 Palestinians this morning: two were killed and six wounded in two separate airstrikes in Khan Younis in the south, and one was killed in Al-Mussadar. Health officials say at least 1,580 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began.
Where it is pertinent, the word genocide is used here as it is used at the United Nations and at The Hague, namely for ongoing legal qualifications.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man under international law. In November 2024 the International Criminal Court issued active arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity against him and against the former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The Hague has no police force and relies on its member states.
Special box — Capitol Hill small movements — November 2 — you flagged
What happened in Washington
Inspired by the recently published book Crossing the Red Line: The Biden Administration and Gaza, the Win Without War Education Fund, Americans for a New Policy, and the Center for International Policy hosted lawmakers, staff, and members of the policy community at the U.S. Capitol. They asked one question: when official policy and moral considerations collide, what is the responsibility of a public servant?
The panel was introduced by Senators Peter Welch and Chris Van Hollen. Staff from more than 25 congressional offices attended.
Photo: the panel in a Capitol hearing room, with banners reading “WIN WITHOUT WAR EDUCATION FUND” and an audience in maroon chairs.
The quote from your screenshot:
“U.S. national security officials responsible for the country’s worst moral and strategic disasters have, for too long, been reflexively welcomed back into the halls of power, where they can once again inflict harm,” said Harrison Mann, Associate Director for Campaigns and Policy and the first military officer to resign over Gaza. “Seeing prominent members of the U.S. Senate and staff from over two dozen congressional offices, many of whom will have a role in confirming future national security appointees, give this topic their attention today should give us hope that this bloody cycle of impunity can finally be broken.”
The book:Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, diplomatic correspondent, published September 22, 2026 by W.W. Norton, 368 pages. It is based on interviews with more than 150 officials. Its central image is that Biden set a red line over Rafah in April 2024, where more than 1 million Palestinians were sheltering, saying an assault there would risk the pipeline of American bombs, and then allowed it.
Special box — People — collected here as requested
Harrison Mann — full bio
Rank and career
U.S. Army Major with a 13-year career. Commissioned in 2011 as an infantry officer.
Intelligence roles
Defense Intelligence Agency, specializing in Middle Eastern affairs. Executive officer of the DIA Middle East/Africa Regional Center. Middle East all-source intelligence analyst. Led a crisis cell coordinating intelligence support for Ukraine. Worked at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Office of Security Cooperation. Led Army Civil Affairs teams combating regional smuggling.
Resignation
Submitted November 1, 2023, just over three weeks into Israel’s assault; effective June 2024.
Firsts
According to ArabCon, the first Jewish U.S. government official and the first from the intelligence community to publicly resign in protest over Gaza. According to ArmyTimes, Democracy Now, and multiple sources, also the first military officer and first intelligence officer to publicly resign over Biden administration support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Public letter
“Nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel … has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.” He said it was impossible not to see echoes of the Holocaust, and explained that his Jewish background shaped his decision: he was proud to wear the same uniform as the soldiers who liberated the camps.
Current
Associate Director for Campaigns and Policy. Speaker on Un-Diplomatic Podcast, Episode 191, “Gaza and the Moral Question of Public Service.”
Special box — The other side of the ledger — Jewish Insider track — comparative bio
As requested, this box reviews Jewish Insider for items and politicians on the other side. Jewish Insider is a Washington outlet covering pro-Israel politics and Capitol Hill. It does not cover Mann. It covers the opposite track.
Key items from Jewish Insider, oldest first
September 17, 2025, Speaker Johnson’s private meeting: House Speaker Mike Johnson gathered a who’s who of pro-Israel organizations for a private meeting ostensibly designed to eliminate dissenting voices within the Republican Party. Four attendees confirmed it to Jewish Insider. The pledge was to screen out isolationist, meaning anti-Israel, GOP candidates to prevent that wing from growing larger in the House. Headline: “Johnson discusses efforts to push back on GOP isolationists with pro-Israel leaders.”
May 2026, Kentucky’s 4th district: After the primary defeat of Thomas Massie, the public statement was that “supporting Israel is both good policy and winning politics,” with $3.2 million spent by the United Democracy Project.
October 2026, AIPAC shift: Jewish Insider first reported that AIPAC will stop endorsing candidates, making direct PAC contributions, and earmarking donations, reversing the strategy adopted five years ago. It will focus on increasing direct organized contributions from individual Americans, absorbed into its sister super PAC, the United Democracy Project PAC.
Legislative agenda, per the Daily Kickoff (date not given): maintaining U.S. security assistance to Israel.
Comparative bio — politicians on the other side
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA): lawyer and former constitutional law attorney; Speaker since October 2023. He holds a war council with AIPAC and Jewish leaders, has pledged to hold the line against the isolationist wing, opposes conditioning aid, and is supported by the AIPAC network.
The AIPAC leadership track versus the Mann track: Mann spent 13 years in the Army and the DIA, resigned over ethical concerns, now works on campaigns and policy at a peace group, and says the bloody cycle of impunity can finally be broken. The other track is career lobbying: screening candidates, maintaining bipartisan support for Israel, and moving money through a super PAC.
Special box — Children’s deaths — collected since Briefing VII, oldest first (each item also appears in its section)
UN report, post-ceasefire, verified (date not given): 66 children were among 331 deaths near the Yellow Line, together with 27 women and 238 men. Women and children make up 37% of the total.
Euro-Med Monitor, October: At least 19 Palestinian children were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in October, an average of one child every 35 hours. The youngest was a 4-year-old boy. Children were killed in their homes, in tents, or while returning from lessons.
October 27: Three Palestinians, including a child, were killed in shelling and gunfire targeting the tents of displaced persons in southern Gaza. Three others, including a child, were injured by shrapnel in Tuffah.
UNICEF, October 31: 351 children have been killed since the ceasefire of October 2025, among them 8 children killed and 20 injured within a single six-day period despite the active truce. UNICEF describes the pattern as systemic killing and demands accountability.
November 1: A father and child were killed near the Cairo School in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. According to Civil Defense, a child was killed in Khan Younis and another in Gaza City.
Veritaspress, the past 24 hours, November 1–2: 7 martyrs and 7 injured, including a 4-year-old child who succumbed to wounds from earlier shelling.
⚠ Special box — Non-Palestinian activity, arrests, killings — collected since Briefing VII, oldest first (each item also appears in its section)
Settler violence against international victims (earlier; dates not given): The Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was kicked 15 times and needed surgery for a fractured finger. The French mayor Bernard Baudoux, aged 78, was beaten with iron bars in Taybeh. A Belgian consular vehicle was smashed. Four dual Palestinian-American citizens were hospitalized in Abu Falah.
October 26: A 23-person Progressive International delegation was barred from entering the West Bank via Jordan on the way to Birzeit University. It included Lara Bird of the SNP and Clive Lewis. The Guardian reports that British politicians were held, and Presstv reports that Israeli occupation forces barred the MPs.
Late October, UNIFIL personnel (dates not given): The first French soldier, Florian Montorio, was killed while clearing a road, and a second French soldier, Anicet Girardin, died of wounds from the Hezbollah attack in the week before October 28. Two Sri Lankan peacekeepers were injured when a Merkava tank fired toward an observation tower in Naqoura.
October 30: In al-Lubban al-Gharbi, activists from Italy, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Ireland and Sweden were detained while accompanying farmers. Four Italian activists were held during the harvest.
October 31: Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in an airstrike, hours after the UN headquarters was fired upon.
November 1: Israeli authorities decided on Sunday to deport 14 foreign solidarity activists arrested during the olive harvest, according to Petra, and an Italian teacher was detained in Givon prison after refusing deportation.
Rabbis for Human Rights (date not given): A Jerusalem court lifted the bans on its volunteers during the olive harvest and found the accusations unsubstantiated.
01 — Gaza — Nov 1–2 — 8 killed Nov 1, 3 killed Nov 2
For the ordinary reader: the Yellow Line divides Gaza. The territory west of the line is the Green Zone, a humanitarian area where displaced families are told to shelter in tents and which is supposed to be safer. Yet strikes continue inside the Yellow Line.
Children — killed or wounded
Since the ceasefire (date not given): A UN report verified that 66 children were among 331 deaths near the Yellow Line, together with 27 women and 238 men. Women and children make up 37% of the total.
Children — killed or wounded
October, as a month: According to Euro-Med Monitor, at least 19 Palestinian children were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in October, an average of one child every 35 hours. The youngest was a 4-year-old boy, and children were killed in their homes, in tents, or while returning from lessons.
Children — killed or wounded
October 27: Three Palestinians, including a child, were killed in shelling and gunfire targeting the tents of displaced persons in southern Gaza. Three others, including a child, were injured by shrapnel in Tuffah.
October 28–29: According to Final Call, more than 100 Palestinians were killed between October 28 and 29.
October 31 to November 1, overnight: According to the Health Ministry, 32 people were killed across the Strip on Saturday, along with 30 wounded, during Israeli strikes against Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders following a violation on Friday. Nine were killed on Saturday evening, including 4 killed in a strike on a home in the Sabra neighborhood of western Gaza City, inside the Yellow Line, while several remained missing under the rubble.
Children — killed or wounded
UNICEF, October 31: 351 children have been killed since the ceasefire, among them 8 children killed and 20 injured within a single six-day period despite the active truce. UNICEF describes the pattern as systemic killing and demands accountability.
November 1, morning, Mawasi, Khan Younis: A drone launched a missile at a police security detail guarding civilian infrastructure near the entrance to Ard al-Manga, killing five police personnel.
Children — killed or wounded
November 1, morning, Gaza City: A drone struck a gathering near the Cairo School in the al-Rimal neighborhood, killing three, including a father and a child, and wounding six, some critically. According to Civil Defense, a child was also killed in Khan Younis and another in Gaza City. In all, 8 Palestinians were killed on November 1, including a child, according to Reuters.
Children — killed or wounded
Veritaspress, the past 24 hours, November 1–2: 7 martyrs and 7 injured, including a 4-year-old child who succumbed to wounds from earlier shelling.
November 2, 07:18, Reuters, Cairo: Three Palestinians were killed and several wounded on Monday. Two were killed and six wounded in two separate airstrikes in Khan Younis in the south, and one was killed in Al-Mussadar in central Gaza. Health officials say at least 1,580 have been killed since the ceasefire.
Other media →
Al Jazeera, Reuters: 8 killed on November 1, including 5 police and a child, and 3 killed on November 2 in Khan Younis and Al-Mussadar. VPPNews: 5 killed in Mawasi, and 3 civilians including a child. Civil Defense: 8 killed, including a child. Veritaspress: 7 martyrs, including a 4-year-old child. See.mv: 3 killed and 6 wounded. SRN News: 1,580 killed in total since the ceasefire.
Israeli media →
Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ynet, Haaretz, Walla, Maariv, JFeed, Channel 12 (Hadashot 12, the 8 p.m. news that is a family tradition), Kan 11 (the public broadcaster), Channels 13 and 14, Galei Tzahal (army radio, also called IDF radio), i24NEWS, Israel Hayom, AllIsraelNews: framed the strikes as the elimination of Nukhba commanders who invaded Israel during the massacre, said Hamas is reorganizing, and described the police facility as Hamas infrastructure. They said operations continue to eliminate immediate threats and carried no front-page story on the father and child.
02 — West Bank — Obligatory — Settler violence leading to imprisonment or death — Record month
The overall picture:
Worst month on record: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented 397 settler attacks in the West Bank in October, the highest monthly tally since tracking began in 2006. There were 62 attacks between October 20 and 26 targeting 49 communities, 38 of them linked to the olive harvest.
More than 500 attacks this season: The National Bureau for Defending Land counts more than 500 attacks by settlers and occupation forces in about 200 communities since the season began. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission counts 482 attacks on olive harvests across nine governorates, 409 of them in October alone and 317 of those by settlers.
Economic collapse: Olive oil production plunged from 158 tons in 2023 to 27 tons this year.
New rules: In 2026 Israel imposed new rules barring Palestinians from entering about 8,800 hectares (21,800 acres) of Area C without approval, a 30% increase from the prior year.
The events, oldest first:
⚠ People from outside Palestine — earlier, date not given
Taybeh: European diplomats were attacked. The French mayor Bernard Baudoux, aged 78, was beaten with iron bars, and a Belgian consular vehicle was smashed.
Abu Falah: Dozens of masked settlers attacked farmland. At least 12 people were injured, including four dual Palestinian-American citizens who were hospitalized. The Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was kicked 15 times and needed surgery for a fractured finger.
⚠ People from outside Palestine — earlier, date not given
Rabbis for Human Rights: A Jerusalem court lifted the West Bank bans on the group’s volunteers during the olive harvest, having found the accusations against them unsubstantiated.
⚠ People from outside Palestine — European legislators barred
October 26: Israeli authorities barred a 23-person Progressive International delegation from entering the West Bank via Jordan on the way to Birzeit University. It included Lara Bird of the SNP and Clive Lewis. The Guardian reports that British politicians were held, and Presstv reports that Israeli occupation forces barred the MPs.
October 29, Artada, al-Lubban: Settlers from the Avichai Farm outpost forced farmers and activists to abandon the harvest.
October 30, Kafr Malik: Settlers attacked Palestinians and activists harvesting olives. The military said it arrested two Palestinians following reports of stone-throwing and did not address the settler attacks.
Friday, October 30: The Palestinian Commission Against the Wall and Settlements reported 22 attacks by forces and settlers on olive pickers and agricultural land on that day alone.
⚠ People from outside Palestine — 14 activists facing deportation
October 30, al-Lubban al-Gharbi: Activists from Italy, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Ireland and Sweden were detained while accompanying farmers. Four Italian activists were held during the harvest.
October 31, Farsh al-Hawa, western Hebron: Occupation forces issued a demolition notice for a commercial facility, a tile showroom. Armed settlers, protected by forces, attacked olive pickers in the Ma’in area east of Yatta and tried to prevent them from reaching their lands, while forces detained Yatta Municipality vehicles.
November 1, al-Khader, south of Bethlehem: According to WAFA, colonists attacked farmers and stole the olive harvest and equipment, protected by occupation forces.
⚠ People from outside Palestine — deportation decided
November 1: According to Petra, Israeli authorities decided on Sunday to deport 14 foreign solidarity activists arrested while taking part in the olive harvest. An Italian teacher was detained in Givon prison after refusing deportation.
⚠ People from outside Palestine — suspects freed
November 1: Israel freed suspects in two settler attacks as the West Bank pogroms intensified. Masked settlers were filmed assaulting the Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine.
Other media →
QNA and OCHA: 397 attacks, a record month since 2006. WAFA: the theft at al-Khader. Palestine News Gazette: 482 attacks. National Bureau: more than 500 attacks in 200 communities. IslamGlobalNews. Datelinewire: Abu Falah, 12 injured, plus Heidi Levine and the diplomats and the French mayor. GlobalIssues: an ominous start, with live ammunition and arson. Petra: deportation of 14 activists.
Israeli media →
Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ynet, Haaretz, Walla, Maariv, JFeed, Channel 12 (Hadashot 12), Kan 11, Galei Tzahal, i24NEWS: no reporting on the 397 record, on the 500-plus attacks, or on the al-Khader theft. They focused on stone-throwing arrests, on security measures, and on the freed suspects, and framed the activists as provocateurs.
03 — Lebanon — UNIFIL under fire — El Hamames serious violation, 2 soldiers killed, 2 peacekeepers injured second day in a row
For the ordinary reader: UNIFIL is the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, established in 1978, with about 10,500 peacekeepers from about 50 countries. Its area runs from the Blue Line in the south to the Litani River in the north.
⚠ UN personnel — the month as a whole
October: UNIFIL was targeted 30 times, about 20 attributable to Israeli forces and 7 clearly deliberate, according to Andrea Tenenti. A 155mm live shell hit the West Sector headquarters in Shama but did not detonate (date not given).
⚠ UN personnel — “very concerned”
October 26: UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said an Israeli drone dropped a grenade in the vicinity of a UNIFIL patrol and a tank fired a shot at peacekeepers in Kfar Kila. According to Xinhua, the patrol came under fire with no one injured.
⚠ UN personnel — withdrawal from a post
Dhayra (date not given; reported after October 26): Peacekeepers were withdrawn from a post near Dhayra after being fired upon by Israeli soldiers conducting house-clearing operations.
⚠ UN personnel — European Union condemnation
October 27: The European External Action Service condemned the attack that again targeted a UNIFIL detachment on October 26.
⚠ UN personnel — a second French soldier dies
Announced October 28: Corporal Anicet Girardin died of wounds from last week’s Hezbollah attack, after Florian Montorio was killed while clearing a road.
⚠ UN personnel — headquarters struck
October 29: A rocket struck the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura.
October 30–31, Security Index HIGH, 73 out of 100: Houses were set on fire in Qantara, a house was blown up on the Kfarshouba–Shebaa road, there was a detonation in Tiri, shelling from Wadi Zibqin to Kfarshouba, and an interceptor exploded over Taybeh.
Saturday, October 31: According to the National News Agency, the Israeli army carried out fresh airstrikes, explosions and machine-gun fire in southern Lebanon early on Saturday.
⚠ UN personnel and Lebanese soldiers — killed and injured
Friday, October 31: Two Lebanese soldiers were killed and three wounded in an airstrike, hours after the UN headquarters was fired upon, injuring two peacekeepers for the second day in a row.
⚠ UN personnel — El Hamames, a serious violation
November (date not given): Israeli forces opened fire on UN peacekeepers at El Hamames, near the Israeli border, only later realizing they were UN personnel. The UN described it as a serious violation. Peacekeepers were also fired on from a position Israel established in Lebanese territory and were pinned down for 30 minutes before they could depart, according to StrategicStudyIndia.
⚠ UN personnel — two Sri Lankan peacekeepers injured
Naqoura (date not given): A Merkava tank fired toward an observation tower at UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing two peacekeepers, both Sri Lankan, to fall. One was hospitalized in Tyre.
Context: The UN Security Council voted to end the UNIFIL mandate on December 31, 2026; China urges a reversal.
Other media →
UNIFIL statements. Olomotimes: El Hamames serious violation. StrategicStudyIndia: the Merkava tank. PHXFeeds: Naqoura tower, two Sri Lankan peacekeepers injured. Marin Independent Journal: 2 Lebanese soldiers killed and 2 peacekeepers injured. Frontier Post: 30 incidents, 20 by Israeli forces, 7 deliberate. National News Agency, QNA, Xinhua. Aljazeeranews: China urges reversal.
Israeli media →
Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ynet, Haaretz, Walla, Maariv, JFeed, Channel 12 (Hadashot 12), Kan 11, Galei Tzahal, i24NEWS: carried Netanyahu’s charge that the claim of a deliberate attack is completely false, said UNIFIL was repeatedly asked to get out of harm’s way, and focused on Hezbollah vehicles in Tayri and on security operations in the south.
04 — Palestine overall
The Board of Peace, authorized under UN Security Council Resolution 2803, continues compliance discussions. More than 100 humanitarian organizations said on October 9 that the ceasefire exists in name only. A genuine ceasefire does not exist in Lebanon, merely lesser fire. According to Lebanese authorities, Israeli attacks in Lebanon since March 2 have killed 2,618 people and forced more than one million to flee.
05 — Iran / Syria when connected — plans fresh after the midterms on November 3
NPR, a person briefed on the war planning, October 22: The US and Israel are preparing plans for a possible attack on Iran in early November, after the midterms. Israel initially planned to strike in mid-October, about two weeks before the Israeli elections on October 27, but Trump objected. The US is now amassing forces to be ready in early November: extra Patriot air defense to Israel, personnel withdrawn from vulnerable bases, munitions restocked, and aircraft and bombers prepared. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed the plans with Netanyahu this week.
Wall Street Journal, October 27, via SEDaily: The US notified several Arab states in the Gulf to prepare for a short but high-intensity operation after the midterm elections in early November. President Trump has not made a final decision.
November 2, Nationscope: As of November 2, 2026, the US and Israel are contemplating military strikes on Iran following heightened tensions and stalled diplomatic talks.
Oil risk (date not given): Brent crude at $109–117 per barrel is discussed in the Israeli economic press, in the context of Pickaxe Mountain, the MOAB at 22,000 lbs, and 3 carriers (Matzav.com).
Other media →
NPR: early November after the midterms; Trump objected in mid-October. GSRRA: detailed plans. Particle News: Patriot systems. WSJ via SEDaily: warns the Gulf.
Israeli media →
Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ynet, Haaretz, Walla, Maariv, JFeed, Channel 12 (Hadashot 12, 8 p.m.), Kan 11, Galei Tzahal, i24NEWS: Channel 12 reported on October 22 that there is no change in the intelligence assessment justifying an operation in the next two to three weeks, and the coverage focused on readiness, not election timing.
Sources fixed and respected — for Briefing VIII
Israeli, complete: Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ynet, Haaretz, Walla, Maariv, JFeed, Channel 12 (Hadashot 12, the 8 p.m. news, a family tradition), Kan 11 (the public broadcaster), Channels 13 and 14, Galei Tzahal (army radio, also called IDF radio), i24NEWS, Israel Hayom, AllIsraelNews.
Other: Al Jazeera, Reuters, AP, CBS, Guardian, Antiwar.com, Electronic Intifada, Zeteo, Mondoweiss, OCHA (the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), UNRWA, UNIFIL, UNICEF, UN OHCHR, National News Agency of Lebanon, QNA, Xinhua, WAFA, Petra, Palestine News Gazette, VPPNews, Jetss, SRN News, Veritaspress, ArabCon, ArmyTimes, Un-Diplomatic Podcast, and Jewish Insider via SGT Report, Matzav and News24.
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The history beneath the numbers
1947–48, the Nakba. In the Nakba, which means “catastrophe,” between 700,000 and 800,000 Palestinians were displaced, and between 400 and 600 villages were emptied or destroyed.
1967, the Naksa. In the Naksa, which means “setback,” between 300,000 and 400,000 Palestinians were displaced, many of them for the second time, making them double refugees.
Today. There are approximately 14.5 million Palestinians worldwide, and UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, serves 5.9 million of them.
The Desert Bloom narrative. The Desert Bloom narrative is the story that the land was an empty desert made fertile only by those who arrived later. The history above tells a different story. Hundreds of villages stood on that land, and families tended its olive groves for generations, which is why every burned tree and every stolen harvest described in this briefing is the loss of something that was already growing there.
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