Sick messages sent by football thugs who are planning to "defend the Cenotaph" tomorrow shows how the hooligans are also planning to launch racially-motivated attacks.
Anti-racist watchdog Hope Not Hate yesterday compiled a dossier of racist posts and threats from right-wing WhatsApp groups and reported them to the police. Among the hate-filled communications were plots to ambush pro-Palestine protesters and links for where to buy crossbows.
In the groups, the vile thugs referred to Muslims as "vermin" and "scum" and posted a picture of Hitler saying he should have chosen followers of Islam to exterminate. Hope Not Hate said the numbers of some of the groups have doubled in the past week.
One member wrote: âItâs time to show these ***** what our country is about. They think they can come over here and run amok on our beloved country? Letâs get amongst these ***** and show whoâs in charge.â
When a member posted a link to a page selling crossbows, another said: âLetâs shoot the f***ing lot of them⦠itâs war. For our children and country.â HNH chief Nick Lowles said: âThis has not been helped by Suella Braverman. We need our politicians to call for calm and ease tensions.â
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On several occasions, the pro-Palestine protest organisers have stressed that their march will go nowhere near Whitehall, where the Cenotaph is located. The Metropolitan Police claims to be setting up an exclusion zone around the epitaph and will have the power to arrest pro-Palestine protesters should they breach it.
The Met Police stated: "We know the cumulative impact continued protest, increasing tensions, and rising hate crimes are having across London and the fear and anxiety our Jewish communities in particular are feeling. They have a right to feel safe in their city, knowing know they can travel across London without feeling afraid of intimidation or harassment."
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A shocking video recorded outside the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza shows people fleeing inside as the sky lights up during a massive strike.
Israel has not yet commented on the possible strike.
Israel has revised the death toll from Hamas's attack on October 7 to "about 1,200".
In the days and weeks since the attack, in which thousands of Hamas fighters crossed the border and tortured, raped and killed Israeli civilians, Israel said its losses were around 1,400 - 400 of them soldiers and the rest civilians.
Lior Haiat, the spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said the number has been revised because a lot of the bodies were not identified after the attack. He said Israel now believes some of those "belong to terrorists....not Israeli casualties".
Vile messages posted on football hooligan chat groups show thugs are planning to attack pro-Palestinian demonstrators in London.
The Hope Not Hate campaign group yesterday reported dozens of racist posts and threats from right-wing Whatsapp groups to the police. They include discussions on how to ambush protestors, posts calling Muslims “vermin” and “scum”, and links on where to buy crossbows.
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HNH said some of the groups have doubled in numbers in the past seven days. The groups are awash with vile Islamophobia, including a photo of Hitler saying he should have “chosen Muslims” to exterminate.
One member wrote: “It’s time to show these ***** what our country is about. They think they can come over here and run amok on our beloved country? Let’s get amongst these ***** and show who’s in charge.”
When a member posted a link to a page selling crossbows, another said: “Let’s shoot the f***ing lot of them… it’s war. For our children and country.” HNH chief Nick Lowles said: “This has not been helped by Suella Braverman. We need our politicians to call for calm and ease tensions.”
You can read the rest of our report, HERE.
More than 100,000 Gazans left the north and fled south in the space of two days, according to an IDF spokesman.
Daniel Hagari added that Israeli forces are operating "deep in Gaza city".
The ground offensive has largely been focused on northern Gaza. Civilians are being offered windows of time to leave.
"Efforts were underway to release hostages held in the Gaza Strip but that such efforts take time," he said.
"We are working all the time and with initiative on a range of efforts to return the hostages. These efforts are complex, they are not final. They take time, they are going to take time," he said.
Israel Defence Forces spokesman Richard Hecht has said the military categorically does not fire on hospitals.
But added that "we'll do what we need to" should Hamas be firing from hospitals.
He said: "We’re aware of the sensitivity. If we see Hamas terrorists - we’ll kill them.
"We’re not dropping bombs right now on (al) Shifa (hospital) or (al) Rantisi (children's hospital)."
All day, fighting has been reported at several hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip. Footage showed a tank firing close to Al-Rantisi.
Hecht was asked what the plan was to manage the hospitals' patients, like those on drips, but he said that "we're saying to Hamas to move people south".
Three Palestinian organisations have filed a lawsuit to the International Criminal Court urging them to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli figures.
The IDF has refuted any claims of war crimes and say alleging that it is carrying out a genocide is deplorable. It maintains that it is targeting Hamas and not civilians. More than 10,000 civilians, almost half of them children, have already been slaughtered in a little over four weeks of war.
Israel is not a member of the court and doesn't recognise its jurisdiction. The Palestinian Territories, however, are listed among its members.
"Israel is also collecting evidence for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Hamas during the 7 October attack and afterwards, including the use of civilians as human shields," said a spokesperson for Israel's foreign ministry.
The lawsuit was filed by Al Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestine Human Rights Campaign. They said they were asking the international prosecutors to focus on the Israeli air strikes on areas of northern Gaza that are densely populated by civilians. It has also urged the ICC to look into the siege and the forced displacement of peoples.
"These actions amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide and incitement to genocide," they said in a joint press statement.
The ICC will be assessing the information submitted, Sky reported it saying.
A view of destroyed buildings in Gaza seen from Sderot (Anadolu via Getty Images)A spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Col Peter Lerner, told the BBC that troops are at Al-Shifa, where a possible mortar strike happened earlier today.
Hamas government officials said that 13 people died. A doctor there said he knew of one fatality and could not confirm the rest.
Col Lerner said: "Hamas has chosen to strategically position their terrorist capabilities in, under and around hospitals.
"We have been trying to encourage people taking refuge in the hospitals to evacuate."
Hamas's "hub of operations is in Gaza City and that's where their centre of gravity is," Lerner added.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli snipers have been firing at Al-Quds hospital, in the same city.
The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has commented on Israel's proposal to implement four-hour daily "humanitarian pauses" in northern Gaza.
Israel says the plan will allow civilians to move to the south so it can face Hamas alone without Gazans in the way.
Francesca Albanese said it was a "highly cynical and inhumane".
She added: “There have been continuous bombings, 6,000 bombs every week on the Gaza Strip, on this tiny piece of land where people are trapped and the destruction is massive. There won’t be any way back after what Israel is doing to the Gaza Strip.
“So four hours ceasefire, yes, to let people breathe and to remember what is the sound of life without bombing before starting bombing them again. It’s very cynical and cruel.”
The Israel Defence Forces says it has detected a number of aircraft entering the country's airspace from Lebanon.
It's currently unclear who was in control of the aircraft.
"One was intercepted by the IDF Aerial defence array and the other two fell in an area in the north," the IDF said.
"The event has concluded and the incident is under review."
A spokesperson for the Met said this afternoon: "Each year we deliver a huge security operation across Remembrance weekend, but this year’s is far greater and more complex than we’ve delivered before.
"The plan covers both Armistice and Remembrance events as well as a significant march by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
"We know the cumulative impact continued protest, increasing tensions, and rising hate crimes are having across London and the fear and anxiety our Jewish communities in particular are feeling. They have a right to feel safe in their city, knowing know they can travel across London without feeling afraid of intimidation or harassment.
"Recognising the concern across London, the scale of the policing operation in place represents a doubling of the number of officers on duty for the weekend’s events. On Saturday 1,850 will be on duty and 1,375 on Sunday."
The Met Police has said it will bring those suspected of hate crime in London to justice.
It stated: "We know some of our communities continue to feel extremely vulnerable as violence in the Middle East continues. Hundreds of officers are undertaking extra patrols at places of worship, schools and other premises. They are also listening to the concerns of community leaders and representatives of different faiths.
"There is no place for hate or division in our city and we will take robust and positive action wherever we can. Since the terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, we have made a total of 188 arrests involving hate crimes and acts such as violence, linked to protests in the capital.
"Of these 98 are suspected anti-Semitic offences, 21 are alleged Islamophobic offences and a further 12 are believed to be faith hate crimes. In addition, 57 are public order offences, including many which are racially aggravated. Of these offences, 46 people have been charged with offences. Of these 19 involve allegations of anti-Semitism.
"The vast majority of protest arrests took place in Westminster, while the majority of anti-Semitic offences were reported in Hackney where there is a large Jewish community. People in this area are being supported fully by local policing leads and crime prevention tactics are in place to tackle hate crime and arrest offenders."
The frightening arsenal of weapons used by Hamas in the Oct 7 attacks were put on public display for the first time today.
Israel's Institute for Weapons Research revealed the military hardware, missiles and ammo which killed 1400 men, women and children. At least 15 percent were made and supplied by Iran, including hi-tech drones.
Others came from North Korea, were 'home made' in Gaza or 50-year old devices from the old Soviet Union. Some were marked 'Brigades of Qassam', the name of the Gaza militia behind the attacks. Many home made rockets also carried the badges and insignia of Hamas. An expert identified only as 'Colonel G', wearing a face mask to conceal his identity, gave a talk in a military compound in southern Israel showing deadly Thermobaric grenades. He explained how they disperse a deadly gas of liquid explosives which reach more than 3000C in a second.
You can read the rest of our story, HERE
A group of pro-ceasefire protesters have taken over Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum.
".Police are on scene and nobody else is currently allowed into the Gallery", The National said on Twitter.
NEW: Pro-ceasefire protesters have taken over Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow.
— The National (@ScotNational) November 10, 2023
Police are on scene and nobody else is currently allowed into the Gallery. pic.twitter.com/9LxTAbpzyF
A chilling video shows an Israeli tank outside the children's hospital in Gaza City. Israeli troops have been using loudhailers to order anyone who isn't medical staff or a patient inside the Al-Rantisi Paediatric Hospital to leave, according to BBC.
It comes as a number of different hospitals claim to be sustaining strikes in the Israeli onslaught. Al Arabiya reported that the IDF rolled its tanks into the vicinity of Hospital Square in Gaza City, where four hospitals are located, and began pummelling them with munitions. Other reports say the hospitals were hit in airstrikes.
The Israel Defence Forces has carried out several raids in Gaza over recent days, according to the military.
"IDF soldiers of the 7th Brigade conducted raids on a Hamas military post and a training compound located in the heart of civilian areas," an update read.
The post added that 30 Hamas fighters and "dozens" of weapons were recovered.
"Additionally, the soldiers raided the office of Muhammad Sinwar, brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, where documentation of military doctrine was located," it claimed.
While discussing the issue of aid getting in to northern Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the north of the territory is an infernal landscape.
“If there is a hell on Earth today, its name is northern Gaza,” said OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke.. “It is a life of fear by day and darkness at night and what do you tell your children in such a situation, it’s almost unimaginable – that the fire they see in the sky is out to kill them?” he added.
The chief military adviser to US President Joe Biden says that Israel will not reach its goal of eradicating Hamas, as the vicious assault in Gaza will push civilians to sign up.
"That's why when we talk about time - the faster you can get to a point where you stop the hostilities, you have less strife for the civilian population that turns into someone who now wants to be the next member of Hamas," General Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly said.
Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip since it won a democratically-held election in 2006.
Israel has said its primary objective is to remove the top leadership of Hamas - which the general thinks is a reasonable target.
An injured girl at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah (AFP via Getty Images)Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel amid reports of strikes coming from Gaza.
Israel's emergency services, Magen David Adom, said its teams were en route to a number of reported strike sites.
Far-right thugs, “migrant hunters” and organised football hooligans are set to descend on London this weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”.
Anti-extremist group HOPE Not Hate has been monitoring online conversations and discovered a host of disparate groups are heading for the capital for tomorrow’s March for Palestine march and Sunday’s Remembrance Day events. Suella Braverman, Home Secretary, had accused the Metropolitan Police of "playing favourites" ahead of the pro-Palestine march on Saturday and has been heavily criticised, including from Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.
There have also been a stream of incendiary comments on X - formerly Twitter - relating to events over the weekend. One account calling itself England Geezer said: “Our Cenotaph will be protected from any jihadi scum. Make your plans, lads….”
You can read the rest of our story, HERE
More than half a million people are expected to attend the latest pro-Palestine march in London this weekend, one of the organisers said.
The protest, taking place tomorrow, is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, where more than 10,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces. The six organising groups faced calls to postpone the National March for Palestine over fears it would clash with the remembrance service on Armistice Weekend - but the Metropolitan Police's commissioner eventually decided to give it the greenlight.
Protesters made it clear they will stay away from the Cenotaph and Whitehall and have no intention of disrupting the nation's remembrance events, said Sir Mark Rowley. The march route has now been shared - and activists will gather at the Marble Arch corner of Hyde Park at approximately 12pm on Saturday, November 11.
You can read the rest of our story HERE
The route for this Saturday's Ceasefire Now March for Palestine has now been confirmed.The Israeli military is surrounding the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza as horrific video emerges of Palestinian civilians blown to bits in the blasts.
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) today said that the al-Shifa hospital is "coming under bombardment" this morning.
Another 20 hospitals in the territory are completely out of function, according to reports.
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In the West Bank, which is not run by Hamas or holding any hostages, at least 178 Palestinians, including 45 kids, have been slaughtered in the territory since the October 7 massacre.
Statistics released yesterday revealed the shocking situation on the ground, according to the UN's human rights chief who called for urgent action to be taken by the international community.
"Out of control" Home Secretary Suella Braverman didn't get permission before launching a furious diatribe about police chiefs, No10 has admitted.
Rishi Sunak is under immense pressure to finally sack the divisive Cabinet minister over the latest provocation, but his spokesman insisted she has the PM's full confidence.
No10 faces questions over whether Ms Braverman breached the ministerial code by penning an article accusing forces of "playing favourites" without getting it approved by Downing Street. The Prime Minister's spokesman said: "No it was not agreed by No10 - it was not cleared by No10."
The frontbencher has sparked outrage in recent days, with critics accusing her of prioritising a Tory leadership bid over carrying out her duties. Labour has called on the PM to quit if he doesn't get rid of her, writing to him to say failure to act would be a "display of weakness".
Keir Starmer branded Ms Braverman "out of control", telling broadcasters: "This isn't the way in which a Home Secretary should behave." He added: "He's got a Home Secretary who's out of control and he is too weak to do anything about it."
It came after a car-crash BBC interview which saw Transport Secretary Mark Harper refuse three times to say whether he backed Ms Braverman. And Policing Minister Chris Philp did not repeat her claims in the Commons this morning.
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Fourteen Palestinians were slaughtered after an Israeli raid in the West Bank turned into running clashes in the streets, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
It was one of the deadliest clashes in the occupied West Bank in months, say reports.
Overnight raids in the West Bank saw 41 additional arrests, according to an IDF spokesman.
"The IDF, Shin Bet and MGB forces arrested 41 wanted persons tonight throughout the Judea and Samaria Division and the Bekaa and Emekim Brigade, of which 14 are terrorists in the terrorist organisation Hamas," Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.
The Israelis call the West Bank Judea and Samaria, biblical locations, terms which are disputed by the resident Palestinians.
It was a joint operation with Shin Bet, Israel border police, and the IDF (Ziv Koren / Polaris / eyevine)An expansion in the scope of the current conflict is inevitable as tensions continue to rise between major enemies in the region.
An Iranian outlets says the foreign minister in Tehran told his Qatari counterpart that the conflict spilling over into the wider Middle East is "inevitable".
"Due to the expansion of the intensity of the war against Gaza's civilian residents, expansion of the scope of the war has become inevitable," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a phone conversation with his Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani yesterday. The unverified claims were published in the Iranian Press TV.
Iran supports Hamas with weapons, training and cash. There's been no evidence to suggest that Tehran was involved in the attacks on October 7.
Israel arrests Hamas members in the West Bank (Ziv Koren / Polaris / eyevine)Speaking with US media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed White House claims of Israel offering four-hour humanitarian pauses in conflict zones in northern Gaza.
He sought to clarify the terms of the arrangement after conflicting reports over what had been agreed.
Speaking to Fox News, he said: "The fighting continues against the Hamas enemy... but in specific locations for a given period - a few hours here, a few hours there - we want to facilitate a safe passage of civilians away from the zone of fighting."
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to take in injured Gazans as hospitals are ovverrun in the besieged Strip.
Turkey will also pressure Israel so they can extract injured Palestinians from Gaza.
Erdogan said that during discussions with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, there was a positive to response over plans to increase the flow of humanitarian aid at Rafah. Erdogan says he wants to see up to 500 trucks entering each day.
Ankara in conjunction with other nations will provide ambulances, food, water and medication.
Erdogan has maintained a defiant position against Israel since October 7. He says they are an occupying force and that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation.
(Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Lindsey German, the national convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, has organised the pro-Palestine march set to take place in the capital tomorrow.
The march coincides with Armistice Day, and a number of Tory politicians have said it should have been banned to prevent it disrupting the national memorial day.
Ms German told Sky News she thinks that the group has to keep demonstrating due to the severity of the situation in Gaza.
"We felt that with what's happening in Gaza and what continues to happen in Gaza, the number of deaths, the civilians now fleeing to the south... that we have to keep demonstrating," she says.
When asked about accusations that the march is disrespectful, she said that the two minute's silence is the only part of the event that is observed throughout the country, and that other events continue as normal.
"Armistice Day itself, there's a two minute silence which people respect, but everything else goes on as normal - there's eight football matches," she says.
"We don't think it's inappropriate to have it on that day and we're calling for a ceasefire, which is actually what an armistice is.
"So in a way, it's quite an appropriate day to be remembering the dead of the past, but also to say we don't want the wars of the present to continue."
(Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)The Israel Defence Forces claims it didn't target the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, where there were reports of explosions.
The IDF said: "The IDF did not target the hospital.
"The IDF does not target civilians and operates in accordance with international law," it added.
However, the Hamas-affiliated health ministry said the "Israeli occupatino launched simultaneous strikes on a number of hospitals during the past hours" in a statement this morning.
A video of airstrikes hitting the hospital were shared yesterday.
The Met Police will form a 'ring of steel' for a pro- Palestine march to be held tomorrow in London during Remembrance events for Armistice Day, it has been reported.
Police chiefs are said to have cancelled leave and extended overtime as well as draft in a further 1,000 officers from across the country for the event on Saturday. Senior officers are said to have been given orders to immediately clamp down on any disorder.
It comes as the Home Secretary faces calls to quit after claiming pro-Palestine marchers had links to Hamas, sparking fears it would inspire far-right thugs to attack protestors in London tomorrow. But the demo does not even pass the Cenotaph and is 24 hours before Remembrance Sunday.
