The UN General Assembly begins its general debate Tuesday morning, with various heads of state speaking in New York. See IPA news release from last week: “UN Demands Israel End Occupation.”

CommonDreams reports: “Israel Launches Massive Bombing Campaign in Lebanon as ‘U,S, Weapons Continue to Flow.'”  Antiwar.com reports: “Netanyahu Considers Ethnic Cleansing Plan for North Gaza.” See Antiwar news with Dave DeCamp. Jeremy Scahill posted: “Media should stop saying Israel is telling people in southern Lebanon to ‘evacuate.’ Israel is engaged in psychological warfare against civilians as part of its broader military attacks. This is an expulsion order under threat. It is the same tactic used in Gaza.” See IPA news release from Friday: “Israel and a Wider War.”

In “Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah,” Al Jazeera reports: “Heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers raid Al Jazeera bureau in the occupied West Bank and deliver 45-day closure order.” See from October: “Report: Blinken Urged Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera Coverage of Gaza Genocide.”

CHIP GIBBONS, Chip@RightsAndDissent.org, @ChipGibbons89
Policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, national civil liberties organization dedicated to protecting the right of political expression, Gibbons recently co-wrote the piece “More Than 100 Journalists Come Together With Their Fellow Journalists in Palestine and Against U.S. Complicity in Their Killing.”