Over the past six or seven weeks, the Daily Brief has been covering the crisis in Israel-Palestine very closely. I’m travelling at the moment, so for today’s edition, I thought I would link back to some of our earlier work on what has been one of the biggest crises of the year:

• On the Escalation in Israel-Palestine, October 9
• Israel-Palestine: Atrocities Do Not Justify Atrocities, October 11
• How Not to Fight a War, October 12
• Beware Conditional Humanity, October 16
• What Are the Laws of War?, October 18
• Some Updates on Hostilities in Israel/Palestine, October 23
• Israel Still Blocking Aid to Civilians in Gaza, October 24
• Condemn the Crimes, Comprehend the Context, October 25
• Israel and Palestine: What People Are Reading, October 26
• Gaza Needs Water, Food, Electricity – and Justice, October 30
• Unable to Flee in Gaza, November 1
• Gaza Crisis Testing Pillars of Democracy in US, November 6
• Israel/Palestine: The Need for an Arms Embargo, November 7
• Watching Gaza Bleed from Afar, November 8
• Gaza’s Hospitals and the Laws of War, November 13
• Investigating an Israeli Strike in Lebanon, November 15
• Belgium Gets It Right on Gaza, November 16
• Israeli Authorities’ Cutting of Water Leading to Public Health Crisis in Gaza, November 20

(compiled by Lisa Maier)

• Iran: Security forces violently repress anniversary protest (HRW)
• Netherlands: Anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders wins dramatic election victory (BBC)
• Israel/Gaza hostilities take horrific toll on children (HRW)
• Thailand close to marriage equality (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Azerbaijan: Crackdown on independent media (HRW)
• Activist who documented murders in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities killed (The Guardian)
• An X-ray of 171 years’ worth of greenhouse gases: From those historically responsible for the climate crisis to the largest emitters today (El País, English)
• What’s behind efforts to strip Guatemala’s president-elect of his immunity? (Al Jazeera)

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