Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Committing War Crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). New Israeli Military Escalation against the Gaza Strip. IOF launched a new offensive on the Gaza Strip. (14 -21 Nov. 2012)

■ 156 Palestinians, including 103 civilians were killed IOF
■ 33 children, 13 women and 3 journalists were among those civilians who were killed.
■ 1,000 Palestinians, including 971 civilians, were wounded.
■ 247 children, 162 women and 12 journalists were among those civilians who were wounded.
■ IOF carried out 1,350 airstrikes, in which 1,400 missiles were launched.
■ 55 houses were completely destroyed, while hundreds of other houses sustained damages ranging between big damage and partial damage.
■ 2 mosques were completely destroyed, while another 34 mosques sustained partial or big damage.
■ 8 governmental establishments, 13 security offices and police stations, and 2 bridges connecting the central Gaza Strip with the northern Gaza Strip were destroyed.
■ 6 media offices, 6 health institutions, 28 educational institutions and 22 civil and charity associations were targeted.
■ Dozens of agricultural lands sustained big damage.

The IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
● 2 Palestinian demonstrators were killed; one in Ramallah and the other one in Hebron.
● 115 Palestinians, including 28 children, a woman, and a paramedic, were wounded in protests organized against the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
● 3 Palestinians, including a child, were wounded in protests organized against the annexation wall and settlement activities.

The IOF conducted 77 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank
● The IOF arrested 76 Palestinians, including 6 children, ex-prisoner Tha'er Halahla, and two women.
● 4 Palestiains, including 2 children, were wounded during incursions conducted by IOF. In addition, 2 of the wounded persons were arrested.

Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the oPt and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
● The IOF established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank.

Shelters are bustling with volunteers serving holiday dinners as the arduous recovery continues. 'It's starting to take a toll on people,' says one worker.

This year, Aiman Youssef is thankful to be alive. The 42-year-old Staten Island man said he used to have a $300,000 house he could be thankful for, and a car, and two vans full of things he was going to sell on EBay. Then Superstorm Sandy ruined all that and the rest of his neighborhood too, so just being alive is the best he can ask for right now. "It's survival — that's what it is now," said Youssef, who sleeps in a tent, where it gets cold early in the morning, around 3 or 4 a.m. especially.

But that tent is no ordinary tent; it's a full-blown Sandy relief hub, bustling with supplies and volunteers "like 24-hours-seven here," as Youssef put it in a phone interview. And on Thursday, Youssef's temporary home was just one of the many locations around the Northeast that stayed busy over Thanksgiving nourishing the thousands of Sandy survivors and volunteers whose lingering struggles know no holiday.

CBS News: The woman who saved Thanksgiving for Sandy family - Video
ABC News: Victims of Hurricane Sandy celebrate Thanksgiving - Video
MyFoxNY.com: Island Park church hosts Thanksgiving dinner for Sandy victims - Video
NewsMax: Sandy Survivors Express Gratitude on Thanksgiving Despite Tremendous Loss
The Telegraph: 50 dramatic images of destruction caused by superstorm and hurricane Sandy

An anti-piracy company has found itself in the middle of a huge controversy. CIAPC, the company that had The Pirate Bay blocked by ISPs in Finland, tracked an alleged file-sharer and demanded a cash settlement. However, the Internet account holder refused to pay which escalated things to an unprecedented level. In response, this week police raided the home of the 9-year-old suspect and confiscated her Winnie the Pooh laptop. Very soon in the United States, letters will be sent out to Internet account holders informing them that they should stop sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent. The message in the US from mainstream rightsholders is designed to be educational, but more aggressive companies carry out the same process but with a sting in the tail – a request for cash-settlement to make potential lawsuits go away.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili has congratulated the people of Gaza on their victory over Israel, saying Israel’s defeat shows the growing power of resistance. - "The Islamic Republic of Iran congratulates the downtrodden people of Palestine on this victory and calls on all the resistance groups to vigorously pursue the demands of the people with unity and by reliance on resistance as the only way to liberate Palestine," Jalili said in a statement on Thursday. He added that the victory of the people of Gaza over Israel indicates that the Palestinian resistance is growing more and more powerful and that the Israeli regime’s power is waning. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will continue to support the [Palestinian] resistance with honor and solidity as it did in the past and warns the United States and other Western allies of the Zionist regime [of Israel] against supporting the criminals acts of this regime,” Jalili noted.

PressTV: Netanyahu: Israel ready for fresh attacks
PressTV: Only 1 in 5 Israelis thinks Tel Aviv regime won war on Gaza: Poll
Norman G. Finkelstein: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall

Israeli media say an Iron Dome missile fired to intercept Palestinian Grad rockets missed its target and landed near one of the busiest highways in the Israeli city of Ashdod on November 21.- The Iron Dome missile shield marked another failure as its missile went in a wrong direction toward a busy highway instead of heading upwards to the Palestinian rockets, and caused an explosion only 30 meters from the road, the media stated.

The United States Department of Defense is in the initial stages of creating unmanned drone submarines that will navigate the oceans, tracking and following enemy subs for months at a time. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for developing new military technologies, started the project because “the growing number of adversaries able to build and operate quiet diesel electric submarines is a national security threat that affects US and friendly naval operations around the world,” according to a statement on the DARPA website.

Normally, anti-submarine warfare has been conducted by US Navy captains at the helm of ships, but humans will never board these drones, also known as a “Continuous Trail Autonomous Vessels,” according to Discovery News. The subs will be able to patrol the US coastline for up to 80 days at a time covering thousands of kilometers using non-conventional sensor technologies that “achieve robust continuous track of the quietest submarine targets over their entire operating envelope,” DARPA stated on its website.

The vessel’s main task will be to patrol the waters for enemy submarines and then chase them away if located. The sub will also gather information deemed necessary by the US government, which will then be sent to US naval commanders up above on land, according to Discovery News. The only time humans are needed to operate the unarmed drones will be to navigate the robot subs through crowded harbors.

The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto, but those worries aren’t about to end. - The Monsanto Company dominates more than just grow fields across the US, as evident in their stellar track record of taking small-time farmers to court and winning cases, an occurrence that Think Progress acknowledges happens roughly a dozen times a year. Time and time again, Monsanto’s patented, lab-made genetically engineered seeds are sold to one farmer, only for Mother Nature to move the crop onto neighboring fields with the help of a bit of wind. Just as often, of course, Monsanto’s team of high-paid litigators take the little guys to court, only to triumph thanks to a legal counsel that collects around $10 million a year just to take other farmers to court.

Michael Snyder: The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

Andrea Hernandez won’t have to leave her high school for refusing to wear a badge designed to track her every move there – yet – her attorneys announced today. A district court judge for Bexar County, Texas, has granted a temporary restraining order to prevent Northside Independent School District from removing a Hernandez from John Jay High School’s Science and Engineering Academy because she refused to wear a name badge designed to use a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip to track students’ precise location on school property, the Hernandez’s attorneys announced today.

“The court’s willingness to grant a temporary restraining order is a good first step, but there is still a long way to go — not just in this case, but dealing with the mindset, in general, that everyone needs to be monitored and controlled,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. “Regimes in the past have always started with the schools, where they develop a compliant citizenry. These ‘Student Locator’ programs are ultimately aimed at getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, and wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government,” Whitehead warned.

This fresh video of zionist Israelis in Tel Aviv protesting during the War on Gaza (Nov. 15, 2012). You will be shocked when you see and hear what those guys are demanding. Those are the folks controlling Israel, Netanyaho , the PM, is one of them. Do not wonder anymore why there's no peace in the Middle East! [צילום - עומר מנור]