• Invasion of Ukraine (Putin's Bosses)

    The Pallavicini family is a top bloodline in the global crime syndicate and they govern Palatine Hill in Rome. They had multiple family branches in Italy and Austria and ancestry that ruled around Athens Greece. They have ruled as princes in Genoa, Milan, Rome, Budapest, and Vienna. They are a ruthless family of murderous evil that serve the Massimos, Chigis, and Savoys. The Pallavicinis established a Csaky-Pallavicini Hungarian noble branch and they are owners of some Slavic-Serbian Mafias. The Csaky-Pallavicinis married with the Wekerles which were the Minister of Finance and Prime Minister of Hungary. George Soros is from Hungary and the Soros family often works as criminal financiers for the Pallavicinis. The Pallavicinis recently married in with the German House of Wurttemberg with Duchess Helene of Wurttemberg married to Marquess Federico Pallavicini. The Pallavicini family married with the Rospigliosi Papal nobility and also have a branch in London through the Cromwell family. Horatio Pallavicino was a financier for the British Crown and his family merged with the Cromwells through several marriages creating the variant name Paravicini. Charles Vincent Somerset Paravicini is a current member of the British aristocracy. The Pallavicini family ruled over ancient Parthia or Iran and the Pahlavi dynasty that ruled Iran more recently are an ancestral branch of the Pallavicini family. Pahlavi is a term for the ancient Parthian language and where the Pallavicini named derives from. Prince Reza Pahlavi is the head of the Iranian royal family today. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the last Shah of Iran was a Vatican Knight of the Golden Spur. Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan IV is of Iranian royalty and is knighted by two Italian orders and his father was born in Turin, Italy. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan who died in 2003 was an Italian knight of Saint Sylvester and the uncle to Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan IV. The Aga Khan family claim to directly descend from the Prophet Muhammad and Prince Rahim Aga Khan is a current high level member of this family. The Aga Khans manage a faction of modern day Ismaili Hashashins or Assassins which work with the Five Percenters. The royal families of Afghanistan established residences in Italy and an Afghani prince married Princess Luciana Pallavicini. Giancarlo Pallavicini from Milan is an economist and worked as an adviser for the Soviet government. Giancarlo Pallavicini specializes in economic globalism and still works with the Russian government. The Pallavicinis have deep connections with Russia and are owners of the Armenian Mafia which is headquartered in Hollywood. The Armenian Mafia works under the Russian Mafia and the Russian Mafia in New York works under the Lucchese crime family owned by the Lucchesi-Palli family of Italy and Austria. The Lucchesi-Pallis have some ancient relations with the Pallavicinis. Palli and Pallavicini. The Kardashian family are Armenian and the Armenian Mafia traffic children to the Kardashians which they sacrifice. Prince Filippo Rospigliosi is the Earl of Newburgh Scotland and also holds Pallavicini titles in Venice and Genoa while residing in Milan. The Pallavicini coat of arms uses the double headed eagle like Scottish Rite Freemasonry along with a masonic checkerboard pattern. Prince Filippo is a high level Scottish Rite Freemason.

    The Prince-Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini of Milan runs ISESCO or Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization and he is also the Advisor for Islamic Affairs in Italy. Nasser David Khalili is a Jewish British-Iranian billionaire and Vatican Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester and a Trustee of the City of Jerusalem and he serves the Pallavicini family. There are many international Jewish-Iranian businessmen like the Manocherian, Ghermezian, and Merage families. Paul Merage is a Jewish Iranian-American worth 5 billion. Mahmoud Khayami is a French-Iranian millionaire residing in London who co-founded the Iran National company and he is also a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester and serving the Pallavicinis. Elvina Pallavicini was known for supporting the United States war on Iraq. Iran and Iraq have been rivals and enemies. This family were the top architects of the US war on Iraq. Prince Moroello Diaz Della Vittoria-Pallavicini and Prince Sigieri Diaz Della Vittoria-Pallavicini are top powers in Rome and the world. They oversee the Cult of Nike and the Cult of Athena. There are several statues of Athena and Nike in Vienna, Austria including Athena holding up Nike. Vittoria means victory. Nike means victory. Prince Sigieri is a board member for Athena Investments. The Kabbalistic actress Natalie Portman is their Vicar of Nike. Her grandmother's name was Bernice which means "bringer of nike" and her grandmother was from Austria. A female gang stalker and cannibal named Rachel Buyak works for the Pallavicinis and Schwarzenbergs and she is financed by the Soros family. The statue on their Austrian Palais Pallavicini is holding a harp which refers to their authority over the USAF's HAARP system used for mass mind manipulation and some limited weather modification. Today Marco Pallavicini is a physics professor at the University of Geneva. The Pallavicini family specialize in radiating the feeling of desolation or abyss through HAARP and other electronic systems. The Pallavicini and Medici families are architects of gang stalking and they call their isolate and torture program the "Abomination of Desolation." The Schwarzenberg family are a Bohemian-Austrian nobility that work closely with the Austrian Pallavicinis and their agent George Soros formerly George Schwartz finances gang stalking and human sacrifices to the Cult of Athena and Cult of Nike. George Soros is a friend of Prince Karel of Schwarzenberg. The Pallavicinis established themselves originally as nobles in Greece near Athens and their Paravicini cousins in London are married with the Greek Mavroleon shipping family. The Pallavicinis also manage the body builder and psychopathic beast David Bautista who has some Greek ancestry. The Pallavicini family were originally Genoese bankers and have a large amount of shares in the Genoese Banca Carige which was founded in 1482.

    The Pallavicinis are managers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta with their ancestor John Charles Pallavicini who was Leutenant and basically the interim Grand Master of the SMOM. The Pallavicinis are the owners of Pallavicini-Immobillairie a multi billion dollar real estate development company, Global Wealth Management (GWM) an international finance firm, Armonia which is an investment firm, and they are invested in Greentech through GWM which is involved in renewable energies. GWM is located in Milan, Rome, London, Malta, Geneva, and Luxembourg. Banking is private in Switzerland and Luxembourg. The Pallavicini family have also managed Rottapharm pharmaceuticals and Prelios asset management. Prince Sigieri is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Athena Investments and has worked with Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Prudential Financial and Lehman Brothers. Their ancestor the 1st Duke of Victory also became the Minister of War under Benito Mussolini. Prince Sigieri and Prince Moroello's father is Don Armando Diaz the Duke of Victory a title given to them by the House of Savoy for their military leadership in WWI. Prince Vittorio Emanuele IV of Savoy sold weapons to the Iranian royal family while working for Agusta. William Casey a former Director of the CIA worked closely with the Pahlavi royal family after their exile and Prince Reza Pahlavi has had a residence near the CIA headquarters. William Casey was Jesuit educated at Fordham. Marquis Alfonso Pallavicini of Austria was a top executive for BNP Paribas an international banking group with assets worth nearly 2 trillion. Margrave Edoardo Pallavicini is a banker that works for O'Connor Capital and previously worked for Deutsche Bank. Prince Dominic Pallavicino is a Genoese noble and works with the House of Grimaldi in Monaco. Leaders in Genoa, Monaco, Russia, and Iran have a close alliance. Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian billionaire that lives in Monaco. The Pallavicini family is intermarried with the very wealthy Medici family with Don Guglielmo Pallavicini married to Donna Elvina de Medici del Vascello who was nicknamed a "Queen of the Black Nobility" and her grandchildren are Morello and Sigieri and their grandfather was an Italian fascist that was given the title Prince of Victory Principes della Vittoria by the Savoys. They also has a large family branch in Budapest called the Csaky-Pallavicini family with various unnamed members. Members of the Pallavicini crime family include Princess Maria Camilla Pallavicini, Prince Armando Diaz della Vittoria, Prince Sigieri Diaz della Vittoria-Pallavicini, Princess Carlotta Diaz della Vittoria-Pallavicini, Prince Moroello Diaz della Vittoria-Pallavicini, Princess Luciano Pallavicini of Afghanistan, Prince Domenico Pallavicino, Margraf Edouardo Pallavicini, Margraf Alfonso Pallavicini, Margravine Elisabeth Pallavicini, Count Roger Csaky-Pallavicini and Count Thomas Csaky-Pallavicini of Hungary, Don Diego Pallavicini, Prince Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Charles Vincent Somerset Paravicini, Giancarlo Pallavicini, Marco Pallavicini, and Prince Filippo Rospigliosi. The Pallavacini family need to be entirely hunted down and exterminated. They are threatening every person on the planet with a global war.

    https://worldcrimesyndicate.blogspot.com/2020/03/pallavicini-crime-syndicate.html
    Invasion of Ukraine (Putin's Bosses) The Pallavicini family is a top bloodline in the global crime syndicate and they govern Palatine Hill in Rome. They had multiple family branches in Italy and Austria and ancestry that ruled around Athens Greece. They have ruled as princes in Genoa, Milan, Rome, Budapest, and Vienna. They are a ruthless family of murderous evil that serve the Massimos, Chigis, and Savoys. The Pallavicinis established a Csaky-Pallavicini Hungarian noble branch and they are owners of some Slavic-Serbian Mafias. The Csaky-Pallavicinis married with the Wekerles which were the Minister of Finance and Prime Minister of Hungary. George Soros is from Hungary and the Soros family often works as criminal financiers for the Pallavicinis. The Pallavicinis recently married in with the German House of Wurttemberg with Duchess Helene of Wurttemberg married to Marquess Federico Pallavicini. The Pallavicini family married with the Rospigliosi Papal nobility and also have a branch in London through the Cromwell family. Horatio Pallavicino was a financier for the British Crown and his family merged with the Cromwells through several marriages creating the variant name Paravicini. Charles Vincent Somerset Paravicini is a current member of the British aristocracy. The Pallavicini family ruled over ancient Parthia or Iran and the Pahlavi dynasty that ruled Iran more recently are an ancestral branch of the Pallavicini family. Pahlavi is a term for the ancient Parthian language and where the Pallavicini named derives from. Prince Reza Pahlavi is the head of the Iranian royal family today. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the last Shah of Iran was a Vatican Knight of the Golden Spur. Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan IV is of Iranian royalty and is knighted by two Italian orders and his father was born in Turin, Italy. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan who died in 2003 was an Italian knight of Saint Sylvester and the uncle to Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan IV. The Aga Khan family claim to directly descend from the Prophet Muhammad and Prince Rahim Aga Khan is a current high level member of this family. The Aga Khans manage a faction of modern day Ismaili Hashashins or Assassins which work with the Five Percenters. The royal families of Afghanistan established residences in Italy and an Afghani prince married Princess Luciana Pallavicini. Giancarlo Pallavicini from Milan is an economist and worked as an adviser for the Soviet government. Giancarlo Pallavicini specializes in economic globalism and still works with the Russian government. The Pallavicinis have deep connections with Russia and are owners of the Armenian Mafia which is headquartered in Hollywood. The Armenian Mafia works under the Russian Mafia and the Russian Mafia in New York works under the Lucchese crime family owned by the Lucchesi-Palli family of Italy and Austria. The Lucchesi-Pallis have some ancient relations with the Pallavicinis. Palli and Pallavicini. The Kardashian family are Armenian and the Armenian Mafia traffic children to the Kardashians which they sacrifice. Prince Filippo Rospigliosi is the Earl of Newburgh Scotland and also holds Pallavicini titles in Venice and Genoa while residing in Milan. The Pallavicini coat of arms uses the double headed eagle like Scottish Rite Freemasonry along with a masonic checkerboard pattern. Prince Filippo is a high level Scottish Rite Freemason. The Prince-Imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini of Milan runs ISESCO or Islamic Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization and he is also the Advisor for Islamic Affairs in Italy. Nasser David Khalili is a Jewish British-Iranian billionaire and Vatican Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester and a Trustee of the City of Jerusalem and he serves the Pallavicini family. There are many international Jewish-Iranian businessmen like the Manocherian, Ghermezian, and Merage families. Paul Merage is a Jewish Iranian-American worth 5 billion. Mahmoud Khayami is a French-Iranian millionaire residing in London who co-founded the Iran National company and he is also a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester and serving the Pallavicinis. Elvina Pallavicini was known for supporting the United States war on Iraq. Iran and Iraq have been rivals and enemies. This family were the top architects of the US war on Iraq. Prince Moroello Diaz Della Vittoria-Pallavicini and Prince Sigieri Diaz Della Vittoria-Pallavicini are top powers in Rome and the world. They oversee the Cult of Nike and the Cult of Athena. There are several statues of Athena and Nike in Vienna, Austria including Athena holding up Nike. Vittoria means victory. Nike means victory. Prince Sigieri is a board member for Athena Investments. The Kabbalistic actress Natalie Portman is their Vicar of Nike. Her grandmother's name was Bernice which means "bringer of nike" and her grandmother was from Austria. A female gang stalker and cannibal named Rachel Buyak works for the Pallavicinis and Schwarzenbergs and she is financed by the Soros family. The statue on their Austrian Palais Pallavicini is holding a harp which refers to their authority over the USAF's HAARP system used for mass mind manipulation and some limited weather modification. Today Marco Pallavicini is a physics professor at the University of Geneva. The Pallavicini family specialize in radiating the feeling of desolation or abyss through HAARP and other electronic systems. The Pallavicini and Medici families are architects of gang stalking and they call their isolate and torture program the "Abomination of Desolation." The Schwarzenberg family are a Bohemian-Austrian nobility that work closely with the Austrian Pallavicinis and their agent George Soros formerly George Schwartz finances gang stalking and human sacrifices to the Cult of Athena and Cult of Nike. George Soros is a friend of Prince Karel of Schwarzenberg. The Pallavicinis established themselves originally as nobles in Greece near Athens and their Paravicini cousins in London are married with the Greek Mavroleon shipping family. The Pallavicinis also manage the body builder and psychopathic beast David Bautista who has some Greek ancestry. The Pallavicini family were originally Genoese bankers and have a large amount of shares in the Genoese Banca Carige which was founded in 1482. The Pallavicinis are managers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta with their ancestor John Charles Pallavicini who was Leutenant and basically the interim Grand Master of the SMOM. The Pallavicinis are the owners of Pallavicini-Immobillairie a multi billion dollar real estate development company, Global Wealth Management (GWM) an international finance firm, Armonia which is an investment firm, and they are invested in Greentech through GWM which is involved in renewable energies. GWM is located in Milan, Rome, London, Malta, Geneva, and Luxembourg. Banking is private in Switzerland and Luxembourg. The Pallavicini family have also managed Rottapharm pharmaceuticals and Prelios asset management. Prince Sigieri is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Athena Investments and has worked with Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Prudential Financial and Lehman Brothers. Their ancestor the 1st Duke of Victory also became the Minister of War under Benito Mussolini. Prince Sigieri and Prince Moroello's father is Don Armando Diaz the Duke of Victory a title given to them by the House of Savoy for their military leadership in WWI. Prince Vittorio Emanuele IV of Savoy sold weapons to the Iranian royal family while working for Agusta. William Casey a former Director of the CIA worked closely with the Pahlavi royal family after their exile and Prince Reza Pahlavi has had a residence near the CIA headquarters. William Casey was Jesuit educated at Fordham. Marquis Alfonso Pallavicini of Austria was a top executive for BNP Paribas an international banking group with assets worth nearly 2 trillion. Margrave Edoardo Pallavicini is a banker that works for O'Connor Capital and previously worked for Deutsche Bank. Prince Dominic Pallavicino is a Genoese noble and works with the House of Grimaldi in Monaco. Leaders in Genoa, Monaco, Russia, and Iran have a close alliance. Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian billionaire that lives in Monaco. The Pallavicini family is intermarried with the very wealthy Medici family with Don Guglielmo Pallavicini married to Donna Elvina de Medici del Vascello who was nicknamed a "Queen of the Black Nobility" and her grandchildren are Morello and Sigieri and their grandfather was an Italian fascist that was given the title Prince of Victory Principes della Vittoria by the Savoys. They also has a large family branch in Budapest called the Csaky-Pallavicini family with various unnamed members. Members of the Pallavicini crime family include Princess Maria Camilla Pallavicini, Prince Armando Diaz della Vittoria, Prince Sigieri Diaz della Vittoria-Pallavicini, Princess Carlotta Diaz della Vittoria-Pallavicini, Prince Moroello Diaz della Vittoria-Pallavicini, Princess Luciano Pallavicini of Afghanistan, Prince Domenico Pallavicino, Margraf Edouardo Pallavicini, Margraf Alfonso Pallavicini, Margravine Elisabeth Pallavicini, Count Roger Csaky-Pallavicini and Count Thomas Csaky-Pallavicini of Hungary, Don Diego Pallavicini, Prince Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Charles Vincent Somerset Paravicini, Giancarlo Pallavicini, Marco Pallavicini, and Prince Filippo Rospigliosi. The Pallavacini family need to be entirely hunted down and exterminated. They are threatening every person on the planet with a global war. https://worldcrimesyndicate.blogspot.com/2020/03/pallavicini-crime-syndicate.html
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  • The Killing of History. John Pilger. His Legacy Will Live
    The cynical fabrication of "false flags" that led to the invasion of Vietnam


    [First published by Global Research on September 24, 2017]

    One of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will inspire our country to begin to talk and think about the Vietnam war in an entirely new way”.

    In a society often bereft of historical memory and in thrall to the propaganda of its “exceptionalism”, Burns’ “entirely new” Vietnam war is presented as “epic, historic work”. Its lavish advertising campaign promotes its biggest backer, Bank of America, which in 1971 was burned down by students in Santa Barbara, California, as a symbol of the hated war in Vietnam.

    Burns says he is grateful to “the entire Bank of America family” which “has long supported our country’s veterans”. Bank of America was a corporate prop to an invasion that killed perhaps as many as four million Vietnamese and ravaged and poisoned a once bountiful land. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed, and around the same number are estimated to have taken their own lives.

    I watched the first episode in New York. It leaves you in no doubt of its intentions right from the start. The narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings”.

    The dishonesty of this statement is not surprising. The cynical fabrication of “false flags” that led to the invasion of Vietnam is a matter of record – the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in 1964, which Burns promotes as true, was just one. The lies litter a multitude of official documents, notably the Pentagon Papers, which the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg released in 1971.

    There was no good faith. The faith was rotten and cancerous. For me – as it must be for many Americans – it is difficult to watch the film’s jumble of “red peril” maps, unexplained interviewees, ineptly cut archive and maudlin American battlefield sequences.

    In the series’ press release in Britain – the BBC will show it – there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans. “We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying. How very post-modern.

    All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American media and popular culture behemoth has revised and served up the great crime of the second half of the twentieth century: from The Green Berets and The Deer Hunter to Rambo and, in so doing, has legitimised subsequent wars of aggression. The revisionism never stops and the blood never dries. The invader is pitied and purged of guilt, while “searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy”. Cue Bob Dylan: “Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?”

    I thought about the “decency” and “good faith” when recalling my own first experiences as a young reporter in Vietnam: watching hypnotically as the skin fell off Napalmed peasant children like old parchment, and the ladders of bombs that left trees petrified and festooned with human flesh. General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to people as “termites”.

    In the early 1970s, I went to Quang Ngai province, where in the village of My Lai, between 347 and 500 men, women and infants were murdered by American troops (Burns prefers “killings”). At the time, this was presented as an aberration: an “American tragedy” (Newsweek ). In this one province, it was estimated that 50,000 people had been slaughtered during the era of American “free fire zones”. Mass homicide. This was not news.

    To the north, in Quang Tri province, more bombs were dropped than in all of Germany during the Second World War. Since 1975, unexploded ordnance has caused more than 40,000 deaths in mostly “South Vietnam”, the country America claimed to “save” and, with France, conceived as a singularly imperial ruse.

    The “meaning” of the Vietnam war is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the levelling of every city in North Korea. The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIA man on whom Graham Greene based his central character in The Quiet American.

    Quoting Robert Taber‘s The War of the Flea, Lansdale said,

    “There is only one means of defeating an insurgent people who will not surrender, and that is extermination. There is only one way to control a territory that harbours resistance, and that is to turn it into a desert.”



    Nothing has changed. When Donald Trump addressed the United Nations on 19 September – a body established to spare humanity the “scourge of war” – he declared he was “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people. His audience gasped, but Trump’s language was not unusual.

    His rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, had boasted she was prepared to “totally obliterate” Iran, a nation of more than 80 million people. This is the American Way; only the euphemisms are missing now.

    Returning to the US, I am struck by the silence and the absence of an opposition – on the streets, in journalism and the arts, as if dissent once tolerated in the “mainstream” has regressed to a dissidence: a metaphoric underground.

    There is plenty of sound and fury at Trump the odious one, the “fascist”, but almost none at Trump the symptom and caricature of an enduring system of conquest and extremism.

    Where are the ghosts of the great anti-war demonstrations that took over Washington in the 1970s? Where is the equivalent of the Freeze Movement that filled the streets of Manhattan in the 1980s, demanding that President Reagan withdraw battlefield nuclear weapons from Europe?

    The sheer energy and moral persistence of these great movements largely succeeded; by 1987 Reagan had negotiated with Mikhail Gorbachev an Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) that effectively ended the Cold War.

    Today, according to secret Nato documents obtained by the German newspaper, Suddeutsche Zetung, this vital treaty is likely to be abandoned as “nuclear targeting planning is increased”. The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned against

    “repeating the worst mistakes of the Cold War… All the good treaties on disarmament and arms control from Gorbachev and Reagan are in acute peril. Europe is threatened again with becoming a military training ground for nuclear weapons. We must raise our voice against this.”

    But not in America. The thousands who turned out for Senator Bernie Sanders‘ “revolution” in last year’s presidential campaign are collectively mute on these dangers. That most of America’s violence across the world has been perpetrated not by Republicans, or mutants like Trump, but by liberal Democrats, remains a taboo.

    Barack Obama provided the apotheosis, with seven simultaneous wars, a presidential record, including the destruction of Libya as a modern state. Obama’s overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government has had the desired effect: the massing of American-led Nato forces on Russia’s western borderland through which the Nazis invaded in 1941.

    Obama’s “pivot to Asia” in 2011 signaled the transfer of the majority of America’s naval and air forces to Asia and the Pacific for no purpose other than to confront and provoke China. The Nobel Peace Laureate’s worldwide campaign of assassinations is arguably the most extensive campaign of terrorism since 9/11.

    What is known in the US as “the left” has effectively allied with the darkest recesses of institutional power, notably the Pentagon and the CIA, to see off a peace deal between Trump and Vladimir Putin and to reinstate Russia as an enemy, on the basis of no evidence of its alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

    The true scandal is the insidious assumption of power by sinister war-making vested interests for which no American voted. The rapid ascendancy of the Pentagon and the surveillance agencies under Obama represented an historic shift of power in Washington. Daniel Ellsberg rightly called it a coup. The three generals running Trump are its witness.

    All of this fails to penetrate those “liberal brains pickled in the formaldehyde of identity politics”, as Luciana Bohne noted memorably. Commodified and market-tested, “diversity” is the new liberal brand, not the class people serve regardless of their gender and skin colour: not the responsibility of all to stop a barbaric war to end all wars.

    “How did it fucking come to this?” says Michael Moore in his Broadway show, Terms of My Surrender, a vaudeville for the disaffected set against a backdrop of Trump as Big Brother.

    I admired Moore’s film, Roger & Me, about the economic and social devastation of his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and Sicko, his investigation into the corruption of healthcare in America.

    The night I saw his show, his happy-clappy audience cheered his reassurance that “we are the majority!” and calls to “impeach Trump, a liar and a fascist!” His message seemed to be that had you held your nose and voted for Hillary Clinton, life would be predictable again.

    He may be right. Instead of merely abusing the world, as Trump does, the Great Obliterator might have attacked Iran and lobbed missiles at Putin, whom she likened to Hitler: a particular profanity given the 27 million Russians who died in Hitler’s invasion.

    “Listen up,” said Moore, “putting aside what our governments do, Americans are really loved by the world!”

    There was a silence.

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    Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War

    By Michel Chossudovsky

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    The US has embarked on a military adventure, “a long war”, which threatens the future of humanity. US-NATO weapons of mass destruction are portrayed as instruments of peace. Mini-nukes are said to be “harmless to the surrounding civilian population”. Pre-emptive nuclear war is portrayed as a “humanitarian undertaking”.

    While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using “new technologies” and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality. The international community has endorsed nuclear war in the name of world peace. “Making the world safer” is the justification for launching a military operation which could potentially result in a nuclear holocaust.

    Nuclear war has become a multibillion dollar undertaking, which fills the pockets of US defense contractors. What is at stake is the outright “privatization of nuclear war”. (Excerpt from Preface)

    “This book is a ‘must’ resource – a richly documented and systematic diagnosis of the supremely pathological geo-strategic planning of US wars since ‘9-11’ against non-nuclear countries to seize their oil fields and resources under cover of ‘freedom and democracy’.”
    –John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy, Guelph UniversityWWIII Scenario

    “In a world where engineered, pre-emptive, or more fashionably “humanitarian” wars of aggression have become the norm, this challenging book may be our final wake-up call.”
    -Denis Halliday, Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations

    Michel Chossudovsky exposes the insanity of our privatized war machine. Iran is being targeted with nuclear weapons as part of a war agenda built on distortions and lies for the purpose of private profit. The real aims are oil, financial hegemony and global control. The price could be nuclear holocaust. When weapons become the hottest export of the world’s only superpower, and diplomats work as salesmen for the defense industry, the whole world is recklessly endangered. If we must have a military, it belongs entirely in the public sector. No one should profit from mass death and destruction.
    –Ellen Brown, author of ‘Web of Debt’ and president of the Public Banking Institute

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    The Killing of History. John Pilger. His Legacy Will Live The cynical fabrication of "false flags" that led to the invasion of Vietnam [First published by Global Research on September 24, 2017] One of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will inspire our country to begin to talk and think about the Vietnam war in an entirely new way”. In a society often bereft of historical memory and in thrall to the propaganda of its “exceptionalism”, Burns’ “entirely new” Vietnam war is presented as “epic, historic work”. Its lavish advertising campaign promotes its biggest backer, Bank of America, which in 1971 was burned down by students in Santa Barbara, California, as a symbol of the hated war in Vietnam. Burns says he is grateful to “the entire Bank of America family” which “has long supported our country’s veterans”. Bank of America was a corporate prop to an invasion that killed perhaps as many as four million Vietnamese and ravaged and poisoned a once bountiful land. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed, and around the same number are estimated to have taken their own lives. I watched the first episode in New York. It leaves you in no doubt of its intentions right from the start. The narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings”. The dishonesty of this statement is not surprising. The cynical fabrication of “false flags” that led to the invasion of Vietnam is a matter of record – the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in 1964, which Burns promotes as true, was just one. The lies litter a multitude of official documents, notably the Pentagon Papers, which the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg released in 1971. There was no good faith. The faith was rotten and cancerous. For me – as it must be for many Americans – it is difficult to watch the film’s jumble of “red peril” maps, unexplained interviewees, ineptly cut archive and maudlin American battlefield sequences. In the series’ press release in Britain – the BBC will show it – there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans. “We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying. How very post-modern. All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American media and popular culture behemoth has revised and served up the great crime of the second half of the twentieth century: from The Green Berets and The Deer Hunter to Rambo and, in so doing, has legitimised subsequent wars of aggression. The revisionism never stops and the blood never dries. The invader is pitied and purged of guilt, while “searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy”. Cue Bob Dylan: “Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?” I thought about the “decency” and “good faith” when recalling my own first experiences as a young reporter in Vietnam: watching hypnotically as the skin fell off Napalmed peasant children like old parchment, and the ladders of bombs that left trees petrified and festooned with human flesh. General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to people as “termites”. In the early 1970s, I went to Quang Ngai province, where in the village of My Lai, between 347 and 500 men, women and infants were murdered by American troops (Burns prefers “killings”). At the time, this was presented as an aberration: an “American tragedy” (Newsweek ). In this one province, it was estimated that 50,000 people had been slaughtered during the era of American “free fire zones”. Mass homicide. This was not news. To the north, in Quang Tri province, more bombs were dropped than in all of Germany during the Second World War. Since 1975, unexploded ordnance has caused more than 40,000 deaths in mostly “South Vietnam”, the country America claimed to “save” and, with France, conceived as a singularly imperial ruse. The “meaning” of the Vietnam war is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the levelling of every city in North Korea. The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIA man on whom Graham Greene based his central character in The Quiet American. Quoting Robert Taber‘s The War of the Flea, Lansdale said, “There is only one means of defeating an insurgent people who will not surrender, and that is extermination. There is only one way to control a territory that harbours resistance, and that is to turn it into a desert.” Nothing has changed. When Donald Trump addressed the United Nations on 19 September – a body established to spare humanity the “scourge of war” – he declared he was “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people. His audience gasped, but Trump’s language was not unusual. His rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, had boasted she was prepared to “totally obliterate” Iran, a nation of more than 80 million people. This is the American Way; only the euphemisms are missing now. Returning to the US, I am struck by the silence and the absence of an opposition – on the streets, in journalism and the arts, as if dissent once tolerated in the “mainstream” has regressed to a dissidence: a metaphoric underground. There is plenty of sound and fury at Trump the odious one, the “fascist”, but almost none at Trump the symptom and caricature of an enduring system of conquest and extremism. Where are the ghosts of the great anti-war demonstrations that took over Washington in the 1970s? Where is the equivalent of the Freeze Movement that filled the streets of Manhattan in the 1980s, demanding that President Reagan withdraw battlefield nuclear weapons from Europe? The sheer energy and moral persistence of these great movements largely succeeded; by 1987 Reagan had negotiated with Mikhail Gorbachev an Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) that effectively ended the Cold War. Today, according to secret Nato documents obtained by the German newspaper, Suddeutsche Zetung, this vital treaty is likely to be abandoned as “nuclear targeting planning is increased”. The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned against “repeating the worst mistakes of the Cold War… All the good treaties on disarmament and arms control from Gorbachev and Reagan are in acute peril. Europe is threatened again with becoming a military training ground for nuclear weapons. We must raise our voice against this.” But not in America. The thousands who turned out for Senator Bernie Sanders‘ “revolution” in last year’s presidential campaign are collectively mute on these dangers. That most of America’s violence across the world has been perpetrated not by Republicans, or mutants like Trump, but by liberal Democrats, remains a taboo. Barack Obama provided the apotheosis, with seven simultaneous wars, a presidential record, including the destruction of Libya as a modern state. Obama’s overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government has had the desired effect: the massing of American-led Nato forces on Russia’s western borderland through which the Nazis invaded in 1941. Obama’s “pivot to Asia” in 2011 signaled the transfer of the majority of America’s naval and air forces to Asia and the Pacific for no purpose other than to confront and provoke China. The Nobel Peace Laureate’s worldwide campaign of assassinations is arguably the most extensive campaign of terrorism since 9/11. What is known in the US as “the left” has effectively allied with the darkest recesses of institutional power, notably the Pentagon and the CIA, to see off a peace deal between Trump and Vladimir Putin and to reinstate Russia as an enemy, on the basis of no evidence of its alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. The true scandal is the insidious assumption of power by sinister war-making vested interests for which no American voted. The rapid ascendancy of the Pentagon and the surveillance agencies under Obama represented an historic shift of power in Washington. Daniel Ellsberg rightly called it a coup. The three generals running Trump are its witness. All of this fails to penetrate those “liberal brains pickled in the formaldehyde of identity politics”, as Luciana Bohne noted memorably. Commodified and market-tested, “diversity” is the new liberal brand, not the class people serve regardless of their gender and skin colour: not the responsibility of all to stop a barbaric war to end all wars. “How did it fucking come to this?” says Michael Moore in his Broadway show, Terms of My Surrender, a vaudeville for the disaffected set against a backdrop of Trump as Big Brother. I admired Moore’s film, Roger & Me, about the economic and social devastation of his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and Sicko, his investigation into the corruption of healthcare in America. The night I saw his show, his happy-clappy audience cheered his reassurance that “we are the majority!” and calls to “impeach Trump, a liar and a fascist!” His message seemed to be that had you held your nose and voted for Hillary Clinton, life would be predictable again. He may be right. Instead of merely abusing the world, as Trump does, the Great Obliterator might have attacked Iran and lobbed missiles at Putin, whom she likened to Hitler: a particular profanity given the 27 million Russians who died in Hitler’s invasion. “Listen up,” said Moore, “putting aside what our governments do, Americans are really loved by the world!” There was a silence. * Click the share button below to email/forward this article to your friends and colleagues. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. Don’t Miss Out on Global Research Online e-Books! Featured image: The lone survivor of an all-women anti-aircraft battery near Hanoi. Most were teenagers. 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    In a retaliatory military operation after weeks of strategic restraint, Iran launched a symphonic barrage of long-range ballistic missiles at key Israeli military installations in and around Tel Aviv on October 1.

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    In a retaliatory military operation after weeks of strategic restraint, Iran launched a symphonic barrage of long-range ballistic missiles at key Israeli military installations in and around Tel Aviv on October 1.

    Each missile with a heavy warhead found its mark, slipping past multiple layers of air defense as if they were mildly inconvenient clouds, leaving Israel’s much-hyped military infrastructure reeling.

    As the dust settled and uncomfortable truths began to emerge, the Israeli regime swiftly enacted a media blackout, banning any discussion of the number of casualties or the extent of damage.

    After all, invincibility is easier to claim when nobody sees the broken glass. The regime brags about its military invincibility and impenetrable radar systems. Iranian missiles made mincemeat of them.

    Among the key targets were the “Tel Nof” airbase near Tel Aviv, the “Nevatim” airbase that houses F-35 warplanes, the “Ramon” airbase, and the “Hatzerim” airbase, among others.

    For the few journalists audacious enough to report on “Operation True Promise II,” and the damage it caused, like Jeremy Loffredo of Grayzone website, daring came with a price: quick detainment and trumped-up charges—a modern “reward” for seeking the truth.

    But information has a habit of leaking out, and so it did: reports of massive damage inflicted by Iranian missiles like the Ghadr, Emad, and the hypersonic Fattah-1—a reminder that not all high-tech military systems can withstand the power of Iranian missiles.

    It’s not for nothing that Iran is today known as a missile and drone power in the world.

    The missiles didn’t just destroy the military infrastructure. Scores of soldiers stationed at these bases also vanished into thin air, though Israel’s official line remained notably silent, preferring downplay over transparency, to avoid further embarrassment and humiliation.

    A journalist who spoke to eyewitnesses there told me that the Nevatim Airbase, which has served as a launch point for deadly air operations against Gaza and more recently Lebanon and is located deep inside the Negev desert, said dozens of missiles landed inside the base, inflicting heavy damage.

    The attack brought the base to a grinding halt and resulted in scores of military fatalities. The regime, however, refused to publicly acknowledge it.

    He also referred to the missiles that landed in Tel Aviv, near the Mossad headquarters, which destroyed a good part of the city block, resulting in both human and collateral losses. Again it wasn’t made public.

    “Cars were entirely destroyed, debris covered everything in a 200-foot radius and the missile crater — which was at least 50 feet wide, was filled in and covered with dirt almost immediately by Israeli authorities, which underscores how embarrassing this was for Israel which boasts often about the efficiency of its billion-dollar missile defense systems,” the journalist told me.

    Just weeks later, on October 18, the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement delivered a less subtle but strong message, this time with a drone dining-room delivery, straight to the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit in the occupied city of Haifa.

    Israeli media initially hesitated, before begrudgingly confirming five soldier deaths. However, as sources under the cloak of anonymity later revealed, the real number was much higher, buried under layers of secrecy and silence that have come to characterize the Zionist military’s standard operating procedure.

    Recent ground battles between the Israeli military and Hezbollah resistance fighters in southern Lebanon have evidently driven Israeli forces to the breaking point, with eyewitness accounts suggesting Israeli fatalities in the hundreds, as well as destruction of Merkava tanks, military bulldozers, armored vehicles, troop carriers as well as Hermes 450 drones.

    The regime in Tel Aviv, however, trickles out only a fraction of these grim numbers, counting soldiers in “tens” instead of hundreds to soften the blow to the morale of settlers who continue to live in fear.

    On Sunday, an Israeli army spokesperson reluctantly announced the deaths of an officer and three soldiers from Battalion 8207, Alon Brigade (228) during the ground battles in southern Lebanon with Hezbollah under the “permitted to publish” clause. So, the publication of such content must fit these ambitious “clauses.”

    In Gaza, the death toll among Palestinians has tragically surpassed 43,000, most of them women and children, after one year of the genocidal aggression that began on October 7, 2023. Yet, the resilience and resolve of fighters from Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and others shines through.

    Daily bulletins from these groups paint a picture of complex operations that continue to exact a toll on regime forces, employing a repertoire that includes Qassam Ghoul rifles, Al-Yassin 105 shells, Shuath explosive devices, and Thaqib barrel bombs. Even the sticks that Martyr Yahya Sinwar immortalized.

    But, we hardly hear anything from the Israeli military about the number of fatalities in these operations. They remain tight-lipped about the losses while bragging about their own genocidal crimes.

    Iran openly acknowledged the martyrdom of four soldiers following Israeli strikes on its cities on Saturday. Neither Iran nor the Axis of Resistance, spanning Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq, covers up its losses. Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Ansarullah in Yemen honor those who are killed in the struggle against the Israeli regime and its Western patrons.

    These fighters die for a cause, a cause greater than personal ambition. Be it Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan or Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, these men fought on the frontlines and embraced martyrdom. They yearned for it and were prepared for it.

    As Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei aptly observed in his remarks on Sunday, Zionists do not know Iran, the youth of Iran, the Iranian nation, and they have not yet properly understood the “power, capability, ingenuity and will of the Iranian nation.”

    These child-murderers simply cannot fathom the spirit of Iran or the iron will of its people—let alone the resilience of Palestinians, Lebanese, and Yemenis, who wear martyrdom as a badge of honor.

    This is precisely why massive funeral processions fill Tehran, Gaza, occupied West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Sana’a for martyrs as sacrifice for a cause is an honor for them. In contrast, Israeli regime forces and settlers are caught in a dilemma of not belonging anywhere and dying without any cause.

    The Zionist entity is a cluster of illegal settlements occupied by settlers with no sense of belonging. While Zionists champion an agenda for their own political gains, those they command struggle to find conviction for a land they cannot call home, a land stolen from its original inhabitants.

    Most settlers, like Benzion Mileikowsky (better known as Benjamin Netanyahu) of Polish descent, carry foreign passports as a safety net. The rhetoric of a “promised land” fails to inspire nationalism, for it’s difficult to feel pride for a territory forcibly and illegally seized from others.

    In stark contrast to the unwavering conviction and resolve of resistance fighters, Israeli soldiers appear disconnected, fighting not for a cause but for political agendas, for settler-colonialism.

    An important example of this disposability is the Hannibal Doctrine, a grim reminder from October 7, 2023, when Israeli forces killed their own to prevent their capture by Hamas fighters, leaving many regime soldiers and settlers forgotten, turned into cold, wasted statistics.

    In Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon, martyrs inspire generations to carry on their legacy. Sayyed Abbas Mousavi’s torch was carried forward by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sheikh Yassin’s legacy was preserved by Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar. The movement grows and the ideology strengthens.



    On the other hand, slain Israeli troops or settlers rarely receive public tributes. They are statistics rather than symbols. Since October 7, large numbers of settlers have fled the occupied territories, with the regime frantically slapping travel bans to curb the exodus.



    Conscription is forced upon settlers unwillingly, with trauma and despair spreading like a second wave. If these settlers or mercenary troops had their way, they would book the next flight out of Tel Aviv. They know they don’t belong to the occupied land. They know it more today than ever before.



    So Netanyahu understands that the disclosure of military fatalities would further demoralize a settler populace already plagued by fear and anxiety. The freeze on casualty reporting is a calculated move, a gambit to avoid a mass awakening to the occupation’s mounting costs.



    Many Israeli soldiers and settlers perished on October 7 at the hands of the occupation military under the Hannibal Directive. Today, nobody knows them. They have been turned into cold statistics, wasted for an illegitimate entity with a shaky foundation increasingly staring at its annihilation.



    This is one of the perils of living on land taken by force. An occupier can never truly belong to the occupied land and an occupied land can never be home. And a regime built on illusion and force will forever sit on a foundation of sand, eroded by every act of resistance and every name it tries to bury.

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    Why Netanyahu Won’t Admit Over 5800 Jewish Terrorists Have Died while Committing Genocide In a retaliatory military operation after weeks of strategic restraint, Iran launched a symphonic barrage of long-range ballistic missiles at key Israeli military installations in and around Tel Aviv on October 1. Jonas E. Alexis, Senior EditorNovember 2, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here In a retaliatory military operation after weeks of strategic restraint, Iran launched a symphonic barrage of long-range ballistic missiles at key Israeli military installations in and around Tel Aviv on October 1. Each missile with a heavy warhead found its mark, slipping past multiple layers of air defense as if they were mildly inconvenient clouds, leaving Israel’s much-hyped military infrastructure reeling. As the dust settled and uncomfortable truths began to emerge, the Israeli regime swiftly enacted a media blackout, banning any discussion of the number of casualties or the extent of damage. After all, invincibility is easier to claim when nobody sees the broken glass. The regime brags about its military invincibility and impenetrable radar systems. Iranian missiles made mincemeat of them. Among the key targets were the “Tel Nof” airbase near Tel Aviv, the “Nevatim” airbase that houses F-35 warplanes, the “Ramon” airbase, and the “Hatzerim” airbase, among others. For the few journalists audacious enough to report on “Operation True Promise II,” and the damage it caused, like Jeremy Loffredo of Grayzone website, daring came with a price: quick detainment and trumped-up charges—a modern “reward” for seeking the truth. But information has a habit of leaking out, and so it did: reports of massive damage inflicted by Iranian missiles like the Ghadr, Emad, and the hypersonic Fattah-1—a reminder that not all high-tech military systems can withstand the power of Iranian missiles. It’s not for nothing that Iran is today known as a missile and drone power in the world. The missiles didn’t just destroy the military infrastructure. Scores of soldiers stationed at these bases also vanished into thin air, though Israel’s official line remained notably silent, preferring downplay over transparency, to avoid further embarrassment and humiliation. A journalist who spoke to eyewitnesses there told me that the Nevatim Airbase, which has served as a launch point for deadly air operations against Gaza and more recently Lebanon and is located deep inside the Negev desert, said dozens of missiles landed inside the base, inflicting heavy damage. The attack brought the base to a grinding halt and resulted in scores of military fatalities. The regime, however, refused to publicly acknowledge it. He also referred to the missiles that landed in Tel Aviv, near the Mossad headquarters, which destroyed a good part of the city block, resulting in both human and collateral losses. Again it wasn’t made public. “Cars were entirely destroyed, debris covered everything in a 200-foot radius and the missile crater — which was at least 50 feet wide, was filled in and covered with dirt almost immediately by Israeli authorities, which underscores how embarrassing this was for Israel which boasts often about the efficiency of its billion-dollar missile defense systems,” the journalist told me. Just weeks later, on October 18, the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement delivered a less subtle but strong message, this time with a drone dining-room delivery, straight to the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit in the occupied city of Haifa. Israeli media initially hesitated, before begrudgingly confirming five soldier deaths. However, as sources under the cloak of anonymity later revealed, the real number was much higher, buried under layers of secrecy and silence that have come to characterize the Zionist military’s standard operating procedure. Recent ground battles between the Israeli military and Hezbollah resistance fighters in southern Lebanon have evidently driven Israeli forces to the breaking point, with eyewitness accounts suggesting Israeli fatalities in the hundreds, as well as destruction of Merkava tanks, military bulldozers, armored vehicles, troop carriers as well as Hermes 450 drones. The regime in Tel Aviv, however, trickles out only a fraction of these grim numbers, counting soldiers in “tens” instead of hundreds to soften the blow to the morale of settlers who continue to live in fear. On Sunday, an Israeli army spokesperson reluctantly announced the deaths of an officer and three soldiers from Battalion 8207, Alon Brigade (228) during the ground battles in southern Lebanon with Hezbollah under the “permitted to publish” clause. So, the publication of such content must fit these ambitious “clauses.” In Gaza, the death toll among Palestinians has tragically surpassed 43,000, most of them women and children, after one year of the genocidal aggression that began on October 7, 2023. Yet, the resilience and resolve of fighters from Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and others shines through. Daily bulletins from these groups paint a picture of complex operations that continue to exact a toll on regime forces, employing a repertoire that includes Qassam Ghoul rifles, Al-Yassin 105 shells, Shuath explosive devices, and Thaqib barrel bombs. Even the sticks that Martyr Yahya Sinwar immortalized. But, we hardly hear anything from the Israeli military about the number of fatalities in these operations. They remain tight-lipped about the losses while bragging about their own genocidal crimes. Iran openly acknowledged the martyrdom of four soldiers following Israeli strikes on its cities on Saturday. Neither Iran nor the Axis of Resistance, spanning Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq, covers up its losses. Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Ansarullah in Yemen honor those who are killed in the struggle against the Israeli regime and its Western patrons. These fighters die for a cause, a cause greater than personal ambition. Be it Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan or Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, these men fought on the frontlines and embraced martyrdom. They yearned for it and were prepared for it. As Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei aptly observed in his remarks on Sunday, Zionists do not know Iran, the youth of Iran, the Iranian nation, and they have not yet properly understood the “power, capability, ingenuity and will of the Iranian nation.” These child-murderers simply cannot fathom the spirit of Iran or the iron will of its people—let alone the resilience of Palestinians, Lebanese, and Yemenis, who wear martyrdom as a badge of honor. This is precisely why massive funeral processions fill Tehran, Gaza, occupied West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Sana’a for martyrs as sacrifice for a cause is an honor for them. In contrast, Israeli regime forces and settlers are caught in a dilemma of not belonging anywhere and dying without any cause. The Zionist entity is a cluster of illegal settlements occupied by settlers with no sense of belonging. While Zionists champion an agenda for their own political gains, those they command struggle to find conviction for a land they cannot call home, a land stolen from its original inhabitants. Most settlers, like Benzion Mileikowsky (better known as Benjamin Netanyahu) of Polish descent, carry foreign passports as a safety net. The rhetoric of a “promised land” fails to inspire nationalism, for it’s difficult to feel pride for a territory forcibly and illegally seized from others. In stark contrast to the unwavering conviction and resolve of resistance fighters, Israeli soldiers appear disconnected, fighting not for a cause but for political agendas, for settler-colonialism. An important example of this disposability is the Hannibal Doctrine, a grim reminder from October 7, 2023, when Israeli forces killed their own to prevent their capture by Hamas fighters, leaving many regime soldiers and settlers forgotten, turned into cold, wasted statistics. In Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon, martyrs inspire generations to carry on their legacy. Sayyed Abbas Mousavi’s torch was carried forward by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sheikh Yassin’s legacy was preserved by Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar. The movement grows and the ideology strengthens. On the other hand, slain Israeli troops or settlers rarely receive public tributes. They are statistics rather than symbols. Since October 7, large numbers of settlers have fled the occupied territories, with the regime frantically slapping travel bans to curb the exodus. Conscription is forced upon settlers unwillingly, with trauma and despair spreading like a second wave. If these settlers or mercenary troops had their way, they would book the next flight out of Tel Aviv. They know they don’t belong to the occupied land. They know it more today than ever before. So Netanyahu understands that the disclosure of military fatalities would further demoralize a settler populace already plagued by fear and anxiety. The freeze on casualty reporting is a calculated move, a gambit to avoid a mass awakening to the occupation’s mounting costs. Many Israeli soldiers and settlers perished on October 7 at the hands of the occupation military under the Hannibal Directive. Today, nobody knows them. They have been turned into cold statistics, wasted for an illegitimate entity with a shaky foundation increasingly staring at its annihilation. This is one of the perils of living on land taken by force. An occupier can never truly belong to the occupied land and an occupied land can never be home. And a regime built on illusion and force will forever sit on a foundation of sand, eroded by every act of resistance and every name it tries to bury. Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses: www.presstv.co.uk VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion. About VT - Policies & Disclosures - Comment Policy Due to the nature of uncensored content posted by VT's fully independent international writers, VT cannot guarantee absolute validity. All content is owned by the author exclusively. 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    “I am the 47th president, we have made history.” With this announcement Donald Trump jubilantly showed up just before reaching 270 Grand Electors: at the last count he obtained 277.

    Breaking Update here – Kremlin names Two Reasons Preventing Putin from Congratulating Trump

    “Game, set and match”. This was instead written by Elon Musk on X, billionaire founder of Tesla and owner of the former social platform Twitter, while the vote counting with Trump continued.

    Victory of the Zionist Axis against the Biden-Harris Liberticides

    The victory of the Republican candidate Trump is the triumph of the “teatro-cracy” theorized by Plato: that is, the government of the scenic representation in which the New York tycoon has been able to be a master, even exploiting the failed public debate with his Democratic rival for the White House (Kamala Harris) to his advantage, accusing her and the journalists of NBC News of bias.

    VANCE & TRUMP… Two Hard Zionists for Ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza

    His success is a regurgitation of US freedom against the business-oriented and liberticidal administration of Biden-Harris who, with the imposition of mandatory vaccines and the censorship of every voice of dissent on the pandemic emergency, managed to make people forget even that the Covid gene serums were financed by Trump’s own Warp Speed ​​project and that it was he who imposed masks and lockdowns on the advice of virologist Anthony Fauci.

    Although he had defined him as “a man of the Deep State”, the Deep State of international intrigues today identifiable with the New World Order.

    “White House’s Pressure on Meta to Censor SARS-Cov-2 Lab Leak Theory”. Zuckerberg email disclosed

    But if Trump won he must thank one of the main components of the NWO: the Zionist Lobby to which he has always shown himself devoted and which supported him in the electoral campaign through two of its prominent members such as the billionaire Elon Musk and his Pentagon partner James David Vance.

    Precisely the choice of Vance as the vice-presidential candidate, a conservative exponent of the Grand Old Party (the Republicans), materialized in the aftermath of the July 13, 2024 attack in Butler, Pennsylvania as if it were a clear coded message of assent to the Deep State…

    The Role of Vice President Vance intrigued with the Pentagon

    Precisely the role of Vance, a self-styled Catholic who however defends the right of Israelis to genocide in Palestine, could be the discriminant capable of making the difference between a Trumpian reenactment of MAGA (Make American Great Again) now clouded by the imprisonment of its ideologue Steve Bannon and an exuberant administration but still grateful for the funding of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee).

    SHADY AFFAIRS of TRUMP’s VP alongside PENTAGON-CIA’s Globalists of Ukrainian Bio-Labs. Vance Partner of Biodefense Trust funded by Fauci for Moderna Vaccine

    In this sense, the 47th President of the United States of America risks becoming a gigantic photocopy of the Government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy: an extremist executive on national security policies (such as immigration) and totally complicit in the enormous speculations of the Arms Lobby in wars and of Big Pharma in health strategies in view of new announced pandemics.

    Precisely the two war scenarios that Trump will have to face will be the indicator of his effective “slavery towards the Deep State”, if you will.

    New COVID WAVE “PLANNED”? BioNTech is Expecting Pandemic-Level Vaccine Sales in Autumn…

    The Infamous Legacy of the Conflicts in Ukraine and the Holy Land

    The conflicts in Ukraine and the Holy Land (Palestine, Lebanon and Syria), in fact, are infamous legacies of a long-standing strategy of the New World Order that is no longer even managed by Washington but by Langley, headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Virginia, from where in the distant 1983 the plot to attack Syria and start the subsequent Arab Springs began.

    Intel Reminder. CIA TOP SECRET FILE: US WAR IN SYRIA PLANNED SINCE 1983

    The same must also be said for the conflict in Ukraine.

    It is an evolution of the Civil War in Donbass that began with the 2014 coup that was prepared long after the Kiev Security Forum of 2007 in which the then American president George Walker Bush participated together with many exponents of the Zionist Lobbies who, not by chance, have brought a secular Zionist like Volodymyr Zelensky to the leadership of Ukraine today.

    The Ukrainian president has become a full-fledged hitman for NATO and George Soros (who orchestrated the 2014 regime change), so much so that he was capable of having one of his own delegates killed for the peace negotiations with Russia a few weeks after the start of Moscow’s special military operation to stop the genocide of pro-Russians in the country.

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    In his election campaign, Trump aired his commitment to ending the war between Moscow and Kiev, but some of his close collaborators, such as Mike Pompeo, have instead released his own military plan to continue it, so much so as to induce the Kremlin to not have much hope for a change of direction.

    It should also be remembered that when in 2016 President Trump tried to block 400 million dollars in military aid destined for Kiev, Congress impeached him with the obvious little hands of the American sergeant majors stirring in the torpid.

    Kremlin on Ukraine War: “Russia has no illusions about Trump”. Putin’s Spokesman Reactions to Pompeo’s WSJ Article

    This is why the most obvious risk is that the new US administration will focus on national economic policies and will pay little or no attention to the ongoing conflicts, allowing them to proceed by inertia until the risk of a nuclear conflict that could be favored by the United Kingdom and the European Union, by virtue of the historic international alliance between Rothschild, Rockefeller, Soros and Gates…

    The thorniest issue remains that of the genocide of the Israeli Army of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Palestine, which is also spreading to Lebanon.

    Trump’s Alliance with the Genocide Netanyahu

    Trump in his previous administration showed total acquiescence towards the Zionist leader by legitimizing the military protection of the Golan Heights (taken from Syria by Israel) despite a UN resolution that ordered their immediate release.

    “Israel must leave the Golan”. The UN’s slap against Trump and Bibi-Briberies

    He ordered the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (2020) and ordered the killing with a US Air Force drone of Qasem Soleimani, the general commander of the Iranian Quds Forces of the Guards of the Islamic Republic who helped Syria defeat the terrorists of ISIS.

    In the same attack, on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed, the head of the Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces who for years have accused the caliph Al Baghdadi founder of the Islamic State of having been a CIA and Mossad agent (Israeli counterintelligence).

    AL BAGHDADI: ISIS CALIPH AND MOSSAD-CIA AGENT HIDDEN BY US

    This is why his arrival at the White House will certainly be seen as a harbinger of new tensions in the Middle East by Iran and its allies.

    In this context, not only the role of Vance, who will be the point of reference for an international business committee with the Pentagon, but also that of Elon Musk will have a significant weight.

    Elon Musk’s IT Challenge to Bill Gates

    Billionaire and founder of Space X, Elon Musk “could be the biggest winner of a second Trump term” in the White House.

    This is what ‘Nbc News’ wrote in a portrait of the Tesla CEO in which it is emphasized that Musk “and his business empire could reap enormous rewards” from a return of the former US president to the White House.

    Project Syndicate funded by Soros, Gates and McKinsey to Promote Ukraine War as Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations

    For the IT tycoon of South African origins but naturalized American, there is a big challenge at stake against his rival Bill Gates, a megadonor of the Democrats, who has polarized Microsoft’s artificial intelligence both in the field of NATO military technologies (see the DIANA project in Turin) and in the health sector through his NGOs for global immunization linked to the WHO.

    It is clear that with the help of Trump and his supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who had also attempted to endorse Biden and Harris but was not taken into consideration), Musk could prove to be a crucial antagonist of Gates’ military and health policies, now a point of reference both in Italy and in the EU.

    WUHAN-GATES – 77. Biden’s US GOVT, EU are PAYING Scientists to HIDE SARS-Cov-2 Man-Made BioWeapon

    But it remains to be seen what positions Vance will have, who has millionaire interests, through Battell, a giant of the Pentagon’s contractors, precisely with the bacteriological laboratories controlled all over the world by the CIA.

    Three Conservative Catholics against Transgenderism

    Certainly the collaboration between three conservative Catholics like Trump, Vance and RFK Jr. can represent a new course capable of curbing the abortion drift and transgender policies on minors, denounced as an abomination also by Musk.

    But it will remain to be seen whether their ties with the Zionist Lobby will not prevail over their Christian aspirations.

    Elon Musk demands Life in Prison for Child Sex-Change Defending DeSantis Bans in Florida

    This is why the new Republican president will first have to prove that he is not a puppet of the New World Order, as Italian Prime Minister Meloni has become in the space of a year after her affiliation with Rockefeller’s think tanks.

    In fact, she has chosen to be one of the “Pawns in the Game”, like those described in his book by the Commodore of the Canadian Navy William James Guy Carr in which he traces the birth and war objectives of the NWO.

    FREEMASONRY & ZIONISM – 1. Apocalyptic “Cataclysms” by Synagogue of Satan: Genocides in Palestine & Plotted Pandemic for Lethal Vaccines.

    On the other hand, Trump himself cannot prove too inconvenient to the Deep State, already considered at the origin of his UkraineGate impeachment by a former director of the CIA, in order to avoid ending up like Abraham Lincoln and JFK, killed in mysterious attacks and replaced by their Freemason deputies…

    The fact that he has a vice president so close to the “Deep State” at his side makes these dark plots that have governed the political world for decades practicable at any time due to the increasingly close ties between Freemasonry and Zionism.

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    Fabio is investigative journalist since 1991. Now geopolitics, intelligence, military, SARS-Cov-2 manmade, NWO expert and Director-founder of Gospa News: a Christian Information Journal.

    His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more…

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    Rumsfeld Shady Heritage in Pandemic: GILEAD’s Intrigues with WHO & Wuhan Lab. Bio-Weapons’ Tests with CIA & Pentagon

    Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting.

    For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime.

    With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians.

    In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence.

    In 2020 published the book, in Italian only, WUHAN-GATES – The New World Order Plot on SARS-Cov-2 manmade focused on the cycle of investigations Wuhan-Gates

    His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others

    He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator.

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    VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel

    $280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation
    150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
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    TRUMP VICTORY thanks to ZIONIST MUSK-VANCE AXIS - VT Foreign Policy November 6, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here VERSIONE IN ITALIANO “I am the 47th president, we have made history.” With this announcement Donald Trump jubilantly showed up just before reaching 270 Grand Electors: at the last count he obtained 277. Breaking Update here – Kremlin names Two Reasons Preventing Putin from Congratulating Trump “Game, set and match”. This was instead written by Elon Musk on X, billionaire founder of Tesla and owner of the former social platform Twitter, while the vote counting with Trump continued. Victory of the Zionist Axis against the Biden-Harris Liberticides The victory of the Republican candidate Trump is the triumph of the “teatro-cracy” theorized by Plato: that is, the government of the scenic representation in which the New York tycoon has been able to be a master, even exploiting the failed public debate with his Democratic rival for the White House (Kamala Harris) to his advantage, accusing her and the journalists of NBC News of bias. VANCE & TRUMP… Two Hard Zionists for Ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza His success is a regurgitation of US freedom against the business-oriented and liberticidal administration of Biden-Harris who, with the imposition of mandatory vaccines and the censorship of every voice of dissent on the pandemic emergency, managed to make people forget even that the Covid gene serums were financed by Trump’s own Warp Speed ​​project and that it was he who imposed masks and lockdowns on the advice of virologist Anthony Fauci. Although he had defined him as “a man of the Deep State”, the Deep State of international intrigues today identifiable with the New World Order. “White House’s Pressure on Meta to Censor SARS-Cov-2 Lab Leak Theory”. Zuckerberg email disclosed But if Trump won he must thank one of the main components of the NWO: the Zionist Lobby to which he has always shown himself devoted and which supported him in the electoral campaign through two of its prominent members such as the billionaire Elon Musk and his Pentagon partner James David Vance. Precisely the choice of Vance as the vice-presidential candidate, a conservative exponent of the Grand Old Party (the Republicans), materialized in the aftermath of the July 13, 2024 attack in Butler, Pennsylvania as if it were a clear coded message of assent to the Deep State… The Role of Vice President Vance intrigued with the Pentagon Precisely the role of Vance, a self-styled Catholic who however defends the right of Israelis to genocide in Palestine, could be the discriminant capable of making the difference between a Trumpian reenactment of MAGA (Make American Great Again) now clouded by the imprisonment of its ideologue Steve Bannon and an exuberant administration but still grateful for the funding of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee). SHADY AFFAIRS of TRUMP’s VP alongside PENTAGON-CIA’s Globalists of Ukrainian Bio-Labs. Vance Partner of Biodefense Trust funded by Fauci for Moderna Vaccine In this sense, the 47th President of the United States of America risks becoming a gigantic photocopy of the Government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy: an extremist executive on national security policies (such as immigration) and totally complicit in the enormous speculations of the Arms Lobby in wars and of Big Pharma in health strategies in view of new announced pandemics. Precisely the two war scenarios that Trump will have to face will be the indicator of his effective “slavery towards the Deep State”, if you will. New COVID WAVE “PLANNED”? BioNTech is Expecting Pandemic-Level Vaccine Sales in Autumn… The Infamous Legacy of the Conflicts in Ukraine and the Holy Land The conflicts in Ukraine and the Holy Land (Palestine, Lebanon and Syria), in fact, are infamous legacies of a long-standing strategy of the New World Order that is no longer even managed by Washington but by Langley, headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Virginia, from where in the distant 1983 the plot to attack Syria and start the subsequent Arab Springs began. Intel Reminder. CIA TOP SECRET FILE: US WAR IN SYRIA PLANNED SINCE 1983 The same must also be said for the conflict in Ukraine. It is an evolution of the Civil War in Donbass that began with the 2014 coup that was prepared long after the Kiev Security Forum of 2007 in which the then American president George Walker Bush participated together with many exponents of the Zionist Lobbies who, not by chance, have brought a secular Zionist like Volodymyr Zelensky to the leadership of Ukraine today. The Ukrainian president has become a full-fledged hitman for NATO and George Soros (who orchestrated the 2014 regime change), so much so that he was capable of having one of his own delegates killed for the peace negotiations with Russia a few weeks after the start of Moscow’s special military operation to stop the genocide of pro-Russians in the country. Exclusive! NEW NATO CHIEF: A SOROS’ FRIEND WHO FUNDED KIEV COUP. Ex Dutch PM Rutte Supported LGBTQ against Pedophilia Ban in EU In his election campaign, Trump aired his commitment to ending the war between Moscow and Kiev, but some of his close collaborators, such as Mike Pompeo, have instead released his own military plan to continue it, so much so as to induce the Kremlin to not have much hope for a change of direction. It should also be remembered that when in 2016 President Trump tried to block 400 million dollars in military aid destined for Kiev, Congress impeached him with the obvious little hands of the American sergeant majors stirring in the torpid. Kremlin on Ukraine War: “Russia has no illusions about Trump”. Putin’s Spokesman Reactions to Pompeo’s WSJ Article This is why the most obvious risk is that the new US administration will focus on national economic policies and will pay little or no attention to the ongoing conflicts, allowing them to proceed by inertia until the risk of a nuclear conflict that could be favored by the United Kingdom and the European Union, by virtue of the historic international alliance between Rothschild, Rockefeller, Soros and Gates… The thorniest issue remains that of the genocide of the Israeli Army of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Palestine, which is also spreading to Lebanon. Trump’s Alliance with the Genocide Netanyahu Trump in his previous administration showed total acquiescence towards the Zionist leader by legitimizing the military protection of the Golan Heights (taken from Syria by Israel) despite a UN resolution that ordered their immediate release. “Israel must leave the Golan”. The UN’s slap against Trump and Bibi-Briberies He ordered the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (2020) and ordered the killing with a US Air Force drone of Qasem Soleimani, the general commander of the Iranian Quds Forces of the Guards of the Islamic Republic who helped Syria defeat the terrorists of ISIS. In the same attack, on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed, the head of the Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces who for years have accused the caliph Al Baghdadi founder of the Islamic State of having been a CIA and Mossad agent (Israeli counterintelligence). AL BAGHDADI: ISIS CALIPH AND MOSSAD-CIA AGENT HIDDEN BY US This is why his arrival at the White House will certainly be seen as a harbinger of new tensions in the Middle East by Iran and its allies. In this context, not only the role of Vance, who will be the point of reference for an international business committee with the Pentagon, but also that of Elon Musk will have a significant weight. Elon Musk’s IT Challenge to Bill Gates Billionaire and founder of Space X, Elon Musk “could be the biggest winner of a second Trump term” in the White House. This is what ‘Nbc News’ wrote in a portrait of the Tesla CEO in which it is emphasized that Musk “and his business empire could reap enormous rewards” from a return of the former US president to the White House. Project Syndicate funded by Soros, Gates and McKinsey to Promote Ukraine War as Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations For the IT tycoon of South African origins but naturalized American, there is a big challenge at stake against his rival Bill Gates, a megadonor of the Democrats, who has polarized Microsoft’s artificial intelligence both in the field of NATO military technologies (see the DIANA project in Turin) and in the health sector through his NGOs for global immunization linked to the WHO. It is clear that with the help of Trump and his supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who had also attempted to endorse Biden and Harris but was not taken into consideration), Musk could prove to be a crucial antagonist of Gates’ military and health policies, now a point of reference both in Italy and in the EU. WUHAN-GATES – 77. Biden’s US GOVT, EU are PAYING Scientists to HIDE SARS-Cov-2 Man-Made BioWeapon But it remains to be seen what positions Vance will have, who has millionaire interests, through Battell, a giant of the Pentagon’s contractors, precisely with the bacteriological laboratories controlled all over the world by the CIA. Three Conservative Catholics against Transgenderism Certainly the collaboration between three conservative Catholics like Trump, Vance and RFK Jr. can represent a new course capable of curbing the abortion drift and transgender policies on minors, denounced as an abomination also by Musk. But it will remain to be seen whether their ties with the Zionist Lobby will not prevail over their Christian aspirations. Elon Musk demands Life in Prison for Child Sex-Change Defending DeSantis Bans in Florida This is why the new Republican president will first have to prove that he is not a puppet of the New World Order, as Italian Prime Minister Meloni has become in the space of a year after her affiliation with Rockefeller’s think tanks. In fact, she has chosen to be one of the “Pawns in the Game”, like those described in his book by the Commodore of the Canadian Navy William James Guy Carr in which he traces the birth and war objectives of the NWO. FREEMASONRY & ZIONISM – 1. Apocalyptic “Cataclysms” by Synagogue of Satan: Genocides in Palestine & Plotted Pandemic for Lethal Vaccines. On the other hand, Trump himself cannot prove too inconvenient to the Deep State, already considered at the origin of his UkraineGate impeachment by a former director of the CIA, in order to avoid ending up like Abraham Lincoln and JFK, killed in mysterious attacks and replaced by their Freemason deputies… The fact that he has a vice president so close to the “Deep State” at his side makes these dark plots that have governed the political world for decades practicable at any time due to the increasingly close ties between Freemasonry and Zionism. Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio director of Gospa News investigative journalist since 1991 VT columnist since 2019 © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS reproduction prohibited without authorization follow Fabio G.C. Carisio on Twitter and Gospa News on Telegram MAIN SOURCES GOSPA NEWS – CONSPIRACY – FREEMASONRY – NWO GOSPA NEWS – WAR ZONE GOSPA NEWS – WEAPONS LOBBY FREEMASONRY and ZIONISM – 2. Toward Diabolical Apocalypse. Guardian Forecast Hundreds of Casualties in Israel. Then Thousands in West for Nuke Winds WUHAN-GATES – 62. MANMADE SARS-Cov-2 FOR GOLDEN VACCINES: Metabiota, CIA, Biden, Gates, Rockefeller intrigued in Ukraine, China and Italy WEAPONS LOBBY – 13. “Military Schengen Plan” in EU developed by CEPA’s Lobbyists & US-UK WarLords for Ukraine. Russia warns NATO UKRAINEGATE, CIA-DEEP STATE’S PLOT AGAINST TRUMP with two whistleblowers and Italian ties NATO’s COUP IN UKRAINE: THE GENESIS – 4. Putin: “Plan vs Russia since 2008”. After Kiev Security Forum on Gas & Virus Warfares “Zionist lobby group AIPAC puts US govt. in Chokehold for funding Genocide in Gaza”. Ex Congressional staffer said In Honor of JFK’s Immortal Legacy: A presentation by Rising Tide Foundation President Cynthia Chung IL SIONISTA TRUMP CONTRO L’ATLANTISTA HARRIS. Presidenziali USA: Duello a Colpi di Menzogne di due Servi del NWO e dei Signori delle Guerre Fabio G. C. Carisio Fabio is investigative journalist since 1991. Now geopolitics, intelligence, military, SARS-Cov-2 manmade, NWO expert and Director-founder of Gospa News: a Christian Information Journal. His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more… Most popolar investigation on VT is: Rumsfeld Shady Heritage in Pandemic: GILEAD’s Intrigues with WHO & Wuhan Lab. Bio-Weapons’ Tests with CIA & Pentagon Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting. For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime. With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians. In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence. In 2020 published the book, in Italian only, WUHAN-GATES – The New World Order Plot on SARS-Cov-2 manmade focused on the cycle of investigations Wuhan-Gates His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator. 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  • Virtually the whole world now knows about Israel’s Genocide
    Five-year old Hind Rajab was the victim of a bomb manufactured in Iowa. Months later, the Biden administration is still sending weapons.

    Jonas E. Alexis, Senior EditorOctober 24, 2024
    VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel

    $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
    Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

    The following article is written by The Nation magazine, one of the most well-known media outlets in the United States







    Israel Is Killing Whole Families in Gaza—With Weapons Made in America

    by James Bamford

    With half the world between them, there seems little to connect the bucolic Iowa village of Middletown, nestled along the Mississippi River, with the macabre moonscape of bombed-out apartment buildings on top of rotting corpses in the densely populated Tel al-Hawa (“Hill of the Wind”) neighborhood in the southern part of Gaza City. But the two have long been intimately entwined, especially since the morning of January 29, 2024, though few have come to realize it.

    That morning, after a night of bombings, the Israeli military was planning another deadly assault on Tel al-Hawa, and at 9:32 am it issued an order for the residents to evacuate immediately. Among those who heeded the order were Bashar Hamada and his family, who had evacuated to Tel al-Hawa from their home in another part of the city following an earlier attack. By then, according to the United Nations, 1.7 million people in Gaza—about 75 percent of its 2.2 million residents—had been internally displaced by the deadly assaults, with many displaced multiple times. On that cold and rainy Monday morning, Bashar, 44, and his wife Anam, 43, quickly packed into the family car their four children and their 6-year-old niece, Hind Rajab, who had dreams of becoming a dentist. Hind’s mother, Wissam Hamada, stayed behind and would follow later. “They were firing on anyone moving in the street,” she later told Al Jazeera.
    Almost immediately, Bashar realized he was in trouble, as the Israeli military swarmed the area and began opening fire. Hoping to avoid the bullets, he pulled his black Kia Picanto into the nearby Fares gas station. It was to no avail. Wissam called Bashar to check on them, but it was her 15-year-old niece, Layan, who answered the phone. “Only Hind and I are alive,” she screamed through sobs. “Hind is injured. Hind is bleeding. I’m bleeding.” The family then called the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), asking them to send an ambulance to the gas station. Omar Al-Qam, the PRCS dispatcher, quickly called the car and Layan answered. “They are shooting at us,” she screamed into the phone, according to a recording of the conversation. “They are shooting at us. The tank is next to me.” Seconds later, there were only screams, as the sound of rapid machine gun fire could clearly be heard. Layan was never heard from again. A later analysis determined that the phone captured the sound of 64 gunshots fired from a tank in just six seconds.

    But before an ambulance could be dispatched, approval would first need to be obtained from Israeli authorities, a process that would take an inexcusable three hours. Inside the PRCS emergency center, where a sign reading “Targeting medical missions is a war crime” is affixed to a window, the dispatcher called back to the car. This time, it was Hind who answered the phone. Layan was dead, she told the dispatcher, then screamed, “The tank is next to me.… It’s moving in front of the car.” When asked if it was close, she replied, “Very, very… Come get me, come get me.… I’m so scared, please come!” Eventually, the dispatcher was able to patch Hind’s mother into the call. “I’ve been shot in my upper arm, my back, and my foot,” the 6-year-old told her.

    Satellite imagery taken that day shows numerous Israeli tanks in close proximity to where the car was attacked. And a scientific investigation by Forensic Architecture concluded that the shooter would have had a clear view of the car and its passengers. In other words, they would have been aware of the presence of two children. “The shape of the depression of the windshield,” the report adds, “suggests that it was run over by a light vehicle such as an Israeli military bulldozer made by Caterpillar.”
    Hours later the ambulance was nearby. “I’m coming up to the gas station,” the driver told Hind, “Oh, there it is.” But immediately, there was the sound of an explosion and the phone went dead. The family then called Hind, who said she was alive and had heard an explosion nearby. Her voice, however, was growing weaker and she said her mouth was bleeding. That was last they heard from their daughter.

    Twelve days later, the Israeli military finally withdrew, and the seven decomposing bodies of the family, including Hind, were discovered. The investigation found a total of 335 bullet holes, from a tank-mounted machine gun, in the car. About 50 meters away was the twisted and demolished wreckage of the ambulance, along with the bodies of the two paramedics, also victims of an Israeli tank. The medical personnel in the ambulance had been killed by the tank’s powerful cannon—another in the long list of Israel’s war crimes. Among the debris was a fragment from a 120-mm artillery shell clearly labeled M830A1, along with a serial number. It’s a shell designed to destroy tanks, not ambulances.

    That label and serial number traced back to the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, located in Middletown, population 336. The area’s largest employer, the massive Ammunition Plant is housed on 19,011 acres and operated by the defense contractor American Ordnance, LLC, a subsidiary of Day & Zimmerman.
    The plant is just one of numerous defense contractors across the country feeding Israel with its bombs, bullets, and shells to bring death and destruction to more than 41,000 Palestinians—mostly innocent women and children like Hind and her family—and medical workers like the ambulance paramedics. And they’re met with no pushback from Washington, despite overwhelming evidence of brutal war crimes—violations of the Biden administration’s own arms transfer policy, meant to ensure that American-made weapons are used in accordance with international law, as well as the Leahy Law, which prohibits assistance to foreign military units that commit abuses.

    According to a study on the costs of war released last week by Brown University’s Watson Institute, the United States has spent at least $22.76 billion in taxpayer dollars on military aid to Israel and the region in the year since the war started on October 7, 2023. That includes numerous American-made critical parts for the tank that targeted Hind and her family; powerful American-made bombs like those dropped on her apartment block and on refugee camps, killing thousands in an instant; the American-made anti-tank shells like those that targeted the ambulance carrying the paramedics racing to her rescue; and American-made Caterpillar tractors like the one that crushed Bashar Hamada’s car in a final surreal attempt to obliterate the family inside.
    By last March, according to Responsible Statecraft, the Biden administration had already greenlighted more than 100 separate American weapons deals for Israel, or about one every 36 hours. That meant boom times for “Bombville”—McAlester, Oklahoma, the small town where the mammoth McAlester Army Ammunition Plant is located, and where America’s biggest non-nuclear bombs are built, before being shipped off to Israel. Behind high fencing, the facility occupies a 70-square-mile site—bigger in area than Washington, DC. The idea was to construct buildings far apart from each other so an explosion in one won’t cause a chain reaction.
    Among McAlester’s products is the 2,000-pound MK-84, manufactured by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. Since October 7, 2023, the Pentagon has shipped more than 14,000 of these behemoths to Israel for use in tiny, tightly packed Gaza. Enormously deadly and destructive, the MK-84 is four times heavier than the largest bombs the US let loose in Syria and Iraq in its war against ISIS. Its streamlined steel casing is loaded with 945 pounds of high explosive and can create a crater 50 feet wide and more than three stories deep. It can also penetrate up to 15 inches of metal or 11 feet of concrete, and causes lethal fragmentation to a radius of 400 feet. Nevertheless, Israel decided to drop them on overcrowded refugee camps in Gaza, where half the population is made up of children.
    According to Responsible Statecraft, in the first month of its war on Gaza, Israeli forces dropped more than 500 MK-84s—more than 40 percent of which targeted Israeli-designated densely-packed safe zones. By six weeks into the war, it had dropped 2,000-pound bombs more than 200 times. A UN investigation noted that heavy American-made bombs were also dropped on “residential buildings, a school, refugee camps and a market” on six occasions between October 9 and December 2, 2023, killing at least 218 people. “The number of fatalities could be much higher,” the UN noted. Amnesty International called the attack on the crowded Jabaliya refugee camp with one or two GBU-31s (modified MK-84s), “damning evidence of war crimes.” And an analysis by the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights determined that there was no military objective to justify the strike. But the bombs kept coming.

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    Virtually the whole world now knows about Israel’s Genocide Five-year old Hind Rajab was the victim of a bomb manufactured in Iowa. Months later, the Biden administration is still sending weapons. Jonas E. Alexis, Senior EditorOctober 24, 2024 VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. The following article is written by The Nation magazine, one of the most well-known media outlets in the United States Israel Is Killing Whole Families in Gaza—With Weapons Made in America by James Bamford With half the world between them, there seems little to connect the bucolic Iowa village of Middletown, nestled along the Mississippi River, with the macabre moonscape of bombed-out apartment buildings on top of rotting corpses in the densely populated Tel al-Hawa (“Hill of the Wind”) neighborhood in the southern part of Gaza City. But the two have long been intimately entwined, especially since the morning of January 29, 2024, though few have come to realize it. That morning, after a night of bombings, the Israeli military was planning another deadly assault on Tel al-Hawa, and at 9:32 am it issued an order for the residents to evacuate immediately. Among those who heeded the order were Bashar Hamada and his family, who had evacuated to Tel al-Hawa from their home in another part of the city following an earlier attack. By then, according to the United Nations, 1.7 million people in Gaza—about 75 percent of its 2.2 million residents—had been internally displaced by the deadly assaults, with many displaced multiple times. On that cold and rainy Monday morning, Bashar, 44, and his wife Anam, 43, quickly packed into the family car their four children and their 6-year-old niece, Hind Rajab, who had dreams of becoming a dentist. Hind’s mother, Wissam Hamada, stayed behind and would follow later. “They were firing on anyone moving in the street,” she later told Al Jazeera. Almost immediately, Bashar realized he was in trouble, as the Israeli military swarmed the area and began opening fire. Hoping to avoid the bullets, he pulled his black Kia Picanto into the nearby Fares gas station. It was to no avail. Wissam called Bashar to check on them, but it was her 15-year-old niece, Layan, who answered the phone. “Only Hind and I are alive,” she screamed through sobs. “Hind is injured. Hind is bleeding. I’m bleeding.” The family then called the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), asking them to send an ambulance to the gas station. Omar Al-Qam, the PRCS dispatcher, quickly called the car and Layan answered. “They are shooting at us,” she screamed into the phone, according to a recording of the conversation. “They are shooting at us. The tank is next to me.” Seconds later, there were only screams, as the sound of rapid machine gun fire could clearly be heard. Layan was never heard from again. A later analysis determined that the phone captured the sound of 64 gunshots fired from a tank in just six seconds. But before an ambulance could be dispatched, approval would first need to be obtained from Israeli authorities, a process that would take an inexcusable three hours. Inside the PRCS emergency center, where a sign reading “Targeting medical missions is a war crime” is affixed to a window, the dispatcher called back to the car. This time, it was Hind who answered the phone. Layan was dead, she told the dispatcher, then screamed, “The tank is next to me.… It’s moving in front of the car.” When asked if it was close, she replied, “Very, very… Come get me, come get me.… I’m so scared, please come!” Eventually, the dispatcher was able to patch Hind’s mother into the call. “I’ve been shot in my upper arm, my back, and my foot,” the 6-year-old told her. Satellite imagery taken that day shows numerous Israeli tanks in close proximity to where the car was attacked. And a scientific investigation by Forensic Architecture concluded that the shooter would have had a clear view of the car and its passengers. In other words, they would have been aware of the presence of two children. “The shape of the depression of the windshield,” the report adds, “suggests that it was run over by a light vehicle such as an Israeli military bulldozer made by Caterpillar.” Hours later the ambulance was nearby. “I’m coming up to the gas station,” the driver told Hind, “Oh, there it is.” But immediately, there was the sound of an explosion and the phone went dead. The family then called Hind, who said she was alive and had heard an explosion nearby. Her voice, however, was growing weaker and she said her mouth was bleeding. That was last they heard from their daughter. Twelve days later, the Israeli military finally withdrew, and the seven decomposing bodies of the family, including Hind, were discovered. The investigation found a total of 335 bullet holes, from a tank-mounted machine gun, in the car. About 50 meters away was the twisted and demolished wreckage of the ambulance, along with the bodies of the two paramedics, also victims of an Israeli tank. The medical personnel in the ambulance had been killed by the tank’s powerful cannon—another in the long list of Israel’s war crimes. Among the debris was a fragment from a 120-mm artillery shell clearly labeled M830A1, along with a serial number. It’s a shell designed to destroy tanks, not ambulances. That label and serial number traced back to the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, located in Middletown, population 336. The area’s largest employer, the massive Ammunition Plant is housed on 19,011 acres and operated by the defense contractor American Ordnance, LLC, a subsidiary of Day & Zimmerman. The plant is just one of numerous defense contractors across the country feeding Israel with its bombs, bullets, and shells to bring death and destruction to more than 41,000 Palestinians—mostly innocent women and children like Hind and her family—and medical workers like the ambulance paramedics. And they’re met with no pushback from Washington, despite overwhelming evidence of brutal war crimes—violations of the Biden administration’s own arms transfer policy, meant to ensure that American-made weapons are used in accordance with international law, as well as the Leahy Law, which prohibits assistance to foreign military units that commit abuses. According to a study on the costs of war released last week by Brown University’s Watson Institute, the United States has spent at least $22.76 billion in taxpayer dollars on military aid to Israel and the region in the year since the war started on October 7, 2023. That includes numerous American-made critical parts for the tank that targeted Hind and her family; powerful American-made bombs like those dropped on her apartment block and on refugee camps, killing thousands in an instant; the American-made anti-tank shells like those that targeted the ambulance carrying the paramedics racing to her rescue; and American-made Caterpillar tractors like the one that crushed Bashar Hamada’s car in a final surreal attempt to obliterate the family inside. By last March, according to Responsible Statecraft, the Biden administration had already greenlighted more than 100 separate American weapons deals for Israel, or about one every 36 hours. That meant boom times for “Bombville”—McAlester, Oklahoma, the small town where the mammoth McAlester Army Ammunition Plant is located, and where America’s biggest non-nuclear bombs are built, before being shipped off to Israel. Behind high fencing, the facility occupies a 70-square-mile site—bigger in area than Washington, DC. The idea was to construct buildings far apart from each other so an explosion in one won’t cause a chain reaction. Among McAlester’s products is the 2,000-pound MK-84, manufactured by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. Since October 7, 2023, the Pentagon has shipped more than 14,000 of these behemoths to Israel for use in tiny, tightly packed Gaza. Enormously deadly and destructive, the MK-84 is four times heavier than the largest bombs the US let loose in Syria and Iraq in its war against ISIS. Its streamlined steel casing is loaded with 945 pounds of high explosive and can create a crater 50 feet wide and more than three stories deep. It can also penetrate up to 15 inches of metal or 11 feet of concrete, and causes lethal fragmentation to a radius of 400 feet. Nevertheless, Israel decided to drop them on overcrowded refugee camps in Gaza, where half the population is made up of children. According to Responsible Statecraft, in the first month of its war on Gaza, Israeli forces dropped more than 500 MK-84s—more than 40 percent of which targeted Israeli-designated densely-packed safe zones. By six weeks into the war, it had dropped 2,000-pound bombs more than 200 times. A UN investigation noted that heavy American-made bombs were also dropped on “residential buildings, a school, refugee camps and a market” on six occasions between October 9 and December 2, 2023, killing at least 218 people. “The number of fatalities could be much higher,” the UN noted. Amnesty International called the attack on the crowded Jabaliya refugee camp with one or two GBU-31s (modified MK-84s), “damning evidence of war crimes.” And an analysis by the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights determined that there was no military objective to justify the strike. But the bombs kept coming. ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion. About VT - Policies & Disclosures - Comment Policy Due to the nature of uncensored content posted by VT's fully independent international writers, VT cannot guarantee absolute validity. All content is owned by the author exclusively. 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  • PALESTINIANS GENOCIDE Act 2. Zio-US Supporter of Biden-Harris Plans to Deploy Mercenaries to Gaza for a Netanyahu’s Lager
    Fabio G. C. CarisioOctober 25, 2024
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    $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts
    Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.

    by Yaniv Cogan and Jeremy Scahill – originally published on Drop Site

    All Links to previous Gospa News investigations have been added in the aftermath for the ties withe the topics covered in this post

    VERSIONE IN ITALIANO

    The Israeli government is actively considering a plan to deploy operatives from private U.S. logistics and security companies in the Gaza Strip under the auspices of delivering humanitarian aid, according to Israeli media reports.

    Israel’s security cabinet convened Sunday evening to discuss the proposal and is expected to approve a “pilot” program and begin conducting test runs in the next two months, according to Israeli media reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “agreed to examine” the plan last week, according to Haaretz.

    A “gated community” in Gaza where Palestinians would be subjected to biometric screening

    The media reports portray the plan as the brainchild of Israeli-American businessman Mordechai “Moti” Kahana, the CEO of Global Delivery Company (GDC), who describes his for-profit business as “Uber for War Zones.” Kahana, a passionate supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, has spent the past year aggressively trying to find a role for his company in Israel’s war on Gaza.

    Among Kahana’s goals is to create a “gated community” in Gaza where Palestinians would be subjected to biometric screenings in order to receive humanitarian aid. For months, there has been discussion in Israel of creating “humanitarian bubbles” in northern Gaza where aid could be distributed after Israeli forces declare Hamas fighters have been eliminated from the areas. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has championed the idea. Rumors have been swirling in Israel about how this might be achieved and who might run the operations.

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    “GDC and its subcontractor have had extensive discussions with the Israeli government including the Ministry of Defense, the Israeli Defense Forces, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the modalities for this initiative,” GDC said in a statement on Monday. The company asserted that “well trained private security is the only realistic way” to deliver aid to Gaza “as long as the nations are unwilling to put their troops on the ground in Gaza and UN peacekeepers are seen as ineffective.”

    It added, “Personnel working for our security sub-contractor are trained and equipped for non-lethal and lethal methods of crowd control. They are trained to use deadly force only as a last resort if their lives are in danger. IDF forces on the other hand are combat troops who lack the training, equipment and discipline to avoid deadly force unless absolutely necessary. Using combat soldiers for this mission is almost sure to lead to civilian casualties.”

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    GDC’s pilot proposal with Constellis, partner of Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company

    GDC’s pilot proposal includes a plan to partner with Constellis—a successor and parent company to what was once Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company founded by Erik Prince. Constellis maintains it has no ties to Prince. The company operates in Israel on a Pentagon contract to provide security for U.S. personnel working at a discreet radar facility in the Negev desert 30 miles from Gaza. The site was established to provide early warnings of Iranian ballistic missile attacks. Among Constellis’s subsidiaries is the mercenary company Triple Canopy, which has long worked for the U.S. government and private companies in war and conflict zones across the globe. Constellis did not respond to a request for comment.

    While Kahana has been presented in Israeli media as generating the proposal for a private security force to deliver aid to Gaza, it is unclear if the Israeli government is actually considering his specific offer or exploring alternative private security contractors. A private U.S. security company would need approval from the State Department to offer armed services to a foreign entity or the Israeli government. In its statement Monday, GDC said it planned to follow up with the Israeli government and would “seek to meet with the government of the United States, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations active in Gaza.”

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    The barrage of media reports stating the Israeli government is increasingly occupied with humanitarian aid distribution logistics comes at a time when Israeli policy on the ground demonstrates it remains unwavering in its commitment to wage a war of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. The entire discussion of “day after” plans for Gaza and the rumors and reports about proposals for private security may be a smokescreen. Whether Israel is seriously considering a plan to deploy a private force or not, it has made clear it intends to remain in Gaza indefinitely and has no plans to end its genocidal operations.

    “Uber for War Zones”

    Kahana frequently posts on Twitter (X), expanding on his vision for a “humanitarian” operation in Gaza in which eligibility to receive humanitarian aid is conditioned on passing biometric tests to determine if one is a “terrorist.” “Terrorists will get a bullet,” he vowed in one tweet. In response to questions from Drop Site News, Kahana added that it would be “similar to Miami without [a] golf course and swimming pool.” “It won’t be [a] ghetto,” he wrote, “they can go in and out anytime but it will have the goal of safe and secure communities with local Palestinian leadership and government.” GDC and company would be “just [providing] security.”


    GDC founder Moti Kahana in Jerusalem on February 18, 2016.
    GDC has counted among its employees Stuart Seldowitz, the disgraced Obama administration official who was charged with a hate crime after harassing a halal food cart vendor. Kahana said Seldowitz was his “humanitarian diplomacy senior consultant.” GDC reportedly cut ties with Seldowitz soon after the incident, but Kahana said he is open to Seldowitz working with GDC in Gaza. “He is still a friend,” Kahana told Drop Site. “He helped GDC to save over 5,000 Muslims in Afghanistan, and he is welcome to do the same thing in Gaza with us.” Kahana himself has a record of incendiary statements, describing U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib as Hamas’s “designated ambassador to the U.S.” and the underground tunnel system used by Al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza as the “system of the rat.”

    GDC currently employs several former high-ranking Israeli officers—Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a member of the extremist Think Tank “HaBitchonistim” which has advised Netanyahu since the outset of the genocide, and Lieutenant colonel Doron Avital, as well as former Chief Intelligence Officer David Tzur. GDC’s team also includes recently retired U.S. Green Beret Col. Justin Sapp, a consultant for Constellis and a veteran of covert CIA paramilitary operations in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. Its logistical director is former U.S. Navy officer Michael Durnan.

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    On Monday, Kahana tweeted that GDC would start its Gaza project as soon as it received approval and added, “our team leader who will be running the Gaza [project] conquered [Mazar-i-Sharif] in Afghanistan after September 11.” In a subsequent interview with YNet, Kahana said he was speaking about Sapp, the former Green Beret.

    Kahana has boasted that his company has operated for 14 years in five wars: Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza. “Our slogan is ‘We Deliver,’” he wrote on X in March. GDC, a for-profit business operating since at least 2019, grew out of Kahana’s previous New York-based nonprofit called Amaliah. “My company is like a war-zone Uber/UPS for people and goods,” Kahana said in July 2023. “I can be here on my farm [in New Jersey] directing an operation in the Middle East.”

    GDC and Constellis have worked together in Ukraine

    Constellis is listed as an official partner on GDC’s site and GDC and Constellis have worked together in Ukraine, according to The Jewish Chronicle and confirmed by Kahana to Drop Site News. While GDC moved sunflower oil out and diesel into the country, Constellis provided security services. Constellis is one of the largest private security companies in the world. It claims to have operated in more than 50 countries and has several divisions and subsidiaries. In 2022, its subsidiary Triple Canopy won a 10-year contract to provide security to the U.S. embassy in Iraq worth an estimated $1.3 billion. It also owns Olive Group, a British private security and training firm.

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    In a recent tweet, Kahana shared a screenshot of a presentation dated May 30 describing the proposed pilot, which at the time was slated to begin in July and focus on Beit Hanoun. Constellis is named as a partner. Haaretz reporter Amos Harel, while not naming Constellis, said in a recent podcast interview that the company Israel was considering outsourcing the project to “had apparently worked with the Americans in Iraq.” Kahana has described the security force he would work with as “made up of ex-combatants, veterans of elite units from the USA, England and France. The common denominator of all of them is that they are not Jewish.”

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    Kahana has been trying to get the Israeli government’s attention back in October 2023 he touted a plan to leverage humanitarian aid in order to secure the release of Israeli hostages. At the time, his plan was rejected by the Israeli government as “[sounding] like Hamas propaganda stemming from the pressure they are under.”

    In November 2023, Kahana joked about ethnically cleansing Gaza and moving its population to Jordan, and likened anti-genocide protesters in the US to “the mice in the tunnels of Gaza.” Referring to footage of a Palestinian child who arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital having survived an Israeli attack, covered in dust and blood and trembling uncontrollably, he wrote, “No worries. We are going to liberate him from Hamas.”

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    Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting.

    For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime.

    With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians.

    In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence.

    In 2020 published the book, in Italian only, WUHAN-GATES – The New World Order Plot on SARS-Cov-2 manmade focused on the cycle of investigations Wuhan-Gates

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    PALESTINIANS GENOCIDE Act 2. Zio-US Supporter of Biden-Harris Plans to Deploy Mercenaries to Gaza for a Netanyahu’s Lager Fabio G. C. CarisioOctober 25, 2024 VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. by Yaniv Cogan and Jeremy Scahill – originally published on Drop Site All Links to previous Gospa News investigations have been added in the aftermath for the ties withe the topics covered in this post VERSIONE IN ITALIANO The Israeli government is actively considering a plan to deploy operatives from private U.S. logistics and security companies in the Gaza Strip under the auspices of delivering humanitarian aid, according to Israeli media reports. Israel’s security cabinet convened Sunday evening to discuss the proposal and is expected to approve a “pilot” program and begin conducting test runs in the next two months, according to Israeli media reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “agreed to examine” the plan last week, according to Haaretz. A “gated community” in Gaza where Palestinians would be subjected to biometric screening The media reports portray the plan as the brainchild of Israeli-American businessman Mordechai “Moti” Kahana, the CEO of Global Delivery Company (GDC), who describes his for-profit business as “Uber for War Zones.” Kahana, a passionate supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, has spent the past year aggressively trying to find a role for his company in Israel’s war on Gaza. Among Kahana’s goals is to create a “gated community” in Gaza where Palestinians would be subjected to biometric screenings in order to receive humanitarian aid. For months, there has been discussion in Israel of creating “humanitarian bubbles” in northern Gaza where aid could be distributed after Israeli forces declare Hamas fighters have been eliminated from the areas. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has championed the idea. Rumors have been swirling in Israel about how this might be achieved and who might run the operations. Update – “TOWARDS A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE”. Russia Warning on BIDEN’s US Policies in Ukraine and Middle East. Moscow: “Outrageous Harris” “GDC and its subcontractor have had extensive discussions with the Israeli government including the Ministry of Defense, the Israeli Defense Forces, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the modalities for this initiative,” GDC said in a statement on Monday. The company asserted that “well trained private security is the only realistic way” to deliver aid to Gaza “as long as the nations are unwilling to put their troops on the ground in Gaza and UN peacekeepers are seen as ineffective.” It added, “Personnel working for our security sub-contractor are trained and equipped for non-lethal and lethal methods of crowd control. They are trained to use deadly force only as a last resort if their lives are in danger. IDF forces on the other hand are combat troops who lack the training, equipment and discipline to avoid deadly force unless absolutely necessary. Using combat soldiers for this mission is almost sure to lead to civilian casualties.” An American Neo-Nazi who Fought within Azov Battalion Avowes the Crimes of his Ukrainian ‘colleagues’ GDC’s pilot proposal with Constellis, partner of Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company GDC’s pilot proposal includes a plan to partner with Constellis—a successor and parent company to what was once Blackwater, the infamous mercenary company founded by Erik Prince. Constellis maintains it has no ties to Prince. The company operates in Israel on a Pentagon contract to provide security for U.S. personnel working at a discreet radar facility in the Negev desert 30 miles from Gaza. The site was established to provide early warnings of Iranian ballistic missile attacks. Among Constellis’s subsidiaries is the mercenary company Triple Canopy, which has long worked for the U.S. government and private companies in war and conflict zones across the globe. Constellis did not respond to a request for comment. While Kahana has been presented in Israeli media as generating the proposal for a private security force to deliver aid to Gaza, it is unclear if the Israeli government is actually considering his specific offer or exploring alternative private security contractors. A private U.S. security company would need approval from the State Department to offer armed services to a foreign entity or the Israeli government. In its statement Monday, GDC said it planned to follow up with the Israeli government and would “seek to meet with the government of the United States, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations active in Gaza.” OTHER WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE BY WESTERN FOREIGN FIGHTERS. Moscow will Probe on Mercenary’s Atrocities against Russian POWs The barrage of media reports stating the Israeli government is increasingly occupied with humanitarian aid distribution logistics comes at a time when Israeli policy on the ground demonstrates it remains unwavering in its commitment to wage a war of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. The entire discussion of “day after” plans for Gaza and the rumors and reports about proposals for private security may be a smokescreen. Whether Israel is seriously considering a plan to deploy a private force or not, it has made clear it intends to remain in Gaza indefinitely and has no plans to end its genocidal operations. “Uber for War Zones” Kahana frequently posts on Twitter (X), expanding on his vision for a “humanitarian” operation in Gaza in which eligibility to receive humanitarian aid is conditioned on passing biometric tests to determine if one is a “terrorist.” “Terrorists will get a bullet,” he vowed in one tweet. In response to questions from Drop Site News, Kahana added that it would be “similar to Miami without [a] golf course and swimming pool.” “It won’t be [a] ghetto,” he wrote, “they can go in and out anytime but it will have the goal of safe and secure communities with local Palestinian leadership and government.” GDC and company would be “just [providing] security.” GDC founder Moti Kahana in Jerusalem on February 18, 2016. GDC has counted among its employees Stuart Seldowitz, the disgraced Obama administration official who was charged with a hate crime after harassing a halal food cart vendor. Kahana said Seldowitz was his “humanitarian diplomacy senior consultant.” GDC reportedly cut ties with Seldowitz soon after the incident, but Kahana said he is open to Seldowitz working with GDC in Gaza. “He is still a friend,” Kahana told Drop Site. “He helped GDC to save over 5,000 Muslims in Afghanistan, and he is welcome to do the same thing in Gaza with us.” Kahana himself has a record of incendiary statements, describing U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib as Hamas’s “designated ambassador to the U.S.” and the underground tunnel system used by Al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza as the “system of the rat.” GDC currently employs several former high-ranking Israeli officers—Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a member of the extremist Think Tank “HaBitchonistim” which has advised Netanyahu since the outset of the genocide, and Lieutenant colonel Doron Avital, as well as former Chief Intelligence Officer David Tzur. GDC’s team also includes recently retired U.S. Green Beret Col. Justin Sapp, a consultant for Constellis and a veteran of covert CIA paramilitary operations in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. Its logistical director is former U.S. Navy officer Michael Durnan. ZIO-NAZIS GENOCIDES IN HOLY LAND. Netanyahu starts Christians Massacre in Lebanon after Muslims ones in Gaza On Monday, Kahana tweeted that GDC would start its Gaza project as soon as it received approval and added, “our team leader who will be running the Gaza [project] conquered [Mazar-i-Sharif] in Afghanistan after September 11.” In a subsequent interview with YNet, Kahana said he was speaking about Sapp, the former Green Beret. Kahana has boasted that his company has operated for 14 years in five wars: Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza. “Our slogan is ‘We Deliver,’” he wrote on X in March. GDC, a for-profit business operating since at least 2019, grew out of Kahana’s previous New York-based nonprofit called Amaliah. “My company is like a war-zone Uber/UPS for people and goods,” Kahana said in July 2023. “I can be here on my farm [in New Jersey] directing an operation in the Middle East.” GDC and Constellis have worked together in Ukraine Constellis is listed as an official partner on GDC’s site and GDC and Constellis have worked together in Ukraine, according to The Jewish Chronicle and confirmed by Kahana to Drop Site News. While GDC moved sunflower oil out and diesel into the country, Constellis provided security services. Constellis is one of the largest private security companies in the world. It claims to have operated in more than 50 countries and has several divisions and subsidiaries. In 2022, its subsidiary Triple Canopy won a 10-year contract to provide security to the U.S. embassy in Iraq worth an estimated $1.3 billion. It also owns Olive Group, a British private security and training firm. Final Countdown to Complete 1948’s Nakba. Israeli Govt admits the ZioNazi Genocide’s Goal: Depopulate Gaza Strip In a recent tweet, Kahana shared a screenshot of a presentation dated May 30 describing the proposed pilot, which at the time was slated to begin in July and focus on Beit Hanoun. Constellis is named as a partner. Haaretz reporter Amos Harel, while not naming Constellis, said in a recent podcast interview that the company Israel was considering outsourcing the project to “had apparently worked with the Americans in Iraq.” Kahana has described the security force he would work with as “made up of ex-combatants, veterans of elite units from the USA, England and France. The common denominator of all of them is that they are not Jewish.” Russia. “NATO Troops directly involved in Ukraine Conflict”. Many Foreign Fighters Killed: 1,427 Polish, 466 US, and 344 UK nationals Kahana has been trying to get the Israeli government’s attention back in October 2023 he touted a plan to leverage humanitarian aid in order to secure the release of Israeli hostages. At the time, his plan was rejected by the Israeli government as “[sounding] like Hamas propaganda stemming from the pressure they are under.” In November 2023, Kahana joked about ethnically cleansing Gaza and moving its population to Jordan, and likened anti-genocide protesters in the US to “the mice in the tunnels of Gaza.” Referring to footage of a Palestinian child who arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital having survived an Israeli attack, covered in dust and blood and trembling uncontrollably, he wrote, “No worries. 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Now geopolitics, intelligence, military, SARS-Cov-2 manmade, NWO expert and Director-founder of Gospa News: a Christian Information Journal. His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more… Most popolar investigation on VT is: Rumsfeld Shady Heritage in Pandemic: GILEAD’s Intrigues with WHO & Wuhan Lab. Bio-Weapons’ Tests with CIA & Pentagon Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting. For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime. With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians. In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence. In 2020 published the book, in Italian only, WUHAN-GATES – The New World Order Plot on SARS-Cov-2 manmade focused on the cycle of investigations Wuhan-Gates His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator. 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    by Yaniv Cogan and Jeremy Scahill - originally published on Drop Site All Links to previous Gospa News investigations have been added in the aftermath for the ties withe the topics covered in this post VERSIONE IN ITALIANO The Israeli government is actively considering a plan to deploy operatives from private U.S. logistics and security
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  • Some condemnations by Arab states regarding Israel's attack on Iran:

    - Saudi Arabia warns of the consequences of continued military escalation in the region, without mentioning Israel by name.

    - Oman describes Israeli attack on Iran as "escalation that fuels cycle of violence and undermines calm efforts."

    - The UAE stresses the need to resolve disputes through diplomatic means, away from the language of confrontation and escalation, without mentioning Israel by name.

    - Iraq warns of the dangerous consequences of international community's silence on Israel's attack on Iran.

    - Qatar warns of "serious repercussions" of Israel targeting Iran, calls for intensified efforts to calm tensions and de-escalate tensions.

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    Some condemnations by Arab states regarding Israel's attack on Iran: - Saudi Arabia warns of the consequences of continued military escalation in the region, without mentioning Israel by name. - Oman describes Israeli attack on Iran as "escalation that fuels cycle of violence and undermines calm efforts." - The UAE stresses the need to resolve disputes through diplomatic means, away from the language of confrontation and escalation, without mentioning Israel by name. - Iraq warns of the dangerous consequences of international community's silence on Israel's attack on Iran. - Qatar warns of "serious repercussions" of Israel targeting Iran, calls for intensified efforts to calm tensions and de-escalate tensions. https://t.me/thecradlemedia/23043
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    Some condemnations by Arab states regarding Israel's attack on Iran: - Saudi Arabia warns of the consequences of continued military escalation in the region, without mentioning Israel by name. - Oman describes Israeli attack on Iran as "escalation that fuels cycle of violence and undermines calm efforts." - The UAE stresses the need to resolve disputes through diplomatic means, away from the language of confrontation and escalation, without mentioning Israel by name. - Iraq warns of the dangerous consequences of international community's silence on Israel's attack on Iran. - Qatar warns of "serious repercussions" of Israel targeting Iran, calls for intensified efforts to calm tensions and de-escalate tensions.
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  • Sekali lagi, seni bina Islam menjadi mangsa kecaman mereka yang tak kenal sejarah, tak kenal langsung institiut-insitut yang pernah dibina dalam negara kita demi membangunkan ilmu pengetahuan.

    Seni bina ini sebenarnya mengambil inspirasi seni bina Andalusia-Morocco. Seni bina ini diambil agar kenangan dan inspirasi kegemilangan umat Islam di Sepanyol dulu dapat kita ulangi semula pada zaman moden ini.

    Seni bina ini berkembang pesat semasa pemerintahan Dinasti Umayyad di Sepanyol pada abad ke-8 hingga ke-15, ketika kota-kota seperti Córdoba, Seville, dan Granada menjadi pusat ilmu dan seni. Dekat Sepanyol hari ini, kita ada macam Masjid Cordoba yang menggunakan seni bina ini. Lepas tu kita ada Alhambra di Granada, sebuah istana yang menjadi mercu tanda seni bina islam Andalusia-Morocco yang menggambarkan keindahan seni bina Islam dengan taman air, mozek geometri, dan hiasan arabesque yang melambangkan falsafah ketuhanan.

    Institut ini sepatutnya kita umat Melayu kenal. Ia didirikan oleh Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas. Dirasmikan oleh Tun Mahathir pada 1991. Kenapa Syed Naquib Al-Attas ambil ilham seni bina Islam dari Eropah ni sebab nak kita umat Islam, ambil inspirasi keagungan silam.

    Masa kita kuasai Andalusia dulu, seorang rahib dari Jerman pernah berkata bahawa Cordoba ketika itu adalah “mutiara dunia” kerana kota itu mempunyai 70 buah perpustakaan besar dan 3000 buah masjid. Tiada mana-mana kota Kristian pada waktu itu mempunyai perpustakaan seagung perpustakaan umat Islam di Cordoba. Khalifah Amir Abdul Rahman II membina perpustakaan Islam Cordoba yang dalam perpustakaan ini sahaja, memiliki 400,000 hingga 600,000 buah naskah buku dalam pelbagai bidang, yang merupakan pesaing Baitul Hikmah di Baghdad.

    Ya, perpustakaan, masjid dan istana yang saya sebutkan semua pakai seni bina yang orang Melayu kita panggil sebagai "gereja". Sebab tu selain Baghdad di Iraq bawah Abbasiyyah, Andalusia di Sepanyol menjadi pusat ilmu dunia bawah Umaiyyah. Keagungan ini yang dirindui oleh kita umat Islam. Tapi itulah, kalau masih sebegini respon umat Islam, yang seni bina agung sendiri dah tak kenal, rasanya mampu ke tak keagungan dulu kita ulangi?

    P.S: Untuk yang yang berkeras ini ialah seni bina gereja, sebenarnya Hagia Sophia adalah sejenis gereja yang ditukarkan menjadi masjid ketika zaman Al-Fateh. Jadi, seni bina Gereja ini tak terikat sebenarnya. Kubah masjid yang kita pakai adalah asalnya digunakan awal oleh Gereja Ortodoks Timur, sebelum Uthmaniyyah adapatasi sewaktu berlaku pertembungan tamadun dengan Rom Timur.

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    Sekali lagi, seni bina Islam menjadi mangsa kecaman mereka yang tak kenal sejarah, tak kenal langsung institiut-insitut yang pernah dibina dalam negara kita demi membangunkan ilmu pengetahuan. Seni bina ini sebenarnya mengambil inspirasi seni bina Andalusia-Morocco. Seni bina ini diambil agar kenangan dan inspirasi kegemilangan umat Islam di Sepanyol dulu dapat kita ulangi semula pada zaman moden ini. Seni bina ini berkembang pesat semasa pemerintahan Dinasti Umayyad di Sepanyol pada abad ke-8 hingga ke-15, ketika kota-kota seperti Córdoba, Seville, dan Granada menjadi pusat ilmu dan seni. Dekat Sepanyol hari ini, kita ada macam Masjid Cordoba yang menggunakan seni bina ini. Lepas tu kita ada Alhambra di Granada, sebuah istana yang menjadi mercu tanda seni bina islam Andalusia-Morocco yang menggambarkan keindahan seni bina Islam dengan taman air, mozek geometri, dan hiasan arabesque yang melambangkan falsafah ketuhanan. Institut ini sepatutnya kita umat Melayu kenal. Ia didirikan oleh Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas. Dirasmikan oleh Tun Mahathir pada 1991. Kenapa Syed Naquib Al-Attas ambil ilham seni bina Islam dari Eropah ni sebab nak kita umat Islam, ambil inspirasi keagungan silam. Masa kita kuasai Andalusia dulu, seorang rahib dari Jerman pernah berkata bahawa Cordoba ketika itu adalah “mutiara dunia” kerana kota itu mempunyai 70 buah perpustakaan besar dan 3000 buah masjid. Tiada mana-mana kota Kristian pada waktu itu mempunyai perpustakaan seagung perpustakaan umat Islam di Cordoba. Khalifah Amir Abdul Rahman II membina perpustakaan Islam Cordoba yang dalam perpustakaan ini sahaja, memiliki 400,000 hingga 600,000 buah naskah buku dalam pelbagai bidang, yang merupakan pesaing Baitul Hikmah di Baghdad. Ya, perpustakaan, masjid dan istana yang saya sebutkan semua pakai seni bina yang orang Melayu kita panggil sebagai "gereja". Sebab tu selain Baghdad di Iraq bawah Abbasiyyah, Andalusia di Sepanyol menjadi pusat ilmu dunia bawah Umaiyyah. Keagungan ini yang dirindui oleh kita umat Islam. Tapi itulah, kalau masih sebegini respon umat Islam, yang seni bina agung sendiri dah tak kenal, rasanya mampu ke tak keagungan dulu kita ulangi? P.S: Untuk yang yang berkeras ini ialah seni bina gereja, sebenarnya Hagia Sophia adalah sejenis gereja yang ditukarkan menjadi masjid ketika zaman Al-Fateh. Jadi, seni bina Gereja ini tak terikat sebenarnya. Kubah masjid yang kita pakai adalah asalnya digunakan awal oleh Gereja Ortodoks Timur, sebelum Uthmaniyyah adapatasi sewaktu berlaku pertembungan tamadun dengan Rom Timur. https://www.facebook.com/share/r8B9qU4xoWhs6awh/?mibextid=WC7FNe
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  • Israel has declared war on peacekeeping; Washington joins Israel in war on truth – Day 370
    [email protected] October 12, 2024 famine, hind rajab, humanitarian aid, international solidarity movement, iran sanctions, israel self investigation, Jeremy Loffredo, journalists in gaza, Lebanon, Michael Jacobsen, peacekeepers, UN Human Rights Council, unifil, world health organization
    Israel has declared war on peacekeeping; Washington joins Israel in war on truth – Day 370
    Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Jabalia Refugee Camp flee to other areas with the belongings they could carry, following Israeli attacks on the camp in Gaza City, Gaza on October 1, 2024 (Mahmoud Ä°ssa/Anadolu Agency)
    Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

    At least 56 people have been killed in Gaza in several Israeli strikes, including at least 20 in Jabalia refugee camp.

    Israel blocks World Health Org evacuation of sick children in northern Gaza: Health Ministry

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    The Israeli army blocked a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation from evacuating sick children from hospitals in northern Gaza amid the worsening situation due to ongoing military operations in the area, now in their sixth day, a senior Gaza health official said Friday.

    A health ministry spokesperson said, “The army turned back the WHO delegation tasked with evacuating intensive care patients and children from northern hospitals.”

    He added that Israeli attacks and blocking of fuel trucks are putting the hospitals at risk of halting operations.

    The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also revealed on Friday that all its ambulances in northern Gaza were forced to stop over the lack of fuel due to the Israeli army’s incursion and siege for the sixth consecutive day.

    Dozens of ambulances are destroyed during the Israeli raids on Nasser Hospital as the repairmen try to provide parts from ambulances that are out of use and put them into use again as the Israeli attacks continue in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 9, 2024
    Dozens of ambulances are destroyed during the Israeli raids on Nasser Hospital as the repairmen try to provide parts from ambulances that are out of use and put them into use again as the Israeli attacks continue in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 9, 2024 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency])
    World Food Program warns of famine threat in Gaza as winter approaches

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    The World Food Program (WFP) warned Thursday that the threat of famine persists in Gaza amid tragedy and suffering in the Palestinian enclave.

    There are around 100,000 tons of food waiting to enter Gaza – enough to feed over a million people for five months – but according to WFP, the closure of crossing points, security issues and route disruptions at crossings are limiting aid delivery.

    WFP warned that one million people risk losing vital support if the flow of assistance does not resume.

    “As another winter approaches, every day is a struggle for survival. Hunger remains rampant and the threat of famine persists,” the UN agency said on X.



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    Four Days in Gaza: Five Journalists Killed or Wounded

    The Intercept reports:

    On Wednesday, a group of journalists were covering the siege in northern Gaza, when they were attacked. Witnesses said the journalists were targeted.

    Like other Palestinian journalists who have been killed and injured in Gaza, Fadi al-Hawidi, a cameraman for Al Jazeera Arabic, was wearing a flak jacket with the word “PRESS” clearly visible on it.

    In his last post on Instagram before he was shot, al-Hawidi filmed himself as he reported on civilians being shot at by Israeli forces while attempting to leave the area in compliance with the military’s orders. Unarmed people can be seen running as gunfire rings in the background.

    One of the other journalists described what happened: “Suddenly a quadcopter drone appeared above the broadcast vehicle and the place where we were, and it started firing directly at us.

    “The drone started chasing us and the entire crew, firing directly at us. A bullet hit my colleague Fadi’s neck and he immediately passed out and fell to the ground.”

    According to his colleagues, Fadi is now permanently paralyzed due to his injuries.

    A spokesman for the Israeli military told The Intercept, “The IDF is not aware of the incident referred to. The IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists.”

    (Read the full story here.)

    Below is a short video of one of the first Israeli attacks on journalists in this war: Dylan Collins’ video testimony of the targeted IDF attack on October 13, 2023.



    WATCH: American Journalist Could Face Death Penalty for Reporting in Israel




    UPDATE: According to The Intercept, Jeremy Loffredo was released from prison Friday morning by Israeli authorities after four days in Israeli detention, but was ordered to remain in the country until October 20, allowing investigators more time to bring additional allegations or to further interrogate him.

    Israeli police had held Loffredo, an independent journalist from New York, on suspicion of assisting an enemy in war, a serious allegation that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or death, his attorney said.

    In his reporting, he showed the locations of several Iranian missiles that had landed inside Israel earlier this month. As was the case with other media outlets, some of Loffredo’s footage was shot near sensitive Israeli sites.

    Israeli forces again attack UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, peacekeepers injured

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    Israeli forces on Friday launched another attack on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring several Sri Lankan peacekeepers stationed there.

    An Israeli Merkava tank reportedly targeted one of UNIFIL’s observation towers on a main road, in front of a Lebanese Army checkpoint, injuring the Sri Lankan contingent stationed there.

    Israeli artillery fired a shell that struck the main entrance of the UNIFIL command center, causing damage to the site. This was the second attack on the location in three days.

    According to legal experts, recent Israeli attacks on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) constitute a serious violation of international law.

    AL JAZEERA ADDS: The Israeli military says it is “conducting a thorough review” to determine details of attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon: “The [Israeli military] expresses deep concern over incidents of this kind and is currently conducting a thorough review at the highest levels of command to determine the details,” the army said in a statement.

    NOTE: Israel’s self-investigations consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators. Israeli sources, including the government itself, have a long track record of lying (for example, this and this and this.)

    Headquarters of the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon’s Naqoura
    Headquarters of the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon’s Naqoura (Ali Abdo - Anadolu Agency )
    WATCH: 254 days after Hind Rajab’s murder, Biden admin says Israel can investigate itself

    From Middle East Monitor:

    Zeteo News’ Prem Thakker asked US Secretary of State spokesperson Matthew Miller how Washington can continue to arm Israel when its investigations into misconduct by its soldiers keep being closed without anyone being held to account.

    Miller said it’s not for the US ‘to adjudicate’ over what information Tel Aviv issues is accurate.



    US officials continue to see Israel’s operation across Lebanese border as ‘limited’: Pentagon

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    Israel is conducting a “limited” operation across the Lebanese border to remove the Hezbollah group’s infrastructure, the Pentagon said Thursday.

    “All indications that we have right now are that Israel continues to conduct limited ground operations across the border to remove Hezbollah attack infrastructure,” Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters.

    Israel has been mounting massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23 that have killed more than 1,323 people and injured nearly 3,700.



    US expands sanctions against Iran following attack on Israel


    In the context of Israel’s siege on northern Gaza, shooting civilians and journalists, blocking healthcare for critically ill children, attacking peacekeeping forces, and other actions – the US has chosen to sanction Iran.

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    The US expanded sanctions on Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sectors in response to Iran’s Oct. 1 attack on Israel, the Treasury Department said on Friday.

    “This action intensifies financial pressure on Iran, limiting the regime’s ability to earn critical energy revenues to undermine stability in the region and attack U.S. partners and allies,” the department said in a statement.

    “As long as Iran devotes its energy revenues to funding attacks on our allies, supporting terrorism around the world, and pursuing other destabilizing actions, we will continue to use all the tools at our disposal to hold it accountable.

    “These measures will be reinforced by ongoing close coordination with partners and allies to address and counter Iran’s actions,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

    US military veteran arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

    Middle East Eye reports:

    United States citizen and military veteran, Michael Jacobsen, was arrested Thursday by Israeli forces while accompanying a Palestinian farmer in a village in the West Bank, according to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

    The ISM said the farmer was facing “daily harassment, attacks, and invasions of his private land by Israeli settlers and occupation forces”.

    Israeli police arrested Jacobsen and took him into custody at the interrogation center created by Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. ISM explained that Israel has a policy of silencing international activists, who often raise awareness of the plight of Palestinians.

    Police said Jacobsen was “endangering the public due to provocation of disturbances” and accused him of entering the country illegally because they suspected him of supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement – which is forbidden in Israel.

    Jacobsen was threatened with “imprisonment and deportation if he did not leave the country immediately”, according to the ISM, and he chose to leave for Jordan.

    The moments before Israeli police arrest Michael Jacobsen in Masafer Yatta in occupied West Bank, on 10 October 2024
    The moments before Israeli police arrest Michael Jacobsen in Masafer Yatta in occupied West Bank, on 10 October 2024 (International Solidarity Movement)

    The US won’t run for another term on UN human rights council. Israel is likely why.

    Kenneth Roth writes for the Guardian:

    Something unusual happened this week at the UN: the US government decided not to run for a second term on the human rights council.

    Various rationales are circulating, but one, in my view, looms large: Israel. Or more to the point, Joe Biden’s refusal to suspend or condition the massive US arms sales and military aid to Israel as its military bombs and starves the Palestinian civilians of Gaza.

    The election for the 47-member human rights council in Geneva is conducted by the UN general assembly in New York.

    It is rare that the UN general assembly has the chance to vote on the US government’s conduct. Given widespread outrage at Israeli war crimes in Gaza – and at Biden’s refusal to use the enormous leverage of US arms sales and military aid to stop it – that vote could easily have resulted in an overwhelming repudiation of the Biden administration. Rather than face the possibility of a humiliating reprimand, the US government withdrew its candidacy.

    By virtue of its diplomatic and economic power, the US government can be an important force for human rights. Other than on Israel, its presence on the council has generally helped the defense of human rights.

    But US credibility, already compromised by Washington’s close alliances with the repressive likes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, has been profoundly undermined by Biden’s aiding and abetting of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. With Biden seemingly constitutionally unable to change, the defense of human rights is taking a hit.

    Germany to supply Israel with new arms shipments

    Middle East Monitor reports:

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that Berlin will deliver new shipments of weapons to Israel.

    This is in contrast to French President Emmanuel Macron who has called for a halt to any arms supplies to the occupation state if they are to be used in Gaza.

    Speaking before the Bundestag during discussions marking the first anniversary of 7 October 2023, Scholz said: “We in the government have made decisions that will ensure the delivery of more weapons soon.”

    “We have not decided to cease arms deliveries,” Scholz added, addressing claims from the opposition that the government paused weapons shipments to Tel Aviv for months, causing a “breach in German solidarity” with Israel.

    The German chancellor further stated, “We have delivered weapons and will continue to deliver weapons,” without specifying their type, quantity, or intended purpose.

    Iraqi resistance warns of crippling oil shortages worldwide if Israel begins ‘energy war’

    The Cradle reports:

    A leader of a major faction in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has warned that if Israel begins a war that involves the energy sector, the world will lose 12 million barrels per day, “and this is what we will make sure of.”

    Abu Ali al-Askari, the head of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades Security Bureau, stated: “This is what we will be taking care of, but only God knows what our brethren in Yemen will do in Bab al-Mandab and our brethren in Iran will do in the Strait of Hormuz,” referring to important shipping routes for oil tankers.

    Israeli leaders have threatened to launch a massive attack against Iran, including against nuclear power and oil infrastructure.

    Askari warned further that the resistance’s response “will not be limited to Israel, but will extend to Washington’s bases and interests in Iraq and the region.”

    Some analysts believe that oil prices, currently around $80 per barrel, could reach more than $300 per barrel in the case of a full blockade of the Gulf of Hormuz.

    MORE NEWS:

    Anadolu Agency: Palestinians file criminal complaint over Israel impeding ICC probe into Gaza genocide

    Anadolu Agency: After meeting with pope, Spanish premier urges int’l community to halt arms sales to Israel

    Common Dreams: Gaza Doctor Corrects CNN Anchor: ‘This Is Not a Humanitarian Crisis… This Is Genocide’

    Middle East Eye: How western lies about the ‘Sunni-Shia divide’ have set the region ablaze

    Middle East Monitor: Trump Organization resumes plans to set up luxury hotel in occupied East Jerusalem


    STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 11, 2024:

    Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 11, 2024: at least 42,926* ( 42,175 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.]

    This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 751 in the West Bank (~164 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths.

    Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

    Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.

    At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank).
    At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**.
    About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced.
    Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
    Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 11, 2024: at least 104,536 (including at least 98,336 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]

    Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 11, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.

    The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,169 and 10,212 injuries. An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced.

    NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

    *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so.

    **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals.

    ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents.

    † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics.

    Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here.

    Hover over each bar for exact numbers.
    Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
    Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
    How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7
    The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children
    Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’
    Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care.
    Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some
    You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying?
    How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools.
    From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide
    Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’
    How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza
    Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute
    The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer
    An arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea — it’s the law
    Israel is redrawing the West Bank, cutting into a prospective Palestinian state
    Gaza breakdown: 20 times Israel used US arms in likely war crimes
    U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan.
    ‘Words like Slaughter:’ A comparative study of The New York Times reporting in Ukraine and Gaza
    Cracks in the Dome: Israel’s security mirage
    Israel Suddenly Has A Problem With Attacks On Population Centers
    Americans are always the last to know…about Israel’s crimes
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    Israel has declared war on peacekeeping; Washington joins Israel in war on truth – Day 370 [email protected] October 12, 2024 famine, hind rajab, humanitarian aid, international solidarity movement, iran sanctions, israel self investigation, Jeremy Loffredo, journalists in gaza, Lebanon, Michael Jacobsen, peacekeepers, UN Human Rights Council, unifil, world health organization Israel has declared war on peacekeeping; Washington joins Israel in war on truth – Day 370 Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Jabalia Refugee Camp flee to other areas with the belongings they could carry, following Israeli attacks on the camp in Gaza City, Gaza on October 1, 2024 (Mahmoud Ä°ssa/Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff At least 56 people have been killed in Gaza in several Israeli strikes, including at least 20 in Jabalia refugee camp. Israel blocks World Health Org evacuation of sick children in northern Gaza: Health Ministry Anadolu Agency reports: The Israeli army blocked a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation from evacuating sick children from hospitals in northern Gaza amid the worsening situation due to ongoing military operations in the area, now in their sixth day, a senior Gaza health official said Friday. A health ministry spokesperson said, “The army turned back the WHO delegation tasked with evacuating intensive care patients and children from northern hospitals.” He added that Israeli attacks and blocking of fuel trucks are putting the hospitals at risk of halting operations. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also revealed on Friday that all its ambulances in northern Gaza were forced to stop over the lack of fuel due to the Israeli army’s incursion and siege for the sixth consecutive day. Dozens of ambulances are destroyed during the Israeli raids on Nasser Hospital as the repairmen try to provide parts from ambulances that are out of use and put them into use again as the Israeli attacks continue in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 9, 2024 Dozens of ambulances are destroyed during the Israeli raids on Nasser Hospital as the repairmen try to provide parts from ambulances that are out of use and put them into use again as the Israeli attacks continue in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 9, 2024 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency]) World Food Program warns of famine threat in Gaza as winter approaches Anadolu Agency reports: The World Food Program (WFP) warned Thursday that the threat of famine persists in Gaza amid tragedy and suffering in the Palestinian enclave. There are around 100,000 tons of food waiting to enter Gaza – enough to feed over a million people for five months – but according to WFP, the closure of crossing points, security issues and route disruptions at crossings are limiting aid delivery. WFP warned that one million people risk losing vital support if the flow of assistance does not resume. “As another winter approaches, every day is a struggle for survival. Hunger remains rampant and the threat of famine persists,” the UN agency said on X. (Click to enlarge.) Four Days in Gaza: Five Journalists Killed or Wounded The Intercept reports: On Wednesday, a group of journalists were covering the siege in northern Gaza, when they were attacked. Witnesses said the journalists were targeted. Like other Palestinian journalists who have been killed and injured in Gaza, Fadi al-Hawidi, a cameraman for Al Jazeera Arabic, was wearing a flak jacket with the word “PRESS” clearly visible on it. In his last post on Instagram before he was shot, al-Hawidi filmed himself as he reported on civilians being shot at by Israeli forces while attempting to leave the area in compliance with the military’s orders. Unarmed people can be seen running as gunfire rings in the background. One of the other journalists described what happened: “Suddenly a quadcopter drone appeared above the broadcast vehicle and the place where we were, and it started firing directly at us. “The drone started chasing us and the entire crew, firing directly at us. A bullet hit my colleague Fadi’s neck and he immediately passed out and fell to the ground.” According to his colleagues, Fadi is now permanently paralyzed due to his injuries. A spokesman for the Israeli military told The Intercept, “The IDF is not aware of the incident referred to. The IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists.” (Read the full story here.) Below is a short video of one of the first Israeli attacks on journalists in this war: Dylan Collins’ video testimony of the targeted IDF attack on October 13, 2023. WATCH: American Journalist Could Face Death Penalty for Reporting in Israel UPDATE: According to The Intercept, Jeremy Loffredo was released from prison Friday morning by Israeli authorities after four days in Israeli detention, but was ordered to remain in the country until October 20, allowing investigators more time to bring additional allegations or to further interrogate him. Israeli police had held Loffredo, an independent journalist from New York, on suspicion of assisting an enemy in war, a serious allegation that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or death, his attorney said. In his reporting, he showed the locations of several Iranian missiles that had landed inside Israel earlier this month. As was the case with other media outlets, some of Loffredo’s footage was shot near sensitive Israeli sites. Israeli forces again attack UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, peacekeepers injured Anadolu Agency reports: Israeli forces on Friday launched another attack on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in southern Lebanon, injuring several Sri Lankan peacekeepers stationed there. An Israeli Merkava tank reportedly targeted one of UNIFIL’s observation towers on a main road, in front of a Lebanese Army checkpoint, injuring the Sri Lankan contingent stationed there. Israeli artillery fired a shell that struck the main entrance of the UNIFIL command center, causing damage to the site. This was the second attack on the location in three days. According to legal experts, recent Israeli attacks on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) constitute a serious violation of international law. AL JAZEERA ADDS: The Israeli military says it is “conducting a thorough review” to determine details of attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon: “The [Israeli military] expresses deep concern over incidents of this kind and is currently conducting a thorough review at the highest levels of command to determine the details,” the army said in a statement. NOTE: Israel’s self-investigations consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators. Israeli sources, including the government itself, have a long track record of lying (for example, this and this and this.) Headquarters of the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon’s Naqoura Headquarters of the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon’s Naqoura (Ali Abdo - Anadolu Agency ) WATCH: 254 days after Hind Rajab’s murder, Biden admin says Israel can investigate itself From Middle East Monitor: Zeteo News’ Prem Thakker asked US Secretary of State spokesperson Matthew Miller how Washington can continue to arm Israel when its investigations into misconduct by its soldiers keep being closed without anyone being held to account. Miller said it’s not for the US ‘to adjudicate’ over what information Tel Aviv issues is accurate. US officials continue to see Israel’s operation across Lebanese border as ‘limited’: Pentagon Anadolu Agency reports: Israel is conducting a “limited” operation across the Lebanese border to remove the Hezbollah group’s infrastructure, the Pentagon said Thursday. “All indications that we have right now are that Israel continues to conduct limited ground operations across the border to remove Hezbollah attack infrastructure,” Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. Israel has been mounting massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23 that have killed more than 1,323 people and injured nearly 3,700. US expands sanctions against Iran following attack on Israel In the context of Israel’s siege on northern Gaza, shooting civilians and journalists, blocking healthcare for critically ill children, attacking peacekeeping forces, and other actions – the US has chosen to sanction Iran. Anadolu Agency reports: The US expanded sanctions on Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sectors in response to Iran’s Oct. 1 attack on Israel, the Treasury Department said on Friday. “This action intensifies financial pressure on Iran, limiting the regime’s ability to earn critical energy revenues to undermine stability in the region and attack U.S. partners and allies,” the department said in a statement. “As long as Iran devotes its energy revenues to funding attacks on our allies, supporting terrorism around the world, and pursuing other destabilizing actions, we will continue to use all the tools at our disposal to hold it accountable. “These measures will be reinforced by ongoing close coordination with partners and allies to address and counter Iran’s actions,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. US military veteran arrested by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank Middle East Eye reports: United States citizen and military veteran, Michael Jacobsen, was arrested Thursday by Israeli forces while accompanying a Palestinian farmer in a village in the West Bank, according to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The ISM said the farmer was facing “daily harassment, attacks, and invasions of his private land by Israeli settlers and occupation forces”. Israeli police arrested Jacobsen and took him into custody at the interrogation center created by Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. ISM explained that Israel has a policy of silencing international activists, who often raise awareness of the plight of Palestinians. Police said Jacobsen was “endangering the public due to provocation of disturbances” and accused him of entering the country illegally because they suspected him of supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement – which is forbidden in Israel. Jacobsen was threatened with “imprisonment and deportation if he did not leave the country immediately”, according to the ISM, and he chose to leave for Jordan. The moments before Israeli police arrest Michael Jacobsen in Masafer Yatta in occupied West Bank, on 10 October 2024 The moments before Israeli police arrest Michael Jacobsen in Masafer Yatta in occupied West Bank, on 10 October 2024 (International Solidarity Movement) The US won’t run for another term on UN human rights council. Israel is likely why. Kenneth Roth writes for the Guardian: Something unusual happened this week at the UN: the US government decided not to run for a second term on the human rights council. Various rationales are circulating, but one, in my view, looms large: Israel. Or more to the point, Joe Biden’s refusal to suspend or condition the massive US arms sales and military aid to Israel as its military bombs and starves the Palestinian civilians of Gaza. The election for the 47-member human rights council in Geneva is conducted by the UN general assembly in New York. It is rare that the UN general assembly has the chance to vote on the US government’s conduct. Given widespread outrage at Israeli war crimes in Gaza – and at Biden’s refusal to use the enormous leverage of US arms sales and military aid to stop it – that vote could easily have resulted in an overwhelming repudiation of the Biden administration. Rather than face the possibility of a humiliating reprimand, the US government withdrew its candidacy. By virtue of its diplomatic and economic power, the US government can be an important force for human rights. Other than on Israel, its presence on the council has generally helped the defense of human rights. But US credibility, already compromised by Washington’s close alliances with the repressive likes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, has been profoundly undermined by Biden’s aiding and abetting of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. With Biden seemingly constitutionally unable to change, the defense of human rights is taking a hit. Germany to supply Israel with new arms shipments Middle East Monitor reports: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that Berlin will deliver new shipments of weapons to Israel. This is in contrast to French President Emmanuel Macron who has called for a halt to any arms supplies to the occupation state if they are to be used in Gaza. Speaking before the Bundestag during discussions marking the first anniversary of 7 October 2023, Scholz said: “We in the government have made decisions that will ensure the delivery of more weapons soon.” “We have not decided to cease arms deliveries,” Scholz added, addressing claims from the opposition that the government paused weapons shipments to Tel Aviv for months, causing a “breach in German solidarity” with Israel. The German chancellor further stated, “We have delivered weapons and will continue to deliver weapons,” without specifying their type, quantity, or intended purpose. Iraqi resistance warns of crippling oil shortages worldwide if Israel begins ‘energy war’ The Cradle reports: A leader of a major faction in the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has warned that if Israel begins a war that involves the energy sector, the world will lose 12 million barrels per day, “and this is what we will make sure of.” Abu Ali al-Askari, the head of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades Security Bureau, stated: “This is what we will be taking care of, but only God knows what our brethren in Yemen will do in Bab al-Mandab and our brethren in Iran will do in the Strait of Hormuz,” referring to important shipping routes for oil tankers. Israeli leaders have threatened to launch a massive attack against Iran, including against nuclear power and oil infrastructure. Askari warned further that the resistance’s response “will not be limited to Israel, but will extend to Washington’s bases and interests in Iraq and the region.” Some analysts believe that oil prices, currently around $80 per barrel, could reach more than $300 per barrel in the case of a full blockade of the Gulf of Hormuz. MORE NEWS: Anadolu Agency: Palestinians file criminal complaint over Israel impeding ICC probe into Gaza genocide Anadolu Agency: After meeting with pope, Spanish premier urges int’l community to halt arms sales to Israel Common Dreams: Gaza Doctor Corrects CNN Anchor: ‘This Is Not a Humanitarian Crisis… This Is Genocide’ Middle East Eye: How western lies about the ‘Sunni-Shia divide’ have set the region ablaze Middle East Monitor: Trump Organization resumes plans to set up luxury hotel in occupied East Jerusalem STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 11, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 11, 2024: at least 42,926* ( 42,175 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 751 in the West Bank (~164 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 11, 2024: at least 104,536 (including at least 98,336 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 11, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,169 and 10,212 injuries. An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer An arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea — it’s the law Israel is redrawing the West Bank, cutting into a prospective Palestinian state Gaza breakdown: 20 times Israel used US arms in likely war crimes U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. 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    I want a Jewish state that includes Jordan, Lebanon, and parts of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. According to our greatest sages, Jerusalem is destined to extend all the way to Damascus.

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  • Northern Gaza has become a killing field – Day 367
    [email protected] October 9, 2024 ecocide, ethnic cleansing, Hezbollah, hind rajab, human shield, Iran, Lebanon, military aid to israel, northern Gaza
    In the first four months of the attacks, Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on the region, including phosphorus bombs, which are prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the government in Gaza announced. (Anadolu Agency)
    Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

    Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed at least 56 Palestinians and wounded another 278 in the previous 24-hour period as Israel continues to launch strikes across the Strip.

    The Lebanese Health Ministry said in a statement that during the past 24 hours 36 people were killed and 150 others injured.

    In Syria, at least seven people, including women and children, have been killed by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Damascus.

    Israel has dropped more than 85,000 tonnes (94,000 tons) of explosives on Gaza; about 17 percent of these ordnances remain unexploded,” according to Gaza’s civil defense.

    Bodies of Palestinians are brought to al-Awda Hospital after an Israeli attack on northern Gaza City.
    Bodies of Palestinians are brought to al-Awda Hospital after an Israeli attack on northern Gaza City. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu)
    ‘Humanitarian situation in northern Gaza becoming more dangerous’

    Al Jazeera reports:

    The Palestinian Civil Defense said the humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is becoming more dangerous following a large-scale Israeli military attack on Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia that has been ongoing for four days.

    “Israeli forces have imposed a tight siege on these areas and are preventing the entry of water, food and medical supplies. The occupation has committed massacres against civilians, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. People’s bodies are strewn in the streets and it is difficult to reach them because soldiers are targeting ambulance and civil defense crews,” it said in a statement.

    The Palestinian Civil Defense added that the Israeli military is forcing the more than 200,000 citizens in these areas to evacuate their homes and medical staff and patients to leave hospitals in the northern Gaza.

    Palestinians in the north say the Israeli forces are wiping everything out: agricultural land, houses, water plants. Any source of life is being wiped from the Israeli forces.

    A Palestinian child at Ibn Rushd school in Al-Zawaida following an Israeli airstrike, Gaza, 6 October 2024.
    A Palestinian child at Ibn Rushd school in Al-Zawaida following an Israeli airstrike, Gaza, 6 October 2024. (Anadolu/Getty Images)
    Israel orders 3 hospitals to be evacuated in northern Gaza: Health Ministry

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of patients and staff at three hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Health Ministry said Tuesday.

    Israel “demands the evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Al-Awda Hospital from patients and health personnel,” it said in a statement.

    Israeli troops arrested “a paramedic who accompanied a critical care patient during their transfer from Kamal Adwan Hospital despite prior coordination,” according to the statement, that noted the army is besieging the Kamal Adwan Hospital and firing at its administrative headquarters.

    The army threatened the hospitals with “destruction, killing, and arrest” if they did not evacuate.

    According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israeli forces threatened Kamal Adwan Hospital staff and opened fire at the administration office.

    The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital stated,

    It is evident that there is a new plan to displace our people in northern Gaza by dismantling the healthcare system across all its sectors in this region. We urge the world to intervene to stop this terrifying decision, which does not serve the people of northern Gaza.

    We have informed everyone that the northern region is densely populated with a significant number of residents. We have the right to continue providing services to these people.

    We will remain steadfast, we will stay and we will continue to offer medical services no matter the cost.

    On Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF has was providing “expanded” services in northern Gaza, including field hospitals, tent compounds, and supplies of food, water, and medicine.

    Local Palestinians in Jabaliya report that there is nowhere to receive healthcare, nowhere to live, as buildings have been turned to rubble, As has been reported for 12 months, Israel has destroyed hospitals, schools and residential areas.

    Tuesday’s evacuation orders are a continuation of this policy. The Jerusalem Post report appears to be fictional.

    NOTE: Israel’s attacks are wreaking havoc on healthcare in Lebanon too.

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    Al-Shifa Medical Complex is currently out of service due to the Israeli army bombing and setting fire to every one of its buildings, including the mortuary and all internal and external courtyards and corridors.
    Al-Shifa Medical Complex is currently out of service due to the Israeli army bombing and setting fire to every one of its buildings, including the mortuary and all internal and external courtyards and corridors. (photo)
    Gaza faces one of largest cases of ecocide in recent history, including contamination from “depleted uranium bombs”

    Various agencies report:

    Israel’s attacks in Gaza, in addition to causing massive loss of life and shelter, have brought about ecocide – “the destruction and devastation of the environment at any cost.”

    Ecocide is recognized as a crime under the category of war crimes in the Rome Statute.

    In the first four months of the attacks, Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on the region.

    Various analyses have concluded that bombings, damage caused by heavy vehicles, airstrikes, and other elements of conflict have severely impacted agricultural areas.

    Approximately 75% of the agricultural land in northern Gaza has suffered damage.

    According to the Environmental Quality Authority affiliated with the Palestinian Authority, Israeli attacks are putting Gaza’s biodiversity at risk, including between 150 and 200 bird species, around 20 mammal species, and 20 rare and endangered reptile species.

    Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh, head of the Biodiversity and Sustainability Center at Bethlehem University, told Anadolu that some of the environmental damage in the region is now irreversible.

    He noted that the water aquifers in the region have suffered significant damage and may not recover; if they do, it could take decades.

    The president of the Lebanese Association of Social Medicine, Raif Reda, said Israel has been using banned bombs with uranium warheads in south Beirut. and called for an international investigation.

    Warheads made with depleted uranium casings are designed to penetrate deep fortifications, causing significant destruction and releasing toxic gases. They are also radioactive and have been linked to massive increases in cancer rates in Iraq following the US wars on that country in 1991 and 2003.

    Israeli air forces may have used depleted uranium bombs on at least four residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs on September 27 to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

    The Israeli air force has already been known to use these bombs in Gaza. A UN Human Rights report documented airstrikes by the Israeli air force carried out on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps, and a market between October 9 and December 2, 2023.

    Depleted uranium munitions pose a risk to civilians years after a site is bombed because they release radioactive particles upon impact and contaminate the soil and surrounding environment.

    Radioactive dust emitted by depleted uranium munitions has been linked to rises in cancer and congenital defects in babies following the US bombing of Iraq.

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    Residents check the damaged in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024.
    Residents check the damaged in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. (Anwar Amro | Afp | Getty Images)
    ‘Undeniable’ – Probe Confirms Israeli Army Presence when Hind Rajab was Killed in Gaza

    Sky News reports:

    Even though the Israeli military denies being in the area on the day that six-year-old Hind Rajab and six members of her family were killed in Gaza, a Sky News investigation has found that the army’s presence in the area was “undeniable.” Two paramedics who were trying to rescue her were also killed.

    The channel analyzed satellite imagery, Israeli military press materials, and interviewed weapons and forensics experts.

    (Read the full analysis here.)

    RECOMMENDED READING: You need to meet this little girl named Hind

    FOR HIND’S STORY, ALSO WATCH: The Night Won’t End: Biden’t War on Gaza

    Hezbollah says Israel using UN troops as ‘human shields’ in south Lebanon, as Israel expands ground operation

    Various agencies report:

    Hezbollah has ordered its fighters not to attack Israeli forces who established a forward operating base behind UN peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL) near a Lebanese border village: “the Israeli enemy is attempting to use UNIFIL forces as human shields,” a statement issued by the Islamic resistance movement on 7 October said.

    “The operations room of the Islamic Resistance instructed the fighters to hold back and not engage with the movement to protect the lives of international soldiers,” the statement added, just a day after UNIFIL warned Israel’s operations near their position at Maroun al-Ras were an “extremely dangerous development.”

    “It is unacceptable to compromise the safety of UN peacekeepers carrying out their Security Council-mandated tasks,” UNIFIL stated while reminding all actors in the conflict of their obligations to protect UN personnel and property.

    NOTE: Israel has blatantly used Palestinians as human shields on many occasions (see this, this, this, this, this for example.)

    RECOMMENDED READING: Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’

    Israel has said it is expanding its ground operation in Lebanon with the deployment of a fourth division after another night of intense airstrikes across the south and east of the country.

    Launching what it has called Operation Northern Arrows last week, the Israeli army said the ground offensive would involve “limited, localized and targeted raids” to remove Hezbollah infrastructure along the disputed de facto border between the two countries, known as the blue line.

    The rapid deployment of four divisions operating across south Lebanon, alongside evacuation orders for Lebanese villages upwards of 20 miles from the blue line and the intensive bombing of the country’s south, east and the capital, suggests however that Israel is preparing for a wider offensive against the Lebanese militia.

    Since 1978 a series of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, including a years-long occupation, have failed to bring security and calm to northern Israel.

    RECOMMENDED READING: How does Israel’s Lebanon invasion compare with its previous operations?

    Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday were the heaviest yet
    Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday, Oct 6 were the heaviest yet (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty)
    Support for Israel Has Cost US Taxpayers At Least $22.76 Billion in One Year

    Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University reports:

    U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting. This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for regional operations, and an estimated additional cost of operations, it does not include any other economic costs.

    This figure includes the $17.9 billion the U.S. government has approved in security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since October 7 – substantially more than in any other year since the U.S. began granting military aid to Israel in 1959. Yet the report describes how this is only a partial amount of the U.S. financial support provided during this war.

    Related U.S. military operations in the broader region since October 7 are part of the fuller picture. In particular, the U.S. Navy has significantly scaled up its defensive and offensive operations against Houthi militants in Yemen, which the Houthis claim is related to Israel’s war in Gaza. Hostilities have escalated to become the most sustained military campaign by U.S. forces since the 2016-2019 air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. U.S. operations in the region, including in Yemen, have already cost the U.S. government $4.86 billion (included in the overall figure, above, of $22.76 billion).

    (Access the full report here.)

    NOTE: US voters strongly favor ceasefire and de-escalation. This military spending goes against the will and priorities of Americans.

    Nearly all the publicly available information on U.S. arms transfers to Israel comes from leaks reported by the media. The Biden administration says very little about the weapons it delivers to Israel or how the Israeli military uses them.
    Nearly all the publicly available information on U.S. arms transfers to Israel comes from leaks reported by the media. The Biden administration says very little about the weapons it delivers to Israel or how the Israeli military uses them. (photo)
    Report: US Considers Launching Airstrikes Against Iran To Support Israeli Attack

    NBC News reports:

    American military officials have discussed possibly supporting Israeli retaliation with intelligence or airstrikes of their own, according to two U.S. officials.

    The U.S. has long supported Israel with intelligence and that support could continue during Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran, the two officials said.

    NOTE: Characterizing Israel’s strikes against Iran as “retaliatory” de-contextualizes the conflict, which began when Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, then killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran on July 31; Israel also assassinated Hezbollah leader Nasrallah on September 27th.

    Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi correctly declared that Iran’s missile attack was an act of “self-defense” that only targeted military and security sites used for attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. He pointed out that Iran’s measured attack came “after exercising tremendous restraint for almost two months [after the attack inside Iran], to give space for a ceasefire in Gaza.”

    The foreign minister added that Iran’s action was “concluded” unless Israel “decides to invite further retaliation” – words that indicate that Western leaders who want an end to the conflict ought to counsel Israel to let the matter drop.

    NBC continues: Senior U.S. military officials have also discussed conducting very limited strikes against Iranian targets, the two officials said. Strikes inside Iran have been discussed, as have strikes on targets outside Iran, though strikes of any kind are less likely than intelligence sharing, the officials said.

    The U.S. could target Iranian assets at sea, the officials said, or try to disrupt Iran’s military assistance to proxies in the region by hitting Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps sites that support militia groups in Yemen or Syria.

    A U.S. strike on an Iranian target could be considered defensive if it eliminates a possible threat to the U.S. or allies, like previous American strikes on Iran-linked targets inside Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.

    NOTE: Iran has already declared that Israel’s allies ought to “part ways with the [Israeli] regime,” suggesting that an attack on Iran by the US would not go unanswered – that is, while some players might consider a US strike on Iran to be “defensive,” Iran would not.

    ALSO NOTE: The US has offered Israel a “compensation package” if it avoids hitting certain targets in its planned attack on Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, citing the Israeli TV channel Kan 11.

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    STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 8, 2024:

    Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 8, 2024: at least 42,753* ( 42,010 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.]

    This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 743 in the West Bank (~160 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths.

    Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

    Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.

    At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank).
    At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**.
    About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced.
    Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
    Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 8, 2024: at least 103,920 (including at least 97,720 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]

    Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 8, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.

    The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,119 and 10,019 injuries. An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced.

    NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

    *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so.

    **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals.

    ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents.

    † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics.

    Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here.

    Hover over each bar for exact numbers.
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    Northern Gaza has become a killing field – Day 367 [email protected] October 9, 2024 ecocide, ethnic cleansing, Hezbollah, hind rajab, human shield, Iran, Lebanon, military aid to israel, northern Gaza In the first four months of the attacks, Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on the region, including phosphorus bombs, which are prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the government in Gaza announced. (Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed at least 56 Palestinians and wounded another 278 in the previous 24-hour period as Israel continues to launch strikes across the Strip. The Lebanese Health Ministry said in a statement that during the past 24 hours 36 people were killed and 150 others injured. In Syria, at least seven people, including women and children, have been killed by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Damascus. Israel has dropped more than 85,000 tonnes (94,000 tons) of explosives on Gaza; about 17 percent of these ordnances remain unexploded,” according to Gaza’s civil defense. Bodies of Palestinians are brought to al-Awda Hospital after an Israeli attack on northern Gaza City. Bodies of Palestinians are brought to al-Awda Hospital after an Israeli attack on northern Gaza City. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu) ‘Humanitarian situation in northern Gaza becoming more dangerous’ Al Jazeera reports: The Palestinian Civil Defense said the humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is becoming more dangerous following a large-scale Israeli military attack on Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia that has been ongoing for four days. “Israeli forces have imposed a tight siege on these areas and are preventing the entry of water, food and medical supplies. The occupation has committed massacres against civilians, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. People’s bodies are strewn in the streets and it is difficult to reach them because soldiers are targeting ambulance and civil defense crews,” it said in a statement. The Palestinian Civil Defense added that the Israeli military is forcing the more than 200,000 citizens in these areas to evacuate their homes and medical staff and patients to leave hospitals in the northern Gaza. Palestinians in the north say the Israeli forces are wiping everything out: agricultural land, houses, water plants. Any source of life is being wiped from the Israeli forces. A Palestinian child at Ibn Rushd school in Al-Zawaida following an Israeli airstrike, Gaza, 6 October 2024. A Palestinian child at Ibn Rushd school in Al-Zawaida following an Israeli airstrike, Gaza, 6 October 2024. (Anadolu/Getty Images) Israel orders 3 hospitals to be evacuated in northern Gaza: Health Ministry Anadolu Agency reports: The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of patients and staff at three hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israel “demands the evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Al-Awda Hospital from patients and health personnel,” it said in a statement. Israeli troops arrested “a paramedic who accompanied a critical care patient during their transfer from Kamal Adwan Hospital despite prior coordination,” according to the statement, that noted the army is besieging the Kamal Adwan Hospital and firing at its administrative headquarters. The army threatened the hospitals with “destruction, killing, and arrest” if they did not evacuate. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israeli forces threatened Kamal Adwan Hospital staff and opened fire at the administration office. The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital stated, It is evident that there is a new plan to displace our people in northern Gaza by dismantling the healthcare system across all its sectors in this region. We urge the world to intervene to stop this terrifying decision, which does not serve the people of northern Gaza. We have informed everyone that the northern region is densely populated with a significant number of residents. We have the right to continue providing services to these people. We will remain steadfast, we will stay and we will continue to offer medical services no matter the cost. On Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF has was providing “expanded” services in northern Gaza, including field hospitals, tent compounds, and supplies of food, water, and medicine. Local Palestinians in Jabaliya report that there is nowhere to receive healthcare, nowhere to live, as buildings have been turned to rubble, As has been reported for 12 months, Israel has destroyed hospitals, schools and residential areas. Tuesday’s evacuation orders are a continuation of this policy. The Jerusalem Post report appears to be fictional. NOTE: Israel’s attacks are wreaking havoc on healthcare in Lebanon too. RECOMMENDED: Israel’s war on Gaza:Before and after satellite images reveal the extent of ruin to civilian infrastructure after a year of war Al-Shifa Medical Complex is currently out of service due to the Israeli army bombing and setting fire to every one of its buildings, including the mortuary and all internal and external courtyards and corridors. Al-Shifa Medical Complex is currently out of service due to the Israeli army bombing and setting fire to every one of its buildings, including the mortuary and all internal and external courtyards and corridors. (photo) Gaza faces one of largest cases of ecocide in recent history, including contamination from “depleted uranium bombs” Various agencies report: Israel’s attacks in Gaza, in addition to causing massive loss of life and shelter, have brought about ecocide – “the destruction and devastation of the environment at any cost.” Ecocide is recognized as a crime under the category of war crimes in the Rome Statute. In the first four months of the attacks, Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on the region. Various analyses have concluded that bombings, damage caused by heavy vehicles, airstrikes, and other elements of conflict have severely impacted agricultural areas. Approximately 75% of the agricultural land in northern Gaza has suffered damage. According to the Environmental Quality Authority affiliated with the Palestinian Authority, Israeli attacks are putting Gaza’s biodiversity at risk, including between 150 and 200 bird species, around 20 mammal species, and 20 rare and endangered reptile species. Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh, head of the Biodiversity and Sustainability Center at Bethlehem University, told Anadolu that some of the environmental damage in the region is now irreversible. He noted that the water aquifers in the region have suffered significant damage and may not recover; if they do, it could take decades. The president of the Lebanese Association of Social Medicine, Raif Reda, said Israel has been using banned bombs with uranium warheads in south Beirut. and called for an international investigation. Warheads made with depleted uranium casings are designed to penetrate deep fortifications, causing significant destruction and releasing toxic gases. They are also radioactive and have been linked to massive increases in cancer rates in Iraq following the US wars on that country in 1991 and 2003. Israeli air forces may have used depleted uranium bombs on at least four residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs on September 27 to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli air force has already been known to use these bombs in Gaza. A UN Human Rights report documented airstrikes by the Israeli air force carried out on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps, and a market between October 9 and December 2, 2023. Depleted uranium munitions pose a risk to civilians years after a site is bombed because they release radioactive particles upon impact and contaminate the soil and surrounding environment. Radioactive dust emitted by depleted uranium munitions has been linked to rises in cancer and congenital defects in babies following the US bombing of Iraq. RELATED READING: ‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill for decades Residents check the damaged in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. Residents check the damaged in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. (Anwar Amro | Afp | Getty Images) ‘Undeniable’ – Probe Confirms Israeli Army Presence when Hind Rajab was Killed in Gaza Sky News reports: Even though the Israeli military denies being in the area on the day that six-year-old Hind Rajab and six members of her family were killed in Gaza, a Sky News investigation has found that the army’s presence in the area was “undeniable.” Two paramedics who were trying to rescue her were also killed. The channel analyzed satellite imagery, Israeli military press materials, and interviewed weapons and forensics experts. (Read the full analysis here.) RECOMMENDED READING: You need to meet this little girl named Hind FOR HIND’S STORY, ALSO WATCH: The Night Won’t End: Biden’t War on Gaza Hezbollah says Israel using UN troops as ‘human shields’ in south Lebanon, as Israel expands ground operation Various agencies report: Hezbollah has ordered its fighters not to attack Israeli forces who established a forward operating base behind UN peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL) near a Lebanese border village: “the Israeli enemy is attempting to use UNIFIL forces as human shields,” a statement issued by the Islamic resistance movement on 7 October said. “The operations room of the Islamic Resistance instructed the fighters to hold back and not engage with the movement to protect the lives of international soldiers,” the statement added, just a day after UNIFIL warned Israel’s operations near their position at Maroun al-Ras were an “extremely dangerous development.” “It is unacceptable to compromise the safety of UN peacekeepers carrying out their Security Council-mandated tasks,” UNIFIL stated while reminding all actors in the conflict of their obligations to protect UN personnel and property. NOTE: Israel has blatantly used Palestinians as human shields on many occasions (see this, this, this, this, this for example.) RECOMMENDED READING: Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Israel has said it is expanding its ground operation in Lebanon with the deployment of a fourth division after another night of intense airstrikes across the south and east of the country. Launching what it has called Operation Northern Arrows last week, the Israeli army said the ground offensive would involve “limited, localized and targeted raids” to remove Hezbollah infrastructure along the disputed de facto border between the two countries, known as the blue line. The rapid deployment of four divisions operating across south Lebanon, alongside evacuation orders for Lebanese villages upwards of 20 miles from the blue line and the intensive bombing of the country’s south, east and the capital, suggests however that Israel is preparing for a wider offensive against the Lebanese militia. Since 1978 a series of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, including a years-long occupation, have failed to bring security and calm to northern Israel. RECOMMENDED READING: How does Israel’s Lebanon invasion compare with its previous operations? Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday were the heaviest yet Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday, Oct 6 were the heaviest yet (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty) Support for Israel Has Cost US Taxpayers At Least $22.76 Billion in One Year Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University reports: U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting. This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for regional operations, and an estimated additional cost of operations, it does not include any other economic costs. This figure includes the $17.9 billion the U.S. government has approved in security assistance for Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere since October 7 – substantially more than in any other year since the U.S. began granting military aid to Israel in 1959. Yet the report describes how this is only a partial amount of the U.S. financial support provided during this war. Related U.S. military operations in the broader region since October 7 are part of the fuller picture. In particular, the U.S. Navy has significantly scaled up its defensive and offensive operations against Houthi militants in Yemen, which the Houthis claim is related to Israel’s war in Gaza. Hostilities have escalated to become the most sustained military campaign by U.S. forces since the 2016-2019 air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. U.S. operations in the region, including in Yemen, have already cost the U.S. government $4.86 billion (included in the overall figure, above, of $22.76 billion). (Access the full report here.) NOTE: US voters strongly favor ceasefire and de-escalation. This military spending goes against the will and priorities of Americans. 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NOTE: Characterizing Israel’s strikes against Iran as “retaliatory” de-contextualizes the conflict, which began when Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, then killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran on July 31; Israel also assassinated Hezbollah leader Nasrallah on September 27th. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi correctly declared that Iran’s missile attack was an act of “self-defense” that only targeted military and security sites used for attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. He pointed out that Iran’s measured attack came “after exercising tremendous restraint for almost two months [after the attack inside Iran], to give space for a ceasefire in Gaza.” The foreign minister added that Iran’s action was “concluded” unless Israel “decides to invite further retaliation” – words that indicate that Western leaders who want an end to the conflict ought to counsel Israel to let the matter drop. NBC continues: Senior U.S. military officials have also discussed conducting very limited strikes against Iranian targets, the two officials said. Strikes inside Iran have been discussed, as have strikes on targets outside Iran, though strikes of any kind are less likely than intelligence sharing, the officials said. The U.S. could target Iranian assets at sea, the officials said, or try to disrupt Iran’s military assistance to proxies in the region by hitting Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps sites that support militia groups in Yemen or Syria. A U.S. strike on an Iranian target could be considered defensive if it eliminates a possible threat to the U.S. or allies, like previous American strikes on Iran-linked targets inside Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. NOTE: Iran has already declared that Israel’s allies ought to “part ways with the [Israeli] regime,” suggesting that an attack on Iran by the US would not go unanswered – that is, while some players might consider a US strike on Iran to be “defensive,” Iran would not. ALSO NOTE: The US has offered Israel a “compensation package” if it avoids hitting certain targets in its planned attack on Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, citing the Israeli TV channel Kan 11. USS Abraham Lincoln USS Abraham Lincoln, currently stationed in the Middle East (Wikimedia Commons) The Guardian: Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’ The Cradle: Israel looking at $66bn war bill as economic woes deepen Anadolu Agency: UN official warns about ‘use of reproductive violence in unfolding genocide in Gaza’ Jonathan Cook: Why is the ‘liberal’ media peddling the vilest genocide apologism? Sky News investigation: ‘Undeniable’ – Probe Confirms Israeli Army Presence when Hind Rajab was Killed in Gaza STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 8, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 8, 2024: at least 42,753* ( 42,010 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 743 in the West Bank (~160 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 8, 2024: at least 103,920 (including at least 97,720 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 8, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,119 and 10,019 injuries. An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. 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    “If you look at Gaza really through the eyes of a child, it is a hellscape,” UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, noting the toll of family deaths and displacements, as well as ongoing lack of food and clean water. “They are so traumatized by what’s happening,” Russell said of the kids. “Even if we can get more supplies in there, the trauma that these children are suffering is going to have lifetime and even post-generational challenges for them.” (Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency)
    Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

    LATEST STATISTICS: The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that 68 people have been killed in Gaza in a series of deadly attacks on Sunday

    The Government Media Office in Gaza said that Israeli forces have committed 3,654 massacres in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
    Israeli strikes across Lebanon Saturday killed 23 people and injured 93 others, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday.

    Around 40 per cent of Lebanon’s 1.25 million schoolchildren have been displaced by ongoing Israeli airstrikes, according to Imad Achkar, the director general of education.
    FLASHBACK 2023: Day 1

    If Americans Knew reported:

    (October 7th, 2023) Palestinian resistance launches surprise attack on Israel

    After decades of Israeli occupation and human rights abuses, and after a 20-month-long mass nonviolent effort, Palestinians in Gaza launched a surprise operation against Israel on early Saturday morning, October 7th. Its scale is unprecedented, involving aerial, sea and ground operations. Details are only beginning to emerge.

    Israel immediately began bombing Gaza and has turned off electricity to the enclave, leaving most of its two million inhabitants in the dark and hospitals dangerously impacted. There are now 200 Israelis dead, 9000 injured, and an unknown number captured; and 232 Palestinians dead and 1,600 injured.

    Israeli forces, partly funded by the $13 million dollars per day that U.S. politicians have voted for them, are one of the world’s most powerful militaries, their weaponry vastly dwarfing Palestinians’. Today’s Palestinian land incursions largely consisted of individuals riding motorcycles and pickup trucks.

    WHY DID THEY DO IT? Hamas spokesperson Khaled Qadomi told Al Jazeera that the group’s military operation is in “response to all the atrocities the Palestinians have faced over the decades,” and the Hamas deputy chief said the group is engaged “in a battle for freedom.” Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif explained: “We have decided to put an end to all of the occupation’s crimes”; senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh indicated that recent provocations at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem were a major reason for the surprise attack.

    Other Israeli provocations include increased violence against Palestinians by illegal Israeli settlers, Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners, and a spike in killings of Palestinians by the Israeli military. 2023 was the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank, including for children.

    Hamas fighters broke down the barrier wall that imprisons Gaza and entered several Israeli communities near the border. They took over 200 prisoners, which they hope to exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and also captured a number of Israeli military vehicles.

    After being surprised by the scope of the Palestinian offensive, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, “Citizens of Israel, we are at war [and will] fight back on a scale and intensity that the enemy has so far not experienced. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price.”

    In Gaza, Israeli warplanes reportedly destroyed a 5-story residential building, hit a hospital, and targeted an ambulance.

    Some media outlets refer to the Palestinian resistance fighters as “terrorists” – but under international law, armed resistance is the right of occupied people.

    Israel's war has left the Gaza Strip in ruins and killed over 40,000 Palestinians, including 16,000 children.
    Israel’s war has left the Gaza Strip in ruins and killed over 40,000 Palestinians, including 16,000 children. (Getty)
    Israeli troops bombard, besiege northern Gaza as ethnic cleansing unfolds

    AntiWar reports:

    The Israeli military has launched a fresh assault on northern Gaza and ordered all Palestinian civilians living in the north to head south, signaling Israel may be enacting an ethnic cleansing plan that has been reviewed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    Known as the “general’s plan” since it was drawn up by retired IDF generals, the plan would result in the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from areas in Gaza north of the Netzarim Corridor, a strip of land controlled by the Israeli military that separates Gaza City and other parts of the north from the south.

    Itsik Zuaret, a reporter for Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, said the general’s plan was underway. “In the future, the entire northern area of ​​the Gaza Strip will be cleansed according to the general’s plan,” he wrote on X.

    The first step of the plan is to transfer the estimated 300,000 Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza, then impose a full siege on the north to starve out remaining Hamas fighters and other Palestinians who remain. Northern Gaza would be declared a “closed military zone,” meaning anyone who remains will be targeted by the IDF.

    Palestinian leaders are encouraging residents of the north to stay, reminding them there is no safe place in Gaza.

    ANADOLU AGENCY ADDS: At least 30 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on northern Gaza early Sunday, marking the deadliest Israeli escalation since May.

    Palestinian medics reported that 30 bodies and several injured people were transported to hospitals in northern Gaza following Israeli airstrikes that struck Jabalia and Beit Lahia.

    NOTE: In 1948, Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them permanently to Gaza and other locations in what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (“catastrophe”). Many Palestinians see the current situation as another Nakba – already 75% of the population of Gaza has been internally displaced – and fear that they will never be allowed to return to their homes.

    Forced transfer of a people group is a crime against humanity.

    Palestinians, carrying what belongings they can, migrate toward areas they believe to be safer as the Israeli army intensifies its attacks in Jabalia, Gaza on October 6, 2024.
    Palestinians, carrying what belongings they can, migrate toward areas they believe to be safer as the Israeli army intensifies its attacks in Jabaliya, Gaza on October 6, 2024. (Hasan N. H. Alzaanin – Anadolu Agency])
    Report: US To Give Israel ‘Compensation’ If It Hits Only US-Approved Targets in Iran

    AntiWar reports:

    The US has offered Israel a “compensation package” if it avoids hitting certain targets in its planned attack on Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, citing the Israeli TV channel Kan 11.

    Amichai Stein, a correspondent for Kan 11, said the package would include military aid and a guarantee that the US would provide total diplomatic support.

    “An American official said, ‘If you don’t hit targets A, B, C, we will provide you with diplomatic protection and an arms package,” Chair said. “Israeli officials responded saying, ‘We consider the United States and listen to them. But we will do anything and everything we can to protect the citizens and the security of the State of Israel.’”

    The US is coordinating with Israel on its plans to respond to the Iranian missile barrage that hit Israel last week, which came in response to several Israeli escalations throughout the region, including the July 31 assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.

    The US has said it will ensure Iran faces “severe consequences” but has warned against certain types of attacks, including attacks on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities. President Biden said the US and Israel were discussing the idea of strikes on Iranian oil sites, but later said if he was in Israel’s shoes, he would be thinking about “other alternatives than striking oil fields.”

    NOTE: Mainstream media and pro-Israel leaders ignore the context of Iran’s attack, framing it instead as somehow unprovoked. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, however, correctly declared that Iran’s missile attack was an act of “self-defense” that only targeted military and security sites used for attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.

    He pointed out that Iran’s measured attack came “after exercising tremendous restraint for almost two months, to give space for a ceasefire in Gaza.”

    The foreign minister added that Iran’s action was “concluded” unless Israel “decides to invite further retaliation” – words that indicate that Western leaders who want an end to the conflict ought to counsel Israel to let the matter drop.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden meet in New York on Sept. 20.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden meet in New York on Sept. 20, 2023 (photo)
    Report: Israel’s year-long attacks on religious freedom

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    Israel destroyed 611 mosques, eight cemeteries and three churches and caused the partial destruction of 214 mosques during its year-long aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip which began on 7 October 2023, the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments has said.

    In a report issued Sunday, the ministry pointed out that over the past year, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have stormed and desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque 262 times, performing Jewish prayers in the Muslim holy site.

    According to the report, Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque along with ministers of his far-right government six times, and threatened to establish a Jewish synagogue on the site. Ben-Gvir has relentlessly worked to intensify the Jewish presence at the mosque through government support and by giving it a legal cover, it added.

    The report indicated that “extremist Jewish religious groups have attacked and spat on Christians and Christian pilgrims in the occupied city of Jerusalem, specifically around ​​the Church of the Prison of Christ, and restricted them during Christian holidays, and prevented them from reaching the Nativity Church in Bethlehem in southern occupied West Bank and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem.”

    Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs also said that 19 of 60 cemeteries were targeted, with bodies exhumed and desecrated.

    The ministry also reported that 238 of its staff members were killed and 19 were detained by Israeli forces.

    Palestinians at the site of a mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, near the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 26, 2024.
    Palestinians at the site of a mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, near the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 26, 2024. (photo)
    Israel issues new evacuation orders for 26 towns in southern Lebanon

    Various agencies report:

    The Israeli army ordered civilians in 26 border towns in southern Lebanon on Sunday to evacuate immediately amid air and ground attacks on the country.

    Military spokesman Avichay Adraee asked the Lebanese residents to leave their homes and move north of the Awali River.

    A key ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed the creation of an “empty” buffer zone in southern Lebanon.

    Writing in Israel Hayom, an outlet traditionally supportive of Netanyahu, former national security advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat said that emptying the border area in Lebanon of people would be one way to ensure that residents in northern Israel can return home without facing attacks.

    “The advantage of this alternative is the relatively low costs of enforcement and the fact that it can be made possible on a routine basis without serious dilemmas,” he wrote.

    “Another advantage of it is in the message it conveys: that terrorism against Israel causes a loss of territory.”

    NOTE: Forced transfer of a people group is a crime against humanity.

    Dozens of families were seen leaving the border village of Wazzani in southern Lebanon, after the Israeli army dropped leaflets ordering the evacuation of the village, September
    Dozens of families were seen leaving the border village of Wazzani in southern Lebanon, after the Israeli army dropped leaflets ordering the evacuation of the village, September (Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu])
    Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli bombing after threats against his life

    Middle East Eye reports:

    Israeli forces killed a Palestinian journalist on Sunday, weeks after he received threatening messages instructing him to stop filming Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

    Hassan Hamad, 19, died when his home in Jabalia refugee camp was struck by artillery fire.

    Hamad was reporting on the new Israeli incursion just moments before he was killed.

    A colleague with access to his account on X said that Hamad had been sending videos about the assault late into the night.

    During their last phone call at 6am (3am GMT), Hamad said: “There they are. There they are. It’s over.”

    A few months before his killing, Hamad shared a screenshot with his colleagues of a threatening WhatsApp message he received from an Israeli number.

    The message read: “Listen… If you continue spreading lies about Israel, we’ll come for you next and turn your family into… This is your last warning.”

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    Lebanon calls for international pressure to end brutal Israeli attacks on medics, hospitals

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    Lebanese authorities called on Sunday for piling pressure on Israel to halt its attacks against the health sector in Lebanon amid air and ground attacks on the country.

    In a statement, the Lebanese Order of Nurses (ONS) accused Israel of deliberately targeting hospitals, doctors, nurses, and paramedics “in a blatant defiance of international laws and conventions,” and called on international groups to pressure Israel to cease.

    Israel has launched massive airstrikes on Lebanon against what it calls Hezbollah targets, killing more than 2,011 victims since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

    At least 97 medical and emergency personnel have been killed and more than 10 hospitals damaged in the attacks.

    RELATED: Israeli airstrikes targeted areas in a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday following Israeli army warnings to evacuate two areas.

    Israeli aircraft carried out strikes on three different locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut, an Anadolu correspondent said.

    RELATED: Israel has killed more than 100 children in Lebanon over the past 11 days, while 690 others have been wounded during the last six weeks of the Israeli onslaught, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced.

    RELATED: The Syndicate of Chemists in Lebanon (SCL) has warned that the extent of destruction and the depth of damage to buildings and the ground confirms the use of internationally banned bombs containing depleted uranium by Israeli forces, warning of the risk of contracting many diseases as a result of inhaling the dust caused by the bombing.

    Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday were the heaviest yet
    Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday were the heaviest yet (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty)
    On 1st anniversary of Oct. 7, Israel imposing complete lockdown on West Bank

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    Israel has announced a complete lockdown on the occupied West Bank for Monday, marking the first anniversary of the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023 and the start of Israel’s offensive on Gaza.

    The official broadcasting authority reported Sunday that Israeli authorities have decided to enforce a full security perimeter around the West Bank, closing the crossings that connect it to Israel and preventing the entry of Palestinian workers.

    In the occupied West Bank, at least 742 Palestinians, including children, have since been killed, nearly 6,200 others injured, and more than 10,900 arrested, according to Palestinian figures.

    Israeli forces raid Jenin refugee camp in Jenin, West Bank, on November 29, 2023
    Israeli forces raid Jenin refugee camp in Jenin, West Bank, on November 29, 2023 (photo)
    Man attempts self-immolation at pro-Palestine protest near White House

    Anadolu Agency reports:

    A man attempted to self-immolate Saturday during a pro-Palestine protest near the White House, according to footage on social media.

    The man, who claimed to be a journalist, was seen in the video with burns to his left arm as those around him poured water on it. He raised his left arm high with flames engulfing it.

    The man is heard screaming that he is a journalist. “We spread the misinformation,” he screams at one point. “I’m a journalist and I said it was okay.”

    Police detained the man and established a perimeter around the area; one report said he was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

    Witnesses said the man is a CBS-affiliated journalist and he was accusing the network of “spreading misinformation.”

    Four people so far have staged self-immolations in the US to protest Washington’s support of the war in the Gaza Strip.

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    A man attempted to self-immolate Saturday during a pro-Palestine protest near the White House, according to footage on social media.
    A man attempted to self-immolate Saturday during a pro-Palestine protest near the White House, according to footage on social media. (social media)
    Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu, defender of Palestine

    Middle East Monitor looks back:

    When the world lost Archbishop Desmond Tutu on 26 December 2021, it lost more than just a Nobel Peace Prize laureate or the former Archbishop of Cape Town. It lost a moral compass, a voice that refused to be silenced in the face of injustice, whether in the townships of South Africa or Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

    Tutu displayed a rare foresight that was lacking in most public figures. As early as 2002, in an article for the Guardian titled ‘Apartheid in the Holy Land’ he described Israel as an apartheid state, a stance taken at a time when such comparisons were still relatively rare.

    The former US President Jimmy Carter was the only other global figure to describe Israel as such in a 2006 book titled ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’. Many have followed since, and over the past few years, a wall-to-wall consensus has formed within the international human rights community about Israel’s practice of apartheid.

    Talking to South African media, Tutu would say: “I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.”

    Often he’d describe the racism perpetrated by Israel as being worse than the racism in South Africa. “In many instances [Israeli apartheid] is worse” than South Africa under white minority rule, said Tutu in a 2012 interview with David Frost.

    Tutu’s journey to becoming a leading voice for Palestine began in the townships of South Africa, where he witnessed the daily indignities and injustices of apartheid. As Tutu rose to prominence in the Anglican Church and the anti-apartheid movement, he developed a theology that emphasised what he would describe as God’s concern for justice and human dignity.

    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor,” Tutu would say. “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

    In this 2012 interview with Sir David Frost he talks about how Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is ‘in many ways worse than apartheid in South Africa’:

    NOTE: Multiple human rights organizations have documented and reported on Israeli apartheid, including: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem, and Yesh Din , the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.



    Iranian missiles ‘overwhelmed’ Israel’s air defenses: Wall St. Journal

    The Cradle reports:

    Satellite imagery shows that Iran’s barrage of ballistic missiles earlier this week was successful in overwhelming Israel’s air defenses, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 6 October.

    The Iranian attack on Israel demonstrated Iran’s advanced missile capabilities and caused major damage to three Israeli airbases, where as many as 32 of the roughly 180 Iranian missiles (18 percent) successfully hit within the bases’ perimeters, according to experts.

    WSJ concluded that future Iranian strikes “could have much more serious consequences if they target civilian infrastructure or heavily populated residential areas.”

    Iran fired the ballistic missiles at Israel on 1 October in response to a series of aggressions committed by Israel, including the assassination of high-level Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.

    The Iranian armed forces’ general staff has promised that, if Israel retaliates, Iran will answer with “widespread and comprehensive destruction” of infrastructure within Israel.

    Many rockets, fired from Iran, are seen over Jerusalem from Hebron, West Bank on October 01, 2024 [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency]
    Many rockets, fired from Iran, are seen over Jerusalem from Hebron, West Bank on October 01, 2024 (Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency)
    Israeli Airstrikes Target Aid Trucks in Central Syria

    AntiWar reports:

    Israeli attacks against Syria continued apace over the weekend, with strikes reported against humanitarian aid trucks in the Homs Province of Central Syria. The trucks were carrying food and blankets, along with medical aid, from the Iraqi Red Crescent for those fleeing Israel’s attacks in Lebanon.

    Details are still emerging. The attacks reportedly took place in an industrial area, near a car factory. Three members of the relief teams sent from Iraq were reported wounded in the strikes, and their condition is not at present clear.

    Israel has reportedly been attacking Syria almost daily since its ground invasion of Lebanon started.

    Shooting operation kills one Israeli officer, injures several in Beersheba

    The Cradle reports:

    One female Israeli officer was killed and ten people wounded, two of them critically, in a shooting operation at the central bus station in the city of Beersheba in southern Israel, Israeli media reported on 6 October.

    The attacker was identified as Ahmed Saeed al-Uqbi, an Israeli citizen and resident of Hura, a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert.

    Uqbi, who wore a bulletproof vest and was armed with a gun and a knife, opened fire at Beersheba’s central bus station, authorities reported, before being shot and killed by police.

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    STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 6, 2024:

    Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 6, 2024: at least 42,650* ( 41,909 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,859 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.]

    This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 741 in the West Bank (~160 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths.

    Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

    Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.

    At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank).
    At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**.
    About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced.
    Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
    Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 6, 2024: at least 103,503 (including at least 97,303 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]

    Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 6, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.

    The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,011 (at least 127 children, 194 women) and 9,535 injuries (690 of them children). An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced.

    NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

    *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so.

    **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals.

    ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents.

    † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics.

    Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here.

    Hover over each bar for exact numbers.
    Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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    The beginnings of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, as Year Two of the revolution begins – Day 365 [email protected] October 7, 2024 apartheid, beersheba, desmond tutu, ethnic cleansing, evacuation, generals plan, hassan hamad, Iran, iron dome, population transfer, religious freedom, self immolation, Syria, West Bank “If you look at Gaza really through the eyes of a child, it is a hellscape,” UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, noting the toll of family deaths and displacements, as well as ongoing lack of food and clean water. “They are so traumatized by what’s happening,” Russell said of the kids. “Even if we can get more supplies in there, the trauma that these children are suffering is going to have lifetime and even post-generational challenges for them.” (Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff LATEST STATISTICS: The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that 68 people have been killed in Gaza in a series of deadly attacks on Sunday The Government Media Office in Gaza said that Israeli forces have committed 3,654 massacres in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Israeli strikes across Lebanon Saturday killed 23 people and injured 93 others, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday. Around 40 per cent of Lebanon’s 1.25 million schoolchildren have been displaced by ongoing Israeli airstrikes, according to Imad Achkar, the director general of education. FLASHBACK 2023: Day 1 If Americans Knew reported: (October 7th, 2023) Palestinian resistance launches surprise attack on Israel After decades of Israeli occupation and human rights abuses, and after a 20-month-long mass nonviolent effort, Palestinians in Gaza launched a surprise operation against Israel on early Saturday morning, October 7th. Its scale is unprecedented, involving aerial, sea and ground operations. Details are only beginning to emerge. Israel immediately began bombing Gaza and has turned off electricity to the enclave, leaving most of its two million inhabitants in the dark and hospitals dangerously impacted. There are now 200 Israelis dead, 9000 injured, and an unknown number captured; and 232 Palestinians dead and 1,600 injured. Israeli forces, partly funded by the $13 million dollars per day that U.S. politicians have voted for them, are one of the world’s most powerful militaries, their weaponry vastly dwarfing Palestinians’. Today’s Palestinian land incursions largely consisted of individuals riding motorcycles and pickup trucks. WHY DID THEY DO IT? Hamas spokesperson Khaled Qadomi told Al Jazeera that the group’s military operation is in “response to all the atrocities the Palestinians have faced over the decades,” and the Hamas deputy chief said the group is engaged “in a battle for freedom.” Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif explained: “We have decided to put an end to all of the occupation’s crimes”; senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh indicated that recent provocations at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem were a major reason for the surprise attack. Other Israeli provocations include increased violence against Palestinians by illegal Israeli settlers, Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners, and a spike in killings of Palestinians by the Israeli military. 2023 was the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank, including for children. Hamas fighters broke down the barrier wall that imprisons Gaza and entered several Israeli communities near the border. They took over 200 prisoners, which they hope to exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and also captured a number of Israeli military vehicles. After being surprised by the scope of the Palestinian offensive, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, “Citizens of Israel, we are at war [and will] fight back on a scale and intensity that the enemy has so far not experienced. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price.” In Gaza, Israeli warplanes reportedly destroyed a 5-story residential building, hit a hospital, and targeted an ambulance. Some media outlets refer to the Palestinian resistance fighters as “terrorists” – but under international law, armed resistance is the right of occupied people. Israel's war has left the Gaza Strip in ruins and killed over 40,000 Palestinians, including 16,000 children. Israel’s war has left the Gaza Strip in ruins and killed over 40,000 Palestinians, including 16,000 children. (Getty) Israeli troops bombard, besiege northern Gaza as ethnic cleansing unfolds AntiWar reports: The Israeli military has launched a fresh assault on northern Gaza and ordered all Palestinian civilians living in the north to head south, signaling Israel may be enacting an ethnic cleansing plan that has been reviewed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Known as the “general’s plan” since it was drawn up by retired IDF generals, the plan would result in the complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from areas in Gaza north of the Netzarim Corridor, a strip of land controlled by the Israeli military that separates Gaza City and other parts of the north from the south. Itsik Zuaret, a reporter for Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, said the general’s plan was underway. “In the future, the entire northern area of ​​the Gaza Strip will be cleansed according to the general’s plan,” he wrote on X. The first step of the plan is to transfer the estimated 300,000 Palestinian civilians out of northern Gaza, then impose a full siege on the north to starve out remaining Hamas fighters and other Palestinians who remain. Northern Gaza would be declared a “closed military zone,” meaning anyone who remains will be targeted by the IDF. Palestinian leaders are encouraging residents of the north to stay, reminding them there is no safe place in Gaza. ANADOLU AGENCY ADDS: At least 30 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on northern Gaza early Sunday, marking the deadliest Israeli escalation since May. Palestinian medics reported that 30 bodies and several injured people were transported to hospitals in northern Gaza following Israeli airstrikes that struck Jabalia and Beit Lahia. NOTE: In 1948, Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them permanently to Gaza and other locations in what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (“catastrophe”). Many Palestinians see the current situation as another Nakba – already 75% of the population of Gaza has been internally displaced – and fear that they will never be allowed to return to their homes. Forced transfer of a people group is a crime against humanity. Palestinians, carrying what belongings they can, migrate toward areas they believe to be safer as the Israeli army intensifies its attacks in Jabalia, Gaza on October 6, 2024. Palestinians, carrying what belongings they can, migrate toward areas they believe to be safer as the Israeli army intensifies its attacks in Jabaliya, Gaza on October 6, 2024. (Hasan N. H. Alzaanin – Anadolu Agency]) Report: US To Give Israel ‘Compensation’ If It Hits Only US-Approved Targets in Iran AntiWar reports: The US has offered Israel a “compensation package” if it avoids hitting certain targets in its planned attack on Iran, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, citing the Israeli TV channel Kan 11. Amichai Stein, a correspondent for Kan 11, said the package would include military aid and a guarantee that the US would provide total diplomatic support. “An American official said, ‘If you don’t hit targets A, B, C, we will provide you with diplomatic protection and an arms package,” Chair said. “Israeli officials responded saying, ‘We consider the United States and listen to them. But we will do anything and everything we can to protect the citizens and the security of the State of Israel.’” The US is coordinating with Israel on its plans to respond to the Iranian missile barrage that hit Israel last week, which came in response to several Israeli escalations throughout the region, including the July 31 assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. The US has said it will ensure Iran faces “severe consequences” but has warned against certain types of attacks, including attacks on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities. President Biden said the US and Israel were discussing the idea of strikes on Iranian oil sites, but later said if he was in Israel’s shoes, he would be thinking about “other alternatives than striking oil fields.” NOTE: Mainstream media and pro-Israel leaders ignore the context of Iran’s attack, framing it instead as somehow unprovoked. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, however, correctly declared that Iran’s missile attack was an act of “self-defense” that only targeted military and security sites used for attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. He pointed out that Iran’s measured attack came “after exercising tremendous restraint for almost two months, to give space for a ceasefire in Gaza.” The foreign minister added that Iran’s action was “concluded” unless Israel “decides to invite further retaliation” – words that indicate that Western leaders who want an end to the conflict ought to counsel Israel to let the matter drop. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden meet in New York on Sept. 20. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden meet in New York on Sept. 20, 2023 (photo) Report: Israel’s year-long attacks on religious freedom Anadolu Agency reports: Israel destroyed 611 mosques, eight cemeteries and three churches and caused the partial destruction of 214 mosques during its year-long aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip which began on 7 October 2023, the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments has said. In a report issued Sunday, the ministry pointed out that over the past year, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have stormed and desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque 262 times, performing Jewish prayers in the Muslim holy site. According to the report, Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque along with ministers of his far-right government six times, and threatened to establish a Jewish synagogue on the site. Ben-Gvir has relentlessly worked to intensify the Jewish presence at the mosque through government support and by giving it a legal cover, it added. The report indicated that “extremist Jewish religious groups have attacked and spat on Christians and Christian pilgrims in the occupied city of Jerusalem, specifically around ​​the Church of the Prison of Christ, and restricted them during Christian holidays, and prevented them from reaching the Nativity Church in Bethlehem in southern occupied West Bank and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem.” Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs also said that 19 of 60 cemeteries were targeted, with bodies exhumed and desecrated. The ministry also reported that 238 of its staff members were killed and 19 were detained by Israeli forces. Palestinians at the site of a mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, near the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 26, 2024. Palestinians at the site of a mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, near the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 26, 2024. (photo) Israel issues new evacuation orders for 26 towns in southern Lebanon Various agencies report: The Israeli army ordered civilians in 26 border towns in southern Lebanon on Sunday to evacuate immediately amid air and ground attacks on the country. Military spokesman Avichay Adraee asked the Lebanese residents to leave their homes and move north of the Awali River. A key ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed the creation of an “empty” buffer zone in southern Lebanon. Writing in Israel Hayom, an outlet traditionally supportive of Netanyahu, former national security advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat said that emptying the border area in Lebanon of people would be one way to ensure that residents in northern Israel can return home without facing attacks. “The advantage of this alternative is the relatively low costs of enforcement and the fact that it can be made possible on a routine basis without serious dilemmas,” he wrote. “Another advantage of it is in the message it conveys: that terrorism against Israel causes a loss of territory.” NOTE: Forced transfer of a people group is a crime against humanity. Dozens of families were seen leaving the border village of Wazzani in southern Lebanon, after the Israeli army dropped leaflets ordering the evacuation of the village, September Dozens of families were seen leaving the border village of Wazzani in southern Lebanon, after the Israeli army dropped leaflets ordering the evacuation of the village, September (Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu]) Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli bombing after threats against his life Middle East Eye reports: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian journalist on Sunday, weeks after he received threatening messages instructing him to stop filming Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. Hassan Hamad, 19, died when his home in Jabalia refugee camp was struck by artillery fire. Hamad was reporting on the new Israeli incursion just moments before he was killed. A colleague with access to his account on X said that Hamad had been sending videos about the assault late into the night. During their last phone call at 6am (3am GMT), Hamad said: “There they are. There they are. It’s over.” A few months before his killing, Hamad shared a screenshot with his colleagues of a threatening WhatsApp message he received from an Israeli number. The message read: “Listen… If you continue spreading lies about Israel, we’ll come for you next and turn your family into… This is your last warning.” RECOMMENDED READING: Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than in any conflict in 30 years Lebanon calls for international pressure to end brutal Israeli attacks on medics, hospitals Anadolu Agency reports: Lebanese authorities called on Sunday for piling pressure on Israel to halt its attacks against the health sector in Lebanon amid air and ground attacks on the country. In a statement, the Lebanese Order of Nurses (ONS) accused Israel of deliberately targeting hospitals, doctors, nurses, and paramedics “in a blatant defiance of international laws and conventions,” and called on international groups to pressure Israel to cease. Israel has launched massive airstrikes on Lebanon against what it calls Hezbollah targets, killing more than 2,011 victims since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. At least 97 medical and emergency personnel have been killed and more than 10 hospitals damaged in the attacks. RELATED: Israeli airstrikes targeted areas in a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday following Israeli army warnings to evacuate two areas. Israeli aircraft carried out strikes on three different locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut, an Anadolu correspondent said. RELATED: Israel has killed more than 100 children in Lebanon over the past 11 days, while 690 others have been wounded during the last six weeks of the Israeli onslaught, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced. RELATED: The Syndicate of Chemists in Lebanon (SCL) has warned that the extent of destruction and the depth of damage to buildings and the ground confirms the use of internationally banned bombs containing depleted uranium by Israeli forces, warning of the risk of contracting many diseases as a result of inhaling the dust caused by the bombing. Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday were the heaviest yet Israeli air strikes on Beirut on Sunday were the heaviest yet (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty) On 1st anniversary of Oct. 7, Israel imposing complete lockdown on West Bank Anadolu Agency reports: Israel has announced a complete lockdown on the occupied West Bank for Monday, marking the first anniversary of the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023 and the start of Israel’s offensive on Gaza. The official broadcasting authority reported Sunday that Israeli authorities have decided to enforce a full security perimeter around the West Bank, closing the crossings that connect it to Israel and preventing the entry of Palestinian workers. In the occupied West Bank, at least 742 Palestinians, including children, have since been killed, nearly 6,200 others injured, and more than 10,900 arrested, according to Palestinian figures. Israeli forces raid Jenin refugee camp in Jenin, West Bank, on November 29, 2023 Israeli forces raid Jenin refugee camp in Jenin, West Bank, on November 29, 2023 (photo) Man attempts self-immolation at pro-Palestine protest near White House Anadolu Agency reports: A man attempted to self-immolate Saturday during a pro-Palestine protest near the White House, according to footage on social media. The man, who claimed to be a journalist, was seen in the video with burns to his left arm as those around him poured water on it. He raised his left arm high with flames engulfing it. The man is heard screaming that he is a journalist. “We spread the misinformation,” he screams at one point. “I’m a journalist and I said it was okay.” Police detained the man and established a perimeter around the area; one report said he was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Witnesses said the man is a CBS-affiliated journalist and he was accusing the network of “spreading misinformation.” Four people so far have staged self-immolations in the US to protest Washington’s support of the war in the Gaza Strip. RECOMMENDED READING: Ignoring Immolators Lulls the Society to Sleep: Aaron Bushnell at the Israeli Embassy: “FREE PALESTINE!” A man attempted to self-immolate Saturday during a pro-Palestine protest near the White House, according to footage on social media. A man attempted to self-immolate Saturday during a pro-Palestine protest near the White House, according to footage on social media. (social media) Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu, defender of Palestine Middle East Monitor looks back: When the world lost Archbishop Desmond Tutu on 26 December 2021, it lost more than just a Nobel Peace Prize laureate or the former Archbishop of Cape Town. It lost a moral compass, a voice that refused to be silenced in the face of injustice, whether in the townships of South Africa or Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. Tutu displayed a rare foresight that was lacking in most public figures. As early as 2002, in an article for the Guardian titled ‘Apartheid in the Holy Land’ he described Israel as an apartheid state, a stance taken at a time when such comparisons were still relatively rare. The former US President Jimmy Carter was the only other global figure to describe Israel as such in a 2006 book titled ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’. Many have followed since, and over the past few years, a wall-to-wall consensus has formed within the international human rights community about Israel’s practice of apartheid. Talking to South African media, Tutu would say: “I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.” Often he’d describe the racism perpetrated by Israel as being worse than the racism in South Africa. “In many instances [Israeli apartheid] is worse” than South Africa under white minority rule, said Tutu in a 2012 interview with David Frost. Tutu’s journey to becoming a leading voice for Palestine began in the townships of South Africa, where he witnessed the daily indignities and injustices of apartheid. As Tutu rose to prominence in the Anglican Church and the anti-apartheid movement, he developed a theology that emphasised what he would describe as God’s concern for justice and human dignity. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor,” Tutu would say. “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” In this 2012 interview with Sir David Frost he talks about how Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is ‘in many ways worse than apartheid in South Africa’: NOTE: Multiple human rights organizations have documented and reported on Israeli apartheid, including: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem, and Yesh Din , the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. Iranian missiles ‘overwhelmed’ Israel’s air defenses: Wall St. Journal The Cradle reports: Satellite imagery shows that Iran’s barrage of ballistic missiles earlier this week was successful in overwhelming Israel’s air defenses, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 6 October. The Iranian attack on Israel demonstrated Iran’s advanced missile capabilities and caused major damage to three Israeli airbases, where as many as 32 of the roughly 180 Iranian missiles (18 percent) successfully hit within the bases’ perimeters, according to experts. WSJ concluded that future Iranian strikes “could have much more serious consequences if they target civilian infrastructure or heavily populated residential areas.” Iran fired the ballistic missiles at Israel on 1 October in response to a series of aggressions committed by Israel, including the assassination of high-level Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. The Iranian armed forces’ general staff has promised that, if Israel retaliates, Iran will answer with “widespread and comprehensive destruction” of infrastructure within Israel. Many rockets, fired from Iran, are seen over Jerusalem from Hebron, West Bank on October 01, 2024 [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency] Many rockets, fired from Iran, are seen over Jerusalem from Hebron, West Bank on October 01, 2024 (Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency) Israeli Airstrikes Target Aid Trucks in Central Syria AntiWar reports: Israeli attacks against Syria continued apace over the weekend, with strikes reported against humanitarian aid trucks in the Homs Province of Central Syria. The trucks were carrying food and blankets, along with medical aid, from the Iraqi Red Crescent for those fleeing Israel’s attacks in Lebanon. Details are still emerging. The attacks reportedly took place in an industrial area, near a car factory. Three members of the relief teams sent from Iraq were reported wounded in the strikes, and their condition is not at present clear. Israel has reportedly been attacking Syria almost daily since its ground invasion of Lebanon started. Shooting operation kills one Israeli officer, injures several in Beersheba The Cradle reports: One female Israeli officer was killed and ten people wounded, two of them critically, in a shooting operation at the central bus station in the city of Beersheba in southern Israel, Israeli media reported on 6 October. The attacker was identified as Ahmed Saeed al-Uqbi, an Israeli citizen and resident of Hura, a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert. Uqbi, who wore a bulletproof vest and was armed with a gun and a knife, opened fire at Beersheba’s central bus station, authorities reported, before being shot and killed by police. RECOMMENDED READING: Cleansing the Negev: Israel plans to evict “tens of thousands” of Palestinian Bedouin MORE NEWS: Middle East Monitor: Israel settlers publish children’s book claiming ‘Lebanon is ours’ The Guardian: Disabled Palestinians are facing horrors piled upon horrors. I think of their suffering every day. Anadolu Agency: 1 year of Gaza genocide: ‘Element of decay’ and signs of strain in Israeli society Axios: Harris won’t say whether the U.S. has “a real close ally” in Netanyahu Truthout: View From Gaza: This War Has Broken Me in Ways I Didn’t Think Possible Middle East Eye: How the US revived ‘war on terror’ era surveillance to suppress pro-Palestine movement STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 6, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 6, 2024: at least 42,650* ( 41,909 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (30%), 16,859 children as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 741 in the West Bank (~160 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths. Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – October 6, 2024: at least 103,503 (including at least 97,303 in Gaza and 6,200 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 6, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 293*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,011 (at least 127 children, 194 women) and 9,535 injuries (690 of them children). An estimated 1.2 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. 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    A renowned author and political commentator from Canada praised Iran’s campaign against terrorism in the Middle East and said the Islamic Republic has been fighting the phenomenon while the West’s support for terror groups in the region is well documented.

    “Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East; it has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts,” Mark Taliano said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.

    “The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism,” he added.

    Tasnim: As you know, the resistance forces and the armies in Syria and Iraq have recently liberated last strongholds of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group in the Arab countries. What do you think about the recent military achievements? Do you have a positive perspective on the security situation?

    Taliano: The Axis of Resistance is defeating all of the terrorist groups, all in accordance with international law, and with a view to bringing peace and stability to the Middle East and beyond. I have a very positive view on the security situation. New alliances and trade partnerships are being formed to strengthen the resistance against the criminal, terrorist-supporting regimes that oppose trajectories of peace and stability. US-led NATO and its allies, including Israel and the Persian Gulf monarchies, need to be held to account for their high crimes against sovereign states such as Syria, Iraq, and beyond.

    US imperialism is creating globalized war and poverty. Thanks to the West’s illegal invasion of Libya — imperialism under the cover of the so-called “Responsibility To Protect”, Libya, now a failed state, is host to a growing slave trade, it is a hub for terrorists, including Daesh, and it is the source of multitudes of refugees. Libya was a “successful” regime change. Gaddafi was murdered, and a nation that previously boasted of the highest Human Development Index in Africa was destroyed.

    The genocidal sanctions and ultimate illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq was also a successful Regime Change, in the sense that the country, its institutions, and its infrastructure were destroyed and plundered. Fortunately, Iraq is now rebounding.

    The Regime Change in Ukraine was also successful in the sense that the elected government was overthrown, and the country is now divided, impoverished, and in a state of war. Yet another imperial success story.

    The totality of the impacts of illegal warfare, post 9/11, and their enduring consequences, has created an overseas holocaust as described by Dr. Gideon Polya.

    Tasnim: Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), recently declared the collapse of the Takfiri terror group in Iraq and Syria. What is your assessment of Iran’s role in the anti-terrorism campaign in the Middle East?

    Taliano: Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East. It has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts. The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism.

    The US-led Empire seeks to label Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a “terrorist” entity in its on-going campaign to destabilize and ultimately destroy Iran. If we recall General Wesley Clark’s earlier, public statements, the Pentagon’s plan was 7 countries in 5 years, and Iran is on the list.

    Tasnim: Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Hassan Nasrallah said recently that despite the US claims about fighting terrorism, it spared no effort to help Daesh forces in the Syrian town of Al-Bukamal. “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” the Hezbollah leader said. What do you think about the remarks?

    Taliano: The West and its allies have been directly supporting terrorist groups since well before the war on Syria started. The terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West. All of this is well documented. Daesh has been a “covert proxy” for the West in Syria. In an earlier article, I described it as a “place setter”. The West infests an area with Daesh, then destroys the area under the fake pretext of going after Daesh, and then re-occupies the area with a new batch of terrorists. In the case of Raqqa, for example, the area was destroyed, Daesh was re-located to other fronts – with US coalition air support — and now “overt proxies”, the anti-democratic SDF Kurdish forces are the new occupiers.

    In Deir ez-Zor and elsewhere the US has been brokering deals between Daesh and Kurdish forces with a view to advancing its imperial projects of occupation and plunder. Recently, original documents were discovered which detail the terms of a deal between Daesh and the SDF.

    Now that the terrorists are being defeated, the West’s direct support is more transparent. The Hezbollah leader is being diplomatic when he states that “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” Daesh and all of the terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West.

    Mark Taliano is an author and independent investigative reporter who recently returned from a trip to Syria with the Third International Tour of Peace to Syria. In his new book titled “Voices from Syria”, he combines years of research with on-the-ground observations to present an informed and well-documented analysis that refutes mainstream media narratives about the dirty war on Syria.


    All of the post-9/11 wars were sold to Western audiences through a sophisticated network of interlocking governing agencies that disseminate propaganda to both domestic and foreign audiences. But the dirty war on Syria is different. The degree of war propaganda levelled at Syria and contaminating humanity at this moment is likely unprecedented. I had studied and written about Syria for years, so I was not entirely surprised by what I saw.

    (Excerpt from Preface, Mark Taliano’s book “Voices from Syria“, Global Research Montreal, 2017)

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    Iran Playing Major Role in Defeating Terrorism in Middle East: Mark Taliano Mark Taliano Original Link Here: Iran Playing Major Role in Defeating Terrorism in Middle East: Mark Taliano - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization A renowned author and political commentator from Canada praised Iran’s campaign against terrorism in the Middle East and said the Islamic Republic has been fighting the phenomenon while the West’s support for terror groups in the region is well documented. “Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East; it has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts,” Mark Taliano said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency. “The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism,” he added. Tasnim: As you know, the resistance forces and the armies in Syria and Iraq have recently liberated last strongholds of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group in the Arab countries. What do you think about the recent military achievements? Do you have a positive perspective on the security situation? Taliano: The Axis of Resistance is defeating all of the terrorist groups, all in accordance with international law, and with a view to bringing peace and stability to the Middle East and beyond. I have a very positive view on the security situation. New alliances and trade partnerships are being formed to strengthen the resistance against the criminal, terrorist-supporting regimes that oppose trajectories of peace and stability. US-led NATO and its allies, including Israel and the Persian Gulf monarchies, need to be held to account for their high crimes against sovereign states such as Syria, Iraq, and beyond. US imperialism is creating globalized war and poverty. Thanks to the West’s illegal invasion of Libya — imperialism under the cover of the so-called “Responsibility To Protect”, Libya, now a failed state, is host to a growing slave trade, it is a hub for terrorists, including Daesh, and it is the source of multitudes of refugees. Libya was a “successful” regime change. Gaddafi was murdered, and a nation that previously boasted of the highest Human Development Index in Africa was destroyed. The genocidal sanctions and ultimate illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq was also a successful Regime Change, in the sense that the country, its institutions, and its infrastructure were destroyed and plundered. Fortunately, Iraq is now rebounding. The Regime Change in Ukraine was also successful in the sense that the elected government was overthrown, and the country is now divided, impoverished, and in a state of war. Yet another imperial success story. The totality of the impacts of illegal warfare, post 9/11, and their enduring consequences, has created an overseas holocaust as described by Dr. Gideon Polya. Tasnim: Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), recently declared the collapse of the Takfiri terror group in Iraq and Syria. What is your assessment of Iran’s role in the anti-terrorism campaign in the Middle East? Taliano: Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East. It has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts. The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism. The US-led Empire seeks to label Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a “terrorist” entity in its on-going campaign to destabilize and ultimately destroy Iran. If we recall General Wesley Clark’s earlier, public statements, the Pentagon’s plan was 7 countries in 5 years, and Iran is on the list. Tasnim: Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Hassan Nasrallah said recently that despite the US claims about fighting terrorism, it spared no effort to help Daesh forces in the Syrian town of Al-Bukamal. “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” the Hezbollah leader said. What do you think about the remarks? Taliano: The West and its allies have been directly supporting terrorist groups since well before the war on Syria started. The terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West. All of this is well documented. Daesh has been a “covert proxy” for the West in Syria. In an earlier article, I described it as a “place setter”. The West infests an area with Daesh, then destroys the area under the fake pretext of going after Daesh, and then re-occupies the area with a new batch of terrorists. In the case of Raqqa, for example, the area was destroyed, Daesh was re-located to other fronts – with US coalition air support — and now “overt proxies”, the anti-democratic SDF Kurdish forces are the new occupiers. In Deir ez-Zor and elsewhere the US has been brokering deals between Daesh and Kurdish forces with a view to advancing its imperial projects of occupation and plunder. Recently, original documents were discovered which detail the terms of a deal between Daesh and the SDF. Now that the terrorists are being defeated, the West’s direct support is more transparent. The Hezbollah leader is being diplomatic when he states that “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” Daesh and all of the terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West. Mark Taliano is an author and independent investigative reporter who recently returned from a trip to Syria with the Third International Tour of Peace to Syria. In his new book titled “Voices from Syria”, he combines years of research with on-the-ground observations to present an informed and well-documented analysis that refutes mainstream media narratives about the dirty war on Syria. All of the post-9/11 wars were sold to Western audiences through a sophisticated network of interlocking governing agencies that disseminate propaganda to both domestic and foreign audiences. But the dirty war on Syria is different. The degree of war propaganda levelled at Syria and contaminating humanity at this moment is likely unprecedented. I had studied and written about Syria for years, so I was not entirely surprised by what I saw. (Excerpt from Preface, Mark Taliano’s book “Voices from Syria“, Global Research Montreal, 2017) Order directly from Global Research (also available in PDF) https://marktaliano.substack.com/p/iran-playing-major-role-in-defeating?triedRedirect=true
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  • Cards Reshuffled: “Israel” Under Resistance Missiles

    “Israel” faced a barrage of missiles from multiple resistance fronts over 24 continuous hours. The Israeli leadership, initially celebrating the assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, found itself rattled as attacks struck Tel Aviv and surrounding areas, instilling fear among civilians and officials. Despite claims from “Israel” and the US that Iran had scaled back support for resistance factions, The Iranian Revolutionary Guard responded with a massive operation and the most violent missile attack in the history of “Israel”, in retaliation for the assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh and Nasrallah, marking a significant escalation.

    Iran’s assertive response marks a critical juncture in the ongoing war, especially as a US-backed Israeli counterattack could potentially target Iran’s nuclear and energy facilities. As the threat of all-out war looms over resistance fronts in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, “Israel’s” goals of retrieving captives and restoring displaced settlers to the North seem increasingly unrealistic. Moreover, “Israel” faced a bold operation in Tel Aviv, where two resistance fighters killed eight settlers before being killed themselves.

    As anxiety spread, settlers in “Israel” abandoned celebrations of achievements in Lebanon, doubting the military's ability to protect them, especially as Hezbollah escalated missile attacks with new weaponry. Ground forces struggled to make progress, opting instead to release videos showcasing alleged military victories, reminiscent of the antics in Gaza where Israeli journalists mockingly labeled their spokesperson “the liar Hagari”.

    The Israeli government grapples not only with strategic decisions regarding the resistance axis but also with the reckless ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu and his military and security leaders, which threaten to ignite a regional conflict. The world watches closely as the United States must confront a critical question: Is it prepared to engage directly in this conflict, knowing that “Israel” cannot handle it alone? Washington must assess its readiness to protect its forces and interests across the region.

    “Israel” is compelled to reassess its strategies, especially regarding Lebanon, where the resistance has regained operational control. This resurgence is reflected in the coordination of military units executing operations at a calculated pace, launching targeted rocket salvos at military sites deep within Israeli territory. Meanwhile, combat resistance groups have fortified positions along the border, prompting the Israeli government to reconsider its directive for a ground operation against Lebanon.

    Full report by Al-Akhbar can be found in Arabic here:
    https://www.al-akhbar.com/Lebanon/387568
    Cards Reshuffled: “Israel” Under Resistance Missiles “Israel” faced a barrage of missiles from multiple resistance fronts over 24 continuous hours. The Israeli leadership, initially celebrating the assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, found itself rattled as attacks struck Tel Aviv and surrounding areas, instilling fear among civilians and officials. Despite claims from “Israel” and the US that Iran had scaled back support for resistance factions, The Iranian Revolutionary Guard responded with a massive operation and the most violent missile attack in the history of “Israel”, in retaliation for the assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh and Nasrallah, marking a significant escalation. Iran’s assertive response marks a critical juncture in the ongoing war, especially as a US-backed Israeli counterattack could potentially target Iran’s nuclear and energy facilities. As the threat of all-out war looms over resistance fronts in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, “Israel’s” goals of retrieving captives and restoring displaced settlers to the North seem increasingly unrealistic. Moreover, “Israel” faced a bold operation in Tel Aviv, where two resistance fighters killed eight settlers before being killed themselves. As anxiety spread, settlers in “Israel” abandoned celebrations of achievements in Lebanon, doubting the military's ability to protect them, especially as Hezbollah escalated missile attacks with new weaponry. Ground forces struggled to make progress, opting instead to release videos showcasing alleged military victories, reminiscent of the antics in Gaza where Israeli journalists mockingly labeled their spokesperson “the liar Hagari”. The Israeli government grapples not only with strategic decisions regarding the resistance axis but also with the reckless ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu and his military and security leaders, which threaten to ignite a regional conflict. The world watches closely as the United States must confront a critical question: Is it prepared to engage directly in this conflict, knowing that “Israel” cannot handle it alone? Washington must assess its readiness to protect its forces and interests across the region. “Israel” is compelled to reassess its strategies, especially regarding Lebanon, where the resistance has regained operational control. This resurgence is reflected in the coordination of military units executing operations at a calculated pace, launching targeted rocket salvos at military sites deep within Israeli territory. Meanwhile, combat resistance groups have fortified positions along the border, prompting the Israeli government to reconsider its directive for a ground operation against Lebanon. Full report by Al-Akhbar can be found in Arabic here: https://www.al-akhbar.com/Lebanon/387568
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  • Empire’s War on Syria
    Basma Qaddour Interviews Dr. Ahmad Al-Durzi


    In response to Basma’s questions, Dr. Al-Durzi wrote the following:

    It was clear to every wise person in the world, in general, and in Syria, in particular, that what happened in the mid of March 2011 is that the world has become at a very dangerous stage, and the crisis that took place in Syria is only an extension of a large western project to control the Mediterranean Sea, and that the outcome of this crisis which was turned into a military form does not only target Syria but also forces that are against this project hegemony, especially Russia and China.

    Image: Dr. Ahmad Al-Durzi



    Actually, this is what happened when the United States of America pushed regional powers to intervene extensively in the Syrian war, depending on terrorists, who came from more than 80 countries in the world. The crisis did not stop at that point, but was accompanied by unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States of America and the European Union countries on Syria to push it to change its geopolitical position-which would leave effects and repercussions on Iran, Russia and China- and to loot the Syrian state’s main resources that are necessary for the continuation of life in what remains of Syria as the terrorist groups took control of the areas of the Syrian Al-Jazeera area – where the resources of oil, gas and the food basket of Syria are located— and to divert these resources to serve the terrorist groups and finance and attract them due to the huge amount of money flowing as a result of controlling these resources. …..The main goal was to push Damascus to change its geopolitical policy and to allow the Qatari gas pipes to pass through Syria to Turkey and then the EU countries with the aim of preventing the flow of Russian gas to Europe and be an alternative to it.

    These policies, which were based on terrorism and the theft of the Syrian oil and gas resources, have put enormous pressure on the Syrian state and on the lives of Syrian citizens, and led to an increase in poverty levels that have reached 92%, and caused major impacts on the Syrian demographics and changes in their lifestyles, and pushed more than 40% of the Syrian population to emigrate abroad, in addition to more than 10% of the internal demographic change through internal migration. These changes required the adoption of hard policies in accordance with the available resources to keep the existence of the Syrian state within the framework of the international and regional conflict. The adopted hard policies led to unprecedented rise in poverty rate which continues until this moment.

    Sanctions that are being imposed on Syria have greatly affected all groups of doctors, not just me. Medical work is no longer useful, so the majority of doctors have been forced to emigrate or work in Somalia and Iraq. Imagine that the number of doctors in Aleppo has decreased from 11,000 to 1,800, and in Somalia it has increased to 4,000 Syrian doctors.

    As for the Russian intervention in Syria, it was legitimate as it came upon the request of Damascus. It came at a critical moment when what remained of Syria was under threat. It prevented the multinational terrorist groups from moving to Iran, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and northwestern China, relying on terrorists who came from these regions.

    Image: Syrians wave Russian and Syrian flags during a protest against US-led air strikes in Damascus, Syria on 14 April 2018. (Photo credit: VCG Photo)



    The first goal of the Russian intervention in Syria was to eliminate multinational terrorist groups in cooperation with the Syrian Army, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah. These four parties formed an important axis to confront the US occupation forces that exist in Syria and to defeat ISIS terrorists. This has been achieved to a large extent.

    The second goal was to keep Syria united and this has been achieved to a reasonable degree at a military level as the geographic area that is controlled by Damascus expanded from 27% to 67%, while the sides of the Syrian Al-Jazeera are still under the occupation of the American army, which came illegally under the pretext of fighting terrorism, and the northwestern side of Syria is still under the occupation of the terrorist groups that are supported by the United States of America and Turkey, which is betting on achieving geopolitical gains at the regional level through the Syrian gateway.

    Although Russia is preoccupied with its war with Ukraine, which is actually a war with NATO on the Ukrainian scene, the effects of the Russian presence in Syria are still ongoing, with the continued presence of Russian forces on the ground and the continued Russian role in working to restore the unity of Syrian territory through the political aspect of the talks it is conducting with the forces in northeastern Syria or with Turkey to achieve reconciliation between Syria and Turkey based on the unity and sovereignty of Syrian territory, and to find solutions to dismantle the armed terrorist groups in the areas of the northern Aleppo countryside and Idlib, in addition to the areas located between Ras al-Ain al-Abyad in the Syrian Jazeera .

    I believe that the Russian role will continue despite the war in Ukraine, as Syria is an arena of confrontation with the United States of America, complementary to the Ukrainian arena, and also complementary to the Palestinian, Lebanese and Yemeni arenas, where the conflict with the Western side is escalating in these regions, and Russia has no interest other than to be a fundamental supporter of all the forces that exist in these regions in order to preserve its national security.

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    Empire’s War on Syria Basma Qaddour Interviews Dr. Ahmad Al-Durzi In response to Basma’s questions, Dr. Al-Durzi wrote the following: It was clear to every wise person in the world, in general, and in Syria, in particular, that what happened in the mid of March 2011 is that the world has become at a very dangerous stage, and the crisis that took place in Syria is only an extension of a large western project to control the Mediterranean Sea, and that the outcome of this crisis which was turned into a military form does not only target Syria but also forces that are against this project hegemony, especially Russia and China. Image: Dr. Ahmad Al-Durzi Actually, this is what happened when the United States of America pushed regional powers to intervene extensively in the Syrian war, depending on terrorists, who came from more than 80 countries in the world. The crisis did not stop at that point, but was accompanied by unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States of America and the European Union countries on Syria to push it to change its geopolitical position-which would leave effects and repercussions on Iran, Russia and China- and to loot the Syrian state’s main resources that are necessary for the continuation of life in what remains of Syria as the terrorist groups took control of the areas of the Syrian Al-Jazeera area – where the resources of oil, gas and the food basket of Syria are located— and to divert these resources to serve the terrorist groups and finance and attract them due to the huge amount of money flowing as a result of controlling these resources. …..The main goal was to push Damascus to change its geopolitical policy and to allow the Qatari gas pipes to pass through Syria to Turkey and then the EU countries with the aim of preventing the flow of Russian gas to Europe and be an alternative to it. These policies, which were based on terrorism and the theft of the Syrian oil and gas resources, have put enormous pressure on the Syrian state and on the lives of Syrian citizens, and led to an increase in poverty levels that have reached 92%, and caused major impacts on the Syrian demographics and changes in their lifestyles, and pushed more than 40% of the Syrian population to emigrate abroad, in addition to more than 10% of the internal demographic change through internal migration. These changes required the adoption of hard policies in accordance with the available resources to keep the existence of the Syrian state within the framework of the international and regional conflict. The adopted hard policies led to unprecedented rise in poverty rate which continues until this moment. Sanctions that are being imposed on Syria have greatly affected all groups of doctors, not just me. Medical work is no longer useful, so the majority of doctors have been forced to emigrate or work in Somalia and Iraq. Imagine that the number of doctors in Aleppo has decreased from 11,000 to 1,800, and in Somalia it has increased to 4,000 Syrian doctors. As for the Russian intervention in Syria, it was legitimate as it came upon the request of Damascus. It came at a critical moment when what remained of Syria was under threat. It prevented the multinational terrorist groups from moving to Iran, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and northwestern China, relying on terrorists who came from these regions. Image: Syrians wave Russian and Syrian flags during a protest against US-led air strikes in Damascus, Syria on 14 April 2018. (Photo credit: VCG Photo) The first goal of the Russian intervention in Syria was to eliminate multinational terrorist groups in cooperation with the Syrian Army, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah. These four parties formed an important axis to confront the US occupation forces that exist in Syria and to defeat ISIS terrorists. This has been achieved to a large extent. The second goal was to keep Syria united and this has been achieved to a reasonable degree at a military level as the geographic area that is controlled by Damascus expanded from 27% to 67%, while the sides of the Syrian Al-Jazeera are still under the occupation of the American army, which came illegally under the pretext of fighting terrorism, and the northwestern side of Syria is still under the occupation of the terrorist groups that are supported by the United States of America and Turkey, which is betting on achieving geopolitical gains at the regional level through the Syrian gateway. Although Russia is preoccupied with its war with Ukraine, which is actually a war with NATO on the Ukrainian scene, the effects of the Russian presence in Syria are still ongoing, with the continued presence of Russian forces on the ground and the continued Russian role in working to restore the unity of Syrian territory through the political aspect of the talks it is conducting with the forces in northeastern Syria or with Turkey to achieve reconciliation between Syria and Turkey based on the unity and sovereignty of Syrian territory, and to find solutions to dismantle the armed terrorist groups in the areas of the northern Aleppo countryside and Idlib, in addition to the areas located between Ras al-Ain al-Abyad in the Syrian Jazeera . I believe that the Russian role will continue despite the war in Ukraine, as Syria is an arena of confrontation with the United States of America, complementary to the Ukrainian arena, and also complementary to the Palestinian, Lebanese and Yemeni arenas, where the conflict with the Western side is escalating in these regions, and Russia has no interest other than to be a fundamental supporter of all the forces that exist in these regions in order to preserve its national security. * Click the share button below to email/forward this article to your friends and colleagues. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. Get Your Free Copy of “Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War”! This interview was originally published on Mark Taliano. 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