Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War

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It is becoming increasingly clear that Israel and the US are setting the stage for a wide scale war in Lebanon.

Already set in 1947.


The Red Sea (https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14020923000330/Iran-Warns-US-ver-Red-Sea-Mariime-Task-Frce-Plan) is similar:



Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani downplayed US push to establish an international naval force in the Red Sea to protect merchant shipping, warning no one can maneuver in a region which Tehran dominates.

"There is no room in the region for outsiders to establish a presence and maneuver,” Brig. Gen. Ashtiani said Thursday.

The minister expressed confidence that the US would never carry out such a “foolish” act because it would cause tremendous problems.

“All countries are present in the region, but this region is ours, and we dominate it,” he stressed.



NATO for Ukraine and international coalition for Israel...hah.

If he says that, he probably has something he can shoot it with. Not hesitating to shoot Americans in Syria, I am sure he would do the same for the Red Sea. It just sounds ominous like that.


How are they going to do anything with this headful of sorry notions in summary from 3,100 pages (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231215/early-christmas-present-for-arms-makers-whats-inside-us-886-bln-defense-bill-1115602449.html):






Senate lawmakers on Thursday approved a historically unprecedented military budget, with the White House getting its way on increasing defense spending to levels unparalleled in peacetime in spite of the US’ growing Jenga tower of national debt.

The defense bill’s key funding arrangements include $14.7 billion in cash for the Pentagon’s so-called "Pacific Deterrence Initiative," which aims to continue ringing China with US military bases and offensive weapons platforms, and includes ramping up of training and cybersecurity support for Taiwan – the rogue Chinese province and technological powerhouse that’s at the heart of China-US tensions.

The legislation also features provisions for the implementation of the AUKUS security pact, including the transfer of three US Virginia-class submarines to Australia – another development that has escalated regional tensions and ruffled Beijing’s feathers.
The bill includes $300 million in annual "security assistance" to Ukraine through the end of 2026 – this time under the close eye of a specially appointed inspector general to make sure the money is going where it’s supposed to (previously, Pentagon officials admitted that they usually have no idea where the tens of billions of dollars’ worth of NATO arms go after crossing the border into Ukraine). The Ukraine funding is not to be confused with a separate, $61.4 billion request by the Biden administration for additional resources to continue funding the proxy war against Russia. That measure continues to be under debate as Congress’ holiday recess nears.

The bill lays out $11.5 billion for “defense-related activities,” $1 billion to finish construction of a new San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock for the Marine Corps, resources for the Navy’s Sea-Launched Cruise Missile Nuclear (SLCM-N) program, and $100 million in cash for new Air Force programs, including tinkering with experiments such as an unmanned F-16 fighter program.

The legislation prohibits the retirement of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptors, but does allow for older F-15 fighters and A-10 Warthog bombers to be scrapped.

Crucially, the legislation also extends a program launched last year specifically to send US arms to Ukraine allowing for the multiyear procurement of various munitions, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, Precision Strike Missiles and Small Diameter Bombs, and expands it to cover deliveries to Israel and Taiwan as well. This point offers ominous clues concerning Washington’s plans for interventions in various global hotspots, and may signal calculations by defense planners of the Palestinian-Israel crisis stretching deep into the future, and tensions over Taiwan going hot.

War Making Ok, Peacemaking No Go

The 2024 NDAA extends a controversial measure which prohibits the president of the United States from withdrawing American forces from NATO countries without approval from Congress. The provision is unabashedly aimed at preparing for a scenario in which a non-interventionist president decides to draw down US forces from countries and conflicts around the world, tying his or her hands with potentially unconstitutional restrictions.

Another controversial provision extended by the defense bill is a measure allowing US intelligence services to continue the warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals – including via the collection of their communication records, through the use of US-based communications services.

For the troops, the bill includes a 5.2 percent pay raise sweetener. However, there’s some bad news for the woke brigades, with provisions for financial support for abortion and sexual reassignment surgeries scrapped, and "diversity, equity and inclusion"-related job offerings frozen after wrangling by House Republicans. In addition, some 8,000 servicemen and women let go for refusing to take the COVID jab will be allowed to return to service.

The United States has had by far the largest military budgets in the world going back to the Second World War, typically spending more on defense than all of its major potential adversaries combined. However, spending has not always matched up with capabilities. According to a recent report by US News, Russia, whose military budget reached 9.7 trillion rubles (about $108 billion at the current exchange rate) ranked number one in military power in 2023, with the US ranking number two.


Because Russia's expenditures lack about 75% of the bloated overhead, productivity of the investment is comparable to four times as much or some $600 Billion of an American budget. And, usually they get nothing defective out of it.

As soon as they sign this stuff, fwoosh, no commander-in-chief can transfer forces out of Europe.

Unprecedented military budget this year folks.

That does not represent leadership into an era of peace such as was the claim around approximately the beginning of Israel.

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This story is insane.

The 3 Israeli hostages killed by the IDF were shirtless & waving a white flag when they were shot. One of them managed to escape while shouting for help in Hebrew, however, Israeli soldiers chased & executed him.

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An initial IDF probe into the hostage killing incident suggests all three men were shirtless, with one carrying a
makeshift white flag. On seeing them, one Israeli soldier shouted "terrorists!" to the other forces, initiating fire at the men,
according to reports. While two hostages were hit immediately and fell to the ground, the third managed to escape into a nearby building where despite pleas in Hebrew, he was also shot and killed, a
military official said.

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New on MoA:
A "Palestinian Terror Operative" Means Anyone Still Alive

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/a-palestinian-terror-operatives-is-anyone-still-alive.html

"Palestinian Terror Operative" Means Anyone Still Alive

The Zionist soldiers incredibly frightened and insane:

Initial IDF probe: Hostages were shirtless, waving white flag when soldiers opened fire (https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/initial-idf-probe-hostages-were-shirtless-waving-white-flag-when-soldiers-opened-fire/) - Times of Israel
The IDF provides new details of yesterday’s tragic incident in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, during which three Israeli hostages who managed to escape Hamas captivity were shot dead by troops. According to a senior officer in the Southern Command, citing an initial probe, the incident began after one soldier stationed in a building identified three suspicious figures exiting a building several dozen meters away.
All three were shirtless, with one of the figures carrying a stick with a makeshift white flag, according to the investigation.
The soldier, who believed the men moving toward him was an attempt by Hamas to lure IDF soldiers into a trap, immediately opened fire and shouted “terrorists!” to the other forces.
According to the probe, that soldier killed two of the men, while the third, who was hit and wounded, fled back into the building from which he came.
At that stage, the commander of the battalion, who was also in the building where the soldier shot from, went outside and called on the forces to halt their fire.
Meanwhile, sounds of someone shouting “Help” in Hebrew were heard by the troops in the area.
Moments later, the third man came out of the building to which he fled, and another soldier opened fire at him, killing him.
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Still, the IDF said it understands what led the soldiers to do so.
In Shejaiya, the senior officer says the IDF has not identified any Palestinian civilians in recent days.
The officer says troops have killed at least 38 Palestinian terror operatives in Shejaiya in recent days.
"Palestinian terror operatives" seems to be a synonym for 'anyone still alive'.

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Statement by the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem on the shooting and killing of two women in the Catholic church in Gaza. When will this end? Enough.


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Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Communication Office

16/12/2023

Around noon today, December 2023,16 a sniper of the IDF murdered two Christian women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where the majority of Christian families has taken refuge since the start of the war. Nahida and her
daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister's Convent. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Seven more people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect others inside the church compound. No warning was given, no notification was provided. They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish, where there are no belligerents. Earlier in the morning, a rocket fired from an IDF tank targeted the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Theresa (Missionaries of Charity). The Convent is home to over 54 disabled persons and is part of the church compound, which was signaled as a place of worship since the beginning of the war. The building's
generator (the only source of electricity) and the fuel resources were destroyed. The house was damaged by the resulting explosion and massive fire. Two more rockets, fired by an IDF tank, targeted the same Convent and rendered the home uninhabitable. The 54 disabled persons are currently displaced and without access to the respirators that some of them need to survive. In addition, as a result of the heavy bombing in the area, three people were wounded inside the church compound last night. Furthermore, solar panels and water tanks, which are indispensable for the survival of the community, were destroyed. Together in prayer with the whole Christian community, we express our closeness and condolences to the families affected by this senseless tragedy. At the same time, we cannot but express that we are at a loss to comprehend how such an attack could be carried out, even more so as the whole Church
prepares for Christmas. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem follows this developing situation with great
concern and shall provide additional information as needed.

Earlier in the morning, a rocket fired from an IDF tank targeted the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Theresa (Missionaries of Charity). The Convent is home to over 54 disabled persons and is part of the church compound, which was signaled as a place of worship since the beginning of the war. The building's
generator (the only source of electricity) and the fuel resources were destroyed. The house was damaged by the resulting explosion and massive fire. Two more rockets, fired by an IDF tank, targeted the same Convent and rendered the home uninhabitable. The 54 disabled persons are currently displaced and
without access to the respirators that some of them need to survive. In addition, as a result of the heavy bombing in the area, three people were wounded inside the church compound last night. Furthermore, solar panels and water tanks, which are indispensable for the survival of the community, were
destroyed. Together in prayer with the whole Christian community, we express our closeness and condolences to the families affected by this senseless tragedy. At the same time, we cannot but express that we are at a loss to comprehend how

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The Israeli army destroyed the southern part of Kamal Udwan hospital in Northern Gaza , continues besieging the hospital and shooting any body who moves. 12 infants are besieged in incubators without water or medical and nutritional supplies

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸A documented Israeli war crime... After cutting off telecommunications in Gaza, Israel's military invaded Kamal Idwan Hospital and buried patients alive then bulldozed them.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱‼️ Al Qassam released this video:

“We are afraid of dying from rockets

Please stop”

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸🇫🇷French MP Thomas Portes:

- More than 4,000 Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza have dual French citizenship
- The Minister of Justice must refer dual nationals convicted of war crimes to French justice
- France must strongly condemn the participation of French dual nationals in war crimes

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Israel's Unprecedented Artificial Intelligence Warfare in Gaza w/ Vanessa Beeley

Israel is relying heavily on artificial intelligence in its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, with the IDF using a system they call "The Gospel" to choose targets at an unprecedented rate. That's as a recent report says nearly half of the 30,000 bombs Israel has launched in the last 10 weeks have been "unguided" munitions.

Independent Journalist Vanessa Beeley says that anyone wondering why the U.S., the UK and the EU would support Israel—as it kills 20,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children—needs to keep in mind that they are using Gaza as a testing ground for the latest weapons and technology.

Lord of War

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Israel's military buried patients and displaced civilians alive in the courtyard of Kamal Idwan Hospital in northern #Gaza then ran over them with bulldozers.

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BREAKING| The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls for an international investigation into reports that Israel's military buried patients alive in the courtyard of Kamal Idwan Hospital north of #Gaza.

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A well-known Israeli real estate company, Harei Zahav, recognized for constructing hundreds of illegal settlements in the #WestBank , is promoting the establishment of a settlement over the rubble of #Gaza after ethnically cleansing it.


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✏️Top Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference in Beirut:

✅ The Israeli military carried out 1,700 massacres in 71 days in Gaza

✅The Israeli army is moving from one failure to the next

✅Hamas has no confidence in the US position regarding the war and Biden is a partner in the Gaza massacres.

✅45 percent of all of those killed in Gaza are displaced refugees, which exposes the lie of Israel that there is such a thing as safe zones.

FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG:
https://palestinechronicle.com/gaza-live-blog-white-house-saddened-by-dead-israelis-scores-of-palestinians-killed-in-jabaliya-kamal-adwan-hospital-under-siege-hezbollah-strikes-israeli-army-day-71/

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Article here,

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-live-blog-white-house-saddened-by-dead-israelis-scores-of-palestinians-killed-in-jabaliya-kamal-adwan-hospital-under-siege-hezbollah-strikes-israeli-army-day-71/


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ABU OBEIDA: The enemy is still gambling with the lives of their soldiers held captive by the resistance, indifferent to the feelings of their families.

Yesterday, they deliberately executed three of them, preferring their deaths over their liberation.

This is the same criminal behavior they have continuously practiced towards their captives in Gaza, in a desperate attempt to rid themselves of the burdens and obligations of this issue, which they are well aware of.

FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG:
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BREAKING | Journalist Muhammad Ba'lousha was injured by IOF snipers in Gaza, and is still bleeding in addition to the loss of communication with him


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Yemen forces UAE to send freight by land to 'Israel' through KSA

The #Yemeni Armed Forces are forcing the United Arab Emirates to reroute its shipments to "Israel" through land as it continues backing the occupation in its ongoing genocide in #Gaza.

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-forces-uae-to-send-freight-by-land-to--israel--through

Yemen forces UAE to send freight by land to 'Israel' through KSA


The first batch of fresh foodstuffs arrived in "Israel" from the United Arab Emirates in the first trial of a new land bridge that is to be used instead of the Red Sea due to the Yemeni blockade on the latter, the Israeli Walla! news website reported on Saturday.

The shipment of foodstuff was transported from the UAE "through the new land bridge [used] as an alternative to the Red Sea," media reports said. The freight was transported from the UAE through Saudi Arabia then Jordan and then "Israel".

Israeli reports said the initial trial was a success, with 10 trucks making it from the UAE to occupied Palestine for the benefit of the Israeli occupation.

The trucks had to cross a distance of some 2,000 km (1,242 miles) over two days and a few hours.

Israeli media in December said an agreement was signed between the authorities of the ports of Dubai, the UAE, and Haifa, occupied Palestine, regarding the establishment of a land bridge between the two ports in a bid to avert the "Yemeni threat to shut down maritime passages."

The world's second-largest shipping company, A.P. Moller-Maersk, announced Friday the suspension of all container traffic through the Red Sea until further notice. This decision comes in response to an attack by the Yemeni Armed Forces on its container ship in the Bab al-Mandab Strait on Thursday.

Simultaneously, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced that their Naval forces carried out a military operation against the Maersk Gibraltar cargo ship, which was en route to the Israeli occupation entity.

In a statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that the ship was targeted with a drone, adding that a direct hit was confirmed after the Maersk Gibraltar's crew refused to respond to warning calls from the Yemeni Naval Forces. The company claimed that the ship was not impacted by the attack.

"Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice," a company's spokesperson was quoted as saying by Sky News.

It is worth noting that Maersk announced last week that it will start imposing a new risk surcharge on container shipments heading to "Israel" starting next year, citing the need to cover rising insurance premiums due to the unstable security situation.

Two 'Israel'-bound ships attacked

The spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree publicly announced Friday that the Yemeni Naval Forces targeted the MSC Alanya and the MSC PALATIUM III with anti-ship missiles, dealing direct hits to the two vessels, having refused to heed Yemeni warnings in support of the oppressed Palestinian people, who are currently being subjected to massacres, destruction, and a siege in the Gaza Strip, in implementation of the directives of Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, and in response to the calls of the Yemeni people.

The Brigadier General emphasized that all vessels, heading to the Israeli occupation's ports, will continue to be targeted, until "Israel" lifts its blockade on Gaza and allows for the passage of necessities into the Strip, including food and medical supplies.

This is happening as the matter got worse for the Israeli occupation after the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced a new equation following a US veto on a ceasefire in Gaza at the UNSC meeting, which added ships heading to "Israel", regardless of their nationality, to the ban, and expanding its scope to the Arabian Sea, as well the Red Sea.

This comes alongside other attacks claimed by Yemen against Israeli targets, including the launch of long-range cruise missiles and drones on several occasions, as well as ballistic missiles at "Eilat" located in the southernmost region of occupied Palestine.

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While the Israeli occupation is relentlessly bombing the #Gaza Strip, it hasn't spared the #WestBank from its horrors as it has arrested 4,520 #Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, reported the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs and #Palestine Prisoners Club.

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Did you know?

For the 3rd day in a row, Israel has cut off Internet and phone lines across Gaza

This has been caused by Israel's heavy continuous bombardment across the entire Gaza Strip- telecom providers are unable to repair damaged infrastructure.


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#Lebanon / #Palestine / #Israel 🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱: #Hezbollah carried out another efficient attack on #IDF Position in Matat Point in #Galilee.

Hezbollah used two "Thar Allah" systems; each fired two #Russia-made 🇷🇺 9M133-1 Kornet-E / #Iran-made 🇮🇷 'Dehlavieh' HEAT/Thermobaric missiles.

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🇾🇪 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Liberia-flagged "MSC Tessa" Container Ship has started its long journey from Malaysia 🇲🇾 towards Portugal 🇵🇹 avoiding the Red Sea due to Ansar Allah late activities.

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4LWHZDO7tgE--discussion about RFK defence of Israel starting at 10.20 untill- 33.42

-15 dec 2023
Krystal and Saagar welcome RFK Jr. back to the studio for another long form discussion on a range of topics surrounding 2024 and his candidacy.

Learn more about RFK Jr.'s Campaign at: https://www.kennedy24.com/

(00:00)Intro
(00:12) 2024, Ballot Access, Sean Hannity
(10:26) Israel & Gaza
(33:42) Free Speech
(49:32) Abortion
(52:38) Housing
(55:00) VP Pick
(55:43) Epstein
(1:00:30) EoS

[Bill Ryan]

4LWHZDO7tgE--discussion about RFK defence of Israel starting at 10.20 untill- 33.42

-15 dec 2023
Krystal and Saagar welcome RFK Jr. back to the studio for another long form discussion on a range of topics surrounding 2024 and his candidacy.

Learn more about RFK Jr.'s Campaign at: https://www.kennedy24.com/

(00:00)Intro
(00:12) 2024, Ballot Access, Sean Hannity
(10:26) Israel & Gaza
(33:42) Free Speech
(49:32) Abortion
(52:38) Housing
(55:00) VP Pick
(55:43) Epstein
(1:00:30) EoS~~~

I went straight to (10:26) Israel & Gaza.

Here's how RFK Jr responded to a question about red lines for Israel.

You do everything you can, which I think Israel is doing right now, to avoid civilian casualties. You know, there's collateral damage in every war, and they're fighting an implacable enemy,. I don't think there's any country in the world who would go as far as Israel has gone to not invade Gaza.
At that point I closed the video. The guy's either an ignorant buffoon, or is somehow bought and paid for like so many others in Washington. Maybe both.

[shaberon]

Statement by the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem on the shooting and killing of two women in the Catholic church in Gaza. When will this end?


It won't.

It just means the Latin Patriarchs have temporarily managed to shift the view from their own bloody history of killing people for what they think.

That must be "the west"...inventors of destroying "ideological adversaries".

Oh, that's right. Exactly what Aristotle said.

Well, having wasted the fifteen minutes of fame from "sympathy for the Jews", finding it to be a particularly rotten nightmare, we can pretty much predict infinite violence coming from any state of Zion. It has no other function from what I am aware of.

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Why Israel Can't Win: War Expert Prof. Paul Roger's Devastating Interview

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Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies and one of the world's leading experts on war. This is a devastating interview which draws on what's happening on the ground and other precedents - like Iraq and Afghanistan - which exposes why Israel cannot win this.


youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks/videos)
use the: "sort popular" option, then see the top 10 internal channel search results!

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Israel Gaza: Hostages were carrying white cloth when shot, IDF says


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7G_ckSsX_Y?si=5Ha0MDqO1zoQoHvB

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Israel Sent SUITCASES OF CASH Into Gaza For Hamas Says NYTimes!:

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If you believe the standard narrative, the Netanyahu government in Israel is a moral enemy of that evil terrorist group, Hamas. But if you actually know anything, you’d be aware that Netanyahu has actually been secretly supporting Hamas for years, and now we’re finding out that Israel was actually helping funnel millions of dollars from Qatar to Hamas in Gaza, delivered in briefcases full of cash.

Jimmy and Kurt Metzger talk to Due Dissidence host Russell Dobular about why Netanyahu would find common cause with Hamas.

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Interesting short documentary (17 minutes) on the history of Hamas from 1987 to October 7, 2023, mentioning several issues/events that I had not been aware of. The conclusion seems to be that no matter what Hamas tried, including diplomatic engagements, Isreal never conceded anything material, on the contrary, Isreal only tried to grab more. And the only way Isreal will ever reach a sense of security is to deal with Palestinians not militarily, but on a political level.

Those of you experts in the history of that part of the world, do you see this report as accurate, or not?

What Does Hamas ACTUALLY Want?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pjo3bJPrd8

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I have to laugh again at the youtube notation that "AlJazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari...", which I just saw on the video above.
So, when will youtube note that mainstream media of the west is funded by the military industrial complex. And that Isreal continues to exist only because of its parasitic role in USA politics.

Indeed, most USA politicians are bought and paid for by the Isreal lobby, which is able to fund this enterprise because of the several billions of $$$ 'aid' provided by USA taxpayers EVERY YEAR! How long can that circular operation last... Usually, the parasitic-host dynamic lasts only until the host is overly weakened. That seems to be what's going to happen here, and soon.

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Israeli journalist Shimon Riklin called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and openly supported War crimes on Israel national TV: I am for the war crimes, I don't care if I am criticized. I am unable to sleep if I do not see houses being destroyed in Gaza, I want there to be nothing for them to return to. They must remember that they are Amalek. This is why we cannot reach a solution with them.

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This morning Israeli snipers shot and killed my two family friends in an attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.

Nahida (Um Emad Anton) and Samar, mother and daughter, were walking to the Sisters’ Convent to use the only bathroom.

One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Their bodies remain strewn across the church courtyard.

The water tanks and solar panels were also struck. We don’t know if they have enough water to survive.

The Christian community in Gaza is on the verge of extinction.

There are about 800 of us left, some sheltering in the Catholic church, some in the Orthodox church, and a few still in their homes in Gaza City.

There are approximately 530 Christians inside the Holy Family, 60 per cent are women and children.

My family has been sheltered there since St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church was bombed and my cousin was murdered.

This is a targeted death campaign during the Christmas season on the world’s oldest Christian community.

Earlier this morning, an Israeli tank fired on the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Theresa. The convent housed ~54 people with disabilities. The generator was destroyed, taking out electricity. Then two more shells were fired completely destroying the convent. Many of these people are now without the respirators they need to survive.

The Red Cross has submitted a request to the Pope for urgent intervention.

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Hezbollah attacks Israeli assembly points in 'Menara': Footage


The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah, published Saturday footage showing its Resistance fighters attacking an Israeli assembly point on the Lebanese-Palestinian border area.

Hezbollah conducted an operation against an assembly point of Israeli soldiers in the "Menara" settlement near the occupied Palestinian-Lebanese border area.

The footage shows the Resistance bombing several sites in occupied northern Palestine and dealing paramount damage to them as the precision-guided missiles struck their targets, causing several apparent casualties.

The Resistance carried out a total of 10 operations against the Israeli occupation forces in northern occupied Palestine and occupied southern Lebanon.

Moreover, the Resistance announced that three of its fighters were martyred on the path to al-Quds, including Musa "Jihad" Mohammad Mustafa from Beit Lif, Hassan "Osama" Musa al-Diqa from Hezzin, and Hassan "Ali Ibrahim" Ma'en Srour from Aita al-Shaab.

Earlier in the day, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for several operations carried out against the Israeli occupation forces.

At 8:30 AM (local time), Hezbollah fighters targeted an Israeli bunker in the "Birket Risha" military site opposite the Lebanese town of Bustan. The Resistance faction confirmed that Israeli soldiers had taken position in the bunker, prior to the operation which dealt direct hits to its intended targets.

Half an hour later, Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli force in the vicinity of the "Hanita" military site, further to the west side of the Lebanese-Palestinian border. Hezbollah confirmed, in a statement, direct hits.

The next operation targeted an Israeli infantry force entering a camouflaged position to the east of the occupied upper al-Jalil kibbutz of "Sasa". The position targeted is past the Israeli "Dovev" Barracks and is located approximately 3 km away from the Lebanese-Palestinian border.

Forty minutes later, Hezbollah fighters targeted a nearby grouping of Israeli soldiers in woodlands to the east of "Sasa", confirming casualties among members of the force.

Read more: Hezbollah kills, injures Israeli force entering intelligence outpost

Interestingly, all four of the Resistance's operations directly targeted Israeli occupation soldiers, rather than military infrastructure or equipment. The operations come in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and its Resistance. These consecutive operations also come after Israeli warplanes launched a strike on the Lebanese village of Houmine, north of the Nabatieh governate, on Saturday night.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli artillery units targeted the vicinities of the Lebanese towns of Kfar Kila, al-Taybeh, and Blida.

It is worth noting that Hezbollah has been leading operations launched from South Lebanon since October 8, supporting the Palestinian Resistance, which faces an unprecedented ground invasion in the Gaza Strip. The Resistance faction has introduced high-caliber Burkan rockets, attack drones, and anti-tank guided missiles, in their targeting of Israeli occupation forces throughout periods of confrontations.

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83% of online posts about war are anti-Zionist, study finds

Since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, data obtained by Mig AI, a company specializing in monitoring and analysis of media and social networks, suggests that posts online are far more likely to be anti-Israeli than pro-Zionist.

Mig AI said data it got its hands on in terms of posts related to the ongoing aggression on Gaza are predominantly anti-Israeli, with a whopping 83% of posts online being against the Israeli occupation.

1.9 million posts relating to the ongoing aggression on Gaza that received at least 500 likes, shares, and comments were used in the analysis, and more than 1.5 million of these posts were against the Israeli occupation, an overwhelming majority of 83%.

Moreover, a study examining 371,000 articles published on international news websites found that very few of them, only 8%, were in support of the Israeli occupation. Reportedly, 64% of the articles were "neutral" while those that were against the Israeli occupation were triple those in support of it, i.e., 24%.

This comes as popular outrage against the Israeli occupation continued to climb throughout its aggression on Gaza.

Amidst the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, cities across the United States have become a hotspot for protests, with several hundred reported since the outbreak of hostilities, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), as reported by Axios.

Popular outrage on the rise

In light of the escalation in Israeli aggression on Gaza, there has also been a sizeable uptick in the number of pro-Palestine protests taking place all around the globe, and perhaps most notably in the United States.

Opinion polls highlight that younger Americans, in particular, are growing more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause since the start of the latest round of Israeli aggression.

ACLED took a look at all the protests and classified them into three groups: pro-Israeli protests, pro-Palestinian protests, and neutral protests, i.e., ones calling for a ceasefire but not expressing any pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian sentiment.

The trend in the US reveals an evolving landscape of sentiment. Initially, Operation al-Aqsa Flood, demonstrations in the country were predominantly pro-Zionist.

However, as the Israeli military response gained momentum, pro-Palestinian protests began to outnumber their pro-Israeli counterparts within a week, as indicated by the data.

Pro-Palestine protests cannot be quelled

According to comprehensive data analysis, a total of 3,891 demonstrations, expressing both support and opposition to the Israeli occupation, have taken place in 92 countries, underscoring the growing hatred for "Israel" in light of its aggression on Gaza.

The Israeli institute, however, noted that the sheer number of pro-Palestinian demonstrations greatly overshadowed that of pro-Zionist ones.

Analyzing data compiled from the first six days of the aggression on Gaza shows that "Israel's" unpopularity was skyrocketing, especially in comparison to the high rate of pro-Palestine protests. 69% of the protests during those six days were in support of Palestine while a mere 31% were in favor of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

A major shift, however, took place on October 13, when Hamas declared a "Day of Rage", which resulted in a surge of pro-Palestinian demonstrations that sought to condemn the Israeli occupation. The pro-Palestine protests accounted for 95% of all demonstrations while the Israeli occupation had a puny 5%.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are surging all over the globe, taking place in at least 88 countries. Aside from the rest of the Arab world where pro-Palestinian demonstrations are taking place regularly at dozens per day, and where Yemen is in the lead by a whopping 486 demonstrations thus far, the United States has taken the lion's share of demonstrations, with 402 demonstrations taking place there.

Moreover, Turkey had 355 protests while Iran had 275. Comparatively speaking, only 182 pro-Israeli demonstrations have taken place in the United States, one out of only 45 countries that saw such gatherings.

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Hong Kong’s OOCL halts Israeli shipments

In response to the growing threat to commercial shipping in the Red Sea, Hong Kong-based shipping company OOCL has announced Sunday the ban of shipments to and from "Israel".

According to Israeli media, the port of "Eilat" has also been completely disabled.

OOCL's headquarters are in Hong Kong, and it has announced it will immediately end its shipment of Israeli goods whether imported or exported to all destinations.

In a statement published on its website, the company wrote “Due to operational issues, OOCL will stop cargo acceptance to and from Israel with immediate effect until further notice."

According to Israeli media, the suspension of Israeli goods means the company is specifically targeting "Israel" in a boycott, and if shipping companies choose to boycott "Israel" then the occupation will be isolated.

If shipping companies have to reroute to reach "Israel", Israeli media warned about the longer shipping time and result in higher costs of shipping for Israelis.

This in turn will lead to a rising cost that will undoubtedly raise inflation and make it difficult for the Central Bank of "Israel" to tackle interest rates.

On Friday, Axios highlighted that the arrival of merchant ships at the Israeli port of "Eilat" has "almost completely stopped" due to attacks from the Yemeni Armed Forces in the Red Sea against ships heading to the Israeli occupation entity.

On Saturday, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a military operation using unmanned aerial vehicles on sensitive targets in the Umm al-Rashrash region ("Eilat") in southern occupied Palestine, with a large swarm of drones.

The Yemeni armed forces specified in a statement that the operation is in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are subjected to death, destruction, and a blockade in Gaza.

Shipping firms MSC, CMA CGM suspend passage through Red Sea

After repeated operations from Yemeni Armed Forces in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Shipping Company and CMA CGM, announced Saturday they were suspending passage through the Red Sea.

The declaration by MSC, an Italian-Swiss conglomerate, and CMA CGM, a French shipping company, follows a similar move by the world's second-largest shipping company, A.P. Moller-Maersk, who announced, on Friday, the suspension of all container traffic through the Red Sea until further notice.

This decision comes in response to an attack by the Yemeni Armed Forces on container ships heading to Israeli-occupied Palestine in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Simultaneously, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced that their Naval forces carried out a military operation against the Maersk Gibraltar cargo ship, which was en route to the Israeli occupation entity.

On Saturday morning, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed a US missile destroyer in the Red Sea shot down 14 drones fired from Yemen, adding that regional allies had been notified of the incident.

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🚨BREAKING: IDF CLAIMS THEY FOUND “TERRORIST CITIES” IN THE TUNNELS

IDF spokesman on the tunnel:
"This is a flagship project of Hamas. This is a branched underground network in the construction of which dozens of terrorists participated, and millions of dollars were invested."

Hagar: "It's not a tunnel; it's a city. A terrorist city that Hamas dug. Soon, we will reveal more cities where we will treat and breathe."

"We are checking another building where the three abductees may have stayed as well."

Hagari: "We have mapped 3 centers of this magnitude of a terrorist city. We will later reveal the others as well."

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🚨 REVEALED: "SINWAR'S TUNNELS" STRETCH 2.5 MILES OF RAILS

New details emerge on the extensive Hamas tunnel system, dubbed "Sinwar's Tunnels."

Stretching over 2.5 miles and close to the Erez Crossing, this elaborate network had what appears to be mining-style rail tracks constructed to carry materials and workers in and out of the tunnels.

The tunnel, a project of Mohammad Sinwar, highlights the intricate underground efforts in the region.

Source: IDF

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🚨PRCS views with great concern the targeting by the occupation artillery of the maternity ward in Nasser Medical Complex in #KhanYounis, leading to several casualties.

⚠️This violation is a serious indication of targeting hospitals and medical centers that enjoy protection and immunity according to international humanitarian law. We call on international community to provide full protection for medical teams and hospitals.
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#NotATarget ❌

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Dear friends,

As people worldwide are preparing for Christmas they always think of Bethlehem. Because of the war on Gaza, and as a sign of mourning for the thousands of civilians murdered there, the churches in the Holy Land decided to cancel all Christmas festivities.

Yet the Christmas story is a Palestinian story par excellence. It talks about a family from Nazareth who is forced by the Roman Empire to evacuate from the north of Palestine, that is Nazareth, to the South, that is Bethlehem.

Jesus was born to a displaced family. There was no place for him at the inn, so he was born in a manger.

The situation in Palestine under Roman occupation 2,000 years ago was not easy at all. In fact, King Herod ordered the massacre of all the children in the Bethlehem area. Over 8,000 children have been murdered by the Israeli air strikes in Gaza within 5 weeks.

The weeping that is heard today in Gaza resembles very much the weeping that was heard in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. On that night, a choir of angels was singing “Gloria in excelsis Deo.” This was a hymn of resistance. The glory is God’s only, not the Empire with all its military, economic, and intelligence capabilities.

Peace on Earth was also a statement of resistance. It was a critique of the so-called Pax Romana, the Peace of the Empire: the Roman understanding of peace based on military oppression and dehumanization of people who are non-Roman.

The peace that the Angels declared was a peace based on justice, human dignity, and equality.

The child of Bethlehem who experienced military oppression, displacement, and I’m sure traumatization, grew up preaching, “Blessed are the peacemakers” (not the peace talkers by the way), declared freedom to the captives, and justice to those downtrodden, that they deserve life in dignity and not death.

Freedom and not Nakba.

Equality and not dehumanization.

But allow me also to express my appreciation to all the people worldwide who poured into the major cities in the world from London to Washington, from Cape Town to Amman, from Casablanca to Barcelona from Jakarta to Hiroshima, from Oakland to Seoul, from Sanaa to Copenhagen. They are marching, showing their solidarity, calling for a permanent ceasefire, and for a just peace.

Thank you.

While we prepare for Christmas we are reminded by our Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish to think of others, and especially today, to think of Gaza.

He wrote:

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
(do not forget the pigeon’s food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others
(do not forget those who seek peace).
As you pay your water bill, think of others
(those who are nurtured by clouds).
As you return home, think of others
(do not forget the people of the camps).
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others
(those who have nowhere to sleep).
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
(those who have lost the right to speak).
As you think of others far away, think of yourself
(say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”).

Think of others.

Think of Gaza.

Think of Palestine.

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Starving Palestinians loot aid trucks as desperation mounts in Gaza’s Rafah
Not enough aid is flowing into the strip, forcing the Palestinians into a ‘survival mode’ amid heavy Israeli attacks.


The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to worsen after more than two months of Israeli bombing and forced displacement of people to the enclave’s south.

On Sunday, hungry and desperate Palestinians were seen jumping onto aid trucks in order to get food and other supplies in Gaza’s Rafah area near the border with Egypt.

Dozens of Palestinians surrounded the aid trucks after they drove in through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, forcing some to stop before climbing aboard, pulling food and water boxes down, and carrying them off or passing them off to crowds below.

Some trucks appeared to be guarded by masked people carrying sticks.

“The humanitarian situation has become very desperate, not only for the residents of Rafah city but also for the one million displaced Palestinians here who are becoming hungry, thirsty and traumatised as the war pounds on,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah.

Mahmoud said the amount of aid being allowed inside the strip is not enough and has forced the Palestinians into a “survival mode”.

“People are without anything – without a home, without access to food, without water and without medical supplies,” he said.

“So, the scenes at Rafah crossing are a natural response: When people starve to death, when they are hungry, this is what we will see happening.”

‘Desperate for food’

The United Nations this week warned that people in Gaza are so “desperate for food” that they are stopping aid trucks and immediately eating what they find.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA who visited the strip recently, said the residents, despite their long and difficult history of suffering under Israeli siege, have “never, ever experienced” hunger of this kind.

“I saw it with my eyes that people in Rafah have started to decide to help themselves directly from the truck out of total despair and eat what they have taken out of the truck on the spot,” Lazzarini said on Thursday.


On the same day, Carl Skau, the deputy head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), confirmed that nearly half of the people in Gaza are starving, with no idea where their next meal is coming from.

The WFP said half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million is starving as the Israeli military’s assault on the southern part of the enclave expands and people are cut off from supplies.

Drone footage from southern Gaza on Sunday showed volunteers from the Gaza Emergency Relief prepare a giant stew.

Aid deliveries crossing into Gaza via Rafah, the sole entry point on the Egyptian border, are only a fraction of pre-conflict levels, despite the surge in needs.

Aid coming through the border crossing has been slow to deliver what the Gaza Strip population needs because of delays from truck inspections.

Rafah is sheltering more than 12,000 people per square kilometre, housing an estimated 85 percent of people displaced across Gaza since the attacks began on October 7.

That day, Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing some 1,140 people and taking another 240 captives.

Israel’s bombardment has since killed 18,787 people and injured another 50,897, while thousands are believed to be buried under the rubble.

Despite thousands sheltering at the crossing, Rafah continues to be the target of Israeli air strikes.

A massive explosion took place overnight in the Geneina district of Rafah, with two people killed and residential homes targeted and destroyed, said Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud.

“A large number of injured have been brought to the Kuwaiti hospital here,” he said. “We are talking about more than 50 people injured.”

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Netanyahu Says He’s ‘Proud’ of Preventing a Palestinian State
Israeli officials have rejected the idea of a two-state solution after the war
by Dave DeCamp Posted on December 17, 2023Categories NewsTags Israel, Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he’s “proud” of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.

“I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state because today everybody understands what that Palestinian state could have been, now that we’ve seen the little Palestinian state in Gaza,” Netanyahu said.

The Israeli leader has come under intense domestic criticism due to his strategy of helping prop up Hamas in Gaza to prevent a Palestinian state and the intelligence failure that allowed the October 7 attack on southern Israel to happen. In the face of the pressure, Netanyahu has reportedly pitched himself to fellow Likud party members as the only one who can prevent a Palestinian state.

Netanyahu also said he would “not let the State of Israel go back to the fateful mistake of Oslo,” referring to the 1993 Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which established the Palestinian Authority (PA) and were meant to pave the way to a lasting peace deal.

The comments from Netanyahu come as Biden administration officials continue to insist a two-state solution must be reached after the Gaza war despite clear opposition among Israeli officials. Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the UK, told Sky News last week that there was “absolutely no” chance of a two-state solution.

The Biden administration has said it wants the PA to take over Gaza, an idea Netanyahu has outright rejected. The PA is also extremely unpopular among Palestinians, as a recent poll found nearly 90% of Palestinians want PA President Mahmoud Abbas to resign.

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In an eagerly anticipated conversation, we are set to engage with Alastair Crooke, the esteemed former British Ambassador, to delve into the captivating question: "Does Netanyahu Have an Exit Planned?"

This dialogue promises to unravel the complexities of Israeli politics and the enigma that surrounds Benjamin Netanyahu, the long-serving Prime Minister of Israel. As we explore this intriguing topic with Ambassador Crooke, the anticipation is palpable.

With a distinguished career in diplomacy and a profound understanding of Middle Eastern affairs, Crooke is poised to offer unique insights into the motivations and strategies that may be guiding Netanyahu as he navigates the intricate political landscape.

Viewers & Listeners can anticipate a thought-provoking exploration of Netanyahu's legacy and the broader implications of his actions on Israel's political landscape. Crooke's ability to contextualize events within the larger geopolitical framework will add depth to the discussion, offering a comprehensive perspective on the dynamics at play.

This conversation holds the promise of unraveling the mysteries surrounding Netanyahu's political trajectory, with Alastair Crooke's seasoned analysis guiding the way.

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🇾🇪🚨‼️ BREAKING: Houthis attacked two ships!

Statement: “The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation against two ships linked to the Zionist entity. The first was the “Swan Atlantic” ship, loaded with oil, and the other was the “MSC Clara” ship, carrying containers. They were targeted by two seaplanes.

The process of targeting the two ships came after their crews refused to respond to calls from the Yemeni naval forces.

The Yemeni Armed Forces reiterate their reassurance to all ships heading to all ports around the world, except for Israeli ports, that no harm will befall them and that they must keep the dating device open.

The Yemeni Armed Forces also reiterate that they will not hesitate to target any ship that violates what was stated in its previous statements.

The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm that they continue to prevent all ships heading to Israeli ports of any nationality from navigating the Arab and Red Seas until they bring in the food and medicine that our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip need.”

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Global energy producer BP has temporarily paused all transits through the #RedSea, the company stated today, following the recent escalation in the area.

"In light of the deteriorating security situation for shipping in the Red Sea, BP has decided to temporarily pause all transits through the Red Sea," the company stated.

In addition, Taiwanese container shipping line, Evergreen Line, also announced that it would direct its container ships to suspend journeys "until further notice."

This comes in light of the Yemeni Armed Forces' operations that are in support of #Gaza, which saw the prohibition of all ships bound to "Israel", regardless of their nationality, from passing through the Arabian and Red Seas until food and medicine sufficient to the needs of the population enter the besieged Strip.

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US-led anti-Yemen maritime coalition choked by UAE, Saudi divergence
US efforts to establish a maritime military coalition to counter the growing escalation by Yemen, which has launched a phase of operations since November in support of Gaza in the face of the Israeli brutal war, is currently being blocked by a core dispute among Washington's Arab allies, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing sources.

The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which started during their war on Yemen years ago and set a race for dominance and influence in West Asia, has become a major obstacle today in the face of the US plans.

Read more: 'UAE stabbed us in the back': MBS

'Prosperity Guardian' against Gaza

Since Yemen enforced an equation of targeting all Israeli and Israeli-affiliated vessels in the Red Sea, which later expanded the scope to the Arabian Sea and to include any cargo ship heading to the occupation entity regardless of its nationality, several major shipping companies announced redirecting their ships away from the prohibited areas.

The new route would see commercial vessels circling Africa to reach destinations in the Mediterranean, which would increase delivery time and shipping costs. Additionally, the insurance premiums were hiked on all merchandise making its way to the entity due to rising security risks.

Read more: US threatened Sanaa, received ballistic response on 'Israel': Excl.

In a report published on Sunday, War Zone revealed, citing a Pentagon official who requested anonymity, that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, during his upcoming trip to the Middle East this week, is set to unveil an international initiative called "Prosperity Guardian".

According to the website, the purpose of this program is to safeguard ships in the Red Sea from potential operations. The group's activities would include patrolling the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.

Diplomacy vs war

Today, the main disagreement between the two oil-rich countries is how to respond to the equation imposed by the Yemeni Armed Forces.

Riyadh supports a more balanced approach, fearing severe retaliation from Sanaa, as seen in previous years, particularly with the attacks on Aramco in 2019 - which disrupted half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production after targeting an oil-processing plant. This concern also arises in the context of ongoing peace talks following 8 years of failed aggression against the country.

Furthermore, the Kingdom believes diplomatic discussions with Iran would help solve the matter and avert a military escalation, reflecting a new Saudi policy toward the Islamic Republic following the China-brokered rapprochement deal last March.

Read more: Iran, Saudi call for a ceasefire in Gaza

However, despite Sanaa also proving that it is capable of causing extensive damage to the UAE, evidently from several previous operations, the Gulf state is urging Washington to launch a military attack on Yemen and to redesignate Ansar Allah as a "terrorist organization".

“There’s mounting pressure on Washington to take more robust action, and a pivot is coming,” analysts at Rapidan Energy Group, a Washington-based risk advisory firm, said, commenting on the issue, pointing out that the situation in the Red Sea, added to the Israeli confrontations with Lebanese Resistance Hezbollah, “may prompt markets to start pricing in geopolitical risk.”

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US pressures Saudi Arabia to postpone imminent peace deal with Yemen
Although a peace deal is reportedly ready to be signed, Washington wants the kingdom to instead join a naval 'task force' that will confront Sanaa's forces in support of Israel

The US is exerting pressure on Saudi Arabia to delay the signing of a peace agreement with Yemen and instead join an expanded maritime protection task force to confront Yemeni attacks against Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea.

According to a report by Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, a draft peace deal between Sanaa and Riyadh has been finalized. It could be signed before the end of the year, potentially ending a NATO-backed war that has decimated the Arab world's poorest country for eight years.

“Saudi Arabia is going through a difficult test between two options […] Either it will emerge from the Yemeni quagmire under a roadmap agreed upon with Sanaa, or it will submit to US dictates and join the international maritime coalition, and this means remaining vulnerable to [western] blackmail,” the Al-Akhbar report details.

Despite the pressure from Washington, the kingdom is reportedly “continuing on the path to peace" and is working to “speed up” the completion of the peace agreements to avoid “further obstruction by the Emiratis or local agents.”

Saudi and Yemeni negotiators have given their final comments on the agreement. The revised version was recently delivered to UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, who has started coordinating an official peace ceremony.

According to Al-Akhbar's sources in Riyadh and Sanaa, the peace deal includes the complete lifting of a land, sea, and air blockade imposed on Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition, a “consensual mechanism” to pay the salaries of public employees, and the free export of oil from Saudi-controlled regions.

"The ball is in Riyadh’s court, which is under US pressure to delay the signing and enter into a war alliance against Yemen in the Red Sea,” Al-Akhbar highlights, adding that UAE-backed forces are also looking to derail the peace process.

A peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Yemen would significantly hamper US efforts to deploy an international naval task force to the Red Sea to protect Israel's maritime trade.

“The force, provisionally entitled Operation Prosperity Guardian, is due to be announced by the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, when he visits [West Asia],” UK daily The Guardian reported on 17 December.

The US war chief is set to visit Israel later this week to meet with senior officials. According to the British outlet, western officials believe Washington has secured the involvement of Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, and Bahrain.

For the past several weeks, the Yemeni armed forces have been launching attacks on Israeli-linked commercial vessels attempting to cross the Bab al-Mandab Strait south of the Suez Canal.

In response, five of the world's largest shipping companies have announced a complete cessation of activities in the vital sea route. These are Hong Kong-based OOCL, France's CMA CGM, the Danish Maersk, the German Hapag-Lloyd, and the Italian-Swiss-owned Mediterranean Shipping Co.

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Mossad chief joins in captives talks with Qatari PM, CIA Director
Mossad chief David Barnea is set to hold discussions in Warsaw with CIA director Bill Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani regarding efforts to negotiate a new prisoner deal, according to reports from Israeli media.

The source involved in the matter said the talks are expected to be "long, complicated and more difficult than before."

In the same context, Israeli officials said "Tel Aviv" is anticipating greater difficulty reaching an agreement on the terms of a potential new deal, Axios reported.

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The urgency of the negotiations has heightened after Israeli occupation forces in Gaza killed three Israeli captives despite them holding up a white flag on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

This incident has amplified public demands in "Israel" to prioritize the release of captives over other military objectives, intensifying tensions within the Israeli entity.

It is worth noting that thousands of Israeli captives' families protested on Friday evening in "Kaplan" Street, now known as the "Hostages Square" in "Tel Aviv", demanding that their government restart negotiations for a new prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian Resistance, according to Israeli media.

Last month, Burns visited Doha, Qatar, to meet with David Barnea, the chief of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency, and senior Qatari officials. These discussions were part of negotiations that resulted in the release of Israeli captives in exchange for a pause in Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The weeklong pause collapsed at the beginning of this month. Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, along with Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., is scheduled to meet on Monday with the five members of the Israeli war cabinet, including Israeli occupation's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Security Minister Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz.

Austin and Brown are arriving after an especially tumultuous weekend in "Israel", marked by the killing of three Israeli captives on Friday in an alleged case of mistaken identity.

Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official in Beirut, stated in a news conference on Monday that he informed Qatari and Egyptian mediators that the group will not engage in prisoner talks with "Israel" unless "Israel" halts its aggression on Gaza.

“We are against any partial measures, and it is the occupation that hinders the process,” said Hamdan.

According to Egyptian officials, Hamas has informed negotiators that it is willing to release more captives if aid to Gaza is doubled.

However, Hamas insisted that "Israel" must agree to a ceasefire first and withdraw its invading forces behind predetermined lines. It also demands the right to unilaterally decide on a list of captives to be released and the freedom of certain longest-serving Palestinian prisoners, including Marwan Barghouti, a prominent leader in the Fatah movement.

Meanwhile, European views on the Israeli aggression have hardened, with UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock calling for a sustainable ceasefire over the weekend. This marks a departure from their previous alignment with US support for the Israeli campaign.

As "Israel" continues in its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, Washington finds itself increasingly isolated in international diplomacy due to its steadfast support for the Israeli military operation. It is worth noting that more than 19,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, were killed due to relentless Israeli aggression in 73 days, and the numbers are expected to rise as hundreds remain under the rubble.

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⚡ 🇮🇱 Israeli Haaretz media admitted that some of the civilians who were humiliated by the Israeli army were killed.

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"In the detention facility at the 'Yemen field' base Several Palestinians have died since the beginning of the war."

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🇺🇸🇾🇪American Options To Stop Yemeni Threats In The Red Sea Are Practically Impossible To Implement.

On 17-December- 2023

In the latest report on the repercussions of the Yemeni decisions regarding imposing a blockade on the Israeli occupation entity, cutting off its maritime navigation from the Red and Arabian Seas, and also preventing the passage of any ships of any nationality going to the Israeli occupation entity from the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, the British BBC channel, in its English version, said in a report that the four major companies in the world that stopped operating their shipping cruises through the Red Sea due to the threats of the Yemenis represent 4 of the most important maritime shipping companies in the world out of the 5 largest companies in the world, and that the decisions of these companies to stop crossing from the Red Sea will be financially costly, according to shipping experts.

The report added that insurance policy premiums are now rising to very high levels, if able to obtain insurance in the first place, for ships heading to the Israeli occupation entity.

According to observers, stopping the Yemeni threats against ships heading to the Israeli occupation, or against Israeli shipping ships, or ships partially owned by Israel, or Israeli businessmen, is not possible except by implementing the conditions put forward by the Sanaa government for this matter, which is lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip and entering all the food and medicine that the Strip needs.

There remains a final option for the Americans and Israelis, which is to assign naval warships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea to protect commercial ships crossing the Red Sea. In this case, the matter will be impossible, because the number of commercial ships crossing the Red Sea is very large and not every single commercial ship can assign a warship. To accompany it during its crossing off Yemeni waters, the United States itself was unable to protect the Israeli ships, even though they were few in number, and the matter ended with the Americans trying to confront the attacks targeting their destroyers, and there was no time to confront those attacks targeting the commercial ship.

Even if we assume that all the countries allied with America have mobilized all their naval vessels to the region, the number is not sufficient to cover all the commercial ships that pass daily.

The military option promoted by the American media, which Washington will resort to to stop the Yemeni threats in the Red Sea, is completely illogical. The United States of America, according to what it says, wants to contain the conflict in the region and not expand it, and going to use the military option against Sanaa is a form of madness.

The military option is considered illogical. In Yemen the Americans, who were supervising the war that Saudi Arabia has been waging against Yemen since March 2015, were unable to win. Now, Yemen has been able to enhance its military capabilities tremendously and many times over what the Yemeni military capabilities were before. From an economic standpoint, the mere formation of a naval force to launch a military campaign in Yemen, is in and of itself, even if no shot was fired, a mistake. A single shot is a very threatening and worrying matter, and quite enough to force all the world's ships to stop crossing through the Red Sea.

It is very expected that any military attack in the Red Sea on Yemen will ignite the entire region with fire that will not only affect American interests in the region but also the interests of its allies. Perhaps the most prominent of these interests is the energy supplies that flow from the Gulf states affiliated with the United States of America, and Yemen's military capabilities have been proven. The Yemeni military possesses today medium and even long-range ballistic missiles, such as those that reach the Israeli occupation entity, winged cruise missiles, drones, smart surface-to-sea missiles, guided surface-to-sea missiles, missiles and radar systems capable of detecting all maritime military movements. In short, Yemen now possesses missiles that have the accuracy of hitting any moving or fixed target at any point in the entire Red Sea.

Therefore, any military attack on Yemen from the sea will be met with a harsh and strong Yemeni response.

In conclusion, the military option is a failed option in every sense of the word, and the least reason that leads to this result is the presence of missiles of the Yemeni army that can be launched from any geographical area inside Yemen to strike any target at any point in the Red Sea, meaning that even thinking about a military operation American forces aiming to strike the coastal areas on the western Yemeni shores with the intention of neutralizing the Yemeni navy and missile force from carrying out any attacks again is futile because Sanaa has weapons that enable it to strike any target in the sea from any area on the Yemeni mainland.

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🇺🇸🇦🇪🇸🇦🇾🇪 ❗️A Leader In Ansar Allah: We will turn Dubai Ports into stations for migratory birds, and Saudi Arabia has the news as it saw it, not as it heard.

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A leader in Ansar Allah warned both the UAE and Saudi Arabia against engaging in any American foolishness that would lead to tightening the noose around the Yemenis in the port of Hodeidah.

A member of the Ansar Allah Political Bureau, Abdullah Al-Naami, said in his account on the “X” platform: “America is pushing the UAE and Saudi Arabia to march on the port of Hodeidah and control it to impose an economic blockade on the Yemeni people.” He said: “This option has undesirable consequences, and is fraught with death from all angles.”

He pointed out that the glass of the Emirates Towers will fly and may turn into knives in the stomachs of Gulf fish and whales.

He said: “One missile at the Dubai Power Station will turn Dubai into a mass of complete darkness, and ten winged missiles will be enough to turn Dubai’s ports into stations for migratory birds instead of ships.”

He added: “Three days of war are enough to create conviction among all investors to quickly leave the Emirates and search for safer and more stable countries.”

Al-Naomi also warned Saudi Arabia by saying: “As for Saudi Arabia, if it ventures into this dark tunnel, its news will be as it saw it, not as it heard.”

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Alastair Crooke, Alex Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

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◾While speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, World Health Organization spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris said the WHO expects the death toll numbers shared by the Palestinian health ministry to be an underestimate as many casualties never make it to a hospital.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧According to Axios, Israel told the Biden administration it wants Hezbollah's forces to be pushed roughly 6 miles from the border as part of a diplomatic deal to end tensions with Lebanon

Netanyahu and Gallant want Hezbollah to not be allowed to go back to its positions along the border, and they told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Israel is prepared to give diplomacy a chance, provided there is noticeable progress in the coming weeks.

Well, good luck with that 😏
As Yemenis said in the south, the men of God say in the north:

You shall not pass ⛔️

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The real reason Israel went to war with Hamas is now being buried by the national media under a number of false equivalences supported by carefully cherry-picked video clips and commentary. The message that Israel is ultimately responsible for being attacked is the same excuse that is used by people who commit spousal abuse.
It would do us all well to remember that this is the same media that told us the virus came from bats in a market a block away from the only lab in the world that was “studying” it, the same media that called the demonstration that torched a police precinct in Minneapolis “mostly peaceful,” and the same media that with one exception (Helen Thomas) never once ask for or demanded proof that Saddam Hussein had WMDs.
The national media was once a proud, revered institution dedicated to accuracy in reporting. Unfortunately it is time for people to recognize the worthless liability it has become.

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◾Some 60 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces returned to Gaza on Monday, entering the territory through the recently opened Kerem Shalom crossing.

◾All of the men said they were tortured in an unspecified facility in southern Israel. One of the released detainees said that many of them were employees of the Palestinian Authority.

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Lieberman: Netanyahu is using the war to stay in power


Israeli media quoted Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, in what it called "harsh" claims of Netanyahu using the war in Gaza as a means to stay in power.

In detail, Israeli media reported that "Lieberman continues to attack Netanyahu, claiming that the continuation of the war serves him politically."

In an interview for Israeli radio Reshet Bet, Lieberman said, "There is a turbulent war cabinet here that does not understand what it [the war] leads to," adding that "the Yom Kippur war lasted 19 days, and here we are fighting for 74 days and still in the process of assimilation in the north, and we cannot ignore Ansar Allah as well."

It was after this statement that Lieberman accused Netanyahu of using the war to assimilate political power.

A collapse in Netanyahu's reign?

This comes amid internal Israeli divisions over Netanyahu's political and war conduct, and how he is essentially utilizing the war for his own benefit.

The current direction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the ongoing war on Gaza is "to continue the fighting," Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Monday.

This approach is marred by a decline in popular support, which initially grew following the operation. However, Netanyahu has now become a source of doubt and concern among Israelis, the report said, adding that "Israel is approaching a dangerous reality of stagnation."

Addressing the matter further, a Financial Times editorial highlighted Netanyahu's current position against the unfolding events, especially when it comes to the United States.

According to the report, "Israel", led by Netanyahu, has enjoyed unwavering support from US President Joe Biden, despite the relentless aggression on Gaza, which has so far resulted in over 19,400 Palestinian martyrs and over 52,000 wounded, not to mention the destruction to the infrastructure unseen since WWII.

However, last week, Biden openly addressed Netanyahu and the right-wing government he heads, condemning the “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza and emphasizing that the Israeli Prime Minister "has to change."

Biden's statements signify a mounting discomfort in Washington regarding the entity's actions in Gaza, the extensive devastation, and the rising death toll. These remarks also shed light on more extensive concerns about Netanyahu's government and the influence of his coalition allies, represented by far-right extremists, the FT publication said.

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Israeli tank fired at settler’s housing unit in 'Be'eri': Footage

Israeli newspaper Haaretz published footage, on Tuesday, documenting the moment when an Israeli tank fired shells at a settler's housing unit in Kibbutz "Be'eri" in southern occupied Palestine on October 7.

According to the newspaper, a video was released on October 7 by Israeli Channel 12, showing an Israeli tank firing a shell at a settler's housing unit where Resistance fighters were allegedly barricaded with Israeli captives.

The newspaper added that the video, published last night, was filmed from a helicopter belonging to the Israeli police, which was summoned to the area after the incident.

Quoting one of the settlers who fled from an event in "Re'im" and hid in one of the kibbutz, the newspaper reported that she approached an Israeli soldier and asked if the tank shells would harm the settlers. The soldier replied, "They only fire shells at the sides to bring down the walls," but she added that the tank was hit, so another tank was called in, and it resumed targeting the housing unit after arriving at the scene.

The newspaper also quoted Yair Avital, a member of the "standby squad at the kibbutz," as saying that "500 soldiers were standing outside and settlers here are losing blood every minute. And the army that was outside here was standing..."

This comes less than a week after an Israeli witness once again disclosed that Israeli tanks targeted both settlers and members of the Palestinian Resistance on October 7.

Israeli media had previously reported the killing of a 12-year-old girl, Liel Hetzroni, in Kibbutz "Be'eri" in southern occupied Palestine.

After Liel's killing, her grandfather, twin brother, and aunt were reportedly taken to another location, where they, along with more than 10 other Israeli captives, were killed. Subsequently, there were allegations that Hamas set fire to the building. The incident was prominently covered in the Israeli media under the title of " Hamas brutality".

Israeli witness exposes Israeli lies

After Israeli settler Yasmin Porat asserted that Israeli forces "undoubtedly" killed settlers held captive, Hadas Dagan, the appropriator of the house, also spoke out.

In an interview for Channel 12, Dagan confirmed that the Israeli army indeed attacked the unit where settlers were held captive, using tank fire and heavy weapons.

Describing the "horror of the incident," which claimed the lives of 14 settlers, including her husband, Dagan recounted the moment the Israeli army arrived, expressing her realization that their role was to serve as "a human shield between the arriving Israeli forces and fighters."

IOF had prior knowledge of settlers in the targeted house

Porat, in a previous interview, asserted that the housing unit she was in with Hamas fighters was surrounded by Israeli forces. Intense confrontations ensued between the two sides. Then, she exited the premises.

During her three-hour interrogation by Israeli forces, she provided information about the settlers in the unit, their location, and technical details she remembered about the place.

Porat mentioned that the fighting persisted during the interrogation. She noted that at around 7:30 pm, after nearly four hours of ongoing crossfire between the Israeli army and Hamas, a tank arrived in front of the house.

"I know that there were two rounds fired from the tank," Porat stated, noting that she reached the same conclusion based on what Hadas Dagan shared with her.

'Israel' implemented "mass Hannibal" on October 7

An Israeli armed forces pilot revealed that the Hannibal directive was implemented on October 7. Lt. Col. Nof Erez, in an interview for the Israeli daily Haaretz, pointed out the potential use of the directive by Israeli forces on October 7.

“The Hannibal Protocol, for which we have been conducting drills for the past 20 years, concerns a single vehicle with hostages in it. You know which part of the fence it goes through, which way on the road it heads to, and even which route it takes,” he said.

“What we’ve seen here is a mass Hannibal. There were many gaps in the fences. There were thousands of people in many different vehicles, both with and without hostages,” he added.

IOF killed party attendees, Hamas was unaware of event: Israeli probe

Israeli media reported that an internal security assessment found that Israeli helicopters that arrived at the party site during the October 7 operation killed a number of party-goers.

The Israeli security establishment's assessment regarding the events on October 7 was that Palestinian Resistance fighters were unaware of the Nova festival in Kibbutz "Re'im" and only learned about it after gliders reached the area and drones were airborne, Haaretz reported on November 19.

The Israeli newspaper said the Israeli police investigation into the incident found that the Palestinian Resistance had planned to reach Kibbutz "Re'im" and other kibbutzes during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood but discovered the party during the infiltration itself.

It is worth noting that Israeli media reports have lately suggested that they may face restrictions on news reporting, especially those related to the deliberations of the Israeli cabinet during the ongoing aggression on Gaza and the war with the Palestinian Resistance.

The media mentioned that the Israeli occupation's "National Security" Advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, urgently sent a letter to Israeli Military Censor Brigadier General Kobi Mandelblit, requesting to limit the publication of news, particularly those related to cabinet deliberations during the war, due to the significant harm it causes.

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Political unrest halfway across the globe looms as a potential factor impacting US internal affairs, particularly as the 2024 presidential race intensifies, Bloomberg reported.

The #Yemeni Armed Forces' operations in support of the #Palestinian people in #Gaza have led to a halt in commercial shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting supply chains and potentially causing a sharp rise in prices for goods and oil, the news website mentioned.

It pointed out that this poses additional challenges for US President Joe #Biden, who is already grappling with low approval ratings and public dissatisfaction over his economic management, noting that any sudden surge in energy costs could further complicate his reelection bid in November.

In response to the Yemeni operations, under the guise of securing international maritime trade routes, the US military launched "Operation Prosperity Guardian" late on Monday.

The US Department of Defense announced that its "security initiative" will work under the umbrella of the Combined Maritime Forces and the leadership of its Task Force 153.

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Ships captured in Yemen to only leave on Palestine's terms: Exclusive


The criminal onslaught being waged on Palestine forces every free man to take action and underline that they stand against the Zionist arrogance and criminality, Yemeni Ansar Allah spokesperson Mohammad Abdel Salam said on Tuesday.

Speaking to Al Mayadeen during an exclusive interview, the Yemeni top official underlined that Sanaa cannot directly "support occupied Palestine. We do not share any land borders and we can not engage in land confrontations; we do not have the capabilities but to participate by launching missiles and drones and conducting naval operations."

Abdel Salam also revealed that the Yemeni Armed Forces would not hold back and that the escalations taking place might see an uptick depending on the situation on the ground in light of all the challenges being faced by the Palestinian people.

"The brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza and the historic occupation of occupied Palestine requires broad popular support, not just support from Yemen; from all the people of our Islamic and Arab worlds and all the free people of the world," the Ansar Allah spokesperson said.

US-led coalition to protect 'Israel'

In response to the operations being carried out by the Yemeni people in support of occupied Palestine and the people of Gaza, the United States military launched a new coalition in the Red Sea called "Operation Prosperity Guardian," under the guise of securing maritime trade routes. The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain will be among the countries jointly working with the Pentagon under the coalition.

This prompts the speculation of the US aiming to turn the Red Sea into a warzone to protect Israeli interests rather than simply "keep strategic waterways safe" as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed.

"This coalition is to protect Israel, not to protect international waterways [...] This cannot be called a coalition, it is, in reality, a stillborn, weak bloc," Abdel Salam went on to say.

"The international waterways adjacent to Yemen are safe and they do not suffer from any security or military issues," the Yemeni top official said. "The Yemeni Armed Forces and Navy have repeatedly said the waterways adjacent to Yemen are safe, and no ships other than the ones heading to Israel or Israeli ships are being targeted."

He added that the coalition cannot be acceptable or used to uphold the ongoing Israeli aggression on Palestine, noting how no member state has any maritime borders in the Red Sea.

Abdel Salam went on to stress that the coalition's formation would not cause any disruptions in Yemen's operations. "The US, French, and British frigates and the military bases on the other bank of the Red Sea could not stop these Yemeni operations being carried out in support of Gaza."

Thus far, he said, all the African and Arab countries overlooking the Red Sea have received the news of the coalition's formation positively, going on to warn the parties to the coalition against making any blunders by attacking Yemen and widening the conflict. In case of a blunder, "neither the Israelis, the Americans, or the collective West will be able to deal with the repercussions of their actions.

Yemeni people stand with leadership

Asked whether the Israeli occupation and the US might use civil strife within Yemen to attempt to serve their interests, the Yemeni official said they might utilize some local mercenaries, "but this option is doomed to failure."

"The Yemeni people today of all walks of life stand with the Yemeni leadership in the face of Israeli arrogance. No Yemeni could ever accept being a defender or protector of Israel."

Since the start of the Yemeni operations in support of occupied Palestine, Abdel Salam revealed, Oman has been contacting Sanaa as a mediator to convey to them messages of exhortation and intimidation, wherein they were told that the Resistance operations might affect the humanitarian process in Yemen.

"There was also the threat of creating an international coalition to 'protect the red' or the threat of sanctions and military operations. However, Yemen's stance is not arbitrary, and it is not a show of force or in search of wars and problems; it is born out of the large-scale barbaric Israeli aggression that cannot go unanswered," he said.

He went on to underline that whichever party that might seek regional peace must go the US and the Israeli occupation and seek an end to the unjust aggression and blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Yemen, Abdel Salam said, repeatedly stressed that it would deescalate if humanitarian aid is allowed to enter Gaza. "The aid must fulfill the daily needs of the Palestinian people, and they must be sufficient, and only if that happens will Yemen look into the situation and evaluate what the next step should be."

"It is very expensive to switch to land freight from sea freight, not to mention the delay that comes with such a switch and the low quantity of goods that can be transported, which would not suffice the [Israeli] needs," he said commenting on the news of the establishment of a land bridge from the UAE to occupied Palestine.

The first batch of fresh foodstuffs arrived in "Israel" from the United Arab Emirates in the first trial of a new land bridge that is to be used instead of the Red Sea due to the Yemeni blockade on the latter, the Israeli Walla! news website reported on Saturday.

The shipment of foodstuff was transported from the UAE "through the new land bridge [used] as an alternative to the Red Sea," media reports said. The freight was transported from the UAE through Saudi Arabia then Jordan and then "Israel".

Israeli reports said the initial trial was a success, with 10 trucks making it from the UAE to occupied Palestine for the benefit of the Israeli occupation.

The trucks had to cross a distance of some 2,000 km (1,242 miles) over two days and a few hours.

Israeli media in December said an agreement was signed between the authorities of the ports of Dubai, the UAE, and Haifa, occupied Palestine, regarding the establishment of a land bridge between the two ports in a bid to avert the "Yemeni threat to shut down maritime passages."

Only Palestine to free captured ships

"Not one day has passed since the start of the operations without several ships changing course to the Cape of Hope from the Red Sea," he said.

The Ansar Allah spokesperson revealed that the ship that was captured was captured upon the requests of the Palestinian people. "It cannot leave Yemen's ports but with a decision from the people of Palestine."

It is still possible, he said, for ships that are unknown to be Israeli or bound for "Israel" to pass through the Red Sea, but this will not be the case for long.

"Yemen will remain a key partner of our Arab and Muslim people in the face of any perilous situations that might jeopardize their security and stability," he said.

"Yemen has since day one been participating in a joint operations room with our Palestinian brothers and the remainder of the Axis of Resistance," Abdel Salam added.

He went on to praise the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, saying its operations on the southern borders with occupied Palestine have posed a serious threat to the Israeli occupation and greatly depleted its resources.

"What is happening on the Lebanese-occupied-Palestinian borders is an exceptional battle [...] this is a highly significant front on which Hezbollah offered dozens of its martyrs and created a state of paranoia for the Israeli entity," he said.

He also praised the operations being carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq. "It is exerting positive pressure to help clean the Arab and Islamic region arena of any foreign presence."

"This Axis helped support Palestine at a time of historic crisis, and it has repeatedly stood by its words," however, he underlined the need for more coordination, though he did note that there already is a lot of coordination, adding that the battle was going well and serving the Resistance in Palestine.

"What happened on October 7 is a strategic shift that will be taught for generations to come. It is a historic epic that revived Islamic unity in our Ummah, and it underlined that the Arab people were still alive and well," Abdel Salam stressed.

At the conclusion of his interview, the Yemeni spokesperson addressed the Palestinian Resistance, saying: "You are not alone on this front. The peoples of our Islamic and Arab states stand with you."

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Sanaa to target ships of US 10-nation coalition if they attack Yemen

Yemeni Ansar Allah senior official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said that Yemen would be targeting the vessels of countries that joined the US anti-Yemen naval coalition in the Red Sea.

"The vessels of those countries that will actively take part in the actions against us will be attacked by us in the Red Sea," Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, told the Al-Alam broadcaster.

US-led coalition to protect 'Israel'

The criminal onslaught being waged on Palestine forces every free man to take action and underline that they stand against the Zionist arrogance and criminality, Yemeni Ansar Allah spokesperson Mohammad Abdel Salam said on Tuesday.

Speaking to Al Mayadeen during an exclusive interview, the Yemeni top official underlined that Sanaa cannot directly "support occupied Palestine. We do not share any land borders and we can not engage in land confrontations; we do not have the capabilities but to participate by launching missiles and drones and conducting naval operations."

Abdel Salam also revealed that the Yemeni Armed Forces would not hold back and that the escalations taking place might see an uptick depending on the situation on the ground in light of all the challenges being faced by the Palestinian people.

In response to the operations being carried out by the Yemeni people in support of occupied Palestine and the people of Gaza, the United States military launched a new coalition in the Red Sea called "Operation Prosperity Guardian," under the guise of securing maritime trade routes. The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain will be among the countries jointly working with the Pentagon under the coalition.

This prompts the speculation of the US aiming to turn the Red Sea into a warzone to protect Israeli interests rather than simply "keep strategic waterways safe" as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed.

"This coalition is to protect Israel, not to protect international waterways [...] This cannot be called a coalition, it is, in reality, a stillborn, weak bloc," Abdel Salam went on to say.

"The international waterways adjacent to Yemen are safe and they do not suffer from any security or military issues," the Yemeni top official said. "The Yemeni Armed Forces and Navy have repeatedly said the waterways adjacent to Yemen are safe, and no ships other than the ones heading to Israel or Israeli ships are being targeted."

"Operation Prosperity Guardian" to protect Israeli genocidal war

On Monday, and under the guise of securing international maritime trade routes, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the establishment of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a 10-nation "multinational security initiative under the umbrella of the Combined Maritime Forces and the leadership of its Task Force 153, which focuses on security in the Red Sea."

Read more: Red Sea operations pose challenges for Biden's presidential campaign

Earlier today, mobilizing efforts in the face of the Yemeni forces, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin invited dozens of nations to take steps to address the operation conducted in the Red Sea as he spoke at a defense ministerial to tout a new military operation to secure commerce in the waterway.

"We're all here because many countries can directly contribute to our common efforts to keep strategic waterways safe," Austin said, according to prepared remarks.

Calling Yemen's attacks "reckless", he described it as "a serious international problem" that needs "a firm international response," which, as revealed earlier, will bring "together multiple countries to include the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain."

Read more: Operation Prosperity Guardian: US scrambles to secure Red Sea route

Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of National Review, wrote a piece in which he acknowledged that the sole superpower in the world [the United States] has failed to safeguard one of the most crucial global trade routes from "a band of third-world rebels".

He gushed: "Welcome to the latest humiliation of a Biden-administration foreign policy premised on not being overly provocative toward our enemies."

Read more: US pushing Red Sea into war zone to protect Israeli genocide in Gaza

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Video confirms tank struck home with Israeli captives on 7 Oct[/B]
The evidence continues to grow that many Israelis killed during Hamas' 7 October attack were killed by Israeli forces themselves

Video from a police helicopter shows that an Israeli tank opened fire on a house where 13 Israeli captives were killed during Hamas’ 7 October attack on military bases and settlements surrounding besieged Gaza, Israel’s 12 News reported on 18 December.

12 News reported that the video from the helicopter showed the tank fire shells in the direction of a house where Hamas fighters had barricaded themselves with the Israeli captives.

The house, owned by Pasi Cohen, is located in Kibbutz Be’eri, which Hamas attacked in an effort to take Israelis captive back to Gaza.

The killing of the 13 captives by Israeli tank fire was already known due to testimony from 44-year-old Yasmin Porat, who was held with the captives in the same house before she was able to escape. But the video from the police helicopter that responded to the scene confirms this.

After Hamas fighters took over the house and gathered captives there, Israel’s elite counter terror force, Yamam, responded and immediately initiated a fire fight with the Hamas fighters.

While with the soldiers who had surrounded the house, Porat turned to one of the soldiers and asked if the tank shells would not harm the other captives still inside. The soldier replied that "they only do it on the sides to take down walls.”

Hadas Dagan, the only other captive besides Porat to survive, said that she herself was hit by a shrapnel from the tank shell. The report stated that soldiers who were in the kibbutz said that the shot recorded from the helicopter was a warning shot after which the tank was hit, and then another tank arrived and shot at the house once more.

Three of those killed in the home were 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her twin brother Yanai, and their aunt Ayla, who raised them. Israeli broadcaster Kan reported that Liel’s relatives held a farewell ceremony for her, rather than a burial ceremony, because there was nothing left of her body.

When the remains of Liel’s body were finally identified, only ash and bone fragments remained.

The police helicopter video adds to the growing evidence that Israeli forces themselves killed many of the 1,200 Israeli soldiers and civilians who died on 7 October during the Hamas attack.

Though Liel was killed by the Israeli army, Naftali Bennett, the former Israeli Prime Minister, blamed her death on Hamas, claiming “Liel Hetzroni of Kibbutz Beeri was murdered in her home by Hamas monsters.”

While speaking to members of the foreign press on 14 October, Lt. Col. Golan Vach of a military search and rescue team gave insight into why the army used tanks to target Israeli homes on 7 October.

During a briefing to journalists in front of a burnt and destroyed house, Vach claimed that Hamas had gathered 15 people inside, including eight babies, “and they killed them, and they burned them.” He also claimed he personally removed the body of a mother and her baby who had been beheaded inside the house.

But when pressed by a journalist how Hamas had caused such destruction, Col. Vach reluctantly acknowledged, “Our tanks attacked, because they [Hamas] were blocked in these houses, and we need[ed] to conquer back the whole settlement. And it couldn’t be happen [sic] without the tanks.”

This suggests anyone killed in the home was killed due to Israeli tank fire, rather than being burned alive by Hamas fighters who were themselves barricaded inside.

The helicopter video obtained by 12 News also recorded the many soldiers who had gathered outside the main gate of kibbutz Be'eri, but who for unknown reasons did not enter the kibbutz to join the battle which had been going on for hours since early that morning.

"Around 18:10 I discovered something,” described one of the residents, "Hundreds of soldiers, dozens of police cars” were present outside the kibbutz. The soldiers were heavily equipped. “I personally approached every officer I saw from the rank of major and asked him who was in charge of the incident. Nobody knew. It would have looked like total command chaos. I told them that families are fighting and being slaughtered inside and they must go in, but there was no one to talk to. These were times and hours when we had to flood the kibbutz with soldiers, and very limited forces entered. All day we fought alone.”

Yair Avital, a member of the security squad at the kibbutz, added that "500 soldiers were standing outside and no one was managing it. People here are losing blood every minute. And the army that was out here stood and didn't understand what was happening here."

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Israel signals readiness for new temporary truce in Gaza as pressure mounts
Hamas says it will not enter negotations over releasing captives until Israel ends its war on Gaza.


Israeli President Isaac Herzog has said his country is willing to agree a new temporary truce with Hamas in Gaza to secure the release of more captives held by the Palestinian group.

“Israel is ready for another humanitarian pause and additional humanitarian aid in order to enable the release of hostages,” Herzog told a gathering of ambassadors on Tuesday.

The comments come amid growing international pressure on Israel to pause its assault on Gaza and to allow more humanitarian aid into the besieged territory.

A previous Israel-Hamas agreement mediated by Qatar and Egypt led to a week-long truce at the end of November during which Hamas released 86 women and children it was holding in exchange for 240 Palestinian women and teenagers held in Israeli jails. Hamas also released 24 foreign nationals during the pause in fighting.

Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who also serves as the Gulf state’s foreign minister, Mossad Director David Barnea and CIA Director Bill Burns held talks in Poland on Monday to discuss a potential new deal to secure the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons and a humanitarian pause in the fighting.

“The talks were positive with negotiators exploring and discussing different proposals in an attempt to progress on negotiations,” a source briefed on the diplomatic efforts told the Reuters news agency. “An agreement is not expected imminently, however.”

Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday that it rejects any forms of negotiations about prisoner exchanges “under the continuing Israeli genocidal war.”

The Palestinian group said it is open to any initiative that contributes to “ending the aggression” and opening border crossings “to bring in aid and provide relief to the Palestinian people.”

Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said the statements from Herzog and Hamas on Tuesday indicate some progression towards a potential truce.

“The question will be whether it is just that, a pause – a humanitarian pause – as the Israelis would call it, or a full ceasefire,” Smith said, reporting from Tel Aviv.

The war has flattened large parts of northern Gaza and driven most of the population to the southern part of the besieged territory, where many are in crowded shelters and tent camps. Some 1.9 million Palestinians – about 90 percent of Gaza’s population – have fled their homes.

At least 19,667 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in the Israeli assault on Gaza since, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Israel launched the assault on Gaza after Hamas fighters from the territory stormed into southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 240 others hostage, according to Israeli officials.

Israel is facing growing international pressure to scale back its offensive as the civilian death toll in Gaza continues to soar.

France, the United Kingdom and Germany on Sunday added their voices to calls for a ceasefire, while US President Joe Biden last week called the bombing “indiscriminate”.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is expected to vote later on Tuesday on a resolution calling for a halt to the fighting in Gaza.

Earlier, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said the war in Gaza is a “moral failure” of the international community, calling on Israel and Hamas to reach a new truce to halt the fighting.

“I have been speaking of moral failure because every day this continues is a day more where the international community hasn’t proven capable of ending such high levels of suffering and this will have an impact on generations not only in Gaza,” ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric told journalists in Geneva following trips to the Gaza Strip and Israel.

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The South African government has warned its citizens who are fighting in the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that they may face prosecution and have their citizenship revoked.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, meanwhile, has once again condemned the Israeli attack on Gaza, describing it as genocide.

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An Israeli who was released in the recent prisoner swap between the occupation and the Palestinian resistance said that her mother was killed as a result of the Israeli occupation army shooting at the car that was transporting them to Gaza, as they were being taken as prisoners of war on 7 October.

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Hamas chief to hold crucial talks in Egypt for Gaza ceasefire, prisoner exchange

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh is set to visit Egypt Wednesday for talks on a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange with Israel, a source close to the Palestinian militant group said.

Qatar-based Haniyeh will head a “high-level” Hamas delegation to Egypt, where he is due to hold talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel and others, the source told AFP on Tuesday.

For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.

The discussions will be “on stopping the aggression and the war to prepare an agreement for the release of prisoners (and) the end of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip,” the source said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk about the visit.

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The double standards used by the west when minimizing Isreal's war crimes... and how the Isreal lobby controls USA politicians.

Scott Ritter: Israel Will LOSE Its War on Gaza and the US is Powerless to Stop It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QjVgYW4Vo

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🇮🇷 IRGC Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri: 'We have successfully established a rapid naval mobilization force (Basij) in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz'

'Thousands of small to medium sized local merchant vessels, fishing boats and speedboats have been converted and outfitted with 107mm rockets and various other weapons.

This newly formed rapid naval volunteer force is an assymetric paramilitary force, consisting of 33,000 vessels in the Persian Gulf and 55,000 local volunteers among the fishermen and merchants. It also contains large ships that can sail as far as Tanzania.'
-Middle_East_Spectator
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🇮🇷 Regarding the information regarding converted civilian vessels to be used for military action against naval forces that are hostile towards Iran,

In 2002, the US conducted a wargame by the name of "Millennium Challenge 2002", that ran from July to August of that year, with the US being on one side and the other side being "Iran/Iraq"

All in all, it ended horribly for the U.S in this simulation, to the extent that the Commanding officer of the Red side stated that his superiors bluntly ordered him to disclose his own locations, forces, and not to engage with certain US units (even if he was capable in), the U.S simply lost in that simulation.

Cut forward to 21 years later, the US navy is not what it used to be in 2002, it has shortages of sailors, officers, maintenance issues, the fleets are decaying, and so on.

Overall, this is NOT a fun time for the U.S.

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The US is concerned about the cost of missiles used against Houthi drones, according to Politico, as the country is trillions of dollars in debt

According to US official, the US has used SM-2 missiles worth $2.1 million to intercept a Yemeni drone worth $2000.

The US has intercepted 38 flying objects so far

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🚨GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE:

The Government Media Office in Gaza published an update of the most important numbers related to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

📍 (74 days) on the total genocidal war.
📍 (1,697) massacres
📍 (26,667) martyrs and missing persons.
📍 (19,667) martyrs who arrived in hospitals.
📍 (8,000) child martyrs.
📍 (6,200) female martyrs.
📍 (310) martyrs from the medical teams.
📍 (35) Civil Defense martyrs.
📍 (97) martyred journalists.
📍 (7,000) missing, 70% of whom are children and women.
📍 (52,586) injured.
📍 (99) cases of arrest of health personnel.
📍 (8) detained journalists.
📍 (1.8) million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
📍 (355,000) infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement.
📍 (126) government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
📍 (90) schools and universities were completely destroyed by the occupation.
📍 (282) schools and universities destroyed by the occupation...

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🇾🇪 “Who is Yahya Saree?”

The man whose ‘quick’ announcements have taken the world by storm, & the one whom KSA has put a monetary reward of $5M for any information provided regarding him, the psychological pillar of Yemen who survived an assassination attempt, Gen. Brigadier Yahya Saree.

Resistance Archives

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... what I have been suspecting, Roy explains it very well in the first portion of this video: It's orchestrated from higher-ups in the food chain where they all are in cahoots, down below them; it's all soulless beasts of the field canon fodder:

The Corruption Of The Abrahamic Religions Part 1 (https://odysee.com/@RoystonPotter:b/The-Corruption-Of-The-Abrahamic-Religions-Part-1:e) 37:19

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An extremely strong statement from the Yemeni Defense Minister.

From Intel Republic on Telegram (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/31864):

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WE HAVE MEANS TO SINK YOUR FLEET'S SHIPS, SUBMARINES, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

A resounding warning to US creating international coalition (to steal oil) against Houthis in Red Sea by Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser al-Atafi (pictured bottom left next to rebel group's arsenal).

Suppose Saudi Arabia and Emirates become part of any coalition to attack Yemen. In that case, we will not leave any oil or gas field in those countries, and we will strike all ships transporting their oil - Houthi top official Al-Bukhaiti.

Even if America manages to mobilize entire world, our military operations will not stop until crimes of genocide in Gaza Strip cease, and food, medicine, fuel are allowed to reach besieged populations, no matter the cost - Al-Bukhaiti.

Also, Iran reaffirms logistical and intel assistance to Yemen in its operations, declares "we will stand with Yemeni people till the end".

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⚡️FULL Speech HIGHLIGHTS of AnsarAllah leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s speech:

• We consider the American step, along with some countries, to form a multinational coalition under the guise of protecting trade in the Red Sea, a hostile step aimed at protecting Israel.

• Shipping lines are safe for all ships, except for ships linked to the Israeli enemy entity, or heading to the ports of occupied Palestine.

• We affirm that Yemen will defend itself in the event that it is exposed to any attack.

• Any attempt to prevent us from carrying out our religious & humanitarian duty in supporting Palestine will be met with a strict response.

• For 75 years, the Zionist-Israeli enemy has continued its aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, committing the most heinous crimes.

• Countries that go into war usually declare strategic and military bases as their targets, while the Israeli enemy brazenly declares hospitals as their targets.

• Israel targeted the gatherings of displaced people, even in UNRWA schools, and did not care that they were under the protection of the UN, and it repeatedly targeted them shamelessly.

• Israel continues its brutality, and when it fails in a field battle, it resorts to indiscriminate bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

• The Americans are partners with the Zionists in all their crimes from the first moment. They sent their military experts for management and planning and provided them with thousands of destructive bombs.

• The Americans provided the Zionists with internationally banned weapons, provided them with material support to finance military operations, and sent surveillance drones to give them information.

• US threatened all countries in the region. By threatening them, the Americans wanted to provide the Zionists with sufficient conditions to commit massacres in Gaza without objection from anyone.

• Even with delivery of food and medicine to the Palestinian people in Gaza, nothing enters except after American and Israeli approval.

• America is another arm of international Zionism, to which the American President has boasted and declared his affiliation, and he is acting from that standpoint.

• The US has transformed its bases in the region to be a support for the Zionists, and all its weapons depots, even those in the Arab countries, have been used to support the Israelis.

• Every resolution under the title of a ceasefire in the UN is objected to by the US, who insists on the continuation of killing in Gaza.

• The British, who were the first to establish the Zionist entity from the beginning, is moving today continuously in support of the Zionist enemy.

• We also see some European countries support the Zionists, including France, Italy & Germany, each of which has a dark history and a hideous criminal record.

• When the Zionist lobby influences Western regimes, it compels them to act as if they've abandoned even liberal values. They move recklessly, devoid of any humanitarian principles, a result of jungle-like policies.

• The responsibility is immense upon the Islamic world, and it falls on every Muslim’s responsibility today.

• It is the duty of Muslims today to take a serious, practical and effective stand with a sincere approach to support the Palestinian people.

• Some Arab countries have severed their ties with Western nations because they spoke out against their behaviors or offended a king, prince, or when they act against another Arab or Muslim country [that supports the west]

• Countries that act harshly against any Arab or Muslim country, we see in a state of complete apathy towards the nation’s major issues, such as the oppression of the Palestinian people.

• These countries have reached the point of being preoccupied with dancing, singing, dog competitions, and very trivial things, ignoring the major massacres in Palestine.

⚡️PART 2: Full Speech HIGHLIGHTS of AnsarAllah leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s speech:

• We don’t expect any positive role for the Palestinian people from the US and European countries, as they are always in a position of injustice, tyranny, arrogance, and plundering of nations.

• If the US & Europe come from the ends of the earth to cooperate with the oppressive occupier, why doesn't our nation stand by its affiliation and interests with the oppressed Palestinian people?

• The position at the general level, including the Riyadh summit, was a weak position, just statements containing demands, but that was it, it ended after the statement.

• The Resistance Nexus stands at the level of military, media, and popular support and going out in marches, while in some Arab countries even demonstrations have been banned.

• Where is the scholarly voice that issues fatwas on the obligation of jihad in support of the Palestinian people [hinting at Muslim Arab countries]? What justifies this silence, indifference, and even blaming the Palestinian people and their fighters?

• Our dear Yemeni people moved to take the right position at all levels and announced the provision of all possible forms of support to the Palestinian people.

• Our dear people are moving in the right direction to declare war on the Zionist Israeli enemy, activating their missile and drone capabilities to target the Zionist enemy.

• Our people are militarily moving in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea to prevent the movement of Israeli ships and ships associated with Israel, delivering supplies to the Israelis.

• We have submitted a formal request to the countries geographically separating us from occupied Palestine to open land crossings, allowing hundreds of thousands of our people to move to Palestine.

• Our people continue to make financial donations to the Palestinian people despite the very difficult living conditions because we are basically a besieged people and we are still in a state of war.

• Compare our media with the media of Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and the mercenaries. With the simplest comparison, the vast difference becomes clear in the level of support for the Palestinian cause.

• Our dear people come out every Friday in millions, filling the squares, and the masses roar with their clear stances and chant the cry in the face of the arrogant.

• The issue of Palestine is not a movement related to a specific group of the Yemeni people, but rather an official and popular movement that expresses the will of the people, even in the occupied [Yemeni] provinces.

• If some positions deviate from supporting the Palestinian cause, from mercenaries, they do not reflect the Yemeni people because the issue is clear throughout the country.

• We are doing what we can and we are striving to achieve greater and more severe action against the Zionists.

• In these days, we are working to enhance our military capabilities, utilizing them even in the face of resistance from regional powers against our strikes on the Israeli enemy.

• Sometimes, 4 countries, including Arab nations and military forces, in addition to the enemy entity, attempt to prevent our drones and missiles from reaching their targets.

• Unfortunately, some Arab countries align themselves with the Zionists, deploying their military capabilities to protect it from Yemeni missiles, instead of moving to protect the Palestinian people.

• Our stance is against the Israel, and we have not targeted any other country with it. We were patient with the interceptions carried out by some Arab countries, and we have not targeted them.

• The Americans, the British, and those with them come to our region and our seas and support the Zionists in its crimes, then they denounce the actions of others in the humanitarian position.

PART 3: Full Speech HIGHLIGHTS of AnsarAllah leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s speech:

• The oppressive criminal stance is the American-British stance, and the situation has reached a point where some American officials have resigned due to their shame over what America is doing.

• Shame on America, Britain, France, Italy and all countries for standing with the Zionists in its killing of children and women and its very heinous crimes.

• If the Americans want our nation to remain bystanders to the crimes of genocide in Gaza, our people have decided not to yield, kneel, or retreat from their stance to support Palestine.

• Some ignorant and cowardly individuals mocked our people's stance regarding our sea actions, until the Zionists made noise about its impact on their economy.

• Americans and all arms of the Zionist lobby are all screaming & crying about us preventing Israeli ships from passing through the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.

• We don’t target international ships. The target exclusively, in a declared position in the media and through diplomatic communication, is Israeli ships or those linked to Israel.

• We target ships that are either owned by the Israelis, or they own part of them, or go to the ports of occupied Palestine, bringing supplies to the Zionist enemy.

• The American initiative is not a move to protect international navigation in Bab al-Mandab. The greatest danger is the American move that seeks to militarize the Red Sea. They threaten the maritime navigation of all states, and it is for the sake of the Israel.

• The countries bordering the Red Sea must take a clear stance against the American position that violates the rights of these countries and threatens their security and stability.

• I advise all countries that the Americans seek to involve not to entangle themselves, not to sacrifice their interests, and not to jeopardize their maritime security in the service of the Zionists.

• The recent American move will not deter us at all from our firm, principled and moral position that we declared from the beginning alongside the Palestinian people.

• If our stance had no impact, israel wouldn't have cried about it, declared its harm, and even occupied space in the Israeli media to talk about its damages and effects.

• The American move is not new. Since the first day, they have moved their battleships, aircraft carriers, but now they are seeking to involve & implicate others.

• We will not stand idly by if the US has a tendency to escalate further and commit foolishness by targeting our country or waging war against it.

• Any American military action againt our country will be responded by us, and we will make American battleships, interests, and navigation a target for our missiles, drones, and military operations.

⚡️PART 4: Full Speech HIGHLIGHTS of AnsarAllah leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s speech:

• We are not those who submit to the American threat of direct war. We have experienced the hardships of the wars waged by the Americans through their proxies in the region.

• The Americans mobilized countries in the region to fight us, mobilized the Takfiri terrorists to exhaust us, and committed the most heinous crimes against our people.

• What we have always desired from day 1, is a direct war between us and the Americans & Israelis, not through their silly proxies.

• The American proxies/agents fight for him to achieve his agenda, and they pay him money not only for weapons but also for political, media, and planning positions.

• We urge Arab countries to let us be in direct war with the Israel & the US. If the Arabs want to be an audience applauding the Americans, let them applaud. If they want to dance on the victims' remains, let them dance, but they should not join the American war against us.

• As long as the Americans want to engage in direct war with us, let them know that we are not among those who fear. We face the entire people, not a specific group.

• If the Americans send their military troops to Yemen, let them know that, by God they will face something harsher than what they faced in Afghanistan and suffered in Vietnam.

• What the US is doing at sea is a failure currently, as he is launching a missile worth 2 million dollars to confront a drone worth 2 thousand dollars.

• We say to the European countries, there is no danger to your ships that do not head towards israel, but when you get involved with the Americans, you are risking your interests in every sense of the word.

• We commend the Malaysian position that banned one of the Zionist companies from its ports and prevented it from practicing any activity in its ports.

• The Mujahideen in Gaza are dealing with the Zionist enemy and killing its soldiers. Perhaps this issue does not receive the media coverage it deserves, but it is an honorable matter that represents hope for victory.

• We say to the Palestinian people and our mujahideen brothers in Gaza, you are not alone. God is with you, and He is the best of helpers. Our Yemeni people are with you in every way they can.

• All the free people of our nation are at your side. The Resistance Nexus is present in important and effective roles. Hezbollah is on a raging front in northern Palestine at your side.

• Our people [Yemeni] will not hesitate or back down from their position as a result of threats, intimidation and pressure.

• Whatever the Americans do against our people, we rely on God and confront the Americans. We prefer a direct war with the Americans and the Zionist enemy.

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#Malaysia’s government announced that it was imposing a ban on all Israeli-owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to "Israel", from docking at its ports.

The announcement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s office said the ban would take place with immediate effect and was in response to the Israeli crimes against the #Palestinians.

“This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people,” the statement read.

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Saudis did not join Red Sea alliance out of fear, Israeli media say

Israeli media reveals the stance of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on joining the maritime alliance in the Red Sea formed by the United States and its allies to undermine Yemen's operations in support of the Palestinian people.

The Yemeni Armed Forces' operations in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, targeting ships bound for Israeli ports in occupied Palestine or Israeli-owned vessels, have had resounding effects all over the world.

Sanaa said no ships bound for occupied Palestine nor any Israeli vessels would be allowed to pass through the Red Sea until aid is allowed to enter Gaza as the stifling blockade on the Strip continues to claim more lives and worsen the living conditions of the Palestinian people.

Israeli media has disclosed the position of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates regarding joining the maritime alliance in the Red Sea to address threats from Yemen.

Kan Arab affairs commentator Roi Kaiss said the sole Arab country that explicitly joined the US-formed alliance, with one Bahraini source reportedly telling him that it was due to the fifth fleet of the US navy in Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia, he added, has not joined Prosperity Guardian as earlier reports indicated it sought an end to its war on Yemen.

According to Kais, Saudi Arabia was seeking an agreement to end its war on Yemen completely, but it also refrained from joining the alliance because it was afraid of being attacked due to its collaboration with the hostile parties attempting to disrupt regional stability.

The Arab affairs commentator said the UAE has confirmed that it was considering joining the maritime alliance in the Red Sea but only if the United States approves a significant strike against Sanaa.

Operation Prosperity Guardian

In response to Yemen's operations, whose aim is to allow the entry of aid to Gaza, and under the guise of securing international maritime trade routes, the US military launched "Operation Prosperity Guardian" late on Monday.

The US Department of Defense announced that its "security initiative" will work under the umbrella of the Combined Maritime Forces and the leadership of its Task Force 153.

The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain, will be among the countries jointly working with the Pentagon to "address security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, with the goal of ensuring freedom of navigation for all countries and bolstering regional security and prosperity," the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.

According to the Associated Press, which cited an unnamed defense official, several other countries have also agreed to be involved in the operation, however, they prefer not to be named.

The United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the United States already have substantial naval presence in the region, with the US leading the coalition in terms of the number of and quality of deployed naval assets.

Read more: US-created anti-Yemen coalition to be filthiest in history: Sanaa

YAF imposes siege on "Israel"

In recent days, both Western media and shipping conglomerates have attempted to frame the YAF's operations as a threat to international trade. However, Yemen's military has made it clear, in every statement announcing a strike on a vessel, that its operations only target ships heading to Israeli ports or Israeli-owned ships. The YAF has also reassured all other vessels of safe travels if they successfully identify their final destinations.

US' CENTCOM has also participated in a misinformation campaign, seeking to vilify Sanaa's support to the Palestinian people. Coinciding with an announcement made by the YAF on Saturday, regarding an attack on Israeli targets in "Eilat" in southernmost occupied Palestine, CENTCOM said that it "shot down" several attack drones "with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries."

The statement presumed that the drones endangered vessels in the Red Sea, which was refuted by the YAF's statement.

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-execute-15-palestinians-in-gaza-city-home--so

Israeli forces execute 15 Palestinians in Gaza City home: Sources

Israeli occupation forces cold-bloodily executed 15 people at the Annan family's residence in the northern Gaza Strip, sources confirmed to Al Mayadeen.

The family urged humanitarian international organizations to visit the site of the atrocity, which occurred near Burj al-Jalaa in Gaza City. Israeli occupation forces left behind a number of martyrs and wounded several others, in front of children and women in the residence.

Countless war crimes have been committed by "Israel" in its war on the Gaza Strip since October 7. Residential areas pounded to the ground and civilians scattered on Gaza's roads have become a familiar occurrence, which speaks to the brutality of the Israeli occupation.

Moreover, multiple testimonies from within the Strip have confirmed that Israeli occupation forces are executing civilians in the northern Gaza Strip, where occupation forces have set up command areas.

On December 17, Israeli tanks and bulldozers raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, running down Palestinian refugee tents and burying Palestinians alive, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported.

The incident is not an isolated one, as medical institutions have become a constant target of Israeli raids, airstrikes, and bombardment.

Concurrently, with the news of the IOF's execution of civilians in Gaza City, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes raided the city of Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, targeting several residential buildings, killing and injuring a number of Palestinians.

On the other hand, the Palestinian Resistance continues to confront Israeli occupation forces in the Khan Younis district, just to the north of Rafah. Simultaneously, Israeli artillery units heavily shelled the southern district, causing several casualties among the Palestinian population.

Further north, a residential building, near the Jabalia Club Services, was targeted with an Israeli airstrike.


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Interesting... This was Krystal shining moment... She did the world a huge service by exposing RFK... It's heartwarming seeing Kyle support her wife.... :heart:

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🇵🇸🇪🇸A group in Spain broadcasts the sound of a child crying for help from under the dirt and tree leaves, pushing pedestrian to remove the leaves and dust, only to see a picture of a Palestinian child next to the flag of Palestine and a paper, on which is written:

"You are late.... Another Palestinian child was killed under the rubble as a result of the Israeli bombing...
The voice you heard is the voice of a Palestinian child crying under the rubble, a Palestinian child who was orphaned or injured as a result of the Israeli bombing."

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This morning, Israel's military detonated over 50 houses in Shejaiya, Gaza.

In this video, cries of civilians can be heard while being annihilated. Israeli media quoted the military as saying that the main reason behind the filmed crime was that it wanted "those who stand in Nahal Oz and Kfar Gaza to see in front of them that Shejaiya is flattened."

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Amid the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian civilians, a network called Florence for #Palestine launched an awareness campaign in the streets of Florence, #Italy.

The campaign aims to educate people about the reality of the Israeli occupation and its atrocities in Palestine, specifically #Gaza.

The Israeli occupation has killed more than 20,000 Palestinians so far, most of whom are women and children.

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-qassam-s-ghoul-sniper-rifles-mark-palestinian-excellency

Al-Qassam's Ghoul sniper rifles mark Palestinian excellency

Al-Qassam Brigades released cinematic footage of the production process of its "Ghoul" anti-materials sniper rifle, on Wednesday.

The footage took the internet by storm, as enthusiastic supporters of the Palestinian Resistance, toured a military production room of Hamas' military wing. Although much is unknown about these production rooms, the military media has brought to light some of the production processes in footage released since October 7, as part of its psychological warfare targeting the Israeli enemy.

Such facilities are responsible for producing weapons, ranging from small firearms to long-rage artillery rockets that can hit targets 250 km away.

Interestingly, this is the first time that the Brigades reveal, in detail, the production process of the Ghoul rifle, which has been named in honor of martyr Engineer Adnan al-Ghoul, a senior al-Qassam official assassinated by "Israel" in 2004.

Silencing critics

In fact, the Ghoul sniper rifle was first introduced in 2014, during "Israel's" failed invasion of the Gaza Strip. Western media outlets paid special attention to the firearm, which highlighted a huge leap in the Resistance's production capabilities.

At the time, outlets such as the US-based The Washington Post led a media campaign, falsely claiming that the Palestinian Resistance had not acquired the knowledge or expertise to produce such a weapon. The WP published an article, in August of 2014, alleging that the Ghoul is actually the Austrian-made Steyr HS.50 anti-materials sniper rifle.

Although the two rifles are extremely similar, since the Ghoul is a reverse-engineered rifle, the article produced no credible evidence that the al-Qassam Brigades had not produced their own version of the anti-materials rifle.

"Hamas’ claim to have indigenously manufactured this rifle is totally false — from what is visible on the video, it’s clearly an Austrian Steyr HS.50 rifle," Charles Lister, told WP at the time. The Western propagandist said that Hamas probably bought the rifle off of the black market, attempting to belittle the engineering capabilities of the Palestinian Resistance faction.

"While the Qassam Brigades might achieve some level of internal morale boost by claiming things like this, the blatant falsity apparent to experts suggests a level of desperation on Hamas’ part," Lister told WP.

More than nine years after Lister's "expert" remarks, al-Qassam Brigades released the footage titled, "We will continue to kill your soldiers by our locally manufactured snipers," to put all doubts to bed and silence critics.

Read more: Gaza's homegrown weapons: How Hamas, PIJ left 'Israel' in shambles

Ghoul rifle specifications

The single-shot bolt-action rifle was first manufactured to fire 14.5x114 mm cartridges, according to information released by al-Qassam Brigades in 2014. The Brigades also stated that the first iteration of the Ghoul had an effective range of 2 km and anti-materials capabilities.

The updated version of the Ghoul rifle has kept its anti-materials capabilities, as seen in the video published by al-Qassam on December 20. In fact, rounds fired at steel targets penetrated the targets and exploded upon impact.

The newly updated version of the Ghoul rifle uses 12.7x99 mm rounds, similar to the Steyr HS. 50 rifle. The cartridges are also locally produced, as seen in the footage, where al-Qassam fighters work on shaping and filling the rounds, to produce a final product that has dropped Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

The casing of the bullet reads "QASSAM 12.7" matching the Ghoul's receiver which reads "Qassami Ghoul Sniper Rifle."

Adnan al-Ghoul

The Ghoul sniper rifle was deployed on several occasions in the Gaza Strip, specifically on December 5 and 7. In total, al-Qassam fighters confirmed hits on 10 Israeli occupation soldiers to the east of Khan Younis in these two days. In one operation, several snipers shot down at least six soldiers in one area in the al-Rannah axis to the northeast of the city of Khan Younis.

Al-Qassam fighters, through their successful targeting of Israeli occupation forces in 2014 and 2023, have engraved al-Ghoul's name and legacy into stone. The senior engineer and commander was assassinated by an Israeli attack helicopter "leaving behind his work, knowledge, and jihad," al-Qassam's military media wrote in a memorial published this year on the anniversary of his martyrdom.

"Abu Bilal" left behind a number of student engineers who carried on his legacy and worked on producing the Ghoul anti-materials sniper rifle.

A commonality among Resistance factions in Palestine is commemorating the names of their greatest martyrs by naming locally produced devices and weapons after them. Indeed, naming the anti-material rifle after Adnan al-Ghoul ensured "that even after his martyrdom, [the Resistance leader's] name continues to haunt the [Israeli] occupiers, who believed that with his death, they would find relief from his [acts of Resistance]."

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If it is not obvious yet, neither the Persian Gulf nor the Red Sea (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231220/journo-us-israel-in-quagmire-as-yemen-expands-gaza-war-into-regional-conflict-1115707682.html) belong to America. Here is partly why:




The [recent] attack that the government in Sana'a did on the two ships in the Red Sea was the first attack recorded in any military of a ballistic missile hitting a naval target that is moving at 60-somewhat knots, which was these ships that were moving. So we see now that the Yemenis have actually some of the most advanced land-to-sea missiles in the world.



Those ships thought they could evade??

Possibly.

Note, nothing worked yet.

And, we cannot call this a "state" since the de jure government controls about 20% of the territory. This is just a grassroots populist movement in de facto control of about 80% of ersatz Yemen. The Tyrant of Niger was just "recognized". Is Yemen a "country" yet? I don't know.

However I have heard that they have already put trainees through General Mobilization (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231220/yemens-houthis-say-carrying-out-general-mobilization-to-possibly-send-soldiers-to-gaza-1115703930.html) and are prepared to ground assault in the direction of Gaza under the nebulous terms "when conditions are right"--I think that means tomorrow as soon as they can figure out how to keep the Saudis out of their hair--or, perhaps they could travel on the captured car carrier. Could it be? It could be.

Stalwart Malaysia totally Bans (https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14020929000642/Malaysia-Bans-Israeli-Flagged-Ships-in-Respnse-Gaza-War) Israeli ships and cargo:


Malaysia does not have diplomatic ties with Israel.


I, personally, would like to see western ships such as the "Fruity Pebbles" and the "Dog of Charybdis" used as Houthi ferries for the invasion of Judea. Not sure it would work. They are big targets. So, it may just be thousands of volunteers who *would* do it, although they lack either a country to declare war, or, a viable means of access.

That is fairly similar to the American bases. A 3,000 man base sounds big--and it is expensive--but even a *lot* of these are ineffective against a modern rival of any size--so no America is not and never will be in a position to militarily swamp another one of these countries. Likewise, I have no idea how the Houthis might approach Israel without the assistance of a country.

I am also a little surprised that 4/5 of the largest shipping companies in the world would suddenly run away.

In a certain sense, that may be the most "powerful" thing I have ever heard of.

Capitalists like to have their military enforcement.

The way to kill all the Muslims is to tell them countries like Norway and Spain are going to "secure international shipping", they are going to laugh so hard they will just suffocate.

Maybe "another 9/11" will turn off the effects of the first one. Smash about 3,000 Americans down to the bottom of the Red Sea where no bloody Moses will part it, along with a smattering of their international coalition making it resemble the personnel that were originally expended, and this time we can say "they signed up for that". Then there will be a snap and public consciousness will reject all this violence.

If it was Islamic poetry they would do it on 1/19.

That might work. I can't figure out how to get the Houthis into Al Quds, but, it is not hard to see some pretentious fleet getting exterminated.

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Sir Tony Blair will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss potential ceasefire with Hamas as death toll in war-torn Gaza continues to mount
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Sir Tony Blair will reportedly meet with Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the ongoing war in Gaza, a minister has revealed.

The former prime minister, 70, is part of the ongoing effort to ensure that the UK's concerns over how Israel is conducting its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip are 'well-ventilated', Andrew Mitchell, the minister for development and Africa, said in the Commons on Tuesday.

'There have been regular discussions between our prime minister and prime minister Netanyahu,' he told MPs, following a question from Slough's MP, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, about whether the UK has been working to get Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire.
Also the foreign secretary has been part of those discussions too. I think Sir Tony Blair is seeing prime minister Netanyahu shortly too,' he added.

Despite not being directly on the frontlines of politics anymore, Blair has been given the blessing of the UK government to get involved in unofficial talks with Netanyahu, The Times reported, quoting a government source who said: 'He knows Netanyahu very well and is a force for good.'

What could possibly go wrong . . . ?

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Heart breaking pictures Ravenlocke but ones that must be witnessed and added to the ever growing list of atrocities inflicted by the Israelis on the Palestinians.

[Bill Ryan]

Heart breaking pictures Look at how much weight he lost in just 3 months of Israeli prison, where without doubt he was being purposefully half-starved.

It's yet another example of the cycle of abuse: the tortured race (in WWII Nazi concentration camps) now becoming the torturers.

All that most Israeli people want (yes, most) is revenge. That's now becoming literally psychopathic. It's tragic to watch, and it's not going to end well.

[Ravenlocke]

⚡️BREAKING

Coordination between Iran, China and Russia is booming

Ansarallah have been tremendously precise in not hitting non-western oil tankers says data firm Kpler

According to MarineTraffic, Iranian and Russian oil as well as Chinese cargo ships and non-Western vessels in the Red Sea have increased since the Houthis began targeting Israel-linked vessels.

The Chinese navy even ignored a distress call from a ship linked to Israel.


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Their blood 'on Netanyahu's hands': IOF kill 3 new captives (Footage)

Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, published a new video footage titled "We tried to keep them alive but Netanyahu insisted on killing them," referring to the Israeli occupation’s killing of three Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip.

The video depicted three Israeli captives: Elia Tolidano, Nick Beezer, and Ron Sherman, who were being held inside a room in a tunnel.

Al-Qassam addressed Israeli settlers saying that these three captives "were killed by your army’s weapons," referring to the indiscriminate bombardment that the Israeli occupation forces have been carrying out across the Gaza Strip.


You want to receive us as corpses: Israeli captives to war cabinet

A day earlier, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades released a video of two Israelis it holds captive, who demanded that their government work toward reaching a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange deal.

The first captive, Elad Katzir, demanded that Israelis pressure their government to make sure that Israeli captives return to their settlements. He also addressed the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the members of the war cabinet, including Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz, and Herzi Halevi.

In his address, Katzir stressed that Israeli captives were under the eminent threat of dying due to the dangerous conditions created by Israeli occupation forces.

"The situation is unbearable," the captive said, "There is a risk that we will die because there are no guarantees that the Israeli army will not bomb us."

In fact, up to 60 Israeli captives have been killed since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip commenced, some by airstrikes while others were killed by the gunfire of Israeli special forces.

"We are in danger... [an Israeli bomb] might be dropped on us... we feel like you do not want to bring us back alive," the captive said.

He also accused the Israeli war cabinet of attempting to kill as many captives as possible to reduce the leverage that the Palestinian Resistance has in mediated negotiations regarding a prisoner exchange deal.

The other captive, Gadi Mozes, said Israeli captives constantly fear that Israeli military missiles threaten their lives.

He demanded that Netanyahu and other Israeli decision-makers do everything possible to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange deal.

"We do not want to die in Gaza... Our lives are in grave danger."

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When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice.

Do not tolerate evil, expose it.

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⚡️Speech HIGHLIGHTS of Hamas’ military spox, Abu Obeida:

• Our forces are still in the field confronting the aggression and inflicting heavy losses to the enemy.

• Our forces continue to destroy military vehicles and lure its soldiers into deadly traps and ambushes.

• We have targeted 720 military vehicles in total since the ground incursions

• Last week, we carried out more than 15 successful sniping operations.

• The IOF army is busy with searching for an image of victory and achievement, but is failing.

• The lost enemy in crisis has not learned even a single lesson from the experiences of history.

• The enemy left our people no choice but to take revenge on them.

• The enemy continues to repeat its foolishness and historical mistakes because it is disconnected from the reality of our people and ignorant of its civilization.

• The enemy’s goal of eliminating the resistance is doomed to failure.

• The continuation of the aggression does not allow the release of prisoners

• If the enemy wants his prisoners alive, they have no choice but to stop the aggression.

• We salute our nation’s fighters who confuse the enemy, especially on the Yemen and Lebanon fronts.

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Operation Iron Swords - Day 75 - 20 December 2023

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/operation-iron-swords-2023-12-20.htm

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https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2023/12/20/gop-house-candidate-is-israeli-citizen-idf-veteran/

GOP House Candidate is Israeli Citizen, IDF Veteran Declares her first priority in Congress will be to represent Israeli interests, blames Biden for 10/7

Mazi Melesa Pilip, 44, an Israeli citizen of Ethiopian descent, is a registered Democrat running on the GOP ballot in the Long Island district formerly represented by fabulist, George Santos. She was born in Ethiopia, and at age 12, her family was airlifted to Israel during Operation Solomon.

She served in the elite IDF paratroop unit as a gunsmith. Most media outlets are describing her services as being a parachutist. However, she served in a support role maintaining weaponry, rather than a combat role.

Israeli media profile her (prematurely) as “on the way to the House of Representatives.” She is the first Israeli citizen and IDF veteran to run for a Congressional seat.

She met her husband, Adelbert Pilip, while he studied medicine at the Technion. After he completed his specialty in cardiology, she emigrated with him to the US in 2005. They live in the wealthy Long Island suburb of Great Neck.

She calls herself an “Israeli Zionist who was raised on love for the country.” She made clear in her first interview with an Israeli media outlet, that the main reason she is running is to tell Israel’s story in a political institution rampant with anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel (her perspective). She offers a standard campaign biography boasting of her humble roots and finer personal qualities. In this case, they focus almost entirely on her patriotism and loyalty to…Israel.

The 10/7 attack plays a central role in her campaign. When she first leared of it, she immediately announced to her husband and seven children:

“I’m putting on my uniform and returning to Israel and volunteering in my [IDF] unit.”

According to her campaign puffery, though her husband sought to dissuade her, asking “what about the children”–it was her sisters living in Israel who persuaded her that her that she offered greater value as a pro-Israel advocate in the US than in Israel. They told her:

“We need you there…in the US. We need for hasbara. You’ll explain to the American public what we are fighting here and how difficult this battle is. Your role there [in the US] is more important.

Pilip adds:

I understood the power I had as a politician and how I could contribute [to pro-Israel hasbara]. True I didn’t don the green [IDF] uniform. However, from that day on I’m in uniform. I’m on a mission.

I’m explaining to the American people that the attack on Israel is an attack on the entire world. THe Palestinian people are the first to suffer from Hamas’ leadership. The war Israel is prepared to wage now is not just one that is vital for the country, it is vital as well for the Palestinian people and the entire world.

We see all the demagoguery in Congress–Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and all the fuss, the lies they spread. Is it any surprise that there is such a rise in anti-Semitism; and that people call for an Intifada and to destroy Israel? Because of politicians like the Squad, the American people simply don’t understand the facts. It doesn’t know there are 2-million Muslim Arabs [sic] in Israel who live side by side with Jews; and who hold senior positions.

That you call an apartheid state? I studied at the University of Haifa during the era of terror attacks, just as my best friends at school were Muslims.”

The average person sees Israel as racist. Those shouting for the destruction of Israel are the future leaders [of the country]. This greatly troubles me and is the reason I’m running. In Congress, there is a small minority who make a lot of noise; and it’s important to fight against them. That’s my goal. I’m coming there [to Congress] to educate and tell Israel’s story. In a time when Congress must pass the Israeli [supplemental] budget–this has immense power.

She even offers the entirely groundless claim that Hamas’ 10/7 attack was not Israel’s fault, but Biden’s:

None of this [the assault on Israel] would have happened under Trump administration, which projected power against terror groups. You can’t do it any other way. You must project strength and Biden had no power of deterrence. He was weak. Hamas exploited this opportunity and committed suicide as a result. It was total suicide, but they decided to do it [the attack] because they believed there would be no consequences.

The purpose is to deflect blame for Israel’s catastrophic intelligence failure and dump it in Biden’s lap. Clearly, the fault is no one’s but Israel. But the good soldier Pilip, is ever ready to divert attention from the real culprit.

She also projects a false image of an Israel united during wartime. The truth is anything but, after the execution of three Israeli hostages seeking to escape their Hamas captors:

Since the war began, the people have united. This is an existential war and it’s good to see everyone is together. Though we may disagree on everything, we’ve put our differences aside. This shows the strength of Israeli democracy…Right now, our strength is our unity…This is what’s good about the Jewish people–we come together from all over the world. People who made aliyah, soldiers who sacrificed themselves for the state. This is worthy of admiration. For the sake of our soldiers, it’s important to unite and take care that this doesn’t happen again.

She claims that the reason she entered politics was the anti-Semitism her children suffered in school. In a wild exaggeration, she claims:

Every Jew in the country worries about anti-Semitism. Jewish students are attacked and no one protects them especially after the war [began]. I have a special protective feeling as a mother. The reputation of America when I arrived, as such a wonderful place–is no more. Today there is chaos…

She dismisses her current Democratic registration:

“It has no meaning. The natural inclination of immigrants when they arrive in the US is to register initially as Democrats. But with time, I discovered that my values are much more closely tied to the Republicans. Those things that are most important to me as a woman, as a mother are first and foremost my personal safety, strengthening the family, lowering taxes, and toughening immigration policy. Today, the borders are so porous, we don’t know who’s entering, if they are criminals or not.

One has to ask, if registering as a Democrat has no meaning to her, why would we assume that registering as a Republican has any as well? Did she not understand what the Democratic Party stood for when she registered? Not to mention that she’s been in this country for nearly 20 years. She’s no longer an immigrant. Did it take her 20 years to discover her values weren’t aligned with it?

It’s strange that she ran as a Republican in her first country race, but never thought to change her registration. It’s understood that all politicians are opportunities to a greater or lesser extent (eg Sen. John Fetterman). But Pilip’s opportunism is right up there.

Another bit of hypocrisy: she immigrated to this country with her wealthy American spouse. She faced none of the hurdles obstructing the entrance of working class immigrants, not to mention those targeted with violence or sexual abuse in their home countries. It’s easy for her to denigrate these immigrants when she arrived as a privileged newcomer.

It seems the Nassau GOP also shared her opportunism and hypocrisy when they nominated her. They didn’t even ask her to register as a Republican:

“They never troubled to ask about the party registration. I can change it any time if they request that I do so.”

In her Ynet interview, she astonishingly admits that she supported George Santos.

While there are 300,000 Jewish voters in her district, who may be likely to donate their wealth to her campaign, it will come as news and perhaps a shock to non-Jewish voters that the GOP candidate is not only is an Israeli citizen, but her primary (and perhaps only) goal is to serve Israel’s interests in Congress. In fact, she boasts that when elected to Congress:

“I will represent my district and Israel. I am so proud of my people [Israel], after everything we’ve gone through. The Jewish people live. Our strength is our unity and Israel must know that it has a representative who is 100% all-in [for Israel]

This news should be of interest as well to her Democratic opponent, Thomas Suozzi, who held the same seat before his failed bid for New York governor.

Great Neck’s wealthy Jewish community will, no doubt, provide substantial financial support to her candidacy. Aipac too will contribute if it feels she has a reasonable chance of success. That is unclear at this point, since she’s only raised $200,000 towards a campaign that requires considerably more to be competitive. She says that the election for her seat will be “the most expensive in the history of New York State.” If she’s right, we know who will be shoveling cash into her campaign: the billionaire pro-Israel hedge fund fat-cats like Paul Singer, Bernie Marcus, Seth Klarman, Ronald Lauder, etc. Not to mention Aipac’s own PAC which funneled $30-million into the 2022 elections. Given that 2024 is a presidential election cycle, expenditures will be orders of magnitude higher.

Another criticism raised against her is her political inexperience: before winning her first term on the Nassau county council, she never ran for office. She had never run in a county-wide race, let along one for federal office. She may have a backstory that is compelling to some, but she will have a difficult time fighting the headwinds her better known Democratic opponent will generate in this race.

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Operation Iron Swords - Day 75 - 20 December 2023

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/operation-iron-swords-2023-12-20.htm

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Operation Iron Swords - Day 75 - 20 December 2023

Today, greed and fear are the ascendent emotions: October 7 revived something last felt in Israel in 1973 -- fears that its neighbours and enemies could do away with the Jewish nation altogether, said political scientist Tamar Hermann. Alastair Crooke, Director of Conflicts Forum; Former Senior British Diplomat, noted "When the sense of the people is that they face a threat to the very existence of Israel, mixed with fear comes greed; inevitably population removal and appropriation of land becomes one option touted.
" Israel -- from their perspective – has already tried their version of a 'two-state solution' -- effectively it was an apartheid structure. Today there are 7.3 million Palestinians and 7.3 million Jews living in 'Greater Israel', and the Palestinian birth rate is the higher. One-state; two-states -- this calculus, for Israelis, has run its course; its prognostication seen as 'bad'.

"The Oslo pillars on which it was assumed the Palestinian state would be built have reversed direction: The first pillar was always demography -- the assumption was that demography would push Israel to 'give' Palestinians their separate 'state' side-by-side with Israel. Well, October 7 stopped that. Structural containment, military enforcement and deterrence failed, and demography now pushes in precisely the opposite direction -- to clearing the land of all 'hostile populations'.

"The second pillar was that the Palestinians would co-operate on security issues to reassure Israel by policing their own people; and the third was that Israel -- and Israel alone -- would decide when it had received enough security assurance to 'give' the Palestinians their state. Well, that notion 'blew up' in Gaza, in the West Bank and in the North, too. Israelis now fear what resides on the other side of their fences and walls. What if Israel concludes that its only course is massive ethnic cleansing as their macro 'solution'?

"The West Bank, Gaza and Palestinian Jerusalem were conquered. So was the Western Wall. And it is from the Western Wall of Temple Mount, metaphorically speaking, that the demon of eschatology arose. The most devouring of demons. It spawned the settlement enterprise, the Jewish underground, the Haredi ultranationalists -- and the Temple Mount Movement. And a second Nakba (violent ethnic cleansing) now hangs over everything."

David Ignatius records in the Washington Post his visit to the West Bank and how he saw that "Peace Will Require Confrontation With Israel": [His visit] was a reality check about what's possible 'the day after' the Gaza war ends. President Biden and other world leaders speak hopefully about creating a Palestinian state once Hamas is defeated (sic). I'd love to see that happen, too. But people need to get real about it … A Palestinian State may seem soothing to hear, but is a version of magical thinking. Standing in the way are the Israeli settlements and outposts laid across the hilltops of the West Bank, their high fences and concrete walls symbolizing their apparent immovability.

"The settlements were put there to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state", Ignatius is frankly told -- and apparently he 'gets it'. It would require confrontation 'to unblock it'. This is so – the settlements have been a block to stop any Palestinian state from emerging. Precisely so. Many years ago, when I was seconded as 'link' between President Arafat and the Israeli government, I received an unexpected invitation: I was asked to tour the most radical West Bank settlements as a 'guest of Ariel Sharon', the then-PM.

"I was taken by one of the Prime Minister's closest friends on 'my' settlement tour. The latter said to the settler leaders -- on each occasion and very explicitly -- to treat me as Sharon's personal guest. They were to speak openly, and to hold nothing back in terms of feelings and opinions. That, they did not. Out it all poured; 'radical' would be to understate matters. They were 'crazy'; fanatics in fact. The neighbouring Palestinian villages, towards whom a pure stream of contempt and hatred was evinced, were in their sights; it was to be a matter of time until they would be swept away and their land appropriated.

"On return to Jerusalem [Al-Quds], my guide looked at me sternly, and said simply, "Do you understand? Do you understand why you were sent on this mission?" "I do". No way will those zealots be removed. Even if it were attempted by the Israeli military, it would be a bloodbath, I replied. They have their claws sunk deep into the settlement earth. "Yes". That was all that was said.

And now, some decades later and in the softest of tones, Ignatius hints at the elephant in the room: "Peace [indeed] would require confrontation with Israel". "Biden's is the latest Administration to confront this reality," Ignatius concludes. But the 'practice' is the opposite: Biden supports and facilitates "Israel's" massacre in Gaza, even as he mutters platitudes that Israel should continue to bomb; but to bomb more carefully. Thus far, so good. But then, rather than address what 'confrontation' would mean, Ignatius veers off into: "Is there a happy ending to this story? Probably not", he muses – before adding 'soothingly' how he met so many brave Israelis and Palestinians working together … towards peace … (…. please!)

Operational Update

Israeli raids continued, targeting the vicinity of the European Hospital east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, and a mosque in its vicinity, causing dozens of martyrs and injuries. The occupation forces also bombed areas in Jabalia and Al-Shuja’iya, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded.

During the last day, over 300 targets were attacked. The IDF forces operating in the territory of the Gaza Strip continue to conduct face-to-face battles with terrorists, to direct aircraft at armed squads and means of warfare, alongside air force and naval strikes, in the framework of which dozens of terrorists were eliminated and a number of terrorist infrastructures were destroyed in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli army Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the military is beginning to fight Hamas in the Gaza City neighborhoods of Daraj and Tuffah, adjacent to Shejaiya, as it nears the end of the ground offensive in northern Gaza, with most of the terror group's battalions in the area dismantled.

The IDF forces have completed the takeover of Hamas' "Senior Quarter" in the center of Gaza City. From this space in the Palestine Square area, the governmental and military leadership of Hamas operated and was conducted. The complex includes a branching network of tunnels connecting hideout apartments, bureaus, offices and living apartments of the senior military wing and the politics of Hamas.

The commander of the Southern Command, Major General Yaron Finkelman, today (Wednesday), held an operational tour with the commander of the 98th Division, Brigadier General Dan Goldfuss, and the forces of the 98th Division in Khan Yunis. The general talked with the commanders and fighters about the continuation of the fighting:

His full words: "We are in another significant phase of an attack in new areas that we are currently operating there with intensity. Great intensity, many contacts with terrorists and this attack continues and will continue forward. It will continue both with pressure on the ground for the enemy and underground with our momentum moving forward all the time. You are doing an excellent job and we will continue and advance both here and in other areas that we have not yet maneuvered into with a powerful, strong maneuver and as I can see here and in other areas, the work you are doing is wonderful and wonderful, impressive leadership of the commanders, courage of the fighters, keep going, good luck!"

Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) - said that during the past 72 hours, Al-Qassam fighters were able to completely or partially destroy 41 military vehicles, and killed 25 Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip , in addition to wounding dozens of civilians. Israeli soldiers sustained varying injuries.

The Al-Qassam Phalange spokesman indicated that the Phalange fighters targeted the invading Israeli forces with missiles and explosive devices and engaged in combat from zero distance. They also targeted rescue teams, in addition to booby-trapping two tunnels and a house, blowing them up with occupation soldiers, and sniping one of the soldiers. Abu Ubaida continued, "Our mujahideen destroyed headquarters, field command rooms, and military concentrations with mortar shells and short-range missiles."

Al-Qassam Brigades said - in successive statements on Telegram - that its members clashed with an Israeli force in the Saraya area in Gaza City, and that they confirmed the killing of 4 soldiers and the injury of others. The Al-Qassam Brigades also announced that it targeted an Israeli force of 12 soldiers barricaded inside a building in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City. Al-Qassam added that it targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Tal Al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.

Before that, Al-Qassam announced that it had targeted 3 Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam reported that its fighters targeted 8 Israeli vehicles in the Sabra and Tal al-Hawa areas in Gaza City. Al-Qassam also announced that it targeted two Israeli tanks and a troop carrier with a strobe device and Al-Yassin 10 shells, in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam Brigades reportd "Our mujahideen blew up the tunnel opening east of Khan Yunis as soon as Israeli forces advanced towards it, and its members were killed and wounded".

The Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - said that it detonated a piercing device against an Israeli foot force and a military bulldozer east of the Shuja'iya neighborhood, killing and wounding its members. The Al-Quds Brigades said that its members were able to kill and wound 5 Israeli soldiers after clashing with them east of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera's military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, attributed the reason for the major Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours to the occupation army’s attempt to achieve several goals for future negotiations. Al-Duwairi explained that the Israeli army is trying to control the eastern strip of the Gaza Strip along a length of 42 kilometers in order to try to create a buffer zone ranging from 1,200 to 1,800 meters to be negotiated in the future.

He pointed out that a political path began with the arrival of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ), Ismail Haniyeh, to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, noting that the occupation army is trying to use the cards it has to achieve field achievements in the hope of imposing conditions that will push the resistance to concessions.

Al-Duwairi expected an increase in the ferocity of the Israeli bombing, with the aim of flattening the land, as well as causing the greatest possible damage to the tunnels through concussion bombs, in addition to an escalation of operations in the southern region. He added that the occupation army is trying to expand its operations in Khan Yunis to the south, in addition to trying to impose a buffer zone along the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip, noting that the Rafah area is considered a soft side that may help the occupation move from the northeast towards the city to create a new reality.

The military expert confirmed that the resistance is adopting a regional defense method, allowing the entry of Israeli vehicles, and then engaging in a zero-distance battle and operating from behind the lines, because entering into a confrontation with tanks is “extremely costly.” He pointed out that there is a large gap between the proposals of the resistance in Gaza and the Israeli-American talk, stressing that the resistance is demanding a very high ceiling, especially in light of the blood that has been spilled. “It is not reasonable to have a ceasefire only, without there being a price and a political solution.”

Al-Duwairi questioned the accuracy of the numbers announced by the occupation army about the number of dead and injured among its ranks, stressing that the number of vehicles targeted by the resistance confirms that the numbers are much larger, in addition to sniping operations, ambushes, and targeting of foot forces and those holed up in buildings.

In an operation to confiscate illegal vehicles in Kfar Zurif in the Etzion Brigade, the fighters confiscated about 40 vehicles. Also, in the village of Nelin in the Ephraim division, four wanted persons were arrested along with a gun, ammunition and military equipment that were confiscated. In addition, in an activity in Kfar Tamon in the Bekaa and Emekim Brigade, armed men shot and threw Molotov cocktails and explosives at the forces who responded by shooting, and an injury was detected.

The wanted persons who were arrested were transferred for further investigation by the security forces, there are no casualties to our forces. So far, since the beginning of the war, approximately 2,400 wanted persons have been arrested throughout the Judea and Samaria Division and the Bekaa and Valleys Division, approximately 1,200 of whom are associated with the terrorist organization Hamas.

The Lebanese Hezbollah military media announced that its fighters targeted two Israeli military helicopters in the airspace of Shtula, Shumira and Evan Menachem with surface-to-air missiles and forced them to leave the airspace immediately. The party said in a statement: “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted at 05:15 pm on Wednesday 12/20/2023 two Israeli military helicopters.”

The statement indicated that the missiles were launched in "the airspace of Shtoula , Shumira and Even Menachem (the occupied Lebanese village of Tarbikha), which forced them to leave the area's airspace immediately." Also earlier today, Hezbollah announced targeting Zionist sites on the border with Lebanon.

Fighter jets of the Air Force attacked an operational headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanese territory. Following the alerts that were activated in the Golan Heights region, four launches from Syrian territory were detected that crossed into Israeli territory. IDF forces attacked the sources of the shooting as well as a military position of the Syrian army. In addition, the IDF forces identified a number of terrorists who approached the perimeter fence from Lebanese territory along the border in the Metula area. The force fired at them, hits were detected.

Fighter jets, helicopter gunships and aircraft of the air force recently attacked terrorist infrastructures, a military structure, launching positions, an operational headquarters and a weapons warehouse of Hezbollah in Lebanese territory. Also, since the morning hours, the IDF has carried out artillery fire and tank fire at a number of locations in Lebanese territory to remove a threat and attacked another terrorist infrastructure of Hezbollah. In addition, a number of launches from Lebanese territory towards the Goren and Manara areas have been detected.

The Russian newspaper "Nezavisimaya" reported that the Israeli government informed the Pentagon of its intention to establish a security zone in the border areas with Lebanon to prevent attacks by the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) in Lebanon. In response, the administration of US President Joe Biden asked its ally to give time to diplomats, while its representatives fear the expansion of the scope of the conflict in Gaza.

A report for the newspaper prepared by writer Igor Subbotin stated that the Israeli government called for an American-brokered agreement with Lebanon that includes the withdrawal of Hezbollah forces to a distance of 10 kilometers to prevent militants from bombing Israeli positions along the border or repeating the scenario of the Hamas attack on the seventh of last October.

The newspaper said that during these weeks, Lebanese Hezbollah is trying to target the most sensitive sites of the Israeli army as an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people who are being subjected to harsh Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip. It added that Israel, for its part, also proposed applying the concept of a buffer zone to the territory of the Gaza Strip to prevent the recurrence of ground infiltration into its territory, and the Biden administration and the countries of the Arab world took note of this, but did not provide them with any details, which raised many doubts about the real goal of the initiative.

The writer stated that a study conducted by the Stratfor Center, which is close to the American intelligence services, rules out that Israel will complete an effective operation in Lebanon before the end of the operations in Gaza, and that even if Israel prefers to use secret or limited escalation and diplomatic pressure to establish stable relations with Hezbollah and Hamas on the northern border, and on Despite the major military provocations carried out by militants, the Israeli army is currently suffering from "exhaustion" with the continuation of major ground operations in the Gaza Strip.

Stratfor analysts believe that the Netanyahu government wants to avoid war in the region, as they say that while reaching a partial or informal diplomatic agreement is possible, Hezbollah is unlikely to withdraw from the southern border or pressure Hamas to prevent independent attacks on northern Israel. Which means that Israel will have to face more sporadic attacks.

The study added that Hezbollah may agree to establish indirect lines of communication with Israel to prevent a widespread conflict, and is likely to be open to finding a way to renegotiate the rules of engagement with Israel to prevent another war, but this dynamic will be unstable, and subject to additional pressures every time. A time when the Palestinians attack northern Israel. According to Stratfor, Israel's post-conflict plans in Gaza include military reoccupation of most of the Strip in 2024, which will constitute a source of inconvenience for Hezbollah, which presents itself as a defender of Palestinian interests.

The British newspaper "The Independent" said that the war in the Gaza Strip is not going well for Israel, despite its "overwhelming" superiority in conventional weapons, and what it considers a "just" cause. It stated in an editorial that the mistake made by the Israeli army in killing 3 prisoners is - from a tactical standpoint - the latest evidence that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s method of dealing with the war is counterproductive, namely undermining international support and pushing young people in Gaza towards “extremism.” “And risking causing unrest in the Middle East.

It explained that the army's latest mistake, in which Israeli prisoners were killed, "while they were bare-chested and raising a white flag," is a "harsh" reminder that reveals the extent to which soldiers are eager to shoot. According to the editorial, Israel's failure so far to arrest senior leaders in the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ), or to "deactivate" much of its infrastructure, is another indication of its inability, "as the tunnels that were discovered appeared empty."

Strategically, the war proved futile. The newspaper cited a statement by former British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, in which he pointed out that “killing out of sheer rage” in response to the “atrocities” that occurred on October 7 is now actually undermining Israel’s security. The newspaper said that it was fully aware that it was the "horrible mass murder" committed by Hamas that caused this reaction, but that a "great gesture" was needed to ensure that a new reaction would not be provoked and that "the poison would not seep out and infect everyone."

The editorial quotes Wallace as saying: “We are entering a dangerous phase now. With its actions, Israel is weakening the original legal argument for self-defense. It is committing a mistake that loses its moral credibility as well as its legal justification.” Commenting on the former British minister’s statement, the newspaper confirms that Israel’s friends and allies in the West share the same view, noting that the pressures on Tel Aviv to end the war are becoming more fierce.

The Independent goes on to say in its editorial that unless the Israeli government shows extraordinary “intransigence,” change is coming in some form, and it may be a change in military tactics, rather than a cessation of them. The problem with a permanent ceasefire lies - in the newspaper’s opinion - in that it depends on the extent of the two parties’ commitment to it, and “there has never been a guarantee that Hamas would be willing to suspend its war on Israel and its “deadly” tendency towards the Jewish people.

Perhaps, if Israel ends, in the current circumstances, its continuous bombing, use of heavy armor, and mass movements of its soldiers, Hamas may not benefit from the period of calm to avoid another “massive brutal revenge.” If Israeli forces continue to enter Gaza and launch limited raids on specific targets, Hamas will certainly respond, according to the editorial. The newspaper goes on to say that neither of the two possibilities means - in any sense - that Israel will win.

While international media reported that Israel was ready for a ceasefire for a period of up to two weeks in exchange for the release of many Israeli detainees, some military and political analysts believd that the developments and course of the war on Gaza were hostage to the political considerations of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


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https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/operation-iron-swords-2023-12-20.htm

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If Washington and its allies want to solve the Red Sea problem, they should play a responsible role in the UN Security Council to pass a cease-fire resolution and to put concrete efforts into improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which would be more effective than sending warships to conduct joint patrols, experts said.

https://globaltimes.cn/page/202312/1303922.shtml

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(I happened to pick up a can of those Goya black beans at a Walmart in Florida months ago because I didn’t know, (usually don’t buy this brand but organic). When I opened, it was awful, mostly skins, hardly any beans, ended up throwing it out.)

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1737912648497529112

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BREAKING: The Washington Post debunks IDF claims, that al-Shifa hospital was connected to Hamas via a tunnel network

"... But the evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center, according to a Washington Post analysis of open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials. That raises critical questions, legal and humanitarian experts say, about whether the civilian harm caused by Israel’s military operations against the hospital — encircling, besieging and ultimately raiding the facility and the tunnel beneath it — were proportionate to the assessed threat.

The Post’s analysis shows:

- The rooms connected to the tunnel network discovered by IDF troops showed no immediate evidence of military use by Hamas.

- None of the five hospital buildings identified by Hagari appeared to be connected to the tunnel network.

- There is no evidence that the tunnels could be accessed from inside hospital wards.

... None of the five buildings highlighted by the IDF appear to connect to the tunnels, and no evidence has been produced showing that the tunnels could be accessed from inside the hospital wards, as Hagari had claimed..."

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Unconditional American support for Israel, coupled with American impunity, is enabling it to commit more crimes against humanity.
Palestinians analyst Marwan Bishara, on Al-Jazeera English, discusses how the U.S. government is facilitating Israel in committing these crimes and observes the changing standards and values.

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[Bill Ryan]

This is very much an interim post, about the imminent UN Security Council vote which (if not vetoed again by the US) would mandate a ceasefire. This time, there have been extensive diplomatic negotiations behind the scenes to try to establish a wording that the US would accept and at least abstain on and NOT veto.

This report was published less than an hour ago:


https://bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67795439

Israel-Gaza war: US still has 'serious concerns' over UN Security Council vote

The US has said it still has serious concerns over a draft UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, just hours before a planned vote on Thursday.

The council was due to vote on calling for "urgent humanitarian pauses" - but despite intense talks, it had not yet been able to agree on a wording.

The US said it was concerned the resolution, put forward by the United Arab Emirates, could "actually slow down" humanitarian aid into Gaza. It had "widespread concerns", it said.

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Here we go! MASSIVE Mideast war is EXACTLY the plan | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris:

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source (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynJOyeVQoZKR)

[shaberon]

Today, greed and fear are the ascendent emotions: October 7 revived something last felt in Israel in 1973 -- fears that its neighbours and enemies could do away with the Jewish nation altogether, said political scientist Tamar Hermann.


Yes, the Houthis are making the settler state ungovernable (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231221/houthis-cargo-ship-attacks-help-make-settler-occupation-of-palestine-ungovernable-1115729851.html):


Commenting on this situation, journalist and author Jon Jeter praised the Houthis' actions, arguing that they are essentially making Israeli “settler occupation of Palestine ungovernable.”

“What they're [Houthis] doing is bold, and they've been victimized by settler colonialism as much as anyone,” Jeter said on Sputnik podcast Critical Hour. “To think that's such a sign of things to come, I just couldn't be more impressed and admire the Houthis more than I do now because of what they're doing.”

According to Jeter, what the Houthis and Hezbollah are doing “is really heartening at this really dark time in human history.”


While even Americans admit the operation has resulted in a near-total shift of reputation to Hamas (https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14020930000585/US-Inelligence-Analysis-Warns-Hamas%E2%80%99-Inflence-Has-Grwn-Since-Miliary):



A flurry of new analysis by US intelligence agencies warned that Hamas’ credibility and influence has grown dramatically in the two months since the October 7 Operation Al-Aqsa Storm and the onset of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the Middle East and beyond.

As Israel’s relentless air campaign has killed thousands of civilians inside Gaza, Hamas has been able to cast itself as the lone armed group fighting back against a brutal oppressor killing women and children.

Officials familiar with the different assessments say the group has successfully positioned itself across some parts of the Arab and Muslim world as a defender of the Palestinian cause and an effective fighter against Israel.



It seems no seven-day ceasefire for "some" prisoners will happen. You have already been told the conditions--during the temporary ceasefire actually. Of course, this fact is relatively concealed.

I can understand that most Israelis may be hellbent on the Doctrine of Revenge, like in Jesuit Freemasonry, although I do not know how this meshes with about a half-disapproval for Netanyahu. A guy already under suspicion of mass corruption, now with genocide heaped on his plate, no one but an amoral military could agree with this.

That country is ruined, finished. It will never gain any more sympathy. It will have an increasing economic difficulty, various forms of attacks, and no kind of future anyone would want.

True, the Saudis and Jordanians would not be interested in "dustifying" the populace, since local trade is in their favor, but this does not require Zion in its current form.

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/unsc-vote-on-gaza-postponed-again-due-to-forced-us-amendment

UNSC vote on Gaza postponed again due to forced US amendments

The United Nations Security Council concluded closed-door consultations that lasted until Friday dawn without reaching a decision on adopting the UAE-sponsored resolution calling for a ceasefire and expediting the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. This marks the fourth time the UNSC has delayed a vote this week.

According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent in New York, despite the contradictory statements from the US representative, the Security Council concluded its work and will not vote on the resolution tonight. He pointed out that the Council may return to voting tomorrow, after accepting the amendments requested by the United States.

Following days of delays, the latest draft version seen by AFP calls for "urgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and also for creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities." It does not call for an immediate end to fighting.

The International Security Council has repeatedly postponed voting on a draft resolution on Gaza in recent days, at the request of the United States, which vetoed on December 8 a previous text calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, further providing its biggest ally, "Israel", with a diplomatic cover to continue committing massacres against the Palestinian people.

Washington's amendments to the Arab resolution on Gaza

Our correspondent reported on the US amendments to the Arab draft resolution on Gaza, which included Washington's rejection of the phrase "urgent suspension of fighting to allow the entry of humanitarian aid." The US called for replacing the phrase with "taking urgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and also for creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities."

Washington also rejected any reference to "Israel" as an "occupying force" due to the duties that this phrase entails under the United Nations Charter. Any such reference was removed from the blue-inked draft resolution.

The United States also refused any reference to the war in Gaza as a threat to peace and international security and a clause emphasizing the necessary compliance of all countries with Security Council resolutions as stipulated in Article 25 of the Charter.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent added that the US requested that the phrase "The Security Council decides that the parties must allow and facilitate the use of all... routes to and throughout the entire Gaza Strip, including border crossings... for the provision of humanitarian assistance," be replaced with "The Security Council calls on the parties... to do so."

This would alleviate the responsibility of the UNSC to take any action to ensure the compliance of concerned parties with the decision to ensure the passage of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

The United States requested and already obtained, according to our correspondent, the inclusion of a reference to the "importance of unifying the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under the umbrella of the Palestinian Authority" in the draft resolution.

Similarly, Washington rejected including the phrase that mentions Gaza is an "integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967 and must become part of the Palestinian state." This phrase was replaced by "Gaza represents an integral part of the occupied territories in 1967, and the Security Council confirms its vision of a two-state solution."

After the meeting, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters that "if the resolution is put forward as is, then we can support it."

She denied that the draft resolution had been watered down, saying it was "very strong" and "fully supported by the Arab group."

"We have worked hard and diligently over the course of the past week with the Emiratis, with others, with Egypt, to come up with a resolution that we can support. And we do have that resolution now. We’re ready to vote on it," Thomas-Greenfield said in a briefing.

Earlier, The New York Times cited diplomats in the Security Council as saying that they feel "increasing frustration" about the repeated US requests to postpone voting on the resolution to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

According to the newspaper, "Israel" is pressuring the United States to reject assigning the United Nations to inspect aid shipments entering the Gaza Strip.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in New York mentioned that the United States refuses to form a UN supervisory and monitoring mechanism for the entry and distribution of aid.

This comes at a time when the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, ongoing for 77 days now, has left more than 20,000 martyrs and more than 52,000 wounded.

[Bill Ryan]

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/unsc-vote-on-gaza-postponed-again-due-to-forced-us-amendment

UNSC vote on Gaza postponed again due to forced US amendments
Well, I'm glad I didn't stay up late, as I'd originally planned to do. :facepalm:

The latest on this, from Al Jazeera: (https:/aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/22/us-ready-to-back-diluted-resolution-on-more-aid-to-gaza-as-un-vote-delayed)
US ready to back diluted resolution on more aid to Gaza as UN vote delayed

UN Security Council vote is expected on Friday after four postponements, countries’ disagreements over language of text.
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Meanwhile, in the last 48 hours while diplomats, safe and warm in their meeting rooms, were passionately arguing, 390 more Palestinians were killed and 734 were injured.

That's one innocent person killed every 10 minutes while the US continued to prevaricate.

Karma will take its toll.

[Ewan]

.... could "actually slow down" humanitarian aid into Gaza .....



.... so we will show you how to really slow it down by arguing semantics and delaying this vote for as long as we can ....

[Bill Ryan]

.... could "actually slow down" humanitarian aid into Gaza .....

.... so we will show you how to really slow it down by arguing semantics and delaying this vote for as long as we can ....This livestream hasn't aired yet (it'll go live in a couple hours from now), but considering this is Alastair Crooke, and also considering the video title, it's likely to be both quietly very hard-hitting and most illuminating to hear.

SPECIAL: Alastair Crooke: The US an outcast at the UN


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTyYMIZ1dJM

[Bill Ryan]

A very interesting update from AP News, published just a few minutes ago. This again is merely interim, because we'll surely hear the details and the outcome of the vote within a few hours.

The final sentence "Russia holds the key" seems particularly significant, as this implies that Russia might actually veto this because the watered-down wording is simply too weak and ineffective. (No ceasefire?? WTF. :facepalm:)

The entirety of the short article is copied below:


https://apnews.com/article/un-resolution-gaza-aid-palestinians-israel-a5bb32fb9f071689d231533a26beb838

UN to vote on watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities

After many delays, the U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Friday on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza.

The revised text is backed by the United States, while Russia and other countries still support stronger wording that would include a call for “the urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

Council members met behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss a revised draft resolution, then delayed the vote so they could consult their capitals on the significant changes, aimed at avoiding a U.S. veto. A new text with a few minor revisions was circulated Friday morning.

It was unclear whether the resolution would be adopted. One council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were private, said Russia holds the key.


Edit to add:

In Alastair Crooke's conversation a few hours ago with Judge Napolitano posted above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?122055-Israel-vs-Hamas-a-New-Middle-East-War&p=1592094&viewfull=1#post1592094), Crooke said, in his very quiet but emphatic way, that (a) the draft resolution was "meaningless" and (b) there was a LOT of anger about it expressed by many of the delegates.

[Bill Ryan]

The UN Security Council has passed the resolution on aid delivery to Gaza.

13 votes in favor, 0 votes against and 2 abstentions (the US and Russia).

An amendment to the resolution, adding that there must also be an immediate ceasefire, was proposed by Russia. But that was vetoed by the US.

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The Israeli military used the locations of a catholic church and a convent in #Gaza, which it had obtained from #US congressional staff, to later target them with airstrikes and sniper fire, Politico reported, citing a series of emails from October.

In an attempt to prevent Israeli strikes on religious sites in Gaza, one of the largest #Christian aid organizations there, Catholic Relief Services, passed on the coordinates of several sites in the Strip to Senate staffers, who in turn sent them to Israeli authorities, the report, published on Thursday, highlighted.

According to Politico, the move by the aid organization came in line with attempts to gain a commitment from Israeli authorities not to target at least four buildings in Gaza, including the two that were later struck by the Israeli forces.

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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/sacking-censorship-threats-pro-palestine-supporters-face-growing-global-backlash/3086913

Sacking, censorship, threats: Pro-Palestine supporters face growing global backlash


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Since the start of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, pro-Palestine supporters across the globe have been facing a growing wave of repercussions, ranging from harassment and threats to being fired from their jobs.

Prominent cases of sackings include journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass, who was fired from Canadian television news outlet Global News for social media posts in support of Palestine.

In Germany, Kasem Raad, a 20-year-old apprentice, was sacked by Welt TV for questioning the company’s internal policies favoring Israel.

In the UK, politicians have also come under fire, such as Conservative MP Paul Bristow, who was dismissed from his government role after calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to support a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.

Over in the US, the staunchest supporter of Israel’s deadly war, the impact has been just as forceful.

Expressing pro-Palestine opinions is costing people, particularly Muslims and Arab Americans, their jobs, as well as endangering their academic future, with universities across the US also cracking down on student activism.

Speaking to Anadolu, Farah Afify, research and advocacy coordinator at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said there has been a staggering surge in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian discrimination.

A recent CAIR report found over 2,100 such cases between Oct. 7 and Dec. 2, she said.

“We have seen 2,171 complaints come into our offices. Now that encompasses everything from employees expressing that they have experienced repercussions because of their pro-Palestinian social media posts or for expressing support for Palestinian human rights,” she said.

The cases also include students facing bullying and harassment in schools or on college campuses, as well as other attacks on Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians in the US.

This figure represents a huge jump of 172% from the previous year, with the biggest increase in complaints registered in areas like Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida and Maryland.

Among these, over 20% were cases of people being sacked or facing discrimination at workplaces, according to Afify.

‘Spiraling out of control’

“People across the board, in terms of whether it’s students or employees in a particular sector, they are being targeted for their support of Palestinian human rights,” she said.

The attacks have directly been toward employees who might identify as Muslim, Arab or Palestinians, she added.

Citing specific incidents, Afify narrated a case where a death threat was slipped under the door of a staff member at American University in Washington.

In another instance, an employee was told not to speak about Palestinian issues on her social media.

Later, her supervisor posted a very anti-Palestinian speech, saying things like “You deserve everything that’s coming for you,” and referring to Palestinians as “sick animals.”

There were no repercussions for that official, according to the CAIR report.

“So, what we’re also seeing is a double standard in which people who are proponents for Palestinian human rights … might be having their speech suppressed, might be experiencing consequences due to their decision to post about Palestinian human rights online,” said Afify.

She said the number of complaints, including reported incidents of discrimination, have been “spiraling out of control.”

“We will not see an end to these types of situations until we see an end to the violence in Gaza,” she added.

‘Absolute fear’

According to Afify, the current atmosphere for Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians in the US is “one of absolute fear.”

“We see not only these incidents coming into our offices but also being publicized across the country,” she said, referring to videos being circulated on social media showing Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians being attacked “for seemingly no reason other than the fact that what they are.”

She said CAIR is working to raise awareness among employees and “make them aware of their legal rights.”

“It’s really important for employees to understand what is protected and … what might not be protected in places of work,” she said.

CAIR is also giving them practical resources in the sense of what to do if they want to post about Palestinian human rights on their social media, how to do that effectively and safely, she added.

“We also issue guidance to employers as well. Sometimes we will, especially if we’re attempting strategic advocacy around a particular complaint, we might speak with the employer directly,” said Afify.

They also give general guidance to employers to make them aware of the legal rights of employees and encourage them to make sure that Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians in their places of work feel supported, she added.

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In an attempt to prevent Israeli strikes on religious sites in Gaza, one of the largest #Christian aid organizations there, Catholic Relief Services, passed on the coordinates of several sites in the Strip to Senate staffers, who in turn sent them to Israeli authorities, the report, published on Thursday, highlighted.

According to Politico, the move by the aid organization came in line with attempts to gain a commitment from Israeli authorities not to target at least four buildings in Gaza, including the two that were later struck by the Israeli forces.

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Insane story https://politico.com/news/2023/12/21/congress-gazan-churches-location-israel-00132915

Catholic Relief Services, the leading US catholic humanitarian agency, got the US Congress to officially send GPS coordinates of 4 Catholic sites (churches and convents) in Gaza that shouldn't be struck.

Israel confirmed receiving the list but 2 of the sites were still hit by the IDF, a church and a convent, shelled by IDF tanks and fired at by IDF snipers who killed a mother and her daughter harboring in the church (an act the Pope latter qualified as "terrorism").

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Houthis have sent a message to Saudi Arabia:

We do not want Saudi Arabia to be in any alliance to support Israel.

We will respond to any country that opens its airspace to bomb Yemen.

Saudi Arabia’s future is in danger from Israel and Egypt’s position in rejecting the American coalition in the Red Sea will protect the Suez Canal.

We advise Saudi Arabia and the UAE not to stand with the Israelis in the face of those who support the Palestinian people.

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[Bill Ryan]

Here's Zero Hedge's report on the new UN Security Council resolution. (In October, Zero Hedge was transparently pro-Israel. But now they're much more measured and careful in what they say.)


https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-russia-continue-sparring-over-gaza-un-security-council-passes-resolution

US, Russia again clash over Gaza as UN Security Council Passes Resolution

Russia and the United States continue to clash in the UN Security Council (UNSC), which was on display again as Friday it passed a new resolution that urges speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. But both the US and Russia abstained from the vote for contrasting reasons.

The new resolution calls for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access."

However, the US is angry it didn't specifically condemn the Oct.7 Hamas attack, while Russia is unhappy that the final resolution watered down any real call for urging a ceasefire.

Describing Moscow's stance, Jerusalem Post (https://www.jpost.com/international/article-779232) writes, "But a weakening of language on a cessation of hostilities frustrated several council members - including veto power Russia - and Arab and Organization of Islamic Cooperation states, some of which, diplomats said, view it as approval for Israel to further act against Hamas for a deadly Oct. 7 attack."

Wrangling over the fine print had carried on all week (https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/politics/un-security-council-resolution-israel-gaza-resolution/index.html):
Diplomats had been working behind closed doors to finalize the resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates. US official familiar with the discussions said the draft had started with calling for an “urgent cessation” of hostilities. Neither the United States nor Israel currently supports a ceasefire, so the US countered with “a more passive formulation,” the official said, describing the language that ended up in the resolution.
The US had vetoed prior proposed resolutions on the basis that they called for an immediate ceasefire, which Washington rejects in support of ongoing Israeli air and ground operations.

But increasingly, the US has found itself isolated alongside Israel as the death toll soars. The Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry has said the death toll now surpasses 20,000 killed - with the majority being women and children. Israel has said multiple thousands are actually Hamas militants.

Russia has been a big backer of UNSC language which demands a halt to fighting:

The representative from Russia put an amendment before the council just before the vote that would have changed the language back to the original “immediate cessation of hostilities” but it was vetoed by the US.
Hawks in the US have lately sought to make a connection between Putin and the Oct.7 terror attack. Most recently, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley bizarrely claimed at a campaign rally event (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nikki-haley-gazans-should-be-resettled-pro-hamas-countries-qatar-iran-turkey), "Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th, October 7th is Putin's birthday." By this, she painted a picture of covert Russian support to Palestinian militants.

Haley claimed it was part of a plot to take the world's attention off of Russia's actions in Ukraine. However, there was nothing in the way of evidence offered for such a grand conspiracy theory based on pure speculation.

[Bill Ryan]

I wrote this a short while ago on the Should Christians support Israeli military action? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?122427-Should-Christians-support-Israeli-military-action) thread.




I've just been listening to Max Blumenthal telling Judge Napolitano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarUuZ_YKY4) about some of the events in Gaza which are well-documented now but almost completely unreported in the western media. Some were unknown to me.

At one point I had to stop the video. I just stared out of the window for a while before I could continue.

What the Israelis are doing is evil. Period. No moral person can support it.I didn't want to post the details on that thread. But this is what Max Blumenthal told Napolitano, that nearly two hours later I still find one of the the most awful things I've heard in many months. (And there have been a lot of those.)

I may be able to listen to it again and transcribe exactly what Max recounted. But I can't do it now. Maybe I can steel myself to do it tomorrow.

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A young Palestinian girl lost her entire family after an Israeli bomb strike. She was the only survivor, but she had to have one of her legs amputated.

When she was interviewed, she said that she wanted to become a doctor so that she could help children who had to learn to live with prosthetic limbs like hers.

Several days later, the hospital she was in was bombed by the Israelis. The girl, who had lost her entire family and who had wanted to become a doctor to help children like herself, had her head blown off.

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🚨PRCS views with great concern the targeting by the occupation artillery of the maternity ward in Nasser Medical Complex in #KhanYounis, leading to several casualties.

⚠️This violation is a serious indication of targeting hospitals and medical centers that enjoy protection and immunity according to international humanitarian law. We call on international community to provide full protection for medical teams and hospitals.
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This is the young girl that Max Blumenthal was referring to on the Judge Napolitano show.

Here is the story,
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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People, by Edward Curtin - The Unz Review

Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas. But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for.

The different stories of his birth, told by Mathew and Luke in the New Testament, which are the bases for Christmas, are not filled with sugar plum fairies and sleighs filled with useless, unnecessary consumer goods. There’s nothing about a Jolly Old St. Nicholas or baked ham or candy canes. No gifts to return in a frenzied rush that replicates their purchase. No credit card bills that come due in the new year. No “Jingle Bell Rock” with Brenda Lee or “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby.

Just a poor child’s birth to fulfill a prophecy that out of life would come death and out of death would come life. That hope was improbable but possible with faith.

These birth narratives, which tell of a nativity that concludes with the grown child’s suffering, public crucifixion, death, and Resurrection – a story that lives on with the suffering of so many innocents – are, as Gary Wills puts it in What the Gospels Meant, “. . . far from feel-good stories. They tell of a family outcast and exiled, hunted and rejected. They tell of children killed, of a sword to pierce the mother’s heart, of a judgment on the nations.” They are stories of rejection, massacre, and a desperate flight from death at an early age. They are not what most people now consider to be the essence of Christmas since a radical Palestinian Jew’s story has been almost totally erased by the glitz and greed of getting and spending to fuel an economy geared for war and killing.

Mathew and Luke’s birth narratives are replicated again and again throughout history, presently and most conspicuously in Gaza and the West Bank, as the massacre of the innocents continues under today’s King Herod, Benjamin Netanyahu, the client king of Washington, not Rome, while U.S. politicians, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who claims to be a defender of children and opposed to U.S. war policies, support this genocide with rhetorical justifications that the Trappist monk Thomas Merton called the unspeakable:

It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience . . .

To the shock of so many of Kennedy’s early supporters, he claims, among other unspeakable assertions, that the Israelis have been the innocent victims of the Palestinians for 75 years, and they “could flatten Gaza” if they chose to, but instead have kindly used high-tech explosives “to avoid civilian casualties”; that they are not committing genocide intentionally. Indeed, his defense of the indefensible Israeli war crimes is widely shared by the compromised political leadership of both parties in Washinton, D.C., a place Kennedy is hoping to reach as the top of the heap, but he is contradicting all his talk about spiritual renewal and healing the divide, and it is especially galling and hypocritical as we try to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace.

While the genocide of Palestinians is being documented every ongoing day now, the Gospel stories are different in that they were written after the fact and were not based on eyewitness testimony but are narratives of deep symbolic faith significance, historically wrong in places, but told to signify religious truths of the early Christian faith community.

Once there was a mother and father with their child on the run to safety in Egypt; today there are millions of Palestinian refugees on a bombed-out unarmed road of flight to nowhere but a dead-end.

A few days ago my wife and I were caring for our son’s two dogs. Down the hill as night came on, the town set off fireworks – those bombs bursting in air (Oh how lovely is war!) – to celebrate and encourage people to buy holiday gifts, what can only fairly be described as acquisitive consumer madness that many realize yet have accepted as an essential part of the Christmas message. As the fireworks exploded loudly, the dogs started to quake uncontrollably and we had to hold them tight to comfort them.

Yes, they are animals, but sentient animals with deep feelings; and yes, they are not children in Gaza quivering in fear as the Israelis bomb them night and day in savage attacks. But as we held those frightened dogs, feeling their hearts beat fast as they gasped for breath, the visceral sense of what those Palestinians must be feeling, as they hold their trembling children who are butchered as useless objects, overwhelmed me. As they are “thinned out,” as Netanyahu is reported to have said, I felt sick at heart to be living safely in a country that finances and supports such slaughter. A country in which buying and selling is the real religion, people have become commodities, and Christmas has become the celebration of such grotesqueries.

I keep thinking of the difference between human beings and things; life and death; money and power; acquisitiveness and poverty; and, as Norman O. Brown puts it in Life Against Death, “an economy driven by a pure sense of guilt, unmitigated by any sense of redemption.”

In his classic study, Brown makes clear that it is erroneous to think that the secular and the sacred are exclusive opposites, as if the secular has replaced the “irrational” beliefs of religion with clean science and logical thinking; has banished irrational superstitions with abstract, objective, quantitative, and impersonal thinking. On the contrary, he argues that the whole modern secular money complex – the spirit of capitalism – is rooted in the psychology of guilt and the secular sacred. He writes:

The psychological realities here are best grasped in terms of theology, and were already grasped by Luther. Modern secularism, and its companion Protestantism, do not usher in an era in which human consciousness is liberated from supernatural manifestations; the essence of the Protestant (or capitalist) era is that the power over this world has passed from God to God’s negation, God’s ape, the Devil. And already Luther had seen in money the essence of the secular, and therefore of the demonic. The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Things, just like money, beyond a certain minimum necessary for a simple life of use, do not, as everyone knows, bring happiness. This is because they are dead – excrement – the Devil’s favorite toy.

Take all those useless and superfluous objects people exchange during the holiday season. The disposable gifts that are purchased to ease the guilt of giving and receiving. Or such “objects” as an autograph of a famous person, an art work such as Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn that sold at auction last year for $195 million, Babe Ruth’s bat, Princess Diana’s evening dress ($1,148 million at auction), antlers over a fireplace and trophies of all sorts – the examples are manifold – they serve to confer on their owners a sacred prestige (etymology = deception, illusion) that is pure magic. Like vast piles of money, they are talismanic protectors against death. Their magical properties are irrational and rarely acknowledged, for to do so would reveal the absurdity of their acquisition and the pathetic nihilistic core of their owners. They are outward signs of inward barrenness, yet for those who possess these useless objects they are magic ordure.

The more expensive the objects the more social power they mystically confer, since the message is that the owner can always give it up for a pot of gold but doesn’t have to since they are sitting on a lot more gold, which is really a pot of ****. In other words, wealth, its possession and the avid desire for it, signifies power over people and that power includes using them in many ways, including their labor, and killing them if one chooses, quickly or slowly, overtly or deviously, directly or indirectly, for some people are useless objects, inferior people.

Such power is central to politics and warfare, as a quick glance at the wealth of war-promoting politicians will reveal.

It is central to the widespread thinking today that the world is filled with useless people who must be disposed of one way or the other.
It is a fundamental tenet of the World Economic Forum, the Gates-Rockefeller et al. crowd, and the racist eugenics promoters today and yesterday.
It is behind the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) biological weapons gain-of-function research, the Covid-19 propaganda, and the CIA’s and Defense Department’s distribution of the mRNA countermeasures (“vaccines”).
It is central to the hideously obscene profits of the medical military-industrial complex and the world-wide arms industry.
It is central to the genocide taking place in Gaza. For the Israeli rulers, the problem is that the Palestinians exist, so they must be exterminated.
It’s still the same old story told differently down through the ages.
Hitler enacted it against the Jews.
Once long ago, it was a Palestinian Jewish boy born in a manger destined to make trouble for the rulers of the empire who had to be eliminated one way or another. Today that child of God is any Palestinian child, destined, we are told by the rulers of Israel, to grow into a terrorist animal.

Christmas is about a birth, the birth of a boy who would become a man who sided with the outcasts, the poor, the forsaken, the gentle, and the peacemakers. His birth and life was a rebuke to the powerful and the rich who lord it over the innocent, the killers, those who profit at the expense of others, who amass wealth and useless possessions to parade their power, a show of power which, unknown to their self-obsessed minds, is a sign of their spiritual nullity.

I have nothing against Santa. I once sat on his lap and he seemed nice to my four year-old mind. He was fat and jolly. He told me I would get what I wanted for Christmas. But he forgot to tell me what Christmas was really about.

That is what I want. To remember.

[Ravenlocke]

🇷🇺 Russia at the UN: "By signing off on this [resolution], the UN Security Council would essentially be giving the Israeli armed forces complete freedom of movement for further clearing of the Gaza Strip. And anyone who votes in favor of the text as it is currently worded would bear responsibility for that, essentially becoming complicit in the destruction of Gaza."

"The text of the draft has lost a reference to condemnations of all indiscriminate attacks on civilians. What signal does this send to the international community, that the Security Council is giving Israel a green light for war crimes?"

"A vote on this amendment can be a moment of truth to show who of the members of the Security Council wants to end violence in Gaza and save the lives of civilians, and who is guided by conjunctural considerations. Colleagues, the way that the text is worded currently is the main thing that the USA needs from this resolution.

Under a cunning phrase containing the words 'creating the conditions for a cessation of hostilities', Israel will be given freehand to further, non time limited, entirely unrestrained, indiscriminate bombings of the civilian infrastructure and the civilian population of Gaza."

"Few days, the Security Council, and together with it, the entire world, has been witnessed to the latest, and I'm not afraid to use this word, shameful, cynical and irresponsible conduct by the United States, which is trying to avoid responsibility for the further use of the veto, resorting to all sorts of means of sabotaging the Security Council's adoption of a decision on Gaza."

" The United States, under various pretexts, has been dragging out the negotiating process, deviating from the normal, transparent negotiating work. Instead of this, they have resorted to their favored tactic of gross pressure, blackmail and twisting arms, so that at the last minute, being able to present the members of the council with an ultimatum, either the council adopts a text that is convenient for Washington, or the United States will once again block the adoption of any product."

"The draft that is now being put to a vote was initially, in our view, entirely toothless, but respecting the initiative of our Arab colleagues and their needs, we were ready to support it under pressure from the USA that essentially intercepted the authorship and usurped work on the text behind the scenes at various levels twisting the hands of those in the region."

The Russian amendment got 10 votes in favor and was vetoed by the United States.

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[Ravenlocke]

About the Golani Brigade,



https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1738272902548443194

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After the Israeli Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion was pulled out of Gaza due to heavy casualties, including the loss of its commander, Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg, Lt. Omri Akshlama justified killing kids and destroying their families' homes on the grounds that they "nurse anti-Semitism and terrorism with their mother's milk"

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1738097335572328862

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https://x.com/IbnRiad/status/1738115531394183654

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the goal of "Israel's" war on Gaza to "eliminate" the Palestinian Resistance will not and cannot be achieved, stressing that the war is Netanyahu's own war.

In an op-ed in Haaretz titled "Israel's Choice: Cease-fire Now or Dead Hostages Later," Olmert said that "the destruction of Ha-ma-s will not be achieved."

The former PM stated that "Israel" is facing "the choice between a cease-fire as part of a deal that may bring home the hostages in the hope that most of them are alive, and a cease-fire with no deal, no hostages, no apparent achievement, with a total loss of the remnants of international public support" for "Israel".

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1738350166715801831

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[Alekahn2]

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Pepe Escobar discusses how the neocons have a larger plan to destabilize West Asia
as their influence wanes and failures mount.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1738316112851263917

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/3-000-israeli-soldiers-have-become-permanently-disabled--isr

3,000 Israeli soldiers have become permanently disabled: Israeli media

Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 revealed on Friday that 3,000 Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldiers who sustained injuries as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza have been classified among those with "permanent disabilities in the army."

According to the news broadcaster, the number of IOF soldiers wounded since October 7 has reached 5,000 as of December 9.

The channel added that the Israeli Department for Rehabilitation reportedly receives 60 new wounded IOF soldiers daily from security and reserve forces, excluding regular army personnel.

Over 2,000 soldiers, classified as disabled and accommodated by the Israeli Ministry of Security, along with 1,000 from the regular forces, are currently being treated by the Israeli military.

Read more: Israeli military forcing hospitals to cover losses: Israeli media

The head of the Rehabilitation Department in the Israeli Ministry of Security Limor Luria disclosed that 58% of the wounded IOF soldiers suffered injuries in their hands and legs, including some undergoing amputations, while 12% suffered injuries to their internal organs such as the spleen and kidneys, in addition to injuries in the head and eyes.

These figures, acknowledged by Israeli media reports, come at a time when the Israeli leadership is attempting to conceal the true human losses within its forces amid ongoing confrontations with the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip.

On a related note, Israeli activists commented on images of the Prime Minister with Israeli wounded, stating, "When you sent soldiers to Gaza, they had two legs, and today you take a photo with them with one leg."

Some injured servicemembers reportedly refused a visit from Netanyahu, Israeli news broadcaster Channel 13 reported.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1738298830234230818

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--unable-to-eliminate-hamas--will-have-to-withdraw--r

'Israel' unable to eliminate Hamas, will have to withdraw: Reports

The Israeli occupation forces may have to leave the Gaza Strip before their chief military goal, the complete elimination of the Hamas Resistance movement is achieved, the Israeli Ynet website said.

Israeli journalist and political and military affairs analyst Ronen Bergman wrote that he spoke with a senior government official on the condition of anonymity, with the latter going on a rant about the Israeli occupation's invasion of the Gaza Strip.

The official said he feels nauseous and disgusted after every talk he has with several officials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, namely due to the instructions he receives regarding the ongoing invasion, whose goals the official said were the "destruction of the infrastructure, capabilities, and rule of Hamas", as well as the release of all the captives.

The invasion, the official said, was launched in a bid to pressure Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya al-Sinwar, to reach a prisoner swap deal and release the captives.

Reportedly, despite the many setbacks and failures, Israeli officials insist that the ground invasion should continue "both to achieve the first goal, the dismantling of the [Resistance] organizations, and also the second: to put enough pressure on al-Sinwar for him to capitulate and agree to a deal that Israel can accept."

The Israeli journalist argued that this is reminiscent of the situation before the 2006 war on Lebanon, wherein they had claimed in the days before the aggression that they had enough firepower to completely disable and destroy Hezbollah's capabilities to attack Israeli targets.

The Israelis claimed that Hezbollah only had a few Katyushas and could not get to the Israeli occupation forces. In reality, he said, it turned out that there were Katyushas and much, much more.

"It is not about hindsight or a conclusion that one could only reach after the fact," he said, saying the media warned ahead of the invasion of Gaza against misleading the Israelis about the ease of conducting the land aggression.

He stressed that whoever planned for the Israeli occupation to maintain a presence in Gaza lacked intellect and general information about such events that had taken place previously either with the Israeli occupation or elsewhere around the world.

According to Bergman, the world will not allow the Israeli occupation to stay in Gaza; the international pressure, he said, accompanied by the number of soldiers killed in action "from a faltering army" at the hands of the Resistance fighters who managed to regroup "will oblige the Israeli forces to withdraw much, much earlier."

The military affairs expert did not at all shy away from saying that the Israeli occupation forces were likely to end their first round of armed combat without achieving the first goal of their aggression on Gaza.

He said the IOF would likely withdraw without completely destroying the Palestinian Resistance's rocket capabilities and significantly damaging its tunnel network.

Bergman noted that it had been clear since the beginning that the Israeli occupation forces would not be able to return their captives through the force of arms.

The Israeli occupation was senselessly bombing Gaza for nine days before Netanyahu's cabinet, and under immense public pressure, added the matter of bringing back the captives to the goals of the aggression.

Israeli officials have been for months saying that a ground operation would help in the effort of taking back the captives. However, "the experience from weeks of fighting proves that the ground maneuver serving as an accelerator for the release of the captives [...] was not quite accurate."

He also touched on how many Israeli captives, upon their return, censured the Israeli government for how the indiscriminate bombardment endangered their lives.

The analyst claimed that al-Sinwar was expected to "fold" during the fighting in Khan Yunis, "when the sword was on his neck", and agree to terms he previously rejected. However, the complete opposite happened with the Israeli occupation forces exhausting their invasion when they were still far from the area.

"Israel folded, abandoned the original outline, and is ready for a completely different deal, perhaps like the one it rightfully refused [previously]," he added, about a prisoner exchange deal propped up by Hamas earlier.

In the conclusion, Bergman underlined that while the Israeli occupation managed to hurt the Hamas Resistance movement, it is still very far from eliminating it.

Some, he says, believe that the Israeli occupation may suddenly be interested in reaching a deal because its aggression might have to stop within two weeks due to pressure from the United States.

"Even the hawkish linemen in the security establishment should not oppose the deal; quite the contrary: a deal would be an optimistic end act to the war, much more pleasant than if the Americans simply told Israel to stop and withdraw," he maintained.

Upon asking the senior Israeli official what the game plan was now, he said that the terrible blow dealt by the Resistance on October 7 created a feeling of a need for revenge to the magnitude of what happened.

The shock generated by the Resistance and the terrible need for revenge among the Israeli officials made them feel like they did not need to plan ahead and that this was something they were inoculated against.

The Israeli occupation, the official said, only has two choices at this point, and while he did not go into what they are exactly, he said they were "cruel" and "devilish".

[Ravenlocke]

RECAP #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:30 GMT, 22 December)

• Experts say that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is now considered one of the most lethal and devastating in recent times

• Since the start of the war, 20,057 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 301 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank

• After a week of delayed votes, the United Nations Security Council approved a moderated proposal aimed at enhancing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and urgent steps "to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities". The US and Russia abstained from voting

• Reporters Without Borders (RSF) filed a second complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes against journalists in Gaza since 7 October

• Starbucks has issued a letter advocating for peace and attributing the vandalism of its stores to "misrepresentation" about its stance

• A recent survey reveals that 96% of Saudi citizens are of the opinion that Arab nations should sever relations with Israel due to the conflict in Gaza

• The Israeli army ordered residents of Al-Buriej camp and some areas of Al-Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to the nearby Deir Al-Balah camp on Friday

Live updates ⤵️
https://middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-live-gaza-war-hamas-ceasefire

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A look inside Gaza as mass famine spreads

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[Ravenlocke]

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Spain blocked EU participation in US operation against Houthis

The Confidencial newspaper reports that the country did not explain to its partners the reason for the change in position.

“Spain vetoed EU participation in the mission to ensure the safety of navigation in the Red Sea, despite the fact that a few hours earlier the government had sought the participation of all of Europe in this operation,” the publication reports.

https://x.com/Sprinter99800/status/1738349289460376003

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[shaberon]

Let's see.

Iraqis are shooting the Mediterranean.

This isn't 1980s Hamas with a few Katys:


The new barrage fired from Gaza towards Tel Aviv is the heaviest since the start of the war


The ground battle cannot prevail, and Golani 13 (https://english.almanar.com.lb/2006193) is gone, and multitudes of the invaders are amputees. But America won't allow the word "occupation" in a draft that only has to do with aid, no ceasefire, which is moot, because you already know the terms.

This is not even for Zion, it is for Netanyahu, personally...presumably meaning the few remaining clingers-on such as the would-be nouveaux riches.

Protection fades (https://tass.com/world/1725277):



Spain has vetoed the European participation in the US operation to ensure freedom of navigation and protection of ships in the Red Sea, the El Confidencial newspaper reported.

According to the newspaper, Madrid initially wanted the entire community to participate in the mission. During an emergency meeting on December 20, the EU's Political and Security Committee unanimously approved the community’s participation in the initiative by expanding Operation Atalanta.

However, according to the newspaper, on December 21 Madrid changed its position and vetoed the decision at the meeting of the working group of EU advisers on international relations. European diplomatic sources told the newspaper that the Spanish government's "change of position" had not been explained to its partners.



Who cares...this could be important (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231222/houthi-red-sea-blockade-could-starve-western-war-machine-of-oil-1115751663.html):



US oil stockpiles are at their 40-year lows and the Houthi Red Sea blockage can make matters much worse for Washington, Maram Susli, better known as blogger Syrian Girl, told Sputnik's New Rules podcast.

"It's interesting to see the United States put itself in harm's way in this way and try to launch a war already, because, you know, it's quite blatant that they're doing this for Israel and not for the United States," Susli said. "And it's going to open up their ranks in Syria and Iraq to even more massive attacks. They're basically sitting ducks in the Middle East right now."

"It only takes for the oil to stop flowing to Europe and the US for the whole war machine to grind to a halt," said Susli. "The reason why the US oil reserves are down to such a level is because they've been forced to supply Europe with a lot of energy because they have blocked the Russians from being able to do so. So, this is the situation they're faced in. I think if other countries around the world are looking at the state that the United States is in, and if they start this offensive against Yemen, I wonder what will happen if there's a third conflict, for example, that could happen in which China invades Taiwan or anything in the east. The United States, with all its bravado, says, 'Yes, we can take on all of these wars at the same time.' But I don't think that that's true. I think that this is false bravado."


This is better:

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[shaberon]

We don't get much by way of damage reports from Eilat or Tel Aviv, so, just out of curiosity about the latest target--Karish (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/26/israel-green-lights-gas-production-from-karish-field) was in a border dispute and placed in certain hands for a song:


...the two companies sold Karish and the adjacent Tanin gas field to the Greek oil company Energean in 2016 for $150 million.


It is run by this drill ship--hit it with much of anything, and Europe's natural gas is gone:


https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-05-10T082314Z_471241611_RC2V3U9K17QV_RTRMADP_3_ENERGEAN-ISRAEL-GAS-DISCOVERY.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80


They like to nitpick:


As Qana extends southward across a border known as Line 23, Israel will be entitled to a share of royalties through a side agreement with the operator, the French company Total.


https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/INTERACTIVE-Lebanon-Israel-maritime-border-dispute.png?w=770&resize=770%2C769&quality=80


Thanks to the "US-brokered deal", Lebanon can pay Israel for basically nothing. Notice how all possible boundary lines slope upwards? Why would that be??

$150 M for two (2) gas fields is basically giving them away for free.

I would like to know if it is on fire, or, what will it take to make it that way. You'd think HZB would have a better shot at it. That's not a few shacks in a desert, every part of that thing is vital and it is not made to take abuse.

Sounds like the future of Israeli offshore drilling: a death warrant.

Maybe it will be abandoned.

Then make like a Ukrainian and run out of Israel forever.

That's more or less what the shipping companies did, and oil people are no braver. No way I'd live on some stationary floating object over a potential inferno while a missile could come in at any moment. Natural gas burns in water. No way to stop it. You might stop the missile with a flotilla of destroyers and tripling the price. Otherwise there is not much hope.

[Bill Ryan]

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🚨PRCS views with great concern the targeting by the occupation artillery of the maternity ward in Nasser Medical Complex in #KhanYounis, leading to several casualties.

⚠️This violation is a serious indication of targeting hospitals and medical centers that enjoy protection and immunity according to international humanitarian law. We call on international community to provide full protection for medical teams and hospitals.
#Gaza
#NotATarget ❌

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This is the young girl that Max Blumenthal was referring to on the Judge Napolitano show.

Here is the story,
https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1737911133233701150

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Thank you so much for this post. I was going to go back to transcribe exactly what Max Blumenthal said, but you kindly spared me the task.

I wasn't looking forward to doing that. The terrible story, which I'd been unaware of, hit me as hard as anything else which I'd heard all year. I had some trouble getting to sleep as I could not get this out of my mind. That almost never happens to me.

Here's the entire video, which is as strong a report about the Gaza situations one is likely to hear from anyone. Max recounts what happened to Dounia Abu Mohsen at 21:34. Napolitano gasped when he heard the story.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarUuZ_YKY4

[Ravenlocke]

Quoting Bill,

“I wasn't looking forward to doing that. The terrible story, which I'd been unaware of, hit me as hard as anything else which I'd heard all year. I had some trouble getting to sleep as I could not get this out of my mind. That almost never happens to me.”


I understand because it hit me hard as well when the news first came out, I still think about her…I have trouble sleeping too….because of her and because of all the suffering and death happening there…but I have to look…

Thank you too for bringing attention to this..stay strong is all that comes to me at the moment as comfort offering:heart2:

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[Ravenlocke]

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⚡️BREAKING

Complete collapse of Operation Prosperity Guardian, after France, now Spain and Italy withdrew from this US-led naval alliance against the Houthis.

This is a major blow to global posture of USA and the US must now confront the Yemenis with mighty Bahrain and the Seychelles.

https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/1738484617156407670

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🇾🇪❗️Reminder: I still see people from the Resistance circle use the term “Houthi” which is wrong. The correct term is ‘AnsarAllah’ as stated by the leader of the group.

One of the main strategies used by the main stream media to tarnish the image of the Islamic Resistance is to label the wars waged in Islamic countries, like Yemen as “racial” or “religious”. By specifically emphasizing "The Houthis," they seek to confine and falsely attribute the prevailing sentiment of the majority of Yemeni people to a confined faction.

FotrosResistance


https://x.com/dana916/status/1738599849371508944

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https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1738572494745764218

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https://x.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1738599189293015546

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https://x.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1738594134925922309

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Al Jazeera reporter: Israeli forces bulldozed the bellies of pregnant women in #Gaza.

Pregnant women carrying white flags have been shot dead whilst on their way to give birth at Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza.

After killing them, Israeli military forces ran over their bodies with bulldozers.

https://x.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1738558082563617249

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https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1738545222974324740

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The US is backing down from striking the Houthis

U.S. officials told the New York Times that strikes against the Houthis could provoke a response from Ansarullah against U.S. Navy ships and could damage the truce between Saudis and Yemenis

https://x.com/witte_sergei/status/1738613588196220993

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https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/1738681361139966329

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The revelation of the presence of French army forces in a base in Jordan, at the same time as Macron's visit to this country, has surprised the Arabs, especially the Jordanians, who until now did not know about the presence of these forces in their land.

Jordan was one of lands where NATO-backed terrorists were trained and armed before being sent to Syria to take part in war against Syrian government.
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In a horrific report, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor revealed that Israeli warmongers executed dozens of Palestinian elderly in front of their families after telling them it was safe to evacuate.

The report also estimated that 1,049 elderly people have been killed by "Israel", making up 3.9% of the total death toll of Palestinians since October 7. The martyrs were killed by Israeli airstrikes as the rubble of their homes or the shelters they sought safety in collapsed over them, or while gathering basic life supplies from the streets or marketplaces around their towns.

But in a monstrous revelation, and according to testimonies gathered by Euro-Med, dozens of elderly Palestinians were actively targeted by the Israeli occupation forces and killed in field executions.

“These incidents included soldiers shooting elderly people immediately after ordering them to evacuate their homes, and in some cases, executing them just moments after their release from hours or days of arbitrary detention,” the report said.

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1738721849851224547

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[shaberon]

I suppose it would be fair to shelve the term "Houthi", it sounds inappropriate, I might go with "Yemeni" and just ignore whatever the minority of the "real" government may have in mind, since "Yemen" is really a "culture" and not a "country" spawned by 1960s paperwork.

So far it may be one of the purest exercises of truth and power I have witnessed.

Someone we can't even think of the name of has dispelled the shipping giants and the Coalition of the Killing.

Let me know the last time someone vaporized 85% of Eilat cargo.


I know of a way to get it back, but this is not the direction things are headed.


I have no idea what this means, I just know it is funny how easily some humanoids are thrown into sheer panic (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231223/us-trapped-in-red-sea-should-prepare-for-gibraltar-straits-closure---irgc-1115773672.html):



The United States and its allies are “trapped” in the Red Sea and should prepare for the closure of waterways stretching all the way to the western gates of the Mediterranean Sea, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Chief of Staff Mohammad Reza Naqdi has warned.

“With the continuation of the crimes [in Gaza], the United States and its allies should await the birth of new powers of resistance and the closure of the rest of the waterways and roads to them,” Naqdi said at a ceremony commemorating Hasan Irlu, a late IRGC commander and former Iranian ambassador to Yemen.

“Yesterday the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz was a nightmare for them, today the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Red Sea have trapped them, and with the continuation of these crimes, they will soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, [the Strait of] Gibraltar and other waterways,” the commander added. “Oppression that has gone too far should await the storm,” he warned.

“The Zionist regime and the United States have gone mad due to the severity of the crimes and brutality they have committed, and they cannot even recognize their own interests,” Naqdi suggested, saying the two powers seem incapable of “learning from past events.”

Naqdi did not elaborate on what kinds of operations specifically may be taken to close regional waterways to US forces and their allies. However, US media and news agencies immediately interpreted the commander’s words as an explicitly Iranian “threat” to “close the Mediterranean.”



Al-Qassam Brigades says one of its fighters managed to kill 4 Israeli soldiers at point-blank range in Al-Qasasib neighborhood in Gaza’s Jabalia



Imam Khameini (https://english.almanar.com.lb/2007491):




“This incident is unparalleled in two ways. From the side of the Zionist regime, this kind of brutality, criminality, bloodthirstiness, child killings, malice, cruelty, and the dropping of bunker-breaking bombs on patients and hospitals was never seen before. And also, on the side of the Palestinian people and fighters, the way they exhibited patience, resistance and the way they infuriated the enemy was unprecedented,” the Leader said as quoted by Tasnim news agency.

“Even though water, food, medicine and fuel are not reaching these people, they are still standing strong like a mountain and it is this resilience that will lead them to victory, for God is with those who are patient and the signs of victory can be seen today,” Imam Khamenei stated.

His eminence added that the Zionist regime remains powerless against the Palestinian fighters despite all its equipment and assets, noting that this is another important aspect of this unparalleled confrontation.

“The Zionist regime’s defeat in this incident is equivalent to the defeat of the United States. Today, no one in the world considers the occupying regime, the US and Britain to be any different from each other. Everyone knows that they are one and the same,”



and (https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14021002000693/Iran%E2%80%99s-Leader-N-Difference-Beween-US-Israel):



“Do not doubt that the usurping Zionist regime will be eradicated from earth,” Ayatollah Khamenei stated on the 87th day of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip which has so far killed more than 20,000, mainly children and women.

He touched on the events of the besieged Gaza Strip during the past two and a half months, describing them “a unique and extraordinary phenomenon in the recent history of the Islamic world, the like of which we haven’t had in recent history and perhaps in the last century”.

“This incident is unique from two sides. From the side of the Zionist regime, it is unique because this kind of brutality, criminality and bloodlust has never been seen in the period I mentioned," the Leader added.

“This kind of child killing, with bunker-busting bombs thrown over patients in hospitals, this kind of cruelty and wickedness is unprecedented,” he continued.

“On the other side - the side of the Palestinian people and Palestinian fighters, this kind of standing, patience, resistance, and driving the enemy crazy has never been seen," the Supreme Leader underlined.

“The people of Gaza, the fighters of Gaza stood like a rock, like a mountain. It is an important thing. Without water, food, medicine and fuel, they stood and didn't give up. It is very important,” he underscored.

“Not giving up makes them victorious, even though the signs of victory can be seen today,” Ayatollah Khamenei added, citing the Holy Qur’an which says “Truly, Allah is with those who are patient.”

Israel, the Leader said, “with all the equipment and all the facilities, remains powerless against the Palestinian fighters, whose equipment is almost incomparable to the equipment of the Zionist regime”.

“The great victory of the Palestinian nation and the Front of Righteous and Resistance is that it discredited the West and America and exposed the nature of all their false human rights claims, since Israel was not able to commit so many crimes without the support of America,” he stated.

“And today the ugly face of the hideous monsters of America and England has been revealed to all the people of the world, and the nature of the White House has been exposed and the inner self of the governments of America and England has been revealed,” he continued.

The Leader said governments and nations have a duty to help the resistance in any way possible, adding, “Helping the resistance is everyone's duty, and helping the Zionist regime is a crime and treason.”

Ayatollah Khamenei expressed regret over the “criminal” assistance of some Islamic states to the Zionist regime, saying Muslim nations will not forget it.

The Islamic governments, he stressed, "have a responsibility to prevent goods, oil and fuel from reaching the Zionist regime, which has even prevented water from reaching the people of Gaza”.

“Muslim nations should ask their governments to cut off any ties and aid to Zionist criminals, or if they are not able to cut ties permanently, at least put pressure on the evil, cruel and bloodthirsty regime by temporarily cutting them off,” he added.



While there is hardly anything left to feed the propaganda mill (https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14021002000421/Pll-Ms-Sadis-Say-Arab-Nains-Shld-C-Ties-wih-Israel):



96 percent of Saudi citizens are of the opinion that Arab nations should sever relations with Israel due to the conflict in Gaza, a new survey revealed.

The poll, conducted by the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Affairs, a pro-Israel think tank based in Washington, also shows a substantial rise in support for Hamas during the ongoing intense military actions by Israel in the besieged area, The Middle East Eye reported.

Friday's poll showed that 40 percent of Saudis now have a positive perception of Hamas, a notable increase from just 10 percent in a poll conducted before the war began.

The survey further found that 87 percent of Saudis believe "Israel is so weak and internally divided that it could be defeated some day".


"Pro-Israel think tank" sounds like a dead end job.

[Eva2]

'UN Office details alleged IDF 'Summary Killing' of Gaza Men in Front of Families

OHCHR noted that reporting on the killings "raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime."
JESSICA CORBETT
Dec 20, 2023

https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-war-crimes

Amid mounting war crime claims against Israeli troops, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights revealed Wednesday that it "has received disturbing information alleging that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) summarily killed at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members" in the Gaza Strip.

Citing witness accounts shared by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and journalists, OHCHR said that while raiding a Gaza City building where multiple related families were sheltering on Tuesday night, "the IDF allegedly separated the men from the women and children, and then shot and killed at least 11 of the men, mostly aged in their late 20s and early 30s, in front of their family members."

"The IDF then allegedly ordered the women and children into a room, and either shot at them or threw a grenade into the room, reportedly seriously injuring some of them, including an infant and a child," added the office, which has confirmed the killings at Al Awda building—also known as the Annan building—but not the other details.

OHCHR noted that reporting on the killings in Gaza City's Al Remal neighborhood "raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime" and "comes in the wake of earlier allegations concerning the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians at the hands of Israeli forces."

"The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough, and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to be substantiated, those responsible must be brought to justice and measures implemented to prevent any such serious violations from recurring," the U.N. office declared.

"My sister informed me that an Israeli force raided the house and executed the young men... The Israeli soldiers later threw shells at the women, who were being held in one of the rooms."

Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement Wednesday that Israeli soldiers killed 13 people in the building and "kidnapped an elderly man, whose fate is still unknown," according to "horrific testimonies" obtained by the Geneva-based group.

"My sister informed me that an Israeli force raided the house and executed the young men," a relative of the victims told the monitor. "Thirteen persons were shot dead and several more were critically injured. The Israeli soldiers later threw shells at the women, who were being held in one of the rooms."

"My mother, my sister, and my brother's wife were injured along with several others," the relative added. "If they are not saved right away, they might die at any time."

The monitor noted that 27 women and children "trapped inside the house—many of whom with severe injuries or amputations—appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross to coordinate their evacuation and save their lives."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States, responded to the allegations by demanding a United Nations investigation.

"While the Biden administration blocks all attempts to end the genocide in Gaza, real people are being slaughtered daily in ways that echo the darkest periods of human history," said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper. "Our nation must call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end the killing, ethnic cleansing, and starvation of an entire people—the very definition of genocide."

Israel's "genocidal" war on Gaza—launched in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack on October 7 that killed over 1,100 people—has left more than 20,000 Palestinians dead, including 8,000 children, displaced the vast majority of the besieged strip's 2.3 million residents, and devastated civilian infrastructure.

Separately on Wednesday, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) sent the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor a list of 40 IDF officers who had command responsibility over units involved in the assault and blockade of Gaza through mid-November.

While not comprehensive, DAWN said, "the list of identified Israeli officials serves as a repository of the prime Israeli suspects the ICC prosecutor (or any war crimes prosecutor) should consider in its ongoing investigation into violations of the Rome Statute in this war."

Meanwhile, despite growing global calls for a cease-fire, the United States—which gives Israel $3.8 billion in annual military aid and is now considering a $14.3 billion package for the war—delayed a U.N. Security Council vote on a Gaza resolution for the third time this week.

This post has been updated with comment from CAIR.'

[Eva2]

I've copied the article but I may have missed some reports so easier to read from the link below

'Dozens of Elderly Gazans 'Executed' by Israeli Troops: Monitor

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elderly-gaza-victims

Euro-Med Monitor said 1,049 elderly men and women have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7.
BRETT WILKINS
Dec 23, 2023
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More than 1,000 Palestinian elders have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets during the 10-week Gaza onslaught, with dozens of men and women over age 60 "executed" by Israel Defense Forces troops, a prominent human rights group said Friday.

"Israel has turned all people in the [Gaza] Strip into targets since the October 7 start of its ongoing genocide against Palestinians there," Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based nonprofit, asserted in a statement.

Euro-Med Monitor said that 1,049 elderly men and women have been killed by Israeli forces since they began bombing the densely populated enclave in retaliation for the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that left more than 1,100 people dead.

The group said the majority of elderly Gazan victims were crushed to death under the debris of their homes or the shelter where they sought safety amid Israel's near-relentless bombardment. Others were killed while venturing out in search of basic necessities.

"Alarmingly, however, dozens were targeted in killings and field executions," the NGO alleged. "These incidents included soldiers shooting elderly people immediately after ordering them to evacuate their homes, and in some cases, executing them just moments after their release from hours or days of arbitrary detention."

Shocking testimonies reveal the execution of dozens of elderly people by Israeli army in the Gaza Strip
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6049/Shocking-testimonies-reveal-the-execution-of-dozens-of-elderly-people-by-Israeli-army-in-the-Gaza-Strip

Euro-Med Monitor noted:

The elderly Dr. Akram Abu Hasira and his wife were shot and left to bleed to death by Israeli forces on... December 21, after being forcibly evacuated from their home on Yarmouk Street in Gaza City. The soldiers then set fire to their home. Their son, Dr. Mahmoud Abu Hasira, reported that after the Israeli forces withdrew from the area, their family managed to bury the couple's bodies....

[Euro-Med Monitor] also highlighted the execution of Dr. Muhammad Eid Shabir, 77, former president of the Islamic University in Gaza, along with his wife, Rihab Muhammad Shabir, 74, on November 11... His daughter confirmed to Euro-Med Monitor that Israeli planes bombed her aunt's house on Abu Hasira Street in Gaza, killing five civilians, while 15 people survived the attack. The majority of victims were women and children...

"They came out alive, fleeing into the street, where my mother sent a distress message, and I heard my father's voice calling for one of his grandchildren," the daughter told Euro-Med Monitor... "After the start of the truce on November 25, my parents were found dead in the street on the opposite road to Shifa after they had been shot by an army sniper."
Other Gaza elders reportedly killed by Israeli forces but not highlighted in Euro-Med Monitor's statement include Nahida Khalil Anton, a 70-year-old Palestinian Christian woman who, along with her 50-year-old daughter Samar Kamal Anton, left the sanctuary of the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City to use a bathroom in another building. Both women were shot by an Israeli sniper or snipers; one while trying to carry the other to safety.

Israel denies killing the women. Pope Francis reacted angrily to the killings, accusing Israel of "terrorism."

This is Nahida Khalil Anton sitting by her daughter Samar Kamal Anton. Nahida and Samar were shot and killed by an IDF sniper while walking over to the Sisters' Convent to use the restroom. They had been seeking refuge in the Holy Family Parish in Gaza.
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lderly Gazans also face a higher risk of starvation and disease, as Israel has cut off the flow of food, medicine, and hygiene staples.

"Tens of thousands of elderly people are at serious risk of death," warned Euro-Med Monitor, given that nearly 70% of them "suffer from chronic diseases, and the majority of them have not received any medical care, as most of the hospitals are out of service."

The group also noted that "distinct suffering experienced by elderly people residing in displacement camps, where there are no services or care options available to them that are appropriate for their age, health issues, inability to withstand cold weather, or frequent need to use the restroom. Notably, 700–1,000 people must use a single bathroom in these camps."

"Israel is waging a campaign of widespread punishment and killing, and oppressing Palestinian society's most vulnerable groups in a way that is seldom seen in the modern history of wars or armed conflicts," the statement concludes. "Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza fully unveils its blatant disregard for international humanitarian law and is a serious transgression of the principles of war."

Euro-Med Monitor's analysis came as the Palestinian death toll from 78 days of near-relentless Israeli attacks topped 20,000, with around 70% of those killed women and children. More than 50,000 others have been injured. Around 1.9 million of Gaza's 2.3 million people have also been forcibly displaced; most of the strip's homes have been damaged or destroyed.

"The need for a permanent cease-fire has become urgent, and... in order to stop the ongoing genocide war, an immediate international investigation must be launched into Israel's horrific crimes," the group said. "Any countries that remain silent are actively encouraging Israeli genocide." '

[Bill Ryan]

Dear Friends, Doug Auld (thepainterdoug (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?21016-thepainterdoug)) sent me this short clip, asking me to please post it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Tg63hdAQI
The 1917 letter referenced is coped below. Bizarrely(!) the website it is on is called The Avalon Project. :worried::)


https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp

~~~

Balfour Declaration 1917

November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour

[Rizotto]

I get a multitude of hateful comments whenever I post information on the Isreal genocide of Palestinians on a 'freedom' social media group that is frequented by zionists spies. Annoying, but not surprising. I've seen this happen on other Canadian social media sites, including the CBC comment sections.

Here's an article describing how Isreal pays social media influencers for disseminating Isreal's propaganda.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/22/713215/exposed-israel-paying-social-media-influencers-whitewash-gaza-genocide

Exposed: Israel is paying social media influencers to whitewash Gaza genocide

October 22, 2023
By Press TV Staff Writer

“I’m reaching out to you on behalf of a global collective of agencies, influencers, and content creators who are coming together to raise awareness about the difficult situation in Israel.”

This is a text from an email being sent to prominent social media influencers across the world by the Israeli regime and its lobbies based in the West, inviting them to join the disinformation campaign.

The campaign has gained momentum in the wake of the Tel Aviv regime’s indiscriminate bombing campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip as well as the occupied West Bank over the last two weeks.

More than 4,400 Palestinian civilians, most of them children, have been killed in the Israeli airstrikes.

The regime warplanes have also targeted hospitals, ambulances, churches and mosques in brazen violation of international humanitarian conventions, constituting horrendous war crimes.

To counter the global backlash and to distort facts about what’s unfolding in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli regime and its backers in the West are turning to social media influencers to whitewash its crimes.

“As you’re aware, the people of Israel are currently fighting not just a war against Hamas terrorism at home, but also in the battle to tell the story to the world,” reads one of the leaked emails.

The words employed in the emails show how the regime that has been murdering children and bombing hospitals is hell-bent on demonizing the Palestinian resistance fighters as “terrorists.”

Hamas-led ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’ (also known as Al-Aqsa Flood) operation launched on October 7 did not come in a vacuum. It was the natural response to daily atrocities inflicted on Palestinians.

From the crippling siege of Gaza to the recurrent desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the expansion of illegal settler units in occupied territories to the inhumane condition of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the Palestinian resistance fighters had been waiting to give their response.

The surprise operation, which targeted the regime soldiers and settlers, took the far-right Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet by complete surprise and caused a major embarrassment to the regime amid the internal crisis.

After facing the crushing defeat on the battlefield, the regime’s cyber-army is now busy in hiring social media influencers, both in the Arab and Western world, to justify the unjustifiable war crimes.

“Our group has created a library of explainer videos that can be used directly on your platforms with hashtags #HAMASisISIS and #StandWithIsrael,” the email states further, adding that prominent influencers such as Kim Kardashian, Madonna, Gal Gadot, Casey Neistat and others have already joined.

The attempt is clearly to project Hamas as the villains and the child-murdering regime as heroes.

Sara Watson, a British social media influencer, took to her TikTok page to reveal that she had been approached by the Israeli regime, bribed and even coerced to retract her support for Palestine.

“That is not going to happen, you cannot buy my morals,” she said in a short video, noting that the brand she was working with informed her of their decision to not work with her anymore.

Watson was asked to pull down a post on Instagram that she had posted in solidarity with the people of Palestine and promised a hefty amount but she bluntly refused, she said in the video.

Another social media user, whose video was widely shared on X (formerly Twitter), revealed that the Israeli regime was paying social media influencers $1,000 for every video “to put out reports about Hamas being evil and savage and beheading babies.”

He slammed those social media influencers who took the media to participate in the regime’s disinformation campaign, saying they were “complicit in the genocide” unfolding in Gaza.

“It is always about controlling the narrative, it’s always about putting your propaganda out there, to justify the horrific things you do to people in the world, just like the United States does,” he said.

“It’s disgusting and as an American citizen I am going to continue to fight against my own country doing it and I’m going to continue fighting against Israel doing it. This is horrific.”

A social media user said the Israeli regime not only contacted TokTok influencers asking them to join a campaign to support the regime but also “threatened public figures like Faryal Makhdoom and Dina Torkia.”

The user shared a screenshot of a message that Makhdoom received on her Instagram page.

“If you support Israel and cease posting about Palestine, we will ensure you are rewarded lucratively,” reads the message. “If you don’t and if this is publicized, there will be severe consequences.”

Torkia also received a similar message, calling it a “typical behavior.”

The campaign comes as disinformation about the genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip has expanded alarmingly in recent days, with everyone from mainstream media to celebrities doing Israel’s bidding.

There has been a conscious attempt to whitewash the Israeli regime’s war crimes in Gaza and push the narrative that the Palestinian resistance movement is a “terrorist campaign.”

Even the bombing of a hospital in Gaza or the slaughtering of children in their homes has been defended by Western media outlets, social media influencers and political leaders."

(The above article included many X posts as sources, which I don't know how to post here.)






Mod note from Bill:

To embed X posts (tweets)


just take the numerical part of the tweet (e.g. 1711421591295537305),
highlight it,
then click the little https://projectavalon.net/images/twitter.gif icon in the formatting menu bar.
:thumbsup:

[Bill Ryan]

I don't know what he's saying! But look at the flag (in Milan's La Scala Theater., the only text) — and listen to the applause. :)

https://t.me/myLordBebo/17487

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https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1738945216998986008

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🚨🇾🇪BREAKING: AnsarAllah political bureau spokesman:

While a reconnaissance drone from the Yemeni Navy was conducting a reconnaissance mission in the Red Sea, a US warship fired multiple weapons frantically, demonstrating a state of confusion and anxiety.

One of the missiles exploded near a ship heading south in the Red Sea, belonging to the Republic of Gabon, coming from Russian ports. We confirm that the threat to international maritime navigation arises from the militarization of the Red Sea by the US and its allies entering the region without any justification other than providing security services to the ships of the Israeli enemy entity.

The Red Sea will become a volatile area if the United States and its allies continue their thuggish behavior. Coastal countries of the Red Sea must realize the true risks threatening their national security.

https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1738944625774051543

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https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1738910520667680982

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[Ravenlocke]

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⚡️IMPORTANT: Former israeli Deputy Chief of Staff statements:

• Israel waged a war without military objectives.

• We don’t tell the truth to our “citizens” and won’t be able to eliminate Hezbollah.

• The current lying approach means our people won’t return to their homes on the borders.

• Hamas achieved a strategic goal when it said to israel, “I am the one managing the conflict.”

• Gallant’s statements regarding Sinwar are meaningless war propaganda.

• Despite the destruction in Gaza, we appeared as a weak state that can’t defend itself without American assistance.

• A regime that views security as a priority cannot consider the Iranian threat greater than the Palestinian one

https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1738925872239833392

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1738803217679495442

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https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1738947881082491382

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https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1738951626247848087

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https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1738961128649036197

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[Ravenlocke]

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On this silent and holy night of #ChristmasEve, our hearts beat in unison for every soul born under God's watchful eyes. In the quiet reflection of this sacred evening, we remember those taken from us in #Gaza. Their voices may have been silenced, yet they live on, eternal and undying in our collective memory. Though their physical presence has been stolen away by #Israel, their spirits remain unbroken and free, forever cradled in the loving embrace of our thoughts and prayers. On this night, as the stars twinkle with a solemn promise, we realise that Israel can take lives, but never the memories, the love, the legacy. The children of Gaza remain with us, now and always. Via
@Alicesverige
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1738948643682402732

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
News Coverage | The Patriarchal Vicariate for Syriac Catholics in Basra and the Arabian Gulf announces: "We have decided to suspend Christmas celebrations and apologize for not accepting congratulations this year, out of respect and appreciation for the martyrs of Gaza in Palestine."

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1738959787360948628

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https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1738973726480248931

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/dana916/status/1738936297165553757

1738936297165553757

This explains better than the above video,


https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1738937597076906409

1738937597076906409

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1738877182766633259

1738877182766633259


https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739000538732085330

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1738903235673395446

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1738907378026734018

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1738958459830145297

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[Ravenlocke]

Please watch, the second video is a walk through the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the old city of Jerusalem

https://x.com/zaramagnusson/status/1738756058229694765

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https://x.com/zaramagnusson/status/1738728547118731587

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[shaberon]

Bizarrely(!) the website it is on is called The Avalon Project.



Yes, it has been around for a while.

As much as I dislike the politics generated by privileged universities like Yale and Cambridge, a lot of "stuff" that they have is incredibly useful, and Yale is fine for law, regardless of whether I disagree with those laws.


Concerning the near miss (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231224/houthis-say-us-warship-firing-hysterically-nearly-hit-tanker-in-red-sea-1115789509.html) earlier, here is another ripe opportunity to decide what to disagree with or not. Thanks to screaming "Iranian threat" the other day, take humble pie:



“An American warship fired hysterically during a reconnaissance mission by Yemeni forces in the Red Sea,” Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam said in a statement Sunday. One of the missiles nearly hit a Gabon-flagged oil tanker traveling from Russia, the spokesman added.


or dolled-up hubris:



“Between 3 and 8 pm (Sanaa time), the USS Laboon (DDG 58) was patrolling in the Southern Red Sea as part of Operation Prosperity Guardian and shot down four unmanned aerial drones originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen that were inbound to the USS Laboon. There were no injuries or damage in this incident. At approximately 8 pm (Sanaa time) US Naval Forces Central Command received reports from two ships in the Southern Red Sea that they were under attack. The M/V Blaamanen, a Norwegian-flagged, owned and operated chemical/oil tanker, reported a near miss of a Houthi one-way drone attack drone with no injuries or damage reported. A second vessel, the M/V Saibaba, a Gabon-owned, Indian-flagged crude oil tanker, reported that it was hit by a one-way attack drone with no injuries reported. The USS Laboon responded to the distress calls from these attacks,” CENTCOM said.

According to MarineTraffic, the Saibaba sails under the flag of Gabon, not India.

The Houthis have said that they will intentionally target only commercial cargoes that are Israeli-owned or linked, or traveling to or from Israel.


It was Iranian drones. I mean Yemeni drones. I mean guys on speedboats...


Listen to the beginning of the end (https://english.almanar.com.lb/2007953) of the ground phase:



The Palestinian resistance faced off against the occupation forces on the axes of Khan Yunis in a series of intense clashes. Simultaneously, the Israeli occupants launched heavy artillery shelling in an attempt to gain ground in Jabalia al-Balad. However, their efforts were met with fierce resistance from Palestinian fighters, forcing them to retreat.

Even the enemy’s media outlets have acknowledged the tenacity and resilience of the Palestinian resistance. The Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, noted that Hamas has been displaying remarkable patience on the ground and improving their fighting tactics, leading to the escalating number of casualties within the Israeli occupation army. Reports from various combat zones in Gaza highlight the use of snipers against Israeli occupation soldiers, exposing vulnerabilities in the Israeli occupation forces.

“Hamas is meticulously identifying the weaknesses of the Israeli army in Gaza and launching targeted attacks based on this information,” the newspaper stated, emphasizing the strategic precision adopted by the Palestinian resistance.



Why don't you just hire a million people to post garbage on the internet. That will always have a future. "Israeli think tanks" as useful business advisors may not. So clever!

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739050633016082767

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739048823425523832

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739043279520334311

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739058372023038446

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739016846597337212

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[url]https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739028241812279599

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[Ratszinger]

Do any of you even look at the other side of the coin? There are two sides, three actually but the point is many seem to be unaware of some basic facts here. Hamas brings up their children from a young age to hate Jews and they teach them that they must kill them and that it is honorable to do so and die doing it so that from a young age they are ingrained with this hatred and the desire to wipe them out and take back land they say is theirs.
Let me educate you some to the nature of these Muslims in this particular sect. Recently in news headlines and even on X and I'm sure FB a young beautiful Iraqi woman, "Miss Iraq" took a selfie with another beautiful woman, "Miss Israel" and they were smiling and it was very charming. After this the hate attacks began on her and her parents to the point she had to evacuate them from Iraq to save their lives. She is banned now from going back and receiving death threats, called a traitor and a spy among many other things and all for a simple selfie. She sought refuge where? In Israel where she was welcomed and cared for and received warmth and sympathy. No one wants to see this tho. Why? This problem is not the Jewish hatred of a people it's the other way around entirely and knowing this you can begin to understand why others that know these things and more say such statements as Senator Fetterman and Elon Musk and others. Hamas feels this same way about you reading this too if you are American, Christian, non demoninational, or evven Muslim if you make one wrong move in their eyes. The problem is Hamas and the only solution is just Fetterman suggested. Those people are never going to change and Jewish people know it. It's high time you wake up to it also.
Selfie w/ Miss Israel and Miss Iraq (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html

[Johnnycomelately]

Do any of you even look at the other side of the coin? There are two sides, three actually but the point is many seem to be unaware of some basic facts here. Hamas brings up their children from a young age to hate Jews and they teach them that they must kill them and that it is honorable to do so and die doing it so that from a young age they are ingrained with this hatred and the desire to wipe them out and take back land they say is theirs.
Let me educate you some to the nature of these Muslims in this particular sect. Recently in news headlines and even on X and I'm sure FB a young beautiful Iraqi woman, "Miss Iraq" took a selfie with another beautiful woman, "Miss Israel" and they were smiling and it was very charming. After this the hate attacks began on her and her parents to the point she had to evacuate them from Iraq to save their lives. She is banned now from going back and receiving death threats, called a traitor and a spy among many other things and all for a simple selfie. She sought refuge where? In Israel where she was welcomed and cared for and received warmth and sympathy. No one wants to see this tho. Why? This problem is not the Jewish hatred of a people it's the other way around entirely and knowing this you can begin to understand why others that know these things and more say such statements as Senator Fetterman and Elon Musk and others. Hamas feels this same way about you reading this too if you are American, Christian, non demoninational, or evven Muslim if you make one wrong move in their eyes. The problem is Hamas and the only solution is just Fetterman suggested. Those people are never going to change and Jewish people know it. It's high time you wake up to it also.
Selfie w/ Miss Israel and Miss Iraq (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html

Hi R. Yes, I look at both sides, but l’m not who l figure this question is to. I do find it odd, given the claimed goals of this forum, to see trending bloodlust justified on grounds that appear political. And I am no fan of Israel or even Jews, nor of their opposition.

Am glad you posted this challenge to the Avalon status quo. I hope there will be some earnest rebuttals.

[Gwin Ru]

[...] Hamas brings up their children from a young age to hate Jews and they teach them that they must kill them and that it is honorable to do so and die doing it so that from a young age they are ingrained with this hatred and the desire to wipe them out and take back land they say is theirs.
[...]
Try the following for contrast:




Text:

🚨PRCS views with great concern the targeting by the occupation artillery of the maternity ward in Nasser Medical Complex in #KhanYounis, leading to several casualties.

⚠️This violation is a serious indication of targeting hospitals and medical centers that enjoy protection and immunity according to international humanitarian law. We call on international community to provide full protection for medical teams and hospitals.
#Gaza
#NotATarget ❌

https://x.com/PalestineRCS/status/1736490577854599171

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https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1736498492980294017

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This is the young girl that Max Blumenthal was referring to on the Judge Napolitano show.

Here is the story,
https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1737911133233701150

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Thank you so much for this post. I was going to go back to transcribe exactly what Max Blumenthal said, but you kindly spared me the task.

I wasn't looking forward to doing that. The terrible story, which I'd been unaware of, hit me as hard as anything else which I'd heard all year. I had some trouble getting to sleep as I could not get this out of my mind. That almost never happens to me.

Here's the entire video, which is as strong a report about the Gaza situations one is likely to hear from anyone. Max recounts what happened to Dounia Abu Mohsen at 21:34. Napolitano gasped when he heard the story.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarUuZ_YKY4

[Ravenlocke]

BREAKING:

⚡ 🇮🇱🇮🇷 Reports of the martyrdom of one among the IRGC's top generals in Syria as a result of Israel's airstrike on Damascus

Reportedly, the martyred general is Seyyed Razi Mousavi, one of the IRGC's top commanders in Syria who was a personal friend of martyr Qasem Soleimani

This is a major escalation between Israel and Iran.

@Middle_East_Spectator

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1739303303077372328

1739303303077372328

Text:

BREAKING:

⚡ 🇮🇷 Iranian President:

"Israel will undoubtedly pay for this heinous crime"

'Israel on highest state of alert, awaiting possible Iranian response' - the Kann / N12 announced.

Reportedly, Brigadier-General Mousavi was in charge of logistics and arms shipments to Hezbollah and Iranian-backed groups in Syria

Israeli media are describing him as the 'highest ranking' Iranian official killed since Qasem Soleimani.

*Iran is acting very "patiently" and the answer will probably come after some time. In my opinion, Iran will also close the Mediterranean for commercial ships going to Israel, with kamikaze drones from Lebanon and will plunge Israel into a dangerous economic crisis and lack of many goods.

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1739336353567871049

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https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1739366460827238701

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[Bill Ryan]

BREAKING:

Reports of the martyrdom of one among the IRGC's top generals in Syria as a result of Israel's airstrike on Damascus

An important explanatory note: the IRGC is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a primary branch of the Iranian Armed Forces.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps)

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1739345584945877259

1739345584945877259

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/harithalhinai/status/1739356552673321360

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[Bill Ryan]

8,000 pairs of shoes in the Netherlands, for the 8,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza. :flower:

https://t.me/myLordBebo/17554

myLordBebo/17554

[Bill Ryan]

Do any of you even look at the other side of the coin? There are two sides, three actually but the point is many seem to be unaware of some basic facts here. Hamas brings up their children from a young age to hate Jews and they teach them that they must kill them and that it is honorable to do so and die doing it so that from a young age they are ingrained with this hatred and the desire to wipe them out and take back land they say is theirs.
Let me educate you some to the nature of these Muslims in this particular sect. Thank you! But the 'education' may go both ways. :heart:


https://middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/former-israeli-knesset-member-calls-complete-destruction-gaza

Former Israeli Knesset member calls on the complete destruction of Gaza

In an interview on Israeli channel 13, Danny Neumann, a former Israeli Knesset member, calls for the destruction of Gaza.

"I tell you, in Gaza without exception, they are all terrorists, sons of dogs. They must be terminated, all of them must be killed," he said.

"We will flatten Gaza, turn them to dust, and the army will cleanse the area. Then we will start building new areas for us, above all, for our security."

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1739386728979320900
1739386728979320900

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/doamuslims/status/1738982331543671213

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[Sue (Ayt)]

Recently in news headlines and even on X and I'm sure FB a young beautiful Iraqi woman, "Miss Iraq" took a selfie with another beautiful woman, "Miss Israel" and they were smiling and it was very charming. After this the hate attacks began on her and her parents to the point she had to evacuate them from Iraq to save their lives. She is banned now from going back and receiving death threats, called a traitor and a spy among many other things and all for a simple selfie. She sought refuge where? In Israel where she was welcomed and cared for and received warmth and sympathy.
Selfie w/ Miss Israel and Miss Iraq (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html

But this all happened in 2017, and she has been a US citizen since 2015...


The one-time beauty queen — who represented Iraq in Miss Universe in 2017 and faced death threats after befriending and snapping a selfie with Miss Israel -— aims to throw her tiara in the ring for a California congressional run, she told The Post.

The political neophyte and Los Angeles resident said she has yet to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission.


At 18, she volunteered with the US Army in Iraq as a translator and left her family in Iraq behind for America about two years later, and became a US citizen in 2015.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/18/beauty-queen-who-fled-iraq-war-takes-aim-at-dem-wokeness/

I know little about this woman, but a quick search of her name quickly revealed the above.
I haven't watched this (below), but found it on youtube channel "Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast".
C2EHzFePdfU
And her wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Idan) has different info than the article above about 2017. It's all somewhat fishy, and probably should be investigated further.

[Ravenlocke]

Text:

A Palestinian woman whose son was killed by a bomb in front of her, said she saw her son in her dream, in Jannah (Paradise). She asked him: “Ya mama. Oh, my beloved son, what happened to you? Are you okay? Did it hurt you?”

The boy said, “I don't know what happened to me, mummy. I was running towards you when you were calling out to me. I was running towards our house. And then suddenly I… I saw myself running in garden. That's it.”

The Mother asked him, “Did you get hurt? Did it hurt you?

“No. I just felt like a big pinch. It pinched me, and then I was running here, in Jannah.”

View the full story here: https://youtu.be/M3fJDpnZPPQ?si=fHjYmxmrjaB4tNeh

https://x.com/YusufCatStevens/status/1719678496488759735

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Full story here,

M3fJDpnZPPQ

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739360360879034407

1739360360879034407


https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739284874547298733

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739364134657925411

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[Ravenlocke]

Tonight Al-Bureij refuge camp


https://x.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1739498343993159706

1739498343993159706

Yesterday Al-Bureij refuge camp


https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739250888689197325

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https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1739450963998507451

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https://x.com/Timesofgaza/status/1739228239300808771

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[pounamuknight]

It's all somewhat fishy, and probably should be investigated further.

Totally agree :sherlock:

She's a dual Iraqi & US citizen. And she was employed at a US army base in Baghdad (https://www.foxnews.com/media/iraqi-beauty-queen-served-us-troops-takes-woke-dems-speak-aoc-squad)

52429

She won Miss Iraq in a Miss Iraq beauty pageant that was held in Iraq the US

52430

And about those threats she says she received from Iraq. Thing is, Iraqi ladies didn't even know who Sarah was at the time (https://sputnikarabic.ae/20190713/العراق-إسرائيل-التطبيع-1042299907.html)


Sarah Idan, as Miss Iraq, as she is described- we don't know where that contest was, and no one knows her

Dr. Nada Al-Jubouri, President of the Iraqi Women & Future Organization

That didn't stop Sarah speaking on behalf of for her country Israel I mean, USA I mean, Iraq

Like public relation duties posing with Yossi Cohen, head of Mossad

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And running for Council of Representatives of Iraq sorry, US House of Representatives (https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-miss-iraq-announces-run-us-congress)

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Because representing California’s 30th District (https://baghdadtoday.news/224076-مترجمة-للامريكان-ثم-ملكة-جمال.-عراقية-مرشحة-للكونغرس-العراق-غني-وسأحدث-فرقاً-كبيراً.html) is the best place to represent Iraq :facepalm:


By being in US Congress, I will make sure the Iraqi government is committed to providing for the needs of the Iraqi people

Not saying she's a spook. Just that theres some shady shades of Mossad & CIA shadiness about her :unsure:

[Bill Ryan]

This is war. And the Israeli tank crew, who are unlikely to have survived, must have known what they were letting themselves in for. This is the reality of the kind of losses the Israelis are suffering now.

One might have sympathy for them, of course. But they were in Gaza specifically to kill anyone they could. That's the Israeli doctrine — to kill everyone. Anyone who doesn't believe that now is deceiving themselves.

This extraordinary video, just 50 seconds long and which has been reposted on every Telegram channel reporting on the war in Gaza, shows with crystal clarity how Israel can never win on the ground there.

:flower:

https://t.me/myLordBebo/17645

myLordBebo/17645

[Ewan]

Do any of you even look at the other side of the coin? There are two sides, three actually but the point is many seem to be unaware of some basic facts here. Hamas brings up their children from a young age to hate Jews and they teach them that they must kill them and that it is honorable to do so and die doing it so that from a young age they are ingrained with this hatred and the desire to wipe them out and take back land they say is theirs.
Let me educate you some to the nature of these Muslims in this particular sect. Recently in news headlines and even on X and I'm sure FB a young beautiful Iraqi woman, "Miss Iraq" took a selfie with another beautiful woman, "Miss Israel" and they were smiling and it was very charming. After this the hate attacks began on her and her parents to the point she had to evacuate them from Iraq to save their lives. She is banned now from going back and receiving death threats, called a traitor and a spy among many other things and all for a simple selfie. She sought refuge where? In Israel where she was welcomed and cared for and received warmth and sympathy. No one wants to see this tho. Why? This problem is not the Jewish hatred of a people it's the other way around entirely and knowing this you can begin to understand why others that know these things and more say such statements as Senator Fetterman and Elon Musk and others. Hamas feels this same way about you reading this too if you are American, Christian, non demoninational, or evven Muslim if you make one wrong move in their eyes. The problem is Hamas and the only solution is just Fetterman suggested. Those people are never going to change and Jewish people know it. It's high time you wake up to it also.
Selfie w/ Miss Israel and Miss Iraq (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/miss-iraq-israel-selfie-family-flee-leave-muslim-sarah-idan-adar-gandelsman-pageant-a8112011.html

Hi R. Yes, I look at both sides, but l’m not who l figure this question is to. I do find it odd, given the claimed goals of this forum, to see trending bloodlust justified on grounds that appear political. And I am no fan of Israel or even Jews, nor of their opposition.

Am glad you posted this challenge to the Avalon status quo. I hope there will be some earnest rebuttals.

You see trending bloodlust here on Avalon? Please point some examples out as I must have missed them.

[Bill Ryan]

I look at both sides, but l’m not who l figure this question is to. I do find it odd, given the claimed goals of this forum, to see trending bloodlust justified on grounds that appear political. And I am no fan of Israel or even Jews, nor of their opposition.

Am glad you posted this challenge to the Avalon status quo. I hope there will be some earnest rebuttals.

You see trending bloodlust here on Avalon? Please point some examples out as I must have missed them.Here's a rebuttal. :flower: Do take a look at the Should Christians support Israeli military action? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?122427-Should-Christians-support-Israeli-military-action) thread. Neither you nor Ratzinger has been there yet. There's really quite a lot there.

:heart:

[avid]

Rumoured power cut across Israel, government in bunkers… ? Instagram, but can’t post - sorry

Israeli media Yedioth Ahronoth post

[Bill Ryan]

Rumoured power cut across Israel, government in bunkers… ? Instagram, but can’t post - sorry

Israeli media Yedioth Ahronoth posthttps://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1739398361508180038
1739398361508180038
The text:
Channel 11 of Israel: Report of power outages across the country.
CEO of the electricity company: The source of the power outage is the outage of the two production units of the Rabin and Eshkol stations, the cause of which is still unknown and is under repair. 150,000 people across the country were cut off, most of them have returned and 34,000 people still don't have electricity.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1739700101776351635

1739700101776351635

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-israel-palestine-forces-executed-family-home

The Palestinian family 'executed' in their home by Israeli forces

Trapped in Gaza City’s Shaikh Ridwan neighbourhood, the Palestinian al-Khaldi family rushed to the ground floor of their home as Israeli forces bombed nearby, thinking that would be the safest spot.

An Israeli air strike then hit the house next door around 1pm on Thursday, killing some of the neighbours and wounding Fatima al-Khaldi, a mother of two.

But it was too late at that point to flee or attempt to reach the hospital, as Israeli tanks encircled the area and soldiers were getting closer.

The house was sheltering around 30 people, including some who were displaced earlier in the war from other parts of the city.

At around 8pm, Israeli soldiers arrived.

Trapped in Gaza City’s Shaikh Ridwan neighbourhood, the Palestinian al-Khaldi family rushed to the ground floor of their home as Israeli forces bombed nearby, thinking that would be the safest spot.

An Israeli air strike then hit the house next door around 1pm on Thursday, killing some of the neighbours and wounding Fatima al-Khaldi, a mother of two.

But it was too late at that point to flee or attempt to reach the hospital, as Israeli tanks encircled the area and soldiers were getting closer.

The house was sheltering around 30 people, including some who were displaced earlier in the war from other parts of the city.

At around 8pm, Israeli soldiers arrived.

There, his uncle Mohammed was shocked to hear that the young boy needed six surgical operations, which doctors at the hospital - destroyed earlier by Israeli forces - did not have the resources to perform.

Faisal’s intestine and bladder were ruptured and he remains in critical condition at al-Shifa, according to Fahed.

“I posted many appeals on social media and through journalists and tried to contact the International Committee of the Red Cross to move Faisal to another hospital in the south but all that went in vain,” he said.

“All we want now is to urgently treat Faisal.”

Field executions

Two days after the horrifying encounter, Mohammed went back to the area after Israeli forces withdrew.

He counted the bodies of nine people in the house, including Ahmed, Fatima, his elderly blind uncle, his wife and others.

The story of the al-Khaldi family was confirmed by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which says it has documented many similar field executions by Israeli forces in recent days.

The killings are taking place in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip - areas placed under a media blackout and cut off by Israeli soldiers from access to hospitals and basic needs.

Now as Israeli troops retreat from some locations, surviving residents are revealing details of the shocking crimes committed against them.

The Palestinian government media office on Saturday said it had received testimonies about at least 137 Palestinians executed by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip.

In some cases, groups of people were lined up in a pit dug by Israeli forces, before being shot and then buried in mass graves, the media office said.

Other instances included the killing of pregnant women walking to the hospital and waving white flags, as well as men shot and killed in front of their families.

The Euro-Med Monitor said it has documented at least nine different instances where groups of civilians were shot and killed without posing a threat to Israeli forces.

Middle East Eye could not independently verify these claims.

However, the Israeli army admitted earlier this month to killing three Israeli captives in Gaza who were shirtless, waving a white flag, and calling for help in Hebrew.

Last week, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it “received disturbing information” about one of the cases of alleged summary executions.

The killings were confirmed, the UN agency said, but verification of the circumstances were still under way.

“The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to be substantiated, those responsible must be brought to justice,” OHCHR said in a statement.

It added that the occurence of killings “raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime” and comes “in the wake of earlier allegations concerning the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians at the hands of Israeli forces”.

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War on Gaza: Israeli forces round up stripped Palestinian men and children at stadium

Israeli forces rounded up dozens of Palestinians in an open field of a stadium in Gaza on Monday, stripping them and tying their hands behind their backs, according to photos and video footage shared on local media.

Reports said Israeli forces had abused the residents, including men, children and the elderly, before gathering them in the open field.

Video footage showed Israeli soldiers, accompanied by tanks, pointing their guns at the detained Palestinians who could be seen entering the field in a line with their hands up in the air before sitting down in designated areas.

The video ends with a shot of an Israeli soldier carrying a baby, wrapped in blanket.

The video, reportedly taken by an Israeli photojournalist, shows how Israeli forces have transformed the stadium into a large detention

centre.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on 20 December that Israeli army forces have been carrying out field executions against civilians, after detaining them from their homes.

The rights monitor obtained testimonies of Israeli army forces raiding homes and opening fire at Palestinians for no reason.

Euro-Med Monitor said it also received similar testimonies about atrocities committed by Israeli forces in numerous areas they occupied, including killings and field executions.

Civilians stripped and detained

Earlier this month, the Israeli military said it was rounding up Palestinian men in northern Gaza for interrogation. Footage released at the time showed dozens of men stripped of their clothes, blindfolded, and with their hands tied, being taken to an undisclosed location.

A witness said at least seven men had been shot dead by troops for not complying with the soldiers’ orders fast enough, according to the Euro-Med Monitor.

The men had been reportedly rounded up from homes and schools sheltering displaced families in the northern Gaza Strip.

Euro-Med Monitor said doctors, academics, journalists and seniors were among them. Diaa al-Kahlout, a journalist working for the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet, was identified as one of the detained men.

Some videos showed them in a residential area before being loaded onto trucks. Another photo showed them lined up in an open sandy area. It was not clear where they were taken to.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the mass arrests.

Some Israeli media said the men are “possible” Hamas operatives but no further details were provided.

Osama Hamdan, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, denied that there had been mass arrests of the group’s members and likened the arrests to "Nazi concentration camps".

He told Al Araby TV that the footage shows the “arrest and abuse of unarmed civilians who have nothing to do with military operations”.

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🔴RECAP: #Israel #Palestine (as of 15:00 GMT 26 December)

1. Gaza death toll reaches 20,915

2. It could take years to find Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, says Israeli military chief

3. Netanyahu “working” on ethnic removal of Palestinians from Gaza

4. Two Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank

5. Over 30 Palestinians killed as Israel ramps up attacks in Khan Younis

6. 40 Israeli soldiers wounded in the last 24 hours, says Israeli army

7. Israeli soldier dies after being infected by a dangerous fungus infection in Gaza, caused by Israel

8. Gaza civilians have become a “human chessboard,” says UN official

9. UK maritime organisation receives report of explosion near Yemen’s Hodeida

10. Drone downed near the Egyptian resort city of Dahab

11, Iran’s Raisi to visit Turkey in January to discuss Gaza

12. Blast heard near the Israeli embassy in India

🔗 Click the link below to follow MEE's live coverage
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Intel receives $3.2bln Israeli grant to expand chip plant near Gaza

Tech giant Intel has been awarded a massive $3.2 billion grant by the Israeli occupation government as part of a larger $25 billion initiative to expand its chip manufacturing facility located between "Tel Aviv" and Gaza, both parties said on Tuesday.

This substantial investment was confirmed following an earlier announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in June.

The announcment was made as the Israeli economy is struggling with unprecedented challenges due to the ongoing war on Gaza.

Read more: Israeli economy to shrink 2% as workforce is displaced, drafted

The brutal aggression on the Strip prompted Gaza's allies in the Axis of Resistance to engage in military escalations against the occupation entity on several fronts, which caused fears among companies and businesses about the security of their investments.

Furthermore, the Yemeni ban on all ships that are Israeli, Israeli-affiliated, or heading to the occupation entity, preventing them from passing through the Red and Arabian seas raised concerns regarding trade supply chains and resource allocations, in addition to higher import costs due to vessels traveling around Africa instead of passing through the Suez Canal to reach the Mediterranean.

Read more: Report details Israeli economic 'losses' due to war on Gaza, West Bank

Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, revealed earlier that 17 percent of the company's 20,000 workforce are currently on reserve duty in "Israel".

The grant, as reported by Reuters, is expected to fund approximately 12.8 percent of the total investment in the "Kiryat Gat" facility, with the funds set to be paid over four years based on specific milestones.

Intel's commitment also extends to procuring goods and services worth 60 billion shekels (around $16.6 billion) from Israeli suppliers over the next decade.

The new facility, scheduled to begin operations in 2028, is projected to create thousands of jobs and is part of Intel's broader strategy to enhance global supply chain resilience, as stated in a Bloomberg-cited release.

"The expansion plan for the Kiryat Gat site is an important part of Intel's efforts to foster a more resilient global supply chain, alongside the company's ongoing and planned manufacturing investments in Europe and the US," Intel said in a statement, as per Bloomberg.

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Israeli casualties on the rise amid intensifying Hezbollah operations
From South Lebanon, Hezbollah has launched multiple attacks at Israeli targets in northern occupied territories. These consistently expanding attacks have completely shut down Israeli settler communities, located at least 3.5 km deep into their occupation's line of withdrawal.

In the latest operation at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, Hezbollah Resistance fighters carried out an aerial attack on the Israeli occupation's recently established military command headquarters in the vicinity of the "Kiryat Shmona" settlement (occupied Palestinian town of al-Khalisa) using a kamikaze drone, resulting in confirmed casualties, as per the statement of the Islamic Resistance.

The Lebanese Resistance group simultaneously targeted the Israeli al-Baghdadi military site using appropriate weapons.

Resistance attacks, nonstop

Earlier today, three attacks targeted Israeli military barracks, including the headquarters of the IOF's 91st Division in the "Biranit" Barracks at 1:45 pm, while another three targeted Israeli soldiers and assets across three military sites.

Although the attacks were concentrated in the western district of operations, Hezbollah fighters targeted the Zebdine military site in the Israeli-occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms twice.

The Resistance's initial attack at 9:45 am targeted the site using the "appropriate weapons" for the mission, confirming direct hits to intended targets, and then at 2:50 pm, they targeted the site again with Burkan rockets.

It is worth noting that Burkan rockets carry large high-explosive payloads that can reach up to 500 kg.

The Lebanese Resistance faction then launched consecutive attacks on Israeli military targets in the Western sector at noon, Tuesday. The first targeted Israeli soldiers spread across the vicinity of the Ramya military site at 11:40 am confirming direct hits to the intended targets.

Nearby, Hezbollah fighters launched an attack on an Israeli reconnaissance unit, positioned in a structure within the "Shomera" Barracks at noon. The Islamic Resistance confirmed that the members of the unit were killed or injured, as a result of accurate hits at the target.

10 minutes past noon, Hezbollah fighters targeted a grouping of Israeli soldiers positioned within the "Dovev" Barracks with the appropriate weapons.

The Islamic Resistance carried on its operations through Tuesday afternoon, targeting a grouping of Israeli soldiers at al-Raheb military site, confirming casualties among the enemy force at 1:45 pm (local time).

IOF: 9 soldiers hurt, including 1 seriously

Nine Israeli soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, in a missile attack in "Shomera" in northern "Israel", as reported by the IOF.

Hezbollah launched a missile from Lebanon targeting the Israeli settlement of "Shomera", resulting in moderate injuries to a settler. As IOF arrived at the site, Hezbollah fired more missiles, injuring nine other soldiers, as per Israeli media.

One IOF soldier was reportedly in critical condition, while the condition of the remaining ranged between minor and moderate, Israeli media reported.

Earlier, the spokesperson for the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) announced that an Israeli occupation officer was killed in a guided missile attack launched by Hezbollah on December 22 after he succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday.

The Staff Sergeant served under the 199th Amrored Briagde's 71st Battalion and is the second to be announced dead from the same formation as a result of attacks carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon. On that day, two attacks via anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) targeted groupings of Israeli soldiers and officers in the vicinity of the Israeli-occupied Lebanese town of Tarbikha.

As the Israeli military admitted its casualties, Hezbollah carried out nine operations targeting Israeli positions and sites from South Lebanon.

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Al-Qassam, Al-Quds brigades conduct joint ops against Israeli invaders

Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades revealed a joint operation with Palestinian Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades on Tuesday, which targeted five Israeli military vehicles with Tandem and al-Yassin 105 projectiles near Jabalia al-Balad in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to al-Qassam, the Resistance fighters used machine guns and TBG shells in a coordinated attack on an Israeli force barricaded in a building in the same area, resulting in Israeli soldiers being killed and wounded.

Read more: Resistance position clear; no talks until Israeli war stops: Official

In a separate operation, the Resistance group successfully lured an Israeli special force into a house in Beit Hanoun, north of Gaza, and demolished it with three anti-personnel IEDs, stun grenades, and a Shawaz armor-piercing explosive, leading to the death of the entire force.

Additionally, the Brigades detonated a boobytrapped tunnel in an Israeli force comprising eight soldiers east of al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza, killing and injuring its members.

Releasing documentation of some of the operations, al-Qassam provided exclusive footage to Al Mayadeen, showing its Resistance fighters targeting Israeli military vehicles in the Sheikh Zayed area in north Gaza using al-Yassin 105 shells.

On its part, al-Quds Brigades published footage of its fighters firing rocket barrages targeting occupied cities, settlements, and Israeli military sites. The Resistance group also announced that it bombarded Israeli military gatherings in the Absan area, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, with a barrage of 60mm mortar shells.

Read more: Israeli forces carry out intense air raids on various areas in Gaza

Meanwhile, the National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), announced that its fighters engaged in fierce confrontations in the central and northern parts of Khan Younis, targeting an invading Israeli force with RPGs, confirming casualties among the struck units.

A gathering of Israeli military vehicles east of Al-Bureij at the Abu Matibeq gate was also attacked with heavy mortar shells during the battle.

This comes as the Israeli occupation army admitted on Tuesday evening that three officers were killed in the battles in Gaza; One Master Sgt. (res.) and two Captains, including one from the reserve forces, raising the total number of troops killed in the Strip since the start of the invasion to 161.

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In an interview for Al-Quds News Network, Rami's mother said that every year on Christmas, the Israeli occupation arrests Rami and puts him under administrative detention with no charges filed.

Rami's mother further explained that he has spent what is equivalent to 10 years in prison so far.

This is one of the examples of Israeli injustice not only against #Palestinian Muslims but also against Christians as well, and on #Christmas.

Rami was detained today at dawn right after Christmas alongside Khalida Jarrar, a revolutionary scholar who has been detained twice before.

During her last detention, Khalida was denied a request to attend her daughter's funeral, only two months before her release.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇾🇪Statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces regarding the targeting of the Israeli MSC United ship, as well as the targeting of Umm Al-Rashrash and other areas in occupied Palestine.

A statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful
God Almighty said: {O you who have believed, if you support you, Allah will support you and make your feet firm.} God Almighty has spoken the truth.

A victory for the oppression of the Palestinian people, who until this moment have been subjected to killing, destruction, siege, and starvation.

The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, carried out a targeting operation against a commercial ship, “MSC UNITED,” with appropriate naval missiles.

And the process of targeting the ship came after the rejection of the crew and for the third time the calls of the naval forces, as well as the repeated fire warning messages.

Also, the Yemeni armed forces' air force has carried out a number of military-guided aircraft in the region of Umm al-Rashrash and other areas in occupied Palestine.

The Yemeni armed forces confirm the continuation of the support and support of the Palestinian people, including religious, moral and humanitarian obligations.

The Yemeni armed forces confirm the continuation of operations in Red and Arab Bahrain against Israeli ships or those headed to the occupied Palestinian ports until we enter the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip needs food and medicine.

The Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed in their previous statements regarding the prohibition of the passage of all Israeli ships or those bound for the occupied Palestinian Straits, with their complete desire for the continuation of maritime traffic to all destinations except the Israeli entity.

Sana'a, 13 Jumadi al-Akhira 1445 Hijri
Agreed to on December 26, 2023

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸🇱🇧Near the Lebanese border, zionist sources report significant property damage due to direct resistance strike. The cost of these damages reportedly surpasses those in southern occupied Palestine.

As all of the settlements on the northern border remain evacuated, and severe restrictions limit the movements on settlers nearby. In "Manara," over half of the settler houses were damaged by Hezbollah strikes. "Metulla" faces widespread destruction, with dozens of homes damaged and others directly targeted with anti-tank missiles.

A settler reflected on the contrast across the border: "While homes on the other side are lit, residents move freely, and farmers continue their work, we here cannot do anything."

Over two months later, Hezbollah has not retreated an inch from the fence. In fact, it is the settlers that have been forced to create their own "buffer zone" to protect from escalating attacks—most of which the "Iron Dome" is useless against—and have retreated in darkness in fear of potential strikes. Even today, in occupied Tabariyya, hundreds of displaced settlers protested that they be allowed to return to their "homes" in the north, surprised that they are the ones being pushed back.

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🇵🇸⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 244 US cargo planes, 20 ships deliver over 10,000 tons of military equipment to Israel

Two hundred and forty-four US transport planes and 20 ships have delivered more than 10,000 tons of armaments and military equipment to Israel since the start of the war, Channel 12 reports.

The Defense Ministry has made NIS 40 billion (almost $2.8 billion) in additional purchases from the US, it says.

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🇮🇱🇾🇪The UKMTO reported a second security incident in the Red Sea, 60 nautical miles west of Hodeidah, Yemen. Explosions were reported after missiles were sighted. Local sources reported that in both cases, the ships were headed to the Zionist Israel.

🇮🇱🇾🇪A missile attack on a commercial ship was recorded near the port of Hodeidah, which is under the control of the Yemeni Armed Forces.

This is the third attack today.

An important statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces will be given in the coming hours.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇳India deploys warships to Arabian Sea following attack on Israeli-linked ship

Washington blames Iran for an attack on a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean, a claim Tehran called 'worthless' and a 'distraction'

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India deploys warships to Arabian Sea following attack on Israeli-linked ship
Washington blames Iran for an attack on a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean, a claim Tehran called 'worthless' and a 'distraction'


The Indian Navy has deployed three guided missile destroyers to the Arabian Sea in response to an alleged drone attack on an Israeli-linked chemical tanker last week.

New Delhi also uses long-range maritime patrol aircraft for “domain awareness,” the defense ministry reported Monday night.

On Saturday, the Liberian-flagged MV Chem Pluto, a Japanese-owned tanker traveling 370km off the coast of India, was reportedly hit by a kamikaze drone, according to the Pentagon.

The Israeli-linked tanker had been on its way from Saudi Arabia to India, according to maritime security firm Ambrey.

The Indian Navy says they are examining the specifics of the attack on the MV Chem Puto, which managed to anchor in Mumbai on 26 December.

Although Indian officials say a preliminary evaluation suggests a drone strike, they emphasize that additional forensic and technical examinations are necessary to determine the exact method of attack.

Washington blamed the attack on Iran, saying the drone had been launched “directly” from the Islamic Republic.

“We declare these claims completely worthless,” said Nasser Kanaani, spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, on Monday.

“Such claims are aimed at projecting, distracting public attention, and covering up for the full support of the US government for the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza,” he added.

Saturday's drone attack came less than a week after the US announced the formation of the so-called Operation Prosperity Guardian, described by US officials as a new “coalition of the willing” that seeks to counter the threat posed by Yemen in the Red Sea.

Although the Yemeni armed forces have been conducting the attacks against Israeli-linked vessels of their own accord, the Pentagon insists Iran is somehow involved.

“The [Yemeni] resistance has its own tools […] and acts by its own decisions and capabilities,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri told Mehr News Agency on Saturday.

“The fact that certain powers, such as the US and the Israelis, suffer strikes from the resistance movement […] should in no way call into question the reality of the strength of the resistance in the region,” he added.

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The Israeli offer signals a strategic defeat: Aid, withdrawal, prisoner swap and guarantees.

In a recent development that marks a significant shift in the ongoing Gaza conflict, Israel has proposed terms that subtly acknowledge its strategic repositioning. However, the Israeli proposal has been deemed inadequate and unfit for a deal. “Negotiations will begin only after a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, with a comprehensive prisoner exchange in one package,” the Palestinian resistance leadership responded. These conditions include international guarantees against the re-arrest of the more than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners who have been released and an end to targeted assassinations of Hamas leaders.

In an interesting diplomatic move, Israel, represented by its envoy in Qatar, has made an offer to the Palestinian resistance to gradually resolve the long-standing issue of Palestinian hostages and Israeli prisoners.

This position, as articulated by the resistance, directly addresses Israel’s attempts to get out of its current predicament in Gaza. By proposing a gradual release of all prisoners, female first and male, in a second stage, Israel appears to be tacitly admitting a change in its operational objectives. The failure to free the Israeli prisoners by military means puts considerable pressure on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is already struggling with its radical allies in the same coalition who are demanding the destruction of Gaza or his resignation.

Netanyahu’s government is on the verge of political resignation, with Security Minister Itamar Bin-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatening to quit if the Israeli military ends its operations without achieving its goal of subduing Gaza and its people. Israel seems to be conceding to a reality that is beginning to be recognised: its inability to achieve its original goals of crushing the resistance by military means and dismantling Hamas – which is harassing the Israeli army in Gaza daily – has led it to rethink its strategy. Netanyahu faces a difficult choice: stop the war and resign, or continue the fight with no achievable goals, leading the army to stop the battle later.

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Breaking | Media coverage: The Gaza Government Media Office reports that the Israeli army violated the corpses of 80 Palestinians, delivering them mutilated with stolen organs. The Israeli army also refuses to disclose their names and the locations from which their bodies were taken during the war in the Gaza.

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The Government Media Office in #Gaza said the occupation handed over unidentified bodies and refused to specify the names of these martyrs or the places from which it stole them, adding that the occupation repeated the crime of stealing organs more than once during this genocidal war.

This comes after the Israeli occupation bulldozed bodies from their burial place near al-Shifa Hospital a few days ago. Skulls and skeletons were seen on the streets as a result of this atrocious act.

#PalestineGenocide
#GazaUnderAttack

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Rumoured power cut across Israel, government in bunkers… ? Instagram, but can’t post - sorry

Israeli media Yedioth Ahronoth post

Reported December 25th

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"Untreatable infection"? This brings to mind the fact that during the recent covid scamdemic, the Isreali population was the most coerced in the world for the covid jab. If I recall correctly, every Isreali had to take 4 covid jabs, at least. And by now we know that the covid jab impairs the immune system. So, it's not surprising to hear that Isrealis are coming down with "untreatable infections".

On the other hand, the Palestinians received little of the covid jabs. Having lived for years in crowded situations, they've probably honed their collective immune system to a high degree. Perhaps this Isreali retired general who claims the 'treatment resistant' bug will 'bring victory closer' needs to think twice.

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From Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur.

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In Gaza, Palestinian children are given sedatives to alleviate their pain while dying - as they cannot be treated.
80 days of heavy Israeli bombing have devastated the health system.
This level of horror is unmatched in our lifetime.

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We can't know 100% for sure whether or not this is true. But the very terrible thing is that it easily could be.

There's a 1:52 video at the link, with a warning about distressing images. All the witnesses seems credible.

https://aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/12/13/civilians-sheltering-inside-a-gaza-school-killed-execution

Civilians sheltering inside a Gaza school killed execution-style

"They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.” In exclusive testimonies obtained by Al Jazeera, witnesses describe the horrific sights they encountered inside a school in northern Gaza following an Israeli attack.

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Interesting insight into issues with the IDF and US Forces.

Scott Ritter & Larry Johnson: Yemen Exposes US, NATO Military WEAKNESS in Red Sea

Former UN Weapons Inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence officer Scott Ritter and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson discuss Operation Prosperity Guardian and its massive failings amid Yemen's ongoing blockade of the Red Sea

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Exactly 15 years ago today, I witnessed the first massacre of Israel's 2008-2009 Gaza assault. Under this smoke, more than 140 Gaza police cadets lost were killed by Israel's bombs while attending their graduation ceremony. I was just about to leave my college's building when the F-16s launched the first attack of the war. The building shook, and the glass shattered, raining down upon us. Looking back to that day 15 years ago, I can't help but think of my younger siblings, who you can see in these photos. These kids witnessed the harshest moments of Israel's relentless aggressions against Gaza. In one of the pictures, my younger brother stands near the rubble of what used to be Al-Shifa Mosque, a small mosque right across from Al-Shifa Hospital, which has always been an obsession for Israel. Over these past 15 years, my siblings have lived through wars in 2008-2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and now this ongoing genocide. Their entire lives have been filled with nothing but war, blockades, and isolation.

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🇵🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇳 The director of the United Nations office in New York has resigned after thirty years with the organization, over the UN's handling of the ongoing killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip

Reading the entire resignation letter is necessary for every ignorant person who defended the Zionists from Western societies.

The speech exposes Western complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, and the last paragraph of the speech explains how international law and the order based on international rules are disintegrating, with the support of the same global powers that promote their values and claim to defend them, and that the American-backed global order will not be able to recover from the blow that toppled... His credibility as a result of his complicity.

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The USA, the same country that brought to the world the horrors of Abu Ghraib, is arming Israel to torture Palestinians in dungeons as horrifying as the ones Iraqis were tortured in under the US occupation, while preaching to the world about human rights and a rules-based order

#Gaza

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The director of the United Nations office in New York has resigned after thirty years with the organization, over the UN's handling of the ongoing killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip

Reading the entire resignation letter is necessary for every ignorant person who defended the Zionists from Western societies.



Yes, because there is obviously a pattern.

It happens to have reached the extreme point which is like a cadet branch of the US Air Force being used, at least physically, just like Operation Condor in Spain 1936, the experimental beginnings of this practice. In turn the result was that Hitler kept what he called "terrorist bombing" (i. e. of civilians) in London on a short leash, subject to his personal command. As we see, such bombings have been pursued by other countries, usually against someone without equal defense.

And yet we see the entity trying to offer temporary cease-fire terms.

Again there is a reminder of the necessary conditions.

Concerning the power outage, it may be a retaliation. Iran has just experienced a cyber-attack that switched off their power for twelve or fifteen hours and they fixed it.

Exactly what it means to return the favor about more assassinations in Syria, we do not know.

My guess would be the Israeli infrastructure is a big soft underbelly.

Therefor, sabotage may rise in order of likelihood.

Or, it could just be some routine maintenance...minor inconvenience.

One also notices the damage to the ship in India and this makes multiple attempts that the US blamed on Iran but nobody claimed responsibility. Most of the time, these groups say what they did, and it is hard to place a limit on who could get an armed drone these days.

[Bill Ryan]

New just now on The Moon of Alabama:


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/biden-needs-to-come-to-israels-and-his-own-rescue.html#more

Biden Needs to come to Israel's - and his own - Rescue

For now Israel seems to lose its war against the Palestinian resistance.

The October 7 attempt to gain hostages by Hamas and Islamic Jihad was successful. Israeli outrage about it should have been directed against the Israeli government and its army for their chaotic response. They likely killed more Israelis than Hamas did.
(https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-general-killed-israelis-7-october-then-lied-about-it/43176)
But outrage was instead instigated against the external enemy. In this case all Palestinians.

A united Israel urged its government to wage revenge. The government's announced aim is to remove Hamas. That however is impossible to do to a social movement with deep roots in its society. The real aim is to remove all Palestinians from Gaza, to either kill them or to dump them in some foreign land. This would be followed by an attempt to remove all Palestinians from the West Bank before capturing and annexing the south of Lebanon.

However no foreign country is likely to support such a genocide and to take up the burden of millions of unruly refugees.

The Israeli government still wants to satisfy its people but has no way to achieve that.

Meanwhile the resistance against Israel, which has been built by Iran over several decades, is increasing its response. It aims to press Israel into conceding defeat and to liberate the Palestinians from their Zionist occupiers.

Changing a society's mind requires a slow and long response. In the north Hezbullah is slowly escalating its tit-for tat war with the Israeli army. Some 100,000 Israeli civilians have fled from the border zone. The Ansar Islam movement in Yemen has blocked maritime traffic to Israel's Eilat port. The U.S. attempt to counter that has failed (https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202312/26/WS658a2ba3a31040ac301a97ff.html):
Despite the US calling the Red Sea tensions "an international challenge" requiring a united response, the initial coalition support was limited, with only 10 nations, including Bahrain as the sole Arab state. The Pentagon later announced that 20 countries had joined the coalition, with Greece and Australia among the new members. In a setback to the US, France, Spain, and Italy have declined their participation in the alliance.
Local resistances in Iraq and Syria are attacking U.S. troops deployed in those countries. As long as its troops are there the U.S. can to nothing to prevent that.

There are also threats to Israel's Mediterranean coast line. Hezbollah has the ability to close down Haifa and and other Israeli ports. Missiles, cruise missiles and drones from Gaza, from Lebanon, Yemen and from resistance fighters in Iraq and Syria continue to target Israel day by day.

With more than 350,000 Israeli troops mobilized and Palestinian workers from the West Bank banned, Israel's economy is, for lack of workers, in deep trouble.

Its military forays into Palestinian cities in Gaza have so far achieved little results but incurred significant losses. All the army can do is to destroy those cities block by block. But Hamas continues to fight back, even in rubble.

The current plan is to make Palestinian life in Gaza so miserable that leaving it will be for them the only alternative to certain death. But leaving whereto when no one wants to take them?

That is a question Israel and its U.S. backers fail to answer.

With the war going into a prolonged, unsustainable phase the Israeli government needs to do something else, or fail.

It plans to open a new front in Lebanon (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-threatens-to-attack-hezbollah-if-world-fails-to-halt-attacks-from-lebanon/ar-AA1m9fyS) against Hezbollah. But a repeat of the 2006 war, which Israel lost (https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/we-were-caught-unprepared.pdf), can not be risked. To fight Hezbollah on the ground Israel needs active U.S. backing, not only by U.S. delivery of weapons, but by U.S. forces on the ground.

A new U.S. war in the Middle East against a well prepared enemy is the last thing President Biden needs for his re-election campaign.

Pictures of Israeli settlers and their army raiding Ramallah (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/28/unparalleled-israeli-army-raids-ramallah-more-occupied-west-bank-cities) to steal money from Palestinian money exchanges also lead to more negative voter responses.

Hamas says it can fight the war for several months (https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1740340684505428184/history).

Biden needs to shut the war down (https://warontherocks.com/2023/12/reversing-americas-ruinous-support-for-israels-assault-on-gaza/).

Either he does that now or his chances of a reelection will decrease even further.

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Michael Ben Ari, a former Knesset member, has articulated a highly racist perspective on the Gaza war, advocating that the best "Humanitarian Solution" is by ethnically cleansing Gaza of its Arabs. Stating that "As long as there still Arabs in Gaza, the state of Israel is threatened"
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Euro-Med Monitor: Nearly 30,000 Palestinians killed in 82 days of Israeli genocide in Gaza

Geneva (Quds News Network) – The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has climbed to approximately 30,000 victims, according to the latest reports released by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

As of 26 December, 29,124 Palestinians had been killed, the human rights organisation said. The majority of those killed in the Israeli air and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip were civilians, including 11,422 children, 5,822 women, 481 health personnel, and 101 journalists.

Meanwhile, 56,122 Palestinians have been injured, with hundreds of them being critically wounded, said Euro-Med Monitor. This number includes thousands of victims who are still stuck under the rubble of buildings, while hundreds more remain uncounted for, but are likely either trapped under rubble or injured in the streets.

Euro-Med Monitor estimates also indicate that there are more than 1.920 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip who remain without a safe shelter amid inhumane conditions.

According to the rights group, 65,600 housing units have been completely destroyed by the ongoing Israeli attacks, while 177,200 others have been partially damaged.

Israel has also continued to inflict massive destruction and severe damage to vital infrastructure facilities in the Gaza Strip, targeting 305 schools, 1,541 industrial facilities, and 135 health facilities, including 23 hospitals, 56 clinics, 55 ambulances, 183 mosques, and 3 churches, in addition to 165 press offices.

Israel is stepping up its genocide war on Gazan civilians in an effort to intensify its enforced displacement policy, which is in violation of international laws, Euro-Med Monitor warned.

Israel has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure in order to cause as many casualties, material losses, and destruction as possible, according to the Geneva-based organisation, as a form of retaliation and collective punishment. This is against international humanitarian law and the 1949 Geneva Convention, and amounts to war crimes according to the Rome Statute, which governs the International Criminal Court.

Israel has flagrantly broken the terms of international humanitarian law, which forbids property damage as a “preventive means” and property destruction as a means of deterrence, even for military purposes.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor urged the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to pressure Israeli authorities to reveal the fate of all detainees from the Gaza Strip, release every arrested civilian, and investigate the horrific violations that these detained civilians are being subjected to.

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Why do evangelical Christians support Israel?

Palestinian human rights activist Jonathan Kuttab explains how Christian Zionism affects US policy in the Middle East.
In the evangelical Christian worldview, the 1948 creation of Israel was a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy and the Palestinians are either “non-existent” or “the enemies of God, because they are the enemies of the State of Israel”, explains Palestinian human rights defender Jonathan Kuttab.

Kuttab tells host Steve Clemons that believers of this interpretation of holy scripture do not care about international law or catastrophic war in the region. “They say, ‘Bring it on. That’s the End Times. That’s the Second Coming. That’s wonderful.’”

And if 30 percent of Americans hold these beliefs, what is the impact on US policy on Palestine and Israel?

Video and more:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2023/12/26/why-do-evangelical-christians-support-israel

And here latest...

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Political analyst Nour Odeh provides a clear and strong statement in this short video interview:
- Palestinians must be in charge of determining their political future.
- Hamas will stay as a significant player in Palestine's political scene
- Isreali efforts to push Gazans into the Sinai or other countries: Israelis are now more comfortable to openly talk about their planned atrocities because they haven't had international pushback about all the other violations of international law they've committed.
- Everybody understands that this didn't start on October 7, Palestinians have endured dispossession for 75 years, which is at the heart of all this tragedy.

Why Egypt's proposed plan to end Gaza war met resistance from both sides

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QJrDebUvKQ

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"When your entire existence is justified by a lie you have to keep updating it, says author Miko Peled about Israel’s biblical claim to Palestine"

INTERVIEW: Educated to be stupid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1UjnqA2sk

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Zero Hedge, which in October was very partially pro-Israel, continues to moderate its own stance. Here are three new articles. I'll just copy the linked titles.


Israel Pressures US for more Apache Helicopters even while Owning Up to Mass Civilian Casualty Airstrikes (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-pressures-us-more-apache-helicopters-even-while-owning-mass-civilian-casualty)
Assault on 10 Cities: Israel Mounts Largest Raid on West Bank since War's Start (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-mounts-largest-raid-west-bank-wars-start-includes-10-cities)
Israel: Time for Diplomacy with Hezbollah Running Out as Expanded War Looms (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-time-diplomacy-hezbollah-running-out-expanded-war-looms)

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This is a very good thing. If the ICJ dismisses this, the world will see.


https://rt.com/news/589909-south-africa-israel-war-crimes-icc

Israel Sued for Genocide in The Hague

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to intervene in Gaza conflict

South Africa has filed an appeal before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, alleging that Israeli actions in Gaza amount to “genocide” and asking for “provisional measures” to stop it, the top UN court announced on Friday.

The application claims “acts and omissions by Israel... are genocidal in character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent ... to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group,” the ICJ said in a statement (https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231229-pre-01-00-en.pdf).

Israel’s conduct towards the Palestinians in Gaza “is in violation of its obligations under the Genocide Convention,” the government in Pretoria said. They also accused Israel of having “failed to prevent genocide” and “failed to prosecute the direct and public incitement to genocide” since October 7.

South Africa also asked the ICJ to “indicate provisional measures” in order to “protect against further, severe and irreparable harm” to Palestinians under the Genocide Convention. The ICJ also published the 84-page document that lists these measures (https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf#page=72) in detail, first of which is for Israel to “immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.”

Pretoria also demands of West Jerusalem to stop any and all attacks on Palestinians, and to revoke any orders whose goal is “the expulsion and forced displacement from their homes” or deprivation of access to food, water, fuel, shelter, medical supplies and other humanitarian needs.

Anyone who engages in “direct and public incitement” to genocide or conspiracy to commit it must be brought to justice, the appeal insists. South Africa demanded Israel submit a report on complying with all these demands within one week.

Under the ICJ’s rules, South Africa’s application has priority over all other cases, because of the request for provisional measures.

South Africa has previously sought (https://www.rt.com/africa/589331-south-africa-icc-war-crime-case-against-israel/) to charge Israel with war crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC). West Jerusalem is not a signatory party to the ICC, but the court – also based in The Hague – has previously declared it had jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.

On the other hand, both South Africa and Israel are signatories of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was first adopted in 1948, in response to the Nazi mass murder of Jews during WWII.

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And if 30 percent of Americans hold these beliefs, what is the impact on US policy on Palestine and Israel?

This (https://tass.com/world/1727721):


US Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, has suggested hitting targets in Iran over Tehran’s alleged support for Yemen-based Houthi rebels.

"The Houthis are completely backed by Iran. I’ve been saying for six months now: hit Iran. They have oil fields out in the open, they have the Revolutionary Guard headquarters you can see from space. Blow it off the map," he said in an interview with Fox News.


I can chase it to hell and stand there in the ninth circle with my boot on its head, anyone want to watch?

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While they keep trying (https://sputnikglobe.com/20231229/russian-forces-destroy-10-air-bombs-3-cruise-missiles-fired-by-israel-on-syria-1115881500.html):



Russian anti-aircraft missile systems Pantsir-S have shot down ten guided bombs and three cruise missiles launched by the Israeli air force towards Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria said on Friday.
"The air defense forces on duty shot down 10 guided bombs and three cruise missiles, using Russian-made Pantsir-S systems. As a result of the Israeli air strikes, military infrastructure was damaged. There were no casualties," Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the center, told a press briefing.


Earlier on Thursday and Friday, the Israeli forces launched strikes on Damascus and the southern region of Syria. The Syrian Defense Ministry reported that the air defenses shot down several missiles. According to the statement, the attack resulted in material damage, with no casualties reported.


while they keep going splat like so many wet matzohs (https://english.almanar.com.lb/2011605):



Confusion and disputes characterize the current relation between the political command and the army in the Zionist entity, according to a report released by Al-Manar TV.

The army is reportedly demanding that the government identify realistic and clear objectives for the war, Al-Manar’s report added, noting that the chief of military staff Herzi Halevi has gone insane over the performance of the political command.

In this regard, the report affirmed that the Israeli cabinet sessions have turned to be platforms for trading accusations between the ministers and the chief of military staff, adding that every minister is acting as a premier and interrogating Halevi.

According to the report, Halevi is quitting the sessions due to ministers’ provocations amid the failure of his army in Gaza.

The Zionist occupation army is no longer capable of continuing the war on Gaza without clear objectives after failing to achieve the previous targets, the report added.

All the cabinet members have agreed that the Israeli army fell in Gaza quagmire just as it fell in Lebanon’s quagmire in 2006, according to the report.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Channel 11 mentioned that, during a recess late Monday, one of the soldiers opened fire inside the dormitory and hit his comrades, adding that the soldier justified his act by saying that he was under the influence of a nightmare from Gaza fight.



I have to agree this country is swarmed by ~30% mindless Zionists like that thing in the suit up there. Related to the famous preacher? I don't want to know.

It's not quite an "average" since it is neighborhood-dependent...they are probably not in Idaho. East Coast Establishment definitely. Maybe some other pockets, Texas probably.

Also unless you join their club it is not obvious.

It's not outspoken, there is no Star of David with a Christian cross planted in it, no advertising.

Well sir, even Israeli extremists may actually be practicing a form of Judaism. The English Christian thing is no part of the Church of Jerusalem. The extremists are even willing to denounce "Arabs" so it is at least racist rather than part of divinity school.

South Carolina probably cannot field a non-Zionist Senator, and it gets two of them, as if it were California.

If you don't kick them to hell, they can literally sit there and mummify while in office.

Recommend twenty years' hard labor for even saying that.

The fairest possible outcome is if all that money that was squeezed out of Germany as "war reparations" is returned by Israel to Gaza along with a complete stand down.

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Max Blumenthal: (TheGrayZone) - What the IDF Did on Christmas
MUST WATCH: w/
@MaxBlumenthal


Max,
@TheGrayzoneNews
with his sharp analytical skills, unveils the chilling realities of Gaza, including accounts of torture and claims of organ theft, that stir a profound reaction internationally. Max shreds recent reporting by the
@nytimes
of rape and beheading. A truly remarkable interview.

Our candid conversation probes into the heart of these accusations, the difficulties faced in reporting such incidents, and the psychological impact they have on all involved—from the Palestinian community to the Israeli soldiers caught in the cycle of violence. These narratives weave a complex tapestry of suffering and societal perceptions that are rarely brought to light.

The discussion takes an even darker turn as we examine the targeting of journalists in Gaza, an issue that has captured global headlines and elicited responses from political figures such as U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken. This episode does not shy away from hard truths, dissecting the intertwining of U.S.-Israel relations and the military strategies that shape the conflict. From scrutinizing the most recent military deals to interpreting Prime Minister Netanyahu's strategic maneuvers, we lay bare the multifaceted nature of warfare and diplomacy. Closing on a note of international jurisprudence, we explore South Africa's unprecedented steps toward seeking justice at the International Court of Justice, presenting a glimmer of hope for accountability amidst the turmoil.

WATCH The Full Interview:
https://youtube.com/live/zYlAYU4r66c

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Take a minute to understand the massive extent of ISraeli killing and maiming in Gaza during last thirteen weeks: the famous O2 Arena in London holds 20.000 people.
ISrael has KILLED at least 21.000 people in Gaza, more than one full O2-arena.
They have INJURED at least 55.000, or three full arenas. So, FOUR ARENAS killed and wounded Palestinians.
Almost three arenas filled only with children and women (70%).

It takes another 95 O2-arenas to shelter the 1,9 mill. forcefully transferred people in Gaza.

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