/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>486842
His whole take on the situation is delusional and exists in fantasy land. No one does "colonialism" any more. That ended with WW1. Colonial states are definitionally not sovereign and answer to their owner without hesitation. There wouldn't even be a pretense of a country or national self-determination, which clearly exists for Israel's own interests.

Israel is a country or pretends to be one. It just so happens their state ideology is eugenics and a total race war, which it pursues for reasons its leaders and enough of its people consider perfectly acceptable. If you believe the "colonial" idea, it makes it seem like Israel is the oppressed entity being bullied, rather than pursuing this program for its own interests. Israel loves presenting all of these insane narratives that fail at basic understanding of what the country is and what the world is.

Also, the nukes are flying now. Israel has used nukes now and still has them. It doesn't work the way you think it does where you push the big red button and blow up a city for shits and giggles. Without a follow-up invasion, all a nuke does is kill a lot of people in a petulant fit of wangst. Certainly Israel would try that, but it probably won't work. Interceptors make those long-range missiles a lot less useful than advertised. But, Israel isn't going to fall apart, and if it loses its supply of manpower (not likely), US/UK will step in and fight Israel's war for them (hence the public whining from Israel, they want to make sure US was dragged into a ground troop commitment).

I don't make predictions on how geopolitics will go. All I know is the US is falling apart and clearly won't be functional for much longer, and that's been the point of this. Once the US no longer exists, the mask completely drops. They will be done with any pretense of "freedom" and the bodies really start piling up. After that, the world can do whatever they're going to do. The program was anti-democratic above all else, and now there is not a single notion of "democracy" anywhere in the world. It has been utterly defeated, and we live to see it.

>>486842
>this is delusional, negotiation with Israel or the USA is just another form of surrender.
Maybe, i think Iran might be giving the incoming administration another chance. They'll be cautious to not grant the Zionist any wiggle room to abuse diplomatic processes as an instrument to further war-objectives.

If there is a worse case scenario war between Iran and Isreal. Iran would completely level Israel, wipe out all US influence in the region. Isreal would likely be able to get off a few nukes and kill off 10% of the Iranian population, and inflict considerable damage to the Iranian industrial base. And its quite likely that a nuclear escalation chains ends the human species. However if it doesn't set off the nuclear apocalypse, and there is an aftermath, the global economy would suffer a hard crash, and what ever remains of western imperial power will evaporate. Iran would be able to rebuild within 5-10 years, because the Chinese would happily invest. And in 20 years Iran would grow to be the undisputed regional hegemon.

I don't really see a path where Israel becomes the dominant regional power. If the US negotiates with Iran, they'll get keep influence in the region, that's a pretty good deal for a empire on the way out.

>Well, Israel assassinated Iran's president and Iran didn't do shit
You mean the helicopter crash ? Did Israel cause that ?

If that was an Israeli plot. It's likely that Iran would respond in kind with covert operations. If for example Netanyahu ordered that assassination, it's likely that the Iranian retaliation would wait until he was out of office. It's bad form to whack state officials, because that affects the dealings of other countries. But afterwards he'd probably be considered fair game, the same goes for the henchmen.

>If there's some kind of anti-zio vanguard in Iran, they are clearly losing influence and power. It's almost like Iran has already been partially couped.
I doubt that, the Iranian president that got elected after the Helicopter incident. Publicly regretted his stance as too soft and followed it up with a heavy missile barrage. That big military base in Israel got hammered pretty good. That guy certainly is more conciliatory towards the US, but he doesn't represent a compradore elite.

>>486844
>Also, the nukes are flying now. Israel has used nukes
I doubt it, that big explosion in Lebanon in September a was something like a munitions depot or a chemical storage plant going poof.

There's many countries that have systems that can detect nukes, and the fallout would have set off many radiation detectors around the world. And of course all the seismometers around the world would have detected the nuke ringing the earth crust like a bell. All the satellites above that era would have detected a spike in ionizing radiation.

I doubt that it's possible to hide the use of nuclear weapons these days.

>>486843
at 1:57 there's an Israeli and a US flag painted on the ground ?

What is that about ?

>>486848
And a US flag. They walk on both.

>>486849
>They walk on both.
Right, so it's symbolic for derision. The only time i have seen flags painted on the ground has been on border crossings. That made this very confusing for me.

>>486844
>Also, the nukes are flying now. Israel has used nukes now and still has them. It doesn't work the way you think it does where you push the big red button and blow up a city for shits and giggles. Without a follow-up invasion, all a nuke does is kill a lot of people in a petulant fit of wangst
I'm aware this is happening and don't see how you concluded I believe in that.

Israel's nuke use so far appears to have been restricted to "small" nuclear bunker busters. And they have been using them to achieve military objectives such as destroying Syrian deep underground weapons stockpiles and killing Nasrallah in his underground bunker. I'm not sure what worries me more: "low intensity" "tactical" nuke use becoming totally normalized and NOT leading to further escalations, or the possibility of the big nukes coming out.

>the US is falling apart and clearly won't be functional for much longer, and that's been the point of this. Once the US no longer exists, the mask completely drops
I have thought you were right about this, but now they're coming up with all these annexation schemes. the "new thing" (oceania) could still just be formally called USA and a lot of burgers wouldn't notice a difference. and then they could start a new settler movement in far north territories to mitigate internal tensions. cheap/subsidized/free plots of canadian land to go live on if you can tolerate the cold. or penal colonies

>>486845
>Maybe, i think Iran might be giving the incoming administration another chance
IE those who want this want to collaborate and cut a deal w/ zionism. that is literally the only reason to negotiate with the USA. the yemeni diplomacy approach is the only correct one: missiles.

>Iran would completely level Israel, wipe out all US influence in the region
have you paid attention in the last two years?? these wars are all based around the warring states "establishing deterrence," IE writing up terms of war so the war will be mutually beneficial to the respective ruling classes. Iran would never "completely level Israel" for this reason.

>You mean the helicopter crash ? Did Israel cause that ?
cmon man.

>>486847
what is up with this boilerplate bot response being posted everywhere? these bots come up all over the place to claim that every obvious, documented nuke was just a weapons depot while providing NO EVIDENCE for this claim.

just a weapons depot folks nothing to see here

totally not a nuke

>>486853
>>486854
>>486855
Working hard?

>>486853
>what is up with this boilerplate bot response
Yeah go fuck your self.

There is a faction in the US empire that wants to push for "usable nukes" or "limited nuclear war". They're either nutcases who yearn for Armageddon or idiots who think nukes are just more compact explosives. (Nukes are plasma weapons technically). And these groups benefit from the narrative that Israel already used nukes. Because the implication is this: Look Israel nuked Lebanon and the world didn't spiral out of controle, there wasn't fallout or anything

I'm assuming you're doing this unwittingly.

>>486854
Any sufficiently energetic explosion will cause a mushroom cloud, that looks like a nuke to the lay person. That's been exploited for practical effects in movies. I think the relatively recent blockbuster Oppenheimer did that too.

>>486857
>Any sufficiently energetic explosion will cause a mushroom cloud
Yes this is what you bot shills (or retards at best) say all the time. Ignoring ALL of the other signature characteristics of a nuke that are on display:
>seismic activity
>correlated radiation spike
>gunshot noise followed by roar
>extreme, long lasting brightness
>lack of drift due to Rayleigh–Taylor instability
>plasma stem
>prominent visible shockwaves
>huge craters (pic 1)
>MASSIVE fireball
>symmetrical explosion
>known capability and motivation of Israel to do so

With all of these things being the case, the burden of proof is on YOU to prove that the explosion WASN'T nuclear, you can't handwave it. PROVE IT. YOU are the one normalizing nukes by COVERING THEM UP.

>>486858
Go look up the interview Ted Postol gave on Alexander Mercouris yt channel , he does a decent technical breakdown of the Tartus footage, and why he doesn't think it's a nuke. Just in case you are open minded enough for that sort of thing.

Obviously for your claims the burden of proof is on you. Fucking lol.

You're wrong about the seismic data. However I am interested in the claim about a radiation spike.

If Israel actually used a nuke, Iran and the Saudis would be racing to build their own nukes, and there would be a huge political hoopla about that. There definitely aren't any sneaky nukes. Even if you think the US and European governments would cover for Zionist nuclear terrorism, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistani and others have no incentive to do that.

>>486859
>Go look up the interview Ted Postol gave on Alexander Mercouris yt channel
Got a link? I like to pay attention any time Ted Postol gives an interview, and I haven't noticed any recent one on either the Duran or Mercouris's personal channel. He did one about a month ago now, but that was about Russia's new Oreshnik missile, not anything to do with Israel.

>>486861
>Got a link?
>I haven't noticed any recent one on either the Duran or Mercouris's personal channel.
Yeah sorry about that, i might have gotten things mixed up a little.

Postal did (2 weeks ago) a video about this

on the Deep dive by Daniel Davis titled:
<MIT Professor Ted Postol: Did Israel Test a Nuke in Syria?
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=8pFfH_dikrM

and there's also one on Dialog Works by Nima Alkhorshid
<Prof. Ted Postol: Assessing Explosion in Syria, Was it a Nuclear Bomb?
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=0UGsBLDwhHg

>>486862
Postol basically confirms my most basic assumption about this: the light from a nuclear blast would have ruined any of those cameras (and horribly killed the bystanders) attempting to record footage of it. You need a very deliberate and specific setup in advance to have cameras trained on a nuclear blast to survive the blast (especially if the camera is ground based) and actually capture the extremely intense light from it.

>>486851
Trump isn't annexing shit. More like the US is being annexed and the Trump brand is put on top of it. "Up there" the US is already done, and has been done for many years now.

The Empire, the state command and control apparatus, that isn't going away, but they're not going to be able to marshal anything more from the country, and that's not something they want to do. Arming Americans who have every reason to hate this government is the last thing they ever want to do. They would immediately turn their guns against those marching them to stand and die. The next war they're really fighting is a war against the American people, who they hate more than anything in the world. The faithful are lined up to kill us all, all for eugenics. All for Israel.

>big nukes
They don't exist in the way you think they do, and even if they did, their use is pointless without a land force ready to invade the target.

>>486847
Why do you think the governments of the world will tell you the truth? They'll lie and show you the mushroom cloud to insult your intelligence, and laugh that "he doesn't know, he doesn't know". That is what the American regime does best. They're doing it again, and you people are doing it in this thread.

Nukes are coming out, but it turns out they're not the "world ending weapon" you were raised to believe they were. That narrative only came out during the 1960s, when the enemy above all others was the last remnants of democracy. You're all assholes for encouraging it while those selected to live have their underground cities and fortifications, and we are made to kill each other in "peace".

>>486863
You don't know how a camera works, or how a digital camera works. It's even more insulting when they lie to us about technology we know very well. The magic nukes don't turn off technology because of their magic powers. You could see the nuke of Hiroshima on film, but you are commanded not to think about that or make comparisons.

As for "spiraling out of control", the weapons are under the command and control of someone. No one "randomly" fires a nuke, you asshole. If they're going to "fire all nukes at all cities", it will be by tacit agreement after those selected to live are safe and any of us who survive are killed off. Satanic race. Failed race.

After what they did to the world, if they don't have that plan to nuke every city because they hate us that much, all they've done is ensure we will never allow this type of government to exist again, and that was probably the point.

No one else in the world has any good reason to go along with the nuke plan. Only eugenics ever wanted that, and it was eugenics threatening this, after eugenics created the two world wars, fomented the war in East Asia, fomented the war in the Middle East and Israel's entire existence. Kill eugenics and you will save humanity, but humanity doesn't want to be saved. It doesn't know anything else. A Satanic race cannot change.

>>486863
Yeah there's a reasonable chance that the x-ray and gamma emissions would fry the sensor. And there also is the EM pulse that can damage electronic equipment.

>You need a very deliberate and specific setup in advance to have cameras trained on a nuclear blast
To be fair it's just a metal box with a mirror and a window made from welding goggle glass.

There are rugged consumer cameras that use a 90° mirror bend in their image path, and they usually also have metal bodies, those might survive. They usually also have the extra short exposure times and extra narrow apertures to enable sports fotos, which could allow them to deal with the intense brightness.

>>486851
>Israel's nuke use so far appears to have been restricted to "small" nuclear bunker busters. And they have been using them to achieve military objectives such as destroying Syrian deep underground weapons stockpiles and killing Nasrallah in his underground bunker. I'm not sure what worries me more: "low intensity" "tactical" nuke use becoming totally normalized and NOT leading to further escalations, or the possibility of the big nukes coming out.
What?
The things they used in Beirut were supposedly depleted uranium bunker busters, which is different from "tactical nukes." Depleted uranium bombs & shells are also radioactive, but they're like "dirty bombs," there's no nuclear reaction triggering and amplifying the explosion. We aren't at "tactical nukes" yet, at least not officially.

>>486866
Take your meds and stop pretending you're an expert on subjects you clearly don't understand retard. The bombings of Japan and nuclear tests were photographed because the people doing the filming knew where the explosions were going to happen ahead of time and planned their specific and deliberate camera setups in advance.

>>486868
>extra short exposure times and extra narrow apertures
That's still not enough. The radiation output from a blast is many orders of magnitude larger than a typical daytime image exposure. You need an actual dark filter or the sensor (and probably the rest of the camera) is toast. It's similar to imaging the sun directly… if you were right next to the sun without an atmosphere and magnetic field to protect you from other forms of radiation. Also the hypothetical bystander taking the picture is also going to die horribly unless the camera is unmanned. There's no way some asshole can just randomly film a nuclear explosion with their smartphone and we somehow don't hear any evidence of horrible radiation burns and deaths.

>>486860
An 80m crater. How big and how deeply buried would conventional explosives have to be to blast a PERFECTLY ROUND 80m crater? Since you're advocating the conventional explosives theory, do the calculations and come back to me.

>>486859
>Go look up the interview Ted Postol gave on Alexander Mercouris yt channel , he does a decent technical breakdown of the Tartus footage, and why he doesn't think it's a nuke. Just in case you are open minded enough for that sort of thing.
I'll watch it, I would love for the nuking to not be happening so if he refutes all of the points I have mentioned, I'll be happy.

>Obviously for your claims the burden of proof is on you. Fucking lol.
Why? I am applying Occam's razor. The nuke theory only requires the presence of a single nuclear bomb. Your theory requires a chain of events in which a bunch of ammo in an ammo depot happens to simultaneously ignite in a perfect sphere and then display over 10 different characteristics of a nuke. Note, I am NOT saying there was no ammo, I am saying that the ammo depot was nuked, hence the obvious secondary explosions. You should show your work if you are so sure there was no nuke, you have yet to do so.

>If Israel actually used a nuke, Iran and the Saudis would be racing to build their own nukes
Why would Saudi care? Iran could very well be working on their nuclear deterrent now, or even have already obtained it. Hey, look at this:
https://www.ctbto.org/news-and-events/news/ctbto-detects-two-earthquakes-northern-iran-5-october

>Russians, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistani and others have no incentive to do that
Israel has a lot of influence in those countries and trades with them, wtf are you talking about?

>>486863
I am still watching the video, but this is ridiculous. The strongest light from a nuke is the initial blast. In this case, we are discussing a bunker buster, IE an UNDERGROUND detonation, which would cause the initial flash to be weakened or even hidden. On top of this, the footage we have is taken by people who didn't have forewarning and couldn't film the initial blast.

Yemen’s Houthis claim new attack on US aircraft carrier

The military spokesperson for the Houthi militia says the Yemeni group again launched a number of projectiles at a US warship in the region.

Yahya Saree said USS Harry Truman and a number of vessels supporting it were targeted with cruise missiles and explosive-laden drones in the Red Sea, “forcing them to leave the theatre of operations and flee to the far north of the Red Sea”.

The US military, which has been carrying out extensive air strikes across Yemen along with the UK and Israel, has not commented on the new report by the Houthis. US fighter jets that have bombed Yemen have been repeatedly launched from the aircraft carrier.

Israeli army reports 110 air strikes on occupied West Bank

The Israeli military reports its warplanes launched about 110 air strikes across the occupied West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023.

The army claimed the attacks killed at least 165 “armed terrorists” while adhering to international law.

It also said armed Palestinians used mosques to attack Israeli forces in the occupied territory, “putting the Palestinian population at risk and exploiting them”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/11/live-israeli-air-strikes-hit-yemen-lebanon-as-more-than-20-killed-in-gaza

CENTCOM leader meets with Saudi, Yemeni military officials

General Michael Kurilla, the head of the US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has met with General Fayyadh bin Hamed Al-Ruwaili, the chief of general staff of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces, during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

“The meeting underscored the enduring strategic partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia, which remains a key partner in maintaining regional security, stability, and peace and prosperity for the region,” a CENTCOM statement said.

Kurilla also met with the chief of staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Saghir Hamood Bin Aziz. The Saudi-backed Yemeni government has been fighting the Houthis in Yemen since 2014.

“The leaders discussed efforts to strengthen security cooperation and combat regional threats, such as Iranian-backed Houthis and their attacks against military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Bab Al Mandeb,” the statement said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/12/live-israeli-forces-kill-dozens-in-gaza-as-negotiations-continue-in-doha

Israel launches ‘large bombing operation’ in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces carried out a “large bombing operation” in the southern town of Kfar Kila in the early hours of the morning, causing tremors in the surrounding towns.

It said Israeli forces are also carrying out a wide combing operation with heavy and medium machineguns in the southern town of Khiam.

The latest attacks follow Israeli air raids overnight on the outskirts of Janta in the eastern Baalbek region as well as areas near southern Nabatieh.

Earlier, the Israeli military said it had struck several Hezbollah sites, including a rocket launcher, and “routes along the Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah”.

The attacks come just two weeks before the January 26 deadline for implementing the November ceasefire, which both sides have accused the other of violating.

Reports of Israeli naval ships firing at Gaza’s beachline tents
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

To understand the scale of the crisis in northern Gaza, we need to look at the level of destruction being left behind by the current military operation that has no end in sight. We can see mountains of debris stretched endlessly, a very grim testament to the relentless destruction that has turned these vibrant communities and border towns and villages into a lifeless wasteland.

We have been told by medical teams and Gaza’s Health Ministry that more than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed during this military operation, while more than 10,000 others were wounded. Israel has justified these actions as a military operation to dismantle Palestinian armed groups, but it has led to the displacement of more than 400,000 Palestinians who are now trapped in Gaza City, and such sorts of attacks have laid bare the vulnerability of families who have been caught on the front lines.

Elsewhere, we have reports that five civilians were killed in two separate air raids on residential buildings in the Shujayea neighbourhood, which has been described by the Israeli military as a stronghold for the Hamas movement.

This morning, we have also been hearing huge explosions from the eastern area of Deir el-Balah.

Displaced families who are living on the coastal line of Deir el-Balah say that Israeli naval ships have approached the beaches of Gaza, opening fire at makeshift tents, but so far no casualties have been reported.

We also have initial reports confirming that a civilian’s car has been struck in Rafah city, but we are still monitoring the death toll resulting from the attack.

Lebanon’s Civil Defence retrieves 11 bodies after Israeli raids

Lebanon’s Civil Defence says its teams have retrieved the bodies of 10 victims of Israeli raids in the southern town of Tayr Harfa and one in the town of Shama after Israeli attacks that it calls violations of a ceasefire reached on November 27.

The group said operations were ongoing to retrieve more people reported missing.

Israeli forces briefly detain Palestine TV crew: Report

Israeli soldiers detained the TV crew for two hours in the village of Haris, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reports.

The Israeli forces stormed the building where the TV correspondent Mohammed Ashtiyeh and cameraman Jamal Hassan were working “and prevented them from filming”.

The forces detained them inside a military vehicle for two hours and forced them to erase the cameras’ recordings before releasing them, the report said.

Israeli army says five soldiers killed in Gaza

The Israeli military has released the names of five soldiers it says have been killed in the northern Gaza Strip, where the army is conducting a renewed ground operation while besieging the area where tens of thousands of hungry Palestinians are trapped.

At least 840 Israeli soldiers have been killed and more than 5,500 wounded since the outbreak of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, according to military figures.

Qassam Brigades says its fighters ‘wound and kill’ 25 Israeli soldiers in Rafah

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says its fighters have raided a building in southern Gaza’s Rafah where a group of Israeli soldiers were stationed, killing or wounding all 25 soldiers inside.

In a statement, it said its fighters launched a “complex operation in Rafah’s al-Shaboura camp” using “various types of weapons” to inflict losses among Israeli forces.

Soon after the raid and upon the arrival of a backup rescue force, the group said its fighters detonated explosive devices against two armored military vehicles.

“A fire is still burning in the building,” the statement said, adding that clashes are ongoing in the nearby al-Najaila area.

Hamas calls on international community to protect Palestinian prisoners

Hamas has condemned the torture of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli prisons and called on the international community “to stop the terrible violations they are subjected to by the extremist Zionist junta”.

The Palestinian group said most recently, Moataz Abu Zneid from Dora, south of Hebron, was killed due to “torture and brutal measures”.

“They are ongoing war crimes, a violation of all international laws on prisoners,” it said. “We also call on international human rights institutions to highlight the suffering of our families in prisons, raise their voices, and put pressure in all forums to release them.”

Angry families of captives harangue Israel’s Smotrich

Angry members of some of the families of Israeli captives still held in Gaza have harangued Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich over his opposition to a deal being negotiated in Qatar to halt the fighting and bring their relatives home.

Smotrich described the deal taking shape as “a catastrophe” for Israel’s security and said it should keep up its campaign in Gaza until the complete surrender of Hamas.

Dozens of members of the captives’ families, many carrying photographs of the missing, squeezed into a committee room in the Israeli parliament, accusing Smotrich of abandoning the captives.

Jewish group urges London police to reverse ban on pro-Palestine

More than 660 British Jews, including prominent legal, cultural, and academic figures, have called on the Metropolitan Police to reverse a ban on a planned pro-Palestine protest outside the BBC headquarters in London later this week.

The police on Saturday said they would impose the Public Order Act to prevent the pro-Palestine rally from forming outside the BBC because of its proximity to a synagogue.

In a statement, the Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) group criticised the ban as bowing to “partisan campaigning aimed at preventing peaceful and lawful assembly”.

The group said the police faced “strong pressure from pro-Israel organisations” who claimed that Palestine solidarity protests pose a threat to synagogue congregations.

“This evidence-free claim is robustly contradicted by the large Jewish Bloc visible on every major demonstration since the genocide began in October 2023,” the JVL statement noted.

“As Jews, we are shocked at this brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.”

Hamas says progress made on core issues in ceasefire talks: Report

The Palestinian group says talks over some core issues for a ceasefire deal in Gaza have made progress, an official in the Palestinian group told Reuters news agency.

“The negotiation over some core issues made progress and we are working to conclude what remains soon,” added the official who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Gaza ceasefire to be divided into three stages: Israeli media

Israel’s Channel 12 is reporting that the proposed Gaza ceasefire that appears about to be finalised would be divided into three stages:

Israel would release 50 Palestinian prisoners, 30 of them serving life sentences, in exchange for each Israeli female soldier. It would also release 30 Palestinian prisoners from certain categories including minors, the sick and women in exchange for civilians held captive in Gaza. Israel would also withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow band of land between Gaza and Egypt, at the end of the first phase of the deal.
The second stage, to begin on the 16th day of the agreement, would require further negotiations focusing on the release of all civilians and remaining soldiers.
The third stage would address long-term arrangements, including discussions on establishing an alternative government in the Strip and plans to rehabilitate the enclave.
The news outlet also reported that Israel agreed to return one million Palestinian refugees to the northern Gaza Strip with security checks to be carried out by an international body.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/13/live-israel-bombs-another-gaza-city-school-as-truce-talks-continue

Cuba files to join South Africa’s genocide case at ICJ against Israel
With declaration, Cuba joins Türkiye, Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, and Spain in supporting Gaza genocide case at International Court of Justice

Cuba has filed a declaration that it will join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the court announced on Monday.

“Cuba, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip,” the court said in a statement.

In December 2023, South Africa instituted proceedings against Israel, claiming violations of the Genocide Convention in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Several countries have since joined the case, including Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, and Türkiye.


https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/cuba-files-to-join-south-africa-s-genocide-case-at-icj-against-israel/3449162

>>486880
Why do you think Cuba waited until now?

>>486880
neat

>>486881
i was asking my self the same thing.

>>486881
I have no idea. Speculating… maybe they wanted to gather evidence and see what they could contribute. Or maybe they were looking at potential political ramifications and/or whether it could be used as leverage to get the US to stop sanctioning them if they withheld from joining the case… and obviously the US is run by insane people so the sanctions would remain regardless of what Cuba did wrt this case or anything else. There are probably other potential reasons for the delay, and it could well be a combination of any number of reasons, I really have no idea.

>>486883
Cuba recently also joined BRICS, so your hypothesis of them having tried, failed and moved on from seeking concessions from the US seems plausible.

Yemen’s Houthi’s confirm missile, drone attacks against Israel

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree has issued a statement confirming the group’s responsibility for two air raids launched against Israel earlier today.

A hypersonic ballistic missiles was launched towards a “vital target” of the Israeli military in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, Saree said in a video statement posted on X.

Four drones were also launched towards the same area, he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/13/live-israel-bombs-another-gaza-city-school-as-truce-talks-continue

Israel attempted to shoot down missile from Yemen multiple times: Army

Israel’s military says it tried to shoot down a missile fired from Yemen multiple times this morning. The missile sent sirens blaring across the centre of the country.

“Following the sirens that sounded in a number of areas in central Israel, several attempts were made to intercept a missile that was launched from Yemen,” the army said in a statement issued at about 3:30am (01:30 GMT).

“The missile was likely intercepted,” it said, adding that no injuries or damages were reported.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels confirmed the attack, saying they had launched a “hypersonic ballistic missile Palestine 2” into “occupied Jaffa”, also known as Tel Aviv.

“The ballistic missile reached its target and the interception systems failed to intercept it,” the Houthis said in their statement, pledging to continue their operations until “the end of the aggression against the Palestinians”.

Since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023, the Houthis have repeatedly fired missiles and drones at Israel in what they say is a show of solidarity with the Palestinians. Israel has also hit back at Yemen multiple times.

Israel killed 70 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn on Monday

Medical sources have told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that 70 Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday.

Israel blows up homes in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the Israeli military is carrying out large explosions in the villages of Meiss el-Jabal and Kfar Kila, destroying civilian homes.

The Israeli military has been launching daily attacks in Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire it reached with Hezbollah in November.

Houthis claim two attacks against Israel

The Yemeni group says it targeted a power station in the southern Israeli city of Eilat with a missile and launched drones against targets in the Tel Aviv area.

The Israeli military had said that it intercepted a missile over central Israel early on Tuesday but reported no casualties.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree pledged that the group will carry out more attacks against Israel.

“These military operations will not stop until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege against it is lifted,” Saree said in a statement.

Palestinian Health Ministry identifies Jenin victims

A 15-year-old child was amongst the six people killed in the Israeli air strike, according to the Health Ministry.

The five other victims are men between the ages of 23 and 34. They include three members of the Abu al-Hayjaa family.

Hamas has not delivered response on Gaza ceasefire: Report

An official from the Palestinian group told the Reuters news agency that it has not delivered its response to mediators yet because Israel did not submit maps of its forces’ withdrawal from Gaza.

The world is waiting for the announcement of the ceasefire agreement, which mediators and media reports have said is on the brink of success.

PIJ in Jenin says it agreed to initiative to end Palestinian infighting

The Jenin Battalion of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades says it has agreed to an initiative to “end the bloodshed and preserve the Palestinian national fabric” after weeks of skirmishes between its fighters and Palestinian Authority security forces.

The group said in a statement that it accepted the proposal – put forward by local leaders, known as the reform committees, civil society groups and the Chamber of Commerce – from a “position of strength”.

The Jenin Battalion did not reveal the details of the agreement, but it said that it affirms the “legitimate right to resist the criminal occupation”.

The PA has been carrying out raids in Jenin against groups fighting Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

The Fatah-led authority, which has suspended Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank, has faced accusations of silencing dissent and freedom of expression in a parallel campaign with the crackdown in Jenin.

Lebanon’s PM-designate Nawaf Salam officially resigns from ICJ

The International Court of Justice has confirmed that Salam left his post as the president of the tribunal after being appointed as prime minister-designate in Lebanon.

As ICJ president, Salam read out the court’s ruling in May ordering Israel to “immediately halt its military offensive” in Rafah in southern Gaza.

The Israeli military ignored the top UN court’s decision and pushed on with a campaign that devastated the southern Gaza city, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering.

The ruling was part of South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians, which the ICJ is still litigating.

The UN Security Council and General Assembly will choose Salam’s successor.

Salam is currently consulting with Lebanon’s political forces to form a new government after lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president last week.

The new Lebanese government will oversee a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Aoun had promised that the state would confront Israel’s “aggressions” in the south of the country.

Protesters disrupt Blinken’s speech

As the top US diplomat defended the Biden administration’s foreign policy record in remarks at the Atlantic Council, at least three protesters interrupted and rebuked him over his support for Israel.

The demonstrators called Blinken the “secretary of genocide”, underscoring that he certified to Congress that Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza – a conclusion rejected by rights groups and experts on the ground.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/14/live-dozens-killed-as-israel-pounds-gaza-while-ceasefire-talks-continue

Greenwald on the recent (8 month delayed) 60 minutes segment.

https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1879106392566440259
Craig Murray - "Zionist Chess in 2025:
The US, France, Saudi strongarm in General Aoun as President of Lebanon
Aoun appoints International Court of Justice President Nawaf Salem as PM
Christian Zionist evangelical fanatic Julia Sebutinde of Uganda to be new President of ICJ.
The only judge to vote for Israel on all counts in preliminary Genocide hearings.

It does matter. The President has a lot of power on scheduling, time allocation, witnesses, admissibility and the whole conduct of proceedings. Can screw things up."

Owen Jones - US Admits that Israel has Lost in Gaza

Mediators say Gaza ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas

Qatar, Egypt and the United States have announced that mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza have succeeded.

In a news conference, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said the deal will lead to the release of Israeli captives and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Ceasefire in Gaza to start on Sunday: Qatar PM

The ceasefire in Gaza will take effect on Sunday, January 19, Qatar’s prime minister has said his news conference.

He added that talks were continuing with Israel and Hamas on the implementation of the deal.

AP obtains draft of Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal
The Associated Press news agency says officials from Egypt and Hamas have confirmed the authenticity.

Here’s what the AP is reporting:

Phase 1: (42 Days)

Hamas releases 33 captives, including female civilians and soldiers, children and civilians over 50.
On the first official day of the ceasefire, Hamas is to free three captives, then another four on the seventh day. After that, it will make weekly releases.
Israel releases 30 Palestinian prisoners for each civilian captive and 50 for each female soldier.
A halt to fighting and Israeli forces move out of populated areas to the edges of the Gaza Strip.
Displaced Palestinians begin returning home; more aid enters the Strip.

Phase 2: (42 Days)

Declaration of “sustainable calm”.
Hamas frees remaining male captives (soldiers and civilians) in exchange for a yet-to-be-negotiated number of Palestinian prisoners and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip.

Phase 3:

Bodies of deceased Israeli captives exchanged for bodies of deceased Palestinian fighters.
Implementation of a reconstruction plan in Gaza.
Border crossings for movement in and out of Gaza are reopened.

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 62 in a day: Health Ministry

The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest daily casualty update from Israel’s war on the besieged and bombarded territory.

In a statement, it said Israeli attacks since the start of the war have killed at least 46,707 Palestinians, up from 46,645 yesterday.

Israel arrests youth putting up anti-genocide posters near Jerusalem

The Israeli police have announced the arrest of a 21-year-old suspect from the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Binyamin on charges of serious incitement against Israel and the army after he hung posters in the area containing inciting messages against the army.

The posters he hung included phrases such as “All army soldiers are involved in genocide in Gaza” and were illustrated with the Palestinian flag and “Israel is a terrorist state”.

The police revealed in their investigation that he admitted to belonging to pro-Palestinian groups.

During the investigation, his digital devices were examined, where material described as inciting was found.

Israeli military claims to have seized 3,300 weapons in Syria

Since the fall of Syria’s al-Assad in mid-December, Israeli forces pressing into Syria have taken over 3,300 pieces of weaponry, according to Israel’s military.

The weapons include army tanks, anti-tank and RPG launchers, shells mortars, mortar bombs, surveillance equipment and other arms, according to the military.

Across all combat zones in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, Israel’s military says it has taken 170,000 weapons and other items.

Hamas says Gaza ceasefire deal due to Palestinian ‘steadfastness’

Palestinian group Hamas said its ceasefire deal with Israel to halt the war in Gaza was the result of the “steadfastness” of the Palestinian people and its own “resistance”.

“The ceasefire agreement is a result of the legendary steadfastness of our great Palestinian people and our valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip for over 15 months,” the group said, adding that it paved “the way towards the realisation of our people’s aspirations for liberation and return”.

Israeli military announces preparations for return of captives

The Israeli military says the preparations are taking place in an operation dubbed “Wings of Freedom”.

‘Imperative’ Gaza ceasefire removes aid obstacles, UN chief says

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was “imperative” that the newly announced Gaza ceasefire removes obstacles to aid deliveries as he welcomed the deal that includes a prisoner and captive exchange.

“It is imperative that this ceasefire removes the significant security and political obstacles to delivering aid across Gaza so that we can support a major increase in urgent life-saving humanitarian support,” Guterres said.

Former UN aid chief questions whether deal will reach second, third stages

We have more from our interview with Martin Griffiths, the UN’s former humanitarian aid chief.

“I’m not yet convinced that the conditions are such that these essentially different positions by the two parties [Israel and Hamas] will be reconciled,” Griffiths told Al Jazeera.

Israel views the agreement as one to secure the release of captives held in Gaza, he explained, while for Hamas it is one to secure a permanent ceasefire. “These are not the same objectives,” Griffiths said.

Griffiths also said “there is quite a lot of opportunity for one or other party not to go to the second or the third phase” of the agreement.

“For Israel, the war aims have not radically changed. We’ve heard still that Israel reserves the right to re-engage, although I think the deal itself is very positive. We know that there is no resolution at the moment to the day after, the governance of the Palestinian territories, the role of Hamas.”

Griffiths also noted that it remains unclear whether Israel will continue with its plans to ban UNRWA – the UN agency for Palestinian refugees – at the end of January, something that would severely curtail the ability to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

“If you want major humanitarian aid … you need UNRWA, you need them there,” he said.

Qatari PM says ceasefire agreement is a ‘start’

Sheikh Mohammed says the Gaza deal came after extensive diplomatic efforts, but the ceasefire is a “start”, and now mediators and the international community should work to achieve lasting peace.

“I want to tell our brothers in the Gaza Strip that the State of Qatar will always continue to support our Palestinian brothers,” the Qatari prime minister said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/15/live-israel-launches-fierce-strikes-on-gaza-as-ceasefire-deal-moves-closer

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Bismillah. We welcome this long overdue ceasefire deal, which President Biden should have forced Netanyahu to accept over a year ago instead of needlessly funding so much death and destruction.

We commend all Americans who have marched, protested, lobbied, organized or prayed for this moment, especially brave college students.

We commend President-Elect @realdonaldtrump
for pushing for a ceasefire deal and reportedly warning Netanyahu that Israel, too, would face consequences for continuing to refuse to make a deal. We urge the incoming Trump administration to ensure that the Israeli government does not sabotage this ceasefire deal, and we also urge the administration to pursue the end of the occupation so that a just, lasting peace can prevail across the region.

Let's be clear. @potus
and his failed foreign policy team deserve zero credit for this belated deal. Instead of using U.S. leverage to secure this deal long ago, they spent over a year violating U.S. law and making a mockery of international law. They used billions of American taxpayer dollars to fund the Israeli government's war crimes while depriving the American people of critical services.

The Biden administration's legacy is soaked with the blood of countless Palestinian men, women, and children, as well as an untold number of captives who have also been killed in Israel's indiscriminate bombing campaign with U.S. support. The International Criminal Court must continue pursuing war crimes cases against those responsible for the genocide, including Benjamin Netanyahu.

This ceasefire deal must bring the Israeli government's genocidal war in Gaza to a permanent end and sets the stage for the pursuit of a just, lasting peace that ends the broader occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people.

>>486922
Al Jaziggerkun

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
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Gaza Resists the zionist Holocaust While Netanyahu Drowns in His Failures and Defeats

The brutal massacres committed by the zionist enemy in recent hours across wide areas, resulting in the martyrdom of dozens of innocent civilians—most of them women and children—are a living testament to the ongoing zionist holocaust in Gaza, carried out with U.S. support and partnership.

The extensive zionist escalation witnessed in the past hours reaffirms that this enemy knows only the language of blood and genocide. It reflects a blatant disregard for all humanitarian values and underscores, once again, the urgency of stopping this holocaust against our people and denying the occupation further cover to continue its crimes.

Amid this continued aggression, Palestinian resistance factions are intensifying their efforts to halt this aggression as soon as possible. War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, mired in his failures and defeats, will ultimately find himself and his fascist government compelled to agree to a ceasefire after their catastrophic failure to achieve any of their objectives beyond inflicting death and destruction on unarmed civilians.

We reaffirm that the blood of the martyrs will not be spilled in vain, and the response will come through greater resilience, escalating resistance, and broadening its scope.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
January 15, 2025

Celebrations in Gaza

>>486924
There should be Qatari ziggers lol

Totally missed this in all the excitement:
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1879629189969752479
According to this, a bunch of weapons the IDF stole from Lebanon exploded in an IDF base in the Negev and injured a bunch of them.

Israel bombs military convoy of new Syrian authorities

Al Jazeera Arabic reports that at least one person was killed and several others were injured when Israel targeted a military convoy of the new Syrian authorities on the outskirts of Quneitra near the occupied Golan Heights.

The Israeli military had confirmed in a statement that it fired at vehicles carrying “weapons and ammunition” in the area.

Israel has been relentlessly bombing Syrian military and civilian infrastructure and further advancing into the country’s territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government last month.

‘Gaza defeats the genocide’: PFLP

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has released a brief statement celebrating the ceasefire agreement.

“Gaza defeats the genocide,” the left-wing group said. “Long live the resistance. Long live the arms of our steadfast people.”

Palestinians imposed ‘honourable’ agreement on Israel: PIJ

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says the “honourable” ceasefire deal was produced by the “legendary steadfastness” of Palestinians and their resistance against Israel.

“We stress that the resistance will remain alert to ensure the full implementation of this agreement,” the group said in a statement.

Yemen’s Houthis say Palestinian cause to remain primary issue

A spokesperson for Yemen’s Houthis has said the Palestinian cause “will remain the primary issue” for the rebel group as a ceasefire agreement is set to come into force in Gaza.

“The Israeli invasion of Gaza left our people no choice but to support, taking responsibility towards an oppressed people,” Mohammed Abdul Salam said in a post on X.

“The Zionist enemy is a danger to everyone, and its continued occupation of Palestine poses a threat to the security and stability of the region.”

Over the past months, Houthis have launched missile and drone attacks towards Tel Aviv and staged attacks on ships regarded as linked to Israel in the Red Sea.

Hamas official says Palestinians will not forget Israeli atrocities

Khalil al-Hayya says Palestinians will remember who carried out mass killings against them, who justified the atrocities in the media and who provided the bombs that were dropped on their homes.

“The barbaric war of extermination … that the Israeli occupation and its backers have carried out over 467 days will forever be engraved in the memory of our people and the world as the worst genocide in modern history,” al-Hayya said.

More from Hamas’s al-Hayya

Al-Hayya says Israel did not achieve any of its publicly stated or secret goals in Gaza, including returning the captives by force, eliminating Hamas or displaying the territory’s population.

“And here we are today, proving that the [Israeli] occupation did not and will not defeat our people and their resistance,” al-Hayya says.

Hamas’s al-Hayya says Palestinians’ heads are held high

The Hamas official says despite the horrific attacks against them, Palestinians did not show Israel a “moment of weakness”.

“We say, in the name of the orphans and the children and the widows, in the name of people with destroyed homes, in the name of the families of the martyrs and the wounded, in the name of all the victims, in the name of every drop of blood that was spilled, and in the name of every tear of pain and agony: We won’t forget, and we won’t forgive,” al-Hayya said.

Hamas official says ceasefire meets all group’s conditions

Izzat al-Risheq, a member of the Palestinian group’s political bureau, says the ceasefire deal meets all the conditions Hamas had set out early in the war, including the full withdrawal of Israeli forces, return of displaced people to their homes and a permanent end to the war in Gaza.

“The occupier was brought to its knees,” al-Risheq said in a statement.

Hamas thanks ‘support fronts’, Palestinian rights supporters

Al-Hayya pays tribute to Iran-allied groups across the region that launched attacks on Israel and opened “support fronts” to back Palestinians in Gaza, including the Houthis in Yemen and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Israel responded to Hezbollah’s attacks with an all-out war that killed the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and thousands of fighters and civilians.

Al-Hayya also expressed gratitude to Qatar and Egypt for helping reach the ceasefire agreement as well as Turkiye, South Africa and Malaysia for showing solidarity with Palestinians.

The Hamas official added that protesters across the world helped “break the silence” about atrocities in Gaza.

US Palestinian advocacy group calls for accountability after ceasefire

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action) says the “era of Israel’s impunity must now come to a swift end” after a ceasefire is reached in Gaza.

“Every perpetrator must be held accountable at the Hague, including the Biden administration officials who funded and enabled acts of genocide,” Ahmad Abuznaid, the group’s executive director, said in a statement.

“Every displaced Palestinian must be ensured the right to return to their home and land. Rebuilding and humanitarian aid must proceed with the greatest urgency amid genocidal conditions. That will require ending Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza and military occupation of Palestine.”

Israeli bombardment reported in southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the Israeli army has shelled an area on the outskirts of the village of Kfarchouba, which borders Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.

An Israeli force also advanced towards Maroun al-Ras near the town of Bint Jbeil in violation of the fragile ceasefire reached with Hezbollah in November, the agency said.

Hezbollah has said it is giving the Lebanese government space to address Israel’s breaches through diplomatic channels, but the group’s leaders have warned that it may eventually respond to Israel’s attacks.

The ceasefire stipulates that Israeli forces must fully withdraw from Lebanon by January 25.

‘Is there logic – an F16 warplane targeting innocent children?’

The Israeli army targeted Gaza City’s al-Farabi school and killed an entire family, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.

Seven members of the al-Harazeen family, including a newborn baby, were killed in the attack.

“We were peacefully sleeping and were taken by surprise as an Israeli warplane fired a missile on the school building,” said witness Samar al-Harazeen, the brother of one of the family members.

“The concrete rubbles fell on me and my children, we hardly crawled our way out,” he said.

“I came to find the missile to have landed on the classroom where my brother is taking shelter with his family. We ran to find them blown to pieces. I recovered my brother’s leg from a distance – his wife and his 17-day-old newborn daughter.”

Al-Harazeen said there were dozens of body parts strewn about.

“Wherever you turn, you find body parts or organs; everywhere you turn,” he said.

“What crime; what wrong did they do? We are displaced innocent civilians. We are defenceless people taking shelter in a school building. Is there logic – an F16 warplane targeting innocent children?”

Twelve Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

The Palestinian Civil Defence says an Israeli attack targeting a residential block in the Sheikh Radwan Pond area of Gaza City has killed 12 people and injured 20 others.

The rescue agency said earlier that the Israeli army is intensifying its bombardment of the area despite the announcement of the ceasefire deal that will go into effect on Sunday.

CPJ urges ‘unconditional access’ to Gaza to investigate crimes against media

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli authorities to allow foreign journalists into Gaza.

It also urged the international community “to independently investigate the deliberate targeting of journalists that has been widely documented” since the war began in October 2023.

“Journalists have been paying the highest price – with their lives – to provide the world some insight into the horrors that have been taking place in Gaza during this prolonged war, which has decimated a generation of Palestinian reporters and newsrooms,” the group’s CEO Jodie Ginsberg said in a statement.

According to a CPJ tally, at least 165 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since the conflict began.

‘Any pause must become definitive ceasefire’: Save the Children

The aid group says it is relieved that a ceasefire agreement has been reached but stressed the need to increase deliveries of humanitarian assistance to children facing dire conditions across the Gaza Strip.

Save the Children said in a statement that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children were in urgent need of shelter, food and medical supplies.

“For 15 months, about one million children in Gaza have been caught in a living nightmare with loss, trauma and risks to their lives at every turn,” said the group’s CEO, Inger Ashing.

“If implemented, this pause will bring them vital reprieve from the bombs and bullets that have stalked them for more than a year. But it is not enough and the race is on to save children facing hunger and disease as the shadow of famine looms.

“The pause must be permanent, and efforts urgently ramped up to end the siege and vastly increase the entry of aid.”

Netanyahu agreed to ceasefire because Israel ‘imploding internally’

Ori Goldberg, a political commentator in Tel Aviv, says the Israeli prime minister accepted the deal now — 15 months after the Gaza war began — because “Israel is imploding internally”.

“Prices are rising every day. There’s an unbelievable brain drain. Public institutions are crumbling. The infrastructure is collapsing. Israel is in probably the worst condition it has been since it was founded,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.

“Netanyahu knew that this had an expiration date, and the expiration date is now.”

White House says Iran and its allies are ‘weakened’

In a lengthy statement outlining Biden’s perceived achievements, the White House has defended the outgoing US president’s foreign policy record, including his uncompromising backing of Israel.

“Today, thanks to his support for Israel, Iran is weaker and more exposed than when the Biden-Harris administration took office four years ago,” the statement said.

“Its proxies – including the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas – are weakened, and its longtime ally Bashar al-Assad has fallen.”

The White House acknowledged that “too many Palestinian civilians had been killed or wounded” in Israel’s war on Gaza, which UN experts and several rights groups have described as a genocide.

According to a recent study by Brown University, the Biden administration provided Israel with $17.9bn in military aid in the first year of the war to help fund the offensive that devastated Gaza.

Barghouti calls for Palestinian unity to deal with scars of Gaza war

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that while the ceasefire is a “moment of relief”, people in Gaza will likely have to face three days of intensified bombing before it goes into effect on Sunday.

He said they will face deep scars from the war – including the deaths of so many people, widespread destruction, Israel’s “genocide, collective punishment including starvation, and ethnic cleansing of many places” and the failure of major global powers and institutions to uphold international law.

“But we look into the future, regardless of the fact that we could have reached this [ceasefire] agreement in July last year,” he told Al Jazeera from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

“We had to lose 10,000 more people because of Netanyahu’s insistence on continuing this genocide, and because of Netanyahu’s selfishness, who serves only his own interest.”

He said two major risks going forward would be Israeli efforts to annex and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, as well as internal Palestinian divisions.

“The best way to face these risks and to deal with the results of this terrible genocide in Gaza and to rebuild Gaza is to have internal Palestinian unity – something we have [long] been missing, but we will not stop trying to get back,” he said.

Coming days will be extremely hard for people in Gaza

Israel will likely take advantage of the window of time before the ceasefire deal comes into effect on Sunday to continue waging war on Gaza and make as many gains as it can, Andreas Krieg, senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, has told Al Jazeera.

“The next three days will be extremely hard for the people of Gaza, a lot of people will die and, unfortunately, that also suggests that the war itself is not over,” Krieg said.

“The idea of having a phased deal that goes from a hostage deal to one that is more sustainable is probably a good idea, the problem is that we’ve been in a phase one in November and it collapsed.”

Iran hails Gaza ceasefire as ‘victory for Palestine’

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have hailed the ceasefire deal as a “victory” for Palestinians and a “defeat” for Israel.

“The end of the war and the imposition of a ceasefire … is a clear victory and a great victory for Palestine and a bigger defeat for the monstrous Zionist regime,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement.

The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, also welcomed the ceasefire and paid tribute to those killed.

“It was the courageous 15-month resistance of Palestine that prevented the Zionist regime in achieving its strategic goals. The world must act to punish the criminal regime and heal the wounds of the Palestinian people,” he said on X.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/15/live-israel-launches-fierce-strikes-on-gaza-as-ceasefire-deal-moves-closer

>>486957
Why do you still post Al Jazeera the Qatari state media after what they say about Syria?

>>486958
For the same reason I posted it before. It's comprehensive and there's literally nothing wrong with their Gaza coverage, it's some of the best around.

Houthi leader threatens more attacks if Israel breaches ceasefire

Yemen’s Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi has threatened to keep up their attacks if Israel does not respect the recently announced ceasefire with Hamas.

While he called the breakthrough in negotiations an “important development”, he warned that his group “will watch the implementation of the agreement, and if there is any Israeli breach, massacres or attacks, we will be ready to provide military support to the Palestinian people”.

In a statement published by the group on X, he said Israel and the US “were forced to [accept] the agreement in Gaza after months of horrific crimes”.

“The Israeli enemy failed in Gaza despite the siege on the resistance which was established from the beginning,” he added.

Palestinian NGO mourns death of staff member killed in Israeli air raid

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has said one of its workers was killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City earlier today.

Ihab Faisal, 33, was killed in the early morning hours alongside his wife Hanin Jamal Al-Dahdouh, 29, and his two children, Reem, 6, and Najma, 3.

Raji Sourani, director of PCHR, said “the brutality of the occupation is reflected in every detail of our lives; it kills our children and destroys our dreams”.

Other organisations expressed disbelief at their deaths, just hours after a ceasefire deal was announced.

Christian Aid’s programme manager Katie Roxburgh said “we fear more horrendous news like this in the coming days. The ceasefire cannot come soon enough. It is already too late for so many innocent civilians”.

Hamas denies Israel claim it’s backtracking on ceasefire deal

Two senior Hamas leaders have rejected Israeli allegations the Palestinian group is reneging on elements of the Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal.

“There is no basis to Netanyahu’s claims about the movement backtracking from terms in the ceasefire agreement,” Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said.

Earlier, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq said in a statement: “Hamas is committed to the ceasefire agreement, which was announced by the mediators.”

Gaza’s death toll rises

Israeli attacks in Gaza over the last 24 hours have killed at least 81 people and injured 188, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

This brings the total toll of the war in Gaza to 46,788 killed and 110,453 injured, it added.

Israel’s Lieberman accuses Netanyahu of putting coalition over national security interests

Israeli MP Avigdor Lieberman, who leads the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, has accused Netanyahu of blocking a single-stage ceasefire deal that would have released all Israeli captives at once.

The reason for instead opting for a phased deal, according to Lieberman, was to preserve Netanyahu’s governing coalition.

“The prime minister didn’t want a single-stage deal,” Lieberman told Israel’s Srugim news site. “He personally briefed and gave very strict instructions to the negotiating team, and under no circumstances was he willing to give them a mandate to negotiate a single-stage deal for everyone.”

Lieberman added: “The fact that we opted for a phased deal is solely due to the interest of preserving the coalition. From the perspective of Israel’s security interests, we should have pursued a comprehensive deal and released everyone in one go.”

No signs of Hamas backtracking on ceasefire deal
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because the Israeli government has banned the network from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

We are not seeing any sort of leaks about Hamas going back on what they agreed upon in this deal.

What we are seeing rather is internal conflict within Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, specifically among the Religious Zionism Party.

This is the party of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has been threatening to leave the coalition if this deal came to a vote, saying this was a bad deal for Israel, that his party would need guarantees that Israel will go back to all-out fighting … after the initial phase [of the agreement].

The party is holding its own meetings, saying that they are not going to vote until they decide whether they are going to leave the coalition. Members of this party have said that they are very likely to step down from the government and this is causing a lot of problems.

Israeli protesters arrested as clashes break out over ceasefire deal

Israeli media are reporting that three protesters opposing a ceasefire deal have been arrested during demonstrations in Jerusalem.

The Ynet News site said the arrests took place after clashes broke out between protesters and police officers.

Far-right parties have expressed concern that the ceasefire deal does not guarantee a full victory and may endanger Israel’s national security by releasing Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captives held by Hamas.

Netanyahu’s Likud party denies ceasefire deal marks end to Gaza war

Israeli media are reporting that the ruling Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement denying that the ceasefire deal constitutes an end to the war against Hamas in Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/16/live-celebrations-in-gaza-as-israel-hamas-reach-ceasefire-deal

Electronic Intifada - Day 468 of Al-Aqsa Flood

Death toll since ceasefire announcement nears 100

As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has intensified its attacks across the Gaza Strip since Wednesday’s announcement that a ceasefire deal had been agreed with Hamas.

The death toll for those attacks now stands at about 90, according to the Wafa news agency, citing medical sources in the besieged enclave.

Northern Gaza has faced repeated Israeli strikes over the past day, with one attack in Jabalia killing at least 20 Palestinians.

Lebanon reports four more Israeli violations to ceasefire: Report

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports four more Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement that took effect 52 days ago between Israel and Hezbollah.

According to NNA, the Israeli military blew up several homes in Meiss El-Jabal town of the Marjayoun district in southern Lebanon.

The news agency also reported that a Syrian national had been arrested by the Israeli army while grazing a herd of cattle on the outskirts of the Rmeish town.

Hezbollah and Israel reached a ceasefire deal on November 26 to end more than 14 months of fighting, since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

However, Lebanese authorities have reported more than 564 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including the death of 37 people and injury of 45 others.

Houthis claim attacks on targets in southern, central Israel

Yemen’s Houthi group says it has struck targets in central and southern Israel as well as a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

In a statement, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said its fighters “carried out three military operations against Israeli targets”.

He said the group targeted the Eilat area in southern Israel with four cruise missiles.

The group also attacked “a vital target” in the Ashkelon area in southern Israel with a combat drone, he said. In a third military operation, Saree added that the group attacked the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in central Israel with three combat drones.

The Houthi spokesman also said its fighters targeted the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier for the seventh time in the Red Sea.

Earlier today, the Houthis reported that the US carried out five air strikes on the Harf Sufyan district in the northern province of Amran in western Yemen.

Israel making ‘no effort’ to probe Gaza war crimes allegations: ICC chief

Israel, despite its extensive legal expertise, has not properly investigated war crimes allegations brought against it during the war in Gaza, according to Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

“The question is have those judges [in Israel], have those prosecutors, have those legal instruments been used to properly scrutinise the allegations that we’ve seen in the occupied Palestinian territories, in the State of Palestine? And I think the answer to that was ‘no’,” Khan said in an interview with the Reuters news agency.

“We’re here as a court of last resort and … as we speak right now, we haven’t seen any real effort by the State of Israel to take action that would meet the established jurisprudence,” he added.

Khan also criticised the US House of Representatives’ vote last week to sanction the ICC for issuing an arrest warrant against Netanyahu, saying it “is a matter that should make all people of conscience be concerned”.

On top of its warrant for Netanyahu, the ICC has also issued warrants for Israeli defence chief Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Ibrahim Al-Masri for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

CIA employee accused of leaking Israel’s plans to strike Iran to plead guilty

An employee of the US’s foreign spy service who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran will plead guilty to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national defence information, according to a court filing, the Reuters news agency reports.

The man, identified as Asif William Rahman, was arrested by the FBI in November in Cambodia.

He was indicted on two counts of disclosing national defence information under the Espionage Act, and could face a lengthy prison sentence.

According to the indictment, Rahman “willfully retained” a classified document and “transmitted that document to a person not entitled to receive it”.

‘You should be ashamed of yourself’: Israeli captive families to ADL chief

The families of Israeli captives held in Gaza have lashed the head of a US-based organisation that campaigns against anti-Semitism for a failure to actively push for a ceasefire deal.

The online exchange took place when Jonathan Greenblatt, a US businessman and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), sought to promote an interview he participated in following the announcement of the ceasefire agreement on Thursday.

Speaking through the official social media account for Israeli captives, the families responded to the interview by accusing Greenblatt of failing to confront Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in support of a ceasefire.

“You should have called out and gotten tough on Netanyahu months ago like we asked you,” the group said. “Still now you can’t do it.”

“[Donald Trump] did more to get this deal done than you ever have,” the group said.

“You should be ashamed of yourself.”

The ADL has been prominent in encouraging crackdowns against pro-Palestinian protests across the US.

US slaps Bank it says has Houthi ties with sanctions

The US Treasury Department has sanctioned the Yemen-Kuwait Bank for its alleged financial support of Yemen’s Houthis.

EU’s Borrell says ‘cherry-picking’ ICC arrest warrants undermines credibility

The European Union’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell has said that “cherrypicking in applying the Rome Statute is incomprehensible”, in a reference to declarations by several countries, including the US, Italy and Poland, that they will not enforce the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as mandated by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the ICC. In March 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.

“How can we expect third countries to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Putin (which they should!) and then say we won’t enforce it against Netanyahu?” Borrell wrote on X.

“Our credibility as a community of law is eroding.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/17/live-no-pause-in-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-ahead-of-ceasefire-on-sunday

Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.

From 2020 to 2024, Democrats saw a staggering dropoff in support at the presidential level, with some 19 million people who voted for Joe Biden staying home (or not mailing in their ballots) in 2024. Now, a new survey conducted by YouGov suggests Biden’s support for Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza played a surprisingly large role in the choice of those previous Biden supporters not to vote. (Read the full poll here.)

The top reason those non-voters cited, above the economy at 24 percent and immigration at 11 percent, was Gaza: a full 29 percent cited the ongoing onslaught as the top reason they didn’t cast a vote in 2024.

Looking narrowly at states that swung from Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024, the number is smaller. But in those states, 20 percent still cited Gaza as the reason they didn’t vote again. The poll was paid for by the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project, which has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s assault on Gaza.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-biden-election-poll