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 No.487384[Last 50 Posts]

One Year of Genocide

Continued from >>484995

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers, and threw parades celebrating the exchange. The ceasefire is on terms Hamas had already agreed to in May 2024.

Following Hezbollah strikes on Tel Aviv, a ceasefire in Lebanon was agreed to on November 27th. Israel proceeded to violate this ceasefire more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country at the agreed-upon 60 day deadline, prompting unarmed civilians to stage protests and drive them out of parts of south Lebanon.

Lebanese Army leader Joseph Aoun was elected president of Lebanon.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance.

Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar was killed while fighting in Gaza. Mohammed Deif later confirmed dead.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and reportedly violated the ceasefire in Gaza some 80 times.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration threatened to deport foreign students speaking out against the US-backed Palestinian genocide.

A group of states from the global south formed the Hague Group as a way of reinforcing the rulings of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court. The founding states are Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.

And much, much more!
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 No.487385

Israeli army destroys sewage plant, more infrastructure in south Lebanon

Israeli forces have carried out a “large-scale demolition operation” in a sewage treatment plant located in the Marjayoun plains towards Kfar Kila, near the border with Israel, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

Also in Marjayoun, Israeli forces have been reportedly bulldozing trees and agricultural lands, as well as burning homes in the eastern side of the town of Hula.

Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets have been carrying out mock raids in the skies of Nabatieh and autism scorelim Tuffah in southern Lebanon at medium altitude, while drones fired two sound bombs in the skies of the two of al-Jabeen.

The Lebanese army has begun deploying in the town of Taybeh, according to NNA, which said the army will also be detonating unexploded ordnance in the Qalaa fields in Marjayoun and in the Akka area.

Lebanese army confirms new deployments south of Litani River

Lebanese soldiers and armoured vehicles have been deployed in the town of Taybeh, in southern Lebanon’s Marjayoun.

The Lebanese army said in a statement that its forces will continue to deploy in the eastern sector and other border areas south of the Litani River, which they have been tasked with securing in cooperation with UN forces as part of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal.

Palestine condemns Israeli ‘crimes’ in northern West Bank

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israeli military attacks in the northern occupied West Bank, particularly in Jenin, Tulkarem, Tubas, Far’a and Tammun.

It said in a statement that civilians are forcibly displaced from their homes under armed threat, while entire neighbourhoods are being destroyed with explosives, “which results in the forced alteration of Palestinian geography”.

The ministry called this a “flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, and the Geneva Conventions” and said it reflects an official Israeli policy to deepen the gradual annexation of the occupied West Bank for the benefit of settlement expansion.

“The ministry holds the Israeli government fully responsible for the consequences of these policies and calls on the international community to break its silence and fulfill its legal and moral obligations to put an end to this aggression.”

Will there be protests during the Netanyahu visit?

With hours left until the Israeli prime minister meets Trump at the White House, demonstrations are expected in Washington, DC, and elsewhere to protest against the Gaza war.

Pro-Palestinian groups, including some run by US Orthodox Jews, are organising gatherings.

Netanyahu was met with many protests when he visited the US capital last year as lawmakers broke records for how many standing ovations they gave him during an address to Congress.

Similar to Netanyahu’s previous visit, some Democratic lawmakers may also choose to skip any speeches and meetings or express their criticism of unconditional US support for Israel despite its killing of more than 61,700 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office in the Strip.

Musk meets with Netanyahu and his son

Elon Musk met with Netanyahu and his son Yair in Washington, DC, shortly before the Israeli leader was scheduled to attend a bilateral meeting with Trump.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/1/live-israel-hamas-to-exchange-3-captives-in-gaza-for-183-palestinians
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 No.487387

Trump and Netanyahu sit down in White House

The two leaders are sitting in front of a fire at the White House, taking questions from reporters.

A reporter asked Trump if he felt he should earn the Nobel Peace prize if the ceasefire holds and the Israeli captives in Gaza are released.

“I deserve it, but they will never give it to me,” Trump replied.

Bilateral meeting with Trump and Netanyahu begins

Netanyahu has just arrived at the White House for the start of his meeting with Trump.

He is expected to speak to the US president about Israeli attacks in the West Bank and the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. The two leaders is also expected to talk about normalising relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

The Israeli prime minister arrived on Sunday, in anticipation of Tuesday’s meeting.

Netanyahu delayed as protests continue in DC

The Israeli leader is a bit delayed in his arrival at the White House, which Al Jazeera correspondent Kimberly Halkett says might be due to security concerns and nearby protests.

“Part of the reason there may be a bit of a holdup is that there is a sizable, but not too large, demonstration that is going on,” she reported from the White House.

“There is a security perimeter that was put up that is not normally around the White House, so there is additional security. And just outside of that perimeter there is a bit of a demonstration going on right now,” she added.

Trump signs a series of executive orders

Surrounded by a small group of reporters in the Oval Office, Trump etched his jagged signature onto a series of executive orders on Tuesday, including a measure to withdraw the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

He also spoke on a range of issues, including his view that Palestinians have no choice but to leave Gaza.

Trump reimposes ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran

Shortly before his bilateral meeting with Netanyahu, President Trump appeared in the Oval Office to sign several directives, including a memorandum to reimpose his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran.

Trump previously pursued that strategy during his first term, from 2017 to 2021.

In 2018, for instance, the Republican leader withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a deal that sought to limit the Iranian nuclear programme while loosening sanctions and other economic restrictions on the country. Instead, Trump reversed course, increasing sanctions on Iran.

At Tuesday’s appearance in the Oval Office, Trump asserted that he had the right to block the sale of Iranian oil to other countries, as part of his renewed pressure campaign.

He also warned that, if Iran tried to assassinate him, there were “instructions” that would cause the country to “be obliterated”.

Civil society organisations urge EU to ban goods from Israeli settlements

A group of more than 160 civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and trade unions have called on the European Union to bar any trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

“EU member states have repeatedly and unanimously condemned Israel’s settlements in the West Bank as ‘illegal’ and as an ‘obstacle to peace’,” the watchdog group Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

Palestine advocates push to appeal to Trump’s promises

Palestine solidarity activists who gathered outside the White House to protest Netanyahu’s visit have refrained from condemning Trump.

Instead, speakers at a news conference today sounded almost conciliatory, appealing to Trump’s pledge to bring peace to the Middle East and pursue an “America First” agenda.

Advocates argued that prioritising US interests would dictate saying “no” to Netanyahu’s demands of more weapons and support for Israel.

Some speakers also called on Trump to strike a contrast with what they portrayed as weakness in former President Biden’s foreign policy.

When asked about the rhetoric, Nihad Awad — the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — said it does not represent a change in tone.

He noted that his group is in “total disagreement” with Trump over some policies, including the president’s anti-immigration push.

“But it doesn’t mean that he’s just an enemy of us and the people,” Awad said.

“We believe that the office he’s holding is so powerful, and he has important opportunities to bring peace to the region, peace that is based on justice and liberty and dignity and respect for all. So this is our appeal to him — because he can do it, and he promised to do it.”

Advocate warns Trump against being ‘fooled’ by Netanyahu to attack Iran

Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), says giving more aid to Israel and allowing it to continue its wars in the Middle East would be “contradictory” to Trump’s pledges to be a peace president who would put America first.

Awad warned Trump against allowing Netanyahu to launch an offensive against Iran.

“We hope that President Trump will not be dragged and fooled by this war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, to launch a war on Iran and destabilise the region further,” Awad told reporters.

“President Trump has a golden opportunity to put an end to the suffering of the people in the region and hold the Israeli leaders accountable instead of celebrating them.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/4/live-israel-netanyahu-to-meet-trump-in-washington-gaza-ceasefire
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 No.487393

Anyone livestreaming the demonstrations at the White House tonight?
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 No.487394

Protesters chant ‘Free Palestine’ outside of White House
Ali Harb
Reporting from Washington, DC

Dozens of demonstrators are gathering outside the White House to protest Netanyahu’s visit amid heavy police presence.

The protesters are chanting “free Palestine” and slogans against US and Israeli policies.

Netanyahu reiterates his aim to meet all ‘war goals’ in Gaza

When asked by a journalist about his commitment to bringing home Israeli captives held by Hamas, the Israeli prime minister reiterated that is one of several aims he hopes to achieve.

“I support getting all the hostages out and meeting all our war goals,” he said.

“That includes destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and making sure that Gaza never poses a threat to Israel.”

Trump says Saudi Arabia not demanding Palestinian state for Israel deal

The US president answers with a definitive “no” when asked whether Saudi Arabia is demanding the establishment of a Palestinian state to forge formal ties with Israel.

Trump’s assertion contradicts numerous official Saudi Arabian statements over the past years, stressing the kingdom’s commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, which premises diplomatic recognition of Israel on the condition that a Palestinian state be established.

Netanyahu met with Christian Evangelical leaders in Washington, DC

Outside today’s visit to the White House, Netanyahu has had a number of other meetings in Washington, DC, including with evangelical Christian leaders.

Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon said in a post on social media that Netanyahu met with evangelical Christian leaders, including Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to Israel on Monday evening.

Many of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the United States are Evangelicals Christians, in part because some share the belief that Biblical prophecies link modern-day wars in Israel to the second coming of Jesus and the ensuing Rapture.

Meanwhile, a schedule of Netanyahu’s visit did not appear to include American Jewish leaders, who Netanyahu has “had a rockier relationship” with “over the years” according to the Times of Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/4/live-israel-netanyahu-to-meet-trump-in-washington-gaza-ceasefire
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 No.487395

Second press conference between Trump and Netanyahu live now.
This doesn't look like Trump is the president.
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 No.487399

>>487396
Anyone doing a cytube stream of this?
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 No.487400

>>487396
>Impeach the Felon!
Another Democrat astroturf protest I see.
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 No.487401

>>487400
Oh, the first one's for a different protest. The second is for Netanyahu's visit specifically.
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 No.487402

>>487399
Haven't seen any livestreams for it, including from BT. Hoping to get one!
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 No.487403

>>487402
Ok, that's cool
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 No.487423

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‘Trump is a madman’: Palestinian in Gaza mocks US president’s takeover plan
Mohamed Solaimane
Reporting from Khan Younis, Gaza

Leaning on a wooden cane, 72-year-old Fathi Abu al-Saeed navigates the rubble-strewn streets of Khan Younis’s al-Katiba neighbourhood — a daily ritual since he returned from displacement in the coastal region of al-Mawasi following the January 19 Gaza ceasefire.

Carefully stepping over debris left by 15 months of relentless Israeli bombardment, he raises his cane, pointing at a demolished house.

“You see that pile of useless rubble?” he says. “That’s more precious than the United States and everything in it.”

Every morning, Abu al-Saeed exchanges words of resilience with neighbours. But on this day, US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Gaza – his fantasy of clearing out its Palestinian population to build a “Riviera in the Middle East” – offer new material for his sarcasm and defiance.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/4/live-israel-netanyahu-to-meet-trump-in-washington-gaza-ceasefire
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 No.487424

>>487423
Based Palestinian guy showing how you live in the rubble, defying the faggotry of Empire. You never, ever stop calling faggotry what it is. Making excuses for Them gives you and everyone around you nothing.
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 No.487425

It's going to be disgusting to watch Americans sent home in body bags because Israel sucks at urban warfare and can't keep their shit army motivated. Of course the Pals are going to shoot at those who evict them.

Oh well. Yet more blood for Israel.
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 No.487426

>>487425
The idea of Americans being sent over to defuse bombs Israel dropped is comical levels of Vichy America.
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 No.487427

Apparently Netanyahu "gifted" Trump a pager while at the White House, too. Odd message there.
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 No.487428

>>487427
I hope somebody checked it, to make sure it doesn't contain explosives
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 No.487429

>>487428
I don't. ;P
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 No.487430

https://twitter.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1887175136886821149
Breaking: Israel has reportedly gunned down a child in Rafah. In the meantime, Israeli squadrons are still located there firing at the returnees and destroying as much as possible.

Israel is still killing Palestinians.

This is clear evidence of breaching the ceasefire.
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 No.487431

More on Secretary of State Rubio’s softening of Gaza plan

As we reported earlier, the US Secretary of State described President Trump’s proposal as a unique offer to clear debris and destruction in Gaza.

“What he very generously has offered is the ability of the United States to go in and help with debris removal, help with munitions removal, help with reconstruction, the rebuilding homes and businesses and things of this nature so that then people can move back in,” Rubio said at a news conference in Guatemala City.

“In the interim, obviously people are going to have to live somewhere while you’re rebuilding it,” he added.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt also backtracked on Trump’s initial suggestion the US would “own” Gaza, saying the president only wants Palestinians to be “temporarily relocated”.

According to Senator Josh Hawley, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff also told Republican senators at a closed-door lunch that Trump “doesn’t want to put any US troops on the ground, and he doesn’t want to spend any US dollars at all” on Gaza.

https://aje.io/lwqf4s?update=3492017
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 No.487433

Brian Eno actually gives a pretty good explanation of the conspicuously absent/skewed coverage of the mass demonstrations against complicity.
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 No.487435

Trump ‘openly calling for ethnic cleansing’, says US Congresswoman Tlaib

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has shared a scathing response to Trump’s latest remarks on the Gaza Strip.

“This president is openly calling for ethnic cleansing while sitting next to a genocidal war criminal,” said Tlaib, who is the only Palestinian-American serving in the US Congress.

“He’s perfectly fine cutting off working Americans from federal funds while the funding to the Israeli government continues flowing,” she added.

Trump and Netanyahu holding second press conference

Trump has opened a second press conference with Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, DC.

Follow here for updates.

Trump says US will ‘own’ Gaza and ‘level the site’

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump has said.

“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out,” he added.

The US President then went on to say that the United States would “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area,” without specifying if he meant for Palestinians.

Trump says ‘the world’s people’ could live in Gaza

Asked about who he expects to live in the Gaza Strip if all Palestinians are relocated, Trump has said he “envisions” the “world’s people” will live there.

“I think the entire world, representatives from all over the world, will be there, and they’ll live there. Palestinians, also, … will live there. Many people will live there,” he said.

“The people that have been absolutely destroyed, that live there now can live in peace, in a much better situation, because they’re living in hell, and those people will now be able to live in peace,” before again repeating his plans to forcibly displace Palestinians to neighbouring countries.

“I have a feeling that, despite them saying no, I have a feeling that the King in Jordan and [the Egyptian President] will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done,” he added, before ending the press conference.

As we’ve been reporting Trump has made numerous references to forcibly displacing Palestinians to neighbouring countries.

Netanyahu repeats discredited claims about Hamas October 7 attack

Netanyahu has repeated the debunked claims at the news conference that Hamas fighters “burned babies alive” during the October 7 attacks.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), which examined hours of footage from CCTV, dashcams, personal phones and headcams of slain Hamas fighters, concluded that claims by the Israeli army that it found burned babies at a house in Kibbutz Be’eri were untrue.

The analysis found that there were no babies in the house, and the 12 people inside were almost certainly killed by Israeli forces when they stormed the building.

Pro-Palestinian protesters call for Netanyahu’s arrest

Laila Khalil, from the Palestinian Youth Movement, has told Al Jazeera that protesters outside the White House are “demanding that the administration comply with the ICC [International Criminal Court] arrest warrant and arrest the war criminal, Netanyahu”.

“We continue to demand an arms embargo. We continue to fight for the liberation of Palestine. No matter who’s in the White House, we’re fighting for the exact same thing,” she added.

Reflecting on Trump’s role in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Khalil said the US president “is not the reason” a deal was reached.

“The ceasefire happened because of the strength and resilience of the people in Palestine and everyone abroad who is fighting for Palestine,” she said.

Saudi Arabia says no ties with Israel without Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia said its support for the establishment of a Palestinian state is unwavering and it rejects any attempts to displace Palestinians from their land.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry also said in a statement that relations with Israel would not be established without the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The statement followed a news conference by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in which the US leader said he wants the US to “take over” Gaza and redevelop the territory once Palestinians are removed to neighbouring countries.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/4/live-israel-netanyahu-to-meet-trump-in-washington-gaza-ceasefire
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 No.487438

🤔
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 No.487449

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1886896419509793141
Brussels parliament adopts resolution to recognise the genocide in Gaza… and calls for sanctions against Israel…
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 No.487450

Violent Israeli raids forcibly displace 26,000 Palestinians in West Bank

Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced and dozens of homes have been demolished after more than two weeks of deadly Israeli siege and raids in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, including Jenin refugee camp.

“The Israeli army says they have launched a ‘counterterrorism’ operation to combat armed Palestinian fighters. But if you look at what is going on, you have 26,000 Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced, forced to leave their homes,” said Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, Jordan.

“The Israeli army has detonated homes in Jenin, Tulkarem and now Nablus. The army says some of these homes were used for military infrastructure but did not provide any sort of evidence to prove those claims.”

Israeli launches air raids on southern and eastern Lebanon

Al Jazeera Arabic has reported that Israeli forces targeted the autism scorelim al-Tuffah region in southern Lebanon with two air attacks, and have also carried out air raids in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria.

No casualties have been reported in the air attacks.

A source told Israel’s Army Radio that the air strikes targeted Hezbollah weapons depots and the smuggling of arms, including from Syria.

The attacks take place on the eve of a visit to Beirut by the US deputy special envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus.

More on Netanyahu’s meeting with US defence secretary at Pentagon
Patty Culhane
Reporting from Washington, DC

Netanyahu and Hegseth have talked about the need to increase cooperation between Israel and the US, highlighting the fact that the Trump administration lifted the prohibition put in place by the previous US administration of sending 2,000-pound [900kg] bombs to Israel.

When it came to the possibility of sending US troops, Hegseth said Trump is engaged in complicated negotiations and he wouldn’t get ahead of the president.

We’ve already seen some Republican pushback about the idea of using US troops in Gaza, saying that is not putting “America first”, as one of Trump’s campaign slogans pledged. The president campaigned on keeping US forces out of wars overseas, especially in the Middle East.

Some Republican commentators said the president is just using this as a negotiation tactic. And he does like to be unpredictable. He also knows the politics of it. Using US troops in the Middle East would be very unpopular with many of the voters who put him in office.

Spain rejects Israel’s suggestion it should accept Palestinians from Gaza

Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has rejected the suggestion by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz that Spain should accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza.

“Gazans’ land is Gaza and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state,” Albares said in an interview with Spanish radio station RNE.

Ireland rejects Israel’s suggestion it should accept Palestinians from Gaza

Ireland’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a suggestion by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz that the country should accept displaced Palestinians from Gaza.

“The objective must be a massive scale-up of aid into Gaza, return of basic services and a clear framework under which those displaced can return,” the ministry said in an emailed statement to the Reuters news agency. “Any comments to the contrary are unhelpful and a source of distraction.”

Trump to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official has said.

The order will place financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or US allies, said the official.

Israel follows US in boycotting UN Human Rights Council

Israel says it “will not participate” in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), following in the footsteps of the United States, which announced its withdrawal earlier this week.

In response to Thursday’s announcement by Israel’s foreign minister, UNHRC spokesperson Pascal Sim said Israel has observer state status within the rights body and, therefore, could not withdraw from the council.

The Geneva-based council is made up of 47 UN member states, which are elected by other UN members to serve four-year terms on a rotating basis. The US is also currently not an elected member of the council.

Death toll due to lack of resources equals those killed by Israeli forces: Ministry of Health

Marwan al-Hamas, director of field hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the healthcare situation in the coastal enclave.

Here is a summary of his translated comments:

Since October 7, 2023, the number of deaths in Gaza due to lack of resources is equivalent to the number killed by Israeli forces.
We urgently need field hospitals, medical staff, medicines and medical equipment.
Israeli forces are obstructing the entry of field hospitals into the Strip.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/6/live-trumps-gaza-plan-condemned-as-palestinians-pledge-to-never-leave
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 No.487451

>>487438
kek the weather is anti-Zionist
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 No.487452

>>487449
>Brussels parliament adopts resolution to recognise the genocide in Gaza… and calls for sanctions against Israel…
Belgium switches to the right side of history. It's a fairly small country so it probably won't have a grand material effect, but politically that has to bug the Zionists.
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 No.487457

>>487452
Brussels is the heart of the EU banker class, so this actually might have an effect.
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 No.487472

Anti-Empire Project: Gaza War Debrief

State Department greenlights $7.4bn arms deal with Israel

The US State Department has signed off on the sale to Israel of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

Hamas accuses Israel of delaying aid deliveries

Hamas has accused Israel of delaying aid deliveries agreed under the Gaza ceasefire deal.

The group’s spokesperson Abdul Latif al-Qanou said that goods such as tents, rubble removal equipment and fuel were affected.

Hamas has called on mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States to exert pressure on Israel to fulfil its obligations.

According to Israel, the agreed number of 600 aid trucks per day has so far been exceeded.

Since the ceasefire deal came into effect on January 19, more than 12,000 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have entered Gaza, according to the Israeli authority responsible for Palestinian affairs.

The UN said on Thursday that the figure was closer to 10,000 representing some 550 trucks per day.

Israeli army says it’s deploying troops in Gaza Strip under ceasefire

“As part of the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the return of the kidnapped, forces from Division 162, Division 143, and Division 99 in the Southern Command were deployed to several points in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military says in a post on X.

It said this was “to strengthen the layer of defence for residents of the western Negev and the State of Israel”.

More than 12,000 bodies trapped under Gaza rubble: Media Office chief

Salama Maarouf, the head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, has said more than 12,000 bodies are estimated to be trapped under the rubble in the enclave, amid a lack of equipment to retrieve them due to Israeli border restrictions.

Israeli authorities have not allowed the entry of heavy machinery into the Gaza Strip, Maarouf told a news conference at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

He also said that under the circumstances Hamas would not be able to honour its promise to give back the bodies of the Israeli captives killed during bombardments.

Child killed in explosion of Israeli war remnants in southern Gaza’s Rafah: Report

A child has been killed by unexploded ordnance in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, according to the Wafa news agency.

The victim was identified as Mohammed Yasser al-Qadi but his age was not mentioned in the report.

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) last month warned of the danger posed by abandoned explosive ordnance and stressed the urgent need for clearance operations and risk education to protect communities and facilitate humanitarian access.

Release of all captives in Gaza under question mark

Trump and Netanyahu are endangering the prospect of all captives to be released in Gaza, according to Israeli analyst Akiva Eldar.

He told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv that Israeli public was waiting to see the captives back.

“Three are expected to be released tomorrow, but the problem will be the end game. Will Israel get all of them as Trump promised, or will Hamas say that Israel and the United States are not respecting the [ceasefire] agreement so the phase one will be the last phase,” he said.

“I believe that Hamas will not be able to hand over the rest of the hostages if Israel does not start getting out of Gaza, from Philadelphi [Corridor] just like we did from Netzarim Corridor. This will be the ultimate test,” he added.

Israeli authorities arrest Haredi draft dodger at airport

The ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student was arrested at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport overnight on Friday as he attempted to board a plane out of the country, The Times of Israel reports, citing Hebrew media sources.

The arrest marks the first action taken against a Haredi man for failing to obey draft orders since the Israeli military issued calls ups to thousands of members of the country’s ultra-Orthodox community, known as Haredim.

ICC sanctions put the US ‘on the side of war criminals’: HRW

US government sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court will undermine international accountability for the worst crimes and deprive victims around the globe of justice, Human Rights Watch has said.

The group added that an executive order issued by Trump on Thursday, which authorises asset freezes and entry bans on ICC officials and others supporting the court’s work, makes clear that the Trump administration “seeks to shield US and Israeli officials from facing war crimes and crimes against humanity charges”.

“Trump’s executive order on the International Criminal Court effectively puts the United States on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice,” Liz Evenson, the group’s international justice director, said in a statement.

“ICC member countries should publicly and forcefully support the court for doing the job it was set up to do: ensuring no one is above the law.”

Israeli official reprimanded for criticising Trump’s Gaza plan issues clarification

We reported earlier that Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz had ordered Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi to reprimand the head of the military intelligence directorate Shlomi Binder, after he warned that Trump’s plans to take over Gaza would result in an escalation of violence in the occupied West Bank.

Binder has since said in a statement issued by the military that he clarified to Katz that as his role requires, he “presented the possible implications of the discourse on the subject, the enemy’s view from a security perspective, and recommendations for offensive activity accordingly”.

“I spoke with the Defence Minister, and I clarified that I did not speak out against the Trump plan and that the [army], and therefore I too, are subordinate to the political echelon and will follow its instructions,” he added.

Aid entering Gaza far below minimum required under ceasefire terms: Gaza Government

Gaza’s Government Media Office has issued a statement saying Israel is violating the terms of the ceasefire by not allowing the agreed minimum amount of aid to enter the enclave.

The deal allowed for the passage of 600 aid trucks daily, at a minimum, including 50 fuel trucks, as well as 60,000 mobile units and 200,000 tents, electric generators and their spare parts, solar panels and batteries.

“The amount of aid that entered the Gaza Strip is still far from the minimum required,” the statement said, as 8,500 trucks have entered the Strip since the agreement went into effect 20 days ago, instead of the required 12,000. Additionally, 2,916 trucks reached northern Gaza instead of 6,000.

The aid getting in was mostly food, the statement said, while aid for shelter did not reach 10 percent of the agreed amount. Similarly, 15 fuel trucks entered Gaza instead of 50, it added.

Aid entering Gaza ‘insufficient’: Global charity

Humanitarian aid has been entering Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, but the 600 trucks going through the Rafah crossing on a daily basis are insufficient to respond to the needs of the population, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a global aid agency.

South Africa ‘continues to stand in solidarity’ with Palestinians: President

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Palestinians “are now experiencing indescribable suffering”, after enduring “decades of illegal occupation”.

“South Africa has acted in accordance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention by instituting proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice,” he said on X, referring to the genocide case his country filed at the UN court in The Hague in December 2023.

“We are fully committed to the articles of the United Nations Charter, including the principle that all members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means,” he added.

Ireland pledges additional funds to UNRWA amid Israeli ban

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris has pledged 20 million euros ($20.8m) in support for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as it provides assistance to people in Gaza despite an Israeli ban.

Orban suggests Hungary might leave ICC after Trump’s move

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch ally of Trump, says the sanctions imposed on the court by the US president are part of “the Trump-tornado”.

“It is time for Hungary to review what we’re doing in an international organization that is under US sanctions! New winds are blowing in international politics. We call it the Trump-tornado,” he said on X.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/7/live-trump-sanctions-icc-as-countries-warn-gaza-plan-will-cause-chaos
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File: 1738984626934.mp4 ( 3.08 MB , 464x848 , IMG_20250207_221149_658.MP4 )

Apparently Yoav Gallant is in Chicago. Grayzone sez Netanyahu probably still in DC. His motorcade got egged recently… it's one of those things where it's like… better than nothing, I guess, but it seems like Americans are just going to keep playing ebic pranks and going "so much for the free speech right!" forever. The urgency of the situation should have set in long ago.
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 No.487480

>>487475
>Apparently Yoav Gallant is in Chicago. Grayzone sez Netanyahu probably still in DC. His motorcade got egged recently… it's one of those things where it's like… better than nothing, I guess, but it seems like Americans are just going to keep playing ebic pranks
I think that this is more an indicator of how truly despised these people are now, rather an a strategy to affect anything.

> and going "so much for the free speech right!" forever. The urgency of the situation should have set in long ago.

I'm not sure how this was handled after ww2 and the holocaust but doing censorship on behalf of a genocide probably counts as complicity. Idk maybe that's the way forward. Also trying to get Zionism criminalized might help, you know to make the Zionists experience having their speech attacked, maybe they would relent their attacks on free speech.
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 No.487483

Yoav Gallant confirms Israel issued Hannibal Directive on October 7

In his first interview on Thursday since being sacked by Prime Minister Netanyahu in November, former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has confirmed that the so-called Hannibal Directive was issued during the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel.

The controversial doctrine allows the Israeli military to use all necessary force to prevent Israeli soldiers from being captured and taken into enemy territory – up to and including action that will lead to those captives’ deaths.

“I think tactically in some places [the Hannibal Directive] was [authorised], in other places it was not, and that is a problem,” he said, providing the first direct confirmation by a senior Israeli official.

Last year, an investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz alleged that the directive was deployed at three military facilities during the October 7 attacks, in which 1,139 people were killed and 251 others taken to Gaza as captives.

However, Israel’s orders failed to distinguish between soldiers being captured and civilians. A UN-backed report put the total number of civilians and soldiers lost to Israeli fire that day at more than a dozen.

ICC chief prosecutor to be first target of Trump’s sanctions: Report

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan may be the first person to be targeted under President Trump’s executive order authorising sanctions against the court and its staff, the Reuters news agency reports, citing two anonymous sources.

Khan, a British citizen, was named on Friday in an annex – not yet made public – to Trump’s executive order, said a senior ICC official and another source, both briefed by US government officials.

The sanctions Khan and other designated ICC officials will face include freezing of US assets and being barred, along with their families, from visiting the US.

Trump’s executive order directed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in consultation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to submit a report within 60 days naming those who should be sanctioned.

Trump’s move has been met with widespread condemnation, including from more than 70 countries – France, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands among them – who have reaffirmed their support for the ICC.

The ICC has condemned the sanctions, pledging to stand by its staff and “continue providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world”.

Trump signs order to cut funding for South Africa, cites Israel genocide case

The White House officially confirmed on Friday that Trump signed an executive order cutting financial aid to South Africa, citing not only his disapproval of its land policy but also its landmark genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel.

The White House cited South Africa’s ongoing case, which it brought against Israel at the ICJ in December 2023, as an example of the country taking a position against Washington and its allies.

Hamas fighters gather in Deir el-Balah for Israeli captive handover

We have been reporting on ongoing preparations in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, ahead of the Israeli captive handover, which is anticipated to take place in about 45 minutes.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues have now published footage from the scene showing Hamas fighters gathering, with more arriving in the back of pick-up trucks.

Watch below:
https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1888114309105963033

Here is the process involved in Israeli captives’ release
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

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

There is a choreographed system when the captives are released.

Hamas releases them; they are handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Then, they are driven to the Israel-Gaza border at an Israeli military base where they are given an identification check and initial medical and psychological evaluation, and they are reunited with one or two immediate family members.

Then, they are airlifted to a hospital in central Israel where they will be reunited with the rest of their family and stay there for the next few days.

After captives’ release, Israel supposed to withdraw from Netzarim Corridor
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Gaza City

As per the ceasefire agreement, after today’s captives for prisoners release, the Israeli military is supposed to withdraw completely from the Netzarim Corridor and allow free movement back and forth between the southern and northern parts of the Gaza Strip.

The Netzarim Corridor has been controlled by the Israeli military since the beginning of the war, impeding movement from the south to the north.

Right now, people have to be very careful when they move in the area. Everything has been very unpredictable in the past few weeks since the beginning of the ceasefire.

We have seen two vehicles struck by the Israeli military on al-Rashid Street.

Palestinian fighters claim ambush on Israeli soldiers in Tulkarem

The Palestinian Information Center reports that al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas in the occupied West Bank, has claimed an ambush on Israeli forces in the southern and eastern neighbourhoods of the city of Tulkarem.

The group said its fighters opened fire on 20 Israeli soldiers at close range near a building being used as Israeli military barracks in the city, causing injuries.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are also reporting that a large explosion has taken place in the city of Nablus. Israeli forces are also continuing their days-long siege on the village of Tammun, south of Tubas.

More information on today’s Israeli captive, Palestinian prisoner exchange

We have been reporting on the fifth captives-for-prisoners swap set to take place in the coming hours between Israel and Hamas, which will see three Israeli captives exchanged for 183 Palestinian prisoners.

Here are more details on the exchange:

The Quds News Network reports that the process will closely follow the exchange that took place last weekend, with the release carried out in two locations.

The first stage of the Israeli captive release is expected to take place at 8:30am local time (06:30 GMT) on Salah al-Din Street in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. The second release is expected to take place at noon local time (10:00 GMT), with the location not yet clear.

Israeli military continues raids on homes of Palestinian prisoners set for release

As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has been carrying out raids across the occupied West Bank tonight on the family homes of Palestinians set for release as part of the fifth prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas.

The Palestinian Information Center now reports that the family homes of five Palestinian prisoners slated for release this morning have also been raided in the village of Deir Nidham, northwest of Ramallah.

Israeli forces also arrested “dozens” of Palestinians in the city of Qalqilya on Friday night, according to the same outlet.

https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1888010699114237983
https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1888067396545491425

Pro-Palestine demonstrators in Basque region protest Maccabi Tel Aviv match

Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched in the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz on Friday to protest against EuroLeague basketball game between Spanish team Baskonia and Israeli side, Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The protests follow an incident on Thursday where basketball fans in the Spanish city of Barcelona broke into pro-Palestine chants during another EuroLeague match, also against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/7/live-3-israelis-183-palestinians-to-be-freed-in-latest-gaza-truce-swap
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 No.487485

>>487480
>I think that this is more an indicator of how truly despised these people are now, rather an a strategy to affect anything.
I mean, yeah, but do folks not realize we can just kill these guys?
Unironically, it wouldn't be that hard. You could probably do it with like three guys, 10 tops. You don't go back in time and throw eggs at Hitler is all I'm saying, Americans should be more creative. Instead, people in a country which kills people for less all the time are afraid to even entertain the idea that it could be necessary in this case.
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 No.487487

>>487485
>I mean, yeah, but do folks not realize we can just kill these guys?
Sure, but this is not a feudal social order where you can kill zionist politics by killing the members of "the great house of Zionism".

You have to drag these people in front of a war-crimes tribunal, as a means to induce a change in the political economy. The Zionists have damaged the interests of a great number of capitalists, that opens an opportunity for criminalizing the Zionist methods of "waging destructive influence" (which includes attacks on free speech).

Lets indulge in alternate history: the most profitable configuration for western capitalism would have been having 2 states, an Israel and a Palestine, both as client states. Giving west-Asia/middle-east a choice whether they want western influence with the Israeli flavor or the Palestinian flavor.

Genocide is considered such a mega crime, not because of moral convictions. The real reason is that it is a stupid strategy that stopped working a hundred years ago. Look at the cost (including all the indirect costs) of decimating Gaza, brutalizing people in the Westbank and Lebanon , make a cost/benefit analysis and compare that to the various diplomatic initiatives the Chinese are doing. My guess is that the Chinese spend less to convince a dozen countries to join BRICS.

If these zionist figure heads get whacked, that would cause disorganization and temporarily weaken Zionism. But if you go the systemic route, Zionism goes into the dustbin of history. Find the capital interests that are being harmed by Zionism and get them to finance the bureaucratic battles to make the war-crime tribunals and all the other stuff happen that neutralizes their ability to gain power.

A victory would be if you get these people processed by the system as villains like the Nazis after WW2, and you get actionable bans against lobby efforts that could diminish civil liberties like free speech.
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 No.487493

Netanyahu wraps up US visit

The Israeli prime minister is about to depart Washington, DC, and return to Israel after a busy week in the US capital, according to the Times of Israel.

Netanyahu was welcomed at the White House on Tuesday by Trump, whom the Israeli leader has described as “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House”. It was after that meeting that Trump announced the widely-criticsed plan for the US to “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip.

Appearing on Fox News the next day, Netanyahu praised Trump’s plan as the “first good idea I’ve heard” and said it should be “pursued, examined, and done”.

The Israeli leader, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for “crimes against humanity and war crimes” in Gaza, also had plenty of meetings behind closed doors, including with top Republicans at the US Capitol, top officials at the Pentagon and a group of Evangelical Christian leaders.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/9/live-israeli-troops-to-leave-gaza-corridor-after-captive-exchange
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 No.487498

>>487487
>Sure, but this is not a feudal social order where you can kill zionist politics by killing the members of "the great house of Zionism".
I mean, killing Hitler and his administration wouldn't singlehandedly have stopped WWII, but it would be a pretty good start.

>You have to drag these people in front of a war-crimes tribunal, as a means to induce a change in the political economy. The Zionists have damaged the interests of a great number of capitalists, that opens an opportunity for criminalizing the Zionist methods of "waging destructive influence" (which includes attacks on free speech).

I think you're overestimating the damage done to capitalists compared to the determination to keep this going. The capitalists are complicit, they know they're complicit, and so they have a vested interest in not trying Netanyahu.

So who's going to take him before a war crimes tribunal?
I would gladly do it myself. The thing is I don't have money or resources to do that. If Netanyahu's motorcade passed by me, the best I could do is shoot at it or throw some manner of incendiary. But if I had the resources to launch an arrest and allies with whom to do it, I would do that, and I would deliver him to the Hague. Why are the people who do have the resources to enact the legal process instead ignoring the law? Why are they not pursuing this war criminal for his war crimes? Why does the US break its own laws to continue supporting him? Where is the state which will defy this evil?
I see no such state. And if there is no state willing to do it and I myself do not have the resources with which to place him under arrest, I have zero excuse to trust that somebody else will go through the process. The fact is, this guy was a war criminal 20-30-40 years ago. Now he's the worst war criminal on Earth, and most of the world is doing worse than nothing, actively trying to protect him.

Give me the support to arrest him, and I will arrest him. Petitioning those who already have the resources to arrest him to do their duty under law has clearly failed. This does not mean that I begrudge those who try to get him using the mechanisms available, I think they are right to exhaustively pursue such avenues, but it's very clear that the only avenue which will reliably work is action.

>Lets indulge in alternate history: the most profitable configuration for western capitalism would have been having 2 states, an Israel and a Palestine, both as client states. Giving west-Asia/middle-east a choice whether they want western influence with the Israeli flavor or the Palestinian flavor.

I don't agree with the premise of this hypothetical, and it's unfalsifiable.

>Genocide is considered such a mega crime, not because of moral convictions. The real reason is that it is a stupid strategy that stopped working a hundred years ago.

Well, clearly if that is the case then it hasn't been considered by the leaders of Israel and the US. Meanwhile, my objection to genocide is moral and ethical, and out of the concern that my government, which is actively supporting this genocide, will, as a global power, not draw the lines at the illusory borders which global powers use to manipulate the rest of us. Their sense of what is moral or practical does not stop at imaginary lines. The American leadership can and will do it here the moment they feel it is convenient to do so.

>If these zionist figure heads get whacked, that would cause disorganization and temporarily weaken Zionism. But if you go the systemic route, Zionism goes into the dustbin of history.

Not if the system is rigged in favor of Zionism. It is.

>A victory would be if you get these people processed by the system as villains like the Nazis after WW2, and you get actionable bans against lobby efforts that could diminish civil liberties like free speech.

The Nazis were tried for war crimes because they lost WWII. I mean, the Soviets fucked those guys up really badly. The US and UK too.
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 No.487499

Times of Israel website hacked, displaying pro-Palestine message
The website of the English-language edition of the newspaper has been taken over by hackers, showing a text in support of the Palestinians on its parent page.

“Do you really think you are safe in Palestine?” the message read, adding: “Or do you think they can protect you?”

“We are everywhere, but you cannot see us! There is more to talk about.. #FreePalestine” the message concluded.

“Allahu Akbar” in Arabic was typed under the message with different characters.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/9/live-israeli-troops-to-leave-gaza-corridor-after-captive-exchange
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 No.487501

>>487498
>I mean, killing Hitler and his administration wouldn't singlehandedly have stopped WWII, but it would be a pretty good start.
Why didn't the Soviets do it then ? They didn't even try.

Killing Hitler might have had an effect if it was done in the early stages of the formation of the fascist political organization (Nazi party), but later (WW2) when the fascist death machine was rolling, i doubt it. The driving force behind fascism is reactionary imperial finance capital looking to expand. Killing early Hitler might have delayed their schemes by a decade, and by then the Soviets would have been so powerful that a frontal assault would have been out of the question, and the other European powers like France and UK would had the time to build up their defenses as well. Maybe WW2 would have been more like the cold war if Early-hitler had been killed. I imagine that would have meant fewer deaths and less destruction, so it might have been worth it.

I look at history and politics through a hard materialist lens, and that leads me to the conclusion that killing individual political figures doesn't change much, or at least it doesn't really have lasting effects. So if my WW2 alt-history paragraph had come to pass and Early-hitler had been whacked in the 1920s, there would have been differences, but it would not have set us on a fundamentally different path. The effects would have diminished over time and eventually converged back into the timeline we are in now. In the present we would be in a nearly identical situation. This is what Marx meant by saying that we are living in pre-history still. Meaning a time where humanity is not able to consciously choose it's path. There have been attempts, the Soviets directed their development, during the Socdem period, the US and Europe did too. The Chinese are currently directing their development to a significant degree, the Russians probably do too, although to a lesser degree (i don't really know, with all the Russia-gate hysteria going on it's hard to know for sure)

You are basically proposing a theory that we can escape pre-history and gain agency over our development, by "pruning" the bad politicians, rather then changing the system. I don't think that's true, i think that changing the system is the only game in town.

I'm splitting my replay in multiple comments in order to make it less "text-wally"
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 No.487503

>>487498
>I think you're overestimating the damage done to capitalists compared to the determination to keep this going. The capitalists are complicit, they know they're complicit, and so they have a vested interest in not trying Netanyahu.
If they are that determined why would they be deterred by the Yahu biting the dust. I think that the Zionist machine would just go full cringe and declare it a "personal holocaust" or something similarly retarded, and then there might be a brief period of political intrigue and power struggle. They'll get a new guy that will continue on the road to genocide the Palestinians.

Lets not forget that Netanyahu is also destroying Isreal's economic base and traumatizing the Israeli population, because his personal interests are driving him in that direction. That means Israel as a state might go away entirely or become so weakened that they will no longuer be capable of doing much of anything. He's digging 2 graves one for Palestine and one for Israel. Lets look at the prospects here. The Yahu completes the ethnic cleansing and the Palestinians get dispersed into a global Palestinian diaspora, Israel falters economically, while the US empire continues to weaken until it no longer can afford to prop up Israel as a state and downgrades its material support to maintaining military bases only. That means that the Zionist political project evaporates (including the Zionist influence operation in western countries). After that the Palestinians get a chance to reclaim Palestine, if they agree to leave US bases alone. The Palestinians appear to be accepting of non-Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, so Israeli Jews probably could stay as long as they disavow Zionism and give up on their project for ethnic supremacy "Ubermenschen" privileges. The time frame on this is probably 5-10 years. Less if Israel takes another stab at Iran. I'm not advocating this because the amount of people that die horrendous brutal deaths would be staggering, but it is a "Horror with an end". If the Yahu gets a "percussive-retirement", you might end up with a new Zionist Fuhrer that somehow manages to prevent Israel's short-term downfall while still completing the genocide, and that means the Israeli state will continue terrorizing people for another 20-40 years. For people living in the west it means that insufferable artificial propaganda voice screeching dehumanizing and sadistic colonial nonsense would remain a continuing irritant on our minds and a reputational drain internationally.

>So who's going to take him before a war crimes tribunal?

Are you kidding me ? All the lawyers and judges that get to process Hitler2 will get enormous prestige and significant material validation. Maybe you don't know the guys who did Hitler1 but all the people in the judicial circles do.

>If Netanyahu's motorcade passed by me, the best I could do is shoot at it or throw some manner of incendiary.

He's the most hated person on the planet, he probably has good security and an armored car. He clearly is very vulnerable, but not as much as you think. Iran for example has the power to do this, Netanyahu wants a war with Iran, so they have a powerful incentive to assassinate him, yet they are not doing it. Netanyahu is also damaging interests of the US and Europe (particularly Spain and Portugal), who also have the ability to end him. You first would have to understand why all these actors who have both means an incentive, do not act.

But if I had the resources to launch an arrest and allies with whom to do it, I would do that, and I would deliver him to the Hague. Why are the people who do have the resources to enact the legal process instead ignoring the law? Why are they not pursuing this war criminal for his war crimes? Why does the US break its own laws to continue supporting him? Where is the state which will defy this evil?
There definitely is capital that is getting screwed by the Zionist machine, they suffer a lot of opportunity damage, as in paths to profits the Zionists have closed off. If they are rational actors it should be possible to convince them.

>Give me the support to arrest him, and I will arrest him. Petitioning those who already have the resources to arrest him to do their duty under law has clearly failed. This does not mean that I begrudge those who try to get him using the mechanisms available,

The postWW2 antifascist mechanisms proved ineffective indeed, you definitely have to create new institutional mechanisms for sure.
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 No.487504

>>487498
<Lets indulge in alternate history: the most profitable configuration for western capitalism would have been having 2 states, an Israel and a Palestine, both as client states. Giving west-Asia/middle-east a choice whether they want western influence with the Israeli flavor or the Palestinian flavor.
>I don't agree with the premise of this hypothetical, and it's unfalsifiable.
So you think the Zionists are competent at serving imperialism ?

There used to be labor zionism, which might have been reasonable, i don't really know, it died decades ago, and i can't be bothered to investigate it. Zionism as it stands today is just a type of fascism, as such it is driven by reactionary imperial finance capital looking to expand. (You probably should read some Domenico Losurdo to understand the links between collonialism and fascism). From the perspective of imperial expansion fascism is mostly a big failure, with WW2 being the big one. You know they switched to fascism and the result was the Soviets becoming a super-power, that induced national liberation movements all over the world and that killed colonialism. That meant imperialism was forced to endure a huge retreat.

I think that project Israel is turning into a failure from the perspective of imperial finance capital too. So yeah i think Zionism is incompetent evil.

You are right that i can't provide evidence for an alternate history theory, but doing an earnest 2 state solution with a genuine Palestinian state that would have been a much smoother method of gaining imperial influence. Almost the entire population in that region thinks that the US is the great Satan because it supports the Zionist war-crimes. This materializes as relentless push-back which cause an enormous amount of friction to everything the US tries to do. By giving the Palestinians a genuine state, the US probably would have been perceived as a neutral power that rectified the errors of the British empire, and the friction would have been less than 10% of what it is now. Obviously the most rational course of action would have been to drop Zionism and end project Israel, and instead build a partnership with Iran under Mossadegh, by letting him nationalize Iranian oil unmolested under the condition of being able to buy 10% of Iranian oil at production cost, plus a small military base.

I want to reiterate, i think the current crop of imperialists suck at imperialism, they are very powerful but what they have is mostly legacy power.
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 No.487505

It's gonna be really hilarious if the Trump presidency is ultimately undone by Israel.
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 No.487518

572 more fatalities confirmed in Gaza: Health Ministry

The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest report on the number of people who were killed and wounded by Israel’s war on the territory.

In a statement, it said a total of 26 fatalities – four newly killed, 22 body recoveries – and five wounded people had arrived in hospitals during the past 48 hours.

It added that 572 fatalities were added to the overall number of people killed in Israeli attacks after their data was verified by the judicial committee following up on the file of reports and missing persons.

As a result, the confirmed number of people killed in Israeli attacks since October 7 has risen to at least 48,181, with 111,638 others wounded.

A number of victims still remain under the rubble, while the Government Media Office in Gaza has put the death toll to at least 61,709 people, saying thousands of people who were missing under the rubble are now presumed dead.

Israeli forces near Ramallah beat 70-year-old father of prisoner set for release

The Israeli forces have stormed the home of Fatah Revolutionary Council member Fakhri Barghouti in the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office.

Barghouti, 70, was severely beaten and warned not to hold any celebratory events to mark the release of his son, Shadi, from an Israeli prison later today, the statement on Telegram said.

Iran leader Khamenei meets top Hamas leaders in Tehran

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met with acting Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and two other leaders of the Palestinian group in Tehran.

Iranian state media gave no details about the meeting and only posted photos of Khamenei meeting al-Hayya, Muhammad Darwish, head of Hamas’s leadership council, and top Hamas official Nizar Awadallah.

Iran supports Hamas in its war with Israel.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed in a strike on their accommodation in the Iranian capital in July. Khamenei promised “harsh punishment” for Israel and said it is “our duty to seek revenge for his blood as he was martyred in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.

Iran’s supreme leader praises Hamas: ‘Israeli goals unachieved’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met acting Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and two other leaders of the Palestinian group in Tehran.

“You defeated the Zionist regime, which was in fact America’s defeat,” Khamenei told the Palestinian delegation. “You did not allow them to achieve any of their goals.”

Khamenei “honoured the memory of the martyrs of Gaza and the martyred commanders, particularly Martyr Ismail Haniyeh“, the supreme leader’s official website said.

Iranian TV said the Palestinian leaders were in Tehran to congratulate Khamenei on the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. They expressed gratitude for Iran’s continued support.

The delegation, which also included Mohammad Darwish, head of Hamas’s leadership council, and top Hamas official Nizar Awadallah, presented Khamenei with a report on the current situation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and “the victories and successes that were achieved”.

“We come to meet with you today with pride,” the TV quoted al-Hayya as telling Khamenei.

US threats against Iran “have no effect on the mindset of our nation”, Khamenei was quoted as saying.

Hamas: Netanyahu’s ‘absolute victory’ a ‘shattered illusion’
Hamas has issued a lengthy statement after freeing three Israeli captives. Here are the main quotes:

The Qassam Brigades in Gaza released today a number of the enemy’s captives in its possession, in exchange for the liberation of a new batch of our heroic prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, within the framework of the ceasefire deal.
The great scenes of the handover process, and the messages of the resistance about the “next day”, confirm the hand of our people and their resistance will remain supreme… bringing us closer to return, freedom and self-determination.
Our Palestinian people, with their great rallying around the resistance and defiance of the occupation, confirm their rejection of all Trump’s projects of displacement and occupation, and their firm determination to thwart them.
The “absolute victory” that the criminal Netanyahu and his army sought for 471 days are illusions that were shattered on the land of proud Gaza forever.
We renew our greetings to our great Palestinian people, who, with their legendary steadfastness, sent a clear message to the entire world that they… are committed to their resistance, and determined to continue on their path until freedom and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Our resistance has adhered to human values ​​and the provisions of international humanitarian law in its treatment of prisoners, and has made great efforts to preserve their lives despite the Zionist bombing and the attempts of the war criminal Netanyahu to target and liquidate them.

Israel prison authorities confirm 183 Palestinians freed

Israel’s prison service has confirmed it released 183 Palestinian prisoners during the fifth exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.

It said in a statement that they “were transferred from several prisons across the country”, before they “were released” to the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and Gaza.

War-torn Lebanon forms its first government in 2 years

Lebanon’s new prime minister has formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022.

President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he accepted the resignation of the former caretaker government and signed a decree with new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam forming the new government.

Salam’s cabinet of 24 ministers, split evenly between Christian and Muslim sects, was formed less than a month after he was appointed, and comes at a time when Lebanon is scrambling to rebuild its war-battered southern region and maintain security along its southern border after a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah.

A US-brokered ceasefire deal ended the war in November. Though Hezbollah did not endorse Salam as prime minister, the Lebanese group did engage in negotiations with the new prime minister over the Shia Muslim seats in government, as per Lebanon’s power-sharing system.

Israeli army says it struck Hamas weapons depot in Syria

A military statement says a Hamas weapons cache in the Deir Ali area in southern Syria has been bombed by Israeli jets.

The army claimed Hamas and other Palestinian groups are “exploiting Syrian soil to establish Iranian-directed terrorist activity”.

“The [military] will continue to strike the Hamas terrorist organisation wherever it tries to establish itself and will act against all attempts by terrorist organisations to establish themselves and strengthen themselves in order to prevent a threat to the security of the State of Israel,” the army said.

There was no comment from Syrian authorities or Hamas on the Israeli claim.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/7/live-3-israelis-183-palestinians-to-be-freed-in-latest-gaza-truce-swap

Hezbollah sidelined as Lebanon forms new government
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

After much political bickering and international pressure, Lebanon’s politicians have agreed on a new government.

It’s a very different government from previous ones.

This time, Hezbollah and its allies no longer control the executive authority. They’ve lost what is known here as the “blocking third”. They don’t have the number of ministers to block decisions and to topple the cabinet.

There was a lot of international pressure on Lebanon’s politicians, simply because this country is in dire need of financial assistance, not only to help revive the economy but to help reconstruct what was destroyed during the Israel-Hezbollah war last year. The reconstruction bill is in the billions of dollars and this is a nearly bankrupt state.

The new government is going to have many challenges ahead. It’s not just the economy and rebuilding, it’s also about maintaining that ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Lebanon is under pressure to extend the state’s authority across the country and to disarm all non-state actors. This means Hezbollah.

There’s no doubt that Hezbollah has been militarily weakened by Israel, but it is still a force to be reckoned with in the country. Along with its allies, it has a significant number of seats in parliament and it has popular support. But it is a very different Hezbollah. In the past, it was able to impose its decisions, and now its influence has waned.

So the balance of power has changed in Lebanon, and also in the region.

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Israeli forces to begin withdrawing from Netzarim Corridor: Reports

The Israeli military will begin a complete withdrawal from Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor tonight, according to reports in the Israeli media.

Yedioth Ahronoth is reporting that the army the 162nd Division will redeploy to near the border and the evacuation of Netzarim will mean the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the northern Gaza Strip.

Per the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli military is supposed to withdraw completely from the Netzarim Corridor, which bisects Gaza, and allow free movement back and forth between the southern and northern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli air attack kills six and wounds two in eastern Lebanon

An Israeli attack Saturday on a Hezbollah base in eastern Lebanon has killed six people and wounded two others, Lebanese state media has reported.

The state-run Lebanese News Agency (NNA) said the raid which was carried by “an enemy drone on the al-Shaara area adjacent to the town of Jennata, on the slopes of the eastern Lebanon mountain range, resulted in the killing of six people and the wounding of two others”.

The Israeli army said that earlier on Saturday Israeli warplanes conducted what it described as “an intelligence-based strike on Hezbollah operatives in the area of Bekaa in Lebanon”.

The attacks come amid a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which was agreed in November last year and recently extended until February 18.

Israeli violence inflicted on Palestinian prisoners ‘horrifying’

Discussing today’s captive-prisoner exchange, Basil Farraj of Birzeit University, told Al Jazeera that “what is most shocking is the level of brutality and dehumanisation of Palestinian detainees, to the extent that, Israeli authorities showed a three-minute video clip of the destruction in Gaza to soon to be released Palestinian prisoners.”

He noted that “the level of violence and brutality towards Palestinian detainees is horrifying and exceeds what we know of the stories of torture and violence.”

Farraj added that “at least 58 Palestinians [in Israeli custody] have been killed in less than 16 months, which is in itself an astonishment.

“In addition, [Israeli authorities have been] withholding Palestinian dead bodies … without any form of justice.”

Rights group says released most prisoners suffer health issues

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society advocacy group says most of the prisoners released by Israel in the continuing ceasefire deal suffer from health problems.

“Today, after 183 prisoners were released in the fifth batch of the first phase, the prisoners’ bodies and their health conditions, and the need for some of them to be transferred to the hospital, reflected the level of atrocities that the prisoners were exposed to over the past period in the occupation prisons,” it said.

“In addition to all this, we remind you that the occupation did not stop at its crimes against prisoners, but also practised organised terrorism against their families.”

The Prisoner’s Society noted that there were still more than 10,000 prisoners in Israeli prisons, and the number did not include all the people detained in Gaza.

German police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters over Arabic music

German police have arrested several pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin and forced them to stop playing music and chanting slogans in Arabic against Israel, the Anadolu news agency has reported.

Hundreds of people had gathered at the square near the Wittenbergplatz metro station in support of Palestine, under the slogan “Stop the aggression in the West Bank—Do not supply weapons to Israel.”

Demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and signs reading “Hands off the West Bank”, “Stop arming Israel”, and “Palestinian children deserve to grow up”.

During the rally, some protesters delivered speeches in Arabic and chanted anti-Israel and anti-US slogans to the tune of Arabic music.

Police intervened, citing an Arabic music ban, and demanded that the protesters disperse.

More than 50 protesters refused to leave and staged a sit-in protest, prompting police to arrest several protesters.

WATCH: AJ+ journalist finally returns home to northern Gaza

After surviving 15 months of Israeli bombardment, Bisan Owda is finally able to go home.

Since the ceasefire deal, more than 500,000 Palestinians have now traveled back to northern Gaza. Before October 7, 2023, most of Gaza’s population lived in northern Gaza, and Gaza City was the largest urban area.

Bisan’s journey would usually have only taken 40 minutes, but it took her more than 24 hours to travel there.

When Bisan finally made it to her family home in Beit Hanoon, 10km (4.5 miles) from Gaza City, she found her house heavily damaged. One of the first things she did was hang a Palestinian flag from her balcony.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFvvGNfRuiA/

Prime Minister Netanyahu ‘weaponised hunger’ in Gaza
Marwan Bishara
Al Jazeera's senior political analyst

I would like to start with the absurd idea that Israelis are upset that the three captives have lost weight. It’s actually far more than absurd, far more than cynical. It’s the ultimate hutzpah, as the Israelis like to refer to it.

Netanyahu, who is unhappy, is sought after by the International Criminal Court for weaponising hunger in Gaza. He’s accused of crimes against humanity for instilling famine in Gaza, using hunger as a weapon of war.

That man is complaining the three Israelis held there lost weight when countless Palestinians have died of starvation? Countless children have died of malnutrition? And he’s the one responsible for all of that.

The other thing is the degree of testimony of Palestinians released from Israeli prisons. I doubt it’s going to be heard throughout the Western world, but Israeli prisons have long turned into torture chambers.

Netanyahu ‘already looking to re-litigate’ the ceasefire agreement

Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat, told Al Jazeera that the mood in Israel today is mixed as “many people are elated and jubilant, but also fear that the next phase [of the ceasefire agreement] may not happen”.

Pinkas pointed out that many people feel anger and resentment towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “choosing to stay at a fancy hotel suite in Washington, DC today”, instead of welcoming the captives home.

“All he cares about right now is the relative stability of his coalition,” Pinkas said. “He accuses the entire world, including the families of the hostages, of trying to undermine him at a time of war. This is not the Netanyahu of savvy instincts of recent years.”

He also said that Netanyahu is actively hostile about advancing the ceasefire agreement with Hamas and will try to use Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza as an excuse to resume the war.

“He’s already looking to re-litigate the agreement, saying the Israeli negotiating team was manipulated by Qatar, Egypt and even the Biden administration,” he said.

“He will insert new stipulations [into the ceasefire deal] and then try and collapse it somehow. If that doesn’t work, he will try and initiate more friction in the West Bank and transfer that over into Gaza.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/7/live-3-israelis-183-palestinians-to-be-freed-in-latest-gaza-truce-swap
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Netzarim withdrawal another ‘failure’ of war goals for Israel: Hamas

The Palestinian group running Gaza says the complete withdrawal of the Israeli military from the Netzarim Corridor signals a “continuation of the failure of the goals of the war of extermination against the Palestinian people”.

Hamas added in a statement that the return of displaced Palestinians to their homes and the ongoing exchange of captives and prisoners refutes Benjamin Netanyahu’s “lie” about achieving victory in the enclave.

“Gaza will remain a land liberated by the hands of its people and its fighters, and forbidden to the occupying invaders and any external force.”

https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1888495023391486130
Translation: From the Netzarim Corridor after the withdrawal of the occupation forces.

Israel bombs ‘Hezbollah tunnel’ on Lebanon-Syria border

The Israeli military says it carried out an air strike targeting a tunnel on the border between Syria and Lebanon used by the armed group Hezbollah.

Israeli “aircraft conducted a precise intelligence-based strike on an underground tunnel crossing from Syrian territory into Lebanese territory that was used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons”, the military said in statement.

The army said it also struck “several other Hezbollah sites” in Lebanon. Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported “hostile Israeli warplanes” launching several raids at the Lebanon-Syria border, including one that hit a crossing.

A fragile Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire (anon's note: ???) has been in place since November 27 after more than a year of hostilities, including two months of all-out war.

Israeli air attack hits Lebanon’s Nabatieh region

Israeli jets have launched an air attack this evening on the area between Aazze and Bfarwa in Nabatieh, according to the official National News Agency.

On Saturday, an Israeli air raid killed six people and wounded two in eastern Lebanon amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Clashes occurring near Ramallah

Sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that clashes took place between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces in the village of Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

Since the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect, Israel has stepped up its military campaign in the West Bank, confirming earlier today that it is focusing the brunt of its force on the northern part of the territory.

Take Israelis to Alaska, Greenland, Saudi official says

A member of Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council has criticised Trump’s proposal to move Palestinians from Gaza, suggesting that relocating Israelis to Alaska and Greenland would be a better solution for Middle East stability.

“If he [Trump] truly wants to be a hero of peace and achieve stability and prosperity for the Middle East, he should relocate his beloved Israelis to the state of Alaska and then to Greenland after annexing it,” Yousef bin Trad al-Saadoun said in an article for the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz.

He urged Palestinians to remain united as “the worst is yet to come”.

Al-Saadoun also dismissed Netanyahu’s call for establishing a Palestinian state on Saudi Arabian territory. “The Zionists and their allies must realise they will not succeed in dragging the Saudi leadership into media traps and false political pressure.”

He accused Washington of blindly adopting Israel’s policies.

“The official foreign policy of the United States will seek the illegal occupation of sovereign land and the ethnic cleansing of its population – both of which are Israel’s methods and constitute crimes against humanity.”

Majority of Americans think US takeover of Gaza ‘bad idea’: Poll

A poll conducted by CBS has found that most people in the United States think US control of Gaza, a proposal made by Trump last week, is a “bad idea”.

Forty-seven percent of those polled aren’t in favour of the US president’s plan, while only 13 percent think it is a “good idea”. Forty percent of people responded that they were not sure, or that it depends.

Meanwhile, 54 percent of those polled said they approved of Trump’s handling of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

France allowed Netanyahu’s plane to fly over its airspace twice, despite ICC arrest warrant

France has allowed the Israeli prime minister’s plane to pass through its airspace for the second time, despite a standing arrest warrant for the Israeli leader issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), and France being legally obliged to abide by the court’s decision, according to an investigation by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad.

The plane, called the “Wing of Zion”, carrying Netanyahu took off on its return journey after his visit to the US capital, according to navigation data from the aircraft tracking site Flightradar24.

The Israeli plane used French airspace to return to Israel, in violation of international law and the ICC decision issued in November 2024 for Netanyahu’s arrest, on the basis that he participated in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the prosecution of Israel’s war on Gaza.

On February 2, France also allowed Netanyahu’s plane, on its outbound flight to Washington, to pass over its airspace even after the plane took a specifically curated route to avoid the airspaces of other countries adhering to the ICC decision.

France, as a member of the ICC and a signatory to the Rome Statute since 1998, is legally obliged to adhere to the court’s decisions.

Netanyahu’s US trip was his first foreign visit since the ICC issued its decision.

Israeli settlers block main street in West Bank’s Huwara

Israeli settlers have stormed the town of Huwara south of Nablus and closed down the main street under the protection of Israeli armed forces.

Videos from the town, which have been verified by Al Jazeera, show settlers dancing and raising the Israeli flag.

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1888553859250901048

Aerial footage reveals extent of destruction around Netzarim Corridor

The Israeli military left a huge trail of destruction behind after completing its withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor.

Aerial footage released by local activists, which has been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, show how nothing was spared in the area of the corridor that bisected Gaza and prevented Palestinians from going back to their homes in the northern part of the enclave.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF2KLVYAPI8/

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https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1888508058566877660
Israeli occupation forces are forcing families out of their homes in al-Far'a refugee camp, as the Israeli military continues its assault on the camp for the seventh day in a row.
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Alon Mizrahi: The biggest news item in the past 24 hours not many people are talking about: the Trump administration has greenlighted the delivery of MOABs to Israel.

The Mother Of All Bombs, as it's called, weighs 11 tons and is the heaviest and most destructive in America's arsenal. It is designed to penetrate and destroy deep underground bunkers.

For 25 years Israel has requested these bombs and the US said no.

This is, in effect, an American authorization of a massive strike against Iran. Personally, I welcome this scenario, as a direct and full confrontation with Iran is the only thing that can stop Israel's murder spree, or just stop Israel, period.
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Netanyahu dreams about debilitating Iran and Normalizing with Saudi Arabia to complete Zionism's takeover of the Middle East. Both articles of this plan are going to fail spectacularly: Israel will be destroyed in war, and no one will ever want to hear from past Zionists after it.

https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1888661122489925715
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>>487522
These ginormous "mobs" are put inside of a massive, slow military cargo plane, and when they are over the drop zone, they open the rear hatch of the plane and then it gets pushed out on a sled. Because of that it can only be used when there is absolutely no anti-air. Flak cannons from WW2 would be able to deny the use of this.

As a propaganda tool this is good for producing a media spectacle and intimidation, but it is not in any way a "efficient" military tool. Bunker buster bombs are much better and also cheaper.

Iran has demonstrated that they have rather sophisticated anti air and they have driven their missile bunker complexes deep into mountains, and are likely capable of shrugging off nukes. It's quite possible it would require a ground invasion to destroy that.

It's much more likely the Zionists plan to use these to terrorize Syrians or Lebanese.
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 No.487528

>>487523
>It's much more likely the Zionists plan to use these to terrorize Syrians or Lebanese.
I think you're onto something there. I think I heard Ray McGovern (or possibly Alastair Crooke) talking about this today, and their suggestion was that this would be aimed at attacking Gaza again. I'd say Gaza and Lebanon would be my first guesses, and then Syria since Syria doesn't have any air defenses (anymore) either.
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Hamas says it’ll delay captive release indefinitely, cites Israel’s deal ‘violations’

The spokesperson of Hamas’s armed wing has issued a statement on Telegram saying the group will delay the release of more Israeli captives planned for Saturday “until further notice”.

“Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership monitored the enemy’s violations and its non-compliance with the terms of the agreement,” Abu Obeida said.

“These violations include delaying the return of displaced persons to northern Gaza, targeting them with shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Gaza Strip, and failing to allow the entry of relief materials in all forms as agreed upon. Meanwhile, the resistance has fulfilled all its obligations.”

The Qassam Brigades spokesperson added the decision to delay the release of captives will “remain in place until the occupying entity complies with past obligations and compensates retroactively. We affirm our commitment to the terms of the agreement as long as the occupation adheres to them.”

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‘The Israelis are intentionally sabotaging the deal’: Hamas official

Senior Hamas official Basem Naim had told Al Jazeera before the group called for an indefinite delay in the release of Israeli captives that Israel is not meeting the terms of the ceasefire.

“In the last three weeks after signing the deal, we have been in very serious talks and negotiations with the mediators – the Egyptians, the Qataris and the United States – about the daily violations by the Israelis of the deal,” Naim said.

He noted 25 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded by Israeli forces after the ceasefire went into effect.

Hamas officials called for hundreds of thousands of tents to be brought into Gaza to shelter displaced people as they faced winter weather, and the necessary aid has not arrived. “We are lacking any sources of electricity. We have called for generators to enter the Strip,” Naim said.

“We have told them clearly: ‘How can we continue the prisoner exchange, including the dead bodies of the captured Israelis, if until now we don’t have any heavy machinery?’

“We are committed to the ceasefire agreement. We have done our part. We have fulfilled all our obligations, and we are still committed, and we are working to avoid any obstacles and overcome any challenges. The Israelis are intentionally sabotaging the deal and undermining the agreement.”

Israel on high alert as Hamas announces captive release postponed

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz blamed Hamas for violating the Gaza truce after the Palestinian group announced it’s halting the release of captives because of Israeli violations.

“I have instructed military to prepare at the highest level of readiness in Gaza and to defend our communities,” Katz said.

“Hamas’s announcement it will stop releasing hostages is a complete violation of the ceasefire deal,” he added.

Three dead after damaged buildings collapse in Gaza
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Gaza City

People have set up fires inside collapsed buildings as a way to warm themselves during these difficult weather conditions in northern Gaza.

There is a lack of aid, tents and better protection for people here.

They are staying in severely damaged buildings due to a lack of shelters in these areas.

There have been three documented cases of people dying under similar buildings that were collapsed in recent days.

Netanyahu arrives at corruption trial

The Israeli prime minister has arrived at a Tel Aviv court to continue testifying in his long-running corruption trial.

The 75-year-old has been indicted in three cases involving gifts from millionaire friends and for allegedly seeking regulatory favours for media tycoons in return for favourable news coverage of himself.

Netanyahu, who denies any wrongdoing, has pleaded not guilty.

‘Hamas represents the collective Palestinian will’

Hamas’s move to suspend its swap of captives over Israeli ceasefire violations shows its unique position in the Arab world of consistently standing up for the people of Gaza, an analyst says.

“This is a political statement designed to pressure both the United States and the Israeli government and people. This is an example of the kind of resistance politically that Hamas puts up. No other Arab party – except maybe [the Houthis] in Yemen – is really doing this in a sustained manner,” said Rami Khouri from the American University in Beirut.

“This is the reason why Hamas is taken seriously, because it does stick to the point and maintains political pressure to achieve its goals,” he told Al Jazeera.

“Hamas represents now better than anybody – certainly better than the Palestinian Authority and the PLO – the collective Palestinian will, and that includes the will to co-exist with the state of Israel with its Jewish majority.”

Increased Israeli drone activity over northern Gaza

Our colleagues on the ground report an increase in drone activity over the skies of Gaza City and other areas in the Strip’s war-battered northern areas.

Meanwhile, Israeli media report that the army suspended leave for all Gaza division soldiers.

The news reports come after Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said he put the armed forces on the highest level after Hamas announced it is suspending the transfer of captives from Gaza because of violations of the ceasefire agreement.

Israeli public anger for delay in captives’ release directed at Netanyahu

Hamas’s decision is “tragic” but predictable, according to Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat.

“Netanyahu indicated, before his trip to Washington, that he does not have any intentions of moving on to phase two [of the ceasefire deal],” Pinkas told Al Jazeera, speaking from Tel Aviv.

“The moment he made it clear that he has no intention of moving to phase two, that put into question phase one … Then he went to Washington and stood by President Trump, who came up with this Gaza Riviera idea that includes expelling 2.3 million Palestinians.

“Fast forward to today, in an interview on Fox News, [Trump] said that [Palestinians] will not be able to return to Gaza.”

Pinkas said the reaction in Israel to Hamas’s decision is anger directed at Prime Minister Netanyahu. “I would not be surprised to see a very intense, very angry, very broad pushback against Netanyahu in the next 24 hours.”

The former diplomat added far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir’s response – to start up the war again and “destroy” Gaza – should not be taken seriously now that he is out of the government.

Ben-Gvir resigned last month as a result of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement coming into effect.

Truce violations have been widely committed by Israel
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Karam Abu Salam Crossing, Gaza

If there is no move by the Israelis to address the shortcomings regarding the implementation of the humanitarian protocol of the ceasefire deal, the situation in Gaza is going to get much worse.

In the terms of the agreement, 600 trucks full of aid are supposed to enter the Strip each day. At first, this exceeded expectations. But recently the number of aid deliveries has greatly dwindled to 330 trucks daily.

The United Nations humanitarian office reported over 12,600 trucks have entered over the past three weeks. This number is far less than what’s been promised.

For patients in need of medical treatment abroad, only 50 Palestinians have been sent since the beginning of this month, which completely contradicts the number agreed on in the truce deal. These violations have been widely committed by Israel.

Families of Israeli captives respond to Hamas announcement

Bring Them Home Now, the group representing families of Israeli captives, has responded to Hamas’s decision to suspend their release.

“In response to Hamas’s recent announcement, we have urgently requested assistance from the mediating countries to help restore and implement the existing deal effectively,” it said in a statement.

“We stand with the Israeli government and encourage maintaining the conditions that will ensure the successful continuation of the agreement, leading to the safe return of our 76 brothers and sisters.”

The mother of one captive, Einav Tsengauker, was quoted by Israel’s army radio as saying, “Hamas’s announcement is a direct result of Netanyahu’s reckless behaviour. The deliberate foot-dragging, the lack of a mandate for the delegation, and the unnecessary boasting sabotage the agreement.”

Palestinians flee occupied West Bank camp as Israeli army attacks

Palestinian residents have accused the Israeli military of destroying the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. Sounds of explosion and gunfire can be heard during the Israeli assault.

“The situation is catastrophic in the camp,” Ibtisam Abu Zahra, a resident, told Anadolu news agency.

Ahmed al-Izza, an elderly Palestinian, said Israeli troops imposed a movement ban in the camp. “Israeli soldiers stormed our houses and forced us to leave,” he said.

“Destruction is everywhere in the camp. Residents who remained are waiting for their turn. The camp is surrounded and Israeli forces are raiding all houses.”

Assad Abu Zahra was forced to flee the al-Manshiyya neighbourhood with his mother.

“Around 40 soldiers broke into the house and destroyed everything. Today, we are living a new Nakba, like the one lived by our people in 1948,” he said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/10/live-israeli-forces-kill-6-in-gaza-west-bank-as-trump-repeats-gaza-plan
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>>487528
Yeah shock-waves of expand in 3 dimensions. That means the "oomph"-function declines as a cube. Which means dropping multiple smaller bombs is way more effective than one big moab. I don't know what they are expecting from this. If they think the moabs will achieve a military goal that their massive bombing campaigns have not achieved so far, they would be wrong.

If this serves as a statement of intent. This might make sense in theory, but in practice, there is absolutely no ambiguity about Israeli intentions anymore.

I suppose they might want it for intimidation, but displays of brutality are as likely to inspire people to switch into "root out the predator mode".
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Mahmood OD on recent developments between Israel and Egypt

Full Hamas statement on move to halt Gaza captive releases

We’ve been reporting on Hamas suspending this Saturday’s planned captive release. Below is a full statement from the Palestinian group.

“Hamas confirms its commitment to the terms of the agreement, which the Zionist occupation committed to. Hamas has implemented all its commitments strictly and on time. The occupation did not comply with the terms of the agreement, and recorded many violations, which included:

Delaying the return of displaced people to the northern Gaza Strip
Targeting our people by bombing and shooting them, and killing many in various areas of the Strip
Obstructing the entry of shelter requirements from tents and ready houses, fuel, and rubble-lifting machinery to recover bodies
Delaying the entry of the medicines and requirements to restore hospitals and the health sector
“Hamas counted the abuses of the occupation, and provided them with the mediators first by one, but the occupation continued its excesses. Hamas calls for strict adherence to the agreement, and not subject it to selectivity, by providing the least important, delaying, and obstructing the most urgent and important.

“The postponement of the release of prisoners is a warning message to the occupation, and to pressure towards strict adherence to the terms of the agreement.

“Hamas deliberately made this announcement five full days before the date of extradition of the prisoners to give the mediators enough opportunity to put pressure on the occupation to implement its obligations, and to keep the door open to implement the exchange on time if the occupation adheres to what it agreed to.”

Yemen’s Houthis ready to attack Israel if war on Gaza resumes, leader says

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, who control most of western Yemen, including the capital, are ready to launch attacks on Israel if it resumes its war on Gaza and does not commit to the ceasefire, the group’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, says in a televised speech.

Before the truce, the Houthis had attacked Israeli and other vessels in the Red Sea, disturbing global shipping lanes, in what they said were acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas.

Israel’s Smotrich, Ben-Gvir back Trump’s call to cancel truce deal

The far-right politicians welcomed the US president’s call for the cancellation of the Gaza deal unless Hamas frees all remaining captives by Saturday.

“All of them, now!”, said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a post on X, seemingly referring to the captive release.

“Trump is right! We must go back and destroy now,” former National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said.

The politician who resigned from Netanyahu’s war cabinet in protest against the ceasefire deal said earlier that Israel should respond to Hamas’s move with “a massive fire attack” and a complete suspension of humanitarian aid.

Israel military to ‘significantly reinforce’ around Gaza

The Israeli army says it will “significantly reinforce” areas around Gaza after Hamas announced it will stop releasing Israeli captives until further notice over Israeli violations of the ceasefire.

Israeli army boosts forces to prepare for ‘various scenarios’

The Israeli military says it decided to “further strengthen” forces including mobilising additional reservists in the country’s south.

“The reinforcement of forces and the mobilization of reserves were carried out to prepare for various scenarios,” said a statement.

The comments come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to resume “intense fighting” in Gaza should Hamas refuse to release captives by Saturday at noon.

A sleepless night in Gaza City as Israeli drones, jets return to skies
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Salah al-Din Road, Gaza

The ceasefire was quite fragile from day one, with the unnecessary delays in it taking effect, as well as the many statements from Israeli officials, at the political and military level, which said they would resume war as soon as the captives are released.

All of this was followed by Trump’s suggestions of forced displacement, the most recent of which was repeated last night.

There is fear everywhere. We can see it on the faces of people here – people who have returned in the hopes of rebuilding their shattered lives. But as of last night, things have changed dramatically. There are many drones hovering at a very low level in the skies across Gaza City and the north of the Strip. There were fighter jets that hovered for two to three hours and there were gunboats as well that approached the shore of Gaza City and northern areas.

All of this creates a sense that we are still at war, that we are still bearing the difficulties of the siege imposed by the Israeli military.

The fact that there are drones in the area kept everyone awake last night.

People are very concerned about what may happen because we know things can change dramatically, given the fragility of the ceasefire.

West Bank annexation is ‘going to work out’: Trump

US President Donald Trump, asked about Israel’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank, responded “that’s going to work out”.

The comments came after a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House.

Calls to suspend Israel’s membership in international organisations

Participants at a conference held in Oslo have called for the suspension of Israel’s membership in international organisations, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

The conference, organised by the groups Free Speech, Jewish Voice and Lower the Arms, and attended by academics, political figures and human rights advocates from 13 countries, called on popular movements to increase their pressure on Western governments to uphold international law in Palestine.

Participants, including the European-Palestinian Initiative Against Apartheid and Colonial Settlement, also called for European sanctions against Israel should it fail to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.

The Anti-Apartheid Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization participated in the conference, with department head Ramzi Rabah speaking about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and Israel’s actions against UNRWA.

Trump aiming to bring Iran ‘to its knees’, president says

Iran’s president has accused Trump of seeking to overthrow Iran as the country marked the 1979 revolution that toppled the US-backed shah.

“Trump says, ‘We want to talk’, and … [then] he signs in a memorandum all the conspiracies to bring our revolution to its knees,” President Masoud Pezeshkian told a crowd, referring to Trump’s reinstatement of sanctions against Tehran earlier this month.

“We are not looking for war,” he said, while adding that Iran “will never bow to foreigners”.

Chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans, crowds formed on Monday in the streets of Shiraz and Bandar Abbas in the south, Rasht in the north, Kermanshah and Sanandaj in the west, and the holy city of Mashhad in the east, according to images broadcast on television.

Israeli police cite children’s colouring book for bookstore crackdown

More details have emerged on the Israeli police raid on a popular bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem.

The bookstore’s owners, Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna, were detained, and police confiscated hundreds of titles related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict before ordering the store’s closure, according to May Muna, Mahmoud’s wife.

She said the soldiers picked out books with Palestinian titles or flags, “without knowing what any of them meant”. She said they used Google Translate on some of the Arabic titles to see what they meant before carting them away in plastic bags.

Police raided another Palestinian-owned bookstore in the Old City in East Jerusalem last week. In a statement, the police said the two owners were arrested on suspicion of “selling books containing incitement and support for terrorism”.

As an example, the police referred to an English-language children’s colouring book titled From the River to the Sea – a reference to the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that today includes Israel, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

‘Unpatriotic act’: Hamas, Islamic Jihad condemn PA decree on payments

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) for issuing a decree restructuring aid programmes for families of those imprisoned or killed by Israel – fulfilling a longstanding US demand.

“Stopping the allocations for the families of prisoners, martyrs, and the wounded is an unpatriotic act and we call for its immediate reversal,” Hamas said in a statement.

Islamic Jihad said the PA’s decision “represents a clear abandonment of the issue of prisoners, which is as big as the homeland, and a clear concession in the face of American and Zionist pressures and blackmail”.

It called the move “an attempt to weaken the morale of our people and a betrayal of the prisoners who are offering years of their lives steadfastly behind bars, and a punishment of the Palestinian people for their adherence to their legitimate right to resistance and adherence to their land and rights”.

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Iran alerts UN to Trump threat of force, says it will defend itself

Iran alerted the United Nations Security Council to what it described as “reckless and inflammatory statements” by US President Donald Trump threatening the use of force against the country.

Tehran warned “any act of aggression will have severe consequences”.

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Well, how'd it go? Didn't anyone try to arrest him?
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 No.487547

KernowDamo on the latest with Egypt.
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>>487544
I've heard some people speculate Netanyahu might be forced out of politics by declining health. He's old and organizing genocide is stressful. It's probably people hoping the problem goes away by it self, though.

Israel has a lot of infighting, they might suffer sudden political collapse if Netanyahu gets plugged. Lots of uncertainty would follow. I guess many would prefer Israel fading away rather than going out with a bang.
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>>487547
Maybe Egypt takes over Gaza, it's not like the idf could stop them. And then they have to beg the Chinese to bring in the contractors to fix up new infrastructure.
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Free Palestine TV - HTS Attacks Southern Lebanon, Israel Provides Air Cover

Lebanon PM says ‘state must extend authority’ to all areas

Lebanon’s prime minister says the state must be in control of all Lebanese territory, days before a deadline to implement the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreement.

“When it comes to the areas south of the Litani and north of the Litani, across the entire area of Lebanon… what should be implemented is … the Lebanese state must extend its authority through its own forces across the [Lebanese] territory,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told journalists in an interview aired on state television.

“We want the Israeli withdrawal to happen… and we will continue to mobilise all diplomatic and political efforts until this withdrawal is achieved.”

Under the deal, Lebanon’s military was to deploy in the south alongside UN peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdrew over a 60-day period, which has been extended until February 18.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/10/live-israeli-forces-kill-6-in-gaza-west-bank-as-trump-repeats-gaza-plan

Israelis continue protests in Tel Aviv

As we’ve been reporting, Israelis have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv in protest against Netanyahu’s threat to resume the war on Gaza.

Amit Kalderon, a protester, said he wished all the captives would be released by noon on Saturday.

“But this is not what the deal says,” he noted. “If Israel wanted to get a deal for all of the hostages, I think we could have done it. The Israeli government chose to do this in parts and not to conclude one deal for all of them.”

Lawyers for detained Gaza doctor accuse Israel of torture, severe abuses

Lawyers for Dr Hussam Abu Safia say that he has experienced physical abuse and other forms of torture since he was arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces outside the Kamal Adwan Hospital, in northern Gaza, in December.

The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, which is representing Abu Safia, said the doctor was only able to meet with his lawyer for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, 47 days after his “abduction from Gaza”.

Al Mezan said in a statement that Abu Safia was first taken to the Sde Teiman military detention camp where he was subjected to “torture and inhuman and degrading treatment”, including “beatings with batons and electric shock sticks, as well as repeated blows to the chest”.

He was then transferred to Israel’s Ofer Prison, in the occupied West Bank, where he “was held in solitary confinement for 25 days—a period so prolonged as to constitute a form of torture in itself”.

Al Mezan said that Abu Safia’s health has deteriorated, stating he has lost “12 kg [26 pounds]… in less than two months”, and called for “his immediate and unconditional release”.

‘Ferocious robber’: North Korea slams Trump’s plan for Gaza

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has condemned Trump’s plan to take over Gaza, saying that Palestinians’ slim hopes of safety and peace are being crushed by the proposal.

“The world is now boiling like a porridge pot over the US’ bombshell declaration,” KCNA said in a commentary.

The US survives through “slaughter and robbery”, and its “hegemonic, invasive” ambition for world domination is clearly demonstrated by its plan for Gaza, the agency added, without mentioning Trump by name.

The commentary also criticised the Trump administration’s calls to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland as well as its decision to change the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America”.

It went on to describe the US as a “ferocious robber” and said: “The US should awaken from its anachronistic daydream and stop at once the act of encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of other countries and nations.”

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Live now:
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Israeli forces burn houses in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire violations: Report

The Israeli army has burned down several homes and a farm in al-Aadaissah in southern Lebanon in the latest violation of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, according to the Lebanese news agency NNA.

Israeli forces also opened fire in the outskirts of Bint Jbeil town, it said. No injuries were reported.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since November 27, ending months of mutual air attacks between Israel and Hezbollah that escalated into a full-scale conflict in September.

Israel reneges on Lebanon troop withdrawal deadline – again

Israel has backed out of the deadline for withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon for the second time.

A fragile ceasefire had been in place since November 27, ending months of mutual shelling between Israel and Hezbollah that escalated into a full-scale conflict last September.

Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was supposed to complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon by January 26, but the deadline was extended to February 18 after Israel refused to comply.

The Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported the government asked ceasefire monitors to extend the deadline until February 28, a request rejected by the Lebanese side.

Israeli jets fly over Lebanese capital, break sound barrier for first time since ceasefire

Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital Beirut and its southern suburbs on Wednesday evening, marking the first such incident since the November 27 ceasefire agreement.

The escalation coincides with reports of Israel postponing the withdrawal of its army forces from southern Lebanon, despite a February 18 deadline.

According to the Lebanese state news agency NNA, Israeli fighter jets conducted low-altitude flights over Beirut, the Matn district in Mount Lebanon, and parts of the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon.

Lebanese officials have denied any agreement to extend the deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

Lebanon has reported nearly 900 Israeli ceasefire violations, killing and injuring dozens, including women and children, since November 27.

Armed clashes in Nur Shams and Arroub camps in West Bank

Palestinian fighters are engaged in confrontations with invading Israeli forces in the two refugee camps in the occupied West Bank.

Videos published by local outlets out of the Nur Shams camp show explosive devices and sound bombs being deployed in the area while heavy gunfire rings out. Earlier, Israeli forces used loudspeakers to warn residents of the camp to leave.

Confrontations have also erupted in the Arroub camp, after Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles entered various neighbourhoods, detaining a large number of people and conducting interrogations.

Israeli forces distributed threatening leaflets to the citizens in Arroub and fired bullets and tear gas canisters at residential homes, although no casualties have been reported, according to the Wafa news agency.

https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1889598605767344624

Islamic Jihad claims ambush on Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says it has attacked Israeli soldiers operating in the al-Manshiya neighbourhood in the occupied West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp.

“Our fighters, along with their comrades in the resistance factions, were able to attack an infantry force of 10 soldiers in a complex ambush,” the group said in a statement on Telegram, claiming it wounded an unidentified number of Israeli soldiers.

“Our fighters are also currently engaged in fierce battles with the support forces, showering them with heavy volleys of bullets and explosive devices, achieving direct hits.”

Huge billboards commemorate fallen Palestinian leaders in Yemen

Al Jazeera has obtained a video that shows a huge billboard in Houthi-run Sanaa displaying the image of Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif.

In the city of Taiz, a billboard showed a picture of Yahya Sinwar, with the inscription reading: “Flood Leader Street” in a reference to his commanding of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.

The two top leaders in Gaza were killed by the Israeli military in separate incidents.

The Houthis in Yemen have said they will continue attacks on Israeli territory and on Israeli and US-linked ships near their waters if the Gaza ceasefire falls through.

Translation: Sanaa is the only Arab capital that is decorated with the picture of the great leader, the Mujahid Mohammed Deif. Indeed, our freedom is a religion, and our pride is faith.

Gaza death toll rises

At least one Palestinian has been killed and nine others injured in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Gaza hospitals have also received two bodies recovered from the rubble, the ministry added.

The three confirmed killings raised the total death toll since October 7, 2023 to 48,222, it said on Telegram. Israel’s war on Gaza has injured 111,674 people, it added.

Israeli army to call up 14,000 Haredim recruits, Israeli Broadcast Authority reports

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has said the army will announce the sending of 14,000 recruitment orders to the Haredim, the Hebrew term for ultra-Orthodox Jews.

In June, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that Haredi Jews cannot be exempted from military service.

It also ordered a freeze on budgets for yeshivas, traditional Jewish educational institutions, and said there was no legal basis preventing the government from conscripting Haredi Jews into the Israeli army.

The Haredim, who constitute about 13 percent of Israel’s population, refuse to serve in the Israeli army under the pretext of devoting their lives to religion.

Israel must complete its withdrawal from Lebanon by the deadline, Aoun says

Lebanon’s recently appointed President Joseph Aoun has insisted that Israel must completely withdraw from the country by the ceasefire deadline of February 18, after reports that Israel has requested to keep troops in southern Lebanon until the end of the month.

Lebanon’s National News Agency quoted Aoun as saying that EU countries should “pressure Israel to complete its withdrawal within the deadline of 18 February, and to return the displaced Syrians to their country after the reasons for their remaining in Lebanon no longer exist”.

A Lebanese official and foreign diplomat told the Reuters news agency that Israel has requested to keep its troops in five posts in southern Lebanon until 28 February.

Aoun also reiterated Lebanon’s commitment to a two-state solution for the Palestine-Israel conflict and said he rejected “proposals that lead to any type of displacement of Palestinians from their land or infringement of their legitimate rights enshrined in UN resolutions”.

Israel has US backing to remain in Lebanon beyond ceasefire date, Israeli TV says

The US has authorised Israel to remain at several points in Lebanon beyond the agreed date for its full withdrawal, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan TV reports, quoting senior cabinet officials.

The date for the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon was extended to February 18 from the ceasefire’s initially agreed date of January 26.

Poll: 64% of Americans oppose Trump’s Gaza takeover plan

A new survey of 1,200 people in the US were asked what they thought of President Trump’s call for the United States to “take over” and “own” Gaza and transform it from a “demolition site” into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

The poll – conducted by the group Data for Progress – explained such a takeover would require forcibly resettling about 1.8 million Palestinians who live in Gaza into neighbouring countries.

About 64 percent of respondents said they “oppose” Trump’s plan.

“A strong majority of voters are opposed to the US taking over Gaza and resettling the Palestinians who live there, and even more respondents reject the idea of the US sending troops to the Middle East to accomplish this plan,” Data for Progress said.

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Thousands of tents and caravans have entered Gaza. The situation is becoming more stable, and aid has been flowing in consistently over the past hours.

The same is true in terms of medical aid as local reports indicate that at least five medical aid trucks have gotten into Gaza during the last 24 hours.

The ceasefire will likely hold as Hamas gears up to release the three Israeli prisoners on Saturday in exchange for dozens of Palestinian hostages.

Israel is beginning to allow a surge of aid instead of a trickle.
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Breaking news and analysis on day 26 of Gaza ceasefire | The Electronic Intifada Podcast

Hamas confirms it will release captives as planned, ceasefire deal back on track

The group says its delegation has held talks with the Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo, focusing on the terms of the ceasefire deal “especially with regard to securing housing for our people and urgently bringing in prefabricated houses ‘caravans’, tents, heavy equipment, medical supplies, fuel, and the continued flow of relief and everything stipulated in the agreement”.

“The discussions were characterised by a positive spirit, and the mediating brothers in Egypt and Qatar confirmed that they would follow up on all of this to remove obstacles and close gaps,” the statement published on Telegram said.

“Accordingly, Hamas confirms its continued position to implement the agreement in accordance with what was signed, including the exchange of prisoners according to the specified timetable.”

Israeli army launches air attack in Gaza despite ceasefire deal

The Israeli army has launched an air attack in the Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire agreement in the Palestinian territory.

A military statement claimed that the strike targeted a rocket launcher used to fire a rocket from inside the enclave.

According to witnesses, an Israeli drone fired a missile at an agricultural area east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

No injuries were reported and there was no immediate Palestinian comment on the Israeli attack.

Israeli military burns more homes in southern Lebanon

Israeli soldiers have been setting fire to more homes and properties in the village of Odaisseh close to the border with Israel, according to local media.

Images from this morning showed smoke rising above the village, which has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces since the start of the war and after the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated yesterday that Israel must complete its withdrawal from the country by the extended ceasefire deadline of February 18, after Israel said it wants to maintain its military occupation of southern Lebanon for longer.

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Gaza death toll rises with three more killed, bodies recovered

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that three Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours in Gaza and 14 other recovered bodies were also brought to hospitals.

A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the destroyed roads, and ambulance and civil defence crew are trying to reach them.

The death toll from Israeli attacks on the enclave now stands at 48,239, according to the ministry, which puts the number of wounded at 111,676 people.

Israel rejects transfer of mobile homes, heavy equipment to Gaza

Omer Dostri, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says “there will be no entry of mobile homes or heavy equipment into the Gaza Strip, and there is no coordination for this”.

“Also, according to the agreement, no goods are allowed to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing,” Dostri said in a post on X.

Israeli settlers kidnap Palestinian; soldiers arrest two in West Bank: Report

A group of Israeli settlers have stormed the agricultural cooperative village of al-Awsaj north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

They kidnapped a Palestinian man and took him to an unknown location, according to Eid Brahma, the director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, who informed the Wafa news agency.

Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian man from Jiftlik north of Jericho while he was herding sheep. Soldiers present at the Karameh crossing also detained a high school student from the city of Bethlehem while he was returning from Jordan.

US sanctions ICC’s top prosecutor Karim Khan

The US State Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim Khan.

The move comes after US President Donald Trump last week ordered asset freezes and travel bans on ICC officials for issuing arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Ministry Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Lebanon rejects Israeli forces remaining in five southern locations after February 18

Lebanon’s parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, says Beirut rejects Israel’s demand to remain in five locations in the south after next week’s deadline to fully implement a fragile ceasefire.

The US, a key mediator, “informed me that the Israeli occupation will withdraw from villages it still occupies on February 18, but it will remain in five points,” Hezbollah ally Berri said in a statement.

“I informed them in my name and on behalf of President General Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Judge Nawaf Salam of our absolute rejection” of this proposal, he wrote.

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Hezbollah supporters protest banning Iranian planes from landing in Beirut

Hezbollah supporters blocked the Beirut airport road and burned tyres on Thursday to protest against a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing in the Lebanese capital, state media and an airport official said.

Some of the young men raised Hezbollah’s yellow flag and held pictures of Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli strike in September, as well as Iran’s slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, footage from the AFP news agency showed.

The Lebanese army had been deployed there, the National News Agency said, with videos online showing scuffles between angry protesters and soldiers.

An official at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri international airport told AFP that the Public Works and Transport Ministry had asked the facility to inform Iranian carrier Mahan Air that Lebanon could not welcome two of its Beirut-bound flights.

One flight was scheduled for Thursday and another for Friday, said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “The two flights were rescheduled to next week,” he added, without saying why.

That date coincides with the deadline for the full implementation of a November 27 ceasefire agreement that ended more than a year of Israel-Hezbollah hostilities including about two months of all-out war.

Protests continue near Beirut airport after Iranian plane prevented from landing

We have been reporting on protests in Beirut, where Hezbollah supporters have blocked the airport road and burned tyres to protest against a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing in the Lebanese capital.

Footage published by Hezbollah-affiliated news outlet Al-Manar of those protests shows smoke and chaos as armed Lebanese security forces break up large crowds of angry demonstrators.

Watch the footage below:
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Video | Lebanese security forces open fire to disperse crowds on #طريق_المطار following demonstrations over preventing an Iranian plane carrying #زوار_لبنانيين from landing
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High tension on the Beirut airport road as demonstrators continue to arrive after an Iranian plane carrying Lebanese visitors returning from Tehran was prevented from landing.
https://twitter.com/ME_Observer_/status/1890107363128143992

Why has Lebanon barred Iranian flights from landing in Beirut?

We have been reporting on intense ongoing demonstrations by Hezbollah supporters in Beirut, protesting against a decision by Lebanon’s government to bar Iranian planes from landing in the Lebanese capital.

Lebanon’s Transportation Ministry instructed officials at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri international airport on Thursday to inform Iranian airline Mahan Air it could not welcome its flights, the AFP news agency reports.

Iran Air, the country’s flagship carrier, has also been denied permission to land in Beirut, according to Lebanon’s aviation authorities, as reported by Lebanese TV network, LBCI.

The protesters’ anger is directed at the government and airport authorities for what they view as their capitulation to Israeli pressure to cancel the flights.

The Israeli military on Thursday accused the Quds Force, a branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, of using civilian flights to “smuggle funds” to Hezbollah “with the aim of carrying out attacks” against Israel.

Israel has lodged formal complaints about the alleged illicit cash transfers over recent weeks with the US-led committee overseeing the ceasefire between it and Hezbollah.

Ibrahim Mousawi, a member of parliament with Hezbollah’s political wing, has claimed the Mahan Air planes were prevented from flying “as a result of an Israeli threat” to target them.

Super Bowl protester faces lifetime NFL ban after unveiling Palestinian flag at game

Zul-Qarnain Nantambu, who gained attention by unfurling Palestinian and Sudanese flags during the US National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl halftime show’s live broadcast on Sunday, said the act was in solidarity with persecuted Muslims.

The NFL has banned him from attending games for life. A devoted New Orleans Saints fan, he hopes the decision will be overturned in four or five years.

Speaking to the Anadolu news agency, Nantambu said he joined the performers at the game and revealed Sudanese and Palestinian flags with “Gaza” inscribed on them during the widely watched halftime show, seen by more than 127 million people in the US.

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>>487580
>Hezbollah supporters blocked the Beirut airport road and burned tyres on Thursday to protest against a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing in the Lebanese capital, state media and an airport official said.
This is how the Lebanese government cedes controle over civilian airspace to Hezbollah.

>The Israeli military on Thursday accused the Quds Force, a branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, of using civilian flights to “smuggle funds” to Hezbollah “with the aim of carrying out attacks” against Israel.

If that's true, which is highly doubtful considering the track record of Israeli accusations, it will just be a mild inconvenience of doing a layover flight, to circumvent this ban.
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🟡 BREAKING: LondonMetric cut all ties with Israeli arms company Elbit Systems in response to months of direct action protests by @Pal_action . The British real estate firm LondonMetric owns the land where Elbit’sfactory is located. They're now being evicted from the space.
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>>487586
Wait there's a real estate company that is doing something based ?
I'm surprised and impressed.
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Israeli occupation forces fire stun grenades at Palestinians during their raid on a wedding in the city of Taibe in occupied Palestine.
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UNRWA accuses Israel of breaching international law by using its facility as detention centre

The UN’s refugee agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, says the Israeli military used its Arroub Camp Health Centre near Bethlehem as a temporary detention site during a search and arrest operation on February 12, despite the UN premises being protected by international law.

“[The military] forcibly entered the health centre and used it for the detention and interrogation of tens of Palestinian residents rounded up in the camp,” a statement by the agency said.

It condemned the move as “a blatant disregard for the inviolability of United Nations facilities”.

“Unfortunately, this recent incident follows a pattern of forcible entries into UNRWA installations in the West Bank since October 2023, by both Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups,” the statement stressed.

“All UN premises are inviolable and are protected under international law,” UNRWA added.

Gaza waiting for Israel to ‘abide by its commitments’

Gaza’s Government Media Office says it is closely following Israel’s actions and “waiting for it to abide” by its humanitarian commitments in the ceasefire agreement.

“The catastrophic humanitarian and living reality that our people in the Gaza Strip are suffering from as a result of the war of extermination and ethnic cleansing waged by the occupation over the course of 15 months, does not tolerate procrastination and delay in introducing shelter requirements and other needs such as fuel, heavy equipment, medical devices and equipment, and infrastructure restoration materials,” Salama Maarouf, the head of the office, said in a statement.

“[Nearly] one and a half million people have become homeless after their homes were destroyed, while all residents of the Gaza Strip, numbering 2.4 million people, suffer from the lack of the most basic life services and the lack of infrastructure.”

Israeli forces wound two fisherman in attack off the Gaza Strip

Two Palestinian fishermen have been wounded by Israeli fire in the waters off the Gaza Strip in a new breach of the ceasefire.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the Israeli navy fired two shells at a fishing boat close to the Gaza City port, injuring the men.

Israeli police detain antisettlement activist

The Israeli rights group Peace Now says Hagit Ofran, who oversees its Settlement Watch project, which tracks settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, has been detained and taken in for questioning by Israeli police.

“Ben-Gvir’s police are taking Hagit Ofran, who has a broken leg and is on crutches, for interrogation in Hebron,” the group said in a social media post.

“The reason? We planted trees in Masafer Yatta. Apparently, for the Israeli police, joint actions between Israelis and Palestinians are grounds for arrest.”

UN peacekeeper injured after Hezbollah supporters light car on fire: Report

The Reuters news agency is reporting that at least one UN peacekeeper has been injured after Hezbollah supporters lit a UN vehicle on fire near Beirut’s airport. It quoted an unnamed Lebanese security source.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon, also known as UNIFIL, has yet to comment on the incident.

We’ll bring you more details on this as they come in.

Lebanon’s army warns Beirut airport protesters after UN vehicle torched

Lebanese soldiers have deployed along the road leading to Beirut-Rafik Hariri International Airport to disperse Hezbollah supporters protesting against the decision to prevent an Iranian plane from landing on Thursday.

Reuters reported earlier that a UN peacekeeper was injured when the protesters burned a UN vehicle.

“Areas close to Hariri International Airport are witnessing protests that include assaults and riots, including attacks on army personnel, attacks on vehicles belonging to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and attempts to close the airport road,” the army said in a statement.

“The Army Command warns citizens against continuing these practices, which could create internal tension with dire consequences during the critical stage the country is going through,” it said, adding that soldiers would take “firm action to prevent any breach of public order and arrest troublemakers”.

The Lebanese authorities prevented an Iranian civilian plane from landing on Thursday after the Israeli military said Iran and Hezbollah are using civilian aircraft to smuggle funds into the country and Lebanese media reported Israel had threatened to bomb the airport.

Hezbollah accused the authorities of complying with Israeli threats and demands.

‘Go to hell Donald Trump’: Pro-Palestine protesters gather at US embassy in Malaysia
Ameera Osmanagic
Reporting from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dozens of people chanted “Go to hell Donald Trump!” outside the US embassy in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered to publicly reject the “lunatic ideas” of the US president to displace more than two million people from Gaza.

Organised by 18 civil society groups after Friday prayer, the protest in Kuala Lumpur was the second of its kind for the day, with the first being held in the morning outside the embassy. Both times, demonstrators had a written memorandum addressed to Trump containing a total of seven demands regarding Gaza and its Palestinian population, copies of which the embassy refused to accept.

“It is very disappointing as a country with the superpower status, they closed the whole embassy, refused to even receive our memorandum. This is really an act of cowardice,” said Chua Tian Chang, a representative of the Malaysian groups advocating for Palestinian rights.

According to the memorandum, the groups called on Trump to ensure the ceasefire in Gaza, protection of Palestinian sovereignty, an end to Israel’s siege of the territory, rejection of plans for the US to “take over” Gaza, as well as accountability for war crimes perpetrated in Gaza and sanctions on those committing crimes against humanity.

Israel accuses Lebanon of not carrying out ceasefire obligations
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

According to the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, the US informed Lebanon that Israel will be leaving the villages it is occupying along the border.

Israel, said, however, it will retain positions on hilltops just within the Lebanese territory.

So, full withdrawal will not happen come February 18 – the new deadline that has been set for Israeli troops to leave Lebanon in order for the Lebanese army to deploy in the area as part of the ceasefire agreement.

The Israeli military says Lebanon has still not carried out its obligations and pushed Hezbollah away from the border. Israeli officials say Lebanon failed to disarm Hezbollah and prevent it from rearming.

In many ways, the ceasefire agreement makes references to previous UN resolutions that called for that.

There is a new leadership and balance of power in Lebanon that does not favour Hezbollah. The new leadership is promising to extend the state authority across the country. But it is not an easy task, because if it does not get cooperation from Hezbollah, it risks instability.

Israeli veterans group says tying shoelaces could get you killed in occupied West Bank

A Palestinian who bends over to tie their shoelaces in Gaza could be shot under Israeli military rules of engagement but now an Israeli veterans group says the same shoot-to-kill protocols have been imported to the occupied West Bank.

Israeli military veterans advocacy group Breaking the Silence published the transcript of a conversation with an anonymous captain in the Israeli military who said Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank had been given permission to shoot anyone thought to be “messing with the ground”.

The captain said that specific phrase was “code” first used in Gaza and initially intended to describe Palestinians suspected of planting explosives.

In reality, the captain said, the term was regularly used to justify shooting Palestinians who might be otherwise going about their business.

“Think of yourself as a civilian: You mess with the ground to tie your shoelaces, pick something up, throw away garbage; you might be looking for something; you might be picking a flower,” the captain said.

“[But in Gaza], messing with the ground is a code name for planting an explosive device, always.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/14/live-israel-warns-of-war-as-hamas-confirms-3-gaza-captives-to-be-freed
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 No.487597

>>487596
>Israel caves on Gaza.
What made them cave ?

It looks like Trump made them. He says horrible things about Gaza but he also does things that dramatically reduce the killing.

There also is the thing that Israel does not have a military designed for sustained campaigns, and have got to be suffering exhaustion. Maybe that too played a role in the Gaza ceasefire.
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 No.487599

Iran bars Lebanese planes from taking stranded citizens home after Israeli ‘threat’

Tehran has barred Lebanese planes from repatriating dozens of Lebanese nationals stranded in Iran in a standoff after Lebanon blocked a civilian flight following what the Iranian government described as an Israeli threat to attack it.

Lebanon halted an Iranian flight to Beirut this week after the Israeli military accused Tehran of using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm Hezbollah.

Iran said it would not allow Lebanese flights to land until its own flights were cleared to land in Beirut.

The standoff has left dozens of Lebanese citizens stranded in Iran for three days after attending a religious pilgrimage. They had been due to return to Beirut on Iran’s Mahan Air before Lebanon barred the plane from landing.

Dozens of Hezbollah supporters cut off roads around Beirut’s airport late on Thursday and Friday in protest.

Heads of Churches in Jerusalem condemn calls for expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza

The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem say they are “compelled to speak against the grave threat of mass displacement” as Trump and Israeli leaders call for the forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.

“The people of Gaza, families who have lived for generations in the land of their ancestors, must not be forced into exile, stripped of whatever is left of their homes, their heritage, and their right to remain in the land that forms the essence of their identity,” they said in a statement.

“As Christians, we cannot be indifferent to such suffering, for the Gospel commands us to uphold the dignity of every human being.”

Israel holding Gaza hospital director under law that allows prolonged detention without charge

The Palestinian NGO Al Mezan says that Dr Hussam Abu Safia, a medical worker and director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is being held under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law, which allows prolonged detention without charge and strips those held of due process.

“Our lawyer has been informed that the Commander of the Southern Command of the Israeli army has issued an order to detain Dr Abu Safia under the Unlawful Combatants Law,” Al Mezan said in a social media post.

“This law enables prolonged detention without charges, stripping detainees of any meaningful judicial review or due process rights. Since October 2023, Israeli authorities have extensively used this legal framework to arbitrarily detain thousands of Palestinian residents of Gaza.”

UNIFIL deputy force commander injured after convoy attacked in Beirut

There’s been another update on the violent protests we covered earlier near Beirut international airport.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says its outgoing deputy force commander was injured after a convoy taking peacekeepers to Beirut airport was “violently attacked”.

“We are shocked by this outrageous attack on peacekeepers who have been serving to restore security and stability to south Lebanon during a difficult time,” UNIFIL said in a statement.

“Attacks on peacekeepers are flagrant violations of international law and may amount to war crimes. We demand a full and immediate investigation by Lebanese authorities and for all perpetrators to be brought to justice.”

The army said in a statement that acting commander Major General Hassan Odeh had contacted UNIFIL and promised to “work to arrest the citizens who attacked its members and bring them to justice”.

Demonstrators have been blocking the road to the airport and other roads in the capital to protest a decision by Lebanese authorities to revoke permission for a passenger plane from Iran to fly to Beirut on Thursday, leaving dozens of Lebanese passengers stranded.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/14/live-israel-warns-of-war-as-hamas-confirms-3-gaza-captives-to-be-freed
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Three captives to be freed, negotiations begin on Gaza ceasefire’s second phase
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Reports within Israeli media indicate that Israel is now negotiating for phase two of the deal, just a day after a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister denied that Israel is starting any of those talks.

It’s important to note that these negotiations, according to Israel and media, have a primary focus of how to release the remaining Israeli captive still held in Gaza, and not necessarily towards ending the war and rebuilding the Palestinian territory.

On Saturday, Hamas is set to release three male Israeli captives, all of them dual nationals. But there hasn’t been any sort of confirmation from Israel about the continuation of phase one.

Days earlier in the week, Hamas had said that they are not going to be releasing the captives, accusing Israel of violating the deal by not allowing critical humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip in the form of caravans, mobile homes and tents to house Palestinians until they’re able to rebuild their homes.

The Israeli prime minister had said that if those captives were not released on noon on Saturday, the war would begin.

But Hamas released the list of names, and those captives are expected to be released early on Saturday.

Lebanon interior minister calls emergency meeting to discuss Hezbollah protests: Report

We have been reporting on an attack on UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) personnel by Hezbollah supporters during protests on Friday against the Lebanese government’s decision to bar Iranian planes from landing in Beirut.

Lebanon’s state news agency NNA now reports that Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar visited two injured UNIFIL officers at St George University Hospital in the Lebanese capital.

Al-Hajjar “affirmed the Lebanese government’s rejection of this assault that is considered a crime against UNIFIL forces”, NNA reported, adding that the minister has called for an emergency meeting on the violence to be held before noon on Saturday.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/15/live-gaza-prepares-for-exchange-of-3-israeli-captives-for-369-palestinians
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 No.487608

Lebanese president vows punishment for attack on UN convoy

Joseph Aoun has denounced yesterday’s attack near Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport, which injured the outgoing deputy commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

“What happened last night on the airport road and in some areas of Beirut is unacceptable and condemned. Such actions cannot be allowed to recur,” he said on X.

Lebanon’s security forces “will not tolerate any party attempting to destabilise the country or threaten civil peace”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/15/live-gaza-prepares-for-exchange-of-3-israeli-captives-for-369-palestinians

Lebanon arrests over 25 after UN convoy attack

More than 25 people have been arrested by Lebanese army intelligence and another detained by security services in relation to Friday evening’s attack on the UN convoy, according to Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar.

He told reporters after an emergency security meeting that this does not mean all those arrested directly participated in the attack, adding that investigations are ongoing to find those responsible.

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/15/un-commander-injured-as-lebanese-protesters-torch-car-near-beirut-airport

Satelite images show Israel still destroying homes in Gaza

Israel has destroyed dozens of homes in Rafah, southern Gaza, despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, satellite imagery analysis conducted by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad, has revealed.

The crossing between Egypt and Gaza at Rafah, which has served as a critical lifeline into the enclave for decades, was closed by Israel in May 2024.

Gaza death toll rises

The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest report on the number of people who were killed and wounded by Israel’s war on the territory.

In a statement, it said a total of 25 deaths and nine injuries were recorded at Gaza hospitals in the past 48 hours.

This brought the confirmed number of people killed in Israeli attacks since October 7 to at least 48,264, with 111,688 others wounded, the ministry added.

A large number of victims remains under the rubble, and the Government Media Office in Gaza has put the death toll at more than 61,000, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are now presumed dead.

Palestinian ex-prisoner says Israel cut electricity, water in Nafha desert prison

Released Palestinian prisoner Amir Abu Radah has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that he spent a year and a half in Israel’s Nafha desert prison where the authorities cut water and electricity.

“Our conditions in prison were extremely difficult and no one could bear them. For a year and a half we have not had any means of communication and we were isolated from the world,” he added.

Hamas released Russian dual national at Moscow’s request: Ambassador

Russia’s ambassador to Qatar, Dmitry Dogadkin, has confirmed that Israeli Russian captive Alexander Trufanov was released as part of the first, and not the second, phase of the ceasefire agreement at Moscow’s request.

He told the TASS state-run news agency that the leadership of Hamas did this “as a sign of respect for our country’s position in support of a fair settlement of the Middle East conflict”.

The diplomat also pointed out that this was not a “first success” for Russian diplomacy as three more Russian nationals were released along with an Israeli national as part of captive exchanges in November 2023. He said Hamas had also made that move “as a gesture of goodwill without any preconditions”.

Scenes of joy in Ramallah as several freed Palestinian prisoners arrive

A small group of former Palestinian prisoners have disembarked a minibus that arrived in Ramallah, after their release from an Israeli jail as part of the sixth prisoner-captives swap.

As we have reported earlier, 24 of the 36 Palestinians released from Israeli jails will be deported to Egypt.

Eight others will return home to the occupied West Bank and four in occupied East Jerusalem.

Nine Palestinian prisoners with life sentences who have been released from Israeli prisons have arrived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, sources have confirmed to Al Jazeera.

Three more prisoners with life sentences have been transferred to occupied East Jerusalem.

Israel dresses Palestinian prisoners in shirts with Star of David: Report

Before their release, the Israel Prison Service has made Palestinians prisoners wear outfits with Arabic written on them: “We will not forget or forgive.”

According to Israeli state media, the authority shared photos of the hundreds of Palestinian prisoners set for release in shirts featuring its logo, a Star of David and the sentence in question.
https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1890713350830706901

A smooth handover
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Khan Younis, southern Gaza

This handover was different from previous ones made by both Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

One of the previous handovers was criticised for the intense atmosphere, in particular the one that was held close to the house of Yahya Sinwar in Khan Younis.

The Palestinian factions have selected this location again to try to show they are coordinated and hold control over a well-organised handover.

The three captives released today appeared to be in good physical condition. This is in contrast to last week’s group of released captives, who were in a more deteriorated health condition due to shortages of food and medicine as a result of Israeli blocks.

Overall, this has been one of the smoother handovers carried out so far since the start of the Gaza ceasefire.

Displays of power fill captives’ handover site in Khan Younis
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Khan Younis in southern Gaza

For the second time since the start of the Gaza ceasefire, the captives’ handover is taking place just a few kilometres away from the house of killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar.

The release of captives in Gaza is taking place amid heavy security protocols and displays of power. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have deployed fighters who are in full military attire and carry automatic rifles.

In the background, you can see images of top slain Hamas military leaders, complete with sentences in English, Arabic and Hebrew that say, “O Jerusalem, bear witness: We are your soldiers.”

Flags of other Arab nations are also represented. Another slogan in the pictures reads, “We crossed over swiftly.” There are different photos of Israeli military bases that were stormed by Palestinian fighters during the October 7 attacks.

There is also a photo of Yahya Sinwar sitting on the single couch inside a destroyed home where he was killed, facing a window showing Jerusalem on the other side. The factions here are signalling that their eyes are on the eternal Palestinian capital.

Israeli captives to be freed in vehicle seized in October 7 attack: Source

A source in Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has also told Al Jazeera that the group presented Sagui Dekel-Chen, one of the captives, with a gold coin as a gift for his daughter, who was born four months after he was captured.

Yair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Alexander Trufanov are expected to be released in Khan Younis this morning.

Political interference claimed as Australian-Palestinian academic’s grant funding reviewed

Australian academics have accused the country’s education minister of political interference in academic freedom after he asked the Australian Research Council to review the fellowship of a prominent Palestinian-Australian academic as a “matter of priority”.

Education Minister Jason Clare called for the review of the $870,000 Australian dollar ($553,000) grant to Randa Abdel-Fattah, an Australian-born academic of Egyptian and Palestinian heritage, The Guardian Australia reports.

Abdel-Fattah has previously faced attacks from right wing political figures over past comments about Israel, but the situation escalated when Clare, who represents Australia’s centre-left Labor Party, requested a review of her grant funding in late January.

The minister’s request prompted outcry from fellow academics and the president of the Australian Historical Association who said it represented a “new kind of political interference”.

Majority of Israelis want to stick with ceasefire rather than returning to war: Poll

The poll of 600 members of the public by Israel’s national broadcaster Kan asked: “Should we continue to phase two of the deal and end the war or return to fighting now without securing the release of all of the hostages?”

Some 61 percent of respondents said Israel should continue to phase two of the deal, 18 percent said Israel should return to war in Gaza, and 21 percent said they were unsure.

Israeli army storms occupied West Bank homes of freed prisoners

Israeli forces have raided the city of el-Bireh in the occupied West Bank, raiding the home of a Palestinian prisoner released as part of today’s exchanges.

Local sources told the official Wafa news agency that Israeli military vehicles stormed the centre of el-Bireh to target the home of 45-year-old Mazen al-Qadi, in Israeli custody for more than two decades.

Since dawn, Israeli forces have similarly raided the homes of several other prisoners released today, according to reports.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/15/live-gaza-prepares-for-exchange-of-3-israeli-captives-for-369-palestinians
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 No.487630

Imagine living next doorto this.
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 No.487636

Hezbollah chief says Israel must fully withdraw from Lebanon in two days

The head of Hezbollah says Israel’s troops must pull out of Lebanese territory in full by a February 18 deadline, adding it has “no pretext” to maintain a military presence in the south.

“Everyone knows how an occupation is dealt with,” said Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, without explicitly threatening that his group would resume attacks against Israel.

Under a truce brokered by the US in November, Israeli troops were granted 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where they waged a ground assault against Hezbollah fighters. That deadline was later extended to February 18, but Israel’s military requested it keep troops in five posts in the south.

In a recorded televised speech, Qassem said: “Israel must withdraw completely on February 18. It has no pretext, no five points or other details … This is the agreement.”

Israel’s public broadcaster said on Wednesday that the United States has authorised a “long-term” Israeli troop presence in southern Lebanon.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/16/live-israel-hamas-exchange-captives-rubio-in-israel-to-discuss-trump-plan
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 No.487639

>>487636
The Zionists will not leave unless somebody makes them, conquering more territory is their primary goal.
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 No.487640

>>487630
what do you think ?
Is Egypt trying to get the Zionists off their back about taking in Palestinians by threatening to buy Chinese weapons instead of US weapons.
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 No.487641

# Strategic Performance and Likely Outcomes in the Israel-Hamas War of 2025

The Israel-Hamas war, ongoing since October 2023, has evolved into a multifaceted conflict involving regional actors, proxy networks, and shifting geopolitical alliances. By February 2025, the war has entered a precarious phase marked by a fragile ceasefire, escalating threats of renewed hostilities, and intensified international diplomacy. This report evaluates the strategic performance of Israel and Iran’s "Axis of Resistance" to determine which side holds the advantage for prevailing in the conflict.



## Israel’s Strategic Performance

### Military Campaigns and Operational Successes
Israel’s military strategy has focused on degrading Hamas’s operational capacity, dismantling its governance structures, and securing the release of hostages. By early 2025, Israeli forces claim to have destroyed 80% of Hamas’s military infrastructure, including tunnels, rocket depots, and command centers[3]. However, Israel controls only a third of the Gaza Strip, leaving significant territory under Hamas influence[3]. The repeated battles in Beit Lahia and Jabalia underscore Hamas’s resilience despite heavy losses[3].

The January 2025 ceasefire agreement, mediated by the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar, marked a tactical pause. The deal included a phased release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and humanitarian concessions[1]. While Israel secured the return of 33 hostages initially, Hamas suspended further releases in February 2025, citing Israeli violations[1]. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s threats to resume military operations if hostages are not returned highlight Israel’s readiness to escalate[1].

### Regional Deterrence and U.S. Backing
Israel’s strategic position is bolstered by unwavering U.S. support. Despite the transition to the Trump administration in January 2025, bipartisan alignment persists on Israel’s security needs. U.S. intelligence agencies anticipate Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, reflecting shared priorities in countering Tehran[5]. Israel’s October 2024 retaliatory strikes on Iran—the largest since the Iran-Iraq War—exposed vulnerabilities in Iran’s defenses and demonstrated Israel’s willingness to escalate directly[4].

### Challenges: Governance and Reconstruction
Israel faces mounting criticism over civilian casualties and Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. The lack of a coherent post-war governance plan for Gaza risks a power vacuum, potentially enabling Hamas’s resurgence[3]. Netanyahu’s rejection of a permanent ceasefire and insistence on "total victory" complicate reconstruction efforts, leaving Israel responsible for managing Gaza’s destabilized infrastructure[1][3].



## Iran’s Axis of Resistance: Capabilities and Limitations

### Proxy Network and Asymmetric Warfare
Iran’s "Axis of Resistance"—comprising Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Yemen—has sustained pressure on Israel through rocket attacks, guerrilla warfare, and hostage diplomacy. Hamas’s October 2023 incursion demonstrated the axis’s capacity to inflict strategic shocks[2]. However, the network’s cohesion has faltered. Hezbollah, wary of full-scale war, has limited its engagements to sporadic strikes, while Iraqi militias face internal fragmentation[4].

### Strategic Vulnerabilities Exposed
Iran’s reliance on proxies has proven double-edged. While deniable attacks offer plausible deniability, Israel’s direct strikes on Iranian soil in October 2024 revealed Tehran’s inadequate air defenses and eroded deterrence[4]. The axis’s failure to mobilize a unified front during the Gaza war underscores its operational limitations. Hamas’s refusal to aid Syria’s Bashar al-Assad during the civil war—a key Iranian ally—exemplifies divergent priorities within the network[2].

### Diplomatic Isolation and Nuclear Ambitions
Iran’s regional influence is constrained by diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions. The U.S. and Gulf states have coalesced around containing Tehran, with Saudi Arabia normalizing ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords[3]. Meanwhile, Iran’s nuclear program remains a focal point. U.S. intelligence warns that Israel may strike Iranian nuclear facilities in 2025, risking broader conflict[5]. Tehran’s missile arsenal, while formidable, has shown reliability issues, diminishing its deterrent credibility[4].



## Comparative Analysis: Pathways to Victory

### Israel’s Advantages
1. Military Superiority: Israel’s technological edge, air dominance, and intelligence capabilities enable precise strikes against Hamas and Iranian targets.
2. International Backing: Sustained U.S. support and Gulf state alignment provide diplomatic and military leverage.
3. Deterrence Posture: Direct strikes on Iran have reestablished red lines, compelling Tehran to recalibrate its proxy strategy[4][5].

### Iran’s Resilience
1. Proxy Endurance: Despite losses, Hamas retains governance structures in Gaza, and Hezbollah’s arsenal remains a potent deterrent[3][2].
2. Asymmetric Tactics: Proxies’ ability to exploit urban terrain and hostage diplomacy complicates Israel’s military objectives[1][2].
3. Strategic Patience: Iran’s long-term vision prioritizes attrition over decisive victories, aiming to erode Israeli resolve and international support[4].



## Conclusion: Israel’s Likely Prevailing Position

As of February 2025, Israel holds the strategic upper hand due to its military efficacy, U.S. partnership, and successful deterrence against Iran. The January ceasefire, though fragile, reflects Israel’s capacity to negotiate from strength. However, the absence of a political solution for Gaza and Iran’s latent proxy threats pose enduring risks.

Iran’s axis, while diminished, retains the capacity for sporadic violence but lacks the cohesion to alter the conflict’s trajectory decisively. Israel’s potential strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities—if executed with U.S. support—could further degrade Tehran’s regional standing[5]. Ultimately, Israel’s ability to neutralize Hamas’s governance and deter Iranian escalation positions it to prevail, provided it addresses Gaza’s political vacuum and sustains international legitimacy.

Citations:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_war_ceasefire
[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-axis-resistance-proxies-enemies-abroad-quds/32645674.html
[3] https://themedialine.org/top-stories/after-a-year-of-war-what-does-2025-hold-for-israel/
[4] https://carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/diwan/2024/10/what-are-irans-options-after-the-israeli-attack?lang=en
[5] https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/us-intelligence-israel-strike-iran-nuclear/index.html
[6] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-august-1-2024
[7] https://www.steptoe.com/en/news-publications/stepwise-risk-outlook/israel-in-2025-perspectives-on-a-region-in-turmoil.html
[8] https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/israel-and-hamas-reach-cease-fire-will-war-end
[9] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/how-hamas-oct-7-attack-smashed-irans-axis-of-resistance/articleshow/116219729.cms
[10] https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/fall-assad-has-exposed-extent-damage-irans-axis-resistance
[11] https://www.spf.org/iina/en/articles/miyahara_08.html
[12] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/israel-strategic-win-and-new-headaches
[13] https://www.voanews.com/a/analysts-expect-strong-israel-reaction-to-iran-attack-uncertain-of-wider-conflict-/7807226.html
[14] https://www.oxan.com/insights/prospects-for-middle-east-security-in-2025/
[15] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/29/analysis-hamas-has-been-hit-hard-by-israel-but-is-not-out-in-gaza
[16] https://www.stimson.org/2025/irans-axis-of-resistance-weakened-but-still-dangerous/
[17] https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/01/07/in-2025-israels-gaza-campaign-is-not-over/
[18] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/irans-axis-resistance-collapsing-israeli-attacks-rcna173169
[19] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/hamas-may-be-cheering-it-writhing-pain
[20] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/reshaping-iran%E2%80%99s-axis-resistance
[21] https://acleddata.com/conflict-watchlist-2025/israel-palestine-lebanon/
[22] https://www.stimson.org/2024/irans-axis-of-resistance-outmatched-by-israeli-intelligence-and-weapons/
[23] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/16/rubio-says-hamas-must-be-eradicated-casting-doubt-on-gaza-ceasefire-deal
[24] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/axis-resistance-strategy-israel-hamas-war
[25] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/13/live-positive-signals-for-israeli-captives-as-more-aid-enters-gaza
[26] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_conflict
[27] https://acleddata.com/conflict-watchlist-2025/middle-east/
[28] https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/10/04/israels-victory-will-be-a-success-for-american-grand-strategy/
[29] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/israels-dramatic-gains-on-iran-present-a-historic-chance-and-enormous-risks/
[30] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-january-17-2025
[31] https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2024/10/iran-israel-missile-attack-nuclear-strategy-what-now?lang=en
[32] https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-war-between-israel-hezbollah-and-iran
[33] https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-israel-missile-drone-military-threat-advantage/32912499.html
[34] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/iran-in-2025-how-strong-does-it-remain-in-the-middle-east/
[35] https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/10/whats-next-israel-iran-and-prospects-wider-middle-east-war
[36] https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-february-4-2025
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 No.487643

File: 1739779440814.mp4 ( 1.34 MB , 1280x720 , socialism4dumbos.mp4 )

Richard Wolff wrote quite a nice article a couple weeks ago that I only just found comparing Israel to the British colonialism in Kenya in the late 19th century:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/31/settler-colonialism-it-ends-with-us-in-palestine-and-israel/
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 No.487649

>>487640
I generally doubt it. You never know. Mahmood OD is more optimistic about Egypt than I am, but there have been specific areas where Egypt did actually put their foot down. El-Sisi would be wise to get away from alignment with the US and Israel (because they will absolutely stab him in the back like they did Saddam, Assad, etc.), but whether he will or not is a different question.

>>487641
Stop posting this neocon bullshit.
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 No.487650

Hezbollah supporters protest for third day near Beirut airport

Hezbollah supporters gathered near Beirut international airport for a third day to protest over a decision to prevent two Iranian planes from landing there.

Local media reported that security forces fired tear gas to disperse the protesters and that some Lebanese soldiers were injured in scuffles.

Hezbollah protesters drew a Star of David on the road leading to the airport, as protesters accuse the Lebanese state of caving to Israeli orders by not allowing Iranian planes to land.

Earlier on Saturday, Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar said more than 25 people had been arrested after an attack by protesters on Friday on a convoy of United Nations peacekeepers that wounded two.

Two wounded in central Gaza after Israel bombs bulldozer: Report

The Israeli military has reportedly bombed a bulldozer that was trying to remove the rubble of destroyed Palestinian infrastructure in central Gaza, despite the ceasefire.

Local sources quoted by the official Wafa news agency said a drone hit the vehicle in the town of al-Mughraqa in the central part of the territory, wounding two people.

UNRWA chief says misinformation campaign putting staff at risk

Philippe Lazzarini has told reporters that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is at “a turning point”.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Lazzarini said the agency has been the target of a misinformation campaign by the Israeli government. That includes billboards and ads in the US, Europe and Australia accusing UNRWA of “terrorism”.

“This is putting the lives of the UNRWA staff at risk, especially in the West Bank but also in Gaza, where 273 UNRWA staff have already been killed,” Lazzarini said.

“The objective of these attacks on the agency is to strip the Palestinian[s] of their refugee status,” he added.

“The right of Palestinian refugees to protection and assistance are, however, not derived from the UNRWA mandate. They exist independently of the agency.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/15/live-gaza-prepares-for-exchange-of-3-israeli-captives-for-369-palestinians
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 No.487651

Clip of Yoav Gallant admitting to Channel 12 in Israel that the Hannibal Directive was used on Oct. 7, 2023.
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 No.487652

https://x.com/PaliNewsNetwork/status/1891321683371258275
Mordechai Brafman, 28, a pro-Israel fanatic, fired 17 shots at a father and son in Miami Beach, injuring both. Believing he had killed them, he smiled and told police, “I killed two Palestinians.”

It turns out they were israelis and they told police they were victims of an anti semitic attack
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 No.487653

https://x.com/kataeb_Ar/status/1891415784452239523
Continuation of the Israeli "ceasefire" in Lebanon
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Lebanese president says ‘afraid’ Israel may not fully withdraw by deadline

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has voiced concern that Israeli forces may not fully withdraw from southern Lebanon by a truce deadline on Tuesday, saying the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons was a matter for the Lebanese.

“We are afraid that a complete withdrawal will not be achieved tomorrow,” Aoun said, according to a statement from the presidency. He added: “The important thing is to achieve the Israeli withdrawal, and Hezbollah’s weapons come as part of solutions the Lebanese agree on.”

His remarks came shortly after the Lebanese Health Ministry announced that one person had been killed in an Israeli strike in the southern city of Sidon.

Israel continues to block mobile homes, tents in violation of ceasefire

Israel’s 15 months of war destroyed 70 percent of the buildings in the Gaza Strip, and most families have nowhere to live.

But Israel is still blocking shelters from entering the Strip – one of the conditions of the agreement. Tens of thousands of mobile homes as part of the ceasefire deal have still not been allowed into Gaza, and are stuck at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, awaiting Israeli permission to enter Gaza.

Under the ceasefire, Israel had agreed to allow 60,000 mobile homes and 200,000 tents into Gaza. But only 20,000 tents have been allowed in and none of the mobile homes.

Iran will not show weakness in defending nuclear programme: Ministry

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has delivered more defiant rhetoric after the latest comments by Netanyahu and Trump. Below are lines from Esmail Baghaei during a news conference:

Iran has observed its rights under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and nuclear safeguards for three decades.
Iran is conducting an ongoing peaceful nuclear programme, and it will not show any weakness in this regard.
Netanyahu must be confronted internationally for openly threatening Iran with attacks.
The emir of Qatar’s impending visit to Iran has nothing to do with talks with the US.
US officials’ comments on negotiations with Iran cannot be taken seriously because they are filled with contradictions.
Iran is consulting European countries to organise a third round of talks.

US strategic bombers flying with jet escorts over the Mediterranean Sea

An air squadron consisting of six military aircraft belonging to the US air force has been flying over the Mediterranean Sea, according to data from Flight Radar, which specialises in tracking and monitoring aircraft movements.

The squadron consists of two Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers and four Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft designated for refuelling fighters and bombers in midair.

The aircraft took off today from the Royal Air Force Mildenhall base in England, which is a US base. The flight path of the aircraft shows them flying over the Mediterranean near Southern Europe and North Africa with a possibility of heading towards the Middle East.

Israeli tanks advance in southern Lebanese town

Activists and local Lebanese platforms on social media circulated this morning scenes of an Israeli military incursion into the town of Kfarchouba in the south of the country.

Local media confirmed that this incursion is considered the first since the deployment of the Lebanese army in the area, and it comes as Lebanese officials say they expect a quick withdrawal by the Israeli army.

https://twitter.com/ataharinews/status/1891373885582455288

Israel PM says ‘committed’ to Trump’s Gaza displacement plan

Netanyahu says he is “committed” to Trump’s plan for Gaza, which involves displacing more than two million inhabitants of the Palestinian territory.

“Just as I have committed to, on the day after the war in Gaza, there will be neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority. I am committed to US President Trump’s plan for the creation of a different Gaza,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

Israeli soldiers used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield: Report

The Israeli military forced an 80-year-old Palestinian man to act as a human shield in Gaza by tying an explosive cord around his neck and threatening to have his head blown off, according to an investigation by the Israeli media outlet The Hottest Place in Hell.

A senior officer from the army’s Nahal Brigade tied the explosive cord around the man’s neck before he was ordered to scout houses.

After eight hours, soldiers ordered the man to flee with his wife from their home in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood in May, said +972 magazine, which reported the piece in partnership with The Hottest Place in Hell.

Al-Quds Brigades claims attack on Israeli troops in Tulkarem

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad says its Tulkarem Battalion detonated explosive devices targeting Israeli forces in the town of Qaffin.

It said the group’s fighters also “rained heavy showers of bullets” on the troops.

The Israeli military has been carrying out a large-scale military operation in Tulkarem as well as many parts of the north of the occupied West Bank.

Qassam Brigades confirms official killed in Lebanon

The armed wing of Hamas has hailed Muhammad Ibrahim Shaheen, who as we reported earlier was killed by an Israeli drone strike in Sidon, as an influential figure in the Palestinian organisation.

Qassam Brigades said in a statement that he had a “pioneering role and special fingerprints” in the path of resistance against Israel, including during the war on Gaza.

The Palestinian group said as its members are killed across Palestinian and other territories, it affirms its steadfastness on the path of resistance “until the dream of our people for liberation and return is achieved”.

Destruction of homes, infrastructure in Lebanon preventing people’s return: HRW

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the destruction of towns and villages in southern Lebanon by Israeli forces is preventing tens of thousands of people from returning to their homes.

“Israel’s deliberate demolition of civilian homes and infrastructure and its use of explosive weapons in populated areas are making it impossible for many residents to return to their villages and houses,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at HRW.

“Even if their houses are still there, how can they return when there is no water, electricity, telecommunications, or health infrastructure?” Kaiss added.

HRW researchers found examples of infrastructure destroyed by Israeli attacks, including a water filtration and pumping station destroyed by an Israeli attack on Tyre on November 18, which disrupted water access to about 72,000 people.

While temporary adjustments to the network restored supply about a month later, the water station, which is the main source for people in Tyre and the surrounding areas, “needs to be rebuilt from scratch”, Kassem Khalifeh, the utility’s chief of supervision, told HRW.

Former Israeli military officials warn against ‘reckless’ renewed war: Report

Hundreds of former senior Israeli military officials have written a letter addressed to the Israeli leadership and public that sternly warns against the “irresponsibility and recklessness of renewing the war” in Gaza without a clear strategic goal.

Former Major General Matan Vilnai leads the list of 550 Israelis who backed the letter, and points out that resuming the military campaign would lead to the deaths of the remaining captives in Gaza, according to Maariv newspaper.

The popular Hebrew-language daily cited the letter as saying such a war would also exhaust the army and “lead to a bloody, ongoing occupation with no end in sight and the loss of unprecedented regional opportunities”, in reference to a normalisation deal with Saudi Arabia.

According to the general, the Israeli government is acting against the will of the people and giving in to the demands of an extreme minority, who wish to annex the occupied West Bank and perpetuate conflict.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/17/live-trump-says-israel-to-choose-path-for-gaza-ceasefire-with-his-help
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We have confirmed with multiple patient reports that in the last 1-2 weeks the Israeli government has unilaterally & sneakily begun forcing patients who medically evacuating from Gaza to sign paperwork at the exiting checkpoints saying they cannot return to Gaza. None of the NGOs helping with the coordination of the medical evacs were informed by the entity or any governing body this would happen.

Ethnic cleansing aside, mothers are being forced to leave their children behind to travel with a sick child and almost every family is being forced to leave family members behind. And now they are being told that they will not be able to see them again.

Not that the Israeli government cares, but this violates international law and given the document was signed under duress it is unenforceable—meaning it is not worth the paper it was signed on.

Further this jeopardizes the entire medical evacuation enterprise in multiple ways. (1) Countries will be much more reticent to accept medical evacs from Gaza’s (2) All aiding countries will now be accused of being guilty of collaborating with Israel’s ethnic cleansing crimes. (3) This will upend Jordan’s commitment to accept 2,000 patients & be blowback against Pres. Trump.

This can stop as quickly as it started. Israel thinks we aren’t paying attention, but we are. Pressure is needed on Israel to stop this illegal & sneaky practice.

Thanks to @AbubakerAbedW and @sameerproject for sounding the alarm.

https://x.com/el_sabawi/status/1890793341790335099
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Apparently Trump's ethnic cleansing statements scared shipping companies away from the Red Sea again.
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>>487658
>forcing
>to sign paperwork
null and void

>signed under duress it is unenforceable—meaning it is not worth the paper it was signed on.

yup
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 No.487671

Israel’s truce violations continue to mount
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Rafah, Gaza

The ceasefire agreement stipulates a full cessation of all military acts by both parties to the conflict, but today, we’ve seen several violations by Israel.

They deliberately targeted police vehicles in the city of Rafah as well as a civilian vehicle in the central part of the Strip.

Israel’s obstruction of all essential heavy machinery and mobile homes – which are still lined up on the Egyptian side of the border and are highly required here in order to alleviate the humanitarian crisis – is adding further pressure on regional mediators to implement the humanitarian protocol agreed in the ceasefire deal.

Meanwhile, civilians here are homeless and living in open spaces as they wait for the entry of those mobile homes. These homes are expected to provide shelter to hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians.

People here believe that as long as Israel continues to add further obstacles in the path for the next round of negotiations, the situation on the ground will get more complicated.

The sentiments here are quite charged, with fears and anxiety over the durability of the ceasefire, in light of these very unpredictable changes that we can see in the current agreement.

AU condemns Israel’s ‘genocide’ against Palestinians

African leaders have condemned Israeli occupation and aggression in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa.

“Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and must be prosecuted internationally,” the statement said, according to Palestinian media outlets.

“We call for an end to cooperation and normalisation with Israel until it ends its occupation and aggression against Palestine,” it said.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs subsequently hailed the AU statement.

In a post on X, the ministry said it welcomed the African leaders’ “honourable positions on the Israeli occupation and aggression, as well as the genocide against our people”, and the “summit’s rejection of displacement and annexation plans”.

Israeli army targets ‘suspicious vehicles’ in Gaza

Israeli fighter jets opened fire on “suspicious vehicles” going north from central Gaza Strip “on a route not approved for vehicle traffic”, an army statement says.

The cars traveled without passing through the checkpoint route, “contrary to the agreed [truce] outline”.

“The [army] once again calls on Gaza residents to obey instructions, not to approach the forces deployed in the area and to pass through the agreed checkpoint routes,” it added in a post on X.

The incident comes as Israeli forces have been accused of repeatedly violating the ceasefire since it was enforced last month. Apart from deadly attacks, they have also obstructed the flow of much-needed humanitarian aid.

Israel begins to pull out from some south Lebanon areas: Report

The Israeli troop movement comes hours before a deadline for their complete withdrawal from Lebanon as stipulated in a ceasefire agreed in November with Hezbollah.

“Israeli forces are beginning to withdraw from border villages, including Meiss el-Jabal and Blida, as the Lebanese army advances,” an unnamed official told the AFP news agency.

Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Nadav Shoshani earlier said that “based on the current situation, we will leave small amounts of troops deployed temporarily in five strategic points along the border in Lebanon”.

Iran urges Arab, Islamic countries to defeat Trump’s Gaza plan

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on Arab and Islamic countries to support the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) efforts to confront a joint US-Israeli plot to forcibly relocate Palestinians from their homeland.

Araghchi made the call during a meeting with the secretary-general of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), Jassim Muhammad Al-Budaiwi, in the Omani capital, Muscat, on Sunday, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

Araghchi said a single, decisive voice must be heard from the Islamic world in support of the Palestinian people and praised Arab countries, especially those in the Gulf region, for opposing the “American-Zionist plan to forcibly relocate the people of Gaza”.

Israel announces army agency for ‘voluntary departure’ of Gaza

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz says a special directorate will be established for the “voluntary departure” of Gazan residents.

The announcement comes after Israel reiterated its commitment to a US proposal to take over the Palestinian territory and expel about two million of its inhabitants.

“Defence Minister Israel Katz held a meeting today on the voluntary departure of Gaza residents, at the end of which he decided that a directorate for the voluntary departure of Gaza residents would be established within the ministry of defence,” a statement said.

NGO pushes Belgium to arrest Israel’s ‘war criminal’ foreign minister

The pro-Palestinian Hind Rajab Foundation issued a call for action ahead of Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s scheduled visit to Brussels on Tuesday, calling on Belgian authorities to ensure he “does not evade justice while on European soil”.

“Allowing a suspected war criminal to visit Brussels unchallenged would be a betrayal of international legal commitments and the fundamental principles of justice,” the foundation said.

It emphasised Belgium’s legal obligation to take action against international crimes as a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Palestinian boy succumbs to injuries following Israeli attack

Diaa Ahmed Sabaaneh, 15, has died in the occupied West Bank following wounds he sustained two weeks ago from an Israeli air strike.

The attack occurred in Qabatiya, in the Palestinian territory’s north, where an Israeli military assault has been ongoing for weeks.

Israel’s raid on the occupied West Bank has killed more than a dozen Palestinians and displaced at least 40,000, while causing widespread destruction to critical infrastructure.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/17/live-trump-says-israel-to-choose-path-for-gaza-ceasefire-with-his-help

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Gaza ceasefire to top agenda as Netanyahu visits US
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take off to the United States [today], around 8am [06:00 GMT] local time.

He will be the first world leader to visit the White House since Donald Trump took office on January 20.

Gaza, of course, will be one of the agenda items.

Netanyahu has released a statement saying that he’s going to meet with Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who helped with the ceasefire negotiations about negotiations for the second phase of the deal.

But of course, the deal is laid out. Phase two is laid out, so it’s a little bit unclear exactly what Netanyahu wants.

Reports within Israeli media have said that Netanyahu has been holding private meetings about restarting the war, even asking the military for operational plans on how he could do that.

And members of his right-wing government, having left his coalition despite voting against this deal several weeks ago, say they received assurances from Netanyahu that the fighting would resume after phase one.

That there would be a “complete takeover of Gaza”, and those are the words of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

So there’s a lot of uncertainty about what’s to come next.

But make no mistake, the Israeli public at large supports this deal because it brings back the remaining Israeli captives.

US ‘showing contempt for int’l justice’ by hosting Netanyahu: Amnesty

Amnesty International says the US “has a clear obligation” under the Geneva Conventions “to search for & try or extradite persons accused of having committed or ordered the commission of war crimes”.

US ‘will remain complicit in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza’ if arms sales persist: HRW

Ahead of Trump’s talks with Netanyahu, Human Rights Watch has urged the US to cut off military assistance to Israel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/2/live-israeli-bombs-kill-5-in-west-bank-wounded-palestinians-evacuate-gaza
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Lebanon demands full Israeli troop withdrawal from south

Lebanon called for a full Israeli army pull out from its territory in the south as agreed under a ceasefire agreement involving Hezbollah.

President Joseph Aoun held talks with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss Israeli violations of the truce deal, a statement from the president’s office said.

The talks came shortly after the Israeli military withdrew from some southern Lebanese towns, but remained in five border outposts in violation of the ceasefire.

Under the deal, Israel was supposed to complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon by January 26, but the deadline was extended to Tuesday after Israel refused to comply.

Lebanese officials called for “a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories in compliance with international charters and laws and UN resolutions”, the statement said.

Lebanese government to seek new IMF programme, policy statement says

Lebanon’s new government will negotiate with the International Monetary Fund for a new programme and will work to deal with the country’s financial default and public debt, according to a policy statement approved by the cabinet.

The statement, a copy of which was reviewed by the Reuters news agency, said the government would work for an economical revival that could only be achieved through restructuring the banking sector.

Lebanon has been in deep economic crisis since 2019 when its financial system collapsed under the weight of massive state debts, prompting a sovereign default in 2020 and freezing ordinary depositors out of their savings in the banking system.

Beirut reached a draft funding deal with IMF in 2022 – contingent on reforms that authorities failed to deliver. Finance Minister Yassine Jaber, who took office as part of a new government agreed earlier this month, said an IMF mission is expected to visit Lebanon in March.

US bombers ‘demonstrate force projection capabilities’ in the Middle East

The US military confirmed reports that its strategic bombers – escorted by refueling aircraft and fighter jets – completed a run over the Middle East “to demonstrate force projection capabilities in the region”.

US Central Command said “live munitions drops at ranges in several partner nations” were part of the mission, aimed at showing an “ability to respond to any state or non-state actor seeking to broaden or escalate conflict”.

The statement comes after threats to bomb Iran by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli forces kill child in southern Gaza’s Rafah city: Report

A child has been killed by Israeli forces near al-Awda Square in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

The agency said another child was shot and injured by the Israeli army east of Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood.

Earlier, we reported based on the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces killed a woman this morning east of the municipality of ash-Shawka in Rafah.

Israel violated Gaza ceasefire ‘266 times’, killing 132 Palestinians

Palestinian security sources have told Al Jazeera they registered 266 violations of the ceasefire agreement since it came into effect in the Gaza Strip on January 19.

Those violations have led to the killing of at least 132 Palestinians, including 26 who succumbed to their wounds. More than 900 people were injured as a result of Israeli gunfire and raids on the enclave.

Most violations occurred in central Gaza, with 110 incidents, followed by 54 in Rafah, 49 in Gaza City, 19 in Khan Younis, and 13 in the northern Gaza Strip.

Throughout the ceasefire, Israeli leaders have been discussing the possibility of an imminent return to fighting, with far-right ministers in Netanyahu’s cabinet pushing for military occupation of the enclave.

Video shows southern Lebanon village in ruins after Israeli military withdrawal

Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency depicts the scale of destruction in the village of Markaba near the border with Israel.

Israeli forces reduced almost the entirety of the village in southern Lebanon to rubble before withdrawing. The Lebanese army announced today the deployment of its military units there.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1354901035763036

Katz threatens Lebanon with more violence as Israeli forces remain in buffer zone

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says the army will “forcefully” enforce the ceasefire deal in Lebanon and act against any Hezbollah threat, as Israeli troops remain in five strategic posts.

“Starting today, the [army] will remain in a buffer zone in Lebanon in five strategic outposts along the border line, to ensure the protection of the northern communities,” he said on X, adding that the army would “continue to enforce forcefully and without compromise against any violation by Hezbollah”.

“We will not allow a return to the reality of October 7th,” he concluded.

Residents await return to Lebanese towns, villages levelled by Israeli forces
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Deir Mimas, Lebanon

The Lebanese army is still clearing areas of unexploded munitions as Israeli forces withdraw from towns and villages along the border.

People who have been displaced from the area for more than a year have been waiting here for hours to go back to their homes and see what is left, but most of them will tell you they know there is nothing left because most of these towns along the border have been levelled to the ground.

It is not just because of the war. Since that ceasefire took effect in late November, Israeli troops have been demolishing infrastructure and homes, saying they are Hezbollah’s military infrastructure.

So, people here will tell you they are going back to nothing but they still want to go back home.

What are the five hilltops in Lebanon that Israel plans to remain on?

The deadline for Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon has now passed.

We have more information on the five locations where the Israeli army has said its troops will remain.

They are:

''a hill near Labbouneh, across from the Israeli town of Shlomi
the Jabal Blat peak, across from the Israeli town of Zar’it''
a hill across from the Israeli towns of Avivim and Malkia
a hill across from the Israeli town of Margaliot
a hill across from the Israeli town of Metula.
None of the posts is located within built-up areas but Israel has said it will prevent “suspects” from approaching the Israeli border and newly established positions, according to our correspondent.

Israeli army launches interceptor missile at drone near Lebanon border

Local outlets have documented the footage below, which has been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, showing how the Israeli military launched an interceptor missile that hit a drone in the Mount Hermon area.

Israeli Army Radio said the drone belonged to the Israeli military, and was downed in order to prevent it from falling into Lebanese hands after it suffered a malfunction.

Palestinian President Abbas fires official who criticised him for ending ‘martyrs’ fund’

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has fired an official who criticised his decision to end a system that paid stipends to the families of prisoners, including those convicted of deadly attacks against Israelis.

Abbas announced the replacement of Qadura Fares as head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) without providing an explanation.

Last week, Abbas put an end to what was known as the “martyrs’ fund”, acquiescing to longstanding demands by the United States and Israel.

Many Palestinians viewed the payments as compensation for people harmed in the course of their struggle against Israeli military rule.

The Hamas movement, which drove Abbas’s forces from Gaza in 2007, criticised Fares’s firing, saying it reflected the “oppression and exclusion” practiced by the authority and its “submission to Zionist and American dictates”.

Israel violated ‘right to education’ by storming UNRWA-run schools in West Bank: Lazzarini

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has confirmed that Israeli soldiers and municipality authorities stormed three schools and a training centre in the occupied West Bank and ordered immediate evacuations.

He said 250 children in three schools run by the UN agency in occupied East Jerusalem were affected, along with more than 350 trainees at the large training centre that was targeted in Qalandiya.

“This is a violation of the basic right to education as well as of United Nations privileges and immunities,” Lazzarini added in a post on X.

UN says Israel violating Security Council resolution on Lebanon

UN envoy Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and the UNIFIL peacekeeping force have said in a joint statement that at “the end of the period set” for Israel’s withdrawal and the Lebanese army’s deployment, any further “delay in this process is not what we hoped would happen” and a violation of a 2006 Security Council resolution that ended a past Israel-Hezbollah war.

“The new Lebanese President and Government are determined to extend state authority completely in all areas in the south and consolidate stability to prevent conflict from returning to Lebanon. They deserve unwavering support in this endeavour,” they said.

As we have reported earlier, Israeli forces pulled out from Yaroun, Maroun al-Ras, Blida, Meiss el-Jabal, Hula, Markaba, Odaisseh, Kfar Kila, and Wazzani, but remain at five hilltops along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Netanyahu’s office confirms Israel to receive six living captives, four bodies

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the talks in Cairo resulted in an agreement on the release of six living Israeli captives on Saturday as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal with Hamas.

Israel will also receive the bodies of four Israeli prisoners on Thursday and the bodies of four others a week later, the statement said.

The Times of Israel newspaper said the families of the captives have been notified.

Netanyahu orders immediate enforcement of UNRWA ban

The Israeli prime minister has issued a directive ordering the law banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) be “enforced immediately”.

In a post on X, Netanyahu’s office said, “There are no restrictions on the implementation of the Prime Minister’s directive.”

Arab League summit on Gaza postponed to March 4: Egypt

An extraordinary Arab League meeting on Gaza initially planned for next week has been postponed to March 4, host Egypt says.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement the new date was agreed with Arab League members as part of “substantive and logistical preparations” for the summit, which had been called in response to Trump’s proposal to take over the war-battered Gaza Strip and displace its Palestinian inhabitants.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/18/live-israel-pushes-forward-with-plans-for-voluntary-expulsions-from-gaza
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Interesting Dialogue Works interview with Laith Marouf. A few interesting points:

Laith says the IDF has 7,000 dead from the recent conflict. This is almost 10x the estimates I've heard, anyone have any idea where he's getting 7k?

Laith says that Nawaf Salam (the Lebanese judge from the ICJ who was summoned back to Lebanon to become the Prime Minister) claimed in a speech that the reason for the recent Lebanese ban of commercial flights from Iran was due to "western sanctions" on Iranian flights. This would be a lie, as Iran flies to multiple west-friendly countries in the region, and the real reason has been reported as being that Israel threatened to bomb the Beirut airport if those flights were allowed in. Laith speculates that Salam was lying to hide his having caved to bomb threats.

Laith believes that the HTS gov't is unstable and may soon fall. He says that HTS recently raided a Syrian Sunni leader. He says that an Israeli report recently claimed that Iran and Turkey were jointly planning to re-arm Hezbollah, but he thinks the inclusion of Turkey in this was probably BS and I agree with him on that.

Hezbollah's political wing, based on recent events, seems to be the moderating force among its supporters. The recent protests appear to have occurred without any direction from Hezbollah's political leadership.
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https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1891847085470679407
German police raid an event held by Amnesty International and Francesca Albanese.
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I don't know how recent this development is, but Twitter is apparently now blocking pics of Aaron Bushnell.
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>>487673
>IDF has 7,000 dead from the recent conflict
7000 fatalities probably is a low-ball estimate. And you have to factor in that they probably have multiples of injured people that can't fight anymore. And then all the people that got psychological problems from witnessing or participating in atrocities.

But wait there is more. Israel had a vibrant tech sector, but all the techies emigrated because they didn't want to get drafted into the slaughter-machine. They packed up their families and left, that amounted to minus a million in population.

The demographic cost for Israel are very high.

>an Israeli report recently claimed that Iran and Turkey were jointly planning to re-arm Hezbollah, but he thinks the inclusion of Turkey in this was probably BS and I agree with him on that.

I'm not convinced the Israeli really have a handle on this, Iran is able to supply Yemmen, so they probably are able to supply Hezbollah as well. The fall of Syria probably caused only a temporary interruption, in Iran's ability to re-supply Hezbollah. lets not forget that Hezbollah probably also has independent production capacities for weapons as well.

Maybe this report should be viewed as an indication that there are growing political tensions between Turkey and Israel.
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>>487672
>What are the five hilltops in Lebanon that Israel plans to remain on?
>The deadline for Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon has now passed.
>We have more information on the five locations where the Israeli army has said its troops will remain.
I think the 5 hills are going to be the indicator whether or not Iran has restored the weapons transfer corridors or not. If they did, Hezbollah is going to be able to clear out these hills with some kind of a big rocket barrage or drone attack.
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Beirut airport to close during funeral for slain Hezbollah leader

The four-hour closure will take place during the funeral on Sunday for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in an Israeli strike in late September.

“The airport will be closed and takeoffs and landings … will halt on February 23, 2025, from 12pm until 4pm [10:00-14:00 GMT],” Lebanon’s civil aviation authority said in a statement.

Nasrallah’s assassination took place as Hezbollah and Israel were entangled in cross-border hostilities for nearly a year, after the Lebanese armed group started firing on Israel in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza.

The exchanges of fire, which escalated into an all-out war for two months, ended with a ceasefire in late November.

Under the agreement, Lebanon’s military was to deploy alongside UN peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdrew from the south over an initial 60-day period that was later extended to today.

But just before the pullout deadline, Israel said it would keep troops in “five strategic points” near the border – a move slammed by Lebanon as an “occupation”.

Lebanon teams retrieve 23 bodies after Israeli pullout

Lebanon’s civil defence agency recovered 23 bodies from several border towns after Israeli troops withdrew from some southern towns under a ceasefire deadline.

“Specialised teams today … managed to remove 14 bodies from Mais al-Jabal, three from Markaba, and three from Kfar Kila, in addition to three from Odaisseh,” said a statement published by the state-run National News Agency.

Lebanese leaders said the Israeli military’s continued presence in five locations is an “occupation” and Beirut is in touch with France and the United States to press the army to completely withdraw from southern Lebanon.

Israeli drones broadcasting threatening messages in Gaza despite ceasefire

Maha Hussaini, the strategy director at The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a rights groups, says Israeli drones “are flying at low altitudes over central and eastern Gaza City” with intimidating messages.

She said the recorded messages “threaten residents and speak of a second and third Nakba“, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land when Israel was created in 1948.

The Euro-Med shared a recording of the messages in a separate post on X.

https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1891789953585066475

Two dead after Israeli tanks open fire in Rafah

Two people have been killed in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah after Israeli tanks opened fire on Palestinians.

Two bodies were brought to a nearby hospital, officials said. The latest attack comes despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Israel’s army said in a statement that forces initially fired warning shots in the south of the Strip because of an unidentified person approaching them. The suspect did not retreat, so the army fired further shots.

Iran’s supreme leader: US plan to displace Gazans ‘will go nowhere’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed a proposal by the United States and Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians from the war-devastated Gaza Strip calling it “foolish”.

Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.

“The idiotic American plans or some other plans regarding Gaza and Palestine will go nowhere,” Khamenei said.

“No plan will be completed without the consent of the resistance and the people of Gaza,” he said, adding global public opinion favoured the Palestinians.

“Those who, a year and a half ago, claimed they would eliminate the resistance in a short time are now receiving their captives in small groups from the resistance while releasing a large number of Palestinian prisoners in return.”

Global call to halt to F-35 fighter jet exports to Israel

A global coalition of 232 civil society organisations has called on countries that build F-35 fighter jets to urgently end their arms exports to Israel because it’s been accused of war crimes under international law.

The Australian Centre for International Justice, one of the groups, urged all government partners in the F-35 fighter jet supply chain – including the Australian government – to “immediately halt all direct and indirect transfers of F-35 parts and components to Israel in accordance with their international legal obligations”.

Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and the US have so far “refused to cease exporting parts and components manufactured in their countries for use in F-35 fighter jets, despite their ultimate end use by Israel in aerial attacks that have caused devastating and irreparable harm to Palestinians in Gaza”, it said in a statement.

Two Israeli soldiers flee Amsterdam over arrest warrant concerns

Two Israeli servicemen who fought in Gaza fled the Netherlands and returned to Israel after a pro-Palestinian organisation tracked them down on social media and circulated their photos.

The Israeli Genocide Tracker published images of the soldiers on X, saying: “After participating in the Gaza genocide, this Israeli tank commander from the 52nd Battalion, who was involved in kidnapping hundreds of civilians [especially in Jabalia] and who enjoyed taking selfies with them, landed in Amsterdam today for a vacation.”

Germany event on Israel’s war on Gaza forcibly relocated by police

A conference in Berlin addressing issues surrounding Palestine and the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza was forcibly relocated by German police.

The “Reclaiming the Discourse: Palestine, Justice, and Truth” event – featuring UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and prominent human rights figures – was moved after the original venue “faced coercion from German politicians and Berlin police”, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) said in a statement.

The organisers, who planned for a larger audience, were forced to scale it down with the new venue holding just 200 attendees.

Albanese, who has faced repeated cancellations of her events in Germany, was again targeted by authorities, raising concerns over the country’s treatment of dissenting voices. “This is an outright attack on democracy and free speech,” DiEM25 said.

France calls for immediate Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon

Israeli forces should pull back from five positions in southern Lebanon as soon as possible in line with the November ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, says France.

The Foreign Ministry urged all parties to consider its proposal to deploy the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to these five locations to replace Israeli forces and ensure the security of the population there.

The ministry also praised the redeployment of the Lebanese army where Israeli forces withdrew. The positioning of Lebanese forces allows demining operations and ensures the return of residents in safety, it added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/18/live-israel-pushes-forward-with-plans-for-voluntary-expulsions-from-gaza
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>>487674
>German police raid an event held by Amnesty International
>>487678
>Germany event on Israel’s war on Gaza forcibly relocated by police
>A conference in Berlin addressing issues surrounding Palestine and the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza was forcibly relocated by German police.
>The “Reclaiming the Discourse: Palestine, Justice, and Truth” event – featuring UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and prominent human rights figures – was moved after the original venue “faced coercion from German politicians and Berlin police”, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) said in a statement.
>The organisers, who planned for a larger audience, were forced to scale it down with the new venue holding just 200 attendees.
>Albanese, who has faced repeated cancellations of her events in Germany, was again targeted by authorities, raising concerns over the country’s treatment of dissenting voices. “This is an outright attack on democracy and free speech,” DiEM25 said.
Why are they doing this ?
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 No.487682

>>487677
>I think the 5 hills are going to be the indicator whether or not Iran has restored the weapons transfer corridors or not. If they did, Hezbollah is going to be able to clear out these hills with some kind of a big rocket barrage or drone attack.

I think Hezbollah probably still has some capability to do that either way, but I don't know. Very difficult to say since Israel has just been going around destroying houses in southern Lebanon for months now without any return fire. I doubt that Iran has restored weapons transfer corridors, if they're still successfully transferring weapons then it's most likely in lower capacity.
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Israeli army AI misidentified Gaza high school exam list as targets: Report

An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) news agency has found that the Israeli military’s use of Microsoft and OpenAI technology has sharply increased from October 7, 2023, raising fears these tools are contributing to the deaths of innocent people.

In one case, an Israeli army officer whose role involved using Microsoft’s Azure service to identify targets, said he found the system had wrongly added the names of 1,000 high school students from an exams list to an Excel spreadsheet marked “finals”.

He found the mistake but told AP he was worried that other officers, some still younger than 20, under pressure to find targets quickly with the help of AI, would jump to conclusions.

In total, AP spoke to six former Israeli army soldiers and 12 employees of US tech companies, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. AP also reviewed internal documents, finding that the Israeli army was storing 13.6 petabytes of data on Microsoft servers by July 2024, reflecting the vast amount of data AI tools were sifting through to identify potential targets.

However, the Israeli military told AP in a statement, that while the tools “make more targets faster”, this was “not at the expense of accuracy, and many times in this war, they’ve been able to minimise civilian casualties”.

More on deadly Israeli attack on vehicle in southern Lebanon

We have reported earlier that an Israeli drone attack on a vehicle in the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab near the border with Israel has killed one person and injured another.

Sanad, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, identified the victim as Yusuf Mohammed Sorour, the son of the mayor of the town, targeted while he was sitting in his car in front of his home.

Rights groups say US, Canada violating UN racism treaty with arms exports to Israel

Eight human rights and legal organisations have told a UN committee that the US and Canada are violating their obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by continuing to export weapons to Israel.

In a 56-page submission to the committee, the organisations detailed how US military aid to Israel has “grown astronomically” since October 7, 2023, with Washington spending “at least an additional $22.76 billion on military aid to Israel and related US operations in the region”, as of September 30, 2024.

“The United States and Canada are well aware of Israel’s violations of international law, often perpetrated with Canada- and US-provided weaponry,” the submission said.

Pope continues video calls with Gaza church from hospital bed

A Catholic priest from the Holy Family Church in Gaza City has told Vatican News that Pope Francis has stayed in contact with his church by video call and text messages despite being hospitalised with a respiratory infection.

“The Holy Father called us the first two days of hospitalisation; people were waiting at 8pm Gaza time as always,” Father Gabriel Romanelli told Vatican News.

“Although we had a blackout in the whole area of Gaza City, he insisted and managed to contact us with a video call,” Romanelli added.

Pope Francis, who has repeatedly called for peace in Gaza, has contracted double pneumonia, further complicating his hospitalisation, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

Hamas rejects Israel’s call for disarmament

As we’ve been reporting, Hamas has issued a statement saying it is ready for a second phase in which all of the captives held in Gaza are exchanged in “one go”.

In the same statement, the Palestinian group rejected Israel’s call for its disarmament and removal from the Gaza Strip.

“The occupation’s condition of removing Hamas from the Gaza Strip is a ridiculous psychological war, and the withdrawal or disarmament of the resistance from Gaza is unacceptable,” said Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the group.

“Any arrangements for the future of the Gaza Strip will be through national consensus,” he said.

Qassem also addressed the group’s decision to increase the number of captives to be freed during the next swap on Saturday from three to six.

“Doubling the number of prisoners to be released was done in response to a request from the mediators and to prove our seriousness in implementing all the terms of the agreement,” he said.

In exchange, Israel will release “a number of prisoners with life sentences and long sentences”, he added.

Hamas says it’s ready to free all Israeli captives in one go

The Palestinian group has just released a statement outlining its vision for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

“We are ready for a second phase in which the prisoners will be exchanged in one go, within the criterion of reaching an agreement that leads to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Strip,” spokesman Hazem Qassem said.

The offer comes after US President Donald Trump spoke out against the phased weekly release of the captives taken from Israel, and families of those remaining in Gaza called for all of their loved ones to be freed at once.

Armenian church says it could lose properties in dispute with Jerusalem municipilty

The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem says it has owned the properties for centuries and could lose them in a hearing set for next Monday, threatening the “presence of the Armenian community in the Holy Land”.

In a letter posted on X, the church said the Jerusalem Municipality could seize and auction off its properties over an “alleged astronomical” tax debt that has never been “proven in judicial proceedings.”

Armenians, have lived in Jerusalem’s Old City for more than 1,500 years, but say their presence in the multifaith community has come under pressure in recent years, including from Jewish settlers and a land deal that could see a quarter of their land turned into a luxury hotel.

Several Israelis illegally cross into Lebanon: Report

The Times of Israel newspaper, citing police, says several Israelis illegally crossed the border into Lebanon overnight, and some of them threw rocks at Israeli troops who arrived on the scene.

Police officials said some of those were arrested, and the remaining suspects returned to Israel by the army, according to the daily.

It said it was the second such incident this week, with about 20 ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis illegally entering Lebanon overnight on Sunday.

The group was reportedly attempting to reach the tomb of Rav Ashi, a fourth-century Babylonian scholar.

Hamas offered to free all captives at once, but ending war ‘not a popular idea’ in Israel
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Hamas’s latest proposal says that they will release all of the remaining Israeli captives, including male soldiers who were abducted on October 7, in exchange for an end to the war.

What’s different about this proposal is that we wouldn’t see releases over several weeks like we are now seeing in phase one. It would be a one-time release of all of the captives in exchange for the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops and an end to the war.

There’s been no official Israeli response to this, but within the Israeli political realm, especially among the right wing, it’s not a popular idea to end the war and leave Hamas in power, militarily and politically in Gaza. Netanyahu says that Israel is going to achieve the absolute destruction of Hamas in both of those aspects.

After weeks of delay, the Israeli PM finally agreed to dispatch a negotiating team for phase two of the talks, but it’s still unclear what Israel is looking for out of phase two.

Netanyahu says he wants to extend phase one, according to reports within Israeli media, to release more captives, but Hamas is adamant about being committed to the deal and wanting to see it through.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/19/live-israeli-tanks-fire-on-palestinians-in-gaza-as-captive-exchange-agreed
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Muslim rights group sues US government over ‘genocide in Gaza’

Lawsuits against the US government for its support of Israel’s war on Gaza are being carried over to the Trump administration, a human rights group says.

Despite several US State Department officials documenting Israel’s “acts of genocide” in Gaza, the administration of former US President Joe Biden disregarded these reports, leading to legal action against the former administration by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Nihad Awad, CAIR’s executive director, said President Biden and his administration were fully aware of Israel’s disregard for international law during the attack.

Awad said lawsuits filed on behalf of Palestinian-American families who lost loved ones in the war – carried out with US weapons – are now proceeding under the new administration.

President Biden and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken covered up and dismissed US reports outlining Israel’s criminal conduct, Awad alleged.

Yemeni minister demands arrest of Houthis attending Nasrallah’s funeral

Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani called for the arrest of Houthi leaders he said will attend Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut.

Al-Eryani demanded that Lebanon’s government arrest the Houthis and hand them over to the rival internationally recognised government in a post on X.

Qatar emir holds talks with Iran’s supreme leader in Tehran

Qatar’s emir has held talks with Iran’s supreme leader and the country’s president during a state visit amid high tensions in the region.

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s spiritual leader and its highest authority, in Tehran. Qatar’s ruler also met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Shackled in chains, Gaza icon Dr Abu Safia appears in video

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, appeared with both hands and feet shackled for the first time since his arrest by Israeli forces.

Israeli media broadcast a video showing Abu Safia visibly exhausted and weakened as he was escorted by prison guards. Abu Safia is regarded as one of the most prominent doctors who continued working under Israeli bombardment to save wounded Palestinians in northern Gaza.

In late December, Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, arrested Abu Safia at gunpoint, and destroyed the hospital, rendering it non-functional.

His arrest sparked widespread condemnation, especially after an image circulated of him walking alone amid the ruins, dressed in his medical coat, surrounded by Israeli military vehicles – a scene that became an icon of Palestinian resilience.

According to his family, Abu Safia was subjected to torture and starvation inside Israeli prisons, a claim confirmed by a lawyer who recently visited him.

Israeli army to perform military excercise in northern Gaza

The Israeli army announced it will undertake a military manoeuvre in the north of the war-devastated Gaza Strip.

“As part of the exercise, there will be a lot of movement of vehicles and security forces in the area,” it said in a statement.

The exercise will take place on the same day four bodies of Israeli captives will be released for the first time since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was signed in January.

Doctors Against Genocide urge US Senate to help end Gaza war

Doctors Against Genocide gathered in Washington, DC to urge the US Senate to take action and end Israel’s war on Gaza.

The global coalition of healthcare workers mobilised more than 100 doctors, nurses, and medical workers on Capitol Hill.



Doctors Against Genocide also demanded the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was detained by Israeli forces along, with others, during a December 27 raid on the facility.

Lebanese president calls for end to Israeli occupation of border posts

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated the need for Israel to end its occupation of five border posts in southern Lebanon during a phone call with US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.

According to a statement from the Lebanese presidency, Aoun told Waltz it is “essential to end the Israeli occupation of the remaining posts” in southern Lebanon, “implement Security Council Resolution 1701”, and “complete the ceasefire agreement to ensure stability in the south”.

Aoun also reiterated to Waltz the urgency of securing the release of Lebanese detained by Israel.

Killed captive spent his life working for Palestinian rights

The body of Oded Lifshitz will be handed over by Palestinian Islamic Jihad tomorrow. Lifshitz, who spent his life fighting for Arab rights, was one of the oldest captives taken on October 7, 2023, at age 83.

His daughter, a London-based artist, said in January she was holding onto hope he survived but was also prepared for the worst.

“These are difficult hours for us after being informed that our beloved Oded is among the deceased hostages who will be returned,” his family said in a statement.

“For 502 days, we hoped and prayed for a different outcome. However, until we receive absolute certainty, our journey is not over, and even afterwards we will continue to fight until the last hostage is returned.”

As a journalist, Lifshitz campaigned for the recognition of Palestinian rights and peace between Arabs and Jews. In his later years, he drove Palestinians to medical appointments in Israel as part of a group called On the Way to Recovery.

Israeli army to perform military ceremony for Gaza captives’ bodies

The Israeli army will perform a small ceremony inside Gaza after the bodies are transferred to coffins, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reports.

A rabbi will read a eulogy and the coffins will then be taken to the Forensic Institute for identification in Tel Aviv.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/19/live-israeli-tanks-fire-on-palestinians-in-gaza-as-captive-exchange-agreed
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How tf is it even possible for them to have propaganda this on point
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 No.487716

Random empty bus bombings in Tel Aviv (???), Egypt declares state of emergency in Sinai.
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 No.487717

Israeli man attacks Jewish woman, mistaking her for a Christian

A woman in occupied East Jerusalem was seriously wounded on Wednesday after an assailant allegedly attacked her with an axe inside her home.

Israeli journalist Yossi Eli reported on Thursday that police suspect the attack was motivated by anti-Christian hatred.

The victim, a Jewish-Israeli woman, was taken to hospital for treatment, while the suspect, also Jewish Israeli, allegedly mistook her for a Christian.

The attack comes amid growing anti-Christian sentiment in the city, with Christian leaders in Jerusalem calling on the Israeli government to intervene and stop local authorities from seizing properties belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate.

They say that this jeopardises the centuries-old presence of Christian institutions in the Holy Land, accusing Israel of eroding the cultural and religious heritage of non-Jewish communities.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/jewish-assailant-attacks-jewish-woman-axe-believing-her-be-christian
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>>487717
that's a society that's disassembling itself
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 No.487726

>>487716
Shin Bet arrests Jewish-Israeli who drove terrorist to Bat Yam ahead of bus bombings - report

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) arrested a Jewish Israeli who reportedly drove the terrorist that planted bombs on buses in the Bat Yam area of central Israel on Thursday evening, Israeli media reported on Friday.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-843160
https://archive.is/v4gb4
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 No.487727

Thousands of Nasrallah supporters fly into Beirut for slain Hezbollah leader’s funeral

Thousands of supporters of Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Lebanese group Hezbollah, have flown into Beirut for his funeral on Sunday.

Nasrallah was killed in September of last year in a massive Israeli military attack on southern Beirut.

Nasrallah was one of the group’s founders and Hezbollah’s leader of more than 30 years.

He was one of several top Hezbollah officials killed during the group’s war with Israel,.

Crowds are expected to gather on Sunday at Beirut’s main sports stadium for a funeral ceremony before Nasrallah’s burial.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/21/live-israel-ramps-up-west-bank-assault-after-bus-blasts-near-tel-aviv
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 No.487728

>>487726
So the hole bus story was a distraction ?
What were they talking before, wasn't it about the IDF killing Israeli hostages or something like that ?
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 No.487733

Dimitri Lascaris on the upcoming funeral of Nasrallah in Beirut
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 No.487734

>>487733
They intended to perform a decapitation strike against Hezbollah, however in the end they turned a political leader into a immortal martyr. Especially because Nasrallah said that he expected to get assassinated by the Israeli. That generates huge political capital for Hezbollah, at the expense of the Lebanon's "side-government".
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 No.487741

Israel looking for any bullshit excuse to get out of the prisoner exchanges. One of the released Israeli captives kissed Hamas today also.
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 No.487746

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1893623914179231746
Nasrallah's funeral today. Huge crowds. Also Israeli war planes flying over to threaten them:
https://twitter.com/IrnaEnglish/status/1893665491635290434

Israeli attacks also reported on Baalbek today, in another "creative" Israeli contribution to the Lebanese "ceasefire."
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 No.487749

>>487746
>Israeli war planes flying over
>Nasrallah's funeral
>to threaten

Yeah but it still seems more like a tribute, even if it's a spiteful one
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 No.487754

>>487741
aaaand the vid is gone
dammit hadn't gotten around to watching it yet
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 No.487755

>>487754
Wild, wonder what happened.
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BREAKING: ICC Asked to Investigate Biden and Blinken Over War Crimes Allegations
It's the first time a US-based organization has asked the court to probe a former president for complicity in alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For the first time ever, a US-based organization has formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate a former US president for possible complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The 172-page request submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) alleges several figures – including former President Biden, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – aided and abetted Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

“This case might face political pushback, but that doesn’t change the message it sends: impunity isn’t a given. If the rule of law is supposed to mean anything, it has to apply across the board – not just to our enemies, but to our friends, and yes, to ourselves,” war crimes prosecutor and DAWN board member Reed Brody told Zeteo.

“We’re at a turning point. The question is whether the ICC and international law will be … more casualties buried under the rubble of Gaza.”

read more: https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-icc-asked-to-investigate
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 No.487765

Today in Copenhagen 800 people from all over Europe shut down the main Maersk HQ for the day as part of the CRAC Camp under the Mask Off Maersk slogan “Cut Ties from Genocide”.

Police were outnumbered but quite brutal to those participating in the action. The crowd was dispersed after over 5 hours of holding down the site by tear gas and batons. A few sustained injuries, a few were taken to the hospital.

The action was a powerful example of what collective organizing looks for a people’s arms embargo.

https://twitter.com/palyouthmvmt/status/1894117511618335157
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 No.487767

https://x.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1894542994470056197
Protests in Damascus tonight calling on Jolani to bomb Tel Aviv in response to Israeli attacks on Syria's south.
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 No.487769

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1894487797031158054
Israeli captive Noa Argamani described to the UN how an Israeli airstrike killed fellow captive Yossi Sharabi. The strike hit the building where they were held, causing it to collapse. Sharabi—who had survived the October 7th attacks—became trapped under the rubble and was killed by Israeli forces.

“I couldn’t move… I screamed so that someone would hear me. I heard Yossi screaming too, but after a few seconds I stopped hearing from Yossi.”
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 No.487771

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1894554835938086942
HAPPENING NOW: Vigil for Aaron Bushnell at the Israeli embassy in D.C., one year after his self-immolation in protest of the genocide in Gaza. Participants honor his memory by sharing his final words.
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 No.487772

US planning summit of real estate developers on Gaza

Here’s more from Steve Witkoff’s speech in Washington, DC.

The envoy told the event organised by the American Jewish Committee that the US will soon hold a summit with real estate developers to discuss Gaza’s future, according to Bloomberg News.

“We’re going to conduct a summit pretty soon with probably the biggest developers in the Middle East region, many of the Arab developers – lots of master planners,” Witkoff said. “I think when people see some of the ideas that come from this, they’re going to be amazed.”

The comments come after Trump proposed the US taking over Gaza and turning it into a beach resort after forcibly displacing the Palestinians there. The plan has triggered widespread condemnation, with critics saying it would amount to ethnic cleansing.

https://aje.io/w07794?update=3538771
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 No.487776

https://x.com/unityoffields/status/1894859137282121790
BREAKING 🔻LONG LIVE HIND’S HALL! EVERY FASCIST STATE WILL FALL!

Students at Columbia University storm a building and sit-in to demand that the expulsions of the two Barnard Students are reversed. They’re calling for amnesty for all students disciplined during the Student Intifada!
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Lebanon’s gov’t wins confidence vote, says only armed forces should defend country

Lebanon’s new government has won a confidence vote in parliament with the support of Hezbollah’s bloc, even though the government statement adopted took a swipe at the group’s weapons.

Ninety-five out of 128 lawmakers supported the government of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, a prominent jurist who previously headed the International Court of Justice. He was appointed last month to form a new government after a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and caused widespread destruction.

The government statement adopted said that only Lebanon’s armed forces should defend the country in case of war. Unlike previous statements, it did not include the phrase “armed resistance,” which had been seen as legitimising Hezbollah’s possession of weapons outside of state control.

Hezbollah has kept its weapons over the past decades saying they are necessary to defend the country against Israel. Calls for the group’s disarmament, however, intensified during the latest war, which ended with a US-brokered ceasefire on November 27, 2024.

Salam said the government asserts that Lebanon has the right to defend itself in case of any “aggression” and only the state has the right to have weapons. He also said the government takes measures to liberate land occupied by Israel “through its forces only”.

Israel launches mock raids, flies surveillance drones over Lebanon

Multiple invasions of Lebanese airspace have been reported by the country’s National News Agency (NNA) since this morning.

Over Tyre in the south, Israeli warplanes flew at low altitudes over the skies of villages and towns, conducting mock raids to induce fear and confusion. Intense military flights were also reported over other areas near the border with Israel, including Nabatieh, western Bekaa and the slopes of Mount Hermon.

An Israeli drone flew over Beirut and its southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a strong presence, along with several nearby areas.

Israel says it killed Hezbollah member tied to weapons transfers from Iran to Lebanon

As we reported earlier, Israeli fighter jets killed a Hezbollah fighter in a drone attack in eastern Lebanon.

In another statement, the Israeli military has said the man was Mehran Ali Nasser al-Din, a key member of the 4400 Unit responsible for smuggling weapons from Iran and its allies to Lebanon.

New York governor orders public university to remove Palestine job listing: Report

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered the public City University of New York, or CUNY, to remove a job listing for a “Palestine studies” lecturer after pressure from pro-Israel groups.

“Governor Hochul has directed CUNY to immediately remove this job posting and conduct a thorough review of the position to ensure that anti-Semitic theories are not promoted in the classroom,” a spokesperson for the governor, a Democrat, told The New York Post.

“The Governor has continued to strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism and has made clear that hateful rhetoric of any kind has no place at CUNY or anywhere in New York State.”

The job listing called for a “historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality”.

Handover of bodies of Israeli captives expected shortly
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman because it is banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank by the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority.

People are expecting the handover to happen between 11pm and midnight local time (21:00 GMT and 22:00 GMT).

Now, we’re hearing more from Israeli media sources, quoting informed sources in the Israeli government. They say the bodies will be handed over to the Egyptian side who will in turn hand them over to Israel.

The Ministry of Health in Israel has said that it will expedite and facilitate the process of confirming the identities of the four captives at the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossing with Gaza so that the process of releasing Palestinian detainees in return can proceed as quickly as possible.

For now, the families of hundreds of Palestinian detainees and prisoners will be waiting in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, but most of them, hundreds of them, in Gaza, where more than 445 Palestinian detainees taken from Gaza during the war are expected to arrive.

There will be 115 Palestinians serving life and long sentences, about 48 of them will be released to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Nearly 100 will be exiled out of the occupied Palestinian territory, they’ll be taken to Egypt at least temporarily until other countries express willingness to host them.

But then you have 445 Palestinians taken from Gaza during the war: civilians, doctors, engineers, people of all walks of life, they will be brought back to Gaza.

And there are 24 women and children as well, they will also be released to Gaza. They were taken by Israeli soldiers during the war. These people are not facing charges. They were taken, and according to the UN were forcibly disappeared.

Another batch of women and children are also expected to be released in exchange for the remains of those four captives but we do not have the number.

Thousands continue to be missing from Gaza and there is no information as to how many living and dead Palestinians from Gaza Israel continues to hold

Palestine Trade Center launches $3.4m EU trade initiative

The Palestine Trade Center, or PalTrade, has launched a new initiative to enhance Palestinian exports and stimulate economic growth, the news agency Wafa reports.

The EU4Trade Project was officially launched in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. The project is a three-year initiative funded by a 3.3-million-euro ($3.4m) grant from the European Union, seeking to strengthen the competitiveness of small and medium Palestinian businesses in international markets.

The EU’s representative to the West Bank and Gaza, Alexandre Stutzmann, attended the launch and said that the project signals the bloc’s longstanding commitment to realising the two-state solution.

Palestinian prisoner from Gaza dies in Israeli custody

A Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip who was arrested at the start of Israel’s war on the enclave along with his brother and was injured during detention has died in Israeli custody, according to the Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees’ Affairs Commission.

The monitoring group said in a statement that Israeli authorities released no information about the 34-year-old during his detention, and did not allow him any visits.

He is believed to have been held at Ayalon Prison in Ramla before being transferred to the Shamir Medical Centre, also known as Assaf Harofeh Centre, where he was announced dead today.

The statement said he did not suffer from any health problems before his arrest, adding that he leaves behind a wife and a child.

His death brings the confirmed number of Palestinian prisoners who died in Israeli custody to 60 people since the start of the war on Gaza. The figure includes at least 39 people from Gaza.

'Israel planning ‘unprecedented’ repressive measures before Ramadan: Jerusalem governorate

Israeli authorities are preparing to “impose unprecedented repressive policies”, in advance of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which is expected to start on Saturday, to further isolate occupied East Jerusalem and its Palestinian surroundings, according to the Jerusalem governorate.

The Palestinian Authority’s governing body said in a statement that occupation authorities are planning “a series of racist and provocative measures”, including limiting the number of Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

It said recently released Palestinian prisoners would be banned from entering Al-Aqsa, and entry for worshippers from the occupied West Bank would be restricted based on age, with only men aged 55 and above and women more than 50 years of age allowed in.

Israeli forces are also intensifying their presence by deploying 3,000 armed personnel at checkpoints surrounding East Jerusalem on a daily basis and tightening their grip on 82 military checkpoints, including by using earthen blockades, iron gates, security cameras and intrusive searches.

Gaza Health Ministry confirms death of another child from hypothermia

We have been reporting based on a verified video shared by an activist that a one-and-a-half-month-old baby girl, Sila Abdel Qader, has died in Gaza City due to a harsh cold snap and Israel’s blocking of shelters from entering the enclave.

Dr Munir al-Bursh, the director general of the Palestinian Health Ministry, has confirmed the death of the baby, according to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), saying the number of children who have recently died due to the cold weather in the enclave has risen to seven.

The official called for “urgent and immediate intervention by international and UN institutions to save the children of Gaza from the consequences of the genocidal war waged by the occupation”.

On Tuesday, Dr Saeed Salah, medical director of the Friends of the Patient Charitable Hospital in Gaza City, said three newborns – aged between one and two days – died shortly after being admitted. Two more children also succumbed on Tuesday morning, with a sixth death reported in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Israel army says it has struck launch sites in Gaza after projectile fired

The Israeli military said it conducted air strikes against several launch sites inside Gaza after a projectile was fired from the Palestinian territory but fell short.

“Earlier [on Wednesday], a projectile launch that fell inside the Gaza Strip was identified. A short while ago, the [military] struck several launch posts in the area where the projectile was fired from,” it said in a statement.

No public ceremony for handover of four Israeli captives’ bodies: Hamas official

A senior Hamas official has told the AFP news agency that the Palestinian movement will not hold a public ceremony for the handover of the bodies of four Israeli captives on Thursday.

“The handover will take place without public presence to prevent the occupation from finding any pretext for delay or obstruction,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to discuss the matter.

Some 10,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli detention
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

We do not know when the Palestinian prisoners and detainees will be released, but Israeli reports are talking about a phased-out release, so not all of them will be released at once, and we do not know who will be released when, or first.

We know that 48 or 49 will be released to the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and we know that also because the Israeli army has raided the homes of the families of those prisoners and made them commit to not celebrating the freedom of their loved ones, or not receiving well wishers or even second-degree family members upon the arrival of those released prisoners.

So, in an ironic manner, when those raids happen, they do indicate usually to the families that this is imminent – that in the coming hours, their loved ones would be free.

And it’s welcome news to the families of Palestinian detainees who are released but also of those who remain behind bars, among 10,000 of them that we know about, that Israel has confirmed the presence of.

Their families have been cut off from those Palestinian detainees and prisoners for more than 16 months and anybody who gets released will be bombarded with questions by family members of other prisoners to just know how they’re doing, if they’re doing OK, if their health is fine, and so on.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/26/live-hamas-says-deal-reached-to-end-israeli-delay-israel-bombs-syria
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 No.487779

>>487778
>Salam said the government asserts that Lebanon has the right to defend itself in case of any “aggression” and only the state has the right to have weapons. He also said the government takes measures to liberate land occupied by Israel “through its forces only”.
By that definition Hezbollah is the government of Lebanon, since they have in fact "taken measures to liberate land occupied by Israel", while the organisation Salam belongs to, has not done that.

Does he not see that he's defining his, lets call it aspirational government, out of legitimacy ?
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 No.487782

>>487779
IDK.
It was obvious to me too, though. The Salam & Aoun government has consistently done nothing about continued Israeli attacks and violations. If they won't defend their citizens, it obviously cedes that responsibility to Hezbollah.
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 No.487784

https://x.com/unityoffields/status/1894943050700321055
BARNARD UPDATE 🔻 URGENT : The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG)—a unit notorious for brutalizing activists—is now encircling the Barnard sit-in. Students protesting the expulsion of two peers are facing the imminent threat of police violence.

Deploying SRG, a counter-terror unit with a record of excessive force, is a blatant attempt to intimidate and suppress dissent. Instead of engaging in good-faith dialogue, Barnard has invited repression onto campus.

We demand the immediate withdrawal of SRG and all NYPD personnel. The world is watching.
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 No.487788

https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1870994879314038938
“We create a pretend world. We are a global production company: We write the screenplay, we're the directors, we're the producers, we're the main actors. And the world is our stage,” says a retired Mossad agent who was among those who led the pager op.

I completely missed the 60 Minutes bit on this for obvious reasons - even in this clip there is an obvious propagandistic element, but the quote is still interesting.
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 No.487808

>>487784
>counter-terror unit
maybe that's just double speak


>>487788
>Mossad agent who was among those who led the pager op.
>but the quote is still interesting.
Seems like boiler-plate self-aggrandizement to me, can you explain ?

I think they made everybody worry that their electronic gadgets might blow up, that makes them the text-book definition of terrorists. While spy-agencies always did stuff like assassinations, they usually only killed "players" like other spies and what not. Normal people did not have to worry.

I don't know how other spy agencies reacted to this, but now we have to worry that some might want to copy this "capability" . Many people now wonder whether there is a spy-agency to terror-group pipe-line. Maybe reality is far more brutal and this type of horror is the natural conclusion of mass-surveillance society.

I think it's crass and tasteless that they gave a terrorist, who participated in an attack that killed and maimed children and other innocent people in a horrendous way, a pulpit. But it's not unexpected, legacy media has grown tone-deaf. You know they could have done an interview with a civil-rights advocate, and talked about the consequences of mass surveillance and weaponizing the supply-chain for consumer goods.
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 No.487812

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Israeli military fires towards town in southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli forces are “firing heavily” towards the outskirts of the town of Aitaroun, near Israel’s border in southern Lebanon, the Palestinian Information Center reports.

No casualties have been reported so far. The Israeli military is yet to comment on the attack.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

South Africa, Malaysia, Colombia say they will prevent ships supplying Israel weapons using ports

As we previously reported, the leaders of South Africa, Malaysia and Colombia penned a joint article this week calling for an end to impunity for Israel’s violations of international law.

“The choice is stark: Either we act together to enforce international law or we risk its collapse,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Colombian President Gustavo Petro wrote in an essay published by Foreign Policy magazine.

In that same essay, the leaders jointly announced they would also prevent ships supplying military supplies to Israel from using their ports.

“We will prevent vessels carrying military supplies to Israel from using our ports; and we will prevent all arms transfers that risk enabling further violations of humanitarian law,” they wrote.

Palestinian security forces arrest Tulkarem Battalion commander

Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested Kamal al-Khatib, a commander with Palestinian armed group the Tulkarem Battalion, during a raid in the Nur Shams camp in the occupied West Bank, according to Hamas-run news outlet Al-Aqsa TV.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/27/live-gaza-ceasefire-talks-resume-in-cairo-as-end-of-first-phase-looms
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 No.487815

https://x.com/Columbia_psc/status/1895244648823792092
Columbia University trustees are apparently paying $5000 to certain students in order to astroturf an opposition to the student calls for divestment.
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 No.487824

via Unity of Fields:
🔻 It is time for revolutionary escalation of the global student intifada for Palestine: A call from the Palestinian student movement in the Gaza Strip (2/3)

Today, we call on you, from the midst of massacres and siege, to a new revolutionary phase of comprehensive escalation, and to raise the pace and ceiling of your struggle and your honorable stances, quantitatively and qualitatively, against the institutions, corporations, and governments that participate in the slaughter of our children, our students, and our people in Rafah, Jabalia, Khan Younis, and the entire Gaza Strip, and against the settler gangs, armies of Zionist killers, and so on that commit their crimes in camps, cities and villages in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

We call on you to besiege the White House in Washington, and to surround the palaces, headquarters and ministries of Western colonial governments and Zionist embassies, and the buildings and offices of the corporations that finance the Zionist entity and arm its criminal army with all kinds of bombs and means of death and destruction. These criminal colonial symbols represent the forces that support “Israel” to kill us – with your tax money and the money spent at complicit corporations, to destroy our homes, our society, and our future. Therefore, we call on you to blockade them until the American Zionist aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip stops.

At the same time, we renew our call to the teaching, academic, and union bodies in universities, as well as cultural, academic, and scientific figures, to advocate for and support student movements until they achieve their goals.
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 No.487826

US signs off on $3bn munitions and equipment sale to Israel

The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $3bn in munitions, bulldozers, and related equipment to Israel, which used US-made weapons to devastating effect during the war on Gaza.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed off on the sale of $2.04bn in bomb bodies and warheads, another $675.7m in other bomb bodies and guidance kits, and $295m in bulldozers and related equipment, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.

Jury finds US landlord guilty of killing 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy

A jury has convicted an Illinois landlord over the 2023 murder of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and the wounding of his mother in a hate crime.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was charged in the fatal stabbing of Wadea al-Fayoume and the injuring of his mother Hanan Shaheen on October 14, 2023, near Chicago. Prosecutors argued the family – who were renting rooms in Czuba’s house – were targeted because of their faith and as a response to the October 7 attacks in Israel.

Jurors deliberated less than 90 minutes over the crime, which renewed fears of anti-Muslim discrimination in Palestinian and Arab-American communities.

The boy was stabbed 26 times with a large military-style knife.

Lebanon seizes $2.5m bound for Hezbollah: Report

Lebanese authorities at Beirut’s airport seized $2.5m in cash destined for Hezbollah from a man travelling from Turkiye, Reuters reports.

It was the first time such a seizure had been made, according to one of three unnamed sources cited. Hezbollah did not immediately comment.

Lebanon village buries dozens of dead after Israeli withdrawal

People in Lebanon conducted a delayed burial in a border village for more than 90 civilians and fighters from Hezbollah who died during the war with Israel that ended with a November ceasefire.

In the heavily damaged town square of Aitaroun, the coffins arrived on four trucks, some covered in the yellow flag of Hezbollah and others in the national flag.

Sobbing women, dressed in black, gathered around the vehicles holding photos of the Hezbollah fighters or the movement’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed by an Israeli air strike during the war.

One of the mourners, Atef Khouzeirat, said an Israeli strike on a building killed his son Hussein, a volunteer with the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee.

“My son stayed for 56 days inside the building after his death, without rescuers being able to recover his body,” Khouzeirat said. “Where is the humanity? Where are the human rights?”

Khouzeirat added his son studied radiography at university. “He was not a terrorist,” but a volunteer “in the service of his country”.

Israel set to pass ‘metropolitan Jerusalem’ bill annexing settlements: Report

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set to approve a bill paving the way for the annexation of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank into what Israeli officials are calling a “metropolitan Jerusalem” under Israeli control.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the settlements to be annexed include Maale Adumim, Givat Ze’ev, Efrat, and Maale Mikhmas.

The Israeli rights group Ir Amim condemned the bill, which it said “seeks to promote an illegal annexation under international law” and “further isolate East Jerusalem and its residents from the Palestinian space”.

Switzerland to host conference on occupation of Palestine

Switzerland has invited 196 states that are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli-occupied territory.

“Following this invitation from the UNGA [UN General Assembly], I confirm that a conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention will be held in Geneva on March 7,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nicolas Bideau said.



The UN General Assembly asked Switzerland to organise the meeting last September when the Gaza war was still raging. Similar meetings have taken place in 1999, 2001 and 2014.

‘Finally’ an effort to hold the US accountable: Al-Haq director

Palestinian human rights activist Shawan Jabarin has welcomed a plea by the US-based rights group DAWN for the International Criminal Court to investigate Joe Biden and senior US officials for aiding Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

In a video posted by DAWN, Jabarin, director of the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, said the effort was long overdue.

“For decades we have called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law, but time and again, the US has used its power and influence to block that accountability, to shield Israel from consequences and to ensure that it can continue its crimes with impunity,” Jabarin said.

“Now, finally, we see an effort to hold not just Israeli officials accountable but also those who have made these crimes possible: US officials who have armed, financed, and politically defended Israeli atrocities.”

Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations

The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion regarding Israel’s obligations not to obstruct humanitarian and development assistance in the territories it occupies.

In the submission, Palestinian officials affirmed the responsibility of Israel, as an occupying power, to not obstruct the work of the UN, international organisations, and third states so they can provide essential services, humanitarian aid, and development assistance to the Palestinian people.

Many states, as well as international groups, have submitted written pleas to the ICJ ahead of oral proceedings set to start in April. Last July, the ICJ issued a historic advisory opinion determining Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”.

Lebanese PM calls for complete Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, during a tour of southern Lebanon, reiterated the urgent need for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.

“Any delay in this constitutes a violation of Lebanese sovereignty, Resolution 1701, and the arrangements for the cessation of hostilities as agreed to by the previous government,” he said in a post on X.

A ceasefire deal agreed in November 2024 halted more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war in which Israel’s relentless bombing killed more than 4,000 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Under the deal, Lebanon’s military was to deploy alongside UN peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdrew over a 60-day period that was later extended to February 18.

Israel announced just before the deadline it would temporarily keep troops in “five strategic points” near the border.

Palestinians prepare for Ramadan amid widespread destruction

Palestinians who returned to destroyed homes in Gaza City started to prepare for Ramadan, shopping for essential household goods and foods.

Some say the Muslim holy month feels better than one spent last year, but still far from normal.

“The situation is very difficult for people and life is very hard. Most people, their homes have been destroyed,” said Gaza City resident Nasser Shoueikh. “Some people can’t afford to shop for Ramadan, but our faith in God is great as he never forgets to bless people.”

Infants freezing to death shouldn’t happen in ‘modern days’: UNICEF

UNICEF says recent reports that Palestinian infants in Gaza have frozen to death “shouldn’t be happening in our modern days”.

The agency, which is distributing clothing to children in Gaza along with other partners, added humanitarian needs in the war-ravaged territory are “immense”.

“What children need now is a sustained ceasefire and continued unimpeded access to aid,” it added.

Israel army says jets attack ‘suspects’ in southern Gaza: Report

Earlier, Tahani Mustafa, an expert on Israel-Palestine with International Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera more than 400 Israeli violations have occurred during the Gaza ceasefire. Another air strike was launched on Friday.

“Two suspects who were identified in proximity to troops and posed a threat to them were struck by an aircraft in southern Gaza in order to remove the threat,” the army told AFP, adding “hits were identified”.

Nasser Hospital, in southern Khan Younis, said in a statement it received the body of a Palestinian killed in an air strike.

“Ambulance crews in Rafah recovered a martyr after he was targeted in an air strike by [Israel] west of Rafah city,” the hospital said.

Israeli army burns down homes in Nur Shams camp: Reports

Activists have shared scenes that showed smoke rising from several buildings in the camp, east of the Tulkarem governorate in the northern occupied West Bank.

Palestinian media also reported that Israeli forces have been blowing up and burning down homes in the camp.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have left their homes in the northern West Bank since Israel began its operation there last month.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/27/live-gaza-ceasefire-talks-resume-in-cairo-as-end-of-first-phase-looms

Israel threatens a second Nakba, yet denies the first ever happened
Maram Humaid and Mat Nashed

Gaza, Palestine – Last month, Sufian Abu Ghassan joined hundreds of thousands of Palestinians defiantly trekking back to their battered neighbourhoods after a ceasefire paused Israel’s 15-month war on Gaza.

The 70-year-old was relieved that Israel’s mass killings of Palestinians had stopped.

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/28/israel-threatens-a-second-nakba-yet-denies-the-first-ever-happened
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 No.487832

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Israel's Air Force confirms it carried out a mass Hannibal Directive "gunning down anything that moved around the Israel-Gaza border" on October 7
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1895185419966271771
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 No.487840

>>487832
Is calling it "Hannibal Directive" a reference to cannibalism ?

And how did they ever manage to get something like this signed in to law ? Who thought it was a good idea to make the military shoot the population it is supposed to protect.
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 No.487844

>>487840
According to an Al Jazeera article,
"The origins of the directive’s name are disputed with some sources saying it is named after a Carthaginian general who chose to poison himself instead of falling captive to the Romans in 181 BC.

Israeli military officials, however, have said a computer randomly generated the name."

Personally, I had assumed and heard that it was the former, but I don't remember hearing the supposed origin that it was generated by a computer.

Idk exactly what the legal process behind it was. I don't think it's official law, and the IDF claimed they would stop doing it years before this happened because it had previously become controversial.
In previous instances it has also, allegedly, only been intended to target active soldier prisoners of war. Targeting literally anyone taken hostage in order to prevent them from surviving as hostages is, allegedly, a change from the previous version of the Hannibal Directive.
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 No.487847

>>487844
So either a reference to ancient history or a nick-name generator.
Thanks for the info.

You can't blame me for thinking it was derived from Hannibal Lector tho, because the cannibalistic symbolism is befitting of such a horrendous "directive"

>Idk exactly what the legal process behind it was. I don't think it's official law

So the IDF is making up their own rules ? Figures
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 No.487851

Hamas rejects Israel’s ‘formulation’ to extend first Gaza ceasefire phase

The Palestinian group’s statement comes on the day the first stage of the deal expires.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told Al-Araby TV there are no current talks for the second ceasefire phase in Gaza.

Officials from Israel joined mediators from Qatar and the United States in Cairo on Thursday for “intensive discussions”. However, those negotiations apparently bore no fruit.

Talks over the second phase of the ceasefire are meant to negotiate a comprehensive end to the fighting in Gaza, including the return of all remaining living captives and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territory.

Rights group denounces ‘abuse’ of Gaza medics in Israeli custody

The Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights condemned “the widespread policy of abuse” inflicted on enclave’s detained healthcare workers,.

In a report, the group said the Israeli military detained more than 250 medical personnel and support staff in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war on Gaza.

More than 180 remain in detention without a clear indication of when or if they will be released, according to the report.

“Detainees endure physical, psychological and sexual abuse as well as starvation and medical neglect amounting to torture,” it said, denouncing a “deeply ingrained policy”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/1/gaza-live-first-phase-of-israel-hamas-truce-ends-with-no-deal-in-sight
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 No.487852

Israel evading its commitment to end the war on Gaza: Hamas

As we reported earlier, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said there are no current talks on the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza.

Here are more details from his statement:

Israel bears responsibility for not starting negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire.
Israel wants to extend the first phase to secure the release of more captives and possibly resume its aggression on Gaza. This is against the deal.
Israel is evading its commitment to ending the war and withdrawing completely from Gaza.
Extending the first phase is unacceptable to Hamas.
The mediators and guarantor countries should oblige Israel to abide by the agreement in its outlined stages.

Hamas calls on Palestinians to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan

The Palestinian group urged people in the occupied territory to travel to the holy site and stay there during the month of Ramadan.

A statement released to mark the holy month called on Palestinians to “mobilise all efforts this month by travelling to Al-Aqsa Mosque, remaining steadfast, and engaging in seclusion there”.

Each year during Ramadan, Israel enforces measures that limit Palestinians’ ability to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

“We call on our people, wherever they are around the world, to take active action during the month of Ramadan in the broadest initiatives and solidarity activities with their people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem,” Hamas said.

“Let the blessed days and nights of Ramadan be dedicated to worship, steadfastness, and resistance against the enemy and settler mobs, as well as to the defence of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa until they are liberated from occupation.”

Israel bans ex-prisoner Barghouti’s wife from seeing him

The wife of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner is not sure when she’ll see him.

Nael Barghouti was among 97 Palestinians exiled after their release on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire.

He sent his wife a replacement wedding ring after she was banned from leaving the occupied West Bank to meet him.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/1/gaza-live-first-phase-of-israel-hamas-truce-ends-with-no-deal-in-sight
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 No.487860

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International Day of Action on March 5.
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 No.487862

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Israel again warns Hamas of a return to war

Here’s more from the statement issued by Netanyahu’s office.

“According to the agreement, Israel can return to fighting after the 42nd day if it feels that the negotiations are ineffective,” it said. “This clause was supported by a side letter from the previous US administration and has also received the support of the Trump administration.”

It also claimed it has fully complied with the ceasefire deal and accused Hamas of repeatedly violating the truce.

However, Israel has continued to launch attacks on Gaza despite the truce, killing some 100 Palestinians. It was also Israel that refused to begin talks on the second phase of the deal, which were supposed to begin 16 days into phase one.

UN officials meanwhile say Israel has restricted the entry of humanitarian aid, including mobile homes and heavy equipment, in violation of the truce deal.

US is backing Israeli efforts to extend phase one
Mike Hanna
reporting from Washington, DC

Trump is on the record as stating repeatedly that the ceasefire is in Israel’s hands.

He has sent the signal that there will be no pressure from the US in terms of moving from phase one to phase two, saying repeatedly that that is up to Israel.

So in terms of any pressure from the US for Israel to move forward on this publicly, at least, there is none.

The fact that Witkoff would appear, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, to have a plan on the table, whether this constitutes pressure, that’s an open question.

What Witkoff’s plan does appear to provide for is an extension of phase one and not allowing the movement to proceed into phase two, at which stage there would be discussions about phase three, which Israel is deeply reluctant to get into because that involves the governance of Gaza and the rebuilding of it.

So, it does appear to be as though from the US, at least, there is an agreement with Israel to get an extension of the first phase rather than move forward.

All the efforts from the US and from Steve Witkoff are to get an extension, not to get movement to phase two.

What does US proposal call for?

Netanyahu’s office said the proposal was put forward by US President Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

According to Netanyahu:

The proposal calls for the release of half of the captives, both alive and dead, on the first day of the deal.
And at the end, if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire, the remaining captives will be released.
Witkoff proposed the outline for extending the ceasefire after he was impressed that at this stage, there was no possibility of bridging the position of the parties to end the war, and that additional time was needed for talks on a permanent ceasefire.
If Hamas agrees to the outline, Israel will immediately enter into negotiations on all the details of Witkoff’s plan.

US plan calls for a truce extension until at least April 20
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office released a lengthy statement saying it has agreed to implement the US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff’s idea of a ceasefire extension.

What it will mean is that the ceasefire, the pause in the fighting, will go through for the entire month of Ramadan, which is the entire month of March, and also through the Jewish Passover, which begins in mid-April and ends on April 20.

This also stipulates that half of the captives inside of Gaza would be released on the first day.

It’s worth mentioning that 59 captives are still being held in Gaza, half of whom are alive and half of whom have been confirmed deceased by Israeli forces.

It’s still unclear exactly what’s next, because Israel says that they’re ready to continue the fighting at any time.

But the Americans say that more time is needed to negotiate phase two of this deal, so half of the captives would be released in the meantime and then the other half would be released if they can come to a conclusion on the end of the war.

Of course, it is [still early morning here], so there hasn’t been any comment from Hamas just yet.

Families of Israeli captives want Israel to uphold truce deal
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned in Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The two sides are currently at an impasse due to major sticking points.

Hamas has said that they do not want an extension of phase one, but rather want to move on to phase two, in which they are prepared to release all of the remaining Israeli captives.

Israel says they are also prepared to go back to fighting and that they have US guarantees to do so.

Nonetheless, there are still a lot of red lines for the Israelis who have been reluctant to agree to a phase two and even more reluctant to start discussions for a phase three, because it would mean an end to the war and then rebuilding Gaza and governance in the territory.

Still, a sigh of relief in Gaza as the pause in the fighting will continue.

Family members of the Israeli captives also say that the Israeli government should continue with this deal into phase two and three, because it’s the only way to ensure the release of the remaining captives.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/2/live-israel-us-propose-terms-to-extend-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-yet-to-reply
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 No.487869

Hamas official calls for ceasefire to progress to second phase

A Hamas official has stated that the only way to “achieve stability” is to complete the second stage of the previously outlined ceasefire process, in which Israel is to permanently withdraw from Gaza and end hostilities.

This statement pushes back against the US’s proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire, which ended yesterday.

“The only way to achieve stability in the region and ensure the return of prisoners is to fully implement the agreement, starting with the second phase,” Mahmoud Mardawi told AFP.

Israel, as we’ve reported, has supported the US plan to prolong the current ceasefire through Passover and Ramadan, in exchange for Hamas releasing half of the remaining Israeli captives.

One killed as Israel launches drone attack on north Gaza

Israeli forces have launched a drone attack on Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza, killing at least one person and wounding another, according to Al Quds Today and the Shehab Agency.

We’ll bring you more as soon as we have it.

Depressing start to Ramadan as food aid stops coming in
Hind Khoudary
Reporting from Khan Younis, southern Gaza

Since the early hours on Salah al-Din Road we haven’t seen any aid trucks entering. Normally during the ceasefire, we would have seen eight or so trucks coming by this time, bringing in different types of food assistance.

Palestinians are completely reliant on this humanitarian relief. During the ceasefire, 600 trucks per day entered Gaza. That was barely enough for the huge demand of Palestinians after 470 days of war.

A whole population is totally reliant on aid because they are on the move and have zero income. In addition to food assistance, we’re talking about tents, tarps and winter clothes. Palestinians also expected that today mobile houses would start entering the Strip.

Many are now feeling depressed. They thought today would bring them a step closer to the second phase of the ceasefire deal, where more reconstruction and humanitarian relief would enter.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/2/live-israel-us-propose-terms-to-extend-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-yet-to-reply
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 No.487871

These guys train American cops.
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 No.487874

Israel considers calling up 400,000 reservists for ‘year of war’
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned in Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Israeli media are quoting unnamed “informed sources”, which usually means somebody close to the Prime Minister’s Office, that these decisions, including halting humanitarian aid, are done in coordination with the Trump administration.

Let’s remember, this administration has fast-tracked $12bn worth of military assistance to Israel since taking office. The announcement is being warmly welcomed by ministers in the Israeli government who are key to holding the coalition together.

In the meantime, the opposition is speaking out and accusing Netanyahu of basically exchanging the lives and safety of Israeli captives for his own political calculus.

We’re also monitoring reports of Israelis taking to the streets, going to the homes of Israeli ministers to protest this measure, because they believe it puts the lives of Israeli captives in peril. It’s unlikely – given the fact the Israeli government feels emboldened by American support – that we’re going to see a reversal.

We’re hearing the Israeli government is considering calling up 400,000 Israeli reservists to the army because, according to those reports, 2025 is going to be a year of war.

UNRWA reopens three health centres in Gaza

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says it is continuing to provide health services in the Gaza Strip “despite the challenges”.

The agency has offered 300,000 consultations, supported 19,000 high-risk pregnant and postnatal women, treated 11,000 dental patients and provided physiotherapy to 5,500 people in the Palestinian enclave, it said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/2/live-israel-us-propose-terms-to-extend-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-yet-to-reply
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 No.487875

Israel reneges on ceasefire deal; warns Hamas of ‘consequences’

Israel has issued a threat to Hamas, saying there would be “consequences” if the Palestinian group did not agree to extend the now-ended phase one of the ceasefire agreement following a proposal put forward by the US presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff.

The first phase of the agreement ended on Saturday, but Israel is yet to move ahead with the second phase, which would have ultimately led to a permanent end to the war.

Hamas had earlier rejected Israel’s “formulation” of extending the first phase of the ceasefire during Ramadan and Passover and instead called for the second phase as originally planned.

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/2/israel-reneges-on-ceasefire-deal-warns-hamas-of-consequences

Israeli military claims strike in northern Gaza

In a post on Telegram, Israel’s military says it has carried out an air strike in northern Gaza targeting people it suspected of “planting an explosive device” near its soldiers.

Earlier we reported an Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon killed at least one person and injured another.

In total, Israeli attacks in Gaza today have killed at least four people and injured five, according to medical sources.

Israel’s military says it will “continue to operate in order to eliminate any threat posed to the citizens of the state of Israel” and its forces.

Green Brigade demonstrates for Israel’s FIFA suspension

AJ+ was given rare access to the Green Brigade as they launched the first protest at a game in Glasgow against Bayern Munich on February 12.

The fan movement comes in response to a proposal submitted by the Palestinian Football Association to FIFA in May calling for Israel’s suspension.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGTm62yxTG6/

Trump knows new Israeli war on Gaza ‘a no-win for him’

Trump is unlikely to allow Netanyahu to relaunch Israel’s war on Gaza as the ceasefire teeters on the brink of collapse, says Sami al-Arian, professor of public affairs at Istanbul Zaim University.

“I think the larger picture here is Trump is not interested in the resumption of war,” al-Arian told Al Jazeera.

“He has a very long agenda domestically and internationally, and if it is going to be dragged by Netanyahu and his fascist partners into another war of genocide with no strategic end, he knows this is going to be a no-win for him. And for one thing, Trump hates to lose.”

Hundreds of settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound: Report

Palestine’s Wafa news agency reports more than 500 Israeli settlers have forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the second day of Ramadan under the protection of Israeli soldiers.

The settlers conducted tours around Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, and performed Jewish rituals largely in the eastern area of the compound.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/2/live-israel-us-propose-terms-to-extend-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-yet-to-reply
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 No.487877

Leader of Yemen's Ansarallah, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi:

"The resumption of war on Gaza will be met with the entire [Israeli] enemy entity coming under fire … If the war returns to Gaza, we will intervene with support through various military means."
https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1896149181959446850
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 No.487879

>>487874
>We’re hearing the Israeli government is considering calling up 400,000 Israeli reservists to the army
>2025 is going to be a year of war.
Israel is going to see a drop in population again because emigrating will pick up again.


>UNRWA reopens three health centres in Gaza

oh hey good news, that's rare
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 No.487894

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1896337798325547410
Abu Obeida, spokesman for Qassam Brigades (Hamas’ armed wing):

“To the Arab leaders: We tell you from the heart of the battlefield which you are watching without a doubt through your screens. We are not asking you to move to defend the Arab and Muslim children in Gaza by moving your army and your tanks, God forbid. Not to defend the holiest of what you hold holy. We are not asking for that. As we take upon ourselves to sweeping this occupation, have your inability and weakness reached the point that you are unable to move relief trucks and humanitarian aid?”
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 No.487896

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 No.487897

Israel planning mass displacement, targeted killings next: Reports

We’ve been covering Israel’s plan to pressure Hamas into agreeing to its proposal to free captives.

Earlier, we brought you reports from the Kan broadcaster and the Israel Hayom newspaper that said Israel is planning to cut off water and electricity to Gaza as part of the pressure campaign.

Kan now has additional details. Citing unnamed sources, it said the next stage of the plan, dubbed “Hell”, is to again forcibly displace the population of north Gaza to the south and then to cut off electricity.

The final stage is a return to all-out war, using the heavy bombs and weapons supplies the Trump administration has sent to Israel, it reported.

Israel Hayom also reported that the plan includes targeted killings of Hamas officials.

There’s been no official word from Israel’s government.

And as we’ve been reporting, rights groups say Israel’s decision to cut off all aid into Gaza amounts to collective punishment and a war crime.

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli army in Rafah

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that an Israeli army attack has killed two people in Rafah’s city centre.

The attack follows a spate of deadly strikes in southern Gaza yesterday, including one that killed a woman in Khan Younis.

Israeli strike wounds three Palestinians near Khan Younis

We are getting reports of more casualties in southern Gaza.

According to Wafa news agency, three people were wounded when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile towards Mawasi, near Khan Younis. Israeli helicopters continue to hover in the skies of western Rafah.

At the same time, Israeli forces have opened fire intensively in northern Gaza, to the east of Jabalia, Wafa reported.

Suspected shooting attack in Haifa causes casualties: Israeli police

Israeli police say they are on their way to Haifa’s central bus station, where a suspected shooting attack has caused casualties.

Israel’s Arutz Sheva media reports that five people have been injured in the attack, which it said included gunshots and stabbings.

One of those injured is in critical condition, it said, citing Israel’s national ambulance service.

One man killed in Haifa attack

A 70-year-old man, who was injured in the stabbing attack, has now died, reports Israel’s national ambulance service.

Medics are treating four more people who were wounded, including three who are in “serious condition”. They include a 15-year-old boy as well as a man and woman in their 30s.

We’ll keep you updated as more information emerges.

Using force in the past cost us captives’ lives: Israeli captive’s father

As we’ve been reporting, Israelis protested yesterday in front of the homes of several ministers, including Netanyahu’s, calling for the government to secure the return of remaining captives after it failed to extend the ceasefire with Hamas.

Among the demonstrators were some captives’ relatives, who are angered that more has not been done to bring home their loved ones after more than 500 days in captivity.

Alon Nimrodi, father of Israeli captive Tamir Nimrodi, said the government should take a harder line.

“We need to take a firm stance,” he told Israel’s Army Radio. “We are at the height of negotiations and are flexing muscles that could cost us hostages. We’ve done this in the past and lost dozens of hostages.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/3/live-israel-thanks-us-for-weapons-shipment-as-it-cuts-off-gaza-food-aid
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 No.487898

>>487879
>Israel is going to see a drop in population again because emigrating will pick up again.
Inshallah

>oh hey good news, that's rare

Yep!
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 No.487899

Haifa attacker was Israeli Druze, say police

Israeli police says the Haifa attacker was Israeli Druze who had recently returned from abroad.

At least one person has been killed and four wounded in the attack.

The Druze are an ethnoreligious minority that largely identifies as Arab and is Arabic-speaking. The Druze religion grew out of Ismaili Shia Islam in the 11th century but has evolved to include aspects of other religions, including Hinduism, as well as ancient philosophies.

The faith believes in reincarnation while recognising traditional figures in Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/3/live-israel-thanks-us-for-weapons-shipment-as-it-cuts-off-gaza-food-aid
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 No.487906

Chaos at Israel Knesset as security guards scuffle with captives’ families

A debate in the Israeli parliament on forming an investigation committee into the Hamas-led October 7 attacks has been postponed after a fight broke out between security forces and bereaved families and relatives of captives held in Gaza.

The clashes broke out when dozens of families were stopped by Knesset security guards when they attempted to enter the gallery to watch the debate.

The families are demanding the establishment of a state commission into the events of October 7th.

Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reports from Jordan’s capital, Amman.

https://aje.io/fke4ah?update=3552180
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 No.487907

Israeli air raid targets Lebanon-Syria border

An Israeli air raid has targeted the border area between Lebanon and Syria, east of the town of Janta in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Al Jazeera Arabic and local media outlets report.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Israeli military says it attacked site in northwest Syria

Israel has announced attacking a “military site”, where the former Syrian regime had stored weapons, in Qardaha near the Mediterranean coast in northwestern Syria.

Qardaha is the hometown of former President Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled by armed opposition groups in December of last year.

Since the fall of al-Assad, Israel has been regularly bombing Syria and expanding its military occupation in the south of the country.

Japanese judge Yuji Iwasawa elected new ICJ president

The International Court of Justice has appointed Yuji Iwasawa as its new president, replacing Nawaf Salam, the new prime minister of Lebanon.

The 70-year-old will head the Hague-based court – which rules in disputes between nations – until Salam’s term was due to expire on February 5, 2027, the ICJ said in a statement.

The court is weighing on a case brought by South Africa that Israel is committing genocide in its war on Gaza.

In July, the ICJ ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories since the 1967 Middle East war and its settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were illegal and that it must withdraw as soon as possible.

Iwasawa has been a member of the court since June 2018. Before joining the ICJ, he was a professor of international law at the University of Tokyo and chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Muslim group calls for making No Other Land available to US public

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on film distributors and streaming services to make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land available to the US public, saying that Americans “deserve the right” to see it.

The documentary chronicles the stories of Palestinians resisting forced displacement and facing settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

Despite winning an Oscar on Sunday, the film remains inaccessible on major streaming services.

“Any other documentary this highly acclaimed would have been picked up by a major film company long ago. In the wake of No Other Land’s Oscar win, the unprecedented censorship of this film must end,” CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement.

“Palestinian stories have been ignored amid the far-right Israeli government’s campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out with American taxpayer dollars.”

Family calls Israel PM ‘enemy’ at captive’s funeral

Hundreds gathered in southern Israel for the funeral of Danish-Israeli captive Itzik Elgarat, whose family levelled sharp criticism at the Israeli prime minister.

His brother said that while it was Hamas that captured him, Netanyahu’s government had failed to save him.

“We fought with all our might [but] we failed,” Daniel Elgarat said in his eulogy, recalling the struggle of the captives’ families to pressure the Israeli government to secure their release.

“Netanyahu defeated us and you did not return from captivity,” he said.

“The enemy who caused your death was unfortunately not the one who kidnapped you, but the one who abandoned you.”

Elgarat, then 68 years old, was abducted from the Nir Oz settlement on October 7, 2023, and his body was one of eight returned by Hamas last month under a ceasefire deal.

Hamas official outlines Israeli violations of ceasefire

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan says Israel has violated provisions of the first stage of the ceasefire 962 times.

Some of the breaches, as outlined by Hamdan in a televised statement, include:

Israeli forces killed 116 Palestinians during the truce.
Israel allowed an average of 23 fuel trucks into Gaza daily instead of 50.
Israel did not allow commercial imports of fuel.
Israel only allowed 15 mobile homes into Gaza instead of 60,000 as stipulated by the deal.
Nine pieces of heavy equipment to remove rubble were let into Gaza, but at least 500 are needed.
Reconstruction materials and medical equipment were restricted.
Israel did not allow the restarting of the power station.

Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison

Khaled Abdullah, a 40-year-old from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, has died in Israel’s Megiddo Prison, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reports.

Abdullah, whose family said he had no health problems before his arrest, had been held under administrative detention since November 9, 2023. He had a wife and four children.

He is the 61st Palestinian to die in Israeli custody since the war on Gaza began, according to the Prisoner’s Society, which accused Israel of upholding a “system of brutality”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/3/live-israel-thanks-us-for-weapons-shipment-as-it-cuts-off-gaza-food-aid
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Israel cuts off power to water plants in Rafah

Municipal authorities in the southern city in Gaza have announced that Israel has disconnected power to the city’s two desalination plants.

The plants provide approximately 70 percent of the water supply of the residents of the Rafah governorate in the central Gaza Strip, the municipality said, adding that they produce approximately 20,000 cubic metres (4,400,000 gallons) of desalinated water daily.

As we’ve been reporting, the move comes after Israel blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza in a bid to get Hamas to accept changes to the terms of the ceasefire deal.

Israeli media have reported that Netanyahu’s government plans to cut off water and electricity and again forcibly displace Palestinians from the north to the south as part of the pressure campaign.

Prices of goods soar in Gaza after Israel’s blockade

Palestinians in Gaza say prices for basic goods have soared since Israel halted the entry of all goods and supplies in to the Strip.

Belal al-Helou said there’s a lot of fear in Gaza City and that people are stocking up on food supplies. “Prices have risen a lot” and as long as Gaza’s crossings are closed, “the prices will rise and increase even more”.

“People are panicking about food supplies,” he added.

Another shopper, Adly al-Ghandour, said prices had risen “80 percent so far, and if the crossing remains closed, prices will rise 200 percent”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/4/live-israel-blocking-gaza-food-medicine-is-a-clear-war-crime-hamas

Netanyahu’s plan to deprive and rule in Gaza will fail again
Farah Zaina

From October 2023 to January 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu managed to displace about 1.9 million Palestinians – almost all of the population of Gaza. He must be proud. The Israeli prime minister can now go down in the Guinness World Records as the man who single-handedly displaced the most people within the smallest territory.

I am one of these 1.9 million. I was displaced twice: The first time at the beginning of the genocidal war and then a year later.

Many Palestinian families were displaced repeatedly, some 10 times or more.

It was a clear strategy by Netanyahu to divide us. The north was cut off from the south. “Northerners” were forcibly expelled to the south. Then “southerners” and the other displaced were forced to move to the centre.

His aim is clear: To tear apart communities, to separate and weaken us, to turn us against each other through extreme deprivation. But his strategy failed in the past 16 months, and it will fail again.

read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/3/netanyahus-plan-to-deprive-and-rule-in-gaza-will-fail-again
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 No.487911

Owen Jones goes over several of the latest items in this one. Apparently Israel's ongoing annexation campaign in Syria has recently incorporated calling a Christian suburb of Damascus a "Druze village."
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 No.487912

Israeli army strikes car in southern Lebanon

An Israeli air strike targeted a car in southern Lebanon, about 10km (6.2 miles) from Israel’s border, according to Lebanon’s state media and Israel’s Army Radio.

A photo shared shows an overturned vehicle, completely destroyed, burnt and engulfed in flame.

We’ll bring you more information as we have it.

Strike on car in Lebanon ‘eliminated’ key Hezbollah figure: Israeli Army Radio

The Israeli air strike targeting a car in southern Lebanon took place in the village of Reshknanay, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. It said the attack caused injuries.

Israel’s Army Radio, for its part, said the attack “eliminated” a key figure in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Forces.

Israeli gunfire wounds child near Rafah

The attack, which wounded the child, took place in eastern Rafah’s Jenina neighbourhood, according to our colleagues reporting from the ground.

It is at least the second time Israeli forces have a shot at Palestinians in Gaza today. One person was killed by gunfire near Deir el-Balah earlier.

Israel’s FM says Gaza must fully demilitarise before stage two

We can now bring you more from Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

Speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, he said Israel’s conditions for proceeding to stage two of the ceasefire are Gaza’s full demilitarisation and the return of captives.

“We don’t have an agreement on phase two,” said Sa’ar. “We demand total demilitarisation of Gaza – Hamas and Islamic Jihad out – and give us our hostages. If they agree to that we can implement tomorrow.”

(anon's note: that was ever in the agreement for phase two, and Israel is not in a position to dictate terms to the party they lost to)

Syria’s interim president at Arab summit in Cairo

Syria’s state media is reporting that interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa is in Cairo for the Arab summit on Gaza taking place today.

Al-Sharaa arrived “to attend the extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo on developments on the Palestinian issue”, state news agency SANA reported.

The summit is scheduled to kick off in just over three hours in the Egyptian capital.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/4/live-israel-blocking-gaza-food-medicine-is-a-clear-war-crime-hamas
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 No.487913

https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1896676726958141887
British Police order Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos to attend a police station for a formal interview for his part in a demonstration where he hoped to lay flowers for the tens of thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israel in the Gaza Genocide
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 No.487923

US unfreezes $95m in aid for Lebanese army

The US State Department has confirmed the waiver to US news outlet Axios, saying “We are working with our Department of Defense colleagues to move forward with the implementation of these funds”.

Aid to the Lebanese Army was thrown into limbo with the January inauguration of US President Trump, whose administration has been moving to make broad cuts to the country’s foreign aid budget.

Two unnamed US officials who spoke to Axios said that the US sees the aid as essential to a strategy of weakening Hezbollah in its traditional home of South Lebanon.

“For the first time in years, the Lebanese army entered areas in southern Lebanon that used to be controlled by Hezbollah, destroyed military infrastructure and confiscated some of the group’s ammunition caches, the officials said,” Axios’s report reads.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/4/live-israel-blocking-gaza-food-medicine-is-a-clear-war-crime-hamas
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 No.487932

Egypt’s FM says interim managers of Gaza decided
Egypt’s foreign minister says during a news conference that the people who will lead the committee managing the Gaza Strip for six months have been chosen.

We’ll bring you more on this when we have it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/4/live-israel-blocking-gaza-food-medicine-is-a-clear-war-crime-hamas
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 No.487936

>>487913
>British Police order Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos to attend a police station for a formal interview for his part in a demonstration where he hoped to lay flowers for the tens of thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israel in the Gaza Genocide
So the fascists are going after Holocaust survivors a second time.
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 No.487937

>>487912
>Israel’s FM says Gaza must fully demilitarise before stage two
Demilitarizing Israel on the other hand would be a great Idea.
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 No.487942

So the ICJ has ejected Julia Sebutinde the judge that clearly was a Zionist sock-puppet, that cited the Bible rather than legal arguments when asked about her pro-zionist bias.

The new judge is Iwasawa Yuji, a human rights lawyer with apparently a decent track record. The Zionists are already complaining, so that's a good sign.
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 No.487947

>>487942
Source? I haven't seen this in the places I'd expect to yet.
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 No.487948

>>487942
I heard the new president was Yuji, but missed the bit about Sebutinde being ejected. Seconding source request of the anon above me.
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 No.487949

>>487947
>>487948
heard it on kernowdamo

i def paraphrased it a bit.
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 No.487950

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Hezbollah struggle with new relationship to state in post-war Lebanon

Hezbollah rallied thousands of its supporters for the funeral of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in September.

However, analysts told Al Jazeera the show of strength does not make up for the impact of Israel’s war against Hezbollah, which saw much of the group’s top leadership killed and a significant portion of its military arsenal reportedly destroyed.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/3/in-post-war-lebanon-hezbollah-grapples-with-new-relationship-to-the-state

Amnesty calls for war crimes probe into Israel’s attacks on Lebanon

The prominent rights group says the Israeli military’s repeated and unlawful attacks on Lebanon’s healthcare facilities, ambulances and health workers during the war last year must be investigated as war crimes.

In findings released a short while ago, Amnesty said it investigated four Israeli attacks on healthcare facilities and vehicles in Beirut and south Lebanon between October 3 and October 9, 2024.

The attacks killed 19 healthcare workers, wounded 11 more and damaged or destroyed multiple ambulances and two medical facilities, it said.

Amnesty said its investigation – which included interviews with witnesses and family members of victims, as well as analyses of videos and images – did not find evidence that the facilities or vehicles were being used for military purposes at the time of the attacks.

More than 3,000 children in Gaza diagnosed with acute malnutrition since truce

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says health workers in Gaza have diagnosed more than 3,000 children and 1,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women with acute malnutrition since January 19 and referred them for treatment.

It said there has been a slight improvement in the number of children and pregnant and breastfeeding women consuming the minimum required food groups since the ceasefire, because of the increased availability of goods on the local market.

But it warned that Israel’s renewed blockade is again jeopardising the “progress made in delivering vital, lifesaving assistance” since the ceasefire took effect.

More than 150,000 students in Gaza have returned to school

More from OCHA, the UN’s humanitarian agency.

In its weekly update, the agency said more than 150,000 students have enrolled in 165 governmental schools across Gaza after the Ministry of Education launched the new compressed academic year for 2024-2025 on February 23.

More than half of these schools are operating on three shifts a day, while more than 7,000 teachers have been mobilised to support the process, it said.

Some 30 of these schools are in north Gaza, 52 in Deir el-Balah, 57 in Khan Younis and 26 in Rafah.

Israel destroys home of suspect in Tel Aviv gun attack

Israeli forces have blown up the home of a Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a deadly gun attack in Tel Aviv in October.

Footage of the demolition, shared by the Palestine Information Centre, shows an explosion levelling the home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, with plumes of smoke rising around it.

The house belonged to the family of Ahmed al-Haimoni, whom Hamas named as one of the perpetrators of the October 1 shooting spree in Tel Aviv that killed eight people.

Rights groups have long decried Israel’s policy of demolishing the family homes of people held responsible for attacks, calling it collective punishment.

War in north Israel caused $2.5bn in damage: Report

Israeli Army Radio, citing data from minister Ze’ev Elkin, says some 2,900 buildings were damaged in northern Israel during the war with Hezbollah.

About 19 percent of the damage was caused by the Israeli military, it said.

The damage is estimated at 9 billion shekels ($2.5bn), the outlet said.

It added that of the 67,500 Israelis who evacuated their homes, some 19,000 have now returned.

More than 200 protest against ex-Israeli PM Bennett’s talk at Columbia University

The protesters gathered on Tuesday in front of Columbia University, where the former Israeli prime minister was invited for a speaking engagement.

“The decision to host a man with such a violent and openly discriminatory record sends a message that the university values some voices over others,” a spokesperson for Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition – one of the groups taking part in the protest – said in a statement.

The protest came despite warnings from Trump to jail or deport foreign students who take part in “illegal protests” on college campuses.

Trump’s administration has also said it is considering halting contracts with Columbia University, which it blames for failing to stop anti-genocide demonstrations on campus.

Israeli forces raid, ransack Fatah’s Tulkarem office: Report

The raid started when Israeli forces blew up the main gate to the political party’s headquarters in central Tulkarem, Fatah’s regional secretary Iyad Jarad told the Wafa news agency.

He said Israeli forces broke into the Fatah building, went through the party’s files and vandalised some of their content, including the Palestinian flag and the party banner.

In addition, Israeli forces violently raided two exchange shops in Tulkarem and declared them to be illegal operations, according to Wafa.

Has Israel achieved any of its war goals?
At the beginning of its war in Gaza, Israel laid out three major objectives:

Destroy Hamas’s government and military capabilities
Bring all Israeli captives home
Eliminate all security threats from Gaza

As the war expanded into neighbouring Lebanon, Israel added another goal: to bring back displaced residents of northern Israel.

Sixteen months later, Israel has laid waste to much of Gaza and killed over 48,300 people in the enclave. But it has yet to fully realise any of its defined goals: 59 of its original 250 captives are still in Gaza; and Hamas, though severely battered, remains alive and operational, with many new recruits to boost its ranks.

On January 14, former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US assesses that “Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost…That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.”

After “over a year of fighting, the [Hamas] fighters remain very much in control of Gaza”, Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations told Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/5/live-israel-slams-egypts-gaza-plan-hamas-welcomes-call-for-elections
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 No.487951

https://twitter.com/MenchOsint/status/1897209584269332741
For the first time since the start of the war on Gaza, Israel &amp; USA conducted major joint military drill involving Nuclear assets, as the Arab League was meeting in Cairo.

Dozens of Israeli fighter jets, refueling jets and American Nuclear B-52 bombers participated in the exercises, a training to attack common targets - "wing to wing".

Israeli army said that this training is of strategic importance in light of "the changes and evolving threats in the Middle East".
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 No.487952

Palestinian foreign ministry calls on the international community to impose sanctions on Israel

The Palestinian foreign ministry has called on the international community to impose sanctions on Israel to stop its aggression and its colonial ambitions.

“While the occupation forces continue to exterminate and demolish camps and cities in the northern West Bank, especially in Jenin and Tulkarem, and announce their intention to demolish an entire neighbourhood in Nour Shams camp, and deprive our people in the Gaza Strip of their most basic humanitarian needs, their colonial procedures begin to build approximately 1000 new colonial units in East Jerusalem,” the ministry said in a statement.

Israel set to approve more than 1,000 settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Governorate has expressed its grave concerns about Israel’s plans to approve the construction of more than 1,000 settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem.

In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate said these plans fall within a systematic colonial policy that aims to swallow up the remaining Palestinian lands, change the demographic reality and national identity of Jerusalem, and impose an occupation reality through the Judaization “Greater Jerusalem” project, which is considered a war crime under international law.

Under the Israeli plan, 380 settlement units will be built in the Nof Zion settlement near the Jabal al-Mukaber area in addition to a school, two synagogues, and commercial areas, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported.

The broadcaster said 650 settlement units, commercial areas, a school, a synagogue, a community centre, and kindergartens will also be built between Kibbutz Ramat Rachel and the Jabal Abu Ghneim (also known as Har Homa) settlements near the Palestinian neighborhood of Sur Baher in southern East Jerusalem.

All settlements built on Palestinian lands are considered illegal under international laws.

Israeli army says it struck ‘suspect’ car in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army confirmed that it targeted a car carrying “suspects who loaded weapons on vehicles in the Naqura region of southern Lebanon”.

An Israeli jet attacked one of the vehicles “to remove the threat,” the military said in a statement.

“The activities of the suspects constitute a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” it added.

Earlier, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that a strike targeted a vehicle close to a rubbish dump in Ras Naqoura, injuring two siblings who were gathering scrap metal.

Israel has repeatedly carried out strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon since a fragile truce was agreed in late November 2024. It has claimed the strikes target Hezbollah fighters. The ceasefire deal took place after more than a year of hostilities, including a two-month all-out war, between Israel and the Lebanese armed group.

According to the truce, both parties were supposed to pull out of the area south of the Litani river, but Israel has refused to fully withdraw and last month said it would keep troops in five locations in southern Lebanon.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/5/live-israel-slams-egypts-gaza-plan-hamas-welcomes-call-for-elections
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 No.487955

>>487952
>The Israeli army confirmed that it targeted a car carrying “suspects who loaded weapons on vehicles in the Naqura region of southern Lebanon”.
>Earlier, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that a strike targeted a vehicle close to a rubbish dump in Ras Naqoura, injuring two siblings who were gathering scrap metal.
Bruh, Zionists go to war against recycling.
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 No.487958

Pro-Palestine protests continue at Columbia University

Student protesters demonstrated earlier today at Columbia University in New York, pledging to remain at a library on campus overnight until three expelled students for pro-Palestine activism are reinstated.

The students were expelled for distributing flyers at a lecture on campus, for a class titled “History of Modern Israel”.

Columbia University President Laura Rosenbury condemned the students’ actions in a statement, pledging disciplinary measures against those who entered the building unlawfully and violated college policies.

Police maintained a strong presence during the protests, which concluded late in the evening, with demonstrators continuing to voice their support for Palestine in the surrounding neighbourhood.

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1897352729204547849

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/5/live-israel-slams-egypts-gaza-plan-hamas-welcomes-call-for-elections

This is what fascism looks like. Mobs of armed police attacking unarmed college students on behalf of an oppressive foreign regime simply for peacefully protesting against genocide & apartheid. Wake up, fight this, or be warned: you will be next. Don’t think for a minute that they won’t come for your rights too.

https://twitter.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1897418963547774994
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 No.487963

Netanyahu's funding for Hamas via Qatar enabled October 7 invasion, Shin Bet reveals
The Shin Bet also revealed that SIM cards and sensors along the border were activated ahead of time but were ignored.

While the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) took a significant amount of responsibility for the disasters on October 7 in its report published unexpectedly on Tuesday, it also implicated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by implying that his policies regarding the Temple Mount, the treatment of Palestinian prisoners, and the judicial reform led to Hamas’s decision to initiate its long-planned invasion.

Other policies carried out under Netanyahu that the agency flagged as problematic and as contributions to Hamas’s decision to invade were his facilitation of Qatari funding to Hamas and his opposition to proposed assassination operations of top Hamas leaders at the time.

https://archive.is/KvOi8

This is from Jerusalem Post and most of it is a very obvious attempt to deflect blame onto Qatar specifically and try to spin this in favor of more hostility (and distract from the purposeful negligence and aggression of Israel in the lead-up), but the underlying implication they're working with is an interesting admission.
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 No.487967

Barnard admin appear to have sent a bomb threat to students in order to stop them from protesting genocide.

https://x.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1897459785605279900
Instead of evacuating campus @BarnardCollege sent a PRIVATE EMAIL to CUAD (@ColumbiaBDS) claiming there was "threat of a pipe bomb" in the same building as the Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Liberated Zone.

NYPD ordered protestors move back 1,000 feet from the library, yet on-campus freshman dorms received no notice to evacuate and multiple staff, students, and workers were left on the 2nd floor of the library.

If the bomb threat wasn't manufactured by Barnard administrators, they put thousands of people on campus at extreme risk in order to arrest and brutalize protestors gathered at the lawn.
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 No.487971

Owen Jones - Trump: ARREST Gaza Protesters - "FREE SPEECH" Lies Exposed

Israeli, US air forces conduct joint exercise

The Israeli Air Force has conducted a joint training exercise with the US Air Force, the Israeli military said in a statement.

During the exercise, Israeli F-35i and F-15i aircraft flew alongside a US B-52 strategic bomber, the Israeli military said, adding that the aircraft had practised “operational coordination between the two militaries to enhance their ability to address various regional threats”.

Speculation has grown in recent months about a possible joint attack by Israel and the US on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Report: Israel tries to interfere in Hamas-US talks

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quotes unnamed US sources who accused Israel of trying to obstruct talks between Washington and Hamas.

The Israeli government opposed the existence of a separate channel directly between Washington and Hamas, the report says.

It also claims that US officials did not inform Israel of the direct meeting with Hamas over fears that it would disrupt the talks, running counter to Israel’s claims that it was informed before they began.

New Columbia University committee targets pro-Palestine students

A new university disciplinary committee at Columbia University in New York City has initiated a flurry of cases against students who have expressed criticism of Israel, The Associated Press reports.

The committee, the Office of Institutional Equity, in recent weeks has sent notices to dozens of students for activities ranging from sharing social media posts in support of Palestinian people to joining “unauthorized” protests.

The office is raising alarm among students, faculty and free speech advocates, who accuse the school of bowing to Trump’s threats to slash funding to universities and deport campus “agitators”.

“Based on how these cases have proceeded, the university now appears to be responding to governmental pressure to suppress and chill protected speech,” Amy Greer, an attorney who is advising students accused of discrimination, told the Associated Press.

The Columbia campus saw a wave of student protests in support of Palestine last year that caused controversy and charges of stifling free speech as the university administration cracked down.

Islamic Jihad mourns member who died in Israeli prison

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad says one of its group members died in Israeli prison.

“We mourn the martyr prisoner Ali Ashour al-Batsh who ascended inside the occupation prisons,” the Palestinian group said.

It said the al-Batsh passed away on February 21 and “spent more than a year enduring all kinds of torture and abuse at the hands of the Zionist jailers”.

West Bank mayor arrested over ‘incitement’: Report

The mayor of a Palestinian town has been arrested by Israeli forces and charged with “incitement” over posts he made on social media, Israeli media reports.

The mayor of Bidya, near Nablus, was arrested in February, “following extensive monitoring of the mayor’s social media posts”, The Jerusalem Post reported, but charges against him were only filed on Wednesday. Israeli police claimed that the mayor’s online activities “could harm public order and safety, expressing praise, sympathy, or support for a hostile organisation, its actions, and its objectives”.

Among other posts, the mayor had shared a photo of Hamas founder Ahmad Yasin alongside one of Yasser Arafat, with the words: “May God bless them both and all the martyrs.”

News of the arrest comes amid an Israeli military escalation in the northern West Bank, which has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians and drawn comparisons to Israel’s war in Gaza.

Israeli escalation may lead to captives’ killing: Hamas

Any Israeli military escalation against Palestinians would most likely lead to the killing of some captives, a spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, has said.

The spokesperson, Abu Obeida, accused Israel of violating the terms of the ceasefire and Netanyahu of putting his own interests “above the lives of the captives”. He added that Israeli threats of further war and blockades will not secure the release of the remaining captives.

Abu Obeida said that Hamas has “proof of life” for all of the remaining captives but that “any escalation of aggression against our people will lead to the killing of a number of enemy captives”.

“We are ready for all eventualities,” he added.

Irish health professionals urge Israel to release slain Gaza doctor’s body

A group called the Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine released a video on social media on Wednesday demanding the return of the body of Gaza doctor Adnan al-Bursh, who was killed in an Israeli prison in May 2024.

Al-Bursh was arrested by the Israeli army in December 2023 while working at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.

In the video montage, Irish doctors and other healthcare workers held signs demanding the return of Al-Bursh’s body to his family, as well as other banners in solidarity with Palestinian medical teams.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG1AubOMK0i/

Hamas continuing negotiations on remaining stages of ceasefire deal

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem says the group is still in contact with negotiators to push for the implementation of the remaining stages of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

Qassem told Al Jazeera Arabic that the Palestinian group wants Israel to engage in negotiations on the second phase of the agreement, which Hamas remained committed to. Israel has so far refused, saying it wants all its living captives out first.

Israel has cut off the delivery of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians in an attempt to pressure Hamas into accepting its new arrangement. It has threatened “additional consequences” if Hamas does not resume the release of captives.

Switzerland cancels Geneva Conventions meeting on occupied Palestinian territory: report

Switzerland has announced the cancellation of a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territory for want of participants, Reuters reports.

The country had invited 196 parties to the conventions to participate in the March 7 conference in Geneva on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli-occupied territories. But three diplomatic sources told Reuters that the conference has been cancelled.

A Palestinian diplomat told Reuters earlier on Friday that his delegation did not plan to attend the event, saying that a draft document circulated among participants fell short of its expectations. Israel has also criticised the event.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/6/live-trump-issues-last-warning-to-hamas-tells-leaders-to-leave-gaza
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 No.487973

https://twitter.com/briantashman/status/1897707350347465031
Gallup: Support for Israel plummets among Americans, reaching "the lowest in 25 years of Gallup's annual tracking" and below 50 percent.

Support for Israel among Democratic voters has crashed, leaving the AIPAC-aligned Democratic leadership totally out of step with their party.

By party, DNC numbers here are 21% and GOP numbers are 59%. The second sounds high until you realize that the 40% of the GOP's base who aren't pro-Israel are completely unrepresented in the party on this issue. With the DNC, it's even more stark - the DNC has chosen to ignore some 79% of its base, on the issue of genocide, in favor of foreign lobbyists.
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 No.487977

>>487963
Is this reveal part of a process to get rid of Netanyahu ?
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 No.487979

US to use AI to revoke visas of students perceived as pro-Hamas: Report

The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who are perceived as supporters of Hamas, Axios reported, citing senior State Department officials.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching “Catch and Revoke”, AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts, the outlet reported.

Axios said officials were checking news reports of protests to identify students seen as sympathetic towards the Palestinian group.

Officials will also examine internal databases to see whether any visa holders were arrested but allowed to stay in the country during the Biden administration, the outlet reported.

“We see people marching at our universities and in the streets of our country … calling for Intifada, celebrating what Hamas has done … Those people need to go,” Rubio had said a few days after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack which sparked Israel’s war in Gaza.

Trump echoed the same in a January 30 White House fact sheet tied to an executive order aimed at “pro-Hamas” activity, Axios reported: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice. We will find you, and we will deport you.”

Israel to limit Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa by age during Ramadan

Israel will allow some Muslims over 50 and their children from the occupied West Bank to enter Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Fridays during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, Netanyahu’s office has announced.

A statement said a “limited number of Muslim worshippers” would be admitted, without specifying a number.

Those allowed are men age 55 and older, women age 50 and older and children up to age 12, who must also pass security screening.

“It is emphasized that there is no limitation regarding Israeli Arabs,” the statement added.

Israeli settlers uproot and cut down 100 olive trees in occupied West Bank: Report

The attacks took place in the village of Haris, in the central occupied West Bank province of Salfit, Wafa reports.

Local sources told the agency that settlers raided the Abu al-Ula area on the outskirts of the village, where they uprooted and cut down the olive trees belonging to Khaled Aqel, a local Palestinian resident.

They also stole agricultural tools, including water tanks, Wafa reported.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/6/live-trump-issues-last-warning-to-hamas-tells-leaders-to-leave-gaza

+ Lee Camp on Hannibal Directive casualties.
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 No.487980

>>487977
I doubt it. It could be.
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 No.487983

Hamas urges Trump to meet and ‘respect’ released Palestinian prisoners

Hamas has urged Trump to meet Palestinian prisoners released during the ongoing truce in Gaza after his meeting with released Israeli captives.

Just as he spoke of the “unbearable suffering” of Israeli hostages, the US president should “show the same level of respect to freed Palestinian political prisoners and allocate time to meet and listen to their stories”, senior Hamas leader Basem Naim wrote in an open letter addressed to Trump.

More than 9,500 Palestinian prisoners are currently being held in Israeli prisons, he said.

On Wednesday, Trump met in the Oval Office with eight former Israeli captives released as part of the truce, which took effect on January 19.

‘They won’t silence us’: Israel tries to block No Other Land

The Israeli-Palestinian grassroots organisation Standing Together has denounced attempts by the Israeli government to prevent the screening of No Other Land, a film about the destruction of the occupied West Bank town of Masafer Yatta that won this year’s Oscar for best documentary.

“Since No Other Land won the Oscar, the Israeli government started to attack its creators and sent a direct threat to cinemas and cultural institutes not to screen it in Israel,” said Alon-Lee Green, the film’s co-director.

“As a response, Standing Together is organising dozens of public screenings across the country with thousands of Jews and Palestinians signing up. They won’t silence us. They won’t erase the struggle against the occupation.”

Nearly 200 Israeli violations in occupied territory last month: Report

The Israeli army and settlers occupying Palestinian land committed 187 violations against Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank in February, a rights group says.

The report by the Organization for the Defence of Bedouin Rights said attacks and incidents of abuse included 39 in Hebron, 18 in Bethlehem, seven in Nablus, 21 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, 33 in Tubas, 21 in Ramallah, 21 in Salfit, 21 in Qalqilya, and six in occupied East Jerusalem.

Incidents involved damage to shelters and tents, physical assaults on civilians, livestock theft, the burning of property and agricultural equipment, home demolitions, destruction of farmland, uprooting of trees, and the construction of new settlement roads, the report said.

Israel opposed direct US-Hamas talks in tense call: Report

Israel objected to direct US-Hamas talks after President Trump’s envoy Adam Boehler and senior Hamas officials, including leader Khalil al-Hayya, met in the Qatari capital Doha in recent weeks.

Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer decried Boehler’s attempt to strike a deal with Hamas without Israel’s consent, US news outlet Axios reported.

Discussions focused on returning American captive Edan Alexander, 21, and the bodies of four other Americans, it said.

Israeli media also said the government was not informed of the direct negotiations with Hamas and it leaked news of the talks in an attempt to derail them.

Greek Orthodox Church criticises Rubio’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza

In a Facebook post, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, head of the Sebastia of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, said “a true Christian must stand with the oppressed, the suffering, and the afflicted – not with the oppressors who commit violence and repression against nations.”

He was referring to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Hanna condemned “politicians who distort Christianity’s message through positions that contradict the teachings of the Gospel”, calling such actions “an internal enemy targeting the Church from within”.

The post was accompanied by a photo of Rubio having marked his forehead with a cross on Ash Wednesday.

Hanna added that those who “take pride in the cross and openly declare their Christianity must also acknowledge the historical injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people and recognise the need to end this oppression so Palestinians can achieve the freedom and peace they deserve”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/7/gaza-war-live-trump-administration-engages-in-direct-talks-with-hamas
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>>487979
>Lee Camp brought his show back
Neat.
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 No.487990

>>487987
Jones complains that legacy media reported "Hamas" instead of "Palestinians" but they conflate those terms all the time.
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 No.487991

>>487990
They do that on purpose.
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 No.487992

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Yemen’s Houthis give Israel four-day deadline to lift Gaza blockage

Yemen’s Houthis will resume naval operations against Israel if Israel does not lift its blockage of aid into Gaza within four days, the group’s, leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, has said.

The Houthis – who control most of western Yemen, including the capital city Sanaa – have launched attacks throughout the Gaza war in stated solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Video shows intense Israeli air strikes on south Lebanon

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that Israeli occupation aircraft launched consecutive airstrikes on several locations in the south of the country, targeting the hill of Zaghrabin in Jabal Al-Rihan – Jezzine area, as well as launching airstrikes between the towns of Yater and Zeqin.

Video posted by local sources, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows some of the strikes.

https://twitter.com/news_hadeel/status/1898097406618780149

Two Palestinian cvilians killed in Israeli drone strike: Report

The two were killed and others were injured after Israeli drones targeted a group of people in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City in the northern Strip, Wafa reports.

According to the Palestinian news agency’s correspondent, the civilians were targeted near Al-Mu’tasim Mosque on Mansoura Street, in the east of the neighbourhood.

Although a ceasefire agreement came into effect on January 19 after more than 15 months of war, Israel has frequently carried out attacks that claim the lives of civilians, Wafa said.

As we reported earlier, the Israeli army said that its air force carried out a strike in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today, claiming it targeted suspects planting a bomb near Israeli troops, but at this time it is unclear whether the two incidents are related.

Israeli media is reporting that this strike was carried out with drones, though the Israeli army did not specify the means of attack.

US cancels millions in grants, contracts to Columbia University over anti-Semitism charges

President Donald Trump’s administration has cancelled grants and contracts totalling $400m to the institution due to “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students”, the Education Department said on Friday.

Columbia was at the centre of college protests in which demonstrators demanded an end to US support for Israel due to the civilian deaths and humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s assault on Gaza.

There were allegations of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in protests and counterprotests. Columbia has previously said it made efforts to tackle anti-Semitism.

Yesterday, we reported that a new disciplinary committee at the university had initiated a flurry of cases against students who have expressed criticism of Israel.

Lebanon says Israeli army allows Israeli citizens into its territory

Lebanon’s army says it’s coordinating with mediators and the UN after Israel’s military allowed Israeli nationals to enter southern Lebanese territory in violation of the ceasefire with Hezbollah.

“In the context of the Israeli enemy continuing its attacks and violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty, elements of the enemy forces deliberately brought in settlers to visit an alleged religious shrine in the Abbad Houla area in the south, which represents a blatant violation of Lebanese national sovereignty,” the military said in a statement.

Palestinian father dies hours after being reunited with released son: Report

A Palestinian father died just hours after reuniting with his son who was released from Israeli detention as part of the ceasefire agreement, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Ibrahim Sabbah died in Cairo hours after reuniting with his son Ayham, 24, who was released by Israel after nine years in custody and deported to Egypt. The family announced that Sabbah died of a sudden health crisis shortly after their emotional reunion, according to Wafa.

Sabbah had been living with his family in Beitunia, near Ramallah, when his then 14-year-old son was shot by Israeli forces and subsequently detained. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison before being released in January in a swap for Israeli captives.

World Bank estimates reconstruction needs in Lebanon at $11bn

A report issued by the World Bank says the country needs $11bn for reconstruction and recovery following the conflict with Israel.

A ceasefire that entered into force in November 2024 halted the 15-month war that caused heavy destruction in Lebanon, particularly in the south of the country.

The report put the war’s total economic cost at $14bn, including $6.8bn in damage to physical structures and $7.2bn in economic losses from reduced productivity, forgone revenues and operating costs.

The Lebanese housing sector was the hardest hit with losses estimated at $4.6bn while the tourism sector lost $3.6bn.

Lebanon yet to secure funds to start rebuilding

Lebanon’s finance minister has told Al Jazeera the government has not secured funds to rebuild after last year’s war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Trump writes Iran’s supreme leader to negotiate nuclear deal

The US president says he has sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to negotiate an agreement that would prevent Tehran from producing nuclear weapons.

“I would rather negotiate a deal. I’m not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just as good as if you won militarily,” Trump said. “But the time is happening now. The time is coming up. Something’s going to happen one way or the other.”

He made the comments in an interview aired by the Fox Business news channel. The White House confirmed the president’s comments.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Trump’s quotes citing the broadcast. However, there was no immediate word from the office of the 85-year-old Khamenei, who has final say over all matters of state.

Hamas releases video showing captive Israeli soldier

The Palestinian group has published the video of Matan Angrest on its Telegram channel.

In the video believed to have been shot last week, Angrest says he has been held for 511 days.

“The only way to bring us back is through the exchange deal and moving to the second stage,” the soldier said.

He called on the government of Israel, Trump and leaders of the Israeli army for his release.

Israel condemned for raiding 8 mosques in Nablus

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement condemning the storming of eight mosques in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

The Israeli army set fire to Al-Nasr Mosque in the Old City, one of its most significant historical landmarks, and prevented firefighters from extinguishing the blaze, the Wafa news agency reported.

“The ministry calls for real international intervention to protect our people, their land, property and holy sites,” it said.

https://twitter.com/pmofa/status/1897974588191260782

More on Israel’s Al-Nasr Mosque arson attack

The fire set by Israeli soldiers completely destroyed the imam’s quarters and damaged the mosque’s walls and carpets, residents told Wafa news agency.

Al-Nasr Mosque is one of Nablus’s most significant historical landmarks, originally built as a Roman-era church before being converted into a mosque in 1187.

Palestine’s Religious Affairs Ministry condemned the Israeli assaults on Old City mosques in Nablus.

“Israeli forces stormed Al-Nasr Mosque in Bab al-Saha in the Old City at dawn today, set it on fire, and prevented Nablus municipal firefighters from extinguishing the blaze, causing extensive destruction,” a statement said.

“Israeli forces raided several mosques in the Old City without warning, desecrating their interiors.”

Nablus Endowments Director Nasser al-Salman denounced the “brutal Israeli assault” on Nablus’s mosques.

“Such actions have been unprecedented since the Nakba of 1948, and they reflect Israel’s blatant disregard for religious, moral, and international norms that guarantee the right to worship and access holy sites.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/7/gaza-war-live-trump-administration-engages-in-direct-talks-with-hamas
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Israeli settlers accused of killing stolen livestock

As we previously reported, Israeli settlers have stolen two flocks of sheep owned by Palestinians in the Bedouin community of Ras Ein al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

A Palestinian activist in the West Bank, Ihab Hassan, is now reporting that some of the sheep have been found slaughtered.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1898194866095407115

Israeli tanks open fire near Rafah crossing

An Al Jazeera correspondent has reported that Israeli tanks are firing “heavily” near the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza.

The target of the fire is not yet clear.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Trump appoints new US ambassador to Lebanon

The US president says he has appointed Michel Issa to be the next US ambassador to Lebanon.

“Michel is an outstanding businessman, a financial expert, and a leader with a remarkable career in Banking, Entrepreneurship, and International Trade,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Issa, who does not appear to have any prior diplomatic experience, replaces career diplomat Lisa Johnson, who was confirmed by the Biden administration in December 2023.

US rights group slams Columbia funding cuts as ‘unconstitutional’

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) says the Trump administration’s decision to cancel $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University is unlawful.

“This move is the latest escalation by the Trump administration to coerce colleges and universities into censoring student speech and advocacy that isn’t MAGA approved, like criticising Israel or supporting Palestinian rights,” NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman said in a statement.

“It is unconstitutional and unprecedented, but it is entirely consistent with Trump’s long-held desire to silence views with which he disagrees and clamp down on protest,” she said.

Liberman added that the Trump administration was misusing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act – which allows the government to investigate schools that receive federal funding if they are accused of discrimination – to punish political speech.

“Protected political speech should not be a basis of punishment, and Title VI must be applied consistently with the First Amendment,” she said.

Columbia University suspends 4 students over pro-Palestine protest

We’ve been covering protests held this week at Columbia University-affiliated Barnard College in New York, where demonstrators occupied a library as they called for three students expelled for their pro-Palestine activism to be reinstated.

New York police cleared out the Milstein Library hours after the demonstration began, claiming they had received a bomb threat in the area.

At least nine students were arrested.

Columbia University has now announced that four of its students were arrested during the sit-in at Milstein and all of them have been suspended.

“These students have been suspended and restricted from campus as we swiftly work through the discipline process,” the university’s administration said in a statement.

Worshippers gather at Al-Aqsa Mosque for dawn prayers

Crowds of worshippers have gathered at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem to perform dawn prayers, according to videos and photos posted online by Palestinian media.

Many worshippers must traverse checkpoints to reach the compound, as the Israeli military has imposed restrictions on Palestinians from the occupied West Bank praying at the holy site during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1898209937752260888

Yemenis rally in support of Houthi ultimatum to Israel

We have been covering a threat by the Houthis to resume naval attacks if Israel does not lift its blockade on Gaza within four days.

Dozens of demonstrators marched in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, expressing their support for resuming the attacks, according to footage published by the Quds Press Agency.

“Oh Gaza, we are with you, you are not alone,” the demonstrators could be heard shouting.

Since November 2023, the group has carried out more than 100 attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as well as launched missiles and drones towards Israel.

It paused its attacks after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal last month.

https://twitter.com/qudspressagency/status/1898233328429375964

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/8/live-israel-kills-two-in-north-gaza-maintains-blockade-on-all-aid
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Robinson Erhardt show - Norman Finkelstein: Does The Mossad Blackmail Public Figures?
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Mahmood OD - US blames Israel for reported leak about US/Hamas negotiations
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Electronic Intifada interviews representatives from Taxpayers Against Genocide, a group with thousands of members which is taking legal actions against politicians for using public money to fund Israel's genocide.
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Grayzone - Syria's New Rulers Roll over for Israel
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CJ Werleman goes over faked "antisemitic" attacks and Israel's use of them, especially in Australia and the US. It's a lot of stuff!
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Hamas says Gaza aid block impacts Israeli captives

The Palestinian group once again accused Israel of “committing the war crime of collective punishment” by halting aid to Gaza for a seventh day, saying it also affected Israeli captives still held there.

Hamas said: “The repercussions of such crime extend beyond our people in Gaza to include the occupation’s prisoners [captives] held by the resistance, who are also affected by the lack of food, medicine and healthcare.”

The movement said Netanyahu “bears full responsibility” for the consequences of the aid block and accused him of “indifference” towards the captives held in Gaza.

On Sunday, Israel announced it was blocking aid deliveries to Gaza until Palestinian fighters accepted its terms for an extension of the ceasefire which had largely halted more than 15 months of fighting.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/8/live-israel-kills-two-in-north-gaza-maintains-blockade-on-all-aid

US holding direct talks with Hamas: Reports

The Trump administration has been conducting clandestine talks with Hamas on releasing US captives held in Gaza, according to several media reports.

US special envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler has been holding the direct talks with Hamas in recent weeks in Doha, a source told the Reuters news agency, corroborating the news first reported by US outlet Axios.

Israel learned about parts of the talks through various other channels besides the US itself, one unnamed source told Axios.

While the talks’ focus has been on releasing US captives, they have also included discussions on releasing all remaining captives as well, the outlet reported sources as saying.

The Israeli Consul General in New York, Ofir Akunis, responded to the report of direct talks saying, “They can talk with Hamas, that’s ok.”

In an interview with Fox Business, Akunis said: “If the White House wants to talk directly with Hamas and put them under pressure to release more hostages, we would be happy to see more hostages with their families.”

Boehler’s office and the White House have not yet commented on the reports.

Until recently, the US had avoided direct discussions with Hamas, with the US State Department having designated the group as a “foreign terrorist” organisation in 1997.

Smotrich in Washington for US Treasury meetings

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is in Washington for meetings at the US Treasury Department.

Hind Rajab Foundation files war crimes complaint in Germany against Israeli soldier

The advocacy group has officially filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Shay Friedman, an Israeli soldier suspected of participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, the organisation said.

“The complaint, submitted to the German authorities, outlines serious allegations, including aiding and abetting murder, genocide, and other grave offences under both German and international law,” the Belgium-based group stated.

Friedman is currently in Germany, the organisation said.

The group said it submitted various pieces of evidence “including videos of Friedman destroying civilian infrastructure, including homes”.

No Other Land won an Oscar but can’t find a US distributor
Ahmed Twaij

On Sunday, the Israeli-Palestinian co-production No Other Land was awarded an Academy Award for best documentary. The Oscar – a first for Palestine – has now been added to the list of 45 awards that the film has won since its release in 2024, including best documentary in the 2024 European Film Awards, the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, and the 2024 Gotham Awards.

The feature has received widespread critical acclaim and glowing five-star reviews in international media. It has been screened around the world and has consistently sold out in independent screenings in the United States.

And yet, no US distributor would pick it up to show it nationwide. The only reason for that is its subject matter: Palestine.

The distributors’ fear is a great illustration of just how massive the campaign is to erase Palestine in the US, affecting every aspect of public life – from education to the media, and to arts and cinema.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/7/gaza-war-live-trump-administration-engages-in-direct-talks-with-hamas
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>>487995
The fact that they felt it necessary to keep these negotiations secret is already proof there is a problem.

It feels like a prohibition on conflict resolution via talking, instead of shooting.
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>>487994
>Norman Finkelstein: Does The Mossad Blackmail Public Figures?
Fink is great but nobody has explained how the Mossad is able to do that without getting all their agents killed.
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>>488005
It's a well-known CIA tactic as well.
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 No.488007

Electronic Intifada analysis on the Trump admin talks with Hamas. Includes the observation that the "other channels" that Israelis found out this was happening from were probably surveillance.
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>>488004
Yeah, the idea that they were expected to seek Israeli permission to negotiate this is insane.

>>488005
Killed on whose orders?
Presumably a combination of bribes and infiltration over a long enough period of time that people at the top levels are also blackmailed.
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https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898536032733213183
BREAKING: Qatar has submitted a demand to the United Nations to place all Israeli nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and for Israel to disarm from its nuclear weapons by joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear state.
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 No.488012

It's been one day since this:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/8/yemens-houthis-threaten-israel-over-gaza-aid-blockade
I think it's very possible that the US intends to launch another campaign against Yemen and use it as a pretext for war with Iran by refusing to pressure Israel out of blocking the entry of aid into Gaza.
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 No.488013

NEW | German police violently attacked female pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin during a march commemorating female resistance and International Women’s Day.

This latest incident is part of a broader pattern of crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests and speech across the country, particularly in Berlin. Authorities have banned Arabic chants and speeches at demonstrations, citing “public security,” and have frequently resorted to violence to disperse protests.

James Jackson wrote for Drop Site about how Germany’s obsession with defending Israel and criminalizing speech aided the far-right AfD’s rise. Read the story in the link below:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/germany-election-afd-israel-palestine-free-speech

Video via http://unpublished.de (Instagram)
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https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1898780022963409234
BREAKING: Last night, agents from the Department of “Homeland Security” abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and recent Columbia University graduate, from his place of residence. He is currently being held in ICE detention.
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>>488020
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1898788243803341129
Looks like the order to detain the Columbia student, who is not here on a visa but is a permanent resident, came from the White House

In a response to Drop Site, DHS stated, “You need to reach out to the White House.”
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US hostage envoy says Hamas has offered to lay down arms for five to 10 years

The US hostage envoy Adam Boehler has told Israel’s Channel 11 that Hamas has suggested an exchange of prisoners, as well as a five to ten year truce in which the Palestinian group “would lay down all weapons”, and not be involved in politics.

Boehler repeated some of those details in a series of interviews held with Israeli and US media outlets, after reports emerged of Israeli unhappiness with his unprecedented direct talks with Hamas.

Boehler also added that an “optimistic” scenario would see Israeli captives held in Gaza released in “weeks”.

https://aje.io/bi39mp?update=3567809

This seems like a really bad idea if true.
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Doctor says dealing with victims of continued Israeli drone attacks in Gaza

Dr Christopher Holden, a volunteer foreign doctor working in Gaza City, says medical supplies are running low in the enclave, including essential supplies.

“We are running into a real and critical shortage in many sectors in healthcare,” the doctor with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association told Al Jazeera in Gaza City.

He also said that there have been recent frequent drone attacks in the area he has been working in.

“Two days ago, we had a six-year-old girl brought in. She was asleep in her tent because her home was destroyed with a loss of multiple family members,” Holden said.

The doctor said that she was attacked by a drone while sleeping in a tent with her father, damaging her eye and breaking some her bones.

He added that there had been no military activity in the area where the strike took place.

Gaza residents report hunger and hardship despite recent ceasefire

With the cutoff of all supplies to Gaza, Palestinians are reporting sharp price increases for dwindling items as fears grow again, in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

“Since the ceasefire began, the situation has improved a little. But before that, the situation was very bad,” Fares al-Qeisi in the southern city of Khan Younis told AP news agency.

“I swear to God, one could not satisfy their hunger,” al-Qeisi said.

Hamas says Gaza’s electricity cut off since start of war

The Palestinian groups says Israeli forces have already cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem made the remarks in a statement in response to Israel’s earlier decision today to immediately halt the supply of electricity to Gaza.

Israel: Electricity to Gaza Strip to be stopped ‘immediately’

Earlier we reported – citing Israeli public broadcaster Kan – that Energy Minister Eli Cohen had ordered the stoppage of electricity transmission to Gaza.

Cohen in a post on X has confirmed the news, saying he has signed an order to “cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip immediately”.



The announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to more than two million people in the territory, a move that has received widespread condemnation.

New head of Israeli military visits troops in Syria

Eyal Zamir, who was appointed the military’s chief of staff last week, visited Israeli troops in southern Syria, the Israeli military says.

Israel took the opportunity presented by the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December to illegally occupy more Syrian territory along the buffer zone between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the remainder of Syria.

It has also repeatedly bombed military sites throughout Syria.

Father of released Israeli captive says North American Jewish organisations failed them

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of Sagui, who was released from Gaza last month, said that some Jewish organisations in North America had failed the captives by being unable to go against the Israeli government.

“History will also not look kindly on some, if not all, of the leaderships of major Jewish organisations, in North America certainly,” Dekel-Chen told The Jerusalem Post. “All of these organisations, all of them, were created for the betterment of the people of Israel; the people of Israel, not this or that politician of Israel.”

“In a perfect world, the biggest single advocate for the hostages, in action and not just lip service, would be the government of Israel. That simply hasn’t happened,” Dekel-Chen added. “As a result, hostage families themselves have had to take it on. Speaking as a historian of the Jewish people, history will not judge these leaders well for what they have already done and for what I fear they might continue to do.”

US immigration authorities arrest Palestinian activist, revoke permanent residency: Lawyer

Mahmoud Khalil, who was one of the leaders of Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian student campus protest movement, was arrested on Saturday night by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, his lawyer told the Associated Press.

The agents said they were acting on orders from the State Department to revoke Khalil’s student visa when they detained him in New York City. When they were told by Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer, that he was a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said that was also being revoked.

Greer said that Khalil’s wife – who is eight months pregnant – was not told why the activist was being detained. He has been transferred to an ICE facility in New Jersey.

“We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” Greer said. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.”

The Trump administration has threatened to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests in the US, warning that student visas would be revoked if they were deemed to be supporting Hamas. The State Department said on Thursday that it had revoked the visa of one student protester the previous day for “criminal behavior”.

The US government has also announced that it would cut $400m in grants and contracts to Columbia University, accusing the elite educational institute of failing to crack down on antisemitism. Pro-Israel voices have consistently attempted to portray pro-Palestinian protests as antisemitic, despite the large presence of Jewish students among the protesters.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/9/live-israel-to-send-negotiators-to-doha-hamas-against-temporary-truce
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>>488013
>>488021
>>488020
>Zionist lobbied-for police brutality
The Zionists lost the political argument (in no small part because they went on unhinged dehumanization rants), they lost any and all moral high-ground (if they ever had one) and now they are trying to physically attack people, which is just going to cement them ass a political terror.

The last act in the Zionist chapter.
The Zionist project in Israel is unlikely going to survive, they're inflicting too much damage on their economy and their population. They're demanding too much military resources from the imperial core, to the extend that it'll no longuer be a lucrative imperial investment. With Isreal's reputation trashed by IDF atrocity bragging on social media as well as corporate media, it doesn't work as an imperial prestige project either. The pattern of colonial expansion that the Zionists are trying to execute in the Middle East (soon to be West Asia) is predicated on an extreme power-differential between industrial society and agrarian society. It can no longuer work because pretty much all countries in the world are industrialized to some degree, and there no longuer is a vast power differential that exists between different modes of production.

For us in the west it means that the resources for the Zionist lobby will also evaporate once the empire cuts its losses. Then they will be left with a population that remembers getting trampled by Zionists, the apparatchiks they are able to bribe now, will turn on them too, they will erase their Zionist collaborationist record or play the victim of Zionism if they can't do that.

The aftermath
While it will be tempting to use all their tyrannical mechanisms against them and let them have it, with the promise of "supreme political surplus enjoyment". We must remember that free speech for Zionists worked profoundly in our favor, they exposed them selves as crazy, sadistic, inhuman monsters, that made humanity recoil in horror. They are a beneficial political opponent. Marxism Leninism in the Soviet Union might have never ideologically/politically/institutionally decayed, if they had kept a bourgeois faction around as a political lightning rod to discharge all that "reactionary energy" into.
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https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1898825631300759847
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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>>488026
So either they killed him, or he escaped. Lets hope it's the latter
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https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1898806672170123674
There is a very important military build-up by the British Army in Jordan. Already 50+ cargo flights in just 2 weeks, from Akrotiri to King Feisal Bin Abdul Aziz Air Base

There is no official news, not sure what the brits are cooking, but it is definitely important.
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 No.488039

>>488038
>not sure what the brits are cooking, but it is definitely important.
If it's spy shenanigans or special operations stuff, sure… But if it's hard-power projection, it can't have great importance, if it's just the UK.
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 No.488042

>>488036
He most likely was moved to a black site in another state.
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 No.488043

>>488042
Confirmed: https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1899077254811988137
UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker

Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

Might make a separate thread about this one.
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https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1899080464414962062
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have confirmed that what was initially claimed to be an antisemitic terror attack was, in fact, a meticulously orchestrated false flag operation.

The incident, which had sparked widespread outrage and concern, was originally labeled an 'antisemitic terror attack'.
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Israeli forces shot and abducted Lebanese soldier, Lebanon’s army says

The Lebanese army says one of its soldiers was shot and wounded by the Israeli military near the border town of Kfar Shuba and taken inside Israel.

“This aggression is part of a series of repeated and escalating violations from the Israeli enemy against citizens,” the army said in a statement.

Israel has refused to fully withdraw from Lebanon as stipulated by the ceasefire agreement it reached with Hezbollah last year.

Israeli forces have also been regularly carrying out attacks in different parts of Lebanon.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/10/live-israel-to-join-doha-talks-after-cutting-off-electricity-to-gaza
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 No.488047

>>488044
>The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have confirmed that what was initially claimed to be an antisemitic terror attack was, in fact, a meticulously orchestrated false flag operation.
Alex Jones of all people predicted this would happen, 20 years ago and now it did. I used to think it was just rage-bait or quirky conspiracy fiction. But damn , we live in interesting times, and it fucking sucks.

Also the Aussie fed confirming it, is a glimmer of hope, because that means they are not running interference for the Zionists.

>The incident, which had sparked widespread outrage and concern, was originally labeled an 'antisemitic terror attack'.

What is it being labeled now ? A regular terror attack ?
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LIVE from Pro-Palestine Protest After ARREST of Palestinian Columbia Student Mahmoud Khalil - Status Coup
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 No.488049

>>488047
>Alex Jones of all people predicted this would happen, 20 years ago and now it did.
Sauce on Jones predicting it?

>What is it being labeled now ? A regular terror attack ?

A false flag, the Austrayan police say in the clip in the link.
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 No.488050

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Press Release:

“The Popular Front condemns the repressive crackdown in American universities

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine strongly condemns the systematic repression carried out by U.S. authorities against students and activists supporting Palestine, most recently exemplified by the mass arrests of students at Columbia University and other institutions.

This crackdown, accompanied by threats of deportation and revocation of residency status, exposes the true fascist nature of the U.S. administration under Trump, which has launched a campaign of persecution and suppression against free voices that expose the crimes of the zionist occupation.”

We affirm that these repressive measures will not intimidate the free, nor will they deter courageous voices from continuing to support the Palestinian cause. On the contrary, they further reveal to the world the extent of the U.S. administration’s subservience to the zionist entity and its efforts to silence any voice that opposes war crimes and massacres committed against our people in Gaza and the West Bank, while condemning the direct American support for zionist genocide.

We call on all progressive forces, human rights organizations, and student unions in the United States and worldwide to take urgent action to expose this crackdown and support the detainees and those facing deportation. We also demand that international human rights institutions intervene immediately to halt these arbitrary measures, which violate the most basic principles of human rights and freedom of expression.

Freedom for all detainees
Together against American-zionist repression

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
March 10, 2025
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>>488049
>Sauce on Jones predicting it?
His YouTube channel got censored… Sorry
I didn't watch much Jones but i do remember seeing a vid where he ranted about Zionists doing false flags to facilitate attacks on civil liberties and war-aims against Palestinians. I'm not gonna lie, there was some lunacy about aliens or lizard people mixed in as well. I'm not sure if he meant the loony bits literally, it seemed more like a strange cultural signifyer, that escaped my grasp.

>A false flag, the Austrayan police say

So they're not counting false flag attacks as terrorism ?
Very peculiar.
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 No.488054

>>488045
>The Lebanese army says one of its soldiers was shot and wounded by the Israeli military near the border town of Kfar Shuba and taken inside Israel.
>“This aggression is part of a series of repeated and escalating violations from the Israeli enemy against citizens,” the army said in a statement.
Israel is more important for the empire, they're mocking the vassal lower down in the imperial food chain by shooting at their soldiers. Because the Lebanese army isn't allowed to shoot back.

It's probably working wonders to improve Hezbollah's political capital in Lebanon.
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 No.488055

>>488050
>the systematic repression carried out by U.S. authorities against students and activists supporting Palestine
Yeah that's probably bad for the prestige of the US's Universities.
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Houthis reassert deadline for lifting Gaza siege

The Yemeni group’s leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi says his position on resuming military operations in the Red Sea if the Israeli blockade on Gaza is not lifted has not changed.

The Houthis had warned on Friday that they will start attacking Israel-linked ships again if the Israeli government does not allow aid into Gaza in four days.

“We will begin military procedures to be active the moment that the deadline expires if aid does not enter Gaza,” al-Houthi said.

Israeli air raids target southern Syria

Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reports that Israeli jets have bombed the vicinity of the villages of Jabab and Izraa near Deraa in the south of the country.

Israel has been regularly bombing sites in Syria and expanding its military occupation of the Golan Heights since the fall of Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad in December of last year.

Israel says it targeted Palestinians trying to collect drone in Gaza

The Israeli military says it spotted and monitored a drone crossing into Gaza from Israel.

“An air force aircraft recently attacked a number of suspects who were on their way to pick it up in the southern Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military said.

It is unclear what the drone was carrying.

‘Dangerous escalation’: Hamas condemns PA killing of Palestinian fighter

The Palestinian group accuses PA forces of “directly” opening fire and killing Palestinian fighter Abdul-Rahman Abu Muna in Jenin.

Hamas said the incident “represents a dangerous escalation and an insistence on shedding Palestinian blood, and confirms the bloody repressive approach of the [Palestinian] Authority’s security forces, which has claimed the lives of dozens of martyrs”.

Arrest of Palestinian student at Columbia is first ‘of many to come’: Trump

The US president hails the detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil over his pro-Palestine activism, describing him as a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student”.

“This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said.

“Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”

There is no evidence to support claims of “paid agitators” during the pro-Palestine protests that swept US campuses last year.

Khalil is a legal permanent resident. His arrest has raised the alarm over violations of free speech to shield Israel from criticism in the US.

PFLP condemns ‘oppression campaign’ in US

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) says the crackdown on Palestinian rights advocates on US college campuses shows “the true fascist face” of the Trump administration.

The left-wing Palestinian group called Trump’s push to detain and deport student activists a “systematic oppression campaign”.

“We stress that this repressive behaviour will not scare free people, nor will it stop courageous voices from continuing to support the Palestinian cause,” the PFLP said in a statement.

Iranian president vows to respond forcefully to threats

Iran’s Tasnim news agency cites President Masoud Pezeshkian as saying that the country is seeking de-escalation, but “will respond powerfully to any threat against its security and interests”.

According to the report, Pezeshkian held a phone call with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and said that Israel is “the root cause of tension and crisis through its initiation of war and genocide against the oppressed Palestinian people”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/10/live-israel-to-join-doha-talks-after-cutting-off-electricity-to-gaza
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I totally forgot to post the recent statements from Naim Qassem the other day, but they weren't too eventful anyway.
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Photos: Photos: Funeral of Palestinians killed in today’s Israeli strike on Gaza City

Israeli army says it struck Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon

A drone strike in the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon targeted and killed Hassan Abbas Izzedine, a commander of Hezbollah’s aerial defence unit, according to a military statement.

The Israeli army says he was a “significant source of knowledge” in the unit and led attempts to rebuild its infrastructure damaged during the war.

For its part, Hezbollah has yet to comment on the killing of any of its personnel today.

Israel says troops will remain in Syria

Israel’s defence minister says that the country’s troops are ready to stay in Syria for an “unlimited period”.

Lebanese detainees released by Israel arrive in Lebanon

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports that five people, who had been detained by Israel, have been delivered to the Red Cross and are back on Lebanese soil.

They are currently undergoing medical evaluations at the Lebanese-Italian Hospital in the southern city of Tyre, the NNA said.

PM office says Israel agrees to discuss Lebanon border, release 5 Lebanese

A statement by Netanyahu’s office says Israel has agreed to hold talks to demarcate its border with Lebanon.

It added it would release five Lebanese detainees held by the Israeli military in what it called a “gesture to the Lebanese president”.

Israel had agreed with Lebanon, the US and France to establish working groups to discuss the demarcation line between the two countries.

Despite a ceasefire agreement reached with Hezbollah last year, Israel has refused to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon while its forces have been regularly carrying out attacks in different parts of Lebanon.

3,500 have left Gaza via Rafah: EU

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, has told the UN Security Council that some 3,500 people have so far crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing.

The figure includes more than 2,000 people needing medical treatment.

The EU restarted its civilian mission on January 31 to monitor the border crossing, a key entry and exit point for the Palestinian territory.

Hamas official says Gaza ceasefire talks have begun in Doha

A senior Hamas official says that a new round of negotiations has begun in the Qatari capital.

“A new round of ceasefire negotiations began today,” Abdul Rahman Shadid said in a statement.

“Our movement is dealing with these negotiations positively and responsibly.”

MSF condemns Israel’s ‘outrageous’ blockage of aid to Gaza

Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, says in a statement that it “strongly condemns the Israeli-imposed siege on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, which is depriving people of basic services and critical supplies, including access to water by cutting electricity”.

Fatah says Hamas not authorised to hold talks with foreign parties

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) has condemned the recent statements by Hamas against the Palestinian Authority (PA), claiming that they demonstrate its attempts to cover up the concessions it has been giving to “foreign parties”.

Fatah also claimed that Hamas is neither authorised nor qualified to negotiate for the rights of the Palestinian people.

It said “a group of fugitives implicated in the blood of tens of thousands of martyrs has no right to collude with the occupation army and conduct their secret negotiations on the ruins and rubble of the Gaza Strip.”

Hamas yesterday accused PA forces of “directly” opening fire and killing Palestinian fighter Abdul-Rahman Abu Muna in Jenin, the occupied West Bank.

The PA confirmed killing Muna.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/10/live-israel-to-join-doha-talks-after-cutting-off-electricity-to-gaza
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 No.488070

https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1899564989826105613
General Yahya Saree announces that Yemen has decided to resume the ban on all Israeli ships in the Red and Arabian Seas, in addition to Bab al-Mandab.

The decision will go into effect in one hour.

The ban will not be lifted until crossings into Gaza are opened and aid enters.

“The Yemeni Armed Forces salutes the steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.”
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 No.488071

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The Palestinian Youth Movement congratulates Rail Workers United (RWU) for passing a resolution condemning the use of the “national rail and transport system to transport weapons that are used in internationally recognized genocide.” This resolution marks a critical advancement in the struggle against imperialism, wherein workers across the supply chain are resisting the abuse of their labor at the cost of the masses worldwide. With this resolution, RWU join the rising tide of labor groups opposing the genocide in Gaza and demanding better conditions for workers in the US.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHEI5iKtWB4/
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 No.488073

>>488070
Full statement - Yemeni Armed Forces:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The Almighty said:
"But if you return [to sin], We will return [to punishment], and We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers." This is the Truth of Allah, the Almighty.

In support of and victory for the oppressed Palestinian people and its dear fighters, and after the expiration of the deadline granted by Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, may Allah protect him, to the mediators to pressure the "israeli" enemy into reopening the crossings and allowing aid into the Gaza Strip, and due to the mediators not being able to achieve this, the Yemeni Armed Forces confirm the following:

Firstly: The resumption of the ban on the passage of all "israeli" ships in the designated area of operations, which includes the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden.

Secondly: This ban takes effect immediately from the moment of this statement’s announcement.

Thirdly: Any "israeli" ship that attempts to break this ban will be targeted within the declared area of operations.

Fourthly: This ban will remain in place until the crossings into the Gaza Strip are reopened and humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, is allowed to enter.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and affirm that, with Allah’s help, they stand alongside the valiant Palestinian resistance.

Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, the best guardian, and the best helper.

Long live Yemen—free, proud, and independent.
Victory to Yemen and to all the free people of the nation.

Sanaa, 11 Ramadan 1446 AH
Corresponding to March 11, 2025
Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
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 No.488074

Here's betting America's politicians use Yemen intervening against the genocide again as a pretext for war with Iran.
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 No.488075

Yemen's radar is now on, and the search for Israeli ships has begun.

The radar will stay on until food, medicine, and water enter Gaza .
We will not accept that Gaza be deprived of humanitarian aid
https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1899554398012944556
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 No.488078

>>488077
Wikipedia is such a clownshow now I think even a lot of normies are wising up to it. If you look up any independent journalist with a Wikipedia page now it's practically guaranteed that it'll be full of smears and libel. I genuinely can't think of a single exception to this rule. If you're being smeared on Wikipedia it usually means you're doing something right.
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 No.488079

>>488078
I don't altogether discount Wikipedia, because there are a lot of people working on it who are genuinely after the truth and neutrality, but there is plenty of this kind of shenanigans too.
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 No.488080

>>488079
The only people still left editing Wikipedia are a) utterly dedicated fanatics on the autism spectrum and b) professional reputation managers/government propagandists. Everyone else got weeded out a long time ago, and the incredibly dysfunctional and corrupt Wikipedia bureaucracy does everything it possibly can to keep out newcomers. The decline in editors has been a 10+ year trend now.
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 No.488083

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>>488080
>The only people still left editing Wikipedia are a) utterly dedicated fanatics on the autism spectrum and b) professional reputation managers/government propagandists.
I sometimes edit Wikipedia and I'm neither of these things. Believe it or not, it's actually often incredibly easy to correct propagandistic bullshit. See picrel, there was a line in Beria's article which cited a disreputable source without acknowledging that said source included a weird supernatural story - a user merely edited the line to include a summary of the full contents of that source which had been omitted from the Wiki article previously (originally it only contained the claim about the body and supposed examiners' estimations), and other editors realized the source was not credible because the implication of taking it seriously was so absurd. Most Wiki editors are still relatively reasonable.
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 No.488084

>>488083
respect for doing this.
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 No.488087

>>488083
>it's actually often incredibly easy to correct propagandistic bullshit
You must be editing different articles from me then, because that's not typically been my experience in my 15+ years of editing. If the article you're editing is something mundane or ancient history, then sure there's probably not someone squatting on the page to protect their interpretation of the world. If the article you want to adjust, however, is anywhere near something to do with contemporary history or politics you can expect your edit get reverted in 24 hours. If the target is especially important for a propagandist (say, a journalist or politician) you can expect to get censored even on the talk page through the usual abuse of shit like BLP or Notaforum. And if you persist you're guaranteed to have one of a handful of the usual abusive admins around the topic area come by and ban you for knowing the rules too well ("sockpuppetry").
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 No.488101

BreakThrough News: Israel has been trying to ban free speech for years

Houthis say ‘any Israeli vessel’ in waters off Yemen again a target

The Yemeni rebel group is warning shippers that “any Israeli vessel” travelling through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden is now a target.

The statement from the Houthis’ Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center follows a four-day deadline set by the rebels for Israel to resume aid shipments into Gaza.

“We hope it is understood that the actions taken by the [Houthi military] … stem from a deep sense of religious, humanitarian and moral responsibility toward the oppressed Palestinian people and aim to pressure the Israeli usurper entity to reopen the crossings to the Gaza Strip and allow the entry of aid, including food and medical supplies,” the statement said.

It described the warning as taking hold in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Arabian Sea.

The statement added: “Any Israeli vessel attempting to violate this ban will be subject to military targeting in the declared operational area.”

The Houthis had launched more than 100 attacks targeting shipping from November 2023, saying they were in solidarity with Palestinians over Israel’s war on Gaza. During that period, the group sank two vessels, seized another and killed at least four seafarers in an offensive that disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around Southern Africa.

Gaza-based union calls for international intervention to secure essential supplies

The Union of Municipalities of Gaza has put out a statement on the electricity and water situation in the coastal enclave. Here are some of its key points:

It emphasises the need for a continuous supply of water and electricity, especially after the central desalination plant was shut down.
The union condemns the Israeli decision to cut off electricity, which has disrupted essential services and threatens the spread of disease.
It calls on the international community and humanitarian organisations to intervene immediately to secure essential supplies.

Palestinian victims of Israel sexual abuse testify at UN

Palestinians who say they suffered brutal beatings and sexual abuse in Israeli detention and at the hands of Israeli settlers have testified about their ordeals at the UN this week.

“I was humiliated and tortured,” said Said Abdel Fattah, a 28-year-old nurse detained in November 2023 near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, where he worked.

Fattah gave his testimony from Gaza via video link to a public hearing and spoke through an interpreter.

He described being stripped naked in the cold, suffering beatings, threats of rape and other abuse over the next two months as he was shuttled between overcrowded detention facilities.

Mohamed Matar, an occupied West Bank resident, said he suffered hours of torture at the hands of security agents and settlers and the Israeli police refused to intervene.

White House says Columbia refusing to identify pro-Palestine protesters

The White House has accused Columbia University of refusing to help federal agents identify and locate students who participated in the pro-Palestine protests last year.

The allegation came after US immigration authorities detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, who holds a green card, for his role in the campus rallies.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said federal authorities have been “using intelligence” to identify other people involved in what the Trump administration has labelled “pro-Hamas” demonstrations. She said Columbia had been given the names of other participants, but was refusing to help the Department of Homeland Security “identify those individuals on campus”.

Netanyahu ‘lost his composure’ in Tel Aviv court

Netanyahu is back in court in Tel Aviv to testify in his corruption trial.

Israel’s Channel 13 is reporting that Netanyahu reportedly “lost his composure” at the panel of judges, demanding a “few minutes to defend myself”.

Three cases were filed against him in 2019 on charges including bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu has denied those charges.

Israeli airlines El Al records profit surge in 2024

El Al Israel Airlines reported a nearly five-fold jump in net profit, benefitting from being one of few carriers serving the country after foreign airlines halted flights during Israel’s war on Gaza.

El Al said on Wednesday its revenue was $3.4bn, making a profit of $545m last year, up from $117m in 2023.

Foreign airlines have begun to return to Ben Gurion after a ceasefire deal came into effect between Israel and Hamas in January.

El Al has faced criticism from customers in Israel and abroad for price-gouging.

Pakistani architect turns down award from Israeli organisation

A Pakistani architect has turned down the Wolf Prize 2025 in architecture due to Israel’s “continuing genocide” of Palestinians in Gaza.

US judge orders that detained student Mahmoud Khalil be allowed private calls

US judge Jesse Furman has ordered that detained Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil be allowed to have private phone calls with lawyers challenging his arrest by immigration authorities.

At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem said his client had been allowed just one call with his legal team from immigration detention.

Kassem added that the call was cut off prematurely and was on a line recorded and monitored by the government.

Furman today ruled that Khalil and his lawyers should have one phone call today and another one tomorrow covered by attorney-client privilege, meaning the government would not have access to their conversation.

Khalil’s detention is part and parcel of the Trump administration’s pledge to deport pro-Palestinian college activists.

The student’s lawyers argue the arrest violated his right to free speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment, and have urged his release.

Hundreds protest for release of Mahmoud Khalil in New York

Activists in America organised a protest today in front of a court in New York City, demanding the release of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested and is threatened with deportation for organising protests supporting Palestine at Columbia University.

The protesters chanted slogans against what they described as the suppression of a student movement and freedom of expression in universities, calling for his release and his return to the university.

Khalil’s defence team held a news conference among the protesters, giving an update on their continued efforts to secure his legal rights and return him to his pregnant wife.

Hamas welcomes Trump’s apparent retreat on Gaza displacement

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem welcomed Trump’s apparent backtracking of the call to displace people in Gaza.

Qassem urged the US president to refrain from aligning with the vision of the “extreme Zionist right”.

Trump said this evening that no one would be expelled from Gaza after saying earlier this year that the US should take control of Gaza, remove its people, and “re-develop” it.

Major US conservative think tank recommends cutting military aid to Israel

The massively influential Heritage Foundation has issued a new report proposing that the US end its military aid to Israel by 2047 [anon's note: lol], saying that the US should “re-orient its relationship” with its closest Middle East ally.

The proposal aims to transition from a relationship based on foreign military financing to one emphasising a strategic partnership. It included measures for Israel to increase its purchase of US defence materials, reflecting a more reciprocal and mature alliance between the two nations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/10/live-israel-to-join-doha-talks-after-cutting-off-electricity-to-gaza
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 No.488105

Update: Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is proposing to terminate O CINEMA movie theater's lease in South Beach because the theater screened ‘No Other Land’ over his objections.
https://x.com/aaron_leib/status/1899623153531265209
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 No.488106

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This is an actual tweet from Betar (an organization central to report Mahmoud Khalil to the gov't to be illegally disappeared) today. I shit you not. If they're just admitting this stuff outright now, people need to be ready for the worst. Now. No waiting.
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 No.488108

>>488105
That must be one hell of a film
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 No.488109

>>488108
It's an Oscar winner.
Personally, I think other docs are probably better (from what I hear, it takes pains to cater to the Israeli/State Dept requirement of "CONDEMN HAMAS!!!"), but it sounds like for the most part it is very good, at least by the standards of what is currently permitted in the US. People, particularly people who don't know that much yet, probably should see it and then pursue their curiosity further.
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 No.488112

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1900186856714567686
Adam Boehler, the President's envoy for hostage negotiations, has been removed by the Trump administration from handling the Gaza captive situation. This decision follows Boehler's remarks during a CNN interview, where he referred to Hamas as "pretty nice guys," sparking criticism from Israeli officials and Republican Party members.

Boehler later clarified his stance on Twitter, emphasizing that Hamas is a "terrorist organization" responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people.

(Israel National News - Channel 7)
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 No.488113

UN accuses Israel of ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza for targeting reproductive healthcare facilities

The UN Commission of Inquiry has said Israel had “intentionally attacked and destroyed” the Palestinian territory’s main fertility centre and had simultaneously imposed a siege and blocked aid, including medication for ensuring safe pregnancies, deliveries and neonatal care.

The commission found that Israeli authorities “have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare”, it said in a statement. It said this amounted to “two categories of genocidal acts” during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Of its five categories, the inquiry said the two implicating Israel were “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction” and “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”.

“These violations have not only caused severe immediate physical and mental harm and suffering to women and girls, but irreversible long-term effects on the mental health and reproductive and fertility prospects of Palestinians as a group,” the commission’s chair Navi Pillay said in a statement.

Israel “categorically rejects” the allegations, its mission in Geneva said.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/israels-attacks-on-reproductive-healthcare-in-gaza-genocidal-un

UN report on ‘genocidal acts’ to give boost to ICJ case against Israel
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The United Nations report is detailed and not very easy to read. It contains very graphic details and testimonies from not only the victims but also the perpetrators of these acts.

The report relies on information and videos published by the soldiers themselves documenting themselves carrying out some of the acts detailed in the report. This includes humiliating Palestinian detainees, assaulting them, and stripping them down to their underwear.

The report also talks about the targeting of health facilities, including Gaza’s main fertility clinic. About 4,000 embryos were deliberately destroyed in that attack, in effect denying thousands of families the possibility of giving birth.

The report also talks about acts of sexual violence committed against Palestinian detainees, men and women alike. This includes rape by foreign objects of men and women in Israeli custody.

Israel has categorically denied the conclusions reached by the report, with former PM Bennett saying the UN has become Hamas’s useful idiot.

We’ve heard these kinds of accusations and statements against the UN before, but they really don’t hold up in court. As we’ve seen before, the International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s claims and attacks against the UN and found that there’s plausible evidence for genocide. This report will only increase that plausibility in the eyes of legal experts.

Syrian authorities deny PIJ used sites attacked by Israel in Damascus
Resul Serdar Atas
Reporting from Damascus, Syria

We have heard two loud explosions almost at the same time as Syria’s constitutional declaration was being signed by the president of the country.

Then, we received videos of two locations hit by Israeli air attacks. Israel said they were centres being used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. However, the authorities here deny that.

There are unconfirmed reports of one person having been killed and several injured.

Since the attack, we have seen Israeli aircraft flying in circles above Damascus for more than two hours. This is definitely a show of force. The Israelis want to make sure that the new leadership in the country is aware that Israel is monitoring them.

Israel targeted empty home of PIJ leader Ziad Nakhaleh: Report

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad member at the scene of the Israeli air strike in Syria’s capital Damascus has told The Associated Press news agency that the apartment that was targeted was the home of the group’s leader Ziad Nakhaleh.

Ismail Sindak said the apartment had been empty for years, adding that Nakhaleh is not in Syria. Asked whether anyone was killed in the strike, Sindak said that “the house was empty.”

It was not immediately clear where Nakhaleh is but he is believed to spend his time between Lebanon, Iran and Syria.

As we have reported earlier, the Israeli military said its air force conducted an intelligence-based strike on a command centre belonging to the PIJ in Damascus.

https://twitter.com/news_hadeel/status/1900143898409783584

Israeli military claims central Gaza attack

Israel’s military says it carried out an aerial attack earlier today on a group of people who were “attempting to plant an explosive device” near its troops in central Gaza.

The claim follows our reports of Israeli fire near central Gaza’s Maghazi camp, which injured at least one person.

Yesterday, Israel’s military carried out a series of attacks in the enclave that killed a total of eight people, including a woman near Rafah and a girl in Deir el-Balah.

US judge extends order blocking deportation of Columbia student

New York district judge Jesse Furman has extended an order blocking US federal authorities from deporting detained student Mahmoud Khalil.

Furman, who had temporarily blocked Khalil’s deportation earlier this week, extended the ban saying he needed more time to consider whether the 29-year-old’s arrest violated the US Constitution.

The Trump administration has accused Khalil of being a Hamas supporter for participating in Palestinian solidarity protests at Columbia University.

Khalil’s lawyers and rights groups argue the arrest and attempted deportation of a US legal resident for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech is unconstitutional.

US intel chief drops job offer for Israel critic

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, has withdrawn a key job offer given to a critic of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to media reports.

Gabbard had intended to appoint Daniel Davis – a senior fellow at Washington think tank Defense Priorities – as the deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration, a role in which he would have conducted briefings at the White House.

Davis had been offered and accepted the role, and was undergoing a background check, according to the Jewish Insider news outlet.

But news of the proposed appointment generated blowback from pro-Israel elements of the Trump administration and caused Gabbard to reverse her decision, according to reports in both Politico and The New York Times.

Davis has previously expressed skepticism of US overseas interventions, labelling Washington’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza a “strategic and moral mistake” and said it was a “stain on our character as a nation”.

The Trump administration has not confirmed that an offer was made to Davis, nor that it has now been withdrawn.

Israeli occupation ‘root of all sins’: Israeli ex-army general

Amiram Levin, former commander of the northern region in the Israeli army, has stated that the Palestinian conflict “must be resolved and cannot be contained”.

In an interview with Israeli media outlet Maariv, Levin emphasised that without addressing the Palestinian issue, “there will be no serious normalisation with the Saudis or the Lebanese.

“The continuation of the Israeli occupation is the root of all sins,” he said. “Peace is elusive, and we must reduce the occupation and draw borders where we return to being a Jewish majority without returning to the 1967 borders.”

Levin also argued that relinquishing certain territory is in Israel’s best interest.

“It is in our interest to get rid of large areas where a large number of Palestinians live, not because it is good for them but because it is good for us.”

Netanyahu to visit Hungary before mid-April despite ICC warrant

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, will arrive in Hungary on an official visit in the next few weeks, before Easter in mid-April, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said at a news conference.

Orban invited Netanyahu to visit Hungary last November, saying he would guarantee that an ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu, issued a day earlier, would “not be observed”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/13/live-israel-hamas-continue-talks-arab-states-present-gaza-plan-to-us
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 No.488123

Anthony Loewenstein:
Get ready for a firehouse of Zionist propaganda from the Israeli government, ably assisted by (far too many) Western journalists:

"Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has inaugurated a “media war room” at the Foreign Ministry to monitor and respond to anti-Israel activity on internet platforms, his office announced Tuesday.

"The war room, staffed by diplomats and students specializing in international communications, observes around 250 news channels and some 10,000 Israel-related news items daily, “identifies false or biased reports…and acts swiftly by deploying Israeli and pro-Israel spokespersons to debunk accusations and present Israel’s narrative,” the Foreign Ministry said.

"During its trial period in recent weeks, the program was “the first” in Israel “to detect… and act against” a BBC documentary about Gazan children that was subsequently found to have been narrated by the son of a high-ranking official in the Hamas terror group’s government in the Gaza Strip, according to the Foreign Ministry."
https://twitter.com/antloewenstein/status/1899989377994154087
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 No.488126

Israeli drone kills Palestinian child in Gaza City

The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reports that an Israeli drone opened fire at Palestinians in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing a three-year-old child.

The report identified the victim as Amjad Abad.

Another Palestinian child killed in northern Gaza

An Israeli drone has struck a tent in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza, killing a child and injuring his mother, Al Jazeera Arabic and Wafa report.

Earlier, another Palestinian child was killed in a drone attack in Gaza City.

Palestinians search mass grave near Gaza City hospital for remains of loved ones

Using shovels and their bare hands, Palestinian families exhumed dozens of bodies from a mass grave beside al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City.

Many want to have a dignified burial elsewhere for their loved ones – but first they have to find them.



Gaza’s Civil Defense said 48 bodies were unearthed as of Thursday afternoon, including 10 unidentified people. The grave has over 180 bodies.



Al-Shifa was once the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip but after Israel’s war, it is now severely damaged, with its walls collapsed and riddled with bullet holes.

The mass grave is in a courtyard strewn with trash, rubble, and placards bearing the names of those buried.

US imposes sanctions on Iran’s petroleum minister

The Trump administration has targeted Iranian Petroleum Minister Mohsen Paknejad with new sanctions, reiterating that it aims to completely cut off Tehran’s oil exports.

“Treasury will fight and disrupt any attempts by the regime to fund its destabilising activities and further its dangerous agenda,” said US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

The department also said it sanctioned vessels used to transport Iranian oil to China.

US President Donald Trump has said he wants to reach a diplomatic deal with Iran, but he has also threatened the country with military strikes, stressing that he will not allow Tehran to have a nuclear weapon.

Yesterday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian dismissed Trump’s threats and calls for talks. “Do whatever the hell you want,” he was quoted as saying by Iranian media outlets.

Israel passes military order to seize Palestinian land in West Bank

Israeli forces issued a military order today to seize about 0.74 acres (0.3 hectares) of land in the village of Hares in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports, quoting local sources.

Omar Samara, the head of the Hares village council, confirmed the order on land belonging to local Palestinian residents.

Samara explained that Israeli authorities have given landowners just 24 hours to appeal the decision.

He urged international and human rights organisations to take immediate action to halt the confiscation, which he said threatens the livelihoods of local farmers, Wafa reported.

Sit-in at Trump Tower for release of Palestinian activist

Progressive US Jewish activists have been holding a protest at the Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained by immigration services over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.

Footage showed police officers arresting the protesters and escorting them out of the building.

“The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump regime is further proof that we are on the brink of a full takeover by an authoritarian regime. As Jews of conscience, we know our history and we know where this leads,” Jane Hirschmann, an activist with Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a statement.

Top Trump official struggles to justify detention of Mahmoud Khalil

Troy Edgar, the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, failed to offer any specifics about what the Palestinian activist did that merits arrest and deportation.

Khalil, a legal permanent resident, has been detained by US immigration authorities for five days over helping organise protests critical of Israel at Columbia University last year.

In a contentious interview with NPR, Edgar eluded that Khalil may have violated his visa with “pro-Palestinian activity”, but when pressed about what exactly the Columbia graduate did wrong, the US official struggled to offer details.

“I think if he would have declared he’s a terrorist, we would have never let him in,” Edgar said.

NPR’s Michel Martin asked Edgar what constitutes “terrorist” activity.

“Have you watched it on TV? It’s pretty clear,” the US official responded. Martin, however, stressed that it is actually not clear.

Edgar also failed to answer questions on whether criticising Israel is now a deportable offence in the US.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/13/live-israel-hamas-continue-talks-arab-states-present-gaza-plan-to-us
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 No.488128

>>488126
>“I think if he would have declared he’s a terrorist, we would have never let him in,” Edgar said.
This is a Monty Python sketch.

<Good Sir, are you a terrorist ?

>A what ?
<A Terr rorr rist !
>Might I trouble you for an explication what a Terr rorr rist be doing.
<Random acts of political violence to create terror in the general population.
>That sounds like jolly good fun, might there be an opening ?
<Yes, there is indeed, Feb 30th at 25 o clock.
>put me down for that one, and may i inquire for another booking ?
>No Sir.
<Why not ?
>Are you pulling my leg ?
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 No.488129

>>488128
Oh, it's completely fucking insane yes. It's nonsense on purpose.
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 No.488137

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Hamas demands Israel pull out from south Gaza

Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for Hamas, has demanded that Israel withdraw troops from the so-called Philadelphi corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border, in line with its obligations under the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

“Reports indicate new proposals are being presented aimed at circumventing the Gaza agreement,” Qassem told the AFP news agency.

“Meetings are continuing with mediators in Doha. We adhere to what was agreed upon and to entering into the second phase,” he added.

But Qassem insisted that Israel must also fulfil its obligations “withdrawing from the entire Gaza Strip”, according to AFP, and “begin the withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor” for any second phase deal to end the war.

“Israel has not implemented the humanitarian protocol of the Gaza agreement,” he added. “We do not want to return to war again, and if the occupation resumes its aggression, we have no choice but to defend our people.”

US, Israel reached out to Sudan, Somalia to resettle Palestinians from Gaza: Report

The Associated Press news agency is reporting that the US and Israel contacted officials from Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to “discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip”.

The agency cited anonymous officials from the US and Israel.

It reported that officials from Sudan rejected overtures from the US, while officials from Somalia and Somaliland said they were unaware of any contacts.

Trump floated the idea of forcibly displacing Palestinians and taking over the Gaza Strip in February. The proposal was rejected by Palestinians and countries in the Middle East, with many describing it as tantamount to ethnic cleansing, a war crime.

The US president has since given mixed signals, appearing to soften his stance on Wednesday telling reporters that “nobody is expelling any Palestinians from Gaza.”

Powerful union lambasts Columbia student expulsions

United Auto Workers (UAW) has condemned Columbia University’s crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters, including the expulsion of student union leader, Grant Miner.

The 370,000-member group said the action against Miner, who is the president of the Student Workers of Columbia, comes a day before the union was set to begin contract negotiations with the university.

“Trade unionists everywhere, defenders of the Constitution, of freedom of speech, of academic freedom, and of the right of free association, should be appalled and disgusted by the behavior of Columbia University, and should take it for the clear signal it is,” it said.

“If they can come for graduate workers, if they can arrest, deport, expel, or imprison union leaders and activists for their protected political speech, then they can come for you. For your contract. For your paycheck. For your family. And for your rights.”

Columbia union president among nine expelled over Palestine activism

More on Columbia University’s crackdown on student protesters.

The Student Workers of Columbia (SWC) union says its president Grant Miner is among the nine students expelled by the university.

In a statement, SWC said Miner was “expelled without evidence for participation in Palestine solidarity activism, which was in response to Columbia’s financial investment in US-backed Israeli genocide”.

SWC added that Miner’s expulsion “comes the day before we start bargaining” with the university’s administration over staff contracts.

It accused the university of escalating “retaliation against students, faculty and staff for pro-Palestine protest” in order to “appease the Trump administration”.

The White House withdrew some $400m in federal funding to Columbia this week, accusing it of failing to protect Jewish students during the campus protests last year.

Israeli troops storm Al-Aqsa during dawn prayers

Our colleagues are reporting that Israeli forces stormed the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem as Palestinians gathered for dawn prayers.

Israeli authorities have placed heavy restrictions on Palestinians from the occupied West Bank travelling to the mosque – Islam’s third-holiest site – to pray during Ramadan.

https://twitter.com/AlQastalps/status/1900385560151081127
Translation: The occupation forces launched surveillance drones during their storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound at dawn on the second Friday of Ramadan.

Israeli court releases suspect who shot Palestinian man in Jerusalem

A magistrates’ court in Jerusalem has ordered the release of an Israeli man accused of shooting a Palestinian municipal worker into house arrest.

The Times of Israel, quoting witnesses, said the Palestinian man, Ahmad Nijam, was shot in the leg in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday when “a mob of young Jewish extremists chanting ‘Death to Arabs'” attacked him.

Judge David Shaul Gabai Richter, however, ruled on Thursday that although the incident was one in which a weapon was used, “I do not believe that the defendant can be deemed a … criminal.”

Footage – recorded by Nijam’s acquaintance, and posted on X by Israeli human rights group Mistaclim – shows the victim writhing on the ground in pain as two others, including an Israeli soldier, stand nearby.

According to the Times, Nijam told Israel’s Channel 13 that the mob approached him and demanded to know why he was in the area generally frequented by Jews. He said the Israeli suspect ordered him to the ground before shooting him in the leg.

Nijam also told Channel 13 that upon his release from hospital, Israeli authorities summoned him for questioning asking why he was out so late.

New York police arrest 98 protesters at Trump Tower

The police have cleared a pro-Palestine sit-in at the Trump Tower in New York City after arresting 98 people on charges of “trespassing” and “obstructing governmental administration,” according to a spokesman.

John Chell said the protest started at about 11:30am local time on Thursday, and the police “started responding” within 10 minutes.

“Within 40 minutes, 50 minutes, we started making arrests… There was no damaged property, no injuries, and we cleared this up within two hours,” he added.

The protest was organised by the American-Jewish group, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), in a show of solidarity with detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil.

JVP, in a post on X, said those arrested included “Jewish elders, descendants of Holocaust survivors, and students” and that police dragged the demonstrators out of the sit-in by their arms and legs.

British legislators call for public inquiry on UK’s role in Gaza war

Seven legislators including Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour Party, and Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Green Party, are demanding “an independent, public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s military assault in Gaza”.

In an op-ed in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, the parliamentarians noted how an inquiry into the country’s conduct during the Iraq war found “serious failings in the British government, which ignored the warnings of millions of ordinary people over its disastrous decision to go to war”.

History is repeating itself, they wrote.

The UK has “played a highly influential role in Israel’s military operations, including the sale of weapons, the supply of intelligence and the use of Royal Air Force bases in Cyprus”.

And with the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, many in the UK believe the British government “has taken decisions that have implicated officials in the gravest breaches of international law”, they said.

These charges will not go away until there is an inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth, they added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/13/live-israel-hamas-continue-talks-arab-states-present-gaza-plan-to-us
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US Justice Department investigating Columbia protests for terrorism violations

The US Justice Department is looking into whether student protests at Columbia University over the Gaza war violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has said.

Blanche added that the investigation is also looking into civil rights violations tied to the protests last year, as part of Trump’s “mission to end antisemitism in this country”.

“We are also looking at whether Columbia’s handling of earlier incidents violated civil rights laws and included terrorist crimes,” Blanche said.

“This is long overdue.”

Blanche also stated that federal law enforcement had executed a search warrant tonight as part of a separate probe into whether Columbia University harbored undocumented immigrants on its campus.

Call for countries to ‘break the siege on Gaza’

It’s been 13 days since Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza and the situation continues to deteriorate for the 2.3 million population.

“The consequences of this crime on the humanitarian situation are clear with the indicators of famine and food insecurity unmistakable,” Gaza’s media office said. “Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are responsible for the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza.”

It called on the international community to “take action to break the siege on Gaza, allow the entry of humanitarian aid, and hold Israeli war criminals accountable”.

The closure of crossings has also “exacerbated the suffering of 150,000 chronic patients and injured individuals who can no longer access essential medications or medical supplies”.

Israeli air strike kills 4 in Gaza City

Four people have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in the southern part of Gaza City.

The Euro-Med Monitor on Wednesday said Israel has killed at least 150 Palestinians – an average of three people every 24 hours – since the Gaza ceasefire began on January 19.

We will bring you more on this soon.

Another Columbia student arrested as another self-deports, DHS says, over Palestine protests

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has announced that one of the Columbia University students who had her student visa revoked by the authorities over activism for Palestine self-deported.

Ranjani Srinivasan, a citizen and national of India who entered the United States on an student visa as doctoral student in urban planning at Columbia University, used the CBP Home App to self-deport on March 11, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

The statement added that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian student from the occupied West Bank, for overstaying her expired student visa.

Her visa was terminated on January 26, 2022, for lack of attendance, the statement said.

“Previously, in April 2024 Kordia was arrested for her involvement in pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University in New York City,” the department also said.

‘Trump wants to deport foreign students like me. Universities must defy him’

When I arrived to study in the United States, the terrifying spectre of deportation was the last thing on my mind.

As a Brit – a citizen of “the First World” – I was supposedly the beneficiary of the “special relationship” between the US and the United Kingdom.

As awful as it was, deportation happened to asylum seekers from Mexico or Haiti, in a world far removed from the snow-capped hills of Ithaca in upstate New York, home to Cornell University where I study. Or so I thought.

Read the opinion piece here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/12/trump-wants-to-deport-foreign-students-like-me-universities-must-defy-him

Pro-Palestine students lead mass march in New York in support of Khalil

Pro-Palestine students are leading a large march this evening from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, to demand the release of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce the university’s decision to expel students supporting Palestine.

The students raised pictures and banners in support of Khalil and other pro-Palestine students.

https://twitter.com/WOLPalestine/status/1900618975190675461

Settlers fire live ammunition, use tear gas in attack on West Bank village: Residents

Israeli settlers, who took part in a previously reported attack on the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Marajim in the occupied West Bank, burned down three houses and a number of cars.

Local residents told the Reuters news agency they fired live ammunition and hurled tear gas bombs at people trying to put out the flames in the latest in a series of raids that have surged during the war on Gaza.

CCTV footage showed masked individuals entering Palestinians’ property, throwing objects around and destroying a security camera.

“They climbed on top of the house and started to throw stones,” resident Maysoom Msalam told the agency.

“They broke the door and the windows. Then they burnt this door and entered and set fire inside the house.”

Israeli tanks fire near Rafah

Sources in Gaza are telling Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli army tanks are firing heavily on Palestinian homes in the town of ash-Shawka, to the east of south Gaza’s major city.

We will bring you more updates as information becomes available.

Hamas says Israel’s attempts to sabotage Gaza deal will not succeed

Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua has told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that mediators are making “strenuous efforts” in the talks despite Israel’s attempts to sabotage it, apparently referring to Qatar and Egypt.

“We are working with the mediators to ensure the success of the negotiations, compel the occupation, and complete the agreement’s stages,” he said.

“We hope that the results of the negotiations will ensure the implementation of all stages of the agreement.”

Daily struggle for Palestinians to access to Al-Aqsa Mosque

Long lines are forming at the Qalandiya checkpoint and Checkpoint 300 as Palestinians from the occupied West Bank try to make their way towards East Jerusalem to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Aisha Nazzal, a Palestinian woman from the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, said the Israeli army prevented her from reaching the site despite having a special permit.

“Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa are everything to us Palestinians, and freedom of worship is a right. But the occupation disregards everything,” she told the Anadolu news agency.

Taysir Balawi, a resident of Jenin, said Israeli authorities blocked him without providing any reason.

“I obtained a special permit … as instructed and there were no security objections, but when the soldiers saw my address as Jenin, they refused to let me in,” he said. “This is just to pressure people.”

Witkoff’s proposal buys time as Hamas, Israel disagree on ending Gaza war
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan
Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman because it is banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank by the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority.

Israel does not want to talk about phase two of the ceasefire agreement because it does not want to touch the idea of ending the war, while Hamas insists on talking about ending the war.

What US special envoy Steve Witkoff did was put forward a bridging proposal to secure the release of some Israeli captives while maintaining an open dialogue between the parties.

What we’re seeing from Hamas now is a show of goodwill towards the Trump administration, because the captive who will be released, Edan Alexander, is Israeli American and the bodies of captives set to be handed back also belong to dual nationals.

This proposal has created a lot of panic among the families of the Israeli captives who feel left out, who feel this agreement puts the lives of their relatives in danger. The Israeli prime minister has accused Hamas of not respecting Witkoff’s proposal and a cabinet meeting is expected to take place on Saturday.

Hamas says freeing of Israeli-American conditional on phase 2 talks

Hamas earlier announced it’s ready to hand over an Israeli-American captive and the bodies of four dual nationals.

US envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters this month that gaining the release of Edan Alexander, 21, is a “top priority”. US hostage negotiator Adam Boehler met Hamas leaders in recent days to seek Alexander’s release.

Hamas said the move is conditional on beginning the talks on the second phase of the ceasefire, opening crossings, and lifting the total blockade imposed by Israel two weeks ago.

“We are working with mediators for the agreement to succeed and to compel the occupation to conclude all phases of the agreement,” said Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua, a Hamas spokesperson.

“Hamas’s approval to release Edan Alexander aims to push towards the conclusion of the phases of the agreement.”

‘Fear, alarm’ as aid supplies run out on day 13 of Israeli blockade

It’s been 13 days since Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza and the situation continues to deteriorate for the 2.3 million population.

“We are feeling it on multiple levels,” Olga Cherevko from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told Al Jazeera. “The hope that began when the ceasefire started is being replaced with fear, alarm and concern that supplies are running out.”

She said food security “could deteriorate quite rapidly unless the supplies are restored”. Six of the 25 World Food Programme bakeries have been forced to close because there is no fuel to run them.

Gaza City flooded with sewage: ‘Situation is now out of control’

Under the weight of the siege and starvation imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip, Palestinians now face a severe environmental crisis with some streets submerged in sewage water.

The situation has worsened because of the shutdown of pumping stations caused by Israel’s blockade of fuel supplies and cutting off of electricity. Fears of the outbreak of disease are growing.

Israeli forces suppress peaceful march in West Bank’s Kafr Qaddum

The Israeli army fired sound bombs and tear gas against Palestinians staging a peaceful march for the reopening of the main road in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

The Wafa news agency said no injuries have been reported.

The Israeli military closed the main entrance of the village that connects it to Nablus with a permanent roadblock in 2003.

Syrian Druze cross armistice line for pilgrimage to Israel

Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel for their community’s first pilgrimage to a revered shrine in decades.

A delegation of about 60 scholars will meet the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, in northern Israel. They are then set to head to the tomb of Nabi Shuaib in the Galilee – the most important religious site for the Druze.

Followers of the esoteric monotheistic faith are mainly divided between Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/14/live-israel-kills-2-in-gaza-un-decries-genocidal-attacks-on-healthcare
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https://twitter.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1900659562824249755
Israeli vessels shelling Deir al-Balah & Gaza coast.
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National Day of Action - March 15th
https://www.shutitdown4palestine.org/
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From Zei Squirrel:
what happened over the past few days is just astonishing and shows the power and control of Zionists over the US. Someone in Trump's orbit with his permission got Adam Boehler to initiate direct talks with Hamas bypassing Israel, the first time the US has done this (Genocide Joe and Kamala would never). Boehler, who apparently did not get the standard Zionist Israel lobby talking points drummed into his head beforehand did what no one is allowed to do and actually listened to what Hamas told him. He worked on trying to get Israeli-American prisoners out for the obvious reason that they also have American citizenship, and he realized something shocking: Hamas is willing to lay down their arms in exchange for a long-term truce on the 1967 borders.

This of course has been the position of Hamas for decades (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1818707401974935810), consistently refused by Israel because they want to genocide and annex all of Palestine, and the entire Zionist Western media and political class launders it for them and presents Hamas as evil monstrous sub-human "worse than Nazi" anti-Semites who can't be reasoned with.

So what happened next? Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200 found out about the direct contact between Boehler and Hamas, and Netanyahu and his point person for running their US colony Ron Dermer became outraged and utterly horrified.

They decided Boehler must go, as he acknowledged the truth and was making noises that would fundamentally undermine their genocide agenda, and that is not allowed.

They leaked to their US Zionist media proxies like Barak Ravid and Jake Tapper that Boehler was having direct talks with Hamas bypassing Israel, and the entire Western media and political class Israel lobby assets were mobilized to begin a hysterical smear campaign against him, which was completed by Tapper on Sunday March 9th, who had him on CNN for the sole purpose of ensuring his removal.

Boehler was doing the media rounds to try to defend himself and salvage his position, and he did so by saying: Hamas offered to lay down their arms in exchange for a long-term ceasefire along the 1967 borders, and "Israel is not an agent of the US." He also said the Hamas negotiators he was in talks with were "nice guys".

The next day Trump came out and defended Boehler, but his fate was already sealed.

Just days after the Tapper interview he was removed.

This is what Zionist power looks like in action, and there are countless, innumerable examples like this that happen every single day which get immediately memory-holed.
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1900682241128181778
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 No.488150

>>488143
It's kind of lazy to just post an llm response. But at least it's somewhat less egregiously propagandistic than the previous ones you posted. Well the bit that's shitting on diplomacy or the framing of Palestinians as non-diplomatic is a bit shit still.

It's also leaving out a really important part, Isreal's military is having trouble conscripting soldiers especially because so many do not want to go on another combat tour. It's hard to guess how widespread "combat fatigue" (more like slaughter fatigue) really is, but when things like this are beginning to become apparent to outsiders like us, it's usually pretty bad already. That rather questionable military dominance might be running into some problems from mindfucking a large part of the population with the horrors of this bloodbath.
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 No.488152

>>488150
Oh, that guy? He was warned for that in a previous thread.
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 No.488158

The United States and European nations announced Friday a decision to block Al-Aqsa TV from all satellite networks, a move that has been met with strong condemnation from Hamas and Palestinian media organizations.

The joint U.S.-European decision includes severe financial penalties for any satellite operator that continues to broadcast the channel.

Hamas issued a statement denouncing the ban as “a blatant violation of press freedom” and “an attack on the Palestinian people’s right to make their voices heard worldwide.”
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1900842631157998054
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 No.488159

Abubaker Abed: Breaking: Israeli drones have just bombed a group of civilians in northern Gaza’s Jabalya. A drone photojournalist was among the injuries.
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1900865649024344262
^28 mins ago
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 No.488160

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Abubaker Abed: "I can’t believe that this is happening until now: Killing Palestinians, including journalists.

This is Mahmoud Saleem who has just been killed in a drone strike in Beit Lahia."
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1900872284329402683
(photo from about 25 mins ago)
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 No.488161

https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1900879983498715570/video/1
The number of Palestinian victims from the israeli airstrike on north Gaza rises to 9, most of whom were journalists & media workers @gazanotice
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US officials could be brought before the ICC for obstruction of justice

US officials taking part in attacks on the ICC in defence of Israel are obstructing justice and could face charges in the future, former UN Human Rights Official Craig Mokhiber says.

Mokhiber told Al Jazeera that both Biden and Trump administrations had allowed Israel to act with impunity on Gaza and Palestine, with the Trump administration going so far as to arrest people in the US “simply for criticising an oppressive foreign regime, Israel because it’s committing genocide and apartheid”.

The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil was emblematic of a broader attack on human rights, he said, adding that these developments should be seen within the context of attacks by the US on international institutions for protecting and promoting human rights.

“The Trump administration has already attacked the ICC which is a crime under international law, equivalent to obstructing justice, over which the ICC itself has jurisdiction and could prosecute US officials and Israeli officials for its obstruction of justice.”

US declares South Africa’s ambassador persona non grata

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called envoy Ebrahim Rasool a “race-baiting politician” who hates the US and President Donald Trump.

“South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” Rubio said in a post on social media platform X.

“We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA,” Rubio said.

Rasool had presented his credentials to former President Joe Biden on January 13, marking the start of the envoy’s tenure, according to the South African Embassy’s website, which said this was Rasool’s second stint in Washington.

Rasool has been a vocal critic of Israel. Trump’s staunchly pro-Israel stance has brought the president into conflict with South Africa over its genocide case against Israel at the World Court.

The US announcement also came on the back of a land distribution law meant in South Africa to address inequalities that have continued since the apartheid era. The South African government says that Trump is misinformed about the law, which has not been used to confiscate any land from white South Africans.

Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive if Israel implements ceasefire deal

Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli captive Edan Alexander and the bodies of four other captives if Israel implements the existing ceasefire agreement in Gaza, calling it an “exceptional deal” aimed at getting the deal back on track.

The Associated Press, citing a senior Hamas official who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinian group demanded that the long-delayed talks over the ceasefire’s second phase would need to begin the day of the release and last no longer than 50 days.

Israel would also need to resume the entry of humanitarian aid and withdraw from a Philadelphi Corridor along Gaza’s border with Egypt.

There was no immediate comment from Israel, where government offices were closed for the weekly Sabbath.

Israeli warships fire towards Rafah’s coastline in south Gaza: Report

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report that Israeli military gunboats stationed off the coast of southern Gaza have opened fire towards the Rafah area.

No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more information when we have it.

The attack is the latest violation of the fragile Gaza ceasefire by the Israeli military and its naval forces, which killed a Palestinian fisherman after shelling hit his boat on Friday.

Israeli forces open fire on ambulance in Tulkarem

The Israeli army’s assault on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank is continuing.

The army has opened fire at an ambulance transporting a patient from the camp where a large explosion was reported earlier today.

Large explosion reported in Nur Shams camp

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces had stormed the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

The Quds News Network now reports a large explosion and smoke rising above the camp.

The explosion was reportedly caused by Israeli forces blowing up buildings in the area, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israeli drone attacks kills 3 Palestinians

Three people, including a journalist, have been killed and several wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a gathering of citizens at the Attar junction in Beit Lahiya.

The Israeli army said it attacked these three people “operating near IDF (Israeli army) soldiers in the area of Netzarim” and claimed they were “attempting to plant explosive devices on the ground”.

Boehler withdraws nomination as Trump’s captives envoy: Report

Adam Boehler has withdrawn his nomination as US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs, the Axios news outlet reports, citing two anonymous White House officials.

Boehler has faced intense criticism from Senate Republicans after it emerged he recently held ultimately unsuccessful direct talks with Hamas – the first US official ever to do so – over the return of captives in Gaza.

That controversy could have made his Senate confirmation for the role difficult, Axios reports.

The news outlet adds that one senior Trump administration official said Boehler would now shift into another presidential envoy position “with a broader mandate but no need for Senate confirmation”.

‘Racist trend’ in arrest of pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil: Amnesty

Amnesty International has described the US arrest and detention of pro-Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil as part of a “racist trend” across the world aimed at stifling Palestinian rights and solidarity.

“In the US as well as the UK, Germany and other European states, Amnesty has documented cases of students and staff advocating for an end to the genocide in Gaza facing undue restrictions of their rights and retaliation, including police violence and sanctions,” the rights group said.

Amnesty said Khalil must be released and universities must take steps to protect their immigrant student population.

London to see large pro-Palestine demonstration today

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to gather in central London today despite the Metropolitan Police imposing conditions on three separate demonstrations.

The protest, organised under the Palestine Coalition, including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and Stop the War, will gather in Piccadilly near Green Park station before marching towards the UK parliament for a rally.

A counterprotest, organised by the group Stop the Hate, will be taking place in Coventry Street, near Piccadilly Circus.

The Metropolitan Police have imposed conditions under the Public Order Act on both protests, meaning participants of the pro-Palestine demonstration must not assemble before midday, and the procession must remain on a prescribed route.

Negotiations on next phases of ceasefire deal at a standstill
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it is banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The situation in Gaza is going from critical to catastrophic.

It doesn’t seem that negotiations on the ceasefire deal are edging any closer, especially since the US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said that Hamas has unrealistic demands and proposals behind closed doors.

The bridge proposal that he’s put forward talks about extending the status quo and Hamas releasing captives in exchange for humanitarian aid.

What Witkoff didn’t talk about is a ceasefire that would be permanent, or phase two. The extension past Ramadan and the Passover was cast as an opportunity to discuss what comes next. In the meantime, it has alleviated concerns that the US was taking this too far when Israel is not ready to talk about ending the war.

Meanwhile, the news that will be welcomed in Israel is that Adam Boehler, the US nominee as special envoy for hostage affairs, has withdrawn his nomination and does not seem to be involved in the negotiations any more. [Boehler was the first US official to negotiate directly with Hamas, causing an uproar in Israel.]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/14/live-israel-kills-2-in-gaza-un-decries-genocidal-attacks-on-healthcare
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>>488167
>US officials could be brought before the ICC for obstruction of justice
Will the US' Hague Act come into play?
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 No.488169

>>488168
Presumably, idk.
Hey, do you know anyone in the military? Maybe talk to them about not protecting the politicians if it comes to that.
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We're bombing Yemen again.
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Attack targets Yemeni capital Sanaa: Report

The television channel run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels say that an attack Sanaa, the capital.

The Houthis have said in recent days that they would resume attacks on ships they deem as having links to Israel, after giving Israel a deadline to resume the flow of aid to Gaza.

Al Masriah TV did not provide further details on the strikes or attribute blame.

We will bring you more information on this incident as as it comes in.

At least 9 killed in US strikes on Yemen

The health ministry in Sanaa says on X that nine others were wounded after American strikes on the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa.

As we just reported, the US president claimed air attacks on Sanaa, ordering the Houthis to cease their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.

Israel has killed 150 Palestinians since truce started: Gaza’s media office

A statement by the office says 40 people have been killed in the last two weeks.

The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect on January 19, 2025.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/14/live-israel-kills-2-in-gaza-un-decries-genocidal-attacks-on-healthcare
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"War doesn't scare us. Trump doesn't scare us. Death doesn't scare us.

Surrender, humiliation, and surrender are what scare us. We fear only God. That's why we will enter the war and continue fighting. We know you are criminals and will kill many Yemenis and destroy many homes.

But we will not lay down our weapons, we will not leave Gaza alone, and we will not accept your hegemony over us. This is a decision we have made, and we will continue with it, even if we have to fight the entire world."

- Ahmed Hassan
https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1901009068577484874
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Billboard in Yemen honoring Aaron Bushnell
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 No.488177

While it's important to note that this is purely a thought experiment and not an endorsement of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) or its methods, one could construct a controversial argument for PIJ's effectiveness as an anti-colonial force in modern history:

## Asymmetric Warfare Capabilities

PIJ has demonstrated a remarkable ability to challenge a much larger and better-equipped adversary through asymmetric warfare tactics. Despite its relatively small size, with estimates ranging from 1,000 to 15,000 fighters, PIJ has managed to pose a significant threat to Israel, a technologically advanced military power[1]. This ability to punch above its weight class could be seen as a hallmark of effective anti-colonial resistance.

## Technological Adaptation

PIJ has shown adaptability in its military capabilities, developing a diverse arsenal including locally produced and Iranian-supplied rockets[1]. This technological evolution, despite limited resources, demonstrates an ability to innovate and adapt to changing battlefield conditions - a crucial factor in prolonged resistance against a superior force.

## Resilience and Longevity

Founded in 1981, PIJ has managed to survive and maintain its operational capabilities for over four decades, despite intense pressure and numerous conflicts[7]. This longevity, in the face of a powerful opponent, could be interpreted as a measure of effectiveness in resisting perceived colonial control.

## Ideological Consistency

Unlike some other resistance movements that have engaged in peace processes or moderated their stance, PIJ has maintained a consistent ideological position since its inception, rejecting compromises like the Oslo Accords[1]. This unwavering commitment to its goals could be seen as a form of effective resistance against diplomatic efforts to alter the status quo.

## Regional Impact

PIJ's actions have had significant regional and international repercussions, often triggering broader conflicts and diplomatic crises. This ability to influence events beyond its immediate operational area could be viewed as an effective means of challenging the existing power structures.

While this argument presents a controversial perspective, it's crucial to emphasize that PIJ's methods, which include targeting civilians, are widely considered acts of terrorism and are condemned by the international community. The effectiveness of anti-colonial movements should be evaluated through a broader lens that considers political, social, and humanitarian factors, not just military capabilities.

Citations:
[1] https://afghanistan.wilsoncenter.org/article/palestinians-hamas-and-pij
[2] https://www.globalsouthstudies.org/keyword-essay/anticolonialism/
[3] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-hamas-built-army
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization
[5] https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pij_fto.html
[6] https://library.fiveable.me/the-modern-period/unit-5/anti-colonial-movements-independence/study-guide/7TOxNktJ2Ia6CMoV
[7] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/6/gaza-attack-what-is-the-palestinian-islamic-jihad
[8] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/01/colonialism_and.html
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US strikes against Yemen’s Houthis could last weeks, official says

An unfolding US military campaign of strikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis could last days and maybe weeks, a US official told the Reuters news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity.

President Donald Trump announced the start of the operation earlier on Saturday, warning the Houthi attacks against Red Sea shipping needed to stop or “hell will rain down upon you.”

Houthis say US strikes in Yemen ‘encourage’ Israel’s ‘unjust seige on Gaza’

The Houthi group have called US strikes on Yemen “blatant aggression”.

“The US raids on Yemen are a blatant aggression against an independent state and encourage the Israeli enemy entity to continue its unjust siege on Gaza,” the group’s spokesman said.

He added: “What the US president claims about a threat to international navigation in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait is incorrect and misleading to international public opinion. The maritime embargo declared by Yemen in support of Gaza is limited only to Israeli navigation until humanitarian aid is delivered to the people of Gaza according to the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance and the enemy entity.”

The spokesman additionally claimed that the Houthi’s attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea “came after a four-day deadline for mediators”.

“We confirm that international navigation in the Red Sea will remain safe from the Yemeni side, and that the US raids are a return to the militarisation of the Red Sea, and this is the actual threat to international navigation in the region,” he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/14/live-israel-kills-2-in-gaza-un-decries-genocidal-attacks-on-healthcare

Death toll from US attacks on Yemen rises to 19

Earlier, the Houthis reported that at least 13 civilians were killed and nine wounded in the US attacks on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.

The Houthi-run Al Masirah TV is now reporting that six others were killed in a US raid on the northern province of Saada.

The victims included four children and one woman.

Eleven others were also wounded.

US warplanes raze four areas in Yemen

So far, Ansar Allah (Houthi) media sources say that at least four areas have been razed by the US warplanes that targeted, in particular, a residential area north of the capital, Sanaa.

We are talking about a new escalation and a new wave of air attacks that have been ordered by the newly-appointed US President Donald Trump.

He said that the new air attacks will be different from previous attacks.

The Ansar Allah (Houthis), during the previous speech, said they have imposed a ban on the Israeli maritime vessels in the Red Sea and the Arab Sea.

They also said that this is just one step forward and that they have more options on the table.

So, they are warning that they could further escalate in case the Israeli siege on Gaza is to continue.

Houthis promise to retaliate

Earlier, we brought you a statement from Houthi spokesman, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, who accused the US of overstating the threat to shipping operations in order to influence public opinion.

The group’s political bureau has also issued a separate statement.

The statement “condemned the treacherous US aggression on the capital, Sanaa” and called the targeting of residential neighbourhoods and civilians “as a full-fledged war crime”.

It said the attacks came “in response to Yemen’s stance of solidarity with the Palestinian people” and promised that the US’s “aggression against the country will not deter Yemen from continuing its support for Palestine and fulfilling its obligations towards Gaza”.

The statement added that “the aggression will not go unanswered, and the Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to confront escalation with escalation”.

More US raids on Yemen

Yemen’s Al Masirah TV is reporting renewed Israeli raids on the country’s capital, Sanaa, as well as the city of Saada.

The Houthi-affiliated channel says the strike on Saada targeted a key power station there, causing a power outage.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/16/live-us-bombs-yemen-killing-13-after-houthis-pause-attacks-on-israel

Mass protests in New York demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release

A video verified by Al Jazeera shows the protesters in Times Square, in the centre of New York, massing in support of the detained Columbia University student.

Yesterday, demonstrators flooded the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, in a show of solidarity with Khalil.

https://twitter.com/pslnational/status/1901005934157008901

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It gives Palestinians credit for being tenacious, but when you boil it down your Propaganda Ai still just accuses Palestinians to sabotage diplomacy and do terrorism. And if you take "international community" to mean most people, they're condemning Israel for genocide, and the Palestinians are seen as victims, even in the west.
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Do you know what it says on the Billboard ?
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‘Sanaa will remain Gaza’s shield’: Houthi spokesman

Nasruddin Amer, deputy head of the Houthi media office, said the deadly US air strikes won’t deter the armed group and they will retaliate against the United States.

“Sanaa will remain Gaza’s shield and support and will not abandon it no matter the challenges,” Amer said on social media.

The US air strikes come days after the Houthis said they would resume attacks on Israeli vessels sailing off Yemen in response to Israel’s latest blockade on Gaza. There have been no Houthi attacks reported since then.

US attacks on Yemen ‘a major crime’

Footage posted by Houthi-affiliated media outlets showed what they said was the aftermath of the US attacks on Saada, in northwestern Yemen.

“What happened yesterday was a major crime,” Saada resident Mesfir al-Waili said.

“Ten martyrs fell, 13 were injured, along with two children, and a missing boy and girl under the rubble,” he added.

“This American only targets civilians who have nothing to do with anything,” al-Waili said, referring to Trump. “But we are ready for them.”

Houthis claim attack on US aircraft carrier in Red Sea

The Houthi military spokesperson said that the group has responded to the US bombing of Yemen by attacking the USS Harry S Truman with ballistic missiles and a drone.

More details on Houthi claimed attack on USS Harry S Truman

The group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree says Houthi forces carried out “a qualitative operation” on the US aircraft carrier Harry S Truman.

“Our forces targeted the Truman aircraft carrier with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone,” he said.

The US launched more than 170 air raids on various areas in Yemen, Saree added.

He stressed that the group’s naval blockade on Israel-linked ships will continue in the Red Sea until Israel lifts its aid block on Gaza.

US President Donald Trump announced the start of attacks on Yemen on Saturday.

Houthis pledge new attacks on Israel-linked ships after US attacks

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say US attacks on the country pose the real threat to international shipping in the Red Sea.

The group said its “naval operations” will continue until Israel lifts its blockade on Gaza and lets desperately needed aid into the war-battered enclave.

US President Donald Trump announced the start of attacks on Yemen on Saturday, warning that Houthi attacks against Red Sea shipping needed to stop or “hell will rain down upon you.”

Houthi leader says will attack US ships in Red Sea

Abdel-Malik al-Houthi has been speaking on television following the US attack on Yemen overnight.

“If they [the US] continue their aggression, we will continue the escalation,” al-Houthi said.

He added that the Houthis had decided to threaten Israeli shipping to increase pressure on Israel to allow the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Palestinian killed in central Gaza drone attack

Gaza health officials said an Israeli drone attack killed a 62-year-old Palestinian in Juhor al-Deek, central Gaza on Sunday. The attack injured several others, the officials said, according to Reuters.

Earlier, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had conducted a drone attack against what it claimed was a fighter operating near troops in the Netzarim Corridor. It’s unclear if the attack is referring to the same incident in which the 62-year-old was killed, but Juhor al-Deek is near Netzarim.

Israel conducts reported air strike on southern Lebanon

The attack took place near Ainata, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent.

The Israeli military earlier said it was combing the Avivim area in northern Israel after shots were apparently fired from the Lebanese side of the border.

“Gunfire on Israel from Lebanese territory constitutes a breach of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the military said.

Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire – which began on November 27 – carrying out more than 330 shelling and aerial strike incidents, and destroying property, according to the monitoring website the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).

And on Saturday, an Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon.

US official rubbishes Houthi claim of attack on aircraft carrier

The defence official, who spoke to Reuters anonymously, dismissed the Houthi claim that a missile and drone attack had been launched on the USS Harry S Truman. The official said that they were not aware of any Houthi attack.

Israel’s Netanyahu plans to dismiss head of domestic security service this week

A statement from the prime minister’s office says that he has told the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, that he will bring his dismissal before the government this week.

Netanyahu claimed on Thursday that Bar was attempting to “blackmail” him after Bar’s predecessor as head of the Shin Bet, Nadav Argaman, said that he had “a great deal of knowledge, which I can put to use”.

Hamas says its senior officials met Russia’s Middle East envoy

Hamas’s delegation included Muhammad Ismail Darwish, the head of its political bureau, and Khaled Meshaal, the head of the group abroad, according to a statement on Telegram.

Officials discussed developments in the ceasefire negotiations with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, as well as Israel’s ongoing violations of the agreement and practices that hinder its implementation.

Darwish affirmed in the meeting the movement’s commitment to implementing the ceasefire agreement and its full readiness to complete it, Hamas said.

According to the statement, Bogdanov reiterated Russia’s position in supporting the rights of the Palestinian people, and Moscow’s backing for implementing all provisions of the ceasefire deal, as well as the need for unrestricted humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/16/live-us-bombs-yemen-killing-13-after-houthis-pause-attacks-on-israel
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At least 101 injured in US attacks on Yemen
Mohammed Al Attab
Reporting from Sanaa, Yemen

According to the latest statistics from the Yemeni Health Ministry, 32 people have been killed in the US air raids on Yemen and at least 101 have been injured.

The attacks took place in five provinces that are under Houthi control.

Most of the victims are in Saada, Sanaa and al-Bayda. In Saada, US warplanes hit two residential areas, killing at least 10 people and injuring 13, according to Houthi-run media.

Eight of 9 victims of Israel’s attack on Beit Lahiya were aid workers

On Saturday, an Israeli drone strike killed at least nine people, including three photographers, were killed in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.

Shuaib Yusaf, the CEO of the Al Khair Foundation, said eight of those killed were aid workers.

“It is with great sadness and regret that we announce the demise in Gaza of eight of our team’s dedicated humanitarian aid workers. They were killed in violation of the agreed ceasefire in a drone airstrike,” Yusaf said. “The exact circumstances are still being established but we refute utterly any suggestion that those who were killed were militant or in any way connected with Hamas.”

Al Khair Foundation is an international aid organisation based in the UK.

No humanitarian or commercial supplies entered Gaza since March 2: UNRWA

UNRWA has released an update on the current situation in the occupied West Bank and Gaza:

The large-scale Israeli military operation that started in Jenin refugee camp on January 21 and continues, with operations in Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem, has killed more than 50 Palestinians as of March 9, including eight children. More than 35,000 Palestinians have been displaced.
No supplies have entered Gaza since March 2, when the Israeli authorities announced a halt to humanitarian aid.

IRCG responds to Trump threats

The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened “decisive” responses to any attacks after Trump warned Iran to stop backing the Houthis.

“Iran will not wage war, but if anyone threatens, it will give appropriate, decisive and conclusive responses,” Hossein Salami said following deadly US strikes on Yemen.

He said the Houthis make strategic and operational decisions on their own.

What happens in Yemen is critical to Iran
Tohid Asadi
Reporting from Tehran, Iran

Iran has been providing constant and unwavering support to Yemenis. So far, we have heard at least three statements from Iranian officials.

The first one was from the foreign minister, who wrote that he was asking the US to stop killing Houthis.

Later, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson called the strike an aggression against the UN Charter. He called for the UN Security Council to react to the developments. He also called for collective action by the international community, as well as Islamic countries, to deal with the “ongoing genocide” in the region.

Most recently, the IRGC commander said Iran was not in the position to make decisions for any movement within the “axis of resistance”, including the Houthis.

Russia urges US to halt Yemen strikes

The Russian foreign minister has spoken to US State Secretary Rubio, urging him to engage in dialogue after large-scale military strikes against Yemen’s Houthis.

“In response to the American representative’s arguments, Sergey Lavrov stressed the need for an immediate cessation of the use of force and the importance for all sides to engage in political dialogue in order to find a solution that would prevent further bloodshed,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.

Palestine movement in US continues to grow despite crackdown, activist says

Iman Abid, spokesperson for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, says Trump’s crackdown on activists, including Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, will not silence the movement.

“We knew at one point or another he would try to repress any and all movements that would challenge his positions, whether it be foreign or domestic policy. And what he’s doing right now is setting an example of the Palestinian movement,” Abid told Al Jazeera from Washington, DC.

“They came after Mahmoud and we know they are coming after others. But it’s not silencing the movement,” she said.

“We have watched the movement be reignited, from protests outside of the detention facilities that Mahmoud is being held in Louisiana to reignited mobilisations happening across Columbia University … The Palestinian movement has not ceded. It continues to grow and it continues to rise here.”

US forces carried out nearly 40 raids on Yemen overnight
Mohammed Al Attab
Reporting from Sanaa, Yemen

The US air attacks began in the early evening on Saturday and continued into this morning. We are talking about nearly 40 air raids, with most of them in the province of Saada, to the north of Sanaa. Some 12 raids were reported in Saada.

The deadliest was in the district of Kahza, when US warplanes targeted two residential buildings, killing at least 15 people, according to the Houthi media outlets.

There were raids in Sanaa and Bayda as well. In Sanaa, a residential area was targeted, killing at least 15 people and wounding nine others. There were at least eight raids on Sanaa.

And in Bayda, there were eight more raids, and we do not yet know what was targeted. Al-Majzah in Marib was also hit, as well as Ans in Dhamar in the south of Yemen. The province of Hajjah was also targeted, where the district of Main was hit.

The political bureau of the Houthis is denouncing these attacks as crimes against civilians and says they will retaliate against them and will continue to stand with the people of Palestine.

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Death toll from US attack on Yemen rises to 53, say Houthis

https://aje.io/7jyucr?update=3583306

US launches two new strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah: Houthi TV

The strikes – if confirmed – would mean that the US is bombing Yemen for a second night. We’ll have more on this as soon as we get it.

Syria accuses Hezbollah of abducting, killing three soldiers

The Syrian Defence Ministry said that Hezbollah had abducted the three soldiers from inside Syria, taken them to Lebanon, and then killed them.

The ministry said that the abduction happened near the Zeita Dam, on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Homs province.

“A group from the Hezbollah militia … kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border… before taking them to Lebanese territory and eliminating them,” the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted the Defence Ministry as saying.

Al Jazeera Arabic earlier reported that clashes had taken place on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Hezbollah has, however, denied any involvement in the incident.

US shot down 11 Houthi drones: Official

US aircraft shot down 11 drones fired on Sunday by the Houthis, a US official claimed to Reuters.

The official said that the drones did not come close to the USS Harry S Truman, an aircraft carrier that the Houthis earlier said they had attacked.

The military also tracked a Houthi missile that the official said had failed in flight and splashed down into the sea.

The official added that the US took no action in response to the missile because it was not deemed a threat.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/16/live-us-bombs-yemen-killing-13-after-houthis-pause-attacks-on-israel
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>Russia urges US to halt Yemen strikes

>“In response to the American representative’s arguments, Sergey Lavrov stressed the need for an immediate cessation of the use of force and the importance for all sides to engage in political dialogue in order to find a solution that would prevent further bloodshed,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.


he said "the importance for all sides". That could be interpreted as the Russians warning that the Iranians are considering giving Yemen big boy weapons. Maybe effective air-defenses that can shoot down US jets, or large numbers of heavy missiles, that can reach Israel, Or anti-ship missiles that can sink US navy ships.
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I don't think I'd read that much into "all sides."
Yemen already has missiles which can reach Israel. Yemen has hypersonics.
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US forces raid northern Yemen: Report

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting a new US raid on the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf.

The satellite channel says US forces hit a government complex in the district of al-Hazm.

We’ll bring you more when we have it.

Earlier, Al Masirah said there had been two attacks on the Red Sea port of Hodeidah.

Houthis claim second attack on US warship

The rebel group says it attacked the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier for the second time in the past 24 hours, launching “a number of drones and ballistic and cruise missiles” at the warship.

The assault “lasted for several hours” and “succeeded in thwarting a hostile attack the enemy was preparing to launch against our country”, the group said.

There was no immediate comment from the US.

As we’ve been reporting, the Houthis claimed another missile and drone attack on the USS Harry Truman earlier on Sunday.

The US dismissed the claim, with an official telling Reuters that US forces shot down 11 Houthi drones, none of which came close to the aircraft carrier, and also tracked a missile that splashed down off the coast of Yemen.

US raids hit hijacked Israel-linked ship in Yemen

We’ve been reporting on the US’s latest raids on the Red Sea port of Hodeidah.

The official Saba news agency is now reporting that the raids hit “the command post of the detained Israeli ship Galaxy Leader”.

Saba, citing a military official, said the US targeted the ship with two air strikes.

Houthi fighters hijacked the Galaxy Leader in November 2023, detaining its 25-member crew, who hail from the Philippines, Mexico, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, for 430 days. They were released in January after the ceasefire in Gaza came into effect.

The ship, meanwhile, has remained in the Hodeidah port. It is owned by a British company that is partially owned by Israeli tycoon Abraham Ungar, according to The Times of Israel.

US destroys cancer facility, cotton shop in attacks on Yemen

We have more on the destruction from the US’s attacks on Sunday.

The official Saba news agency, citing local authorities, is reporting that US forces carried out several air strikes on a cancer facility being built in the city of Saada on Sunday, causing “widespread destruction”.

Mohammed Awad, the governor of Saada, told a meeting of local officials that several residential neighbourhoods were also hit.

“He pointed out that the US enemy’s targeting of residential neighbourhoods and civilian facilities, including the cancer tumour building, confirms the state of failure, enemy confusion [and] reveals America’s ugly and criminal face,” Saba reported.

The Ministry of Agriculture also condemned the targeting of a cotton shop in the Zabid district of the Hodeidah governorate, according to Saba.

The ministry said the targeting of civilian infrastructure is aimed at doubling the human suffering in Yemen.

Israeli forces kill two people in Lebanon

The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces launched air raids on the village of Ainata in southern Lebanon, killing at least two people.

The raid was followed by more Israeli shelling and drone attacks in southern Lebanon, the agency reported.

This included the towns of Yaroun and Kfar Kila.

Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in November, but has continued near-daily attacks on southern Lebanon, killing dozens of people.

Lebanese army confirms trading fire with Syria near border

The Lebanese army says three Syrians were killed after fighting on the Lebanon-Syria border near the Qasr-Hermel area last night.

The bodies have now been handed over to the Syrian military.

The army said Lebanese villages and towns were subjected to shelling from Syrian territory. It added that its “military units responded to the sources of the fire with appropriate weapons, reinforced their deployment, and maintained security”.

“Contacts continue between the army command and the Syrian authorities to maintain security and stability in the border area.”

As we reported earlier, the Israeli military also launched several attacks on southern Lebanon last night.

UK declines to condemn deadly Israeli attack on British charity in Gaza

As we reported yesterday, the UK-based Al Khair Foundation has said that eight of its “dedicated humanitarian aid workers” were “killed in violation of the agreed ceasefire in a drone airstrike” in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Saturday.

London-based media outlet Middle East Eye (MEE) is reporting that a spokesperson from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office declined to condemn the Israeli drone attack.

Instead, the office said it was “deeply saddened” by the attack, according to MEE journalist Imran Mullah.

“It is vital that – in all scenarios – civilians are protected, including journalists and humanitarian organisations, who must be enabled to deliver their essential work in safety,” the spokesperson told MEE.

“It is deeply saddening to hear of further loss of life in Gaza, and the UK wants to see the ceasefire continue,” the spokesperson added.

Children among Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces across West Bank

Israeli forces have arrested more Palestinians in the occupied territory, including during raids that we reported earlier this morning.

At least three people were arrested during Israeli raids in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, including two young brothers, according to the Wafa news agency.

During a dawn raid on Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, two children were arrested. Both are 15 and were taken from their family homes after they were raided.

Three more people were taken at dawn from their homes in Qaffin near besieged Tulkarem.

In Hebron, Israeli forces arrested a freed Palestinian in Qalqas, and raided more homes in the eastern part of the city. Another arrest was reported south of Hebron.

Iran’s Khamenei says Yemen is ‘definitely victorious’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed support for the people of Yemen following the US’s deadly bombardment of the country.

“The nation of #Yemen is definitely victorious. The only path is that of resistance,” he wrote in a post on X.

“That which has caused the US and its allies to panic today is the fact that the Muslim nations are standing firmly and that this resistance will prove to be effective.”

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At least seven people killed in clashes on Syria border: Lebanese Health Ministry

The Lebanese Health Ministry says at least seven people have been killed in fighting on the border with Syria since the violence began again on Sunday night. Another 52 have been wounded.

Lebanese President Aoun has sent the army to respond after several skirmishes over the weekend, in which three Syrian soldiers were killed in separate incidents.

The interim government in Syria has blamed the fighting on Hezbollah although the group has denied the claim.

Israel says attacking ‘military targets’ in southern Syria as deaths reported

The military says its targets have included military headquarters containing weapons and military equipment that had been controlled by ousted Syrian leader al-Assad.



Syria’s state news agency earlier reported Israel had struck locations in the southern province of Deraa. It reported that two people had been killed and 19 wounded in the Israeli strikes.

Israel claims more strikes across southern Lebanon

The latest statement comes after Lebanese authorities confirmed two people had been killed in an Israeli strike in Yohmor.

More US strikes reported in Yemen

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV has reported United States strikes on an iron factory in the Bajil District of the western Hodeidah governorate.

The US launched a news campaign of heavy attacks on Houthi-controlled Yemen over the weekend.

The US military did not immediately confirm the latest strikes.

Houthis say they are prepared to resume attacks in solidarity with Gaza

In statements carried by the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, Major General Mohammed Al-Atifi says the armed group is prepared to escalate its confrontation with Israel.

The Houthis had largely paused their attacks on vessels in the Red Sea in recent weeks during a ceasefire in Gaza but reportedly targeted US military vessels after the US struck positions in Yemen over the weekend.

Al-Atifi said the US strikes show the “level of bias” of the US in its support for Israel.

He added the Houthis would not “remain silent”.

At least 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli drones in Gaza

Earlier we reported on an Israeli drone strike that killed three Palestinian men gathering firewood for cooking to break their Ramadan fast.

Trump intensifies Iran threats as Middle East turmoil ramps up
Patty Culhane
Reporting from Washington, DC

US President Trump is directly threatening to target Iran’s assets, perhaps even its people. There’s precedent for this. Let’s not forget that under the Trump administration – the first term in 2020 – they assassinated Qassem Soleimeni, a general with the Iranian military, while he was visiting Iraq.

So how did we get here? Well, the US president over the weekend announced strikes on Yemen, saying the attacks on commercial shipping coming from Yemen needed to stop immediately. However, those attacks had stopped. There had been none since Donald Trump became president.

Then Trump’s officials came out and said, “No, we’re talking about all the attacks that happened in the past”. The US then struck much broader targets in Yemen than we had seen under the Biden administration. We believe the Houthis did respond with some drones and perhaps one ballistic missile that were not successful.

Now, this is Trump taking it a step further saying the next missile, the next drone launched by the Houthis will have Iran’s signature on it.

Iran will respond ‘decisively and with full force’ to any attack on its territory or interests

Iran did not immediately respond to Trump saying the country would be held responsible for any further Houthi attacks.

However, earlier today, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Iran would respond to any attack on its territory or interests.

“Iran will respond decisively and with full force to any violation of its territorial integrity, security or national interests,” Esmail Baghaei said at a news conference. “There is absolutely no doubt about this.”

Baghaei condemned deadly attacks by US forces on Houthi-held areas of Yemen over the weekend as a “crime” and a “blatant violation” of international law.

He called US messaging to Iran “highly contradictory” after Trump reportedly sent a letter to the Iranian leader requesting nuclear talks.

“Messages received from the US are highly contradictory. While expressing readiness for dialogue, they simultaneously impose extensive sanctions on Iran’s trade and production sectors,” he said.

“Over the past 10 to 15 years, the US has shown that it does not honour its commitments. It views negotiations merely as a political, propaganda and psychological tool rather than a genuine means to resolve disputes.”

Lebanon residents say Israel ‘doesn’t want us to return’

Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets are becoming more frequent. One person has been killed in Yohmor in southern Lebanon today after an Israeli attack on a vehicle.

“We came back and started to remove the rubble,” said Abu Rabih, a resident of Kfar Kila.

“Just three days ago, we set up this prefabricated house, and then there was an Israeli strike. They warned us to leave the area. They don’t want us to return,” he told Al Jazeera.

Fatima, another resident of the area, said she just wants the Israeli attacks to finally stop after an air strike blew up her family’s bakery despite the Hezbollah-Israeli ceasefire.

“We were refugees for more than a year. Then my son invested whatever money he had left, and he also borrowed money to buy equipment to set up this bakery. We just want to be able to survive without needing anyone’s help,” she said.

Trump says Iran will be ‘held responsible’ for Houthi attacks

In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Trump raised the prospect of direct confrontation with Iran as the US ups attacks on the Houthi militia in Yemen.

Trump said Houthi attacks “all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN”.

“Any further attack or retaliation by the ‘Houthis’ will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there,” he said, further accusing Tehran of “dictating every move” by the rebels while providing them with weapons and intelligence.

“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”

UN experts slam ‘disproportionate’ arrests of pro-Palestinian students in US

US campuses including Columbia University in New York were rocked by student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, drawing accusations of anti-Semitism.

Immigration officers arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of protests at Columbia, on the weekend of March 9-10 after US President Donald Trump pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.

The White House later said authorities had supplied a list of other Columbia students who officers were seeking to deport over their alleged participation in protests.

“These actions are disproportionate, unnecessary, and discriminatory and will only lead to more trauma and polarisation negatively impacting the learning environment within university campuses,” a group of United Nations-appointed experts said in a statement.

“These actions create a chilling effect on the rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association,” they added.

The independent experts, appointed by the UN to report on rights issues, urged US authorities “to cease repression and retaliation, including in the form of arbitrary detention of US lawful permanent residents, and removal of international students who have participated in university protests”.

UN ‘concerned’ over US strikes on Yemen

The United Nations has released a statement responding to both the prospect of increased Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and on increased US strikes on Yemen.

“We reiterate our concern at the launching of multiple strikes on Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen by the United States in recent days,” the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

The Houthis said the US strikes killed 53 people and injured 101.

“The UN calls for utmost restraint and a cessation of all military activities,” the statement added.

“Any additional escalation could exacerbate regional tensions, fuel cycles of retaliation that may further destabilise Yemen and the region and pose grave risks to the already dire humanitarian situation in the country,” it said.

Lebanon deploys more troops to Syrian border as clashes continue

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports border fighting is ongoing after Syrian shelling.

The Lebanese army announced it has undertaken “exceptional security measures and intensive communications” that led to the return of the bodies of three Syrian soldiers to Syrian authorities.

However, Lebanese border towns and villages have seen “shelling from the direction of Syrian territory”, the military said, noting army units responded with “appropriate weapons, reinforced their deployment and controlled the security situation”.

Lebanese Information Minister Paul Morcos said one child has been killed and six people wounded by Syrian shelling, adding that many civilians have fled the border area.

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The US is really in trouble if a small country with comparatively few resources can hold their own against the US empire. That shit is really falling apart.
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 No.488200

From the million-man march in Al-Sabeen Square in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today:

"We remain steadfast with Gaza and we confront American escalation with escalation."
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 No.488202

Houthi leader calls for million-strong rally as US attacks continue

A mass rally is expected in Yemen after US strikes have killed dozens of people in the country.

Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi called for large-scale rallies today, the anniversary of the Battle of Badr, an against-the-odds, seventh-century military victory by the Prophet Muhammad.

“I call on our dear people to go out tomorrow on the anniversary of the Battle of Badr in a million-strong march in Sanaa and the rest of the governorates,” he said in a televised address late on Sunday.

The response from the Houthis follows attacks on Saturday and Sunday ordered by US President Donald Trump that hammered the rebel-held capital and several other areas, killing 53 people, including children and women.

Israeli strikes kill 30 in Gaza City: report

Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent is reporting that at least 30 people have been killed and more than 50 injured as a result of a series of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, in the north of the Gaza Strip.

https://twitter.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1901798965529506010
Translation: More than 35 Israeli airstrikes have hit Gaza in the past half hour, with ambulance and civil defense crews struggling to evacuate the dead and wounded.

UN verifies two children killed in US strikes on Yemen, despite Pentagon claims

The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) has said the organisation has verified that at least two boys, aged six and eight, were killed in US strikes on Saada, Yemen on Saturday.

The post on X came shortly after US Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, the director of operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters there were “no credible indications of civilian casualties” in the ongoing attacks on Yemen, which he said have so far targeted about 30 sites.

UNICEF said a third child was wounded in the strikes in Saada and the condition of a fourth child had not yet been confirmed.

“UNICEF calls for the protection of children and civilians at all times,” it said.

https://twitter.com/UNICEF_Yemen/status/1901732566228701254

More US strikes reported in Yemen

Al Masirah TV, which is affiliated with the Houthis, has reported more US strikes.

The channel posted a video on Telegram of a fire in Al-Hazm city in the centre of the Al Jawf governorate to the northeast of Sanaa.

The target was a government complex building in Al-Hazm District, Al Masirah TV reported.

A US general said earlier today that the US had struck at least 30 sites in Yemen since Saturday.

He said the operation was ongoing.

Lebanon and Syria agree on ceasefire after deadly cross-border clashes

In a post on X, Lebanon’s Defence Ministry said that Minister Michel Menassa had spoken to his Syrian counterpart, Murhaf Abu Qasra.

The pair discussed recent clashes on the Lebanon-Syrian border, which prompted the Lebanese army to deploy to the area. Lebanon’s Health Ministry has said seven people have been killed in the clashes. Syria previously said three of its soldiers had been killed.

“A ceasefire agreement was reached between the two sides,” the statement said.

It added that there would be “continued communication between the Lebanese army intelligence directorate and Syrian intelligence to prevent the deterioration of the situation on the border between the two countries and avoid innocent civilian casualties”.

US warning to Hamas after Houthi attacks a ‘game-changer’ if real

Comments by US envoy Steve Witkoff suggesting Hamas may face attacks like the Houthis did in Yemen could have significant consequences for Israel’s war on Gaza, an ex-official says.

“This American hint that they might do in Gaza what they did in Yemen – if they really mean it and do it – it’s a game-changer,” said Alon Liel, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

“During the last 15-16 months, we did not see the United States attacking in Gaza from the air or any other way. So this president [Trump] surprises us on a daily basis. If he will attack in Gaza, it is very meaningful.”

Alon said hardline Israeli ministers who are spoiling to return to fighting in Gaza to “destroy” Hamas are not interested in “negotiating beyond the hostages”.

“Meaning you negotiate the end of the war and maybe the Arab League plan is coming into the picture, and Israel will have to speak on ‘the day after’ in Gaza. This is something Israel doesn’t want to get close to.”

Palestinian home sheltering dozens of people collapses in Gaza

Heavily damaged Palestinian homes are collapsing months after being targeted by the Israeli military.

A video documented the moment a damaged three-storey house came down in the al-Fakhoura area of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Journalist Islam Badr, who posted the video, said more than 30 people, mostly children and women, lived in the house. They were all able to evacuate and survived.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHTKxwCNszE/

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At least 80 people killed in Gaza: Report
Medical sources have told the Reuters news agency that the death toll in Gaza has now increased to 80 people.

Here are some of the attacks reported so far:

At least five people were killed and others wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Tabi’in School, sheltering displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of central Gaza City.
A number of people have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks on people sheltering in tents in the Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
We’ll bring you more soon.

https://aje.io/oc05av?update=3585950
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Quds News Network: An entire Palestinian family, including children and an infant, was wiped out by Israeli mass bombardment of Khan Yunis following Israel's decision to renew the genocide.
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 No.488205

Death toll rises past 200

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 200 people have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, including 78 in the southern parts of the Strip.

The Reuters news agency, citing medics, says that at least 200 people have been killed, including many children, in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip.

At least 232 killed in Israeli raid: Gaza Health Ministry

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has said at least 232 people were martyred in the wave of Israeli air strikes that pounded the territory.

Israeli tanks open fire in southern Gaza

Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in Gaza is reporting that Israeli tanks are shelling the eastern areas of the town of Abasan in Khan Younis, coinciding with intense gunfire.

Trump was consulted prior to latest attack on Gaza: White House

Israel consulted with President Trump before launching their latest attack on Gaza, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Israeli military official threatens ground invasion in Gaza: Report

An unnamed Israeli military official has told the Reuters news agency that Israel’s offensive will continue as long as necessary and will expand beyond air strikes, signalling a potential return of Israeli ground troops to the Gaza Strip.

Israel claims Hamas commanders, political officials targeted in wave of air strikes: Report

Israel’s broadcasting authority has said the wave of attacks targeted senior figures in the Palestinian armed movement.

Hamas calls for global protest against Israel

The Palestinian group has called on people of Arab and Islamic nations, and the “free people of the world”, to take to the streets in protest over Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza, which has killed more than 200 people.

Hamas called on people across the world to “raise their voice in rejection of the resumption of the Zionist war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/17/live-us-raids-on-yemen-kill-53-houthis-say-israeli-negotiators-in-cairo
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 No.488206

Reports of GPS jamming in Iran
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 No.488208

Gaza death toll rises above 400

At least 404 Palestinians have been killed and 562 others wounded in the latest wave of Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

The latest update said a number of victims were still under the rubble, and efforts were under way to recover them.

Houthis vow escalation after latest Gaza assault

The Yemeni group has issued a statement denouncing Israel for its “resumption of aggression against the Gaza Strip”.

“The Palestinian people will not be left alone in this battle, and Yemen will continue its support and assistance, and escalate confrontation steps,” said the group’s Supreme Political Council.

The Houthis have come under a wave of US attacks in recent days after threatening to renew attacks on Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea.

Gaza media office names four senior officials killed in Israeli attacks

In a statement, Gaza’s Government Media Office has named four high-ranking government officials killed in Israel’s overnight bombardment.

They include Issam al-Dalis, the head of government public works, Ahmed al-Hatta, undersecretary of the justice ministry, Mahmoud Abu Watfa, undersecretary of the interior ministry and Bahjat Abu Sultan, director general of the internal security service.

“May God have mercy on them, along with hundreds of martyrs from our Palestinian people as a result of the ongoing crimes since dawn today,” said the statement.

Netanyahu’s testimony in corruption trial postponed due to fighting in Gaza: Report

Israel’s Maariv newspaper is reporting that the prosecution has agreed to a request to cancel the Israeli prime minister’s testimony in a corruption trial against him, due to “security developments”.

According to Maariv, Netanyahu had asked for his testimony on Tuesday to be cancelled, hours after the Israeli prime minister oversaw renewed attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu, who is facing allegations of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, had appeared before the court on Monday in one of three long-delayed cases that he has described as a political “witch-hunt”.

Hamas says Israel’s claim of imminent threat ‘unfounded’

The Palestinian group has issued a statement saying Israeli claims that it was rearming and preparing to carry out attacks are “unfounded” and “just flimsy pretexts to justify its return to war”.

Israel “is trying to mislead public opinion and create false justifications to cover up its prior decision to resume genocide against unarmed civilians”, Hamas said, adding that Netanyahu’s government was “indifferent” to the terms of the ceasefire.

“Hamas adhered to the agreement until the last moment and was keen to continue it, but Netanyahu, looking for a way out of his internal crises, preferred to reignite the war at the expense of the blood of our people,” the group said.

Netanyahu was expected to testify in a corruption trial against him, but his appearance was postponed due to “security developments” in Gaza.

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A Hamas leader told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Israel's new bombardments on Gaza have killed an Israeli captive and injured two others, confirming that eliminating Israeli captives is the Netanyahu’s main goal.

The official also confirmed that Hamas had agreed to Boehler’s proposal, only to be surprised by Witkoff’s, which doesn't ensure an end to the war or Israeli army's full withdrawal from Gaza. Since the ceasefire agreement began, Hamas has fulfilled all its commitments, he added.
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1901909499910226288
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>>488206
>Reports of GPS jamming in Iran
When the jam get spread, that usually is a bad sign.

Is this gonna turn into a big happening ?
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>>488209
>eliminating Israeli captives is the Netanyahu’s main goal

What's the point of that? They can keep using the hostages as an excuse if they're alive.
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>>488215
That's probably it, at least most of it. The hostages represent leverage, if the hostages are dead, no more leverage.

Although, i do get the impression Zionists have a disdain for diplomacy and negotiations in general. They keep killing Palestinian political leadership that tries to engage in diplomacy. So killing hostages might also serve the purpose of removing reasons for negotiations.
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>>488216
>Palestinian political leadership that tries to engage in diplomacy.
Lol
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 No.488220

>>488210
>Is this gonna turn into a big happening ?
You mean war with Iran.
Yes. Fucking obviously. Do something about it.

>>488215
>What's the point of that? They can keep using the hostages as an excuse if they're alive.
Netanyahu just wants to kill everyone in Gaza.

>>488218
Not even a year ago, Israel bombed Iran to kill Hamas's negotiator.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/31/reactions-to-the-killing-of-hamass-ismail-haniyeh
If you know nothing about this, ask questions or shut up. You only reveal your own ignorance when you mock people who have a grasp of events which you lack.
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 No.488222

Houthi media reports US strikes on Yemeni city of Saada

Media channels linked to Yemen’s Houthis have reported strikes by US forces on the city of Saada, the birthplace of their movement in the country’s north.

“A strike by the US aggression” targeted the Saada governorate, said the Houthis’ Saba news agency and Al Masira TV, while witnesses told the AFP news agency there were three attacks on the area.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Iran-backed group – who have pursued a campaign of attacks in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians – launched a missile at Israel, which the Israeli military said was intercepted.

Meanwhile, US air strikes on Yemen killed at least 53 people over the weekend.

Israeli military says missile launched from Yemen is intercepted

The Israeli military says alerts went out in the central and southern Negev after a missile was launched from Yemen but it was intercepted before reaching Israeli territory.

Houthis promise to continue attacks until Israeli bombing of Gaza stops

Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree says the group fired two hypersonic ballistic missiles at Israel’s Nevatim Airbase in response to Israeli attacks in Gaza.

Saree said the operation “successfully achieved its objective” while Israel previously stated that a projectile from Yemen was intercepted before entering Israeli territory.

“The Yemeni armed forces will expand their scope of targets in the occupied Palestine during the coming hours and days unless the aggression against Gaza stops,” Saree said.

He added that the group will “continue to confront the criminal American enemy and prevent Israeli navigation until the aggression stops, the blockade is lifted and aid is allowed into the Gaza Strip”.

Israel forces hit sites in central Syria

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Israeli jets struck a military site in central Syria, the latest such attack in recent days.

According to the UK-based war monitor, “Israeli air strikes targeted a missile battalion” near Homs city. It reported explosions in the area but no immediate word on casualties.

A Syrian security source told Al Jazeera that Israeli raids targeted Syrian army positions in Shinshar and Shamsin in the countryside near Homs.

‘One of the largest one-day child death tolls in Gaza in history’

Israeli attacks on Tuesday killed at least 174 Palestinian children in Gaza, causing “one of the largest one-day child death tolls” in the territory’s history, the civil society group Defense for Children Palestine has said.

“Israeli forces have signed a death warrant for Palestinian children in Gaza as they carry out nonstop attacks, continue to destroy civilian infrastructure, and prevent any humanitarian aid from reaching Palestinians in need,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish, the group’s accountability programme director, said in a statement.

“This is nothing short of genocide.”

Israel has plans for broader land, sea and air assault on Gaza
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan
Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because it has been banned by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did indicate that the war is going to continue and the strikes we saw last night were not an isolated incident, meaning that Israel is going to resume military operations and escalate them however they see necessary – saying the negotiations are only going to be happening “under Israeli fire”.

We’ve heard this previously from the premier. This happened back in November 2023 during the first ceasefire deal – when it expired, the Israeli prime minister said the same thing.

So the military has had these plans for some time but it’s not just the plans that were drawn up and approved at the end of last week. Those were for the specific strikes that we saw on the Gaza Strip last night.

There are broader plans for another ground invasion, for a much wider air and sea campaign as time goes on.

And while the prime minister said that the main goal is to bring back all the Israeli captives, it’s worth mentioning that Israel was the one that stalled on the negotiations for phase two of the deal, which would ultimately have seen an end to the war followed by the release of all remaining 59 captives.

Israeli police assault demonstrators protesting in Jerusalem

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reports that police have used force to disperse demonstrators in Jerusalem calling for the release of captives held by Hamas and protesting against the resumption of the war on Gaza.

Video clips showed police officers dragging protesters and beating others.

Protesters have called for further demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Israel ‘delusional’ if it thinks military operations will work, Hamas says

Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan tells Al Jazeera that Israel is “delusional” if it thinks it can change the ceasefire by escalating its military operations.

“They were surprised that we were committed to [the ceasefire] and that every step that was taken by the resistance was in line with what we agreed upon while everything that Israel did was after consultations with the Americans,” he said.

“So if they think that such operations will change the agreement, they are delusional.”

He said Netanyahu is suffering from “megalomania” and is trying to escape the corruption cases against him by resuming the fighting.

“The agreement we agreed in 2024 was violated and rejected by the Israelis, but then they had to commit to it again in 2025. Now, they are trying to reject or destroy this agreement, but it will not lead to the results the Americans and Israelis hope for,” he said.

“That’s why it’s better for the Americans to go back to their senses and understand that what is happening will only create more instability in the region.”

Israeli military confirms the killing of senior Hamas officials

The army has said that it killed four senior officials of Hamas’s political wing in its recent attacks.

A statement on Telegram said that the military killed Issam al-Dalis, the head of government public works; Ahmed al-Hatta, undersecretary of the Justice Ministry; Mahmoud Abu Watfa, undersecretary of the Interior Ministry; and Bahjat Abu Sultan, director general of the internal security service.

‘Mourn and reject’: Ireland, Spain condemn Israeli violence against Gaza people

Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has condemned Israel’s renewed strikes on the enclave, saying he “can’t find the words to describe the situation in Gaza”.

“We must mourn and reject this new wave of violence and these new bombings, which indiscriminately hit the civilian population,” he told broadcaster Onda Cero.

Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheal Martin also condemned the Israeli violence, calling “on all parties to respect the ceasefire and the agreement to release hostages and return to negotiations”.

“I will be discussing the serious situation in the Middle East with EU leaders at this week’s meeting of the European Council and will be urging that we agree a clear and united EU position aimed at stopping any further escalation,” he said.

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DropSite News:

The UN Security Council held a meeting today to discuss “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.” Here are some of important moments, starting with United States Ambassador Dorothy Shea, the acting representative to the UN. After Israel unilaterally reneged on the mutually agreed ceasefire deal and launched scores of air strikes across Gaza killing more than 400 Palestinians overnight, Shea said, “the blame for resumption of hostilities lies solely with Hamas.”

Amidst reports that President Trump green-lit the Israeli massacres that killed 174 children and 89 women in just a matter of hours, Ambassador Shea said, “we must recognize Hamas’ savagery for what it is.”

The meeting began with a briefing from UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher who delivered a stark warning on the humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Fletcher expressed deep concern over the resumption of Israeli airstrikes and of Israel unilaterally ending the ceasefire, describing the situation as “our worst fears materialized overnight.”

He also addressed Israel’s complete blockade of essential life-saving supplies since March 2, which has left Gaza’s 2.1 million residents without food, medical supplies, fuel, and cooking gas. “This complete blockade of essential aid, basic necessities, and commercial items will have catastrophic consequences for the people of Gaza, who rely on a consistent flow of support into the region,” he said. Fletcher noted that U.N. requests to access aid stockpiled at the Kerem Shalom crossing had repeatedly been denied.

Fletcher addressed how UN was able to scale up relief operations during the ceasefire, sharing key metrics. He noted that Israel had imposed stifling new regulations that severely restricted entry of aid workers and NGOs, not just UNRWA.

“We cannot and must not revert to conditions that existed before the ceasefire or allow a total denial of humanitarian assistance. It is imperative to protect civilians and address their fundamental needs. International law must be upheld.”

Fletcher reported on Israeli violence in the West Bank where at least 95 Palestinians, including 17 children, have been killed since the start of 2025. He described widespread destruction and forced displacement caused by Israeli military operations and settler violence.

“Hundreds of Israeli settlers have launched large scale attacks on Palestinian villages… madam President, colleagues, members of the Security Council—will we be able to say we did what we could?”

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the UN raised concerns about Israel’s systematic use of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian women and girls.

This follows a report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry that found Israel employed such violence as part of a broader strategy of oppression and genocide against Palestinians since the escalation of conflict in October 2023.

The report highlights various forms of abuse, including forced public nudity, sexual harassment, rape, and assaults on reproductive healthcare facilities. It finds that these acts are part of Israeli security forces’ procedures to instill fear and undermine Palestinian self-determination. The destruction of maternity wards and restrictions on medical supplies are cited as genocidal actions aimed at limiting Palestinian births.



UK Ambassador James Kariuki condemned Israel’s ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza, describing it as “horrifying and unacceptable” and urging Israel to fulfill its international obligations for unimpeded humanitarian access.

This follows Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s statement yesterday in the House of Commons, where he called the blockade a clear breach of international law, signaling a significant shift in the UK’s stance. However, Downing Street later moderated this position, stating that Israel’s actions pose a “clear risk” of breaching international law but leaving judgments to global courts.

Russian Ambassador: “The humanitarian crisis in the Strip has become truly biblical in nature… Israel has thrown us back into uncertainty, and this is covering not only the Palestinians, but also those who are waiting for hostages to come back to Israel. The Association of hostages’ families stated today that the Israeli government had decided to sacrifice them and undermine the very process that should have resulted in the return.

Instead of that, what we’re seeing is the logic of edging the Gaza people out of their land has prevailed, and this is at the time when all of the suffering which is beyond human comprehension. The people in Gaza, as we know from many sources, do not want to leave, and they only see their future as a future on their homeland. This is the right that they’ve suffered for, and the duty of the international community is to make sure that everything is done, that this right is implemented. They have to get a chance for a safe and dignified future in this strip and the Palestinian people as a whole, a chance for creating their state.”

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1902079731257729224
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https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1902166857035272264
TODAY: Pro-Palestine protesters rallied outside the White House in D.C., calling for an end to U.S. funding for Israel’s war in Gaza.
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 No.488245

US continues attacks on Yemen for fourth night

The US military’s Central Command has confirmed that its attacks on Yemen are ongoing, with a post on X saying it is carrying out “continuous operations against Iran-back Houthi terrorists”.

The Houthis’ Masirah news has reported that US strikes hit several areas in recent hours, including Saada and the port city of Hodeidah.

Houthis report fourth attack against US warships in 72 hours

Houthi fighters said they launched another attack against US warships in the Red Sea, their fourth time firing on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier and other vessels in the past 72 hours.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the operation involved “a number of cruise missiles and drones” targeting the US carrier group, which thwarted a planned US attack on Yemen.

“This operation has successfully achieved its objectives,” Saree said in a statement shared on social media.

Israeli attacks overnight on Gaza described as nonstop

We reported earlier that Israeli raids on southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Rafah cities killed at least 14 people.

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues and local Palestinian media also report the following in a night of attacks on Gaza that “did not stop”:

Three people were reported killed in an Israeli attack on a family home in the Sabra area of Gaza City.
Israeli helicopter gunships and quadcopters, together with artillery, were reported east of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City.
A residential home was attacked in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, and a helicopter fired near Netzarim and north of central Gaza.
Israeli helicopter fire and artillery shelling were reported east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
Shooting by Israeli ground forces was reported northwest of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.''
Israeli warplanes raided the al-Mawasi area to the west of Khan Younis and bombed a home in Deir el-Balah.

Death toll in Israel’s latest strikes on Gaza rises

At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight and this morning, according to Al Jazeera’s team on the ground.

At least 1 foreign UN staff killed, 5 injured in Deir el-Balah attack: Ministry

At least one foreign staff member of the UN has been killed and five others seriously injured in an Israeli attack on the UN headquarters in central Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The statement published on Telegram said the casualties arrived at Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where one of the victims succumbed to their injuries.

Israel attacks UN guesthouse in Deir el-Balah, injures aid workers
Hind Khoudary
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

The Israeli attacks are continuing. Just right now here in Deir el-Balah, Israeli forces targeted one of the UN guesthouses where international humanitarian workers reside.

Four of the injured workers were brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital in an ambulance. Another was brought in an armoured UN vehicle. We still do not have details on what happened or how, but we saw these international workers covered with blood.

Doctors at Al-Aqsa Hospital took them into the emergency department and tried to give them medication. But we know that hospitals across the Gaza Strip are running short on supplies.

This is not the only attack that took place in the past hour. Israeli forces also targeted a house in Nuseirat. The situation is escalating. We hear continuous explosions and ambulance sirens.

Footage shows arrival of injured UN aid workers at hospital in Deir el-Balah

A video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking news agency shows the arrival of an injured UN aid worker at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHYG8SONqaS/

Hamas says Israel killed its ‘hero’ near West Bank’s Nablus ‘in cold blood’

Earlier, we brought you a report on the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli special forces in al-Ein camp, near Nablus.

Hamas has now issued a statement on the death of the young man, Uday Adel al-Qatouni, referring to him as “our hero” and saying Israel “assassinated” him “in cold blood”.

In response to Israeli forces’ continuing violence in the occupied West Bank, Hamas urged youth to “continue their resistance”.

“Our people will not kneel before the crimes of the occupation,” the group said.

Houthi attack tests Trump’s threat to Iran
Ali Harb

The US president has previously threatened Iran with “dire” consequences if Tehran does not reign in the Houthis to stop their attacks.

Now the Yemeni group appears to have ignored those threats with its latest missile attack on Israel.

While the Houthis are allied with Iran, it is not clear how much they rely on Iranian support or whether Tehran can order them to stop their attacks.

But Trump has portrayed the Houthis as an arm of the Iranian government.

“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire,” Trump wrote on social media on Saturday.

Now that threat is being put to the test as the Houthis resume their military operations against Israel, which has shattered the ceasefire in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians overnight.

Israeli anti-government activist detained ahead of demonstrations

Israeli police have detained retired Israeli Air Force Brigadier General Amir Haskel, a prominent anti-government activist, as he was staging a protest at Netanyahu’s private residence in Jerusalem, according to local media.

Haskel was using a megaphone to accuse the prime minister of “murdering the ceasefire and chance to save the hostages” when he was arrested and taken to the Moriah police station, ahead of demonstrations this afternoon.

Israel taking aim at Gaza’s civil services
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because it has been banned by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank.

As far as the Israeli government is concerned, what comes next is more war.

The messages and statements [from the government] we’ve been monitoring speak about an escalatory approach. They say this is just the beginning.

They concentrate on the fact that [Israeli forces] are not just targeting Hamas military personnel but Gaza’s civilian infrastructure as well.

That includes anything that facilitates the lives of Palestinians in Gaza, that allows them to have some semblance of order or services, such as courts issuing death and birth certificates.

This is what’s being targeted at the moment, according to Israeli statements, as well as the people at the helm of those institutions.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/19/live-outrage-as-israeli-attacks-break-gaza-ceasefire-killing-hundreds
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 No.488247

Kyle Kucklinski on the imminent war with Iran.
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>>488247
People still listen to this cuck?
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"This is the text of leaflets the Israeli occupation forces dropped on civilians in Gaza.

“We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, and decrease of goods, life and fruits. Give glad tidings to the patient. who, in adversity say: 'We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. On those will be prayers and mercy from their Lord, those are guided.“ ( Text from Al-Quran, the holy book of Islam)

To the honorable people of Gaza,

After the events that have taken place, the temporary ceasefire, and before the implementation of Trump’s forced plan which will impose your forced displacement whether you like it or not, we have decided to make a final appeal to those who wish to receive aid in exchange for cooperating with us. We will not hesitate for a moment to help.

Reconsider your choices, for the world map will not change if all the people of Gaza vanish. No one will feel for you, and no one will ask about you. You are left alone to face your inevitable fate. Even Iran cannot protect itself, wovhow it can protect you. you have seen with your own eyes what happened. Neither US nor Europe cares about Gaza. Not even your Arab countries, which are now our allies, supplying us with money, oil, and weapons, while sending you only coffins.

The game is almost over, and only a little remains.

Whoever wants to save themselves before it’s too late, we are here to stay until Judgment Day."

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1902535433801658549
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>>488248
I mean, it's a fine analysis. There's only one thing in there which I disagree with, see if you can catch it.
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 No.488253

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1902290902913081584
Parliamentary inquiry launched in New South Wales, Australia after new criminal "hate speech" laws were rushed through after the discovery of an alleged truck bomb targeting Jews.
However the bomb was a fake and was not motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment. The government concealed this knowledge until after the laws had passed.
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 No.488257

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1902554408858075297
This is some really undisciplined running away.
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 No.488258

>>488253
As egregious as this shit is, one has to ask, isn't there a way to design legislative and legal systems where it just isn't possible to pull this crap.
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 No.488261

US military carries out fresh strikes on Yemen: Report

Houthi-run news channel Al Masirah TV reports that the US military has carried out five raids in the province of Hodeidah, striking a cotton processing plant in Zabid.

It’s the fifth night in a row the US military has carried out strikes on Yemen, after resuming its attacks against the Houthis at the weekend in response to the Iran-backed group’s operations targeting Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The US strikes have killed dozens of people so far, as fears grow of a new cycle of violence in the conflict-torn country.

The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday it was continuing “24/7 operations” against the Houthis in a post on X, but did not confirm its latest attacks.

Houthis say they carried out missile attack targeting Ben Gurion airport

Earlier, we reported that Israel’s air force destroyed a missile launched from Yemen before it entered the country’s territorial space.

Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree has now confirmed that attack, saying, “The Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.”

Saree said the operation “successfully achieved its objective”, without elaborating.

No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://twitter.com/qudspressagency/status/1902568926732570958
Translation: The moment settlers fled to shelters after the Yemeni armed forces bombed Ben Gurion airport with a “Palestine-2” missile. The occupation ambulance admitted that 13 settlers were injured as a result of the stampede while escaping.

Palestine urges Security Council to ‘stop Israeli war machine’

Palestine’s Mission to the United Nations called on the “international community to act with urgency” to put an end to Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza, which has killed at least 436 Palestinians since Tuesday, including 183 children.

“This ruthless, unlawful use of force against a defenceless civilian population must be halted immediately,” it said in a statement.

It added that “failure to act” against Israel’s “blatant war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide will further undermine any shred of credibility the Security Council might still have”.

At least 71 people killed by Israeli attacks in north, south Gaza: Report

We have been reporting on the Israeli military’s deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight and into this morning.

Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent on the ground now reports that at least 71 people have been killed across the Palestinian enclave over recent hours, while dozens more have been injured.

We are yet to receive a full breakdown of the casualties, but we previously reported that Israeli shelling in Khan Younis killed at least 10 people and a strike on a home in Beit Lahiya killed at least seven.

Five UNRWA staff killed in Gaza in past few days: Lazzarini

Five staff members of the UN Palestinian relief agency have been killed in the past few days, according to the agency chief, Philippe Lazzarini.

“In the past few days another five UNRWA staff have been confirmed killed, bringing the death toll to 284. They were teachers, doctors and nurses: serving the most vulnerable,” he said in a statement on X.

“Israeli Forces bombardment continues from air and sea for the third day. We are fearing that the worst is yet to come given the ongoing ground invasion separating the north from the south,” he added.

Israeli forces strike villages in southern, eastern Lebanon

Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, targeting a string of villages, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reports.

NNA said Israeli warplanes fired four rockets targeting an area between the towns of Jbaa, Zhalta, and Snaya near the Jezzine area in southern Lebanon.

In the Bekaa Valley’s Baalbek district in eastern Lebanon, NNA reported that Israeli warplanes targeted an area in the village of Janta.

Hamas says talks with mediators under way to stop Israeli attacks

In a statement cited by the Palestinian Information Center, Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou said the group remains committed to the original ceasefire framework signed in January and is engaging with mediators to “compel” Israel to adhere to it and halt its renewed assaults.

“We are working with mediators to spare our people from war permanently” and ensure that Israel withdraws from Gaza, al-Qanou said.

He also called for the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to take “urgent action” on behalf of Palestinians to “prevent starvation and lift the siege”.

Reuters reported, quoting an unnamed Hamas official, that “no breakthrough has yet been made”.

Asked why the group had not yet responded to the Israeli escalation, the Hamas official said it was “giving a chance for things to be contained”, the agency reported.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/20/live-israel-kills-70-in-gaza-netanyahu-warns-of-fierce-war-expanding

‘Possibility of a more powerful front’ in West Bank: Netanyahu

The Israeli PM has stated the possibility of more intense military operations erupting in the occupied West Bank even as Israel resumes its war in Gaza.

“While we are waging a fierce war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, we are aware of the possibility of a larger and stronger front emerging here in [the occupied West Bank],” Netanyahu said while touring the Israeli border police’s undercover unit in the occupied territory.



The army also announced its decision to demolish a number of homes in Jenin camp, claiming they were for “military purposes”, as its operation there continues.

This is the largest demolition order since the current assault began, local sources stated.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/19/live-outrage-as-israeli-attacks-break-gaza-ceasefire-killing-hundreds

Israel’s military says Houthi missile intercepted

The missile launched from Yemen was destroyed by the Israeli air force before entering the country’s territorial space, the military said in a post on social media.

Air attack alerts sounded in several parts of the country as the missile approached Israel’s borders, the military said, adding that the attempted strike is “being examined”.

The Associated Press news agency reports that explosions were heard during the operation to intercept the missile.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1902546279533596811
Translation: Sirens sound in Tel Aviv after a rocket was fired from Yemen.

Israel to conduct military drills in occupied Golan Heights

The Israeli military announced it would mobilise more forces and vehicles to the occupied area for military exercises.

Israel killed 710 Palestinians in Gaza since Tuesday: Ministry spokesperson

Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, has been quoted by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic as saying that 900 Palestinians have also been injured since Tuesday.

Many of those wounded in the Israeli massacre died due to the impossibility of providing urgent medical care due to the shortage of basic equipment and medicines, he added.

About 70 percent of those injured are children and women, and most of their injuries are serious, Al-Daqran said.

Ben & Jerry’s says Unilever ousting CEO, as clash over Palestine activism continues

We have previously reported on growing tensions between US ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s and parent company Unilever, which has been accused of attempting to silence the brand’s social activism, including support for the Palestinian cause.

In a Tuesday night filing at Manhattan federal court, Ben & Jerry’s has now accused Unilever of ousting the ice cream maker’s chief executive Dave Stever without due process because he let the brand speak out on social issues.

Unilever reportedly told Ben & Jerry’s leadership on March 3 it was “removing and replacing” Stever without the required approval from its board, violating an agreement the companies signed in 2000 when it bought the ice cream brand.

Friction between Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever began in 2021 when the brand announced it would stop selling its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territory as it was “inconsistent” with its values. The schism has only grown amid Ben & Jerry’s outspoken stance on Israel’s war on Gaza.

Ben & Jerry’s sued Unilever in November, alleging its parent company was attempting to dismantle its board and end its progressive social activism.

Thousands participate in rally near Israeli government building

Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency shows crowds of Israelis protesting under the rain outside the government building in West Jerusalem.

Protesters gathered in front of the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where the government is expected to meet to approve the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the director of the Shin Bet domestic security service.

https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1902789216028725709

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/20/live-israel-kills-70-in-gaza-netanyahu-warns-of-fierce-war-expanding
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Houthi media says new US attacks on Yemen

Al Masirah TV TV, closely associated with the Yemeni rebel group, says four US air raids hit the al-Kathib area of the port city of Hodeidah, in the western part of the country.

The US resumed heavy attacks on Yemen this week in response to the Houthis’ resumption of attacks on maritime targets in the Red Sea, in what the group says is sympathy with Palestinians in Gaza.

Houthis claim responsibility for attack on Israel

The military spokesman for the Yemeni group, Yahya Saree, says that the Houthis carried out a “qualitative operation” against Israel.

As we reported earlier, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen in midair.

Saree said that the group used a “Palestine-2 ballistic missile” and targeted an Israeli military position south of the Israeli town of Jaffa.

Death toll rises to 591 in renewed Israeli attacks across Gaza

Gaza’s media office says at least 591 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past 72 hours.

At least 1,042 have been wounded, it added. Many others – an “unknown number” of people – remain stuck under the rubble.

The office said more than 70 percent of those killed in the past days were women and children.

Israeli military says it begins ground operation in Rafah

The Israeli military said it had begun a ground operation in Shaboura, Rafah, in southern Gaza, over the past few hours.



The army added that it had also expanded operations in southern Gaza and continued its activity in northern and central Gaza – where bombardment has so far killed hundreds of people, including at least 200 children in the last several days.

US, Israel to hold talks on Iran next week: Report

US and Israeli officials will hold talks on Iran’s nuclear programme at the White House next week, the news site Axios reports.

Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi will be part of Israel’s delegation, which will include senior members of Israel’s National Security Council, the military, the Mossad (intelligence agency), the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission.

The US team will be led by Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and representatives from the State Department, Pentagon and the US intelligence community.

The meeting will be the first, since Trump took office, for the US-Israel Strategic Consultative Group, the most senior forum for US-Israeli discussion on Iran’s nuclear programme.

Flights at Ben Gurion airport halted twice today because of rocket launches
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan
Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli military is confirming that one ballistic missile was launched from Yemen towards Israeli territory but was intercepted outside Israeli airspace.

It’s worth mentioning this is the second incident of its kind this week and also today is the second time that flights at Ben Gurion airport were halted because of rocket launches. Previously, they were launched from the Gaza Strip, now from Yemen.

These sirens were pretty vast across the country, even reaching parts of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, West Jerusalem, and different southern parts of Israel.

It’s also important to mention that right now, local media in Yemen is reporting US air raids on several areas of Yemeni territory. Also, in the last week we have seen US attacks on different places within Yemen, and there have been reports within Israeli media, quoting top security officials, that the Americans relayed a message to the Israelis that they are going to deal with the rocket launches by Yemen and will conduct their own attacks, telling Israel not to conduct attacks on Yemen.

Cases of torture reported in Israel’s Ganot Prison: Monitor

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has received reports of torture in southern Israel’s Ganot Prison (formerly known as Nafha and Rimon prisons), which it said were part of a broader policy of abuse within Israeli jails.

The group said Israeli officers handcuffed detainees tightly, blocking the flow of blood to the hands as a mean of torture, and also fired sound bombs within the compound.

It added that “crackdowns in various prisons are being carried out at an increasing pace to tighten control over prisoners and torture them”.

‘Projectiles’ fired from southern Gaza: Israeli army

The Israeli military has said air raid sirens sounded in central Israel after “projectiles were launched from the Gaza Strip”.

In a statement, they added: “Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in the areas of Gush Dan and HaShfela, three projectiles were identified crossing from southern Gaza into Israeli territory.”

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a statement they “bombarded Tel Aviv with a barrage of rockets in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians”.

Israel said it intercepted one projectile and two additional projectiles fell in an open area.

Pro-Palestine protesters have filed lawsuit against UCLA over encampment attack

Pro-Palestine protesters from the University of California, Los Angeles, are suing the university, accusing it of allowing pro-Israel rallies to frighten and assault people at an encampment that was on campus for months, The New York Times reports.

The encampment was set up as part of nationwide campus protests that called for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The Times said the demonstrators accused the university, as well as police forces, of failing to protect them and shutting down the camp without legal justification, after it was attacked by pro-Israel protesters in April last year.

The new complaint was filed on behalf of 35 pro-Palestinian activists, including “students, faculty members, legal observers, journalists and sympathisers”, the Times said.

It comes as the administration of US President Donald Trump pledged to expel and deport students who joined protests across university campuses last year.

‘Gaza is not alone’: Hamas welcomes strike on Israel by Yemen’s Houthis

Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, has hailed Yemen’s Houthi rebels for their “honourable stance and direct support” for the people of Gaza.

His statement came after the Houthis fired a missile at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport earlier today, which the Israeli army said it intercepted.

“Today, Yemeni missiles intersected with Gaza missiles in the skies over Tel Aviv, confirming that Gaza is not alone,” Abu Obeida said, referring to rockets fired from Gaza.

He called on people around the world to “engage in the battle” and to continue supporting Gaza in an effort to force Israel to stop its genocide.

The Houthis resumed their attacks on maritime targets in the Red Sea and on Israel, which they had been keeping up for most of Israel’s war on Gaza, late last week. The US has responded with multiple rounds of attacks on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, killing mostly civilians.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/20/live-israel-kills-70-in-gaza-netanyahu-warns-of-fierce-war-expanding
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>>488258
Sure, just make your legislature democratic. The people would never accept this kind of bullshit and would repeal it immediately.
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 No.488272

Israeli fighter jets bomb targets near Damascus: Reports

Israeli war planes have bombed military targets west of the capital Damascus, according to the TV Manar news outlet.

There have been no reports of casualties so far.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Israel strikes two bases in Syria: Military

The Israeli army has struck two bases in Syria, the military has said.

It said the bases hosted “military strategic capabilities”, identifying the bases as Tadmur and T4 in a statement.

US military carries out more strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

US fighter jets have carried out six air raids in the at-Tuhayta district in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate, according to the al-Manar news outlet.

No casualties have been reported so far.

The US resumed strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen this week after the Iran-backed group resumed its attacks on maritime targets in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Missile launched from Yemen intercepted: Israeli military

A missile launched from Yemen has been intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory, the Israeli military says.

Sirens sounded across Israel in response to the launch.

Qassam Brigades confirms attack on Ashkelon

The armed wing of Hamas says it has fired a barrage of rockets on the southern Israeli city.

The attack at 4:30pm (14:30 GMT) was in response to Israel’s “massacres against civilians” in Gaza, according to a statement on Telegram.

Israel’s military said earlier that it intercepted two projectiles fired from northern Gaza after air raid sirens sounded in Ashkelon.

MSF says 10th staff member killed in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has issued a statement saying it’s mourning its 10th staff member killed since Israel’s war started in Gaza.

Netanyahu cabinet votes in favour of firing Shin Bet security chief

As we previously reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a cabinet meeting on Thursday night in order to vote on the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the chief of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency.

Israel’s prime minister’s office has now confirmed that his cabinet has approved Bar’s sacking, with his final day slated for April 10. At the meeting, Netanyahu said he had “lost faith” in Bar since the Shin Bet had failed to prevent the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and accused Bar of being “soft” on captive negotiations, according to his office.

The vote represents the first time in Israel’s history that a government has fired Shin Bet’s chief.

Bar alleges the move stems from his refusal to meet Netanyahu’s demands for “personal loyalty”.

Shin Bet chief levels ‘explosive’ accusation against PM Netanyahu
Nour Odeh
Reporting from Amman, Jordan
Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accused by the opposition of dismantling government institutions and of going after any senior official who challenges him. Netanyahu has systematically either fired or pushed to resign those in positions of power on October 7, 2023.

Netanyahu has so far refused to allow an independent commission of inquiry to investigate what happened on October 7 and all the failures since then.

Additionally, the fired chief of internal security – who will step down on April 10 – sent a letter saying Netanyahu, even during the war, was undermining police and the intelligence community.

Ronen Bar said not allowing him to attend the negotiations for a ceasefire was essentially motivated by Netanyahu wanting to negotiate but not reach a deal, which is an explosive accusation that is sure to inflame emotions even further in Israel.

US will get a ‘hard slap’ if it attacks Iran: Supreme leader

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says US threats “will get them nowhere when confronting Iran” after President Trump warned of possible military action against the country.

“They [the US] and others should know if they do anything malign to the Iranian nation, they will get a hard slap,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a live televised speech.

The US president’s threat that “every shot” fired by the Houthis in Yemen will be viewed as an attack from Iran has escalated tensions.

Hamas condemns Israel’s bombing of cancer hospital as ‘sadistic act’

A statement on Telegram says the army’s complete destruction of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the central Gaza Strip “reflects the barbarity of the occupier, which persists in its genocidal campaign against our Palestinian people”.

The statement added: “The destruction of the hospital, the only one in Gaza treating cancer patients, comes after the US administration gave the criminal occupation a green light to continue its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, with complete disregard for international law.”

Hamas demanded that the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other courts take legal action against Israel and “its criminal leaders for this barbaric and shameful act”.

Israel’s Supreme Court freezes decision to sack intelligence chief

Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended the move by Netanyahu’s government to fire the domestic intelligence agency chief while the court reviews appeals filed against the dismissal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/21/live-israeli-attacks-kill-almost-600-as-troops-invade-south-north-gaza
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 No.488278

Eyewitnesses Say Israel Appears to Be Dropping New Types of Munitions on Gaza

Based on testimonies from several emergency workers and civilians in Gaza, a spokesman for a Palestinian relief organization for displaced people in central Gaza says that the bombs being dropped since the ceasefire ended appear to be different from those used earlier in the war.

He described the explosions as massive, with a “powerful shock wave” and tremors “resembling an earthquake.” The blast radius reportedly creates “enormous horizontal craters,” and shrapnel has been found on rooftops more than 500 meters away. Witnesses say these explosions occur directly on the surface with extreme intensity and that Israel is using these munitions in large residential areas, causing significant casualties.

Eyewitnesses believe these bombs are new, as the scale of destruction and the number of casualties suggest an unusually high level of destructive power.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1903211827976085848
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 No.488279

Israeli military intercepts three rockets fired from Lebanon

The Israeli military claims to have intercepted three rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.

Sirens sounded in the northern Israeli town of Metula following a suspected rock attack.

Footage uploaded to social media recorded what sounded like a large detonation near the town along the Lebanese border.

Houthis claim third missile attack on Israel in 48 hours

As we previously reported, the Israeli army said late on Friday it had shot down a missile fired from Yemen before it crossed into Israeli territory.

The Houthis have now claimed responsibility for that attack, with spokesman Yahya Saree saying in a televised address in the early hours of Saturday morning that the Iran-backed group fired a ballistic missile towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv.

Saree said it was the group’s third attack on Israel in 48 hours.

Saree added that the Houthis had also launched more than one attack against the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman in the Red Sea.

The US military is yet to confirm that incident. The alleged attack comes despite threats from President Donald Trump that the group will be “completely annihilated” amid the US military’s renewed bombing campaign on Yemen.

More rocket attacks, shelling on Lebanon-Israel border

Earlier, we reported the Israeli military said it had intercepted three rockets fired across the border from Lebanon into northern Israel.

Israel’s Army Radio now reports that at least five rockets fired from Lebanon have been detected. Three of those rockets were intercepted, while two fell inside Lebanese territory, it said.

Al Jazeera Arabic also reports that the Israeli military is shelling the outskirts of the town of Yahmor in southern Lebanon.

No casualties have been reported in these incidents so far. Lebanese armed group Hezbollah is yet to comment on the attacks.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

Palestinian fighters detonate explosive device in Jenin, Israeli military arrest 3

Al-Quds Brigades – Jenin Battalion, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has said its fighters detonated an explosive device at the Salem Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank town of Silat al-Harithiya near Jenin.

In Yabad, southwest of Jenin, Israeli forces have arrested three Palestinian men during a raid on the town, according to the Quds News Network.

Netanyahu told military to bomb ‘everything’ in Gaza after October 7: Report

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu thumped the table and instructed the Israeli military to bomb Gaza “with everything you have”, following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Israeli newspaper Ynet, citing Israeli Knesset member Gadi Eisenkot and other military sources, said that Netanyahu had the outburst during a meeting with military officers who presented him with a list of 1,500 targets the Israeli military had struck across Gaza in the days after October 7.

According to the report, Netanyahu demanded to know why the military did not have 5,000 targets on the list for attack, to which he was told: “We don’t have 5,000 approved targets.”

“I’m not interested in targets,” Netanyahu said.

“Take down houses, bomb with everything you have,” he said, according to the report.

Amid rocket attacks, Israel’s Lieberman calls Netanyahu a national security liability

Former Israeli Defence Minister has highlighted the surge in rocket attacks on Israel, accusing PM Netanyahu of failing to restore security.

“Rockets from Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon in a single day,” wrote Lieberman, who heads Israel’s conservative Yisrael Beiteinu party, in a post on X. “The prime minister of October 7 is a danger to Israel’s security.”

Lebanon’s PM Salam warns of renewed war with Israel

We’ve been reporting on the Israeli military saying it intercepted rockets fired across the border from Lebanon into northern Israel.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam released a statement warning of the potential for renewed fighting after a three-month ceasefire.

“All security and military measures must be taken to show that Lebanon decides on matters of war and peace,” Salam said.

Attacks risk “dragging the country into a new war, which will bring woes to Lebanon and the Lebanese people”, he said.

This latest incident threatens an already fragile truce that ended year-long fighting between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/22/live-israel-destroys-gazas-specialised-cancer-hospital-attacks-continue
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>>488279
I can't believe Saudi Arabia is tolerating missiles flying over their territory from Yemen.
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 No.488281

>>488279
>rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.
I guess Hezbollah has restored its weapons supply-lines and or production.

>The Israeli military claims to have intercepted three rockets

>Footage … what sounded like a large detonation
<He didn't punch me, i intercepted his fist with my face.
I wouldn't necessarily count intercepted missiles as a win, because the intention might be to drain the stock of interceptors.

Anyway if the multi-front war is back and the rumors of the US gearing up for an Iran war are true, I guess that's a wrap for "project Israel". At least i can't imagine the survival rate for Israel being particularly good in a high intensity conflict.

>>488280
>I can't believe Saudi Arabia is tolerating missiles flying over their territory from Yemen.
The missiles from Yemen used to impact on Saudi Oil refineries, the present "fly-over missiles", are much more tolerable to them.
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 No.488285

Israeli military attacks target southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) says Israeli warplanes flew over eastern areas of southern Lebanon after rockets were launched towards northern Israel.

Israeli ground troops were strafing the el-Hamames hills with automatic weapon fire, NNA reported. Israeli artillery fire targeted the Nabatieh district in the south and the town of Khiam, which was hit by “three shells [fired by] Merkava tanks”.

The military also fired automatic weapons at the border villages of Hula, Markaba and Kfar Kila, it said.

Israel launches dozens of air strikes on southern Lebanon

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has ordered air strikes against dozens of “terrorist” targets in Lebanon in response to rocket fire.

The army “is currently attacking Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon. To be continued”, said military spokesman Avichay Adraee.

No group has claimed responsibility for five rockets launched towards northern Israel. No damage or casualties have been reported.

Israel’s military vowed a “severe response” to the attack.

Lebanon’s army ‘dismantles’ rocket launch site

The Lebanese military says it dismantled three makeshift rocket batteries in the south of the country after projectiles were launched towards Israel.

“The army … discovered three homemade rocket launch pads in the region north of the Litani River” and “proceeded with their dismantling”, the military said in a statement.

One killed, three injured by air raid in southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli air strikes have struck a multitude of villages across southern Lebanon, reports Lebanon’s National News Agency.

An attack in the southern village of Touline killed one person and injured three others, the agency reports.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/22/live-israel-destroys-gazas-specialised-cancer-hospital-attacks-continue

Top Hamas official killed in Israeli attack: Report

More on Israel’s continued raids on Gaza.

The Quds News Network is reporting that Hamas Political Bureau member, Salah al-Bardawil, was killed along with his wife in an Israeli attack on his tent in Khan Younis.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli raids on a house in Khan Younis killed four people.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/23/live-israel-bombs-lebanon-and-syria-kills-at-least-32-in-gaza
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 No.488287

Anti-Empire Project - SIT REP 03/22/2025: Yemen declares aerial blockade
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 No.488297

Goes over Sheldon Adelson's widow (and Israeli-born operative) Miriam Adelson's founding of the Maccabee Task Force, which has launched an online astroturfing/propaganda campaign to defame Mahmoud Khalil and anti-genocide protesters.
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 No.488298

>>488297
Israelis really are determined to bring anti-Jew hatred back to the world.
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 No.488299

Houthis claim more attacks on Ben Gurion Airport, USS Harry Truman

Yemen’s Houthi group says it again fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s main airport and also attacked a US aircraft carrier.

The armed group said it targeted the Ben Gurion Airport with “a Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile”.

“The operation successfully achieved its goal,” said military spokesman Yahya Saree.

The Israeli military, however, said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen before it crossed into Israeli territory.

The Houthis also said they fired “several missiles and drones” at the USS Harry Truman carrier and a number of US warships. No damage was reported by the US.

US bombs Yemen’s as-Salif port

We’ve been covering the US’s renewed attacks on Yemen.

Earlier, the Saba news agency reported three US raids on the airport of Hodeidah. It now says there’s been an attack on the port of as-Salif, which is also located in the Hodeidah governorate.

US military continues attacks on Yemen

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has posted two videos of fighter jets taking off from an aircraft carrier during the day and at night.

The post, which simply said “24/7” and “#HouthisAreTerrorists”, comes as Yemeni media reported renewed attacks on the Red Sea port of Hodeidah.

The US has killed at least 32 people in Yemen since it launched attacks on Yemen a week ago. The campaign comes after Houthis threatened to resume attacks on Israeli- and US-linked ships over Israel’s total blockade of the Gaza Strip, which began on March 2.

Expelled South African ambassador to the US says ‘cannot sacrifice the Palestinians’

Ebrahim Rasool, the South African ambassador to the US who was declared persona non grata by the Trump administration, has been greeted by crowds at the airport welcoming him home, with some admirers waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Free Palestine”.

“As we stand here, the bombing [in Gaza] has continued and the shooting has continued, and if South Africa was not in the [ICJ]), Israel would not be exposed, and the Palestinians would have no hope,” Rasool said after arriving in Cape Town.

“We cannot sacrifice the Palestinians … but we will also not give up with our relationship with the United States. We must fight for it, but we must keep our dignity.”

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month cutting all funding to South Africa, which has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.

US says ‘key’ Houthi leaders killed in Yemen strikes, without providing specifics

A spate of US strikes in Yemen launched just over a week ago has so far taken out key Houthi leadership, including the group’s top missile specialist, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has claimed in an interview with CBS News.

Waltz did not identify the slain missile specialist and gave no details on the other leaders who have been killed.

The strikes have so far killed at least 53 people in some of the areas hardest hit by Yemen’s civil war.

“We’ve hit their headquarters, we’ve hit communications nodes, weapons factories, and even some of their over-the-water drone production facilities,” Waltz told CBS.

Red Crescent says ambulances trapped by Israeli forces in southern Gaza

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has lost contact with its paramedics after Israeli forces surrounded its ambulances in Rafah.

“A number of the association’s paramedics were injured, and contact with the crew was lost. They have been trapped for several hours,” the PRCS said in a post on X.

Israeli cabinet votes to remove attorney general: Report

A no-confidence vote against Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has passed in Israel’s cabinet, according to The Times of Israel.

The motion, which was voted through unanimously, comes two days after Israel’s cabinet also voted to remove the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency.

The attempted removal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar has been temporarily blocked by Israel’s high court, and the attempt to dismiss the attorney general is also likely to face serious administrative hurdles.

Writing to Israel’s cabinet before the vote, which she did not attend, Baharav-Miara argued it had no legal basis and was an attempt to silence her.

Israel set for talks with US to rule Gaza militarily: Report

The Times of Israel reports Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer will discuss a plan for Israel’s army to control Gaza with senior US officials this week, including National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.

Quoting an unnamed Israeli official, The Times said Dermer is leaving for Washington, DC today.

The news report noted Israel’s government has so far “avoided pushing for military rule of the Gaza Strip”, but with President Trump in the White House “Israel’s thinking appears to have changed.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/23/live-israel-bombs-lebanon-and-syria-kills-at-least-32-in-gaza
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>>488299
Well someone's definitely lying here. Either Yemen didn't launch a hypersonic missile, or Israel didn't intercept it.
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 No.488301

>>488285
>The Lebanese military says it dismantled three makeshift rocket batteries in the south of the country after projectiles were launched towards Israel.
I wonder whether the Lebanese see this as a act of a 5th column.
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 No.488303

US bombed a cancer hospital in Yemen today, dems more bothered that Yemen war plans were discussed in a group chat than that the US is continuing to bomb a country on Israel's behalf.
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 No.488304

Owen Jones on recent Israeli rampage, includes footage of IDF destroying hospital equipment in the Turkish Friendship hospital in Gaza before they blew it up.
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 No.488305

Palestinian Director of 'No Other Land' Attacked by Settler Mob, Arrested by Soldiers, Israeli Co-director Says

Israeli co-director of the Oscar-winning said Ballal was attacked and wounded by settlers. Israeli soldiers removed him from an ambulance while he was receiving treatment, witnesses said. The army said four were detained

Dozens of settlers in the West Bank attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land,' wounding him and others, according to activists at the scene and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham.

While Ballal was being evacuated by ambulance for treatment, Israeli soldiers stopped the vehicle and arrested him. According to residents, the soldiers who detained him were members of a rapid-response unit composed of settlers from nearby settlements. The unit then handed him over to other soldiers.
The IDF later said it detained three Palestinians and one Israeli.

Yuval Abraham, Israeli co-director of the film, wrote on X that Ballal was "lynched," and has wounds to his head and stomach. He said it remains unclear where he is or if he is receiving medical treatment.

The attack began around 6 P.M. near a school in the village of Susya, where Ballal is from. A settler approached Palestinian homes, and when residents asked him to leave, dozens of settlers arrived and attacked them with stones and blows with their fists.

The settlers destroyed water tanks, stole security cameras, and smashed car windows. When soldiers arrived, the settlers fled. American activists at the scene called the police, but said officers did not intervene.



https://archive.is/2SdZZ#selection-1637.0-1673.336
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-24/ty-article/.premium/palestinian-director-of-no-other-land-attacked-by-settler-mob-arrested-by-idf/00000195-c980-da24-affd-fba4541a0000
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 No.488306

>>488297
>Miriam Adelson's founding of the Maccabee Task Force, which has launched an online astroturfing/propaganda campaign to defame Mahmoud Khalil and anti-genocide protesters.
They are just going to annoy people. Or is this some kind of reverse psychology game where they want to lionize Mahmoud Khalil for a reason that escapes me.

>>488298
Yeah maybe we should try to meme a hard distinction between Jew and Zionist into existence. That way if the Zionist attack civil liberties the backlash falls on them and not some random Jews who probably don't support Zionism.
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 No.488307

>>488306
>Yeah maybe we should try to meme a hard distinction between Jew and Zionist into existence.
That distinction already exists.
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 No.488308

>>488307
Yes it does but it's not a hard distinction, as in that a person can either be Jewish or Zionist but not both.
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 No.488309

>>488308
I would force every Rabbi to take a stance. Literally ask them point blank on social media. If they waver, they're a zio.
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 No.488310

>>488308
>>488309
These are incredibly dumb ideas.
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 No.488312

>>488310
>These are incredibly dumb ideas.
You have to explain why.

Here is my reasoning.
Zionist lobby efforts are attacking civil liberties and democratic norms in western countries, like snatching Journalists and conspiring to get people fired for having critical political opinions. And the Zionist regime is wrecking Israel and potentially might get it destroyed if those Iran-war rumors prove to be true.

By conceptually separating Zionists into a group entirely separate from Jews, that would prevent Jews getting scapegoated, when the blow-back from this entire thing hits.
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 No.488313

>>488312
>You have to explain why.
No I don't.

>By conceptually separating Zionists into a group entirely separate from Jews, that would prevent Jews getting scapegoated, when the blow-back from this entire thing hits.

Except:
1. We are not an omnipotent propaganda apparatus with infinite capacity to focus on every individual messaging issue.
2. We don't decide who is or isn't Jewish, and claiming to do so would be dishonest.

Factually, a lot of Jews are Zionists, and a lot of Zionists (but nowhere near all) are Jewish. They aren't inherently contradictory groups except to certain ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups, but we are not ultra-Orthodox Jews so taking this angle would not be reasonable. There is no reason, at all, to try and twist anything or talk down to people or lie. Our problem as of this moment is that we do not have the kind of institutional platform or backing which people who do lie have. We won't magically fix that by adjusting our messaging to be dishonest.
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 No.488314

Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released from Israeli detention

We’re getting reports that Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land who was detained by the Israeli army after being attacked by settlers, has now been released.

AP said its journalists had seen Ballal and the two other Palestinians leaving the police station in the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in occupied West Bank where they were being held.

Ballal had bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, the news agency said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/25/live-israeli-attacks-kill-65-in-gaza-including-journalists-children

https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1904523928598724614
The lawyer of Hamdan Ballal, the co-Director of No Other Land, says he was handcuffed and blindfolded all night at an army base after the assault, where two soldiers beat him on the floor. He’s still being held at the Kiryat Arba police station.
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 No.488315

>>488313
>No I don't.
<it's dumb
<why ?
<i won't say
Lol ok

>Except

We don't need a propaganda machine, we just need to convince Jews to say that Jewishness is incompatible with Zionism. They might take us up on the offer if the Zionists continue doing shit that causes Jew-hatred.

>We don't decide who is or isn't Jewish

I disagree with you, religious identities are granted by other people.

Most religions have 2 modes:
Mode 1 is where they preach be nice to people
Mode 2 is where they preach go to village xyz and make a "moral" bloodbath

I only grant religious identities if the preaching is in mode 1.

I'm trying to fix the mistake made by what was called "new-atheism" . The New-atheists accepted that religions contained advocacy for mass-slaughter and tried to get rid of it in wholesale. God tells people to go on murder-sprees, therefore god does not exist.

That was a mistake, the correct way to go about this, was to sanitize religions, as in god only exists if it tells you to be nice to other people

>Factually, a lot of Jews are Zionists

Religious freedom does not include extermination campaigns, we don't have to accept conceptions of religions that do this shit.

>They aren't inherently contradictory groups except to certain ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups

Those are the ones that wear the hats and do the curly sideburns right ? Maybe they're onto something.
You haven't given me a reason why i can't consider people like Norman Finkelstein as a real Jew while Netanyahu as not Jewish. Why can't i believe that Netanyahu is the reincarnation of Hitler pretending to be a Jew in order to continue the Holocaust and murder some more Semitic people like the Palestinians. Maybe that's a special form of Buddhism or Hinduism. I'm being a little facetious of course, but it feels like you are demanding that i show deference to what proponents of genocide think about them self's. Why would i care ?

>we do not have the kind of institutional platform

There is a chance that it could catch on anyway, it certainly would fit the current Zeitgeist.
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 No.488316

>>488315
><it's dumb
><why ?
><i won't say
>Lol ok
I did say. I didn't have to but I did anyway. It's a stupid idea, and the futility of my taking the time to explain why is only supported by the fact that you cannot take what I said into account. This is "changing the name of the thing changes what the thing is" level thinking, except it's not even that because we are not in a position to "convince" anyone that a practicing Jew who is also genocidal isn't a "real Jew." I'm not going to keep going around in circles to explain to you why this is, at best, pointless.
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 No.488318

US confirms attacks on Yemen

The US’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has published a video on X of fighter jets taking off from a runway with the words, “Give ’em Hell Harry!!!”

This may be a reference to the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier, which is currently stationed in the waters off Yemen.

The post in the early hours of this morning came after Yemeni media reported renewed US attacks on the northern province of Saada. The Saba news agency said at least two people were wounded and a cancer hospital was destroyed in the latest raids.

Yemen’s Houthis, meanwhile, said they had launched attacks on the US aircraft carrier, as well as Israel’s Ben Gurion airport.

US forces destroy cancer hospital in north Yemen

More on the US strikes on the Saada province.

The Saba news agency is reporting that US forces have bombed Al-Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital for the second time in a week, “leading to its destruction”.

The Anti-Cancer Fund (ACF), a government body, condemned the attack as a “grave and brutal” act and said it constitutes a war crime.

“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement, calling on the UN and the World Health Organization to take “urgent action to stop the systematic targeting of medical facilities”.

The ACF has previously said the cancer hospital was newly built, at a cost of 805,165,000 Saudi riyals ($3.3m), and was “in the final stages of preparation to be a treatment reference for hundreds of cancer patients in Saada and neighbouring provinces”.

Israel again bombs Syria airbases

The Israeli military says it launched attacks on the Syrian airbases of Tadmur and T-4.

In a post on X, the military said it struck the “remaining military capabilities” in the airfields located near the city of Palmyra in Homs.

The attacks come days after the Israeli military bombed the same bases.

Earlier on Monday, the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said Israel’s strikes on Syria, as well as Lebanon, risked “further escalation”.

Clashes near Syria’s Deraa after deadly bombardment: Report

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, has released more details on the Israeli assault near Syria’s Deraa city.

The deadly aerial bombardment on the village of Koya took place after Israeli forces attempting to enter the town clashed with local youth, according to the observatory.

Clashes are continuing as Israeli aircraft fly over the northern part of the village, the war monitor added, noting residents have started to flee.

Hezbollah official says group committed to ceasefire with Israel

Hussein al-Nimr, a Hezbollah official in the Bekaa Valley, calls on the Lebanese state to deal with Israeli violations of the ceasefire that came into effect in November.

“We are committed to the ceasefire with the Israeli enemy from a position of wisdom, not a position of weakness,” al-Nimr said, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

Last week, Israel launched dozens of air strikes across Lebanon, killing at least eight people, in response to a rocket launch towards the Israeli border town of Metula.

Hezbollah has denied involvement in the rocket attack.

“The suspicious launch of rockets gave the Israeli enemy an excuse to assault Lebanon even if it does not need that excuse,” al-Nimr said.

Israeli military to hold ‘large-scale’ exercise near Lebanese border

The Israeli military says the training will take place in the border area in northern Israel on Wednesday.

“As part of the exercise, various scenarios will be practiced, including protecting the area and responding to immediate threats in the field, in multi-armed cooperation,” the Israeli military said in a statement.

“During the exercise, there will be lively movement of security forces, aircraft and vessels.”

Israel continues to occupy parts of south Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement reached last year.

Israel fires military flares at Lebanese border villages

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that the Israeli military has military flares at Lebanese villages on the western sector of the border.

Local outlets reported earlier that an Israeli drone dropped stun grenades near a mosque in the border village of Meiss el-Jabal.

Death toll of Gaza children killed in a week a conservative estimate
Hani Mahmoud
Reporting from Gaza City, Gaza

Save the Children says more than 270 children have been killed in the week since Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza, but this death toll does not include those who were pulverised in Israeli strikes and whose remains are unidentifiable.

Entire families have been obliterated, something we have seen happen numerous times since October 7, 2023.

Children are being killed in record numbers, and this is raising concerns for the future of Palestinian society, both socially and economically.

Israel’s incarceration rate of Palestinian men is highest in the world, lawyer says

We’ve been reporting on the beating and arrest by Israel’s army of Oscar-winning film director Hamdan Ballal, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

About 40 percent of Palestinian males have been imprisoned by Israel at some point in their lives, a human rights lawyer said.

“It’s the highest rate of incarceration in the world, and it’s because Israel creates this system whereby the means of controlling Palestinians is through their imprisonment,” Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer, told Al Jazeera.

She said the only way to get innocent people out of Israel’s prisons is to make some sort of “agreement”.

“We should be focused instead on ending Israel’s system of mass incarceration rather than ways of trying to accommodate it.”

Today’s death toll in Gaza rises to 37

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 37 Palestinians since dawn.

Syria slams ‘flagrant’ Israeli violation of sovereignty after attack

Syria’s Foreign Ministry has condemned ongoing Israeli attacks on the country after deadly bombardment in the country’s southern Deraa province.

The ministry in a statement denounced the “continued Israeli aggression on Syrian territory” including “a dangerous escalation” in Deraa, decrying a “flagrant violation of national sovereignty and international law” and saying Tuesday’s attack left six dead.

Protesters block Knesset entrance before state budget vote

Demonstrators have blocked the entrance to Israel’s Knesset in an attempt to thwart a vote on the state budget before police forcibly dispersed the crowd.

Israel army forcibly displaces tens of thousands in northern Gaza

The Israeli military has now expanded evacuation orders to tens of thousands of residents across the war-battered enclave.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army told residents in all northern border towns to evacuate, saying Palestinian rockets were fired at Israel from the area. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population has already been forcibly displaced multiple times during nearly 18 months of war.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/25/live-israeli-attacks-kill-65-in-gaza-including-journalists-children
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 No.488320

>>488316
Sure the probability of winning such a definition struggle is low. Not as impossible as you think, but relatively low none the less. Maybe winning is not really the point. Just by making it "contested terrain" you increase the difficulty for their narrative.

By the same token we probably should no longer accept Israel as a nation-state. They haven't defined their boarders, so technically they never completed their claim to a state. Also the other source of national legitimacy that Israel could have is that UN resolution, but they reject it because that one also grants the Palestinians a right to a state. I will admit that i'm mainly really sick of hearing people say that massacring children by the tens of thousands is "exercising the right to national self defense". Maybe by contesting Isreal's status as a nation state, we can shift the debate to that. Because i don't want a euphemistic debate about whether or not it's ok to mass murder children.

They've been doing shit like this since forever. I want diplomatic solutions for conflicts, and they redefine every conflict party as terrorist and then diplomacy is blocked because it got redefined as "negotiating with terrorists". So you are definitely wrong to suggest that the battle of words has no material effects.

Lastly the Zionists are trying to criminalize critical speech, since that essentially means it becomes illegal to talk to them, there is no longueur a reason to maintain any conceptual common ground with them anymore. If we can only talk to Jews that are either indifferent or opposed to Zionism, that means that for all practicle purpose those might as well be the only Jews. Israel can be reduced to a mechanism for dropping bombs, interfering with humanitarian aid deliveries, a source of attacks on democratic rights in western countries and a cause for increasing hatred towards Jews.

We have reduced fascist Germany to a big military machine that destroyed Europe during WW2 and the perpetrators of the holocaust, because that is a sufficient model for us to reason about this time period. The same logic applies here.

We made all those conceptual and rhetorical concession to Zionism for the purpose of being able to appeal to Zionists to practice live and let live with regards to Palestinians. Do you think this approach still has any merit ?

We included Zionists in our conception of Jewishness because we hoped that they could be convinced to let go of the apartheid and ethnic cleansing stuff and eventually become a part of the Jewish diaspora. Do you think this idea still has merit ?

I think that the thundering symphony of death and destruction that Zionists have unleashed will cause a relentless backlash, and i think that digging intellectual trenches that separate Jewishness from Zionism will improve the odds that it won't turn into hatred towards jews.
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 No.488321

>>488316
>This is "changing the name of the thing changes what the thing is" level thinking
i believe that you are committing a serious mistake here
first of all, thoughts do matter. you might not be arguing against this point, but i must stress this point for the second one to make sense. acting like ideas are wholly irrelevant is anti-materialist, because belief is itself a material force. if you are a materialist, you cant deny this unless you deny that human beings have agency, in which case you might as well abandon leftism since change through collective agency is all just an illusion.
second of all, did you even consider for a moment that this is already happening? in other words, what if the zionists *do* believe in this, and therefore twisted the definition of "jew" to mean "zionist"? in that case, separating the two again would mean to *fight against* this way of thinking.
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 No.488326

US again bombs north Yemen: Report

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that US forces have launched two raids on the Sahar district in the northern province of Saada.

The latest raids come hours after the channel reported three attacks on the same district.

US continues bombarding northern Yemen

We are getting more reports of US raids in the provinces of Saada and Amran.

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting renewed attacks on the city of Saada and its surroundings, as well as the districts of Al Salem in the province of Saada.

The channel said there has been at least 17 US raids on the province in recent hours.

It also reported two more raids on the district of Al Sufyan in the Amran governorate.

Houthis claim attacks on US aircraft carrier, Israel

A spokesman for the Yemeni rebel group says Houthi fighters carried out attacks on US warships in the Red Sea, including the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, and launched a number of drones at Israeli military sites in Tel Aviv.

The spokesman said the Houthis would continue to confront “American aggression” and counter “escalation with escalation”.

He also said the Houthis are continuing to prevent Israeli navigation in the strategic waters off of Yemen and would “carry out operations against the Israeli enemy until the aggression stops and the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted”.

Hamas says it wants to stop the war on Gaza

Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, says that the group is “keen to stop the war and the bloodshed”.

In a statement on Telegram, Badran said Israel “did not respect” the ceasefire agreement and instead “continued its war and aggression”.

He added that “Netanyahu refuses to negotiate” and criticised the US, saying that “the American side is not a mediator, but biased and supportive of the [Israeli] occupation”.

Israeli court extends Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s detention

Lawyers for the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital say that an Israeli court has extended his detention for another six months, claiming the paediatrician poses a “threat to the security of the State of Israel”.

The ruling was based on a “secret file” of evidence submitted to the court by prosecutors.

The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights said its legal team “asserted [Dr Abu Safia’s] innocence and emphasised that he was solely performing medical and administrative duties at Kamal Adwan Hospital”.

The lawyers asked for access to the secret files but the prosecution declined to do so and the court upheld that refusal, it said.

“This ruling underscores the role of Israeli civilian courts in sustaining the illegal occupation of the [occupied Palestinian territory] and reinforcing Israel’s apartheid regime against the Palestinian people,” Al Mezan added, noting that Abu Safia was being held under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.

‘I feel they were going to kill me’: Hamdan Ballal recounts attack by Israeli soldiers, settler

The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has spoken to Al Jazeera about the abuse he suffered at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers before his arrest on Monday.

Ballal said he went to film a settler attack on his neighbour’s home in the village of Susiya in the occupied West Bank, but returned home to his family when he saw things “become more and more dangerous”.

But a settler known to him and two soldiers followed him down to his house.

The attack took place outside his home.

“They hold the gun directly to me, the soldiers… the settler went behind me and directly attacking me with his hands. I don’t know what he held in his hands,” Ballal recounted.

He fell to the ground, and the attack continued.

“The soldiers keep on shouting at me, threatening me, and putting the gun, one time at my neck… they also put the gun on my cheek,” he said.

Ballal said he thought the soldiers and the settler would kill him.

“After October 7, the army let the settlers do what they want. Because the army here, they are settlers with uniforms,” he said.

“The soldiers let him [the settler] beat me and the soldiers also beat me with a gun. I fell – because it was a hard, hard attack. They focus on my head, they kicked my head, and also with a gun. I feel they were going to kill me, not just to punish me… I feel I would die.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/26/live-israel-kills-37-in-gaza-6-in-syria-us-continues-bombing-yemen

US progressive groups urge Senate to reject Trump pick for envoy to Israel

More than 65 progressive groups – including Muslim, Christian and Jewish organisations – have penned a letter to top senators, urging them to block the nomination of Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel.

Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, has denied the existence of Palestinians as a people and voiced support for Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank. The Senate is holding his confirmation hearing today.

The groups said Huckabee is “unfit to serve”, citing the nominee’s own past statements.

“Huckabee’s blatant disregard for international human rights principles and inflammatory rhetoric undermine the values of inclusion and mutual respect that guide US diplomacy,” the letter read.

“As Ambassador to Israel, Mr Huckabee would play a key role in shaping US policy in one of the world’s most complex and volatile regions.

“His appointment would send a dangerous signal that the United States does not respect international law, and endorses divisive and discriminatory policies that exacerbate tensions and undermine the prospects of a just and lasting peace.”

Signatories of the letter include MPower Change Action Fund, Pax Christi USA, Justice Democrats and IfNotNow.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/25/live-israeli-attacks-kill-65-in-gaza-including-journalists-children
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 No.488328

https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1904834383774691775
More from Yemen, where the airforce of a country which stands, at best, for absolutely nothing and for nihilism and chaos, continues its ruthless attacks against those who have standards of justice and oppose genocide. Or, as RedStream more succinctly summarizes this clip:
A Yemeni shopkeeper stands firm as US bombs fall beside him.
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 No.488335

Lebanese army blocks roads paved by Israeli forces amid persistent ceasefire ‘violations’

The Lebanese army said it has used mounds of earth to block two roads paved by Israeli forces during an incursion in the Labbouneh area of Tyre in southern Lebanon, amid what it says are Israel’s “persistent violations” of the ceasefire agreement and the country’s sovereignty.

In a statement on X, the Lebanese army also said it has removed barbed wire that Israeli forces had installed in the southern town of Aitaroun, Bint Jbeil.



Lebanese authorities have reported more than 1,250 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including the deaths of 100 people and injuries to more than 330.

Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon by January 26, but the deadline was extended to February 18 after it refused to comply. It still maintains a military presence at five border outposts.

US protesters interrupt Senate hearings for Mike Huckabee

Protesters from Jewish and Christian activist groups have disrupted the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel.

A video of the protest, posted online by Christians for a Free Palestine, shows protesters chanting “Jews say no to Huckabee” and “free Palestine” as the Trump nominee begins speaking. A few minutes later, a protester is heard shouting, “Huckabee misuses Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing” and “Senators, ask him about the end game of Christian Zionism for Palestinians in Israel.”

Huckabee, a devout Christian who has visited Israel more than 100 times, has tied his evangelical faith to support for Israeli control of the West Bank and his support for Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law.

https://twitter.com/xians4Palestine/status/1904563528771551416

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/26/live-israel-kills-37-in-gaza-6-in-syria-us-continues-bombing-yemen
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 No.488343

https://x.com/warintel4u/status/1905315853685719330
Clashes erupted in Tel Aviv between Haredi protesters and Israeli police during demonstrations against military conscription…
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 No.488349

>>488343
>demonstrations against military conscription…
that always warms my heart
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 No.488351

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World Central Kitchen says Israeli strikes kill another of its personnel

The international food aid NGO reports via a statement on X that one of its volunteers in Gaza, named Jalal, was killed when the Israeli army bombed near one of its aid facilities.

It added that six others were wounded in the strike.

Last year, several World Central Kitchen employees were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, marking the first time foreign aid workers were killed during Israel’s war.

Footage emerges from Israeli strike on a marketplace in Gaza City

Videos shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera show the shocking immediate aftermath of an Israeli strike on a market in Gaza City.

In one video, a disoriented man covered in blood is seen trying to lift himself from the ground before people rush to his aid, and a blood-stained street is seen covered in fruit and vegetables that have been knocked from stands by the attack.

People lie on the street amid chaotic scenes, some visibly injured, others lifeless.

In other videos, the injured are brought to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in a motorcycle trailer and on the back of a food truck.

The injured are carried or helped from the vehicles while others help carry bodies, some contorted and showing no signs of life, towards the hospital.

At least 32 killed in Israeli attacks today

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 32 people have been killed since dawn in relentless Israeli raids across Gaza.

The attacks targeted multiple areas with 19 people killed in the northern part of Gaza, alone.

Satellite image shows Israeli army detaining Red Crescent, Civil Defence vehicles in Rafah

Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit has obtained exclusive satellite images, taken on March 23, showing the Israeli army detaining and surrounding at least five vehicles belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and Civil Defence in the western area of Rafah city in southern Gaza.

PRCS has lost all contact with these ambulance crews five days ago.

These vehicles were transporting 15 members of the ambulance and rescue crews of the two organisations. The images, analysed by Sanad based on data and information from the PRCS and Civil Defence, show at least five ambulances parked on the side of the Liberation Road.

The Israeli military surrounded the area and closed the road with dirt barriers. Clear traces of bulldozing operations are visible in the area.

Israeli drone targets vehicle in southern Lebanon, killing one

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli drone has targeted a car on the road to the village of Maaroub in southern Lebanon.

The country’s Health Ministry said that this attack resulted in the killing of one person, a civilian, confirming our report.

Earlier today, the Israeli military claimed it had hit what it described as 40 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since it shattered its ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas early on March 18.

Six killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon: officials

Two more people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, bringing today’s total to six, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.

The latest victims were killed in an air strike on the southern town of Baraachit.

Earlier today, Israeli strikes killed four people in the country’s south, according to Lebanese authorities, with Israel claiming that it had struck Hezbollah operatives. Three people were killed by a drone targeting a vehicle in the Yohmor area, while one other was killed when a different drone targeted a vehicle near the village of Maaroub.

Europe’s far right in Jerusalem as ‘new friends’ of Israel

European politicians from the far right are gathering in Israel for a conference on anti-Semitism this week, sealing an alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that would have been unthinkable in the past.

Analysts say the invitation to parties that have themselves previously been accused of anti-Semitism demonstrates the willingness of Israel’s right – under pressure from some traditional allies over the war in Gaza – to cultivate new relationships with unlikely supporters.

“The current Israeli government sees the world in black and white,” Denis Charbit, a political scientist at the Open University of Israel, told the AFP news agency.

Some in Israel feel the country is currently isolated, and needs “new friends”, even if it deems them distasteful, he added.

France’s National Rally and Hungary’s Fidesz party are among the guests, along with other members of Europe’s far right.

Israelis protest against the dismissals of Shin Bet chief and attorney general

Israeli media reports that thousands of people are protesting in Jerusalem against the government’s moves to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet security service, Ronen Bar, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

Israeli police crack down on antigovernment protests in Tel Aviv

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows mounted police running down protesters during a march in Tel Aviv.

Israelis are demonstrating en masse tonight, demanding that Netanyahu’s government strike a deal with Hamas to return the remaining captives held in Gaza.

https://twitter.com/lirishavit/status/1905346811251876065

Five people arrested in anti-government protests in Israel: Report

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the arrests were made as Israeli protesters headed towards the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Activists in Bristol protest trial of pro-Palestine group

Pro-Palestine activists in Bristol, UK, have staged a protest in support of 18 people currently facing trial over an earlier action against the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems.

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows the protesters chanting slogans calling for the charges against them to be dropped.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/26/live-israel-kills-37-in-gaza-6-in-syria-us-continues-bombing-yemen
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 No.488352

Mahmood OD:Israeli Judicial Reform PASSES
Protests in Israel continue, Mahmood suggests that Netanyahu will pursue escalation in order to distract from this.
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 No.488353

Fake warning messages sent to Israelis on upcoming rocket attacks

Israel’s National Cyber Directorate says the “enemy” is sending people in Israel alerts warning of upcoming attacks.

Messages were sent warning of a rocket attack “in the coming hours”.

“If you have received such a message know this is nothing more than cheap intimidation attempts by the enemy,” the directorate said in a statement.

“The National Cyber Command reiterates attempts of this type are increasing during this period and, therefore, increased vigilance should be exercised for suspicious messages and alerts should only be checked in official sources.”

https://aje.io/ionp8v?update=3608084
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 No.488354

>>488353
More of this plz.
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 No.488355

File: 1743163717572.mp4 ( 187.8 KB , 480x270 , March 28 2025 Israel has b….mp4 )

From Redstream:
Israel has bombed Beirut’s Dahyeih suburb

Since the ceasefire on November 27, 2024, Lebanese authorities have reported over 1,250 Israeli violations, resulting in at least 106 people killed and over 336 injuries. This is the first direct strike on Beirut since then.

This morning, after two missiles were launched from southern Lebanon toward Israeli settlements, Israel carried out massive airstrikes across the South, targeting at least 11 locations, including Beirut. According to Al-Akhbar, Israel has also used white phosphorus munitions too.

Hezbollah has denied involvement and reaffirmed its commitment to the ceasefire, accusing Israel of fabricating pretexts to justify its aggression on Lebanon. In addition to the ongoing violations and killings by Israel in Lebanon, Israel has refused to withdraw from Lebanese territory, maintaining its occupation.
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 No.488357

Asad Abu Khalil had a really sobering piece about Hezbollah in Consortium News a few days ago. It depressed me in all honesty.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/26/asad-abukhalil-what-went-wrong-for-hizbullah/
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 No.488358

Hezbollah denies involvement in rocket fire at Israel, remains committed to truce

Hezbollah says it remains committed to a November 27 ceasefire agreement and denies any involvement in rocket launches that reportedly targeted northern Israel earlier this morning.

The Lebanese group added in a statement these incidents are dubious pretexts for the continuation of Israel’s “aggression against Lebanon”.

According to investigations by media organisations and think tanks, Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement hundreds of times.

Israeli artillery shelling sparks fires in southern Lebanon

Footage posted by local Lebanese platforms and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad unit shows smoke rising from multiple locations in the city of Khiam, southern Lebanon, after what they described as Israeli artillery shelling.

The Lebanese National News Agency reported a fire broke out at a school in Harat al-Baraka, in Khiam, following attacks.

The news agency also said white phosphorus munitions were fired, the use of which is restricted under international humanitarian law.

https://twitter.com/kataeb_Ar/status/1905505738224472238

Lebanon and Syria sign agreement on border demarcation

Lebanon and Syria have signed an agreement on border demarcation and security, Saudi Arabia’s state media report.

The deal – signed by Lebanese and Syrian defence ministers in Saudi Arabia on Thursday – came after clashes in border areas earlier this month killed several people and wounded dozens on both sides.

One killed in Israeli attack on town in southern Lebanon

We’ve been reporting on Israeli attacks in multiple locations in southern Lebanon.

The Ministry of Public Health’s Public Health Emergency Operations Centre has now said an Israeli air strike on the town of Kfar Tibnit killed one person and injured eight, including three children.

https://twitter.com/Lebanon24/status/1905556766261125160

Israeli drones hovering above building threatened in southern Beirut

Three Israeli drones have been hovering above the building in Hadath in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which Israel has threatened with bombardment and destruction.

At least three Israeli “roof-knocking” warning bombs have been dropped, sowing chaos and panic in the area.

That is the practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted civilian homes as a prior warning of imminent bombing attacks to purportedly give the inhabitants time to flee the attack.

Scenes of panic in Beirut neighbourhood Israel has said it will target

Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency has verified video showing panic in the streets of a Beirut neighbourhood for which Israel issued a forced evacuation with a threat that a building there would be bombed.

Residents in Hadath in Beirut’s southern suburbs can be seen rushing and scrambling away in anxiety.

Israel has not bombarded Beirut since a ceasefire was agreed last November. During the war, Israel struck Beirut repeatedly, killing dozens of civilians and assassinating senior Hezbollah leaders.

https://twitter.com/OTVLebanon/status/1905569421206204531

Residents in Beirut firing into the air as a warning before Israeli attack
Zeina Khodr
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

During the war, the Israeli army would issue these so-called evacuation orders and people would just pick up whatever they could and leave.

Israel marked certain buildings that they would hit on a map – although there was no doubt that people would have to leave the entire area – and usually Israel would give people about half an hour to flee before the strike.

But that is not really enough time, and that’s why there’s a lot of gunfire now. People shoot in the air as a warning for residents to leave, because not everyone is on social media or aware of the forced evacuation order.

This forced evacuation order is for Hadath in the southern suburbs of Beirut, not far from the International airport. It is a densely populated area, so you can just imagine the panic.

And we saw this happen time and time again during weeks of widespread bombardments targeting areas where Hezbollah supporters live, whether in southern Lebanon – in the cities of Tyre and Nabatieh – or up in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, or in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

So this is bringing back memories for the people in the capital. People are afraid and schools are being closed because people are worried that this could spiral out of control and may not just be one hit in response to rocket fire.

Israeli army says it seized weapons on Egyptian border

The Israeli military says it thwarted a weapons smuggling attempt on the country’s border with Egypt.

In a joint statement with Israeli police, the army said its forces identified a drone that attempted to move arms from Egypt into the Israeli territory on Thursday.

Troops operating in the area intervened and seized nine weapons and the drone, it added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/28/live-israeli-attacks-kill-almost-40-people-in-gaza-over-past-24-hours
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 No.488360

File: 1743183508343.mp4 ( 887.1 KB , 480x270 , Quds Day 2025 demonstratio….mp4 )

Per Redstream - “From Lebanon to Yemen, from Palestine to Iraq, we swear that the cause will not die.” Massive demonstrations in Yemen marked Al-Quds Day, established in 1979 in solidarity with Palestinians. Protests occurred globally, but those in Beirut were canceled due to Israeli bombings.
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 No.488361

Mick Wallace, Irish ex-MEP addresses the crowd in Sanaa, Yemen today.
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 No.488362

Nelson Mandela's grandson addresses the crowd in Sanaa, Yemen today.
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 No.488366

Grayzone - "Top Missile Guy"
Live episode which covers US strikes on Yemen, Jeffrey Goldberg's history as an IDF prison guard, and more

Hezbollah calls on Lebanese gov’t to take action against Israeli strikes

The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Raad, has called for stronger national unity and a firmer stance in the face of Israeli “aggression”, and called on the Lebanese government to take “practical steps” to stop strikes on the country.

His comments came after Israeli forces struck Beirut earlier today, despite a fragile ceasefire that came into effect last year following 13 months of war between Israel and the Lebanese group.

Raad said Hezbollah has not violated the ceasefire and that the state “must fulfil its duty to deter the enemy”.

The government does not have “exclusive authority” over decisions relating to the war, he said, adding that it is incapable of defending Lebanon on its own.

“Anyone who thinks the resistance is a thing of the past is mistaken,” he said.

US says it expects Lebanese army to ‘prevent further attacks’: Report

Axios journalist Barak Ravid says he has spoken to Morgan Ortagus, US deputy special envoy for the Middle East, about Israel’s latest strike on the Lebanese capital, which the Israeli military says was in response to rockets fired by Hezbollah – something the Lebanese group denies.

“Israel is endangering its citizens and its interests” by responding to alleged rocket attacks from Lebanon, he quoted Ortagus as saying in a post on X.

“The Lebanese government is responsible for disarming Hezbollah and all other terrorists. We expect the Lebanese army to prevent further attacks,” she added, according to Ravid.

He said a senior American official stated Ortagus held talks with Lebanese officials today and the ceasefire was violated “by Lebanon, not Israel”.

“Ortagus also held talks with senior Israeli officials and emphasised that the US supports Israel but wants to avoid further escalation on the northern border,” Ravid added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/28/live-israeli-attacks-kill-almost-40-people-in-gaza-over-past-24-hours
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 No.488368

>>488366
>after Israeli forces struck Beirut
>Hezbollah calls on Lebanese gov’t to take action against Israeli strikes
Israel is cooking the Lebanese puppet regime, while politically boosting Hezbollah.
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 No.488369

>>488368
Always looking on the bright side lol
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 No.488371

>>488320
i've been having a reasonable amount of success at work with this line. I just say stuff like "israelis aren't jews!", (instead of zionists) which has some truth in case of denial. the best response that i end up getting is "well a lot are!" which already has moved the discussion towards progress. Jews then have no reason to see solidarity in israelis, and israelis can't cry antisemitism (it's even a good response to that cry). no reason not to spam that in my opinion.
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 No.488372

so its over, right? there is no more resistance in gaza.
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 No.488373

>>488372
Hi Hasbarist.
Every aspect of your premise is wrong.
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 No.488381

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‘Condemn the crimes’: Iranians stage annual pro-Palestinian rallies

Demonstrators took to the streets of Tehran to denounce Israel and show support for Palestinians after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Iranian people to protest against “the enemies’ tricks”.

Crowds waved Iranian and Palestinian flags as well as those of the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Many held placards demanding “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” and chanted anti-US and anti-Israel slogans.

“I feel in the near future Gaza will be victorious and Israel, as history dictates, will face collapse and the flag of Islam’s might will be hoisted in Gaza,” said Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, former commander of Iran’s Army Ground Forces.

Keffiyeh-wearing university student Fatemeh Mohebbi, 22, said she attended the event to “condemn the crimes that are happening”.

Similar rallies were held across the country, state TV images showed.

Quds Day commemorations were launched in 1979 by the founder of modern Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The marches, which call for Jerusalem to be returned to the Palestinians, are traditionally held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

https://aje.io/ionp8v?update=3608430
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Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since ceasefire ended Israel-Hezbollah war

Israel has bombarded Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in November.

The attack was in the southern suburbs after Israel issued a forced evacuation threat there.

The moment Israeli bombs strike Beirut buildings

Video verified by Al Jazeera shows the exact moment Israel carried out its threat by bombing buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Huge plumes of black smoke rise after the attack.

https://twitter.com/thisislebnews/status/1905590518601433524

Israel attacks southern suburbs of Beirut

Video is emerging of Israel’s heavy bombardment of Beirut.

Al Jazeera’s Sanad has verified this footage.

There is clear destruction, but there haven’t been any initial reports of deaths or casualties so far.

https://twitter.com/lebanondebate/status/1905589337422508156

US hits dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen

US air attacks pounded more than 40 locations across Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa.

Multiple residential homes and shops were damaged in the US attacks before dawn on Friday in the provinces of Saada, Marib, al-Jawf and Hodeidah, reported the Houthi-linked Al Masirah TV.



Read the full story here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/us-hits-multiple-targets-in-yemen-report

US military carries out 17 strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

The US military has bombed Tahrir and Qiyada districts in the centre of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, resulting in damage to homes, according to Houthi-affiliated media outlet al-Masirah.

The outlet said the targeted areas are where many of the group’s leadership reside.

There have also been reports of US fighter jets carrying out attacks in the following areas:

Two airstrikes targeting Sanaa International Airport
Five airstrikes on the Asayed area in Kitaf district in Saada governorate
Two airstrikes on Salem district in Saada governorate
Three airstrikes on Luhayyah district in Hodeidah governorate
Three airstrikes on Humaydat district in Al Jawf governorate
No casualties have been reported in these incidents so far.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

More US military strikes reported in Yemen

As we reported earlier, the US military has carried out strikes on several Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen over recent hours.

In total, 37 separate strikes have now been reported, including eight targeting the Black Mountain area of Harf Sufyan District in Amran governorate.

Lebanon PM tells army to arrest those behind attack on Israel

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has urged the army to quickly identify and arrest those who carried out rocket fire towards Israel, which responded by striking south Beirut for the first time since November.

Salam contacted the army chief “and asked him to act quickly to undertake the necessary investigations to uncover those behind the irresponsible rocket fire that threatens Lebanon’s stability and security”, according to a statement from his office, urging “intensified efforts” to arrest the perpetrators.

Friday was the second time – the first last Saturday – that rockets have been fired from Lebanon towards Israeli territory since a November 27 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which denied involvement both times.

In response, Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, for the first time since the truce.

US confirms arrest of Iranian student and revoking visa
Ali Harb
Reporting from Washington, DC, United States

The Trump administration has confirmed the detention of Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian student at the University of Alabama, and revoking his visa as it continues to crack down on Palestine rights activists at US universities.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had listed Doroudi as being in the agency’s “custody” without confirming his exact location.

Now, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tells Al Jazeera that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations made the arrest “in accordance with the State Department’s revocation of Doroudi’s student visa”.

“This individual posed significant national security concerns,” the spokesperson said.

DHS did not elaborate further on Doroudi’s detention.

Hamas calls for pressure on Israel to end Gaza attacks, blockade

Hamas has issued a statement condemning “the humanitarian catastrophe created by the criminal Zionist war machine” in Gaza. Below is a summary:

The ongoing brutal massacres in the Gaza Strip, the systematic use of starvation and thirst as a weapon, and the prevention of the entry of basic necessities of life … constitute a full-fledged act of genocide under international law, committed before the eyes and ears of the entire world.
We call on the international community, Arab and Islamic countries, and human rights and humanitarian organisations to take urgent and effective action to pressure the occupation to lift the blockade and halt the brutal aggression against more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.
We call for an immediate response to the appeals of humanitarian organisations and UN rapporteurs, the latest of which are UNRWA’s warnings of a looming catastrophic famine.
Let the coming days be days of mobilisation and anger, witnessing the broadest popular activities to pressure for an end to the ongoing aggression against innocent civilians, and to hold the occupation leaders accountable for their crimes against humanity before international courts.

Israel’s ‘malicious’ attacks trying to drag Lebanon back into circle of violence, Aoun says

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said that Israel’s latest attacks on Beirut were a “malicious attempt to bring Lebanon back into the vicious circle of violence”.

[The attacks] make us more adamant to maintain our sovereignty over the entire Lebanese territory under our Lebanese army,” he said at a news conference in Paris alongside France’s President Macron.

“We appeal on all the friends of Lebanon, from Paris to Washington, to swiftly act to prevent the situation from escalating and enable Lebanon to honour all the international resolutions on all Lebanese home soil.”

Lebanon’s president says Israeli attacks on Beirut another violation of ceasefire

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says Israel’s attacks on Beirut are a “continuation of Israel’s violation of the agreement sponsored by France and the United States”.

In a statement on X, Aoun said: “The international community must put an end to these attacks and force Israel to abide by the agreement, just as Lebanon is committed to it.”

Israeli military claims it struck a Hezbollah drone storage facility in Beirut

Earlier, we reported that Israel has hit Beirut for the first time since the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire came into force in late November.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Telegram that it has attacked a drone storage facility belonging to Hezbollah in southern Beirut

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s National News Agency said that “Israeli warplanes struck the Hadath neighbourhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs”, referring to a densely populated area which is home to residential buildings and schools.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/28/live-israeli-attacks-kill-almost-40-people-in-gaza-over-past-24-hours
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No Other Land co-director shares video of settler ‘pogrom’ against Palestinians

Yuval Abraham, the Israeli co-director of the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land, has highlighted another Israeli settler attack that badly injured a 17-year-old Palestinian boy in the Masafar Yatta area of the occupied West Bank.

Abraham had earlier won an apology from the Academy for its failure to name Hamdan Ballal in a statement following his Palestinian codirector’s beating by Israeli settlers during an attack on his home and subsequent arrest by Israeli forces.

In a post to social media, Abraham – who was critical of the academy when it failed to name Ballal – described the vicious attack on the teenager as a “pogrom”.

“Qusai, 17, isn’t an Oscar winner, so people won’t hear about it, but here’s the video of masked settlers beating him with metal rods as his mom screams in the background,” he said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/29/live-israel-kills-almost-900-since-breaking-gaza-ceasefire-ministry
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 No.488393

>>488391
sus
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 No.488394

>>488393
The truth keeps getting censored, yup.
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 No.488395

>>488394
I do think mods ought to be a little less embracing of the delete button unless someone is actually spamming. It was fun sparring against that propagandist in the Ukraine proxy war thread. Funny how they've completely given up since the USAID money dried up.
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 No.488396

>>488395
They'll be back, don't worry.

>>488394
The truth keeps getting censored, but unfortunately fake Zionist narratives and psyops are regularly repeated by the MSM.
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 No.488397

Israeli troops fire at French peacekeepers in south Lebanon: Reports

Several Lebanese news outlets report that Israeli soldiers have opened fire at a French infantry unit serving in the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said the French troops were inspecting a dirt mound that Israeli troops had put up near the border village of Rmaish.

Israeli forces open fire at Lebanese village

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that Israeli troops have been firing at eastern neighbourhoods in the border village of Kfarchouba, damaging homes and cars.

Israel says it has started ground operations in Rafah

The Israeli military says that ground operations have begun in al-Jnaina, a neighbourhood in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

US air strikes reported in Yemen

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV says three air raids have struck the city of Saada and four more hit the neighbouring Al-Salem district in northwestern Yemen.

Hamas releases video of Israeli captive

The Palestinian group releases video of Israeli captive Elkana Bohbot pleading for the Israeli government to secure his release.

“You have to understand we are in a very bad situation. We are under bombardment for 24 hours every day,” Bohbot says.

The nearly four-minute video ends with the caption: “Only a ceasefire brings them back alive.”

Top Hamas official says group accepted mediators’ proposal on Gaza

Khalil al-Hayya says Hamas has “dealt positively” and “accepted” a proposal by Egypt and Qatar to stop the fighting in the territory.

He did not reveal the details of the initiative, but several Israeli media outlets reported that it would involve the release of five Israeli captives in exchange for resuming and prolonging the truce.

More from Hamas’s al-Hayya

The Hamas official says the group has accepted an Egyptian plan for forming an independent body of experts to oversee civil administration in Gaza.

But while he suggested that Hamas is willing to give up – or at least share – its governing powers in the territory, he said the group will not disarm.

He added that Hamas and other armed resistance groups will not relinquish their responsibilities and allow Israel to dictate Palestinians’ future.

“We would never accept dishonour and insults for our people, so no deportations and no displacement,” al-Hayya said.

“As for the resistance’s arms, they are a red line, linked to the presence of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.”

Iran says Israeli attack on Beirut ‘unjustifiable’

Iran condemns the Israeli strikes on Beirut, calling it a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire.

“The excuses made by the Zionist regime for justifying the aggression against Lebanon are totally baseless and unjustifiable,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said in a statement.

He also called on the international community to “make decisive plans to counter the occupying regime’s constant law-breaking in the region – from Gaza to Lebanon and Syria – and the regime’s growing threats against the international peace and security”.

The Israeli military carried out several air strikes on south Beirut yesterday after a rocket attack was launched at Israel from south Lebanon. Hezbollah has denied involvement in the incident and has not responded to the Israeli assaults.

PIJ claims attack against Israeli forces in Khan Younis

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says its fighters have detonated an explosive device against Israeli troops in Khan Younis and fired mortar shells at the invading forces in the same area in the southern Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah chief says group’s patience amid Israeli violations has limits

Naim Qassem says Hezbollah is committed to the ceasefire agreement, and is giving the state an opportunity to address the escalating Israeli violations and occupation of parts of south Lebanon through diplomacy.

Qassem, however, warned that the group’s patience is running out, stressing that Hezbollah is “not weak”.

“We will never accept for there to be an equation where Israel just violates Lebanon and comes and goes anywhere and anytime it wants as we watch,” the Hezbollah chief said.

“Everything has limits. Don’t take what we’re saying lightly. Know that this resistance is present. We are committed to the agreement at this stage. But if Israel is not committed to the deal at all, and the Lebanese state cannot do what is required at the political level, we will have no choice but to return to other options.”

Israel has refused to withdraw fully from Lebanon, and it has continued its attacks on border communities. This week, the Israeli army bombed a building in Beirut after unknown assailants fired rockets towards Israel.

Qassem said Israel is using “empty excuses” to intensify its “aggression”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/29/live-israel-kills-almost-900-since-breaking-gaza-ceasefire-ministry
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 No.488401

Trump says ‘there will be bombing’ if Iran doesn’t make nuclear deal

The US president has warned Iran to make a deal on its nuclear programme or risk the consequences.

In an interview with NBC News, Trump said: “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing.”

He added: “But – there’s a chance that if they don’t make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago.”

Trump said he would consider these “secondary” tariffs “until such time as a deal is signed”.

As we reported earlier, Iran has ruled out direct negotiations with the Trump administration over its nuclear programme but signalled a willingness for indirect talks.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-negotiations-continue

Anti-Empire Files: Sit-Rep 03/29/2025 - Two front aerial war continues
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 No.488402

>>488401
<there will be bombing if Iran doesn’t make nuclear deal
I'm wondering whether they are trying to create a "threat-environment" to motivate Iran to build the nuke. Like on purpose, because it might be like with the DPRK, whence all war-plans got canned once the nuke entered the chat.
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 No.488404

>>488402
That would be nice tbh. I don't believe that's what they're doing.
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 No.488406

https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1906424413903347781
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit Hungary on April 2—despite an active ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza. This visit poses a direct challenge to international justice—and Hungary is enabling his evasion of accountability.
Hungary is a State Party to the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court. Under Articles 86 and 89 of the Statute, Hungary is legally bound to cooperate fully with the Court, including the arrest and surrender of any individual subject to an arrest warrant—such as Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hungary claims it is not required to comply with the ICC’s arrest warrant, arguing that it has not “promulgated” (i.e., formally incorporated) the relevant provisions of the Rome Statute into domestic law due to alleged constitutional concerns. However, this argument violates Hungary’s binding obligations under both the Rome Statute and general international law.
Hungary ratified the Rome Statute in 2001, and under Article 88, it is legally obligated to ensure that its national legal framework enables full cooperation—including arrest and surrender. Nearly 24 years later, it has yet to enact the necessary legislation. This is not a legal oversight—it is a calculated political decision to shield those accused of atrocity crimes from accountability.
Under Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) (VCLT)—to which Hungary is a party—“a party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.” A state cannot use domestic law as a shield against treaty obligations. This core principle of international law is one that Hungary cannot escape.



Hungary’s refusal to execute the ICC arrest warrant constitutes a serious breach of its obligations under the Rome Statute. It may trigger formal action by the Assembly of States Parties—including condemnation, diplomatic repercussions, and measures to confront deliberate non-compliance.
By hosting Netanyahu, Hungary is not merely failing to comply with international law—it is providing haven to a fugitive wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is not diplomatic neutrality. It is active complicity that grants impunity to someone who ought to be brought to justice.
Allowing non-compliance in this case would set a dangerous precedent—undermining the enforceability of international criminal law, diminishing the ICC’s authority, and signaling to States that obligations under the Rome Statute can be ignored without consequence and that accountability is negotiable.
We urge ICC States Parties, the Assembly of States Parties, and the broader international community to take immediate and coordinated steps to enforce the arrest warrant against Netanyahu and to hold any state accountable for defying the Court’s authority. Failure to act not only weakens the Court—it abandons the victims of Gaza to impunity.
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 No.488407

>>488404
>I don't believe that's what they're doing.
Maybe not intentionally, but if they squeeze Iran hard enough a nuke will pop out.
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 No.488408

>>488407
I doubt that, anymore. Russia signed a defensive agreement with them that's convinced them not to pursue nuclear weapons. Instead they're probably going to get all those non-nuclear hypersonic weaponry that the US has no counter to.
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 No.488409

>>488408
Tbh they should get a nuke anyway.
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 No.488415

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 No.488416

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>>488415
Wow that's crazy. I wonder what happens when people protest the IDF stealing Palestinian homes.
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 No.488417

Gaza death toll since Sunday morning rises to 64

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that 64 people have been killed since dawn on Sunday in Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip.

Number of health worker bodies recovered rises to 14: PRCS

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it has now recovered the bodies of 14 Gaza health workers, including eight emergency medical technicians (EMTs).

Five Civil Defense personnel and one UN employee were among the 14 bodies, PRCS said.

The teams were called for rescue efforts after Israeli attacks on the area eight days ago.

Contact was lost after Israeli soldiers surrounded their vehicles and opened fire. Israel – without providing evidence – has said Palestinian fighters were in the ambulances and firetrucks.

Videos show children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘safe zone’

Palestinian activists released footage of several children killed in Israeli air raids on the al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza.

Israeli forces early this morning attacked a tent encampment for forcibly displaced people. The videos show bodies of dead children dressed in new Eid al-Fitr clothes drenched in blood. The footage is too graphic to post.

The encampment was designated a “humanitarian safe zone” by Israel in December 2023. The camp at al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah, is one of the most overcrowded areas in Gaza.

https://twitter.com/letstalkpal/status/1906571541057278081
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PRCS releases names, photos of eight emergency responders killed

The eight ambulance team members were killed as they responded to an emergency call following Israeli attacks in Rafah in southern Gaza, the Palestine Red Crescent says.

The agency named those killed as:

Mustafa Khafaja
Ezzedine Sha’at
Saleh Moammar
Rifaat Radwan
Mohammad Behloul
Ashraf Abu Labda
Mohammad al-Hila
Raed al-Sharif

https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1906364337905631476

Gaza hospital overwhelmed, lacking medicine amid Israeli blockade
Hind Khoudary
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

Since the early hours of the morning, Israeli forces have killed at least 35 Palestinians, including 10 children.

A lot of [injured people] were transferred here to Al-Aqsa Hospital. Doctors are saying that the hospital is overwhelmed, and due to the lack of medicine, it’s very hard to treat the wounded.

We’re talking about more than three weeks of zero trucks entering the Gaza Strip. The Israeli authorities continue to prevent any aid or medicine from coming in.

Red Cross federation expresses ‘outrage’ at killing of PRCS medics

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says the attack that killed at least eight members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is the single deadliest attack on Red Cross/Red Crescent workers anywhere in the world since 2017.

“These dedicated ambulance workers were responding to wounded people. They were humanitarians. They wore emblems that should have protected them; their ambulances were clearly marked. They should have returned to their families; they did not,” IFRC Secretary-General Jagan Chapagain said in a statement.

“Even in the most complex conflict zones, there are rules. These rules of International Humanitarian Law could not be clearer – civilians must be protected; humanitarians must be protected. Health services must be protected,” Chapagain said.

https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1906407923489636744

Satellite images show five rescue vehicles completely destroyed in Rafah

Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad has obtained exclusive satellite images showing that at least five rescue vehicles were destroyed by the Israeli military in Rafah.

The vehicles – belonging to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Palestinian Civil Defence – were completely destroyed, according to the images, which were captured on March 25. What’s left of the vehicles was found on al-Muharrarat Road.

Fifteen rescue workers had been travelling to the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah, in southern Gaza, when they came under attack.

“The destruction coincided with efforts by the Red Crescent and Civil Defence to coordinate access to the area, which had been declared a closed military zone, in order to search for the missing and determine their fate,” Sanad said.

The satellite images also showed the presence of Israeli military vehicles in the area.

“The Israeli army has blocked al-Muharrarat Road with an earthen barrier near the incident site,” Sanad added.

Israeli forces use tear gas on Palestinians visiting Jenin cemetery

They targeted Palestinians paying respects to loved ones at a Jenin cemetery on Eid al-Fitr, causing “suffocation injuries”, according to local media reports.

Verified footage from Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency captures crowds scrambling for safety as clouds of tear gas spread in the area.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHz6G6XqEhb/

Israel approves controversial road project near occupied East Jerusalem

Israel’s security cabinet has approved the settlement road project late on Saturday, according to the Israeli media.

The road will redirect and separate Israeli and Palestinian traffic in the occupied West Bank, and will further isolate Palestinians in the area.



The project includes an underground road in the occupied West Bank, allowing Israel to move forward with plans to expand settlements in E1, an area beyond the Green Line.

While the road would link Palestinian towns, it would also separate them from the rest of the West Bank and restrict Palestinian movement on key routes between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, which would remain accessible primarily to Israelis.

According to the report, the move could facilitate the formal annexation of Ma’ale Adumim, a large settlement east of Jerusalem, with significant political implications for the West Bank.

Netanyahu says Hamas must disarm, leave Gaza for final truce deal

Israel’s leader has insisted Hamas must “lay down its weapons”, exile its leaders, and turn over security in Gaza to Israel in order to reach the “final stage” of the ceasefire deal.

Israel is planning to proceed with US President Donald Trump’s proposal to empty Gaza of Palestinians, he added, describing it as “voluntary immigration”.

“That is the plan. We do not hide it, we are ready to discuss it at any time,” said Netanyahu in comments carried by Arutz Sheva.

Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting: “Hamas must lay down its arms… Its leaders will be allowed to leave.”

He rejected claims Israel isn’t engaged in negotiations aimed at securing the release of captives held in Gaza.

Hamas has accepted a Qatari-Egyptian ceasefire proposal that senior official Khalil al-Hayya said includes delegating civil administration of the Strip to a group of independent technocrats. But the Palestinian group has refused to disarm, calling such a demand a “red line” while there is Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Demonstrators rally outside captive negotiator’s home in West Jerusalem

Families of Israeli captives and activists are protesting in front of the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, chief negotiator for the return of abductees from Gaza.

About 100 people demanded Dermer fulfil his mission to bring the captives home.

A statement from the families said: “We stand here to remind Minister Dermer of his highest message – to reach a complete agreement to save 59 souls. Save them from the danger of death and the real and immediate danger of disappearance.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-negotiations-continue
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US bombs Yemen’s Sanaa, Saada: Report

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting more US attacks on Yemen.

It said US forces launched two more attacks on the city of Saada and bombed the Al-Asayed area in the Kitaf district of the northern Saada province twice.

It also reported two raids on the Bani Maadh area of the Sahar district in Saada.

US forces also renewed attacks on the province of Sanaa, the channel said, launching three raids near Mount Nab Shuaib in the Bani Matar district.

Earlier, Al Masirah had reported attacks on the city of Saada as well as the nearby Al-Salem district.

Houthis claim attacks on US warships

A spokesman for the Houthis says its fighters “engaged with enemy warships”, led by the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman in the Red Sea three times in the past 24 hours.

In a statement on Telegram, the spokesman said the Houthis “will not back down from supporting the oppressed Palestinian people until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted”.

Houthi leader reaffirms support for Palestine in Eid message

Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Houthis, has condemned Israel’s war on Gaza in his message on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

He reaffirmed the Yemeni people’s unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and their resistance, according to the official Saba news agency.

He also asserted that the US aggression against Yemen would not diminish their military capabilities or deter their support for Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/30/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-negotiations-continue

Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli tank in Khan Younis

The armed wing of Hamas says it blew up the tank with “a pre-prepared explosive device” in the east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The group added that its fighters pounded the area with several mortar shells.

https://aje.io/pzmiwx?update=3614457

Video shows rescuers recovering bodies of aid workers in Rafah

The footage, by the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA), shows members of the PRCS and the Palestinian Civil Defence excavating a mass grave in Tal as-Sultan in Gaza’s Rafah governorate.

As we’ve been reporting, rescuers found 14 bodies on Sunday, taking the total number of bodies recovered to 15.

https://twitter.com/_jwhittall/status/1906455238371905901

Hamas issues call to arms against Gaza displacement

A senior Hamas official urged supporters worldwide on Monday to take up weapons and fight plans to displace Gaza’s people.

The idea of forcing Gazans to leave the devastated territory for neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Jordan was first floated by US President Donald Trump, and has since been seized on by right-wing Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who pledged on Sunday to implement it.

“In the face of this sinister plan – one that combines massacres with starvation – anyone who can bear arms, anywhere in the world, must take action,” Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement Monday.

“Do not withhold an explosive, a bullet, a knife, or a stone. Let everyone break their silence.”

Complaint for war crimes lodged in Romania against Israeli soldier

The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a criminal complaint before the Romanian prosecutor’s office against an Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade.

HRF accuses Orel Benyaish of “committing war crimes and acts of genocide” during Israel’s ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, HRF said, “The evidence submitted includes images and videos posted by Benyaish himself, showing his direct involvement in the destruction of residential buildings in the Netzarim corridor.”

“He appears in uniform, smiling in front of homes rigged with explosives. In these same images is fellow soldier Yuval Vagdani, also of the Givati Brigade, who was photographed in the moment explosives were being placed for a controlled demolition. The two acted together, knowingly and deliberately, in destroying civilian homes without any military justification,” it said.

World Food Programme raises alarm over its food supply running out in Gaza

The UN food agency says it expects its food stocks in Gaza to run out within two weeks.

It said it uses that aid to support “bakeries to produce bread, kitchens cooking hot meals, and the distribution of food parcels directly to families – each facing record low stocks inside the Strip”.

Israeli military claims to destroy tunnel in Gaza: Report

The Israeli military says it has demolished a 1km-long (0.6 mile-long) tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.

The tunnel in Beit Lahiya was destroyed by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, the newspaper said, citing the military.

The Israeli military also said soldiers with the 252nd Division had killed more than 50 Palestinian fighters during their operations in the northern and central parts of the Gaza Strip.

Hungary ‘must arrest’ Netanyahu and hand him to the ICC: Amnesty

Amnesty International says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court should he visit Hungary or any other states that are members of the court.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/31/live-israel-kills-64-in-gaza-on-eid-bodies-of-14-missing-medics-recovered
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In Gaza, Almost Every IDF Platoon Keeps a Human Shield, a Sub-army of Palestinian Slaves
Innocent Palestinians are regularly forced by soldiers to enter houses in Gaza to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives. So why is the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opening only six investigations into the use of human shields?

In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day.

I served in Gaza for nine months, and first came across these procedures, called "mosquito protocol" in December 2023. It was only two months into the ground offensive, long before there was a shortage of dogs from the IDF's canine unit, Oketz, who were used for this purpose. This became the insane, unofficial excuse for this insane, unofficial procedure. I didn't realize then how ubiquitous using human shields, whom we referred to as a "shawish," would become.

Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.

The procedure is simple. Innocent Palestinians are forced to enter houses in Gaza and "clear" them, to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives.

I recently saw that the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened six investigations into the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and my jaw dropped. I've seen cover-ups before, but this is a new low. If the MPCID wanted to do its job seriously, it would have to open far more than even a thousand investigations. But all the MPCID wants is for us to be able to tell ourselves and the world that we're investigating ourselves, so they've found six scapegoats and are pinning it all on them.
I was present at a meeting where one of the brigade commanders presented the "mosquito" concept to the division commander as a "necessary operational achievement to accomplish the mission." It was so normalized that I thought I was hallucinating.

As early as August of 2024, when this story broke in Haaretz and in testimonies collected by Breaking the Silence, a senior source said that both the outgoing IDF Chief of Staff and the outgoing Head of the Southern Command knew about the procedure. I don't know which is worse: that they don't know what's going on in the army they command, or that they do know and continue regardless.

It's been more than seven months since that story was published, and soldiers have continued detaining Palestinians and forcing them to go into houses and tunnels ahead of them. While the Chief of Staff and the Head of the Southern Command continued to say and do nothing about it, the protocol became even more widespread and normalized.

The highest-ranking personnel on the ground have known about the use of human shields for more than a year, and no one has tried to stop it. On the contrary, it was defined as an operational necessity.

It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now.

In other words, we forced Palestinians to act as human shields not because it was safer for IDF troops, but because it was faster. That's why we risked the lives of Palestinians who were suspected of nothing other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

read more:
https://archive.is/d1LC6#selection-1095.0-1127.262
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/in-gaza-almost-every-idf-platoon-keeps-a-human-shield-a-sub-army-of-palestinian-slaves/00000195-e627-deaf-a397-f6674e390000
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 No.488424

>>488417
>Israel’s leader has insisted Hamas must “lay down its weapons”, exile its leaders, and turn over security in Gaza to Israel in order to reach the “final stage”
Yeah we all know that "final stage" is a euphemism.

By the way rumors have it that Hamas has been able to recruit new fighters and they're almost back to full strength.
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 No.488428

>>488416
They only have their own reactionary leadership to blame.
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 No.488429

>>488424
>By the way rumors have it that Hamas has been able to recruit new fighters and they're almost back to full strength.
That seems to be almost everyone's analysis, yes.
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 No.488430

>>488428
Yeah, the Israelis, who illegally occupy Gaza & the West Bank, are extremely reactionary and completely to blame for the war crimes they inflict upon the people they illegally occupy.
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 No.488440

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Houthi media say US strikes hit Yemen’s Kamaran Island

The Yemeni group’s Al Masirah TV has reported “US aggression on Kamaran Island with two strikes”, quoting its correspondent in Hodeidah.

The island is the largest Yemeni one in the Red Sea and is located off the port city of Hodeidah.

Moments earlier, Trump had warned the Houthis and their Iranian backers they would face “real pain” from more attacks should they keep threatening shipping.

Since then, the Houthis have announced attacks targeting US military ships and Israel.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim US drone downing

Yahya Saree, the military spokesman of the Houthi rebels, says in a statement that air defences shot down a US MQ-9 drone over Yemen’s central province of Marib.

The spokesman said the group continues to “prevent Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas”.

Israel bombs Beirut

Our correspondent in the Lebanese capital is reporting that Israeli forces are again bombing the city’s southern suburbs.

Iran will have ‘no choice’ but to acquire nuclear weapons if attacked by US or Israel

Iran would have no alternative but to acquire a nuclear weapon if attacked by the United States or its allies, an adviser to the country’s supreme leader has warned, following a threat by Donald Trump.

The comments came hours after the supreme leader himself, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had promised to hit back if the US president made good on his threat to bomb Iran if it did not agree to a deal to curb its nuclear programme.

“We are not moving towards [nuclear] weapons, but if you do something wrong in the Iranian nuclear issue, you will force Iran to move towards that because it has to defend itself,” Khamenei’s adviser Ali Larijani said in an interview on Iranian TV.

“Iran does not want to do this, but … [it] will have no choice,” he added.

“If at some point you [the US] move towards bombing by yourself or through Israel, you will force Iran to make a different decision.”

Lebanon village devastated by Israel marks Eid among its dead

Residents of the war-devastated southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun marked the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr among their dead.

Relatives crowded the village’s cemeteries to pray for the more than 100 residents, including fighters from Hezbollah, who were killed during the war between the group and Israel, which ended with a fragile ceasefire in November.

“We defied the entire world by being here in Aitaroun to celebrate Eid with our martyrs,” Siham Ftouni told the AFP news agency near the grave of her son, a rescuer with an Islamic health organisation affiliated with Hezbollah.

“Their blood permitted us to come back to our village,” she said.

During the war, Lebanese state media reported that Israeli troops used explosives in Aitaroun and two nearby villages to blow up houses. The town square is heavily damaged.

Few people have returned to live or to reopen businesses in Aitaroun or many other villages in southern Lebanon.

US legislators introduce bills to block sales of 900kg bombs to Israel

The bills introduced by Democratic Congresswomen Pramila Jayapal and Rashida Tlaib is the latest effort by members of the US Congress to restrict weapons sales to Israel.

If passed, Jayapal said the draft legislation would block the sales of bombs, munitions and other military equipment, including more than 35,000 of 2,000-pound (907kg) bombs, 5,000 of the 1,000 pound bombs, guidance kits for bombs and bulldozers,

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/31/live-israel-kills-64-in-gaza-on-eid-bodies-of-14-missing-medics-recovered
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 No.488441

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1907013251616981344
“Israel is deceitful and treacherous, and it doesn't honor any agreement.” Israel bombed Beirut again overnight, killing at least 4 people.

Israeli jets bombed Beirut’s Dahyeih suburb, targeting a residential building. The strike, carried out without warning, killed at least 4 people and injured several others. This is the second time in less than a week that Israel has bombed Beirut, violating the ceasefire. Naim Qassem, Hezbollah leader, called the Israeli attacks on Lebanon unacceptable, emphasizing that they will not stand idly by.

The Israeli army claimed the target was an alleged Hezbollah member in contact with Palestinian resistance factions. Over 115 people have been killed since Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire in November 2024. Israel continues to occupy Lebanese land, and over 1,500 violations have occurred with full approval from the US.
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 No.488447

The Cradle: Qatar and Israel train side by side in Greece

Qatar has participated in the multinational air exercise “Iniochos 2025” with F-15s alongside Israel and at least ten other countries, including Bahrain (F-16), and the UAE (Mirage 2000/9).

The drill, hosted by Greece from 31 March to 11 April, includes joint air combat simulations and operational coordination.

According to KAN military correspondent Itay Blumenthal, Israel was surprised to see the full list of participants published on the Hellenic Air Force's website, especially given its request to keep its involvement, and that of others like Qatar, confidential—in light of Qatar's known support for Hamas and its involvement in the ongoing “Qatargate” scandal.

Despite public posturing, Qatari and Israeli air forces are now training in the same sky, attending joint briefings and cooperating in simulated missions.

Blumenthal noted bluntly: “Qatar and Israel are now training together in Greece.”

https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1906831536193978693
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 No.488449

>>488430
>Israel's exploding population
Where is this delusional retard getting this? Israel has been experiencing a demographic crisis for the past year now.
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 No.488453

>>488449
You are absolutely correct Israel has suffered significant demographic shrinkage. But are you really surprised there is propaganda that is saying the exact opposite ?

But the phrase
<Israel's exploding population
might come true in a different sense if the Netanyahu gets his Iran war.
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 No.488464

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This guy is now in the US House of Representatives for a district in Florida. There's also a hilarious video around of him ducking under a desk when a lawyer came to his office to serve a deposition, and he later claimed he thought it was Hamas coming to kill him.
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 No.488476

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1907384039834853736
Redstream: “A brutal crime committed by the US and Israel.” The US is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and residences in Yemen. At least 61 people have been killed since the US-led aggression began with the support of Gulf countries, including Qatar.

During the night, the US targeted a water management facility in the Hodeidah region, killing at least 4 people. The US-led assault, which started on March 15, aims to weaken Yemen's support for the Palestinian people, end the maritime blockade, and halt attacks on Israel.

Trump has issued new threats to Yemen and Iran, accusing them, along with Israel, of supplying the Yemeni Armed Forces with weapons used to target shipping in the Red Sea. Despite Trump’s claim that “the Houthis have been decimated” by the airstrike campaign, the Yemeni Armed Forces have documented the downing of another US drone with a locally manufactured missile.
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 No.488478

https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1907355525894779388
Matt Kennard: 2 days ago, an Israeli military plane (IAF555) spent 3 hours circling off coast of Los Angeles, California, right next to border w/ Mexico.

Plane model + serial number were blocked.

Took off from Chino Airport at 15.34 + landed at San Bernardino Airport (25 miles away) at 18.36
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 No.488481

US air attacks hit Yemen: Houthi media

Air strikes have been reported across Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including Saada and Hajjah in the far north of the country, and Hodeidah in the west.

Houthis claim attack on US aircraft carrier

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said that the Houthis targeted the USS Truman with rockets and drones as it sailed through the Red Sea.

Sarea said the latest claimed attack was the third in the past 24 hours.

The US has previously denied any successful attack on the USS Truman.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/1/live-israel-has-killed-322-children-in-gaza-since-breaking-ceasefire

US deploys second aircraft carrier to the Middle East

A spokesman for the Pentagon says the US is increasing the number of aircraft carriers deployed in the Middle East to two, keeping one that is already there and sending another from the Asia Pacific.

Sean Parnell said the Carl Vinson will join the Harry S Truman in the Middle East to “deter aggression, and protect the free flow of commerce in the region”.

The announcement comes as the US continues bombing Yemen in a campaign launched after the Houthis threatened to resume attacks on Israel-linked ships over the blockade on Gaza.

Parnell said US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also ordered “the deployment of additional squadrons and other air assets that will further reinforce our defensive air-support capabilities”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/2/live-israels-gaza-blockade-reaches-one-month-forcing-bakeries-to-close

White House says Yemen strikes ‘incredibly successful’ as Houthis release footage of downed US drone

The Houthis claim to have shot the MQ-9 Reaper drone down on Monday over Marib and released footage today showing burning debris, followed by fighters combing through the wreckage.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the US strikes on the Houthis have been “incredibly successful”.

“There have now been more than 200 successful strikes,” Leavitt said. “Iran is incredibly weakened as a result. They’ve taken out Houthi leaders, critical members who have been launching strikes on naval ships and commercial vessels. This operation will not stop until the freedom of navigation in this region is restored.”

The Houthis have yet to confirm the death of any of their leaders since the US renewed its bombing campaign in March.

Germany seeking to deport four foreign residents over Gaza protests: Report

German authorities have issued deportation orders for four foreign nationals for taking part in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, even though they have not been convicted of any crimes, according to a report by The Intercept.

“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the affected protesters. “You can see it in the US and Germany, too: political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”

The authorities’ allegations against Cooper Longbottom of the United States, Kasia Wlaszczyk of Poland, and Shane O’Brien and Roberta Murray of the Republic of Ireland reportedly stem from their participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including an occupation of Berlin’s Free University building in late 2024.

According to the report, the deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were driven by “political pressure” and came despite internal objections from the head of Berlin’s state immigration agency.

Three of the people slated for deportation are European Union citizens who are normally entitled to freedom of movement within the bloc.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/1/live-israel-has-killed-322-children-in-gaza-since-breaking-ceasefire
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 No.488484

Netanyahu departs for Hungary amid criticism over ICC warrant

The Israeli prime minister is en route to Hungary despite calls on the central European country and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban to adhere to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Following Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has become the latest rights organisation to condemn Hungary for welcoming PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu, along with former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, is wanted by the ICC for the war crime of starving Palestinians and several crimes against humanity including the mass killing of civilians.

Hungary is a member of the ICC, but has rejected calls for it to arrest Netanyahu, and there have been suggestions instead that it will leave the international body.

https://twitter.com/CAIRNational/status/1907537151132111218
https://aje.io/gyap3w?update=3619865
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 No.488497

Israeli army advances in southern Syria: Local authorities

Authorities in the Deraa governorate say in a post on Telegram that Israel is advancing with military vehicles near the city of Nawa, east of the occupied Golan Heights.

Israeli shelling reported in southern Syria

It appears that Israeli attacks on Syria are continuing.

Alekhbaria TV, reports that Israeli artillery is targeting the western Deraa countryside in the south of the country. The same outlet said earlier that 18 Israeli strikes had hit a military airport in Hama.

More Israeli strikes in Syria

Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reports that an Israeli strike has targeted the vicinity of the central city of Hama.

According to Alekhbaria TV, the attack was near a military airport. The television also reported an Israeli air strike by the T-4 airbase in Homs Governorate.

As reported earlier, a science research building in Damascus was also hit in an Israeli strike.

Houthi Health Ministry says 61 civilians killed in US attacks

The Ministry of Health in Sanaa says US strikes have killed 61 civilians and injured 139 others since March 15.

The US military has been carrying out near-daily attacks in Yemen as Trump promised to “completely annihilate” the Houthis.

The Yemeni group said it will continue its military operations against Israel and shipping lanes in the Red Sea until Israel ends its assault on Gaza, which UN experts have described as a genocide.

US places nearly one-third of B-2 bomber fleet in Indian Ocean Diego Garcia base: Report

Satellite images analysed by The Associated Press show at least six nuclear-capable B-2 bomber aircraft in the Indian Ocean base, within striking distance of Iran.

“It is highly unusual to see that many at one base abroad,” The AP said in its analysis, pointing out that each aircraft costs approximately $1bn.

The bombers have previously been used by the US in the Kosovo War, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. And more recently, Diego Garcia was used as a launch site for B-2 bombers to strike Yemen’s Houthis last year.

The AP noted that the US would need to use B-2 bombers if it wanted to strike Iran’s underground nuclear sites.

One killed, one injured in US attack in Yemen: Report

According to the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV, the casualties resulted from a US strike in the Ras Isa district of as-Salif in the Hodeidah Governorate.

PIJ takes responsibility for rocket attack against Israel

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says it fired a rocket salvo at Sderot and other Israeli towns outside Gaza.

The Israeli military had said it intercepted two launches from the Palestinian territory.

UN Human Rights Council adopts resolution on accountability in occupied territories

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and a commitment to ensuring accountability and justice.

The resolution called for an end to the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory in accordance with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Germany, Ethiopia, Czechia and North Macedonia voted against the resolution, but 27 nations backed it while 16 others, including France and Japan abstained.

The resolution also affirmed the illegal nature of forced displacement of Palestinians by Israel and arbitrary Israeli policies against Palestinian prisoners.

According to the Wafa news agency, the Palestinian delegation present at the council meeting criticised “double standards and a lack of international will for achieving practical steps to hold the occupation accountable”.

Casualties after Israeli attack hits police force in Deir el-Balah

Gaza’s Ministry of Interior reports that several Palestinians were killed and wounded after an Israeli air strike targeted police officers and personnel in the city, located in the central part of the enclave.

ICC denounces Hungary for ignoring Netanyahu arrest warrant

The International Crime Court (ICC) has criticised Hungary’s decision to defy its arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza.

The court’s spokesperson, Fadi El Abdallah, said it’s not for parties to the ICC “to unilaterally determine the soundness of the Court’s legal decisions”.

Participating states have an obligation to enforce the court’s decisions, added El Ebdallah.

“Any dispute concerning the judicial functions of the Court shall be settled by the decision of the Court,” El Abdallah said.

Hungary eyes dropping out of ICC as Netanyahu visits

Hungary may withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week as Israel’s prime minister arrives on a four-day visit.

European Green Party calls for Netanyahu’s arrest in Hungary

The European Green Party is calling for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to be arrested and face trial at The Hague as he arrives in Hungary.

US imposes more sanctions on Iran’s ‘shadow banking’, Yemen’s Houthis

The Donald Trump administration has blacklisted several more individuals and entities in a stated effort to impose “maximum pressure” against Iran and the Houthi force in Yemen, where US warplanes have been bombing daily.

The US Treasury emphasised that the new sanctions target a complex “shadow banking” system of clandestine financial facilitators that enable Iran to sell its oil, petrochemicals, and other commodities to circumvent sanctions.

It also said it is targeting a “network of Houthi financial facilitators and procurement operatives” working in coordination with a senior Houthi figure backed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The network allegedly “procured tens of millions of dollars’ worth of commodities from Russia, including weapons and sensitive goods, as well as stolen Ukrainian grain” to send to Yemen.

A Hong Kong-based ship manager, a Russia-based Afghan businessman, the general director of three Russia-based companies, and alleged supporters of Houthi trade ventures involving Russia were among those targeted.

Lebanon’s defence chief calls on truce sponsors to stop Israeli violations

Defence Minister Michel Menassa has told foreign dignitaries he hosted today that Israel is escalating its attacks against Lebanon, the National News Agency reports

“The countries sponsoring the ceasefire agreement must stop the Israeli enemy’s violations and aggressions against Lebanese sovereignty,” Menassa was quoted as saying by the agency.

Israel has been carrying out near-daily attacks in Lebanon, and last month, it bombed Beirut twice despite the ceasefire it reached with Hezbollah last year, which was sponsored by France and the US.

The Israeli military also continues to occupy parts of south Lebanon in violation of the truce deal.

US, Israel cannot eliminate Iran’s nuclear programme with strikes: IRGC commander

A senior commander with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu must know they cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear programme and localised nuclear technology expertise with military attacks.

“None of the announced goals for military aggression, including the destruction of the nuclear programme, will be realised. An attack by the enemies will move Iran’s nuclear programme to a new stage,” Yadollah Javani, the IRGC’s deputy for political affairs, wrote in an article for the state-run Fars news agency.

He said Iran will “reconsider its defence doctrine and the nature of its nuclear programme” if the country is attacked, and will proceed to “deal heavy blows to our enemies”.

This comes a day after Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that “there is no such thing as a military option, let alone a military solution” in dealing with Iran’s nuclear programme, and pointed to what he called “catastrophic failures” for the US in the region during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Hundreds of Israelis protest demanding conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews

The protesters are marching in West Jerusalem and plan to rally outside the Israeli parliament, or Knesset.

They’re aiming to put pressure on the Israeli government to effectively conscript more ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military.

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Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for #Gaza Civil Defense, announced that the number of bodies incinerated by Israeli airstrikes is 2,840.

The Israeli occupation is using bombs with temperatures reaching 7,000-9,000°C. These bombs are causing the bodies of civilians to dissolve.
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