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The toddler’s frail, malnourished body scarcely twitched as she lay helplessly in an incubator chamber in the already-decimated Gaza hospital. Leila Jeneid, one of countless children who have passed through the doors of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip, has suffered as a result of starvation and dehydration. In a video …
The Biden administration is close to approving the sale of as many as 50 American-made F-15 fighter jets to Israel, in a deal expected to be worth more than $18 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter. The transaction, which would amount to the largest US foreign military sale to Israel since the …
When Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza, the world wouldn’t believe it and Israel blamed a misfired rocket from Hamas… Israel has now destroyed all 36 hospitals in Gaza including its largest medical facility the al-Shifa Hospital… THIS IS A GENOCIDE…🇵🇸💔 pic.twitter.com/PzREhDPwuy — Pelham (@Resist_05) April 1, 2024 The catastrophic damage inflicted on Gaza’s …
Washington gives $3.8 billion in annual military assistance to Israel, its longtime ally. Speaking at an event hosted by the Defense Writers Group, Gen Charles Q Brown, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “Although we’ve been supporting them with capability, they’ve not received everything they’ve asked for. “Some of that is …
#BREAKING: Over 130 British MPs have sent a letter to the Foreign Minister urging for an arms embargo on Israel, citing Israel's non-compliance with the UN Security Council's ceasefire resolution. pic.twitter.com/DbyZohmFNd — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 27, 2024 AhlulBayt News Agency: Parliamentary pressure is building on the UK government to ban arms sales to …
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese delivered a report to the body’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday, saying that she believed that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since Oct. 7 amounted to genocide and called on countries to impose sanctions and an arms embargo immediately. “I find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the …
🚨🇵🇸 BREAKING: Israel Conducts Major Airstrikes in Rafahhttps://t.co/56hqB1eyau — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 26, 2024 In short this is what is happening in #Rafah now… which the occupation said were safe areas 💔 pic.twitter.com/5xMNeaAFy8 — Salman Obeida 🇵🇸 Gaza (@ObedaSalman) March 26, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1772764283144704204 h/t Dangerous Times
Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz denounced Canada’s decision to suspend future arms exports to Israel, saying “history will judge” the Western nation for reneging on its support for Israel amid the ongoing war with Hamas. Canadian foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly announced Tuesday that the Trudeau-led government would stop sending weapons to Israel, Israeli newspaper …
Video starts at timestamp of the agent speaking so you don’t have to listen to the Jimmy Dore Show’s comedy routine beforehand. Basically, if you are a journalist or politician in the USA and you say anything that Israel doesn’t want you to say, then you are labeled an antisemite, and that permanently ruins your …
The Israel Files is a new MintPress series exploring and highlighting the many revelations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that WikiLeaks documents disclosed. It hopes to shed light on many of the most important and underreported revelations the publishing group exposed. … Together, the Sony Archive – a cache of emails published by Wikileaks – prove …
Richard Medhurst, independent journalist from the UK, reports on the latest from Yemen: the Houthis have expanded their blockade of Israeli and Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea to include the Indian Ocean, targeting 3 US and 2 Israeli vessels on March 15. AC
Day 2 |The African National Congress in South Africa holds dialogue on South Africa’s solidarity with Palestine, the ICJ case and the way forward.
The Syrian diplomat discussed strengthening ties between Arab countries and cooperation. There were few specifics in this discussion. “He said that he met with the UAE Minister of State, Khalifa Shaheen Al-Marar, and the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Sameh Shukri, Lebanon, Abdullah Bouhabib, and Tunisia, Nabil Ammar, in a meeting to discuss bilateral relations, ways …
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Former President Trump, the likely GOP candidate for the 2024 presidential election, said he supported Israel’s brutal, ongoing military operations in Gaza in an interview with “Fox & Friends” this week. Trump agreed when a host described him as being “firmly in Israel’s camp.” He was then asked if he was “on board” with …
The United States has approved and delivered on more than 100 arms sales to Israel since October 7, US officials recently told Congress in a classified briefing, according to a Washington Post report citing unnamed officials. According to the report, the sales included thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs and other weapons. They did not …
53% of Israelis believe Netanyahu is extending war to stay in power A recent survey by Israeli Channel 13 showed that 53% of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is actively prolonging the war to stay in power. When asked what Netanyahu’s purpose for extending the Israeli war on Gaza was, 35% of voters said …
Russia has sided with enemies of the “free world” that seek global instability and have weaponized the UN against Israel, the Jewish state’s permanent representative to the organization has claimed. Moscow has dismissed Gilad Erdan’s accusations as “delirium.” The senior diplomat levelled multiple accusations at Moscow in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, the …
by Chris Black No one could have predicted it. RT: Explosions that ruptured two Iranian natural gas pipelines last week were the result of an Israeli plot, the Islamic republic’s oil minister, Javad Owji, has said. According to Iranian officials, the twin blasts occurred in the central Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and the southern Fars …
In a really upsetting twist at the United Nations, people are scratching their heads and feeling pretty frustrated with the United States for not supporting a plan to make Israel leave the place where Palestinians live. The International Court of Justice is spending a whole week talking about this, and lots of countries, 52 to …
Not one state has sought to defend Israel’s actions and occupation of Palestinian territory, highlighting the illegality of Tel Aviv’s policies, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the Netherlands Ziad Al Atiyah told the International Court of Justice today. Speaking on the second day of the ICJ hearings of submissions regarding the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation …
The Israeli channel Kan 11 website released a report by its political affairs correspondent, Michael Shemesh, unveiling recordings of the Israeli Minister of Health cautioning about an unprecedented scenario—an extended power outage across all regions, a situation never before experienced by “Israel”. The report stated that what was included in the referenced scenario for the …
Netenyahu has no off switch. If things are bad, make them worse. If things are worse, escalate. These maniacs are hellbent on setting the world on fire. The Israel-Hezbollah war is expanding, which was on display Monday as Israel for the first time struck near a large city which is deep inside Lebanon, far away …
As Israel experiences a downgrade in its credit rating, a similar fate has befallen its leader. Prime Minister Netanyahu, once considered a respected statesman on the international stage, has lost his rating. And similar to Moody’s forecast, the forecast is negative. The first signs of his downgrade came before October 7. The legal reform surprised …
Norway has agreed to help transfer frozen tax funds earmarked for the Palestinian Authority that were collected by Israel, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry says, providing vital funding to the Western-backed entity. “The temporary scheme will play a crucial role in preventing the Palestinian Authority from collapsing financially,” the Norwegian ministry says in a statement. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-february-18-2024/
Western leaders are hoping a round of meetings at a security conference in Munich will put overwhelming pressure on Israel not to press ahead with a ground offensive in Rafah. Almost all the key figures, save the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, will be present in Munich on Friday, including foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, …
In a recent development, Israeli occupation forces reportedly entered the premises of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, opening fire in its medical departments and urging the injured to evacuate. Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip highlighted the pressure on injured individuals to evacuate the area. Meanwhile, the …
“Israeli forces could enter the city and harm civilians without facing American consequences,” POLITICO reports, citing three US officials speaking on condition of anonymity. Measuring about 64 square kilometers in size, Rafah is severely overcrowded, with hundreds of thousands of civilians who fled there after the Israeli army designated the city a “safe zone” in …
by Chris Black This is the first time any EU official has said anything remotely similar to this, for anyone keeping score. Everyone knows that you can’t stop these people from committing slaughter, if they have the weapons. They’ve killed more than 20 times the number of people they claim died on October 7, and …
Dozens of trapped people flee Nasser Hospital during deadly sniper attacks after Israeli forces ordered hundreds to evacuate. Israel launches “extensive wave of attacks” on southern Lebanon after “deep” rocket strikes kill one and wound eight others. Lebanon’s Hezbollah says one of its fighters killed in Israeli response. UN chief Antonio Guterres condemns an Israeli …