‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 135: Israel’s War on Gaza’s Hospitals Continues – Mustafa Abu Sneineh 2/18/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Nasser Hospital, the second-largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, was forced closed Sunday following an Israeli siege, storming, and arrest of medical staff and patients. Meanwhile, Israel also bombed Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis.

Casualties

  • 28,985+ killed* and at least 68,883 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 573 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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Dutch Court Orders Government to Stop Providing F-35 Parts to Israel – David Kattenburg 2/13/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Yesterday, an appeals court ruling in The Hague ordered the Dutch government to cease exports of F-35 fighter bomber components to Israel.

The ruling overturned a December 15 decision by the District Court of The Hague, dismissing a suit by three Dutch human rights groups seeking a halt in the provision of F-35 spare parts to Israel.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 132: Israel Bombards Nasser Hospital, Reports of Egypt Preparing ‘Buffer Zone’ Ahead of Gaza Expulsion – Leila Warah 2/15/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israel bombarded Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing and injuring patients and those sheltering inside. Egyptian human rights group reports construction underway on detention zone ahead of a possible mass expulsion from Gaza into Sinai.

Casualties

  • 28,576+ Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 12,000 children, and 68,291+ Palestinians have been injured.
  • 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 569 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 130: U.S. Senate Votes to Send Additional $14 Billion to Israel as Catastrophic Ground Invasion of Rafah Appears Imminent – Leila Warah 2/13/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

As Palestinians prepare for a catastrophic ground invasion of Rafah, the U.S. Senate votes to send an additional $14 billion to Israel. Amnesty International warns Palestinians in southern Gaza are “facing the real and imminent risk of genocide.”

Casualties:

  • 28,473+ killed* and at least 68,146 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 569 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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CNN’s Israel Bias has Been Laid Bare. but CNN is the Norm, not the Exception – Jonathan Cook 2/12/24

Source: Antiwar.com

Leaks from within CNN reveal that for months its executives have been actively imposing an editorial line designed to reinforce Israel’s framing of events in Gaza, to the point of obscuring atrocities by the Israeli military.

The dictates, say insiders, have resulted in senior staff refusing to accept assignments to the region “because they do not believe they will be free to tell the whole story”. Others suspect they are being kept away by editors who fear they will fight the restrictions.

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US Drone Strike In Baghdad Assassinates Top Iraqi Official – Robert Inlakesh 2/7/24

Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

Two prominent leaders in Iraq were assassinated by a US drone strike on their car in Eastern Baghdad, this Wednesday, leading to an initial wave of street protests and potentially initiated a renewed escalation of the Gaza-Israel war. Western media have attempted to sanitize the strikes, which represent a clear violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and an act of war against crucial components of the nation’s security apparatus.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 129: Israel Bombards Rafah, Killing more than 60 in a Night – Yumna Patel 2/12/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

67 Palestinians, including babies and children, were killed Sunday night as Israel intensified bombing in Rafah, where over 1 million Palestinians are sheltering, in preparation for a ground invasion that experts warn would amount to genocide.

Casualties:

  • 28,340+ killed* and at least 67,984 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 566 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 126: U.S. Claims it won’t Support ‘Unplanned’ Ground Operation in Rafah, Israel Escalates Attacks Anyway – Anna Lekas Miller 2/9/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Even Joe Biden admits that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is “over the top,” while the Israeli army has continued to intensify its attacks following Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas’s most recent ceasefire proposal.

Casualties

  • 27,947+ Palestinians killed in Gaza, including at least 12,000 children.
  • 67,459+ Palestinians injured. 

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The ‘Guardian’ Exposes how CNN Slants the Gaza News – James North 2/4/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The Guardian reveals CNN’s pro-Israel bias is no accident, but a conscious and complex effort directed from the very top of the network.

The British Guardian has just published an extraordinary, thorough confirmation of what we already suspected — that CNN’s bias about reporting Israel’s war on Gaza is no accident, but a conscious and complex policy directed from the very top of the network.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 125: Israel Rejects Ceasefire Proposal, Plans to Expand Ground Invasion into Rafah – Leila Warah 2/8/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israel rejected a Hamas proposal for a ceasefire, which included the return of Israeli captives held in Gaza, and is preparing instead to expand its ground invasion to Rafah, where 1.9 million Palestinians are seeking refuge.

Casualties

  • 27,708+ killed* and at least 67,147 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 564 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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US Strikes At Least 85 Targets In Iraq & Syria, Including From B1 Bombers – ZeroHedge 2/3/24

Source: ZeroHedge.com

Update(1715ET): Importantly, there have been no reports of US airstrikes in Iran this evening, and US officials say that the Pentagon does not plan to hit targets inside the Islamic Republic. But the strikes on eastern Syria and in western Iraq were large, and targeted IRGC assets and personnel and their affiliates. According to a CENTCOM statement, the initial wave, which started at 4pm US Eastern Time (interestingly, just after markets closed), included over 85 targets, with some of them hit more than once:

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 121: Israel Kills more than 1,000 Palestinians Since ICJ Ruling; U.S. Bombs Yemen – Mustafa Abu Sneineh 2/4/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israeli minister wishes to “encourage voluntary emigration” of Palestinians outside Gaza. Israeli forces bomb Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are displaced in shelters near Egypt border. In West Bank, settlers attack Palestinian villages.

Casualties

  • 27,365+ killed* and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 562 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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Who is the Antiwar Candidate? – Philip Giraldi 1/25/24

Source: Unz.com

I sometimes wonder what the Founders, if they could return to life and see their creation, would think of today’s American Republic. President George W. Bush described the Constitution of the United States as “just a goddamned piece of paper” before he went on a rampage all over the world in what he called the “war on terror.” Of course, he had probably never even read the Constitution or the Federalist Papers and therefore did not understand how the Founders had deliberately made it difficult to go to war, which they regarded as the greatest evil confronting the new nation. Bush proceeded to push through other unconstitutional legislation including the so-called Patriot Act which empowered him to kill some hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings in places like Afghanistan and Iraq without declaring war on anyone after having produced fabricated information to justify the brutality.

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The West’s Defunding Of UNRWA Has Nothing To Do With Oct 7 – Robert Inlakesh 1/29/24

Source:TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is responsible for aiding the Palestinian refugee population and is especially vital to the people of Gaza — now suffering an Israeli imposed famine — has suddenly been defunded by Western nations. The move to withdraw funding comes as an immediate response to Israel’s allegation that employees of the agency were involved in the Hamas-led October 7 attack. However, it is clear that Israel’s claims are disingenuous.

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Sir Henry Kissinger: Midwife to New Babylon – Matthew Ehret 12/23/23

Source: matthewehret.substack.com

The moment Kissinger’s last breath left his corpse, media commentators lost no time running out the gates, either singing songs of slavish praise about the “great liberal statesman” on one hand or composing devastating critiques of the bloodstained trail of tears Kissinger’s legacy left on the world.

I was beginning to think that nothing new or relevant could be said about the life of Sir Kissinger (he was made a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1995). But with the smell of Messianic fanaticism weighing heavily in the air of Jerusalem these days, I realized I was quite mistaken. In 2012, Kissinger said something quite curious that very few people have taken seriously, yet his statement opens the door to an important lesson about world history—and Kissinger’s peculiar life gives us a window into it.

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Biden Cuts off Aid to Gaza Based on Israeli Allegations – Michael Arria 1/26/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The State Department has paused funding for UNRWA after the Israeli government accused 12 employees of being involved in the October 7 attack.

The State Department paused additional funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after the Israeli government accused 12 UNRWA workers of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack.

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ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocidal Acts in Gaza and Punish Calls for Incitement – David Kattenburg 1/26/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

In a historic ruling against Israel for apparent acts of genocide, the International Court of Justice called on Israel to immediately prevent genocidal acts in Gaza and punish calls for incitement. The case against Israel will now move forward.

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US-British Attacks on Yemen a Portent for Wider War – Brian Berletic 1/16/24

Source: Journal-Neo.su

In the opening weeks of 2024, the US and British unilaterally launched several large-scale missile and air strikes on targets in territory held by Ansar Allah (referred to as the “Houthis” across the Western media) in Yemen.

The strikes follow a campaign of missile strikes and boardings conducted by Ansar Allah against commercial shipping destined to and from Israel in response to Israel’s ongoing punitive operations in Gaza.

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Congress Asleep as Biden Makes War on Yemen – Ron Paul 1/15/24

Source: RonPaulInstitute.org

Late last week President Biden started a new US war on the tiny country of Yemen. US warships and fighter jets launched more than a hundred missiles at the country in a massive escalation that the Administration bizarrely claimed would “de-escalate” tensions in the Red Sea.

Taking the US to war without a Congressional declaration of war is a grave crime against the Constitution. Not only did Biden show no interest in coming to Congress for a war declaration, he didn’t even ask for authorization. Together with Washington’s reliable junior partner in war, the UK, Biden attacked Yemen. It seems the US Administration consulted more with the UK government than with the US Congress on the attacks.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 106: Israel Bombs Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, U.S. Bombs Yemen – Mondoweiss 1/20/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Biden insists Netanyahu is open to a two-state solution, despite Netanyahu stating the opposite. Meanwhile, a Palestinian-American teenager was killed by Israelis in the West Bank, and the UN estimates two mothers are killed in Gaza every hour.

Casualties:

  • 24,927 killed* and at least 62,388 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 369 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
  • 550 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, including 194 since the beginning of the ground invasion, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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Netanyahu Just Said Israel will Permanently Occupy the Land ‘From the River to the Sea.’ The U.S. Media is Covering it up – James North 1/19/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Why is the U.S. mainstream hiding Netanyahu’s provocative statement, that Israel will permanently occupy everything “from the river to the sea?”

The other day Benjamin Netanyahu produced his most memorable statement since October 7. He said that his ultimate aim is that Israel will permanently occupy all the territory “from the river to the sea.” There is video of him saying it in Hebrew.

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Israeli Army Gassed my Son ‘Like Auschwitz,’ Mother of Slain Israeli Soldier Says – Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal 1/18/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

An outraged Israeli mom has sparked an uproar after accusing the Israeli army of deliberately gassing her son to death while he was being held in a Gaza tunnel. Now she says the Israeli military had her son’s gravestone removed after her critical message went viral. His killing follows a pattern of Israeli military attacks on Israeli captives in Gaza, raising questions about the existence of a friendly fire policy to prevent prisoner swaps.

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A Chance To Hold Israel, and the US, to Account for Genocide – Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies 1/11/24

Source: Antiwar.com

On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. The first provisional measure South Africa has asked of the court is to order an immediate end to this carnage, which has already killed more than 23,000 people, most of them women and children. Israel is trying  to bomb Gaza into oblivion and scatter the terrorized survivors across the Earth, meeting the Convention’s definition of genocide to the letter.

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There is no U.S. Interest in Backing a Genocide and Bombing Yemen – Philip Weiss 1/13/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

One of the central claims of Israel’s advocates is that supporting Israel is in the U.S. interest. There can be no greater farce today, when our country has bombed yet another Arab country to support Israel’s war on Gaza, and people are burning the American flag at demonstrations.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 100: Nearly 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been Killed, Injured, or are Missing Since October 7 – Mustafa Abu Sneineh 1/14/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

As Israel’s assault on Gaza reaches 100 days, an estimated 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured, or are missing. Still Netanyahu declares: “No one will stop us; not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else calling the ICJ.”

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Palestine: The Greatest Moral Issue of Our Time – M. Reza Behnam 1/10/23

Source: Antiwar.com

Long before South Africa filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023 over its genocidal war on Gaza, its iconic anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who came to embody the struggle for justice worldwide; stated, “Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time.”

Three decades have passed since Mandela expressed those sentiments.  They remain as relevant today as they were then.  Perhaps more so.

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Washington Post Erases Israeli Minister’s Farfetched October 7 Rape Claim at his Request – Wyatt Reed 1/3/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

A note explaining the retraction of the claim that Hamas militants had specific orders as to “which commander should rape which soldiers” indicates the publication censored itself at the behest of the Israeli government.

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How Yemen Changed Everything – Pepe Escobar 12/28/23

Source: New.TheCradle.co

Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able to upset the whole chessboard, usually via a move in the back rank whose effect simply cannot be calculated.

Yes, a pawn can impose a seismic checkmate. That’s where we are, geopolitically, right now.

The cascading effects of a single move on the chessboard – Yemen’s Ansarallah stunning and carefully targeted blockade of the Red Sea – reach way beyond global shipping, supply chains, and The War of Economic Corridors. Not to mention the reduction of the much lauded US Navy force projection to irrelevancy…….

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Israel is Provoking the U.S. into a Conflict with Iran, but the Media Ignores the Danger – James North 12/30/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

In addition to killing thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been routinely attacking at least four other nations in the region: Iran, Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon. Why does the U.S. media keep the American public in the dark?

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South Africa Appeals to the International Court of Justice: Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza – Robert Herbst 12/31/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

South Africa’s 84 page long Application to the International Court of Justice to begin proceedings against Israel for its genocide in Gaza is a devastating document laying out Israel’s genocidal acts and statements in horrifying detail.

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Israel Announces its Gaza Endgame: Ethnic Cleansing as ‘Humanitarianism’ – Mitchell Plitnick 12/28/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Benjamin Netanyahu announced his endgame in Gaza: the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians forced to choose between leaving or dying by bombardment and starvation. His goal is to end the Palestinians as a people and as a national movement.

On Christmas Day, the Wall Street Journal thought it appropriate to publish an Op-Ed by the world leader who is currently slaughtering more innocents than any other, Benjamin Netanyahu. In that article, Netanyahu gave us his “vision” for his endgame in Gaza. He laid out three aims: “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.”

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Western Media’s Reference to the ‘Hamas-Run’ Health Ministry is Another Dehumanizing Tactic Enabling Israel’s Genocide – Noora Said 12/29/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Labeling every part of Gaza as connected to Hamas makes every part of Gaza a legitimate military target. This is what Israel did with the Gaza Health Ministry and Al-Shifa Hospital, echoed uncritically by Western mainstream media.

Western Media’s blatant hypocrisy that insists on transforming the Palestinian struggle for liberation into either terrorism or antisemitism is a clear declaration that Israeli lives are more valuable than Palestinian lives. One of the blatant examples of the Western media’s adoption of the Israeli government’s propaganda is its reference to Gaza’s Health Ministry as “Hamas-run.” This language can be seen in the reporting of the BBC, CNN, and the New York Times, among many others, a terminology meant to demonize Palestinians, subconsciously divert the sympathy of readers from the horrific and rising Palestinian death toll and ultimately justify the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 83: Israel Attacks 10 Palestinian Cities in Largest West Bank Invasion Since October 7 – Leila Warah 12/28/23

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Amid ongoing attacks on Gaza, Israeli forces attacked ten cities across the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, seizing 2.7 million dollars from businesses, and killing one Palestinian.

Casualties:

  • 21,110+ killed* and at least 55,243 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 313 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,405 to 1,139.
  • 501 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 1,952 injured.

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