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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 150: Israel is ‘Engineering Famine’ in Gaza – Mustafa Abu Sneineh 3/4/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Amnesty International says Israel is “engineering famine” in Gaza. Organization head Agnes Callamard adds, “all states that cut UNRWA funding, sold weapons and supported Israel bear responsibility too.”

Casualties

  • 30,534+ killed* and at least 71,920 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.
  • 586 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 148: UN Reports at Least 14 Cases of Israel Firing on Palestinians Waiting for Aid in Gaza – Anna Lekas Miller 3/2/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

UN calls for an investigation following Thursday’s “flour massacre” where Israel killed at least 115 Palestinians waiting for aid and injured more than 760. The need for aid is becoming even more dire as starvation worsens in northern Gaza.

Casualties

  • 30,320+ killed* and at least 71,533 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.
  • 582 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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Gaza ‘Flour Massacre’ Was Only The Beginning Of Famine That Has Just Started – Robert Inlakesh 3/5/24

Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com

The infamous mass murder of malnourished civilians who gathered to collect food aid, after over a month of surviving without it, known now as the Flour Massacre, was unfortunately not the first attack on civilians waiting for aid and came as children in Northern Gaza began to starve to death.

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Israel Announces New West Bank Settlement Expansion in Defiance of White House – Kyle Anzalone 2/29/24

Source: LibertarianInstitute.org

Israel approved the building of 3,600 Israeli homes in a new West Bank settlement. The announcement came just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared the settlements were inconsistent with international law. Tel Aviv routinely ignores Washington’s requests to curtail its oppressive treatment of Palestinians without an impact on the billions in aid the US provides to Israel each year.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 146: Israeli Forces Massacre Civilians Waiting for Humanitarian Aid – Leila Warah 2/29/24

Source; Mondoweiss.net

Israeli tanks and warplanes reportedly targeted civilians waiting for aid, killing at least 77 and wounding hundreds. Meanwhile, international aid groups say airdrops of aid are so “negligible” that they “perpetuate the overall blockade strategy.”

Casualties

  • 30,035+ killed* and at least 70,457 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.
  • 582 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 141: Israel Attacks Civilian Shelter in Deir el-Balah as Ceasefire Talks Continue in Paris – Anna Lekas Miller 2/24/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Israeli forces attacked a building in Deir el-Balah where more than 120 people were sheltering, killing at least 24. Medical staff at nearby Al Aqsa Hospital expect many more casualties and are struggling to deal with the influx of wounded civilians.

Casualties

  • 29,606+ killed* and at least 69,737 wounded in the Gaza Strip
  • 406 Palestinians killed and 4,600 wounded in the Occupied West Bank
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll from 1,400 to 1,139
  • 576 Israeli soldiers killed since ground invasion**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 140: UN Experts Urge Countries to Stop Arming Israel as Netanyahu Unveils Postwar Plan – Anna Lekas Miller 2/23/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Benjamin Netanyahu’s postwar plan would see Israel exerting direct control over a demilitarized Gaza Strip while permanently dismantling UNRWA and assigning “local officials” to govern civilian affairs.

Casualties

  • 29,514+ killed* and at least 69,616 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.
  • 576 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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ADL Pushed BMG to Drop Roger Waters by Threatening to Weaponize Company’s Nazi Past – Max Blumenthal 2/19/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 139: As Palestinians in North Gaza Starve, Israel Attacks MSF Building in Rafah – Leila Warah 2/22/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The situation in Gaza grows worse by the day as Palestinians are starved and Israeli forces turn hospitals into morgues. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, tensions rise as Ramadan approaches.

Casualties

  • 29,410+ killed* and at least 69,465 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.
  • 576 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 138: U.S. Vetoes Another UN Resolution Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza – Mustafa Abu Sneineh 2/21/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The U.S. vetoed another resolution in the UN Security Council calling for a Gaza ceasefire as the WHO evacuates 32 critical patients from besieged Nasser Hospital, and the World Food Program is forced to suspend distribution amid mounting famine.

Casualties

  • 29,313+ killed* and at least 69,333 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.
  • 576 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 137: Israel Builds Highway Cutting Gaza Strip in Two – Mustafa Abu Sneineh 2/20/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Several patients evacuated Nasser Hospital while dozens remain trapped under the Israeli siege of Khan Younis. Meanwhile, Palestine called on the ICJ to end the Israeli occupation, and Brazil’s Lula likened Israel’s Gaza genocide to Nazi Germany.

Casualties

  • 29,195+ killed* and at least 69,170 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.
  • 575 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 136: Netanyahu Approves Ramadan Restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque – Leila Warah 2/19/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Hamas slams Israel over plans to restrict access of Palestinian worshipers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, more Palestinians die from preventable causes as Israel besieges hospitals in Gaza.

Casualties 

  • 29,092+ killed* and at least 69,028 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.
  • 574 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

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‘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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‘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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‘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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