December 2023 Continued from page one (P2)
Death and Destruction in Gaza
By Jonas E. Alexis: I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. Read More
‘Palestine Must Be Obliterated’: ‘Times of Israel’ Publishes, Deletes Article Calling for Genocide
By Palestine Chronicle Staff: An article appeared in the popular Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel on Thursday, openly calling for the genocide of the Palestinian people. Though the piece seems to have been removed from the blog section of the website, it is still accessible through the digital library Internet Archive. The article had listed Chicago-based blogger Jeffrey Camras, as the author, who is described in the bio as a person with a “deep love for the Jewish people and the state of Israel”. “In order to right a wrong, in order to make peace and move forward, Palestine must be obliterated,” Camras wrote, adding, “It is an affront to society, morality, humanity. It represents lies and antisemitism, oppression and terror. Nothing more.” Read More
BRICS and the Resistance Axis: a convergence of goals
By Pepe Escobar: The Gaza war has accelerated cooperation between Global South behemoths resisting western-backed conflict. Together, the Russian-led BRICS and Iran-led Axis of Resistance can shape a US-free West Asia. Read More
Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks nears 18,800
Anadolu Agency: The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 18,787 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that 50,897 other people were injured in the Israeli offensive. Read More
No end in sight for Gaza war as conflict benefits Hamas, Israel
BY DILARA ASLAN ÖZER: Hamas has achieved at least three crucial goals as a result of the Oct. 7 incidents and what followed. The decadeslong Palestinian cause, in which the international community had lost interest, has currently become the main global agenda, leaving behind other conflicts and wars, such as Syria and even Ukraine. Hamas has achieved its goal of Gaza becoming the center of the resistance after being left in the shadow for years, with attention being focused mainly on the occupied West Bank due to continuous illegal Israeli settlements and the tensions born out of it. Read More
The West Does Not Seek to Establish a Palestinian State: Lavrov
Telesur: On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserted that the United States and its allies are not interested in the creation of a Palestinian state. "Judging by the current stance of the West, they have no intention of establishing a Palestinian state," he stated during an appearance in the Russian Senate. Read More
Conscience of the World Is Being Activated, as the ‘West’ Is More Isolated Than Ever
EIR: A resounding defeat for the “rules-based order” was delivered today with the United Nations General Assembly vote for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. This resolution passed overwhelmingly, with 153 in favor, 10 against, and 23 abstaining. Compared to the last UN vote in October which called for a “humanitarian truce,” at 120-14 and 45 abstentions, this shows that the world is increasingly opposed to the barbaric slaughter being conducted by Israel, and that the U.S. and its allies are isolated to a degree never seen before. Read More
Getting Serious About Halting Israeli Genocide
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies: Many experts compare apartheid Israel to apartheid South Africa. Speeches at the UN may have helped to bring down South Africa’s apartheid regime, but change didn’t come until countries around the world embraced a global campaign to economically and politically isolate it. Read More
Any Solution to the Current Crisis must Put Palestinians at the Center of Decision-Making
BY JOHN FEFFER: Right now, ordinary Palestinians are powerless to the point of erasure. Any solution to the current crisis must put Palestinians at the center of decision-making. They must be given the chance to shed their victim status and become architects of their own lives. Read More
This Is Not a War Against Hamas
Jeremy Scahill: The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false. Israel has quite understandably grown accustomed to many Western media outlets accepting its lies — no matter how outrageous or vile — when they are told about Palestinians. Read More
Gaza is a Living Hell: UNRWA Commissioner Lazzarini
Telesure: On Wednesday, the three-day Global Refugee Forum 2023 (GRF) kicked off in Geneva with the participation of some 4,000 delegates from 165 countries. Among them is Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). When speaking to attendees at this event, Lazzarini began by highlighting his direct personal experience of what is happening in Gaza as a result of the Israeli bombings. Read More
Latin America and the Caribbean stand with Palestine: Israel viewed as a US proxy
Pressenza: The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between US imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also to Israel’s role as attendant to US domination in this hemisphere. Read More
Sermon From A Wizard
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: India's hegemony in World Cup hockey is unceremoniously over. India had won gold medals in Field hockey in summer Olympics in 1928,1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 1956, 1964 and 1980. Read More
BRICS: Russia & South Africa Ditch US Dollar in $265M Oil Deal
By Joshua Ramos: In a continuation of the bloc’s overarching de-dollarization efforts, BRICS members Russia and South Africa had ditched the US Dollar in a landmark $265 oil deal. Indeed, reports have stated that the former tabbed Russian bank, Gazprombank as the preferred investor for the massive gas refinery contract. Read More
‘Let It Be a Tale’: On Refaat Alareer and the Martyrdom of the Gaza Intellectual
by Dr Ramzy Baroud: What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, brutal siege for many years, facing one of the greatest military powers in the world. And yet, it refuses to be defeated. Not even the legendary tenacity of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ characters can be compared to the heroism of Gazans, living over a tiny stretch of land while subsisting on the precipice of calamity, even long before the Israeli genocide. Read More
Never Forget: Rachel Aliene Corrie
by Gary Steven Corseri: Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American peace activist and a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. She was crushed to death while trying to stop an Israeli Defense Forces armored bulldozer from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah, in the occupied Gaza Strip. This poem is dedicated to her, in memoriam.) Read More
Gaza death toll tops 18,600 as Israeli attacks continue
Anadolu Agency: At least 18,608 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said as many as 50,594 others were also injured in the onslaught. Read More
Israeli media extensively covers Hamas ambush in Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City
Anadolu Agency: Israeli media on Wednesday extensively covered the ambush by fighters of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas that left nearly a dozen Israeli elite soldiers killed in the Shejaiya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City. Early on Wednesday, the Israeli army announced the names of nine troops from the Israeli army's elite Golani Brigade who were killed, as well as four others who were seriously injured. Read More
As UN calls for Gaza ceasefire, Israel begins flooding Gaza with seawater
By Andre Damon: With potentially even more catastrophic effects, Israel has begun pumping seawater into Gaza with the stated aim of flooding underground tunnels and structures. The Netanyahu government has said the hostages are being held in underground tunnels, but President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he has been told Israel is not flooding tunnels where hostages are being kept. Read More
Is the Houthi threat to world order worse than the war on Gaza?
By Zoran Kusovac: Yemen’s Houthis endanger shipping through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean – a narrow passage that is the world’s third-largest choke point for oil shipments after the Straits of Hormuz and Malacca. More than six million barrels pass through it every day, mainly on their way to Europe. Read More
Houthis attack tanker & French warship in Red Sea
Asia Times: Houthi rebels using a drone hit a Norwegian tanker ship for the second time in the Red Sea on Monday, December 11. The ship had first been hit on Sunday by a Houthi cruise missile, most likely a Quds-1, a copy of the Iranian Soumar cruise missile or the Russian Kh-55. Read More
UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
Anadolu Agency: The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. The non-binding resolution, presented by Egypt with the support of nearly 100 countries passed with 153 votes in favor as the 193-member General Assembly gathered for an emergency special session on Palestine. Ten countries, including the US, Israel and Austria, voted against the resolution, while 23 countries including the UK, Germany, Italy and Ukraine abstained from voting. Read More
UN General Assembly vote breakdown
World Health Organization: 449 Israeli Attacks on Health Services in Palestine
Middle East Monitor: World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday confirmed more than 449 attacks on health services in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct. 7, saying “now the work of the health workers is impossible.” Read More
Gaza death toll crosses 18,200 amid incessant Israeli attack
Daily Sabah: Palestinian death toll in Gaza crossed the grim mark of 18,200, making it the deadliest-ever Gaza war, as incessant Israeli attacks on the besieged continued Tuesday. Volcanic-like clouds of grey smoke rose over central Gaza while there were reports of night-time strikes and automatic weapons fire in Khan Yunis and bombings that shook several urban areas. Israel had urged civilians to seek refuge in the far south, but the army has kept striking targets throughout the territory. Read More
9 in 10 Gazans report lack of food
By Andre Damon: As Israel continues its bombing, starvation and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza, hunger has reached epidemic proportions. Nine in 10 people in Gaza reported going to bed hungry, the United Nations’ World Food Program reported. More than half of the population—over 63 percent—reported going for days without food. “Hunger stalks everyone,” UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine), the United Nations body responsible for Palestinian refugees, wrote in a statement on Twitter. “Too many people haven’t eaten now for two, three days in the Gaza Strip.” Read More
War on Gaza: How America used Veto to Support Israel and Insult Humanity?
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: The Gazan landscape is filled with deaths and destruction which could have been avoided and undone if reason and honest policies were implied to the crisis. The time and opportunities call for rethinking and new ideas to reject violence and vengeance as contrary to the nature of humanity, peace and intellect. To avoid most dreadful tragedies in the making, we must reject tyranny of war as a means to solve political problems and demand a return to persuasive communication and dialogue for conflict management and peace-making. Read More
What should Israel expect now?
Ersin Çelik: Like everyone else, we watch Gaza with 8 billion eyes. The question 'What can we do?' is long outdated. We understand and confront our helplessness. However, this is exactly what Israel wants. It aims to kill us while we are alive, condemning us to helplessness. As mentioned in a previous article, 'Gaza has become our breaking point,' and Israel is exerting pressure on humanity with all its might. If we succumb to the psychological pressure upon us and continue this way, we will turn into depleted, reflex-weakened societies that cannot yield results from their attempts. Read More
Power, Protest, and All That’s News on the Israel-Gaza War
By Nan Lavinson: What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that? Let’s start with the obvious: American media coverage of the horrors there has been nonstop since the Hamas slaughter of October 7th. In fact, it’s knocked Russia’s war in Ukraine, the one we were told was so essential to the future of democracy, off front pages (and their media equivalents) everywhere. And the coverage of recent protests has strikingly outpaced those of any other antiwar protests in this century. What the American news media do is, of course, only part of any story, but their recent protest focus contrasts vividly with how they’ve typically covered antiwar and peace actions and so reveals something about how we Americans are thinking about war and peace right now. Read More
Mass protests continue in Pakistan’s Balochistan province over extra-judicial killings
By Dr. Zayar: Mass protests have continued for almost three weeks in Pakistan’s poorest province, Balochistan, against the Pakistani state’s use of forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and other illegal means to suppress widespread opposition, including an ethno-nationalist separatist insurgency. The immediate trigger for the protests was last month’s extra-judicial killing of 24 year-old Balaach Mola Bakhsh by state security forces. Read More
The Genocidal State of Israel
By Prof. Anthony J. Hall: To be more explicit, the objective of Netanyahu and his Jewish supremacist constituents led by fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir, is to quickly eliminate by a variety of means the entire population of Palestinians who have survived three generations of violent abuse under the rule of Zionist Israel. For decades these Palestinians have stubbornly refused to remove themselves from the lands of their ancestors regardless of all the pressures put on them to leave, to die, to suffer, or to just fade away into despondent despair. The objective of the Israeli genocidaires is to destroy all the infrastructure that makes life possible in Gaza. Part I Part II Part III
US arrests dozens of activists demanding truce in besieged Gaza
TRT World: Several dozen activists calling for the United States to push for a permanent ceasefire have protested in a US Senate office building before police ended the protest and took dozens into custody. Groups, including the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Jewish Voice for Peace organized the protest, which called for the US government to divert funds to domestic priorities such as affordable housing and childcare instead of further arming Israel with US weapons. Israeli onslaught on blockaded Gaza — now in its 66th day — has left at least 18,205 Palestinians dead and more than 49,645 wounded while thousands are feared dead under debris of bombed buildings. Read More
The View from Washington: Let the Killing in Gaza Continue
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark: Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it? Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence. Such cover also takes the form of false fairness and forced balance. Read More
Ethnic cleansing of Gaza: The unambiguous goal of Israel’s genocidal assault
Mustafa Barghouti: Israel won’t succeed in its goals to ethnically cleanse Gaza due to the heroic steadfastness of Palestinians but the price is their blood, unless all people of conscience use all possible channels to force Israel to stop. Read More
The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets
By Chris Hedges: Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. Read More
Israel raises hell in southern Gaza with renewed US support
Daily Sabah: Seemingly emboldened by U.S. support at the Security Council, Israel launched Sunday a major new push into the main city in the southern Gaza Strip as tanks battled their way to the center of Khan Younis. Residents said tanks had reached the main north-south road through the middle of Khan Younis after intense combat through the night that had slowed the Israeli advance from the east. Warplanes were pounding the area west of the assault. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 66: Israel attacks ambulances, medics in Gaza
Mondoweiss: 17,997 killed*, including 7,729+ children, and 49,229 wounded in the Gaza Strip. At least 275 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7. International medical groups are becoming increasingly concerned about Israel’s full-on attacks against healthcare as the military continues targeting paramedics, ambulances, patients, and doctors. On Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported the Israeli military opening fire on an ambulance carrying critically wounded patients as well as obstructing, detaining, and abusing paramedics. Read More
Israel-Palestine War: The Big Picture
By Peter Koenig and Mike Adams: The Zionist concept of the Chosen People was always intent to expand their territory – Palestine – to “Greater Israel”. Greater Israel – in the planning since the ’60s, and definitely after the Yom Kippur War – would stretch east to comprise parts of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and, of course Jordan (see map above). This might constitute 30% to 50% of what is today’s Middle East. The Three Point Plan that serves the West is part of the Great Reset and Agenda 2030 playbook – and is supposed to lead to the “promised” One World Government run by what might be called the Financial-Military-IT-Media and Pharma (FMIMP) Complex. Read More
Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia Ready for a Major Shift in its Middle East Policy?
By Dr Ramzy Baroud: Time will tell whether Russia will be able to stake a claim and help define a new Middle East in the post-Gaza war. However, one of the most important factors that Russia will consider before making any major moves is the tangible outcome of the Israeli war on Gaza. Time will tell whether Russia will be able to stake a claim and help define a new Middle East in the post-Gaza war. However, one of the most important factors that Russia will consider before making any major moves is the tangible outcome of the Israeli war on Gaza. Read More
Genocide in service of Nakba 2023
By Nour Odeh: The ongoing genocidal war on Gaza is not about Hamas or Israeli captives, but the depopulation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people which is being implemented in brutal but deliberate stages. Read More
No captives will be released without negotiations: Hamas
Al Jazeera: In a pre-recorded message, the spokesperson for Hamas’s Qassam Brigades says Israeli captives will not be released by military force. “We tell the Israelis that Netanyahu, Gallant, and others in the war cabinet cannot bring back their captives without negotiations. The latest killing of a captive they tried to take back by force proves that.” Read More
Palestinian toll crosses 17,700 as Israel kills 10 in southern Gaza
Daily Sabah: At least 10 Palestinians were killed and many others injured when the Israeli army bombed a house in southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis on Sunday, according to the WAFA news agency. Israeli artillery units also targeted the vicinity of European Hospital in Khan Younis. Read More
Erdoğan renews UN reform call after US veto to cease-fire in Gaza
Daily Sabah: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's oft-repeated call for reform in the U.N. Security Council found a new meaning after the U.S. blocked the call for a cease-fire in Gaza. Erdoğan reiterated the call among notorious move by Israel's chief supporter he accuses of complicity earlier in atrocities in besieged Gaza. Read More
Biden Administration Bypasses Congress to Rush Tank Shells to Israel
By Julia Conley: Hours after United States Ambassador Robert Wood on Friday acted alone to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the Biden administration again illustrated its growing isolation in continuing to back Israel’s onslaught as it bypassed Congress to send more weapons to the country’s extreme right-wing government. Read More
Why Yemen’s Houthis are Intervening in the Israel-Hamas Conflict and how it Could Disrupt Global Shipping
The Conversation: In recent days, three Israeli-linked commercial vessels were targeted by ballistic missiles and drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, marking a clear escalation in maritime attacks in the critical Bab el Mandab strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Houthis have claimed responsibility for two of the attacks, as well as an earlier hijacking of a Japanese-operated cargo ship by helicopter last month. On Sunday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree reemphasised that all Israeli-affiliated vessels travelling along the Yemeni coast would be fair game if Israel does not cease its attacks on Gaza. Read More
US Vetoes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution at UN Security Council
By Julia Conley: As the United Nations humanitarian chief warned that aid workers in Gaza are “hanging on by our fingertips” as they try to mitigate an “untenable” disaster, and with Americans’ support for Israel’s U.S-backed bombardment of the enclave eroding, the United States on Friday vetoed a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire at the U.N. Security Council. Read More
Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Author Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer sparks global outrage
By Jacob Crosse: The December 6 targeted assassination of gifted English teacher, author, translator and Palestinian rights advocate Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer in Gaza by the US-backed Israel Defense Forces has provoked mass outrage across the globe. Dr. al-Ar’eer, a professor at the Islamic University in Gaza, which has since been destroyed by the IDF, is one of over 17,400 Palestinians who has been murdered by the IDF in the last two months. Read More
Yemen says no ships bound for Israel will pass Red Sea
ABC News: All ships bound for Israel, notwithstanding their nationality, will be stopped from passing through the Red Sea and become "a legitimate target" until more aid is delivered to Gaza on these ships, a Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson said. Read More
How state-backed Hindutva rhetoric is fuelling the ethnic cleansing of Uttarakhand?
By Harsh Mander: India’s most populous hill state Uttarakhand is in unprecedented turmoil. It is the first state in India in which an influential and popular campaign for ethnic cleansing has gathered ominous momentum: a battle for the expulsion of all Muslims from the state. This crusade is tacitly supported by the state government. Read More
Ethno-Religious Cleansing in India
By Parker Harrison Sears: Hindutva nationalism plays a large factor in the BJP’s electoral success. Since elections bring an upswell in human passion, a political leader can seize this fervor and use it to inflict damage on party enemies or groups of people. History has shown that elections can ignite conflict, such as when the south seceded upon Abraham Lincoln’s election, which sparked the American Civil war. Read More
At least 23 killed in Israeli airstrikes on 2 Gaza refugee camps
Daily Sabah: At least 23 people were killed early Thursday when Israeli fighter jets targeted two houses in a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip as well as a camp in the southern part of the enclave.At least 17 Palestinians were killed and scores more injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, as reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources. The agency also reported that at least six Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli military airstrike on a house in the al-Shabora refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza. Read More
Genocide Resumes in Gaza
By Dr Chandra Muzaffar: After an uneasy seven day truce, Israel and Hamas are now once again locked in a violent combat. Each side has accused the other of violating the truce. What is really important is the consequence of this resumption of conflict. Thousands more Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are going to be killed. According to various sources, within 24 hours of the end of the truce on Friday 1st December, 184 Palestinians were wiped out as a result of Israeli bombardments. This brings the total number of dead Palestinians at the hands of Israeli fire-power since the present phase of fighting broke out on 7th of October 2023 to 15,500. In contrast, 1332 Israelis and others have been killed by Hamas and its allies. Read More
Dying to Be Free: Releasing Palestinian Captives is Not a Numbers Game
By Dr Ramzy Baroud: There is a reason why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom. It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if the price of doing so is the death of over 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza? In fact, even if all Palestinian prisoners – numbering about 7,000 – are released, they would not even amount to 30 percent of the total number of Palestinian dead and missing, so far, in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip. Read More
Gaza health system collapses amid nonstop Israeli bombardment
By Benjamin Mateus: With Israel’s resumption of the assault on Gaza with “maximum force,” a genocidal campaign that has been recently escalated by Israel against the Palestinians is driving a significant majority of the population out of their homes into shelters and refugee camps in the south. In the course of the last few days, hundreds more innocent civilians, the majority women and children, have been killed in the incessant bombing that, as one commentator on the ground noted, turns “the sky grey and the ground red” with blood. In northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital has been surrounded by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) trapping hundreds of people who have sought treatment or refuge in the buildings and adjacent compounds. Read More
Israel encircles Khan Younis, mounts fiercest attacks since Oct. 7
Daily Sabah: The Israeli military mounted some of the fiercest attacks on Wednesday since Oct. 7 as it encircled southern Gaza's main city, Khan Younis. Tel Aviv's closest ally the United States, in the meanwhile, again pressed to allow fuel and vital aid into the Palestinian enclave. Israel said its forces, backed by warplanes, were engaged in fierce battles in Gaza on Wednesday, a day after the military reached the heart of Khan Younis and also surrounded the city. Read More
Israel’s biggest strength Islamic world’s division
Daily Sabah: Israel’s biggest strength does not lie in its capacities but rather in the dividedness of the Islamic world, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş told Qatar’s Al-Sharq newspaper on Wednesday. Kurtulmuş underlined that the reactions of the Islamic countries 60 days after the start of the war were insufficient. “Unfortunately, this is the part that saddens people the most. People follow the events in Gaza with great pain and condemn them, but unfortunately, no steps are taken that will yield results,” he said. Read More
West Bank feels the heat as Gaza endures Israeli bombing for 2 months
Yeni Safak: Besides pummeling the besieged Gaza Strip with relentless bombing since Oct. 7, the Israeli army intensified its military campaign against the occupied West Bank, killing and arresting hundreds of Palestinians. According to Anadolu reporters, the Israeli army turned all the West Bank into a "battlefield" through its daily incursions, erecting military checkpoints to cut the connectivity between the Palestinian areas and hindering the Palestinians' movement. Read More
Erdogan rebukes Israeli threat to carry out assassinations in Türkiye
TRT World: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Tel Aviv of heavy price amid reports of Israeli plot to assassinate Hamas members living outside Palestine. “If they dare to take such a step against Türkiye and Turkish people, they will be doomed to pay a price which they cannot recover from,” Erdogan told journalists Tuesday on his return flight from a two-day Qatar trip when he was asked about a Wall Street Journal article which claimed that Israel plans to kill Hamas members living outside Palestine. Read More
Mossad's assassination threat and the reaction of Turkish intelligence
By Murat Aslan: Neither Türkiye nor any other country would ever accept being a playground for Mossad’s intelligence operations, as this would violate Turkish laws and sovereignty. Read More
Unable to Defeat Palestinian Resistance, Israeli Regime Intensifies Killing and Torturing Children
By Finian Cunningham: Despite Western media’s systematic attempts to normalize Israeli state terrorism, it is inescapably evident even from their distorted lens just how wicked the Netanyahu regime is. All Palestinians released so far in hostage exchanges by the Israeli regime are women and children. Women and children! Why were they even in detention in the first place? What sort of despotic regime does that? Locking children up and threatening their families with punishment if they show the slightest emotion is the dirtiest terror tactic. Read More
The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle: Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox: Today, the Israeli weapons-robotics firm Elbit Systems has even established a drone factory in India and now has a $300 million contract to supply drones to the Indian army occupying Kashmir. Meanwhile, Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have established a mutual-admiration society, dubbed by the media of both countries the “Modi-Bibi bromance.” And New Delhi has all but abandoned the Palestinians. Read More
At least 50 Palestinians dead in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza
Daily Sabah: At least 50 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on southern Gaza's Khan Younis and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media reports. Palestinian news agency WAFA reported an Israeli airstrike on a residential building of the al-Yazigi family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, which left an unspecified number of casualties, including women and children. Another Israeli airstrike on a home in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip caused several deaths and injuries. Read More
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