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Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh taken to see bodies of his family

Al Jazeera’s managing editor has confirmed that correspondent Wael Dahdouh lost his wife, son and daughter in an Israeli air raid on a house they were sheltering in.

how the fuck do you go on after this? how can anyone with an ounce of humanity blame these people for resisting in any way possible? I hope Hezbollah levels Israel

Navy ends tradition of Chinese laundrymen on warships over spying fears (Telegraph, 23rd of October, 2023)

The Navy is ditching its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears they could be spying.

Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on British ships since the 1930s with most from Hong Kong but will now be replaced by Nepalese Gurkhas.

The Sun reported that the Ministry of Defence had made the decision over fears Beijing could obtain secret information by threatening the loved ones of laundrymen.

The paper said that three Chinese nationals were barred from joining HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, on her strike group voyage to the contested South China Sea. A fourth Chinese laundryman was dismissed this month after 39 years of washing and pressing sailors’ uniforms and officers’ white tablecloths because his family lives in Hong Kong.

The tradition began as a local custom early in the last century and was formalised through contracts with various Hong Kong companies.

Pentagon says 900 additional US troops heading to Middle East, but will not go to Israel

The troops are heading to the Middle East as part of “efforts to deter a broader conflict and further bolster us force protection capabilities”, Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told a news briefing.

The troops include “forces that have been on prepared to deploy orders and which are deploying from the continental United States,” Ryder said, without giving an exact location of where the troops would deploy.

“I can confirm that they are not going to Israel,” he said.

Ryder said that US troops had been targeted 12 times at bases in Iraq and four times in Syria in the past week.

lol yeah ok

🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸Member of the Hamas Political Bureau, Hossam Badran, sends an urgent appeal to the Palestinian people in the West Bank: “This is the time for weapons.”

Slovakia announces the end of military aid to Ukraine

Israeli Communications Minister announced severance of ties with Space X due to Musk's decision to use Starlink systems in Gaza - Reuters

Guatemala is trying to pull another Arbenz, except this guy is more like Bernie than Arbenz. The US is actually supportive of the president-elect this time around. It's probably because his foreign policy isn't that much different from Boric's in Chile. Very anti-Russia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. He seems to want more trade with China though while still wishing to recognize Taiwan.

Lula has also thrown in his support. The guy may not be the most radical, but it's nice to see a somewhat left-wing candidate in our country get some international support over the right-wing.

Gonna keep posting the octopus edits I find

The Czech Republic wants to leave the UN because only 14 countries support genocide.

Israel is doing the "source: trust me bro" thing again but they now don't even hand over the materials about the claimed atrocities to journalists in fear of them maybe examining them.

Ukrainian Navy has said that they're going to destroy the crimean bridge.

What's going on with those whales that were sinking yachts? Are there enough of them to take down a carrier group?

lol they immediately dropped the new speaker nominee that didn’t last long. Honestly keep it going it’s not going to get extremely funny until we start getting closer to the government shutdown without even a speaker

They should invent a gun that kills everyone in the IOF when you pull the trigger

Large crowds have gathered in central London for a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people, with tens of thousands expected to take to the streets. A pro-Palestinian rally in London last week drew an estimated 100,000 people, and similar numbers are expected today.

Demonstrations are also planned today in Manchester, England, and in Glasgow.

https://streamable.com/nync08

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/28/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-news/226ea49c-e34e-5cad-9567-4d9dcf7ba382?smid=url-share

Iranian Propaganda Channels are claiming that the Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer, USS Carney (DDG-64) has been Attacked with Drones in the Red Sea off the Coast of Yemen

No evidence thus far though.

⚡️Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan:

Israel has just begun a ground war on #Gaza, and the result will be a humanitarian catastrophe of massive proportions

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has officially been removed from his post. Former Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Qin Gang has been officially removed from the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

Comrade Xi can have a little purge as a treat.

https://x.com/cneesvzla/status/1716521281812570476

🇻🇪🇬🇾Venezuela proposes the creation of a state to annex the area in dispute with Guyana

The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela announced this Monday the questions that citizens will answer in the consultative referendum on December 3.

Venezuelans will decide whether or not they agree “with the creation of the Guayana Esequiba state” and that “an accelerated plan be developed for the comprehensive care of the current and future population of that territory that includes, among others, the granting of citizenship and Venezuelan identity card,” indicated the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso.

🇬🇾🇻🇪 Guyana asks Venezuela for an explanation for the increase in military activity near Essequibo

https://alertas24.com/internacionales/guyana-pide-una-explicacion-a-venezuela-por-el-aumento-de-activity-militar-cerca-del-esequibo/

hmmmmmmm

Someone needs to make a Saddam's hiding place meme out of the Israeli tunnels 3d renders.

Liberals are so fucking unhinged. Now they’re calling leftists opposed to Zionism “tankies “

Hopefully someone comes up with a good retort that catches fire and exposes it for the meaningless term it is. A westoid in the imperial core calling someone a tankie like it means shit lmfao

On a lighter note:

Finland Says Hong Kong-Flagged Ship Anchor Breached Pipeline (Bloomberg)

Surprise, surprise.

US ammendment condemning hamas failled. Let's see if the original proposal by Arab states passes now

Genuinely insane that Jackson Hinkle is the most viewed twitter account right now

The final sentence: "WhatsApp and iMessage are not delivering, and when using the internet to call, it just rings endlessly."

"I don’t know if they are safe or not": Family members left in dark after communications go down in Gaza

People who have family in Gaza tell CNN they have not been able to contact them after communications went down in the enclave following heavy airstrikes.

Jawwal, the Palestinian telecom company that provides mobile service to the Gaza Strip released a statement Friday night saying "the intense bombardment in the past hour has resulted in the destruction of all remaining international routes connecting Gaza with the outside world" leading to a "complete interruption of telecommunications services".

Said Alhayek, 42, from Las Vegas, said he has not been able to reach his family in Gaza.

“It’s like sitting in the dark not knowing what is going to hit you, I can’t reach them on any medium of communication at this point, I can’t even know if they are okay or not, I don’t know if they are safe or not," Alhayek said. "Also, the fact that they cut off communication, makes us feel as though they are about to do something terrible.” Adli Anwar, 57, who is living in Ottowa, Canada, also said he has no way of communicating with his family.

“I can’t get anything — about three hours ago, we lost all communications, no phones, no internet, nothing. Before it would connect, about 80% of the time, and now it’s zero percent. It doesn’t get to the international line," Anwar said.

CNN tried calling several contacts with Gaza numbers over the last hour, both over international calling and over WhatsApp. On the international calls, they either go straight to voicemail or an automated message says “the number you are calling is currently unreachable. Please try again later.”

WhatsApp and iMessage are not delivering, and when using the internet to call, it just rings endlessly.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-27-23/h_dbbf852de6de3b8753a6a9f31a31e335

The amount of water for all uses in Gaza has plunged to 3 liters per person/day. Like three liters. Two bottles of pop. For an entire day. By comparison, a single apartment tower uses 100K-200K liters per day.

At what point are people going to respond to pro-Israeli rallies with actual

omg I glanced at the TV on the news:

• report begins on the ground operation of Israel with a headline of an Israeli soldier having been KIA
• apparently the bullshit bioweapon story or whatever has also spread to my country's news of course, why wouldn't it

i'm more than a lil tipsy and all i want to post everywhere is how much i wish for the end of israel