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Central street of Kiryat Shemona, Israeli settlement on the Lebanese border.

Apparently, Shani Louk, the girl that was at the festival and in the truck video and was eventually confirmed alive and being treated in Gaza, is dead.

I've found very little reliable information on it but it seems the Israeli foreign ministry contacted her mother to tell her they found a DNA-checked "skull fragment" suggesting she was dead since October 7th.

I have literally zero proof of this but I genuinely consider it likely the IDF killed her (most likely through bombings), found her subsequently, and are now lying as usual.

Türkiye recalls ambassador to Tel Aviv for consultations over Israel’s rejection of calls for cease-fire, continued attacks against civilians in Gaza.

Al Jazeera said the Israeli strike in Jabaliya killed 19 family members of one of its video engineers, Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan. Al-Qumsan’s father, two sisters, brother, two sisters-in-law, uncle and 12 nieces and nephews were killed in what the media outlet condemned as “heinous and indiscriminate Israeli bombing.”

Last week, the wife, son, daughter and infant grandson of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief were slain in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where they had been sheltering.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/df6d63d1-afa3-5bc1-9851-032e8c55195d?smid=url-share

Being Pro-Palestine and Pro-Ukraine kind of sucks.

Slammer theme post

Wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1719005698300813488

A week after the Hamas attack, Israel's Ministry of Intelligence issued a secret ten-page document outlining the expulsion of the Palestinian population of Gaza to northern Sinai, in Egypt:

1. Instruct Palestinian civilians to vacate north Gaza ahead of land operations;
2. Sequential land operations from north to south Gaza;
3. Routes across Rafah to be left clear;
4. Establish tent cities in northern Sinai and construct cities to resettle Palestinians in Egypt

The document has been verified by an official from the Ministry of Intelligence, according to the Hebrew website Mekomit which originally published the document. Mekomit noted that documents from the Ministry of Intelligence are advisory and not binding on the executive

Link to full document [in Hebrew]: http://rb.gy/g1k0d

What has more effect, belgian workers blocking weapons shipments and elbit offices sitins or giant marches

The US analysis of this will just be "our deterrence measures have been a great success because they have not acted".

I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Blinken more yet I still hate him more. And it can happen a few times in just one single day.

Blinken says it's shocking that October 7 Hamas attack "has receded so quickly in the memories of so many"

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it "striking" and "shocking" that the brutality of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel "has receded so quickly in the memories of so many" during a news conference in Tel Aviv on Friday.

Blinken said today he viewed additional images and footage from the attack collected by the Israeli government.

“It remains almost beyond the human capacity to process, to digest,” he said.

Blinken, who appeared visibly shaken, described an example of additional video Israeli officials showed him today of the Hamas attack.

“I saw, for example, a family on a kibbutz, a father (of) two young boys — maybe 10, 11 years old — grabbing them, pulling them out of their living room, going through their very small backyard and into a shelter, followed seconds later by a terrorist who throws a grenade into that small shelter. And then as the father come staggering out, shoots him down. And then the boys come out, and they run into their house, and the camera in the house is filming everything. And they're crying. ‘Where's daddy?’ one says. The other says, ‘They killed daddy. Where's my mommy?’ And then the terrorists comes in, and casually opens the refrigerator and starts to eat from it,” Blinken said he saw in the video.

The top US diplomat expressed sympathy for the plight of Palestinians civilians as well, saying he sees his own children when he sees images of “Palestinian children, young boys and girls, pulled from the wreckage and buildings.”

“Hamas doesn't care one second or one iota for the welfare, for the well-being of the Palestinian people,” said Blinken. “It cynically and monstrously uses them as human shields, putting his commanders in command posts, its weapons and ammunition, within or beneath residential buildings, schools, mosques, hospitals.”

Blinken said that the US is still pressing Israel to minimize civilian casualties.

“We’ve provided Israel advice that only the best of friends can offer on how to minimize civilian deaths, while still achieving its objectives of finding and finishing Hamas terrorists and their infrastructure of violence,” he added.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-03-23/h_092e74f41f9211d47c5f21b845ec8526

Protestors are shutting down Piccadilly Station in Manchester, continuing their protest from St Peter's Square (Twitter)

Israeli forces cut off northern Gaza from rest of the enclave

There are reports that the Israeli forces are pushing deep into the northwestern parts of the Gaza Strip, namely the city of Beit Lahia, and from the northeastern side of the city of Beit Hanoun. In addition, there are movements from the southeast all the way to the west, cutting two major roads Salah al-Din Street and the coastal line of Rasheed Street.

The Israeli forces keep pushing deep from four different directions, squeezing the Gaza Strip. There are reports about intense fighting going on between the Israeli army and Palestinian groups in these areas, people being killed, more houses being destroyed and residents who could not flee caught in this war zone.

The road to the southern part has been shut, there’s no way for people to leave. Whoever is in northern Gaza will remain there.

maybe they can actually pull off this maneuver, but idk how well they'll be able to hold it

Hezbollah have released a new hype video titled "We wait for Friday"

https://streamable.com/euqmut

Imagining a scenario where as a half measure Israel is forced out of the West Bank and suddenly 600,000 fanatic settlers have to move into Israel proper. They'll instantly become hostile to the Israeli state and we'll get news about the IDF doing another crazy Waco incident every 5 days until the state collapses or the settlers nuke Iran.

accusing palestinians of killing babies is anti-semitic blood libel, actually

takes on The Majority Report today:

"Antony Blinken needs to resign in protest"

"Israel does have a right to exist and should exist, because it does"

Lmao, I’d suspected this was the case now after all the things of the last month, but it turns out that Genocide Joe’s favorability has been behind Trump’s for the same stage of his presidency for about 6 months: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Comparison_of_opinion_polling_during_the_Trump_and_Biden_administrations

Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel

Boeing (who makes jdams) employs 120k people, so each employee is responsible for around 0.03 dead gazan child, and round 3 yemenis (but raytheon also guilty there).

Al-Houthi: We say to the Saudi regime:

If you head to those areas in occupied #Palestine to fight the entity, you will not need to repeat the same thing in #Yemen, and we are ready to hand over Sana’a to you so that you can live with us. There will be no harm between us and you when the compass points in the right direction of hostility to the usurping entity.

Is this significant? I'm not that familiar with regional issues and conflicts between these two.

Every video of a Zionist whining drives me insane.

Al-Qassam Brigades published scenes of their forces destroying IOF army vehicles (incl a Merkava tank) in the east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

Biden says progress made on ‘humanitarian pause’

US President Joe Biden says progress has been made on securing a so-called “humanitarian pause”.

When asked if any progress had been made on the issue, Biden replied “yes” as he left a church in Delaware and offered a thumbs up before getting into his vehicle. He did not give any further details.

We need to get some sort of dramatic countdown to the Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah speech tomorrow. I promised myself to never get hyped for speeches again after Putin constantly trolling us, but now I have Al Mayadeen TV blasting on full volume in my living room ahead of tomorrow

Argentinian media is ridiculously pro-israel and, therefore, pro-genocide. When Hamas launched their attack on Oct. 7th, they didn't stop talking about the plight of israel and how hard life is thanks to "these butchers and terrorists". But as soon as the propaganda ran dry and as israel intensified it's bombing campaign (Especially when they bombed the hospital in Gaza), they shifted away from the war. Now, as israel begins it's most savage genocidal stage, the media is pretty much silent. Maybe one or two articles talking about "US officials urging israel to be moderate" but that's it, no pictures of dead Gazan children, no reports from the thousands of people inside Gaza crying for help, barely one mention of the settler's actions in the West Bank, no reports of massive protests worldwide, nothing. It's just "israel bombs Hamas" and that's it.

Disgusting people. But be certain of something: When our time comes... you know the rest. We wont have mercy on those who enable, deny or whitewash this ongoing genocide. There's a special bullet, a special wall and a special pit for them. Be certain of that.

Deuteronomy 4:27

Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you'll be fewer in number in the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

Zionist freak: Hey, let's do that but to the Gazans instead: https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1720793281678786928

Map GOAT Rybar reports a major Russian breakthrough on southwestern flank of Avdiivka, with the longest Ukrainian line of trenches allegedly falling.

This could be fatal for the defending Ukrainian forces, as Russian forces are now pretty much 1km away from the fortified Khimik suburb, and 1km away from the line of small villages that are vital for the Ukrainian supply line here. If Russians start storming these villages and the coke plant north of Avdiivka falls, then the city is effectively under siege.

Al Shifa hospital has run out of power

https://nitter.net/Hind_Gaza/status/1720519641481572695#m

Eleven bakeries destroyed, only nine remain: UN relief agency

Eleven bakeries in Gaza have been struck and destroyed since 7 October, according to an update from the UN relief agency UNOCHA.

Six of the destroyed bakeries were in Gaza City, two in Jabalia, two in the Middle Area and one in Khan Younis, UNOCHA added.

With only nine bakeries left operating in Gaza as of Wednesday, people are being “exposed to air strikes” while standing in “hours-long queues”, UNOCHA said.

The bakeries are receiving flour from UNOCHA, but are struggling to continue operating due to fuel shortages, the relief agency added.

-Al Jazeera

Israel will deduct funds earmarked for Gaza from Palestinian Authority tax transfers

The Israeli government’s security cabinet made the decision “to deduct all funds designated for the Gaza Strip” from the tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.

“Israel is severing all contact with Gaza,” the government said in a statement.

The transfers have come under renewed scrutiny after far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich this week announced he would not release the funds, accusing the PA of supporting the Hamas attack on October 7.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said yesterday that the transfers should continue, however, in an effort to help “stabilise” the situation in the occupied West Bank, where attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have increased amid the Gaza war.

Are we gonna see Patrick Lancaster in the Hamas tunnels in a week or two?

The "genociding soldier crying about all the crimes against humanity they had to do" is apparently such a fixture in Israeli society that there's even an English Wikipedia article about it lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_and_crying

France having a very normal one

A new bill in the French senate to outlaw anti-Zionism is absolutely unreal senat.fr/leg/ppl23-021.html

Basically the proposal is that insulting Israel in France would be punishable "by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros" and "inciting hatred or violence" against Israel would land you 5 years in prison and give rise to a fine of 100,000 euros.

Here is how the bill reads:

"Bill Proposal to Complete the Penal Framework Sanctioning Anti-Zionism

Article 25 of the law of July 29, 1881, on the freedom of the press is restated as follows: 'Art. 25. - Those who, by one of the means stated in Article 23, have denied the right of the State of Israel to exist will be punished by one year of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros.

'An insult committed against the State of Israel, by one of the means stated in the same Article 23, is punishable by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

'Those who, by the same means, have directly incited hatred or violence against the State of Israel will be punished by five years of imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 euros.'"