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Heaving himbo Hasan hums Hamas hymn; huffs Hummus heartily

Anwar El Ghazi's contract terminated by Mainz over Israel-Palestine posts

Dutch footballer was previously suspended by the club over a since-deleted social media post.

The German football club Mainz 05 has terminated the contract of Anwar El Ghazi over social media posts related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a statement on Friday, Mainz said that El Ghazi’s deal had been ended due to “comments and posts from the player on social media” without offering further information.

Evacuation warning to AJ correspondent ‘very worrying’: Media watchdog

We reported earlier that the husband of Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City, Youmna ElSayed, received a threatening phone call from the Israeli army telling the family to leave their home immediately, as explosions were going off all around their neighbourhood.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Khadija Patel, chairperson of the International Press Institute, described the call as a “very worrying” development.

“This is an indication of deliberate targeting of journalists, something that we are concerned about as part of a trend that we are seeing within this conflict,” she added.

“We want to … urge the Israeli forces to protect the lives and work of journalists in this war.”

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And here’s Youmna ElSayed’s live broadcast a short while ago, giving details about the phone call her family received.

-Al Jazeera

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Al Jazeera's @YoumnaElSayed17, reporting from Gaza City, explains how she received the threat warning her to leave her home as heavy bombardment is heard in the background.

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Hezbollah anime opening, perhaps the most strongly worded letter they’ve sent https://streamable.com/s8rpxd

Palestinians check the destruction a day after an Israeli strike in the Jabalya camp for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, on November 1. Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images

I found the photographer's Twitter account. He has quite an eye - Bashartaleb (@Bashartaleb).

Can't wait for the blockbuster, many teasers from Hezbollah and Iranians so far, and they look fire

An entire fucking week of hype videos for "all options are available but we're not actually gonna do anything lol".

why is he giving a shoutout to will menaker now? what's going on?

Jabalia refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’

Gaza’s civil defence director reports the Jabalia refugee camp has been “completely destroyed” by Israeli bombardment.

“These buildings house hundreds of citizens. The occupation’s air force destroyed this district with six US-made bombs. It is the latest massacre caused by Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” Ahmad al-Kahlout told reporters outside of a hospital in Khan Younis.

“The international community must act immediately to stop Israel before it is too late.”

It is not immediately clear how many people have been killed or wounded in the bombing.

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More than 50 killed in Jabalia strike: Indonesian hospital director

The director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza says dozens of people were killed in the strike on the Jabalia refugee camp.

“More than 50 people have been killed so far,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that the hospital was unable to yet provide the total number of casualties as it was still counting the victims.

“The hospital will stop working completely tomorrow evening due to fuel shortages,” the director warned.

-Al Jazeera

It seems like every other month or so the US proposes and alternative to BRI that will downfall China. There was Blue Dot, the Middle Eastern Corrider that probably isn't happening because of the war in Gaza, and now a railway in Central Africa. Westerners claim BRI is a huge failure when the conference for its shows otherwise. Portugal and Italy being told to leave by the US doesn't really indicate that it's a failure either, as hard as that is for Redditors to hear. Our president-elect even wants in on BRI projects while still trying to stay on good terms with Taiwan.

There's obviously a lot of work to be done in countering the US empire, but its downfall has been going on for a while. It's just a very slow one that will probably go the way of the British Empire, which was initially the worlds largest creditor before becoming the worlds largest debtor after WW1. The days of century-long downfalls like the Roman Empire don't really happen with the more modern ones.

As of now the groundwork is being laid out. The global south has options and it has a bigger impact than people realize.

Israeli Defense Minister: We are not interested in an additional war, but we are ready on the northern border

The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the American occupation base, "Ain al-Assad" in western Iraq, with two drones, and they directly hit their targets.

this new head-empty take of "sorry sweaty, it can't be a genocide as the population of Gaza has been actually INCREASING"

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Israel has no right to defend itself as it is an occupying power, Russia’s representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said at an emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

“The only thing they can muster is continued pronouncements about Israel’s supposed right to self defense, although as an occupying power, it does not have that power as confirmed by the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice handed down in 2004,” said the Russian representative. Despite stating that Israel does not have the right to defend itself, Nebenzya proceeded to state that Israel does have the right to “ensure its security” and “to fight terrorism.” As for Israel’s security - and we recognize its rights to ensure its security - this security can only be fully guaranteed if we resolve the Palestinian issue on the basis of relevant UN Security Council resolutions," said the Russian representative

Did Russia just modify their position? It still plays the 'both sides' but I don't remember them using this kind of language. I have to admit I don't follow Russia's UN statements closely but it seems like legal beagle Putin is using the 2004 ICJ ruling as a way to further distance Russia from the western position.

The official pod is doing a livestream about the propaganda surrounding the current events in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/live/CMUKcjCG7xM?si=lpxonik866upNzAH

White House says no sign Hezbollah ready to go in ‘full force’

Amid an increase of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said there is no indication the Iran-backed group is ready “to go in full force.”

Still, he said the White House was concerned about attacks on Israeli by Hezbollah, who claimed to have hit 19 Israeli positions in a simultaneous attack today.

cope?

Help hep hep I attacked God but he's still on the throne

wrong mega rip

Putin presents Ukraine surrender proposal, Hizbullah advance Haifa, Germany GDP contracts 12%, Blinken suicide note

CW: murder of gazan civilians by tank as reported by sky news

https://youtu.be/zpoMznHaAVI

St. Pauli with quite a take on the events, considering their a "left wing" club. What the hell is going on in Germany?

Image from the post gives the gist if you don't want to use the link

Old Reddit Link

How many times is Israel going to bomb and then double tap then triple tap refugee camps in Gaza?

Gaza ministry says more than 30 killed in Israeli bombing of Maghazi refugee camp

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 30 people were killed in an Israeli bombing of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza late on Saturday, Agence France-Presse reports.

“More than 30 [dead] arrived at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the massacre committed by the occupation in al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip,” a health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a statement.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa earlier said 51 Palestinians had been killed and scores wounded in the bombardment.

Hamas said in a statement posted on Telegram that Israel had “directly” bombed citizens’ homes, adding that most of the dead were women and children.

“An Israeli air strike targeted my neighbours’ house in al-Maghazi camp, my house next door partially collapsed,” said Mohammed Alaloul, 37, a journalist working for the Turkish Anadolu Agency.

Alaloul told AFP his 13-year-old son, Ahmed, and his four-year-old son, Qais, were killed in the attack, along with his brother. His wife, mother and two other children were injured.

An Israeli military spokesperson said it was looking into whether the Israel Defence Forces had been operating in the area at the time of the bombing.

- The Guardian

War doom scrolling is making me an insane person so I'll share some non-war news.

There was a spider next to my PC. It must have sat there for at least 36 hours. Then it moved ~6 inches and it stopped moving again for another ~12 hours. I wondered if the little guy was dying of thirst so I carefully put some water on the floor next to him. The last time I did this - I gave water to a dead spider.

But this time was different. A few minutes later his legs were in the water and it seemed he was actually taking a drink. I couldn't see much but his mouth part legs (whatever they're called) were moving. It had been a couple hours and he'd only moved a few inches. I touched him gentlely with a piece of paper and he ran around in a panic. I guess he's okay.

Ninja edit: There's a tiny insect moving around him. An ant? C'mon, spidey - it's snack time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/santacruz/comments/17l325v/to_the_woman_near_westlake_trick_or_treating_with/

To the woman near Westlake trick or treating with three boys dressed as Russian Z and Wagner soldiers: go to hell

One month after barbaric bombardment swift still haven't switched off isnreel from civilized world, curious

New hype video from Hezbollah

https://streamable.com/ihima4

Titled: "When Nasrallah and Al-Fatah come"

I edited this so it's the entire update.

What did we learn from the IDF's Daniel Hagari?

A few moments ago we heard from IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari who was giving the Israeli military’s daily press briefing. Here’s a summary of what he said:

• Israeli fighter jets attacked the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, resulting in senior commander Ibrahim Biari being killed

• Several other Hamas members who were with the commander in the building and underground were also killed

• The attack also caused the collapse of Hamas’s underground infrastructure – the purpose of this infrastructure was to carry out terrorist activities against the Israeli forces

• Hagari said Hamas continues to use the civilian population as shields intentionally "and in a very cruel and brutal manner"

• Hagari repeated the IDF’s call for people in the north of Gaza to head south

 

As a reminder, the BBC is not able to immediately verify most battlefield claims

- BBC

Rant - the BBC update page is fucking shit.

Hezbollah says they targeted the HQ of the IDF battalion in the Zabdin barracks, in the occupied Shebaa Farms, with two suicide drones filled with a large amount of explosives

This is the first time that Hezbollah has officially claimed the use of suicide drones in its battle against Israel since October 7th.

White House confirms US exploring ‘pauses’ in Gaza fighting. What does that mean?

John Kirby, a White House spokesman, was just asked during a news briefing to explain what “humanitarian pauses” would look like in the Gaza Strip.

This is what he said:

“We’re really not just talking about one pause; what we’re trying to do is explore the idea of as many pauses that might be necessary to continue to get aid [in] and to continue to work to get people out safely, including hostages.

“The president already worked on one such pause, when we were able to get those two Americans out and that’s what we’re kind of looking at.

“And just to remind, when we’re talking about humanitarian pause[s], what we’re talking about are temporary, localised pauses in the fighting to meet a certain goal or goals. As I said, get aid in, get people out.”

The US continues to reject mounting calls from the United Nations, human rights groups, Palestinian leaders and other countries around the world to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

so 'humanitarian pauses' are literally nothing, we've already had them apparently. lol.

Sometimes reality supplies perfect metaphors

Saw a video of an alt-righter harrassing Dan Crenshaw for supporting Ukraine. It was very telling how Dan would smugly chuckle off being called a war monger or caring more about Ukraine than domestic issues, but getting called a dwarf was what caused him to snap.