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SvennoJ on 18 February 2024
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US strikes Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen: Military

The United States conducted five “self-defense” strikes in areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthis, the US Central Command has said. It said it struck three mobile antiship cruise missiles, one unmanned underwater vessel and one unmanned surface vessel on Saturday.

“This is the first observed Houthi employment of a UUV since attacks began in Oct. 23,” the US military said in a post on X. Central Command said it had determined the missiles and vessels presented an imminent threat to US Navy ships and merchant vessels in the area.

The announcement came amid heightened tensions in the region, with Houthi fighters carrying out attacks on vessels linked to the US, UK and Israel in the Red Sea in a show of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. London and Washington have responded by hitting Houthi targets in Yemen multiple times.




Self-defense claims get wilder and wilder. My neighbor has a gun, so I bombed his house in self-defense. Basically what the US are saying is it's self-defense to attack their military bases in the ME.

Hezbollah claims several cross-border attacks on Israel

The Lebanese armed group says it launched seven separate military operations in southern Israel. Hezbollah said the attacks included targeting a building where Israeli troops had gathered in Yir’on on the eastern side of the border. It also claimed two attacks against Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms, which Lebanon claims as its own.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire for months. Israeli officials have promised to push Hezbollah off the country’s northern borders, while the Iran-allied group says its attacks on Israel will stop when the war on Gaza ends.

Netanyahu slams Lula’s ‘disgraceful and grave’ remarks on Gaza

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has accused Brazilian President Lula of trivialising the Holocaust and causing offence to the Jewish people by likening Israel’s war on Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War II.

“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” Lula told reporters during the 37th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.

“This is about trivialising the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself. Comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

Israel to summon Brazil’s envoy over Lula’s remarks

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says he will summon Brazil’s ambassador for a reprimand over remarks made by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been harshly critical of the conduct of Israel’s war on Gaza.

“No would will compromise Israel’s right to defend itself,” Katz said on X, adding that the envoy would be summoned on Monday.


Weaponizing Anti-semitism and the Holocaust to justify genocide out of 'self-defense' is crossing all red lines.

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats. - Norman Finkelstein

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies. - Norman Finkelstein



Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounces Israeli attack on Tulkarem camp

The ministry has condemned what it called escalating incursions by the Israeli army into several areas in the occupied West Bank, which often result in more deaths and injuries, “and infrastructure destruction, as is currently happening in the Tulkarem refugee camp”.

“Carte blanche has been given to Israeli soldiers from the political echelon, enabling them to shoot Palestinians on a whim and without any threat posed,” the ministry said.

We reported earlier that two men were shot dead by Israeli forces in the Tulkarem refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The men were identified as 19-year-old Atta Muhammad Amer and 36-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Fayez Al-Awfi. The camp is located in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Susan Sarandon joins pro-Palestinian activists calling for Gaza ceasefire

Oscar-winning American actress Susan Sarandon has joined pro-Palestine activists at the US Capitol to lobby Congress for a ceasefire in Gaza. “I have a right to object to my taxes being spent on a genocide,” she said.




Time has run out.

Lack of oxygen, electricity kills 8th person in Nasser Hospital: Ministry

Gaza’s Health Ministry says an eighth person has died in Nasser Hospital since the Israeli military cut electricity and oxygen supplies at the medical facility.

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians approaching aid trucks in Gaza City

Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza City rushing towards aid trucks on al-Rasheed Street before fleeing after Israeli forces open fire. Ramy Abdu, the Head of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, commented on the incident in a post on X saying, “What our team documented on Al-Rasheed Street, west of Gaza City, is terrifying, painful, and brutal”.

“Very small quantities of food arrived today, and it is impossible for them to reach the camps in northern Gaza”, he wrote. Israeli forces have repeatedly targeted aid seekers in Gaza. Last month, an Israeli attack on people lining up to receive much-needed humanitarian supplies in northern Gaza killed at least 20 people.