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SvennoJ on 05 March 2024
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Iran-aligned media: Air strikes hit Yemeni territory

Abdullah Alfarah, director of media outlet Al Mayadeen’s Yemen office, reports that three strikes hit the Al-Jabbana and Ras Issa areas, north of the city of Hodeidah.

The US and UK have been launching strikes on positions belonging to Yemen’s Houthis for weeks, in an attempt to get the group to end its attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea.

The Houthis have said the attacks will end once a ceasefire is achieved in the war on Gaza.

Houthis target two US warships

Yemen’s Houthis carried out a “qualitative military operation in which they targeted two US warship destroyers in the Red Sea,” the group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech on Tuesday.




Israeli jets hit Hezbollah military target: Israel army

Israeli fighter jets have carried out attacks on a military facility belonging to the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in the Aita al-Shaab region, the Israeli army has said in a statement. The raid was in response to the launch of two anti-tank missiles towards the Birnit area, the army aded.

“Also, the IDF attacked the organization’s operational headquarters in the Jabal al-Batam area, launch positions in the Al Matmura area and military buildings in the Majdal Zon, Houla and Kafra areas,” the statement said.

Hezbollah responds to Israeli strike that killed three civilians

The Lebanese group says on X that it bombed a building in the Kiryat Shmona settlement in Israel, “causing confirmed injuries”. Hezbollah said this attack was in response to “the targeting of a civilian home and the martyrdom of a woman, her husband, and her son in the town of Hula”.

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli attacks on Houla killed three civilians. Israel’s army confirmed that it did indeed attack the Lebanese village, along with several others. ‏





WFP says latest aid delivery attempt to northern Gaza unsuccessful

The Israeli army has returned a convoy of 14 trucks after the vehicles waited for three hours at a checkpoint in Wadi Gaza, the UN’s World Food Program has said. The convoy is the first of its kind since deliveries to the northern Gaza Strip were suspended on February 20, the UN agency said.

“Although today’s convoy did not make it to the north to provide food to the people who are starving, WFP continues to explore every possible means to do so,” WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau said.

Israel has been blocking the flow of aid into northern Gaza for most of 2024, and has frequently attacked aid seekers who attempt to receive what little aid does make it to the north of the Strip.


US looking at military, commercial options to move aid into Gaza by sea: White House

John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, told reporters the maritime route can move a higher volume of aid, but that it is more of a heavier lift logistically. Trucks are the best way, he said.

In recent weeks, the Biden administration has shifted its tone, pushing for more humanitarian assistance into Gaza. It recently air-dropped a limited number of meals to Palestinians there. But critics say those efforts will have scant effect if Washington does not exert pressure on Israel to stop the war.

No plans to send troops to Gaza: US

The United States has no plans to send US troops into Gaza to bolster efforts to distribute aid, Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, has said at a press conference.

These remarks appear to play down the idea of a US military-run port or other landing site for maritime aid distribution, even as several US officials said the country was exploring a maritime option for aid distribution today.

“At this time there are no plans to put US forces on the ground in Gaza,” he said.

I thought they were already there, but on the planning genocide side err tunnel warfare.




Obstacles to ceasefire ‘not insurmountable’ says US

US Department of State spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters that, in Washington’s view, it is possible to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas that would see a pause in the fighting in the Gaza Strip and an exchange of prisoners.

Miller also gave some details of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz, currently on a trip to the US to meet with American leaders.

He said the pair discussed the need to act urgently to enable the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, as well as ongoing negotiations to reach the above-mentioned ceasefire deal, specifically one that would last six weeks.

No prisoner exchange until after ceasefire: Hamas official

Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, has given a press conference in Beirut.

Here are a few key things he said:

  • There will be no prisoner exchange until after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. If the conditions of resistance are not met, the prisoners issue is not on the table. … It is Israel that is blocking the reaching of a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
  • We call on [United Nations chief Antonio] Guterres to dismiss the UN employee who submitted a false report alleging sexual violence committed by the resistance on October 7.
  • The US administration does not exert any pressure on the occupation during the negotiation process for a ceasefire in Gaza. It is a political farce for America to support Israel’s quest to stop the fighting for only a few weeks and then resume it.
  • The airdrop of aid meets only a small amount of the needs of the population. We tell Washington that the most important thing, rather than dropping aid, is to stop the supply of weapons to Israel.
  • Our Arab and Muslim countries must take serious action to stop the genocide.

 

Israelis’ ‘depravity’ on display as they rifle through Palestinian women’s undergarments

MIFTAH, the Palestinian Initiatives for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, has said that the footage of Israeli soldiers rifling through women’s undergarments in Gaza is “an integral part of genocide”. It is “a key example of [soldiers’] depravity” and shows that they can carry out crimes with “impunity”, the Palestinian women-focused NGO says.

Several videos and images have surfaced in recent weeks on social media platforms of Israeli forces wearing or stealing women’s undergarments. These incidents, the non-profit says, are part of the “fetishisation” of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers who often hold on to these pieces of clothing “like trophies”.

“These photos are one of the many components of Israel’s attempted psychological domination over Gaza, in which the Palestinian man is emasculated and the Palestinian woman is conquered,” MIFTAH said.