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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israeli military bombs home in Gaza City, killing at least 6

The Israeli military strike hit the Abu al-Hatal family home in the centre of Gaza City in northern Gaza, Gaza’s civil defence reports. Several people have also been wounded in the attack, with their condition not currently known.


Deadly Israeli attacks reported in southern, central and northern Gaza

The Wafa news agency reports several deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent hours.

Two people were killed after Israeli fighter jets bombed the eastern section of the town of al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Two men were also killed after Israeli forces “targeted” a vehicle near the al-Quds Open University at the entrance to the Maghazi camp in central Gaza.

The death toll for an Israeli military attack on a home in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza, has also risen to seven, Wafa reports. Earlier, we reported that at least two women were among the dead following the strike on the al-Sheikh family home.

Israeli soldiers throwing bodies off roof shows ‘inhuman behaviour’

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, told Al Jazeera that footage of Israeli soldiers throwing Palestinians from a roof in the occupied West Bank “shows absolutely savage and inhuman behaviour”.

Barghouti added he wasn’t sure if the soldiers had checked if the people they threw from the roof “were still alive or not”.

“You cannot say that this is a part of the war because there is no war in the West Bank,” he said. “There is war from one side, military actions from one side on a civilian population.”



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SvennoJ 56 minutes ago

Trump tells campaign event, ‘e’re going to make Israel great again’

The former US president spoke at length about the relationship between the United States and Israel at an event hosted by his campaign for the November 2024 presidential election on Thursday.

“We’re going to make Israel great again,” Trump said, adding that he’s the “most popular person in Israel” and “could run for Prime Minister”.

“Would you like me as your prime minister?” he asked the crowd at the event in Washington, DC.

Trump also spoke about his record of supporting Israel during his presidency, including the US recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights.

He also said he had been told the “best thing” he had done for Israel was terminating the Iran nuclear deal, describing the 2015 agreement as “the worst deal ever made for Israel”.



Rashida Tlaib submits names of children killed in Gaza into US Congressional record

Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib has submitted the names of children killed in Gaza, taken from a 649-page list, recently published by Gaza’s Ministry of Health, into the record of the US Congress.

“The first 14 pages alone are names of babies [who] were under the age of one when they were killed,” said Tlaib, who is the only Palestinian American member of Congress.

“That’s 710 babies that the Israeli government has murdered,” she added. “I wish my colleagues would look at it.”



Murdered with US tax payer money



Taiwanese authorities question head of pager firm linked to Lebanon blasts

Authorities questioned the founder of Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese firm linked to pagers that detonated across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, in an apparent Israeli espionage operation targeting Hezbollah members.

Hsu Ching-kuang declined to answer questions as he left the Taipei offices of Taiwan’s prosecutors on Thursday evening. He told reporters earlier this week Gold Apollo did not produce the pagers in question, and they were made by Hungarian firm BAC that had licensed its design and branding.

A second person seen leaving the prosecutors office on Thursday was Teresa Wu, the only employee at a company called Apollo Systems Ltd who Hsu said earlier this week had been one of his points of contact for the deal with BAC.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that BAC was part of a network of Israeli shell companies created to obfuscate links to Israeli intelligence.

Taiwanese authorities have not issued a statement yet regarding their investigation into Gold Apollo.


Device attacks show Israel trying ‘to regain deterrence capacity’ – Analysis

Greg Stoker, a former US army ranger commando, and now an analyst with MintPress News, says despite the pager and walkie-talkie blasts in Lebanon, he doesn’t see the security situation in northern Israel changing dramatically.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said Israel is “losing time to exploit this attack”.

“The fact they haven’t made a move is typical of a flashy operation. They do a massive information push to make it seem like a bigger victory than it is,” Stoker told Al Jazeera. “From a strategic sense, this is a flagging war.”



SvennoJ 36 minutes ago

Standing at Gaza Border Felt Like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni


The United Nations is warning about widespread human rights abuses in Burma as the military regime intensifies the killings and arbitrary arrests of tens of thousands of civilians since seizing power in a coup over three years ago. A new report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says many of those detained by the Burmese military are children taken from their parents, with dozens of minors dying in custody. "What it paints is an extremely disturbing picture of Burma descending into this human rights abyss. If you're living there, it's a complete living hell," says Burmese scholar, dissident and human rights activist Maung Zarni.

He also discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma's and Israel's human rights abuses. "Israel has taken the practices and policies of genocide to a whole new level," says Zarni.

Is the Israeli Army raping children?



The war on Gaza is the deadliest for children, but lesser-known is the sexual abuse, starvation, and mistreatment of Palestinian children detained in Israel.

 

US official’s extraordinary logic to justify Israeli action in Lebanon



US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Thursday made quite a bizarre justification to defend Israeli attack on Lebanon by detonating communication devices there. His extraordinary logic meant that while Israel could attack any countries, those countries did not have the right to defend themselves.


Anti-Zionism Sweeping Across Jewish Communities


Adrienne Maree Brown, writer, activist, and co-founder of the United States League of Young Voters, joins to discuss her recent book Loving Corrections.

Maree Brown walks through a few particular essays in ‘Loving Corrections,’ which tackle the idea of countering the narratives of supremacy that have taken root in particular ideologies (patriarchy, Zionism) without atomizing or marginalizing the identities that have been corrupted (masculinity, Judaism, respectively). After expanding on the importance of understanding the historical and social context for building these bridges, Adrienne and Emma bring the conversation to a close with the importance of understanding the personal context of interpersonal conflict.