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SvennoJ 4 days ago

US aware of Israeli plans to invade Lebanon: State Department

Israel has told the US about a number of operations, the US State Department said on Monday, adding that they have discussed reports of ground operations, and Israel has told Washington they are at this time limited operations focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border with Lebanon.

“They have been informing us about a number of operations; I know I’ve seen reports about ground operations. We’ve had some conversations with them about that,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday. “They have at this time told us that those are limited operations focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border. But we’re in continuous conversations with them about it.”

Miller also said that the US “still supports” a ceasefire in Lebanon, “but at the same time, military pressure can at times enable diplomacy”, appearing to support Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.


So far military pressure has only gotten hostages and innocent civilians killed. It has the opposite effect.
However that's exactly what Netanyahu wants, he wants to start a war with Iran with US backing.

Majority of Palestinians support military resistance to Israel: Poll

Almost a year since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, a public opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre has found that more people support military resistance as a means of achieving the national goals of the Palestinian people.

The percentage of those supporting military resistance, the poll showed, rose to 51.2 percent from 40.8 percent last May.

The poll was conducted in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, but did not include the Gaza Strip “given the inability to secure a random sample because of the current situation” in the besieged coastal enclave.

In contrast, the percentage of respondents who support peaceful, diplomatic and political action as a means of achieving national goals dropped from 44.5 percent last May to 35.7 percent.


Consensus growing in Western media on imminence of Israeli invasion of Lebanon

As we’ve been reporting, fears of an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon have been growing today, after statements from Israel’s defence minister suggesting a “new phase” of the country’s offensive against Lebanon.

Reuters news agency has cited an unnamed US official, says that the movement and positioning of Israeli troops on the Lebanese border suggests an imminent ground invasion.

UK newspaper The Financial Times, also citing an unnamed US official, said that the US expects a ground invasion to begin soon, with the goal of clearing the Israel-Lebanon border of Hezbollah infrastructure.

The Washington Post and The New York Times also report that Israeli reservists are prepared for some kind of ground incursion into Lebanon.

Powerful members of the international community, including the US, have said they are firmly against any further escalation of the situation in Lebanon.


UN chief against any ground invasion of Lebanon

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is opposed to any ground invasion of Lebanon by Israel, which has continued its deadly aerial strikes on the country, his spokesman has said.

“We do not want to see any sort of ground invasion,” Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric told a media briefing.


Israeli strikes preventing UN peacekeepers in Lebanon from patrolling

United Nations peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have been unable to conduct patrols because of the intensity of Israeli strikes, a UN spokesman has said.

“Our UNIFIL Blue Helmets remain in position in the mission’s area of responsibility, while the intensity of fighting is preventing their movements and ability to undertake their mandated tasks,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told a media briefing.

“Given the intensity of the rockets going back and forth, they are not able to do patrolling,” he added of the roughly 10,000-strong UN Interim Force In Lebanon.

UNIFIL has had a presence in Lebanon since 1978, when it was established by the UN Security Council.



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SvennoJ 4 days ago

Berlin police raid pro-Palestinian activists’ homes

Police in Berlin raided the homes of five pro-Palestinian activists today, including a man believed to have thrown a microphone stand towards a local politician, DPA news agency is reporting.

Police and public prosecutors in the German capital said the five are suspected of having committed criminal offences “through allegedly pro-Palestinian-motivated activities”.

No arrests have been made. About 125 police officers were involved in the raids on flats in the districts of Friedrichshain, Britz,
Gropiusstadt, Tegel and Schneeberg in Berlin.

Authorities have regularly broken up protests against the war on Gaza and assaulted and arrested demonstrators.


Germany evacuates some embassy staff, vulnerable citizens from Lebanon

Germany has evacuated some non-essential staff, families of embassy workers and German nationals who are medically vulnerable out of Lebanon and will continue to support others trying to leave the country, according to a joint statement by German foreign and defence ministries.

The evacuation was carried out from Beirut with an Air Force A321 aircraft, the statement said. Over the weekend, the ministry raised its crisis level for missions in Beirut, Ramallah and Tel Aviv again, though the embassies there remain operational.

There are currently 1,800 registered German citizens in Lebanon, according to a spokesperson for the German foreign ministry.


Erdogan says UN should recommend use of force if Israel not stopped

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that the UN General Assembly should recommend the use of force, in line with a resolution it passed in 1950, if the UN Security Council fails to stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon.

“The UN General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can’t show the necessary will,” Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.

He also urged Muslim countries to take economic, diplomatic, and political steps against Israel to pressure it into accepting a ceasefire, and added that Israel’s attacks would target them too if it is not stopped soon.


EU’s Borrell: Vital to avoid any more military intervention in Lebanon

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that it was vital to avoid any further military interventions in Lebanon.

“Any further military intervention would dramatically aggravate the situation and it has to be avoided,” Borrell told reporters, speaking from Mexico, after an emergency video conference of EU foreign ministers.


Belgium deputy PM calls for ‘maximum sanctions’ on Israel

“The planned ground invasion of Lebanon grossly violates international law. This is not self-defence, but provoking all-out war”, Petra De Sutter says on X.

Reports indicate that Israeli troops will soon conduct ground operations in Lebanon, as soon as this evening. “The EU and international community must respond with maximum sanctions on Israel. The destruction must end”, she added.

De Sutter made headlines last November for being one of the few European officials to call for sanctions on Israel over its war on Gaza.


Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports Monday’s death toll

In a statement, the ministry’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center reports that Israeli attacks on all areas of Lebanon killed at least 95 people and wounded 172 others.

The attacks took place on “towns and villages in southern Lebanon, Nabatieh, Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, and the capital Beirut”, the statement reads.



SvennoJ 4 days ago

UN says 66 percent of Gaza buildings damaged since October 7

The UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) says very high-resolution imagery collected on September 3 and 6 showed two-thirds of the total structures in the Gaza Strip were damaged.

“Those 66 percent of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip account for 163,778 structures in total,” it said. The last assessment, based on images from early July, determined that 63 percent of structures in the Palestinian territory had been damaged.

The damage now included “52,564 structures that have been destroyed; 18,913 severely damaged; 35,591 possibly damaged structures; and 56,710 moderately affected”, UNOSAT revealed.

Gaza City has been notably affected, with 36,611 structures destroyed, it added.


One killed, 11 wounded in Israeli air raid on northern Gaza

The Palestinian Civil Defence says its rescue teams recovered one body from the rubble of a house in the Jabalia refugee camp. It also said 11 people, including eight children, had been wounded in the Israeli attack, while two others remain missing.


‘Really rocky day’: Israel hits residential buildings in central Gaza

It has been a really rocky day for civilians across the entire Gaza Strip. Multiple residential buildings were hit in central Gaza. Israeli fighter jets also carried out attacks in northern Gaza, particularly in the Jabalia refugee camp – where a residential home was struck without any warning.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military dropped leaflets in central Gaza, warning people against making any attempts to return to northern Gaza, which has been heavily bombarded by Israeli forces over the past year.


Palestinians carry a wounded man at the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip



SvennoJ 4 days ago

Chaos as Israeli strike hits building in Gaza’s Nuseirat


Palestinians carry a casualty at the site of an Israeli attack on a residential building in Nuseirat


Dozens of people gathered at the site of the attack in the central Gaza Strip

More than 20 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip today


Two killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City

Gaza’s Civil Defence says at least eight others have been wounded in the attack on a residential building in central Gaza City. It added that its crews managed to evacuate the remaining residents who had been trapped inside.


At least 11 killed in Israeli strike on central Gaza

At least 11 Palestinians were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, Gaza medics told Reuters news agency.

Israeli forces damage land near Jenin

Israeli forces razed a large tract of land in the town of Barta’a, northwest of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.

Ghassan Qabha, the mayor of Barta’a, said Israeli bulldozers uprooted and razed about 20 dunums of Palestinian land in the area.

Amid Israeli and settler attacks, the Palestinian Agricultural Ministry expects that farmers will not be able to reach 80,000 dunums of their land planted with olives, leading to a possible loss of about 15 percent of production.



LegitHyperbole 4 days ago

This is gonna get so morally complicated if Russia gets involved in Lebanon. What an actual mind fuck to imagine. 



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LegitHyperbole 4 days ago

This war is about to get so much bigger.



BFR 4 days ago
LegitHyperbole said:

This is gonna get so morally complicated if Russia gets involved in Lebanon. What an actual mind fuck to imagine.

Actually, I hope they do, and then Israel has every reason to support Ukraine. 



SvennoJ 4 days ago
LegitHyperbole said:

This is gonna get so morally complicated if Russia gets involved in Lebanon. What an actual mind fuck to imagine. 

It's all morally complicated.

Russia is holding a mirror up to the West in the UN for Palestine, while trying to eradicate Ukraine.

Turkey the same, while prosecuting and basically ethnic cleansing the Kurds in South Eastern Turkey.

US is helping out Ukraine, while supporting this genocide. Same for Canada, UK, most of Europe, Australia.

China is brokering peace between Saudi-Arabia and Iran, unifying talks with different Palestinian factions, while suppressing free speech at home, repression of Uyghurs, and eyeing to occupy Taiwan.

Iran pretending to be the good guy by holding back, while still supporting Bashar al Assad in the brutal civil war in Syria, supplying drones to Russia for use against Ukraine.

There's not a country in the world that doesn't have blood on its hands.


Anyway Russia has its hands full, not gonna meddle in the ME. I doubt they even have the means left to get there... They'll be making speeches at the UN, that will be the extent of it.



SvennoJ 4 days ago

Police intervene during protests against Israel’s attacks in Tel Aviv


A group of Israeli demonstrators carrying banners, posters and placards gather in the streets to condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not signing the Gaza ceasefire agreement, and Israel’s ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday

Looks like a scary bunch of rebels....


Israeli officers intervene on the group of demonstrators

Small protest, majority is for the massacres.


OCHA again calls for ‘unimpeded humanitarian access’ into Gaza

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says it needs “unimpeded humanitarian access” into Gaza and across the entire besieged enclave to address the needs of some 2.1 million Palestinians this rainy season.

Here are other key highlights OCHA included in its situation report today:

  • Dozens of learning spaces serving nearly 34,000 children are at risk of being severely affected by upcoming flooding.
  • While humanitarian organisations are providing about 600,000 daily meals across Gaza, more than 1.4 million people did not receive their food rations in September due to dwindling supplies.
  • Only four out of 37 olive presses remain functional throughout the enclave and more than 1 million olive trees have been uprooted since October 2023.
  • Nearly 100 percent of Gaza’s population now lives in poverty, compared with 64 percent before the onset of Israel’s assault.


UK says working to help citizens leave Lebanon

The UK government is chartering a flight to help British nationals who want to leave Lebanon, the country’s Foreign Office said in a statement on X.

“If you are a British national in Lebanon, you should register your presence to receive the latest updates,” it said in a post on the social media platform, providing a link for those who wish to register.

The call comes as several airlines, including Air France, Emirates, Air Algerie and Turkish Airlines, temporarily suspend flights to the region.



SvennoJ 4 days ago

At least eight Israeli raids reported in southern Beirut

The air raids targeted several neighbourhoods in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, including Laylaki, al-Marija, Harert Hreik and Burj al-Barahneh, the National News Agency says.

Israeli warplanes have been launching “new and powerful” raids there, the NNA said, shortly after it ordered residents of the area to evacuate their homes.

“Thick smoke and flames are rising in the suburb’s sky,” the NNA said, adding that the raids have so far destroyed several residential buildings.

Residents in Beirut tell Al Jazeera that these are the loudest strikes heard in the capital yet.


Israeli warplanes roam skies of Beirut

Israeli warplanes are flying over Beirut’s southern suburbs, the National News Agency says, shortly after Israeli forces attacked several neighbourhoods there.

Areas including Laylaki, al-Marija, Harert Hreik and Burj al-Barahneh have been struck so far, the NNA said, adding that the raids have destroyed several residential buildings.


Israeli military says 10 rockets launched from Lebanon

Roughly 10 rocket launches were detected crossing from southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said, triggering alerts in the Meron area of northern Israel. Some of the rockets were intercepted, while others crashed in open areas. No injuries or damage have been reported so far.